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Reviews

Tuning Up

Roger Ebert

Music: Heather Headley, Daphni Video Games: “XCOM ...”

Historical museum to host Cannery Underground’s CD release party

“Smashed” is serious about its subject, but not in a depressing way

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”: Except for the marvelous military-minded penguins, the first two “Madagascar” offerings were lame. The original 2005 film was a tepid offering that limped along like an aged, mangy lion with bunions. The sequel, three years later, ended up as little more than a crass menagerie. They must have been saving the best for part three. “Madagascar 3” is charming, beautifully animated and, best of all, side-splittingly funny.

This is a rare occasion where the product has improved with age.

“Alcatraz: The Complete Series”: The short-lived Fox series from J.J. Abrams looks at what happens when all of the guards and prisoners at the prison vanish, then begin reappearing years later. It’s “Lost” meets “Prison Break.”

The series was canceled after only 13 episodes despite strong writing and acting. Sarah Jones portrays a strong hero, while Jorge Garcia offers just the right amount of humor to keep this show from being too dark. It also features the always reliable Sam Neill.

“Chernobyl Diaries”: Other than the setting — a group of young people find terror at the site of the nuclear accident — there’s little about the film to distinguish it from all of the other horror films where a group of good-looking people find themselves in a deadly situation and make silly decisions as they are picked off one by one. As with so many of these films, it’s not the destination but the journey that either makes or breaks the movie. The journey here has six tourists taking a trip to the abandoned city of Pripyat. The extreme tourist trip goes bad when the group’s van won’t start, and they soon realize the city is not as abandoned as they thought.

“Mad Men: Season 5”: Another superb season of the cable series about the lives and loves at an advertising agency.

“Greystone Park”: Three filmmakers break into an asylum.

“Waterloo Road”: Follows students and teachers at the Waterloo Road Comprehensive School.

“Thomas Kinkade Presents A Christmas Miracle”: Eight strangers spend Christmas together.

“Brave New World”: Five-part documentary series that looks at technology and biology.

“Touch: The Complete First Season”: Fox series stars Kiefer Sutherland.

“Psych: The Complete Sixth Season”: James Roday stars.

YOUR ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION GUIDE TO WHAT’S GOING ON IN SKAGIT COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

Upcoming movie releases Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

This Weekend

OCT. 23 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Fox Seeking a Friend for the End … - Universal

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OCT. 30 The Campaign - Warner

Enjoy dinner and drinks, live music, silent and live auctions featuring artwork and other goodies, and more at the annual Friends of the Forest benefit on Saturday at the Port of Transit Shed Event Center in Anacortes.

NOV. 6 Arthur Christmas - Sony Javier Bardem 3-Film Collection - Lionsgate NOV. 13 Brave - Disney Savages - Universal The Watch - Fox NOV. 20 The Expendables 2 - Lionsgate NOV. 27 Lawless - Anchor Bay ParaNorman - Universal NOV. 30 Men in Black 3 - Sony DEC. 4 The Odd Life of Timothy Green - Disney

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DEC. 11 Ice Age: Continental Drift - Fox Ted - Universal

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“Pete’s Dragon”: Disney film is on Blu-ray to mark its 35th anniversary.

“Last Ride”: Fugitive takes 10-yearold son into the Australian outback.

“Legendary Amazons”: Jackie Chan stars in film based on 1972’s “The 14 Amazons.”

“Cagney & Lacey: The Complete Series”: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless star in the TV cop drama.

“Company”: Stories told through Broadway musical standards.

“Back From Hell”: Country manor may not be idyllic for renters.

“The Firm: The Complete First Season”: Josh Lucas headlines law drama.

“2016: Obama’s America”: Film based on Dinesh D’Souza novel.

“Lemon”: Story of Tony Award winner and felon Lemon Andersen.

“You Can’t Do That On Film”: Documentary about “You Can’t Do That On Television.”

“Simon & Simon: Season Seven”: Rick and A.J. are back for another season of sleuthing. n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

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ON STAGE

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he story of the witch trials in 1692 in Salem, Mass., has become one of the United States’ more peculiar slices of history, with enough sordid elements to make Caligula blush: witchcraft, magic, mass hysteria.

This week, Theater Arts Guild takes on all those — and adds a few more — as it presents “Witches! the Musical” at the Lincoln Theatre, starting Friday, Oct. 19, and running for nine performances through Nov. 3.

“Witches” incorporates modern musical touches; expect to hear rock and roll, hip-hop and classical music.

Conrad Askland wrote the book, music and lyrics, and Jane Skinner directs the cast of nearly 30. The music emanates from a number of sources, including recordings and a live band.

Askland’s version of the story, Skinner says, explores, expands upon and clarifies details of the witch trials, many of which have evolved over the course of 300-plus years.

“In the script that Conrad wrote, he tried to incorporate the different theories of what might have happened,” Skinner said.

“We incorporated our own vision of what happened.”

Some of the accusers in the conflict were young girls affected by “afflictions,” such as physical ailments like stomach aches, Skinner said. One theory is that a bad crop of rye that year made the girls hallucinate.

“Conrad wrote the script based on historical facts; most of the characters that are highlighted in our show are names from history,” Skinner said. “A lot of the lines in the script are actually from historical documents. But he definitely put his own twist on it, and went with a couple of dif-

‘Witches! the Musical’ When: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Oct. 19 and 26, Nov. 2; Saturdays, Oct. 20 and 27, Nov. 3; Thursday, Oct. 25; Wednesday, Oct. 31; 2 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 28 Where: Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon Tickets: $10-$24 Information: 360-3368955, www.lincolntheatre. org, www.witchesmusical. com Note: Opening night (Friday, Oct. 19) includes a complimentary champagne reception with the director and producers prior to the performance

Photo courtesy of Conrad Askland

Photo courtesy of Lindsey Bowen

The trials of witches – with a musical touch Story by CRAIG PARRISH / Entertainment/Lifestyles Editor

ferent theories.”

“It’s definitely entertaining, and not a total downer,” Skinner quipped.

“It’s serious, we definitely have some very serious stuff in it, but it’s funny in places too. There’s some comedy in it, we’re going to have some special effects, and the music is really what drives a musical.”

Combining all those elements makes her job a challenge, said Skinner, who has directed 10 plays.

“It’s very, very challenging; it’s the most challenging show I’ve done,” she said. “One of the hardest parts was that the script was still being written when we started. Having to adjust to all those things, it was only things to make it better, to clarify, delete things that weren’t necessary; ‘cleaning’ and making it more entertaining and more able to be understood.”

The result, Skinner said, is a high point for her.

“It was the most creative process of anything I’ve ever been involved in,” she said. n Craig Parrish can be reached at 360-416-2135 or cparrish@skagitpublishing. com.

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POP CULTURE Q&A

Movies in color, ‘Harry’s Law’

By RICH HELDENFELS Akron Beacon Journal

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Steven Spielberg (from left), Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, whose last names represent the SKG in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., said Tuesday they are donating $30 million each to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

DreamWorks founders give $90 million to Motion Picture & Television Fund

By RICHARD VERRIER Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks SKG founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen are each donating $30 million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, giving a major boost to the fundraising campaign for one of Hollywood’s oldest charities.

The total commitment of $90 million is part of a campaign launched earlier this year to raise $350 million for the fund and to support its charitable operations, including a nursing home

for retired entertainment industry workers that was once slated for closure.

The campaign followed a decision by the fund’s board to re-admit patients to the nursing home, which was established to care for retiring actors and other performers. The board sparked a furor in Hollywood when it announced plans in January 2009 to shut down the nursing home because of heavy financial losses.

But fund executives said cost-cutting and fundraising efforts made it possible for the charity to operate a smaller nursing home

with about 40 residents instead of the sine 130 it had in 2009. The fund also has partnered with UCLA Health System to operate a geriatric psychiatric unit at the skilled nursing home.

Th e d o n a t i o n w a s announced Tuesday morning by George Clooney, an MPTF board member and co-chair of the fundraising campaign, which is part of an effort to secure long-term funding for an organization that has faced steep financial challenges in recent years.

Other high-profile donors have included Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/Inter-

ActiveCorp., and his wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, who contributed $30 million to the fund in June, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which in July pledged $20 million to the charity.

“Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen are each legendary for their philanthropy and individually have made immeasurable impact on charities and organizations ranging from arts and culture, healthcare, education, film preservation and social services in our Hollywood community and around the nation,” Clooney said.

Q: What determined which movies in the ’40s and ’50s were made in color or black-and-white, other than budget factors?

A: In brief, it depended on what the filmmakers and the studio thought best for that production. But let’s look at the history. While color movies date back to the 19th century, “The Film Encyclopedia” notes that color became increasingly common after the introduction of the Technicolor process in the 1930s; in the ’40s, color boomed even more after a simplified Technicolor process “made it possible to shoot Technicolor films with ordinary motion picture cameras.” In fact, the Motion Picture Academy split both the cinematography and art-direction Oscars into color and black-andwhite categories in the early 1940s.

Cost was still a consideration, with color film stock costing more to buy, develop and print than black-andwhite, so you still find plenty of low-budget films in the cheaper format. But as the movies battled television for audience in the ’50s, color was one more weapon, since both color TV sets and programming in color were relatively rare. Still, aesthetic considerations fueled some film choices. “The Oxford Companion to Film” says that color was so often used to excess in scenery and costumes that some cinematographers preferred not to use it and color “came to be regarded as inappropriate to serious or realistic subjects.”

Only in the ’60s — after color had become common in TV, magazines and amateur photography — “did (color) become acceptable on the screen as naturalism,” the “Oxford Companion”

says. It was so typical — and black-and-white so rare — that by 1968 the Oscars were back to giving just a single Oscar each in cinematography and art direction. But some filmmakers still rely on black-and-white; there have been notable efforts by Steven Spielberg (“Schindler’s List”) and Martin Scorsese (“Raging Bull”), and the most recent winner of the best-picture Oscar was the black-and-white (and mostly silent) “The Artist.”

Q: Is there any chance of “Harry’s Law,” starring Kathy Bates, ever returning to the air? I miss it and would love to hear that it will return.

