- Bellingham’s Best Football Venues College football returns next week, and the NFL regular season won’t be far behind, so here’s your roundup of Bellingham’s best venues for taking in a football game. McKay’s—Home to arguably the best New York style pizza in town, and an impressive lineup of 63 different beers, McKay’s boasts a great football atmosphere. And it’s […]
- Tara Sundin
- SeaFeast Last year the City of Bellingham and Port of Bellingham announced that they would jointly fund a signature event, and called for proposals. The winning idea came from Bornstein Seafoods—a seafood festival that would showcase the sea-borne charm of our coastal city. On September 30, we’ll all get to see (and taste!) that idea for […]
- Blackbird Longboards Tyler Matheis’ first career was in cabinet making. Now he makes longboards out of reclaimed wood. And sometimes sunglasses. Blackbird longboards are made of either bamboo or maple (with occasional bits of fir, or walnut added for flair). The Seattle Times described them as “elegant boards” with a “1960s retro flair.” Handmade boards mean that […]
- The Acid Ball The City of Bellingham is accepting proposals for how to reclaim a component of the digester building as a centerpiece in the planned Whatcom Waterway park. The park is scheduled to open next year as part of the waterfront redevelopment project. Planners have 33 acres of the waterfront site earmarked for it, and hope it […]
- PARK(ing) Day The Commercial Street Parking Garage (you may know it as “The Parkade”) is looking fresh thanks to some new paint, signages, and other much needed cosmetic improvements. So it makes the perfect venue for the Bellingham edition of PARK(ing) Day, a global event in which citizens transform metered parking spaces into miniature public parks. If […]
- Arlen Coiley
- Stones Throw Brewing When Stone’s Throw Brewing opened its doors earlier this spring, Bellingham surpassed Seattle in breweries per capita. Co-owned by Tony Luciano and Jack Pflueger, a pair of WWU grads who discovered brewing in their kitchen. Today they brew a variety of traditional ales in a stack of recycled shipping containers that sit behind their taproom […]
- City of Trails You can travel almost anywhere in Bellingham on an extensive network of well manicured trails. But these trails don’t happen by accident. They are planned, constructed, and maintained by a variety of entities including the Bellingham parks department, WMBC, and the Washington Trails Association. The trail maintenance work done by the later two organizations, is […]
- Connie Shannon