360: Arts - Entertainment - Recreation | July 7, 2012

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Skagit Valley Herald Thursday July 5, 2012

Recreation

Reviews

Tuning Up

It’s safety first in this boating course offered by Skagit Power Squadron

Music: Chris Brown, Pat Metheny Video Games: “Lollipop Chainsaw”

The Ian McFeron Band to play the Rockfish Grill on Saturday

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “Rocko’s Modern Life: Season Three”: The 13 episodes include Rocko, Spunky, Heffer and Filburt getting involved with a murder investigation involving the Bigheads. This is a wonderful animated series that’s fun for children and funny to adults. Finding that balance is tough and when a product comes along that balances the halves so well, it should not be missed.

Series creator Joe Murray provides a commentary track for the episodes that originally aired on Nickelodeon. The series also includes marvelous voice work by Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence.

“Joe + Belle”: The dark comedy from writer/director Veronica Kedar starts with great promise when two women accidentally kill someone and struggle to get rid of the body. The two women — Joe (Kedar), a drug dealer, and Belle (Sivan Levy), a suicidal mental patient — are different but share enough similar angst that they make a compelling pair. Their relationship slowly grows through the trials of their own making. Kedar just doesn’t have a good handle on how to end the movie.

What starts at as a very smart “meet cute” turns into a serious of mismatched moments that meander to the end.

“The Casserole Club”: A weekly get-together in ’60s suburbia to compare recipes turns into a sexual foray sparked by booze and drugs. Each member of the group brings his or her own secrets to the event which play out as they play around. Everything about this film is clunky from the choppy way it was filmed to the acting.

Even the attempts to portray the rabid sexuality of the time comes across like a love-making Mad Libs. The only saving grace is former Backstreet Boys member Kevin Richardson. His performance as a twisted and broken member of the dinner-and-debauchery group is the only one that shows any acting skills. Too bad he’s surrounded by the march of the wooden players.

“An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars”: A young girl’s dream to be a world class gymnast is jeopardized.

“The Forger”: Homeless teen is lured into world of high dollar art forgery.

“Dynasty: The Sixth Season, Volume One & Volume Two”: John Forsythe stars in the prime-time soap opera.

“Mannix: The Seventh Season”:

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

Upcoming movie releases Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: JULY 10 American Reunion - Universal The Flowers of War - Lionsgate Margaret - Fox Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog Music Box

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JULY 17 Casa de mi Padre - Lionsgate Friends With Kids - Lionsgate Here - Strand Intruders - Millennium Lockout - Sony Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Sony The Three Stooges - Fox The Turin Horse - Cinema Guild JULY 24 The Deep Blue Sea - Music Box Footnote - Sony Meeting Evil - Sony My Way - Well Go USA AUG. 7 Blue Like Jazz - Lionsgate Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax - Universal

The North Cascades Concert Band will perform Sunday at Larrabee State Park in Bellingham

Inside

AUG. 14 Stallone 3-Film Collector’s Set Lionsgate Breathless - Anchor Bay n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Mike Connors plays the gritty private investigator who makes his own rules.

“The Women of SNL”: Collection of comedy skits featuring many of the female performers from the NBC show.

“The Streets of San Francisco: Season 3, Volume 1 and Volume 2”: The ’70s TV police drama stars Michael Douglas.

“Battle Force”: The elite fighting unit First Special Service Force is formed in 1942.

“The Hunter”: A skilled mercenary hunts for a tiger believed to be extinct.

Willem Dafoe stars.

“God Bless America”: A man decides to take out his rage on the stupidest people he can imagine—reality television stars.

“Midsomer Murders, Set 20”: Four mysteries featuring detective chief inspector Tom Barnaby.

“Planeat”: Documentary about making the right choices when it comes to what we eat.

“Barbarella”: The Jane Fonda sci-fi space romp is now available on Blu-ray. n Rick Bentley, McClatchy Newspapers

SUBMISSIONS Email features@skagitpublishing.com vrichardson@skagitpublishing. com (recreation items) Phone 360-416-2135 Hand-deliver 1215 Anderson Road Mount Vernon, WA 98274 Mailing address P.O. Box 578 Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Music, Game Reviews..................6-7 Get Involved.................................... 8 On Stage........................................ 10 Tuning Up..................................... 11 Travel........................................12-13 Hot Tickets.................................... 14 Roger Ebert.................................... 16 Movie Listings............................... 17 At the Lincoln Theatre.................. 17 Out & About.............................18-19

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ON STAGE

Shakespeare that ‘feeds your soul’

Julius Caesar (Adrian Gamache) and Calpurnia (Sonia Alexis) revel in the adorations of their subjects in Shakespeare Northwest’s “Julius Caesar.”

Photos by Craig Parrish / Skagit Valley Herald

Skagit River Shakespeare Festival “Julius Caesar”: 7 p.m. July 13, 19, 21 and 27, and Aug. 2 and 9; 2 p.m. July 29 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: 7 p.m. July 14, 20, 26 and 28, Aug. 3 and 10; 2 p.m.

July 22, Aug. 5 Information: 206-317-3023 or www.shakesnw.org Where: Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, 19299 Rexville Grange Road, Mount Vernon Tickets: $12, www.brownpaper tickets.com/event/255525 (“Julius Caesar”) or www.brown papertickets.com/event/255529 (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”)

It’s a former quarry, about 50 yards by 75 yards, that was discovered a few years ago by It’s historically established a Shakespeare Northwest cast that there’s nothing quite like the member, according to Trey writings of William Shakespeare. Hatch, who’s directing “Julius It may be equally safe to say Caesar” this season. there’s nothing like Shakespeare The group cleared out the vegbeing performed at the Rexville- etation, leveled the grounds, and Blackrock Amphitheater. built and expanded a stage. The For the third year, Shakenext step is to run power, Hatch speare Northwest will be presaid. senting several of the Bard’s “This is the second year of works at the unique outdoor the festival in our beautiful new venue that sits just outside the home,” Hatch quipped.

Rexville Grange at 19299 RexThe festival is in its 12th year, ville Grange Road, on the way to and along with “Julius Caesar,” La Conner. will stage “A Midsummer Night’s

By CRAIG PARRISH Entertainment/Lifestyles Editor

Dream,” directed by Eal Lundquist.

The two productions, which share several cast members, will be performed on a rotating schedule, with “Julius Caesar” opening the run July 13 and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opening the following day.

The company will stage its “Ironman” day on Aug. 4, when both plays will be performed, sandwiched around its touring show. The touring show has several performances during the summer, the next of which will be Saturday, July 7, at the Anacortes Farmers Market.

This “Julius Caesar” is one of Hatch’s favorite plays. Set in fascist Italy of the 1930s, it mines the fertile Shakespearean themes of betrayal, murder, ambition and more. It’s an update of sorts of the play staged by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre group, when the legendary director was only 21.

“Ambition gone awry, and the consequences of following through,” Hatch described it.

“This version — I wouldn’t say we stole it, I’d say we were doing an homage to Orson Welles.

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RECREATION

Safety first for America’s Boating Course Since then, we’ve pretty much stabilized.”

While the Skagit Bay STANWOOD — A Sail and Power Squadron decade ago, the Skagit Bay is approaching a decade of Sail and Power Squadron service, the United States became a chartered member Power Squadrons are two of the United States Power years away from celebrating Squadrons. a century’s worth of boating.

And Mark Richey was Organized in 1914, USPS there. Ten years later, is a nonprofit, educational Richey and the Skagit Bay organization dedicated to Sail and Power Squadron making boating safer and remain active in state boatmore enjoyable by teaching ing education and activities. classes in seamanship, naviKeeping with that theme, gation and related subjects. the U.S. Power Squadron “It was a spinoff of the is offering America’s BoatBoston Yacht Club,” Richey ing Course from 7 to 9 p.m. said. “Everyone at that time Tuesdays and Thursdays, was a sailor, so power boat July 10-24, at the Stanwood owners needed something.”

Senior Center. The Coast USPS has nearly 40,000 Guard- and state-approved members in its more than course qualifies attendees 400 squadrons across the for the Washington Boater country and in some U.S. Education Card as well as territories. Local squadfor insurance discounts. rons offer boating safety Boaters age 40 and courses on a regular basis. younger were required to The courses are open to the have the card Jan. 1. Class public and there is no age topics include boat hanlimit. USPS squadrons have offered these courses for dling, navigation rules, aids over half a century and have to navigation (buoys and lights and such), GPS, safety, Skagit Valley Herald file educated more than 3 million boaters. adverse conditions, emer“We do vessel safety gencies, communications, Those who sign up for squadrons in Bellingham, checks several times a year,” knots and more. the class will receive a free Everett, Friday Harbor, Port Richey said. “The public can “We cram everything America’s Boating Course six-month membership in Angeles, Coupeville, Tacobring their boats down and we possibly can into nine Cost: $50, or $75 for two sharing a book. we’ll make sure everything hours of class,” said Richey, the squadron. The usual per- ma, Olympia and out on the Where, where: 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, year cost is $60 for an indi- Kitsap Peninsula. is in order.” administrative officer for July 10-24, Stanwood Senior Center.

Registration: To register or for more info contact vidual and $90 for a family.

