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The Jimmy Wright Band plays the Big Lake Bar & Grill on Friday night PAGES 8-9

MOVIES It’s nature vs. Nick Nolte in “A Walk in the Woods” PAGE 14

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THIS WEEKENDin the area WHALE RESEARCH Dr. John Durban will present “Taking Whale Research to New Heights: Using a Small Unmanned Hexacopter to Non-invasively Monitor the Health of Resident Killer Whales” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at The Whale Museum, 62 First St. N., Friday Harbor.

Durban, population ecologist at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, Calif., will give an overview of his research and collaborations using photogrammetry to fill key data gaps that currently constrain the conservation of Northern and Southern Resident killer whales in the U.S. and Canada. Free. 360378-4710, ext. 30, or whalemuseum.org.

CAR SHOW Check out classic and custom cars, trucks and motorcycles at the Stanwood Community and Senior Center’s sixth annual Car Show from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at 7430 276th St. NW, Stanwood. Trophies, door prizes, vendors. Registration: $20 day of event.

Free admission for spectators. 360-6297403 or stanwoodseniorcenter.org.

HORSESHOE TOURNEY The Skagit Valley

Wenatchee Youth Circus The Wenatchee Youth Circus returns to Skagit County for the fourth consecutive year with three weekend performances.

Performers include young children, teens and adults.

Enjoy high-wire acts, the flying trapeze, juggling, clowns and more.

Performances are scheduled for 2 and 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, at Thousand Trails Campground, 5409 Darrk Lane in Bow. Family packages (two adults and three children under 12), $25; adults, $10; seniors, $7.50; under age 12, $5. For tickets and additional information, call 360-724-4811.

Horseshoe Club will host the Washington State Horseshoe Championship Tournament on Sept. 5-7 at Skagit River Park, 1100 S. Skagit St., Burlington. Play will begin at 9 a.m. each day. Spectators welcome. For information, call Darrel at 360-588-1154.

ROAMING ARTWatercolorist Jan Nicholson will be the featured artist at the annual Roaming Artists Art Show, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5-6, at the Camano Multipurpose Center, 141 E. Camano Drive, Camano Island. The event will showcase original artwork by 27 local artists who work “plein air” (outside and on-site) at locations around the area.

Visitors can enter a raffle for a watercolor by Liz Hamlin. Free admission.

360-387-4868.

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OUT & ABOUT ART JURIED ART SHOW: Allied Arts of Whatcom County’s Juried Artist Series continues with “Mystic Mountains,” opening with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, and continuing through Sept.

26 at the Allied Arts Gallery, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. The show features artwork by Tore Ofteness, Kenni Merritt, John D’Onofrio and Stephen Malshuk. An exhibit walkthrough with the artists will start at 7 p.m. on opening night. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. 360-6768548 or alliedarts.org.

PASTELS: The Northwest Pastel Society Signature Member Show will open with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, and continue through Sept.

29 at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Society members will show a vast selection of pastel work encompassing traditional and trending styles, including landscapes, seascapes, floral, figurative, abstract and mixed media.

Also showing are Lanny Bergner’s contemporary glass tables incorporating his signature “flame paint” technique, as well as a selection of his woven wire mesh art pieces. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or scottmilo.com.

gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. 360-293-1338.

“SERENDIPITY: The Art of Pleasant Surprises”: A show of new oil paintings on paper by Marcia Van Doren will run through Sept. 30 at Raven Rocks Gallery, 765 Wonn Road C-101, Greenbank. A reception for the artist will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. For information, including gallery hours and directions, call 360-222-0102 or visit ravenrocksgallery. com.

FIBER ART: The Anacortes Arts Foundation will present the Fidalgo Island Quilters Fiber Art Quilt Show from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 4-5, at the Depot Arts & Community Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. Free admission. anacortesarts artscommission.com.

PAINTINGS/POTTERY: Tyree Callahan/Isaac Howard: The show featuring two Northwest artists will run Sept. 4-30 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. A reception for the artists will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5.

Callahan’s “Salish Atlas” is an ongoing pictorial exploration of our bioregion combining pencilsketched images from the field, which are loosely translated to oils. Howard has been making utilitarian pottery for 15 years, and over the last few years he PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY: has been exploring atmospheric firing techniques.

“Different Strokes,” a colGallery hours are 11 a.m. lection of oil and acrylic paintings by Caroline Gar- to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. 360-766-6230 or land, opens Friday, Sept. 4, and continues through Sept. smithandvallee.com.

30 at the Majestic Inn & DRAWINGS & PAINTSpa, 401 Commercial Ave., INGS: The “Artist’s Choice” Anacortes. Garland paints invitational art show will in a variety of styles, with open with a reception from a wide range of color and 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, subject matter. The lobby

Sept. 25, at participating locations along Main Street in the east end commercial district in downtown Stanwood.

FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK

JURIED EXHIBIT: The Late Summer Juried Exhibit, featuring instructors from the Association of Northwest Weavers Guild and solo exhibits with Steve Cousens and Norman Riley, continues through Sept. 25 at the Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. Free.

360-354-3600 or jansenart center.org.

appeared in hundreds of national and international exhibitions, collections, and publications. The show continues through Oct. 4.

“Celebrating 20 Years of Art”: The exhibit showcases innovative, contemporary multimedia textile work by graduate students of the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts. Artists include Martha Kleihege, Susan Lenarz, Karen Nelson, Alba Romero, Jill Taylor, Maria Winner and Deborah Zibrik. The exhibit marks the center’s 20th anniversary. The show continues through Oct. 4.

The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday through Sunday.

Admission: $7, $5 students and military with ID, free for members and ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4288 or laconnerquilts.org.

“INSPIRED BY NATURE”: A show featuring twodimensional work by Philip Paintings and sculptures by Roger Small will be featured in a show opening during the First Thursday McCracken, three-dimensional work by Peregrine Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, and continuing through Sept. 30 at the Front Gallery, 420 O’Gormley and fine jewelry Myrtle St., Mount Vernon. During the Art Walk, some by Doug Burton continues through the end of the 15 downtown venues will host work by one or more year at the Burton Gallocal and regional artists. 360-336-3801 or mount vernondowntown.org. Pictured: “The Samish” by lery, 620 Commercial Ave., Roger Small.

Anacortes. Gallery hours FAIRS are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON STATE Monday through Saturday.

FAIR: Washington state’s and continue through Sept. show, hors d’oeuvres and a 360-293-6469 or burton biggest fair will run Sept.

