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Festival of Trees

Music Reviews

Roger Ebert

Hospital foundation hosts 24th annual event this weekend

Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Brian Eno, Janis Martin, Rosie Flores

Exploring the puzzle that was famed director Alfred Hitchcock

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “The Expendables 2”: Sylvester Stallone leads an all-star action team into battle again.

What passes for a plot has Barney (Stallone) and his muscle-bound merry men forced into a suicide mission to stop a crazy mercenary, Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme), from stealing truckloads of nuclear material.

You really don’t need to know any more.

The film has one rule: Go astronomically big or go home. That’s why this explosive sequel is an overblown, testosterone-driven assault on the senses loaded with aging action stars who make up a senior citizen brigade.

This is absurd filmmaking at its finest because the action often goes above and beyond the most violent military role-playing video games.

It’s not a spoof, but it gets dangerously close.

“Tarantino XX”: The box set includes eight films by director Quentin Tarantino to celebrates two decades of movie making: “Reservoir Dogs” (1992); “True Romance” (1993); “Pulp Fiction” (1994); “Jackie Brown” (1997); “Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003),” “Kill Bill: Vol. 2” (2004); “Death Proof” (2007); and “Inglourious Basterds” (2009).

The set would be worth owning just for “Reservoir Dogs,” an outstanding crime drama that became a major influence on filmmakers who embraced the genre.

Toss in “Pulp Fiction” and the “Kill Bill” movies, and this collection shows Tarantino’s passion for big action, spinning cameras, snappy dialogue and intriguing characters.

Tarantino’s work can be hit and miss, but these movies are generally all hits.

“2012 World Series Champion Season in Review: San Francisco Giants”: Highlights of the World Series-winning season.

“Transformers Prime: Season Two”: It’s a new beginning for the Autobots. The DVD set includes 26 episodes of the animated cable TV series.

“Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups”: The North Pole has a new litter of playful pups who want to help at the holidays.

“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Complete Series”: All of

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:

NOV. 27 The Apparition - Warner The Day - Anchor Bay Lawless - Anchor Bay ParaNorman - Universal NOV. 30 Men in Black 3 - Sony Sparkle - Sony

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DEC. 4 Beasts of the Southern Wild - Fox Butter - Anchor Bay Hope Springs - Sony The Odd Life of Timothy Green Disney DEC. 11 The Bourne Legacy - Universal Ice Age: Continental Drift - Fox Ted - Universal DEC. 18 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Fox 10 Years - Anchor Bay Trouble With the Curve - Warner

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DEC. 21 Arbitrage - Lionsgate Premium Rush - Sony n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

the adventures of the original Power Rangers are in one set.

“Bringing Up Bobby”: Milla Jovovich stars in this story of a con artist and her 10-year-old son living in Oklahoma.

“Diff’rent Strokes: The Complete Fourth Season”: Arnold and Willis are back for more misadventures.

“Christmas with Danny Kaye”: Two episodes of the variety show starring Danny Kaye.

“The Dust Bowl”: Four-hour documentary by Ken Burns that looks at how human blindness to the balance of nature destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains throughout the 1930s.

“Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True / Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time”: Two made-for-video adventures starring Cinderella and her friends.

“Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day”: Led Zeppelin reunites for a tribute concert for Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

“Frank Sinatra: The Golden Years”: Musical special starring Frank Sinatra. n By Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 - E3

ON STAGE

A holiday classic comes to Anacortes

Photos by Craig Parrish / Skagit Valley Herald

Anacortes Community Theatre presents “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” which opens Friday and runs through Dec. 22.

‘Irving Berlin’s White Christmas’ When: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 23-Dec. 22 Where: Anacortes Community Theatre, 10th and M St., Anacortes Tickets: $20; 360-2936829 or www.acttheatre. com/ticket_info.html

true “Let’s Put On A Show!” mentality, the group — with a great deal of help — aims to save the Vermont Inn from financial The music of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” is a timeless, priceless treasure, ruin.

The inn is run by a former Army general, and the Anacortes Community Theatre gets its turn to share it this holiday season. and his assistant is a former Broadway Rebecca Launius-Brown directs, choreo- starlet. The show — to be performed in graphs and is one of the dancers in the pro- an actual barn — has its share of offstage drama, and it’s up to the collective showbiz duction, which opens Friday, Nov. 23, and energy to save the day. runs Thursdays through Sundays through In addition to the legendary title song, Dec. 22 — the group’s 250th production. songs include “Happy Holiday,” “I’ve Got It’s winter 1954, and the tale finds Bob, Phil, Betty and Judy as the lead performers My Love to Keep Me Warm,” “How Deep in a song-and-dance review; it turns out the Is the Ocean” and “Snow,” a collection of musical show-stoppers as there’s ever been. quartet has a bit of history as well. In the Skagit Valley Herald staff

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EW YORK — Is there anything Ang Lee can’t do?

The pithy answer might be: Large, angry, green men.

Yes, Lee’s “Hulk” was not well received. But in his incredibly varied filmography, Lee has steadily steered films that could very well have turned disastrous into box-office hits and Oscar bait.

Combining martial arts with drama? “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” became the highest-grossing foreign language film ever, more than double any previous foreign film. A film about gay cowboys? “Brokeback Mountain” went on to be nominated for eight Oscars, winning three including best director.

Few filmmakers have been so drawn to such delicate material where even slight shifts in tone or execution could mean the difference between a hit or a flop. That couldn’t be truer for Lee’s new film, “Life of Pi,” a supreme balancing act for a filmmaker accustomed to working on tightropes.

In an interview the day after “Life of Pi” premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, Lee sat down with obvious relief. Asked how he was doing, Lee exhaled: “Better than I thought.”

The first screening had gone well: the 3-D “Life of Pi” was greeted as a success and immediately added to the Oscar race.

For even Lee, knowing which side of the sword a film of his will fall isn’t clear until the first audience sees it.

“I’ve been holding this anxiety for a long time. It’s an expensive movie,” says Lee. “It’s really like the irrational number of pi. For a long time it felt that way — not making sense.”

“Life of Pi,” which 20th Century Fox released last week, contains, Lee says, “all the no’s” of filmmaking: kid actors, live animals and oceans of water. It’s adapted from Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 novel, in which a deadly shipwreck maroons a boy (Suraj Sharma) on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

Not only does filming such a tale involve considerable challenges, the story is ultimately a

For Ang Lee, all movies are a leap of faith Story by JAKE COYLE Associated Press Photo 20th Century Fox via AP

spiritual journey — and matters of God and faith are far from typical blockbuster fodder. For those reasons and others, the project went through several previously attached directors, including Alfonso Cuaron, M. Night Shyamalan and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Lee, then, was a kind of savior, one of few directors capable of corralling all the difficult elements of “Life of Pi.” His imprimatur helps carry it, given that the cast is one of unknowns (Sharma, only 17 when cast, hadn’t previously acted), digital creations (a combination of real tigers and digital effects were used) and international actors (Irrfan Khan, Gerard Depardieu).

Tobey Maguire, who starred in Lee’s “The Ice Storm” and “Ride With the Devil,” was initially meant to give the film a dose of star power, but he was recast (with Rafe Spall) after proving an awkward fit.

Elizabeth Gabler, president of Fox 2000 Pictures, calls the film — whose budget exceeded $100 million — a huge gamble. The international cast and the PG-13 rating, Gabler says, will hopefully make “Life of Pi” ”an international adventure for people of all ages.”

“Why do I dare, a Chinese director, do Jane Austen when I still speak pigeon English?” Lee says, referring to his 1995 film “Sense and Sensibility.” “It’s still a leap of faith, you’re taking a risk. Every movie is unknown. If it’s known, then no studio would lose money.”

Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, where he initially pursued acting. Artistic endeavor in ’60s and ’70s Taiwan, he says, was considered a low profession and not the choice of his father.

