ARTS

Methow native Sadie Halpin performs with Portland Ballet Sadie Halpin loves everything about ballet. “There’s always something new to work on. And, once you get something, it’s amazing to be able to do it in your own body,” she said. Halpin, age 16, has danced since she was 3. Even before that, she watched her […]

There’s everything from fanciful cityscapes to winged felt pigs to a 7-foot stuffed dragon in “Wit & Whimsy,” the new exhibit which opens at Confluence Gallery this weekend. The art is as stimulating and thought-provoking as it is whimsical. The show features humor, splendor and trenchant social commentary by some 35 local and regional artists. […]

Fans of country music will be greeted with evocative, moving vocals when Farewell Angelina comes to the Winthrop Barn for a concert on Nov. 16. Farewell Angelina’s four powerhouse female vocalists are all dynamic songwriters and accomplished multi-instrumentalists, known for heart-stopping harmonies backed by violins and guitars. The quartet delivers a new take on country […]

“Rope” is the rare thriller where the audience knows who’s been murdered, who did it and what will happen from the moment the curtain rises. The suspense comes instead from speculating about whether the murderers will be discovered and if they’ll get away with their crime, said Don Nelson, the director of the play, which […]

Local author’s book due out this fall For most 19-year-olds, taking a wrong turn means a figurative deviation – perhaps dabbling in substances, or falling in with the proverbial wrong crowd. But when Methow Valley resident Julie Tate-Libby took a literal wrong turn on a high mountain trail in the Himalaya in 1996, it meant […]

‘Seattle’s Medic One’ has Methow connections Before the mid-1960s, if your heart stopped you were, quite probably, dead, awaiting only a physician’s pronouncement confirming the fact. Even well into the 1960s and 1970s, unless you had your heart attack in one of the few medical facilities equipped with a new-fangled device that re-ignited a non-beating […]

There’s a certain poetry in the momentum and sound of water as it cascades over rocks and laps against the shore. Poets and lovers of verse will have a chance to experience that energy this weekend with Washington poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna, who’s traveling around the state holding poetry workshops and readings connected with […]