SOAP LAKE, Wash. — Soap Lake's heyday as a spa town is long past, and, here, along what has become a faded byway in eastern Washington's Grand Coulee country, the present day is very bleak. "The ...

Let Paris have its Eiffel Tower. Soap Lake, Wash., is hoping for a bubbling 60-foot lava lamp. Brent Blake, a local design consultant, was looking for a way to bring tourist dollars to sleepy Soap ...

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The home décor staple of the 1960s and early ’70s counterculture is making a comeback. By Jessica Bumpus Samuel Elmore first saw a lava lamp when he was about 12 or 13 years old and walking through a ...