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Dustin Hoffman

Reviews

Eagle festival

Revered actor talks about his directing debut in “Quartet”

Music: Charlie Wilson, DRGN King Video Games: ‘Trine 2: Director’s Cut’

Annual upriver event offers plenty of fun and activities for the family

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “For a Good Time, Call …”: The film, a mix of “2 Broke Girls” and “Sex in the City,” is a lot like the phone sex operators in the film. It teases a really good time but in the end never makes a great connection. The film, the latest in raunchy R-rated movies featuring predominately all-female casts, throws former college foils Lauren (Lauren Miller) and Katie (Ari Graynor) together when Lauren needs a place to stay. They reluctantly put their differences behind them to live together and introduce Lauren to Katie’s work-at-home phone sex business. There are funny moments, but the heart of this movie is the relationship between the two women. Both are likable enough to distract from a so-so script. Considering the running time of this movie is 86 minutes, “For a Good Time, Call …” is a fun enough at 12 cents per minute.

“Twenty Twelve: The Complete Series”: The British series takes the workplace insanity of “The Office” and kicks it up 100 notches with a quirky look at the people behind the scenes of the Summer Olympics held in England. The faux documentary follows the efforts of Hugh Bonneville, head of the Deliverance Committee, and his staff to get the city ready for the big event. The team might have made a gold medal effort to stage the games if they were more competent. But then they wouldn’t have been as funny.

“The Men Who Built America”: This cable production looks at the likes of John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford, men with the vision to forge the foundation on which this country was built.

The series takes their stories beyond the stuffiness of a biography to offer deeper insights into what made these men so forward-thinking. This works both as an informative history lesson and an entertaining look at some of America’s true titans.

“End of Watch”: Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this tale of life on the streets shown from the point of view of the patrol officers.

“Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft”: Booboo and Fivel Stewart star in this dark look at the fairy tale.

“The Imposter”: A 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio in 1994. “noobz”: Casper Van Dien stars in the comedy about the competitive world of gaming.

“Scarecrow and Mrs. King: The Fourth and Final Season”: Kate Jack-

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: JAN. 29 The Cold Light of Day - Lionsgate/Summit Hotel Transylvania - Sony Paranormal Activity 4 - Paramount Seven Psychopaths - Sony

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FEB. 5 Alex Cross - Lionsgate/ Summit Celeste and Jesse Forever - Sony Flight - Paramount Here Comes the Boom - Sony FEB. 12 Bully - Anchor Bay The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Lionsgate/Summit Robot & Frank - Sony The Sessions - Fox Silent Hill: Revelation - Universal FEB. 19 Anna Karenina - Universal Fun Size - Paramount Sinister - Lionsgate/ Summit MARCH 5 Wreck-It Ralph - Disney

The Alger Lookout Thespian Association will present “Arms and the Man” on Friday night at Alger Community Church

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son’s TV spy show.

“Iron Man Armored Adventures: Season 2 Vol. 3”: More animated tales featuring the Marvel superhero.

“Fat Kid Rules the World”: A story for anyone who has looked for their inner rock star.

“Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning”: Only one man can stop an army of Universal Soldiers.

“Searching for Sugar Man”: Profile of the musician known as Rodriguez.

“Hard Romanticker”: A hoodlum accidentally kills the grandmother of a rival thug.

“Wild Kratts: Lost at Sea”: Wildlife explorers Martin and Chris Kratt go under the sea.

“Birders: The Central Park Effect”: A look at birds and birdwatchers in New York City’s Central Park.

“Tai Chi Zero”: Villagers must trust a stranger.

“Officer Down”: A dirty cop gets a second chance to clean up his life.

“Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis”: Documentary on the TV and film comedian.

“Abel’s Field”: A high school senior struggles to care for his younger sisters.

Kevin Sorbo stars. n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

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COMEDY

Ryan Stiles

IMPROV

at its funniest Skagit Valley Herald staff

Some of the world’s most visible comedians will be in Skagit County this weekend as “Whose Live Anyway?” comes to the Anacortes on Saturday, Jan. 26.

Ryan Stiles, who has lived in Whatcom County for several years, leads a quartet of comedians that includes Greg Proops, Joel Murray and Jeff Davis.

They’ll perform improvisational humor amongst themselves and with audience members, based on the long-running ABC-TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

The show begins at 9 p.m. at the Wa-Walton Event Center, Swinomish Casino & Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive. Tickets are $35-$65 (ages 21 and older).

855-794-6563 or www.swinom ishcasinoandlodge.com.

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MOVIES

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ORONTO — In the first minutes of a quick sitdown with Dustin Hoffman, the sprightly icon of 20th century cinema — “The Graduate,” “Marathon Man,” “Kramer vs.

Kramer,” “All the President’s Men,” “Midnight Cowboy,” “Rain Man,” “Tootsie” (come on, this is ridiculous!) — manages to reference Ireland, James Joyce, “Ulysses,” waiting tables, Henri Cartier-Bresson and tortoise shell glasses.

The publicist warns that you have only 10 or 15 minutes tops with Hoffman, who, at 75, has just directed his first feature. But it’s 10 or 15 action-packed, free-associative minutes not to be missed.

Hoffman is in Toronto, showing off “Quartet,” a charmer of a comedy with Tom Courtenay, Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins as four friends in a stately retirement home in the English countryside.

They are, or were, rather celebrated opera singers, and now they are together again, carrying old memories and old wounds up the grand stairs of Beecham House, and also forgetting important meetings (Collins’ character) and having to pee a lot (Connolly’s). The film opens Friday.

So why has it taken Hoffman so long to get behind the camera? Ben Affleck (also at the Toronto International Film Festival, with “Argo”) already has three pictures under his director’s cap.

“I’ve contemplated directing — more than contemplated,” Hoffman says. “I’m like ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin.’”

He declares that he was already directing in his head, and aloud, when he was 19, in his first acting classes. “I intuitively started to direct,” he explains. “And I would help friends out and I had a feel for it — they said, ‘Hey, you could be the next Kazan. …’

He was the big director then.”

Hoffman, of course, did not go on to be the next Elia Kazan. He went on to be Dustin Hoffman, and he has the Academy Awards and the recent Kennedy Center Honor to prove it.

But he did direct theater way

Names”). He was out the door and into the elevator before we could confirm.

But he did share his philosophy about filmmaking, and maybe about life: “All you’re trying to do is each day look back and be able to say, ‘I couldn’t have tried harder.’

“When you wake up in the morning: ‘Could I have tried harder?’ And if you say, ‘Yeah, well I kind of f — off that day,’ well, that I’ve never done.”

And he credits that work ethic to Mike Nichols, the director who gave Hoffman his first big break — the role of Benjamin Braddock in a little 1967 thing called “The Graduate.”

“He took me aside one day on the set, I was very tired, I was 29 years old, and he said, ‘What’s the matter?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I stayed up late.’

Kennedy Center honoree “And he looked at me very Dustin Hoffman arrives with closely — Mike was only about his wife, Lisa, at the 35 — and he says, ‘You’re never Kennedy Center for the going to get another chance to do Performing Arts for the 2012 this scene. And it’s going to be up Kennedy Center Honors there for your life, at least.’ He Performance and Gala, at didn’t know it was going to turn the State Department in out the way it did, ‘The GraduWashington. ate.’ But I’ve never forgotten that. “This is your chance to do Dec. 2, 2012 / AP this, you’ll never be able to do this again.”

Hoffman looks out across the room, and smiles, Hoffmanesquely.

“So the challenge is not only to try as hard as you can, but to find it in the most alive way. And not to leave until you feel it’s alive.

Even if it falls short of being

By STEVEN REA / The Philadelphia Inquirer what you thought it should be in terms of the elements that you back when: among the richest experiences does still get gigs tooting his horn. wanted in it, it’s alive.

“That aliveness is all-impor“When I was trying to make a I’ve ever had.”

“These people worked 14-plus tant.” living in New York for 10 years” Looking back at rich experihours a day. These people are in And while we’re citing wise — the late ’50s, the early ’60s — ences is a theme in “Quartet” — their 70s, 80s, 90s. The woman in words from famous directors, “you would see on the bulletin but also having rich experiences the wheelchair who sings at the board in the Actors’ Equity offic- in the here and now. Hoffman beginning of the film — she con- here are some more: “Billy Wilder once said somees, you could direct community cast his film with real-life musifesses to being 86, and you know, thing that I wrote down in the theater in New Jersey. You could cians from the worlds of opera, we all know she’s fibbing.” front of the script for ‘Quartet,’ take the bus there. And I took classical music, and jazz. Most of Hoffman, who lives in Los and I looked at it every day of that job, and it was an extraordi- the roles, apart from the biggies, Angeles with his wife, Lisa, says the production,” Hoffman notes. nary experience and I directed belong to these folks. he expects that he will direct “He said, ‘If you’re trying to tell a play. Then there was one in “I mean, that guy playing the again soon. And he has been Fargo, North Dakota, and I flew trumpet, he’s still got his chops, rumored to star in films opposite the truth to the audience, you better be funny or they’ll kill there and I did ‘Two for the See- but nobody calls him because Channing Tatum (“The Conyou.’ saw’ and ‘The Time of Your Life.’ he’s 83,” says Hoffman, speaking tortionist’s Handbook”) and “That’s good, isn’t it?”

