Tomorrow, summer will officially be upon us, according to the Gregorian calendar. But Saturday night, inline with centuries of tradition, Poulsbo will be kicking off its celebration Scandinavian style on the waterfront.
As the maistang rises, the Sons of Norway Leikarringen kids will lead the dance into Midsummer Fest.
With an immense set of ‘70s reminiscent, originally crafted rock in its cadre and an astute ability to ad lib as the music takes a path of its own, Mos Generator isn’t a band typically in need of openers in their hometown.
They were the movies that everyone just “had” to see. Not necessarily the creme de la creme, to quote my good friend who taught me French in grade school — Mr. Pepe le Pew — but shows that if you didn’t see them, you were basically left out of every conversation for months on end. Possibly years. Although that could have been your breath.
Red onions. The bane of your existence.
More than 40 years have passed since the quintessential and original cowgirl pop star Patsy Cline died in a plane crash at the height of her career at age 30.
It’s been more than half a century since honky tonk icon Hank Williams suffered a life-ending heart attack in the back of a Cadillac en route to a show at age 29.
Very few major battles of the American Civil War were fought west of the Great Plains, but the atmosphere of the conflict which shaped the country into what it is today is still being recreated thousands of miles away in the quaint North Kitsap town/state historical site of Port Gamble.
Beneath the controversy of its Iraq war subject matter, interwoven in the linen behind the layers of acrylic paint, in the midst of hundreds of birds in flight representing hundreds of Americans who have died, there is a biting message of consciousness etched into Don Wesley’s continuing endeavor called the “Counting Series.”
Pay attention.
The world premiere of a story that’s been told seemingly the world over takes place on Bainbridge tonight.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Bainbridge Performing Arts (200 Madison Ave.), self-professed idea entrepreneur and public speaker Christie Jenkins, daughter of the famed Dr. M.T. “Pepper” Jenkins, will be hashing out the grim and intriguing details of the JFK assassination — from inside the operating room.
Walking up Pacific Avenue in downtown Bremerton, a group of guys who look like they just got off work passes by the front street window of The Jazz House. One of them immediately doubles back, looking curiously into the building and then intently at the placard displaying the establishment’s name and address.
Inside, Charlie Gaines is playing the skins with a set of brushes while Tedd McKeever jangles on an electric keyboard.
It’s not often that we get a chance to laugh in the face of cancer.
But this weekend at the Admiral Theater — 515 Pacific Ave. in Bremerton — a slate of comedians will be hosting that symbolic opportunity in the form of an event called Laugh for Life — a fund raiser for the Relay For Life campaign.
The Bainbridge Island bookshop Eagle Harbor, will be a beacon for ingenuity and creativity Thursday night, as it welcomes the creators of a pop-up book that documents and displays lighthouses from around the country.
Imagine it’s 1943, during the heat of the Second World War … you’re flying low over the North Atlantic in an Air Force B-24 bomber. Four propeller engines are roaring outside of the plane’s cabin combining in force with the wind whipping through open windows and you are seated in the bombardier’s seat searching the water below for enemy U-boats.
In many ways Little Norway could be considered a boater’s paradise considering it’s quaintness, location and waterways. This weekend it will become a nationwide mecca as Trawler Fest anchors down in Liberty Bay June 7-9.
As summer truly begins to get its legs, the Kingston Art Gallery will be showing off its wings and strings in the month of June.
Kingston resident Harv Kolln’s wood carved sculpture will be on display along with the multi-dimensional acrylage paintings of Marylyn Miller. Coincidentally, both artists’ work takes flight through its winged subject matter.
On the heels of the Medieval Faire, Port Gamble is jumping back into it’s town-sized time machine, zipping into the heyday of its history and revving up another festival celebration this weekend.
It’s Old Mill Days time, feting the town’s logging heritage with three days of music, food, fireworks and a carnival fun for kids of all ages.
For an astronomer located in one of the grayest regions of the country, summertime means more than just fun in the sun, it means clear skies at night.
And with them, the giant lid of the largest public access telescope in the Northwest peels back to suck in starlight, giving observers a clean glance into Earth’s neighborhood and beyond.
Have you ever wondered if there’s another family out there as discreetly dysfunctional as yours … try the royal family of England back in barbaric times. Mom’s locked up in the dungeon, Dad’s eloping with a teenager who was abducted from the French royal family at age 7, all the while the three brothers are sparring over who will inherit dad’s throne.
The music and life of Bob Dylan and the movie “Singing in the Rain” were two of the biggest influences that led Chicago-born musician Michael Conley’s transformation into the unique concoction that is “Shoehorn.”
A cadre of bright and playful artwork — of the type which one may have recently seen on the sentimental card racks of grocery and department stores around the country — is coming to Gallery Fraga on Bainbridge in June.
And if Seattle-based artist Debbie Tomassi’s somewhat sarcastic works don’t entice laughter, they should, at very least, elicit a smile.
The suspense of a world premiere is building in East Bremerton at the Changing Scene Theatre Northwest.
The black box theater situated in a business park off of Highway 303 is well-known for its work with original productions, but something about “A Trick of the Light” — a two-act supernatural thriller by award-winning Colorado playwright Scott Gibson, which will debut at 8 p.m. June 1 — has director Pavlina Morris in an excited frenzy.
With a steady rotation of music coming in every weekend, in addition to an open mic hosted each Wednesday, Tizley’s Europub in Poulsbo is becoming the noisiest shop on Front Street. Cheers.
