An open invitation is out to all tattooists of Kitsap to hang works of art in any medium and of any subject in a showroom at the AFU hall dedicated to their imaginations. No human-figured limbs, chests, necks, stomachs, backs or other body parts will be tacked to the wall, beyond that, however, it’s pretty much all fair game.
Just about anyone familiar with the music of English singer/songwriter Reg Meuross will tell you that “he just has this way about him” — in the words of Bainbridge Island folksinger MJ Bishop.
The plug is about to be pulled on Port Gamble — in a good way.
Bows and arrows, sword fighting, jousting, Middle Ages arts and science — bards, ballistas, lords, ladies, the baron and baroness — will all stake their old world claim at the Medieval Faire this weekend.
It’s just about the time of year in Poulsbo when you can hear the rumbling of Vikings approaching while the smell of lutefisk mixed with cotton candy and funnel cakes fills the air — it’s time for Viking Fest.
Little Norway honors its heritage each year with a three-day festival marking Norwegian Constitution Day or Syttende Mai.
At one of its more recent shows in Bremerton, Neutralboy built a chicken-wire enclosure around the front of the corner stage at what was then Hansen’s, beckoning people to throw extraneous materials, limbs and bodies forward as the four-piece slammed through its set.
Even more recently, Micheal Frottage, lead singer, doused the near entire front three rows of a packed house at Winterland with Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Kitsap’s pride in the men and women of the United States military is equal to, if not greater than the power of the nuclear reactors which fuel the Navy’s largest aircraft carriers.
Who wouldn’t love to travel the country playing music every day of the year while honoring one’s country, getting paid and having the opportunity to rub elbows with foreign dignitaries and heads of state?
For those who would, take a trip to the Manette Saloon around 9 p.m. Saturday night and Drew Williams might just tell you how it is.
There’s a dance party raging on the largest wall of The Gallery on Bainbridge Island.
And this shindig is continuous in the form of three, 3-by-4-foot, side-by-side oil on canvas paintings called Socios I, II, III created by island artist Amy Williams. Her works, depicting boisterous and busy salsa dance scenes, are matched with the flowing ceramic pottery of Lynnwood-based Barry McAlister.
Though there is one intermission slated for the Bainbridge Performing Arts’ May production of the Broadway smash “Urinetown, The Musical,” it’s been rumored that the bulk of the audience will not be allowed a trip to the toilets.
That threat of course holds little water in life as we know it, but in the world of this satirical and cautionary musical — written by Greg Kotis, directed by Teresa Thuman — people are forced to hold it, literally.
It is just about time for some music that you likely have never heard before.
Three amazingly talented Northwest musicians — Garey Williams, Rick White and Mike Mattingly — converge in the jazz guitar trio called Ecstasy in Numbers which will be bringing its fusion to the Island Music Guild Hall — 10598 Valley Rd. on Bainbridge — for a rare appearance in Kitsap, Saturday.
Somewhere between the layers of Bainbridge Island artist Patty Rogers’ mixed media collage work, there is a subconscious message of humility.
Expounded by nature and the many places which she has seen, Rogers’ work could be described as a beautifully fragile. Not fragile in a materialistic sense — her pieces are mounted, not framed, on thick wood panels provided by island woodworker William Walker — but more so delicate in subject matter.
Epitomizing a symphonic finale, the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra will be striking up “The Ninth” to close its 2006-2007 season this weekend.
Many composers throughout history have constructed ninth symphonies, but it almost goes without saying that when speaking of “The Ninth,” one is alluding to Ludwig Van Beethoven’s revered final work.
In the last “Annie’s Shelves,” I was so excited to be able to share my knowledge of books with readers, I chose titles I had read recently and really enjoyed. This time around, with a little more thought and the same excitement, I’ve decided to showcase some of my favorite comfort books.
May represents a beginning.
Nature is donning its greenest shades, birds chatter as the days of school wind down for kids and summer gets its legs. Though there are many options for entertainment once the sun breaks from winter’s gray, anticipating the age-old, adolescent dilemma of boredom, What’s Up has sought out a few summertime projects for parents who are hearing the infamous line from in front of the television, “Mom, Dad … there’s nothing to do, I’m bored.”
This weekend, Bremerton’s historic Bremer building will be the site of an artistic convergence: Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Dolce & Gabanna, pleasantry and tea.
The West Sound Arts Council is gathering virtually everyone who is anyone in the peninsula’s visual arts scene and packing them into the old downtown building one last time for its annual spring tea and fashion show Saturday.
Last year, the creative diversity of the Sidney Art Gallery’s annual spring open show was illustrated by a five-foot stand-alone wooden representation of a flower exhibited amidst a shower of oil paintings, watercolors, black-and-white photographs and other mixed media.
Some years before, a 6-year-old South Kitsap kid entered original paper origami, current gallery manager Deborah Danielson said.
For its first non-musical performance in more than a decade, the board at the Central Stage Theater of County Kitsap in Silverdale chose a riotous comedy, matched a quirky director with a talented cast, and blended it into one heck of a production.
The resurgence of roller derby is rolling in Kitsap — known as Slaughter County until July 13, 1857.
Since October 2006, the Slaughter County Roller Vixens have been circling the flat track at either Sk8town in Port Orchard or Skateland in Bremerton, forging the first-ever women’s roller derby league on the peninsula. Still in the planning and fund raising stages, the league is building itself with the goal of dividing into teams and hosting league and inter-league bouts, or competitions.
The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was commonly known in his time as a bull, a progressive, an activist, a Republican, a showman and a controversialist. In this latter vein, he also holds the title of “youngest president of the United States.”
Though President John Kennedy was the youngest elected President at the age of 43, when President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Roosevelt took the reins of the country at the dawn of a new century at age 42.
Strolling the four floors of artistic barrage that is the renovated Seattle Art Museum, a simple, four-letter word comes to mind.
After navigating its complex, new vertical structure and peering at elaborate works of art which span centuries of human civilization and are arranged in an interconnected continuum, the only thing I — an A&E writer just out of the gates — can say to SAM’s president, Susan Brotman, is an awestruck, somewhat obscure compliment.