The squadron’s latest “Of those, we are the the Skagit Bay Sail and Mark Richey at 360-387-1260 or email ssboatschool@ undertaking, besides the youngest. What we aren’t Richey explained that Power Squadron. “And we hotmail.com. class, is on-the-water/handsearly on, the idea of a local is a yacht club or a Coast have a 90-95 percent pas Information: www.usps.org/localusps/skagit on training. Richey said Guard Auxiliary. Those are squadron was supported, sage rate.” while the particulars are the dilemma was just where two completely different Successfully completstill in the works, things are get more families involved, be. We could definitely use things. The Coast Guard is to station it. There were ing a USPS boating safety moving along. some younger members.” saying the squadron offers visions of it being anchored more focused on enforcecourse meets the educa“I’m the only guy certiRichey said membership something for everyone. ment. We are focused on tional requirements for boat somewhere on Whidbey “The social aspect of our has averaged around 70 for fied to teach the class,” he education and social activiIsland. operation in all states. the past three or four years, said. “So there becomes squadron is big,” he said.

“We’ve come a long way ties.”

“Our charter is boater 30 of which he considers the a time issue among other “We have a lot of fun. At There are 16 squadrons since then,” said Richey. education,” said Richey. things. But it would be very core group. the same time, we would The decision was made to in the state, from Olympia “We are the largest private useful.” like to see our average age “Over the years, we’ve organization to teach boat- locate the squadron farther to the Canadian border, more like 40-50 instead of including one in Spokane. lost a few members and ing safety to the public. Our north, since many of the n Vince Richardson can be Like many groups, Power 50-60. We are actually a boaters were close by. we’ve gained a few,” he said. reached at 360-416-2181 classes teach everything little younger than most, but “In the beginning, we douSquadron membership is “So we got the ball rollfrom basic boating all the or by email at vrichardson@ bled our size in three years. skagitpublishing.com. way to celestial navigation.” ing,” said Richey. “There are waning. Richey is looking to not as young as I’d like to

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THIS WEEKENDin the area

MUSIC IN THE PARK

The 50-member North Cascades Concert Band will perform from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, July 8, at the Larrabee State Park amphitheater, 245 Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham.

Discover Pass required. 360-676-2093

CARS AND CRAFTS

KIDS-R-BEST FEST

MT. BAKER-SNOQUALMIE SPEAKERS

AMERICAN ROOTS CONCERT SERIES

The 12th annual Lyman Car & Craft Show will take place Saturday, July 7, in downtown Lyman. Check out loads of vintage and custom vehicles, crafts, music, a silent auction, raffles, food and more. Register your vehicle from 8 a.m. to noon: $15.

Trophies awarded at 3 p.m. Free admission for spectators. Proceeds will benefit the Lyman Cemetery and City Park.

360-826-3315

The free event is set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 7, at Storvik Park, 1110 32nd St., Anacortes. Enjoy giant inflatable bouncers, entertainment, information booths, games, crafts and more.

Food available for purchase.

Free programs about local history, where to find the best hikes and how to stay safe in the outdoors are offered on Saturdays at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest’s Gold Basin Campground Amphitheater, located 2.5 miles east of Verlot Public Service Center on the Mt. Loop Highway.

Next up: July 7: Lunch with Smokey Bear: noon, Ranger Koreena Haynes; Sarvey Wildlife Birds of Prey: 7 p.m., Kestral Skyhawk of Sarvey Wildlife Rescue.

360-691-7791 or www.fs.usda.gov/mbs

Discover the roots of American music at a series of free summer concerts at 7 p.m.

Saturdays in the West Beach amphitheater at Deception Pass State Park. If it is raining, concerts will be moved to the East Cranberry Lake picnic shelter. Discover Pass required for park admission.

Next up: July 7: D.W. Groethe: Original cowboy songs and poems from a real Montana ranch hand.

360-675-3767

VETERAN BENEFIT CAR SHOW Doyle Guffie’s annual No Veteran Forgotten Benefit Car Show will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 8, at Riverfront Park, Sedro-Woolley. Bring cars and motorcycles, and enjoy live music, food, a live auction and more. Free admission for spectators. Proceeds benefit local veterans.

360-757-7770 or 360-708-8729

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REVIEWS MUSIC CDS Compiled from news services

Metric

and couch surfing.

Some of his debut features big-dumb-kid “Synthetica” stuff like the treacle of “Kiss Me.” Mostly though, “+” highlights the very best R&B Think of elements of the boy band craze from the a band like ’60s through the present (Sheeran wrote or Fleetwood Mac, co-wrote tunes on “Up All Night,” the 2011 which had a smash album by U.K. boy gods “One Direcsemi-career’s tion”) with the likes of “Grade 8” and “The worth of bluesCity” oozing new jack swing, to say nothing rock behind of its airy, contagious choruses. Better still, them — and then unveiled a poppy blockbuster like “Rumours.” That’s the size of the if that’s possible, is the heartbreak beat of “The A Team,” with Sheeran’s effortless jump the band Metric makes in “Synthetcrooning. Swoon. ica,” an album both new and full, in effect, of greatest hits; it trumps the band’s entire n A.D. Amorosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer career up to this point.

Only “Gimme Sympathy” off their 2009 Flo Rida album “Fantasies” hinted at this entire “Wild Ones” record of nervy songwriting perfection.

Emily Haines has never before lined up Flo Rida has hooks this way, one after another, like the never been the Gary Glitter stomp of “Youth Without main attracYouth,” girl-group pop of “The Void,” sly tion on his own bounce of “Lost Kitten,” and atmosphericrecords: He’s anthemic “Breathing Underwater.” “Clone” best known for is a dead-on Death Cab rip followed by his collabora“The Wanderlust,” which is aided (literally) tions with other artists. His first hit, “Low,”

by Lou Reed. co-starred T-Pain, and subsequent ones like Indie is rarely this imaginatively encyclo“In the Ayer” featuring will.i.am and “Right pedic and slickly pop at the same time.

Round” with Ke$ha should have been an n Dan Weiss, The Philadelphia Inquirer indication of the extent of his range, which is pretty limited.

On his new nine-track album, “Wild Ed Sheeran Ones,” he takes even more of a back seat “+” than usual. But that’s not the only problem: some of the tracks “contain elements” of This album various songs, making the album sound like has been availsomething you’ve heard before — many able as a charttimes. topping import “Wild Ones” sounds like it accidentally for under a year, ingested beats from David Guetta or Pitbut now that the bull; it’s a confused mesh of rock, rap and time has come dance music. Not even the J. Lo-assisted to release it full and proper in the States, “Sweet Spot” stands out from the crowd of slick-soul songsmith Ed Sheeran couldn’t diluted European dance sounds. The title just do it quietly. His “+” (as in “Plus”) track is somewhat enjoyable, but that’s jumped into the Billboard/ SoundScan thanks to Sia’s performance on its hook. album chart’s Top 200 at number 5, the “Whistle,” the album’s third single, is highest debut for a U.K. solo artist’s first full-length since 2009. The only thing more slightly danceable, but the metaphor it presents for dark corner activity doesn’t even impressive is the dippy craftsmanship that come close to the catchiness of 50 Cent’s got him there.

“Candy Shop,” a gem of sexual innuendo.

Sheeran’s sound is folksy, with a good The album’s worst offender is the interhelping of soul man (young soul man: he’s national hit “Good Feeling.” It samples Etta 21); heart is worn on sleeve in many lyrics.

James’ “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” — In a voice like a baby Boz Scaggs and/ or but it’s sonically identical to the dance jam a mushy Damien Rice, Sheeran riffs to his “Levels” by Swedish DJ-producer Avicii. peer group about computer games, Shrek

Side effects from listening to the tune might For “Signals,” Metheny breaks out the orchestrion, the electronic gizmo that domiinclude a chronic case of dj vu and confunated his last recording, for a piece that segsion. ues from modernistic to smart and subtle. n Cristina Jaleru, Associated Press “Then and Now” is luxurious and happy, while Metheny’s solo on “Come and See” Lurrie Bell makes for a persuasive climax.

“The Devil Ain’t Got No Music”

In a reverse of the traditional trajectory, Lurrie Bell learned the blues before he became aware of gospel music — he’s the son, after all, of blues harmonica star Carey Bell. As his new album makes clear, however, the guitarplaying Chicago bluesman possesses a thorough mastery of both, and a singular ability to break down any barriers between them.

“The Devil Ain’t Got No Music” is a bracingly stripped-down yet galvanic affair, ranging from solo acoustic numbers like Muddy Waters’ “Why Don’t You Live So God Can Use You” and the Rev. Gary Davis’ “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” to the voice-and-percussion of Tom Waits’ “Down in the Hole” and on to the smallcombo arrangement of the title song, written by producer Matthew Skoller. n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pat Metheny “Unity Band”

Thirty years have passed since guitarist Pat Metheny last recorded with the guitar/tenor setup of “80/ 81.”

Here the mighty tenor saxophonist Chris Potter assumes the role Michael Brecker and Dewey Redman played on that earlier CD, and the “Unity” session ranges from beautiful to adventurous to sublime.

Metheny melts into his airy zone, achieving a free sound that is both accessible and hard to categorize. Potter is ever churning new ideas, while a new collaborator, bassist Ben Williams, joins with longtime Metheny drummer Antonio Snchez to create the high-end rhythm section.

“New Year” is one of the most gorgeous Metheny intros ever, with its Spanish tinge.

n Karl Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Chris Brown “Fortune”

One of the best songs on Chris Brown’s new album is a soft number, “Don’t Judge Me,” that finds him asking a girlfriend to look past his mistakes. “So please don’t judge me, because it can get ugly, before it gets beautiful,” he sings in his signature semi-high pitch.

For another singer, such a tune might come off as just another relationship plea.

But coming from the bad-boy singer whose career is nearly restored after his attack on Rihanna three years ago, it seems like a cry for understanding to the whole world and makes him sound vulnerable and appealing.

When Brown opens up, he’s the best version of himself. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough of those songs to make “Fortune,” the 23-year-old’s fifth album, a must have (it’s the follow-up to last year’s Grammywinning “F.A.M.E.”).

