ARTS

“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 […]

In their first concert of the season, “Strike a Chord: A Concert of Classics,” the Okanogan Valley Orchestra & Chorus (OVOC) showcase masterworks by stellar composers of classical repertoire on Saturday (Oct. 12). The orchestra, directed by Matt Brown, performs The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss and The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky, as well […]

The Confluence Gallery show opening this week, “Oil & Water: A Plein Air Exhibit,” features some two dozen artists, almost all of them based in the Methow Valley. The artists who made the oils and watercolors that go on exhibit this Saturday (Oct. 5) got out of the studio and met their subjects on their […]