30 at Fourth Corner Frames cash wine bar. The reserva- jewelers.com.

11-27 at the Washington & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St., tion deadline has passed.

State Fair Events Center, WATERCOLORS: PaintBellingham. The exhibi360-466-0110.

110 Ninth Ave. SW, Puyalings by Camano Island tion features small works An exhibition of art by lup. Advance tickets: $7.50by some 30 regional artists. Harker Center students and artist Bobbie Mueller are $10 through Sept. 10; at Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to graduates will be held from featured in a show at The the gate: $9-$12.50, free for Shop, 18623 Main St., Con5:30 p.m. Monday through 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday ages 5 and younger. thefair. way. Painting in watercolors Saturday. 360-734-1340 or and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Suncom. fourthcornerframes.com. day, Sept. 19-20, at the cen- since the 1980s, Mueller has shown her work in gallerter, 12636 Chilberg Road.

FESTIVALS ies, invitational and juried GAIL HARKER CENTER Presentations and artist SALMON FESTIVAL: shows around greater Puget ANNIVERSARY: The Gail demonstrations will take Check out the Skagit River Sound. The Shop is open Harker Center for Creative place both days.

Salmon Festival from 10 Arts will host its 20th anniA juried art sale will take from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. versary celebration Friday place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Waterfront Park 360-391-2691 or theshop through Sunday, Sept. 18-20, Friday through Sunday, at the Swinomish Casino at venues around La ConSept. 18-20. Free admission. conway.com. and Lodge, 12885 Casino ner.

Dinner, wine tasting and Drive, Anacortes. The QUILTS, KNITTING, The weekend will kick off a silent auction will begin at with a reception from 5:30 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, TEXTILE ART: Several new annual event will feature exhibits of quilts and other live music, Native storytellto 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at at the Civic Garden Club, ers and cultural activities, fiber arts are on display at the Museum of Northwest 622 S. Second St. Tickets: the La Conner Quilt & Tex- Hunters of the Sky raptor Art, 121 S. First St. Textile $100. 360-317-6545. tile Museum, 703 S. Second shows, Puget Sound Dockartist Anita Luvera Mayer 360-466-0110 or gail Dogs canine aquatics comSt., La Conner: will be the keynote speaker, creativestudies.com.

“30 Quilts for 30 Years”: petition, salmon barbecue, presenting “Embroidered Dish Towels to Regal STANWOOD ART WALK: Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry beer and wine garden, arts is internationally recogand crafts vendors, chilRobes,” her personal jourMeet the artists and check nized for her award-winning dren’s activities and more. ney in creating textiles. The out a variety of artwork fine-art quilts, which have Free. skagitriverfest.org. evening will include a style from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday,

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OUT & ABOUT PARISH FESTIVAL: The annual Immaculate Conception Church Parish Festival will be held from noon to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

13, at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon.

Enjoy 15 food booths, onstage entertainment, games and activities for kids, including pony rides, cake walk, raffles and more. Free admission and parking.

Proceeds will benefit the new church building fund.

360-336-6622.

LECTURES AND TALKS

LOCAL RADIO: “Speak Up! Speak Out!,” a halfhour weekly show committed to community, peace, justice and nonviolence issues, broadcasts at 5 p.m.

Wednesdays and 8 p.m.

Sundays on Skagit Valley Community radio station KSVR 91.7 FM (Mount Vernon), KSVU 90.1 FM (Hamilton), KMRE 102.3 FM (Bellingham) and KSJU 91.9 FM (Friday HARVEST MOON FESTI- Harbor). speakupspeak VAL: Cider, Brews & Blues: outradio.org.

Enjoy music, local libations PUBLIC COMMENTS and more from 4:30 to 9 WORKSHOP: Fidalgo Demp.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, ocrats will host a workshop on the Skagit Riverwalk Plaza in downtown Mount on how to make effective public comments on the Vernon.

Environmental Impact This year’s theme Statement for the proposed features the bounty of Shell oil-by-rail facility at 7 orchards and grain fields p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the with local cideries and Anacortes Public Library, breweries sharing their 1220 10th St., Anacortes. wares, accompanied by award-winning blues bands The workshop will be led

by Alex Ramel, ForestEthPolly O’Keary and the ics Extreme Oil field direcRhythm Method, Bobby Holland and the Breadline, tor of Bellingham. Bring a and Badd Dog Blues Soci- nonperishable food donaety. Ages 21 and older. $20 tion for the food bank. 360293-7114. advance, $25 at the gate. brownpapertickets.com/ GOT BATS?: Kathleen event/2181445. 360-336Bander, founder of Bats 3801 or mountvernon Northwest, will present downtown.org.

“Bats Incredible!” from GIANT PUMPKINS: The 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 26, at Christianson’s fifth annual Skagit Valley Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Giant Pumpkin Festival will be held from 9 a.m. to Mount Vernon.

5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon. Other events will include pony rides, face painting, toad races, carnival games, harvest food, music and more. Children can bring and show off their homegrown giant vegetables, sunflowers and pumpkins. Free admission; some activities have a small fee. 360-466-3821, 800-5858200 or christiansonsnurs ery.com.

MORE FUN HOME TOUR: The ninth SICBA Home Tour will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

11-13, throughout Skagit and Island counties. Check out homes newly built or remodeled by Skagit/Island Counties Builders Association members, and discover the latest in home technology, innovative products,

turing Knut Bell and the Blue Collars. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door.

Dinner available for $10.

Special offer: $100 for four tickets, dinner for four plus wine discount. 360-8551841 or sedro-woolley.com.

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BUMBERSHOOT

Seattle’s annual music and arts festival is set for Saturday through Monday, Sept. 5-7, at the Seattle Center. Enjoy music, visual and performing arts, dance, films, comedy, arts and crafts, poetry and literary arts, children’s activities, food, beer gardens and lots more. Faith No More (pictured) will perform Sunday, Sept. 6. trends in home design, construction, green building and more. $10. Tickets are available at each of the homes on the tour. 360-7576916 or sicba.org.

ANTIQUE MACHINERY: The 20th (and final) Anacortes Antique Engine & Machinery Show will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 12, at Sixth and Market streets, Anacortes. Check out tractors, vintage vehicles, engines, models and gizmos, as well as children’s activities, hay rides, food, music and more. Vintage vehicles will parade through downtown at 11 a.m. Free admission.

Exhibitors are welcome.

For information, call the Anacortes Museum at 360293-1915.

