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Rock Hall of Fame

Music Reviews

At the Movies

Hip-hop giant Public Enemy changed the music landscape

Molly Ringwald, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iron & Wine

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “A Monster in Paris”: Paris is being terrorized by a very different kind of monster — a giant flea. He’s really not as much a monster as a dapper dresser and beautiful crooner who he gets to show his talent when he joins songstress Lucille (Vanessa Paradis) on stage. He’s able to pull off the ruse for a short time because of a “Phantom of the Opera” style disguise. Director and writer Bibo Bergeron (“Shark Tale”) has created a story about the power of love and how it’s wrong to judge people — or giant fleas — at first glance. Bergeron paints a fascinating picture of early 20th century France, from the concert halls to the Eiffel Tower. Equally impressive is the music score by Matthieu Chedid and Patrice Renson, along with strong musical performances. Sean Lennon is the singing voice of the flea. “A Monster in Paris” takes a few missteps, but overall it’s a sweet tribute to love that could get under your skin. “The Girl”: The made-for-cable movie shows how Tippi Hedren had two minor professional acting credits before getting selected to star in the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock thriller “The Birds.” A year later she headlined Hitchcock’s “Marnie.” What should have been a remarkable launch to her career turned into relentless sexual harassment by the iconic director, which often resulted in on-set abuse when she would rebuff his advances. Hedren was under a studio contract at the time and that meant she had no recourse but to try to survive the ordeal. Her story is told in the film starring Sienna Miller and Toby Jones. Miller brings a raw determination to the role, but it’s Jones who steals the movie with his creepy portrayal of the noted director. “The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia”: This latest tale of terror based on a true story offers a few good scares and a consistently creepy tone. It does fall into the horror film trap of gleaning a lot of its scares from terrorizing a child — in this case a young girl played by Emily Alyn Lind, who looks like a very young Drew Barrymore. Hiding behind the fact the story’s based on real events doesn’t excuse taking such an easy scare tactic. It does get points for an original backdrop, as you don’t see many hor-

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: APRIL 23 Broken City - Fox Gangster Squad - Warner A Haunted House - Universal

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APRIL 26 The Impossible - Lionsgate/ Summit APRIL 30 The Guilt Trip - Paramount Not Fade Away - Paramount MAY 7 Jack Reacher - Paramount Mama - Universal MAY 14 Back to 1942 - Well Go USA Cloud Atlas - Warner A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III - Lionsgate Texas Chainsaw 3D - Lionsgate n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

ror movies with a Civil War theme. The lead villain also could easily follow in the bloody footsteps of Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger. The film has a nice haunting feel to it even if it has a geographically confusing name. “Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore”: Iron Man must stop bio-enhanced monsters. “Not Suitable for Children”: A young man races to become a father. “Alice: The Complete Third Season”: Linda Lavin stars in the CBS comedy series set in a diner. “By Dawn’s Early Light”: Two pilots face the potential start of World War III. “Counting Cars: Season 1”: Danny Koker and his team restore cars. “Fraggle Rock: The Complete Second Season”: Tales of a group of an always busy group of tiny workers. “Django Unchained”: A freed slave ends up in a battle with a German bounty hunter. Jamie Foxx stars. “Parade’s End”: A young Judi Dench stars in this 1964 film adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel. “Spies of Warsaw”: David Tennant stars in the World War II spy drama. “Disneynature: Wings of Life”: Meryl Streep narrates. “Delhi Safari”: Mismatched animals take on the human race. n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

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Travel............................................6-7 Tulip Festival Schedule...............8-9 At the Lincoln Theatre.................... 9 On Stage........................................ 10 Tuning Up..................................... 11 Get Involved.................................. 12 Music Reviews............................... 13 Hot Tickets.................................... 14 Earth Day Events.......................... 14 Movie Listings............................... 17 Movie Mini-Reviews..................... 17 Out & About.............................18-19

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ON STAGE RESTLESS HEART

When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 19-20 Where: Skagit Valley Casino Resort, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow Tickets: $25-32, 877-275-2448 or www.ticketmaster.com/venue/123497

From left: Paul Gregg, John Dittrich, Larry Stewart, Greg Jennings and Dave Innis

