Bainbridge-based author Jonathan Evison’s debut novel, “All About Lulu” isn’t actually his first novel.
The 39-year-old job-hopping, freedom-loving dreamer has been writing for years through occupational stints as a caged bear feeder, rotten tomato sorter, syndicated radio talk show host and script doctor, just to name a few.
Summer is my favorite time of the year. My body seeks heat like a rattlesnake soaking up the sun on a desert outcropping. Life slows down in the summer and the inclination toward outdoor leisure hits harder than Barry Bonds at bat.
The Shipwreck Lounge in Port Orchard has filled the void for regular stand up comedy in South Kitsap. The bar Slip 45 and the Shipwreck Lounge, one of the newest night spots in Port Orchard, moved into the building previously vacated by the notorious Mako’s establishment at 715 Bay St. at the beginning of 2008. At that time, the partners of Shipwreck at Slip 45, noted their ambition to tone down the location’s reputation for violence and illegal activity by attracting a new, more high class clientele.
Third annual Laugh for Life event gathers ‘the biggest amalgamation of (comedic) talent ever on stage at the Admiral Theatre’ July 19.
Have you ever wanted to get away from everything? Go see a movie, maybe go for a walk?
Second annual Silverdale Beach Hotel Luau brings the hundreds-dollar trip to the shores of Dyes Inlet, for a $55 ticket.
Sixty-year-old Winslow Gallery endowed with massive gift and
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, how many fairy tales can you hum? Starting Friday, Ovation! Musical Theatre brings “Into the Woods” to Bainbridge for a three-weekend run.
Berit Ringo drew a self-portrait in subdued charcoal, because, she said, that’s the way it’s usually done.
Everything else hanging in her show of monotypes at Grace Episcopal Church sings out in living color.
“I seek to celebrate life and hope,” Ringo says in her artist statement, “and am continually drawn to vivid, warm colors to affirm both – life and hope.”
It’s an exciting weekend up ahead for avid gardeners. The long-anticipated 20th anniversary Bainbridge in Bloom garden tour will be July 11 through 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. To celebrate the event’s longevity, they’ve rolled back ticket and event prices. More information can be found at the Bloom Web site, www.gardentour.info, or by calling the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council (BIAHC) at (206) 842-7901. Tickets are available at many of our local nurseries. The site also lists the locations for various food and refreshments interspersed at several locations this year.
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.
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.
Kitsap softcore: Vicci Martinez back at the Clearwater, Alligators in Bremerton, gypsy jazz at the Island Gallery.