COMMUNITY FUN: The Alger Community Fun’raiser will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Alger Community Hall, 18735 Parkview Lane, Alger. Enjoy music

by The D’vas and Dudes,

a car wash, bake sale, kids’ games, bouncy house, informational booths, raffles, beer garden, food and more, including vendors from the Bow Little Market. Proceeds will support regular maintenance on the hall and special projects.

Free admission. 360-7240340 or email algercomm unityhall@yahoo.com.

MULTICULTURAL EVENT: Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Edgewater Park, 600 Behrens Millett Road, Mount Vernon.

Enjoy performances by musical groups, folkloric dance, kids’ activities and more. Food will be available for purchase. Free admission. 360-424-8655 or ccsfarmworkercenter@ ccsww.org.

“UNCORKED: Woolley Wine & Music Festival” will kick off at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Eagle Haven Winery, 8243 Sims Road, Sedro-Woolley, fea-

Center’s ninth annual Gala Auction, will begin at 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19, at 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Enjoy a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres and complimentary bar beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the live auction and dinner WHATCOM FARM TOUR: at 6:30 p.m. Evening casual The Whatcom County attire. 360-387-0222 or Farm Tour will take place camanocenter.org. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12. The free, FILM SCREENING: self-guided tour features Check out “Dirt! The educational, interactive Movie” at 7 p.m. Saturday, activities at each of the 12 Sept. 19, at the Anacortes stops, including working Center for Happiness, 619 farms, a winery and farmers Commercial Ave., Anamarket. eatlocalfirst.org. cortes. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, “Dirt!” brings GENEALOGY SEMINAR: to life the environmental, “Genealogy: All About economic, social and politiLife,” the Skagit Valley cal impact of soil. AdmisGenealogical Society’s sion by donation. 360-464annual seminar, will be 2229 or anacortescenter held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. forhappiness.org.

Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Mount Vernon Senior WHATCOM ROCKS: Center, 1401 Cleveland St., Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Mount Vernon. Topics will Club members will show include researching newsrocks, minerals, fossils and papers, Google and genegems found or otherwise alogy tools, writing your acquired in Whatcom family history, top 10 tech County at their next meettools for genealogists and ing at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. more. Registration: $50. For 21, at the Bloedel Donovan information: 360-770-0762 Community Building, 2214 or svgsgenealogy@gmail.

Electric Ave., Bellingham. com. To register: skagit There will also be door valleygenealogy.org. prizes, refreshments, a silent auction of rocks and DAUGHTERS & MOMS rock literature and a brief DAY OUT: For girls ages business meeting. Visitors 12-18 and their moms from welcome, with or without 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, rocks. 360-734-3994 or Sept. 19, at Cascade Middle mtbakerrockclub.org.

School, 905 McGarigle Road, Sedro-Woolley.

OYSTER RUN: The 34th Spend the day with singer, annual Oyster Run will songwriter and worship be held Sunday, Sept. 27. leader Jaime Jamgochian, One of the largest motordiscussing beauty, bravery, cycle runs in the Pacific purpose and hope, along Northwest, the Oyster Run with professional makeup features hundreds of riders and hair tips session. Lunch from no official point at and snacks included. Free; no official time, but culmipresented by Women nates in the streets HAND in Hand. RSVP: of downtown Anacortes. womenhandinhand.com.

Food and product vendors, live music and entertainGALA AUCTION: “Evement. 360-435-9103, info@ ning by the Sea,” Camano oysterrun.org or

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OUT & ABOUT AUDITIONS DRUMMER NEEDED: A drummer/percussionist is needed for Theatre Arts Guild’s production of “The Rocky Horror Show,” with performances Oct. 23-Nov. 7 at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon. Auditions are by appointment; email Conrad Askland at cask land@gmail.com.

Bob Lundquist, 360-9415733 or svenbob@cheerful. com.

RECREATION

CALL FOR YOUNG VENDORS: Burlington Parks and Recreation is looking for vendors ages 18 and younger for the Kids Giant Garage Sale, set for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven MUSIC Ave., Burlington. Kids can BARBERSHOP HARMOsell all things kid-related — NY: Attend a free, no-comtoys, bikes, puzzles, games, mitment rehearsal of the books, clothes and more.

An-O-Chords, a four-part Kids younger than 12 must barbershop harmony group[. be accompanied by an adult No experience necessary, no at their booth. $15 for an auditions required. Learn 8-foot square space with a by rote, you don’t have to table. Preregister at 360-755read music. All ages wel9649 or burlingtonwa.gov/ come. Drop in any Thursday recreation. at 7 p.m. at the Northwest Educational Service BuildTEEN ACTIVITIES: Ages ing, 1601 R Ave., Anacortes. 12 to 19 can participate in after-school activities from 3 Rides available. Contact

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to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting Sept. 17, at the Burlington Public Library’s Rotary Community Meeting Room, 820 E. Washington Ave., Burlington.

Themes and activities will change each week and include: games; help with homework resources; handson science, technology and art activities; and celebrations of pop culture fandoms with trivia, games and crafts.

Participation does not require a library card. 360755-0760 or burlingtonwa. gov/library.

TRAIL GUIDES, BIKE MAPS & MORE: Learn about opportunities to be physically active in Skagit County, including trail guides, an activity tracker and local resources, at be activeskagit.org.

HORSEBACK RIDING: A variety of riding opportunities for horses and their humans of all skill levels are offered at Fire Mountain Trail Course, located just north of Sedro-Woolley. fire mountaintrailcourse.com.

TRAIL TALES: Friends of Skagit Beaches will lead a series of informative walks along the Tommy Thompson Trail in Anacortes. For information, visit skagitbeaches. org. Next up: Guided Bike Ride: Legacy of “the City of Smokestacks” and the Anacortes Shoreline Makeover: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, Preston Snagboat, 703 R Ave., Anacortes. Learn how Anacortes waterfront industries are tied to the Anacortes Baywide Cleanup project that is restoring the Fidalgo Island shoreline. The level ride includes stops at sites along the Guemes Channel, Cap Sante Basin and the Tommy Thompson Trail.

TRAIL DEDICATION: Enjoy hiking and history

at the Havekost Loop Trail dedication celebration Saturday, Sept. 19, at Washington Park, 6300 Sunset Ave., Anacortes. Events will include: History Hike: 9:30 a.m.

A walk covering park history begins at the Loop Road exit gate and ends at the Havekost Monument in time for the trail dedication.