STILL PLAYING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS guitar/vocals) and Dave Innis (keyboards/ vocals). The group’s lineup has shifted several Country music royalty comes to the times, but the current members have been Skagit Valley this weekend. friends for three decades, said Stewart, who Restless Heart, the Nashville-based spoke from Nashville last month, just hours group with four gold-certified albums and before the group was to leave and begin its more than 20 hits — including six to reach lengthy tour in upstate New York. No. 1 — to reach the Billboard magazine “We’re hitting it hard, and we’ll probably country charts, plays Friday and Saturday at hit it hard all the way through Christmas the Skagit Valley Casino Resort in Bow. — we’re going to doing another Christmas The band formed in 1984, and its current tour this year as well,” Stewart said. tour boasts the group’s original five memSpending time and miles on the tour bus bers: Larry Stewart (lead vocals/guitars), is something familiar to which the band has John Dittrich (drums/vocals), Greg Jenbecome accustomed, Stewart said. nings (lead guitar/vocals), Paul Gregg (bass “We’ve kind of figured out how to do Skagit Valley Herald staff @360_SVH

Country music band Restless Heart, celebrating its 30th anniversary with its five founding members, plays the Skagit

this,” he said. “We really love doing this — this is our favorite part, getting on stage, playing and singing together.” Celebrating the 30th anniversary of a band is a daunting accomplishment “with the original five guys still doing it,” Stewart said. “That doesn’t happen very often.” “There’s only one other band out of Nashville, in country music over the last 30 years or more, that still has the original band members from day one,” he added. “That’s Diamond Rio; they’re our buddies. So there’s only two bands left, so we’re really proud of the fact that we can kind of claim that.” The music business is full of stories of

bands that have been driven apart by any number of differences, few of them purely artistic. Stewart admits that Restless Heart endured growing pains when success came comparatively quickly. “I tell you what: we’re five guys and we have our differences, but what we love to do is play and sing together,” Stewart said. “We all get along great. It’s like one big family.” Along with its rigorous tour schedule, one of the next big projects is the band’s first Christmas album. Stewart said he looks forward to “having fun doing it.” “We’re all still healthy, and having a good time, still have our voices,” Stewart said. “And we love to perform.”

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MUSIC

WANTED BY THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: PUBLIC ENEMY

can often feel more immediate, that allowed the group to take a broader look at issues. NEW YORK — Public “Chuck D. and Flavor Flav Enemy’s Chuck D. doesn’t could theorize a little bit spend much time dwelling in more,” Hanley says. “Chuck the past. He’s too busy buildD. has often said that hip-hop ing the future. Ask him about was ‘CNN for black folks.’ the Long Island, N.Y., hipThey meant it that way. They hop group’s accomplishments meant it to be news. The fact since its debut in 1987, and that some of that stuff actuhe says, “So much has been ally became hits was kind of done, so much left to do.” amazing if you think about Ask music historians, it.” though, and the list quickly However, Public Enemy’s gets impressive — from induction into the Rock Hall introducing political protest shows that although many into hip-hop, pioneering of their songs were designed sampling and production to to address a timely issue — influence hip-hop’s sound for from Arizona’s decision to generations, and playing a not have a national holiday major role in the creation of honoring the Rev. Martin rap-metal. And that doesn’t Luther King Jr. (“By the even take into account the Time I Get to Arizona”) to quality of Public Enemy’s the lax response times of creations, which include arguemergency services in lowably the best hip-hop album income neighborhoods (“911 of all time, 1988’s “It Takes is a Joke”) — many of those a Nation of Millions to Hold songs were also timeless. Us Back,” and hip-hop’s It turns out, many also held Invision for Doritos via AP best song, 1989’s “Fight the international appeal. Public Enemy performs March 14 at the South by Power.” “When we play ‘Fight the Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. All of that should come up Power,’ and someone who this week, as Public Enemy was on the Eastern side of says. “Hank Shocklee and The Bomb — rappers Chuck D. and Flavor Flav, Germany says, ‘I can relate,’ that’s big,” DJ Terminator X and Minister of Infor- Squad were doing their sound, and it Chuck D. says. “When someone in Iremation Professor Griff — get inducted was a sound that was designed to be land says they can relate with their feelinto the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in noise in its truest sense … the music ings against the British Empire, that’s was going to be loud, it was going to be big. When somebody is in Africa and their first year of eligibility. However, most of that talk will come from others, aggressive. It was going to use samples Nelson Mandela is in prison, and they in a way nobody had ever done before say, ‘Look, we want to fight the power,’ including Harry Belafonte and Spike — layering all these things on top of Lee, who will induct them into the that’s big.” each other in a jumble, in a good way, Rock Hall. He says Public Enemy’s internain a way that was going make you have tional appeal helped it weather some “When you’re looking at a band or to listen to it. It sounded different. It group or artist who gets in on the first rough times in America and allowed sounded noisy, but it was meant to ballot, you’re looking at an artist who the group to flourish. be political noise as well. The words changed the landscape,” says Jason “We never had radio play really,” Chuck D. was speaking, the rhymes that he says. “We never were accepted into Hanley, the Rock and Roll Hall of he was rapping, they were meant to get mainstream circles, especially now. Fame’s director of education. “You’re at issues of race, of class, of all these talking about somebody who’s made With us, we were considered taboo — things in American society that people for reasons that we were blasphemous enough of an impact that everybody has to stand up and recognize it imme- talked about behind closed doors.” or misogynist or other reasons that Run-DMC’s DMC told the BBC diately. That’s not to say that people weren’t true, but they were just trying that when he first heard Public Enewho don’t get inducted right away to tag on us. We still found that outlet, aren’t great artists who changed things, my’s music, when the group was doing though, in 86 different countries.” but Public Enemy is a group that really a radio show at Adelphi University, he Public Enemy continues to cultivate changed things a lot.” described it like “God has come down that international following. The group Of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s from heaven to rock the mic.” That has a new album to promote “The Evil 279 artists, only 36 were inducted in description, as well as the song “PubEmpire of Everything,” featuring one their first year of eligibility — including lic Enemy No. 1,” landed the group a of the year’s best singles “Everything,” The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, U2 and major-label deal with Def Jam Records. as well as an upcoming summer tour Madonna. Public Enemy belongs in Hanley says that because Public with LL Cool J and De La Soul, and Enemy’s base was on Long Island rath- Ice Cube, fittingly called The Kings of that company. er than New York City, where concerns the Mic. “Their sound was so new,” Hanley By GLENN GAMBOA Newsday

