This is when the fun begins! If you didn’t get any plants started in May, it’s not too late for veggies this year.
Spotlight on the Black experience: Free at last "Why do they punish us for speaking our own language and force us to learn theirs?"
Killers of the Flower Moon ”In order to confront our racist past, we must learn from the people we have wronged.”
TRIFI Film Festival 2023 “The 15th Annual Tri-Cities International Film Festival (TRIFI) will kick off on Friday, October 13, celebrating 15 years of showing independent national and international films”
Interview with Sarah Swoboda about PerplEXIT “PerplEXIT brings live action puzzle rooms, escape game adventures, and team building activities to the Tri-Cities.”
Interview with author Erica Blaque "Erica Blaque’s debut novel, Among Wolves, qualified for the 2023 Anthony Awards as 'Best First Novel'"
Love Note to a Book: The Day on Fire "Writing becomes a coping mechanism to address the problem of belonging."
The Flop and the Giant Killer “A small and timely act of conviction off the field left Milton’s biggest footprint on sports history.”
Folk pop musician Eli Lev at Emerald of Siam "Rising singer-songwriter and global citizen Eli Lev is making the world a smaller place, one song at a time."
The Skyler Mendell Sextet "Skyler Mendell is a fantastic jazz trumpet player originally from Richland. The Skyler Mendell Sextet recorded an album which was just released in May."
The ‘little’ local art festival with a BIG heart “Every aspect of this festival has been presented in love, and we hope you can feel it when you are here.”
Here, Bullet: Poetry & Music from the Iraq War “It is an evening of spoken word, music, and small group conversation that moves through the life experiences of a soldier in country, then of the veteran coming home, and then of love and loss.”
Local app developer gets into self-care and productivity game "The app is a means for you to participate actively in your own healing."
Ministry for the Future “Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future is one of the better CliFi books.”
My 5 favorite books (that I haven't previously reviewed) of 2021 “These are some really solid choices that would be hard to bump off my favorites of 2021 list.”
Adventures Underground to host book launch for local author, artist, July 17 “Ian Martin’s second book, Aphelion, launches July 17 at Adventures Underground.”
Tri Town Get Down "The Uptown Get Down music festival was such a huge success that organizers are expanding it next year into what they hope will become the largest music festival in Eastern Washington."
The Birth of Robots "One of the things that has interested me most is the significant contribution of the concept of robots in science fiction.”
27 years of baked potatoes (feeding the Tumbleweed music festival) “Armies march on their stomachs, and so do the over two hundred musicians, volunteers, and vendors that come in and out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner during the festival.”
Review of “Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy” by Whitney Goodman “The process of toxic positivity results in the denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic emotional experience.”