And when I look back, they are of Ronnie Hughes, who actually Anthony Hopkins (“The Song of

ACTING LEGEND REVELS IN HIS DIRECTING DEBUT

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THIS WEEKENDin the area ANTIQUES DISCOVERY American Association of University Women will present the sixth annual Antiques Discovery appraisal event from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland St. Bring in your potential treasures to be evaluated by certified appraisers Don Jensen and Kathleen Victor. $10 per item. Proceeds support Skagit Valley College women’s scholarships. 360-757-6500.

DINNER/AUCTION Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County will hold a winter fundraiser from 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 26, in the SedroWoolley Community Center, 715 Pacific St. Gourmet pasta dinner provided by Cascade Job Corps Culinary Arts Program. Silent auction, raffle packages and kids activities. Admission by donation at the door or during event. All proceeds benefit Sedro-Woolley Boys & Girls Club programs. 360-419-5524 or jreid@bgcskagit.org.

‘Arms and the Man’ The Alger Lookout Thespian Association will perform the George Bernard Shaw comedy “Arms and the Man,” opening at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, at Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. Tickets $14, $12 for seniors (62 and older) and students and includes dessert. 360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

DUDESTOCK BOWLING TOURNEY Fans of “The Big Lebowski” can enjoy an evening of bowling, costumes, prizes and more at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at Riverside Lanes, 225 Riverside Lane, Mount Vernon. $25. 360-336-8955 or www.lincoln theatre.org.

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TRAVEL

In Tulum, a relaxing Mexican escape to the beach

LEFT: People leave the swimming beach next to the Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico. Tulum may be best-known for its ancient Mayan ruins, which attract a steady stream of day-trippers, cruise passengers and tour buses.

CENTER: A couple takes a picture while swimming in the Gran Cenote, a water cave near Tulum. The water caves are popular destinations among tourists visiting the beaches and resorts of the Yucatan Peninsula.

RIGHT: A man drags a kayak past a sand castle in Tulum.

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press

TULUM, Mexico — The all-inclusive Cancun resorts are not known for topless women on the beach or Manuel Valdes / AP Argentinians with scraggly beards playing Gypsy music. But that’s the norm in Tulum, a Mexican seaside spot south of Cancun that attracts a mix of bohemians, well-pocketed New Age types and sun-seekers to its turquoise waters and white sandy beaches.

Despite its proximity to Cancun and its fellow party neighbor Playa del Carmen, Tulum is not for the same spring break crowd.

“The college kids go to Cancun. The professors and teacher assistants come to Tulum,” said Richard Contreras, whose family has managed properties in Tulum for nearly a decade.

That doesn’t mean Tulum is cheap. We couldn’t find a room on the beach for less than $150 a night that came with a bathroom. Meals nearby cost just as much as they do in my hometown of Seattle.

“Tulum is luxury, but the luxury here is nature and the beach,” said Mimi Contreras, Richard’s sister.

If you go Tulum: Nearest major airport, Cancun, about 90 miles from Tulum, reachable by rental car and shuttle bus.

Website: www.todotulum.com Lodging: Mimi and Richard Contreras’ cabanas run about $75 a night (www.airbnb.com/users/show/150191).

Los Lirios Cabanas Hotel, $150 (www.loslirioshotel.com).

Rates may vary by season and type of room.

Our trip was a five-day sun-seeking dash in the first week of January, during the area’s high season, which stretches from winter through spring break. Tulum, located on Mexico’s lush green Yucatan Peninsula, was an ideal destination. The weather was perfect. The bright sunshine was rarely obscured by fast traveling clouds.

December and January are among the driest months on the Yucatan Peninsula and offer hot weather, but no debilitating heat. The dayside highs in our trip were in the mid-80s. The night skies were full of stars.

Tulum is about 90 miles south of Cancun and the highway connecting both is well-paved. We flew into Cancun, rented a car ($25 a day plus insurance from Hertz) and made the drive late at night. It went smoothly and we hit no traffic, but watch out for speed bumps

scattered around the area and pedestrians crossing the highway in some spots. There are also shuttles available from Cancun to Tulum, but the car gave us the mobility to visit attractions beyond the beach.

Tulum can be divided in to three parts: the town, the Mayan ruins and the beach.

Tulum the town is on the highway, about a 10-minute drive from the beach.

Tourism has pushed the population to around 30,000 people, but the town retains the blueprint of many Latin American pueblos, centered around an open plaza or town square.

Shops, street-food vendors, hotels and restaurants catering to tourists line the main drag. In general, hotels and restaurants downtown are much cheaper than those on the beach. (We found tasty Mexican food and great service at La Malquerida.)

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TRAVEL Just past the town are the nearest “cenotes,” which are water caves that are part of a network of rivers under the Yucatan Peninsula. We went to the Gran Cenote ($10 entrance plus snorkel rental) for a swim in its cool and clear waters.

Snorkeling underwater, you can see how the water has eroded the cave’s limestone walls over the eons into formations of many different shapes and sizes. The Gran Cenote even had fish in its cavernous pool and bats flying overhead. The Yucatan has many cenotes and some are deep enough for scuba diving.

Tulum may be best-known for its ancient Mayan ruins, which attract a steady stream of day-trippers, cruise passengers and tour buses. The complex of crumbling structures here is smaller and less impressive than some other Mayan sites like Chichen

Itza, but its location atop seaside cliffs is one of the most scenic ruin sites on the Yucatan.

The complex is surrounded by a wall (Tulum means wall) and was inhabited for centuries before Spanish colonialists arrived in the early 1500s. Entrance to the park is $10, which also gives you access to a beach where you can swim beneath the ruins. Guided tours cost extra.

Last but not least, there’s Tulum the beach. Stretching for roughly six miles, waterfront Tulum is lined with cabanas, “eco-chic” hotels, fancy restaurants and yoga spots, but it’s less developed than some of Mexico’s other resort areas, where the view of the beach often includes high-rise hotels.

There’s only one main road and it gets crowded during the day. In spots, it barely accommodates the stream

of cars, trucks, taxis, bicycles and pedestrians. Biking can be perilous; two women staying next to us fell off their bikes in the traffic, though fortunately they were not seriously injured.

We stayed in one of Contreras’ seaside cabanas for $75 a night. It came with a shared bathroom, a fan and occasional insects common in tropical settings — including some that bite. The cabana rooms are large, cleaned daily and are nicely decorated.

There’s Wi-Fi, if you must.

People staying at the cabanas can use beach beds, lounge chairs and a bar from the Contreras’ next-door property, which hosts cruise ship tours in the afternoons.

We were just footsteps from the beach.

“I want to have a place for people who are independent travelers … who can appreciate the little oasis we’ve built

Local travel “ACROSS NORTHERN FRANCE”: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Cultural traveler Rudy Gahler describes his “Road Scholar” trip to Brittany and Normandy, complete with historical notes. Free.

360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org.

Manuel Valdes / AP

A woman walks along the beach in Tulum, Mexico. here,” said Mimi Contreras.

Our $150 room was at Los Lirios Cabana Hotels.

The room came with a huge bathroom, a balcony with a hammock and a view of the sea. Buffet breakfast was included.

We spent much of our stay at the beach, only getting up to grab drinks, food and evening walks. There are plenty

of people on the beach, but it doesn’t feel crowded. It offered premium peoplewatching; the lone nuisance was bohemian types selling their handmade bracelets and bikinis.

Most of all it was sunny and relaxing, which is, after all, what makes the beach the most important of the three Tulums.

“JAPAN: HOME GARDENS, ANCIENT RICE FIELDS AND SEAFOOD FEASTS IN KISAKATA”: 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St. Peter Heffelfinger will share photos from his recent trip to Anacortes’ sister city, focusing on home and rural vegetable gardens, historic shrine gardens, and commercial rice paddies that have been maintained for seven generations in one of Japan’s premier rice-growing and sake-producing areas. Free. www. transitionfidalgo.org.

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REVIEWS MUSIC CDS Compiled from news services

‘West of Memphis: Voices of Justice’

Various artists This collection is inspired by the trials of Damien Echols, Jesse Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin, the Arkansas men known as the West Memphis 3. They were freed in 2011 after spending more than 18 years in prison on murder charges — in a case in which their love of heavy metal music was used as evidence against them.

The 15-track CD accompanies Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh’s “West of Memphis,” the fourth documentary made in protest against the unjust treatment of the three. The list of contributors is illustrious, including Bob Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith and Johnny Depp’s band, Tonto’s Giant Nuts. Spokenword poet Henry Rollins also shows up: He reads a searing letter Echols wrote him in 2003, when his plight seemed the bleakest. Bits of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ haunting film score also appear.