The class of 2013 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2013 is one of the most eclectic in years. Here’s a look at who will be inducted alongside Public Enemy: RUSH Known for their ambitious, progressive rock and virtuoso playing, Rush — singer-bassist-keyboardist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart — became one of the biggest bands in the world when they were influenced by reggae, new wave and funk in the early ’80s. BIGGEST HIT: “New World Man” (1982, No. 21) MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS: “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight,” “Subdivisions” HEART Seattle’s Ann and Nancy Wilson started their careers as the hardest rockers around, with a string of hits so tough, from “Barracuda” to “Even It Up,” that no one would question whether they could keep up with the guys of the ’70s. They enjoyed even more success in the late ’80s with a poppier sound and ballads like “Alone” and “These Dreams.” BIGGEST HIT: “Alone” (1987, No. 1 for three weeks) MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS: “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” “What About Love?” ALBERT KING The Mississippi bluesman became one of the most influential guitarists, not through flashy riffs, but through his intensity and the inventive, memorable tones he achieved with his playing, influencing everyone from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan. King also became one of the first bluesmen to cross over into soul music in the ’50s. BIGGEST HIT: “Cold Feet” (1968, No. 67) MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS: “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Personal Manager,” “Don’t Throw Your Love on Me So Strong” RANDY NEWMAN Though Randy Newman is now best known for his work in the movies, he has a long career as a singer-songwriter, often with other artists — from Pat Boone and Nina Simone to Joe Cocker and Etta James — having more success with his songs than he did. Newman did succeed, though, with his own brand of musical satire, from “Short People” to “It’s Money That Matters.” BIGGEST HIT: “Short People” (1978, No. 2) MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS: “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” “Mama Told Me Not to Come,” “It’s Money That Matters” DONNA SUMMER “The Queen of Disco” had a career that spanned much more than that, from the electronic music forerunner “Love to Love You Baby” to the rock of “Cold Love,” the world beat of “State of Independence,” as well as gospel and, later, a return to ruling the clubs. However, few artists can match her dominance of pop in 1979, when she became the first woman to ever have two singles in the Top 3 simultaneously, with “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls.” BIGGEST HIT: “Bad Girls” (1979, No. 1 for five weeks) MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS: “Love to Love You Baby,” “Last Dance,” “She Works Hard for the Money” AHMET ERTEGUN AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Songwriter-producer and artist manager Lou Adler handled the careers of Carole King and the Mamas and the Papas, and musician-producer Quincy Jones. He’s best known for his work with Michael Jackson on “Thriller,” though he started his career as Dizzy Gillespie’s musical director. n Glenn Gamboa, Newsday

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THIS WEEKENDin the area CIVIL WAR READ-IN TRAINING Skagit County Historical Museum will present free training for the Washington State Historical Society’s public research project about the Civil War from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the La Conner Civic Garden Club, 622 S. Second St., La Conner. Learn how you can join people from throughout Washington as they research the impact the Civil War had on the Northwest. There is no charge to participate, but reservations are required. Contact Lorraine McConaghy at Lmcconaghy@ wshs.wa.gov. 360-466-3365 or visit www.skagitcounty.net/ museum.