Havekost Loop: 10:30 a.m. Park Manager Bob Vaux will lead the inaugural stroll on the new Havekost Loop Trail.

Centennial Picnic: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Celebrate the centennial of the naming of Washington Park and enjoy food, fun and games, including clowns and lemon treats.

Free.

TAI CHI CLASSES: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation will offer a seven-week series for new or experienced students from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 14-Oct. 26, at Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Classes focus on balance, posture, relaxation, breathing, visual and mental concentration to promote mind and body harmony. $75-$77. To register, call 360336-6215.

A free introductory class will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the Hillcrest Park lodge. The class will be held outdoors if weather permits. 360-3366215.

FRIENDS OF THE FOREST HIKES: Join Friends of the Forest for scenic hikes in the forest lands around Anacortes. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. No pets. Free. 360-293-3725 or friendsoftheacfl.org. Next up: Senior/Adult Hike: Beaver Ponds: 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 11. Meet at the ACFL kiosk on A Avenue and 37th Street. Explore easy trails that reveal beaver

dams, lodges, mounds and other daytime clues to their secret nighttime ways.

trails within Little Mountain Park, with an elevation gain of 1,700 feet. Top three male and female finishers will JACKSON MEMORIAL receive a medal; all finishers RUN/WALK: The annual receive a commemorative Anne Jackson Memorial mug. Dogs on leash are wel5K/10K Run and 2-mile Dog come. Postrun celebration Walk will take place Saturand barbecue at the finish. day, Sept. 12, at the Humane Registration: $35. Proceeds Society of Skagit Valley, will benefit Mount Vernon 18841 Kelleher Road, Burl- Trail Builders. runfare.org/ ington. The USATF-certified trail-runs2.html.

5K/10K runs will start at 8 a.m. followed by the dog SPAWNER SURVEY: walk/run at 8:15 a.m. PostSkagit Fisheries Enhancerace snacks and dog-friendly ment Group will hold a vendors will be onsite.

Spawner Survey Workshop Awards will be given from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturto the top three finishers day, Oct. 3. Learn to identify and the best dog costume. different species of salmon Registration: $25-$30, free and their redds (nests), and for ages 14 and younger or document populations at 70 and older. Proceeds and stream restoration sites. Coldonations will benefit the lected data will be used to Humane Society of Skagit measure the effectiveness Valley. To register, visit of restoration projects and bellinghamdogrunner.com/ to help WDFW determine anne-jackson-memorial-run- escapement goals for future walk. For information about fishing seasons. Volunsponsorship and vendor teers must be able to do opportunities: 360-757-2568 weekly monitoring, October or bellinghamdogrunner@ through January. For inforgmail.com. mation or to sign up: sfeg@ skagitfisheries.org.

HARBOR PORPOISE BLUFF DAY: Join Pacific THEATER Biodiversity Institute natuYOUTH THEATER CLASSralists to learn about the eluES: The Whidbey Playhouse sive harbor porpoise. Pick “Would Be Players” theater up tips from expert porpoise-spotters and discover program will offer two why these marine mammals eight-week workshops for students ages 6 to 14 at the are important indicators of Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE the health of local waters.

The event will be held from Midway Drive, Oak Harbor: Novice class (ages 6-9): 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. Mondays Sept. 12, at Rosario Head, and Tuesdays, Sept. 8-Oct. Deception Pass State Park, 27.

Whidbey Island. Discover Entertainer Class (ages Pass or $10 day parking fee 10-14): 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. required. Bring your own binoculars or borrow a pair Wednesdays and Thursdays, at the event. 509-996-2490 or Sept. 9-Oct. 28.

The workshops will culpacificbio.org. minate with public perforBENEFIT TRAIL RUN: The mances at 3:45 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Little Mountain Trail 10K Oct. 26-28.

Run will begin at 9:30 a.m.

Registration: $75; sibling Saturday, Sept. 26, at Carpenter Creek Winery, 20376 discount available. 360-679E. Hickox Road, Mount Ver- 2237 or whidbeyplayhouse. non. The run is entirely on com.

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “Mad Max: Fury Road”: mentary on the failing Max is forced into helping health of the singer.

Upcoming a driver who is trying to “Alpha & Omega: The movie releases Legend of the Saw Tooth rescue a group of women.

Following is a partial Cave”: Wolf cubs slip off Tom Hardy stars. If the schedule of coming movto explore a haunted cave. only (and only should be ies on DVD. Release “Five Star”: Gang memin capital letters, underdates are subject to ber takes son of his mentor lined three times and folchange: under his wing. lowed by 37 exclamation SEPT. 8 “Bessie”: Queen Latipoints) thing you want The Age of Adaline fah stars in this look at the in a movie are massive American Heist life of Bessie Smith. explosions, white knuckle “Broken Horses”: driving sequences and a SEPT. 15 Aman must save his brothbody count that rivals most Furious 7 er from working for a local video games, then “Mad Cinderella gang.

Monkey Kingdom Max: Fury Road” is insane.

Love & Mercy “Caillou’s Halloween”: Those who require more The Overnight Features 13 stories, includthan 25 lines of dialogue, Heaven Knows What ing “Caillou Loves Halat least a hint of plot and loween.” a smattering of character SEPT. 22 “20 Halloween Stodevelopment will find Pitch Perfect 2 ries”: Includes stories from Saint Laurent the new movie drives you Results “Scholastic Storybook insane.

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The fact that “Mad Max: SEPT. 29 “The Lesson”: Woman Fury Road” is like watchSpy attempts one desperate act ing your best buddy play a Poltergeist to save her family. video game version of the Entourage “The Surface”: Plane Cop Car movie for two hours isn’t Aloft crash survivor, man a shock. This is an action marooned on boat must series that relies more on n Tribune News Service work together. adrenalin than intellect. If “Cracked: The Darkthat’s what you want, then ness Within”: Detective “Mad Max: Fury Road” is Aidan Black and psychiatrist Dr. Daniela high-octane blast. Others should take a la Ridley return to take on another caseldifferent path. oad of bizarre and emotionally explosive “I’ll See You In My Dreams”: An criminals. older woman (Blythe Danner) begins to “Gemma Bovery”: Adaptation of Posy question her life. Hollywood often has Simmonds’ graphic novel. embraced the examination of the angst “Dark Was the Night”: Something stirs and excitement young people face growin the dark woods surrounding an isoing up in coming-of-age movies. lated community.