Ever since, patriarchs have been a connecting tissue in Lee’s protean filmography. Responding to a comment that father figures — including one in “Life of Pi”

— have often been focal points in his films, Lee corrects: “I think always.”

“I never rebelled against him but he told me what I do is,” he says. “The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that’s not dramatic.”

Lee emigrated from Taiwan to attend college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then film school at New York University. The 58-year-old still lives in the New York area, the Westchester suburbs, with his wife and two sons.

His first three films, all in Mandarin and revolving around Chinese families, were followed by a distinct break with “Sense and Sensibility,” his Hollywood arrival. But it was 1997’s “The Ice Storm,” an adaptation of Rick Moody’s novel about a Connecticut family’s disaster in the swinging ’70s, that Lee says changed

his perception of filmmaking and set him on a new path.

“A movie is really provocation,” says Lee. “It’s not a message, it’s not a statement. Before I thought: I have a story to tell, not even thinking of myself as an auteur. But that is a precious lesson to me, to take a step back — a respectful step back.”

“Something about cinema, how it works in wonders, you just have to respect it,” he adds. “You should never believe fully like you know.”

“Life of Pi” was certainly full of its own lessons and trials. Lee spent a year making a 70-minute previsual animation of the middle chunk of the film set at sea. He had a giant water tank built in an abandoned airport in his native Taiwan, (“Taiwan will do anything for me,” he joked at the NYFF). Still, because of the considerable technical challenges, he says he only got an eighth of his planned shot list.

He was led to 3-D not by James Cameron’s “Avatar,” which was released after planning on “Life of Pi” began, but by searching for “another dimension” to tell such a story. The results, achieved with cinematographer Claudio Miranda, are perhaps the best 3-D work since “Avatar,” including a memorable flying fish scene and the glorious visuals of a whale surfacing in moonlight.

For the film’s young star, the gentle, humble, self-deprecating Lee was a mentor.

“He makes you so calm that you just let him mold you into whatever he wants to mold you into,” Sharma says. “He really showed me that I could do a lot more than I ever thought I was capable of doing.”

Lee may be “a Zen master” like Sharma claims, but his tranquility won’t abide one thing: Anyone who doesn’t cherish the precious chance to make a movie.

“If you don’t give 100 percent, I get mad,” he says.

It’s enough of an all-consuming process that Lee doesn’t contemplate his next film until he has seen through the present one.

He says: “I’m still surviving this one.”

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 - E5

COMING UPin the area

Festival of Trees Gala The Skagit Valley Hospital Foundation’s 24th annual Festival of Trees Gala Auction is set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. The black-tie gala and auction will include hors d’oeuvres and beverages, live music and a live auction of more than two dozen designer-decorated trees and other items. $100. Proceeds will benefit a project to enhance and upgrade the Cardiac Care Services Special Observation Unit at Skagit Valley Hospital.

The Festival of Trees will be open for public viewing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, at St. Joseph Center. View more than two dozen designer-decorated trees and enjoy kids’ activities, live entertainment, photos with Santa and more. $5 adults, $3 children ages 18 and younger, $2 seniors. 360-814-5747.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR The Guemes Island Historical Society will presents the Guemes Island Holiday Bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at the community hall, 7549 Guemes Island Road, Anacortes. Homemade caramels, art calendars, jewelry, homemade soap, bakery, and many more unique gifts. 360293-3721 or 360-202-3861.

JAZZ AT THE CENTER Jennifer Scott will perform at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $20.

Cash bar available.

360-3870222 or www.camanocenter.org.

‘AN EVENING OF BROADWAY HITS Enjoy all-star casts, sensational music and stunning productions at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 Tenth St. Nick Alphin will present highlights and favorites from acclaimed Broadway musicals, recorded live: “Les Misérables,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Love Never Dies,” “Chicago,” Fosse, Chess and “Elaine Paige: Celebrating 40 Years on Stage.” Free. library. cityoanacortes.org or 360-2931910, ext. 21.

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E6 - Thursday, November 22, 2012

REVIEWS MUSIC CDS Compiled from news services

Rihanna

“Unapologetic” Only four years after the singer Rihanna broke through with her megahit “Umbrella,” the brand Rihanna has firmly established itself.

The brand has quarterly deadlines to hit, profit margins to tally, employs highly skilled professionals to have meetings on the comings and goings of one of the world’s preeminent pop stars. And when the seductress from Barbados has a fresh product to launch, as she does with her new album, “Unapologetic,” the machine runs in overdrive.

Were all this effort in service of a new fast-food burger launch — “Unapologetic” is the aural equivalent — the pitch might read, “More defiant, now featuring dubstep!” Which is to say, while the new Rihanna record may be at times sonically exciting, what resides beneath the new bass-heavy, Skrillex-inspired music is still a fast-food burger, one with a lot of extra sauce and disturbing ingredients.

Said trouble arrives all over the place but most obviously within “Nobody’s Business,” a duet between Rihanna and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. And anyone who’s been following their tempestuous relationship — it got violent the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards — can fill in the blanks.

A love song, “Nobody’s Business” is like a sad inversion of Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe.” Instead of singing about connection, true love and wanting to shout it to the world, the song features a confessed abuser and the woman he violently assaulted asking everyone to shut up and leave them alone.

She and Brown sing these words as a duet, which negates their entire argument; it feels like a pose that only invites a new round of media attention, something that both had to understand when they were singing it in the studio. It’s a little sickening, because for the first time since the incident, her addressing the complicated issue feels not like a defense of love but a marketing maneuver, a way of turning a beat-down into cash.

She follows “Nobody’s Business” with

“Love Without Tragedy/ Mother Mary,” prompting more confusion. After just informing her listeners that there’s nothing more to say, she seems to dredge up that fateful night in the song’s opening verse. “Who knew the course of this one drive / injured us fatally / You took the best years of my life / I took the best years of your life.” Then she goes further: “Felt like love struck me in the night / I prayed that love don’t strike twice.”

Another nausea-inducing track, “Pour It Up,” suggests that the latter is the main goal of “Unapologetic.” The opening line — “Throw it up, watch it all fall out” — seems like an ode to getting sick, in fact, until it becomes clear that Rihanna is singing about money, strip clubs, doing shots of tequila and “making it rain” with bills.

These lyrical turns poison her seventh studio album, a title whose meaning reeks of defensiveness instead of defiance, even while musically, Rihanna has evolved into one of the more forward-thinking pop divas. She’s gone all-in on dubstep, the bass-heavy subgenre featuring wobbly synthetic noises and big, noisy bass-drops.

at anger in a way that’s noncommittal and forced. The R&B-pop crackle of “Your Body” — indeed, the topic of sex in and of itself — is better suited to Xtina’s heated vocals. With louche sensuality, she puts all of herself into its off-kilter groove.

In the same way, only some of Aguilera’s slow numbers are true successes.

“Sing for Me,” the obligatory power ballad, is too darn “universal” and cloying. But she’s at home with the intimate country-soul yawn of “Just a Fool” (with “Voice” judge Blake Shelton) and the lover-come-back blues of “Blank Page.”

Good, but not great. n A.D. Amorosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Janis Martin

“The Blanco Sessions”

gives Patsy Cline a run for her money.

