Featured image: Chinese dragon by artyangel, courtesy Pixabay For two weeks in February, Lan Su Chinese Garden celebrates the new year with activities for all ages. The 2019 event, February 5-19, features lion dances, cultural performances, martial arts, and lantern viewing. Learn about Feng Shui, how to play majong or make a Chinese New Year … Continue reading Lan Su Chinese Garden celebrates the Year of the Pig in Portland

Sample a variety of signature riesling wines paired with small bites at the The Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City, Michigan, on Saturday, February 16, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Your ticket allows entry into these nine participating wineries: 2 Lads Winery, 16985 Smokey Hollow Road, (231) 223-7722 Black Star Farms, 360 … Continue reading Sip northern Michigan’s best wines at Romancing the Riesling

Featured image: A dome and chandelier created by glass master Louis Comfort Tiffany (photo courtesy Pixabay) Sixty-two pieces by the glass master Louis Comfort Tiffany will be on display from Saturday, February 16, to Sunday, May 19, on the third floor of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. The exhibit features Tiffany's vases, stained-glass … Continue reading Tiffany’s glass masterpieces coming to Figge Art Museum next weekend

Featured image courtesy Pixabay Looking for an unusual Valentine's Day gift for someone special? Or are you recovering from a breakup and need to do something to feel better? Four zoos have an answer: Name a roach after your favorite or not-so-favorite person. Bronx Zoo, New York City For $15, you can name a Madagascar … Continue reading Name a roach after your sweetie or ex for Valentine’s Day

Featured image by Cheryl Landes Amazing Things Arts Center, a gallery, music, and theater venue in a restored firehouse in Framingham, Massachusetts, is accepting applications for vendors for its first annual Brick Market. The market is scheduled on Saturday, June 1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., in the parking lot behind the center. Vendors must be age … Continue reading Amazing Things Arts Center seeks vendors for first Brick Market

Featured image: North Head Lighthouse at Cape Disappointment State Park on the Long Beach Peninsula near Ilwaco, Washington (photo by Cheryl Landes) Washington State Parks has a new campsite reservation system that makes it easier to reserve from your computer, tablet, or phone. Simply follow these steps: Go to washington.goingtocamp.com. The reservation filters are at … Continue reading Get a campsite faster, easier with the new reservation system at Washington State Parks

The Vancouver Farmers Market opens for its 30th season on Saturday, March 16, in a slightly different location, The Columbian newspaper reported today. It's still across the street from Esther Short Park, except the booths are relocating from West Sixth Street to West Eighth Street in downtown Vancouver, Washington. The City of Vancouver requested the … Continue reading The 2019 Vancouver Farmers Market is moving—sort of

Featured image: Pan seared scallops, wild mushroom risotto, pickled fennel and pea shoots from Smithfields Restaurant & Bar, one of the restaurants participating in Ashland Culinary Month in Ashland, Oregon (photo credit: Travel Ashland Oregon) This month, experience the best that the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has to offer. Ashland Culinary Month dishes … Continue reading Ashland Culinary Month filled with restaurant specials, culinary and theater events, and getaway packages

Featured image by Pringlea, courtesy Pixabay The December 2018–January 2019 shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, was the most difficult on many levels—especially for the federal workers who were not paid for weeks. But there was one unexpected benefit for some elephant seals in California. A popular beach 30 miles north of San Francisco became … Continue reading Government shutdown turns beach north of San Francisco into an elephant seal maternity ward

Featured image by annca, courtesy Pixabay Reel Eats, a quarterly film series at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland, has a treat for the senses this Valentine's Day. And there are instructions, which you must follow carefully to thoroughly enjoy this culinary experience closely integrated into the featured movie, Say Anything. … Continue reading Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a different type of culinary-movie watching experience in Portland