One of the focal points was Robson Square, right outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, where many cultural events were going on. One night, right between two showers on rainy west coast, a man with ...

Joe Walker sat at a table in the back of The Gem Diner on a snowy Thursday in December, near a Christmas tree with a big white bow on top. He knew the image he cut, with his white beard and light blue ...

Amid the summer swirl of smiling tourists at Pike Place Market, and at festivals like this weekend's Bite of Seattle, slumps the sad balloon man. Behind the red and black clown makeup, Farrel Thomas ...

With one assistant and a hand pump, New York artist Jason Hackenwerth spent a week in early June turning some 7,000 balloons into 13 giant sculptures commissioned for a Chicago event. Seven of them ...