“The Blanco Sessions” was co-produced by Rosie Flores, the veteran singer and guitarist who is one of Martin’s most ardent disciples. On her own new album, she performs Martin’s “Drugstore Rock and Roll.” As a rocker, Flores doesn’t have the heft of her idol, but she does have her strengths, and “Working Girl’s Guitar” is best when she veers from her Rockabilly Filly persona for the likes of the dreamy “Yeah Yeah,” the New Orleans-style R&B balladry of “If (I Could Be With You),” and a swinging, acoustic take on George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Brian Eno “Lux”

Brian Eno has always been Rosie a musical intelFlores lectual, going “Working back to his days Girl’s Guitar” as the glamrock architect n Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Back in the who made the first Roxy Music albums 1950s, the teendelightfully weird. “Lux” finds Eno workaged Janis MarChristina ing in the ambient genre that he created, tin was known a lineage that includes 1975’s “Discreet Aguilera as “the Female Music,” 1978’s “Ambient 1: Music For Air“Lotus” Elvis” for her ports” and 1993’s “Neroli.” This is music no-holds-barred that melts into the background, deliberThere are rockabilly. The ately and beautifully. vocalists whose newly released “Lux” contains four parts, each just every utterance “The Blanco Sessions,” her recording under 20 minutes, each built on slowly disis an unqualicomeback, was cut in 2007, just months solving keyboard notes, pinging gently in fied thing of before she died of lung cancer. spacious washes of atmospheric drones. beauty. They You wouldn’t know the end was so near It’s abstract, nearly formless, very spacey. could sing the phone book and make it from these joyously robust performances. The precisely articulated tones reward sound as heavenly as the Bible. Christina Martin may no longer have been a “Real careful listening — it’s a headphone Aguilera has that force — a voice with Wild Child,” but she could still rip through album — but the music is also very soothdynamic highs that could shatter glassvintage rockers like “Wild One (Real Wild ing, and if it puts you to sleep, well, for an block, lows that could tear tar from the Child)” with a conviction and undiminalbum like this, that’s a valid measure of streets, lustrous subtlety that provokes ished lung power that belied her 67 years success. tears.

— and rendered moot the issue of a senior The problem is that sometimes, after n Steve Klinge, The Philadelphia Inquirer citizen singing from a teen viewpoint. several phone books, it’s hard to get excit- Martin so enjoys cutting loose that for ed by sheer beauty alone.

Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me” and On several cuts off her new album Bill Monroe’s “Walk Softly on This Heart “Lotus,” the catty judge on “The Voice” of Mine” (with Kelly Willis) she takes her seems hell-bent on woman-scorned vencues from the rock-injected versions by geance. With lyrics seemingly directed at the Kentucky Headhunters. either her ex-husband or one of those coMartin, however, had more than one judges she’s always yakking at, the thump- gear. Her beautifully heartfelt take on ing “Army of Me” and “Circles” play-act Gibson’s torch ballad “Sweet Dreams”

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 - E7

Nintendo seeks to shake up gaming again with Wii U

By DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer

SKAGIT VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS PRESENT THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL June 5, 2012 / AP

LOS ANGELES — It can scan zombies, replace a TV remote, open a window into virtual worlds and shoot ninja stars across a living room. It’s the Wii U GamePad, the 10-by5-inch touchscreen controller for the successor to the Wii out Sunday, and if you ask the brains behind the “Super Mario Bros.” about it, they say it’s going to change the way video games are made and played.

“You can’t manufacture buzz,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie FilsAime. “You can’t manufacture word of mouth. All we can do is to provide the product and the games to foster some sparks that hopefully enable that to happen. We think we have that with Wii U.” Much like the iPad, the curve GamePad features a touchscreen that can be manipulated with the simple tap or swipe of a finger, but it’s surrounded by the kinds of buttons, bumpers, thumbsticks and triggers traditionally found on a modern-day game controller.

There’s also a camera, stylus, microphone, headphone jack and speakers.

While the Wii U can employ its predecessor’s motion-control remotes with a sensor bar that similarly detects them in front of the TV, the console’s focus on two-screen experiences makes it feel more like a highdefinition, living-room rendition of the Nintendo DS and 3DS, the Japanese gaming giant’s dual-screen hand-held devices, than the original Wii. “It’s a second screen like a tablet or a cellphone, but it’s different,” said Mark Bolas, professor of interactive media at the University of Southern California. “In addition to providing more information, the GamePad is also a second viewpoint into a virtual world.

Nintendo is letting you turn away from the

An attendee plays a video game using Nintendo’s Wii U controller at E3 2012 in June in Los Angeles.

TV screen to see what’s happening with the GamePad.” The touchscreen controller can also serve as a makeshift TV remote control and online video aggregator for services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. Some games have the ability to flip-flop between the TV screen and the GamePad screen, allowing for nongaming use of the TV. There are limitations to the GamePad: it won’t work after it’s been moved 25 feet away from the Wii U console; it lasts about three to five hours after charging; and while its touchscreen is intuitive as those that have come before it, the GamePad is not quite as simple to use as the Wii controllers that had everyone bowling in their living rooms.

“Is the GamePad more complex than the Wii Remote was six years ago? Certainly,” said Fils-Aime. “On the other hand, I believe consumers will easily grasp the GamePad and what we’re trying to do with the varied experiences we’ll have not only at launch but over the next number of years in this system’s life.”

The abilities of the GamePad are most notably showcased by Nintendo Co. in the amusement park-themed minigame collection “Nintendo Land,” which comes with the deluxe edition of the console. “Nintendo Land” turns the GamePad into several different tools, such as the dashboard of a spaceship or the ultimate advantage in a game of hide-and-seek.

Nintendo expects 50 games will be available for the Wii U by March 2013.

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TRAVEL

Utah looking at linking up Wasatch ski resorts

By PAUL FOY Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — This could be the next great leap forward for Utah skiing: Hopping from one resort in the Wasatch Range to another, with seven resorts already clustered so closely together some neighbors are separated by only a rope line.

It would make for a Euro-style experience in in the mountains that loom over Salt Lake City. By combining 25 square miles of terrain, the Utah resorts could offer North America’s largest skiing complex — three times the size of Vail and twice as big as Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia.

Canyons Resort has given the concept new attention with a proposed first step: a $10 million gondola traveling 2 miles over the 10,000-foot Wasatch ridge and dropping into Solitude Mountain Resort for customers of both resorts.

Many skiers are delighted at the prospect of open travel along some of the best skiing terrain in the West, with the reliability of dry Utah snow.

“It would give Utah the marketing edge it needs,” says Jon Weisberg, a retired Bristol-Myers Squibb executive from New York who moved in 2000 to Utah for the skiing and redrock canyons. “Stringing these jewels together will make it even better.”

It’s not clear Canyons will succeed, but the Park City resort has opened a debate that lay dormant for decades. The discussion could bring in other resorts, and it’s already spurring studies of transportation and route options involving rail,

Photos by Rick Bowmer / AP

ABOVE: Skiers ride a chair lift line at Brighton Ski Resort in Utah’s Wasatch Range.

LEFT: A snowboarder goes down a slope at the Brighton Ski Resort, which is in middle of the Wasatch Range’s seven resorts. If the resorts were to be combined, the Utah resorts could offer North America’s largest skiing complex ­– three times the size of Vail and twice as big as Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia. ing Interconnect Adventure Tour of all seven Wasatch resorts.

The daylong tour with a stop for lunch tour is led by backcountry guides who keep an eye on avalanche danger. The longest out-ofbounds stretch on the tour is barely 2 miles, the distance Canyons would connect with an express gondola.

Plenty else has changed since the 2002 Winter Olymcable cars or dedicated bus skiers, wilderness advocates aides to Utah’s Republican pics remade Utah’s ski industry. Utah officials are lanes. and municipal water offiCongressman Rob Bishop “The whole idea of a cials. don’t expect any action until looking to possibly make another Olympic bid for the connecting resort has taken “We need to curb develthe new Congress is seated 2026 Games in a decision on renewed discussion and opment and keep the prisin January. debate. We’re happy to be a tine beauty of the Wasatch Skiers don’t have to wait due this month.