A: This is a question still getting asked months after the series ended its run, so a recap is in order. NBC canceled the drama in May. It had a relatively large audience, especially for NBC, but many of those viewers were well over 50 years old, and so not as desirable to NBC (or other networks) as younger adults. Now, you may want to argue that older adults have plenty of disposable income to spend on advertisers’ products. But older people are also seen as having long since established brand loyalty, whether to a toothpaste or a make of car, while younger viewers might be more disposed to trying out something new they see in a commercial. As I have said before, I don’t entirely buy that argument, but that’s how the TV business thinks.

Bates, by the way, is recuperating from a double mastectomy after a breast-cancer diagnosis over the summer.

“My doctors have assured me I’m going to be around for a long time,” she told People.com in September.

And she tweeted: “I don’t miss my breasts as much as I miss ‘Harry’s Law.’”

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THIS WEEKENDin the area Friends of the Forest benefit The annual Friends of the Forest benefit will take place from 5:30 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed Event Center, First and Commercial, Anacortes. Enjoy dinner and drinks, live music, and silent and live auctions featuring artwork, vacation stays, goods and services. $50, $400 table of eight, $500 table of 10. Proceeds support forest education and stewardship programs.

Tickets available at Watermark Book Company, the Friends of the Forest office or www.friendsoftheacfl. org. 360-293-3725.

“LISA’S FORREST”

by Joel Brock

COD-TOBERFEST

Enjoy a Nordic Cod dinner and live musical entertainment from 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 19, at Abel Lodge, Sons of Norway Hall, downtown Conway. Accordion trio Leif, Lena & Lars will perform. $15. Proceeds will help preserve the historic Sons of Norway building. Reservations required: call Hilda at 360-445-1012.

HARVEST TIME Celebrate Harvest Time from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Enjoy cider pressing, popcorn, face painting, games and more. Free with museum admission. $4, $3 seniors and ages 6 to 12, $8 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or www.skagitcounty.net/ museum.

CARDIAC ARREST FEST The fourth annual event will take place from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Birdsview Brewing Company, 38302 Highway 20, Concrete. Enjoy a day filled with live music, a spaghetti feed and a 50-50 raffle to benefit the cardiac unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital. 360-826-3406.

FALL BALL The Enchanting Fall Ball will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. or 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Maple Hall, 108 Commercial St., La Conner. Familiar princesses will be on hand to greet guests and take pictures. Bring a date or just some friends. Music, dancing, raffle, children’s activities and a dessert buffet. $20 adult, $15 child, free for ages 2 and younger. Proceeds will benefit the The Children’s Museum of Skagit County. Tickets can be purchased at www.EnchantingPrincessEvents.com/fall-ball.

360-757-8888.

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REVIEWS MUSIC CDS Compiled from news services

Heather Headley

release, “Traveler.”

Unfortunately, in walking that tightrope between being a hot mess and a successful “Only One musical gumbo, the album cannot seem to in the World” find its footing. Think of it as that Phish show that takes a lot of chances, someHeather times soaring to new heights, but also layHeadley, who ing a few eggs along the way. is gearing up The horn-heavy first single, “Scabbard,” to star in “The feels half-baked, while “Pigtail” finds a Bodyguard: A New Musical” in London nifty groove, but falls short with lyrics that next month, has one of those soaring almost feel like place holders for better voices that reverberates in a theater and ideas that never come. smolders on a record.

Anastasio has never been known for Then again, so do a lot of R&B singers. lyrical greatness and there’s not much on What has helped Headley distinguish her- “Traveler” that’s going to disabuse anyone self in her recording career has been her of that belief. material — well-crafted tunes with smart, That said, Anastasio does take chances mature lyrics that she made her own. and includes an impressively diverse They are largely absent on her fourth group of artists — including members of album, “Only One in the World.” Part The National and Mates of State — and of the problem is that Headley decides instruments that are really the driving to take on songs that others have made force of the album. “Land of Nod,” which famous. While she still has an amazing appropriately enough invokes a dreamy voice with great range, somehow when quality, like the rest of “Traveler,” feels singing songs like “Home” and “River like a near miss.

Deep Mountain High,” she sounds more CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Perhaps the like a really great karaoke singer. weirdest moment of the disc comes on a Headley doesn’t put her stamp on any cover of “Clint Eastwood” by the virtual of them and leaves the listener wistfully British band Gorillaz. Anastasio funks it thinking of the songs’ original performers. up with a heavy dose of horns, while stayNowhere is that more true than with her ing true to the song’s already eclectic mixversion of “Run to You,” which Whitney ture of rap, rock and electronica.

Houston made famous in the movie “The n Scott Bauer, Associated Press Bodyguard.” Headley simply proves that no one sang a song like the late superstar.

Martha While Headley does have original material (that she also had a hand in writ- Wainwright ing), most of it isn’t as strong or compel“Come Home ling as her R&B hits “I Wish I Wasn’t” to Mama” and “In My Mind.” Headley, who has won both a Tony and a Grammy Award, is a Twentywonderful singer who has previously pro- twelve is the duced wonderful work — but there’s no year of the wonderment here.

Wainwrights. n Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Associated Press

Trey Anastasio “Traveler”

Phish frontman Trey Anastasio mixes the old and new with a couple of covers, strings, horns, synthesizers — and even a theremin — on his latest solo

she died in 2010. Her daughter’s version uses simple piano chords and strings, and its simplicity keeps the focus on the song’s touching lyrics and Wainwright’s soft vocal range.

Another highlight is “All Your Clothes,” a beautiful open letter from Wainwright to her mother with lyrics like: “The baby is doing fine, my marriage is failing, but I keep trying” (Wainwright gave birth to her son in 2009).

Wainwright’s voice works nicely on songs that take on an electronic direction, like “Four Black Sheep” and “Some People.” The latter is littered with emotional conflicts as she sings “I don’t love the way I used to” and “If only I believed in God, then I would ask God to help me find my way.”

Honesty like that makes “Come Home to Mama” a must-listen.

CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Wainwright is hilariously tongue-in- cheek on “Can You Believe It?” n Sian Watson, Associated Press

Daphni

“Jiaolong”

Dan Snaith, who has released albums under the stage names Caribou and Manitoba, likes to tinker with musical projects. Under his latest performance moniker, Daphni, the musician delivers an ambiguous album of electronica that practically dares you to make sense of it.

Perhaps sense isn’t the goal, however.

At its base, “Jiaolong” is a dance-paced collection of repetitious grooves interspersed with varied spurts of sound that Rufus Wainwright gave us a smooth, weigh in more as experiment than accompoppy record with the Mark Ronsonplishment. Things start off in funky fashproduced “Out of the Game,” and now his little sister delivers a top-notch album ion with “Yes, I Know.”

Snaith, as Daphni the producer, weaves with her third CD. an R&B vocal refrain in between a deep On “Come Home to Mama,” Martha Wainwright acknowledges there were two wobble of bass and some hand claps. main sources of inspiration for the album: Things stay heavy and rhythmic through “Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)” becoming a mother and becoming mothand “Ye Ye.” erless.

But the more Daphni tinkers, the more The album gets its title from the song it sounds like he’s in a basement toying “Proserpina,” a track written by her with VST plug-ins while listening to a mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle. It was the last song McGarrigle wrote before Richie Hawtin disc. “Pairs” has a congo-

fueled beat, but the slapdash application of found sounds layered over the top goes on far too long, with little emotional payoff.

In the end, “Jiaolong” doesn’t resonate as a finished product. Rather, it feels like a personal work in progress that Snaith decided to share.

CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: “Long” has bass, fuzz and even an occasional something that sounds like spaceship shots from the old-school video game “Galaxian.”

It’s one of the more dramatic songs on the album, and perhaps the best. n Ron Harris, Associated Press

Jerrod Niemann “Free the Music”

When Jerrod Niemann sings (or more accurately, raps) about freeing the music, he’s talking about loosening the bonds on country music “Twang town sound taking a trip.” It’s an approach that showed promise on Niemann’s hit debut, “Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury.”

Here, however, Niemann’s blend of neotraditionalism and postmodernism doesn’t jell quite so well, and ultimately, it’s a rather conservative effort that doesn’t follow through on the bold declaration of the leadoff title track.

That’s not to say Niemann can’t be quite engaging. “Honky Tonk Fever” is most likely the only “honky-tonk” tune you’ll hear with a clarinet solo, but it works. Horns are also successfully incorporated into the old-school ballad “Whiskey Kinda Way.” Niemann uses horns a lot, in fact, including on the first single “Shinin’ on Me,” where they play nicely against the tangy, Dobro-spiced arrangement.

For all the Jimmy Buffett-like breeziness, however, there’s not a lot of substance. And for a guy who wants to be cutting-edge, the ballads “Only God Could Love You More” and “I’m All About You” (with Colbie Caillat) are the lamest sort of Nashville schlock. n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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REVIEWS VIDEO GAMES Chris Campbell, Scripps Howard News Service

‘XCOM: Enemy Unknown’

content comes from every nook and cranny, Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC giving you lots of detail Genre: Strategy and some occasional Publisher: 2K Games mini-games to break ESRB Rating: M for Mature up the dialogues and Grade: 4 stars (out of 5) menus you navigate.

The excitement upon playing “XCOM” Out in the field got the best of me. I saw some pesky aliens exists a swarm of alien wandering near my base and charged them critters that are not like Pickett at Gettysburg. Not surprisingly, necessarily the smartmy squad of soldiers met a similar fate. est you’ve ever encountered in gaming.

So I did what any respectable gamer does: They make up for a lack of brains with sheer I restarted the game. Next time I took the numbers and their own weapons, which can fog of war more seriously — “XCOM” relies pack a punch if you aren’t smart about your heavily on strategy and patience. Try to go movements. Patience is critical. Some camera another way, and you’ll be hosting a lot of glitches will ruin some of the dramatic cinememorial services for your comrades. matic shots that accompany your attacks, but The turn-based strategy game has two they stand out only because of how excellent focal points: managing your base and comthe visuals are otherwise. bat in the field. Keeping your base in order, Strategy game enthusiasts and even those buying/upgrading weapons and armor, and who dabble in the genre should snatch this keeping tabs on skirmishes around the globe game up right away. Just remember not to may sound tedious and boring, but it’s far rush into battle, lest you end up surrounded from it. With a cutout view of your base, on a battlefield all alone.

