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Skagit Valley Herald Thursday October 8, 2015

TUNING UP

ON STAGE SVC Drama Department presents “Death, the Final Irony” PAGE 8

Brian Lee and the Orbiters play the Edison Inn on Saturday PAGE 9

MUSIC REVIEWS Fetty Wap, Janet Jackson and George Strait PAGE 15

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THIS WEEKENDin the area FALL POW WOW The Skagit Valley College Fall Powwow will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9-11, in the Dave DuVall Pavilion at Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Enjoy a weekend filled with Native American drummers and dancers in full regalia from across the U.S. and Canada. The Grand Entry will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, 1 and 6 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. Sunday. Activities will include dance performances by CeAtl Tonally Aztec dancers and Tlingit dance group Náakw, a kids’ corner for arts and crafts, and vendors selling traditional crafts, Native American art and food. Free admission. 360540-3450 or svcpowwow.com.

HOMELESS BENEFIT St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will host a concert to benefit Friendship House and Family Promise of Skagit Valley at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, at 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. Enjoy an evening of music, food and wine, as well as an auction of artwork by local and regional artists. $15 suggested donation. 360-428-8522.

Walter Trout and The Radicals

Walter Trout and The Radicals, led by the longtime blues guitarist, return to the Northwest at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Skagit Center, 1000 Fountain St., Burlington. Trout is widely regarded by blues fans around the world for his signature sound of a stinging Stratocaster. He’s played with Canned Heat, Percy Mayfield, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, John Lee Hooker and Joe Tex. Opening the show is Ayron Jones & The Way, a rising trio from Seattle. $35, $40 at the door. Tickets: tickettomato.com, Hugo Helmer Music in Burlington and Avalon Music in Bellingham. bakerblues.com.

HISTORIC CEMETERY TOUR Enjoy an historic tour of the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery – the oldest cemetery in Skagit County – from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, at 17666 Valentine Road, Mount Vernon. Hear the stories as actors portray the folks who are buried there. $10, $8 for Skagit County Historical Society members. 360-466-3365 or skagit county.net/museum.

BENEFIT AUCTION Bethlehem Lutheran Church will hold its 30th annual benefit auction from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, at 1006 Wicker Road, Sedro-Woolley. Enjoy bidding on a variety of live and silent auction items. Proceeds will benefit The Community Kitchen, Family Promise of Skagit Valley and El Camino de Emaus. Free admission. 360-856-6181.

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OUT & ABOUT ART

by Chad Houtz continues through Oct. 31 at La ConMONOTYPES: A show of ner Seaside Gallery, 101 N. monotypes by Marie Powell First St., La Conner. Houtz continues through Nov. 3 explores the life of street at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 musicians, a community who, Commercial Ave., Anacortes. though in the public eye, Powell’s monotype prints spend much of their time in include nautical, floral and their own world. 360-466abstract styles. Also featured 5141 or laconnerseaside are contemporary glass gallery.com. tables by Lanny Bergner, incorporating his signature MONOTYPES & PLEIN “flame paint” technique on AIR: A show of new work by the wire mesh bases, as well Kris Ekstrand Molesworth as a selection of his woven continues through Oct. wire mesh pieces. Oils by 31 at Museo Gallery, 215 Brooke Borcherding, pastels First St., Langley. The show by Amanda Houston, oils by includes monotypes and Keith Sorenson and pastels plein air paintings inspired by Janice Wall round out by the islands and estuarthe show. Gallery hours are ies of Padilla Bay and the 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mon- Skagit flats. The gallery is day through Saturday. 360open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 293-6938 or scottmilo.com. Wednesday through Monday. 360-221-7737 or museo. NATURE-INSPIRED cc. SCULPTURE: A show of sculptures by Ann Morris QUILTS & MORE: Several and Allen Moe continues new exhibits of quilts, wearthrough Oct. 31, at Smith & ables and other fiber arts Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey will open today, Oct. 8, and Ave., Edison. continue through Dec. 30 at Morris has always been the La Conner Quilt & Texinterested in how human life tile Museum, 703 S. Second is interwoven with nature. St., La Conner: In her Lummi Island studio, “Great Lakes Seaway: she creates delicate, lightWar of 1812 International weight boats from materials Challenge”: The traveling gathered on walks in the exhibition sponsored by the woods and by the sea — Great Lakes Seaway Trail seaweed, cedar, willow and features 26 quilts, newly other organic matter. made, but true to 1812-periMoe has lived and worked od quilting patterns, fabrics in Skagit Valley, including and colors. Interpretive panthe neighboring islands els tell each quilt’s “story” for 27 years. Educated as a — some real, some imagined biologist, Allen has carried — and its relevance to what that into his exploration many historians consider as an artist using a variety America’s second war for of mediums — clay, skins/ independence. bones, encaustic and cast “Illusions & Shadows: cement. His current castings Colleen Wise”: Wise’s quilts were made on sandbars less have a sense of depth that than a mile from his shack goes beyond the surface. on the Skagit River Delta. Elements seem to float The gallery is open from above the surface or recede 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 360into the depths of the quilt. 766-6230 or smithandvallee. She feels compelled to com. assign a private narrative to every piece, starting with a “PLAYIN’ FOR PENNIES”: title and story, and building A show of oil paintings the work from there.