KIDS’ GIANT GARAGE SALE Shop for all kinds of bargains from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 20, at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave. New and gently used items. Free admission. 360-755-9649 or www.ci.burlington.wa.us.

TULIP TWO-STEP Dance to the sounds of Hugo’s Accordion Band from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at the Fredonia Grange, 1225 McFarland Road, Mount Vernon. $15 donation per couple, $10 individual, $5 ages 6 to 12. Proceeds benefit the Skagit County Historical Museum. Advance tickets available at the museum or Stowe’s, 420 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. 360-466-3365.

Tulip Pedal

The 32nd annual Group Health/Safe Kids Skagit County Tulip Pedal will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday, April 20, at La Conner Middle School, 305 N. Sixth St. The event includes 20-, 40and 60-mile courses around tulip fields between Mount Vernon and La Conner, near Samish and Padilla bays, and features views of Mount Baker and the Cascade foothills. Proceeds will benefit child injury prevention efforts in Skagit County. Entry fee: $30 advance, $35 day of race. Jerseys are available for $12. Children ages 14 and younger ride free. To register online, visit www.active.com. 360-428-3236 or www.skagitems.com.

WORTHY FEST The fifth annual festival of music and art will take place Friday and Saturday, April 19-20, in Whatcom County. The musical lineup includes Yogoman Burning Band (pictured), Johnny Monsoon, True Spokes, Kytami, Darrius Washington, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, the Staxx Brothers and many more. Two-day pass: $60. One-day: $40. Includes parking and camping. For tickets and information, including the festival location, visit www.worthyfest.com.

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N.J. city seeks to capitalize on twin landmarks By SAMANTHA HENRY Associated Press

PATERSON, N.J. — Mention America’s historic landmarks and most people will envision battlefields, statues or beautiful scenery, not a crumbling, graffiticovered shell of a ball field surrounded by abandoned cars, broken glass and piles of garbage. The years of neglect can’t erase what Hinchliffe Stadium once was, a hub of activity that in its heyday was filled to capacity for Negro League games featuring future Hall of Famers Satchel Paige, Larry Doby and Monte Irvin and teams like the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cubans and the Newark Eagles. The once-grand Art Deco stadium earned designation last month as a national landmark — less than two years after the nearby Great Falls, a powerful 77-foot waterfall that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, became a national park. The twin successes have stirred pride in this struggling working-class city beset by decades of crime and financial difficulties. Now, those who fought to gain recognition for the two sites face new challenges in trying to turn them into major attractions and an economic boost for Paterson, whose textile mills in the late 19th and early 20th centuries earned it the name Silk City. The National Park Service is working to acquire land around the waterfall from the city and other owners and to develop a plan to make the park more visitor friendly, said Darren Boch, park superintendent. An audio tour will be available this month, narrat-

ed by NBC “Nightly News” anchor and New Jersey native Brian Williams, with contributions from Paterson native and New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz. It addresses the confusion visitors may feel visiting a park built around a waterfall in the heart of a densely packed city of nearly 150,000, less than 15 miles from Manhattan. “For a lot of Americans, the idea of a national park evokes the likes of Yellowstone or Yosemite, and like them, this national park features a spectacular natural wonder,” Williams narrates. He speaks further about how Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first treasury secretary, envisioned harnessing the power of the falls to create the nation’s first planned industrial city in Paterson, helping to transform America from an agrarian society into an industrial powerhouse capable of breaking free from British control. Generations of immigrant workers were employed in factories powered by energy from the Great Falls, where water from the Passaic River rushes over at a rate of 2 billion gallons per day, making it the second-largest waterfall east of the Mississippi River, by volume, next to Niagara Falls. “That’s what sets apart the visitor experience here,” Boch said. “You have the two experiences: a natural wonder in an urban landscape that goes to the heart of the industrial American experience.” Those who worked for years to save the ballpark, which was also famous for midget car racing and fielded generations of local