The album veers from hip-hop flavored party jams to electronic, pulsating tracks meant for laser light shows to more emotional fare. The album suffers from Brown’s cocky rap-talk and the computerized noises that drown out today’s dance songs.

One of the highlights is “4 Years Old.” Like “Don’t Judge Me,” it is soft and slow, with Brown recalling his childhood, singing: “Feels like I’m 4 years old all over again, because I’m just running fast, I should be walking, saying when I grow up you gon’ see, I’m gon’ be comfortable and happy.”

But most of the other tracks are mediocre, and those that standout — like “Biggest Fan” and “2012” — suffer from the album’s lack of flow and patchy feel. But production may also be the blame: The 14-track set is overloaded with too many producers and songwriters.

Sometimes “Fortune” feels like a mixtape. n Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press

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REVIEWS VIDEO GAMES Chris Campbell, Scripps Howard News Service

‘Lollipop Chainsaw’

Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Genre: Action Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 5) Female characterization in video games is a touchy subject. My wife and female friends will sometimes decry the over-sexualization of women in games, the “buxom damsel in distress” scenario. And in the few instances where women are the protagonists, it holds true that the heroine be more in the Lara Croft vein. Nancy Drew has little chance of showing up on an E3 billboard.

Thus enters Juliet of “Lollipop Chainsaw.” She’s quite the character: A curvaceous and somewhat foul-mouthed high school cheerleader thrust into a scenario where zombies are overtaking her town. Yet Juliet is not to be trifled with. She wields a hefty and powerful chain saw that makes mincemeat of the undead.

It is not the most technically proficient game ever released. The hype on “Lollipop” pertains to over-the-top theatrics regarding gender politics. One moment she plays to type in a cutscene that would make any father cringe, yet in a later boss battle she defends herself against hateful, misogynistic words being literally thrown at her. The game never commits Juliet as someone to loathe or cheer for, and this may rub gamers the wrong way.

The game’s camera sticks in weird places, causing the fights to unravel into a buttonmashing exercise. When this fires on all cylinders, the inclusion of arcade elements with super-gory eviscerations makes for fun playing. This is especially true once Juliet’s father arrives and the dialogue involving her, her father and her boyfriend (whose severed head is kept alive and clipped to her waist) crackles with witty one-liners and campy comebacks.

Even if you couldn’t care less about the portrayal of women in games, “Lollipop Chainsaw” browbeats one into at least noticing and thinking about it. It won’t draw the conclusions for you, but you should play this game and decide for yourself.

‘LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes’

Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Vita, 3DS Genre: Action Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive ESRB Rating: E, for Everyone Grade: 2.5 stars The Bat-signal appears over Gotham, and our hero (along with a few dozen allies from the DC Comics universe) rides in to the rescue.

Yet the sign could also serve as a warning flare of sorts that the LEGO franchise of video games is in dire need of rescuing.

The writing maintains its stellar ways, but the gameplay suffers from a lack of necessary tweaking and updates of a style that has remained largely unchanged since it debuted in the “Star Wars”-themed games.

Part of the problem is that this franchise is wildly popular — despite my opinions on this title, I remain a devout fan of the series as a whole — as it takes successful film franchises and LEGO-ifies them into quirky games that provide gleeful, goofy fun for adults and younger gamers alike.

Everyone from Indiana Jones to Harry Potter to Darth Vader has graced the screen in LEGO form, but, in theory, the games all share a connective thread. They are simple beat-’em-ups with a host of LEGO-piece-collecting and puzzle-solving strewn throughout missions relating to a specific character’s world. The AI is ludicrously stupid, and not once do you face a serious threat of not completing the game in a matter of hours or days.

I want this franchise to continue bringing me the goofball antics of film heroes.

It just needs a reimagining. n Follow Chris Campbell at twitter.com/ campbler or email him at game_on_games@ mac.com.

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GET INVOLVED ART

12:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, July 10-31, Burlington Senior Center, 1011 Greenleaf St., Burlington.

Sally Kirk, member of the WashCARTOONING FOR KIDS: 4 ington State Music Teachers to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Aug. 7-28, Association, will lead the camp.

Burlington Parks and Recreation $80, includes all materials. 360Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., 856-4938 or www.sedrowoolley Burlington. Kids ages 7-12 will pianostudio.com. learn basic drawing skills and leave with a portfolio of their RECREATION favorite cartoon characters. $40.

BOATING COURSE: U.S. Power Register by July 31: 360-755-9649.

Squadron will offer America’s Boating Course from 7 to 9 p.m.

DANCE Tuesdays and Thursdays, July and skill levels and include guided DANCE & YOGA FOR BOYS 10-24, at the Stanwood Senior CALL TO ARTISTS: United walk-throughs of MoNA exhibiAND GIRLS: Mount Vernon Center, 7430 276th St. NW, StanGeneral Hospital’s Fine Art tions. Limited to 15 participants wood. This Coast Guard- and Parks and Recreation will offer Committee seeks uplifting, heal- per session. To register: 360-466several classes for kids this sum- state-approved course qualifies ing art by local artists for display 4446, ext. 108, or FAD@museu mer, including ballet, jazz dance attendees for the Washington in the hospital’s “Gallery Hall.” mofnwart.org. Information: www Boater Education Card and and yoga with instructor Sylvia Artwork in any medium can museumofnwart.org. Workshops Trask. For information, including for insurance discounts. Topics be for sale, with a portion of are free with museum admission. class times and fees, call 360-336- include boat-handling, navigation the proceeds going toward the Admission: $5 general, $4 seniors, rules, aids to navigation, GPS, purchase of a permanent art col- $2 students, free for members and 6215. safety, adverse conditions, emerlection. Contact Patsy Prutzman: ages 11 and younger. gencies, communications, knots CLOG DANCING FOR BEGINpatsyprutzman@gmail.com. and more. $50, $75 for two sharNERS: Free lesson from 11 a.m.

ART CLASSES: Dakota Art ing a book. For more informato noon, followed by regular SEEKING ARTISTS, CRAFTSoffers a variety of art classes and tion or to register, contact Mark clog dancing from noon to 1 p.m.

PEOPLE, VENDORS: Cascade workshops at 17873 Highway Thursdays, at the Mount Vernon Richey at 360-387-1260 or email Days is accepting applications 536, Mount Vernon. 360-416ssboatschool@hotmail.com.

Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland through Aug. 5 for the annual 6556, ext. 5, or www.dakotaart St., Mount Vernon.

No fee, no event set for Saturday and Suncenter.com.

CAMP KILLOQUA OPEN partner needed. Wear comfortday, Aug. 18-19, in Concrete.

HOUSE: Camp Killoqua invites able shoes.

The event will include a parade, ISLAND ART CAMP ADVENFor information, call Rosie at families to attend an open house logger competition, car show, TURE: Tower Arts Studio offers 360-424-4608. from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July fireman’s muster, kids’ activities, summer art camps for kids on 7. It’s an opportunity to tour music, contests and more. For Guemes Island. Professional LINE DANCING: Enjoy classes the camp, meet the staff and information or an application, artists will teach a variety of art enjoy the 185-acre facility near and open dancing at 7 p.m. call 360-853-7867 or visit www. techniques to kids ages 8 to 14 Stanwood. Camp Killoqua Wednesdays at Cyndy’s Broiler, cascadedays.com. during weeklong sessions from 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. offers day-camp, resident-camp 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday $5. 360-629-4800 or www.Cyndys and horse programs for youths CALL FOR ARTISTS AND through Friday at Tower Arts entering grades K-12. For more Broiler.com.

CRAFTERS: The Mount Vernon Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, information, call 425-258-5437 Downtown Association is lookGuemes Island. Kids can work or visit www.campkilloqua.org. ing for artists and crafters of all FUNDRAISERS with clay, watercolors, paper No reservations needed, call for ages for the annual Sidewalk SALMON BARBECUE: The mache, printmaking, cartoondirections.

Sale, set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Lake McMurray Firefighters ing and more. $295 per session, Friday and Saturday, July 27-28, includes all art materials and Association will host its 50th ALL-COMERS TRACK MEETS: in downtown Mount Vernon. For chaperoned ferry transportation annual Salmon BBQ from noon Athletes of all ages can cominformation, call Nancy at 360from Anacortes For information, to 6 p.m., Sunday, July 8 at Norpete in a variety of track events 336-6106 or visit www.mount way Park on Lake McMurray, call 360-293-8878 or visit beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesdays, vernondowntown.org.

Highway 9. The event will feawww.towerartsstudio.com.

July 11-25, at the Burlingtonture dinner ($12), a fire safety Edison High School track, 301 house, dunk tank and a boat ART CLASSES STONE CARVERS SYMPON. Burlington Blvd., Burlington. raffle. All proceeds support the SIUM: The 25th annual event ART WORKSHOPS: Jeanne Registration opens at 5 p.m. all-volunteer Lake McMurray will take place July 14-22 at Gardner will offer a series of Field events start at 5:30 p.m.

Fire Department and the Sean Camp Brotherhood, 24880 two-hour workshops for ages 7 followed by running events at 6 Brotherhood Road, near Mount Thompson Memorial Scholarship p.m. $5 per meet; $30 season pass to adult at That’s Knot All ArtFund.

Vernon. Stone carvers from the ists’ Co-op, 128 S. First St., La includes T-shirt and expedited Conner. $20 per session, includes Northwest and beyond will gathcheck-in. T-shirt only: $10. For MUSIC materials; 10 percent discount for er for a variety of workshops, information, contact Burlington additional family members. Reg- demonstrations and hands-on PIANO CAMP: Ages 8 to 12, Parks and Recreation Departister at the Artists’ Co-op or call 360-766-6419.

