World-renowned mandolin master John Reischman will lead the multi-award winning John Reischman & The Jaybirds Saturday at the Cashmere Community Concerts’ season opener.
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WENATCHEE — For 35 years, Ruth Allan’s art installation “Brush Works” hung in the Wenatchee Convention Center. But for the last four, it’s sat disassembled in a storage room at Wenatchee Valley College.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Music Theatre of Wenatchee is getting downright creepy, spooky and ooky this Halloween season with a production of “The Addams Family” musical comedy.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
This week: Enjoy great music with old friends, make a few new friends, discover secrets, step a little closer to the darkside and explore what’s still to come.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
With the days getting shorter and the fall season underway, it’s a great time to take a break from beach reads and transition to some mysterious and ghostly books.
Editor’s note: Judges awarded both of these wines a Double Gold Medal in the 2019 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition.
WENATCHEE — Kids from across the Wenatchee Valley blasted off to Space Camp Friday at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center will open the Wells House for the annual Nooks & Crannies Tours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20.
Editor’s note: Judges awarded both of these wines a Double Gold Medal in the 2019 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition.
WENATCHEE — The Scintilla Project, coming Nov. 1 and 2, is providing a showcase for the work of 10 local artists while giving everyone else a chance to bring home an original work of art and support the mission and program of Wenatchee Valley College’s MAC Gallery.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway will spend a week in North Central Washington this month, visiting eight schools and headlining two community speaking events.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College Visiting Writers Series continues at 7 p.m. Oct. 24 in The Grove Recital Hall, WVC Music and Art Center (MAC). Readers will include Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna, WVC faculty Derek Sheffield and a selection of WVC students.
This week: It’s time to explore new worlds and revisit some old ones. Hunt for scarecrows, stomp grapes, experience opera, see a new museum exhibit and listen to Frank Sinatra — or a guy who sounds just like him.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Mid-Month Events
Editor’s note: Judges awarded this wine a Double Gold Medal in the 2019 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition.
This week: East Wenatchee, Chelan, Leavenworth and Cashmere are celebrating historic airplane flights, classic cars, boats, beer and apples this weekend, which means plenty of fun for the entire family.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
The other-worldly crossover possibilities that bubble to the surface in October are reflected in the offerings for this month’s Wenatchee ArtWalk as artists delve into new territory, testing the bounds of earthly existence.
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center opens its new exhibit “My Sky” on Oct. 4, funded by NASA and created through a partnership between Boston Children’s Museum and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Back by popular demand, ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro returns to the Numerica Performing Arts Center stage on Oct. 11.
North Central Regional Library has three programs coming to local libraries to talk about topics ranging from true crime to the art of story telling and the state’s odd but innovative transportation history.
WENATCHEE — Robert Cox is out as Numerica Performing Arts Center’s executive director — three months into the job.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Omak Theater hosts ‘Farmer of the Year’ filmmakers for premiere
Jay Owenhouse, a legendary escape artists and one of the most acclaimed illusionists in history, is returning by popular demand for a special “Dare to Believe” performance on Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Town Toyota Center.
Collapse Contemporary Art Gallery is going international next month, with “Copyright Bandits,” a collage exhibit exploring techniques from some of the world’s foremost collage artists.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Leavenworth’s Wenatchee River Institute has two fall salmon walks planned in October, along with a mushroom foraging field trip and a day-long nature writing workshop.
Editor’s note: These wines were superlative winners in the 2019 North Central Wine Awards competition.
Artist Jay Berrones is teaching a collage-based silkscreen class at Wenatchee’s Collapse Contemporary Art Gallery on Oct. 5.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
This week: Country to cartoons, lots of color and even some culture on tap. The biggest challenge is figuring out how to be in two, maybe three places at once.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
One of the greatest challenges for a nonprofit is to deliver its mission while at the same time having the financial discipline to be sustainable for the long term. This is particularly challenging balance for nonprofit arts organizations.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Pybus Public Market, while best known for its refreshingly unique shops and variety of tempting dining options, is also a welcoming venue for the arts.
A week of auditions and callbacks has resulted in the cast for “Matilda,” Wenatchee High School’s all-district musical, featuring parts for students from grades 2 through 12.
Wenatchee Valley College Art Department colleagues Scott Bailey, Natalie Dotzauer and Yev Rybakov decided in May they wanted to collaborate on a fall exhibit in the Music and Art Center Gallery.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Cave B Estate Winery 2018 Cave B Vineyards Chenin Blanc, Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley, $22
Cave B Estate Winery 2018 Chenin Blanc, Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley, $22
LEAVENWORTH — River Ramble, an exploration of Native American culture and tradition, invites all ages to join in on games, skills and traditional dancing and drumming Saturday at its new location in Leavenworth at this year’s Wenatchee River Salmon Festival encampment.
EAST WENATCHEE — Four couples arrange themselves in a square, every move dictated by an on-stage caller as country music plays.
Bridget Mire
World staff writer
This week: Time to start thinking bigger — not just salmon, but whales; not just art, but murals; and not just deer, but deer and beer. Fingers crossed that the sun will return in time for a couple more outdoor, toe-tapping, head-bopping experiences.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Twisp artists Perri Howard of Velocity Made Good and Mary Kiesau of Mountain Kind Natural History & Photography are offering a series of four nature journaling classes that combine educational excursions outdoors with indoor nature drawing lessons.
Celebrate Museum Day’s Year of Music at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center’s Bacon, Bourbon, Bluegrass & Brews at 5 p.m. Sept. 21 at the museum.
WENATCHEE — Norman Baker isn’t one to compete in music often, but when he does, he does well.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
The Bavarian Village of Leavenworth is speaking its own language with the unveiling of a new tongue-in-cheek dictionary called “Der Wördbook,” along with the chance for lucky wordsmiths to win a free vacation package by submitting their own “DerWörds.”
This week: It’s a blues kind of vibe, mixed with a little jazz and a nod to superstition. September is in full swing.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
It's hard to believe that it's now September. Given that I still have to pause and think before writing "2019" instead of "2018," this is hardly fair. It feels like the year has barely begun. Instead, we've crested the apogee and are barreling straight toward you-know-what.
Pulling off "It Chapter Two" is an almost impossibly tall order. Following up "It," the first installment in the evil clown saga, director Andy Muschietti has to balance loyalty to Stephen King's crazy, 1,138-page tome, as well as to the kooky 1990 made-for-TV miniseries starring Tim Curry. …