TOP: Deteriorating Hinchliffe Stadium, built as a public works project municipal stadium in 1932, is shown in Paterson, N.J. LEFT: A a crumbling staircase is shown next to Great Falls. Water from the Passaic River rushes over at a rate of 2 billion gallons per day, making it the second largest waterfall east of the Mississippi River, by volume, next to Niagara Falls. Mel Evans / AP

school teams, hope to one day have it included in the footprint of the national park. It’s just as important a part of American history, they say, though it represents a different era. It’s one of only a handful of Negro Leagues stadiums still around, according to the group Friends of Hinchliffe

Stadium, which fought for years to save the structure. The list of baseball greats who played there — to integrated audiences in 20th century, segregated America — include 11 players in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Among them are Doby, who went to high school in Paterson before

becoming the first AfricanAmerican player to integrate the American League, and Irvin. Irvin recounted recently how thrilled he had been in 1938 to set foot in Hinchliffe Stadium for the first time as a 17-year-old trying out for the Newark Eagles and to hear someone call out to his

idol, Buck Leonard, “Hey, Buck, who is that youngster?” “I want people to know that it was one of the famous parks where the Negro Leagues played, some of the biggest stars played there,” Irvin, now 94, told The Associated Press from his home in Houston.

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TRAVEL Maybe baseball can again become very prominent at the park.” Paterson city officials hope so, too. Hinchliffe is owned by the school system, which shut it down in 1997 because it could no longer afford to keep it up. Renovation cost estimates reach as high as $20 million to bring the park back to life. The City Council voted to recognize it as local landmark a few weeks ago and have allocated $1.5 million for its immediate stabilization, Mayor Jeffery Jones said. The next challenge, the mayor and others have said, will be trying to raise the rest of the funds from private donors, grants and the state to restore the stadium to its former glory. The efforts in Paterson to win national status for the falls and the ballpark were aided by a growing push to recognize the nation’s quieter heroes: the immigrant laborer or the Negro Leagues player who may not have had Jackie Robinson’s name recognition but fought alongside him to change the status quo, said Giacomo DeStefano, director of the Paterson Museum.

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A man walks past an entrance to Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, N.J. Mel Evans AP

The move to get the waterfall designated a national park also dovetailed with the recognition by the National Park Service that it needed to attract more minorities to parks to sustain the system in an increasingly diverse America, said Leonard Zax, president of the Hamilton Partnership for Paterson, which lobbied Congress for federal recognition of both sites. With nearly 60 percent of Paterson’s

population of Latino descent and more than 30 percent African-American, the city fit in perfectly with the Park Service’s vision of a “‘national park for the 21st century,” Zax said. Zax calls the waterfall “the most spectacular, natural, beautiful place in America that virtually no one has ever heard of.” “Go now, before the crowds come,” he said.

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Masters: Their Treasures of Seattle.” Afterward “NEPAL: A GLIMPSE the bus will take a short INTO ANOTHER WORLD”: ride to the Frye Museum 7 p.m. Wednesday, April to view the art of Nicolai 24, Anacortes Public Fechin. $50 covers bus Library, 1220 10th St., ride, admission, box lunch Anacortes. Hilary Walker and other refreshments. maps out her recent five- Register by April 21: 360week journey through the 466-3365. streets and mountains of Nepal. Free. 360-293-1910, TRAVEL SEMINAR: ext. 21, or library.cityof “River Cruises,” 6 p.m. anacortes.org. Thursday, May 2, AAA Mount Vernon office, 1600 ART BUS TOUR: “The E. College Way, Suite A. Masters” and Nicolai RSVP: 360-848-2090. Fechin, Sunday, April 28. The Skagit County GALAPAGOS TRIP: The Historical Museum will Oak Harbor Senior Cenlead a bus tour from the ter is organizing a smallFarmhouse Restaurant group trip to the Galapain Mount Vernon to the gos Islands and Machu Seattle Art Museum to Picchu on Oct. 15-28. see the exhibits “RemOpen to all adults. Space brandt, Van Dyck, Gains- is limited; contact Pat Gardner at 360-279-4582 borough: The Treasures or pgardner@oakharbor. of Kenwood House, London” and “European org.

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DISPLAY GARDENS

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April 18-25

Tulip Town, 15002 Bradshaw Road, Mount Vernon: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. $5, free for ages 10 and younger. 360-424-8152. Roozengarde, 15867 Beaver Marsh Road, Mount Vernon: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. $5, $4 military with ID, free for ages 10 and younger. 360-424-8531. Azusa Farm and Gardens, 14904 Highway 20, Mount Vernon: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. 360-424-1580. Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. 360-466-3821. Skagit Valley Gardens, 18923 Peter Johnson Road, Mount Vernon: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. 360-424-6760. WSU Discovery Garden, 16650 Highway 536, Mount Vernon: Dawn to dusk daily.