CALL FOR VENDORS: Fidalgo Next up: Island Rotary is accepting appliThursday, July 12: Beginning cations for the 33rd annual Ana- Watercolor, 1 to 3 p.m. Learn to cortes Shipwreck Festival, set for blend watercolors for fabulous 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 14, effects, creating a tropical fantasy in downtown Anacortes. Vendors fish. can sell a variety of used, new and collectible items. Spaces are FAMILY ART DAYS AT MoNA: available ranging from 10-by-10 Skagit Artists Together and the feet to 10-by-60 feet. $40-$180 Museum of Northwest Art offer resident, $55-$225 nonresident.

Family Art Days each month at 360-299-9390 or www.shipwreck MoNA, 121 S. First St., La Confest.com. ner. Sessions are open to all ages

instruction, culminating in a sculpture show on Saturday, July 21.

ment at 360-755-9649 or visit www.ci.burlington.wa.us.

CLEAR LAKE YOUTH TRIATHLON: The 25th annual Clear Lake Youth Triathlon will take place Saturday, July 7, at the Clear Lake Swim Beach, Clear Lake.

The course will include a 100yard swim, 1.5-mile bike course and 1⁄2-mile run. Registration: $25 day of race.

For information, contact Skagit County Parks and Recreation, 360-336-9414 or www.skagitcounty.net (click on “Parks and Recreation,” then “Clear Lake Triathlon”).

“THE INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN LAND AND WATER”: 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 11, Tommy Thompson Trail, Anacortes. Meet at the Fidalgo Bay RV Park, in the parking area just past the junction with the Tommy Thompson Trail. Hear how Anacortes is interconnected, from the snow-capped mountains to Fidalgo Bay. Easy 2-mile walk on paved/decked trail. Free. www. skagitbeaches.org.

THEATER IMPROV CLASSES: Awaken the spontaneity within with free improv classes taught by Sheila Goldsmith of Improv Playworks.

Registration required: 360-7560756 or www.improvplayworks. com.

Adults and teens: 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, July 11, Improv Playworks Studio, 302 W. Illinois St., Bellingham.

Especially for seniors: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 16, The Willows, 3115 Squalicum Parkway, Bellingham.

SUMMER DRAMA CAMP: The Lincoln Theatre Summer Drama Camp for Teens will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, Aug. 13-17, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Teens can take part in acting, improv, dance, mime, writing and more onstage at the Lincoln. $275, partial scholarships available.

360-419-7129, ext. 101, or www. lincolntheatre.org.

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“He took the script and pared it down — some critics would say he butchered it; he took a lot of liberties.

“But what he ended up with was a very cohesive show. It really moves, you really get the gist of everything in the story.

“There are no stars, per se, it’s more of an ensemble cast. Everybody’s as important as anybody else.”

Fifteen actors make up the cast, and as indicated at a recent rehearsal, the enthusiasm is infectious.

Photos by Craig Parrish / Skagit Valley Herald

Stephanie Sousa, Keelia Jean and Patrick Holahan appear in “Julius Caesar.”

Carolyn Travis plays Marc Antony in Shakespeare Northwest’s production of “Julius Caesar.”

n To view a Shakespeare Northwest photo gallery, visit www.goskagit.com

In addition to directing and acting (he played Edna in a recent production of “Hairspray”), Hatch is a liaison between the Grange and the theater company, takes care of the grounds and supervises the maintenance. Hatch said it all leads to on-stage magic.

“It feeds your soul,” Hatch said. n Craig Parrish can be reached at 360-416-2135 or cparrish@skagitpublishing. com.

Please recycle this newspaper

Skagit Artists Together 2012 Studio Tour July 21 & 22 10 am to 6 pm 23 artists 16 studios self-guided driving tour download map at www.skagitart.com PREVIEW SHOWS – July 6, How It Works / July 14 & 15, Christianson’s Nursery

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area July 5-15

TUNING UP Playing at area venues July 5-12

Thursday.5

Thursday.12

SATURDAY.7

THEATER

THEATER

IAN MCFERON BAND 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 7:30 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55.

206-292-7676 or www.acttheatre.org.

Friday.6 THEATER

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 8 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55 plus applicable fees. 206-292-7676 or www.act theatre.org.

Saturday.7 THEATER

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 2 and 8 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55. 206292-7676 or www.acttheatre.org.

Sunday.8 THEATER

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 2 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55. 206-2927676 or www.acttheatre.org.

Monday-Wednesday.9-11 No events submitted

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left, 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free.

Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft. org.

Friday.13 MUSIC

FRIDAY.6

Clandestine: Highland Games kickoff concert, 7 p.m., Edgewater Park, 600 Behrens Millet Road, Mount Vernon.

Free. Bring a nonperishable food donation to benefit the Skagit Food Bank.

360-416-4934 or www.celticarts.org.

ROCK DEVILLE 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. No cover.

360-629-4800 or www. cyndysbroiler.com.

THEATER

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

THURSDAY.5

FRIDAY.6

Swil Kanim: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. No cover.

360-445-3000.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left, 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free. Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft.org.

Jammin’ Jeff (country, rock): 8 p.m. to midnight, Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

The Little Big Band (rock): 8 p.m., Big Rock Café & Grocery, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon.

360-424-7872.

Rock DeVille: 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood.

No cover. 360-6294800 or www.cyn dysbroiler.com.

Sugar Sugar Sugar, Grizzled Mighty: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Junkyard Jane: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

No cover. 360-5881720.

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

No cover. 360-7550165.

Locust Street Taxi: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-2932544.

DJ Defjawn and DJ Note (hip hop): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. No cover.

360-445-3000.

Saturday.14 THEATER

SATURDAY.7

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left: 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free.

Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft. org.

Sunday.15 THEATER

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left: 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free.

Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft. org.

Jammin’ Jeff (country, rock): 8 p.m. to midnight, Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4226411.

Stacy Jones Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

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

No cover.

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

Ian McFeron Band: 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Bill Mattocks Band: 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956 or www.anacortes H2O.com.

Keaton Collective, The Palisades: 10 p.m. to midnight, Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. www.redlight wineandcoffee. com.

Kimball & The Fugitives, with Stickshift Annie: 7 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

Strong Killings, Boom City & guests: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Mr. Feelgood & The Firm Believers: 7 p.m., Birdsview Brewing Co., 38302 Highway 20, Concrete. No cover.

360-826-3406.

Chris Eger Band (rock, blues): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY.6-7, 13-14 “NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH” 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360-336-3012 or www.river belledinnertheatre.com.

SUNDAY.8 Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-2263.

TUESDAY.10 Puirt na Gael (traditional Celtic instrumentals): 3 to 6 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

Station House Jam with Rich Rorex, Terry Nelson and friends: 4 to 8 p.m., The Station House, 315 Morris St., La Conner. No cover.

360-466-4488.

Grooveyard (jazz): 2 to 3 p.m., Heart of Anacortes, 1014 Fourth St., Anacortes. In case of rain, the performance will move to the library, 1220 10th St. Free. www. jazzatthelibrary. com.

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

Nathaniel Talbot, Anna Tivel: 6 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $7.

360-445-3000.

Stab City, Rookery, Unstoppable Death Machines: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-7781067.

WEDNESDAY.11 Stilly River Band: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-5881720.

THURSDAY.12 Trish & Hans Quartet: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover.

360-588-1720.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area July 5-15

TUNING UP Playing at area venues July 5-12

Thursday.5

Thursday.12

SATURDAY.7

THEATER

THEATER

IAN MCFERON BAND 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 7:30 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55.

206-292-7676 or www.acttheatre.org.

Friday.6 THEATER

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 8 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55 plus applicable fees. 206-292-7676 or www.act theatre.org.

Saturday.7 THEATER

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 2 and 8 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55. 206292-7676 or www.acttheatre.org.

Sunday.8 THEATER

Lewis Black’s “One Slight Hitch”: comedy, 2 p.m., ACT, The Falls Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. $15-$55. 206-2927676 or www.acttheatre.org.

Monday-Wednesday.9-11 No events submitted

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left, 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free.

Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft. org.

Friday.13 MUSIC

FRIDAY.6

Clandestine: Highland Games kickoff concert, 7 p.m., Edgewater Park, 600 Behrens Millet Road, Mount Vernon.

Free. Bring a nonperishable food donation to benefit the Skagit Food Bank.

360-416-4934 or www.celticarts.org.

ROCK DEVILLE 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. No cover.

360-629-4800 or www. cyndysbroiler.com.

THEATER

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

THURSDAY.5

FRIDAY.6

Swil Kanim: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. No cover.

360-445-3000.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left, 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free. Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft.org.

Jammin’ Jeff (country, rock): 8 p.m. to midnight, Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

The Little Big Band (rock): 8 p.m., Big Rock Café & Grocery, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon.

360-424-7872.

Rock DeVille: 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood.

No cover. 360-6294800 or www.cyn dysbroiler.com.

Sugar Sugar Sugar, Grizzled Mighty: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Junkyard Jane: 9 p.m. to midnight, Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

No cover. 360-5881720.

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

No cover. 360-7550165.

Locust Street Taxi: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-2932544.

DJ Defjawn and DJ Note (hip hop): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. No cover.

360-445-3000.

Saturday.14 THEATER

SATURDAY.7

“No Sex Please, We’re British”: comedy, 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360336-3012 or www.riverbelledinnertheatre. com.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left: 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free.

Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft. org.

Sunday.15 THEATER

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Island Stage Left: 8:30 p.m., Roche Harbor Outdoor Stage, San Juan Island. Free.

Donations appreciated. Bring a blanket and dress warmly. www.islandstageleft. org.

Jammin’ Jeff (country, rock): 8 p.m. to midnight, Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-4226411.

