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Skagit Valley Herald Thursday February 19, 2015

ON STAGE

TUNING UP Mark DuFresne plays H2O in Anacortes on Saturday night PAGE 9

Whidbey Children’s Theater presents the musical “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” PAGE 8

MUSIC REVIEWS JD McPherson, Drake, Juliana Hatfield Three PAGE 15

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A NIGHT OF ENDLESS LAUGHS

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THIS WEEKENDin the area MOVIE MATINEE/OSCAR PARTY

The Robert Cray Band A true legendary Northwest bluesman comes to town as The Robert Cray Band plays at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

Cray, who lived in Tacoma in the 1960s, has written or performed with everyone from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan, from Bonnie Raitt to John Lee Hooker. In 2011, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Cray appeared in the 1978 movie “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (he’s the bass player in Otis Day and The Knights, performing at the Delta house fraternity party), and gained worldwide attention with his album “False Accusations” in 1985.

One year later, Cray’s majorlabel debut, “Strong Persuader,” was released, to international acclaim. Cray’s 17th studio album “In My Soul” is steeped in the down-home sound and rich emotion of Southern Soul, according to a news release. $29.50-$49.50. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

Burlington Public Library, 820 Washington Ave., Burlington, will host a movie matinee and Oscar party Saturday, Feb. 21. Enjoy screenings of “The Theory of Everything” at 11 a.m. and “Guardians of the Galaxy” at 2 p.m. The event ages 14 and older and children accompanied by an adult. Free.

360-755-0760 or burlingtonwa. gov/library.

FIREFIGHTERS BALL The Alger Firefighters Ball on Saturday, Feb. 21, will feature dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. at Alger Fire Station, 18726 Parkview Lane, and dancing to Desperate Measures from 7 to 10 p.m. at Alger Community Hall, 18735 Parkview Lane. Enjoy a prime rib dinner (vegetarian menu available upon request) and a dessert auction. Semiformal attire (Alger style); ages 18 and older. Dinner and dance: $25; dinner only: $15; dance only: $10. Proceeds will help build two community sign boards. Tickets: 360-766-6904, 360-391-1876 or algercommu nityhall@yahoo.com.

MARITIME SPEAKER SERIES

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Compass adjuster Keith Sternberg will discuss compass error, steering by compass and self-reliance philosophy, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes.. Free. 360293-1910, ext. 21, or library. cityofanacortes.org.

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TELEVISION

A scene from the “Modern Family” episode “Connection Lost,” which will air entirely online on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Twentieth Century Fox Television via AP

‘Modern Family’ breaks new ground online 2010, the tablet was portrayed as a sought-after birthday gift.

Levitan said the upcoming LOS ANGELES — How to episode involved no productkeep the “modern” in “Modern placement compensation to Apple Family” in its sixth season? Create and resulted from an epiphany he an episode that plays out comhad during an online experience pletely on a computer and in the involving one of his college-age realm of social media. daughters.

That’s what’s in store Feb. 25 on “I had emails open, some webthe ABC comedy’s “Connection sites… then my daughter showed Lost,” a half-hour that revolves up” on FaceTime, he recounted. “I around Claire Dunphy’s (Julie could not only see her, but I could Bowen) frantic effort to locate see me, and there was something daughter Haley (Sarah Hyland) going on behind me, my wife or after they squabble. somebody.”

Other than a few scenes shot “I realized on that screen, you with the MacBook Pro, the epicould tell so much about my life,” sode was captured entirely with Levitan said. It occurred to him iPhone 6s and iPads, series co-cre- that format would be fitting for ator and executive producer Steve “Modern Family,” he told reportLevitan said. ers after a sneak peek at the epiThis isn’t Apple’s first starring sode. role on “Modern Family.” On the All the comedy’s households brink of the iPad’s retail debut in represent a contemporary family

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer

in some way, he said, including that of gay couple Mitch and Cam, who are adoptive parents, and Jay and Gloria, a cross-cultural, crossgenerational pair. With Claire, Phil and their children, the marker is how they communicate.

In the comedy’s debut episode in 2009, the parents summoned Haley to dinner by calling out to her, Levitan recalled. Her response: “Why are you yelling, why don’t you just text me?”

The in-progress “Connection Lost” looked very much like Levitan’s account of his own experience, with a “Modern Family” overlay.

Claire, about to board a flight, must rely on her laptop to get in touch with her immediate and extended family — who pop up via their own computers or smartphones — for help in finding Haley.

The setup allowed for new comedy avenues, said Megan Ganz, “Modern Family” co-executive producer and the episode’s cowriter with Levitan. He served as director.

When Claire is online with her brother, Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), she feigns surprise that he hasn’t received her birthday gift as she searches online for a belated one to send. Nice try, he says, since he can check the date on the order when it arrives.

Other funny bits are tucked on to Claire’s Facebook page or will be available through links, such as daughter Alex Dunphy’s (Ariel Winter) application to Yale University.

Editor Tony Orcena and motion graphics producer John Brown also had key roles in creating the episode that required, as Brown said, each element seen

on Claire’s Facebook pages to be “handmade.”

Levitan credits a 17-minute film, “Noah,” which also plays out fully on a computer, with giving him the “proof of concept” that such an approach could sustain an audience’s interest and allow for a complicated story.

He said the young Canadian filmmakers behind “Noah” were unable to accept his invitation to contribute to the “Modern Family” episode because of other work.

Apple was informed about the episode, “loved the idea” and provided iPhones for the production, Levitan said, adding that it’s commonplace for most major computer companies to have ongoing relationships with TV shows.

“This came from life and it made sense,” said Levitan, who cheerfully described himself as “super-geeky” about technology.

