Diane Urbani de la Paz

PENINSULA PROFILE: Young couple put heart into dairy

DUNGENESS — Out here, the labors of love are many. There is love between two young mates. Love for animals. Love for the family who… Continue reading

Willie Van Nostrand of Sequim peers down on the Dungeness Valley from 3

It’s Sequim Balloon Festival weekend [PHOTO GALLERY ]

SEQUIM — The long and long-awaited weekend is just about here: three days when a dozen hot-air balloons will be sprinkled across the sky, and… Continue reading

Willie Van Nostrand of Sequim peers down on the Dungeness Valley from 3

WEEKEND — Music will soar at Sequim Balloon Festival, too

SEQUIM — Jazz from the American songbook, marimba music from Africa, electrified Celtic violin: One after another, they will fill the air at this weekend's… Continue reading

Lee Oskar

WEEKEND — Rare Earth concert tonight: Lee Oskar, legendary harmonica player, will perform, too.

LEE OSKAR, THE revered harmonica player who formed the band War with Eric Burdon back in 1969, has been added to tonight's roster of rock… Continue reading

Lee Oskar
WEEKEND — Rare Earth concert tonight!  It kicks off Sequim Balloon Festival

WEEKEND — Rare Earth concert tonight! It kicks off Sequim Balloon Festival

SEQUIM — In the air tonight: a universal theme of sight and sound. “Once in a blue moon, you get to see Rare Earth,” is… Continue reading

WEEKEND — Rare Earth concert tonight!  It kicks off Sequim Balloon Festival
Evening of food, music to benefit Jefferson Clemente Course

Evening of food, music to benefit Jefferson Clemente Course

CHIMACUM — So a bunch of food and music lovers from across the North Olympic Peninsula got together and, seeing how they savor the same… Continue reading

Evening of food, music to benefit Jefferson Clemente Course
The Diamond Sun

Up, up and away: A new view of Peninsula

SEQUIM — Up here, it's easy to feel reverent. It's warm. Still as a mountain morning. And it feels as if an invisible hand has… Continue reading

The Diamond Sun

Free concert to celebrate Port Angeles’ 150th anniversary tonight

PORT ANGELES — A choir of some 200 voices is poised to celebrate two occasions today: local musician Anna Nichols’ 76th birthday and the city… Continue reading

[Cover design by Heather Loyd/Peninsula Daily News]

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Art Port Townsend gathers 37 artists for studio tour

GreenBean, the heroine of Elizabeth Blake’s book True Blue Family, worries that she doesn’t belong. She seems so different, after all, from her folks. But… Continue reading

[Cover design by Heather Loyd/Peninsula Daily News]
Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Keola Beamer and his wife

WEEKEND: Couple bring touch of Hawaii to Peninsula

CHIMACUM — The longer Keola Beamer and his spouse, Moanalani Beamer, make music together, the more they discover. The pair, who will appear at 8… Continue reading

Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Keola Beamer and his wife

WEEKEND: Russia, Peninsula meet in free program tonight

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula and Russia will meet, in art and prose, tonight in a free program called “Two Moons, Two Strings.”… Continue reading

Marcia Perlstein

Hit homegrown comedy revue reprised in Gardiner

GARDINER — This spring, it became quite clear: People were thirsty for laughter. “Humor in Paradise,” a comedy revue to benefit the Paradise Theatre School… Continue reading

Marcia Perlstein

Cutting Garden cutting out weddings; couple will keep smaller gardens

DUNGENESS — The house, the horses and the hawks . . . they’re staying. But the “I do’s” are just about done. The Cutting Garden,… Continue reading

Karen Brown  [Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

PENINSULA PROFILE: Head of mediation center helps resolve conflicts through communication

PORT ANGELES — Karen Brown could hardly reach the handlebars. But reach she did. A 5-year-old kid with a new set of wheels — the… Continue reading

Karen Brown  [Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

Dreaming in Creme Tangerine

By Diane Urbani de la Paz Peninsula Spotlight PORT ANGELES ­— When played with gusto, this music is forever young. So believes Jeff Lockhart, the… Continue reading

A new place to play

By Diane Urbani de la Paz Peninsula Spotlight PORT ANGELES — Sarah Tucker is ready to pull the curtain back again. An artist, filmmaker and… Continue reading

Waving from the Railroad Bridge Park trestle over the Dungeness River are

Railroad Bridge Park, birthplace of Olympic Discovery Trail, to be feted for 20th anniversary

SEQUIM — This place, where motion and calm coexist, is where the Olympic Discovery Trail began. Railroad Bridge Park, the site of a nearly century-old… Continue reading

Waving from the Railroad Bridge Park trestle over the Dungeness River are

Comedians to perform at benefit for Port Townsend family

PORT TOWNSEND — A flock of comedians will alight this Friday night for “Laughs for Lee,” a benefit at the Key City Playhouse. Nationally known… Continue reading

Final cooking demo set at Wednesday Farmers Market

PORT ANGELES — In the last of a series of free cooking demonstrations at the Wednesday Port Angeles Farmers Market, chef Dave Long will work… Continue reading

Sica Schmitz

From Sequim to Hollywood: Costumer to the stars

PORT TOWNSEND — As a Hollywood costumer, Sica Schmitz has seen plenty: glamorous movie premieres, demanding directors, stars who are fabulous. But for this 28-year-old… Continue reading

Sica Schmitz