Diane Urbani de la Paz

WEEKEND: Centrum writers’ forum to begin Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — Novelists and poets from Calcutta and California; writers who have won Pushcart Prizes and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships: They’re here… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Port Townsend Gallery Walk offers variations on themes Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — An underground Red Raven, a forest of trees in art, the Bazaar Girls: They’re all part of the Gallery Walk in Port… Continue reading

Ray Chen

WEEKEND: Rising music star to play at Olympic Music Festival

QUILCENE — A rising classical music star is arriving here for “Fireworks for Violin & Piano,” the second set of concerts on the Olympic Music… Continue reading

Ray Chen

WEEKEND: Sequim celebrates centennial with party, dance and art walk tonight (Friday)

SEQUIM — Tonight’s First Friday Art Walk in downtown Sequim coincides with a long-planned-for party: the Sequim Centennial Community Photo and Street Dance. Local residents… Continue reading

Janet and Dan Abbott designed their West Coast replica of Mount Vernon themselves. The bed-and-breakfast east of Port Angeles also doubles as a lavender farm. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

B&B an ode to Founding Father, by George!

AGNEW — It appears like a mirage out east of Port Angeles: a mansion that looks a lot like Mount Vernon in Virginia. Come closer,… Continue reading

Janet and Dan Abbott designed their West Coast replica of Mount Vernon themselves. The bed-and-breakfast east of Port Angeles also doubles as a lavender farm. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Babe (Melissa Murray)

‘Crimes of the Heart’ tragicomedy on Sequim stage

SEQUIM — “Crimes of the Heart,” a tale of three Mississippi sisters and their bewildered men, arrives on the Olympic Theatre Arts stage for a… Continue reading

Babe (Melissa Murray)
Dawn Beaton

Fiddling music tells tales of America; concerts to spark holiday weekend in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — At first, it seems ironic that on the United States of America’s birthday, music from elsewhere converges here. Listen, though, and you… Continue reading

Dawn Beaton
Carol Swarbrick Dries praised her fellow cast members when accepting the Dewey Award for Best Ensemble in “The Shadow Box

Sequim’s version of Oscars handed out

SEQUIM — Sequim's own version of the Academy Awards took place at the Dungeness Schoolhouse on Sunday night, with trophies bestowed on local actors, singers… Continue reading

Carol Swarbrick Dries praised her fellow cast members when accepting the Dewey Award for Best Ensemble in “The Shadow Box
Sara Woodard with Jonah

PENINSULA PROFILE: She finds life’s work in leading treks into Olympics

PORT ANGELES — At 18, Sara Woodard wanted to work in the wilderness. She’d grown up in Joyce, got her general equivalency diploma from high… Continue reading

Sara Woodard with Jonah

Evenings of sound to connect to heart on Peninsula

Three musicians and metaphysicians, didgeridoo player Michael Stanwood, percussionist Zorina Wolf and vocalist Vickie Dodd, will soon gather for two sessions exploring “Organic Matters of… Continue reading

Baritone Zachary Gordin to open 30th summer of musical series.

WEEKEND: Down on the farm for Concerts in the Barn

QUILCENE — To open its 30th season of “Concerts in the Barn,” the Olympic Music Festival is bringing a “barihunk.” Yes, Zachary Gordin, a San… Continue reading

Baritone Zachary Gordin to open 30th summer of musical series.
In “The Big Bang

WEEKEND: Key City takes stab at humans’ timeline

PORT TOWNSEND — Think “Titanic.” Or “The Producers” — on the Key City Playhouse stage. “The Big Bang,” a musical history of the whole world,… Continue reading

In “The Big Bang
Birmingham Sunlights — from left

WEEKEND: Performers bring euphonic heritage to Centrum stage

PORT TOWNSEND — It’s not that the Birmingham Sunlights want to shine their music down on the listener. It’s much more, said Sunlight James Taylor,… Continue reading

Birmingham Sunlights — from left

WEEKEND: Readers Theatre Plus presenting ‘The Mikado,’ the Dewey Awards

SEQUIM — “The Mikado,” that Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, is on this weekend at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road, along with another Readers… Continue reading

Summer musical theater intensive helps teenagers sharpen stagecraft

SEQUIM — Vocal technique, Broadway songs, dance, Shakespeare, lunch from the Red Rooster: Such are the facets of the second annual Musical Theater Intensive for… Continue reading

Joe Rantz of Sequim is second from left in this picture of the U.S. rowing team that was headed to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Judith Willman

From Sequim to Berlin, 1936: Encounter leads to best-seller

PORT ANGELES — Joe Rantz was 15 when his family left him behind in Sequim. His stepmother, Thula, a gifted violinist, couldn't stand it there… Continue reading

Joe Rantz of Sequim is second from left in this picture of the U.S. rowing team that was headed to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Judith Willman

Groups bring old-fashioned tunes to Calvary Chapel

SEQUIM — Three Kings of the Wild Frontier — guitarist David Rivers, fiddler Joseph Gish, stand-up bass man Hayden Pomeroy — will arrive for an… Continue reading

The Birmingham Sunlights

Honky tonk, ukes, more on tap at Port Townsend Voice Works

PORT TOWNSEND — Songs for all ages and tastes are about to fill five venues at Fort Worden State Park. Voice Works, the Centrum Foundation's… Continue reading

The Birmingham Sunlights
1964: The Tribute

Yeah, yeah, yeah: Tribute band to re-create Beatles sound in Port Angeles on Monday

PORT ANGELES — Right off, the John Lennon guy says: “It’s kind of my fault.” In 1984, Mark Benson and Tom Work started a band… Continue reading

1964: The Tribute

Juan de Fuca sets season concert series

PORT ANGELES — Dan Maguire calls it a “great community adventure”: nine concerts bringing blues, folk, Celtic, rock, gospel, even the circus to town. Maguire,… Continue reading