Diane Urbani de la Paz

WEEKEND: National Book Award winner in town for PT Shorts this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The works of National Book Award winner Charles Johnson will come to life this weekend as PT Shorts, Key City Public Theatre’s… Continue reading

Powerhouse is the band about to play this Saturday's contra dance in Port Angeles. Members are

WEEKEND: Port Angeles dancers, newcomers ‘bring it’ at Contra dance Saturday

PORT ANGELES — There are no special criteria to meet when going to a community contra dance. You don't have to bring a partner, though… Continue reading

Powerhouse is the band about to play this Saturday's contra dance in Port Angeles. Members are

WEEKEND: Storynight tonight features Irish tunes, open mic in Port Townsend

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Jan. 1. PORT TOWNSEND — Irish songs, stories and a spacious open-mic session are all part of 2016's… Continue reading

Workshops aim to weave storytellers starting Tuesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The answer to the question “Who, me? A storyteller?” is absolutely yes. So affirms Cherie Trebon, a veteran of many a nervous… Continue reading

Kaylene and Don Skanchy of Brinnon

WEEKEND REWIND — Brinnon man’s best Christmas: Siblings reunite after a half-century apart

BRINNON — There is this hug that happened. After half a century separated, a brother put his arms around his sister. Violence, war, relocation and… Continue reading

Kaylene and Don Skanchy of Brinnon
WEEKEND REWIND — Port Townsend writer contributes Christmas story for Chicken Soup

WEEKEND REWIND — Port Townsend writer contributes Christmas story for Chicken Soup

PORT TOWNSEND — This Christmas, Carole Marshall of Port Townsend is one of the chosen few. Her story, “Eggnog with Pickles,” was selected for the… Continue reading

WEEKEND REWIND — Port Townsend writer contributes Christmas story for Chicken Soup
Musicians from across the North Olympic Peninsula

WEEKEND: All welcome at ‘Messiah’ sing-along at Trinity United Methodist Church in Sequim

SEQUIM — In anticipation of the annual event known as Handel with Care — a sing-it-yourself Handel's “Messiah” — Shirley Anderson cuts straight to the… Continue reading

Musicians from across the North Olympic Peninsula
Chris Hawley contemplates Christmas time in New York City in “The SantaLand Diaries

WEEKEND: Come to ‘SantaLand,’ if you dare

PORT TOWNSEND — How would it be for a grown man to become Crumpet, the elf in Santa's Village at Macy's? It's no cakewalk. Your… Continue reading

Chris Hawley contemplates Christmas time in New York City in “The SantaLand Diaries
Sarah Tucker

After-school art, drama clubs set to start in PA

PORT ANGELES — Two new after-school clubs for children, with Port Angeles teacher, artist, actress and parent Sarah Tucker at the helm, will start in… Continue reading

Sarah Tucker
The Sweet Evangelines of Sequim — Donna Rankin

Album to remind of ‘beauty and wonder’

SEQUIM — The Sweet Evangelines, the Sequim country-bluegrass duo of Donna Rankin and Rachael Snyder, have unleashed on the world a self-titled CD full of… Continue reading

The Sweet Evangelines of Sequim — Donna Rankin
Kaylene and Don Skanchy of Brinnon

Brinnon man’s best Christmas: Siblings reunite after a half-century apart

BRINNON — There is this hug that happened. After half a century separated, a brother put his arms around his sister. Violence, war, relocation and… Continue reading

Kaylene and Don Skanchy of Brinnon

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS: Calling artists, writers for magazine contest . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES­ — Tidepools, the magazine showcasing art, poetry, short stories and music made by the people of the North Olympic Peninsula, is accepting entries… Continue reading

The PT Songlines choir

Peninsula to ring in the new year in style

New Year's Eve is gaining on us, and so is a feast of live music, dancing and overall merrymaking to welcome 2016 on the North… Continue reading

The PT Songlines choir
Port Townsend writer contributes Christmas story for Chicken Soup

Port Townsend writer contributes Christmas story for Chicken Soup

PORT TOWNSEND — This Christmas, Carole Marshall of Port Townsend is one of the chosen few. Her story, “Eggnog with Pickles,” was selected for the… Continue reading

Port Townsend writer contributes Christmas story for Chicken Soup
Musicians from across the North Olympic Peninsula

WEEKEND: All welcome at ‘Messiah’ sing-along at Trinity United Methodist Church in Sequim

SEQUIM — In anticipation of the annual event known as Handel with Care — a sing-it-yourself Handel's “Messiah” — Shirley Anderson cuts straight to the… Continue reading

Musicians from across the North Olympic Peninsula
Chris Hawley contemplates Christmas time in New York City in “The SantaLand Diaries

WEEKEND: Come to ‘SantaLand,’ if you dare

PORT TOWNSEND — How would it be for a grown man to become Crumpet, the elf in Santa's Village at Macy's? It's no cakewalk. Your… Continue reading

Chris Hawley contemplates Christmas time in New York City in “The SantaLand Diaries
“Raven Strut” by Connor Stefanison is among the images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at Victoria's Royal British Columbia Museum. Connor Stefanison/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015

Wild images fill Victoria museum gallery for voting

VICTORIA — Walk in to the new exhibition at the Royal British Columbia Museum, and you enter a lush place populated by apes, geese, squirrels,… Continue reading

“Raven Strut” by Connor Stefanison is among the images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at Victoria's Royal British Columbia Museum. Connor Stefanison/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015
Kate Reavey

Rainshadow Poetry contest’s Jan. 22 deadline approaches; registration open for writing workshops

“How to Eat a Poem” and “Poetry Soccer: Play with Words” are two of the free poetry-writing workshops coming up in Sequim and Port Angeles… Continue reading

Kate Reavey
Geoffrey Castle will wield his electric violin in the Christmas extravaganza at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center this Sunday.

WEEKEND: Celtic Christmas show brings Castle, Santa and 115 students to Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center this Sunday

PORT ANGELES — There is a thrill that overtakes you, says this teenager, in that moment when the music feels just right. Sometimes it comes… Continue reading

Geoffrey Castle will wield his electric violin in the Christmas extravaganza at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center this Sunday.
FarmStrong — from left

WEEKEND: FarmStrong brings ‘pure, distilled country music’ to Port Angeles on Saturday night

PORT ANGELES — It's not every day you hear a country band play a bass-thumping song by the Temptations. Or a bluegrass quartet trying out… Continue reading

FarmStrong — from left