Do you believe in “Clean Coal?” Both candidates for the Presidency support the concept. An editorial in the October 7, 2008 issue of the LA Times describes the phrase as, “an Orwellian marketing slogan invented by marketing interests.” Al Gore recently called for civil disobedience to stop the construction of any new coal-burning power plant [...]
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Inspiration sometimes strikes people like a bolt out of the blue as we sprint to the finish line in the 2008 Presidential election campaign. Hollywood transplant Jennifer Ciesar brings you the following candid clip that she was lucky enough to capture when Sarah Palin was in town recently preparing for her recent debate…
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Greg Vinkler Heading to Broadway in Revival of West Side Story
Posted on 02. Oct, 2008 by Staff Reporter.
FISH CREEK, WI – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, celebrated the news that its Artistic Director, Greg Vinkler has been cast in the forthcoming Broadway revival of West Side Story, which first opened on Broadway in 1957. Arthur Laurents, who recently directed Patti LaPone in the revival of Gypsy,will direct the [...]
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I live in a rural Door County location halfway between Fish Creek and Baileys Harbor. Charter Communications provides a great high-speed cable service but, they don’t have a connection “node” in my neighborhood, despite the fact that the cable runs up County A, less than a hundred feet from my home. So, I tried a [...]
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Community Foundation’s Children & Youth Fund accepting apps from Door County charities
Posted on 29. Sep, 2008 by Bret Bicoy.
The Door County Community Foundation (DCCF) announced today that it is inviting local charities to submit applications for financial support from the Community Foundation’s Children & Youth Fund. This is just one of several new granting initiatives that were recently launched by the DCCF. Thanks to the generosity of both year-round and seasonal residents, the [...]
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Today, while I was watching some coverage of the presidential candidates, I got the impression that the modern methods, frequently used by the national news media, for dealing with critters that don’t especially agree them should be known by such initials as “bdsm” or “CNN.” How different from the way adults used to deal with [...]
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Recently I had the good (or bad, depending on your viewpoint) fortune to attend a birthday party for an old friend. As part of the festivities, we were forced to play one of those party games, “If you were a vegetable, what kind would you be and why?” After profoundly meditating on the situation for [...]
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Portraits, Living Art and Mythological Paintings by Soirsce next at UU Gallery, Oct 5
Posted on 24. Sep, 2008 by Meg Vermillion.
EPHRAIM, WI – A youthful and inquisitively talented artist, Soirsce Kastner credits Carol Sills for awakening her to reflective painting through “story telling.” At the age of eleven she enrolled in a Sills class at the Peninsula Art School. The assignment was to “hear a folk story and then paint an artistic impression.” From this [...]
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Annual Door County Lighthouse Walk moves to 2nd weekend in June
Posted on 19. Sep, 2008 by Staff Reporter.
The popular Door County Lighthouse Walk is moving. A fixture in the middle of May for the past 15 years, the event is being moved to the second full weekend in June beginning in 2009. That means next year’s Walk will take place on June 13-14, 2009. In approving the move, the museum’s Board of [...]
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FISH CREEK, WI – Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, announced the appointment of David Hawkanson, Jill Herlache, Douglas MacNeil and Sara Massey to its Board of Directors. “With the addition of these four new board members, the Players are poised to continue their excellent tradition of overseeing the successful operations of [...]
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