Oct. 9-11, at the Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW Alexander St., Coupeville. Some 20 artists will show and sell a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional artworks, including both traditional and nontraditional art. Free admission. sarilynn9@yahoo.com or whidbeyalliedartists.com.

varied selection of pottery, photography, glass, mixed media, calligraphy, painting, fiber art and jewelry crafted by local artisans. 360-3991660.

BILINGUAL MUSEUM TOUR: The Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner, will offer a Bilingual Spanish ExhibiAUTUMN ARTS FESTItion Tour at 1:15 p.m. SaturVAL: Immaculate Concepday, Oct. 24. Join educator tion Regional School will Melody Young for a guided host its annual Autumn tour and discussion of the Arts Festival from 9 a.m. museum’s exhibitions. Tours to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, are family-friendly and at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. geared for native speakers 15th St., Mount Vernon. The as well as students of the festival will feature a variety language. Free. 360-466-4446 of handcrafted items, home or monamuseum.org. decorations and jewelry, as well as entertainment, food STERNWHEELER’S FALL and hourly raffle drawings. HOURS: The sternwheeler Free admission. 360-421W.T. Preston and the Ana0641 or icrsweb.org. cortes Maritime Heritage Center, 713 R Ave., AnaCONTEMPORARY INDIG- cortes, have announced ENOUS ART: “Not Vanishnew hours for fall. The W.T. ing: Contemporary Expres- Preston is designated as a sions in Indigenous Art, National Historic Landmark, 1977-2015” will open Satur- and the Heritage Center day, Oct. 10, and continue features an exhibit exploring through Jan. 3 at the Muse- the maritime community’s “Visual Poetry and Abstract Expressionism” will open um of Northwest Art, 121 S. rich traditions and the First St., La Conner. Curated evolution of the Anacortes with a party and potluck from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, by Gail Tremblay and waterfront. Hours are 10 Oct. 10, and continue through Nov. 8 at Matzke Fine Miles R. Miller, the exhibit a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way, examines the evolution of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays Camano Island. Opening night festivities will include the Contemporary Native through October. Admisa poetry reading at 6 p.m. The show features sion to the Preston is $1-$3. paintings, stone and glass sculptures by Lin McJunkin, American Arts Movement Tracy Powell, Milo White, Reg Akright, Hiroshi Yamano, and the works of artists liv- Heritage Center admission is free. 360-293-1916 or Ann Vandervelde, Anne Martin McCool, Shannon Kirby ing in the Northwest, with museum.cityofanacotes.org. and Scott Jamieson, as well as new sculptures in the emphasis on the Puget 10-acre park. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sound and Plateau regions. weekends; weekdays by appointment. 360-387-2759 Co-curator Gail Tremblay “ANACORTES PRESor matzkefineart.com. Pictured: “Infraction” by Lin will discuss the exhibit from ENTS!: MODEL MACHINMcJunkin & Jill McCabe Johnson. 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, ERY”: The Anacortes Musefollowed by the opening. um is featuring a collection Museum hours are 10 a.m. of miniature machines in its “Anacortes Presents!” “Best of the Festival $7, $5 students and military to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. display case, at 1305 Eighth 2015”: The first floor of the with ID, free for members Sunday and Monday. Free. St., Anacortes. Owned by Gaches Mansion hosts the and ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4446 or mona Frank Orr and Eric Erickblue ribbon quilts, wearables 360-466-4288 or laconner museum.org. son, many of the items in the and fiber art from the 2015 quilts.org. Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival. case look like toys, but are ARTISTS’ OPEN HOUSE: accurate models of engines, Included are traditional WHIDBEY ART & GIFT quilts, art quilts, wearable SHOW: The Whidbey Allied That’s Knot All Artists construction equipment and Co-op will host an open arts and fiber arts. Artists Art & Gift Show farm machinery. Admission The museum is open from will be held from 10 a.m. to house starting at 11 a.m. Sat- to the museum is free. Hours urday, Oct. 24, at 128 First 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission: and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, St., La Conner. Check out a through Saturday, and 1 to