Stacy Jones Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666266.

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

No cover.

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

Ian McFeron Band: 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Bill Mattocks Band: 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956 or www.anacortes H2O.com.

Keaton Collective, The Palisades: 10 p.m. to midnight, Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. www.redlight wineandcoffee. com.

Kimball & The Fugitives, with Stickshift Annie: 7 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

Strong Killings, Boom City & guests: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Mr. Feelgood & The Firm Believers: 7 p.m., Birdsview Brewing Co., 38302 Highway 20, Concrete. No cover.

360-826-3406.

Chris Eger Band (rock, blues): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY.6-7, 13-14 “NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH” 7 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, The Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $30, includes dessert buffet and show. Reservations required: 360-336-3012 or www.river belledinnertheatre.com.

SUNDAY.8 Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-2263.

TUESDAY.10 Puirt na Gael (traditional Celtic instrumentals): 3 to 6 p.m., Skagit River Brewery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-2884.

Station House Jam with Rich Rorex, Terry Nelson and friends: 4 to 8 p.m., The Station House, 315 Morris St., La Conner. No cover.

360-466-4488.

Grooveyard (jazz): 2 to 3 p.m., Heart of Anacortes, 1014 Fourth St., Anacortes. In case of rain, the performance will move to the library, 1220 10th St. Free. www. jazzatthelibrary. com.

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

Nathaniel Talbot, Anna Tivel: 6 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $7.

360-445-3000.

Stab City, Rookery, Unstoppable Death Machines: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-7781067.

WEDNESDAY.11 Stilly River Band: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-5881720.

THURSDAY.12 Trish & Hans Quartet: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover.

360-588-1720.

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TRAVEL

Rural Tennessee courthouse, site of Scopes trial, still an attraction

By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER For The Associated Press

DAYTON, Tenn. — It was yet another Trial of the Century — one of those noisy spectacles that roll around every decade or so — but this one wasn’t about murder or celebrity kidnapping.

Rather it involved a new Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public AP file / 1925 schools and an unasScopes suming high school science teacher, John Scopes, who went on trial in July 1925 in the hill town of east Tennessee for violating it.

It was quickly dubbed “The Monkey Trial,” a description the town still dislikes, and for a couple of weeks the world was focused on conservative backwater Dayton, population about 3,000, which was flooded with some 200 journalists from around the world, scores of telegraph operators, thousands of onlookers and some of the finest legal talent in America. It was the first American trial to be broadcast live nationally on the radio.

The trial was the inspiration for the play and 1960 Spencer Tracy movie “Inherit the Wind,” widely seen as jab at the McCar-

n Scopes Trial Museum & Rhea County Courthouse: 1475 Market St., Dayton, Tenn; www.rheacounty.com/ attractions.html or 423-7757801.

thy era of the 1950s much as was Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” It had four Oscar nominations.

The courtroom in the 1891 brick courthouse has been restored and the basement is now a Scopes Trial museum, all free. Each July, the town holds a festival marking the anniversary of the trial; this year it’s scheduled for July 20-21.

It remains a working courtroom, looking as it did when the high-profile protagonists, in shirtsleeves and suspenders rather than suit jackets (the judge’s concession to the heat) slugged out the finer points of the Book of Genesis for nearly two weeks that sweltering mid-July.

The museum, through photos and other artifacts, seeks to recreate the feel of the town during Dayton’s flash of fame. With a little imagination, it works.

Unless you are an ardent “Monkey Trial” fan, two or three hours should suffice, but it is worthwhile for anyone tickled by one of America’s more unusual and splashy legal battles.

Scopes, then 24, was accused of violating a new law against teaching in public schools that man came from a “lower form of animals” instead of the

AP file / 2005

Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tenn., location of the 1925 landmark Scopes monkey trial.

Genesis route. Oddly, and the law aside, a biology text approved by the state already noted that “We have learned that animal forms may have begun” with a one-cell form.

But the real protagonists were imports.

For the defense there was Clarence Darrow, one of the greatest trial lawyers the nation has produced, tireless defender of hopeless cases, who had some “trials of the century” under his belt already, most recently the sensational Leopold and Loeb murder trial in Chicago.

The prosecution was led by populist icon William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, the “Great Commoner,” thrice a presidential candidate, former congressman and secretary of state, strict creationist and firm believer in the literal truth of every word in the Bible, from Jonah being swallowed by a whale to the serpent spending eternity on his belly for his role in the temptation of Eve. How, Darrow asked Bryan in a legendary and withering cross-examination, did the snake get along before that?

Darrow had called

TOP: This May 2012 photo shows the restored courtroom in the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tenn.

Joseph B. Frazier / AP

LEFT: This July 15, 1925, photo shows attorney William Jennings Bryan, sitting behind the microphone, during a radio broadcast of the landmark trial of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tenn. The controversial trial between religion and state determined how evolution would be taught in schools.

AP file

Bryan himself as an expert Bible witness and grilled him mercilessly about his unwavering fundamentalist beliefs, then requested that his client be found guilty in hopes of taking the larger issue, the law itself, to a favorable judgment on appeal.

Darrow quickly jumped in when he learned an evangelical group had retained Bryan. The former allies had grown far apart.

The New York American Civil Liberties Union

had been looking for a test case for the law and similar ones, and town leaders figured a trial might bring some attention to economically stressed Dayton. By most accounts they conspired with Scopes to break the law, hoping to cash in on the resulting publicity.

Thus Scopes, who conceded he might have taught evolution, volunteered as defendant.

The streets of Dayton, very much pro-Bryan, became a circus of vendors,

hucksters, self-proclaimed Bible champions and more.

A man tattooed with Bible verses shouted gospel from a street corner. A monkey was brought in and paraded about town, and banners exhorting Daytonians to “Read Your Bible” hung from buildings.

Scopes, “the infidel Scopes” in the sometimesunkind reporting by the Baltimore Sun’s widely read and agnostic H.L. Mencken, was never really a factor.

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TRAVEL Local travel

Smithsonian Institution via AP

This July 20, 1925, shows William Jennings Bryan, seated at left, being interrogated by attorney Clarence Seward Darrow during the trial of State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tenn.

Bryan stated his case bluntly: “If evolution wins, Christianity loses,” strong words for the time and place.

Dayton chafed at its description by many urban reporters especially Mencken, as a village of hicks and unwashed yokels in the Bible Belt, a term Mencken coined himself in 1924, although such put-downs were not universal. Some visiting reporters found genuine sincerity in the folks and said so.

Bryan was followed by adoring crowds.

His life-size statue today adorns the courthouse lawn, where there is nothing of Darrow and Scopes. Bryan College, (“Christ Above All”), an accredited institution of some 800 students, arose from the trial and continues to flourish.

Dayton, a pleasant riverside community, now grown 10-fold, has returned to its quiet ways. The festival includes trial reenactments and trial transcripts in the original courtroom, said Becky Bodkin, executive assistant to the Rhea County Economic and

WILDLIFE TOURS: Join The Whale Museum for land-based wildlife tours of San Juan Island. The tours run from 2 to 5 p.m. Fridays July 6, 20 and 27, and Aug. 10, 24 and 31, beginning at The Whale Museum, 62 First St., Friday Harbor. A certified naturalist will escort you via shuttle to the west side of San Juan Island, where you will have the opportunity to see killer whales, if present, and learn about the biology, social structure, culture, endangered status and threats of the Southern Resident killer whales. You may also see Dall’s and harbor porpoises, seals, sea lions, humpback whales, minke whales, bald eagles and various species of seabirds.

Stops may include Lime Kiln Point State Park, historic American Camp and Cattle Point to explore the world of intertidal invertebrates, tides permitting. The tours are free, but reservations are required. Call 360-3784710, ext. 23, or stop by the museum. www.whalemuseum.org.

CRUISE: 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, July 19-Aug. 30, departing from Squalicum Harbor, 2621 S. Harbor Loop Drive, Bellingham.

Tour guide Brian Griffin will lead a fun, informative evening on board the 110-foot tour boat Island Caper. Bring binoculars, warm layers and a picnic dinner. $35, $30 museum members. 360-778-8963 or www.whatcom museum.org.

DAY TRIPS: Camano Center is offering several trips for seniors and others, departing from and returning to Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. 360-3870222 or www.camanocenter.org.

Tillicum Village, Blake Island: Wednesday, Aug. 1. Enjoy a cruise to the island for native dancing and a traditional Northwest salmon bake. $78-$83. Pay by July 6.

Lemay Car Museum, Tacoma: Monday, Aug. 6. Check out one of the best collections of vintage, classic and custom autos in the country. $33-$38. Pay by July 20.

King Tut Exhibit at the Pacific Science Center: Thursday, Aug. 9. Last stop for the MEANINGFUL TRAVEL: Author Joyce Major exhibit before leaving the U.S. Price includes will present “My Top 10 Inexpensive Interna- transportation and exhibit ticket. $40-$45.

Pike Place Market: Thursday, Aug. 16. tional Volunteer Vacations” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, at Village Books, 1200 11th St., Enjoy late-summer produce, flowers and everything else Seattle’s famous market has Bellingham. Major has traveled around the to offer. $15-$20. Pay by Aug. 3. world volunteering on restoration, conservation, sustainability projects and more. Free.

SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and 360-671-2626 or www.villagebooks.com.

Recreation offers several travel opportunities. 360-336-6215.

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The event draws good crowds, she said, and tries to tend to all ages. Many visitors make it a day trip from Chattanooga 45 minutes or so to the south.

She said a few newer motels and restauSVH_4.949x4.75_ JULY rants have opened but that accommodations generally are scanty. The basic fundamentalism of the 1920s, she said, probably still dominates in Dayton.