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OUT & ABOUT ART

Tracy Powell, sculptures; Stephen Roxborough and Bryce Mann, photography; Patsy Chamberlain, Cathy Schoenberg, Marguerite Goff and Barbara Hathaway, ceramics; George Way and Art Learmonth, wood; Carole Cunningham and Debbie Aldrich, jewelry; Martha Tottenham, hand-woven scarves; Vicki Hampel, gourd art, and other artists. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday or by appointment. 360293-3577 or annemartin mccool.com.

IN THE ART BAR: Paintings and drawings by Kristin Loffer Theiss are on display during February at the Lincoln Theatre Art Bar, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

As well as teaching art off and on since 1996 at Skagit Valley College, Theiss is a working artist with her own design and printmaking business. Her work has been featured in museum shops, private collections, publications and gallery exhibitions throughout the world. Meet the artist during a reception prior to the 7:30 p.m. film screening on Saturday, Feb. “THE QUIET OF WIN21. 360-336-8955 or lincoln TER”: An exhibition featheatre.org. turing a new collection of oil paintings by Dederick ARTISTS IN LOVE: The Ward continues through eighth annual “Artists in March 3 at Scott Milo GalLove, with Life and Each lery, 420 Commercial Ave., Other” show featuring the art of Mary Jo Oxrieder and Anacortes. Also showing: Windwalker Taibi continues color photographs by John Holtman, acrylics by Larry through March 4 at 765 Heald, watercolors by Larry Wonn Road, Greenbank.

Mason and oils by Damon The gallery will also showBrown, as well as a seleccase new works by other gallery artists. For informa- tion of jewelry, glass work, sculptures and tables by tion, including hours and directions, call 360-222-0102 other gallery artists. The gallery is open from 10:30 or visit ravenrocksgallery. a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday com. through Saturday or by appointment. 360-293-6938 JURIED ART EXHIBIT: Check out the Spring Juried or scottmilo.com.

Exhibit through May 29 at OILS & ACRYLICS: the Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. The exhi- A show of paintings by Anacortes artist Caroline bition showcases the work Garland continues through of artists from around the region, including Anacortes February at Fourth Corner Frames and Gallery, 311 artists Caroline Garland and Donna Nevitt-Radtke. W. Holly St., Bellingham.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to The gallery is open from 5:30 p.m. Monday through 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 360-354- Saturday, 360-734-1340 or 3600 or jansenartcenter.org. fourthcornerframes.com.

ART GALLERY: “Inscription,” a show of paintings

by Anne Martin McCool, continues through February at the McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The gallery also features work by other gallery artists, including

AVIAN ART: A show of avian-influenced paintings

by Kat Houseman and Justin Gibbens, and sculptures from Peregrine O’Gormley, Kristin Loffer Theiss and Marceil DeLacy continues through Feb. 22 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey

Camano Island. The show includes original artworks

by Dona Anderson, woven fiber; Lin McJunkin, pate de verre glass/steel; Carol Milne, kiln cast glass; Mary Molyneaux, collage acrylic paintings; Anita Mayer, clothing designer; and Patricia Resseguie, fiber and installations. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, weekdays by appointment. 360-387-2759 or matzkefineart.com.

public docks. A new event for adults, called Sliders, Suds & Spirits, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at Maple Hall, followed by dancing to The Esquires from 7 to 10 p.m., with a smelt raffle at 8 p.m.

Cost: Children’s activities free, breakfast $6, fishing derby $2, run/walk $20, dinner $12, dance $10. For a list of activities and run registration: skagitsymphony. com or 360-466-4778.

SLIDE PRESENTATION: Northwest Designer Craftsmen member Layne Goldsmith will speak about the organization and the work of its members from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at the Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner. Northwest Designer Craftsmen was founded in 1954 by some of the luminaries of the postwar The Skagit Wedding Show will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Swinomish Casino & crafts movement in the Northwest. Today, there are Lodge Wa Walton Event Center, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. Couples with a wedding in their future can more than 150 members connect with bridal vendors in a variety of categories. working in weaving, quiltCheck out the latest trends in the wedding industry as ing and basketry to jewelry well as prize drawings, including a Wedding Giveaway. and metal arts, as well as $10 at the door. For more information, contact clay, glass, wood and mixed Creative Celebrations at 360-428-5972. media. Free. 360-466-4446 or monamuseum.org.

SNOW GOOSE & BIRDING FESTIVAL: The 10th annual Port Susan Snow Goose & Birding Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28-March 1, with a variety of activities at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

Events are scheduled both days at several locations around Stanwood and Camano Island. Enjoy guided and unguided birding tours, displays and presentations, kids’ activities and more. Advance registration is required for guided tours. snowgoose fest.org.

WEDDING SHOW

Ave., Edison. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 360-766-6230 or smithandvallee.com.

MIXED MEDIA: A show of mixed media artwork by Abraham Murley continues through Feb. 27 at the Skagit Valley College Art Gallery, located in the Gary Knutzen Cardinal Center on the SVC campus, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Much of Murley’s work on display — smaller works resembling quick sketches — was done from memory, documenting recent and long-past experiences. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

360-416-7812.

REPRESENTATIONAL PAINTINGS: A show of representational paintings by Andy Friedlander will open with a reception for the artist from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, and continue through March at Il Caffe Rifugio, 5415 Mount Baker Highway, one-half mile east of Highway 9. For information, contact the artist at 360-420-6171 or the café at ilcafferifugio.com.

FEMALE ARTISTS: Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park will present “Six Journeys,” opening with a party and potluck from 4 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 28, and continuing through April 12, at 2345 Blanche Way,

FESTIVALS SMELT DERBY: The La Conner Rotary’s annual Smelt Derby Festival will take place from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, with activities scheduled around La Conner. A pancake breakfast to benefit La Conner High School seniors will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. at Maple Hall, followed by fish painting and other children’s activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The 5K and 10K Smelt Run, a 2K walk and Small Fry Kids Dash will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the La Conner Elementary School gym, 305 N. Sixth St. The annual smelt fishing derby will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the La Conner

PENN COVE MUSSELFEST: The 29th annual event will take place from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 7-8, along the historic Coupeville waterfront.