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OUT & ABOUT “HISTORY FROM A TIN 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed MonCAN”: Doug Rhodes will days. 360- or 293-1915 or museum.cityofanacortes.org. offer a program on the art and history of tin cans at 6 p.m. today, Oct. 8, at the “WHAT IS IT?”: Check Stanwood Public Library, out an exhibit of mystery items on display through 9701 271st St. NW, StanNov. 8 at the Skagit County wood. Author of “Labels, Historical Museum, 501 Leadville and Lore,” S. Fourth St., La Conner. Rhodes’ tin cans have been Museum hours are 11 a.m. featured on “Antiques to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Roadshow” on PBS. Free. Sunday. Admission: $5 360-629-3132. adults, $4 seniors and children ages 6-12, $10 families, “PICTURES OF THE free for members and ages 5 PAST”: Elaine Walker, ediand younger. 360-466-3365 tor of “Pictures of the Past: or skagitcounty.net/museum. Celebrating 125 Years of Anacortes History” by Wal“BACK TO OUR ROOTS: lie Funk, will present a slideThe History of Farm to show at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. Table Skagit County” con13, at the Anacortes Senior tinues through Oct. 11 at the Activity Center, 1701 22nd Skagit County Historical St., and at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., Oct. 28, at the Anacortes La Conner. For thousands Public Library, 1220 10th St., of years, the people of the Anacortes. Skagit County — from fishWalker will discuss the ermen to farmers, from First making of the book and Peoples to pioneer settlers share many of the historic — have harvested food from images published in it, as some of the richest soils and well as photos that were painfully left out. Books will most abundant waterways be available for purchase. in the country. “Back to Free admission. 360-293Our Roots” celebrates this 1915 or museum.cityof culture of hunting, gatheranacortes.org. ing, growing and preparing our own food from the MEGAQUAKE: “The Big headwaters of the Skagit River to the bays of the Sal- One: In Our Lifetime?” will be the topic at the Fidalgo ish Sea. Museum hours are Democrats’ next meeting 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission: at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at the Anacortes Public $5 adults, $4 seniors and Library, 1220 10th St., Anaages 6-12, $10 families, free for members and ages 5 and cortes. Rob Johnson, FEMA Disaster Assistance reservist, younger. 360-466-3365. will talk about the Cascadia and the megaquake LECTURES AND TALKS Fault that could occur along it in LOCAL RADIO: “Speak our lifetime. A moderated Up! Speak Out!,” a halfquestion/comment period hour weekly show commitwill follow. Bring a nonperted to community, peace, jusishable food bank donation. tice and nonviolence issues, 360-293-7114. broadcasts at 5 p.m. Wednesdays and 8 p.m. Sundays MORE FUN on KSVR 91.7 FM (Mount PUMPKIN PATCH & Vernon), KSVU 90.1 FM CORN MAZE: 9 a.m. to 5 (Hamilton), KMRE 102.3 FM (Bellingham) and KSJU p.m. daily, Oct. 1-31, Foster’s Produce & Corn Maze, 5818 91.9 FM (Friday Harbor). speakupspeakoutradio.org. Highway 530 NE, Arlington.

Enjoy u-pick pumpkins, “Wizard of Oz” corn maze, animal barn, kids’ activities and more. Additional activities available for additional fees. Free admission to the farm. Corn maze: $6, free for ages 3 and younger. 360-4356516 or fosterscornmaze. com.