“I’ll See You in My Dreams” is a “Army of Frankensteins”: Efforts to beautiful and smart coming-of-old-age re-create Frankenstein’s experiments film. The production from director Brett opens a hole in time and space.

Haley shows that as people grow older, “The D Train”: The ultimate bromance they too begin to think about the good goes wrong. and bad of life.

“Redeemer”: Martial arts master Coming-of-age stories are interesting Marko Zaror plays a born-again equalbecause they tend to be the forerunner izer. to a long life of ups and downs. Examina“The Originals: The Complete Second tion of life for senior citizens takes on Season”: New Orleans continues to be a heavier mantle because decisions are the location for a deadly demon war. accented by life. In her darkest moments, “Out the Vault: Halloween”: Includes Carol begins to doubt that she’s had a episodes of “Hey Arnold,” “Rocko’s life well-lived. It’s a moment that will Modern Life.” resonate with those who are reaching the “Texas Rising”: The eight-hour minilater years of their lives. series looks at historical events after the This all works because Danner embraces the role with a quiet energy and Alamo has fallen. Bill Paxton stars.

“Wordworld: Halloween Fun”: Worda skittish passion. It all goes to make the Friends go on adventures that demoncharacter feel very real, and it’s always strate the connections between letters, easier to relate to a character who comes sounds, words, and meaning. across so three-dimensional.

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TUNING UP Playing at area venues September 3-10 FRIDAY.4 BLUES UNION 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-5881720.

Saturday.5

MUSIC

Chamber Music Concert: Whatcom Symphony Orchestra, 3 to 5 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden.

Free. 360-354-3600 or jansenart center.org.

Friday.11

THEATER

“Godspell”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com.

VARIETY

“Amuze Cabaret”: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $20 advance, $25 at the door; $35 with dinner. 360-445-3000 or conwaymuse. com.

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JOE SNEVA & THE SWEET DOMINIQUES (surf, reggae): 9:30 p.m., The Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. 360-755-0165.

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

THEATER

“Godspell”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com.

VARIETY

“Amuze Cabaret”: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $20 advance, $25 at the door; $35 with dinner. 360-445-3000 or conwaymuse. com.

THURSDAY.3 The Scarlet Locomotive (Americana): 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

FRIDAY.4 Gertrude’s Hearse: 6 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-9822649.

Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Love Moon, Praying, Scumeating: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6.

360-778-1067.

Rock-Bot (’60s-’00s party band): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

877-275-2448.

The New Iberians (Zydeco, blues): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $12. 360-445-3000.

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

Joe Sneva & The Sweet Dominiques (surf, reggae): 9:30 p.m., The Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington.

360-755-0165.

Blues Union: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

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

The Skeptix Guitar Duo: 8 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

Pan Pan, Darsombra, Detlef: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6.

360-778-1067.

Deception Connection: sock hop, 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. Open to the public.

360-848-8882.

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THEATER

“Godspell”: 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com.

SATURDAY.5 The Jimmy Wright Band: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon.

360-422-6411.

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SUNDAY.6 Rock-Bot (’60s-’00s party Junkyard Jane: 7:30 p.m., band): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Valley Casino Resort, Winners Anacortes. 360-755-3956.

Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

Prozac Mountain Boys (bluegrass): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner.

360-399-1805.

The Atlantics: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

The Vaticxnts: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6. 360-778-1067.

Gary B’s Church of Blues: Jam night, 6 to 10 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

Sunday Swing, with John Savage and Duane Melcher (’30s, ’40s & ’50s classic tunes): 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., North Cove Coffee, 1130 S. Burlington Blvd., Burlington. 360-707-2683.

CC Adams and Friends Sunday Jam: 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., La Conner Pantry and Pub, 315 E. Morris St., La Conner.

360-466-4488.

Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

THURSDAY.10

The Stilly River Band: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, Trio Subtonic: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-58818444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-4451720.

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Trish Hatley: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

John Delourme: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner.

360-399-1805.

Prozac Mountain Boys (bluegrass): 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 or 360-6296500.

The Staxx Brothers featuring Jonezy, My Dad Bruce, Mostafa, Deadly D: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6. 360-778-1067.

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Bark Butler, along with menu selections sure to please. Later, strap on the leash and stroll the many paths along the city’s It may be difficult to leave your fourscenic riverfront. commonshotel.com legged friends at home when you travel.

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If you hear a knock on the door, it With a hotel that serves specialty could be the dog walker offering to take drinks like Snooptinis and puppyccinos, why leave Fido behind? loewshotels.com Fido for a stroll. Your two-legged kids never had it so good. wfortlauderdale2. Scottsdale, Arizona: You’ve hotel.com/dog-gone-it heard of yoga’s downward-facing dog?

5. New York: Two Gansevoort hotels Now you and Spot can get your om on in New York roll out the red carpet for together during the W Scottsdale resort’s your furry pal. Expect premium treats free monthly yoga classes for dogs and their humans. Salute the sun in class and from the Barking Zoo, a comfy pet bed, Fiji water, toys and tasteful food and then head for nearby hiking trails in the water bowls. Your pet will feel extra speMcDowell Mountains for an outdoor cial when he settles in next to his own experience the whole family will enjoy. monogrammed welcome mat. If you wscottsdalehotel.com choose to go the extra mile for Fido, you 3. Minneapolis: Whether you are checking out the university options, pop- can request a cross-body puppy purse ping in for a game at Target Field or want for wear on your most important outings. to preview the new Vikings stadium, your gansevoorthotelgroup.com pup will stay in style — argyle style — at n Lynn O’Rourke Hayes is the editor of Commons Hotel. Designer patterned FamilyTravel.com. Email: lohayesfamily beds and bowls will be delivered by the travel.com.

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Freebies in eight cities across U.S. The Associated Press

Travel and Leisure has compiled a list of 163 free things to do in eight U.S. cities: Chicago, Nashville, New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Portland, Oregon.

Freebies include, in Chicago, a free Chicago Greeter neighborhood tour; in Nashville, hiking the high trail at Radnor Lake; in Los Angeles, donation-based morn-

Local travel 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 360-293-7473 or sign up at your local senior center.

ing meditations at Zenshuji Soto Temple in Little Tokyo; in New York, the 9/11 Memorial park, where you’ll find the names of those who perished engraved around pools in the footprints of the twin towers; the 17 free museums that are part of the Smithsonian Institution in the Washington D.C. area; hiking the Lands End trail in San Francisco, from near the Sea Cliff neighborhood to the coast; art installa-

tions in Las Vegas including “Shards of Color” at the Crystals mall, Wallworks murals at the Cosmopolitan garage, and Jeff Koons’ “Popeye” sculpture at Wynn Las Vegas; and in Portland, the Tilikum Crossing, opening Sept. 12, a bridge for walkers, bikers and public transportation but not private cars.