Despite all that talent, “West of Memphis” is an inconsistent muddle, with previously recorded tracks like Dylan’s “Ring Them Bells” mingling with bad ideas such as Marilyn Manson covering Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks revenging Pink Floyd’s “Mother.” For a good cause: A portion of the proceeds go to Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin. n Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer

DRGN King “Paragraph Nights”

DRGN King brings together two Philly music scenesters. Hiphop producer Brent “Ritz” Reynolds has worked with the Roots, Wale, and La Roux. Journeyman singer/ guitarist Dominic Angelella has juggled various blues (Elevator Fight), folk (Hop Along) and rock (Dragonzord) projects; he also played guitar in Nouveau

Riche with MC’s Dice Raw and Nikki Jean.

“Paragraph Nights,” DRGN King’s debut, is willfully eclectic in the tradition of Gorillaz or Beck, veering from bubbly power-pop (“Wild Night”) or thumping rock (“Holy Ghost”) to loping, soulful synth-pop (“Warriors”). As Angelella sings of debauched nights on the town and their existential consequences, Reynolds layers the songs with buzzy synthesizers, loopy electronics, happy handclaps and whooping backing vocals.

Stuffed with musical ideas and unafraid of milking big, obvious hooks, it’s a messy, fun record.

Kris Kristofferson “Feeling Mortal”

He’s 76, so, sure, Kris Kristofferson is feeling mortal. Over the last several years, however, that feeling has resharpened his muse, resulting in his best work since the ’60s and ’70s, when he introduced a new poetic lyricism to country music. “Feeling Mortal” is no exception — it’s the first great album of 2013.

As on 2006’s “This Old Road” and n Steve Klinge, The Philadelphia Inquirer 2009’s “Closer to the Bone,” producer Don Was puts Kristofferson in the best Charlie possible light. He highlights the aging troubadour’s craggy grace with spare Wilson arrangements that fit his conversational “Love, Charlie” delivery and heighten the intimacy of these songs about life, love and hard“For those earned wisdom. (Not all of them are new: uninitiated to Two have 1970s copyrights, which makes the cult of Charfor a nice linking of his two golden ages.) lie Wilson (and Kristofferson may be feeling mortal, shame on those but that’s also freeing, and so the silverunversed), he’s a storming soul man with a haired devil doesn’t sound as though he’s strong pimp hand, a pencil-thin mustache, ready to quit anytime soon, as he indicates and a voice pitched between a sandpapery on “You Don’t Tell Me What to Do.” And holler and an overemotional gulp.” while “Ramblin’ Jack” pays tribute to his That gruff swell, first made famous on friend Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Kristofferthe Gap Band’s analog-funk hits (“Outson could also be singing about himself: standing,” “You Dropped a Bomb on Me,” “And I know he ain’t afraid of where he’s “Oops Upside Your Head”), has been going/ And I’m sure he ain’t ashamed of heard in collaboration with Snoop Dogg where he’s been/ … And he made his own and Kanye West as well as on simmering mistakes, and love, and friends/ Ain’t that solo wedding-day classics such as “You what matters in the end.”

Are.” On “Love, Charlie,” fans of “You Are” n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer will be drawn into the silken R&B balladry of “My Love Is All I Have.” Whistling Terry synths and overly literal lyrics define that Klinefelter song, which speaks of Charlie’s quest for a woman who doesn’t focus on his wallet. “Zingaro: Portrait in Black By the time we get to the slow, slippery and White” “Whisper” (with fellow ’80s hitmaker Keith Sweat), “Turn Off the Lights” and Pianist Terry “Our Anniversary,” Wilson has charmed, Klinefelter, bedded and married that girl, growing whose music old with her in the process. Yet there’s has merged Mozart and Mingus, heads a handsome change in Wilson on “If I in an earthier direction here with her Believe,” in which the quiet stormwinds trio: bassist Lee Smith (legendary padre blow toward God and faith. Same passion, of Christian McBride) and drummer different subject. Nice.

Byron Landham of Betty Carter and Joey n A.D. Amorosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer DeFrancesco fame.

This recording has slink and sass in the same way superstorm Sandy had wind. Klinefelter, now a certified yoga instructor, finds the downward-facing dog in “Swagger,” in which Jerry Weldon offers his burly tenor. Leon Russell’s “Superstar” gets taken for a righteous trot, while singer Denise King offers her essential chops on the bluesy essence that is “Money.”

On the title track, Klinefelter’s vocals in Portuguese are not her strong suit, but luckily her trio conjures up the kick of a good caipirinha. n Karl Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Oneohtrix Point Never “Rifts”

Daniel Lopatin’s outsiderelectronics project impressed more than avantgardists in 2011 with “Replica,” a new benchmark for ambient bricolage worthy of Eno and Hassell in 1982.

That breakthrough justifies this boxed reshuffle of the first three OPN releases and various lard-ons, but who knew the early stuff would be so songful and dynamic? You’d be surprised just how quickly three hours of synth improv can go by — tracks like “Betrayed in the Octagon” and the 16-minute “When I Get Back From New York” on disc one are more rock ‘n’ roll than anything on “Replica.”

Disc two is funkier. “Computer Vision” and “Zones Without People” choose not to break into disco at any moment, but they could. And disc three will impress the avant-gardists. n Dan Weiss, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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REVIEWS VIDEO GAMES Chris Campbell, Scripps Howard News Service

‘Trine 2: Director’s Cut’

into play constantly, from bashing up creatures with the knight to conjuring up crates and other items to solve puzzles via Platform: Wii U the wizard.

Genre: Platformer The characters don’t ruin the gameplay; Publisher: instead, the game drowns in a lack of Frozenbyte cohesion with its puzzles. Too many times ESRB Rating: E, I played levels trying to figure out the for Everyone solution, only to either solve it by sheer Grade: 3 stars (out of 5) luck or accidentally circumvent the puzzle This may be the first time I’ve ever seen altogether.

Trial and error only sometimes works, “Director’s Cut” in a game title, as this reference usually applies to extended Blu- and the feeling that skill or logic is unwelcome here only drags the game down furRay movie releases where you get bonus footage and are allowed to experience a ther into the muck. show as the director originally intended.

The outstanding art direction provides “Trine 2: Director’s Cut” has the bonus the game’s saving grace. Like in other footage, but it fails to make the game any platforming games, the level design is varbetter than the original. ied, from jungles to deserts and caverns.

The name of the game is platforming a But in “Trine 2,” you are often compelled puzzle-solving. Three characters are play- to stop and ignore the task at hand to able (knight, wizard and thief), and you soak in the breathtaking view. Deep texcan alternate between them with a quick tures and light and particle effects give the button press on the fly. game a dreamlike feel, and it never gets Each has unique abilities that come tiring to marvel at this.

‘Black Knight Sword’

didn’t seem keen on easily sharing them with you, so I won’t. Just know that you play as the titular Black Knight, and it’s your job Platform: to kill everything.

PlayStation 3 The game is encased in a stage setting, Genre: Action with a narrator and curtains drawn back to Publisher: D3 give the illusion of this being just a grisly Publisher show for your amusement. Enemies appear ESRB Rating: M, and move like puppets, while you control for Mature the hero as he jumps and fights off anything Grade: 3 stars in his path with a trusty sword.

This strange Purchasing upgrades to weaponry is platforming game has a setting that appears vital, but so is the timing of such purchases, based in musical theater but brims with since you’ll lose everything if you run out of elements of the macabre. And like steplives and then must restart. The constantly ping into an opera in a foreign language, ominous (and often repetitious and grating) you sometimes find yourself staring at the music only heightens the tortuous journey screen wondering what it all means. through the game’s five levels, and this Of course, I still enjoyed the game. continues through the challenge and arcade Strangely, had I not stepped away from modes when you’re finished. the TV while it idled at the main menu durWhile five levels sounds brief, the ing a later play-through, I’d have missed the amount of saves and restarts you need to prologue introducing the main characters. finish each level takes time, and only those I honestly feel like I shouldn’t bore you with a hero’s heart and the will to win will with the details since the developers clearly probably see it through.

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E10 Thursday, January 24, 2013

ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area January 25-February 3 FRIDAYSATURDAY.25-26

TUNING UP Playing at area venues January 24-31 LOOKING AHEAD FRIDAY.1

“STEEL MAGNOLIAS” 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18.

360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

“Hello, my name is You: A dance/theater piece about Asperger’s syndrome”: Kuntz and Company, 7:30 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $15. 360-671-2626.

“Cinema Paradiso, Music That Inspired, Touched and Moved You From the Silver Screen”: Skagit Community Band, 7:30 p.m., Maple Hall, 108 Commercial, La Conner. $15, $10 seniors/students, $30 family, free for ages 12 and younger accompanied by an adult. www.skagitcommunityband.org.

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students. Includes dessert.

360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“It Runs in the Family” (comedy): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

SATURDAY.2

Friday.25

Saturday.26

Sunday.27

MUSIC

COMEDY

MUSIC

“Breath of Winter”: Angeli women’s quartet, 7 p.m., Oak Harbor Lutheran Church, 1252 NW Second Ave., Oak Harbor. Free-will donations will benefit Hope Therapeutic Riding Program. 360-679-1561 or angeli_quartet@comcast.net.

THEATER

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students.

