The Vashon-Maury Island Audubon Society is sponsoring the local Christmas Bird Count (CBC) again this year, and we’re looking forward to seeing some great birds.

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with ‘incurable’ diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.

That someone on Ebay was selling a version of the Multiform Bender for $40 is kind of astounding. More startling still was finding out that Kalamazoo was buying all of JA Richards and tearing it down to develop more parks and recreation green spaces.

Waterworks Studio ignites the Holiday 2013 Vashon Island Art Studio Tour with its annual preview party Friday, December 6 at 6pm on. And this year Waterworks truly presents a mandala, a universe, of 19 of some of the Island’s finest artists plus our guest musicians, Richard Person and Jim Hobson, at the preview party.

Cassava, yuca, mogo, manioc... however you choose to call it, you’ll get a nutty flavored, sweet, starchy tuber of Brazilian ancestry.