Diane Urbani de la Paz

WEEKEND: Art, music comes ashore for Port Angeles’ Second Weekend today, Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Second Weekend is here, with free art parties, live music and marine debris made into large sea creatures, all commingling downtown tonight… Continue reading

Miranda Zickler and her band Br'er Rabbit

WEEKEND: Boisterous band to play Port Angeles Library tonight (Friday)

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 10. PORT ANGELES — Br'er Rabbit was a trickster, a nimble one more witty than brawny. He's… Continue reading

Miranda Zickler and her band Br'er Rabbit
Coulter Kisler

WEEKEND: Chimacum cidery celebrates all things apple Sunday

CHIMACUM — Twenty-four years ago, the British organization Common Ground invented World Apple Day, a celebration of local apple flavors and heritage around the globe.… Continue reading

Coulter Kisler
Kristin Quigley Brye  [Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

WEEKEND: Guest conductor to bring her skills to Port Angeles orchestra concerts tonight, Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Teenager Kristin Quigley couldn’t wait to get out of Geraldine, Mont. So at 14, she left that town of 250 to attend… Continue reading

Kristin Quigley Brye  [Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]
Mary Beth Beuke

Beachcomber’s business success story on TV tonight

SEQUIM — Mary Beth Beuke, beach wanderer, turned her time on the sand into a business. She’s a well-traveled collector of sea glass, the salt-polished… Continue reading

Mary Beth Beuke
Greg Brown

Noted singer Greg Brown to appear in Chimacum on Thursday

CHIMACUM — Just when you think the guy with the great, big bear of a voice is about to get grouchy, he turns kind, even… Continue reading

Greg Brown
In “New York for a Song

Port Angeles choir plans Broadway-type nights Friday, Saturday to help fund NYC trip

PORT ANGELES — They're headed for New York City, so they're turning the student center into a nightclub. The Spotlight Nightclub, that is, will fill… Continue reading

In “New York for a Song

Br’er Rabbit band to perform at Port Angeles Library’s Art Blast

PORT ANGELES — Br’er Rabbit, that trickster character from African folklore, is now a folk-stomp-Americana band on its way to Port Angeles. The foursome, featuring… Continue reading

Greg Brown

Noted singer Greg Brown to appear in Chimacum on Thursday

CHIMACUM — Just when you think the guy with the great, big bear of a voice is about to get grouchy, he turns kind, even… Continue reading

Greg Brown
Radio host Bob Edwards

L.A. Jesuit public radio host’s hero, Bob Edwards tells Port Angeles audience

PORT ANGELES — He's interviewed between 35,000 and 40,000 people. But when asked who impressed him most, public radio host Bob Edwards didn't pause for… Continue reading

Radio host Bob Edwards
Roz Chast and her self-caricature.

New Yorker cartoonist draws closer to home in book about parents

CHIMACUM — New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast faces it often: rejection. Every week now for a few decades, she’s sent a half-dozen works of art… Continue reading

Roz Chast and her self-caricature.

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS: Barn dance, contra dance Saturday night; art in PT

Fall means potluck, dancing SEQUIM — The Fall Community Potluck and Barn Dance are about to take over Nash's Organic Produce, 4861 Sequim-Dungeness Way, on… Continue reading

Charlie Bethel brings his one-man version of Homer's “The Odyssey” to the Key City Playhouse. Key City Public Theatre

WEEKEND: Actor reimagines Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in Port Townsend show

PORT TOWNSEND — In counterpoint to Gin Hammond's one-woman show “Returning the Bones,” veteran actor Charlie Bethel has reimagined Homer's “The Odyssey” and is staging… Continue reading

Charlie Bethel brings his one-man version of Homer's “The Odyssey” to the Key City Playhouse. Key City Public Theatre
Albuquerque artist Betty Busby's “Neurotic” is among the scores of works in the North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival show at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim.

WEEKEND: Fiber Arts Festival weaves together ‘amazing’ display

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 3. SEQUIM — At the front of the show stands “Amazing.” That's the name of an art… Continue reading

Albuquerque artist Betty Busby's “Neurotic” is among the scores of works in the North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival show at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim.
Sydney McCrorie of Sequim

WEEKEND: Hayrides, demos, music on Clallam Farm Tour this Saturday

Arabian horses, Asian pears, English lavender, American blues: All of this, plus many other crops, livestock and live music, are part of the 18th annual… Continue reading

Sydney McCrorie of Sequim
Gin Hammond portrays 28 characters in her one-woman show at the Key City Playhouse. Key City Public Theatre

WEEKEND: One-woman show in Port Townsend to portray actress’ courageous aunt

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 3. PORT TOWNSEND — Auntie Bebe, aka Dr. Carolyn Beatrice Montier, meted out her life story in… Continue reading

Gin Hammond portrays 28 characters in her one-woman show at the Key City Playhouse. Key City Public Theatre

WEEKEND: Port Townsend Gallery Walk on Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Saturday evening’s Gallery Walk brings together art made of tin cans and bottle caps, images of Mexico and Admiralty Inlet — and… Continue reading

Singer Eric Miller

WEEKEND: Seattle performer Eric Miller to return to Coyle stage Saturday

COYLE — Singer Eric Miller saw a poster in a cafe window one day. And though he had none of his instruments with him, he… Continue reading

Singer Eric Miller
The Sweet Evangelines — Rachael Snyder

WEEKEND: Sweet Evangelines duo to hit two farms on Saturday (With Farm Tour)

SEQUIM — The Sweet Evangelines have been making music together for about a year, having met in a harmony-singing workshop with Sequim's Cort Armstrong. This… Continue reading

The Sweet Evangelines — Rachael Snyder

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS: Barn dance, contra dance Saturday night; art in PT

Fall means potluck, dancing SEQUIM — The Fall Community Potluck and Barn Dance are about to take over Nash's Organic Produce, 4861 Sequim-Dungeness Way, on… Continue reading