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House of the Week: Tudor in Albany Leigh Hornbeck FacebookTwitterEmail This week's house is a brick Tudor-style home two blocks from Buckingham Pond, at 77 Brookline Ave., Albany. It was built in 1933 and has 2,000 square feet of living space. The exterior has half-cladding and stucco on the upper story and brick below, and a steep slate roof that adds to its fairy-tale look. The style carries through inside with diamond-shaped muntins on the windows, doorways with cathedral arches and exposed beams in the living room bearing decorative carving. Take a look inside more beautiful homes. Sign u...

Timeline: A look back at the COVID-19 pandemic in Laredo, one year later Louis San Miguel FacebookTwitterEmail One year later, Laredo has finally started to see the light of the end of the tunnel as it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. March 16 marked the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, and since that fateful day, Laredoans have experienced a year that could never have been imagined. Schools, parks and nonessential businesses were shuttered, and friends and families were forced to socially distance in respect to a deadly virus whose effects were not truly known at the time. Wh...

Women who broke barriers from the year you were born Keri Wiginton FacebookTwitterEmail NASA on the Commons // Wikimedia Commons Women who broke barriers from the year you were born The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920 to give women the right to vote. Since then, women have been elected to government roles in increasing numbers, culminating in 2021 with the first woman sworn in as vice president of the United States. Politics isn't the only field where women have broken through barriers, of course. In 1944, Ann Baumgartner Carl became the first female test pilot....

Pi Day: Where to find the sweetest pies, specials in Seattle Sign In Callie Craighead, Seattle P-I FacebookTwitterEmail Math and munchies are uniting for another weekend holiday in Seattle, because this March 14, we're celebrating National Pi Day. Also known by the Greek letter "π," the constant value frequented in much of our high school math homework, 3.14, was first calculated by Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC). Thousands of years later and it's still frequented, even for a sweet national holiday and pop culture phenomenon. Courtesy Tom Douglas Seattle Kitchen While we celebrate mathe...

Candles are a popular product many love to have in their homes. Thing is, some candles...