Diane Urbani de la Paz

“Road Trip!” is the theme of The Chairs improvisational troupe’s show at the BLT Coffeehouse tonight. The Chairs include Misha Cassella-Blackburn

WEEKEND: Chairs Improv to take coast-to-coast road trip tonight

PORT TOWNSEND — The Chairs, Port Townsend’s teenage improvisational theater troupe, are celebrating Keep America Beautiful Month with “Road Trip Improv,” a new show at… Continue reading

“Road Trip!” is the theme of The Chairs improvisational troupe’s show at the BLT Coffeehouse tonight. The Chairs include Misha Cassella-Blackburn

WEEKEND: Children’s book writer to read from his latest

PORT TOWNSEND — As a writer of books for young people, Patrick Jennings doesn’t necessarily hold his readings at bookstores. Tonight, it turns out, Jennings… Continue reading

The Locust Street Taxi band will burst in to three venues this weekend

WEEKEND: Locust Street Taxi lays out table of delectable tunes

Locust Street Taxi has been picking up wayward musicians, funny songs and trombone sounds for a good dozen years now. So it’s high time the… Continue reading

The Locust Street Taxi band will burst in to three venues this weekend

WEEKEND: Loves It to perform in Coyle

COYLE — An extra show has been added this month to the schedule at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center: Loves It, a duo from… Continue reading

Buzz Rogowski  [Photo by Jeff Eichen]

WEEKEND: Pianist to play original pieces in Earth’s honor

CHIMACUM — This spring, pianist Buzz Rogowski, known for playing cafes and restaurants, is reinventing himself. To celebrate that fact, Rogowski will give a recital… Continue reading

Buzz Rogowski  [Photo by Jeff Eichen]
Andrew Rahal

WEEKEND: Poet, traveler, surfer to speak at reading

SEQUIM — Andrew Rahal, poet, traveler and Quileute Tribal School teaching assistant, will be the featured writer in tonight’s Fourth Friday Reading at Rainshadow Coffee… Continue reading

Andrew Rahal
Nancy Beier

WEEKEND: Soprano Beier’s career finale with Port Townsend orchestra

PORT TOWNSEND — The time has come for opera diva Nancy Beier’s swan song, and she has every intention of going out in grand style.… Continue reading

Nancy Beier

WEEKEND: Stand-ups try out their shtick on Port Townsend audiences

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula Comedy Contest rides again, bringing 10 stand-up comics to compete at The Upstage, 923 Washington St., on Saturday night.… Continue reading

Singer Simon Lynge

Singers to band together Friday for benefit Port Townsend concert

PORT TOWNSEND — Simon Lynge, an internationally known singer who lives in Port Townsend, will join another local singer and song leader, Aimée Ringle, for… Continue reading

Singer Simon Lynge
Deborah Morgan-Ellis of Port Angeles is poised to give away 20 free copies of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho today as part of World Book Night. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Local book distribution part of global effort

PORT ANGELES — They come today and tonight, bearing gifts: gifts to whisk the unsuspecting stranger off to another place, another life. In other words,… Continue reading

Deborah Morgan-Ellis of Port Angeles is poised to give away 20 free copies of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho today as part of World Book Night. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Photo by Rich DeCou

Groups hit Port Angeles beaches to mark Klallam Earth Day

PORT ANGELES — Girl Scouts, insurance agents, farmers: They all got out there Saturday morning to clean up beaches from Dungeness Spit to Pysht to… Continue reading

Photo by Rich DeCou
Nance Van Winckel will read from her latest book Wednesday at Maier Performance Hall in Port Angeles.

Poet to read from book Wednesday at Peninsula College

PORT ANGELES — In another free Foothills Writers Series event, Spokane-based poet Nance Van Winckel will read from her newest book, Pacific Walkers, on Wednesday.… Continue reading

Nance Van Winckel will read from her latest book Wednesday at Maier Performance Hall in Port Angeles.
Kristin Quigley Brye

Season’s final concert at Maier Hall is Tuesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The music of Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi and other masters will fill Maier Hall, Peninsula College's intimate new venue, Tuesday as four accomplished… Continue reading

Kristin Quigley Brye
“Who doesn't want to laugh at the end of a long work week?” asks improvisational comic Dave Razowsky

Laughter is goal of guest speaker at Peninsula Behavioral Health benefit

PORT ANGELES — Dave Razowsky, Chicago-bred comic, has clearly identified his task in Port Angeles on May 3. Razowsky, guest speaker at Peninsula Behavioral Health's… Continue reading

“Who doesn't want to laugh at the end of a long work week?” asks improvisational comic Dave Razowsky
Kate Reavey  [Portrait by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

PENINSULA PROFILE: Poet helps ‘beloved community’ speak through the written word

PORT ANGELES — Springtime in Tuscany. Steeped in Michelangelo, poetry, Italian sun. “I’ll never get that gig,” thought Kate Reavey, poet, Peninsula College professor, rural… Continue reading

Kate Reavey  [Portrait by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

Young poets play with words at Port Angeles slam

PORT ANGELES — In two poetry contests sponsored by the Port Angeles Library, a flock of young poets seized the day and made it their… Continue reading

Charisa Silliman portrays the uptight Annette Raleigh in “God of Carnage.” -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz /Peninsula Daily News

When people stop being polite: Olympic Theater Arts run of ‘Carnage’ continues this weekend

SEQUIM — It all starts out with “Love and Marriage,” crooned sweetly by Frank Sinatra. But the song is about the only smooth part of… Continue reading

Charisa Silliman portrays the uptight Annette Raleigh in “God of Carnage.” -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz /Peninsula Daily News
Michael Aldrich and Barbara Drennan star in “The Shadow Box

WEEKEND: ‘Shadow Box,’ looking at life at end of the road, opens tonight in Dungeness

SEQUIM — Carol Swarbrick Dries remembers being asked, “What would you do if you had one day to live?” It was a minister, years ago,… Continue reading

Michael Aldrich and Barbara Drennan star in “The Shadow Box
Bryan Bowers

WEEKEND: Autoharpist-storyteller to bring tales to Port Townsend on Sunday, Port Angeles on Monday

Bryan Bowers loves it when he hears it: a song that has a sweet melody and a good tale running through. “I have great reverence,”… Continue reading

Bryan Bowers
Singer Aimee Ringle

WEEKEND: Concert fetes freeing of Elwha River waters

PORT TOWNSEND — Aimee Ringle and Saratone, a pair of singers and song leaders, will host “River Back to the Ocean,” a fundraising concert and… Continue reading

Singer Aimee Ringle