The Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem was once quoted as saying, “No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”
Langley resident Ann Gaylia O’Barr may not hop on a plane as often, but she still travels to the farthest reaches of the world.
It’s the novels she writes that take her there.
With some sweet standards, a release and a tour, a singer’s dreams come true.
“Love In a Mist, Devil in a Bush” is the newest release from Langley singer Joni Takanikos. The album, recorded by Robbie Cribbs at Sound Trap Studios in Freeland, is a compilation of mostly standards arranged by Robert Marsanyi, who accompanies Takanikos on piano.
Step out of the ordinary, wet days of winter and into the devilish dark and uplifting light of less somber days. Step into a purgatorial place of saints and sinners.
Frances McCue drove and drove, slept, and drove some more to find the heart of a fellow poet.
The subject of her quest was Richard Hugo, the 20th century American poet from White Center, Wash. whose work reflects the stark forgotten towns of the Northwest.
Walt Wagner has been to the dark side of the moon, and liked it.
“In the Pink” is the latest CD from the world-class pianist on which he reinterprets the music of Pink Floyd for the piano with 13 songs taken from “The Wall,” “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Division Bell.”
Whidbey folks know him as Herr Drosselmeyer in Whidbey Island Dance Theatre’s annual production of “The Nutcracker.”
But to the folks down in Haiti, Lars Larson deals in much more than toy nutcrackers. Down there, he practices the magic of helping people to survive.
FREELAND — Langley resident Bill Kerby’s writing days are over, and he is madly in love with retirement.
“I should have done this sooner,” the former screenwriter said.
The kids keep her honest.
So says the new artistic director of Whidbey Children’s Theater, Susannah Rose Woods.
She’s got a Chevy motor- home named “Honey” and a red guitar named “Ruby Rain.”
If not for a simple question from one musician to another — “Will you join me?” — such music may never have graced the world.
Carol Rose Dean is an artist who does her own thing.
Her Freeland shop, Dean Tile & Design, has been turning out unique handmade tiles and designs for almost 20 years, and the artist has established herself as a creator of unusual things.
Greenbank’s Raven Rocks Studio co-owner and artist Windwalker Taibi was recently selected as the featured artist on the Mirrix Tapestry and Bead Looms website.