‘The Walking Dead: Episode 4 – Around Every Corner’ Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC Genre: Adventure Publisher: TellTale Games ESRB Rating: M for Mature Grade: 3 stars

with episodes dominated by taut tension and character choices that rarely paid off the way you expected. In reality, this episode plays out as a typical action game (and a good one at that), even if it doesn’t quite jell with its predecessors. Sequences take place that you would never expect to see, such as a massive shootout where ammo is not a precious resource but a means for zombie carnage. Again, plenty thrilling (including a big cliffhanger at the episode’s end), just not keeping with the tone previously set.

I’m still filled with excitement to see how this series closes out when “Episode 5” is released, and even a hiccup along the way should not deter gamers from checking out this adventure’s penultimate chapter.

The end is nearing for the characters in “The Walking Dead” game series. And not in a slow, dragging-a-dangling-limb kind of way you’d expect from a zombie. Only one episode remains, which means it was probably time for a little bit of a letdown installment.

You still play as Lee, keeping a watchful eye on may-as-well-be-your-child Clementine and ever-manic Kenny. Keeping Clementine safe and away from the fleshcraving hordes is always your top priority; reaching that supposed rescue boat on the coast is a close second.

“Around Every Corner” is not horrible by any measure; it’s just a departure from n Follow Chris Campbell on Twitter @campbler what made this series so unforgettable, or email him at game_on_games@mac.com.

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GET INVOLVED ART

sions are open to all ages and skill levels and include CALL FOR ARTISTS, guided walk-throughs of VENDORS, MUSIC & MoNA exhibitions. Limited MORE: The Boneshaker to 15 participants per sesBicycle Festival seeks artsion. To register: 360-466ists, vendors, musicians and 4446, ext. 108, or FAD@ volunteers to participate museumofnwart.org. Inforin the new event, set for mation: www.museumofFriday and Saturday, Oct. nwart.org. Workshops are 26-27, in and around La free with museum admisConner. A Halloweension. Admission: $8 adults, inspired celebration of all $5 seniors, $3 students, free things bicycles, the weekfor members and ages 11 end will include bike rides, and younger. a bike swap and expo, conNext up: tests, music, entertainment Exploring the Circle: 11 and more. For information a.m. to 1 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. or to volunteer, call 360Saturday, Oct. 20. Discover 536-4801 or visit www.bone the possibilities of the shakerbikefest.com. circular form using watercolor, collage and pastel.

way 536, Mount Vernon.

Beginning to intermediate students will learn to use pastels on a variety of paper surfaces. The class will also include an introduction to outdoor painting on location or “plein air” painting. $200. 888-345-0067, ext. 5, or www.dakotaartcenter.com.

FELT HAT-MAKING WORKSHOP: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20-21, at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, Guemes Island. Learn how to use basic wet-felting techniques to shape, decorate and finish your own unique felt hat. $195, includes all materials. 360-293-8878 or www. towerartsstudio.com.

ington. Learn how to paint Christmas cards, Northwest style. $40. Preregistration required: 360-708-0818.

Beginning painters: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25.

Experienced painters: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, or Thursday, Nov. 1.

CLAY CLASSES: Ceramic artist Sue Roberts offers a variety of classes and workshops at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, Guemes Island. For information, call 360-293-8878 or visit www.towerarts studio.com.

Next up: ART CLASSES Ceramics For Everyone: FAMILY ART DAYS PASTELS: Award-winThe six-week class will AT MoNA: Skagit Artists ning artist Steve Hill will meet from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m.

WATERCOLOR CHRIST- Tuesdays, Oct. 23-Nov. 27, Together and the Museum present a four-day workMAS CARD WORKSHOP: of Northwest Art offer shop from noon to 5 p.m. and focus on making funcFamily Art Days each Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. with Karin Silvernale at the tional ware using a variety month at MoNA, 121 S. 20-21 and 27-28, at Dakota Burlington Senior Center, of hand-building tech1011 Greenleaf Ave., Burl- niques. Open to all levels of First St., La Conner. SesArt Center, 17873 Highexperience. $190, includes materials.

McIntyre Hall Presents Mosaic Garden Forms: The class will meet for six weeks from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays, Oct. 24-Nov. 28. Learn how to build a simple vase or sphere out of clay, then turn it into a colorful mosaic piece using fragments of ceramic tiles, mirror, potter, found objects and trinkets. $190 includes most materials.

carLos núñez

DANCE “pipe music as if played by Coltrane or Hendrix” ~ The Guardian(UK)

Experience the Celtic Sounds of Spain

by Galician Music Master, Carlos Núñez.

One Performance Only - Friday, October 26 7:30pm

360.416.7727 McIntyrehall.org mcintyrehall.org 360.416.7727 2501 E College Way, Mount Vernon Skagit Regional Public Facilities District

Bellingham Alive

RHYTHM/DANCE CLASSES: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation will offer Creative Rhythm and Movement for ages 4 to 6 from 4 to 4:50 p.m.

Mondays, Oct. 22-Nov. 12, and Beginning Ballet and Tap for ages 7 to 9 from 5 to 6 p.m. Mondays, Oct. 22-Nov. 12. Tap shoes are not required. $40-$42. Preregistration required: 360336-6215.

SCOTTISH DANCING: Bellingham Scottish Coun-

try Dancers meet from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Fairhaven Library auditorium (upstairs), 1117 12th St., Bellingham. Wear comfortable clothes and leather-soled shoes. For information, call Mary Anderson at 360-933-1779 or visit www. bellinghamscd.org.

St., Anacortes. Romano explores great autumn hiking destinations practically in our own backyard, from Guemes Island to the Snowy Lakes in the North Cascades, including hikes for all skill levels. Free. 360293-1910, ext. 21, or library. cityofanacortes.org.

MUSIC

BONESHAKER BICYCLE FESTIVAL: Enjoy a HallowCALL FOR LOCAL MUSIeen-inspired celebration of CIANS & MUSIC ENTHUall things bicycle on Friday SIASTS: The Anacortes and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, Public Library’s Manieri in and around La Conner.

Endowment will host a The family-oriented event local music roundtable diswill include a pre-event cussion at 7 p.m. Thursday, motivation gathering, postOct. 25, at the Anacortes ride celebration, bike swap Public Library, 1220 10th and expo, special guest St., Anacortes. Musicians, speakers, live music and operators of performance entertainment, kids parade, venues and recording stubike decorating, bike safety dios, event planners, etc., rodeo and lots of contests are invited to discuss ways with raffles and prizes. to promote and foster the Seven different self-guided love, performance and bicycle routes will follow production of all forms of mostly flat loops from 4 local music. Free. Use one to 25 miles starting and of the exterior doors to ending at the La Conner enter the library meeting Marina, 613 N. Second St. room.

Costumes are encouraged, For information, conwith prizes for the best tact Chris Terrell (Heart human and bike costumes. of Anacortes and How it Entry fees: $45, $75 tanWorks) chris@howitworks. dem, $90 family, free for com, or Annette Woolsey ages 4 and younger. 360(Library Jazz & Swing 536-4801 or www.bone Endowment chairperson) shakerbikefest.com. awoolsey99@aol.com.

ON STAGE OPEN MIC: All ages, 7 p.m. Thursdays, The Soup Bowl at Common Ground, 351 Pease Road, Burlington. Signups begin at 6 p.m.

All ages are welcome to perform or come to watch and listen. Free. For information, contact Tobie Ann at 425-870-6784.

RECREATION AUTUMN HIKING IN THE SKAGIT VALLEY: Award-winning guidebook author Craig Romano will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th

WORKSHOPS WOOLLEY FIBER FOLLIES: Woolley Fiber Quilters will present the Woolley Fiber Follies from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Sedro-Woolley.

Multiple demonstrations on quilting and stitching methods will be held on the hour all day.

Learn about basic quilting or specialty techniques, meet other local quilters and enhance your skills. $5.

Preregistration requested: 360-422-3788. Visit www. woolleyfiberquilters. blogspot.com for more information.

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HALLOWEEN IN THE AREA CONCRETE GHOST WALK: The sixth annual Concrete Ghost Walk starts at 6 p.m.

Saturdays, Oct. 20 and 27, at the Historic Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St. You’ll hear about — and maybe even meet — some of the colorful characters from Concrete’s past, visit a number of haunted buildings and talk to the locals who’ll share their stories.

For ages 13 and older only; minors must be accompanied by an adult. Dress for the weather, wear sturdy shoes and bring a flashlight if desired. $10. Reservations required.

Call the Concrete Chamber of Commerce at 360-853-8784 or 360-853-8767 or email chamber@concrete-wa.com.

HAUNTED FOREST: The Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation Department’s Haunted Forest will be open at 7:30 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, Oct. 19-21 and 26-28, at Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Take a scary walk through the forest filled with frightening fiends, ghostly ghouls and glaring goblins. Not recommended for ages 9 and younger. Advance tickets: $8 through Oct. 18, $10 at the gate. For more information or to volunteer, call 360-3366215.

HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL: The 24th annual YMCA Halloween Carnival for ages 2-8 will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at the Skagit Valley Family YMCA, 215 E. Fulton St., Mount Vernon. Goblins and ghouls should bring their favorite adult to play carnival games, crafts, swimming and more. Costumes encouraged (preschool-friendly only).

Tickets: four for $1. 360-336-9622 or www.skagitymca.org.

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - E9 HALLOWEEN DANCE: 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, Camano Senior and Community Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Music by Camano Junction. Costumes are optional. $10, $7 members. Light snacks provided, cash bar available. Tickets available at the door. 360-3870222 or www.camanocenter.org.

ZOMBIE DANCE FOR TEENS: 8 to 11 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 26, Stillaguamish Grange, 6521 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood. Costume contest and a King and Queen Zombie will be crowned. $10, includes refreshments. 360629-0562 or www.stanwoodchamber.org.

STANWOOD HAUNTED HOUSE: 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, at the Stanwood Community and Senior Center, 7430 276th St. NW, Stanwood. Ride the elevator down to the basement of terror. $5. 360-6297403 or www.stanwoodseniorcenter.org.