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trips and longer tours, with most trips departing from and returning to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St., Bellingham. For information or to register: 360-733-4030, ext. 1015, or wccoa.org/ index.php/Tours.

Future extended trips include a cruise through Alaska’s Inside Passage, a scenic rail tour of British Columbia hot springs and the Rockies, a fall trip to Ireland, a tour of Martha’s Vineyard and the Eastern Seaboard, and a visit to New Mexico’s annual Balloon Fiesta.

Rica, Feb. 29-March 8, 2016; and a European River Cruise, Budapest to Amsterdam, Oct. 12-27, 2016. For information, contact Pat at pgardner@oakharbor.org or 360-279-4582.

STATE VISITOR CALL CENTER: The Washington Tourism Alliance’s ExperienceWA Call Center is open daily SHORT TRIPS: Mount Verfrom 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 non Parks and Recreation p.m., except Thanksgiving, offers travel opportunities Christmas and New Year’s for ages 8 and older (adult Day. 1-800-544-1800 or supervision required for tourisminfo@watourism ages 17 and younger). Trips alliance.com. Staff memdepart from and return to bers assist travelers who Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th have questions, refer them St., Mount Vernon. For inforto specific destination mation or to register, call ESCORTED TOURS: The marketing organizations 360-336-6215.

Oak Harbor Senior Center, and other travel resources 51 SE Jerome St., has across the state for more ESCORTED TOURS: The several international trips detailed information, and Whatcom County Tour Proplanned: Reflections of Italy, take orders for the Washinggram offers a variety of day Nov. 5-14; Tropical Costa ton State Visitors Guide.

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HOT TICKETS DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES: Sept. 3, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS: Sept. 3, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster. com.

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS, THE CHURCH: Sept. 3, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

PRINCE ROYCE: Sept. 3, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

TIM MCGRAW: with special guests Billy Currington, Chase Bryant: Sept. 4, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

PINK MARTINI: Sept. 4-5, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Sept. 4-6, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

KID ROCK, FOREIGNER: Sept. 5, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

BUMBERSHOOT: Sept. 5-7, Seattle Center. bumbershoot.com.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Sept. 6, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

MACHINE GUN KELLY: Sept. 8, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxon line.com.

SALIM SULAIMAN: Sept. 11, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxon line.com.

MARK KNOPFLER: Sept. 11-12, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com.

FOO FIGHTERS: Sept. 12, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, PAPA ROACH: Sept. 12. XFinity Arena, Everett.

866-332-8499 or xfinityarenaeverett.com.

OLD 97’s: Sept. 13, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

EMPIRE OF THE SUN: with St. Lucia and Holy Ghost: Sept. 15, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com.

RATATAT: Sept. 15, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

DEF LEPPARD: Sept. 16, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

FUNK VOLUME TOUR: Sept. 16, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com.

RATATAT: Sept. 17, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

TREVOR HALL: Sept. 18, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

58TH ANNUAL MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL: Sept. 18-20, Monterey, Calif. 888-2486499 or montereyjazzfestival.org.

SUICIDEGIRLS: Sept. 19, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

DAMIAN “JR. GONG” MARLEY AND STEPHEN “RAGGA” MARLEY: with Morgan Heritage, Tarrus Riley and special guests Jo Mersa and Black Am I: Sept. 19, Marymoor

KEVIN HART Sept. 12, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com.

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD: Sept. 20, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

ZELLA DAY: Sept. 22, Chop Suey, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

LE BUTCHERETTES: Sept. 23, Chop Suey, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

DAN DEACON: Sept. 24, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

AUTECHRE: Sept. 25, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO (comedy): Sept. 25-26, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Pacific Showroom, Bow. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com.

COUNTING CROWS: Sept. 26, WAMU Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or ticket master.com.

BONOBO: Sept. 26, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

THE WHO: with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts: Sept. 27, KeyArena, Seattle. thewho.com.

THIEVERY CORPORATION: Sept. 27, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

THE TRAGICALLY HIP: Sept. 29, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

SHAMIR: Sept. 30, The Crocodile, Seattle. 877-987-6487 or thecrocodile.com.

THE TEA PARTY: Oct. 1, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

AER: Oct. 2, The Showbox, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

BIG GIGANTIC: Oct. 2, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

UB40: featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue: Oct. 2, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbaker theatre.com.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE: Oct. 3-5, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

NEIL YOUNG & PROMISE OF THE REAL: Oct. 4, WAMU Theater, Seattle. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com. n For complete listings, visit goskagit and click on “Entertainment.”

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Greta Gerwig is a woman with a plan alent but not exactly that, because it Some actors save a prop, can’t hapothers a script smeared with pen.” notes or doodles and still In others a favorite item of “Mistress clothing from a project.

America,” Actress Greta Gerwig she plays a Gerwig usually keeps a costume Times Square piece or entire outfit from a resident movie as a memento, careand adventurous gal who fully tucking “something befriends a lonely colthat feels like the person” lege freshman, Tracy (Lola into a garment bag but never Kirke), who is about to donning it again. For “Misbecome her stepsister. tress America,” she held In addition to starring as onto her character Brooke’s Brooke, Gerwig co-wrote white coat, white shirt and the screenplay with direchigh-heeled boots. tor Noah Baumbach and “I’m very careful about also served as one of the never wearing my own producers. Some of the witclothes in films because then tiest or most insightful lines I could never wear them sound as though they were again. If I like something, ad-libbed or mined from I tend to tell the costume sensational scribbles in a designer that they need to notebook, but they were find something that is equiv- carefully plotted.

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“The movie is very precisely scripted. We don’t allow for any improvisation or deviation from the script,” she said.

Gerwig, a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College who has worked with Woody Allen (“To Rome With Love”), Whit Stillman (“Damsels in Distress”) and Baumbach twice before (“Frances Ha” and “Greenberg”), calls herself a “fairly to extremely compulsive notebook keeper.”

She explains, “Just the act of writing it down makes me remember it. I’ll often have the strange experience of writing a whole script and not being entirely sure where all the lines are coming from in my brain.

“And then, as I do every so often if I’m moving or trying to clean — which happens sometimes — I’ll

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read old notebooks and I’ll find things I’d written down that I’d forgotten I’d written down, but that I’d actually quoted verbatim in a movie.