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EXPLORE THE NIGHT SKY: The Island County Astronomical Society will host a free Star Party beginning at dark Friday, Oct. 9, at Fort Nugent Park, 2075 SW Fort Nugent Road, Oak Harbor. Explore the night sky and view distant galaxGHOST WALK: The 10th ies, planets and nebulas. No annual Concrete Ghost telescope needed. All ages Walk for ages 16 and older welcome. Dress warmly. The will begin at 6 p.m. every event will be canceled if it’s Saturday in October, depart- cloudy. 360-679-7664 or ing from the Concrete icas-wa.webs.com. Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. Indoor Ghost ENVIRONMENTAL FILM Stories will be offered at 7 SERIES: Friends of Skagit p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Beaches and Trail Tales will theater. Local residents — present free feature-length living and otherwise — will films on issues relevant to tell stories and legends of our Puget Sound/Salish Sea the town’s past as you tour waters at 7 p.m. Fridays at haunted hot spots. Dress the Northwest Educational for the weather and bring a Services District Building, flashlight. $10. Reservations 1601 R Ave., Anacortes. required: 360-941-0403 or Short films made by young concrete-wa.com. local filmmakers will lead off each screening. Doors FALL AUCTION: The Ana- open at 6:30 p.m. for popcortes Rotary Club will hold corn, drinks and to meet the its annual fall fundraiser, filmmakers. Free. skagit“Corks, Kilts and Kegs,” beaches.org. Next up: at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, Oct. 9: “Just Eat It: A at Swinomish Casino and Food Waste Story”: After Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, catching a glimpse of the Anacortes. Enjoy dinner billions of dollars of good and beverages from local food that is tossed each year wineries and breweries, a in North America, filmmaklive auction, raffle and Celtic ers Jen and Grant pledge to entertainment. $80. Tickets quit grocery shopping cold available through Rotary turkey and survive only on members or at corkskilts foods that would otherwise andkegs.com. More informa- be thrown away. tion: 360-391-2846 or kev Oct. 23: “Maiden of inmeenaghan@gmail.com. Deception Pass: Guardian of Her Samish People”: The BENEFIT FILM SCREEN- Samish Indian Nation will ING: The Lincoln Theatre screen their new 30-minute will screen the 2000 black documentary that tells the comedy “Sordid Lives” story of the carving of the at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, Maiden of Deception Pass at 712 S. First St., Mount story pole that overlooks Vernon. Enjoy premovie Rosario Bay. The film entertainment, giveaways includes interviews with from local LGBT-friendly Tracey Powell, who carved businesses and from the the pole, and tribal members writer and one of the stars there when it was installed, of the movie. $15 suggested as well as footage from the donation. 360-399-7045 or installation and from Samish hairandbodymechanix@ events and celebrations.

MODEL RAILROAD DISPLAY: The Whatcom-Skagit Model Railroad Club will host its first open house of the season from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at 1469 Silver Run Lane, Alger. Check out the club’s large, permanent HO- and N-scale indoor railroad layouts. Admission is by donation to maintain and expand the layouts. whatcomskagitmrc.org. MUSHROOM SHOW: The Snohomish County Mycological Society will hold its 44th annual Fall Mushroom Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, at Floral Hall in Forest Park, 802 E. Mukilteo Blvd., Everett. Wild mushroom identification class begins at 1 p.m. Free admission, donations appreciated. scmsfungi.org. “BREW ON THE SLOUGH”: Enjoy a beer crawl through La Conner from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, along First Street in downtown La Conner. Ten hosts will offer a unique blend of boutique shopping, rare finds, custom made treasures, getaway opportunities and culinary offerings. An “Oktoberfest AfterParty” will follow at Anelia’s Kitchen and Stage. Tickets: $25, includes 10 pours from a variety of Pacific Northwest breweries. The first 200 ticket holders will receive a souvenir tasting glass. love laconner.com. AUCTION & WINE TASTING: Soroptimist International of Fidalgo Island will host its 11th annual “Hallowine” Auction and Wine Tasting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Swinomish Casino and Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. Enjoy a silent auction, wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres followed by a live auction. Tickets: $40 advance, $45 at the door. 360-610-4526, 360293-9892 or sifidalgoisland.