Enjoy chowder tasting, cooking demonstrations, boat rides, live music, mussel-eating competitions and more fun for all ages.

The weekend will also include the fifth annual “Mussels in the Kettles” Mountain Bike Poker Ride and the Spring Art Tour featuring artists’ studios from Greenbank to Oak Harbor.

Free admission. 360-6785434 or thepenncove musselfestival.com.

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OUT & ABOUT LECTURES AND TALKS

the nonviolent global BDS human rights movement and the underpinning ethiWORLD ISSUES FORUM: cal principles that connect Western Washington Uniit to the struggle against versity’s Fairhaven College apartheid in South Africa of Interdisciplinary Studand the civil rights moveies holds its annual World ment in the U.S. Issues Forum from noon to 1:20 p.m. Wednesdays in the “RISING SEAS AND Fairhaven College auditoECOSYSTEM RESILrium on the WWU campus IENCE”: John Rybczyk, in Bellingham. PresentaPh.D., Professor and Chair tions are free and open to of Environmental Scithe public. 360-650-2309 or ences, Western Washington wwu.edu/fairhaven/news/ University, 7 to 8:30 p.m. worldissuesforum. Next up: Friday, Feb. 13, Northwest n Feb. 25: “Israel, South Educational Service DisAfrica and the Jim Crow trict Building, 1601 R Ave., South: Resisting ApartAnacortes. Rybczyk will heid”: Omar Barghouti, discuss his experience with Palestinian human rights field-modeling programs activist and co-founder designed to predict the of the Boycott, Divesteffects of rising sea level on ment and Sanctions (BDS) coastal and estuary ecosysmovement for Palestintems, such as the estuaries ian rights, will cover the of the Pacific Northwest. origins, motives, successes Free. For information, email and inspirations behind Matt Kerschbaum at cherrytree2@comcast.net or visit skagitbeaches.org.

The Flying Karamazov Brothers February 21

La Ceneretola Cinderella

Skagit Opera February 27 March 1, 6 & 8

MVHS Bands Fesitval Concert March 10 360.416.7727

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man, executive director of Conservation Northwest.

Friedman has “led the effort to protect habitat connectivity between the North Cascades Ecosystem and wild areas to the south (Central Cascades, across the I-90 landscape), east (the Rockies), and northwest (B.C. Coast and Chilcotin Ranges), as well as recovery of native carnivores including wolves, fisher, lynx and wolverine.” friendsoftheacfl.org.

“RAMAYANA”: Robert Goldman, professor of Sanskrit at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak about India’s monumental epic poem, the “Ramaya’a,” at 4 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 26, at Majestic Hall, 1027 N. Forest St., Bellingham. “Ramayana,” originally written in Sanskrit with many later versions in other languages and dialects, served originally as a foundational HISTORIC RAILWAYS: work of Hinduism, while “1890s Railroads & Travel also providing core texts in NW Washington”: 7 p.m. for Buddhist, Jain and Wednesday, Feb. 25, AnaIslamic peoples and culcortes Public Library, 1220 tures throughout South and 10th St., Anacortes. HistoSoutheast Asia. Free. For rian Eric Erickson will offer information, contact Stephan interactive slide show on anie Wanne at 360-650-3031 the region’s railways: Seat- or email stephanie.wanne@ tle & Northern: Anacortes wwu.edu. to Sedro-Woolley; Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern: MORE FUN King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom sections.

BOOK SALE: The Friends Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, of the Library Book Sale or library.cityofanacortes. will take place from 11 a.m. org. to 6 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. FRIENDS OF FOREST 13-14, at Where the Heart LANDS: The public is is Assisted Living and invited to the Friends of Memory Care Community, the Anacortes Commu410 Norris St., Burlington. nity Forest Lands annual Choose from a wide variety membership meeting at 7 of gently read books and p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, more. Door prizes will be at the Depot, 611 R Ave., awarded each day, includAnacortes. The meeting will ing hotel stays, roses and open with a brief annual chocolates. Proceeds will report and elections, folbenefit library programs lowed by a presentation by and services. Free admisguest speaker Mitch Fried- sion. 360-755-8007.

MODEL SHOW/SWAP MEET: Performance Modeling Club of Northwest Washington will hold its 20th annual Model Show and Swap Meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at Best Western Plus Skagit Valley Inn, 2300 Market St., Mount Vernon.

Check out a variety of plastic and resin model cars, trucks and more, along with swap meet vendors offering model kits, tools, modeling supplies and lots BREAD TASTING, BOOK more.

Model show entry fees DISCUSSION: Taste bread (includes admission): adults, made from locally grown $5, includes up to three grains and discuss Dan models; ladies, $2, includes Barber’s book “The Third one model; ages 11 to 16, Plate” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today, Feb. 19, at the Mount $2, includes one model; ages 10 and younger, $1, Vernon City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St., Mount Ver- includes one model; $1 for each additional model. non. Free. 360-336-6209.

Prizes will be awarded in several categories. Swap EXPLORE THE NIGHT meet table: $20.

SKY: View distant galaxAdmission: $3 adults, $2 ies, planets and nebulas ages 62 and older or 15 and beginning at dark Friday, younger, free for ages 6 and Feb. 20, at Fort Nugent Park, 2075 SW Fort Nugent younger. For information, contact Craig at 360-755Road, Oak Harbor. Island County Astronomical Soci- 9464 or visit performance modelingclub.com. ety members will provide telescopes for viewing. All SW MUSEUM BRANCH ages welcome. Event will be canceled if cloudy. Free. BIRTHDAY: The satellite branch of the Sedro360-679-7664 or icas-wa.

