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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Get spring started with music, dance

FOLKS, OLD MAN WINTER doesn’t seem to want to let go, with spring just days away, so it’s our job to help spring get here.… Continue reading

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. She calls it the “Non-PC PC Comedy… Continue reading

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

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 and her experiences at music festivals around… Continue reading

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

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, that is. Two little auditoriums with pretty… Continue reading

Rocky Friedman
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

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 visitors all month at the Museum &… Continue reading

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
Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands

World-famous band headed to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES ­— Every step of the way, the story sounds implausible. Step one: Filmmaker Mark Johnson of Los Angeles gallivants around the world, recording… Continue reading

Clarence Bekker of the Netherlands
IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn's work to life

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 a pair of soloists who used to… Continue reading

IN THE PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Symphony brings Haydn's work to life
Rick and Paulette Hill of Sequim crafted these driftwood pendants

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 show, which will overtake the Dungeness River… Continue reading

Rick and Paulette Hill of Sequim crafted these driftwood pendants

WEEKEND: Bees, climate change, films among events this wekeend

Presentations about bees, lectures on climate change and on the films of the Cold War culture of the 1950s are among the events planned on… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Climate change topic of lecture at Landing mall

PORT ANGELES — Climate change in the Pacific Northwest will be the topic of a lecture at The Landing mall tonight. The free presentation, “Climate… Continue reading

Margaret Jakubcin of Port Angeles

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 staff don't mind at all. In fact,… Continue reading

Margaret Jakubcin of Port Angeles
One item offered at the Tides of March auction is the opportunity to have this 1905 Viennese carriage hearse

WEEKEND: Tides of March brings good to marine center

PORT TOWNSEND — Unique food and auction items will be featured at the eighth Tides of March auction on Saturday. The auction benefiting the Port… Continue reading

One item offered at the Tides of March auction is the opportunity to have this 1905 Viennese carriage hearse

‘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, their painter, will shed some light on… Continue reading

Olympic Cellars owner Kathy Charlton and the Vineyard Angel

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 party at 6 p.m. today — to… Continue reading

Olympic Cellars owner Kathy Charlton and the Vineyard Angel

JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Forget about Mother Nature and partake of music scene

IT’S MARCH, AND Old Man Winter doesn’t seem to want to let go. Sure, it’s nice today, but what about the weekend? Forget Mother Nature… Continue reading

A poster for "Miss Representation

‘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), is loaded with gasp-inducing images of women:… Continue reading

A poster for "Miss Representation
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.

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 — into a world created by d'Elaine Johnson… Continue reading

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.
The Port Angeles Equestrian Team.

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Port Angeles, Sequim teams win big at meets

PORT ANGELES AND Sequim High School Equestrian Teams attended their second of three qualifying meets Feb. 24-26 at the Tacoma Unit facility in Spanaway. PA… Continue reading

The Port Angeles Equestrian Team.
Katie Wirsing

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 the Individual World Poetry Slam competition, will… Continue reading

Katie Wirsing

‘Miss Representation’ panel discussion set

PORT TOWNSEND — The trailer for “Miss Representation,” the documentary coming to town Wednesday, is loaded with gasp-inducing images of women: women being degraded, disrespected… Continue reading