It happens every year.
I ignore it as long as I can, pretending I’m on an alternative architecture tour admiring a living roof.
Lush, verdant, it’s a little meadow that harvests rainwater and contributes oxygen to the atmosphere. But really that green isn’t supposed to be up there. Time to clean the roof.
The late great mandolin picker Bill Monroe probably would have loved Whidbey Island.
It’s easy to picture him with his band, The Blue Grass Boys, with their superior playing, harmonious multi-part singing and overall down-home, good-time, rootsy feel, pickin’ away in some beautiful clearing in the island woods.
Whidbey artist Jerry Hill has been connected to Native American art forms ever since he bought his first knife at age 7 and carved his first mask.
The summers of his childhood were spent exploring the regions of the Puget Sound, British Columbia and Alaska, where he soaked up the art and culture of the First Nations People.
If I were to ask you what you consider to be the most important job in the country, what would you answer?
President? CEO of any of our huge major industries? Secretary of State, or Treasury? The general in charge of our everlasting war in Iraq?
I am writing this column by hand while sitting backstage at the Samsung Sound Lounge at Bumbershoot, Seattle’s premiere music and arts festival, now in its 38th year.
That’s more than half my lifetime.
A South Whidbey contingent of actors were invited to attend the Discovering New Mysteries — International Mystery Writers Festival 2008 in Owensboro, Ky. in June.
The Whidbey Island Woodworkers Guild presents Woodpalooza, the fifth annual exhibition showcasing recent works by 21 of its artistic members….
Unhappiness seems to drag along behind them as the war looms ahead, and yet, it’s still a comedy.
“Olive and Jack” is a domestic comedy set at the start of World War II about a couple living in Port Gamble.
The company-owned village, where the married Olive and Jack live, is far from any teeming cosmopolitan action, and this makes Olive unhappy.
The Spanish language students of the Northwest Language Academy’s summer program were captured on film making a Spanish version of…
The Whidbey Island Youth Orchestra is putting the call out to young island string players.
Auditions for all returning and prospective new members for the 2008-2009 season will be at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 at the Whidbey Evangelical Free Church in Greenbank.
The first time I went to Vienna, more than 20 years ago, I went with my stepdaughter, who lives there, to a local market to do her daily shopping. At that time, there were no “supermarkets,” such as Safeway, Albertson’s, PayLess, etc., and most women, working or not, stopped in at local shops for foodstuffs on a daily basis.
The other day I was thinking about breathing and the importance of it.
In fact, the more I thought about breathing, the more I appreciated the concept and the performance thereof, not to mention the opportunity.
You would think being dead for 55 years would put a damper on his fame. But not the legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
