“Those newspaper guys, they don’t know what it’s like to have their hearts in a baseball club,” Washington Senators owner Mr. Welch decries.
Newspaperman or not, one can see firsthand what that may be like, or more precisely what it might be like if you sold your soul to improve your favorite team as the Central Stage Theatre of County Kitsap takes the fabled Faust out to the ball game in its season opener “Damn Yankees.”
Funnyman Cris Larsen looks around the Olympic Coffee shop in Bremerton at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and says, “This is Americana.”
Not looking at his coffee cup, Larsen, also known as comedian The Great Cris, is referring to the dozen-or-so folks who have gathered at the shop, conversing with friends, business partners, family or just simply having a cup of joe amidst the lively atmosphere.
“We’d be a much better community if we’d commune,” Larsen said.
With limericks or poetry dashed on top of a painting to a glowing red onomatopoeia or a portrait bordered by the story of its subject all seen on a stroll through the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts’ current exhibit — it seems letters and words are almost like extra colors on an artist’s figurative palate.
Chuck Smart is a man with some stories to tell.
His 66 years of life have led him from the Cleveland, Ohio home of a musician father and an arts-minded mother through the crossroads of Europe onto Brazil and Cuba, back to Ohio for a stint as the associate dean of students at Antioch College and finally to the Pacific Northwest where he found his artistic respite and consequently his life’s meaning.
The word “contra” stirs up quite a bit of memory and controversy at its mere mention.
For example there was the killer 1988 Nintendo game, then of course the real-life armed warriors said to be heavily involved in widespread murder, torture and brutality with United States’ and Argentine support, led by former members of the US National Guard during the early 1980s in Nicaragua.
With its comfortable and encompassing seating, comical stage conversation and undeniable hair styling abilities, the Jewel Box Theatre is taking its 2007-2008 season to the salon.
Not just for a haircut, for this isn’t just another beauty parlor. When life gets tough or times are slow in Chinguapin, La. it’s that time for a trip to Truvy’s — the place to get your gossip while you get your hair done.
The classical and flamenco guitar work of the currently Seabeck-based six-string virtuoso Craig Alden Dell is sonically reminiscent of a Sante Fe, New Mexico sunset.
The electrifying orange and golden rays splitting through the far-off mountains are harnessed through the nylon strings of his Brazilian rosewood chiseled guitars.
Way back when, model airplane enthusiasts would build their aircraft from scratch or from comprehensive kits, stripping the motor out of the weed whacker and modifying it to be able to fit in the plane, fill it up with gas and heading to the nearest open field for some fun.
The age-old merge between the Eastern/Western culture of art is being explored at the Roby King Gallery’s September show. And the eight artists weighing in make the point that perhaps we’re not so different after all.
There are few better ways to open a theatrical season than with a spiteful ode to Mr. Theatre himself, William Shakespeare — shouting at the top of the marquee “I Hate Hamlet” while the lead character curses the genius’ work because of its prestige and difficulty.
A secret meeting of elite pirates — the meanest, most villainous, murderous and happily apathetic and unapologetic scallywags — was set to convene in Port Orchard this weekend. But as the blokes began to arrive, one captain was found dead. Perhaps dancing with Jack Ketch or about to be sunken in Davy Jones’ locker, who knows.
Nearly everyone in the county is reading “Three Cups of Tea” — the saga of mountain climber turned school-building philanthropist and education advocate Greg Moretenson … are you?
The Admiral Theatre will be cracking the lid of its 2007-2008 classic film series Sept. 14 with a film widely considered to be one of Hollywood’s finest Westerns — “The Magnificent Seven.”
Perched atop the perfect point of a hill in Manette, one can look out to the east and see the skyline of Seattle, to the south the shipyard of Bremerton and to the west, the jagged prominence of the Olympic Mountains.
If you make the Ruxton Towers/Jupiter Mining Corporation/Celebrity Judges show this Friday at the Manette Saloon, you might soon find yourself on the Internet alongside a band that is on the brink.
Kicking off around 9 p.m. Sept. 7, the show will be recorded for a live Webcast, accessible online at each band’s Web site.
Greek historian Diodorus Siculus described ancient Celtic people who inhabited the rocky northern British Isles in the last centuries B.C. as looking a bit like wood demons.
A monumental feat is brewing for Bremerton’s Collective Visions Gallery. It may very well be the biggest, most ambitious project the gallery has ever undertaken.
It’s to be a statewide juried art show that will clear the gallery walls — 2,400 square feet in all — and dedicate its entire space to the enormity of what’s being billed simply as “The CVG Show”
There are a lot of things charmingly ugly and abrasive that emit from a Bremerton band called The Swinos. Its mascot for instance, is a swamp monster tromping through the murk with a damsel in distress flung over one shoulder and a jug of moonshine in its opposite hand.
It hasn’t hit newsstands yet, but word has it that after a near 80-year hiatus, prohibition is back on.
Unconfirmed reports from the White House stated that in a drastic move, President Bush has taken the step to expunge alcohol from the country at a point when most of us need a drink most.
The Suquamish Clearwater Casino’s three-month-long free concert series, which has been providing entertainment on the shores of Agate Pass for all ages this summer, is coming to a close.
This weekend will be music fans’ last chance to catch the Performances on the Passage, a series that has offered a variety of music and performers on Thursday nights at the casino’s event lawn.