The 14 resorts have part of it,” said Mike Goar, mountains that draws for the politics to settle. invested in roughly $1 bilmanaging director of Canpeople to this place,” said It’s already possible to ski lion in improvements, addyons. “It’s consistent with Carl Fisher, executive direc- between some neighboring the bigger picture of contor of Save Our Canyons, a resorts in the snowy Wasatch ing terrain, high-speed lifts and bubble chairs. Park City necting resorts.” preservation group that says mountains. now has a handful of fiveGoing over opposition it’s open to lower-impact Solitude and Brighton star hotels, from the Waldorf from the U.S. Forest Service, options for resort connecoffer a joint pass, along Astoria to the Montage Canyons asked Congress tions. with Alta and Snowbird in Deer Valley. earlier this year to sell a Solitude recently stated a neighboring canyon. In Some of the latest corridor of land for the gon- that it hopes to see construc- addition, the trade group dola, raising an avalanche tion of the inter-resort gon- SkiUtah offers an underap- improvements came in small of protest from backcountry dola begin in summer, but preciated but somewhat tax- packages, like a tiny ski area

in southern Utah that offers big adventure.

Just beyond Eagle Point’s gates are hundreds of square miles of untrammeled powder snow under the volcanicshaped peaks of the Tushar mountains. Skiers can take endless backcountry loops with little effort using the resort’s lifts.

Managers of a New Yorkbased hedge fund brought the former Elk Meadows ski area out of dormancy and are running it as a family operation for a third year.

Revenue is thin for Utah’s most remote ski area, outside the ranching town of Beaver, but that didn’t stop the owners from offering free skiing.

Anyone can ski Eagle Point at no charge Thursdays in January, and for California residents skiing is free all season. Meanwhile, nearby Brian Head is slashing prices for skiers who buy a punch pass of five lift tickets for midweek use, at $159.

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Thanksgiving Day meals in the area ANACORTES: Anacortes Eagles Aerie 249 will serve Thanksgiving dinner from noon to 4 p.m. today, Nov. 22, at Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes. Meals will also be delivered to Meals on Wheels clients, families in need and others. Free, but donations accepted. To volunteer or sign up for meal delivery, call 360-293-3012.

OAK HARBOR: The traditional Thanksgiving dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Nov. 22, at the Oak Harbor Elks Lodge, 155 NE Ernst St. The menu includes roasted, deep-fried and

Local travel DAY TRIPS: Camano Center is offering the Dickens Carolers Lunch Cruise on Tuesday, Dec. 11, for seniors and others, departing from and returning to the center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island.

Enjoy a holiday feast accompanied by Christmas carolers. $52-$57. Pay by Nov. 26. 360-387-0222 or www.camanocenter. org.

SENIOR CENTER TRIPS: Skagit County senior centers offer short, escorted trips departing from and returning to local senior centers. For information, call the Anacortes Senior Center at 360-2937473 or sign up at your local senior center.

Next up: Dim Sum and Then Some!: Thursday, Nov. 29. Visit the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and enjoy shopping and a guided tour of Seattle’s historic International District.

Lunch included. Wear comfortable, weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy walking shoes. Leave Anacortes Senior Activity Center at 8:30 a.m. or Burlington Senior Center at 9:00 and return around 4:30 to 5 p.m. $82.

smoked turkey and all of the trimmings.

Free, but donations accepted.

SEDRO-WOOLLEY: The annual SedroWoolley Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held from 12:30 to 3 p.m. today, Nov. 22, at Cascade Middle School, 201 N. Township St., Sedro-Woolley. The dinner is free to all members of the community.

Family-style seating. Handicap accessible.

Donations accepted. For information, to volunteer or make a donation, contact Stephanie at 360-855-0231 or email slok kebo@yahoo.com.

SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation offers travel opportunities for participants ages 12 and older (adult supervision required for ages 18 and younger). 360-336-6215. Next up: Country Village and Garden D’Lights: 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, departing from Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Visit the historic Country Village Shops in Bothell, home to more than 40 boutiques, specialty stores and cafes. After exploring the holidaydecorated shops and enjoying a no-host late lunch/early dinner, head over to the Garden D’Lights, comprised of more than half a million tiny lights, which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a blossoming winter wonderland. $53-$55.

Register by Dec. 5.

PASSPORT APPLICATIONS: The Anacortes Public Library accepts U.S. passport applications from noon to 6:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays at 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Passport forms and information on fees and how to apply are available at http://travel.state.gov or pick up an application and passport guide at the library.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area November 23-29 Friday.23

Sunday.25

THEATER

THEATER

“A Christmas Carol”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$25. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H. St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

“Murder at Club Babalu”: an “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 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.riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829.

Saturday.24

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 2 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

CHERYL HODGE QUARTET 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover.

360-588-1720.

FRIDAY.23 JIM BASNIGHT BAND 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington.

No cover. 360-755-0165.

Tuesday.27 MUSIC

Jennifer Scott (jazz pianist/ vocalist): 7 p.m., Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $20 adults, $15 students.

Tickets at the Camano Center, the Second Chance Thrift Shop, 1335 Highway 532 or brownpapertickets. com. 360-387-0222.

THEATER

COMEDY

“A Christmas Carol”: 7 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$25. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall. org.

COMEDY NIGHT WITH TRAVIS SIMMONS 7 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. $10. 360-941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre.com.

No local events submitted

Wednesday.28

“Murder at Club Babalu”: an “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 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.riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

FRIDAY.23

THURSDAY.29

Monday.26

“A Christmas Tapestry”: La Conner Institute of Performing Arts presents Carol Peters performing jazz, gospel/R&B and blues arrangements of Christmas classics, 7:30 p.m., Maple Hall, 104 Commercial, La Conner. $15-$17. 360-466-2665.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829.

TUNING UP Playing at area venues November 23-29

“A Christmas Carol”: 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$25. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

MUSIC

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

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Thursday.29 Comedy Night with Travis Simmons: 7 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. $10. 360941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre. com.

THEATER

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H. St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 10th and M St., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829.

“A Christmas Carol”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Special “paywhat-you-can” performance, with tickets on sale that day at the box office. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

FRIDAYSATURDAY 23-24 “MURDER AT CLUB BABALU” An “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 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

FRIDAY.23 Spoonshine Duo: 8 p.m., Big Rock Café & Grocery, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4247872.

Jim Basnight Band: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-7550165.

Steve Meyer and Ben Starner (piano): 7:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

No cover. 360766-6266.

Cheryl Hodge Quartet: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-5881720.

Jammin’ Jeff: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon.

360-422-6411.

Trainwreck (country rock): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

360-629-4800 or www.cyndys broiler.com.

Chris and Mary Brown: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway.

360-445-3000.

SATURDAY.24 Fanny Alger: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

Spoonshine Duo: 7 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

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

The Jen Scott Trio: 9 p.m. to midnight, Packers Lounge at Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine. www. semiahmoo.com.

SUNDAY.25 Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

Miles Harris and Triple Threat: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

No cover. 360-5881720.

Rivertalk: 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave. 360-755-3956.

TUESDAY.27 Ben Starner (piano): 6:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360445-3000.

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.

“Jazz At The Center”: Jennifer Scott, 7 p.m., Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $15$20. 360-387-0222 or www.camanocenter. org.

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

WEDNESDAY.28 Leatherhorn, A God Or An Other: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Fidalgo Swing: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-588-1720.

Tony & the Tigers (classic rock, country): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. 360629-4800 or www. cyndysbroiler.com.

Earth, The Body, Low Hums: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $12.

360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.29 Skagit Valley College Jazz Band: 7 to 9 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon. 360-336-2884.

Eagle Teeth, The West: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $3. 360-778-1067.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area November 23-29 Friday.23

Sunday.25

THEATER

THEATER

“A Christmas Carol”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$25. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H. St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

“Murder at Club Babalu”: an “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 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.riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829.

Saturday.24

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 2 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

CHERYL HODGE QUARTET 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover.

360-588-1720.

FRIDAY.23 JIM BASNIGHT BAND 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington.

No cover. 360-755-0165.

Tuesday.27 MUSIC

Jennifer Scott (jazz pianist/ vocalist): 7 p.m., Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $20 adults, $15 students.

