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  • Now streaming: Future Man and the Umbrella Academy

    Brianna Wray, The Titles|Aug 20, 2020

    STREAMING—Though it would make a great band name, Future Man and The Umbrella Academy are two different television series now at your streaming fingertips. The two shows tackle time travel and its ramifications in a way that is absorbing. Part of the richness in the quality of these shows is the fastidious attention to detail both in sets and costume design. Their characters are icing on the cake. Netflix’s Umbrella Academy follows a very peculiar event on one particular day in 1989 when 43 inf...

  • Reporting back: Nocking Point's "Quarantine" Pinot Noir Review

    Brianna Wray, The Times|Jul 16, 2020

    When I moved to Walla Walla just over two years ago, I knew little of wine. Family and friends assured me that would change. "Next thing you know, you'll have a cellar going," they said. Sure. At the time, I had an art major's experience with the everyday chardonnays and merlots that accompany gallery openings, most of which can be described as brassy and abrasive. Beyond that, I once tasted what I still consider to be the greatest wine ever, a 2000 Leonetti merlot aged fifteen years. Perfectly...

  • Awesome Ham Pasta Salad

    Jun 25, 2020

    I didn't add "Awesome" but it was in the title. It also had a 5-star rating. I didn't make it yet. In the comments, it mentions you could use light mayonnaise, light sour cream and turkey ham if you were watching calories. or for some who don't eat pork. The Fourth of July weekend is coming up and I think this would be a great salad for a get-together. Next week I will put in my baked bean recipe that always gets rave reviews. It makes quite a bit, using different beans, pineapple, apple, molasses, etc. But first, I need to share a disaster, mo...

  • Book & Game Reviews

    the Times|Jan 9, 2020

    Today We Go Home by Kellie Estes After tragedy strikes her unit in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennet returns to her home in Washington to recover from the experience and the loss of her best friend and fellow soldier, Sarah. Among Sarah’s possessions she discovers a diary belonging to an ancestor, Emily, who disguised as a man, fought as a soldier in the Civil War. The story draws parallels between the war Emily fought in, and the experiences Larkin endured as a soldier in Afghanistan. An i...