Scopes was convicted in nine minutes by the watch and fined the minimum $100. The verdict was overturned on a technicality but the law was upheld and stayed on the books until 1967.

Scopes was offered his job back but declined, continued his studies and became a geologist in the oil industry.

Bryan suffered a heart attack and died in his sleep in Dayton a week after the trial, the last stand for a religious warrior who “kept the faith.”

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HOT TICKETS TUTANKHAMUN: Through Jan. 6, 2013, Pacific Science Center, Seattle. 800-664-8775 or www. pacificsciencecenter.org.

“LES MISÉRABLES”: June 27-July 7, 5th Avenue Theatre. 206-625-1900 or www.5thavenue.org.

THE DUKES OF SEPTEMBER RHYTHM REVUE: Featuring Donald Fagen, Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald: Friday, July 6, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE: July 6, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

MALFUNKSHUN: July 7, El Corazon, Seattle.

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STEVE MILLER BAND: Saturday, July 7, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

TOOTS & THE MAYTALS: July 11, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. ticketmaster.com.

BEACH BOYS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR: July 13, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

SLASH: July 13, Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

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RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND: Saturday, July 14, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticket master.com.

MARINA AND THE DIAMOND: Saturday, July 14, Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline. com.

RAY DAVIES: July 14, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster. com.

LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND: July 14, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-7346080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com; July 15, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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SLACKFEST: July 14, Slime Dog Race Track, Stanwood. www.facebook.com/slackfest.

EARTH, WIND & FIRE: July 20, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

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JIM BREUER: July 20-21, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or www.theskagit.com.

DARRINGTON BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: July 20-22, Darrington Bluegrass Music Park. 360436-1006 or www.glacierview.net/bluegrass.

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE: July 21, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

CHRIS ISAAK, SHAWN COLVIN: Sunday, July 22, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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SNOOP DOGG: July 22, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showbox online.com.

STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS, EMMYLOU HARRIS: Tuesday, July 24, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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

THE ANGRY SAMOANS: July 28, El Corazon, Seattle. 800-514-3849 or www.cascadetickets .com.

NEIL DIAMOND: July 23, KeyArena, Seattle. www.ticketmaster.com.

DIRTY PROJECTORS: July 23, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

JOURNEY, PAT BENATAR, NEIL GIRALDO AND LOVERBOY: July 28, Gorge Amphitheatre.

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

IRON MAIDEN: July 30, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or www.live nation.com.

LAMB OF GOD, DETHKLOK: Aug. 1, WaMu Theatre, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.ticket master.com.

MOUNT BAKER R&B FESTIVAL: Aug. 3-5, Deming Log Show Fairgrounds, Bellingham.

360-676-9573; 360-757-0270 or www.baker blues.com. Info: 360-383-0850.

WATERSHED COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL: Aug. 3-5, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

THE LAST SUMMER ON EARTH TOUR: Aug. 3, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION: Saturday, Aug. 4, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticket master.com.

VANS WARPED TOUR: Aug. 4, Marymoor Park, Redmond. www.vanswarpedtour.com.

AEROSMITH, CHEAP TRICK: Aug. 8, Tacoma Dome. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

DEAD CAN DANCE: Aug. 10, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 800-745-3000 or www.ticket master.com.

KASKADE: Aug. 10, WaMu Theater, Seattle.

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DEAD CAN DANCE: Aug. 10, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 800-745-3000 or www.ticket master.com.

NICKI MINAJ: Aug. 11, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.livenation.com.

ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN: Aug. 14, El Corazon, Seattle. 800-514-3849 or www. cascadetickets.com.

HEART: Aug. 16, Northwest Washington Fair, Lynden. 360-354-7777 or www.nwwafair.com.

JOHN ANDERSON: Aug. 17, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. $28-$37. 877-275-2448 or www.theskagit.com.

BILLY CURRINGTON: Aug. 17, Northwest Washington Fair, Lynden. $48-$58. 360-3547777 or www.nwwafair.com.

KISS, MOTLEY CRUE: Aug. 18, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

NORAH JONES: Aug. 18, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster. com.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Aug. 31-Sept. 2, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. www.livenation. com or 1-800-745-3000.

AMON TOBIN: Sept. 1, WaMuTheater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

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LINKIN PARK, INCUBUS: Sept. 5, Tacoma Dome. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

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BLONDIE & DEVO: Sept. 7, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.

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MOVIES

Stone takes another walk on the dark side in violent, ingenious crime thriller

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liver Stone’s “Savages” is a moral tangle embedded in a bloody war between two best buddies in Laguna Beach and the queen of a Mexican drug cartel. A return to form for Stone’s dark side, it generates ruthless energy and some, but not too much, humor.

The movie is a battle between good and evil, you could say, Roger except that everyone in Ebert it is evil — but some are less evil than others, and they all have their good sides.

The movie opens with a narration by a blond trophy girl named O (Blake Lively), who warns us, “Just because I’m telling you this doesn’t mean I’m alive at the end.” The plot is so twisty that this is both true and false. O (short for Ophelia) lives with the two most successful pot growers in Southern California. These are Chon (Taylor Kitsch), a hard-edged Iraq veteran, and Ben (Aaron Johnson), a brilliant botanist. It was Chon who smuggled prime seeds home from the Middle East, and Ben who cultivated them hydroponically

into world-class pot. Chon handles the dangerous side of the business, Ben is the idealist, their product sells both through legal medical channels and criminal deals, and they share O. O insists she is blissfully happy with this arrangement, and apparently the guys are, too. I wasn’t convinced. When three people share each other, that usually involves only the physical bits. The deep emotional parts are either withheld or missing. My notion is that O likes the luxury and attention, and the lads find her a convenience. This will come to a brutal test.

Life is a hedonistic feast for Chon, Ben and O, until a video arrives one day showing several Mexican drug workers whose heads have been removed by a chain saw. The message: Share your business with us or you will regret it. The message comes from an elegant femme fatale named Elena (Salma Hayek), who runs a Mexican cartel and wants to expand into the U.S. and get a supply of their primo weed. Elena, whose impossibly silken black hair, jewelry, couture gowns and cigarette holder suggest a Dragon Lady in a 1930s Shanghai gambling thriller, monitors operations through a high-tech computer network, and depends on her scuzzy henchman

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Blake Lively and Benicio Del Toro star in “Savages.”

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Lado (Benicio Del Toro) to enforce her desires.

Now try to puzzle out the role of Dennis (John Travolta), the DEA agent who accepts bribes from Ben and Chon, who pretends to be informing on them, who may actually be informing on them, and who may also somehow hope to profit from Elena. Dennis is an equal-opportunity rogue, who lives in comfortable suburbia, is filling out around the middle and

thinning on top, and has the air of a frog waiting for flies.

He’s naive about the people he’s dealing with, and trusts that in bribery a deal is a deal. One of the movie’s funniest moments comes from the astonishment in his voice when he squeals: “You stabbed a federal agent!”

Chon and Ben are not sufficiently warned by Elena’s ultimatum. They’ve been playing in shallow water, and she’s a shark from the deep. They’re stu-

pid enough to allow O to go on a shopping trip to the mall, and clueless enough to be surprised when Elena’s team kidnaps her. (No, that isn’t a spoiler; everything that happens next would be the spoiler.) We now get a labyrinthine series of negotiations, mostly carried out via computer, in which O endures unspeakable treatment and Ben argues that they must ransom her while Chon, less sentimental, wants to take their losses.

Both boys would be more than happy to get out of business and retire somewhere comfy.

Much of the fascination of “Savages” comes through Stone’s treatment of the negotiations, which involve percentages, sliding scales over three years, an ultimate payout, and other financial details that drugs have in common with big

business. It’s spellbinding to watch the two sides trying to outthink each other. One of the big closing scenes involves a variation of the kind of hostage trade familiar from countless Western and gangster movies — only in Stone’s hands, it turns out to be not so familiar at all.

It’s hard to describe how morality sneaks in here, and how everyone is evil but some have their good sides. Try to unravel the relationship that develops between Elena and O. Notice that the snaky Lado, played by Del Toro as a pitiless predator, has certain sensibilities. Listen to the discussions between Chon and Ben about the woman who was part of their soperfect triangle. Try to track the motives of Travolta’s DEA agent. No, wait. It’s occurred to me that he’s completely evil.

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MOVIES MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

Ratings are one to four stars.

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” — Vowing vengeance after a vampire kills his mother, Abe Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) learns the skills of vampire-killing while a young law student in Springfield and goes on a murder spree, chopping off the heads of six vampires with the silver blade of his ax, which he can twirl like a baton. During the Civil War, the Union faces defeat because the vampires are fighting on the Confederate side, but Lincoln’ quick thinking and vampire expertise turns the tide of battle at Gettysburg. The movie handles these matters with straightforward seriousness, which may be the only way they could possibly work. Action fantasy, R, 105 minutes. HHH “Brave” — The new animation from Pixar poaches on traditional Disney territory. Instead of such inventive stories as “Up” and “WALL-E,” we get a spunky princess, her mum the queen, her dad the gruff king, an old witch who lives in the woods and so on. The artistry looks wonderful. Kids will probably love it, but parents will be disappointed if they’re hoping for another Pixar ground-breaker. Animated action, PG, 100 minutes. HHH “Magic Mike” — Steven Soderbergh’s film is a crafty mixture of comedy, romance, melodrama and some remarkably well-staged strip routines involving hunky, good-looking guys.