Includes dessert. 360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

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Brian Boshes, Gabe Rutledge: 8 p.m., Max Dale’s Martini Lounge, 2030 Riverside Drive, Mount Vernon. $10. 360-4247171 or www.maxdales.com.

“Whose Live Anyway,” featuring comedians Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Joel Murray and Jeff Davis: 9 p.m., Wa-Walton Event Center, Swinomish Casino & Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. Ages 21 and older. $35-$65. 855-794-6563 or www.swinomishcasinoandlodge.com.

MAGIC

“Three Magic Guys”: featuring JR Russell, Mark Paulson and Jim Earnshaw, 2 p.m., The Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $4-$6. 360-6792237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

THEATER

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students.

Includes dessert. 360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

Skagit Symphony Family Concert: 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Children’s activities start at 1:15 p.m. followed by the concert featuring music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sousa and more. $10. Free for ages 15 and younger accompanied by a ticket-holding adult.

360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“In the Moon of Wintertime”: Allegra Women’s Choir & The Colibri Ensemble, with The Brass Menagerie Quintet, 3 p.m., Trinity Anglican Church, 1200 Cleveland Ave., Mount Vernon. $8-$10. www.belling hamsings.org.

THEATER

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 2:30 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $10.

360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

Monday-Wednesday.28-30 No events submitted

Thursday.31 THEATER

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

“Hello, my name is You: A dance/theater piece about Asperger’s syndrome”: Kuntz and Company, 7:30 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $15. 360-671-2626.

International Guitar Night 2013: Martin Taylor, Solorazaf, Celso Machado and Brian Gore, 8 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $23-$32. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students. Includes dessert.

360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“It Runs in the Family” (comedy): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

SUNDAY.3

“Hello, my name is You: A dance/theater piece about Asperger’s syndrome”: Kuntz and Company, 5 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $15.

360-671-2626.

“Cinema Paradiso, Music That Inspired, Touched and Moved You From the Silver Screen”: Skagit Community Band, 3 p.m., Brodniak Hall, Anacortes High School, 1600 20th St., Anacortes. $15, $10 seniors/ students, $30 family, free for ages 12 and younger accompanied by an adult. www.skagit communityband.org.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 2 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“It Runs in the Family” (comedy): 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237.

THURSDAY.31

THURSDAY.24

LLOYD JONES 7 to 10 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Rattletrap Ruckus: 8 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. Free. 360-927-1949 or www.redlightbellingham.com.

FRIDAY.25 Equal Opportunity: 9 p.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-755-0165.

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

Big Business, Sandrider: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $10-12.

360-778-1067.

From Russia, Blues Cousins: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Amara Grace, Philip Nakano: 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner.

No cover. 360-399-1037.

Trainwreck (country, rock): 8 p.m., Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

No cover. 360-629-4800 or www.cyndysbroiler.com.

SATURDAY.26 Alan Hatley Band: 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666330.

Joyride: 10 p.m., Draft Pics, 516 S. First St., Mount Vernon. No cover. 360-3363626.

Rivertalk (world beat, reggae): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $12 cover. 360-4453000.

Lane Fernando and the Pull and Be Damned String Band: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

SUNDAY.27 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.

Ford Giesbrecht (standards and Brazilian jazz): 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360-3991037.

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

360-422-6411.

R Factor 5: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Wired Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666266.

WEDNESDAY.30 Terry Nelson & Friends: 4 to 8 p.m., The Station House, 315 E. Morris St., La Conner. No cover.

360-466-4488.

The Titans of Twang: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666266.

Ken Stringfellow w/ The Maldives: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7.

360-778-1067.

Essex Junction (country): 8 p.m., Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. No cover. 360-6294800 or www. cyndysbroiler. com.

Walter and Perry: 10 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-927-1949 or www.redlight bellingham.com.

THURSDAY.31 Skip Hamilton: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): 6 to 8 p.m., Anacortes Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes.

Call 360-757-9687 for guest sign-in.

Wovenhand, 1939 Ensemble: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $10.

360-778-1067.

Lloyd Jones: 7 to 10 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

E10 Thursday, January 24, 2013

ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area January 25-February 3 FRIDAYSATURDAY.25-26

TUNING UP Playing at area venues January 24-31 LOOKING AHEAD FRIDAY.1

“STEEL MAGNOLIAS” 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18.

360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

“Hello, my name is You: A dance/theater piece about Asperger’s syndrome”: Kuntz and Company, 7:30 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $15. 360-671-2626.

“Cinema Paradiso, Music That Inspired, Touched and Moved You From the Silver Screen”: Skagit Community Band, 7:30 p.m., Maple Hall, 108 Commercial, La Conner. $15, $10 seniors/students, $30 family, free for ages 12 and younger accompanied by an adult. www.skagitcommunityband.org.

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students. Includes dessert.

360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“It Runs in the Family” (comedy): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

SATURDAY.2

Friday.25

Saturday.26

Sunday.27

MUSIC

COMEDY

MUSIC

“Breath of Winter”: Angeli women’s quartet, 7 p.m., Oak Harbor Lutheran Church, 1252 NW Second Ave., Oak Harbor. Free-will donations will benefit Hope Therapeutic Riding Program. 360-679-1561 or angeli_quartet@comcast.net.

THEATER

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students.

Includes dessert. 360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

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Brian Boshes, Gabe Rutledge: 8 p.m., Max Dale’s Martini Lounge, 2030 Riverside Drive, Mount Vernon. $10. 360-4247171 or www.maxdales.com.

“Whose Live Anyway,” featuring comedians Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Joel Murray and Jeff Davis: 9 p.m., Wa-Walton Event Center, Swinomish Casino & Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. Ages 21 and older. $35-$65. 855-794-6563 or www.swinomishcasinoandlodge.com.

MAGIC

“Three Magic Guys”: featuring JR Russell, Mark Paulson and Jim Earnshaw, 2 p.m., The Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $4-$6. 360-6792237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

THEATER

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students.

Includes dessert. 360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

Skagit Symphony Family Concert: 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Children’s activities start at 1:15 p.m. followed by the concert featuring music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sousa and more. $10. Free for ages 15 and younger accompanied by a ticket-holding adult.

360-416-7727 or www.mcintyrehall.org.

“In the Moon of Wintertime”: Allegra Women’s Choir & The Colibri Ensemble, with The Brass Menagerie Quintet, 3 p.m., Trinity Anglican Church, 1200 Cleveland Ave., Mount Vernon. $8-$10. www.belling hamsings.org.

THEATER

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 2:30 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $10.

360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

Monday-Wednesday.28-30 No events submitted

Thursday.31 THEATER

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.acttheatre.com.

“Hello, my name is You: A dance/theater piece about Asperger’s syndrome”: Kuntz and Company, 7:30 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $15. 360-671-2626.

International Guitar Night 2013: Martin Taylor, Solorazaf, Celso Machado and Brian Gore, 8 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $23-$32. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” (comedy): Alger Lookout Thespian Association, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors (62 and older) and students. Includes dessert.

360-424-5144 or www.altatheatre.com.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“It Runs in the Family” (comedy): 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

SUNDAY.3

“Hello, my name is You: A dance/theater piece about Asperger’s syndrome”: Kuntz and Company, 5 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. $15.

360-671-2626.

“Cinema Paradiso, Music That Inspired, Touched and Moved You From the Silver Screen”: Skagit Community Band, 3 p.m., Brodniak Hall, Anacortes High School, 1600 20th St., Anacortes. $15, $10 seniors/ students, $30 family, free for ages 12 and younger accompanied by an adult. www.skagit communityband.org.

“Steel Magnolias” (comedy/drama): 2 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $18. 360-293-6829 or www.act theatre.com.

“It Runs in the Family” (comedy): 2:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237.

THURSDAY.31

THURSDAY.24

LLOYD JONES 7 to 10 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Rattletrap Ruckus: 8 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. Free. 360-927-1949 or www.redlightbellingham.com.

FRIDAY.25 Equal Opportunity: 9 p.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-755-0165.

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

Big Business, Sandrider: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $10-12.

360-778-1067.

From Russia, Blues Cousins: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Amara Grace, Philip Nakano: 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner.

No cover. 360-399-1037.

Trainwreck (country, rock): 8 p.m., Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.

No cover. 360-629-4800 or www.cyndysbroiler.com.

SATURDAY.26 Alan Hatley Band: 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666330.

Joyride: 10 p.m., Draft Pics, 516 S. First St., Mount Vernon. No cover. 360-3363626.

Rivertalk (world beat, reggae): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $12 cover. 360-4453000.

Lane Fernando and the Pull and Be Damned String Band: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

SUNDAY.27 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.

Ford Giesbrecht (standards and Brazilian jazz): 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360-3991037.

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

360-422-6411.

R Factor 5: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Wired Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666266.

WEDNESDAY.30 Terry Nelson & Friends: 4 to 8 p.m., The Station House, 315 E. Morris St., La Conner. No cover.

360-466-4488.

The Titans of Twang: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666266.

Ken Stringfellow w/ The Maldives: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7.

360-778-1067.

Essex Junction (country): 8 p.m., Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. No cover. 360-6294800 or www. cyndysbroiler. com.

