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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Spring into live music on the Peninsula

SPRING HAS FINALLY sprung, so get out of that recliner and throw off that winter blanket and get out and dance or, at least, tap… Continue reading

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Peninsula youth is first recipient of award

IT'S WITH GREAT delight I announce that young Antigone Barker is the first recipient of the Backcountry Horsemen of Washington's Junior Backcountry Horseman award. New… Continue reading

Fundraiser raises $21,000 for Clallam-area Boys, Girls Club and Uganda foundation

BLYN — The Gateway, still a new fundraiser, has outdone itself. The dinner and auction in 7 Cedars Casino’s Club Seven lounge Saturday night, a… Continue reading

A cappella singers like to perform with element of surprise

PORT ANGELES ­— It happened all of a sudden. Seven individuals, straight-faced just seconds before, coalesced into a septet. In an instant, music filled the… Continue reading

‘In-your-face’ artist stirs up Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts poster

PORT ANGELES — This city's late May cavalcade of music, dance and art has just gained a visual presence, thanks to an “old school, in-your-face”… Continue reading

Equinox yoga class in Port Townsend aims for balance

PORT TOWNSEND — The world may feel far out of balance, with crises in the Middle East and Japan turning so many lives upside-down. But… Continue reading

Port Angeles play spotlights fictional Shakespeare character

PORT ANGELES — Don't dismiss your dream, no matter how the world scoffs. That's the message of “The Other Shakespeare,” a stage play opening tonight… Continue reading

Acclaimed poet to bring her zip to college Tuesday

PORT ANGELES — You open the book, maybe thinking it'll be a bunch of hard-to-understand poems. Not for long, though, because in poem No. 1… Continue reading

Odyssey Bookshop celebrates 40th birthday

PORT ANGELES — Wedding chapel, children's nursery, tavern, place of morning starshine: Odyssey Bookshop has played plenty of roles over the past 40 years. And… Continue reading

PENINSULA WOMAN: Sequim business owner reaches across the world

SEQUIM — She was in a rush to the post office. But on this day in 2008, Barbara Brown made a U-turn that would lead… Continue reading

Port Angeles author’s debut novel has prestigious N.Y. publisher; her release reception today

PORT ANGELES — She’s “saving the world,” according to her website, “one love story at a time.” Wendy Lester of Port Angeles has just released… Continue reading

PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble concert slated Wednesday

PORT ANGELES — It’s happening more and more, said Kevin MacCartney, national park ranger-turned-jazzman. That moment when everyone in the band clicks together, to sail… Continue reading

‘Silents Are Golden’ in Port Townsend on Friday night

PORT TOWNSEND — “Silents Are Golden,” a night of cinema featuring classically trained actor Rob Mermin and clips from 100 silent movies, is about to… Continue reading

Globetrotting felt artist comes Sunday to Dungeness site

SEQUIM — A world-renowned artist who works with a humble material — felt — to fashion eye-popping creations will tell her story this weekend at… Continue reading

Youth invited to Port Angeles Symphony’s ‘Grand Canyon Suite’ for free

PORT ANGELES — Adam Stern and Mark Wendeborn’s brainstorm just might pack the house Saturday morning. The event looks like any other Port Angeles Symphony… Continue reading

JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Get a live music fix across Peninsula

WHAT A COUNTRY we live in! We gain an hour of evening daylight Sunday, spring arrives a week later, and sandwiched in between is the… Continue reading

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Sequim student sets new district record

AH, I REMEMBER it well — trying to keep warm when my niece was on Sequim's team and competing in Washington State High School Equestrian… Continue reading

Japanese-American internment topic when Seattle poet reads Tuesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Poet Tess Gallagher found a manuscript on her friend Alfredo Arreguin’s dining-room table — he wanted her to take just a quick… Continue reading

West of Here: Author of Peninsula book uncertain of upcoming reception [See related story, below. With photo gallery]

PORT ANGELES — Jonathan Evison, author of a best-selling novel about Port Angeles, has a question about those who may come to his reading next… Continue reading

West of Here: Book stirs local interest (see related story, above)

PORT ANGELES — West of Here, Jonathan Evison's epic tome about life beneath the Olympic Mountains, could mean “pennies from heaven,” as Diane Schostak sees… Continue reading