LEAVENWORTH — Icicle Creek Center for the Arts is starting a new series of virtual talks with local artists ranging from topics on creativity to artistic ideology.
It’s time for the annual look ahead to the new year’s most exciting movies!
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines. Both earned Best of Class status.
Due to the restrictions currently in place due to COVID-19, Pybus University courses for the spring 2021 series will be provided virtually. All classes are free and open to the public.
Barry Gibb & Friends
Larry Hibbard doesn’t spend as much time with his wife as he used to; someone a little older has been keeping him out late — her name is Valentina, a 100-year-old self-playing instrument.
Stylish and sleek, the French series “Lupin” on Netflix carves its way through the corridors of power and wealth — as well as the less glamorous back passageways where support staff are relegated and, for the show’s central character, usefully overlooked — with an entertaining confidence. Th…
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
LOS ANGELES — The Grammy Awards ceremony due to take place on Jan. 31 has been rescheduled to March 14 because of the coronavirus surge in Los Angeles.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
Few are brave enough to fly 10,000 feet in the air, parachute jump out into an unknown forest only to touch land and fight a raging forest fire. For longtime Wenatchee resident and author Gene Jessup, it was just another day on the job.
Madeline Happold
Journalist product manager
Throughout the continuous stress dream that was 2020, pop culture gave us something to bond over besides the harsh realities of the pandemic year.
This year gave us a lot of TV to watch and far too much time to spend watching it. From Tiger King to Baby Yoda, 2020 will not be forgotten.
WENATCHEE — Actors will be dressing as formative and influential women from Wenatchee’s past at a Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center program next Thursday. The virtual People of Our Past event is a continuation of the museum’s series on women’s suffrage, celebrating the female voice.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
LOS ANGELES — It's taken Tom Hanks more than 35 years to make his first Western so when he finally got on a horse and into a shootout, he wanted to make sure the movie had something special to say.
WENATCHEE — The Icicle Creek Center for the Arts and Methow Arts Alliance are offering grants for artists whose income has been negatively affected by the pandemic. Artists of all disciplines are welcome to apply for the grant.
Filmmaker Patty Jenkins had a profound cinematic experience as a young girl watching Richard Donner’s “Superman,” which inspired in her a kind of wonder and hope that she wanted to share with others through the magic of the movies. That sense of hope is a keystone of her work in “Wonder Woma…
“There’s no music scene out there,” said Conner Faulkner, talking by phone from Los Angeles about his hometown of Wenatchee. That’s why the 25-year-old artist, known professionally as “Dyve,” moved to L.A. to follow his career goals.
In many instances throughout Italy, Montepulciano is blended with Sangiovese.
This two-generation winery down the road from Snoqualmie Falls opened a satellite tasting room on the other side of the Cascades near the south shore of Lake Chelan.
Nothing encapsulates holiday romance more than cozying up indoors with the dormant, outside world in view of a frosty window. Add a steaming beverage, an enchanting book and a fireplace to that, and you're well on your way to conjuring some holiday spirit.
With parents at their wits' ends and kids crawling the walls, this is not exactly the white Christmas we've been dreaming of. But not to worry. There's still time to get Aunt Clara's teapot in the mail, and television has some treats to awake that Christmas spirit.
The passing of internationally acclaimed violin virtuoso Camilla Wicks recently was felt deeply by many of us in North Central Washington. She passed away at the home of her daughter, Lise-Marie Wertanzl, in Florida.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Quincy High School drama students have put together a virtual musical revue production, "Paciencia y Fe!," that will be livestreamed on YouTube at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10, 11 and 12.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Write on the River is taking local entries of short and nonfiction work for its annual writing competition. The 2021 Write on the River Writing Competition opened Dec. 15 and will be taking submissions until Feb. 15, according to a WOTR news release.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Double Gold Medal status to these wines. Both wines also earn Best of Class status in their category.
Update: Santa photo bookings at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center are sold out.
MOUNT VERNON — Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Lincoln Theatre's DVD collection seemed destined for a new home.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, nostalgia continues to be essential pop culture comfort food. Consider these DVD picks, all out Dec. 1, for anyone on your gift-giving list (or yourself).
Health experts are urging that you skip big gatherings and stay inside your bubble this Thanksgiving to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.
Christine Sandgren rewrote her novel “The Solomon Stone” three times in the past six years, a process which she called a painful but worthwhile experience.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Double Gold Medal status to both these wines.
“Raising Our Voice: Empowering Women,” the current exhibit at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center, offers an education in Women’s Suffrage.
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Numerica Festival of Trees Director Allie Jordan works on one of five grand trees on the stage of the Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee on Tuesday. This year's Festival of Trees begins Nov. 30 and ends with an annual Gala Dec. 5.
Online bidding for wreaths, miniature and classic trees begins Nov. 30 at 10 a.m.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
The holiday spirit is alive and well, despite COVID-19. If holiday lighting displays are part of your tradition, or something you’ve decided to jump into this year, we want to share your electric artwork in our annual Holiday Lights Map.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center closed to the public on Nov. 17, but its retail spaces are now open by appointment. These appointment-based spaces include the gift shop and the 90th Anniversary Women Painters of Washington art gallery, according to a museum news…
SHANX FM is what happens when the bleak undertones of dark wave music meld with retro synths and post-punk rock.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Double Gold Medal status to these wines. Both wines also earn Best of Class status in their category.
Other than having loyal followers, "Game of Thrones" and "The Crown" wouldn't appear to have much in common. Look closer. The hit Netflix series, which returned Sunday for a fourth season, is all about a call to duty in a kingdom that isn't much more glamorous than Westeros.
LOS ANGELES — Eight months into the pandemic, the American Alliance of Museums on Tuesday released its second survey exploring the consequences of COVID-19, and predictions for the future are bleak.
Editor’s note: Judges selected this wine Best Dessert in the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition. It earned a Gold Medal.
Country musician Brock Hires released a new album, “Longneck Bottle, Loud Jukebox,” on Nov. 3. The singer-songwriter is based in Tonasket.
Outdoors, the temperatures are dropping; indoors, the couch is calling. Should you need a new paperback to keep you company there, here are six brand-new ones ready for you.
Editor’s note: Judges selected this wine Best Rosé in the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition. It earned a Double Gold Medal.
NCW Libraries and Wenatchee Valley College will host bestselling author Tommy Orange on Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. for a virtual author talk as part of the NCW Virtual Reads series.
Summer is over and so are all the plans that never got made. Fortunately, there are still a few weeks for redemption. All those lush, green, floppy leaves are color swapping into vibrant new palettes, ready to be appreciated.
Write on The River will host a virtual workshop on outdoor-based writing. The Saturday gathering will take place via Zoom.
Editor’s note: Judges selected this wine Best Red in the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition. It earned a Double Gold Medal.
SPOKANE — No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter had always dreamt of becoming a novelist, but journalism came to him first. He couldn’t have asked for a better detour, he said.
Halloween festivities are taking a different form this year, but there is still plenty of socially distant, safe fun to be had.
ELLENSBURG — Living paintings are the theme of the Central Theatre Ensemble’s next show on the Central Washington University campus in Ellensburg. These paintings — also known as actors — will come alive in the form of Edgar Allan Poe’s texts.
What reason could there be for a new movie version of “Rebecca”? The Daphne du Maurier novel (still forever young at 82) was long ago filmed, impeccably so, in chic black-and-white by Alfred Hitchcock.