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“Teague: Design and Beauty,” a documentary by Jason Morris, associate professor of industrial design at Western Washington University, focuses on the life of Walter Dorwin Teague, known for the Kodak Brownie cameras, Texaco’s art deco gas stations, the Polaroid desk lamp, and hundreds of other…

It was February 1916. Activist Emma Goldman was arrested for lecturing on birth control; German guns bombarded French lines, starting World War I’s Battle of Verdun; and renowned Italian tenor Enrico Caruso recorded “O Solo Mio” for the Victor Talking Machine Co.

Hidden in a cabin on Orcas Island over spring break, seven Western students created the first draft of the upcoming play “/faust,” which, through temptation and desire for power, asks its audience, “What is your soul worth?”

The play, which will run Tuesday, June 2, to Saturday, June 6,…

Joe Cessna’s neighbors include chemical plants that are as much a part of the Niagara Falls landscape as the Cataracts.

He’s constantly reminded of their presence. There’s the “nasty smell” that permeates his neighborhood and the greasy film that coats his pool in…

Morris Vogel would bet that for its size, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s shop probably generates more revenue per square foot than any museum retail location in New York City. At less than 1,500 square feet, the museum shop is bright thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows that look out from…

Standing ankle-deep in the South River, Kadrin Anderson watched as her 2-year-old son grabbed thick rocks out of the cold riverbed before heaving them back into the water.

Anderson, who is five months pregnant with her second child, lives in Staunton and is a science teacher at a local…