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If you haven't gotten out in Sturgeon Bay to see the ice and snow sculptures created last Saturday for Fire & Ice, it's best to do so ASAP, as it seems that continued warm temperatures will make this a very temporary art exhibit.
The Door County Maritime Museum's popular "Ghosts! Haunted Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" exhibit, which opened in May 2010, is closing March 4 to make way for the new "Pirates — Ship to Shore" exhibit which will open in May.
The Kiwanis Club of Northern Door brings popular award-winning travel film producer and lecturer Buddy Hatton back to Door County to present his travelogue "Mongolia, the Land of Genghis Khan," the fourth program of the club's Travel and Adventure Film Series.
The Green Door Film Society's biweekly "Dinner and a Movie" series at Greens N Grains Deli presents "Inside Job," an award-winning documentary about the collapse of the housing and economic bubbles in the 2000s, in its next screening Thursday.
The village of Sister Bay released a new commemorative logo to celebrate its 100 years.
Door County's critically acclaimed American Folklore Theatre announced its 2012 summer and fall seasons, which include a world premiere and the company's longest-running musical comedy. The summer season has the premiere of "Victory Farm," along with "Belgians in Heaven" and "Cheeseheads, The Musical," running from June 13 through Aug. 25 at the outdoor amphitheatre in Peninsula State Park. The fall season plays indoors, with "Cheeseheads" returning from Aug, 30 through Oct.
Third Avenue Playhouse brings some Southern swamp to Sturgeon Bay in the next week with concerts by regional favorites Copper Box and Door County Cajun band Envie.
Peninsula Players will present a reading of Kristine Thatcher's stage portrait of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker at 7 p.m. Monday at Scandia Village in Sister Bay.
The Peninsula Singers seek interested vocalists as they begin spring practice Monday for their two annual concerts over Mother's Day weekend.
A group of local actors from across the Peninsula is in rehearsal for a new mystery dinner-theater show produced by the Music and Arts School of Sturgeon Bay in time for St. Patrick's Day.
Musicians of Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay and guests present their sixth annual series of "Lenten Musicale" concerts on three Sundays in February and March.
Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor announced its schedule of summer concerts for 2012, running from June 28 to Aug. 18.
Door County's own musical duo Ben There, Dan That presents an eclectic evening of music and humor as part of the Coffeehouse Concert Series at Door Community Auditorium.
The Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center is seeking artists to take part in its annual community street art project this summer.
The Oscar nomination movie blitz my wife and I annually undertake, which I noted in this space last week, slowed a bit this past week, as I was able to catch just two more of the Best Picture contenders before I had to sit down and pound out this column.
I've been to plenty of public meetings and hearings over the years, but not quite like the one I dropped in on last Thursday night at City Hall in Sturgeon Bay.
American Indians invented snowshoes, presumably in a snowier era. For centuries, snowshoes have been used for transportation in Wisconsin, though these days, snowshoeing tends to be a recreational way to exercise while getting in touch with nature.
It's that time of year again — time to start writing the survey instrument for the biannual Wisconsin Survey of state and national issues conducted by the St. Norbert College Strategic Research Institute.
My first article as a professional chef and writer came out Jan. 2, 1996. I was living in Green Bay and enjoying my life and career as Reggie White's personal chef and co-host and creative consultant on a cooking show. A lot has happened since then in the culinary world and the personal one.
» CAREGIVER SUPPORT, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Conversation led by Amy Jahnke of Bay Counseling Clinic. Southern Door Family Center, 1400 County DK, Brussels. (920) 746-2542.
» WRITERS NIGHT, 7 to 9 p.m. Songsters, comics, poets invited to share their original work at an open mic. Holiday Music Motel, 30 N. First Ave., Sturgeon Bay. (920) 743-5571.
» AUDREY M. OFF GALLERY AND FRAMERY, 40 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay. Creations by Door County artist Audrey Off, who also has 30 years of experience in picture framing and design. Gallery includes works by Kari Anderson, Charles Peterson, Marion Burmeister, Sandra Peterson, Mary Uhl, Faith Frykman and R.D. Bentley. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. (920) 743-2259 or www.doorcountyart.com.
The Friends of Rock Island State Park is asking artists and designers to create a logo for use on its website, letterhead, publicity and merchandise.
Residents and visitors can heat up for a cool weekend with the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center's annual Fire & Ice weekend, running Friday through Sunday throughout the city's downtown and West Side business districts.
Peninsula Music Festival continues its annual February Fest series of chamber music when PMF Orchestra associate conductor Stephen Alltop and soprano/violinist Josefien Stoppelenburg present this year's second and final performance, "The Music of Jane Austen."
What's even more fun than a treasure hunt? How about an outdoor adventure that combines treasure hunting, GPS technology and a hike in the woods?
Door Community Auditorium goes Down Under with its weekend concert, lecture and movie series.
Third Avenue Playhouse presents two concerts of differing musical genres in the next week.
Singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers returns to White Gull Inn in Fish Creek Feb. 22 for another appearance in its folk dinner concert series. This is the fourth of six concerts in the series.
After last Sunday's benefit recital for Nor Door Adult Day Care, violinist Beth Chafey-Hon and pianist David Beck give another "Romantic Recital," this time with proceeds going toward a needed new air-conditioning system at Hope United Church of Christ in Sturgeon Bay.
The seminar series offered by Björklunden, a Door County campus for Appleton liberal arts school Lawrence University, is offering opera lovers an opportunity to experience an international world premiere in the Netherlands featuring Wisconsin native son Dale Duesing.
Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor received a matching grant of $12,620 from the Wisconsin Arts Board. This is a 2012 Creation and Presentation Program Grant awarded through a competitive process and supports Birch Creek's annual operating expenses.
Award-winning artist and illustrator Tim Nyberg is having a one-day exhibition and sale of over 200 paintings during Sturgeon Bay's Fire & Ice Weekend.
It happens every year, it seems. My wife, Pam, and I are both movie buffs, and we have some similar, some varied tastes in movies, along with occasionally varied judgments about what is or isn't a good flick. (I'm still working on her George C. Scott-a-phobia to convince her that "Patton" is an absolute bravura performance by the actor and his subsequent Oscar was hugely deserved.)
The two-note courtship song of the black-capped chickadee floats throughout Crossroads at Big Creek on sunny days, but other than that, the romantic symbols of Valentine's Day — hearts, boxes of chocolates, long-stemmed red roses — are pretty unnatural.
"Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which extracts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention" — Auguste Escoffier
» DOOR COUNTY READS — FILM, 6:30 p.m. The 1952 version of "The Member of the Wedding," a Carson McCullers book and stage play, starring Julie Harris. Door County Library, 107 S. Fourth Ave., Sturgeon Bay. (920) 743-6578.
» WRITERS NIGHT, 7 to 9 p.m. Songsters, comics, poets invited to share their original work at an open mic. Holiday Music Motel, 30 N. First Ave., Sturgeon Bay. (920) 743-5571.
» AUDREY M. OFF GALLERY AND FRAMERY, 40 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay. Creations by Door County artist Audrey Off, who also has 30 years of experience in picture framing and design. Gallery includes works by Kari Anderson, Charles Peterson, Marion Burmeister, Sandra Peterson, Mary Uhl, Faith Frykman and R.D. Bentley. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. (920) 743-2259 or www.doorcounty art.com.
Bats are Wisconsin's most important predator of night-flying insects (including mosquitoes), essential players in maintaining balance in the food web and, frankly, just plain fascinating.
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