“the land of festivals,” he calls it — he’d already turned his piano sideways. His band is… Continue reading
All summer, he’s been “Hamlet.” As of Sunday night, that was done. This week Dillon Porter becomes Bob Dylan — the first… Continue reading
Face it: We didn’t look like a team. A disparate bunch, we were tossed together under the heading Team Longboat, poised on… Continue reading
Squinting into the sun Wednesday afternoon — as the air slowly cleared — artist Robin Weiss creates his latest plein air painting.… Continue reading
Shuang Li, a former graphic interface designer, left high technology for her original dream: making art. Preferably outside, away from any screen.… Continue reading
Paint the Peninsula, in which 22 painters spread across the North Olympic Peninsula to paint en plein air, begins today. Here is… Continue reading
Havana; Moscow; Tyler, Texas: A bedroom-turned-studio overflows with images of these places. Joyce Hester, a painter relatively new to town, rounded them… Continue reading
IT HAPPENS WHEN least expected. A single still image beams me back to a place, a feeling. We look at scores of pictures in the… Continue reading
Chetzemoka Park, named for the Klallam chief of the 1800s, is a place of towering evergreens and great blue herons. Come summer,… Continue reading
THE LAST FULL month of summer has come. Is there any way for us grownups to get back that feeling, that barefoot, splash-in-the-crick all day… Continue reading
Surrounded by lovers and players of the blues, Robert Birman started Sunday night at the Wheeler Theater by expressing his feelings. “You’re… Continue reading
There’s a whole lot of hugging going on. Men and women, young and old, white, black and brown: They’re together in music… Continue reading
We meet here, said John Clayton, all for “the F bomb.” “Fun,” Clayton told his audience of students and faculty at the… Continue reading
You can talk about the healing nature of lavender. It soothes bug bites, cools anxiety and brings relief from restlessness, say studies around… Continue reading
Take it slow and easy. This weekend gives you the reasons. An orchestra of lavender farms. Pick-your-own herbal bundles. Reggae music. And, let’s… Continue reading
In this forest, our heroine Rosalind challenges society’s rules. Shaking them off, this whip-smart woman makes a rule set of her own,… Continue reading
Friday night, the music’s on and so are the colors. Collage materials, charcoal, paper and paint are ready for you, the artist.… Continue reading
I AWAITED MY heroes. For years I’ve hung on their words in novels such as “Into the Beautiful North;” in an essay on the New… Continue reading
“Whip Smart.” “Godforsaken Idaho.” “The House of Broken Angels.” “Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze.” They’re a… Continue reading
Meet the author who celebrated the release of her debut novel at Chuck E. Cheese’s, with a side trip to a particular store.… Continue reading