Tickets at the Camano Center, the Second Chance Thrift Shop, 1335 Highway 532 or brownpapertickets. com. 360-387-0222.

THEATER

COMEDY

“A Christmas Carol”: 7 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$25. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall. org.

COMEDY NIGHT WITH TRAVIS SIMMONS 7 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. $10. 360-941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre.com.

No local events submitted

Wednesday.28

“Murder at Club Babalu”: an “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 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.riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

FRIDAY.23

THURSDAY.29

Monday.26

“A Christmas Tapestry”: La Conner Institute of Performing Arts presents Carol Peters performing jazz, gospel/R&B and blues arrangements of Christmas classics, 7:30 p.m., Maple Hall, 104 Commercial, La Conner. $15-$17. 360-466-2665.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829.

TUNING UP Playing at area venues November 23-29

“A Christmas Carol”: 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$25. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

MUSIC

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

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Thursday.29 Comedy Night with Travis Simmons: 7 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. $10. 360941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre. com.

THEATER

“The Pajama Game”: musical comedy, 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H. St., Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-733-1811 or www.bell inghamtheatreguild.com.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 10th and M St., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829.

“A Christmas Carol”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Special “paywhat-you-can” performance, with tickets on sale that day at the box office. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

FRIDAYSATURDAY 23-24 “MURDER AT CLUB BABALU” An “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 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

FRIDAY.23 Spoonshine Duo: 8 p.m., Big Rock Café & Grocery, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4247872.

Jim Basnight Band: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-7550165.

Steve Meyer and Ben Starner (piano): 7:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

No cover. 360766-6266.

Cheryl Hodge Quartet: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-5881720.

Jammin’ Jeff: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon.

360-422-6411.

Trainwreck (country rock): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

360-629-4800 or www.cyndys broiler.com.

Chris and Mary Brown: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway.

360-445-3000.

SATURDAY.24 Fanny Alger: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

Spoonshine Duo: 7 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

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

The Jen Scott Trio: 9 p.m. to midnight, Packers Lounge at Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine. www. semiahmoo.com.

SUNDAY.25 Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

Miles Harris and Triple Threat: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

No cover. 360-5881720.

Rivertalk: 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave. 360-755-3956.

TUESDAY.27 Ben Starner (piano): 6:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360445-3000.

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.

“Jazz At The Center”: Jennifer Scott, 7 p.m., Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $15$20. 360-387-0222 or www.camanocenter. org.

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

WEDNESDAY.28 Leatherhorn, A God Or An Other: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Fidalgo Swing: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-588-1720.

Tony & the Tigers (classic rock, country): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. 360629-4800 or www. cyndysbroiler.com.

Earth, The Body, Low Hums: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $12.

360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.29 Skagit Valley College Jazz Band: 7 to 9 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon. 360-336-2884.

Eagle Teeth, The West: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $3. 360-778-1067.

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GET INVOLVED ART CALL FOR CRAFTERS: The Skagit Valley Eagles Auxiliary seeks vendors for its Christmas Craft Bazaar, set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 119 N. Cherry St., Burlington. Tables are available for $10 plus one donated item for the Auxiliary table. 360391-9741.

ART CLASSES FAMILY ART DAYS AT MoNA: Skagit Artists Together and the Museum of Northwest Art offer Family Art Days each month at MoNA, 121 S. First St., La Conner. Sessions are open to all ages and skill levels and include guided walk-throughs of MoNA exhibitions. Limited to 15 participants per session.

To register: 360-466-4446, ext.

108, or FAD@museumofnwart.org.

Information: www.museumofnwart.org. Workshops are free with museum admission. Admission: $8 adults, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger.

ART CLASSES: Dakota Art offers a variety of art classes and workshops at 17873 Highway 536, Mount Vernon. 360-416-6556, ext.

5, or www.dakotaartcenter.com.

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. towerartsstudio.com.

ART CLASSES: Sign up for a variety of art classes at A Guilded Gallery (formerly Gallery by the Bay), 8700 271st St. NW, Stanwood. To register, stop by the Stanwood Camano Art Guild’s cooperative gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

360-629-2787 or www.stanwood camanoarts.com.

All materials are provided. $15 each, $40 for all three. Preregistration required: 360-464-2229 or www.anacortescenterforhappi ness.org.

CARTOONING FOR KIDS: 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Nov. 27-Dec. 18, Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. Kids ages 7 to 12 will learn basic drawing skills and leave with a portfolio of their favorite cartoon characters. $40, includes supplies. 360-755-9649.

AUDITIONS “QUILTERS”: Auditions for the musical will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday, Dec. 2-3, at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St., Bellingham. Parts are available for seven women ages 15 to 65. Must be able to harmonize and read sheet music. Prepare 16-32 bars of a folk or musical theater song; be prepared for cold reads, improvisation and dance. The play will run Jan. 25-Feb. 10. For information, contact director Mish Kriz or visit www.bellinghamtheatre guild.com.

“LEGALLY BLONDE”: Auditions will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 15-16, at Anacortes Community Theatre, 911 M Ave., Anacortes. Parts are available for 16 women and seven men, young to middle aged. Music and scripts are available in the ACT office.

The play will run March 29-April 27. 360-293-4373 or www.acttheatre.com.

DANCE SCOTTISH DANCING: Bellingham Scottish Country 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.

dance and practice dancing to live music. No partner needed. $8 at the door. 360-755-3969 or www. skagitcontra.org.

MUSIC OPEN MIC NIGHT: VFW Post 7392 hosts an Open Microphone Night from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays at 3037 N. Goldie Road, Oak Harbor.

Bring your musical instrument, acoustic or electric, or your vocal talents. If you can’t sing, dance or play, come and watch. Free. For information, call Myron at 360672-5166 or the Post, 360-675-4048, or visit www.vfwpost7392.org.

FREE MUSIC JAMS: Come and play or just watch the fun at Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. Free for participants and spectators.

Teen Jam: 7 p.m. second and fourth Tuesday each month.

Jam Night: 8 p.m. Thursdays.

360-629-4800 or www.cyndys broiler.com.

OPEN MIC: Share your music or enjoy the musical talents of others at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at the Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-445-3000 or www.theconwaymuse.com.

RECREATION INDOOR PICKLEBALL: Drop-in adult pickleball is offered from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 10 a.m. to noon Sundays at the Mt. Erie Elementary School gym, 1313 41st St., Anacortes. Played with paddles and a perforated plastic baseball on a badminton court with the net lowered to 34 inches, pickleball is easy for beginners to learn. Free introductory lesson. Call 360-420-4668 or email AnacortesPickleball@gmail.com.

TURKEY TROT 5K RACE: Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. and the fifth annual race will get under way at 8 a.m. Thanksgiving day, Nov. 22, at La Conner PAPER PLAYSHOPS: Join Kari Middle School, 305 N. Sixth St., Bishay to get creative and “play La Conner. Participants predict with stuff” at the Anacortes CenCONTRA DANCE: 7 to 9:30 p.m. their running time, with prizes ter for Happiness, 619 CommerSaturday, Dec. 1, at the Depot Arts for those finishing closest to their cial Ave., Anacortes. Workshops Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. predictions. No watches (or other are held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays. Learn the fundamentals of contra timepieces) allowed. $15 per racer,

$30 families. 360-466-4778 or www. seven through 12, 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan. laconnerchamber.com.

22-Feb. 28. This class starts with JINGLE BELL RUN/WALK: Reg- auditioning for a part and continues with creation of a character, istration is open for the Arthritis memorization of lines and a full Foundation’s fifth annual Jingle public performance with costumes Bell Run/Walk, set for 8:30 a.m. and makeup March 1-2 on ACT’s Saturday, Dec. 1, beginning at the Second Stage. $100.

