All too often, women are stuck as the damsel in distress, crying, whining and waiting for “My Hero” to save their bacon so they can then put on an apron and get behind the stove to make some breakfast. For a while, that’s where this June Cleaver breed of ladies belonged in Hollywood’s eyes. The barefoot and pregnant part came later, I suppose.
Before moving to Bremerton from Peoria, Ill., George Hineman hadn’t worked with watercolors much. In art school, he had focused heavily with acrylics and oils, but once he came to the Northwest he began to find freedom with water.
Now at age 78, those works of personal freedom — which depict many Pacific Northwest settings and a few of far off places — will be on display as A Big Idea gallery of Port Orchard features Hineman as its artist of the month.
The Jewel Box Theater is shining its lights on the evolution of the business world underneath a bit of sexual tension and the power struggle of corporate America, circa 1980s.
The old school run, built-from-the-ground-up New England Wire and Cable Company is under corporate siege by a Wall Street savvy, greed driven broker Lawrence Garfinkle — played by Dave Siskin.
The creative vision of a community’s younger generation can be a powerful representation of what the future holds. A piece of that is currently on display in photographic form at Olympic College.
The 5th annual OC student photography show “Reflections” debuted March 5 and will be on display until March 29. It is free and open to the community at the school’s Haselwood Library.
While sitting down with a few of the members from Bremerton’s strong willed fast-core band YIA and listening to its latest CD “Heroes Come Home in Boxes,” bassist Greg Rivers enters the room with a six-pack.
“It’s some of the worst beer I’ve ever tasted … it’s got four different aftertastes,” four of the worst kinds you can imagine, Rivers said. “Anybody want one?”
“Alice’s Restaurant” is back on the menu. First released in 1967 as the title track of Arlo Guthrie’s first album, the 18-minute talking blues narrative became a keystone of what eventually became the counterculture. Guthrie, then 20, took audiences by surprise with his sly, sarcastic delivery of a tale concerning Thanksgiving, garbage and draft boards.
The song was decidedly of its time, and has a definite “you had to be there” feel. It is now quaint to imagine high school kids sitting around in circles playing the full version of the song to each other, forming clubs called “The Group W Bench” to celebrate their rebellion. Unlike the aggressive nature of modern social commentary, “Alice” made listeners simultaneously laugh and think.
So St. Patty’s Day is afoot and while the booze will flow as certain as God made little green leprechauns, one thing is certain: some of us will spend the 18th with hangovers the size of a Leon Uris tome.
The deserts of Los Alamos New Mexico during the World War II era were a feverish junction for secret work on the realization of the Manhattan project — which spawned the world’s first atomic bomb.
It is in that landscape, nationally published and acclaimed journalist and author Nora Gallagher sets the love story of her debut novel “Changing Light.”
The Jewel Box Poets Sunday Reading Series is going prose for the month of March.
Though it’s not a permanent switch, series organizer Jenifer Lawrence said she thought it would be interesting to mix it up.
“And I hope the audience agrees,” she said
The pleasantly flowing acoustic Irish music of Rick May and Gil Yslas is set for a St. Patrick’s toast at Tizley’s Europub.
The traditional Irish folk duo — predominantly fiddle and guitar — has been jamming together for more than seven years. The two have played regularly at Tizley’s on Friday and Saturday nights since June 2006.
Comedy, music, Italian food and a good cause all come together for the ninth annual “Catch a Rising Star” fund-raising event fir the Cappella Choirs Music Center.
The benefit starts at 5 p.m. March 17 in the South Kitsap High School Commons.
Seeing how last year’s St. Patrick’s Day bash left some folks out in the cold, the Manette Saloon is pre-selling tickets for this weekend’s shindig.
Five dollars will pay one’s way into the party where corn beef and cabbage, green beers and Bushmills will all be poured into the saloon’s figurative blender and switched to top-speed and swirled to the soundtrack of Seattle rock band Evil Twin.
Unity is what makes the scene stronger.
I staunchly believe in that statement, my name is Bill Mickelson and I am the newest writer for What’s Up. With this assignment, I’m now in the position to act on my conviction.
Amidst the flurry of green beer and St. Patrick’s gear for the weekend, the area’s youth rock scene is carrying out its own shindig alcohol-free at the Bainbridge Island Music Guild.
Five bands will share the stage with sounds ranging from sentimental crooning to underage rage with a healthy dose of fun in the middle of it all.
OK. So last week would have been the opportune time to weigh in on the Academy Awards, right? Not necessarily since it’s basically a sham that puts high fashion over films and makes the rich and detached world of celebrities so many drool over even more opulent.
The average film festival features fab faces like Jack, Tom and Gwyneth, flogging their art as a phalanx of fans feed the frenzy. But the ninth annual Celluloid Bainbridge Festival, taking place this weekend at the Lynnwood Theater on Bainbridge Island, is nothing like average. Instead of a star-studded personality parade, this event pays tribute to local creativity in a low-key setting.
The rodeo may be six months away but that’s reason enough to throw a party.
The folks behind the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede are throwing their second annual “Dance for a Wish” western party starting at 7 p.m. March 9 at the Fairgrounds Presidents’ Hall. Tickets are $35 in advance from www.kitsaprodeo.com (click on Dance for a Wish) or $45 at the door.
Near the corner of Sylvan Way and Warren Avenue in Bremerton, Winterland is rapidly becoming the place to be in the Kitsap-based rock scene.
Every weekend, the club brings in local and regional acts, new and old, along with a collective community inline with the Winterland mission — Classic. Rock.
Ever seen a fish swing dance?
The March edition of Bainbridge Island Metro Parks and Recreation District’s Second Saturday Dance will give toe-tappers young and old the chance as the Port Townsend’s power quintet — Dogfish and the Catsharks — gets back into the Island groove March 10.
For three years, the group of musicians has been playing swing dances and parties around the Olympic Peninsula, begging audiences to pose the question, “What’s in a name?”
A hazard in growing up is seeing the world through a haze of clutter. Experience may bring wisdom but it also fosters our biases, prejudices, and preconceived ideas about the world around us. Children who haven’t yet learned how they “should” feel or think retain an innocence and instinct capable of teaching that wisdom doesn’t always come from experience and sometimes the best way to learn is to slow down and look at the world through new eyes. “The Picture Project” is an educational art program striving to accomplish exactly that.
