Kirk Boxleitner is a Reporter and Photographer at The Marysville Globe, The Arlington Times, and the North County Outlook. With over a decade of experience in the Puget Sound region, he covers a diverse range of topics including arts and entertainment, music, film, theater, and sustainable agriculture, while also delving into local government and community issues. Boxleitner has been featured in the St. Maries Gazette Record, Comic Book Resources, and The Jefferson County & Port Townsend Leader.
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By: Kirk Boxleitner
One of the founders of the Port Townsend Wearable Art Show has been named the Centrum Champion for 2026 for her work with the community’s youth, among other accomplishments. Fiber artist Margie McDonald co-founded the Port Townsend Wearable Art Show in 2010, and has shown her work at the WOW (World of Wearable Art) exhibition in New Zealand, the biggest […]
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Practicality and a physical sense of play served equal parts in inspiring Saltfire Theatre’s selection of “Wind in the Willows” for its summer production, according to director Kerry Christianson. Maude Eisele, media and marketing director for Saltfire, noted that their production is indeed based on the novel by Kenneth Grahame, and she described their own adaptation as “exploding into the […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
This summer saw Port Ludlow’s David Myhre mark 59 years in the bookbinding business. Myhre runs his own business, Duckabush Book Bindery, out of his home, and has been doing business in Jefferson County since 1978, although the business is still named after his previous home in the Duckabush Valley. “I moved house in 2000,” said Myhre, who started his […]
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A Chimacum man, who was convicted on July 6 of the rape of a child, was sentenced July 31 to life in prison without parole, after tearfully insisting at his sentencing that his trial had been subject to “sensationalism” and “hearsay.” Daniel Patrick Griffin, 57, was convicted of the rape of a child in the first degree and other sexual […]
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Port Townsend author and translator Barbara Sjoholm is excited to share her work, and to share more of the Sámi indigenous cultures inhabiting parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Sjoholm plans to attend the Port Townsend Public Library’s Book Club for a discussion of her 2025 novel, “The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens,” on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 2 p.m. […]
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“The Man Will Burn” is a four-part documentary miniseries —that I somehow missed when it started streaming on HBO Max earlier this summer — about the four-decade-long “Burning Man” celebration and community that has sprung up since 1990 from the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Although the Burning Man event originated as a small summer solstice observance on Baker Beach […]
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When Port Townsend’s Starlight Room screened Valerie Veatch’s documentary on artificial intelligence, “Ghost in the Machine,” Aug. 15, Rose Theatre and Starlight Room co-owner George Marie also interviewed Veatch while taking questions from screening attendees. Veatch, who hails from the Puget Sound area, recalled how her disenchantment with AI first stemmed from a friend signing her up for an artist […]
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“Diligent” is perhaps the least sexy descriptor one could apply to a movie whose subject might already seem excessively esoteric — in this case, artificial intelligence, or AI — but filmmaker Valerie Veatch’s “Ghost in the Machine” deserves to wear its diligence as a badge of honor. The 110-minute documentary was written, directed and produced by Veatch, then released Jan. 26 […]
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The doors to the Uptown Theatre on Lawrence Street are currently closed, but the venue’s new owner plans to restore and reopen it, albeit as a different variety of theater. Stewart Wilson acquired the Uptown from previous owners Sharon and Rick Wiley, after Rick, the third generation of his family to run the theater, oversaw the renovation of its interior […]
