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Engaged painters Anelecia Hannah and Charles Philip Brooks present paintings from two long-standing traditions of American painting.

These young painters each embody a tradition in American painting. At age 26, Anelecia Hannah’s quiet still lifes, interiors and portraits draw on traditions passed down through a lineage of American painters–careful craftsmanship and meditative observation are wedded with continual wonder and curiosity in every day visual experience.

One of my true-love’s favorite vegetables is the lowly cabbage. He’s happy with plain old green cabbage chopped in fairly large bite-size pieces and simmered with salt and plenty of black pepper. Sometimes we vary it sprinkling in a little turmeric to give it an enticing golden color. Even that little bit of turmeric should aid our aging memories somewhat.

Monday night, May 21, attendees at the Vashon Maury Island Community Council meeting heard the results of the actions taken since the passage of the Marine Recovery Area Septic Waiver motion passed at the March 19 meeting. Meanwhile, rumble strip opponents grumbled at King County Dept. of Transportation officials at Chautauqua School across the parking lot.

Sunday, June 3rd, noon at the Vashon Theatre

In advance of Vashon College’s new course, Ethical Decision Making, which begins on June 6th, Vashon Theatre and Vashon College are jointly sponsoring a showing of The Reader

When the hectic nature of modern life becomes overbearing, us Islanders are lucky enough to retreat to our private oasis here on Vashon. Let’s retreat even a little further into the Island’s past when life was deliberate, yet unhurried, and slowed down to an easygoing pace.

When referring to the universe and taking into consideration the fine tuning required for the universe to come into existence, most physicists have had to conclude: It did not happen by chance.

Join Ron Irvine and the Vashon Wine Club in a wine tasting at the Vashon Roasterie. Tasting starts anytime after 6pm on Friday, May 25. Irvine will select four wines for people to taste, a white and three reds with a slant towards a bit unusual and definitely good value.

Open Space for Arts & Community presents slack key guitar master, singer, composer, and pioneer of the SLACK ROCK guitar style -- Makana.

Voted one of America’s Top 3 guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine in 2008, Makana’s music transcends category and trend by integrating elements of folk, rock, ethnic, classical, bluegrass, jazz, traditional, ambient, electronic and Hawaiian slack key.  

We’re down to the final two weeks before the 2nd Annual Jim Martin Pirates Alumni Baseball Game on Sunday, June 3rd. Please help us get in touch with former Pirates baseball players. We need email addresses and CELL PHONE NUMBERS. The cell numbers are important in the event we need to communicate game day updates quickly to the players who have confirmed their participation. We need players to RSVP to me via email: rita55@wavecable.com or on my cell: 206-423-2606.

It was kind of like a Norman Rockwell meets Roger Tory Peterson composition for ducks in Spring. I was drawn to it at first by a slight burbling sound coming from the pond in a place where burbles are not naturally occurring through any form of gravity driven water movement. We were sitting out in the backyard for a Mother’s Day event when I looked down to the water to see a female wild mallard floating just out of reach of a mass of yellow flag iris foliage, with its bulging minarets not quite ready yet to unfurl the golden banners bundled inside. And at varying intervals, three mid-sized ducklings were testing their diving prowess and popping up in random spots around mom duck to shake the water from their duckling down and still undersized wings. Watching this scene play itself out on a warm Sunday afternoon, one could almost forgive the oval-eyed anthropomorphisms wrought upon various members of the animal kingdom by the Disney imagineers. Almost.

How can it be 7:20 PM and I’m done? I’m prepping for a conference to which I won a scholarship and my brain, heart and body are just done. There’s still more work to do and I’m done. So I’ll take a break and write to you.

“Break a Leg”: a Comedy Night benefit for Steffon Moody.
For the last four years, audiences have been packing the Red Bicycle for Comedy Night. By turns, hilarious, insightful, and embarrassing, Comedy Night has become a high-voltage experiment in stand-up comedy with a growing roster of seasoned island comedians and terrified newbies.