Woolley Museum, housed webs.com. at Country Meadow Village, will celebrate its ‘BROADWAY NIGHTS’: fourth anniversary with a Sheryl Lee Ralph, star of Broadway’s “Dream Girls,” party and open house at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at will be the featured per1501 Collins Road, Sedroformer at the Alzheimer Woolley.

Society of Washington’s Enjoy cake and ice fourth annual “Affair to cream and check out the Remember: Broadway space filled with artifacts, Nights” from 5 to 11 p.m. photos and original artwork Saturday, Feb. 21, at The from the main branch of Bellwether Ballroom, 1 the museum located in Bellwether Way, Bellingtown. Free. 360-856-0404. ham. The evening will include hors d’oeuvres, dinHAVE A HEART FOR ner, live and silent auctions, KIDS: The Skagit Valley dessert dash and more.

Hospital Foundation will Proceeds will benefit the Alzheimer Society of Wash- hold its 12th annual Have a ington. $100 advance, $125 Heart for Kids benefit dinat the door. 360-671-3316 or ner at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at Il Granaio Italian visit alzsociety.org/events.

GLASS QUEST: The sixth annual Great Northwest Glass Quest continues through Feb. 22 in and around Stanwood and Camano Island. The public is invited to search for plastic “clue balls” in local businesses and parks to win a limited edition hand-blown glass float. For a list of participating businesses, pick up a guide book at locations around town or visit thegreatnwglassquest.com.

Restaurant, 100 E. Montgomery St., Mount Vernon.

The event includes a sixcourse Italian meal hosted

by Il Granaio owner/chef Alberto Candivi. $100 per person. Proceeds will benefit the Children’s Therapy Program at Skagit Valley Hospital. For tickets and event information, call 360-814-5747 or visit skagit valleyhospital.org/hospitalfoundation/foundationevents.

MOVIE NIGHT: Enjoy a screening of “Song of the New Earth” at 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 27, at the Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The documentary film profiles the quest of sound healer, psychotherapist and sonic shaman Tom Kenyon to integrate modern science and ancient mysticism through the power of sound. $10 suggested donation. 360-4642229 or anacortescenterfor happiness.org.

ENERGY FAIR: Anacortes is one of 50 cities nationwide competing in an energy contest. At stake is the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize for the city that best implements creative strategies to save energy and increase efficiency during the next two years. To encourage energy conservation toward that goal, the city will host a kickoff Energy Fair from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Educational Services District building, 1601 R Ave., Anacortes.

Workshops, seminars and demonstrations will be held on home energy efficiency and other energy topics.

Vendors will answer questions and display products that use energy efficiently.

To track the competition’s progress, visit guep.org or GUenergyprize on Facebook. 360-299-1964.

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HOT TICKETS AUGUST BURNS RED: Feb. 16, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com.

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK: Feb. 17, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

KATE VOEGELE: Feb. 18, The Crocodile, Seattle. 877-987-6487 or the crocodile.com.

KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE: RUN DMC REMIXD: featuring Vockab Kompany: Feb. 19, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

NETTWORK: Feb. 19-22, Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, Seattle. 206-441-9729 or jazzalley.com.

COLD WAR KIDS: Feb. 20, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

IRATION: Feb. 20, Showbox SoDo, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

BORGORE: Feb. 21, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

3 REDNECK TENORS: “From Rags to Rednecks”: Feb. 21, Mt. Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre. com.

THE ROBERT CRAY BAND: Feb. 22, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

LOTUS: Feb. 22, The Showbox, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

ANDY GRAMMER, ALEX & SIERRA: Feb. 24, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE TRIO: Feb. 24-25,

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Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, Seattle. 206-441-9729 or jazzalley.com.

BO BURNHAM: Feb. 25, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

LEIGHTON MEESTER: Feb. 26, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxon line.com.

GALACTIC: Feb. 27, The Showbox, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT: Feb. 28, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon. 360-3368955 or lincolntheatre.org.

JOSHUA RADIN: March 1, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

CARIBOU: March 4, The Showbox, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO: March 5, 2015, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham.

360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com.

KELLER WILLIAMS, THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS: March 6, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

IN FLAMES, ALL THAT REMAINS: March 7, Showbox Sodo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com “JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL & LIVING IN PARIS”: March 7-May 17, 2015, The 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., Seattle. 888-584-4849 or 5thavenue.org.

K. MICHELLE: March 8, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

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Late Nite Catechism 3: ‘Til Death Do Us Part February 13 & 14

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with hilarious lessons on the Sacrements of Marriage & the Last Rites as only the Sister can!

Classroom participation is a must, so bring along your sweetie and your sense of humor for some quality time with Sister, the feistiest new couples counseler in town!

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Valentine’s Dinner & Show Special offer includes a three course meal, beverage and tickets to the show.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area February 19-26 Thursday.19 MUSIC

“Jazz Night at the Lincoln”: Mount Vernon High School jazz, featuring Vern Sielert and Jazz Underground: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10. 360-336-8955 or lincoln theatre.org.

TUNING UP Playing at area venues February 19-26 THURSDAY.19

FRIDAY-SUNDAY.20-22

Anna Paddock: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $8.

360-445-3000.

“CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG” Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15.

Check individual listings for times 360-221-8707 or whidbeychildrens theater.org.

Singer/Songwriters’ Open Mic Night: hosted

by David Ritchie, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360399-1805.

THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Devilly Brothers: 5 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-9822649.

“All My Sons” (drama): 7 p.m., Oak Harbor High School, 1 Wildcat Way, Oak Harbor. $12, $7 ages 8-12. 360-279-5800.

Friday.20

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“All My Sons” (drama): 7 p.m., Oak Harbor High School, 1 Wildcat Way, Oak Harbor. $12, $7 ages 8-12. 360-279-5800.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (musical): 7 p.m., Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15. 360-2218707 or whidbeychildrenstheater.org.

“Other Desert Cities” (drama): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15-$22.

800-638-7631 or wicaonline.com.