I have a feeling women will enjoy it more than men. Channing Tatum stars as the title character, Matthew McConaughey is the no-nonsense impresario, Alex Pettyfer is a kid recruited into the business, and Cody Horn is his protective sister. Starts as a backstage comedy, and enters darker realms. Comedy drama, R, 110 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Marvel’s The Avengers” — A threat to Earth from the smirking Loki, resentful adoptive brother of the Norse god Thor, causes Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to assemble all of the Avengers: Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). Action-adventure, PG-13, 142 minutes. HHH “Men in Black III” — Fifteen years after the original and a decade after the blah sequel, this third installment is the best in the series. Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are back as antialien Agents K and J, and Josh Brolin has a movie-stealing role as the young Agent K, looking and sounding uncannily like Jones. Comedy adventure, PG-13, 103 minutes. HHH “People Like Us” — A slick salesman from New York (Chris Pine) flies home to LA after the death of his

AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE AT AREA THEATERS ANACORTES CINEMAS July 6-12 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13): 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 People Like Us (PG-13): 6:30, 9:00 Brave (PG): 12:50, 3:10, 6:40, 8:55 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13): 12:40, 3:20 360-293-7000 BLUE FOX DRIVE-IN Oak Harbor 360-675-5667 CASCADE MALL THEATRES Burlington For listings and times, call 888-AMC4FUN (888-262-4386).

CONCRETE THEATRE Snow White and the Huntsman (PG13): 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 6; 5 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 7; 4 p.m. father, and is given a shaving kit holding $150,000 and instructions to deliver it to the half-sister (Elizabeth Banks) he never knew he had. He manages to “meet” her at an AA meeting, befriends her little boy (Michael Hall D’Addario), and confides in her. The movie’s flaw is that he waits so long to reveal their relationship that it stops being a human fact and grows into a tiresome plot device. Still, that aside, a good-hearted and well-intentioned film.

Drama, PG-13, 115 minutes HH1⁄2 “Savages” — Oliver Stone’s thriller involves a bloody war between two best buddies in Laguna Beach and the queen of a Mexican drug cartel. A return to form for Stone’s dark side, the movie is a battle between good and evil, except that everyone in it is evil -- but some are less evil than others, and they all have their good sides.

Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson are partners in growing primo pot, Blake Lively is the beach bunny they share, Salma Hayek is the queen of the cartel, Benicio Del Toro is her enforcer and John Travolta is a crooked FDA agent. Violent, ingenious, deceptive and funny, but not too funny. Crime thriller, R, 129 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Snow White and the Huntsman” — Reinvents the legendary story in a film of astonishing beauty and imagination.

It’s the last thing you would expect from a picture with this title. Starring Kristen Stewart, capable and plucky, as Snow White, and Charlize Theron as the evil Queen, with Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman and Sam Claflin as the loyal Prince William. Fantasy adventure, PG-13, 127 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Ted” — The funniest movie character so far this year is a stuffed teddy bear. And the best comedy screenplay so far is “Ted,” the saga of the bear’s

Sunday, July 8. Tickets: $6 general admission, $5 adults over 65 and kids under 12; $1 off all tickets on Sunday.

360-941-0403 OAK HARBOR CINEMAS July 6-12 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13): 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 Ted (R): 1:00, 3:25, 6:50, 9:10 Brave (PG): 1:15, 3:55, 6:20, 8:50 360-279-2226 STANWOOD CINEMAS July 6-12 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13): 12:30, (3:20), 6:10, 9:00 Magic Mike (R): 12:40, 3:10, 6:50, 9:15 People Like Us (PG-13): 6:20, 8:50 Ted (R): 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 8:55 Brave (PG): 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 8:45 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG): 12:50, 3:40 360-629-0514 friendship with a 35-year-old man-child.

Mark Wahlberg stars as the teddy’s best friend, Mila Kunis is his longsuffering girlfriend, and director Seth McFarlane (“Family Guy”) does Ted’s potty-mouthed Beantown accent. The movie doesn’t run out of steam. McFarlane seems unwilling to stop after the first payoff of a scene and keeps embellishing. (Definitely not for kids.)

Comedy, R, 106 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “The Amazing Spider-Man” — The Spider-Man franchise is back for a reboot only 10 years after its first picture and five years after the most recent one. This is a more thoughtful and carefully written remake of the 2002 original with more attention to the origin story of Peter Parker/ Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have warm chemistry as Spidey and Gwen, and this new-generation Spidey is more impulsive and takes more chances; sometimes he leaps from buildings with no clear plan in mind. Co-starring Rhys Ifans as the city-destroying Lizard, Denis Leary as Gwen’s father the police captain, and Sally Field and Martin Sheen as Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Action, PG-13, 136 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” — An all-star comedy about five couples in search of pregnancy.

They’re so much in synch that three deliveries and an adoption occur on the same day. The actors are likable, the movie is cheerful, but there’s too much story, and I grew weary of the round-robin as all the stories were kept updated. With Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Brooklyn Decker, Matthew Morrison, Chace Crawford, Chris Rock and Dennis Quaid. Comedy, PG-13, 109 minutes.

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

‘Frankenstein’

donate 15 percent of all gross sales for July 9 to the Lincoln.

Academy Awardwinning director Danny Boyle (“127 Hours,” “Slumdog Millionaire”) returns to the theater to direct this visionary new production written by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Throughout the run of “Frankenstein” at the National Theatre, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller are alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. Cinema audiences will have the chance to see both combinations. $15 adults, $13 seniors, $11 students, with $2 off for Lincoln members.

The Met Summer Series: ‘Les Conte’s d’ Hoffmann’

7:30 p.m. Friday, July 6 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 27

‘Bernie’

7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 7 5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 8 7:30 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, July 9-10

The black comedy set in the tiny rural town of Carthage, Tex., stars Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine.

Rated PG-13. $9 general; $8 seniors, students and active military; $7 members; $6 ages 12 and under. Bargain matinee prices (all shows before 6 p.m.): $7 general, $5 members, $4 ages 12 and under.

Nell Thorn Loves the Lincoln Monday, July 9 (all day)

Longtime supporter Nell Thorn of La Conner invite all members and friends of the Lincoln Theatre and all of Skagit County and beyond, to join in supporting the Lincoln. Nell Thorn will

6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 11

Bartlett Sher’s 2009 production stars Joseph Calleja in the tour-deforce title role of this fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. $15 general, $13 seniors, $11 students and children, with $2 member discount.

Six-tickets-for-the-price-of five bundle available.

‘Phantom of the Opera’: 25th Anniversary Broadcast

7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 12

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh’s history-making “Phantom of the Opera” comes to the big screen in this 25th anniversary showing.

“Phantom” is Broadway’s longest running show and has been seen by more than 100 million people worldwide. This special event will feature some 200 cast members, orchestra musicians and luminaries involved with “Phantom of the Opera” over the past 25 years. The production will be directed by Laurence Connor with musical staging and choreography based on the original London production directed by Hal Prince and choreography

by Gillian Lynne. $15 general: $13 seniors; $11 for students and children with $2 off for Lincoln Theatre members.

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OUT & ABOUT ART FIREWORKS + ARTWORKS: The 27 artist studios of the Whidbey Island Art Trail will open their doors to the public during the Fourth of July holiday week. Check out paintings, prints, sculptures, art glass, ceramics, fiber arts, woodwork, jewelry and more. Pick up a studio map at locations around the island or visit www.whidbeyarttrail.com.

“IN THE SHADOW OF OLYMPUS”: Jack Gunter’s mock history of the Olympic Peninsula, with art and artifacts, continues through Oct. 7 at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday through Sunday.

360-457-3532 or www.pafac. org.

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY WALK: Check out a variety of artworks on display from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 6, at several galleries and other venues along Commercial Avenue in downtown Anacortes. 360-293-6938.

SUMMER ART SHOW: Check out artworks in a variety of media at the Whidbey Allied Artists Summer Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Monday, July 6-9, at the Coupeville Recreation Center, 901 NW Alexander St., Coupeville.

Choose from painting, glass art, jewelry and more. For information, contact Margaret at 360-969-2111 or Helen at 360-675-4201.

OILS AND PASTELS: A show of new work by Amanda Houston will open with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, July 6, and continue through July 31 at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

Houston’s brightly colored landscapes and misty waterscapes will be joined by a

OPEN STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW

take place from 5 to 8 p.m.

Friday, July 6.

“Pilchuck: IDEAS”: July 7-Jan. 1, 2013. In celebration of 50 years of Studio Glass, the show will feature work from the Pilchuck permanent collection rarely seen off the famous glass school’s campus. These pieces from the early days of the revolution in studio glass were created by some of the most important artists working in the medium, including Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Joey Kirkpatrick, Flora Mace, Ben Moore, Lino Tagliapietra, Italo Scanga and more. The “ALWAYS A SELF-PORworks on display are espeTRAIT”: A show of paintcially significant because they ings, prints and sculptures show these artists in the proby Anne Belov and Sharon cess of teaching, experimentSpencer will open with a ing and in some cases searchreception from 5 to 8 p.m. ing for iconic forms and Friday, July 6, and conexpressions for which they tinue through Aug. 1 at Rob have become famous. GroupSchouten Gallery, 765 Wonn ings of early glass are shown Road, Greenbank. Inspired next to mature examples of by a poem of the same the artists’ work from private name, the show features collections.