blogspot.com. WILD, SCENIC FILMS: Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group will present the Wild and Scenic Film Festival at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Enjoy a reception in the Lincoln’s Art Bar followed by a series of short films that capture the spirit of environmental movements across the globe. $15$25, includes a raffle ticket. 360-336-0172 or skagitfisher ies.org. LOBSTERS & MORE: “Lobsta Mania” is set for 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Enjoy a whole lobster dinner, live music and more. $25. 360-387-0222 or camanocenter.org. “UNA FESTA SICILIANA”: The Northwest Language Academy and Cultural Center’s fifth annual NWLA Gala will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at a private residence on Sunlight Beach, Whidbey Island. Enjoy an evening of Sicilian food, music and culture, including a variety of traditional southern Italian food and wine, along with musical performances by tenor Frank Poretta, soprano Jennifer Poretta and mezzo soprano Eleni Matos. Tickets, information: 360-321-2101 or info@ nwlanguageacademy.com. MOVIE NIGHT: Enjoy a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Center for Spiritual Living, 1508 N. 18th St., Mount Vernon. Bring your own snacks, water bottles (no other beverages allowed), pillows, blankets, etc. Free. Donations accepted. Venue is not handicapped accessible. 360-202-2329.

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Michael Shannon going from real estate bad guy to Elvis explaining Carver’s lot in life, how the character fell into his specialty after the CHICAGO — In “99 2007 real estate bust. The Homes,” 41-year-old movie’s set in 2010, when Michael Shannon gives his foreclosures were peaking. latest fiercely accomplished “Everybody involved in performance as an Orlando the movie wanted to presreal estate broker whose ent an accurate and authenname, Rick Carver, indicates tic depiction of what this a knife-like ability to slice experience is like for these up the economic opportuni- people. Andrew and Laura ties of the moment. (Dern, who plays the conCo-writer and director struction worker’s mother) Ramin Bahrani structures represent people who don’t his film as a moral thriller have a voice. We felt a sense and a seduction. of responsibility, a sense of One homeowner evicted obligation to those people. The last thing you want early in the film, a construction worker played by to do is take this subject matter and use it for your Andrew Garfield, is desown advantage, for ‘great perate for cash. He does a one-off job for Carver as yet drama.’ “ Shannon pauses. “Rick’s another foreclosure scavenged by Carver is readied a broker, but nobody has any money, so the money’s for a quick flip and a nice profit. Then he becomes his in evictions. And even the business partner, at a price. devil needs a friend.” Shannon has plenty of “Nobody trains to be an friends, and as busy a proevictionologist,” Shannon fessional and personal life as says to me. It’s late mornone Chicago-bred stage and ing and we’re sitting in an empty restaurant at the Vir- screen actor, who also has a band (Corporal), can comgin hotel in Chicago. He’s By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Chicago Tribune

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Michael Shannon (right) portrays Rick Carver in a scene from “99 Homes.” fortably manage. He shot six films in the last eight months. Now he’s taking off again for another month to make “Nocturnal Animals” for “A Single Man” writerdirector Tom Ford. His costars will be Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams. Then he’ll return to Chicago, where Shannon and his partner, Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Kate Arrington (currently in “East of Eden”), recently purchased a condo in Chicago’s Old Town neighbor-

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hood where they live with their two daughters, 7 and 1. He’ll then dive back into final preparations for a new play, rehearsing around Shannon’s schedule, at the theater Shannon co-founded. A Red Orchid Theatre’s world premiere of “Pilgrim’s Progress” by Brett Neveu begins previews Nov. 4. When their respective productions conclude, the Shannon/Arringtons relocate back to the place they’re renting in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. In the spring, Shannon will play Jamie Tyrone in the Broadway revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” starring Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne. One of the films in the can: “Elvis & Nixon,” in which Shannon dons the most famous sideburns in American history. Kevin Spacey plays the president. “Ideally,” Shannon says of his back-to-back projects, “most people if they were going to play someone like Elvis, they probably wouldn’t

be working on something else right before that. They’d take, like, a year. I didn’t have that luxury. I had a couple of weeks.” Pause. “Sometimes I look at Daniel Day-Lewis and think: That guy’s really figured it out. He makes one super-amazing movie every three, four years, and everybody thinks he’s a god. Which he is. Sometimes I think I should give that a shot. I’m not at that level, but … you know, I’m trying to get there.” Gratitude for his opportunities, combined with a detectable undertow of guilt, helps drive Shannon’s maniacal work pace. Four years ago, he acknowledged that his increasingly rich film career (this was before he played General Zod in “Man of Steel”) was clouded somewhat by the knowledge that so many of his acting pals and colleagues struggle to make the rent. As he told the National Post in 2011, around the time he made Jeff Nichols’ “Take Shelter,” which remains Shannon’s favorite

