SOAP LAKE — Anyone who owns a Lava Lamp knows you can’t put it in the closet for too long without pulling it out, plugging it in and watching the bubbles come to life. So it is with Soap Lake’s giant ...

If you grew up pre-Y2K, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of a lava lamp. It’s much less likely that you’ve ever encountered a lamp made out of literal lava. That’s the basic description of ...

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 ...

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 ...