Walter and Perry: 10 p.m., Redlight, 1017 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-927-1949 or www.redlight bellingham.com.

THURSDAY.31 Skip Hamilton: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): 6 to 8 p.m., Anacortes Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes.

Call 360-757-9687 for guest sign-in.

Wovenhand, 1939 Ensemble: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $10.

360-778-1067.

Lloyd Jones: 7 to 10 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

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GET INVOLVED ART

submit up to 10 digital images (maximum file size: 10MB) by CALL FOR ARTISTS: North Feb. 1 to retrojess@gmail.com. No Cascades National Park is accept- entry fee. For information, call ing applications for the 2013 312-857-3454.

Artist in Residence Program.

Applications for spring/summer BIRD FEST BOOTHS: Appliare due by Feb. 1; applications for cations are available for booth fall are due by July 1. space during the eighth annual In recognition of the program’s Port Susan Snow Goose & Bird10th anniversary, the 2013 AIR ing Festival, set for Saturday and program will celebrate “Artists Sunday, Feb. 23-24, at the Floyd as Residents.” This year the park Norgaard Cultural Center, 27108 and cooperating local communi102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. To ties may host traveling exhibits, request an application, contact workshops and community recogPat Stolarski at pats@wavecable. nition of art through participating com. local artists, organizations and visitor centers. Community memART CLASSES bers and local artists working in all mediums are encouraged to BLACK CAT CONTEST: Kids submit proposals to showcase can enter the Black Cat Drawtheir inspirations from the North ing Contest by March 1, as part Cascades. of the 18th annual Black Cat For information about Skagit Auction in April to benefit the Valley proposals, contact Cindy Humane Society of Skagit Valley.

Bjorklund at 360-854-7303. ArtChildren ages 5 to 16 can draw ists interested in applying for an animal or bird the shelter residencies in the Lake Chelan has offered for adoption, such National Recreation Area at Ste- as dogs, cats, rabbits, potbellied hekin can call Mark Scherer at pigs, hamsters, rats, parakeets, 360-854-7365, ext. 14. cockatiels, chicken hens or roosters. A winner selected from CALL FOR ARTISANS, MUSIeach age group — 5-8, 9-12 and CIANS, SPONSORS: The Mount 13-16 — will be introduced durVernon Downtown Association is ing the April 6 evening auction, accepting new applications from where the top 20 drawings will be artisans and musicians through featured as framed centerpieces Jan. 25 for the 29th annual Tulip and auctioned. Names of all Festival Street Fair, set for April entries will appear in the auction 19-21 in downtown Mount Vercatalog. Send or deliver drawings non. Participant selections will be by March 1 to Ellie, Humane made by March 1. Sponsorships Society, 18841 Kelleher Road, are available. For information Burlington, WA 98233, or call or an application prospectus, 360-757-0445. visit www.mountvernondown town.org/events.html or email FAMILY ART DAYS AT MoNA: mvstreetfaircoordinator@gmail.

The Museum of Northwest Art, com.

121 S. First St., La Conner, offers Family Art Days each month. SesCALL FOR ARTISTS: Organiz- sions are open to all ages and skill levels and include guided walkers are seeking horse-themed artworks for display and sale dur- throughs of exhibitions. Limited ing “Horse Harmonics: Alchemy to 15 participants per session. To register: 360-466-4446, ext. 108, Of Attunement,” set for 8 a.m. or FAD@museumofnwart.org. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Information: www.museumofnFeb. 23-24, at Double S Quarter wart.org. Workshops are free with Horses, 15216 Colony Road, Bow. The weekend event offering museum admission. Admission: holistic approaches to horse care $8 adults, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and and wellness will offer display space to approximately 20 artists younger.

Next up: whose works are related to or Mixed Media Self Portraits: inspired by horses. Artists should

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 26. Explore a variety of media and put together a dimensional collage that reflects your individualism.

Line Wash Drawing: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. Try this fun way to draw with india ink and a twig as a drawing tool, then add color with a watercolor wash.

ACRYLIC PAINTING WORKSHOPS: Anne Martin McCool will offer two two-day acrylic painting workshops — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 4-5, or Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9-10 — at the Anne Martin McCool Studio, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The workshop will focus on “building” paintings with texture and collage effects, while exploring abstract and symbolic imagery, as McCool shares her philosophy about creativity gained from more than 30 years as a painter. All levels of experience are welcome. $155. To register, call 360-293-3577 or email annemartinmccool@gmail.com.

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

5, or www.dakotaartcenter.com.

INTRO TO ILLUSTRATION ART CLASSES: Burlington Parks and Recreation is offering a series of art classes for kids ages 8 to 14.

Instructor Max Elam will introduce young artists to a variety of styles and art mediums. Each four-session class costs $45. Supplies are included. To register, call 360-755-9649.

AUDITIONS “TRUE WEST”: The Bellingham Theatre Guild will hold open auditions at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday, Feb. 3-4, at the Guild, 1600 H St., Bellingham. This production of Sam Shepard’s most-produced play has parts for two male leads, ages 25-35; one female supporting role, age 55-70; and one male supporting role, age 35-55. Auditions will include cold readings from the script.

For information, contact director

SECOND FRIDAY DRUM CIRCLE: 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, Unity Church, 704 W. Division St., Mount Vernon. Shake off the energy of the week through DANCE drumming, songs, chants. Love CONTRA DANCE: 7 to 9:30 p.m. offering donation. For informaSaturday, Feb. 2, at the Depot tion, email skagitshaman@gmail.

Arts Center, 611 R Ave., Anacom. cortes. Learn the fundamentals of contra dance and practice SKAGIT VALLEY MUSIC CLUB: dancing to live music. No partner The club welcomes performneeded. $8 at the door. 360-755ers, listeners and guests at 1:45 3969 or www.skagitcontra.org. p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at Vasa Hall, 1805 Cleveland St., Mount SQUARE DANCE & SPAGHET- Vernon. Come and sing, play TI: Join the Stanwood Sashayers an instrument or just enjoy the for a free spaghetti/lasagna bufmusic. Free. For information, call fet and beginning square dance Marsha Pederson at 360-757lesson at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, 4906. at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27108 102nd Ave. NW, RECREATION Stanwood. Buffet starts at 6 p.m., FITNESS AND FUN AT THE Y: followed by the two-hour dance Skagit Family YMCA offers a lesson. To register, call 360-387variety of activities for kids at 215 6037.

E. Fulton St., Mount Vernon. For information, call 360-336-9622 or DADDY ‘N DAUGHTER: Burvisit www.skagitymca.org. lington Parks and Recreation Next up: will host the Daddy ‘n’ Daughter Swim lessons: Ages 3 to 13, Sweetheart Dance from 6:30 to weekday evenings and Saturday 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at the Burlmornings. YMCA staff members ington Community Center, 1011 offer swimming lessons year Greenleaf Ave. Mike Yeoman of round.

KAPS Radio will spin music all Winter youth indoor soccer: evening; Avenue Bistro CaterAges 5 to 12, Jan. 28-March 16. ing will provide dessert. Tickets Winter league includes a weekly (advance only): $20 per father/ daughter couple, $5 for additional practice. $55-$65. daughters, includes Girly Goodie Bags, raffle prizes, coffee or punch, WORKSHOPS 3x5 professional photo; additional WRITERS WORKSHOP: The photos $5 each. 360-755-9649.

Skagit Valley Writers League will host a workshop with Jane BEGINNER SQUARE DANCE Alynn, “Writing with the Mind LESSONS: 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the of a Poet,” from 6:30 to 8:30 Mount Vernon Senior Center, p.m. today at the Mount Vernon 1401 Cleveland St. Families, couSenior Center, 1401 Cleveland ples, singles welcome. First two St., Mount Vernon. Free. RSVP weeks are free, then $4 per lesson. to Sharon at 360-391-2042 or visit 360-424-4608 or 360-424-965. www.skagitwriters.org.

Robert Cervantez at 360-6715673 or email robertcervantez@ ymail.com.

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

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

Jam Night: 8 p.m. Thursdays.

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

QUILTING FOR BEGINNERS: Learn how to hand-quilt from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays at the Concrete Center, 45821 Railroad Ave., Concrete. Bring a flat edge thimble, round-needle puller, small scissors and No. 9 go-betweens quilting needles.

Tips and technique how-tos on the last Monday each month. 360853-8400.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - E13

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

‘A Royal Affair’

7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Jan. 24-25 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28 “A Royal Affair” (pictured) is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen’s heart and starts a revolution.

Centering on the intriguing love triangle between the ever more insane Danish King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), the royal physician who is a man of enlightenment and idealism Struenseensee, and the young but strong Queen Caroline Mathilda, “A Royal Affair” is the tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of freedom for their people.

Rated R. $10 general; $9 seniors, students and active military; $8 members; $7 children 12 and under. Bargain matinee rices (all shows before 6 p.m.): $8 general, $6 members, $5 children 12 and under.

