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Charisa Silliman

WEEKEND: Olympic Theatre Arts opens three-week run of ‘God of Carnage’ tonight

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
The On Ensemble

WEEKEND: On Ensemble to bring Japanese taiko to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Their mission is loud and clear. Fearless exploration — and expansion — of taiko drumming. The On Ensemble, four men from the… Continue reading

The On Ensemble
WEEKEND: Singers, orchestra to bring Bach's 'B Minor Mass' to Port Angeles on Sunday

WEEKEND: Singers, orchestra to bring Bach’s ‘B Minor Mass’ to Port Angeles on Sunday

PORT ANGELES — This music, written some 264 years ago, has been called “a cathedral in sound.” Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor, replete… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Singers, orchestra to bring Bach's 'B Minor Mass' to Port Angeles on Sunday

Artist critique session, forum set Wednesday at MAC

SEQUIM — A free art forum and critique session called “ARTiculate!” is slated for Wednesday evening at the Museum & Arts Center, 175 W. Cedar… Continue reading

Richard Glaubman

Peninsula author tapped for Community Teen Read

PORT TOWNSEND — Richard Glaubman is a P.E. teacher at Blue Heron Middle School — and a nationally known writer thanks to a twist of… Continue reading

Richard Glaubman
Ron Jones

PENINSULA PROFILE: Port Angeles High School orchestra maestro Ron Jones

PORT ANGELES — One early morning in the summer of 1968, Ron Jones and his rock ’n’ roll band were about to cross over. Headed… Continue reading

Ron Jones
The Revelers from Louisiana are on their way to Port Townsend for tonight's Clambake

Clambake tonight as Centrum of Port Townsend turns the big 4-0

PORT TOWNSEND — This crowd has no problem with turning 40. Centrum, a nonprofit presenter of music and literary festivals for four decades now, will… Continue reading

The Revelers from Louisiana are on their way to Port Townsend for tonight's Clambake
Artist Marjorie Newberg will show face-painting tonight at the Second Friday Art Rock party at Bar N9ne in Port Angeles.

WEEKEND It’s good to go 2FAR

PORT ANGELES — The Seattle band Urban Jellyfish, whose sting mixes soul, rock and blues, will take the stage at Bar N9ne tonight for a… Continue reading

Artist Marjorie Newberg will show face-painting tonight at the Second Friday Art Rock party at Bar N9ne in Port Angeles.
The Revelers from Louisiana are on their way to Port Townsend for Saturday night's Clambake

WEEKEND: Centrum turns 40 with Saturday night Clambake

PORT TOWNSEND — This crowd has no problem with turning 40. Centrum, a nonprofit presenter of music and literary festivals for four decades now, will… Continue reading

The Revelers from Louisiana are on their way to Port Townsend for Saturday night's Clambake
Eggplant

WEEKEND: Port Angeles band Eggplant to dish up tunes for community Saturday get-together

PORT ANGELES — Eggplant, the six-piece funk-blues-soul band, will dish out the songs for another “Just for Fun” community dance this Saturday night at the… Continue reading

Eggplant

WEEKEND: Revamped gallery joins Second Weekend Art Walk

PORT ANGELES — A reinvented gallery joins the lineup of Second Weekend art festivities this Saturday, courtesy of a raft of local artists. Harbor Art,… Continue reading

Virginia-based storyteller and songwriter Kim Weitkamp will arrive at the RoseWind Common House in Port Townsend this Sunday.

WEEKEND: Storyteller to gallivant on Port Townsend stage

PORT TOWNSEND — Kim Weitkamp, an internationally known tale-teller and singer, describes herself as a wild-hearted, wondering little girl inside the body of a seasoned… Continue reading

Virginia-based storyteller and songwriter Kim Weitkamp will arrive at the RoseWind Common House in Port Townsend this Sunday.
Monique Mead

WEEKEND: Violinist to join Port Angeles Symphony for Saturday concerts

PORT ANGELES — Lift the bow, draw it across the strings, and you say things you cannot say any other way. So believes Monique Mead,… Continue reading

Monique Mead
Thirteen-year-old Kate Powers

Accomplished 13-year-old violinist to perform Tuesday in Sequim

SEQUIM — A young and accomplished violinist will bring music of Romania, the United States, Scotland and Ireland to this month's Music Live with Lunch… Continue reading

Thirteen-year-old Kate Powers
The Community Chorus of Port Townsend — including

Concerts in three Jefferson County towns mark Civil War’s 150th

In three concerts in as many communities this month, the Community Chorus of Port Townsend and East Jefferson County will offer its spring program, “The… Continue reading

The Community Chorus of Port Townsend — including

Winners selected for ‘Tidepools’ magazine (Corrected)

PORT ANGELES — The winners have been selected for the 2013 Tidepools art, literary and music magazine. Peninsula College's Associated Student Council and the Peninsula… Continue reading

Bicyclist Pius Achermann crosses Monument Valley

Film tracks cyclists’ 300-miles-a-day trek

PORT ANGELES — This “Bicycle Dreams” movie still astonishes its director. The documentary, to screen Friday night at Peninsula College, is about people who pedal… Continue reading

Bicyclist Pius Achermann crosses Monument Valley

Free Port Angeles writing workshop to ‘play with language’

PORT ANGELES — The poet laureate of Washington state came from a whole other land. Kathleen Flenniken, a former civil engineer at the Hanford Nuclear… Continue reading

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PENINSULA PROFILE: Artist explores new territory via collaboration

It began with those beatniks. This was the 1950s in Pasadena, Calif., and Anna Wiancko, a preschooler, was visiting her cousin. This cousin had “a… Continue reading

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Washington state’s poet laureate to read in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — It was a whole year ago that librarian Lorrie Kovell sought out Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken. Kovell hoped to bring… Continue reading