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Skagit Valley Herald Thursday July 4, 2013

Television

Reviews

Movies

The spiraling irrelevance of late-night talk TV

Music: J. Cole, Mikal Cronin Video Games: “Fuse”

“Lone Ranger” a playful spin on the myth – with a lot of violence

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “Last Resort: The Complete Series”: The crew of a military submarine takes an unusual stand when mysterious forces appear to use the crew to start a major confrontation. Andre Braugher plays the ship’s commander who, rather than being the catalyst for unwarranted death and destruction, leads his crew to a remote island to regroup and try to solve the mystery.

The series starts strong but slowly fades as the submarine crew tries to deal with internal and external problems. Even the generally dependable Braugher has trouble keeping this series afloat because of all the holes in the script.

“The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Fourth Season”: The 32 episodes in this fourth season from 1964-65 are as funny today as when they originally aired. That’s because the humor came out of events that could have happened then, now or in the future.

One of the best episodes is “Never Bathe on a Saturday,” where Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) gets her toe caught in a bath spout. It’s a simple idea that provides huge laughs. The season also includes the episode “100 Terrible Hours,” where a sleep-deprived Rob (Dick Van Dyke) tries to stay awake during his job interview with Alan Brady. It highlights Van Dyke’s great skill at physical comedy.

Both are examples of how this series took relatable events and gave them a wonderful comedy spin.

“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: The Complete Series”: It’s been 54 years since this comedy debuted and yet most of the story lines ring as true today as they did when it originally aired. The never-ending efforts by high school/junior college student Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman) to fall in love are just as funny as any current comedy.

It’s the combination of Hickman’s All-American performance with the wacky beatnik character portrayed by Bob Denver that makes the show work.

These opposites should never have attracted, but they create a very funny comedy pair when together.

The 147 episodes also are fun because of the guest stars, who included Tuesday Weld and Warren Beatty.

“Venus and Serena”: A look into the lives of the winners of four Olympic Gold Medals, 13 Grand Slam Titles and one (Serena) who holds the ranking of No. 1 in the world.

“Nicky Deuce”: Nickelodeon film

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

Upcoming movie releases Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: JULY 9 Dead Man Down - Sony The Host - Universal Spring Breakers - Lionsgate Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor - Lionsgate

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JULY 16 Evil Dead - Sony 42 - Warner

Late-night talk – it lost its edge (and relevance) a long time ago

JULY 23 Detention of the Dead - Anchor Bay Ginger & Rosa - Lionsgate New World - Well Go USA Trance - Fox JULY 30 Black Rock - Lionsgate G.I. Joe: Retaliation - Paramount AUG. 6 A Boy and His Dog - Shout! Factory Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal Music Box Oblivion -- Universal The Place Beyond the Pines -- Universal

Inside

AUG. 13 Emperor -- Lionsgate n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

about a sheltered suburban teen who has the vacation of a lifetime when he is forced to spend the summer in Brooklyn.

“North & South”: BBC miniseries starring Patrick Stewart that depicts tensions during the Victorian era.

“Wiener Dog Nationals”: An underdog and her family ban together to advance through the cutthroat world of wiener dog racing.

“Kentucky Fried Movie”: The cult classic from David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker is now available on Blu-ray.

“Why We Laugh”: Documentary featuring interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Rita Rudner and Kathy Najimy.

“The Producers: Collector’s Edition”: Along with the Blu-ray version of the comedy is an interview with Mel Brooks.

“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season Three”: Contains 33 episodes of the action TV series.

