“Look, Mom, water!” The girls scuttle the cooking supplies they’d been carrying onto a nearby end table.
I bring up the rear, sporting my new “I Love Renton” tee, as my girl’s hustle-walk toward a decorative water fountain filled with coin-sized dreams and filled with the kind of luscious clear water a kid just has to stick a hand into.
The Renton Municipal Arts Commission is presenting an exhibit by local oil painter Tracy Wallschlaeger Saturday through March 30 at Carco Theatre.
A public reception to meet the artist is 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at the theatre adjacent to the Renton Community Center, 1717 Maple Valley Highway.
“Mommy! Look at the big airplane!” Patrick, my 4-year-old says, lifting himself in his backseat booster in unison with the airplane taking flight beside us.
“Ug, ug!” Ty grunts excitedly as he points his toddler-sized finger at the train tooting down the track.
“I want to fly!” Patrick exclaims.
For the second year in a row, Evergreen City Ballet is bringing the beloved children’s book “Fancy Nancy” to the stage.
“Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly” opens at the theatre at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue this month and at Evergreen City Ballet’s Black Box Theatre in Renton in March.
Act: I Happy Family
Beautiful powder, schools are closed, intermittent sun breaks and we’re loving every minute of family fun sledding, snowball fights and, of course, the requisite snowman in the front yard … A Washingtonian’s dream come true.
MUSIC
Lakeside Bistro
11425 Rainier Ave. S.
Contact: 206-772-6891, lakesidebistroseattle.com, reservations recommended
7 p.m., Feb. 3, Keely Whitney with Paul Richardson, torch songs and blues with keyboardist, free
7 p.m., Feb. 4, Butch Harrison, up-tempo tunes and ballads, free
7 p.m., Feb. 10, Trish Hatley with Hans Brehmer, jazz vocal duo, free
Although the confident high-school senior doesn’t show it – Jake Nicholson is nervous. It’s Jan. 7, opening night of “Godspell” at First Stage Theatre in Issaquah, and he plays a leading role – Judas.
He hopes he’ll be able to say his lines with finesse, and whip out that darn double pirouette in one of the dance numbers.
Valda Nelson of Renton celebrated her 102nd birthday on Jan. 6.
Friends and family gathered to honor her at the The Lodge, a Gencare Lifestyle Community in Renton, where she lives.
The Renton Municipal Arts Commission will present local oil painter John Smither Jan. 9-Feb. 17 at Carco Theatre.
Here’s the entertainment lineup in Renton for January.
Got plans for New Year’s Eve? The Renton area will be the site of several celebrations.
It was Friday night and I toyed with the idea of ordering a Black and Tan: a blend of Guinness and Harp that layered perfectly in a pint glass like a two-tiered petit four.
Just the kind of beer to enjoy at an establishment like A Terrible Beauty: a 7,000-square-foot Irish pub operating in downtown Renton since 2010.
Luther’s Table benefit
Luther’s Table Benefit Concert will be held at St. Matthews Lutheran Church, 1700 Edmonds Ave. N.E., Dec. 16, 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, capped at $40 for families and can be purchased at Luther’s Table or St. Matthews Lutheran Church.
“The Polar Express” is coming to Renton’s Carco Theater Dec. 16 – 17.
This is the third annual production for the Blue Dog Dance group and features a cast of over 90 local performers from age 3 to more than 60 years old. Performers are from Renton, Bellevue, Newcastle, Issaquah and Maple Valley.
Pub holiday
A Terrible Beauty Irish Pub in Renton has several upcoming holiday-themed events:
• 9:30 p.m., Dec. 10, Rock Against Hunger Food & Toy Drive with The Voodoos on tour from Ireland, free
Bring new unused and unwrapped toy or canned food. Giveaways and raffle for Dec. 17th Queensryche concert tickets
My very favorite holiday tradition is making homemade soap with my kids for simple holiday gifts for family and friends.
After Thanksgiving I resurrect the kettle from the garage and dust off my well-worn soap making recipe book. I open up my special box that contains a trove of herbs and resins such as dried calendula, lavender petals, French green clay—these ingredients add texture, color or have healing properties for the skin like oatmeal. I open my apothecary case filled with little blue bottles of essential oils: peppermint, lavender, jasmine, fir needle and rosemary.
The Renton Civic Theatre presents “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of A Christmas Carol.”
The production is by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. and runs Dec. 2-17.
Submit an item for the entertainment calendar, which appears the first part of each month, to Tracey Compton at tcompton@rentonreporter.com
The Leisure Estates Chorale has set several performances for the Christmas holiday.
A trading card game tournament kicks off this weekend in the city.
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