KIWANIS 26TH ANNUAL SALMON BARBECUE April 18-25: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, Hillcrest Lodge, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Alder grilled salmon with baked potato, coleslaw, garlic bread, beverages and ice cream. $12 adults, $10 child/senior plate. Visa/MC accepted. Groups of 15 or more, call for reservations 360-428-5959.

POSTER SIGNING Tulip Festival poster artist Karen Sistek will sign 2013 festival posters and

2013 SKAGIT VALLEY TULIP FESTIVAL

offer other artwork on the following dates: Saturday, April 20: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at RoozenGaarde, 15867 Beaver Marsh Road, Mount Vernon. Sunday, April 21: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tulip Town, 15002 Bradshaw Road, Mount Vernon.

HISTORICAL MUSEUM

program, which showcases Skagit Valley high school artists, at the Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday. $8, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4446 or www. museumofnwart.org.

ANACORTES QUILT WALK April 18-25: See a wide variety of quilts and wearable art garments on display in downtown Anacortes businesses during regular shop hours. Maps available at participating businesses and the Anacortes Visitors Center. Free. 360-333-9311 or www.fidalgoislandquilt ers.com.

April 18-21, 23-25: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Featuring “Skagit Sets Sail: A Maritime History of Skagit County.” $5 adults, $4 DOWNTOWN ages 6-12; $10 fami- BURLINGTON MASTER GARDENER children lies. Free for members and ‘STEP-ON’ GUIDES ages 5 and younger. 360-466- ART WALK April 18-25: Check out Have a WSU Skagit 3365 or www.skagitcounty. original artwork along County Master Gardener net/museum. Fairhaven Avenue in downact as your tour guide to the town Burlington. Tour Skagit Valley. For reservaLA CONNER brochures available at the tions, call 360-848-9053 or Visitor Information Center, email tonitulip@comcast.net. SCULPTURE TOUR April 18-25: Area artists 520 E. Fairhaven. Free. 360display their work at vari755-9717 or 360-757-0994. CHILDREN’S ous sites around La Conner. MUSEUM Maps available at La ConLA CONNER IN April 18-25: 10 a.m. to 5 ner Chamber of Commerce p.m. Monday through Satur- and participating merchants. BLOOM: TULIP QUILT CHALLENGE day; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; Free. 360-466-3125. 8:30 to 10 a.m. toddler TuesApril 18-25: Check out day, 550 Cascade Mall Drive, tulip-themed quilts and fiber STUDENT ART Burlington. Activities for artwork at the La Conner April 18-25: See the top children ages 10 and younger. Quilt & Textile Museum, $5.25. Free for ages younger four designs from the 2013 703 S. Second St., La ConStudent Design Outreach than 1. 360-757-8888. ner. Created and donated by area quilters, all quilts are for sale with proceeds to benefit the installation of the Commemorative Brick Pathway. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. $7 admission. 360-466-4288 or www.laconnerquilts.com.

ART BASH April 18-25: Art League North’s annual Fine Art Multi-Media Exhibition is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily in the upstairs gallery at The Farmhouse Restau-

rant, 13724 La Conner-Whit- SPRING WINE AND ney Road, Mount Vernon. TULIP FESTIVAL Free admission. Weekly April 18-22, 25: Sample raffles will benefit scholarpremium wines, local gourships for local students. 360met foods and specialty 466-0382. products from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through ART IN A Mondays at Carpenter PICKLE BARN Creek Winery, 20376 E. April 18-25: Azusa Farm Hickox Road, Mount Ver& Gardens, 14904 Highway non. 20, Mount Vernon. The 24th Saturday, April 20: Enjoy Skagit Art Association show live music with Kimball features award-winning art and the Fugitives featuring in a variety of media. Free Stickshift Annie from 6 to 9 admission. The show conp.m. $7 band donation. 360tinues from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 848-6673 or www.carpenter daily. www.skagitart.org. creek.com. Saturday, April 20: Andante Kirkland Youth STREET FAIR Choir, 2 to 3 p.m. April 19-21: The 29th Monday, April 22: Artannual Tulip Festival Street ist demonstration with Rita Fair is set for 10 a.m. to 6 Martin, 2:30 to 5 p.m. p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, along First Street in April 18-25: Tulip Valley downtown Mount Vernon. Winery & Orchard, 16163 Enjoy live entertainment, Highway 536, Mount Verchildren’s activities and a non. The show continues variety of food, with more from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon- than 100 juried arts and day through Thursday, 10 crafts vendors. 360-336-3801 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through or www.mountvernondown Sunday through April 30. town.org. Free admission and parking. 360-428-6894. LINCOLN THEATRE

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April 19-21: Get a behind the scenes look at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon, during the Tulip Festival Street Fair. 360-336-8955 or www.lincoln theatre.org.

