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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]

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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…

Master Gardener Larry Lang looks over his “lasagna garden

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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…

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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.…

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

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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…

Rocky Friedman

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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,…

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

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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…

Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands

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World-famous band headed to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES ­— Every step of the way, the story sounds implausible. Step one: Filmmaker Mark Johnson of…

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

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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…

Rick and Paulette Hill of Sequim crafted these driftwood pendants

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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…

Margaret Jakubcin of Port Angeles

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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…

Olympic Cellars owner Kathy Charlton and the Vineyard Angel

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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…

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‘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,…

Olympic Cellars owner Kathy Charlton and the Vineyard Angel

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International Women’s Day party in Port Angeles on Thursday

PORT ANGELES — The all-woman-owned Olympic Cellars winery will again open its doors for an International Women’s Day…

A poster for "Miss Representation

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‘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),…

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.

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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 —…

Katie Wirsing

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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…

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‘Miss Representation’ panel discussion set

PORT TOWNSEND — The trailer for “Miss Representation,” the documentary coming to town Wednesday, is loaded with gasp-inducing…

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

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Singer performs blues to ‘repair world’

AGNEW — “Let My People Go” is just one of the traditional songs Saul Kaye imbues with a…

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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…

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Northwest novel highlighted in Community Reads project

PORT TOWNSEND — We’ve a few weeks of winter still to come — so let’s curl up with…