“Legends of the Old West”: History Channel series that looks at Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill. n By Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

SUBMISSIONS Email features@skagitpublishing.com vrichardson@skagitpublishing. com (recreation items) Deadline: 5 p.m. Friday for the following Thursday edition Phone 360-416-2135 Hand-deliver 1215 Anderson Road Mount Vernon, WA 98274 Mailing address P.O. Box 578 Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Fourth of July Events...................... 3 Get Involved.................................... 6 Travel............................................8-9 On Stage........................................ 10 Tuning Up..................................... 11 Music, Game Reviews..............12-13 Hot Tickets.................................... 14 At the Lincoln Theatre.................. 15 Movie Listings............................... 17 Movie Mini-Reviews..................... 17 Out & About.............................18-19

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COMMUNITY THURSDAY, July 4 ANACORTES — The annual Fourth of July Parade and Patriotic Program will begin at 11 a.m. The parade will begin at the corner of Third Street and Commercial Avenue and end in Causland Memorial Park, where there will be a patriotic program. The celebration concludes with fireworks at dusk over Fidalgo Bay. At 10 a.m., the Anacortes American staff will take a town photo at Fifth Street and Commercial Avenue.

Anacortes residents are encouraged to participate. For information, call Jennifer at 360-588-1108.

ANACORTES: Check out the “Rock the Dock” Community Concert and Faire from 5 to 10 p.m. at Seafarers Memorial Park, 601 Seafarer Way, Anacortes. Enjoy music, kids’ activities, food, a beer garden and more, ending with the City of Anacortes fireworks display.

Performers include Cherry Cherry, Bobby Holland & Breadline Blues and Smokewagon. In case of rain, the event will move to the Port Transit Shed Event Center.

Free admission, with a suggested donation of a nonperishable food item or donation for the Anacortes Seafarers Memorial Foundation. 360-708-7770.

BELLINGHAM — The Haggen Family Fourth of July Celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Zuanich Point Park, Squalicum Harbor. Enjoy craft and vendor booths, kids’ activities, an art show, live music, food booths and more, followed by fireworks at around 10:30 p.m.

Free. 360-734-1330.

BLAINE — The Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration will include a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m., a parade at noon, an arts and crafts fair, show and shine car show, live entertainment, historic Plover Ferry rides (by donation) and

dark over Port Gardner Bay. Free. 425-257-7117 or enjoyeverett.org.

ENJOY A FESTIVE FOURTH

FRIDAY HARBOR — Enjoy the Fourth of July Parade down Spring Street at 10:30 a.m. followed by the Pig War Picnic at the San Juan Historical Museum. Enjoy lunch, live music, games and more. “Rock the Dock” will feature music, food and drinks starting at 6 p.m. at the Port of Friday Harbor. The annual harbor fireworks show starts at dusk.

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Today, July 4, is Independence Day, arguably the most festive of all holidays (certainly when it comes to noise level and gunpowder consumption).

There are numerous family-friendly events and fireworks shows today and through the weekend. Emphasize safety first!

LA CONNER — The Fourth of July Parade starts at 11:30 a.m., followed by a community picnic in Pioneer Park.

Bring your own picnic or buy hot dogs, chips and soda from the Kiwanis. Check out the Fireworks Over the Channel display beginning just after 10 p.m. Bring your lawn chair and a jacket and sit on the town side of the Swinomish Channel. 360-466-4778 or lacon nerchamber.com.

LOPEZ ISLAND — The Lopez Island Old Fashioned Fourth of July Parade will get underway at 11 a.m., starting between the Galley Restaurant and the Islander Resort, winding through the Village on Lopez Road. A barbecue after the parade at the Lopez Center Outdoor Pavilion will benefit the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Fireworks start around 10:30 p.m. over Fisherman Bay. 360-4684664 or lopezisland.com.

more. The fireworks show over Semiahmoo Bay takes place at dusk. 360-332-4544 or blainechamber.com.

Korean War. Parking is available at the Terry’s Corner Park & Ride and at the Terry’s Corner Fire Station.

CAMANO ISLAND — Celebrate Independence Day at 3 p.m. at Freedom Park, at Terry’s Corner. The program will include music, a Pearl Harbor survivor bell ceremony and recognition of Camano Island, Silvana and Stanwood residents who served in the

CONCRETE — The Fourth of July parade will begin at 11 a.m. on Main Street, followed by a community barbecue in Town Center. Line up at 10 a.m. at the post office. concrete-wa.com.