PUMPKIN PATCH: Stop by the United General Hospital parking lot from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at 2000 Hospital Drive, Sedro-Woolley, for pumpkins, games and cider. Sponsored by the hospital Auxiliary, proceeds will benefit United General patients and programs. 360-856-6021.

HAUNTED DEPOT: Bring the kids to a special Family Haunt from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or leave them at home during the “Scare Your Pants Off” haunt for teens and adults from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at The Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. $5 at the door ($1 off with a nonperishable food donation for the food bank). Proceeds will benefit ACT Theatre and the Anacortes Farmers Market. 360-293 KIDS NIGHT OUT SPOOKTACULAR: Kids ages 6-12 can enjoy an evening of Halloween- 7922 or www.anacortesfarmersmarket.org. themed activities from 5:30 to 10 p.m.

STANWOOD SPOOKTACULAR: 3 to 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Skagit Valley FamSaturday, Oct. 27, downtown Stanwood. Enjoy ily YMCA, 215 E. Fulton St., Mount Vernon. family-friendly activities at Viking Village, a Activities include swimming, crafts, playtime zombie parade, “Thriller” performance street and snacks. Members: $30, $10 for each dance, people and dogs costume contests, additional sibling. Program members: $40, pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating at downtown $15 for each additional sibling. Advance merchants and more. Free. 360-629-0562 or registration required. 360-336-9622 or www.stanwoodchamber.org. www.skagitymca.org.

ZUMBA HALLOWEEN PARTY: The third annual Zumba Halloween Party will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

Enjoy a Zumba menu and drink specials. Best costume wins a 10-class Zumba pass. Free raffle. $10 at the door. 360-629-4800 or www.cyndysbroiler.com.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY: 4 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27, Rexville Grocery, 19271 Best Road, Mount Vernon. A prize will be given for the best costume. Food and drinks available. 360-466-5522 or www.rexville grocery.com.

“BACK TO THE BROWN” 80S COSTUME AND DANCE PARTY: 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No Cover. 360-2932544.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY: Enjoy live music by Fanny Alger from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-7550165.

HALLOWEEN PARTY: Heart to Heart Charity will host a Halloween party from 6 to 7:30 HALLOWEEN BASH & COSTUME CONTEST: p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the old Town Hall, 8405 S. Main St., Lyman. Game booths, 8 p.m. to midnight Friday, Oct. 26, at the pumpkin painting table, a raffle, cake walk, Skagit Valley Casino Resort Pacific Showroom, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. Enjoy music hay ride, photo booth and more. Children can receive small prizes and candy and take

by Gold Digger, costume contest with cash home a pumpkin they decorate. $2 per child, prizes, dancing and more. Costumes that adults $1. Proceeds will benefit the upcoming disguise the identity of the wearer (full face Heart to Heart Christmas Angel Tree for chilpaint, masks, etc.) and real or toy weapons dren of low-income families. 360-826-3818 are not permitted on the casino floor. $18or HeartToHeartCharity@gmail.com. $20. 877-275-2448 or www.theskagit.com.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 18-25 Thursday.18

Saturday.20

THEATER

MUSIC

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

Friday.19 MUSIC

Natalie MacMaster: 7:30 p.m., Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. $20-$40, $15 youths. 425-275-9595 or www.ec4arts.org.

PUPPET THEATER

Chinese Puppet Theater: Dragon Art Studio, 7:30 p.m., Croatian Cultural Center NW, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. Chinese folk tales and other stories performed with traditional Chinese rod puppets handcrafted by the puppeteers. Tickets at the door: $7, $5 ages 11 and younger and 65 and older. 360-299-2525 or 206-3061181.

THEATER

“My Fair Lady”: Lyric Light Opera, musical, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $19-$45, discounts available for ages 62 and older or 12 and younger. 360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

Marcia Kester, Heart Lake Owl, Scott Thomson and Bethany Lynn: 6:30 p.m., Diversity Hall, 500 W. Section St., Mount Vernon. $7 donation, includes snacks and desserts.

360-540-0770.

THEATER

“My Fair Lady”: Lyric Light Opera, musical, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $19-$45, discounts available for ages 62 and older or 12 and younger. 360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“Witches! the Musical”: Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

Sunday.21 THEATER

“My Fair Lady”: Lyric Light Opera, musical, 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $19-$45, discounts available for ages 62 and older or 12 and younger. 360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

Monday-Wednesday.22-24

“Witches! the Musical”: Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincoln theatre.org.

Thursday.25

VARIETY

THEATER

“A Night of Stars and Dreams”: musical variety, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $40 dinner and show; $30 dessert buffet and show, $20 show only. Reservations required: 360-336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

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“Witches! the Musical”: Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

Festival seating. All seats $10, available at the door two hours prior to curtain. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 18-25 FRIDAY.19 CHINESE PUPPET THEATER Dragon Art Studio, 7:30 p.m., Croatian Cultural Center NW, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. Chinese folk tales and other stories performed with traditional Chinese rod puppets handcrafted by the puppeteers. Tickets at the door: $7, $5 ages 11 and younger and 65 and older.

360-299-2525 or 206-306-1181.

SATURDAY.20

THURSDAY.18

CANNERY UNDERGROUND CD release party and membership drive, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Free with museum admission. $4, $3 seniors and ages 6 to 12, $8 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or www.skagitcounty. net/museum.

Randy Norris & Jeff Nicely (blues): 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway.

360-445-3000.

Rattletrap Ruckus: 8 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. Free. www. redlightwineand coffee.com.

TUESDAY.23 DANA LYONS: THE GREAT COAL TRAIN TOUR 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $8 suggested donation, free for students. 360-3368955 or www.transi tionfidalgo.org.

FRIDAY.19 The Randy Linder Band (classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. www.theskagit. com.

Holmes Shea Band (rock, funk, R&B): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-4453000.

Newtrix (classic rock): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. No cover.

360-629-4800 or www.cyn dysbroiler.com.

Tony and the Tigers (rock): 9 p.m., Portage Bay Bar & Lounge, Silver Reef Casino, 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale. No cover. 866383-0777.

The Bouchards: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360588-1720.

Ben Baydo (rock, folk): 7 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 First St., La Conner.

No cover. 360-399-1037.

Captain’s Orders: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover.

360-293-2544.

Reverend JD & The Blackouts: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover.

360-755-0165.

The Sardines: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4226411.

The Daffodils, Biagio Biondolillo: 10 p.m. to midnight, Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. www.redlightwineand coffee.com.

Triceracorn, Care Package, Mostafa with Walrus Mageever, DJ Idlhnds, A-Hale: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $3.

360-778-1067.

Steve Meyer and Ben Starner (piano): 7:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

SATURDAY.20 The Randy Linder Band (classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. www.the skagit.com.

Jon Mutchler (piano): 6 to 9 p.m., Stars Restaurant at Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine. www.semiahmoo.com.

Rivertalk (reggae, world beat, rock): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $15. 360-4453000.

Cannery Underground: CD release party and membership drive, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Free Tony Bridges: 9 p.m.

Southbound: 9:30 p.m. with museum admisto midnight, Cyndy’s to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 sion. $4, $3 seniors Broiler, 27021 102nd Commercial Ave., Ana- and ages 6 to 12, $8 Ave NW, Stanwood. cortes. 360-755-3956 or families, free for memNo cover. 360-629-4800 www.anacortesH2O. bers and ages 5 and or www.cyndysbroiler. com. younger. 360-466-3365 com. or www.skagitcounty. net/museum.

SUNDAY.21 Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., SedroWoolley.

360-8552263.

El Colonel and Doubleshot: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-588-1720.

TUESDAY.23 Orville Johnson: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360766-6266.

Tim Easton, Whiting Tennis: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8. 360778-1067.

Dana Lyons: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $8 suggested donation, free for students.

360-336-8955 or www.tran sitionfidalgo. org.

Tony and the Tigers (rock): 9 p.m., Portage Bay Bar & Lounge, Silver Reef Casino, 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale.

No cover. 866-3830777.

Amy Hindman (pop, rock, Americana): 7 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 First St., La Conner. No cover.

360-399-1037.

Valerie, with Special Guests: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-293-2544.

Swingnuts Jazz: 7 to Wired Band: 8:30 p.m., 10 p.m., Skagit River Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Brewery, 404 S. Third Court, Edison. No cover. St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

Voyager, Halloqueen: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8.

WEDNESDAY.24 Tea Seas: 8 to 11 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham.

Free. www. redlight wineand coffee.com.

Dana Lyons: 7:30 p.m., The Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Drive, Bellingham. $8-$12 suggested donation. 360738-1196.

Fidalgo Swing: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360588-1720.

The Sardines: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

THURSDAY.25 WWU Jazz Collective: 7 to 9 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham.

Free. www. redlight wineand coffee.com.

Keaton Collective, Black Tommy, The Hoot Hoots: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. 360778-1067.

Wayne Hayton: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360445-3000.

Rattletrap Ruckus: 8 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham.

Free. www. redlight wineand coffee.com.

Skagit Valley College Jazz Band: 7 to 9 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon. 360336-2884.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 18-25 Thursday.18

Saturday.20

THEATER

MUSIC

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

Friday.19 MUSIC

Natalie MacMaster: 7:30 p.m., Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds. $20-$40, $15 youths. 425-275-9595 or www.ec4arts.org.

PUPPET THEATER

Chinese Puppet Theater: Dragon Art Studio, 7:30 p.m., Croatian Cultural Center NW, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. Chinese folk tales and other stories performed with traditional Chinese rod puppets handcrafted by the puppeteers. Tickets at the door: $7, $5 ages 11 and younger and 65 and older. 360-299-2525 or 206-3061181.

THEATER

“My Fair Lady”: Lyric Light Opera, musical, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $19-$45, discounts available for ages 62 and older or 12 and younger. 360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

Marcia Kester, Heart Lake Owl, Scott Thomson and Bethany Lynn: 6:30 p.m., Diversity Hall, 500 W. Section St., Mount Vernon. $7 donation, includes snacks and desserts.

