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The Walla Walla Public Library, 238 E. Alder St., is featuring young adult fiction this week.
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COLUMN: A pair of 12-year-old playwrights from Athena collaborated on a new play and are seeking to cast roles in what they call "The Messenger."
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is accepting applications for its summer Artist-in-Residence program.
Wenaha Gallery in Dayton is featuring fine art jigsaw puzzles, although it's been a challenge to get them.
COLUMN: The chef at Park Plaza whipped up a cake to celebrate Walla Walla native Ann Meiners Gwinn’s 101st birthday.
Four regional artists are sharing their unique style of art in an exhibit called Mlange from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, through Feb. 28 at CAVU Cellars Art Gallery.
Frames typically are the applied borders and settings surrounding portable visual artworks ─ photography, paintings, drawings, posters, tapestries and more. Sometimes a stretched painted canvas without a frame is a frame in itself and an artistic statement.
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Sherry Wachter of Milton-Freewater has COVID-19 and communication advances to thank for getting her into a project that would not have otherwise happened, she said.
COLUMN: A self-described late-bloomer, College Place artist Frankie Laufer began painting at age 40, and 30 years later he's still intensely at it.
The Liberty Theater will host a virtual reading of "A Christmas Carol" at 7 p.m. Dec. 23.
Fort Walla Walla Museum is offering its final Museum After Hours presentation for the year. Guest speaker Gary Lentz will talk about “Whispers from the Ghost: The Story of Capt. Albert H. Rooks, the USS Houston, and Her Crew.”
"I’ll Be Home for Christmas” that old chestnut, takes on a new poignancy this holiday season when the three wise kings definitely will not travel ─ accent on the wise.
"Being Toffee," by Sarah Crossan is among the young adult fiction books available at the library.
“To Be a Man," by Nicole Krauss is among the books for adult readers at the Walla Walla Public Library.
Artwork by Walla Walla couple Joyce and Randy Klassen is currently on exhibit at CAVU Winery, 175 E. Aeronca, near the Walla Walla Regional Airport.
The First Draft Writers’ Series will return to the Pendleton Center for the Arts as a Zoom-based offering at 7 p.m. Dec. 17.
The untimely death of an artist and a teacher casts more than shadows upon the circle of admirers and beloveds. But the art can brighten the gloom.
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Dolly Parton/“A Holly Dolly Christmas,” Butterfly Records
Lilliputians and Thumbelina race around town these days looking for libraries just their size. And they’re finding them.
COLUMN: The Benaroya Hall chimes are sounding, and the lights have dimmed: time to return to your seat for the Seattle Symphony concert.
COLUMN: Fabricophile. We've all probably met one, often without knowing. Chances are, you may be one yourself, even if it's hard to admit. But your studio gives you away.
Two venomous pit vipers climb the corners of Jim Schuster’s dining room. These life-size rattlesnakes are not alive, of course, but they are convincing, each one gleaming with snakeskin scales as it serpentines up 5-foot-tall pine walking sticks.
Many might have been curious flipping through the pages of the Union-Bulletin toward the end of this past unusual summer when a heads-up announcement appeared in a 10-by-5-inch, color advertisement.
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Music got to Jude Evans early.
PHILADELPHIA — Joanna Hutchinson knew 100,000 was a maddeningly large number. That's why she started on the project.
The wide-open spaces of Eastern Washington might inspire a pen-and-ink artist, but a cavernous empty room doesn’t have the same draw.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For many, it’s not Christmas without the dance of Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Mouse King and, of course, the Nutcracker Prince.
For former Whitman College visiting professor Anne Helen Petersen, writing was not a career she consciously pursued from childhood, but it nonetheless came to her.
Although Whitman College is not a dance school, there are still a good number of its students who are involved with dance on campus, be it by taking dance classes, pursuing a dance minor or being involved in student dance groups.
COLUMN: A class in working leather set Betsy Pozzanghera on a path to repurposing luxury leather into new, useful pieces.
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PHILADELPHIA – Walter Deuschle likes a challenge. At 92, he’s out trimming bushes and pulling weeds. He’s planting grass seeds, praying for new growth. And on most mornings, he’s inside his Huntington Valley home art studio, picking up a paint brush or a sculpting utensil.
MILTON-FREEWATER — Beginning Oct. 8 and running through Dec. 10, Frazier Farmstead Museum, 1403 Chestnut St., will host seasonal storytime and craft sessions.
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Mouse but not baton, buttons but not keys, Zoom but not strings, and most trying of all, smiles on screens, but smiles sans embraces.
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“My larger fear: that all my efforts will prove futile, and Gilead will last for a thousand years. Most of the time, that is what it feels like here, far away from the war, in the still heart of the tornado.
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ArtSquared will go on, but as a 2020 virtual event, organizers said.
"The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Invention (Really!)," by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Chris Hsu.
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Being housebound amid a pandemic may contribute to a new appreciation for the venerable vinyl disc, a singing piece of analog plastic, as Hot Poop music store owner Jim McGuinn defines it.
Tamástslikt Cultural Institute re-opens
