Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Double Gold Medal status to these wines.
WENATCHEE — Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort is part of a film that made its debut this week about independent ski areas around the world.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
The new Netflix animated series “Maya and the Three” has allowed its top voice actor, Zoe Saldaña, to reconnect with her Latin roots as well as her birth name.
J. Woody Lotts, the new executive director at the Numerica Performing Arts Center, has his work cut out for him in guiding the valley’s premier theater out of the pandemic and toward a future that is hopefully going to be financially sustainable, artistically diverse and community centered.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
WENATCHEE — World-renowned pianist Svetlana Smolina is scheduled to perform in Wenatchee on Nov. 6, along with violinist Lee-Chin Siow.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
In 2018, horror mogul Jason Blum revived one of the longest-running horror franchises, “Halloween,” inviting filmmaker David Gordon Green to take a spin through Haddonfield. Blum got the whole gang back together, enlisting “Halloween” auteur John Carpenter to compose one of his inimitable sy…
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Double Gold Medal status to these wines.
WENATCHEE — Locked behind five doors, hidden in a dark container and wrapped in cellophane sits a 95-year-old artifact: Clyde Pangborn’s sandwich.
We all have our own relationship with James Bond. Mine goes back to being high school age, giggling over popcorn as Roger Moore said wisecracky things and drank martinis and drove too fast and … well, I was never quite sure what exactly Bond was doing over there in the British Secret Service…
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Double Gold Medal status to these wines. Both wines also earned Best of Class designation.
The Junebugs will be jamming this Friday night as a part of the Numerica Performing Arts Center’s outdoor concert series.
Icicle Center for the Arts’ new season of “The Met Opera: Live in HD” restarts Saturday with Modest Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” transmitted via satellite to the Snowy Owl Theater from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
WENATCHEE — Fresh off of performing with the Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra, cellist Jaenesha Iwaasa Browder is hosting a solo concert this week.
The MAC Gallery has reopened after 18 months of closure, bringing with it a collection of thought-provoking and colorful paintings by artist Henry Stinson.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded this wine Best Dessert honors. The wine earned a Gold Medal from judges.
WENATCHEE — Over a year since they last performed in front of an audience, members of the Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra are excited to return to the stage.
Looking for something to do? You have a few choices in the art department.
LEAVENWORTH — After a year away, and a consistent worry by some that the event would be canceled altogether, the Washington State Autumn Leaf Festival returns to Leavenworth Friday.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded this wine Best Rosé honors. The wine earned a Gold Medal from judges.
90th anniversary celebration of the Miss Veedol flight
The Wenatchee Valley Symphony is celebrating its diamond anniversary this year, kicking off with its first concert on Saturday, Oct. 2 that features Wenatchee Valley native and current Texas resident Jenaesha Iwaasa Browder playing Haydn’s “Cello Concerto in D Major.”
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Macho is the name of a rooster, an expert cockfighter and a plucky companion to a wayward teenager named Rafo (Eduardo Minett). Rafo, in turn, finds himself playing sidekick to Mike Milo, a faded rodeo star played with a familiar dyspeptic wince by Clint Eastwood, now 91. Making their way fr…
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded this wine Best White honors. The wine earned a Double Gold Medal from judges.
WENATCHEE — Central Washington’s hard cider makers are gathering at Pybus Public Market Oct. 9 for the Big Chill Cider and HarvestFest organized by Savor Central Washington.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2021 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded this wine Best of Show honors, selecting it as the top wine out of 241 entries. Along with being chosen Best Red, the wine earned a Gold Medal from judges.
WENATCHEE — "Mamma Mia! The Musical" will take the stage at Numerica Performing Arts Center next week after a year and a half in the making.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
Peyton Elizabeth Lee doesn’t know how to perform surgery, but she knows a little something about growing up in an adult world.
Now is a good time to practice your public laugh as the Numerica Performing Arts Center (PAC) gets ready for an outdoor comedy show on Friday.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Youth Circus performance was done and it was time to have some dinner, then relax around the circus ring. Right when it was just about dark, Wenatchee Youth Circus founder, Paul Pugh, aka Guppo the clown, would scare the pants off those gathered with one of his famo…
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
YAKIMA — The Yakima Pride Festival and Parade, canceled last month because of wildfire smoke, will take place Sept. 18.
When it comes to the Marvel movies, the hope is that the talented directors they hire to helm each project can bring a bit of their own sensibility to the proceedings. Whether it’s Taika Waititi’s goofy humor that underscores “Thor: Ragnarok” or Ryan Coogler’s sense of soulful sorrow in “Bla…
“The Ballad of Dood & Juanita”
CHELAN — Stand-up comedy is returning this weekend to Chelan's Historic Ruby Theatre.
Somewhere between the fifth and sixth floor Sharratt DeLong paused. He was standing in the stairwell of his apartment complex, a not-so-secret spot where he often finds inspiration.
In the new “Candyman,” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris tell a scary story that explores real-world frights.
Skyscrapers loom upside down out of the fog, drifting by from an odd perspective, as if from the point of view of someone on a gurney, or perhaps a spectral presence regarding these buildings occupying land that’s been stolen, developed, appropriated, allocated, gentrified and redeveloped ag…
WENATCHEE — Following a process that took multiple years and several attempts, Two Rivers Gallery has officially been designated a 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service.
Hot August Nights is returning next week to the Numerica Performing Arts Center with a mix of live theater shows by local and out-of-town performers.
WENATCHEE — Rapunzel letting down her golden hair. The evil stepmother refusing to let Cinderella go to the ball. Jack and his beanstalk. And little red riding hood visiting her grandmother in the forest. “Into the Woods” at Ohme Gardens County Park has it all.
Artists can learn how to make their own wooden block prints Wednesday at the Collapse Contemporary Art Gallery.
The Merc Playhouse in Twisp is currently looking for submissions for its first, in-person performance since the start of the pandemic last spring.
Standing on an outdoor stage flanked by a deer’s rear end, a stuffed cougar borrowed from a Wenatchee middle school and a sign welcoming you to “Meek’s Fishing Lounge,” director Henry Hettick said it’s the perfect setting for his production of “The Foreigner” at the Icicle Creek Center for t…
The Wenatchee Valley Erratics, Ice Age Floods Institute is hosting a talk about the megafloods which shaped the surface of Mars.
Local artist Dan McConnell will have an exhibit displayed in the Pybus Market Board Room through August.
Children of various ages will be taking to the stage floor for the 43rd annual Short Shakespearean’s production of “As You Like It” next week at the Riverside Playhouse.
SEATTLE — Large-scale concerts have resumed in Washington and with them comes the return of a budding tradition from one of our brightest home state stars at a landmark venue.
LEAVENWORTH — After a year away, “The Sound of Music” once again echoes throughout the hills of Leavenworth.
WENATCHEE — The Numerica Performing Arts Center has selected J. Woody Lotts as its next executive director.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
Jan Cook Mack will be the featured artist at the Two Rivers Art Gallery throughout August.
If you’re in the market for discounted art and related supplies, you’re in luck.
Wenatchee-native Alex Stroming will show the first performances of her original musical “Out There” at the Beacon Hill Grange, 323 Easy St., starting Friday.
WENATCHEE — A collection of Wenatchee-area residents is in the early stages of forming an art alliance.
The Stehekin Community Show, a virtual art show by Arts and Humanities of Stehekin, will run through the end of October. It can be viewed at wwrld.us/stehekinart.
With the sounds of “Dancing Queen” and “Take A Chance On Me” echoing throughout the theater, Mamma Mia! will be the first show at the Numerica Performing Arts Center in 16 months.