April 18-25: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Members of the Stanwood Camano Arts Guild offer a variety of original artworks and demonstrations at the historic 1888 schoolhouse at ChrisTULIP PEDAL tianson’s Nursery & GreenSaturday, April 20: The house, 15806 Best Road, 32nd annual Group Health/ Mount Vernon. 360-466-3821 Safe Kids Skagit County or www.stanwoodarts.com. Tulip Pedal will begin way at 7 a.m. at La Conner Middle PLEASANT School, 305 N. Sixth St. The RIDGE GALLERY Tulip Pedal includes 20-, 40and 60-mile courses around April 18-25: 10 a.m. to 6 tulip fields between Mount p.m. daily, Pleasant Ridge Vernon and La Conner, near Gallery at the Rexville Samish and Padilla bays, Grange, 19299 Rexville and features views of Mount Grange Road, Mount VerBaker and the Cascade footnon. Select from a superb collection of fine crafts and hills. Proceeds will benefit child art by local artists, includinjury prevention efforts in ing ceramics, paintings and Skagit County. Entry fee: prints, wearable art, glass, wood, jewelry, herbal prod- $30 advance, $35 day of race. ucts and more. 360-466-0477. Jerseys are available for

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$12. Children ages 14 and younger ride free. To register online, visit www.active. com. For information, call 360-428-3236 or visit www. skagitems.com.

TULIP FESTIVAL CONCERT Saturday, April 20: “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: A Tulip Festival Concert” at 7 p.m. at Bethany Covenant Church, 1318 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. Features Bethany’s adult and children’s choirs and the Bethany Bells. Free. 360-424-9399 or www. bccmv.net.

KIDS’ GIANT GARAGE SALE Saturday, April 20: 9 a.m. to noon at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave. New and gently used items. Free admission. 360-755-9649 or www.ci.burlington.wa.us.

TULIP TWO-STEP Sunday, April 21: Dance to the sounds of Hugo’s Accordion Band from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Fredonia Grange, 1225 McFarland Road, Mount Vernon. $15 donation per couple, $10 individual, $5 ages 6 to 12.

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Proceeds benefit the Skagit County Historical Museum. Advance tickets available at the museum or Stowe’s, 420 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. 360-466-3365.

TULIP SALE April 18-25: The Mount Vernon Lions Club will sell fresh-cut tulips from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at Lions Park, 501 Freeway Drive, Mount Vernon. Tulips will also be available for delivery. Proceeds benefit community residents who require financial assistance for eye and hearing exams, eyeglasses and hearing aids. 360-424-1888.

AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon 360-336-8955 n www.lincolntheatre.org

‘The Secret Garden’

7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 18-20 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 This enchanting classic of children’s literature is re-imagined in musical style. Orphaned in India, 11 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive Uncle Archibald and his invalid son, Colin. The estate’s many wonders include a magic garden that beckons the children with haunting melodies and the “Dreamers,” spirits from Mary’s past who guide her through her new life, dramatizing “The Secret Garden’s” compelling tale of forgiveness and renewal. Reserved seating; $24, $20, $16 and $10.

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David Lorente (from left), Karen Pollack, Chloe Forsyth and Abe Nurkiewicz are featured in META Performing Arts’ production of “The Secret Garden,” playing this week at the Lincoln Theatre.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area April 18-25

TUNING UP Playing at area venues April 18-25

Thursday.18

SATURDAY.20

DANCE

Faculty Dance Concert: Western Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.

RED HOUSE 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

MUSIC

“Spring Fling”: Concrete High School Jazz Band, 6 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. Music, silent auction and snacks. $10, $5 students. Proceeds benefit Concrete School District music program. 360-941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre.com.

THEATER

“The Secret Garden” (musical): META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org. “Legally Blonde, the Musical”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

Friday.19 COMEDY

Comedy Night with “Big Irish” Jay Hollingsworth and Tyler Smith: 8 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $10 cover. 360-755-3956. Burlington Mid-Day Rotary 10th annual Comedy Night: with David Crowe, 6 p.m., St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. $25, includes hors d’oeuvres, live and silent auctions. Beer and wine available for purchase. 360-770-3160.