WILD RABBIT (pictured), THE BLACKBERRY BUSHES, RENEGADE STRINGBAND 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $12, $14, $16. 360-336-8955.

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SATURDAY.21 MARK DUFRESNE 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

FRIDAY.20

MUSIC

THEATER

FRIDAY.20

Reagan Youth, 13 Scars, The Basque Rats, Alcojuana: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $12. 360778-1067.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Folk Stomp Americana”: Wild Rabbit, The Blackberry Bushes and Renegade Stringband, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $16 adults, $14 seniors and students, $12 ages 12 and younger. Discount for Lincoln members. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre. org.

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Saturday.21 DANCE

“Other Moves”: Island Dance and Gymnastics, Island Dance Performing Team, Music in Motion choral group: 2 and 7:30 p.m., South Whidbey High School Auditorium, 5675 Maxwelton Road, Langley. Tickets: $12 in advance at Island Dance and Gymnastics, 714 Camano Ave., Langley, or call 360-3411282. $15 at the door.

MUSIC

Bayshore Symphony, with soloist Nick Strobel: 7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. $10, free for ages 12 and younger. 360-724-7300 or bayshoremusic project.com.

THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“All My Sons” (drama): 7 p.m., Oak Harbor High School, 1 Wildcat Way, Oak Harbor. $12, $7 ages 8-12. 360-279-5800.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20.

360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20.

360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (musical): 7 p.m., Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15. 360-2218707 or whidbeychildrenstheater.org.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (musical): 2 p.m., Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15. 360-2218707 or whidbeychildrenstheater.org.

“Other Desert Cities” (drama): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15-$22.

800-638-7631 or wicaonline.com.

“Other Desert Cities” (drama): 2 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15. 800-638-7631 or wicaonline.com.

VARIETY

The Flying Karamazov Brothers: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $33. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Sunday.22 THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 2 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students.

360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Thursday.26

Wild Rabbit, The Blackberry Bushes, Renegade Stringband: 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $12, $14, $16.

360-336-8955.

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

360-445-3000.

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

Randy Linder (’60s-’80s high energy classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20.

360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

Michael Powers: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

“Local Folk and Jazz”: The Hoe & the Harrow, Crazy Like A Fox, Eli and Ashley from LAKE, 7 to 9 p.m., Anacortes Music Channel, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. All ages.

Admission by donation. 360-293-9788.

Re-Ignition (Bad Brains tribute), C-Leb and The Kettle Black, Crawler: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7.

360-778-1067.

SATURDAY.21 Mark DuFresne: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

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

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

360-422-6411.

Troy Fair Band: 9 p.m. to midnight, Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway.

360-445-4733.

THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

The Ginger-Ups (jazz, pop): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

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

Randy Linder (’60s-’80s high energy classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

SUNDAY.22 The Robert Cray Band (blues): 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $29.50-$49.50. 360-3368955.

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

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

360-766-6266.

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

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

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

Joe Sneva & the Sweet Dominiques (surf, reggae): 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6330.

Mostafa Bellingham Super Group, Speaker Minds, Subconscious Culture: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.26 Steve and Kristi Nebel: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-4453000.

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

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area February 19-26 Thursday.19 MUSIC

“Jazz Night at the Lincoln”: Mount Vernon High School jazz, featuring Vern Sielert and Jazz Underground: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10. 360-336-8955 or lincoln theatre.org.

TUNING UP Playing at area venues February 19-26 THURSDAY.19

FRIDAY-SUNDAY.20-22

Anna Paddock: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $8.

360-445-3000.

“CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG” Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15.

Check individual listings for times 360-221-8707 or whidbeychildrens theater.org.

Singer/Songwriters’ Open Mic Night: hosted

by David Ritchie, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360399-1805.

THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Devilly Brothers: 5 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. 360-9822649.

“All My Sons” (drama): 7 p.m., Oak Harbor High School, 1 Wildcat Way, Oak Harbor. $12, $7 ages 8-12. 360-279-5800.

Friday.20

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“All My Sons” (drama): 7 p.m., Oak Harbor High School, 1 Wildcat Way, Oak Harbor. $12, $7 ages 8-12. 360-279-5800.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (musical): 7 p.m., Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15. 360-2218707 or whidbeychildrenstheater.org.

“Other Desert Cities” (drama): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15-$22.

800-638-7631 or wicaonline.com.

WILD RABBIT (pictured), THE BLACKBERRY BUSHES, RENEGADE STRINGBAND 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $12, $14, $16. 360-336-8955.

Craig Parrish / Skagit Valley Herald

SATURDAY.21 MARK DUFRESNE 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

FRIDAY.20

MUSIC

THEATER

FRIDAY.20

Reagan Youth, 13 Scars, The Basque Rats, Alcojuana: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $12. 360778-1067.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20. 360679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Folk Stomp Americana”: Wild Rabbit, The Blackberry Bushes and Renegade Stringband, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $16 adults, $14 seniors and students, $12 ages 12 and younger. Discount for Lincoln members. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre. org.

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Saturday.21 DANCE

“Other Moves”: Island Dance and Gymnastics, Island Dance Performing Team, Music in Motion choral group: 2 and 7:30 p.m., South Whidbey High School Auditorium, 5675 Maxwelton Road, Langley. Tickets: $12 in advance at Island Dance and Gymnastics, 714 Camano Ave., Langley, or call 360-3411282. $15 at the door.

MUSIC

Bayshore Symphony, with soloist Nick Strobel: 7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. $10, free for ages 12 and younger. 360-724-7300 or bayshoremusic project.com.

THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“All My Sons” (drama): 7 p.m., Oak Harbor High School, 1 Wildcat Way, Oak Harbor. $12, $7 ages 8-12. 360-279-5800.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20.

360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20.

360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (musical): 7 p.m., Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15. 360-2218707 or whidbeychildrenstheater.org.