Belov’s vibrant paintings “Moments Of Quiet From and hand-pulled prints, and The Permanent Collection”: Spencer’s quiet, powerful July 7-Sept. 23. The summer sculptures. The gallery is exhibition features artworks open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and quotes related to the daily. 360-222-3070 or www. concepts of tranquility, robschoutengallery.com. peace of mind and inspiration. It features work by ART SHOW AND OPEN Maria Frank Abrams, Guy HOUSE: The Bare Images Anderson, Kenneth Calart show and open house lahan, Morris Graves, Carl will take place from 11 a.m. Hall, Paul Havas, Wade to 4 p.m. Saturday and 11 Hoefer, William Ivey, Claya.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, July ton James, Mary Randlett, 7-8, at Lake Associates Rec- Charles Stokes, Mark Tobey reation Club, 21700 Highand Dederick Ward. way 9, Mount Vernon. Enjoy Museum hours are noon a celebration of the nude to 5 p.m. Sundays and MonSkagit Artists Together will present a preview show in conjunction with the figure and explore the club’s days, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

First Friday Art Walk from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 6, at How It Works, 1014 Fourth grounds. Free admission.

Tuesdays through Saturdays.

St., Anacortes. Check out a sample of the artwork that will be on display during Food and beverages avail$5, $4 seniors, $2 students, Skagit Artists Together’s ninth annual Open Studio Tour, set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. able for purchase. 360-445free for members and chilSaturday and Sunday, July 21-22, at art studios around Skagit County. Free.

6833 or email larcnudists@ dren ages 11 and younger. www.skagitart.com. Pictured: art by Caroline Garland. gmail.com.

360-466-4446 or www. museumofnwart.org.

MoNA EXHIBITIONS: open with a reception from collection of summer scenes 4:30 p.m. Monday through “DEEP LISTENING”: in oil by Joanne Shellan, oils Saturday or by appointment. 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 6, and New exhibits will open continue through July 28 at with a reception from 2 to 5 The show of contemplative 360-293-6938 or www.scott

by Keith Sorenson, oils by the Allied Arts of Whatcom p.m. Saturday, July 7, at the art will run Friday, July 13, Lorna Libert, watercolors by milo.com.

County Gallery, 1418 Corn- Museum of Northwest Art, through Aug. 26, at Gallery Eric Wiegardt and acrylics 121 S. First St., La Conner. A Cygnus, 109 Commercial wall Ave., Bellingham. The “OUR WORLD IN FOUR

by Jennifer Bowman. GalCAMERAS”: The exhibit will juried show features photos members-only preview will Ave., La Conner. lery hours are 10:30 a.m. to

by Kate Henze, Craig Dunstan-McGrail, David Inscho and Tommy Gibson. Their images are all recognizable, but some are abstracted by the angle of the camera, motion, special lenses, filters or digital manipulation.

The gallery will continue its Inside the Box Series with Jan Landin’s one-of-akind jewelry pieces, created using silver and semi-precious stones. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. 360-6768548 or www.alliedarts.org.

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OUT & ABOUT entertainment and more.

Free admission. www.ship wreckfest.com.

Meet the artists during a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 14. The exhibit reveals an artmaking process that requires a kind of deep listening or meditation. Artists include Heidi Epstein, Jules Faye, Marilyn Frasca, Theodora Jonsson, Natalie Niblack, Elizabeth Tapper and Maggie Wilder.

Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

360-708-4787 or www.gallery cygnus.com.

ART BY THE BAY: The Stanwood Camano Arts Guild will present the 20th annual event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15, at the StanwoodCamano Community Fairgrounds, 6431 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood. Check out original artworks by more than 100 juried artists, along with live music, plants, food and more. Free admission. www.stanwoodcamanoarts. com.

ARTISTS’ STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW: Skagit Artists Together will present a preview show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 14-15, in the schoolhouse building at Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon. Check out examples of the artwork that will be on display during Skagit Artists Together’s ninth annual Open Studio Tour, set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, July 21-22. Free. www.skagitart. com.

“SUMMER MOMENTS: GLASS, METAL, STONE AND NORTHWEST PAINTINGS”: The exhibit will open with a potluck party from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 14, and continue through Sept. 9 at Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island. The show will feature work by 30 artists working

‘BIRTHDAY GIRLS’ Small paintings by Anne Martin McCool and jewelry by Debbie Aldrich will be featured in a show opening during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 6, and continuing through July 31 at Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

Work by other gallery artists will also be on display. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

360-293-3577 or www. mccoolart.com. Pictured: Turquoise and coral necklace by Debbie Aldrich. in a variety of techniques.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday or by appointment. 360-3872759 or www.matzkefineart. com.

FESTIVALS ANACORTES SHIPWRECK FESTIVAL: The event will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 14, in downtown Anacortes.

Check out several blocks of booths filled with antiques, collectibles, arts and crafts, tools, toys and everything else imaginable. Enjoy food,

can win prizes, including buttons, books and more. In celebration of Waldo’s 25th birthday, his publisher and CHILDREN’S ART FESTI- 250 independent bookstores VAL: The 28th annual event are hosting “Find Waldo” will take place from 10 a.m. contests around the country. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at Pick up a list of participatHillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th ing businesses at Next ChapSt., Mount Vernon. Enjoy ter Bookstore, 721 S. First children’s entertainment, 30 St., La Conner, then collect booths with hands-on arts an “I Found Waldo” card for and crafts, face-painting, free each Waldo you spot around balloons and more. Bring a town. Eight cards will earn picnic or buy food from one a button from Next Chapter of the vendors. Free admisBooks; 16 will win a butsion. 360-336-6215. ton and an entry for a prize drawing on July 31. There’s CEMENT CITY STREET no charge to participate.

FAIR: The fifth annual cele- 360-466-2665. bration of healthy living and family fun will take place “FUEL FOR CARTER”: from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. SaturThe Anacortes Center for day, July 28, in downtown Happiness will host a benConcrete. Enjoy music, mov- efit screening of the film ies, arts and crafts, health “Grease” at 6 p.m. Saturday, screens and information, 5K July 7, at 619 Commercial fun run, motorcycle show, Ave., Anacortes. The evening kids’ activities, food and will include live music and more. Sponsored by United a silent auction followed by General Hospital in collabo- a screening of the singalong ration with the Concrete version of “Grease,” starring Chamber of Commerce and John Travolta and Olivia local businesses. Free admis- Newton-John. Proceeds will sion. 360-853-8784 or benefit 17-year-old cancer www.unitedgeneral.org. survivor Carter Howard and his family. Howard lost a leg to bone cancer and is underLECTURES going a yearlong series of AND TALKS chemotherapy treatments at POTLUCK FORUM: ComSeattle Children’s Hospital. munity groups including Funds will help pay for gas Defending Water in the for repeated trips to Seattle, Skagit River Basin, Skagit along with other family MoveOn and those followexpenses. $10. Additional ing the coal train issue will donations are appreciated. present updates on their 360-464-2229 or www.anacor activities at 11:30 a.m. Suntescenterforhappiness.org. day, July 15, at the Skagit County PUD building, 1415 FAIRY HOUSE FESTIFreeway Drive, Mount VerVAL: The annual event will non. Community members take place from 11 a.m. to are invited to attend, and are 4 p.m. Saturday, July 7, at asked to bring a potluck dish Meerkerk Gardens, 3531 to share. 360-424-4264.

Meerkerk Lane, Greenbank.

Children of all ages can MORE FUN use natural materials from WHERE’S WALDO?: The Meerkerk’s woods and garfamous fellow in the striped dens to construct shelters for woodland fairies and other shirt and black-rimmed resident creatures. Take specs will visit 20 different your creation home with La Conner businesses during July. If you spot him, you you or leave it as part of the

KIDS DAY AT THE MARIgardens’ natural décor. $5, free for ages 12 and younger. NA: 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 14, Cap Sante Boat 360-678-1912 or www.

Haven, Anacortes. Kids can meerkerkgardens.org. check out wild critters from Predators of the Heart, a FAIRHAVEN OUTDOOR bouncy house, ice cream CINEMA: The 13th annual Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema sandwiches and more. Free.

360-293-3134 or www. will present live entertainportofanacortes.com. ment and big-screen movies on Saturday evenings, HIGHLAND GAMES: The through Aug. 25, at the Village Green in Bellingham’s 18th annual Skagit Valley Highland Games will take Fairhaven District. Admission $5. Popcorn and snacks place from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. available for purchase.

Sunday, July 14-15, at EdgeBring your own blanket or water Park, 600 Behrens low-backed lawn chair for seating. Rain or shine. www. Millet Road, Mount Vernon.

FairhavenOutdoorCinema. Check out athletic events, Highland dancing, bagpipcom. ers and other Celtic music, Next up: July 7: Entertainment cir- sheepdog trials, food and Celtic merchandise, beer and cus performers at 8:30 p.m. followed by “Hugo” at dusk. whisky garden and more.

Day pass: $10-$13 individual, $30 family of four. Weekend MOVIES IN THE PARKS: pass: $14-$18 individual, Mount Vernon Parks & Recreation will present free $40 family. 360-416-4934 or movies this summer in parks www.celticarts.org. around Mount Vernon. Movies begin at dusk. Festival seating. Limited vendors on-site. No pets. For information, call 360-336-6215 or email mvparks@mount vernonwa.gov.

Next up: Saturday, July 14: “Spy Kids 4”: Kiwanis Park, 500 S. Gallery Walks 18th St.

First Friday

“B IS FOR BEER”: Enjoy an evening with novelist Tom Robbins from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 14, at the Children’s Museum of Skagit County, located inside the Cascade Mall, Burlington. Robbins will offer a reading and book signing of “B is for Beer: A Children’s Book for Grown-ups and A Grown-up Book for Children.” A selection of Robbins’ books will be available for purchase. Adults only. $65, $100 couple. Includes local brews and appetizers.

Proceeds will benefit the Children’s Museum. 360757-8888 or www.skagit childrensmuseum.net.

July 6 6 - 9 pm Fidalgo Fiber Art Anne Martin McCool Gallery Samish Gallery of Native Arts Scott Milo Gallery The Majestic Inn and Spa Rockfish Grill Anchor Art Space www.anacortesart.com

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