360-540-0770.

THEATER

“My Fair Lady”: Lyric Light Opera, musical, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $19-$45, discounts available for ages 62 and older or 12 and younger. 360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“Witches! the Musical”: Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

Sunday.21 THEATER

“My Fair Lady”: Lyric Light Opera, musical, 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $19-$45, discounts available for ages 62 and older or 12 and younger. 360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

Monday-Wednesday.22-24

“Witches! the Musical”: Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincoln theatre.org.

Thursday.25

VARIETY

THEATER

“A Night of Stars and Dreams”: musical variety, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $40 dinner and show; $30 dessert buffet and show, $20 show only. Reservations required: 360-336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

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“Witches! the Musical”: Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

Festival seating. All seats $10, available at the door two hours prior to curtain. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 18-25 FRIDAY.19 CHINESE PUPPET THEATER Dragon Art Studio, 7:30 p.m., Croatian Cultural Center NW, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. Chinese folk tales and other stories performed with traditional Chinese rod puppets handcrafted by the puppeteers. Tickets at the door: $7, $5 ages 11 and younger and 65 and older.

360-299-2525 or 206-306-1181.

SATURDAY.20

THURSDAY.18

CANNERY UNDERGROUND CD release party and membership drive, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Free with museum admission. $4, $3 seniors and ages 6 to 12, $8 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or www.skagitcounty. net/museum.

Randy Norris & Jeff Nicely (blues): 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway.

360-445-3000.

Rattletrap Ruckus: 8 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. Free. www. redlightwineand coffee.com.

TUESDAY.23 DANA LYONS: THE GREAT COAL TRAIN TOUR 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $8 suggested donation, free for students. 360-3368955 or www.transi tionfidalgo.org.

FRIDAY.19 The Randy Linder Band (classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. www.theskagit. com.

Holmes Shea Band (rock, funk, R&B): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-4453000.

Newtrix (classic rock): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. No cover.

360-629-4800 or www.cyn dysbroiler.com.

Tony and the Tigers (rock): 9 p.m., Portage Bay Bar & Lounge, Silver Reef Casino, 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale. No cover. 866383-0777.

The Bouchards: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360588-1720.

Ben Baydo (rock, folk): 7 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 First St., La Conner.

No cover. 360-399-1037.

Captain’s Orders: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover.

360-293-2544.

Reverend JD & The Blackouts: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover.

360-755-0165.

The Sardines: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4226411.

The Daffodils, Biagio Biondolillo: 10 p.m. to midnight, Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. www.redlightwineand coffee.com.

Triceracorn, Care Package, Mostafa with Walrus Mageever, DJ Idlhnds, A-Hale: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $3.

360-778-1067.

Steve Meyer and Ben Starner (piano): 7:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

SATURDAY.20 The Randy Linder Band (classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. www.the skagit.com.

Jon Mutchler (piano): 6 to 9 p.m., Stars Restaurant at Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine. www.semiahmoo.com.

Rivertalk (reggae, world beat, rock): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $15. 360-4453000.

Cannery Underground: CD release party and membership drive, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Free Tony Bridges: 9 p.m.

Southbound: 9:30 p.m. with museum admisto midnight, Cyndy’s to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 sion. $4, $3 seniors Broiler, 27021 102nd Commercial Ave., Ana- and ages 6 to 12, $8 Ave NW, Stanwood. cortes. 360-755-3956 or families, free for memNo cover. 360-629-4800 www.anacortesH2O. bers and ages 5 and or www.cyndysbroiler. com. younger. 360-466-3365 com. or www.skagitcounty. net/museum.

SUNDAY.21 Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., SedroWoolley.

360-8552263.

El Colonel and Doubleshot: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-588-1720.

TUESDAY.23 Orville Johnson: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360766-6266.

Tim Easton, Whiting Tennis: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8. 360778-1067.

Dana Lyons: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $8 suggested donation, free for students.

360-336-8955 or www.tran sitionfidalgo. org.

Tony and the Tigers (rock): 9 p.m., Portage Bay Bar & Lounge, Silver Reef Casino, 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale.

No cover. 866-3830777.

Amy Hindman (pop, rock, Americana): 7 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 First St., La Conner. No cover.

360-399-1037.

Valerie, with Special Guests: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-293-2544.

Swingnuts Jazz: 7 to Wired Band: 8:30 p.m., 10 p.m., Skagit River Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Brewery, 404 S. Third Court, Edison. No cover. St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

Voyager, Halloqueen: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8.

WEDNESDAY.24 Tea Seas: 8 to 11 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham.

Free. www. redlight wineand coffee.com.

Dana Lyons: 7:30 p.m., The Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Drive, Bellingham. $8-$12 suggested donation. 360738-1196.

Fidalgo Swing: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360588-1720.

The Sardines: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

THURSDAY.25 WWU Jazz Collective: 7 to 9 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham.

Free. www. redlight wineand coffee.com.

Keaton Collective, Black Tommy, The Hoot Hoots: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. 360778-1067.

Wayne Hayton: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360445-3000.

Rattletrap Ruckus: 8 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham.

Free. www. redlight wineand coffee.com.

Skagit Valley College Jazz Band: 7 to 9 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon. 360336-2884.

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TRAVEL

Female artists take over Seattle Art Museum

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press

SEATTLE — Inspired by the Pompidou Center in Paris, which for nearly two years removed all the men’s art from their modern galleries, the Seattle Art Museum is letting women take over its downtown building this fall.

Lovers of art by men can still get their fill in the museum’s Renaissance, Asian and Native art galleries, but those who want to explore art from this past century will be studying the contribution of women to photography, video, painting and sculpture.

The show is a subset of the Pompidou’s survey of about a thousand pieces, with more than 130 works of art made by 75 artists from 1907 to 2007. The original exhibit wasn’t designed to travel and Seattle is the first museum other than the Pompidou to show it.

Although the Pompidou exhibit was groundbreaking because of its breadth, the subject matter is not unique in the United States, where some recent shows have examined a subset of the art history spanned by this exhibit, including “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” a show from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles that traveled to New York, Washington, and Vancouver, B.C. In addition to the Pompidou exhibit, the Seattle Art Museum is featuring another floor of art by women, mostly from its own collection, spanning the 1920s through today.

The museum’s collection is supplemented by

Seattle Art Museum Website: seattleart museum.org Dates: Elles: Pompidou, through Jan. 13, 2013; Elles: SAM, through Feb. 17, 2013, at 1300 First Ave., Seattle.

Price: Admission to the museum and the special exhibits, 10 a.m. To 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Sunday and open until 9 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. $23 adults, $20 seniors and military, $12 students and teens, free for children 12 and under. Tickets are $3 less all day Thursday and after 5 p.m. Friday.

loans from local collectors and private institutions throughout the region, including two loaned Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.

The museum’s two other locations also have been infused with art by women this fall.

Come to the downtown Seattle museum prepared to be schooled about modern art and possibly a little surprised. The galleries of “Elles: Pompidou” — more thematically arranged than chronological — are provoking, to say the least.

Near one of Frida Kahlo’s most beautiful pieces, “The Frame,” are posters extolling the virtues of being a female artist, a somewhat erotic video of a woman playing with some soft and supple cloth tubes in her lap, and a re-imagining of a classic Matisse Odalisque painting.

In “The Blue Room” painted in 1923 by Suzanne Valadon, the painter who had worked as an artists’ model illustrates a more realistic view of feminine relaxation: in comfortable pajamas, smoking a cigarette, leaning against

associate curator of modern and contemporary art, who co-curated Elles: Pompidou with Cecile Debray, curator of modern collections at the Pompidou.

One of Sanchez’s favorite pieces in the show is found in the “bodies” room: a video by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau called “Barbed Hula.” The performance piece shows a nude woman using a barbed wire hula hoop while standing on a beach. Sanchez says the piece makes her think about beauty and endurance and women in culture.

“It is OK that any art makes one uncomfortable because it allows for another conversation to open up about what is it about this work that is unsettling,” Sanchez said.

The curator hopes people won’t shy away from the exhibit even if they are concerned about feeling unsettled.

When asked what she thought about bringing children to see the exhibit, she said parents will have to make that decision themselves. Children may be shocked by some things in the show, Sanchez acknowledged, but mature adults may be as well.

She notes that the exhibit was designed to allow Photos by Elaine Thompson / AP visitors to walk around Top: A visitor stands near an untitled work by Lee Bontecou, part of one of two the most mature pieces, new exhibits featuring art exclusively by women at the Seattle Art Museum. but there is a tremendous Bottom left: Cecile Debray, curator of modern collections at the Pompidou amount of material that is Center, talks in front of an oil painting by Sonia Delaunay (Philomena, 1907). less provocative.

Bottom right: An oil painting by Georgia O’Keeffe (Cow’s Skull on Red).

Sanchez hopes some people will walk away a pillow in a casual — not viewer to reconsider their to isolate these pieces or from the museum wondererotic — pose. The modern ideas about beauty, women cut them from the exhibit ing why society considers viewer can almost imagand the human body. entirely. naked women in Renaisine a television flickering Viewers are clearly “We wanted to ensure sance paintings to be across the room. warned when before they we weren’t steering away totally acceptable for all Wander deeper into the enter galleries featuring the from uncomfortable works audiences but aren’t as exhibit and the merely chal- more controversial pieces, of art because they were comfortable with female lenging leads to provocabut the curators made a uncomfortable,” said bodies in photos and videos tive, with pieces asking the conscious decision not Marisa Sanchez, SAM’s in modern art.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012 - E13

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‘The Last of the Haussmans’ 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21

High society dropout Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilapidated art deco house on the Devon coast. After an operation, she’s joined by wayward offspring Nick and Libby, sharp-eyed granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel, a troubled teenager who makes use of the family’s crumbling swimming pool. Together they share a few sweltering months in this chaotic world of all-day drinking, infatuations, long-held resentments, free love and failure. A Natural Theater live event. $15 adults, $13 seniors and $11 students with $2 off for Lincoln Theatre members.

‘L’Elisir D’Amore’

6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22 Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher’s new production of one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the lovable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Part of the Met Live in HD series. In Italian with English subtitles. $23 adults; $19 seniors; $16 students and children with $2 off for Lincoln members.