So, some part of my brain is recording this, even though I’m not consciously aware of it.”

Gerwig has played New Yorkers before, but she sees Brooke as existing in her own universe and part of a mythic New York. “In some ways she doesn’t even feel like she belongs to today, even though technically the movie does take place now.

She feels like an older New York or something. She feels more of the ’80s.”

The filmmakers talked about movies from that decade such as “After Hours,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “Something Wild” and “Broadway Danny Rose,” along with

screwball comedies like “Bringing Up Baby,” “Twentieth Century,” “Holiday” and “things that felt more theatrical ...”

Gerwig has acted opposite Al Pacino, Helen Mirren and Debra Winger but says, “Most artists in general really let their work speak louder than anything else, so they’re not really in the business of dispensing advice or proclamations about how to go about doing it.” Except for the late Mike Nichols, whom she knew only “a little bit” through Baumbach.

“Mike Nichols was one of the greatest talkers I’ve ever encountered. He said so many things that I can’t even begin to recall all of them right now, but I remember he said something to the effect of, ‘If you’re a beautiful woman and you want to do something else with your

life besides just be a beautiful woman, you’ve got to get a plan. Because the world already has an idea of what they think you should do and it doesn’t look so bad, but if you’ve got another thing you want to achieve, you’ve got to get a strategy.’”

He was talking about his wife, newswoman Diane Sawyer, but the notion stuck with her. “I only met him a handful of times, but I don’t think anybody was as smart as he was when talking about film and theater and life, really.”

Gerwig is flying the flag for women with her next movie, director Rebecca Miller’s “Maggie’s Plan,” set to make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. She is part of “20th Century Women,” also starring Annette Bening and Elle Fanning, and she could be making her solo directing debut with “Lady Bird,” a script she wrote about a young woman in Sacramento.

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‘Mr. Holmes’

In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare.

Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days tending to his bees, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger.

Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him into retirement, and searches for answers to the mysteries of life and love — before it’s too late.

Rated PG. $10 general; $9 seniors, students and active military; $8 members, $7 children 12 and under. Sunday bargain prices: $8 general, $6 members, $5 children 12 and under. n The Lincoln Theatre is located at 712 S. First St. in downtown Mount Vernon. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

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NEW THIS WEEK In the wake of “Wild,” in which Reese Witherspoon’s version of Cheryl Strayed hiked the Pacific Crest Trail and reckoned with her demons, we now have “Mild,” better known as “A WALK IN THE WOODS.” It stars Robert Redford and Nick Nolte as travel writer Bill Bryson and his buddy, fictionalized by Bryson as “Stephen Katz,” having a go at the Appalachian Trail for a little light banter and a casual insight or two regarding life’s highways.

The project grew out of Bryson’s 1998 book. Early on Redford hoped to convince Paul Newman to co-star, as a sort of ambling swan song for Butch and Sundance. That didn’t work out, but Nolte’s sweaty, grunting, growling depiction of a veteran libertine, lawbreaker and substance abuser is the best thing in a pretty routine picture.

It has been directed with a surfeit of jumpy, fractured reaction shots by Ken Kwapis (“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”), and the technique does little for either the comic or dramatic rhythms.

Leaving his wife (Emma Thompson, barely on screen for 10 minutes) and his cushy semi-retired New Hampshire life behind for a planned five months and 2,118 miles of hiking, Bryson brings his old Iowa pal along for company. Katz, on the run from the law, is not in shape. He is a blowhard and an easily winded windbag, whereas the Bryson according to Redford is a stoic, charismatic chick magnet.

The stripped-down script focuses on a few key encounters. Kristen Schaal chatters away as a judge-y fellow hiker they meet and then ditch; Mary Steenburgen offers up sexually meaningful glances as a motel and restaurant manager, Nick Offerman pops in as the REI employee

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Robert Redford (left) and Nick Nolte who sells Bryson his stuff.

It’s not a difficult picture to watch. All you want from “A Walk in the Woods,” honestly, is a chance to enjoy a couple of veteran actors. But the book’s comic tone hasn’t found a comfortable equivalent for the screen. In Redford’s hands Bryson comes off as pretty judge-y himself, too cool for the room (or the trail), mocking his friend’s choice of lovers or else keeping his thoughts and feelings to himself.

With his own hunky leading-man days in the rearview mirror, Nolte has turned into a highly entertaining presence in grizzled character actor mode. (The most affecting shot in the film is Nolte quietly regarding a gnarled old oak tree along the trail.) Redford, by contrast, will likely never shake the matinee idol aura, though he came close in the recent and worthwhile “All is Lost.” We’re in very different territory here, closer to “Grumpy Old Men” than “The Old Man and the Sea.” On its own terms, the movie still should’ve been a little more, a little truer in the central push/pull relationship — something.

1:44. Rating: R (for language and some sexual references) HH n Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

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Comedy-drama, R, 83 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Grandma” — Lily Tomlin is almost certain to win a best actress nomination for playCompiled from news services. ing a feminist helping her granddaughter Ratings are one to four stars. scrape up the money for an abortion. It’s a slim one-day road movie filled with big laugh “Ant-Man” — The casting of likable, verlines, but saturated with regret, grief and bally nimble Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Antseparation. It’s the saddest comedy of the Man seemed inspired, but what we have year. Comedy, R, 80 minutes. HHH1⁄2 is a lightweight, cliche-riddled origins story “Hitman: Agent 47” — Engineered from that veers between inside-joke comedy, ponderous redemption story lines and nifty birth to be a perfect killing machine, Agent 47 (Rupert Friend) goes on a dangerous CGI sequences that still seem relatively insignificant. Superhero action, PG-13, 117 mission in an action movie with video game origins. The action sequences are nothing minutes. HH “Digging for Fire” — A story about a happi- special, and the big-picture questions have ly married couple (Jake Johnson and Rosema- been tackled elsewhere with far more depth 1 rie DeWitt) off on separate adventures. Equal and grace. Sci-fi action, R, 96 minutes. H ⁄2 parts film noir, relationship drama, dark com- “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” edy and mood piece, this is a movie made by — This is the rare instance of the later someone who clearly loves the art of movies. movies in a series easily exceeding the

