The Vashon Poet Laureate Reading Series will be launched at Vashon Bookshop at 6 p.m. Friday, with a reading from “What Rain Does,” a new book of poetry by Islander Ann Spiers.
The Portage Fill Big Band has amassed quite a following over its 37 years of gigs on Vashon, in Ocean Shores, at the Quinault Lodge and elsewhere.
Tangletown Cabaret, an all-women trio from Seattle, will perform what they call the “music of our own time” — beloved and enduring art songs of the 20th and 21st centuries — at a special Valentine’s concert at the Blue Heron Saturday night.
A child-friendly presentation of “Hansel and Gretel” — sung in English in a 45-minute abridged version — will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Chautauqua Elementary School.
Jean Davies Okimoto is an award-winning author, retired psychotherapist and local Islander. She is also a dear friend. So writing about her new novel, “Walter’s Muse,” means I am not one to deliver an unbiased review.
