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Sharing the fun, interesting and new in #VanWA & Clark County from @thecolumbian's life page.

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AI helps translate dog language columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
AI helps translate dog language

AI helps translate dog language

DALLAS — Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say? Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, howls and whimpers of man’s best friend into intelligible speech — a k

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Lessons in grief after pet loss columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Lessons in grief after pet loss

Lessons in grief after pet loss

Losing a pet is the first time many children encounter death. The experience can become an opportunity for profound emotional learning and influence how young people understand and process grief when

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Conditions harsh for Faroe Islands farmers columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Conditions harsh for Faroe Islands farmers

Conditions harsh for Faroe Islands farmers

TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands — The farmers’ market looked — let’s be honest — sad.

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New on DVD: Classic story ushers in holidays columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
New on DVD: Classic story ushers in holidays

New on DVD: Classic story ushers in holidays

An adaptation of a classic children’s book tops the DVD releases for the week of Oct. 28.

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Check out these musical biopics columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Check out these musical biopics

Check out these musical biopics

As Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” hits theaters this weekend, much discourse will be spilled about the music biopic as a genre, its form and function, and its ability to mint aw

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Health inspections, Oct. 24, 2025 columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Health inspections, Oct. 24, 2025

Health inspections, Oct. 24, 2025

4 Caminos, catering, Various Locations 0

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This Week in Clark County History for Oct. 24, 2025 columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
This Week in Clark County History for Oct. 24, 2025

This Week in Clark County History for Oct. 24, 2025

This Week in Clark County History for Oct. 24, 2025

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Social Kitchen in Vancouver hosts cooking classes where experts offer ‘experiences’ columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Social Kitchen in Vancouver hosts cooking classes where experts offer ‘experiences’

Social Kitchen in Vancouver hosts cooking classes where experts offer ‘experiences’

I was skeptical when I first heard about Social Kitchen, which recently opened on the corner of Main Street and East Evergreen Boulevard in downtown Vancouver.

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AI helps translate dog language columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
AI helps translate dog language

AI helps translate dog language

DALLAS — Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say? Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, howls and whimpers of man’s best friend into intelligible speech — a k

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Swifties flood German museum columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Swifties flood German museum

Swifties flood German museum

BERLIN — A German museum has been unexpectedly overrun by Taylor Swift fans because one of its paintings bears a striking resemblance to the opening scene of Swift’s current No. 1 hit video, “The Fate

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HBO Max increasing all subscriptions, new ones hiked immediately columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
HBO Max increasing all subscriptions, new ones hiked immediately

HBO Max increasing all subscriptions, new ones hiked immediately

HBO Max is raising all subscription costs to the max — effective immediately.

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Soft Cell’s David Ball, synth-pop hitmaker behind ‘Tainted Love,’ dies at 66 columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Soft Cell’s David Ball, synth-pop hitmaker behind ‘Tainted Love,’ dies at 66

Soft Cell’s David Ball, synth-pop hitmaker behind ‘Tainted Love,’ dies at 66

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to the top of the U.K. singles chart, died Wednesday. He was 66.

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NFL halftimes add global flair columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
NFL halftimes add global flair

NFL halftimes add global flair

LONDON — The NFL has been spicing up its international games with halftime performers, a bit like mini-Super Bowls.

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‘Nostalgia sign of a lazy mind,’ says the Cult’s Ian Astbury columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
‘Nostalgia sign of a lazy mind,’ says the Cult’s Ian Astbury

‘Nostalgia sign of a lazy mind,’ says the Cult’s Ian Astbury

The Cult’s prime hit-making days were the 1980s and 1990s with songs that are now propulsive classics on alternative and classic rock stations like “She Sells Sanctuary,” “Love Removal Machine” and “F

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No Doubt adds shows to Vegas residency columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
No Doubt adds shows to Vegas residency

No Doubt adds shows to Vegas residency

ANAHEIM, Calif. — No Doubt has doubled the number of nights it will play the Sphere in Las Vegas, announcing six more shows even as a presale for the first six was still underway on Wednesday.

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Try this: Trunk or Treat, Dog Prom, Chrysanthemum Society flower show columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Try this: Trunk or Treat, Dog Prom, Chrysanthemum Society flower show

Try this: Trunk or Treat, Dog Prom, Chrysanthemum Society flower show

Five things to do this week

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Brush with destiny: Hazel Dell artist Alecia Hall opens studio in former Art on the Boulevard venue columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Brush with destiny: Hazel Dell artist Alecia Hall opens studio in former Art on the Boulevard venue

Brush with destiny: Hazel Dell artist Alecia Hall opens studio in former Art on the Boulevard venue

Downtown Vancouver’s Arts District just got a little livelier. The space left vacant in Vancouver Marketplace when Art on the Boulevard closed in March is now filled by A Hall Artworks and Studio, co-

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Humans and wildlife collide columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Humans and wildlife collide

Humans and wildlife collide

KAJIADO, Kenya — This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. The news hit me hard: She was 14, the same age as my youngest daughter, and the lio

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Elite athletes share tips for health columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Elite athletes share tips for health

Elite athletes share tips for health

Athletes confront failure as often as success during competition.

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Flavorful vegan foray columbian.com/news/2025/oct/…
Flavorful vegan foray

Flavorful vegan foray

I first tried Rasta pasta six years ago.

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