Mount Vernon Moose Lodge, 813 S. Main St. Four-legged friends CALL FOR DIRECTORS: The welcome. Registration: $30 per perBellingham Theatre Guild seeks son for the 2-mile walk or 4-mile submissions from prospective run, $40 per walker and dog in the 2-mile dog trot, $15 for the 1K directors for its 85th season, 201314. The play selection team will “Running With The Elves” Kids’ Fun Run for ages 11 and younger. read all proposals and scripts submitted by newcomers and vetProceeds benefit the Arthritis erans alike. Send clearly marked Foundation. For information, call submissions and scripts by Dec. 360-733-2866. Register online at 15, to: Play Selection Team, 1600 www.skagitjbrw.kintera.org.

H St., Bellingham, WA 98225. For information, contact Sam Creed at THEATER 360-223-3271, or visit www.belling THEATER CLASSES: Anacortes hamtheatreguild.com/auditions/ Community Theatre’s Class Act directors.html.

School for the Performing Arts is enrolling kids from preschool WORKSHOPS through 12th grade for winter QUILTING FOR BEGINNERS: classes on acting and theater arts.

Learn how to hand quilt from 9 Classes are held at ACT, 918 M a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays at the Ave., Anacortes. 360-293-6829 or Concrete Center, 45821 Railroad www.acttheatre.com/classact Ave., Concrete. Bring a flat edge Imagination Explorers: thimble, round-needle puller, small preschool-age children, 10 to 11 scissors and No. 9 go-betweens a.m. Tuesdays, Jan. 29-March 5, quilting needles. Tips and techor Wednesdays, Jan. 30-March 6.

Students will take part in creative nique how-tos on the last Monday each month. 360-853-8400. dramatic games designed to use their imagination, improve selfWREATH-MAKING: Learn how confidence and provide social to make holiday wreaths at these interaction as they create crazy workshops at Christianson’s Nurscharacters, sing and dance. $50. ery, 15806 Best Road, Mount VerSuperhero Stories: for kindernon. For information or to register, garten through second grade, 4 to 5:15 p.m. Fridays, Feb. 1-March call 360-466-3821 or visit www. christiansonsnursery.com.

8. Students will create their own Holiday Wreath Making: 11 superhero as they play fun theater a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. games and work on their acting Use wreath-making machines and skills. Class will culminate in a get help from Rachel Anderson performance March 8 on ACT’s and Lily Hirdler of Christianson’s Second Stage. $50.

Nursery. Five one-hour classes “Alice in Wonderland”: third through sixth grade, 4 to 5:30 p.m. offered. The cost of one wreath form is included in the class fee.

Mondays and Wednesdays, Jan. Wear warm clothing and bring 28-March 6. Students will stage pruners and gardening gloves. $5. a retelling of the classic tale of Reservations required.

Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole, Independent Wreath Making: starting with auditioning, creation 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, Nov. 25-Dec. of a character, memorization of 24, south greenhouse. Wire rings lines and culminating with a full public performance complete with and greenery are available for purchase, or you may bring your costumes and makeup March 8-9 own. Complimentary. Reservations on ACT’s Second Stage. $100. required.

Are We There Yet?: grades

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 - E13

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

‘Arbitrage’

children 12 and under. Bargain matinee prices (all shows before 6 p.m.): $8 general, $6 members, $5 children 12 and under.

When we first meet New York hedgefund magnate Robert Miller (played by Richard Gere, pictured) on the eve of his 60th birthday, he appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Just as he’s about to unload his troubled empire, an unexpected bloody error forces him to juggle family, business, and crime. Starring Gere, Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth.

Rated R. $10 general; $9 seniors, students and active military; $8 members; $7

‘Elf’

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 23-24 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26

3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25 Everyone’s favorite elf returns to the Lincoln this season as part of the City of Mount Vernon’s holiday festivities.

Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regularsized man who was raised as an elf by Santa Claus. When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he’s not a real elf, he decides to head back to his place of birth, New York City, in search of his biological family.

Rated PG. Free admission; other activities include the Downtown Mount Vernon Holiday Parade, Tree Lighting Ceremony and Hot Chocolate in Pine Square.

Pianist Carol Peters will perform a “Christmas Tapestry” of music at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, in Maple Hall The La Conner Institute of Performing Arts presents this seasonal concert featuring jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues arrangements of Christmas classics.

Peters will interweave readings and poetry into her performance.

Tickets $15 & $17 • Advance tickets: Next Chapter Bookstore. 360-466-2665

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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.

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E16 - Thursday, November 22, 2012

MOVIES

Exploring the enigma that was Alfred Hitchcock

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ir Alfred Hitchcock remains one of the most famous directors in movie history, not only because of his droll public image but because of the enduring appeal of so many of his films. As someone who has tried with mixed success to show Hollywood classics to nonbuff audiences, I’ve noticed how his very name inspires fond Roger grins from many viewEbert ers, and how even some of his less-famous works undeniably hold their attention.

He knew something universal about moviegoers, and it may come down to his most familiar theme, The Innocent Man Wrongly Accused. It’s surprising, then, that his most successful and infamous film, “Psycho” (1960), had no leading characters who were innocent, certainly not Norman Bates and not even the purported heroine played by Janet Leigh.

“Hitchcock” is the second feature in a few months, after the made-for-HBO “The Girl,” based on the life of the great man. “The Girl” is based on his unrequited lust for his leading lady Tippi Hedren, of “The Birds” and “Marnie,” who so adamantly refused his advances. Her daughter Melanie Griffith told me that he cruelly sent the young girl a doll of her mother, displayed as a

corpse in a coffin. No similar outrages are dramatized in “Hitchcock,” which adopts the conventional feminist truism that behind every great man there lurks a great woman.

There may be truth in that, but the screenplay for “Hitchcock” centers to a distracting degree on his marriage to the screenwriter and editor Alma Reville. As “Hitchcock” tells it, Reville (Helen Mirren) acted as his chief adviser, censor, muse and friend, and steered him through the uncertain waters leading up to “Psycho.”

It was a troubled time for Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins), who after the great popular success of “North by Northwest,” could focus only on those critics who charged he was growing old and losing his edge. Determined to prove them wrong, he grew obsessed with a book

by Robert Bloch based on the life of a Wisconsin body snatcher named Ed Gein.

I find it amusing that 52 years after the film’s release, I might still be accused of a spoiler by describing Gein’s (fictional) crime in the movie, which involved killing and stuffing his mother.

Taxidermy figures in the early scenes, and Norman carries on conversations with his dead mom in which he does both voices. In real life, a search of Gein’s house revealed a shocking number and variety of human body parts.

Hitchcock decided Ed Gein would make a perfect macabre villain for one of his films. Hitchcock’s agent, Lew

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Anthony Hopkins stars as Alfred Hitchcock in “Hitchcock.” her friend Whitfield Cook (Danny Huston). Hitchcock, HHH whose marriage had become sexless, nevertheless began Alfred Hitchcock.......................................Anthony Hopkins Alma Reville.................................................. Helen Mirren to fret his beloved spouse Janet Leigh.......................................... Scarlett Johansson might be having an affair.

Peggy Robertson............................................ Toni Collette This focus on Alma’s perWhitfield Cook..............................................Danny Huston sonal life is somewhat specuVera Miles......................................................Jessica Biel Anthony Perkins........................................... James D’Arcy lative, and seems to have Ed Gein....................................................Michael Wincott been employed by director Lew Wasserman.....................................Michael Stuhlbarg Sacha Gervasi and screenwriter John J. McLaughlin to n Running time: 98 minutes. MPAA rating: PG-13 (for some violent images, sexual content and thematic material). skew the film in the direction of a “woman’s picture,” of all things. They can’t entirely be Wasserman (Michael Stuhl- put her beloved home and its blamed, because I learn from barg), disagreed vehemently. pool at risk. the trade papers that this So did Paramount chief Bar“Hitchcock” tells the story film was refused permission ney Balaban (Richard Port- not so much as the makto show or copy any footnow), despite the fortune ing of the film, but as the age from “Psycho,” or even he’d made from Hitchcock behind-the-scenes relationuse the famous Bates family pictures. Alma Reville found ship of Alma and Hitch. This home that still stands on the the story disgusting. Hitchis a disappointment, since back lot at Universal. There’s cock pressed on, personally I imagine most movie fans irony here because in 1998 financing the production by will expect more info about director Gus Van Sant won taking out a loan on their the production history. I also permission to make an actual shot-by-shot remake of the home. When Alma finally found a subplot distractfilm. loyally came around, she was ing, in which Alma begins Given the focus of this invaluable to him — even a series of private meetings film, much depends on the though his financial gamble working on a screenplay by

‘HITCHCOCK’

character of Alma Reville, and Helen Mirren is warm and effective in the role; her intelligence crackles.

