BILLY BURKE is known for his starring role in Twilight film as Charlie Swan.
Attracted by his mustache - the 'stache' has a reputation all its own on Facebook & with fans everywhere & has certainly worked its magic in the film version of Twilight.
BILLY BURKE is known for his starring role in Twilight film as Charlie Swan.
Attracted by his mustache - the 'stache' has a reputation all its own on Facebook & with fans everywhere & has certainly worked its magic in the film version of Twilight.
Western Washington University faculty and staff can get 20-percent discounts, and WWU alumni can get 50-percent discounts, to the first three opening nights of "The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)" at the Mount Baker Theatre.
The discounts are valid only for the shows on Feb. 10, 11 and 12. These dates also include a special Q&A session with director Mark Kuntz, an associate professor of Theatre Arts, and the show's cast.
Western Washington University ranks sixth among the top medium-sized colleges and universities with alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers in 2009.
“Making a difference has long been a hallmark of Western’s students, and our alumni continue to carry that forward, as this Peace Corps ranking clearly demonstrates,” said WWU President Bruce Shepard.
Since the inception of the Peace Corps, almost 800 Western alumni have served as volunteers; thirty-eight Western alumni currently are serving.
As Ryan Rathe emptied garbage bins in Gas Works Park one day in December, he noticed something dangling below a park bench.
A general laborer for the Seattle parks department, Rathe got on his hands and knees to retrieve the item — an envelope containing a piece of paper with an e-mail address, random numbers and the word "Congratulations."
At first, Rathe didn't know what to think. But eventually the 31-year-old e-mailed the address on the paper, and a few days later he received $25 in the mail.
WSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk was among four inducted into the Western Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 6.
Sterk set a WWU Vikings season record for tackles as a linebacker. He received a bachelor’s degree at WWU in 1980, and earned four letters in football and one in basketball. During the 1977 season, Sterk was a first-team NAIA District One football all-star, team captain and MVP in helping the Vikings to the district championship game.
The induction ceremony took place in Bellingham on the WWU campus.
It's Carl Sagan like you've never heard him: his digitized, remixed voice sounds more like something emanating from a radio tuned to a pop music station than from a TV playing a public television documentary. Footage of the scientist in his award-winning PBS series Cosmos mingles with stunning computer animations depicting complex scientific concepts. This is all part of a novel project called Symphony of Science, which is meant to bring science to the masses with the use of modern media. Nearly five million YouTube users have already tuned in to watch.
(Keli Carender is a 2001 alumna of WWU)
The National Tea Party convention is on Thursday — though it's probably more accurate to call it a Tea Party convention, not the Tea Party convention.
But despite the convention, questions remain for the fledgling movement: Where is it heading? And can the Tea Party become a unified organization?
Liberty Belle: Rising Tea Party Star
Keli Carender, blogger, teacher and star of the movement, organized some of the earliest Tea Party-style protests — before they were even called Tea Party protests.
Scrubbing and cleaning, painting and decorating — that’s the tough part for Snoqualmie resident and chef Sean Quinn.
“She’s doing the painting,” he said about his wife and co-owner Barb Pexa. “That’s her job and we’re getting there.”
By far, Quinn said he prefers being elbow deep in ingredients and manning the grill to create delectable dishes — it’s what he’s been doing for the past 26 years.
Four new members, three of whom won school Athlete of the Year honors and one who is now in charge of a major university athletics program, will be inducted into the Western Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Former Nooksack Valley High School and Western Washington University standout Jim Sterk, now the athletic director at Washington State University, will be one of the four inductees.
The ceremony will be held in the Concert Hall of the WWU Performing Arts Center on campus.
by alumnus David Keller
GERTRUDE HARVEY WRIGHT was a member of Seattle’s first African American musicians’ union during its brief and rocky existence from 1918 to 1924. Virginia Hughes, a "Mrs. Austin," and Edythe Turnham are the other female members listed in the rolls of the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. These trailblazing women worked with their male counterparts both at union headquarters and on the bandstand.
Former Western Washington University students, Matt Haver and Jordan Stephens, recently announced the formation of 360Tactics LLC, a company Web site, logo and advertisement design firm in Port Orchard.
Haver and Stephens launched 360Tactics in November with the intention of reaching out to, predominantly, local and area businesses.
Building success in the coffee shop industry is about brewing a community environment. It's one of the qualities of Italian coffeehouses that inspired Howard Schulz to build Starbucks into a global brand, a brand that many analysts say has come to symbolize the chain store more than the corner store.
Wes Herman, owner of The Woods Coffee Co. in Whatcom County, has carved out nine such community environments (i.e., retail stores) of his own and plans on expanding south in 2010.
New Woodinville police chief Sydney Jackson likes to keep it mobile.
