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Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days plans to have a full fair this year. Current coronavirus safety guidelines allow a maximum of 400 spectators with capacity restrictions depending on the facility.
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Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days plans to have a full fair this year. Current coronavirus safety guidelines allow a maximum of 400 spectators with capacity restrictions depending on the facility.
Walla Walla Symphony's A Little Night Music concert will be from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, live at Walla Walla University Church, 212 SW Fourth St., and via livestream.
Walla Walla Friends of Acoustic Music has another pandemic contra dance lined up, this time to live music from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, April 17, in Pioneer Park, 940 E Alder St.
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DAYTON — Three museums here are opening in April and May: Smith Hollow Country Schoolhouse and Dodge Quarantine Cabin, 113 N Front St., will be open Saturdays from noon-2 p.m. and Palus Museum/Veteran's Exhibit, 426 E Main St., will be open Saturdays from 2-4 p.m.
The Walla Walla Public Library is focusing on a spring theme in April.
As a star of sorts Yakima is getting at least 15 minutes of fame. The city of more than 93,000 residents provides the setting for J. Rick Castaneda's award-winning independent film "Cement Suitcase."
I must cram my Now Hear This and Dig This columns for Marquee into a single one, because all the music and archaeology events are crammed into three days in April. Bear with me, don’t blink …
Excitement is palpable for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival Board, which has determined to offer live, in-person concerts in June.
Blue Mountain Artists Guild will now exhibit in gallery shows open to in-person viewing.
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There's light at the end of the tunnel for Telander Gallery owners Todd and Kirsten Telander after the couple's downtown gallery sustained serious damage when a car crashed into the storefront.
As Frank Sinatra croons in “My Way,” “What is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.”
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The works in Tina Garrick Albro's “In Isolation” exhibit is informed by connections between the present and past with concentration on printmaking and the production of monotype prints.
Walla Walla High School student Grady Lemma, an entrant in the Educational Service District 123 2021 Virtual Art Exhibit, received a $2,000 scholarship awarded by Central Washington University faculty.
The Walla Walla Public Library is focusing on a spring theme in April.
The final day of the NEXUS: Frankie Laufer Art Show will conclude with a closing reception from 5-7 p.m. April 23 at Morell Family Wines, 202 E. Main St.
Spot modern items among the historical exhibits April 2-May 2 for a chance to win a prize at the museum store.
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Ashland Independent Film Festival released its complete schedule for the 20th annual festival. Most films will be available virtually coast-to-coast from April 15-29 and live and outdoors in Ashland and Medford from June 24-28.
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Screenings of the British comedy drama "Running Naked" will be from 7-9 p.m. April 2 and 7 at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N Sixth Ave.
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Walla Walla Public Library's book selection theme in April is centered on spring.
The World Ski and Snowboard Festival is back for its 25th year. The three-week digital format runs April 16-30 and will feature a film and photo competition, a top sheet art competition and live music and DJ sets.
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Artwork by Walla Walla artists Bev Nash and Lynn Woolson will be featured Friday-April 30 in the Inspiration from Isolation: A Garden Art Show at CAVU Cellars, 175 E Aeronca Ave. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.
Time in quarantine has been fortuitous for native Walla Wallan Campbell Davis who has used the coronavirus pandemic to hunker in at his Nashville, Tennessee, home, compose lyrics and music and record.
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Loree McKenna is perhaps best known in Pendleton as a talented cellist, but in 1970 she began creating tapestries. Twenty-seven of her works will be displayed from April 9-May 29 at the Pendleton Center for the Arts
The April 3 deadline to submit artwork for the 47th annual Pendleton Center for the Arts Open Regional Exhibit is approaching.
Human beings were given hands, hearts eyes and brains for a reason. We were born to create, innovate, try and fail and try again until we achieve what we’re aiming for.
The Walla Walla Public Library is focusing on Women’s History Month in March.
Gesa Power House Theatre will screen award-winning documentary film “Personhood: Policing Pregnant Women in America” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 26, and Wednesday, March 31.
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As the Walla Walla Valley and the rest of the state prepare to advance to Phase 3 of Gov. Jay Inslee’s latest plan to reopen the state of Washington, some things that were taken for granted before the pandemic are starting to slowly return. One such item is access to museums.
Jeremy Burnham
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TACOMA — After a year of COVID-19 pandemic-related closures, six facilities in Tacoma’s Museum District are springing back to life with new exhibitions and experiences for visitors.
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Steve Stevenson will share details about the original structures on the VA grounds during a free Fort Walla Walla Museum After Hours program at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 25, on Zoom.
The Walla Walla Public Library is focusing on Women’s History Month in March.
Alternative facts have surfaced many times throughout history, including in the aftermath of the Whitman Mission tragedy 173 years ago.
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By the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
COLUMN: A self-motivated student who learns best by reading and imitating, Steph Bucci has worked in watercolor, batik watercolor, mixed media, colored pencils, markers and acrylics.
COLUMN: Our concert season cannot yet reopen to live audiences, but at least the Walla Walla Symphony will be able to stage a live-streamed concert.
Writer Marcy Cottrell Houle will be featured during the Pendleton Center for the Arts-sponsored First Draft Writers' Series via Zoom at 7 p.m. March 18.
The Walla Walla Public Library is amplifying women's stories for Women’s History Month in March.
A new director of film programming launches reopening this weekend with a screening of the documentary and festival hit, "Picture of His Life."
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Matthew Pierce left a career of graphic design because he was burned out from looking at a computer screen all day. Later, in the time of teaching online during a pandemic, a collection of art rebelling against the digital realm he created is now on display at Combine Art Collective.
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Chris Cresci was raised in Walla Walla and now helps document other beautiful lands. His film, "Where We Belong," will be one of 30 shorts featured in an upcoming film festival.
PENDLETON — Pendleton Center for the Arts and Banner Bank of Pendleton are partnering for the 48th Open Regional Exhibit.
Through his art, Walla Walla Walla University professor and artist Matthew Pierce explores ideas and assumptions attached to commonplace and nostalgic objects, revealing in them how perceptions are possibly altered by one’s time and perspective of the subjects.
The Walla Walla Public Library is focusing on Women’s History Month in March.
COLUMN: Walla Walla businessman, poet and author Charles Potts is ahead of the curve. His opus, "How the South Finally Won the Civil War: And Controls the Political Future of the United States," came out in 1995, a good 2½ decades before the next book to tackle the subject.
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The Four Amigos started out at Cyber Art 509, an artists' cooperative of more than 60 artists in the 509 area code — Tri-Cities and the surrounding environs.
COLUMN: What does a soap named Naked Man smell like?
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Walla Wallan Mike Flake rolled a unique, custom, hand-built semi-truck off his one-man assembly line on Jan. 26. He spent more than two years in his spare time on the rig, based on a 1960 Mack Truck representing years gone by.
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The Walla Walla Valley’s cultural and entertainment institutions have largely been shuttered since March last year, but some, such as Fort Walla Walla, are preparing for visitors again in Phase 2 of Washington’s reopening plan.
Margaux Maxwell
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The world's top circus festival has found a way to flourish between the cracks in the rules of the coronavirus pandemic — even without huge crowds that would normally have attended.
New feature-length documentary "The West is Burning" reveals the scale of wildfire issues facing the Western United States.