Local travel

‘Dana Lyons: Great Coal Train Tour’ 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23

Singer Dana Lyons, best known for his comedy hit song “Cows with Guns,” makes a Mount Vernon stop on his tour, which takes him from Billings, Mont., to Bellingham, and from Portland to Coos Bay, Ore., along the route of the proposed coal export trains. Lyons will perform a concert and give a short informational presentation on the effects of the proposed coal export trains. $10 suggested donation at the door; students and children free. Presented by Power Past Coal Coalition.

‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24

“Let’s Talk About Sex” takes a revealing look at how American attitudes towards sex affect today’s youths. Traveling around the country and across the ocean, it explores ways in which families, schools, faith communities and governments in the U.S. and other developed nations approach this basic fact of life. Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood is sponsoring this event in recognition of national Let’s Talk Month, a nationwide initiative to promote open family communication about sexuality. $5 suggested donation.

woodworking, paintings, jewelry, fiber arts and more. No-host lunch. $63-$65. Register by Nov. 21.

TRAVELOGUE: “Malaysia Adventure”, 7 Country Village and Garden D’Lights: to 9 p.m. today, Whatcom Museum’s Old 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, City Hall, 121 Prospect St., Bellingham.

Join Susan Snelson Spiegel to experience departing from Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. Malaysia through the eyes of a Sedro-Wool- 13th St., Mount Vernon. Visit the historic ley resident with a knack for exploring non- Country Village Shops in Bothell, home to tourist locations. $3 suggested donation, more than 40 quaint boutiques, specialty free for museum members.360-778-8930 stores and cafes. After exploring the holiday-decorated shops and enjoying a noor www.whatcommuseum.org. host late lunch/early dinner, head over to

SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and the Garden D’Lights, comprised of more Recreation offers several travel opportuni- than half a million tiny lights, which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a ties for participants ages 12 and older, blossoming winter wonderland. $53-$55. adult supervision required for ages 18 Register by Dec. 5. and younger. For information or to register, call 360-336-6215.

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HOT TICKETS GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY: Oct. 19, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

“WITCHES”: Theater Arts Guild, Oct. 19-Nov. 3, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon.

360-336-2408.

NATALIE MACMASTER: Oct. 20, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com.

COLLIE BUDDZ, NEW KINGSTON: Oct. 20, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB: Oct. 20, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB: Oct. 21, Showbox at the Market. 800-745-3000 or ww.livenation.com.

A$AP ROCKY: Oct 21, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showbox online.com.

WOLFGANG GARTNER: Oct. 22, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.show boxonline.com.

JIMMY BUFFETT & THE CORAL REEFER BAND: Oct. 23, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-7453000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS, SNOW PATROL: Oct. 24, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Oct. 24, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-7346080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com.

CRYSTAL CASTLES: Oct. 25, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.show boxonline.com.

MENOMENA: Oct. 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, BOYS LIKE GIRLS: Oct. 27, Showbox SoDo, Seattle.

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BLUE OCTOBER: Nov. 2, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

AFGHAN WHIGS: Nov. 3, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

“FOOTLOOSE”: Theater Arts Guild, Nov. 3-17, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon.

360-416-7727.

SERGIO MENDES: Nov. 7, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com.

STARS: Nov. 8, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showbox online.com.

LECRAE: Nov. 8, Showbox SoDo, Seattle.

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LEONARD COHEN: Nov. 9, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

FRESH BEAT BAND: Nov. 10, Comcast Arena, Everett. 866-332-8499 or www. livenation.com.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE: Nov. 10, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. livenation.com.

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Waste, Napalm Death, Cancer Bats, Exhumed, Attitude Adjustment, Martha’s Revenge, Legacy of Disorder, Nov. 10, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

RICHARD CHEESE & LOUNGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Nov. 11, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

STEVE WINWOOD, THE WOOD BROTHERS: Nov. 12, McCaw Hall, Seattle.

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RUSH: Nov. 13, KeyArena, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

ERIC CHURCH: Nov. 13, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or www.comcast arenaeverett.com.

BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH: Nov. 15, Tractor Tavern, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

33RD ANNUAL SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY COMPETITION SEMIFINALS: Nov. 16, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877275-2448 or www.theskagit.com.

MINUS THE BEAR: Nov. 17, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

BEN GIBBARD: Nov. 17, Washington Hall, Seattle. www.washingtonhall.org.

ASKING ALEXANDRIA: Nov. 20, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.show boxonline.com.

DETHKLOK: Nov. 23, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showbox online.com.

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA: Nov. 24, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

GREEN DAY: Nov. 26, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.livenation.com.

WALK OFF THE EARTH: Nov. 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND: Nov. 28, Rose Garden Arena, Portland, Ore. 800-745-3000, www.livenation.com.

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DON MCLEAN: Nov. 30-Dec. 1, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. $40-$55.

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“BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE”: Seattle Men’s Chorus, Nov. 30-Dec. 22, Benaroya Hall, Seattle. 206-388-1400 or www.seattle menschorus.org.

ADAM CAROLLA, DENNIS PRAGER: Dec. 1, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-7844849 or www.livenation.com.

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MOVIES

‘Smashed’ a serious movie about drinking, but not a depressing one T he first objective in the morning is to treat the hangover with a little judicious maintenance drinking. “Smashed” shows that it knows that in its opening minutes.

Alcoholism doesn’t require the kind of flamboyant craziness we see in movies like “The Hangover,” but it does seem to require an introverted monitoring of whether you feel as good (or well) as you think you should.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day?

They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you Roger drink your way out of a hangover and Ebert aren’t yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic’s day consists of trying to keep that window open. Kate Hannah, the heroine of “Smashed,” finishes yesterday’s beer while she’s brushing her teeth. In the parking lot at her job, she commences the new day’s self-medication with a swig from a flask.

Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) teaches the third grade, and we see her doing a pretty good job of it until she is overtaken with a sudden spasm of vomiting. One thing seasoned drinkers learn is that your “recovery drinking” involves making peace with your stomach. She tried to rush things.

What do you say after you hurl in front of a classroom of children?

They think they understand: “Mrs. Hannah, are you pregnant?” Yes! Yes! That’s it! Kate agrees almost thankfully. Inevitably that leads to more problems at school, and then the assistant principal, Dave Davies (Nick Offerman), asks her to come into his office. He is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, saw her drinking in her car and can add two plus two.

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Aaron Paul and Mary Elizabeth Winstead star in “Smashed.” company because they know they can expect forgiveness and underHHH1⁄2 standing, while a civilian might not choose to share their typical days.

Kate Hannah...............................

Kate gives AA a try. Dave from ............. Mary Elizabeth Winstead school takes her to a meeting and Charlie Hannah........... Aaron Paul Jenny................. Octavia Spencer she quickly acquires a sponsor, Jenny Dave Davies........... Nick Offerman (Octavia Spencer from “The Help”).

Principal Barnes.... Megan Mullally Charlie continues to drink, and he Rochelle...............Mary Kay Place misses his wife, but he isn’t angry; Owen Hannah............Kyle Gallner he’s more puzzled. He wants her Freda......................... Bree Turner Millie..................Mackenzie Davis to return to the party. They say the Rocky........................Patti Allison most dangerous words a drunk can hear are, “A little drink won’t hurt n Running time: 85 minutes.

MPAA rating: R (for alcohol abuse, you.” language, some sexual content Mary Elizabeth Winstead is sort and brief drug use). of wonderful in this movie, worn and warm. She doesn’t play a victim.

She has that courage an alcoholic James Ponsoldt’s “Smashed” knows a lot about alcoholism, and it requires to persist in the punishment also knows about the good times that of getting drunk every day. Life is a can go along with it. You notice that toboggan run into uncertain darkin the way it handles Charlie (Aaron ness. One night she passes out and Paul), Kate’s husband. He is also her sleeps all night in the open air. She drinking buddy. When two alcoholics accepts this as part of the game. are married, they value each other’s Many a puzzling dawn has the prac-

‘SMASHED’

ticing alcoholic experienced.

The success of “Smashed” comes in the way it embraces Kate’s life force. It’s filled with strong supporting characters, including Principal Barnes (Megan Mullally), who doesn’t understand the disease very well, and Dave Davies, who gets her to a meeting and then wants to hurry her through the 12 Steps so they can arrive at the 13th, if you know what I mean. Mary Kay Place plays Rochelle, Kate’s mother, who has no idea she’s an alcoholic herself. Jenny is a firm and sturdy sponsor who has been there, done that and can’t be fooled.

The movies have a way of presenting alcoholism and drug addiction as titanic struggles. So indeed they can be. But for Kate, who no doubt classified herself as a “functioning alcoholic,” sobering up can be easy and even kinda fun. That’s until she figures out that “being dry” and “being sober” are not the same thing.

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Ratings are one to four stars.

“Argo” — Ben Affleck directs and stars in the incredible true story of how, at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis, a CIA agent and a couple of Hollywood professionals dreamed up a cockamamie scheme to free six Americans who were not being held in the American Embassy but had found refuge with the Canadian Embassy. Kept top secret for 18 years, the operation created a fake sci-fi production named “Argo,” convinced the Iranians it was real and used it to spirit the Americans out of the country. With lots of tension and also some humor from John Goodman and Alan Arkin as the Hollywood pros involved.

Drama, R, 120 minutes.

HHHH “End of Watch” — One of the best police movies in recent years, a virtuoso joining of performances and startling action. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as Taylor and Zavala, two Los Angeles street cops who bend a few rules but must be acknowledged as heroes.

They’re transferred to a tough district, where their persistence leads them to a Mexican drug cartel operating in L.A. This is really an assignment for a detective, but they don’t avoid risk, and eventually become so dangerous to the cartel that a hit is ordered against them. Action drama, R, 109 minutes. HHHH “Frankenweenie” — Young Victor Frankenstein loves his dog, Sparky, and when the mutt runs into traffic and is blindsided, Victor takes inspiration from a science class and re-animates his pet using lightning bolts. Tim Burton’s stop-action, black and white comedy takes its inspiration from “The Bride of Frankenstein” and other horror movies, and the character of Mr. Rzykruski, the science teacher, is certainly modeled on Vincent Price.

