The music and life of Bob Dylan and the movie “Singing in the Rain” were two of the biggest influences that led Chicago-born musician Michael Conley’s transformation into the unique concoction that is “Shoehorn.”
A cadre of bright and playful artwork — of the type which one may have recently seen on the sentimental card racks of grocery and department stores around the country — is coming to Gallery Fraga on Bainbridge in June.
And if Seattle-based artist Debbie Tomassi’s somewhat sarcastic works don’t entice laughter, they should, at very least, elicit a smile.
The suspense of a world premiere is building in East Bremerton at the Changing Scene Theatre Northwest.
The black box theater situated in a business park off of Highway 303 is well-known for its work with original productions, but something about “A Trick of the Light” — a two-act supernatural thriller by award-winning Colorado playwright Scott Gibson, which will debut at 8 p.m. June 1 — has director Pavlina Morris in an excited frenzy.
With a steady rotation of music coming in every weekend, in addition to an open mic hosted each Wednesday, Tizley’s Europub in Poulsbo is becoming the noisiest shop on Front Street. Cheers.
An open invitation is out to all tattooists of Kitsap to hang works of art in any medium and of any subject in a showroom at the AFU hall dedicated to their imaginations. No human-figured limbs, chests, necks, stomachs, backs or other body parts will be tacked to the wall, beyond that, however, it’s pretty much all fair game.
Just about anyone familiar with the music of English singer/songwriter Reg Meuross will tell you that “he just has this way about him” — in the words of Bainbridge Island folksinger MJ Bishop.
The plug is about to be pulled on Port Gamble — in a good way.
Bows and arrows, sword fighting, jousting, Middle Ages arts and science — bards, ballistas, lords, ladies, the baron and baroness — will all stake their old world claim at the Medieval Faire this weekend.
It’s just about the time of year in Poulsbo when you can hear the rumbling of Vikings approaching while the smell of lutefisk mixed with cotton candy and funnel cakes fills the air — it’s time for Viking Fest.
Little Norway honors its heritage each year with a three-day festival marking Norwegian Constitution Day or Syttende Mai.
At one of its more recent shows in Bremerton, Neutralboy built a chicken-wire enclosure around the front of the corner stage at what was then Hansen’s, beckoning people to throw extraneous materials, limbs and bodies forward as the four-piece slammed through its set.
Even more recently, Micheal Frottage, lead singer, doused the near entire front three rows of a packed house at Winterland with Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Kitsap’s pride in the men and women of the United States military is equal to, if not greater than the power of the nuclear reactors which fuel the Navy’s largest aircraft carriers.
Who wouldn’t love to travel the country playing music every day of the year while honoring one’s country, getting paid and having the opportunity to rub elbows with foreign dignitaries and heads of state?
For those who would, take a trip to the Manette Saloon around 9 p.m. Saturday night and Drew Williams might just tell you how it is.
There’s a dance party raging on the largest wall of The Gallery on Bainbridge Island.
And this shindig is continuous in the form of three, 3-by-4-foot, side-by-side oil on canvas paintings called Socios I, II, III created by island artist Amy Williams. Her works, depicting boisterous and busy salsa dance scenes, are matched with the flowing ceramic pottery of Lynnwood-based Barry McAlister.
Though there is one intermission slated for the Bainbridge Performing Arts’ May production of the Broadway smash “Urinetown, The Musical,” it’s been rumored that the bulk of the audience will not be allowed a trip to the toilets.
That threat of course holds little water in life as we know it, but in the world of this satirical and cautionary musical — written by Greg Kotis, directed by Teresa Thuman — people are forced to hold it, literally.
It is just about time for some music that you likely have never heard before.
Three amazingly talented Northwest musicians — Garey Williams, Rick White and Mike Mattingly — converge in the jazz guitar trio called Ecstasy in Numbers which will be bringing its fusion to the Island Music Guild Hall — 10598 Valley Rd. on Bainbridge — for a rare appearance in Kitsap, Saturday.
Somewhere between the layers of Bainbridge Island artist Patty Rogers’ mixed media collage work, there is a subconscious message of humility.
Expounded by nature and the many places which she has seen, Rogers’ work could be described as a beautifully fragile. Not fragile in a materialistic sense — her pieces are mounted, not framed, on thick wood panels provided by island woodworker William Walker — but more so delicate in subject matter.
Epitomizing a symphonic finale, the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra will be striking up “The Ninth” to close its 2006-2007 season this weekend.
Many composers throughout history have constructed ninth symphonies, but it almost goes without saying that when speaking of “The Ninth,” one is alluding to Ludwig Van Beethoven’s revered final work.
In the last “Annie’s Shelves,” I was so excited to be able to share my knowledge of books with readers, I chose titles I had read recently and really enjoyed. This time around, with a little more thought and the same excitement, I’ve decided to showcase some of my favorite comfort books.
May represents a beginning.
Nature is donning its greenest shades, birds chatter as the days of school wind down for kids and summer gets its legs. Though there are many options for entertainment once the sun breaks from winter’s gray, anticipating the age-old, adolescent dilemma of boredom, What’s Up has sought out a few summertime projects for parents who are hearing the infamous line from in front of the television, “Mom, Dad … there’s nothing to do, I’m bored.”
This weekend, Bremerton’s historic Bremer building will be the site of an artistic convergence: Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Dolce & Gabanna, pleasantry and tea.
The West Sound Arts Council is gathering virtually everyone who is anyone in the peninsula’s visual arts scene and packing them into the old downtown building one last time for its annual spring tea and fashion show Saturday.
Last year, the creative diversity of the Sidney Art Gallery’s annual spring open show was illustrated by a five-foot stand-alone wooden representation of a flower exhibited amidst a shower of oil paintings, watercolors, black-and-white photographs and other mixed media.
Some years before, a 6-year-old South Kitsap kid entered original paper origami, current gallery manager Deborah Danielson said.