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (musical): 2 p.m., Whidbey Children’s Theater, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $8-$15. 360-2218707 or whidbeychildrenstheater.org.

“Other Desert Cities” (drama): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15-$22.

800-638-7631 or wicaonline.com.

“Other Desert Cities” (drama): 2 p.m., Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave., Langley. $15. 800-638-7631 or wicaonline.com.

VARIETY

The Flying Karamazov Brothers: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $33. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Sunday.22 THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 2 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students.

360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Thursday.26

Wild Rabbit, The Blackberry Bushes, Renegade Stringband: 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $12, $14, $16.

360-336-8955.

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

360-445-3000.

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

Randy Linder (’60s-’80s high energy classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

“Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” (musical): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $20.

360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

Michael Powers: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

“Local Folk and Jazz”: The Hoe & the Harrow, Crazy Like A Fox, Eli and Ashley from LAKE, 7 to 9 p.m., Anacortes Music Channel, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. All ages.

Admission by donation. 360-293-9788.

Re-Ignition (Bad Brains tribute), C-Leb and The Kettle Black, Crawler: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7.

360-778-1067.

SATURDAY.21 Mark DuFresne: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

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

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

360-422-6411.

Troy Fair Band: 9 p.m. to midnight, Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway.

360-445-4733.

THEATER

“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: Skagit Valley College Drama Department, 7:30 p.m., Philip Tarro Theatre, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $5, free for SVC students. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

The Ginger-Ups (jazz, pop): 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Anelia’s Kitchen & Stage, 513 S. First St., La Conner. 360-399-1805.

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

Randy Linder (’60s-’80s high energy classic rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

SUNDAY.22 The Robert Cray Band (blues): 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $29.50-$49.50. 360-3368955.

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

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

360-766-6266.

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

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

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

Joe Sneva & the Sweet Dominiques (surf, reggae): 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6330.

Mostafa Bellingham Super Group, Speaker Minds, Subconscious Culture: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.26 Steve and Kristi Nebel: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-4453000.

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

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E10 - Thursday, February 19, 2015

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Glamping is what happens you add a little glitz to your camping experience.

Here are five places where you can sample the concept: 1. The Resort at Paws Up, Greenough, Montana. An early adopter of the glamping concept, this Montana ranch getaway continues to expand its luxury overnight options. The most recent addition is the Cliffside Camp, featuring six luxurious, safari-style tents perched atop a cliff overlooking the Blackfoot River and offering expansive views of the 37,000-acre working ranch. In honor of its 10th anniversary, Paws Up will host guest chefs for farm-totable experiences as well as VIP fly-fishing excursions. Resort activities include hiking and fitness trails, cattle drives, fly-fishing, rock climbing and rafting. pawsup.com 2. C Lazy U, Granby, Colorado. Enjoy a day of scenic trail rides, hiking, fishing and dinner in the lodge. Then retreat to your own outpost, guided by a ranch hand, where fully furnished tents await. Enjoy stories and s’mores around the campfire before settling under cozy covers. Two tents are available, one with a king bed, another with four twins. Wake to fresh air, a stunning landscape and the prospect of adventure. clazyu.com 3. Treebones Resort, Big Sur, California. This eco-resort is “perched lightly” on the magnificent cliffs above the Pacific Ocean on the Big Sur Coast. The Handy family recycles, gardens, composts, raises chickens, drives electric vehicles and even uses pasta noodles as coffee stirrers. Enjoy freedom from noise and light pollution on the pristine grounds in one of 16 seaside yurts. Or climb into the human nest, an artist-designed structure woven of wood, for an evening of views, sea breezes and an unusual sleeping experience. treebonesresort.com 4. Westgate River Ranch, River Ranch, Florida. Leave it to your personal glamping concierge to make your overnight experience in Florida cattle country memorable. Wake to hot cinnamon rolls, fresh fruit and coffee delivered to your tent flap. Play board games with the kids on the screened porch before they head off for an afternoon of zip-lining, horseback riding or cowboy-theme mini-golf.

Join your crew at the petting farm or schedule an air-boat ride. End the day

Local travel SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation offers travel opportunities for ages 8 and older (adult supervision required for ages 18 and younger).

Trips depart from and return to Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon.

For information or to register, call 360336-6215. Next up: Garden & Nursery Tour: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 20. Visit nurseries and garden stores overflowing with plants, flowers, gardening tools and unique yard art, along with staff to answer your gardening questions.

Includes time for a no-host lunch. $61$63. Register by March 13.

Historic Port Gamble: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 3. Founded in 1853, Port Gamble is the lone remaining company-owned mill town on Puget Sound.

Explore the 120-acre National Historic Landmark complete with turn-of-thecentury buildings, a museum and a selfguided walking tour. $69-$71. Register

by March 27.

TRAVEL PRESENTATION: Learn about upcoming trips at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at the Oak Harbor Senior Activity Center, 51 SE Jerome St., Oak Harbor.

The presentation will cover trips to Italy and to other destinations. For an e-brochure and details on these trips, contact Pat at 360-279-4582 or email pgardner@oakharbor.org.

“DESERT ODYSSEY”: Skagit Valley College will offer a special travel-based course to the desert Southwest on May 8-31. Students will experience 8,000 years of art and architecture by Anasazi and Hopi cliff dwellers and explore how they reflect the regional geology and biota. The field experience is offered as part of a 15-credit learning community integrating geology, biology and Native American history for SVC students. A noncredit option is available for community members. A number of partial scholarships are available, based on financial need. For information, contact Chuck Luckmann at 360-416-7696, email charles.luckmann@skagit. edu or visit skagit.edu/news.asp_Q_ pagenumber_E_3662.

with tall tales around the campfire. wgriverranch.com 5. High Sierra Camp, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California. Rest easy in your cozy canvas bungalow after a day exploring California’s Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks and a 1-mile stroll into camp. Dine on meals served in an al fresco dining pavilion. Families can spend time stargazing, hiking to nearby lakes and meadows, learning about the giant trees or fly-fishing in mountain streams. sequoiahighsierracamp.com n Lynn O’Rourke Hayes is the editor of FamilyTravel.com.

