Long before Oscar went nuts for the Three Amigos, they were making fantastic movies.

WENATCHEE — Wenatchee residents will finally have the opportunity to see local playwright Heidi Schreck’s Broadway play “What the Constitution Means to Me.”

WENATCHEE — There are ghosts haunting Wenatchee’s downtown buildings, leaving their traces along brick walls and alleyways. Some allude to the area’s fruitful orchard industry, others to departed mechanics and blacksmiths, but all are rich with stories of the past.

Susan Lagsdin is a local writer, retired teacher and WVC instructor, and Write On The River board member emeritus. Recently I caught up with her to talk about her craft.

With large-scale tours and festivals still nowhere in sight, getting pumped about new music this fall means getting pumped about the season's upcoming albums. Fortunately, there are plenty to stoke our excitement, from the highly anticipated debut by K-pop's biggest girl group to a timely re…

Do you want to get in the Halloween spirit? Many TV shows for all ages tell stories of vampires, ghosts, witches, zombies and more, offering the perfect outlet to dive into a visual spookfest. So turn off the lights, curl up under a blanket, grab some popcorn (or perhaps a pumpkin-spiced tre…

As we trudge through this year of impossible gloom (look, was a long summer), one thing has become clearer than our recent smoke-filled skies. Seattle musicians excel at something our federal government does not: working together.

Miss Veedol will fly over the greater Wenatchee area on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 4, to commemorate the anniversary of the world’s first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, which ended in East Wenatchee on Oct. 5, 1931.

You try telling “The Mandalorian” that he can’t go back to work. The Disney+ hero’s bromance with Baby Yoda picks up Oct. 30, as will the uncontrollable sobbing when NBC’s “This Is Us” gets back to its crying game Nov. 10.

C.G. (Connor) Dahlin has been collecting local stories over the past year to share what he calls an “an illustration of humanity.”

The four-part Netflix docuseries “Challenger: The Final Flight” details the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. Created by Steven Leckart and Glen Zipper and produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot imprint, the series is an incredibly illuminating depiction of the lead-up to the disaster and …

It’s been a battle to the screen this year for legendary warrior Mulan, her live-action Disney debut that was planned for this spring thwarted by the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. But Mulan has been a fighter for hundreds of years, her story based on a 4th century female Chinese wa…

Wenatchee Valley College has a very unique art class available this fall called Art 143, or Natural Science Illustration. If you are inspired at all by the natural world or would like to experiment with new media, this might be a class you would love.

LEAVENWORTH — On its 25th anniversary, Icicle Creek Center for the Arts is pleased to host a virtual event for founder Harriet Bullitt to celebrate her 96th birthday and honor her steadfast commitment to arts education.

A couple miles up an unmarked dusty road sat Paul Graves, a man whose music has been shaped by the vast landscape and stories of the North Cascades.

As the very strange summer of 2020 officially slipped away this week, you just might be in need of a paperback for your fall afternoons. Here are a half-dozen new fiction releases that might appeal.

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When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the state in March, my wife and I searched for ways to entertain ourselves while we remained self-quarantined at home.

As the tailing, 96-mph fastball ran away from the lacquered bat of Corey Seager and into the glove of Austin Nola, reliever Taylor Williams — the Mariners’ de facto closer — let out a scream and pumped his first in celebration. His teammates’ yells from the dugout were almost simultaneous, a…

For years now, Disney has been at the forefront of computer-generated talking animals movie technology. Sometimes it’s a hit (“The Jungle Book”) and sometimes it’s a real miss (“The Lion King”). But “The One and Only Ivan” finds a sweet spot, beautifully establishing characters with plausibl…

If a gargantuan bass drop lands in the middle of the Gorge Amphitheatre without a sea of raver kids around to have their rib cages rattled, does it really make a sound?

“Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout” was released last month to much greater success than developer Mediatonic anticipated. In a market already saturated by online, multiplayer, “battle royale”-style games where only the last surviving player wins, “Fall Guys” turns the genre on its head. The 60 p…

The Seattle-based writer ran a food blog on Facebook in the early 2010s while working a day job in the tech industry. After hearing about the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, she set out to have online conversations with peers to process her grief and anger.

WENATCHEE — The work of abstract artist Robert Wilson and his contributions to the art scene and community are being remembered with an art scholarship fund in his name offered by the Pybus Market Charitable Foundation.

YAKIMA — The largest public artwork in Washington’s state art collection is massive. It’s 880 feet long, a little more than 5 feet wide and made up of nearly 50,000 reflectors comprising a brilliant ribbon of color around the Yakima Valley SunDome.

Two historians have been digging away at the long history of the Cascadian Hotel in downtown Wenatchee. Soon, they will be sharing two years’ worth of photos collected on this decades-old piece of local history.

For dancer Tomas Sauceda, art is more than just about cool moves, it’s a way to help children cope with life’s challenges and to build-up community ties. The 30-year-old Wenatchee-born street dancer, hopes to one day open a studio, as well as make a name for himself in the world of dance.

WENATCHEE—It’s easy to spot a Rollie Schmitten signature: Just look for the fish. Rollie draws a fish’s head, complete with a sly smile and air bubbles, then wraps the ‘S’ in Schmitten into an underbelly, crosses the ‘T’s’ with a long swipe and extends the end of the ‘N’ to create a sweeping backfin.

There’s a scene in “Miss Americana,” the recent Taylor Swift documentary on Netflix, where Swift is talking about whether she wants to have children. “I kind of don’t have the luxury of figuring that stuff out,” Swift tells producer Joel Little. “My life is planned two years ahead of time.”

Violinist Blaise Magniere slowly lifted his bow; the hall he stood in was nearly silent. He paused. Then slowly, articulately, Magniere began playing to his audience — six cameras.

Marlene Farrell is a longtime member of and volunteer with Write On The River; you’ve most likely seen her at Four Minutes of Fame, WOTR’s open mic event.

North Central Regional Library (NCRL) will host bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo on Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. as part of the NCRL Virtual Reads summer series. This event is cosponsored by Confluence Health, the Community Foundation of North Central Washington and the Icicle Fund. Partners include the …

Willie Kunkel is the winner of Two Rivers Art Gallery’s annual Plein Air Paint Out competition. Kunkel is a self-taught painter from the Wenatchee Valley.

A beach read isn’t necessarily for the beach. That’s good news for all of us who are wisely avoiding beaches this summer, because of crowds or sun exposure or excessive glare. (Seriously, beaches are the absolute worst places to read. Give me an armchair any day. But I digress.) I find mysel…