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Meg MaGrath (Jessical Campbell) confers with — and enchants — lawyer Barnette Lloyd (Edwin Anderson III) in “Crimes of the Heart.” Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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WEEKEND: ‘Crimes of the Heart’ tells a tale of three sisters

SEQUIM — How’s this for a 30th birthday? Your younger sister Rebecca — nicknamed Babe — has just…

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WEEKEND: Sequim celebrates centennial with party, dance and art walk tonight (Friday)

SEQUIM — Tonight’s First Friday Art Walk in downtown Sequim coincides with a long-planned-for party: the Sequim Centennial…

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WEEKEND: Centrum writers’ forum to begin Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — Novelists and poets from Calcutta and California; writers who have won Pushcart Prizes and National…

Ray Chen

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WEEKEND: Rising music star to play at Olympic Music Festival

QUILCENE — A rising classical music star is arriving here for “Fireworks for Violin & Piano,” the second…

Janet and Dan Abbott designed their West Coast replica of Mount Vernon themselves. The bed-and-breakfast east of Port Angeles also doubles as a lavender farm. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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B&B an ode to Founding Father, by George!

AGNEW — It appears like a mirage out east of Port Angeles: a mansion that looks a lot…

Babe (Melissa Murray)

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‘Crimes of the Heart’ tragicomedy on Sequim stage

SEQUIM — “Crimes of the Heart,” a tale of three Mississippi sisters and their bewildered men, arrives on…

Dawn Beaton

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Fiddling music tells tales of America; concerts to spark holiday weekend in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — At first, it seems ironic that on the United States of America’s birthday, music from…

Carol Swarbrick Dries praised her fellow cast members when accepting the Dewey Award for Best Ensemble in “The Shadow Box

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Sequim’s version of Oscars handed out

SEQUIM — Sequim’s own version of the Academy Awards took place at the Dungeness Schoolhouse on Sunday night,…

Sara Woodard with Jonah

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PENINSULA PROFILE: She finds life’s work in leading treks into Olympics

PORT ANGELES — At 18, Sara Woodard wanted to work in the wilderness. She’d grown up in Joyce,…

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Evenings of sound to connect to heart on Peninsula

Three musicians and metaphysicians, didgeridoo player Michael Stanwood, percussionist Zorina Wolf and vocalist Vickie Dodd, will soon gather…

Birmingham Sunlights — from left

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WEEKEND: Performers bring euphonic heritage to Centrum stage

PORT TOWNSEND — It’s not that the Birmingham Sunlights want to shine their music down on the listener.…

In “The Big Bang

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WEEKEND: Key City takes stab at humans’ timeline

PORT TOWNSEND — Think “Titanic.” Or “The Producers” — on the Key City Playhouse stage. “The Big Bang,”…

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WEEKEND: Readers Theatre Plus presenting ‘The Mikado,’ the Dewey Awards

SEQUIM — “The Mikado,” that Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, is on this weekend at the Dungeness Schoolhouse,…

Baritone Zachary Gordin to open 30th summer of musical series.

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WEEKEND: Down on the farm for Concerts in the Barn

QUILCENE — To open its 30th season of “Concerts in the Barn,” the Olympic Music Festival is bringing…

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Summer musical theater intensive helps teenagers sharpen stagecraft

SEQUIM — Vocal technique, Broadway songs, dance, Shakespeare, lunch from the Red Rooster: Such are the facets of…

Joe Rantz of Sequim is second from left in this picture of the U.S. rowing team that was headed to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Judith Willman

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From Sequim to Berlin, 1936: Encounter leads to best-seller

PORT ANGELES — Joe Rantz was 15 when his family left him behind in Sequim. His stepmother, Thula,…

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Groups bring old-fashioned tunes to Calvary Chapel

SEQUIM — Three Kings of the Wild Frontier — guitarist David Rivers, fiddler Joseph Gish, stand-up bass man…

The Birmingham Sunlights

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Honky tonk, ukes, more on tap at Port Townsend Voice Works

PORT TOWNSEND — Songs for all ages and tastes are about to fill five venues at Fort Worden…

1964: The Tribute

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Yeah, yeah, yeah: Tribute band to re-create Beatles sound in Port Angeles on Monday

PORT ANGELES — Right off, the John Lennon guy says: “It’s kind of my fault.” In 1984, Mark…

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Juan de Fuca sets season concert series

PORT ANGELES — Dan Maguire calls it a “great community adventure”: nine concerts bringing blues, folk, Celtic, rock,…