Diane Urbani de la Paz

Writers to read in Port Angeles for hunger relief

PORT ANGELES — Joy, pain, marriage, hiking: These things and then some will be given voice Friday in the Writers’ Harvest Reading for Hunger Relief,… Continue reading

Anna Unger and Tim Macausland hunt Bigfoot together in “Freak Like Me

Bigfoot, rock ‘n’ roll featured in Port Angeles musical

PORT ANGELES — Once upon a time, a Nerd went camping with a Cheerleader. Together, they hunted for that hairy, woodsy beast named Bigfoot. So… Continue reading

Anna Unger and Tim Macausland hunt Bigfoot together in “Freak Like Me

Peninsula poets to read Thursday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Two women known for the candor of their poetry will come together Thursday. Tess Gallagher, whose latest book is Midnight Lantern: New… Continue reading

Best-selling author to speak at Chimacum High School

CHIMACUM — Novelist David Guterson, author of eight books including Snow Falling on Cedars and 2011’s Ed King, will come to Chimacum High School to… Continue reading

Contra dance set at Port Angeles Senior Center on Wednesday

PORT ANGELES — A special community contra dance is coming up Wednesday evening, thanks to visitors from New England: Perpetual e-Motion, a fiddle-guitar duo from… Continue reading

Peninsula-made handicrafts to fill Wednesday showcase

Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM — Just-dipped chocolate truffles and caramels. Freshly printed photographs of the moon. Jewelry shaped around bits of sea-polished glass. These gifts… Continue reading

Traci and Spencer Hoveskeland make up The Bottom Line Duo.

A diverse Bottom Line: Port Angeles-bred duo to perform at college

PORT ANGELES — The two Port Angeles High School sweethearts are still playing, working and traveling together — and this Tuesday night, they're coming home… Continue reading

Traci and Spencer Hoveskeland make up The Bottom Line Duo.
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough of Port Townsend is the author of "The Healer's War."

Port Townsend author, Army vet to read from novel today

PORT ANGELES — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, author of The Healer's War and many other books, will give a free reading at Wine on the Waterfront,… Continue reading

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough of Port Townsend is the author of "The Healer's War."

WEEKEND: New Old Time Chautauqua in town

PORT TOWNSEND — When the Juggling Jollies, the Pipia Sisters and a sword swallower known as Justin Credible join the Flying Karamazov Brothers, you know… Continue reading

Crystie and Keith Kisler hunker beside the barrels at their Finnriver Farm & Cidery in Chimacum

Vintners to host Harvest Winery Tour this weekend

The reds and whites are ready — and thanks to winemakers' creative juices, the scarecrows are diverse this weekend during the Harvest Winery Tour across… Continue reading

Crystie and Keith Kisler hunker beside the barrels at their Finnriver Farm & Cidery in Chimacum

WEEKEND: Art, rock live on with Second Weekend Art parties in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A diverse mix of Second Weekend Art parties gets under way tonight with rock, remembrance, art-making and dancing at Bar N9NE. There,… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Foote's funnies, for the festival

WEEKEND: Foote’s funnies, for the festival

By Diane Urbani de la Paz Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Norman Foote figures he was an embarrassment to his folks,and a mystery to… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Foote's funnies, for the festival

WEEKEND: New Old Time Chautauqua in town

PORT TOWNSEND — When the Juggling Jollies, the Pipia Sisters and a sword swallower known as Justin Credible join the Flying Karamazov Brothers, you know… Continue reading

Singers Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff will do a rare performance together at this Sunday's Community SongFest in Port Townsend. Songwriting Works

WEEKEND: SongFest more than a lark

PORT TOWNSEND — However young or old you might be, wherever and whatever you've been in this life, you can yet have a song in… Continue reading

Singers Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff will do a rare performance together at this Sunday's Community SongFest in Port Townsend. Songwriting Works
Sequim High School's Hailey Brock

‘Dramedy’ opens Friday at Sequim High School

SEQUIM — Sure, “Up the Down Staircase” is a comedy set in an inner-city high school — but with teenagers involved, you can be sure… Continue reading

Sequim High School's Hailey Brock

CLALLAM — Wide margin for Chapman over Roth for Clallam commissioner

PORT ANGELES — It's looking like four more years for Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman, who was leading his Republican challenger, Maggie Roth, by a… Continue reading

UPDATED, CLALLAM ELECTION — Wide margin for Chapman over Roth for Clallam commissioner

PORT ANGELES — It's looking like four more years for Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman, who was leading his Republican challenger, Maggie Roth, by a… Continue reading

Juan de Fuca Festival benefit set for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Canadian singer and comic Norman Foote, a buffet dinner, the Dessert Dash and an auction of fancy hotel stays and getaways: It’s… Continue reading

Massachusetts playwright Constance Congdon's “Take Me to the River” will be given a staged reading Monday at Port Townsend's Key City Playhouse.

Topical tale of farm troubles in Key City play

PORT TOWNSEND — The future of family farms, the arrival of developers and the water of life all converge in “Take Me to the River.”… Continue reading

Massachusetts playwright Constance Congdon's “Take Me to the River” will be given a staged reading Monday at Port Townsend's Key City Playhouse.

WEEKEND: Putting bang back into big band

PORT TOWNSEND — In Bill Cunliffe’s hands, a big band isn’t what it used to be. It’s a rock ’n’ roll outfit, a Latin jazz… Continue reading