Anthony Hopkins, superb actor although he is, would not seem to be an obvious choice to play Hitchcock, but I accepted him. The makeup job they did on him was transformative.

As Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates, James D’Arcy is uncanny. He captures the nature of the man.

Scarlett Johansson, as Janet Leigh, doesn’t look a lot like the original, but projects her spunk, intelligence and sense of humor.

Hitchcock comes across in the movie as an enigma. Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven’t a clue. The closest we’ll probably come is in the book-length conversation he had with director Francois Truffaut, but they were talking shop, not blondes.

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 - E17

MOVIES MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

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. Drama, R, 120 minutes. HHHH “Flight” — After opening with one of the most terrifying flying scenes I’ve witnessed, in which an airplane is saved by being flown upside-down, Robert Zemeckis’ “Flight” segues into a brave and tortured performance by Denzel Washington -- one of his very best. Not often does a movie character make such a harrowing personal journey that keeps us in deep sympathy all

of the way. Washington plays a veteran commercial pilot who has built up a tolerance for quantities of alcohol and cocaine that would be lethal for most people. Drama, R, 138 minutes. HHHH “Life of Pi”: A miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery. Inspired by a worldwide best-seller that seemed unfilmable, it is a triumph over its difficulties. It is also a moving spiritual achievement, a movie whose title could have been shortened to “Life.”

The story involves the 227 days that its teenage hero (Suraj Sharma) spends drifting across the Pacific in the same lifeboat as a Bengal tiger.

The movie quietly combines various religious traditions to enfold its story in the wonder of life. How remarkable that these two mammals, and the fish beneath them and birds above them, are all here. One of the year’s best. Fantasy, PG, 125 minutes. HHHH “Lincoln” — Steven Spielberg’s new film focuses on only a few months of Lincoln’s life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the

Confederacy and his assassination. Rarely has a film attended more carefully to the details of politics. Daniel DayLewis creates a Lincoln who is calmly self-confident, patient and willing to play politics in a realistic way. Not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his opponents as a hayseed from the backwoods.

He understood them better than they did him. Sure to win many Academy Award nominations. Drama, PG-13, 149 minutes. HHHH “Red Dawn”: Opens with a hard-fought high school football game before the next day in Spokane, is interrupted by the thud of bombs. The young gridiron stars of the Wolverines race outside to see enemy aircraft flying overhead in formation, dropping paratroopers from the skies. An alarming sight, but the movie reassures us that an invasion by communist North Korea can be vanquished by the members of the team and their girlfriends, using mostly automatic weapons stolen from the North Koreans themselves.

Light on dialogue, heavy on mindless action. Action,

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film at last provides a role worthy of Judi Dench, returning as M, who is one of the best actors of her generation.

She is all but the co-star, with a lot of screen time, poignant dialogue, and a character who is far more complex and sympathetic than we expect.

In this 50th year of the James

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OUT & ABOUT ART

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showcase acrylic paintings of Skagit Valley scenes from noon to 5 p.m. Fridays throughout November and December at J’s Gallery, 101 N. 1st St., La Conner.

Also featured: work by artists Ed Kamuda, Jay Bowen, Tom Pickett and Dan Soler.

“CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONISM, SELECTIONS FROM THE IRVINE MUSEUM”: The exhibit continues through Feb. 17, 2013, at the Whatcom Museum, 250 “GLACIAL SPEED”: A Flora St., Bellingham. The show of recent artwork by show features 50 paintings Cynthia Camlin continfrom the Impressionist ues through Jan. 13 at the Period (1890-1930) showSkagit Valley College Art casing an array of CaliforThe Allied Arts Juried Artist Series will feature work Gallery in the Gary Knut- nia landscapes, from coastal from Anita Aparicio (pictured), David Ridgway and zen Cardinal Center on the beaches to vast deserts.

Donald Simpson, continuing through Dec. 1, at the SCULPTURE & PAINTSVC campus, 2405 E. Col- Also called California plein INGS: A show of sculptures Allied Arts of Whatcom County Gallery, 1418 Cornwall lege Way, Mount Vernon. air painting, California Ave., Bellingham. Aparicio combines Victorian-era

by Jerry Wingren and The exhibit interprets envi- Impressionism focused on photographs of people with her own renditions of local paintings by Victoria Johnronmental change through capturing the special light son continues through Dec. architecture to create what she calls “Bellingham visual metaphors, depicting and color of the state’s Gothic.” Ridgway’s paintings focus on the places 2 at Lisa Harris Gallery, landscape and helped to where man and landscape collide. Simpson’s creative the phases of melting gla1922 Pike Place, Seattle. ciers through abstracted define modern landscape experiments in urban and landscape photography Gallery hours are 10:30 forms. Gallery hours are painting. utilize traditional photography, panoramic, long expoa.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday n “Impressions sure and texture techniques. Gallery hours are 10 through Saturday, and 11 through Friday. 360-416Improv”: Enjoy a night a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. 206- p.m. Saturday. 360-676-8548 or www.alliedarts.org.

7812. of improvisation by local 443-3315 or www.lisaharris poets, dancers and musigallery.com.

HOLIDAY ART AND GIFT cians performing their SHOW: The Skagit Art interpretation of the paintMIXED MEDIA PAINTlery hours and directions, SIMON ARTWORK: Gal- INGS: A show of paintAssociation’s second annu- ings on display during the call 360-222-0102 or visit lery Cygnus reintroduces al Holiday Art and Gift Downtown Art Walk on ings by La Conner artist www.ravenrocksgallery.

John Simon’s artwork to Show will take place from Friday evening, Dec. 7.

Peter Belknap continues com. the public in a show con10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays Museum hours are noon through Nov. 30 at Anne tinuing through Nov. 26 through Thursdays, and 10 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Martin McCool Gallery, “HOME FOR THE HOLIat 109 Commercial St., a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays and Sunday. $10, $8 student/ 711 Commercial Ave., Ana- DAYS”: The show continLa Conner. More than 30 Saturdays, Nov. 23-30, at senior/military, $4.50 ages 5 cortes. Gallery hours are 11 ues through Jan. 1 at Rob paintings from the late 177 Cascade Mall Drive, and younger, free for musea.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday Schouten Gallery, 765 artist’s estate will be preBurlington. Choose from um members. 360-778-8933 through Saturday. After Wonn Road, Greenbank. sented. This work spans or www.whatcommuseum.

Thanksgiving weekend, the Twenty-four of the region’s a wide variety of original artworks, including paintorg. the artist’s career and has gallery will be open Monfinest artists have created ings, photos, fused glass, not been seen by the pubday through Saturday. a variety of affordable HOLIDAY ART WALK & lic since Simon’s death in 360-293-3577 or gifts: handblown glass, silk jewelry, woodworking, fiber arts and more. Enjoy artist SOUNDS OF MUSIC: Enjoy 2010. www.mccoolart.com. scarves, jewelry, sculpture, demonstrations, live music, art and old-fashioned A second show of ceramics, paintings and kids’ crafts and more. Free caroling from 5 to 8 p.m.

Simon’s art will open with “FINDING BALANCE”: A prints and more.