‘The Doors: Live at the Bowl ‘68’ 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26

“The Doors Live At The Bowl ’68” is widely regarded as the band’s best performance ever captured on film. Now fans

can watch the complete version digitally remastered as the entire concert has been restored from the original camera negatives to include the lost performances of “Hello I Love You,” “Texas Radio and the Big Beat” and “Spanish Caravan.” The film opens with a special feature of interviews with the band talking about what it meant to perform at the Hollywood Bowl and the enduring significance of this concert. $14 with $2 off for Lincoln members.

The Met Live in HD: ‘Maria Stuarda’ 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most renowned singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives.

Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

In Italian with English subtitles. $23 adults; $19 seniors; $16 students and children, with $2 off for Lincoln members.

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HOT TICKETS THE WALKMEN: Jan. 27, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.live bation.com.

“AMALUNA”: Cirque du Soleil: Jan. 31-Feb. 24, 2013, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 800-450-1480 or www.cirquedu soleil.com.

LEWIS BLACK: Jan. 31, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com.

LEWIS BLACK: Feb. 1, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.live nation.com.

MUSE: Feb. 1, KeyArena, Seattle. 800745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT 2013: Feb. 2, with Martin Taylor, Solorazaf, Celso Machado and Brian Gore: Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon. $23-$32. 360-336-8955 or www.lincolntheatre.org.

THE SONICS, MUDHONEY: Feb. 2, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

EXCISION: Feb. 2, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.livenation. com.

ELLIE GOULDING: Feb. 4, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxon line.com.

SASQUATCH MUSIC FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY: Built to Spill, Cody ChesnuTT, Feb. 4, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. Free tickets available at noon Saturday, Feb. 2, at Neptune Theatre box office,1303 NE 45th St., Seattle.

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT: Feb. 6, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds. 425-275-9595 or www.ec4arts. org.

BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH: Feb. 7, Columbia City Theater, Seattle. 800-8383006 or www.brownpapertickets.com.

SOUNDGARDEN: Feb. 7-8, The Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.livenation.com.

RA RA RIOT: Feb. 8, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.livenation. com.

LED ZEPAGAIN: Feb. 8, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

SUPER DIAMOND (Tribute to Neil Diamond): Feb. 9, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxon line.com.

TOMAHAWK: Feb. 12, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

MARILYN MANSON: Feb. 12, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

VICTOR WOOTEN: Feb. 13, The Triple Door, Seattle. 206-838-4333 or www.the tripledoor.net.

LEFTOVER SALMON: Feb. 15, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www. livenation.com.

PILOBOLUS: Feb. 16, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds. 425-275-9595 or www.ec4arts.org.

THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Feb. 16-17, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS: Feb. 17,

Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or www.comcastarenaeverett.com.

COHEED AND CAMBRIA, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Feb. 19, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showbox online.com.

EELS: Feb. 19, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxon line.com.

FEED ME, TEETH: Feb. 20-21, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

GALACTIC: FEATURING COREY GLOVER: Feb. 22, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

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

MICHAEL KAESHAMMER: Feb. 22, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds.

STS9: Feb. 22, Showbox SoDo, Seattle.

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

AARON NEVILLE: Feb. 23, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com.

IVAN & ALYOSHA: Feb. 23, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

PENNYWISE, LAGWAGON: Feb. 23, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

TILTED THUNDER RAIL BIRDS: Banked Track Roller Derby: Feb. 24, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or www.comcast arenaeverett.com.

HEY MARSEILLES: March 1, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

MARC MARON (comedy): March 1, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or www.livenation.com.

NEWSBOYS: March 1, Temple Theatre, Tacoma. 855-443-8499 or LMGconcerts.com.

YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE!: March 1-2, The Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-7844849 or www.livenation.com.

MOE: March 2, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxon line.com.

ANBERLIN: March 3, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE: March 6, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or www.showboxonline.com.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT: March 8, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.showboxonline.com.

BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA: March 9, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds.

425-275-9595 or www.ec4arts.org.

MAROON 5, WITH NEON TREES & OWL CITY: March 11, KeyArena, Seattle. 800745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO: March 13, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds.

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LUCKY 2013: March 15, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmas ter.com.

HOODIE ALLEN: March 20, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

NICK OFFERMAN: March 21, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

VOLBEAT: March 22, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or www. showboxonline.com.

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E16 - Thursday, January 24, 2013

MOVIES

Hoffman’s ‘Quartet’ is sweet, predictable

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n a luxurious British retirement home for musicians, two questions circle each other. One involves former opera stars who were once married, long ago and briefly. The other is about a gala that may be able to raise enough money to keep the home from closing.

That second question must have been more convincing in the original stage version of “Quartet,” Roger written by Ebert Ronald Harwood, whose “The Dresser” remains one of the best plays and films ever written about the theater. You can sit in a theater and hope the retirement home can be saved. But when you look at this film, you see a stately manor surrounded by pastoral beauty.

The location, Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire, near London (renamed Beecham House in the movie), obviously suggests a multimillion-pound budget and isn’t going to be saved by a gala — especially not after we see how small the welldressed audience is. Their tickets must really have been expensive.

Such problems are probably irrelevant. Here is a sentimental, sweet entertainment featuring a screen full of legendary British stage, movie and opera stars. To call it predictable is being kind. But Dustin Hoffman, who chose the 1999 Harwood play for his first film as a director, knows that. What’s also evident is that he loves the stage, loves show business, and has a heart full of affection for these elderly survivors.

He also loves his location,

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Billy Connolly (from left), Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Pauline Collins star in “Quartet.”

‘QUARTET’ HH1⁄2

Jean Horton........................................... Maggie Smith Reggie Paget........................................ Tom Courtenay Wilf Bond................................................Billy Connolly Cissy Robson........................................Pauline Collins Cedric Livingston............................... Michael Gambon Anne Langley....................................... Gwyneth Jones Dr. Lucy Cogan.....................................Sheridan Smith Bobby Swanson..................................... Andrew Sachs n 99 minutes. MPAA rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language and suggestive humor).

and scenes are bridged with many shots of the elegantly landscaped grounds.

The central drama involves the retired singer Reggie Paget (Tom Courtenay, who starred in “The Dresser” and “Dr. Zhivago” all those years ago, and even before that the powerful drama “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner”). Settled, content, he is seeking a comfy senility in Beecham House, he says. Then another retired legend arrives. This is Jean Horton (Maggie Smith). We learn that she cheated on him within hours of their marriage, and although he’s always been in love with her, he has never forgiven her.

Their first meeting comes when Jean looks into a room as Reggie is discussing opera

versus hip-hop with some visiting kids. He dismisses her. But the chill between them thaws with astonishing rapidity all the way to a final scene of stupendously cornball romance. Along the way much depends on whether Reggie and Jean will join two other residents (Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly) to perform the quartet from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Jean refuses; she fears her voice is gone. The movie shows the others going to great lengths to coax her into the gala.

At one point Cissy, the Collins character, visits Jean’s room with flowers and a plea for her to change her mind. Jean orders her to leave with such vehemence that poor Cissy flees from the room, collapses on a landing, and is next seen in a

hospital bed with symptoms of memory loss. A stroke?

Who knows? The movie’s time span is so uncertain that Cissy recovers and is ready for “Rigoletto” in no time.

We understand that these characters made a lot of money in their lifetimes and can afford this expensive retirement. But practical details at Beecham House are murky. There seem to be no elevators, and all the octogenarian residents, even Jean with her hip replacement, use the stairs.

The staff consists of the supervisor and a few nurses.

We understand why that would be enough for the stage, but Hoffman’s film accepts all the limitations of a stage play and just doesn’t care. It’s curious, for example, that not a single one of the residents seems to have a single relative. No children. No grandchildren.

Nobody.

This movie will no doubt be pitched to the same audiences that loved “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.” It even brings Maggie Smith along. But it lacks that film’s life, intelligence and spirit. It has a good heart. I’ll give it that. Maybe what it needs is more exotic marigolds.

MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

Ratings are one to four stars.

“Broken City” — From a lurid and predictable plot, “Broken City” is the sworn enemy of subtle. It’s a big, juicy, sometimes clunky, political crime thriller that plays like a 21st-century B-movie.

It’s also pretty trashy and sometimes stupid. But there’s never a moment when you won’t be entertained on one level or another. Thanks to a great cast — Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and terrific supporting players Barry Pepper, Kyle Chandler, Jeffrey Wright and Griffin Dunne — you’ll have a good time even when the script is breaking bad. Crime drama, R, 109 minutes. HHH “Lincoln” — Steven Spielberg’s new film focuses on only a few months of Lincoln’s life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination. Rarely has a film attended more carefully to the details of politics.

Daniel Day-Lewis creates a Lincoln who is calmly selfconfident, patient and willing to play politics in a realistic way. Not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his opponents as a hayseed from the backwoods. He understood them better than they did him. Sure to win many Academy Award nominations. Drama, PG-13, 149 minutes. HHHH “Mama” — To the credit of director Andy Muschietti, his co-writing team and a firstrate cast, “Mama” succeeds in scaring the wits out of us and leaving some lingering, deeply creepy images, despite indulging in many horror-film cliches. Movies like “Mama” are thrill rides.

