Category: Entertainment
Door County entertainment news from the staff of the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living. Find the latest details on concerts, performing arts, theater, and much more from the Door County scene.
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Four Vines Tempranillo Paso Robles Loco 2007
Last week we tasted a Tempranillo from Rioja in Spain that had a little oak aging and a touch of bottle age as well as that traditional “old world” feel.
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Article posted Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:35am
Who were Door County’s first permanent white settlers?
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Article posted Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:30am
Virgo (August 23 – September 22): A jazz quintet will startle themselves, then you, then that sad clown in the corner, resulting in a Steven King-esque moment that even he couldn’t have written.
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Overheard, Shout Outs and Pet Peeves
Are there tid-bits of conversations you’ve heard while standing in line at the grocery store, serving a table, or walking down the sidewalk that make you smile, cringe or laugh out loud?
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Article posted Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:27am
Dear Mary Pat, My roommate and I are leaving for college next week. We’ve been up here all summer working and we live in a pretty modest little cottage.
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With the help of his dad Pat Duffy, 10-year-old Connor Duffy of Sister Bay caught this 18 lb. salmon off of Gills Rock earlier this month. Photo by Julie Duffy.
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Cheeses can be served in a variety of ways, times, and for different occacasions. I will never forget the time my father, brother and I were visiting relatives in Scotland in the late seventies.
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Northern Door Volleyball League Final Standings
*Nicolet Beach Concessions defeated Husby’s 2-1 in tiebreaker 8/15 for season title*
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(Left to right) Manager of the Sturgeon Bay Bays George Husby, and players Riley Cordier, David Van Dreese, Griffin Cole, and Cody Giesseman recently represented Door County at the Fox Valley American Legion All-star Game at Fox Cities Stadium.
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Little League All-stars Compete in Junior World Series
The Sturgeon Bay 13/14-year-old Little League All-Star softball team played in the Junior League World Series regional tournament in Akron, Ohio, August 4 – 8.
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Ronny Cox will take the Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) stage on Aug. 18 at 7:30 pm. Cox is an artist who brings his extraordinary view on life into a magnetic, likeable, onstage persona.
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“Murder on the Nile” Opens at Pen Players
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile is set to sail at Peninsula Players Theatre for three weeks, Aug. 15 through Sept. 2. Cruising under the Egyptian sun, a river steamer makes its way up the Nile in 1947, carrying stylish honeymooners who find themselves immersed in blackmail, bullets and dead bodies.
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Bjِrklunden Hosts Free Piano Concert with Anthony Padilla
Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will host a free piano concert on Aug. 29 at 7:30 pm. Anthony Padilla, Lawrence University Associate Professor of Music, will perform classical piano works demonstrating the element of humor.
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“Shirley Valentine” at Stage Door Theatre
The third season production of the Stage Door Theatre Company is the one-woman comedy, Shirley Valentine, directed by Arthur Hopper. This play features Amy Ensign as Shirley, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams.
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Randy and Marli Brown Perform at First Baptist Church
Randy and Marli Brown return to Door County on Sept. 2 for a performance at First Baptist Church at 7 pm. The Browns enjoy a ministry of providing congregations with a worship experience filled with gratefulness, adoration and wonder.
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Bjِrklunden Offers Photography and Julius Caesar Seminars
From Sept. 9 – 14, Bjِrklunden is offering the seminars “Poetry of Place: A Photographic Experience” with Suzanne Rose and “Julius Caesar” with Dan Taylor.
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Taxidermy Demonstration at DC Historical Museum
Master taxidermist Mike Orthober of Egg Harbor will be at the Door County Historical Museum on Aug. 18 mounting a specimen for the museum’s “Seasons of Life” display.
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Barn Dance at Sister Bay Village Hall
The Door County Folk Alliance is sponsoring a barn dance on August 18 from 7 – 9:30 pm at the Sister Bay Village Hall. Live music will be provided by Sugar on the Floor Barn Dance Orchestra.
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A Better Life, a film directed by Chris Weitz, will be shown at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on Aug. 21 at 4:30 pm. Carlos is an undocumented Mexican immigrant working as a gardener for wealthy Los Angeles residents.
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SHOW’s Annual Barn Dance Features the Modern Day Drifters
Stock Horse of Wisconsin’s (SHOW) annual barn dance will be held Aug. 25 at Idlewild Farm’s whitewashed horse barn. The Modern Day Drifters will provide country sounds.