EVERETT — Check out marching bands, dance and

drill teams, giant puppets, stilt walkers, clowns and more at the Colors of Freedom Parade at 11 a.m. on Colby and Wetmore avenues between Wall and 26th streets. The Colors of Freedom Festival featuring live music, kids’ activities and a food fair will take place from 1 to 11 p.m. at Legion Memorial Park, 145 Alverson Blvd. Park at Everett Station or Everett Community College and take the shuttle. Fireworks begin at

MOUNT VERNON — Edgewater Park, 600 BehrensMillett Road, will host the City of Mount Vernon’s Fabulous Fourth of July Celebration.

Music starts at 6 p.m. and fireworks begin at dark. The musical lineup includes Spoonshine, Jenny and the Blue Moon Boys and The Sweet Dominiques. 360-336-6215 or ci.mount-vernon.wa.us.

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MOVIES

In Hollywood, imitation is the sincerest form of filmmaking

By BARRY KOLTNOW The Orange County Register

In the future, all movies will be “Die Hard.”

OK, I may be a little crazed after watching “Die Hard at the White House” for the second time in three months.

The first movie, which was released in theaters as “Olympus Has Fallen,” came out in March. The second movie, referred to in a massive advertising campaign as “White House Down,” hit theaters over the weekend. Antoine Fuqua directed one, and Roland Emmerich directed the other. Gerard Butler is the hero in one, and Channing Tatum is the hero in the other. Aaron Eckhart is the president in one, and Jamie Foxx is the president in the other. There’s no point in distinguishing which is which because they’re the same movie.

In a nutshell: A tough but lovable guy who wants to be a member of the Secret Service gets trapped inside the White House during a terrorist attack and has to save the President of the United States.

How can this happen?

How can two films with the identical plot come out three months apart? It could boggle a lesser mind.

But I understand. It’s the “Die Hard” effect.

Hollywood is a town of pitch meetings. Everybody is constantly pitching movie ideas. Writers pitch producers. Producers pitch studios.

Studios pitch directors.

Directors pitch actors.

I suppose there have

Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum star in “White House Down.”

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been a few long-winded pitches since the Silent Era, but most pitches are kept short and sweet. The shorter the pitch, the better the chance of getting the finances approved. And if the pitch can be reduced to a simple movie-related description, there is an excellent chance of getting the project done.

“Picture ‘Romeo & Juliet’ meets ‘The Poseidon Adventure.’”

I’m not saying that James Cameron used that exact pitch to sell his movie “Titanic,” but it would have

worked because it explains just what he intended, and studio executives love it when you tell them your intentions.

I have no proof but it is my theory that someone pitched the idea of “Die Hard at the White House” to different movie studios, and two of the studios liked the idea so much that they went ahead with the film.

Actually, I may be naïve on this matter. There might be five or six “Die Hard at the White Houses” in production. In Hollywood, you can’t have too many “Die

Lampoon’s Vacation” meets “Die Hard.” A soldier on leave takes his 10-year-old daughter to the “Happiest Place on Earth,” where he battles a gang of costumed terrorists, all the while wearing a pair of Mickey Mouse ears.

“Die Hard in Seattle”: Picture “Sleepless in Seattle” meets “Die Hard.” A young girl calls a radio talk show to set up her widower father with a date, but the date turns out to be a gang of terrorists led by Alan Rickman.

“Die Hard in Gotham”: Picture “The Dark Knight” meets “Die Hard.” Batman is unable to disrupt a terrorist network in Gotham City, and he asks John McClane for help.

“Die Hard In Vitro”: Picture “Baby Boom” meets “Die Hard.” While visiting his wife after the birth of twins, our hero is trapped inside the maternity ward when a gang of OB-GYN terrorists attacks.

“Die Hard in a Dodge Charger”: Picture “Fast and Hard at the White Houses.” Train,” which Steven Seagal Furious” meets “Die Hard.”