We go to be scared and then laugh, scared and then laugh, scared and then shocked.

And of course, there’s almost always a little plot left over for a sequel. It’s a ride horror fans would take again.

Horror, PG-13, 100 minutes.

HHH “Quartet” — A sweet, sentimental, predictable story set in a luxurious British retirement home for actors and opera singers. First-time director Dustin Hoffman has his heart in the right place and loves these characters.

His screen is filled with legends (Tom Courtenay, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Gwyneth Jones).

But much is unlikely, including the theory that a gala on Verdi’s birthday could raise enough cash to save the elegant manor. Comedy drama, PG-13, 99 minutes. HH1⁄2 “Rise of the Guardians” — Hyperactive 3D animated fantasy regarding the plight of Jack Frost, who nobody seems able to see. Called upon in a crisis to help the Guardians (Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, etc.), he saves the day. Younger children like the breakneck action, magical ability to fly, and the young hero who has tired of being overlooked.

Animated adventure, PG, 89 minutes. HHH “The Last Stand” — To call “The Last Stand” gratuitously violent is to pay the movie a compliment. It’s sort of the whole point. In his first starring role since “Terminator 3” in 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger gets the job done as a sleepy border-town sheriff in hot pursuit of a notorious drug lord. Packed with highspeed chases and ear-shattering explosions, “The Last Stand” delivers a half-dozen quality kills that will leave audiences squirming and then laughing at the sheer audacity of it all. This is what Arnold does best: big-gun violence and one-liner laughs.

He’s still got it. Action, R, 107 minutes. HHH “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” — “The Hobbit” is stuffed with Hollywood’s latest technology — 3-D, high-speed projection and Dolby’s Atmos surround sound system. The result is some eye candy that truly dazzles and some that utterly distracts, at least in its testrun of 48 frames a second, double the projection rate that has been standard since silent-film days. It’s also overstuffed with, well, stuff.

Prologues and sidestepping backstory. Long, boring councils among dwarves, wizards and elves. A shallow blood feud extrapolated from sketchy appendices to J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” to give the film a bad guy. Fantasy-action, PG-13, 169 minutes. HH1⁄2 “The Impossible” — The tsunami that devastated the Pacific Basin in the winter of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in history. Many around the world sat mesmerized, watching

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - E17

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OUT & ABOUT ART ART EXHIBIT: Original prints by Skagit Valley artists Natalie Niblack and Kris Ekstrand Molesworth will be on view until 7 p.m. daily during January at the Rexville Grocery, 19271 Best Road, Mount Vernon.

An informal gallery reception for the artists will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 23.

Skagit Eagle Festival Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 26-27

EAGLE FLOAT TRIPS: Triad River Tours offers a variety of eagle-viewing float trips.

EAGLE FESTIVAL INFO: Get free maps and Reservations required: 360-510-1243 or visitor information from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at www.triadrivertours.com. the Concrete Chamber of Commerce, Concrete Center, 45821 Railroad St., Concrete.

DRIFTBOAT EAGLE EXCURSIONS: Skagit 360-853-8784 or 360-466-8754.

River Guide Service offers a three-hour tour in heated driftboats at 9:45 a.m. and 1 p.m.

EAGLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER: 10 a.m. at Howard Miller Steelhead Park, 52804 to 4 p.m. at Skagit River Bald Eagle InterRockport Park Road, Rockport. $65. 888pretive Center, 52809 Rockport Park Road, 675-2448 or www.skagiteagles.com.

Rockport. Learn about eagles, watershed issues and local natural and cultural history Saturday, Jan. 26 through guided walks and presentations.

COUNTRY HAYRIDE AND BONFIRE: 11 Free admission. 360-853-7626 or www. a.m. to noon at Ovenell’s Ranch, 46276 skagiteagle.org.

Concrete-Sauk Valley Road, Concrete. Take a hayride through 250 acres of timber and EAGLE WATCHER STATIONS: Staffed by volunteers from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Howard see eagles, herons, deer, elk and more. Then Miller Steelhead Park in Rockport and at Sut- enjoy hot chocolate at the bonfire. Free.

360-853-8494 or www.ovenells-inn.com. ter Creek rest area at milepost 100, Rockport. Scopes and binoculars available. Free.

SIMPLIFYING BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY: 10 360-856-5700. to 11 a.m. at the Concrete Theatre, 45920 SALMON HATCHERY TOURS: Free guided Main St., Concrete. Tim Boyer will offer a tours of the Marblemount Fish Hatchery are workshop on how to make the most of your wildlife photos. Free. 360-941-0403 or offered by Skagit Fisheries Enhancement www.concrete-theatre.com.

Group from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 8319 Fish Hatchery Road, Marblemount. Learn about BEARS, WOLVES AND COUGARS — OH salmon and hatchery practices and interdeMY!: 1 to 2 p.m. at the Concrete Theatre, pendence of salmon and eagles. 360-33645920 Main St., Concrete. Rose Oliver will 0172, ext. 304, or www.skagitfisheries.org. offer a presentation about local wildlife. Free.

360-941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre.com.

COLORING CONTEST & S’MORES: Kids ages 11 and younger can enter the coloring TRIBUTE TO THE EAGLES: 11 a.m. to 6 contest and enjoy s’mores around a bonfire p.m. at Challenger Ridge Vineyards & Celfrom 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Challenger Ridge Vineyard & Cellars, 43095 Challenger Road, lars, 43095 Challenger Road, Concrete. Live Concrete. The winning picture will appear on music from 1 to 4 p.m. $5. Woodfire pizza available for purchase. 425-422-6988 or the label of next year’s Eagle Festival wine.

425-422-6988 or www.challengerridge.com. www.challengerridge.com.

Sunday, Jan. 27 WINE TASTING, MUSIC & MORE: Enjoy live music, wine tasting and bonfires from 11 HAANDEI I JIN: ALASKA NATIVE DANCE a.m. to 6 p.m. at Challenger Ridge Vineyard GROUP: 1 to 2 p.m. at the Concrete Theatre, & Cellars, 43095 Challenger Road, Concrete. 45920 Main St., Concrete. Tlingit dancers 425-422-6988 or www.challengerridge.com. and singers offer a special performance, with war cries and love songs, paddles and talkWINE TASTING: Eagle Haven Winery, 8243 ing sticks, fearsome masks and ermine. $5.

Sims Road, Sedro-Woolley. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 360-941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre.com.

360-856-6248 or www.eaglehavenwinery. com.

QUILT MUSEUM TEMPORARY CLOSURE: The La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum will be closed through mid-February, while contractors install a fire suppression system, restore the first level and refinish the museum’s floors. Watch for the museum to reopen in midFebruary with the exhibit “Color, Design & Inspiration: Kaffe Fassett & Brandon Mably in La Conner.”

360-466-4288 or www. laconnerquilts.com.

“SHADES OF BLUE”: The invitational art show celebrating the beauty of “blue” continues through Jan. 30 at Rob Schouten Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank.

Participating artists include Robert Adamson, Maryon Attwood, Anne Belov, Karen Bolstad, Dan Freeman, Dan Ishler, Pete Jordan, Barbara Mundell, Kathleen Otley, Rob Schouten, Sharon Spencer, Jan Swalwell, Lloyd Whannell and Angéle Woolery. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends (Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment). 360-2223070 or www.robschouten gallery.com.

MORE SMALL PAINTINGS: A show featuring small paintings on canvas and paper by Anne Martin McCool continues through Jan. 31 at Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The

show also includes paintings and prints by Cathy Schoenberg, sculptures by Tracy Powel, glass art by Bob Metke, ceramics by Patsy Thola Chamberlain, jewelry by Carole Cunningham and Debbie Aldrich, turned wood by George Way, baskets by Jane Hyde and handwoven scarves by Martha Tottenham. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday or by appointment. 360-293-3577 or www. annemartinmccool.com.

MoNA EXHIBITIONS: Two new exhibits continue through March 13 at the Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner.

“Eduardo Calderón: Portraits of 20 Northwest Artists”: Calderón interviewed a cross section of Northwest artists ranging in age, background and mediums each uses to make art, and photographed the artists in their homes. The exhibition includes Calderón’s audio and transcribed interviews with the artists about influences, backgrounds and what brought them to the Northwest (if the artist was not already a native). The show also includes works by each artist.

“Black and White Color Study from the Permanent Collection”: Presenting black, a symbol for sophistication and authority, and white, which suggests purity and neutrality, the exhibition offers an atypical look at the Northwest palette.

Plus, excerpts from studies that tackle the question, “Are black and white colors?” as well as the science and history behind black and white.

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

and ages 11 and younger.

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

“CHICANITAS: SMALL PAINTINGS FROM THE CHEECH MARIN COLLECTION”: Works collected by actor/comedian Cheech Marin are being featured through March 24 at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St., Bellingham. The show features 65 paintings from Marin’s collection by 26 Mexican-American artists – averaging 16 inches square and smaller and ranging from photo-realism to portraits and landscapes.

Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday; open until 8 p.m.

Thursdays and at 10 a.m.

Saturdays. $10, $8 student/ senior/military, $4.50 ages 4 and younger. $5 reduced admission on Thursdays.