Friday, Nov. 30, in historic a celebration during La show of new work by Joe Gallery hours are 11 a.m. admission. www.skagitart.

East Stanwood. Eighteen Conner’s Final Friday Art- Menth continues through to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 org. businesses will open their walk from 5 to 9 p.m. FriDec. 4 at Raven Rocks a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, “HONEY, I SHRUNK THE doors with art displays, day, Nov. 30, and continue Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, closed Tuesdays. 360-222ART”: The 22nd annual goodies, lights and music. through Dec. 24. Gallery Greenbank. The exhibi3070 or www.robschouten show of small artworks Free. 360-629-3710. hours are noon to 5 p.m. tion features Menth’s latest gallery.com. continues through Jan. 27 photo transfers on wood Friday through Sunday.

VALLEY SCENES: Local panels with encaustic. For “FIRE”: NEW WORK BY at Matzke Fine Art Gal360-708-4787 or www. information, including gal- PEREGRINE O’GORMLEY: lery & Sculpture Park, 2345 artist Roger Small will gallerycygnus.com.

QUILTED ART: Two new quilt shows continue through Dec. 20 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 Second St., La Conner.

“Material Men: Innovation & The Art Of Quiltmaking”: The exhibit showcases the work of 16 male quilters and the many innovations in design, technique and materials these men have brought to the traditionally “women’s work” of quilting.

“Best of the Festival”: Check out the quilts that were juried and judged to be the best at the 2012 Quilt Festival. In addition to the Best of Show, the exhibit also includes the top entries in the traditional and nontraditional pieced quilts, wearable arts, eco-green and embellished categories.

Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Regular admission: $7, $5 students and military, free for members and children ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4288 or www.laconnerquilts. com.

MIRA KAMADA: OILS: A show of Kamada’s vibrant abstract oil paintings with a botanical flair continues through Dec. 4 at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

Also showing are big sky oils by Dederick Ward, watercolors by Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling inspired by their travels abroad, and botanical and nonrepresentational acrylics by Richard Nash.

Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-2936938 or www.scottmilo. com.

The show continues through Nov. 25 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. O’Gormley approaches the concept of fire holistically. In this exhibition, fire becomes an allegory for the spirit and fade of life — fire gives us life and ultimately consumes us as we return to ash. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. 360-7666230 or www.smithand vallee.com.

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MoNA EXHIBITIONS: New exhibits continue through Jan. 1, 2013, at the Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner.

“CIRCULAR: FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION”: Artworks selected from the museum’s collection explore the meaning and influence of the circular form. The show features works by Maria Frank Abrams, Guy Anderson,

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“PILCHUCK: IDEAS”: Celebrating 50 years of studio glass, the show features work from the Pilchuck permanent collection rarely seen off the famous glass school’s campus. These pieces from the early days of the revolution in studio glass were created by some of the most important artists working in the medium, including Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Joey Kirkpatrick, Flora Mace, Ben Moore, Lino Tagliapietra, Italo Scanga and more.

The works on display are especially significant because they show these artists in the process of teaching, experimenting and in some cases searching for iconic forms and expressions for which they have become famous.

Groupings of early glass are shown next to mature examples of the artists’ work from private collections.

Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Sundays and Mondays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. $8, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger.

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for the lobby of the office of the Secretary of State, the exhibit covers Ste“WILD EAST MEETS vens’ actions as governor WILD WEST: A show and their impacts, his of photographs from Nakhodka, Russia, by news subsequent appointment as territorial delegate to photographer Georgy Congress, his service as a Pakin continues through general in the Civil War Jan. 6, 2013, at the Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher and other Washington connections to that conflict.

Building, 250 Flora St., The exhibit also includes Bellingham. information on Stevens’ Pakin’s photos vividly local impact and the city’s portray daily life in and own Civil War veterans. around Nakhodka during Museum hours are 10 a.m.

Soviet and post-Soviet to 4 p.m. Monday through times, including the presSaturday (closed Wednesence of Americans in day) and 1 to 4 p.m.

Nakhodka, its large fishSunday. Free admission. ing operations and other 360-293-1915 or museum. activities. Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday cityofanacortes.org. through Sunday. $10; $8 POTTERY EVENT: Mark students, military, seniors Eikeland’s annual Pottery ages 62 and older, $4.50 Show and Sale will take ages 5 and younger. 360778-8930 or www.whatcom- place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 2, across from museum.org.

10024 270th St. NW, Stanwood. Choose from a variAT THE ANACORTES ety of locally handcrafted MUSEUM: “Young Man ceramics. 360-708-3209. in a Hurry: The Life of Isaac Stevens and the FESTIVALS 150th Anniversary of the FESTIVAL OF TREES Civil War” is on display at GALA: The Skagit Valley the Anacortes Museum’s Hospital Foundation’s 24th Carnegie Gallery, 1305 annual Festival of Trees Eighth St., Anacortes.

Gala Auction is set for As the Washington 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. Territory’s first governor 24, at St. Joseph Center, and Superintendent of 215 N. 15th St., Mount Indian Affairs, Stevens Vernon. The black-tie gala pushed through treaties and auction will include with Indian tribes that hors d’oeuvres and beverset off the region’s Indian ages, live music and a live Wars and still create conauction of more than two troversy today. Designed

dozen designer-decorated trees and other items. $100.

Proceeds will benefit a project to enhance and upgrade the Cardiac Care Services Special Observation Unit at Skagit Valley Hospital.

The Festival of Trees will be open for public viewing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 23, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon.

View more than two dozen designer-decorated trees and enjoy kids’ activities, live entertainment, photos with Santa and more. $5 adults, $3 children ages 18 and younger, $2 seniors.

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rium, 516 High St., Bellingham. Free. 360-650-2309 or www.wwu.edu/depts/ Fairhaven.

Next up: Nov. 28: “Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation”: Canadian author and Quaker-Jewish activist Maxine KaufmanLacusta will highlight nonviolent resistance by both Palestinians and Israelis to the Israeli occupation, along with ways U.S. citizens can support this resistance.

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MORE FUN MULTICULTURAL NIGHT: LaVenture Middle School will hold its seventh annual Multicultural Night from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 29, at 1200 N. LaVenture Road, Mount Vernon. Enjoy an evening of food, entertainment and activities from around the world. Performers include the Swinomish Canoe Family, Aztec Dancers, Bards of Keypoynt, Banghera Dancers and more. 360428-6116.

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SEVENTH GENERATION SUPPER: Join Fidalgo and Friends for a Seventh Generation Supper at 6 DAVID SLABAUGH: “An p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Evening of Sweetness, the Senior Activity Center, Sacredness and Poetry 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. with David Slabaugh,” 7 Chef Graham Kerr will p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at the discuss ways to act beyond Anacortes Center for Hapself-interest and reach piness, 619 Commercial OPEN MIC NIGHT: VFW out to create supportive, Ave. Pastries, Italian soda Post 7392 hosts an Open sustainable communities. and poetry. Donations Mic Night from 6 to 9 p.m. Bring your own place accepted. 360-464-2229.

Tuesdays at 3037 N. Goldie setting and one-half cup Road, Oak Harbor. Bring of well-washed diced your musical instrument, hard root vegetables or LECTURES acoustic or electric, or legumes and one cup of AND TALKS your vocal talents. If you salad ingredients. EveryWORLD ISSUES can’t sing, dance or play, one is welcome to this free FORUMS: Western Washcome and watch. Free. For community supper. Call ington University presents information, call Myron at 360-293-4048 or visit transpeakers on a variety of 360-672-5166 or the Post, sitionfidalgo.org for more global issues. Unless other- 360-675-4048, or visit www. information. wise noted, all events take place from noon to 1:20 p.m. Wednesdays in the Fairhaven College auditoJAZZ AT THE CENTER: Jennifer Scott will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $20. Cash bar available. 360-387-0222 or www. camanocenter.org.

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