film experience to date: “A lot of my friends are still in Chicago and they are as talented and as gifted as I am, maybe more so, but they are still there. And they can’t make a living out of doing what they love, so I feel I owe it to them, out of respect, to take every opportunity I get and treat it very seriously.” It helps, Arrington says, to have what Shannon has: “a supernatural constitution. Mike can function on so little sleep. He actually doesn’t understand people who need a lot of sleep and good nutrition.” She laughs. “I don’t understand that at all.” Arrington and Shannon met in Chicago, and began dating when he was doing “The Pillowman” at Steppenwolf and she was doing “King Lear” at the Goodman. “I think he’s absolutely something that no one else in the world is,” she says. “He has something no one else in the world has. You don’t forget Mike. On stage, on film, he’s honest and scary and so, so committed.”

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “Avengers: Age of of Saint Marie. Ultron”: The heroes reunite “Amnesiac”: Man with Upcoming to stop a creation with memory loss soon suspects movie releases artificial intelligence out his wife is not his real wife. Following is a partial to destroy the world. Chris Kate Bosworth stars. schedule of coming movEvans, James Spader star. “Golden Shoes”: Young ies on DVD. Release Director Joss Whedon boy finds special abilities in dates are subject to amped up the story for a pair of shoes. change: “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Escobar: Paradise OCT. 13 cast Spader to bring wicked Lost”: Surfer thinks he’s San Andreas life to the robotic villain, found true love only to realTomorrowland added more characters ize she is the niece of major The Gallows from the Marvel universe drug lord. Dope and tossed in some massive “Batkid Begins”: San Ascension action scenes. All of this Francisco helps make heroic OCT. 20 makes for a good action wish come true. Jurassic World movie. It just falls short of “The Code: Season 1”: Paper Towns the first “Avengers” movie. Mystery of a girl’s death Dragon Ball Z: “Insidious: Chapter 3”: brings several people Resurrection ‘F’ Young woman is haunted by together. The Vatican Tapes Testament of Youth a deadly demon that lives “Frontline: Escaping in her building. Dermot ISIS”: A look at the plight OCT. 27 Mulroney stars. A lesser of Yazidi women and chilPixels film would have concendren. Southpaw trated entirely on this battle “Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Gift between the living and Christmas Special”: PeeMax dead. Director Leigh Whanwee learns the true meaning n Tribune News Service nell balances the terror with of Christmas. complicated characters. “Gravy”: Costumed trio “Me and Earl and the take over a Mexican restauDying Girl”: Too often movies about the rant. agony and ecstasy of growing up feature “Out of the Vault Christmas Collecactors who are so young they seem like tion”: Includes episodes of “Angry Beapreschoolers or are so mature they come vers,” “CatDog” and “Hey Arnold.” across like they’re getting Social Security “Particle Fever”: Film follows six scichecks. Neither gives a story the life it entists as they launch the Large Hadron needs to rise above the ponderous comingCollider. of-age fluff. “Happyish: Season 1”: Middle-aged But director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has man (Steve Coogan) tries to adjust to used the script by Jesse Andrews to pull changes at work. engaging — and age-appropriate — per“Old 37”: Two crazed brothers do horformances out of the cast. From the quirky rific medical procedures. home movies the best buddies make to “Greatest Heroes of the Bible: The dealing with death, the production is full of Complete Series”: Includes 12 hours of heart, hope and humor. epic stories. “What We Did on Our Holiday”: One “My Little Pony & Littlest Pet Shop: family has an unforgettable summer vacaWinter Vacation”: Ponies and pets go on tion. six wintry adventures. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The “Will to Love”: Happy bachelor must Complete First and Second Seasons”: find a bride in order to get huge inheriIncludes 24 hours of total turtle fun. tance. “South Park: The Complete 18th Sea“Horror Classics Collection: Volume 1”: son”: The four friends get lost in virtual One of the four films included in the set is reality. “The Mummy.” “Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Com“Dead Rising: Watchtower”: Jesse Metplete Series”: Contains all 61 episodes of calfe stars in this tale of a group of people the animated series. trapped in a quarantined area after the “Air”: Norman Reedus and Djimon government falls. Hounson play two engineers tasked with “Science & Word Play: Blaze and the guarding last pieces of mankind. Monster Machines: Blaze of Glory & Wal“In the Courtyard”: Ex-musician finds lykazam!”: Educational material aimed at new life as a building caretaker. those headed to kindergarten. “Death in Paradise: Season 3”: Imposn Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee sible murders strike the Caribbean island

