(Cocoa Laney/Cascadia Daily News) Last year I asked Devin Champlin — Bellingham’s resident luthier/musician/guitar repairman — about his most memorable projects. He told me about repairing a ...

The slang term "tuff" was used in the 1967 book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. In a passage from Chapter 1, the first-person narrator states, "Tough and tuff are two different words. Tough is the same ...

(Left to right) Lulo Reinhardt and Sönke Meinen of Germany, Alexandra Whittingham of Britain and Congolese-born, Ireland-based Niwel Tsumbu are this year's performers for the 25th annual ...