May 24—When you drink it, it's hard to taste the ingredients of what made Rainier Brewing Company one of the Pacific Northwest's most recognizable brands. It took grandiose costumes, extravagant sets ...

Brian Nyjordet, a 65-year-old Poulsbo craftsman, enjoys working with his hammer, chop saw and finish tools doing carpentry work. Seeing the craftsman use the tools of his trade offers no clue that ...

Dozens of brew-loving super fans descended upon a North Bend Theater over the weekend to catch a showing of the grassroots documentary Rainier: A Beer Odyssey. Rainier Beer has been a staple of ...

Rainier Beer’s famous “Get it yourself, Bob!” television commercial made the fed-up Marlene a feminist hero in 1970s Seattle. Courtesy Rainier: A Beer Odyssey/Washington State Historical Society Isaac ...

IT’S WHAT I CALL an all-too-common Northwest reality: One of our region’s best-remembered idyllic landscapes is now a vast housing development. This rural Pierce County site, one hour’s drive ...

Behold the Rain-beers, a herd of giant bottles with human legs galloping majestically across the Cascade foothills. This motif was part advertisement, part cinema — the brainchildren of Heckler ...

Where: Coughlin Theater at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, Gonzaga University, 211 E. Desmet Ave. Tickets: spokesman.com/northwest-passages; $7 general ...