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 8-15 Thursday.8 THEATER

TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 8-15 THURSDAY.8

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Dudley Taft (blues, rock): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, Bard Room, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

“OLIVER!” 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Aaron J. Shay and Bellow.Wing: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 360-4453000.

“Oliver!”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com. Poseidon Players Black Box Theater: 7 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. Free; donations appreciated. 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com.

Bob Bertoli: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

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Janette West: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-5881720.

COMEDY

Stand-up Comedy: Diaz Mackie, Sean McBride, Tim Gaither; hosted by Simon Kaufman; 7 p.m., Conway Muse, Bard Room, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

THEATER

Poseidon Players Black Box Theater: 7 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. Free; donations appreciated. 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com. “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” (comedy thriller): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $22 adult, $18 senior, $15 youth. 360-221-8268 or wicaonline.org.

Saturday.10 COMEDY

The Skagit-Mount Vernon Kiwanis “Original Comedy Night”: Larry Reeb, Brian Moote and Silas Lindenstein: 8 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $20. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

Eddy and the Touks: 6 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-982-2649. Open Mic & Jam: 8 p.m., Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. No cover. 425-737-5144. Rosetta, Braveyoung, A God or an Other, X Suns: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6. 360-778-1067. Joe Young: 5 to 7 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360354-3600 or jansen artcenter.org.

SATURDAY.10 BRIAN LEE & THE ORBITERS 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

SUNDAY.11 JENNY & THE TOMCATS 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

FRIDAY.9

“Death, The Final Irony”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Phillip Tarro Theatre, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10, free for SVC students. Additional donations accepted at the door. 866-624-6897, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org. “Oliver!”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

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Roosevelt Road (Americana, bluegrass): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $5. 360-445-3000.

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THEATER

“Girls Night: The Musical”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $30-$40. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org. “Death, The Final Irony”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Phillip Tarro Theatre, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10, free for SVC students. Additional donations accepted at the door. 866-624-6897, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org. “Oliver!”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Poseidon Players Black Box Theater: 7 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. Free; donations appreciated. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com. “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” (comedy thriller): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $22 adult, $18 senior, $15 youth. 360-221-8268 or wicaonline.org.

Sunday.11 THEATER

“Oliver!”: 2 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

THEATER

“Oliver!”: 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Funk Factory (’80s-’90s party dance music): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

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

David Ritchie: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Mark Riley and Paul Green: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360588-1720.

Wayne Hayton (classic country rock, folk, Americana): 8 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

The Troy Fair Band: 9 p.m., Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. $5. $5 line dance lessons start at 7 p.m. 425737-5144 or 360629-6500.

SATURDAY.10 Joe T. Cook (blues): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” (comedy thriller): 2 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15. 360-221-8268 or wicaonline.org.

Thursday.15

Friday Swing, with Duane Melcher and Ken Vanderhyde (’30s, ’40s & ’50s classic tunes): 7 to 9 p.m., North Cove Coffee, 1130 S. Burlington Blvd., Burlington. No cover.

Jukebox Duo: 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-848-8882.

SUNDAY.11 Brian Lee & The Orbiters: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

WEDNESDAY.14 Prozac Mountain Boys: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Red House: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-755-3956.

Desperate Measures: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360422-6411.

Cee Cee James (blues, rock): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Funk Factory (’80s-’90s party dance music): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

He Whose Ox is Gored, Drunk Dad: 9:30 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7. 360-778-1067.

Jenny & The TomCats: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

THURSDAY.15 Musical showcase: local singer/songwriters, 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-445-3000.

Jenny & The Tomcats: 6 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-982-2649.

Uncle Doug Cooper (Neil Young tribute): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

Open Mic & Jam: 8 p.m., Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. No cover. 425-737-5144 or 360-6296500.

B Natural: 5 to 7 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600 or jansenartcenter.org.