Arts & Entertainment
Young Artist Competition set for Saturday
PORT ANGELES — A new name, 14 competitors and a day of live music. All are part of…
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Extravagance of our longing
WE’RE HUNGRY, WE humans, sometimes starving: for splendor, love, experiences that make us feel alive.
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: The Advice Lady’s secret
I WAS CURIOUS about this woman, this traveler.
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Another kind of year-end list
THE WORDS OF Salvadoran priest Oscar Romero (1917-1980) are a salve to me, a meditation to which I…
Arts & Entertainment
Symphony serves holiday fare on Saturday
PORT ANGELES — The “Snow Maiden Suite,” “The Adoration of the Magi,” an Overture on Hebrew Themes and…
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Getting by with a little help from your friends — and fellow singers
AS WE NAVIGATE these rough times, I’m advocating an activity, one I believe builds health and community.
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Taking care of ‘us’: It’s a matter of time
A QUESTION THAT has me thinking lately: When we talk about this community, who is “us”? Who are…
Arts & Entertainment
Guest soloist, Sibelius, Shostakovich presented at Port Angeles Symphony concert
PORT ANGELES — Her performances are deeply felt; dazzling. She plays — without histrionics — in the tradition…
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Listening, remembering, giving thanks
HUDDLING IN THE rental car, I heard something outside.
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Crossing lines, coming together: Stories make it possible
WHEN YOU’RE THE messenger bearing another person’s story, you perform a sacred act. It begins, of course, with…
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Seeing new worlds via college program
I TOOK A seat beside John Lennon. As I marveled at my arrival here at last, he just…
Arts & Entertainment
Pops Picnic to open Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra’s 85th season
Come and join the jubilee
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Helping Clallam inmates breathe a little easier
SHOWING MY RED badge — which permits me to go without escort — I pass through six gates…
Life
Sequim storytellers to spin tales at Story Swap
PORT ANGELES — The first Story Swap of the new season is a mashup: part campfire tales and…
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: To open the mind, close the eyes … and point
JANE JULIAN THOUGHT maybe she should apologize. Many of her choices for the Port Townsend Film Festival are…
Arts & Entertainment
From punk to contra, dance caller makes debut in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES — A punk community in London made a dance caller out of her.
Arts & Entertainment
Paint the Peninsula festival to open Monday
PORT ANGELES — Just standing in the summer sunlight is a gift.
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Journey into your personal province
THERE IS THIS place, this miracle, some call “the zone.”
Arts & Entertainment
Paint the Peninsula workshops open for registration
PORT ANGELES — Yong Hong Zhong, a Chinese-born artist who immigrated
Opinion
DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: New parents at ages 63 and 77
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the vows Jean Stratton took in Zen Buddhism.