Langley’s Ashingdon Manor bed-and-breakfast will become a Whidbey jazz venue when Langley author Molly Larson Cook and Portland, Ore. jazz guitarist John Stowell present “An Intimate Evening of Words and Jazz.” It will be based on Cook’s jazz novel, “Listen.”
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts announced this week it will hold general auditions for the 2008-’09 Theatre Series on Aug. 20–21.
The coming Theatre Series includes the plays “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler; “Inspector Carol,” by Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre; “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” by Tom Stoppard; “Rabbit Hole,” by David Lindsay-Abaire; and “Frankline and Figara,” by Kristina Sutherland.
The Rob Schouten Gallery has invited a bevy of talented “Whidbeyians” to perform an evening of poetry and song to celebrate the onset of summer.
“Midsummer Dream Night” will ring in the summer solstice from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 21 at the gallery located at Greenbank Farm.
I’ve been thinking a lot during the past few days about gifts I’d like to give my Dad for Father’s Day.
Most of all, however, I wish I could give my Dad the one thing I know would make him happier than anything else, the one thing that could bring back that gleam in his eye and make him forget that he’s old and feeble now.
I wish I had the power to give him back my Mom, Joetta, the love of his life for more than 70 years.
The fiber art and oil paintings of island artist Kathleen Otley are currently on display in the Bayview Cash Store’s hub.
A talking bird with Whidbey roots is the star of a new book and the model for a new African Grey parrot puppet.
Pierre is an African Grey parrot who lives part of the year in Langley with his owner, psychologist Dr. Fran Smith, her husband Dr. Bob Smith and their poodle, Cosette. The bird charmed his way so far into his owner’s heart, she decided to write a book about him.
Puget Sound experienced some of the lowest tides since the early 1900s this past week, with near-record minus tides. Extreme low tides are also expected over the Fourth of July weekend.
Whidbey Island has given a local singer her voice back.
Freeland resident Gale Dubrow has been singing for as long as she can remember.
Whidbey Island has given a local singer her voice back.
Freeland resident Gale Dubrow has been singing for as long as she can remember.
“There was always music in our house and I remember both my mother and father singing often,” Dubrow said.
And although she sang in high school musicals, in choirs and even started as a music major her first year in college, Dubrow got sidetracked for a time away from singing.
After journeying down several roads in life that included college, teaching, becoming a wife, mother, professional fine artist and a grandmother, Dubrow has finally realized one of her dreams. She has made her first record.
Photographer Rich Frishman remembers his young son being taken with the word “metamorphosis.”
The father had explained the finer points of the process a caterpillar makes on the way to becoming a butterfly.
The caterpillar has indeed made it to the butterfly stage and Frishman was there with his camera to record the eight-year “metamorphosis.”
“Metamorphosis: Portraits of Our Children,” is an exhibit of black-and-white portraits Frishman took of Gabe and his classmates every year, from first grade to the present.
Actors in “The Good Doctor” prepare for opening night in Langley.
Well, what a surprise it was to read in one of those “other” papers that Barack Obama is a smoker.
Asara Lovejoy seems able to inhale optimism right out of the Whidbey Island air.
Lovejoy is a problem solver by trade.
But this powerhouse of positivity is not just your everyday, run-of-the-mill troubleshooter. Lovejoy is so sure that she can help people turn their lives around that she wrote a book about it.
It’s just what Tinkerbell had in mind.
Children participating in the magic of the theater.
Whidbey Children’s Theater continues its educational outreach through the “Theater for Young Audiences” program.
The next production on the boards is the “Global Village Storytelling” sessions with Jill Johnson, a longtime performer and storyteller-in-residence at an island preschool.