DANCE

Faculty Dance Concert: Western Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.

MUSIC

“Music for the Masses”: 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, 1511 E. Broadway, Mount Vernon. Free. www.facebook.com/pages/Music-for-theMasses/147364138761994.

THEATER

“The Secret Garden” (musical): META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

FRIDAY.19 COMEDY NIGHT WITH “BIG IRISH” JAY HOLLINGSWORTH (PICTURED) AND TYLER SMITH 8 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $10 cover. 360-755-3956. “The Producers” (musical comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$40. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org. “Legally Blonde, the Musical”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com. “Cinderella (Cendrillon)” (performed in French with English captions): Western Washington University’s Opera Studio, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center, room 16, Bellingham. $10-$16. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.

Saturday.20 DANCE

Faculty Dance Concert: Western Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.

THEATER

“The Secret Garden” (musical): META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincoln theatre.org. “The Producers” (musical comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$40. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org. “Legally Blonde, the Musical”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

TUESDAY.23 BETTY DESIRE 9 p.m. to midnight, 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount “Cinderella (Cendrillon)” (performed in French with English captions): Western Washington University’s Opera Studio, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center, room 16, Bellingham. $10-$16. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.

Tuesday.23 MUSIC

Sunday.21

Novoselye (Folk singers from Lomonosov, Russia): 7 p.m. Croatian Cultural Center, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. $10. Reservations required: 360-293-6923 or fuqua4@comcast.net.

DANCE

VARIETY

Faculty Dance Concert: Western Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, 2 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.

MUSIC

“Kids Reaching Kids” Youth Concert Series: 3 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. Admission by donation. 360-354-3600. A Tulip Concert for Kids: featuring pianist Helen Kimzey Plowman and other performers, 4 p.m., Allen United Methodist Church, 16775 Allen West Road, Bow. The event also will feature a dessert auction. 360-757-0336

THEATER

“The Secret Garden” (musical): META Performing Arts, 2 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or www.lincoln theatre.org. “Legally Blonde, the Musical”: 2 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

Betty Desire: 9 p.m. to midnight, 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $3 cover. 360-336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

Wednesday.24 VARIETY

“Bedtime Stories For Grown-Ups”: featuring novelists Chuck Palahniuk, Chelsea Cain and Monica Drake, 6 to 10 p.m., The Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St., Bellingham. Wear sleepover attire and bring pillows, flashlights, sleeping bags and/or blankets. Prizes, cocktails, music and more. $30, includes one beverage ticket and a signed hardcover copy of Monica Drake’s new novel, “The Stud Book.” Ages 21 and older. 360-671-2626.

Thursday.25 THEATER

“The Secret Garden” (musical): META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. “Pay-as-you-can” night. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org. “Legally Blonde, the Musical”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

FRIDAY.19 DADDY TREETOPS 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $5 cover. 360-445-3000.

THURSDAY.18 Jerri Lee Mercer (jazz, theater classics): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.

FRIDAY.19 Mike Eldred: 8 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. 360-336-3012 or www.riverbelledin nertheatre.com.

Daddy Treetops: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $5 cover. 360-445-3000.

Steve Meyer, Ben Starner (piano): 8 to 10 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666266.

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

The Clouds Band: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-755-0165.

Bad Powers, Dog Shredder, Great Falls, Totalizer: 9:30 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-778-1067.

John Dennis (jazz, blues): 6:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360354-3600.

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

Prozac Mountain Boys (bluegrass): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $7 cover. 360-445-3000.

Red House: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Nigel Mustafa, The Skablins: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-7553956.

RJ Knapp and The Honey Robins (blues): 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Longhorn Saloon, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6330.

Johnny Bulldog: Oak Harbor Music Festival fundraiser: 8 p.m., The Roller Barn, 98 NE Barron, Oak Harbor. $25. www.oakharborfes tival.com.

Maps & Atlases, Young Man: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8-$10. 360-778-1067.

SATURDAY.20 Marcia Kester: Noon to 2 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $5. 360-3363012.

SUNDAY.21 Marcia Kester: Noon to 2 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $5. 360-3363012.

WEDNESDAY.24 Knut Bell & The Blue Collars: 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-855-2263.

Fidalgo Swing: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360588-1720.

THURSDAY.25 NOMEANSNO, Ford Pier, Girl Guts: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $10-$12. 360-778-1067.

Duo Lido: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.