Diane Urbani de la Paz

Dinner, auction to benefit camp for disabled

PORT ANGELES — If you want to see what joy looks like, watch the people Sharron Sherfick works with. At Camp Beausite Northwest near Chimacum… Continue reading

Longtime art instructor Cathy Haight helps Myra Walker and Sarah Howell with their mobiles during the Port Angeles YMCA’s After the Bell program.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Profile

PENINSULA PROFILE: She helps to unleash their inner artists

PORT ANGELES — Cathy Haight remembers the day she turned the corner. She and her husband David were running a graphic design business in Southern… Continue reading

Longtime art instructor Cathy Haight helps Myra Walker and Sarah Howell with their mobiles during the Port Angeles YMCA’s After the Bell program.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Profile
The noted band Playing for Change is one of the offerings across the North Olympic Peninsula for St. Patrick’s Day festivities tonight.  [Peninsula Spotlight cover design by Heather Loyd/Peninsula Daily News]

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Bands bring on the green (and the blues) tonight for St. Patrick’s Day

Around here, St. Patrick’s Day comes in many colors, from Irish kelly green to many shades of the blues. Here are some of the options… Continue reading

The noted band Playing for Change is one of the offerings across the North Olympic Peninsula for St. Patrick’s Day festivities tonight.  [Peninsula Spotlight cover design by Heather Loyd/Peninsula Daily News]
Master Gardener Larry Lang looks over his “lasagna garden

WEEKEND: Get sneak peek of spring green with gardening workshops

SEQUIM — An Italian villa with lasagna gardening: So goes the recipe for the 14th annual Gala Garden Show, two days of displays and presentations… Continue reading

Master Gardener Larry Lang looks over his “lasagna garden

Peninsula College to hold free comedy hour Friday

PORT ANGELES — Lara Starcevich, a professor of drama and speech, has a prescription for the wet-weather blues. She calls it the “Non-PC PC Comedy… Continue reading

Hayley Croxford of Port Angeles is winner of the 2012 Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts poster competition. Amelia Andaleon

Hometown artist designs Juan de Fuca Festival poster

PORT ANGELES — Hayley Croxford just went for it one night, drawing on her feeling for her hometown and her experiences at music festivals around… Continue reading

Hayley Croxford of Port Angeles is winner of the 2012 Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts poster competition. Amelia Andaleon
Rocky Friedman

PENINSULA PROFILE: Friedman takes steps to bring Rose Theatre into future of film

There’s the unlikely story of Rocky Friedman, and then there’s the sequel, just arrived in theaters. Two theaters, that is. Two little auditoriums with pretty… Continue reading

Rocky Friedman
Neah Bay High School senior JaDe Shaw won the Sequim Arts Emerging Artist Award for her “War of Two Worlds.” The mixed-media work is part of the March exhibition at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Renee Mizar

Student artwork put on view at Museum & Arts Center in Sequim

SEQUIM — “Butterfly Mustache,” “The Frozen North” and “Tattoo Angel” are a few of the award-winning creations awaiting visitors all month at the Museum &… Continue reading

Neah Bay High School senior JaDe Shaw won the Sequim Arts Emerging Artist Award for her “War of Two Worlds.” The mixed-media work is part of the March exhibition at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Renee Mizar
Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands

World-famous band headed to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES ­— Every step of the way, the story sounds implausible. Step one: Filmmaker Mark Johnson of Los Angeles gallivants around the world, recording… Continue reading

Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands
IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn's work to life

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn’s work to life

PORT ANGELES — Let’s get this out of the way right off: Saturday’s Port Angeles Symphony concerts spotlight a pair of soloists who used to… Continue reading

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn's work to life
Rick and Paulette Hill of Sequim crafted these driftwood pendants

WEEKEND: ‘Aviary’ highlight of driftwood art show

SEQUIM — Handcrafted pendants and an “aviary” filled with bird figures will grace this year's Olympic Driftwood Sculptors show, which will overtake the Dungeness River… Continue reading

Rick and Paulette Hill of Sequim crafted these driftwood pendants
Margaret Jakubcin of Port Angeles

WEEKEND: Port Angeles Library site of blast . . . of fun

PORT ANGELES — Commotion — dancing, spinning, cake-pan drumming — comes back to the library tonight, and the staff don't mind at all. In fact,… Continue reading

Margaret Jakubcin of Port Angeles

‘Ghost Stories’ painter to discuss work today in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — These “Ghost Stories,” with their white mists and deep-blue water, are mysterious. So Erik Sandgren, their painter, will shed some light on… Continue reading

Olympic Cellars owner Kathy Charlton and the Vineyard Angel

International Women’s Day celebration set tonight

PORT ANGELES — The women-owned Olympic Cellars winery will again open its doors for an International Women's Day party at 6 p.m. today — to… Continue reading

Olympic Cellars owner Kathy Charlton and the Vineyard Angel
A poster for "Miss Representation

‘Miss Representation’ free film, panel discussion on sexism set in Port Townsend tonight

PORT TOWNSEND — The trailer for “Miss Representation,” the documentary coming to town at 7 p.m. tonight (Wednesday), is loaded with gasp-inducing images of women:… Continue reading

A poster for "Miss Representation
Paintings of women and water line the PUB Gallery at Peninsula College through this Friday only; artist d'Elaine Johnson will give a free talk at 1 p.m. Friday and then stay for a public reception in the gallery.

International artist’s work closing this week in Port Angeles [ *** GALLERY *** ]

PORT ANGELES — Aswirl with blue waves, buoyant birds, fish and maidens, these paintings invite you in — into a world created by d'Elaine Johnson… Continue reading

Paintings of women and water line the PUB Gallery at Peninsula College through this Friday only; artist d'Elaine Johnson will give a free talk at 1 p.m. Friday and then stay for a public reception in the gallery.
Katie Wirsing

Poetry slam winner to perform at Peninsula College this week

PORT ANGELES — Coming soon: Joy. Electricity via poetry. Katie Wirsing. All free. Wirsing, a 26-year-old winner of the Individual World Poetry Slam competition, will… Continue reading

Katie Wirsing

‘Miss Representation’ panel discussion set

PORT TOWNSEND — The trailer for “Miss Representation,” the documentary coming to town Wednesday, is loaded with gasp-inducing images of women: women being degraded, disrespected… Continue reading

Jewish blues singer Saul Kaye will give a concert at 2 p.m. today at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship east of Port Angeles.

Singer performs blues to ‘repair world’

AGNEW — “Let My People Go” is just one of the traditional songs Saul Kaye imbues with a blues sensibility. Kaye, an internationally known singer,… Continue reading

Jewish blues singer Saul Kaye will give a concert at 2 p.m. today at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship east of Port Angeles.

IN THE WEEKEND PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: ‘Paper, Rock, Wood’ exhibit part of First Friday Art Walk

SEQUIM — “A Visitor,” luminous and golden, looks like the sun at first. But that’s not who we’re beholding. “The ‘Visitor’ is moon . .… Continue reading