360-778-8930 or www.what commuseum.org.

ONE-DAY SHOW: Gallery Cygnus will host a one-day show and sale of paintings

by Clayton James from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at 109 Commercial St., La Conner. The show will feature more than 20 oil paintings, some previously unseen by the public.

All proceeds will benefit the artist, who will turn 95 in February. 360-708-4787 or www.gallerycygnus.com.

“SURFACE”: Artworks

by Northwest printmakers Twila Tate, Theo Jonsson and Jean Behnke are on display through March 1 at the Skagit Valley College Art Gallery, located in the Gary Knutzen Cardinal Center on SVC’s Mount Vernon campus. The three Skagit Valley artists investigate surface tension through the use of pattern, texture, rhythm, line and color to creat abstract and representational compositions.

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OUT & ABOUT n An artists’ talk will take place at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4. n A closing reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21.

The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 360-4167812.

ART SHOW CLOSING PARTY: The third annual potluck party for the closing of the show “Honey, I Shrunk The Art” will take place from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 26, at Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island. The show features small-format paintings, sculptures, glass and more by 40 artists. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, or by appointment. The show’s final day is Feb. 27. www.matzkefineart.com.

p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St., Bellingham. Follow the groundhog to Latino arts and crafts activities, youth arts performances, art exhibits and more. $3, free for museum members. 360-7788930 or www.whatcom museum.org.

LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL: Celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Snake from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at Hing Hay Park, Maynard Avenue South and South King Street, in Seattle’s International District. Enjoy dragon and lion dances, children’s costume parade contest, live reptile show, food tasting and more. www.cidbia.org.

BIRD FESTIVAL: The second annual Edison Bird Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9-10, ACRYLIC PAINTINGS: A in and around the town of show of new paintings by Edison. The festival will kick Jennifer Bowman continues off with the Chicken Parade through Jan. 29 at Scott in downtown Edison and Milo Gallery, 420 Commer- continue with art demoncial Ave., Anacortes. Also strations, live raptor talks, showing are photographs and birding tours hosted by

by Randy Dana, Dick Gar- the North Cascades Instivey and Lewis Jones; fused tute. 360-766-6230 or www. glass by Robin Larson; pas- edisonbirdfestival.com. tels by Amanda Houston; and acrylics by Joel Brock.

SNOW GOOSE & BIRDGallery hours are 10:30 ING FESTIVAL: The eighth a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday annual Port Susan Snow through Saturday. 360-293- Goose & Birding Festival 6938 or www.scottmilo.com. is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday and noon to 4 p.m.

“FIRST SNOW”: Works Sunday, Feb. 23-24, with a

by Aleut artist Thomas variety of activities at the Stream are featured in a Floyd Norgaard Cultural new show at Arctic Raven Center, 27108 102nd Ave. Gallery, 130 S. First St., Fri- NW, Stanwood. Events are day Harbor. Stream uses scheduled for both days at geometric designs embodied several locations around in his creatures to reflect the Stanwood and Camano importance of Aleut spiriIsland. Enjoy guided and tual beliefs. 888-378-3222 or unguided birding tours, art www.arcticraven.com. shows, displays and presentations, kids’ activities and FESTIVALS more. Advance registration is required for guided tours.

“UNA COMUNIDAD DE Some events require a small DIVERSIÓN”: Enjoy family fun from 10 a.m. to 4 fee. www.snowgoosefest.org.

LECTURES AND TALKS

2012 Belleville Threshing Show. Free. For information, contact Thomas Jensen at 360-661-0634.

adult, $3 children to age 10. at The Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. Guest speaker Bring your own place setDr. Robin Matthews will talk tings. 360-293-7473.

“THE VOLCANO IN about what is happening in OUR BACKYARD: MOUNT POETRY OUT LOUD: The Heart Lake and the broader BAKER: ERUPTION HISTOpicture of freshwater quality ANTIQUES DISCOVERY: Poetry Out Loud Regional RY, HAZARDS, MONITOR- American Association of issues in the region. MatFinal will take place from ING”: 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. University Women will thews is the director of the 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, Phillip Tarro Theater, present the sixth annual 30, at the Burlington Public Institute for Watershed StudSkagit Valley College, 2405 Antiques Discovery apprais- Library, 820 E. Washington ies, and a professor in HuxE. College Way, Mount ley College of Environmenal event from 10 a.m. to 3:30 Ave., Burlington. Student Vernon. Volcanologist tal Studies at Western Washp.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at champions from area Dave Tucker, director of ington University. Discussion the Mount Vernon Senior schools will recite poems the Mount Baker Volcano Center, 1401 Cleveland and refreshments will follow. from memory as they Research Center, will offer St. Bring in your potential Everyone welcome. compete to advance to the a free presentation spontreasures to be evaluated state competition in March, www.friendsoftheacfl.org. sored by Kiwanis Club of by certified appraisers Don and then to the national Skagit-Mount Vernon and Jensen and Kathleen Victor. finals, set for April 28-30 in NEW MOON FAMILY Skagit Valley College Cen- $10 per item. Proceeds sup- Washington, D.C. Free. For DRUM CIRCLE: 7:30 p.m. ter for Learning and Teach- port Skagit Valley College Saturday, Feb. 9, Anacortes information, contact Kathy ing. http://mbvrc.wordpress. women’s scholarships. 360Center for Happiness, 619 Shoop at 360-299-4036 or com.

Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

757-6500. email kshoop@nwesd.org.

The Rev. Elke Macartney will lead the event to drum GLOBALFEST: Skagit FISH HATCHERY TOURS: MORE FUN in new ideas for the month Valley College’s popular Skagit Fisheries EnhanceWINTER FILM SERIES: annual event will kick off ment Group will offer free and drum out the old. Bring 7 p.m. Fridays at the Anawith an international dinguided tours of the Marble- your hand drums and rattles cortes Public Library, 1220 ner and keynote address mount Fish Hatchery facil- or borrow hers. Suggested 10th St., Anacortes. Acaddonation: $5-$10. 360-464by activist and author Raj ity from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. emy Award nominee Nick 2229.

Patel on Monday, Jan. 28, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. Alphin will introduce and at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. 26-27, at 8319 Fish Hatchshare insights about each ery Road, Marblemount. selection. Free. 360-293-1910, College Way, Mount Vernon. Social hour begins at Learn about the enhanceext. 21, or library.cityofana 5 p.m., with dinner at 5:45 ment group, hatchery opercortes.org. p.m. followed by Patel’s ations, salmon and their Next up: presentation “A Sustainlife cycle and other visitors Friday, Jan. 25: “Under The Original American the Tuscan Sun.” Diane Lane able World Food System.” to the area, such as bald Patel will speak about eagles. Tours start inside the An Interactive Chautauqua stars as Frances Mayes, an

by G. Robin Smith visitors’ center. The hatchunhappily divorced woman what is being done to address the inefficiencies ery is open daily for selfwho impulsively buys an abandoned villa while tour- and injustices in the world guided tours. 360-336-0172, food system, with a focus ing Italy. With an assorted ext. 304, or education@ on more sustainable ways crew of colorful characters, skagitfisheries.org.

“What a performance! she restores the villa, gets to of feeding ourselves and We were delightfully entertained & equally the rest of the world. know her Italian neighbors ALLEN CARNIVAL: Allen impressed with the centuries of history shared.”

Dinner will feature and falls in love with the Elementary School will host global cuisine made with good life in Tuscany. Based its third annual carnival funingredients from local on Frances Mayes’ bestdraiser from 1 to 4 p.m. Satgrowers, with entertainselling 1996 memoir. urday, Feb. 2, at 17145 Cook ment by SVC’s internation- Road, Bow. Prizes, food conBELLEVILLE THRESHING al students. Limited seating. cessions and lots of events, $35, $20 students with ID. SHOW, 10 YEARS OF HISincluding a cake walk, bowlFriday, Feb. 1, 2013 360-416-7727, ext. 2, www.

TORY: 2 to 5 p.m. today at ing, mini-golf, rock band, 7:00 PM the Burlington Library meet- mcintyrehall.org. bouncy house and more. $10 ing room, 820 E. Washington Four tickets for $1, 20 for $5, Suggested Donation SEVENTH GENERAAve., Burlington. Oscar and 100 for $20. 360-757-3352.

TION SUPPER: 5:45 p.m.

Nels Lagerlund, with the 500 W. Section • Mount Vernon, WA FRIEND OF THE FOREST: support of the Cascade Two Tuesday, Jan. 29, Anacortes (1 block west of the Post Office Friends of the Anacortes cylinder Club, will show pic- Senior Center, 1701 22nd at SUUF Diversity Hall) tures of threshing grain with St. Whidbey Island author Community Forest Lands www.Ben-Franklin.org will hold its annual mema 1914 steam engine and Red Vicki Robin will speak Suitable for Ages 8 & Up about sustainability issues. bership meeting from 7 to Chautauqua Workshop & WSF Intro.

River threshing machine, Sat. Feb 2, 5-9 PM (FREE) Suggested donation: $5 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, along with a video of the

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