With the voices of Martin Landau, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Charlie Tahan and Winona Ryder. Animated comedy, PG, 87 minutes.

HHH “Looper” — A smart and tricky sci-fi story that sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them.

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MOVIES AT AREA THEATERS ANACORTES CINEMAS Oct. 19-25 Argo (R): Friday: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30; Saturday-Sunday: 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30; Monday-Thursday: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 Pitch Perfect (PG-13): Friday: 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; Saturday-Sunday: 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; Monday-Thursday: 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Hotel Transylvania (PG): Friday: 2:50), 5:20, 7:20; Saturday-Sunday: 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:20; Monday-Thursday: 2:50, 5:20, 7:20 360-293-7000

OAK HARBOR CINEMAS Oct. 19-25 Paranormal Activity 4 (R): Friday-Saturday: 1:35, 3:40, 6:50, 8:50; Sunday-Thursday: 1:35, 3:40, 6:50 Argo (R): Friday-Saturday: 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00; Sunday-Thursday: 1:15, 3:50, 6:30 Frankenweenie (PG): Friday-Thursday: 3:30, 6:40 Taken 2 (PG-13): Friday-Saturday: 1:25, 8:40; Sunday-Thursday: 1:25 360-279-2226

STANWOOD CINEMAS Oct. 19-25 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (NR): Tuesday: 7:00 Paranormal Activity 4 (R): Friday-Thursday: 1:40, 3:50, 6:35, 8:45 CASCADE MALL THEATRES Argo (R): Friday-Thursday: 1:10, 3:40, Burlington For listings and times, call 888-AMC-4FUN 6:25, 8:55 Pitch Perfect (PG-13): Friday-Monday: (888-262-4386).

1:00, 3:25, 6:20, 9:00; Tuesday: 1:00, 3:25, 6:20; Wednesday: 1:00, 3:25, 6:20, CONCRETE THEATRE 9:00; Thursday: 1:00, 3:25, 6:20 Wild Horse, Wild Ride (PG): 7 p.m.

Taken 2 (PG-13): Friday-Monday: 1:30, Thursday, Oct. 18; 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21.

3:45, 6:40, 8:50; Tuesday: 1:30, 3:45, Trouble With the Curve (PG-13): 4 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20; 4 p.m. Sunday, 8:50; Wednesday: 1:30, 3:45, 6:40, 8:50; Thursday: 1:30, 3:45, 8:50 Oct. 21.

Tickets: $7 general admission, $9 balcony, Hotel Transylvania (PG): Friday-Thursday: $6 adults over 65 and kids under 12; $1 off 1:20, 3:30, 6:30, 8:40 John Carpenter’s “Halloween” (R): all tickets on Sunday.

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2044 and 2074. Although time travel is declared illegal once it has been discovered, a crime syndicate cheats and uses it as a method for disposing of its enemies. Joseph GordonLevitt plays Joe, the triggerman in 2044. Bruce Willis plays Old Joe, sent back from the future. Emily Blunt lives on the Kansas farm where they coincide in time. “Looper” weaves between past and present in a way that gives writer-director Rian Johnson and his actors opportunities to create a surprisingly involving narrative.

Crime sci-fi, R, 119 minutes.

HHH1⁄2 “Seven Psychopaths” — Colin Farrell stars as a blocked Hollywood screenwriter who finds inspiration from a loony group of psychopaths, some in his life and some in his imagination. Christopher Walken excels as a professional dog-napper, Sam Rockwell is his partner and Woody Harrelson is a relentless gangster who comes looking for Bonny, his beloved Shih Tzu, which they hold as hostage.

Inspired goofiness written and directed by Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”). Comedy, R, 109 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Sinister” — A story made of darkness, mysterious loud bangs in the attic, distant

moans from the dead, vulnerable children, an egomaniacal crime writer and his longsuffering wife, who is plenty fed up -- even before she discovers he has moved his family into the same house where horrifying murders took place. Ethan Hawke stars as the best-selling true crime writer, Juliet Rylance is his increasingly alarmed wife and their children experience night terrors and sleepwalking. Few films have ever been bathed in so much darkness. Thriller, R, 109 minutes. HHH. “Trouble With the Curve” — Clint Eastwood plays Gus, an aging baseball scout who leads a lonely life, driving between small cities, sitting in the stands of minor-league clubs, living in budget motels, but he loves it. Failing eyesight threatens his career, and his concerned daughter (Amy Adams) joins him on the road and meets her dad’s onetime discovery (Justin Timberlake). John Goodman plays Gus’ loyal boss at the Atlanta Braves. Drama, PG-13, 111 minutes. HHH “The Words” — A movie inspired by the famous story of how Ernest Hemingway’s first wife lost a briefcase of his early work on a train. That story is enfolded into another story based on it, written by a

contemporary novelist (Dennis Quaid). Bradley Cooper finds the missing briefcase in the Quaid novel and is later visited by a mysterious Jeremy Irons.

The real Hemingway could have told this with infinitely more economy. The plot opens room for three beautiful women (Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Nora Arnezeder), for which we can be grateful. Drama, PG-13, 96 minutes. HH “The Possession” — The possession of the title is a dark wood box with a carved inscription in Hebrew informing the finder that it entraps a dybbuk, an evil spirit that will cleave to the soul of anyone unlucky enough to release it.

This box turns up in a yard sale, and is purchases by young girl named Em (Natasha Calis). Horror, PG-13, 92 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Won’t Back Down” — Depicts teachers unions and bureaucracy as the reasons for the low performance of American public education. Parents vote to take control of their children’s own schools, reward gifted teachers and throw out overpaid, lazy administrators held in place by seniority. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis give inspired performances in a sluggish formula do-gooder.

Drama, PG, 121 minutes. HH

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paintings, a series of light boxes inspired by her DAY OF THE DEAD desire to visualize genetic ART: A creative Day of markers; and Dennis Sumthe Dead exhibit by Patty mers’ video works and two Detzer and Nick Young is color projections inspired on display through October by Steve Reich’s phase in the Lincoln Theatre Art shift music. Free. Gallery Bar, 712 S. First St., Mount hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Vernon. 360-336-8955 or Monday through Friday, www.lincolntheatre.org. except Wednesdays when the gallery is open until 8 “ColorMAD”: The p.m., and noon to 4 p.m. exhibition continues Saturdays. http://western through Nov. 21 at Western gallery.wwu.edu.

Washington University’s Western Gallery in BellWATERCOLORS AND ingham. Featuring a range ACRYLICS: A show featurof media from prints and ing acrylic paintings and paintings to installation watercolors by Eric Wieart and video projection, gardt continues through ColorMAD delves into an Oct. 30 at Scott Milo Galexploration of the dynamic lery, 420 Commercial Ave., world of color. Featured Anacortes. In addition to artists include Robert his watercolors, the gallery Rauschenberg, Bea Nettles, is showing Wiegardt’s colJasper Johns, Mark Tobey, orful impressionistic acrylWilliam Eggleston and ics for the first time. Also Susan Rothenberg. Also showing are oils by Ramospotlighted are Geraldine na Hammerly and Sandy Ondrizek’s chromosome Byers and pastels by Janice

painting with materials used in non-traditional ways.

Adamson and Swalwell explore sculptural directions in contemporary art glass, including blown, pate de verre, cast and deeply carved forms. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, closed Tuesdays.

360-222-3070 or www.rob schoutengallery.com.

‘MASTERS’

A show of artworks from Northwest School Masters and others continues through Oct. 28 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. The show features artists from the so-called Northwest School, as well as contemporary artists who continue their tradition in Skagit Valley — Guy Anderson, Joel Brock, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, Morris Graves, Pehr Hallsten, Paul Horiuchi, Clayton James, Helmi Juvonen, Ed Kamuda, John-Franklin Koenig, Alden Mason, Philip McCracken, Jay Steensma and George Tsutakawa. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wall, as well as a selection Wednesday through Sunday. 360-766-6230 or of jewelry, glasswork, sculp- www.smithandvallee.com. Pictured: “Mountains” tures and custom tables by by Kenneth Callahan “Mountains” other gallery artists. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or www.scottmilo.com.

AN EVENING OF LIVE MUSIC WITH LOCAL ARTISTS Sat, October 20, 2012 Door opens at 6:30pm

Casual “coffeehouse” style fundraiser with live music by local artists Diversity Hall 500 W. Section, Mount Vernon (behind the post office) 360.540.0770 $7 Donation at the Door Includes Snacks & Desserts

MUSICIANS:

Marcia Kester: A taste of rock in the country tunes, and a dash of country in the rock. Heart Lake Owl: Original music with a unique sound and style all their own on acoustic guitar and stand-up bass.

Scott Thomson: His easy-tolisten-to bluesy guitar compliments his earthy, mellow voice. Bethany Lynn: She’ll soothe you with her mellow voice, acoustic guitar, and relaxed, down-to-earth style.

exhibition by visual and literary artists continues through Nov. 18 at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The show STEAMROLLER LINOLEUM PRINTS: A show of brings together artists and steamroller linoleum prints poets to convey a collective reflection of living in a continues through Oct. 31 challenging social and enviat Anne Martin McCool ronmental era. Exhibiting Gallery, 711 Commercial artists are Eve Deisher and Ave., Anacortes. Made during the Anacortes Arts Ann Reid. Participating poets include Lana HechtFestival this past summer, man Ayers, Anita K. Boyle, these large prints include artwork by Brad Bradford, Matthew Brouwer, Nancy Canyon, Karen FinneyDona Reed and Nicolette frock, Kathleen Flenniken Harrington. The show will (Poet Laureate of Washingalso feature paintings by Anne Martin McCool and ton), Maria McLeod and Susan Rich. Gallery hours work by other gallery artare noon to 5 p.m. Friday ists. Gallery hours are 11 through Sunday. www. a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday anchorartspace.org. through Saturday or by appointment. 360-293-3577 “LITTLE BEAUTIES”: or www.mccoolart.com.

The show of small artworks “STRANDS: DRAW, continues through Nov. 1 at CUT, STITCH, WRITE”: An Raven Rocks Gallery, 765

Wonn Road, Greenbank.

