By Kirk Boxleitner
The Threshold Choir of comfort singers was started by Kate Munger in Northern California around the turn of the millennium, and has since expanded into more than …
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3/14/24
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A longstanding Rhododendron Festival favorite among participants, organizers, and spectators will return this year: the Bed Races.
The Rhody rendition of the Bed Races involves teams of five, with …
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James Sloan
jsloan@ptleader.com | 5/19/22 |
Poets and painters have fought for years over the values of truth and beauty, weighing the scales with words and images. However, there is a love of beauty more honest than anything in this world …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 9/9/22 |
Special to The Leader
The month will see more than two dozen Port Townsend students show off their dramatic talents, through a five-night presentation of William Shakespeare’s …
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3/14/24
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Anna Tallarico atallarico@ptleader.com
D
eath, despair, romance, and the beauty of the night.
What is the connection between them?
RainShadow Chorale is going to show …
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Anna Tallarico
atallarico@ptleader.com | 5/31/23 |
Exploring the expanse of outer space as an interpretation in tones. This is the kind of ambient groove local musician, poet, and filmmaker Robin Lum Cheong has created under the name Robinicus for …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 9/7/22 |
Port Townsend Gallery will cap off its exhibit in June with artworks from Loran Scruggs.
The new show will also include some artistic seasoning from Anne Schneider.
Scruggs and Schneider …
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Leader News Staff
news@ptleader.com | 5/31/23 |
The Port Townsend Film Festival is teaming up with a freshly minted nonprofit in an effort to afford emotional healing to Black men.
Ben Wilson, who’s lived in Port Townsend …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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4/10/24
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Gail Larson is the Port Ludlow Art League’s Artist of the Month for June.
Pamela Raine has earned Jeweler of the Month honors.
Larson, a Signature Member of the National Collage …
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Leader News Staff
news@ptleader.com | 5/31/23 |
An original rendition of “Peter Pan” will come to Port Townsend this June as a ballet with a full showcase of dance style by the Port Townsend Ballet.
The play originates from a story …
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Audrey Rogers
arogers@ptleader.com | 5/20/22 |
Jeremiah Green, the drummer and one of the founders of the indie rock band Modest Mouse, has died at the age of 45.
Modest Mouse, and Carol Namatame, Green's mother, both announced his …
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Leader News Staff
news@ptleader.com | 1/1/23 |
Beyond the edge of the everyday lies a landscape of imagination found through introspection.
It’s where Jay Haskins spent much of his time before his recent passing.
Well, there, and …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 1/4/23 |
Peninsula Fiber Artists tried something new for their current exhibit. Ten members filled identical brown paper bags with their unfinished, unwanted projects and then anonymously swapped the …
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Anna Tallarico
atallarico@ptleader.com | 5/31/23 |
The black comedy thriller "Promising Young Woman" was originally released theatrically near the end of 2020, but the Port Townsend Film Festival's ongoing "Focus Film" series is bringing …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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4/3/24
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Golden Shoals has hit their stride following a name change in 2020 that reflects an adventurous approach to traditional American music.
Over the past 10 years, Golden Shoals — made up of …
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Leader News Staff
news@ptleader.com | 6/1/23 |
The dirt walked on today is built on the graves of those who came before.
To honor and celebrate the gifts given by those lost to the living, Day of the Dead — or as its traditionally known …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 11/2/22 |
For the past three years, Gabe Van Lelyveld has been working on a documentary that’s sought to capture a life-changing relationship between two local men, one of them …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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4/3/24
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A night of hip-swaying, heart-beating, honky-tonk warmed with a campfires worth of folk tunes is coming to Finnriver Farm & Cider next week.
Guitarist and singer Royce Leon will by joined Jody …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 1/4/23 |
The final installation of the 2022 Salish Sea Early Music Festival will bring the works of two classical music icons of the 18th century; Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach.
With a …
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Leader News Staff
news@ptleader.com | 5/26/22 |
By Kirk Boxleitner
The Port Townsend Victorian Heritage Festival runs April 26-28 this year, but tickets went on sale online March 1, and festival co-chairs Kathleen Knoblock and …
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3/14/24
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