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Weekend Getaway for Feb. 10

What: If you haven’t registered yet for the Legendary Banked Slalom snowboard race, you are too late. However, this event is about more than the race. It’s a celebration of snowboarding history and the road it traveled to become a mainstream sport. In addition to watching some of the best boarders in the Northwest race down a natural half-pipe, you also can check out the rest of Baker’s killer terrain.

Satire on rise, fall of Enron

The play opening this weekend at South Puget Sound Community College has dinosaurs, mice and a barbershop quartet.

Recycled art colors Washington Center

Plastic shopping bags can easily end up becoming big, nasty problems, like the islands of bags floating in the oceans.

Struggle to rekindle lost love

“The Vow” suggests love means never having to say you can’t remember your spouse’s name. The film, loosely based on a true story, follows a woman who comes out of a coma with no recollection of her married life.

‘This Means War’ delayed

In an unusual move, 20th Century Fox is pushing back the official opening of the romantic action-comedy “This Means War” from Tuesday to Feb. 17. The move might be designed to let the studio avoid reporting what probably would have been weak box-office receipts on Valentine’s Day.

Squeaky clean ‘Journey 2’

Cast and crew err on the side of silly in “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” the amusingly childish sequel to that unlikely 2008 hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” They’ve rendered Jules Verne’s novel into a jokey lark, with broad, corny wisecracks, comic sidekicks and everybody riffing on the ginormous lizards, humungous spiders and the like.

Restaurant Inspections for Feb. 8

Comments are taken directly from latest county inspection reports, which are available at each food establishment and at the Thurston County Environmental Health Office. For questions concerning these reports, contact the health office at 360-867-2667.

Ballad of a beautiful garden

The second week of February is time to celebrate a symphony of spring. And it will be easy to do so this week at the Northwest Flower & Garden show.

Music will add new dimension to Northwest Flower & Garden Show

The cacophony of tinkling fountains and gurgling streams at this year’s Northwest Flower & Garden Show will have a new aural element: music.

Things to consider when replacing a furnace

How well has your heat source been performing? Although replacing the furnace now — unless it has conked out and been beyond repair — is not considered wise, you might consider doing so when winter has vacated the premises.