The exhibition features hand-turned wooden vases from Bob and Lorena Higbee, driftwood feathers by Roger White, inspiration stones in tiny yarn nests by Mary Jo Oxrieder, handcut stone pendants and beads

by Frank Ruggerio and framed “Ravens in Love” prints by Windwalker Taibi.

For information, including gallery hours and directions, call 360-222-0102 or visit www.ravenrocksgallery.com.

SUMI PAINTINGS & HANDBLOWN GLASS: A show of sumi paintings by Angie Dixon and handblown glass by Robert Adamson and Janis Swalwell continues through Oct. 31 at Rob Schouten Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank. Dixon combines traditional Asian brush and ink

a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. $7, $5 students and military, free for members and children ages 11 and younger. 360-4664288 or www.laconner quilts.com.

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: A show of photos by Lance Seadog will open with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at North Cove Coffee, 1130 S. “SMOKE, PROPS & MIR- Burlington Blvd., BurlingRORS”: A mixed media ton. The event will include installation by Zack Bent live music by Peter Ali, is on display through Nov. Native American 6 at the Skagit Valley Colflutist. 360-707-2683 or lege Art Gallery, located in www.northcovecoffee.com. the Gary Knutzen Cardinal Center, 2405 E. College ART AUCTION: The ConWay, Mount Vernon. In his crete Theatre, 45920 Main work, Bent uses photogra- St., Concrete, will host an art auction at 6 p.m. Friphy, sculpture and videos day, Oct. 19, at Enjoy hors that are “often mythic translations of his home, his d’oeuvres, wine, live music family and the stuff he col- and more while you bid on a variety of artworks, lects.” The gallery is open including paintings, prints, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. photographs, pottery, glass Monday through Friday. art, sculpture and more. $15 360-416-7812. advance, $20 at the door.

Proceeds will benefit the QUILTED ART: Two theater’s digital conversion. new quilt shows continue 360-941-0403 or through Dec. 20 at the La www.concrete-theatre.com.

Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 Second St., ARTS FESTIVAL: ImmacLa Conner. An artists’ ulate Conception Regional reception will be held at 5 School will present its p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.

“Material Men: Innova- Autumn Arts Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, tion & The Art Of QuiltOct. 20, at St. Joseph Cenmaking”: The exhibit ter, 215 N. 15th St., Mount showcases the work of 16 male quilters and the many Vernon. Vendors will offer a variety of arts, crafts and innovations in design, technique and materials other items. Free admisthese men have brought to sion. 360-428-3912 or the traditionally “women’s www.icrsweb.org. work” of quilting.

“Best of the Festival”: OPEN STUDIO: Artist Check out the quilts that Susan Cohen Thompson were juried and judged will host an open studio from noon to 6 p.m. Saturto be the best at the 2012 day and Sunday, Oct. 20-21, Quilt Festival. In addition at 2188 Lowell Point Road, to the Best of Show, the Camano Island. A wide exhibit includes the top variety of new oil paintentries in the traditional ings, prints and hand-built and nontraditional pieced ceramics will be on display quilts, wearable arts, ecoand available for purchase. green and embellished 360-387-4245 or www. categories. thompsonartstudio.com.

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OUT & ABOUT FINAL FRIDAY ART WALK: Check out a variety of artworks from 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 26, at more than a dozen participating galleries in downtown La Conner. 888-642-9284 or www.laconnerchamber. com.

SHOP: 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center, 10441 Bayview-Edison Road, Mount Vernon. Transition Fidalgo board member Eric Shen and local homeowners will share their experience and knowledge about household energy systems, alternative energy sources, money-saving tricks, rebates and incentives, from window caulking and the latest light bulbs to photovoltaic panels. Free.

Registration required: www.padillabay.gov.

ANNUAL LIGHTING EVENT: Northwest Garden Bling will host its annual Lighting Event from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26-28, at 44574 Highway 20, Concrete. Check out a variety of handcrafted stained glass MARITIME SPEAKER lamps and other local art.

SERIES: “The Restoration Light refreshments. Free of the Motor Vessel David admission. 360-708-3279.

B”: 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., AnaLECTURES cortes. As a young couple, AND TALKS Captain Jeffrey and ChrisFREE MOVIE SERIES: tine Smith fell in love with The Skagit Valley Food the “David B,” a 65-foot Co-op will screen a series wooden workboat built of movies that touch on the in 1929. Based on Chrisethical and political contine’s book “More Faster sequences of our shopping Backwards: Rebuilding choices at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays David B,” this lighthearted during October in Co-op presentation is their story room 309, 202 S. First St., of restoring the dying boat Mount Vernon. Each film and now using it for advenexplores a deeper layer of ture tours in the wilds of the production/consumption the Northwest. Free. 360chain. A short roundtable 293-1910, ext. 21, or library. discussion will follow each cityofanacortes.org. screening. Free, popcorn provided. 360-336-9777 or WATERSHED FORUM: www.skagitfoodcoop.com.

The Skagit Conservation Next up: District will host a forum Oct. 23: “Bitter Seeds” featuring John Buckhouse, looks at the source of raw Oregon State University materials for manufacture. rangeland watershed manIt follows the farmers in ager, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

India who grow the cotton Wednesday, Oct. 24, at exported to China’s garthe Padilla Bay Research ment factories to be used Reserve in Bay View. for the clothes sold in the Buckhouse will talk about West. A Co-op outreach ideas to ponder concerning staffperson will lead a livestock operations and discussion on non-GMO stream bacterial contamiagriculture. nation. Free. PreregistraOct. 30: “Shift Change” tion is requested; contact Kristi Carpenter, 360-428looks at employee-owned 4313 or kristi@skagitcd.org. cooperatives around the world. The film’s co-produc“REMEMBERING CAPer, Tony Harrah, will join the discussion after the film. TAIN PUGET”: With Linda McCune, wife of longtime HOME ENERGY WORK-

and began preserving his works created during his 50-year broadcast career.

Linda will present a slide show capturing the best of “Exploration Northwest” along with behind-thescenes commentary and information about the most historic episodes. 360-6296110 or www.sahs-fncc.org.

‘ROCK IN CINEMA: FROM ELVIS TO SPINAL TAP’ Join author Richie Unterberger for an exploration of four decades of rock ‘n’ roll in the movies, featuring Elvis, the Beatles and many other musical artists, at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the Stanwood Library, 9701 271st St. NW, Stanwood. Free.

Registration required: 360-629-3132.

Northwest broadcaster Don McCune, at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. Don McCune was known as Captain Puget to a multitude of youngsters growing up in Western Washington from 1957 to 1966. On the Captain Puget Show, broadcast live each weekday on KOMO-TV, Captain Puget sang sea chanteys, showed short film clips about the Northwest and showed cartoons. McCune also wrote and narrated more than 400 episodes of “Exploration Northwest,” also produced by KOMO, from 1960 to 1981. When Don passed away in 1993, Linda McCune established the Don McCune Library

from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Breazeale Interpretive Center, 10441 Bayview-Edison Road, Mount Vernon. A longtime Bay View resident, Breazeale was instrumental in the preservation of the Bay View environment and, during the 1970s, donated 64 acres of land to the state for the current location of the interpretive center.

MUSIC The evening will include a FALL CONCERT: Fidalgo display of historic photoYouth Symphony will graphs, personal recollecpresent its fall concert at tions of Breazeale by her 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at friends and neighbors and McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. Col- a glimpse into the future lege Way, Mount Vernon. of the Interpretive Center. $15, $10 ages 62 and older, Light refreshments will be $1 children and students. served. Free.

360-416-7727 or www. mcintyrehall.org.

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MUTT STRUT AND APPLE DAY: The seventh annual Mutt Strut dog parade and costume contest will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Bayview Corner, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley.

Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. and the parade starts at 1:30 p.m., followed by “yappy hour” refreshments for four- and two-legged contestants at 2:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for best dog costume, best owner costume, best owner-anddog costume combo, best trick and best celebrity dog.

Apple Day activities include fresh cider and apple tastMORE: Explore the night ing, live music, wine tasting, “A NIGHT OF STARS sky and view distant galax- a farmers market and more.

AND DREAMS”: Celebrate ies, planets and nebulas Food and beverages will be the RiverBelle Dinner The- beginning at dark Friday, available for purchase. Free atre’s fifth anniversary with Oct. 19, at Fort Nugent admission. 360-321-4145 or a special musical variety Park, 2075 SW Fort Nugent www.goosefoot.org. show at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. Road, Oak Harbor. No 19, at the Old Town Grain- telescope is needed and all ery, 100 E. Montgomery, ages are welcome. Dress Mount Vernon. Up to 50 of warmly. Canceled if cloudy. the theater’s most popular Free. For information, call “stars” from the last five Dan Pullen at 360-679-7664 years will present an eveor visit www.icas-wa.webs. ning of magic, dance, music, com. cabaret and more. $40 dinner and show; $30 desAUTUMN TRAIN RIDE: sert buffet and show, $20 October 19,20,21 The Lake Whatcom Railshow only. Reservations AND way will offer special required: 360-336-3012 or 26, 27,28 autumn train rides at 10:30 www.riverbelledinner a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sattheatre.com. urday, Oct. 20, departing

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LOCAL MUSICIANS IN CONCERT: Enjoy an evening of music with local artists Marcia Kester, Heart Lake Owl, Scott Thomson and Bethany Lynn at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Diversity Hall, 500 W. Section St., Mount Vernon. $7 donation, includes snacks and desserts. 360-540-0770.

MORE FUN HONORING EDNA BREAZEALE: Bay View community members will host “A Celebration of the Life of Edna Breazeale”

from Wickersham Station, 10 miles north of SedroWoolley on Highway 9.

Enjoy a scenic 1 ½-hour ride through colorful fall foliage on vintage Northern Pacific Railway passenger cars built between 1910 and 1925. The ride includes a stop where passengers can take a short walk to a waterfall. Ben the banjo player will provide entertainment during the ride. $20 adults ages 18 and older, $10 children ages 2 to 17, free for ages 1 and younger. Advance purchase required. 360-595-2218 or

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