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Art in a New Economy

Suzanna Leigh

We are in a time of change. Oil is running out, and increasingly our quest for oil damages the environment. Everytime I go to the grocery store, the prices are higher. The climate is changing. Old ways of doing business don’t always work anymore, and the traditional way of putting profit first has damaged our environment, our culture, and now our economy.

Drama Dock Looks Forward to a New Year!

Gaye Detzer

The 2011-2012 season includes A Christmas Carol, Sherlock’s Veiled Secret, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Drama Dock’s Youth Theater Initiative will present Godspell and All-Night Strut. 

VAA Art Auction is coming

Janice Randall

Lights, Camera, Auction! Get your tickets now for Fall’s biggest blockbuster, where art is the star. Vashon Allied Arts’ annual Art Auction celebrates the glamour of classic Hollywood, 5:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 23 and Saturday, Sept. 24. Mingle with stars, sip on fabulous cocktails, discover rising new artists and nosh on marvelous morsels!

VMIGC Flower Fair Voting Results In

Steve Amos

At length and at last the waiting is over. After a tension-filled two days and an additional day to tally and collate the results, voting returns are in for the 2011 Vashon Maury Island Garden Club Flower Fair. No longer will we have to suffer the agony of not knowing.

Vashon Winery Folk Festival

Steven Allen

Vashon Winery’s fourth annual music festival, featuring many local musicians, takes place Saturday, August 20 at Vashon Winery.

Opening up the Festival at 2pm will be local Vashon band Riverbend. A popular island band with members that played for many years as part of The Garage Boys, as well as The Colwell Brothers and The Riptide Rambles and the Up With People groups.

Art for Fins and Flippers

Orca Annie Stateler, VHP Coordinator

This column was on hiatus for a bit while Chez VHP dealt with what Jon Stewart cleverly dubs "the bubons," and we traveled to several off-Island gigs such as the OrcaSing on San Juan Island and another fabulous event at the Evergreen State College Longhouse. At both places, we memorialized our beloved orca patriarch Ruffles (J1). How fortunate we could sing his praises twice in the Longhouse this year!

Amanda Is Not Afraid Of The Truth

Karen Pruett

Amanda Knox’s dad, Curt Knox, has said these words over and over from the moment she was arrested for the slaying of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. For nearly four years he and his entire family have sought the truth of how Meredith died and now the Perugian courtroom, resided over by Judges Claudio Patrillo Hellmann and Massimo Zanetti, would listen to the long-awaited Independent Review.

The Non-Monetary Economy

Terry Sullivan, Transition Vashon

As you now read this, the fate of our monetary economy will be known, but as I write this on Monday morning, I am still in suspense. As important as that is, I’d like to remind you that there is much more than money that keeps our society healthy and functioning. In previous articles, we’ve touched on aspects of the non-monetary economy

Floating World

Peter Ray

I think I may have used this title before, although this time around it is for something altogether different, on first look. Floating World, the earlier, was about my first experience at Burning Man, and a year in which the aforementioned title was the theme for the festivities there. Floating World, the latter, is intended this time as an all encompassing file name for the activities experienced throughout the weekend just passed.

The Complaint Department

Kevin Pottinger

It’s an anniversary: I’ve been writing We’ve Got a Lot of Kids for six years, and we still have a lot of kids, and I’m still writing columns about them.

Over the last year our kids have grown a little taller, a little smarter, more graceful; they’ve shed baby fat and grown into semi-sophisticated grade-schoolers with quickly formed, quickly changed and vehemently held opinions. 

Wagons of Steel!

Chris Barnes

Vashon’s own drag racing team is entering the second half of an eventful season of NHRA drag racing. We started in Boise, Idaho at the NHRA Division 6 race with Brutus, our newly completed 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II Stock Eliminator car advancing to the third round with partner Mark Maez behind the wheel.

Mark Dufresne brings the Blues to Vashon!

Linda Milovsoroff

"Mark DuFresne is as distinctive as a vocalist as he is a fiery player; rather than recycling old riffs, his original compositions are tuneful, melodic and grooveworthy."

- Blues Review Magazine

Get ready for the hottest blues happening in the Northwest today. On August 20th, blues legend Mark DuFresne and his band are on Vashon

For Susan as She Starts Chemo

Mary Tuel

A couple of months ago I found out that I didn’t have cancer. It was a huge relief. Not two weeks later I found out that a dear friend of mine has stage 3 lung cancer.

Her name is Susan.

