It’s time for you to get out­side & play — check the San Juan Cal­en­dar for all the stuff that’s going on (and to get ready to go to the bbq or the beach or the fire­works, or wher­ev­er your part of the tribe is col­lect­ing) — see ya there!

It’s time for you to get out­side & play — check the San Juan Cal­en­dar for all the stuff that’s going on (and to get ready to go to the bbq or the beach or the fire­works, or wher­ev­er your part of the tribe is col­lect­ing) — see ya there!

Jan from the Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre says this is gonna be a good one: Is he the elec­tric gui­tar mas­ter whose Unspeak­able won a Gram­my for Best Con­tem­po­rary Jazz Album or is he the Seat­tle gui­tarist whose most recent com­pi­la­tion is The Best of Bill Frisell vol.1 / folk songs, com­plete with a CD jack­et that fea­tures  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thurs­day after­noon the San Juan Cen­ter exten­sion of Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege grad­u­at­ed sev­en stu­dents as its Class of 2009. With grad­u­a­tion remarks by teacher Cather­ine Barn­hart and class speak­er Lau­ra Chor­ba (who sang it, like you knew she would), the cer­e­mo­ny was heart­felt & warm & a tes­ti­mo­ny to the ener­gy the stu­dents put into  Con­tin­ue Reading

I asked FHH­S’s Pur­ple & Gold why folks should come to this week­end’s fundrais­er (here’s more on the San Juan Cal­en­dar), which hopes to raise $45K to keep sports hap­pen­ing until the Novem­ber 7th vote rein­states the programs…Elisa Howard says it’s going to be a good time: It is our goal to raise $45,000 at the  Con­tin­ue Reading

You know, it was cozy & warm & friend­ly hav­ing the Mar­ket at the high school in the din­ing hall/commons there, but the weath­er’s good enough to get out now…market man­ag­er Rosa Blair tells me the out­door mar­kets for Sat­ur­days (10am-1pm) begin this week­end and run till Octo­ber. They’re also plan­ning to get the Wednes­day  Con­tin­ue Reading

You know, it was cozy & warm & friend­ly hav­ing the Mar­ket at the high school in the din­ing hall/commons there, but the weath­er’s good enough to get out now…market man­ag­er Rosa Blair tells me the out­door mar­kets for Sat­ur­days (10am-1pm) begin this week­end and run till Octo­ber. They’re also plan­ning to get the Wednes­day  Con­tin­ue Reading

Joyce at the Fam­i­ly Resource Cen­ter just got this going for every Tues­day, for you & your infant — here’s more: The Fam­i­ly Resource Cen­ter is offer­ing a new drop-in group for par­ents with infants ages birth to 10 months. It runs each Tues­day from 1 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. The first hour is for  Con­tin­ue Reading

Joyce at the Fam­i­ly Resource Cen­ter just got this going for every Tues­day, for you & your infant — here’s more: The Fam­i­ly Resource Cen­ter is offer­ing a new drop-in group for par­ents with infants ages birth to 10 months. It runs each Tues­day from 1 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. The first hour is for  Con­tin­ue Reading

One of the cool things about read­ing the Update is help­ing your neighbors…remember about three years ago when Francesca’s dog was miss­ing, we post­ed it on the Update, and found that he had swam to Brown Island? Is this impor­tant news? Sure — to the folks miss­ing their pet. So here’s a cat you might  Con­tin­ue Reading

You’ve seen her work over at Gallery San Juan (across from the Mar­ket Chef) and it’s awe­some (click here for her online gallery). Now Bar­bara (BJ) Dol­lahite has a show at Cole Gallery in Edmonds tonight (here are details, from the Seat­tle Art Blog). That’s her with Gallery San Juan co-own­er & hus­band Matt, who  Con­tin­ue Reading

You’ve seen her work over at Gallery San Juan (across from the Mar­ket Chef) and it’s awe­some (click here for her online gallery). Now Bar­bara (BJ) Dol­lahite has a show at Cole Gallery in Edmonds tonight (here are details, from the Seat­tle Art Blog). That’s her with Gallery San Juan co-own­er & hus­band Matt, who  Con­tin­ue Reading

Ever since I saw the end of Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire, I’ve been wish­ing we could have every­body dance next to the fer­ry land­ing (since we don’t have a train sta­tion to dance in.) Great way to end a movie, or start things up on an island. In Antwerp, they have no such prob­lem — check it  Con­tin­ue Reading

You’ve heard her here.…now Corinne Stevens is head­ing for Ten­nessee to con­tin­ue her vocal edu­ca­tion. Here’s more, from her note: I’ll be attend­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee Knoxville’s grad­u­ate appren­tice­ship pro­gram with Knoxville Opera.  I’m very excit­ed to have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to per­form in both UT Knoxville’s Opera The­ater pro­duc­tions as well as Knoxville Oper­a’s young  Con­tin­ue Reading

You’ve heard her here.…now Corinne Stevens is head­ing for Ten­nessee to con­tin­ue her vocal edu­ca­tion. Here’s more, from her note: I’ll be attend­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee Knoxville’s grad­u­ate appren­tice­ship pro­gram with Knoxville Opera.  I’m very excit­ed to have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to per­form in both UT Knoxville’s Opera The­ater pro­duc­tions as well as Knoxville Oper­a’s young  Con­tin­ue Reading

The more things change, the more they stay the same… A cou­ple of new places opened in town, and a cou­ple moved. The Blue Water Bar & Grill (above) opened its doors on Mon­day this week. Locat­ed in the spot where the Front Street Café was locat­ed for a cou­ple of decades, and spread­ing into the  Con­tin­ue Reading