When she’s not running down the bad guys or rescuing the victimized, which she’s done for 20 years for the King County Sheriff Department, she might be found flying a helicopter, driving a Harley or pushing the pedal in a long distance bicycle race. She is also a certified scuba-diver.
Catch her if you can. Or she will catch you. This reporter caught up with her last week, not without some extra effort, as she sat down in the big chair, briefly, in her seventh day on the job.
Nearly every student must endure a rigorous semester of Physics 200 here at Mines. It is one of the few commonalities shared as a student body. Trying to make sense of the class for many undergraduates can be likened to trying to understand why some people go to a liberal arts college. It just does not compute.
This is where Dr. Patrick Kohl enters; a brilliant man with the unreal task of making sense out of electricity and magnetism.
Solomon Olmstead, 30, has been managing director of the iDiOM Theater since fall of 2009. The iDiOM was founded in 2001 by Glenn Hergenhahn, and is committed to supporting, encouraging and staging original works by local and regional playwrights that are sometimes daring, sometimes irreverent, but always innovative, to paraphrase its mission statement. Up next is the annual New Works Festival, directed by Olmstead and Andrew Herndon, running Thursday, Feb. 4, through Feb. 13.
Those who lost loved ones when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean off California have learned some hard, bitter truths in the 10 years since the crash.
They've learned that time doesn't heal all wounds, that some injustices and wrongs can never be righted. They've learned that there are human vultures and con artists who prey on grief and tragedy.
Some have found peace and acceptance, but others still burn with anger. Some say the silver linings and deeper meanings of God's plans remain mysteries to them. Many believe love does transcend death in the end.
For Bonnie Fuller, the pain won’t recede.
She tries not to hold the 10th anniversary of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 sacred.
Fuller lost her oldest child when the plane carrying Monte Donaldson, his fiancée and 86 others plunged into the Pacific Ocean off California on Jan. 31, 2000.
Unlike some who lost loved ones, she is not going to a memorial Sunday in Port Hueneme, Calif., near where the crash killed the 88 passengers and crew – 47 of them from the Puget Sound area.
James Ryan, 30, Portland—A flight attendant for Alaska, James Ryan turned 30 the day the family left for Mexico. An avid outdoorsman and Spanish language graduate of Western Washington University, he was traveling with his parents and with long-time friends, Michael Bernard, Ryan and Abigail Busche, Russel Ing and Deborah Penna.
Michael Bernard, 30, Seattle—A music lover, Mr. Bernard owned four guitars and cut a compact disc of original rock songs for his parents, Paul and Irene Bernard of Kirkland.
Those who lost loved ones when Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean off California have learned some hard, bitter truths in the 10 years since the crash.
They've learned that time doesn't heal all wounds, that some injustices and wrongs can never be righted. They've learned that there are human vultures and con artists who prey on grief and tragedy.
Some have found peace and acceptance, but others still burn with anger. Some say the silver linings and deeper meanings of God's plans remain mysteries to them. Many believe love does transcend death in the end.
Blake Conley graduated from college last year. He’s in his first head coaching job at just 25 years old.
It just doesn’t seem that way.
“I go in on a weekly basis and watch practice,” Kingston athletic director Dan Novick said. “He probably thinks I’m in there evaluating him, and often I am, but more often than that I’m taking notes about things I don’t do well.”
Evelyn Buckley of Stanwood celebrated her 103rd birthday on Dec. 13.
She was born Dec. 13, 1906, in Outlook in south-central Washington. She now lives at the Warm Beach Retirement Center in Stanwood.
Buckley received her teaching certificate from Bellingham Normal School, her bachelor of arts degree from Western Washington University and her master's degree in education from the University of Washington when she was in her 30s.
One-time bluegrass-pop-ballad-storysongster Korby Lenker, who graduated from Western Washington University in 2001, formed bluegrass band the Barbed Wire Cutters, traveled the country and the world, and then settled in Nashville, returns for a gig at 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, at the Green Frog Café Acoustic Tavern, 902 N. State St.
Nashville indie vocalist Angel Snow joins him on stage. For details, call 756-1213 or visit acoustictavern.com.
It was an encounter with Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" 15 years ago that is leading, indirectly, to Ben Gibbard's appearance at this weekend's Ann Arbor Folk Festival.
At the time, Gibbard -- frontman for indie-rock luminaries Death Cab for Cutie -- was a student at Western Washington University.
If Tyler Amaya is half as exciting on court as the coach is excited about signing the 1.98m forward then he is bound to be a crowd pleaser.
Otago Nuggets coach Alf Arlidge is absolutely thrilled the product of Western Washington University will be joining the Nuggets.
The 27-year-old will arrive in Dunedin about two weeks before the team's opening National Basketball League game against the Auckland Stars on March 4 and is expected to make a big impact on the league.
The most impressive feature of his curriculum vitae is that he was invited to work out with the Houston Rockets in September