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MOVIES NEW THIS WEEK His name is Dave White. He’s a coach. But that last name is all the students — his prospective athletes — need to know at McFarland High School. Why sign up for his cross country team? Why even try?

“Nobody wins around here, ‘White.’”

McFarland is in the heart of California farm country, a town of “pickers,” Hispanic descendants of migrant workers who have settled there, many of them still picking and barely getting by. The kids have a fatalism about their future that seems at odds with their stamina and stoicism.

That’s what Coach White (Kevin Costner) picks up on.

If only he can get them to stop calling him “White,” or “Blanco” or “Jefe.”

“MCFARLAND, USA” is an earnest feel-good sports dramedy, a simple culture clash story that is well-intentioned to a fault. The fact that it works can be laid at the feet of Costner, who plays another unfussy, flawed and totally real white guy who makes a journey past stereotypes to understanding another people, another culture.

Flawed? We’ve already seen the stone-faced White throw cleats at an unruly football player in Idaho. There’s a temper there, one that’s gotten him fired before. As in “Hoosiers” and some other coach stories, White needs redemption. That’s not what he thinks he’s found at McFarland. The town is so Hispanic and poor that he worries about his daughters, frets about how soon he can get out.

It’s 1987, but his principal knows his past. It doesn’t take much to get him demoted from the football team staff.

But White hears that cross country is a coming sport in California. And he can’t help but notice the endurance of his stoop-shouldered students. If they can survive the hard field work that they do with their parents, they sure as shooting can run over hill and dale with the prep school kids who will be their main rivals.

The predictability of this “true story” works against it, as we see the over-familiar “big game” story arc play out — disrespect and losing, to “turning it around,” making it to the state championship. There’s melodramatic gang violence, mistrustful parents and fellow teachers and desperate kids who see running as their “way out.” The coach figures out a way to provide hills for the flatland kids to practice running on, covered mountains of empty almond shells. The prejudice mostly comes from the opposing coaches and runners.

Costner makes it all work. Caro (“Whale Rider”) has us see this world through his character’s eyes, and Costner makes White’s story arc — from prejudging this place and its people, to understanding both — compelling. He conveys a kind of decency that seems sanitized and idealized, until you notice that at every point, kind and whimsical Hispanic townspeople surprise the Whites (Maria Bello is the Mrs.) and broaden their “white” horizons.

“McFarland” is old-fashioned without being dull, pandering without feeling cloying or racist. As with “Black or White,” in which he plays a narrow-minded man who has his eyes opened when he sees past racist stereotypes, Costner plays a person whose ignorance of other people and other cultures is his greatest sin. He does not make these guys caricatures. Caricatures cannot change. Real people, Costner’s performances suggest, can.

2:08. Rating: PG for thematic material, some violence and language. HH1⁄2 n Roger Moore, Tribune News Service

MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

Ratings are one to four stars.

“American Sniper” — Clint Eastwood directs a powerful, intense portrayal of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, hardly the blueprint candidate to become the most prolific sniper in American military history. And yet that’s what happened. In maybe the best performance of his career, Bradley Cooper infuses Chris with humanity and dignity. And vulnerability.

War drama, R, 132 minutes.

HHH1⁄2 “Big Eyes” — As he did with “Ed Wood,” director Tim Burton takes a kitschy slice of 20th-century pop culture -- the woman who painted children with huge eyes and the husband who took credit for them — and turns it into a special film. This is the kind of movie that has you smiling nearly all the way throughout at the sheer inspired madness of it all.

Biography, PG-13, 105 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Big Hero 6” — Disney’s animated story about a teenager befriending a healthcare robot is a big, gorgeous adventure with wonderful voice performances, some dark undertones that give the story more depth, an uplifting message and more than a few laugh-out-loud moments.

Animation action comedy, PG, 108 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Black or White” — One of the most complex characters Kevin Costner has played is a hard drinker fighting for custody of his granddaughter in this uneven but provocative movie that dares to raise issues and address situations that still make a lot of people uncomfortable.

Drama, PG-13, 121 minutes.

HHH “Fifty Shades of Grey” — Director Sam Taylor-Johnson had an impossible mission on her hands to meld the tawdry with the conventional.

It’s like trying to mash up the sensibilities of Lars von Trier with Nancy Meyers to create an end product that will be appealing on a mass scale. In trying to please everyone, though, “Fifty Shades of Grey” has stripped away the fun and settled on palatable.

Drama, R, 125 minutes. H1⁄2

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“Jupiter Ascending” — A half-man, half-wolf interplanetary hunter (Channing Tatum) rescues a Chicago house cleaner (Mila Kunis) who unwittingly holds mankind’s fate in her hands.

This epic, ridiculous and confounding space opera is so bad I almost want you to see it. Almost. Sci-fi action, PG-13, 127 minutes. Zero stars.

“Into the Woods” — Adapted from the sensational musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt head an A-list cast. “Into the Woods” rumbles on for too long and has some dry patches here and there, but just when we’re growing fidgety, we get another rousing musical number or another dark plot twist, and we’re back in business. Musical fantasy, PG, 124 minutes.

HHH “Kingsman: The Secret Service” — In a very violent and very silly movie, Colin Firth gives a disciplined, serious performance as a spy from a super-secret Brit-

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ish agency. “Kingsman,” a relentless, hardcore spoof of the old-school James Bond movies, is the craziest movie I’ve seen in a long time. Spy adventure, R, 129 minutes.

HHH1⁄2 “Seventh Son” — The last of a noble order of magical knights (Jeff Bridges) trains his new apprentice, as an evil queen (Julianne Moore) summons her supernatural army.

