New Year fireworks in Clark County

The Daily Insider wishes all the best to its readers for 2012!  Because of you, we have enjoyed a fantastic year, full of growth and changes.  Many thanks to our supporters and this wonderful community.  To celebrate the season, we will not publish Friday, Dec. 30 or  Monday, Jan. 2. From all us at the Insider, Happy New Year!

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Bad Agent

Magenta Theater’s Bad Agent will be playing at the Rosemary Café, 1001 Main St., Vancouver, Friday Jan. 13, and Saturday, Jan. 14.

Enjoy a homemade style menu followed by an explosive evening of classic rock, blues, country, and pop. Dinner starts at 6:30, followed by music at 7:30.

General seating for the show is $10. Dinner and drinks are paid for at the end of the show, and cost between $5 and $20. For more information and tickets, click here.

The public is invited to the Coaster Poetry Contest Reading at Niche Wine and Art Bar, 1013 Main St., Vancouver, Wednesday, Jan. 18, from 7 to 10 p.m.

Leah Jackson and Christopher Luna are proud to announce the winners of Niche Wine and Art Bar’s Coaster Poetry contest. The winners will gather for a special reading of their work, and each of the winning poems will be published on a set of limited edition coasters to be used in the bar and for sale to the public.

Jackson is a visual artist and the proprietor of both Angst Gallery and Niche Wine and Art Bar. In late 2010, Jackson named Luna poet laureate for Niche and Angst. For more information, email Luna at christopherluna@gmail.com, or click here.