When Russian choreographer Marius Petipa collaborated with composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to create “The Nutcracker” ballet in 1892, the famous team were most likely oblivious to the global tradition the piece would become through the next
100 years and beyond.
What can be done to help the economy on Whidbey Island?
It’s beginning to sound like an old refrain, but buying local is the most immediate way to help everyone.
You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “Too many cooks spoil the broth,” which I usually take to mean that…
As the joys of Thanksgiving baste our turkeys, hams and prime rib during the next few days, let me offer…
Business in general is not currently the best it will ever be.
But that doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.
That’s where business maverick and Clinton resident Nina Fenton can help.
The beauty is in the details.
The burnt reds and browns of the rocks and autumn trees, the miniature figures posed in midstride painting, repairing a roof or breaking rocks on the chain gang.
Dementia is as cruel a disease as any, robbing its victims of their memories of a life lived, the ability to communicate as easily as they once did and a lucidity that quiets the mind with contemplation.
One local artist has used her artistic prowess to battle the ogre of Alzheimer’s and a new body of work has emerged from that fight.
Looking for sensible gifts for children that won’t break the piggy bank?
Try a couple of children’s books by two island authors that take middle-schoolers on a haunted adventure and children to a colorful construction site manned by monsters.
Trees store their true colors behind the green chlorophyll-soaked leaves of summer.
When autumn comes, the trees rest and the yellow and orange that reside naturally in the leaves reveal themselves in a blaze of glorious color before falling.
Well, it’s finally over. Just when we thought it would never end, wham bam and it was over. We have…
Have you noticed that the new Christmas cards are already being displayed in stores? Or are they last year’s old…
Gotta, gotta, gotta!
Sing, sing, sing and dance, dance, dance!
The dry spell is over on the stage at South Whidbey High School.
The thespian sound of student feet pounding the boards will be heard once again as the students open their female version of “The Odd Couple” in the school’s newly renovated, 75-seat “Little Theater” on Friday, Nov. 14 for a two-weekend run.