Even as a big, loud, roaring B-movie with no aspirations other than to be a cinematic roller-coaster ride, “Seventh Son” is second-rate. Fantasy, PG-13, 102 minutes. H “Taken 3” — This tired, gratuitously violent, ridiculous and laughably stupid entry in a franchise that started out with at least an intriguing idea and a few solid moments now should be put out of its misery.

Liam Neeson reprises and Forest Whitaker adds some panache as the obligatory top cop, but what got “Taken” was 112 minutes of my life. Action, PG-13, 112 minutes. H1⁄2 “The Gambler” — This

remake gives the James Caan self-destructive gambler role to Mark Wahlberg, as a narcissistic brat, and not the complex kind. Supporting characters played by John Goodman, Brie Larson and others are more interesting. Drama1 thriller, R, 101 minutes. HH ⁄2 “The Humbling” — Al Pacino is all over the place playing a famous actor who goes to rehab after falling off the stage. As madcap characters keep entering and exiting his life, yelling at him and kissing him and berating him and making strange requests of him, fantasy and reality intertwine in a manner I found more maddening than intriguing. Comedy, R, 113 minutes. HH “The Wedding Ringer” — Despite the considerable charisma of Josh Gad as a friendless groom and Kevin Hart as the ringer he hires as his best man, this crude circus has only one or two genuinely inspired bits of comedy, and its premise is insanely ridiculous.1 Comedy, R, 101 minutes. H ⁄2

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Thursday, February 19, 2015 - E15

MUSIC REVIEWS JD MCPHERSON, “Let the Good Times Roll” — With his 2012 debut, “Signs & Signifiers,” JD McPherson came out of Oklahoma blazing, with a sound that harked back to the early ’50s, when rhythm-andblues was morphing into rock ‘n’ roll. “Let the Good Times Roll” tweaks the approach without losing any of the original character and excitement.

To be sure, numbers such as the dreamy, doo-wop-style “Bridgebuilder” (co-written with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach) and “It’s All Over But the Shouting,” with its burping sax, still make for decidedly retro fare. But the guitars often have more of a metallic edge, the drums pack thunder, and there are numerous atmospheric touches that all lend a more contemporary air, while still keeping plenty of the “roll” in the rockand-roll equation and ensuring that the album more than lives up to its title.

But often the elements clash or meld in just the right way, selling the ideal clearly and honestly by giving us just a hint of the shadows and complications holding them up.

n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

n Rob Caldwell. popmatters.com

SISQO, “Last Dragon” — It’s been 14 years since R&B singer Sisqo’s last album.

The flamboyant Dru Hill front man is back with “Last Dragon,” a consistent album that delivers some solid songs, though probably lacks the chart-topping zest he’s accustomed to.

Sisqo never dropped off the musical map completely since his 1999 hit, “Thong Song.” He’s had mixtape songs and other solo work to stay busy. With “Last Dragon,” Sisqo’s soulful, soaring vocals remain intact, emerging on tracks like “Let’s Get Down Tonight” and “Lovespell.”

With a little auto-tune here and some nice slow jams there, Sisqo has delivered a varied musical menu. Slow dance fans will appreciate “LIPS” while those looking to try out a few Sisqo-like dance moves will gravitate toward “A-List,” featuring rapper Waka Flocka Flame.

There is a nice bit of R&B theme and precision to “Last Dragon,” proving Sisqo still has plenty of fire.

n Matthew Fiander, popmatters.com

JORMA KAUKONEN, “Ain’t In No Hurry” — Former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Kaukonen’s latest release finds him farther down the line and, as the title says, he’s in no hurry to get to the end of that line. On the album cover, he looks in a motorcycle rear view mirror as if he’s got miles of memories stretched out behind him.

It’s a healthy brand of nostalgia here, though. “Ain’t In No Hurry” is feel-good music, played by a seasoned and assured troubadour equally at home on a spotlit stage or a front porch.

This far into his career, it’s nice to hear he’s still got it.

DRAKE, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” — Released six years to the day that Drake debuted his super successful “So Far Gone” mixtape, the Toronto native’s latest set finds him in a serious space, not asking for respect, but demanding it.

If the mixtape’s previously released track, “6 God,” wasn’t warning enough, Drake is more confrontational these days. “Please don’t speak to me like I’m that Drake from four years ago, I’m at a higher place, thinkin’ they lions and tigers and bears, I go huntin’, put heads on my fireplace,” he raps on “Energy.”

As usual, he’s bragging about his crown (see opening track “Legend”) but brooding over its weight (“No Tellin”’). Compared to previous projects, though, “If You’re Reading This” is darker and grittier, with a mix of lyrics and tone, that Drake, his longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib and crew have no doubt fashioned to match the brutal cold of Toronto, or “the 6,” as they call it. (The name nods to the city’s 416 and 647 area codes). n Ron Harris, Associated Press The set is as much about the rapper’s THE JULIANA HATFIELD THREE, “What- hometown as it is about his hometown crew, whose Canadian and Jamaican accents ever, My Love” — It’s been more than 21 years since the last album from the Juliana distinguish the music and whose names are strewn throughout standout track “Know Hatfield Three. But as “Whatever, My Yourself.”

Love” gets the band back together, it sugOn another gem, “You & the 6,” Drake gests not a throwback to some purer, more flannel-clad alt-rock halcyon day. Instead, it credits Toronto and his mother for raising suggests a timelessness in Hatfield’s sound, him. But the message is far from saccharine. a sort of pop sensibility that transcends the “I got no friends in this, mama,” Drake raps scene in favor of hitting you with pure, time- about the business. “I don’t pretend with this, mama. I don’t joke with this, mama. tested hooks in song after song.

I pull the knife out my back and cut they The songs are tight and well-produced throat with it, mama.” enough that you might find yourself, at moments, wanting them to loosen up a bit. n Melanie Sims, Associated Pres