Free Harp Concert

Leslie McMichael

Vashon Park District will host a free noon hour harp concert
presented by the Vashon Island Harp Camp student ensemble on
Wednesday, August 10. Families and music lovers are encouraged to
bring a picnic lunch to Ober Park for the spectacular ten-harp
performance. The group of 12-15 year old harp players is directed by
island harp teacher Leslie McMichael and will showcase music from
folk to classical to a medley of movie theme songs.
 

The Best of Birthdays

Marj Watkins

A couple of Sundays ago, all my descendants except for the son who lives in China and one grandson who had to work, gathered to celebrate my birthday with shish-kabobs, watermelon, and birthday cake. A son-in-law whose birthday falls on the same day as mine helped blow out the candles, and be assured there were lots of them.

A Day in the Life of our Vashon Center for the Arts

Susan Kutscher

Time: The future…a (warm) day in late June.

Place: The newly completed arts campus encompasses the area from the parking lot south of the Blue Heron building to the north, ending at the corner of Cemetery Road and Vashon Highway SW.  The campus features a new building which houses an art gallery, an acoustically wonderful space for chorale, opera, chamber music, jazz, rock and roll, dance and theatrical performances, as well as a dressing room, greenroom and loading dock, all of which double as classrooms, prop and costume areas, a kitchen and administrative offices. 

Youth Day Camp for Emerging Writers

Alyn J. Burroughs

I was ecstatic to hear through a friend that a writer’s day camp for young adults will be underway in early August.  What’s compelling about this day camp is that Mel Michaels, the project’s mastermind, has also started a local publishing company, aptly named, Frog Holler Press.   Frog Holler Press will be publishing an anthology twice year with the creative work produced by local Vashon young adults.    

Fighting

Deborah H. Anderson

Picture this… Mayfield Mall in Mountain View California. The JC Penney Auto Center….1973-74.  It’s the oil embargo. Lines form around the block for gas when it’s available.  We were paying, I think my records said, 29cents a gallon. But we would wait for maybe an hour to get to a pump.

Community Cinema Ends Its First Season

Mel Michaels

On August 13th & 14th, Community Cinema Vashon will be showing two films at Ober Park that speak out on social activism and choosing one’s life calling. For those who have not heard of this exceptional and FREE program, I encourage you to come and participate in this nationwide event. Community Cinema Vashon began in April of 2011 and will be ending the first season with two sensational films that will surely bring your consciousness to a new level.

Vashon Winery Summer Concerts Series

Ron Irvine

Vashon Winery Announces its Summer Concert Series

Scott Cossu, Saturday, July 30, 7pm. $20. (includes free CD), under 16 free. Reservations requested to vashonwinery@yahoo.com, or call Ron Irvine: 206.931.4703.

Scott Cossu in concert at Vashon Winery. Admission includes a free CD of his new release: Boogie, Jazz, and Deja Blues. Scott Cossu brings Jessica Blinn on violin and

vocals, Steve Banks on drums, and long-time guitarist, Van Manaka. Scott will play outside (or inside if inclement weather) from the pad in front of the winery. Come hear Scott with his infectious upbeat music.

Mergatroyd

Pete Welch

Murgatroyd, born in 2008 as the illegitimate love child of long time Vashon Island musicians, became the opportunity to give the people something they haven’t had in a long time…the true origins of what "Big" Rock is all about.
Built on a musical repertoire from the heavy hitters of stadium rock, Murgatroyd presents a show that is the very essence of live rock music…

Herky Cutler

Cafe Luna

Those who attend should prepare to play a percussion instrument Cutler will provide. Herky Cutler was born in Montreal and now makes his home in Alberta, Canada. He’s played guitar since he was 19, but more "in the closet" than out until 1992. That’s when Cutler made his performance debut. He’s since added the harmonica, bass and percussion to his repertoire and started writing songs in 1993.

The Winterlings

Pete Welch

Wolff Bowden grew up in a house on concrete stilts, fifteen feet above a Florida swamp. Summer nights brought symphonies of alligators, owls and frogs. But in Wolff’s recurring dream, it was always winter, and he walked out among the cypresses to sit by a blazing fire where he would sing to a strange collection of forest beings he called The Winterlings.

Festival 2011 - It’s A Wrap

Debi Richards

I don’t remember a festival, at least in the last 33 years, where it rained all weekend. Despite the damp and drizzle, music played, the parade marched on, and families stashed yet another year of Festival memories in their minds.

Garden Club Annual Flower Fair

Steve Amos

The fast-paced, high stakes and hazardous world of gardening is rarely more so than on Vashon Island, and the Vashon Maury Island Garden Club Annual Flower Fair provides the general Island population with their best opportunity to see the hard-won "fruits" of Garden Club member's efforts.