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WEEKEND: Poet, traveler, surfer to speak at reading

SEQUIM — Andrew Rahal, poet, traveler and Quileute Tribal School teaching assistant, will be the featured writer in…

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WEEKEND: Loves It to perform in Coyle

COYLE — An extra show has been added this month to the schedule at the Laurel B. Johnson…

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WEEKEND: Stand-ups try out their shtick on Port Townsend audiences

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula Comedy Contest rides again, bringing 10 stand-up comics to compete at The…

“Road Trip!” is the theme of The Chairs improvisational troupe’s show at the BLT Coffeehouse tonight. The Chairs include Misha Cassella-Blackburn

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WEEKEND: Chairs Improv to take coast-to-coast road trip tonight

PORT TOWNSEND — The Chairs, Port Townsend’s teenage improvisational theater troupe, are celebrating Keep America Beautiful Month with…

George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House

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WEEKEND: ‘Heartbreak House’ to open its doors at Key City Public Theatre

PORT TOWNSEND — “Heartbreak House,” home of Capt. Shotover and his three daughters, is a ship about to…

The Locust Street Taxi band will burst in to three venues this weekend

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WEEKEND: Locust Street Taxi lays out table of delectable tunes

Locust Street Taxi has been picking up wayward musicians, funny songs and trombone sounds for a good dozen…

Buzz Rogowski  [Photo by Jeff Eichen]

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WEEKEND: Pianist to play original pieces in Earth’s honor

CHIMACUM — This spring, pianist Buzz Rogowski, known for playing cafes and restaurants, is reinventing himself. To celebrate…

Nancy Beier

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WEEKEND: Soprano Beier’s career finale with Port Townsend orchestra

PORT TOWNSEND — The time has come for opera diva Nancy Beier’s swan song, and she has every…

Singer Simon Lynge

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Singers to band together Friday for benefit Port Townsend concert

PORT TOWNSEND — Simon Lynge, an internationally known singer who lives in Port Townsend, will join another local…

Deborah Morgan-Ellis of Port Angeles is poised to give away 20 free copies of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho today as part of World Book Night. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Local book distribution part of global effort

PORT ANGELES — They come today and tonight, bearing gifts: gifts to whisk the unsuspecting stranger off to…

Nance Van Winckel will read from her latest book Wednesday at Maier Performance Hall in Port Angeles.

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Poet to read from book Wednesday at Peninsula College

PORT ANGELES — In another free Foothills Writers Series event, Spokane-based poet Nance Van Winckel will read from…

Photo by Rich DeCou

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Groups hit Port Angeles beaches to mark Klallam Earth Day

PORT ANGELES — Girl Scouts, insurance agents, farmers: They all got out there Saturday morning to clean up…

Kristin Quigley Brye

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Season’s final concert at Maier Hall is Tuesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The music of Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi and other masters will fill Maier Hall, Peninsula College’s…

Kate Reavey  [Portrait by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News]

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PENINSULA PROFILE: Poet helps ‘beloved community’ speak through the written word

PORT ANGELES — Springtime in Tuscany. Steeped in Michelangelo, poetry, Italian sun. “I’ll never get that gig,” thought…

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Young poets play with words at Port Angeles slam

PORT ANGELES — In two poetry contests sponsored by the Port Angeles Library, a flock of young poets…

“Who doesn't want to laugh at the end of a long work week?” asks improvisational comic Dave Razowsky

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Laughter is goal of guest speaker at Peninsula Behavioral Health benefit

PORT ANGELES — Dave Razowsky, Chicago-bred comic, has clearly identified his task in Port Angeles on May 3.…

Charisa Silliman portrays the uptight Annette Raleigh in “God of Carnage.” -- Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz /Peninsula Daily News

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When people stop being polite: Olympic Theater Arts run of ‘Carnage’ continues this weekend

SEQUIM — It all starts out with “Love and Marriage,” crooned sweetly by Frank Sinatra. But the song…

The On Ensemble

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WEEKEND: On Ensemble to bring Japanese taiko to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Their mission is loud and clear. Fearless exploration — and expansion — of taiko drumming.…

WEEKEND: Singers, orchestra to bring Bach's 'B Minor Mass' to Port Angeles on Sunday

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WEEKEND: Singers, orchestra to bring Bach’s ‘B Minor Mass’ to Port Angeles on Sunday

PORT ANGELES — This music, written some 264 years ago, has been called “a cathedral in sound.” Johann…

Michael Aldrich and Barbara Drennan star in “The Shadow Box

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WEEKEND: ‘Shadow Box,’ looking at life at end of the road, opens tonight in Dungeness

SEQUIM — Carol Swarbrick Dries remembers being asked, “What would you do if you had one day to…