Tonight, Oak Harbor will revisit the glamour, jazz and secrecy of the Roaring ‘20s. It’s the kind of scene you might pine for after reading “The Great Gatsby” or seeing the first 10 minutes of “Some Like It Hot.”
The Boys and Girls Club is throwing a 1920s party for adults as a fundraiser to cover the group’s annual expenses. It will be modeled after a speakeasy from the roaring Prohibition era; back then, speakeasies ranged from classy restaurants to underworld dens where people sought alcohol.
With the gloom of winter setting in soon, you can always find warmth and blue skies in the pages of a new book on the market, “Whidbey Island’s Special Places … and the People Who Love Them,” which is a labor of love by its author, Langley resident Dan Pedersen.
Fashion, fur and animal awareness usually don’t mix, but that won’t be the case for tonight’s fashion show at Inferno Restaurant.
Models styled in the new Maurices fall collection will strut the runway alongside animals.
The karaoke craze has recently hit a new high in Oak Harbor. Many bars and eateries, including Element Night Club and Hot Shotz, are giving locals a chance to reinterpret songs like “Don’t Stop Believing” on a nightly basis.
People will travel through the neighborhoods and back roads of 92 artists next week, for a close up glimpse of their private studios.
The 13th Annual Whidbey Island Open Studio Tour is Whidbey-wide event, and it runs Sept. 26 to 27.
The fourth annual Whidbey Farm Tour will be held Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
With school in progress and leaves changing colors, islanders are starting to prepare for a plethora of upcoming autumn events.
The first event in Coupeville is Scarecrow Corridor 2009, which will line the streets with scarecrow displays for several weeks in October.
I’ve spent the greater part of this week in Canada, accompanying my husband to a conference that has drawn people from all over the world. The group has focused on ways to keep our airways safer and pilots more readily aware of nearby birds with the potential to bring down an aircraft, just as we witnessed on the Hudson River some months ago.
This year’s Plein Air Painters’ U.S. Open is coming to an end and the public’s only chance to see the artworks is at the gala and auction tonight at the historic Crockett Barn.
For the past week, both professional and amateur artists have scattered across Whidbey Island to paint “en plein air;” a French term meaning “out of doors.”
Oak Harbor students exchanged their bathing suits for backpacks as they headed in for their first day of school Thursday.
An estimated 5,400 students started classes, and the kids at Oak Harbor High School had their first look at some of the latest construction projects on campus.
Last week, renowned impressionist painter Jove Wang helped the Pacific NorthWest Art School set a new record.
Wang’s demonstration painting, A Coupeville Fisherman, sold for more than any other gallery or demonstration piece in the history of the art school. Wang then surprised the PNW Art School by donating a portion of the proceeds back to the not-for-profit school.
Whidbey Plein Air artists will paint the town beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8.
For four days, professional and amateur artists will scatter across Whidbey Island, striving to capture various landscapes while fleeting light is their time keeper.