By Janette Turner Some folks believe tuba season begins and ends with John Philips Sousa music on the Fourth. But folks in Edmonds get a second dose of oompah as…
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Artfully Edmonds: Stars in sky on the Fourth and onstage at Driftwood
By Janette Turner Get the dog some ear plugs because things will be exploding in the sky during the upcoming Edmonds Kind of Fourth of July. The party, sponsored by…
Artfully Edmonds: Third Thursday Art Walk and Driftwood show preview
By Janette Turner For some folks, the annual Edmonds Arts Festival is the only time to connect with the local cultural scene. But – surprise! – Edmonds continues the art…
Artfully Edmonds: Festival weekend
By Janette Turner It’s an Edmonds kind of weekend with the biggest and best festival — in our opinion — happening on the grassy field of Frances Anderson Center. Here…
Artfully Edmonds: A musical mosaic of events coming up
By Janette Turner The Hazel Miller Plaza ribbon-cutting takes place June 12, at 3 p.m., and opens a new meeting place and music venue in town. With weather too unpredictable…
Edmonds Booktalk: Books for dads, grads and summer reading
By Elaine Mattson June, and the rain is definitely warmer! End of school, graduations, Father’s Day, summer vacations [for some of us…]: the month contains some big moments! Enjoy them…
Artfully Edmonds: Art goes outdoors this weekend with Waterfront Festival
By Janette Turner Catch a fish or climb aboard a yacht this weekend in Edmonds. Here are selected highlights to get you outdoors. Fish hatchery: Open House The Edmonds Laebugtens Salmon…
Artfully Edmonds: A jazzy Memorial weekend and Christmas
By Janette Turner This weekend, shopping and jazz go together as perfectly as Christmas in May. It’s Memorial weekend in Edmonds, and here are selected cultural highlights. Edmonds Sidewalk Sale:…
Edmonds Booktalk: Great books that mom would love
By Elaine Mattson May has arrived! And the lovely weekends are scheduled to continue! Beautiful. The most important thing that happens in May is, of course, Mother’s Day! Spoil your…
Edmonds Booktalk: Take a mini-vacation this spring with these great paperbacks
By Elaine Mattson Welcome April! Maybe someday soon we will get to have spring…? In the meantime, I have heard that there are spring vacations looming, and luckily, there are…
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Edmonds Booktalk: Garden books just in time for spring
By Elaine Mattson Welcome March! The bonus February day was crazy! Cold and snow! Who else is so ready for Spring? I’m going to start planting in a couple of…
Edmonds Booktalk: Expand your reading horizons this year
By Elaine Mattson February seems to be beginning nice and calmly – made all the sweeter by our surviving the exciting week of snow and ice in January. Amongst all…
Edmonds Booktalk: My nine favorite books of the year
By Elaine Mattson There are lists of “best books of the year” appearing all over already. And there will be more. From everyone. And… I get to do one this…
Edmonds Booktalk: Plenty of big fall books from local authors, local interest
By Elaine Mattson For some reason, our little corner of the world is chalk full of authors. Theories abound. My favorite has to do with the fact that while attempting…
Edmonds Booktalk: A bevy of new books to read this fall
By Elaine Mattson Now that we have, at long last, had a bit of summer, I must admit that I am getting ready for fall. The top is back up…
Edmonds Booktalk: The best book I’ve read lately
By Elaine Mattson A long-time customer, and a woman I have known since I was a kid (hi Mrs. Pince!), asked me what was the best book I had recently…
Edmonds Booktalk: If you like these authors, here are some others to try
By Elaine Mattson There has actually been an occasional day of summer. Hooray! So grab a book, and find a spot to relax and read and breathe in these summer…
Edmonds Booktalk: Read the books before you see the summer movies!
By Elaine Mattson The book is always better! We are smack in the middle of the summer movie season, and it seems that Hollywood is, once again, using books as…
Edmonds Booktalk: Celebrate June with releases perfect for dads and grads
By Elaine Mattson We never really got spring, and the calendar is telling us that summer is right around the corner. Which also means graduations and Fathers Day are right…
Edmonds Booktalk: Pulitzer, Edgar book award winners and May Bookshop events
By Elaine Mattson Wow! Did any of us survive wet, soggy, oh so cold April? It wasn’t just us. It really was the coldest wettest April ever. Ever. And now…
Edmonds Booktalk: From gardening to bunnies, books perfect for spring
By Elaine Mattson Welcome spring! It is finally beginning to feel as if it may happen this year, and having it stay light later is always a wonderful thing. And…
Edmonds Booktalk: Edmonds Bookshop owners celebrate 10th anniversary
By Elaine Mattson The Edmonds Bookshop opened in 1972. We have been privileged to have a very short list of wonderful owners, not least of which are the current owners,…
Edmonds Booktalk: What to read in the New Year
My Edmonds News is pleased to introduce our new columnist, Elaine Mattson of the Edmonds Bookshop, and her monthly “Booktalk” column. By Elaine Mattson How has the New Year been…