The folks at Red Twig like to say, “Drink Coffee, Eat Well, Do Good Things.” It is a fitting tagline for a café where so many busy people like to meet in Edmonds. I have yet …

Perhaps you are out and about to explore near home, or you have friends in from out of town. Why not take in some beautiful Northwest art? Cascadia Art Museum continues to expose the art community to …

“After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexplicable is music.” – Aldus Huxley Edmonds has long been known as an arts community. The Edmonds Arts Festival, …

This winter has had its chills, and sometimes we just want to have a meal we know will warm our taste buds and our souls.  With no shortage of options in our area, this week’s Arts …

Last year, this reviewer suffered mightily by having to eat A LOT of pizza for a piece in The Beacon Magazine , a special edition produced three times a year for Beacon readers. (By …

Cascadia Art Museum continues to surprise and challenge the art community to expand its definition of Northwest Art and artists. During the January opening for “A Legacy Rediscovered: …

While many Edmonds residents were initially saddened by the news of the closing of Chanterelle Hometown Bistro, the excitement of having a second location of a Seattle favorite, Ristorante …

Edmonds is an art and appetite kind of town. As we prepare to enter a new year, let us take a look back on how much there is to enjoy in both food and the arts in our community and remember what …

Spending a Saturday at Cascadia Art Museum is always nice, but during the holiday season, well, it is just lovely. Before heading to the museum, we stopped at one of our much-loved Edmonds' spots …

"We are more than the worst thing we have done," is a phrase Amanda Knox heard when serving time in prison in Italy for a crime she was later exonerated for. "We are more than the worst thing …

One of the newest additions to the Edmonds food scene, Kazoku, has only been open for a couple of months, but it has definitely been discovered – and for all of the right reasons. Kazoku, or …

When I first heard the group behind Daphnes and other popular spots in Edmonds planned to open a new coffee shop and cocktail bar, I figured it would strike that just-right chord between current and …

Fall in the Pacific Northwest is beautiful. The mornings are crisp and cool, the leaves turn so many shades of yellow, orange, and red, and the drizzle seems to quench a thirst that your body did not …

I have not stopped telling people about a bakery I recently discovered right here in Snohomish County, so I suppose it is not surprising that I, too, learned about it through word of mouth. Yes, …

As I have shared before in this column, I am a fan of breakfast. Breakfast for lunch, breakfast for dinner. And of course, breakfast for breakfast. Because we love breakfast so, it is sometimes …

There are so many new and fabulous restaurants around south Snohomish County that it is hard to create a reasonable rotation without eating out pretty much every day. It makes me sad that I …

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on Edmonds College's Triton Taste food truck. Read the first story at www.tinyurl.com/mrx89bsc. The Triton Taste, that bright blue food truck …

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series. In 2019, Edmonds College decided to do something a little different in the culinary department – it moved the chefs out of the kitchen and …

Cascadia Art Museum's "Native American Modern" exhibition opened on Tuesday, July 25, to a large and enthusiastic opening night crowd. The color and creativity of the exhibit created excitement as …

There are a lot of little things that make us happy. A Sunday walk on the beach with the dog, a favorite song or book and, like the song says, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, or …