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MOVIES quality of the original. As Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt performs harrowing stunts and engages in clever banter with his adversaries, we essentially get the best James Bond movie since “Casino Royale.” Action, 1 PG-13, 131 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Mistress America” — You know the type: the initially entertaining but ultimately exhausting life of the party who won’t leave. That’s Greta Gerwig’s Brooke, who’s a force of nature in this film that at times plays like a 1930s screwball comedy, but then falls apart into a stilted, forced farce.1Comedy, R, 84 minutes HH ⁄2 “No Escape” — As a bloody revolution breaks out in an unnamed Asian country, the focus is on Owen Wilson’s visiting family from Texas trying to escape a band of thugs in pursuit. But there’s no denying director John Erick Dowdle’s skill set for creating almost unbearably tense and quite twisted suspense pieces in which you’ll find yourself laughing at the sheer unapologetic insanity of it all. Action thriller, R, 103 minutes. HHH “Paper Towns” — Shy teen Quentin (Nat Wolff) searches for his crush, Margo (Cara Delevingne), when she goes missing after they spend a magical night together. Some compelling side characters and sharp, funny dialogue elevate the drama from novelist John Green. Drama,1 PG-13, 109 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Ricki and the Flash” — Meryl Streep doing Bruce Springsteen? I’ll be damned if it doesn’t work in director Jonathan Demme’s amiable and predictable rock ‘n’ roll fable about a late-middleage musician rethinking her choices. It’s a sweet, smart and funny confection.

Comedy-drama, PG-13, 102 minutes. HHH “She’s Funny That Way” — The first feature film since 2001 from director Peter Bogdanovich strives hard to replicate the screwball comedy, but ends up being a lot more screwball than comedy. Stars from Owen Wilson to Richard Lewis to Jennifer Aniston do their best with a hit-and-miss screenplay.

Comedy, R, 93 minutes. HH “Self/less” — A dying tycoon (Ben Kingsley, in a

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MUSIC REVIEWS ridiculous Noo Yawk accent) has his memories and personality transplanted into a young, healthy human (Ryan Reynolds). The film raises some fascinating issues and offers a tease or two of a better movie before devolving into a medley of chases and shootouts. Sci-fi thriller, PG-13, 116 minutes. HH “Southpaw” — Playing a boxing champ who loses it all, the chiseled Jake Gyllenhaal looks really good in the ring in director Antoine Fuqua’s blood-spitting, melodramatic and shamelessly sentimental drama containing elements from many boxing movies, everything from “The Champ” to any number of “Rockys.” Drama, R, 124 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Straight Outta Compton” — The early dreams, the big breaks and the in-fighting are told to great effect in F. Gary Gray’s enthralling, energized tribute to N.W.A. Also something of a docudrama about Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, this is one of the better musical biopics of the last 20 years. Music biography, R, 147 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” — Reveling in the fashions, weapons and overall vibe of its 1960s time period, Guy Ritchie’s great-looking spy thriller plays like a lower-key, vintage edition of a “Mission: Impossible” movie. It’s slick, stylish and entertaining. Spy adventure, PG-13, 116 minutes. HHH “Trainwreck” — The performance of Amy Schumer, in her feature film lead debut as a New Yorker trying her first grown-up romance, is a tour de force of razor-sharp comedic timing. Despite (or maybe because of) “Trainwreck’s” sharp edges and cynical set pieces, it’s a movie you want to wrap your arms around.

Romantic comedy, R, 124 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “We Are Your Friends” — In this lightweight take on EDM culture, an aspiring DJ (Zac Efron, capable if not particularly riveting) dreams of making it big in Hollywood and catches the eye of his mentor’s beautiful girlfriend.

The music is unmemorable, and the hero’s shot at stardom is kinda goofy. Drama, R, 96 minutes. HH

BEACH HOUSE, “Depression Cherry” — Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House are not prolific, and the Baltimore dreampop duo don’t bother reinventing themselves.

Going back to their selftitled 2006 debut, each Beach House album sounds sort of the same, with stately melodies, unhurried rhythms, programmed drums, Scally’s haunting organ lines, and Legrand’s cool, androgynous vocals, which here often recall those of Green Gartside of the brainy 1980s British dance-pop band Scritti Politti.

Following up 2012’s “Bloom” — with a break in between to lead a tribute tour to former Byrd Gene Clark’s 1974 album “No Other” — “Depression Cherry” tweaks that sonic strategy ever so slightly on songs such as the briefly noisy “Sparks.”

But mainly it elegantly explores longing, loss and languor with understated, shimmering elegance and infinite patience. It’s a lushly melancholic record that’s comforting in the beauty of its sadness, all the more so if you brush up against its LP or CD sleeves, which are made of red velvet. n Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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DESTROYER, “Poison Season” — Although Vancouver’s Dan Bejar, as Destroyer, has made a twodecade career of releasing stylistically diverse albums, 2011’s “Kaputt” was still a shock.

Bejar, who is also one of the songwriters in the New Pornographers, set aside the extroverted and verbose styles he explored on such albums as 2000’s glam-rocking “Streethawk: A Seduction” and 2004’s synth-based “Yer Blues” in favor of the smooth adult contemporary tones of Roxy Music’s “Avalon” or Van Morrison’s “Avalon Sunset.” The suave trappings suited Bejar’s enigmatic songs well.

Like “Kaputt,” “Poison Season” is also restrained — in part. It swings, sometimes abruptly, between conspiratorial ballads

built on complex string and horn arrangements (“Hell,” “Girl in a Sling”) and bright, soul rock tunes whose sax solos recall David Bowie’s “Young Americans” era (“Dream Lover,” “Times Square”).

Somehow, it all hangs together, and “Poison Season” is yet another fascinating, impressive Destroyer album. n Steve Klinge, The Philadelphia Inquirer

LINDI ORTEGA, “Faded Gloryville” — The “Faded Gloryville” concept gives Lindi Ortega an evocative theme for her new album, but it’s pretty clear the Canadian expatriate in Nashville is not dwelling in such a place right now, at least when it comes to her work. Instead, she again shows herself to be a vibrant Americana singer

and songwriter whose artistry continues to broaden and deepen.

Ortega works here with three producers, but “Faded Gloryville” maintains a cohesive feel. She remains adept at material ranging from somber balladry (the title track) to twang-fueled fiestiness (“Run Amuck”). But she also expands her palette with “the Muscle Shoals sessions,” in which she collaborates with the Civil Wars’ John Paul White and the Alabama Shakes’ Ben Tanner. The results find Ortega delving into country-soul with moving numbers that include the yearning “Someday Soon” and, in the only non-original, a superb, down-home take on the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody.” n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer