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CSTOCK Kids for Kids’ ‘Pirates of Penzance’ isn’t your average kids show
CSTOCK Kids for Kids’ ‘Pirates of Penzance’ isn’t...
July 8, 2008 4:58 pm

There’s a certain amount of stigma attached to kids’ theater productions.
They tend to conjure up painful experiences of sitting through a bevy of off-key singing in a cutesy production of a show that you’ve seen 15 other times or perhaps the same show that you remember suffering through when you were a kid. Johnny is forgetting his lines, while the director has to go on stage to remind Sally it’s her cue to come on.
But this doesn’t seem to be the case for the Kids for Kids productions at CSTOCK, directed by Daniel Estes.

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The virtues of Beethoven and riverside meditation
The virtues of Beethoven and riverside meditation
July 8, 2008 4:58 pm

Lying reclined on a picnic blanket with my hands beneath my head, staring up past the treetops where the ambience of a grand piano meshed with the sunshine and singing birds in the afternoon sky, I knew I’d found a getaway.

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A doctor of the jazz guitar — Michael Powers.
Care to Jazz comes to Silverdale Beach Hotel
July 8, 2008 4:57 pm

For many, music is considered the great healer.
Sentimentally, listening to a comfortable collection of tunes can be a great stress reliever while breaking into song can sometimes even help to stave off depression. Experts suggest it’s the rhythm and beat which give music its soothing power.

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(L-R): Andy Carr
Devoted tango artist heads to Bainbridge for concert
July 4, 2008 3:27 pm

The bandoneon may be a musical cousin to the accordion. But as Bertram Levy describes it, when Argentine Tango began to gel in the early 1900s, some felt the accordion was too happy for tango; it didn’t possess the necessary darkness.
A renowned musician who began in folk but has spent the better part of a decade devoted to tango, Levy will bring his Tangoheart quartet to Bainbridge next weekend, the first program in this year’s series of Bloedel Reserve summer concerts.

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Linda Snyder (right) and her daughter
Park here on Wednesdays
July 1, 2008 7:21 pm

Linda Snyder once sat on a committee whose organizers wanted to hold standing meetings on Wednesday evenings during the summer.

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Above: Ron Harper at work in his Port Orchard studio drawing faster-than-light particles called “tachyons.” Left: The face piece of “Paint Free or Die” — “He FREES THE TACHYON HORDES OF BONDS AT LAKE.”
Bremerton themes First Friday around 4th, Bainbridge delays...
July 1, 2008 2:44 am

As the first Friday of July falls squarely on July 4 this year, art galleries in Bremerton have focused their exhibits quirkily around the Independence Day theme, and will be debuting with receptions that day.
Galleries on Bainbridge, including Bainbridge Arts and Crafts which recently received a $1 million endowment that made headlines, will be waiting it out, hosting their first Friday parties during the second week July 11 due to the nuttiness of the island’s Grand Ole Fourth celebration.

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Movie nights atop Bremerton J.C. Penney debut July 11
Movie nights atop Bremerton J.C. Penney debut July...
July 1, 2008 2:44 am

Ron Sher and Co. plan to host movie nights atop the old J.C. Penney building each weekend this month, starting with ‘Top Gun’ July 11.
The glow of city lights in downtown Bremerton envelope the old J.C. Penney building at night.
But it seems almost a lonely glow.

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