Diane Urbani de la Paz

Carol Swarbrick Dries and Paul Martin portray a journalism professor and a New York City fire captain

‘The Guys’ to be performed on 9/11 anniversary

SEQUIM — The more she reads this one-act play, the more actress Carol Swarbrick Dries feels inspired. And so for the third consecutive year, Dries… Continue reading

Carol Swarbrick Dries and Paul Martin portray a journalism professor and a New York City fire captain
Cammie Watson of Victoria peruses the Community Plein Air Contest entries on display Friday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The contest is part of the Paint the Peninsula festival

Peninsula impressions on display at today’s en plein air festival in Port Angeles [ * Photo Gallery * ]

PORT ANGELES — The art's been all over the place. Paint the Peninsula, the new Port Angeles Fine Arts Center event, propelled amateurs and professionals… Continue reading

Cammie Watson of Victoria peruses the Community Plein Air Contest entries on display Friday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The contest is part of the Paint the Peninsula festival
Clea Rome  [Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

PENINSULA PROFILE: She fills many roles as WSU Extension director

PORT ANGELES — Like a centerfielder who catches questions instead of fly balls, Clea Rome sees a lot of queries. There's a weird mushroom in… Continue reading

Clea Rome  [Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

WITH WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL — Birds, boats alight on downtown Port Townsend during Gallery Walk

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. PORT TOWNSEND — Bird-watching and sailing are two of the options for art viewers in downtown Port Townsend… Continue reading

WITH WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL — Birds, boats alight on downtown Port Townsend during Gallery Walk

PORT TOWNSEND — Bird-watching and sailing are two of the options for art viewers in downtown Port Townsend on Saturday night (Sept. 7). The city's… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Contra dances resume at Black Diamond Community Hall south of Port Angeles

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. PORT ANGELES — With their summer recess over, contra dances with live fiddle music return this weekend to… Continue reading

Rick Waites and Pamela Ziemann star in “Becky’s New Car

WEEKEND: Play opening in Sequim examines midlife questions

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. SEQUIM — It’s hard to say which story turns out happier. True tale No. 1: For his wife’s… Continue reading

Rick Waites and Pamela Ziemann star in “Becky’s New Car
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Executive Director Robin Anderson grapples with a Paint the Peninsula mural

WEEKEND: Port Angeles center gets art out ‘en plein air’

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Aug. 6. PORT ANGELES — The new Paint the Peninsula festival is on throughout this weekend, with a… Continue reading

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Executive Director Robin Anderson grapples with a Paint the Peninsula mural

WEEKEND: Sequim’s art walk to embrace the colorful

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. SEQUIM — Live Celtic music, a surfer’s watercolors and a woman’s joy painted on canvas: They’re all part… Continue reading

Historian Bob Bartlett of Spokane portrays York

‘Forgotten hero’ of Lewis-Clark expedition brought to life in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — He was born a slave but lived as a free man, walking and canoeing some 7,000 miles from St. Louis to the… Continue reading

Historian Bob Bartlett of Spokane portrays York
Peter Greene and Pamela Ziemann star in “Becky's New Car

Sequim comedy preview set tonight for discount

SEQUIM — “Becky's New Car,” a modern comedy about women, men, cars and life, arrives at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., for a… Continue reading

Peter Greene and Pamela Ziemann star in “Becky's New Car
Robin Anderson

Interest high for en plein air festival at Port Angeles arts center, organizer says

PORT ANGELES — Paint the Peninsula, a new festival at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, already has turned out better than Robin Anderson expected.… Continue reading

Robin Anderson
Aaron and Charlotte Elkins

Sequim couple’s new mystery novel explores a Greek isle

SEQUIM — The view, down the plunging neckline of a Greek island, ogles the Aegean Sea. But on the white stairs leading to the water,… Continue reading

Aaron and Charlotte Elkins
Volunteer receptionist Gerene Russell shepherds hundreds of patients at Port Angeles' free clinic. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Grateful on Labor Day: Volunteers enjoy working at Port Angeles free clinic

PORT ANGELES — Gerene “Lady Bug” Russell loaded and unloaded airplane cargo for 25 years. In the scorching Dallas heat, she labored for American Airlines,… Continue reading

Volunteer receptionist Gerene Russell shepherds hundreds of patients at Port Angeles' free clinic. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Bex Marshall

Musical adventuress to give concert in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — When Rebecca “Bex” Marshall was an 11-year-old girl, she was handed a Hummingbird. This was a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird guitar, a gift… Continue reading

Bex Marshall
PENINSULA PROFILE: Couple mix music and medicine

PENINSULA PROFILE: Couple mix music and medicine

SEQUIM — When he heard her singing, it clinched the crush. “That voice,” Kip Tulin said of that woman who, back in the early 1990s,… Continue reading

PENINSULA PROFILE: Couple mix music and medicine

Big weekend across the Strait in Victoria, too

VICTORIA — Festivals converge on British Columbia’s capital this weekend, bringing lots of live blues, classic boats and edgy theater. For those with enhanced driver’s… Continue reading

Polecat

WEEKEND: Winery’s finale to feature ‘stomp-grass’ specialists Polecat

PORT ANGELES — “We are so lucky,” fiddler Cayley Schmid says of her band. The group is four young men and herself, playing six kinds… Continue reading

Polecat
Orville Johnson

‘Mongrel folk’ music, satire set this Friday at Key City Cabaret

PORT TOWNSEND — The self-anointed “Kings of Mongrel Folk,” Orville Johnson and Mark Graham, will bring their musical instruments and lighthearted satire to the Key… Continue reading

Orville Johnson
The Rainforest Players include

West End troupe rises from ashes of Forks fire

FORKS — In the catastrophic fire that burned the Rainforest Arts Center, all was destroyed — save two elements. The Rainforest Players and their desire… Continue reading

The Rainforest Players include