Why does “Die Hard” liked to call “Under Siege?” Justin Lin directs this action work so well in a pitch?

But I don’t want to dwell film about a tough but lovEven studio executives able race car driver who on the past. I’m concerned understand what “Die takes his 11-year-old daughabout future “Die Hards” Hard” means — a tough but that will inundate suburban ter for a casual Sunday lovable hero fights against drive, only to discover that a multiplexes in the coming overwhelming odds to save years. I can hear the pitches gang of international terrorthe day. It’s the very defini- right now: ists is hiding in the back seat tion of a movie hero. of his car. As the car spins “Die Hard in Vegas”: Although the 1988 Bruce Picture “The Hangover” out of control on a wet highWillis film has spawned meets “Die Hard.” Our hero way, our hero disarms all the four sequels, including the flies to Vegas for a bachelor terrorists. It turns out that recent “Die Hard Goes to the terrorists did not harbor party, only to find himself Moscow,” or “A Good Day fighting a gang of terrorists a sinister plan for world to Die Hard,” it has been domination, but were after dressed as Elvis impersonresponsible for countless the spare change that had ators. imitators through the years. fallen between the center “Die Hard in DisneyRemember “Die Hard on a land”: Picture “National console and the front seat.

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TELEVISION ANALYSIS

Late-night TV follows tired format into irrelevance

Chicago Blackhawk player Patrick Kane hoists the Conn Smythe Trophy as “Late Show”host David Letterman places the Stanley Cup down on his desk on June 26 on the set of the “Late Show with David Letterman” in New York.

By STEVE JOHNSON Chicago Tribune

T

he waters of late-night television are roiling.

On NBC, Jimmy Fallon is taking over Jay Leno’s show, and Seth Meyers is taking Fallon’s. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel has moved up half an hour to compete directly with Leno now, and then Fallon in winter 2014.

At CBS, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson chug along, hoping the changes will bring new viewers to their shows.

Off the networks, Conan O’Brien is probably kicking himself, figuring he jumped to cable too soon and wondering why Leno would abdicate the “Tonight Show” throne for Fallon but not, a few years back, for him.

Chelsea Handler does her thing on cable too. And in syndication this fall, Arsenio Hall will return to a much more crowded fray than the one he left behind.

And in Hall’s heyday 20 years ago — or even 10 years ago — all of this would have been edge-of-the-seat news for television devotees, the stuff of agitated headlines: Turmoil in Late Night!

Who Will Be the New King?

Is It Jimmy’s Turn? And, If So, Which Jimmy?

But in 2013, I listen to all the chatter and ask myself:

CBS via AP

spend hoping movie star A promoting new film B will say one fresh and recognizably human thing during two segments with show host C? The movie star might well have already been more Leno Fallon engaging on her Twitter feed; ditto for the host. And if I’ve got 12 minutes, I can surely find something more compelling on the Web. But the much bigger part of it is that the shows, no matter how talented their hosts or how top line their bookings, have simply been eclipsed.

O’Brien Kimmel In the ’80s and early ’90s, if you cared about comedy, So what? you watched, respectively, It’s like hearing about Dave and Conan. They were dinosaurs banging their the innovators, the ones necks against each other bending the rules of the in a pit of tar just over that hill, out of my field of vision. medium to take audiences I’m much more enthused by surprise. Now the most about the mammals that concentrated viewer payhave evolved in front of my offs — in terms of number very eyes. To translate that of laughs, laughs about subout of metaphor and into stantive matters and laughs reality, those old-line shows that the viewer never sees following roughly the same coming — come from Jon 50-plus-year-old format — and Stephen. monologue, celebrity guests, With each passing year band — seem less and less of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily relevant to me with each Show” and Stephen Colpassing year. bert’s “The Colbert Report,” A small part of it is that both on Comedy Central, I their comparatively languid have watched the other latepace is at odds with the night shows less and less. contemporary information In the past year, what used style. Who has 12 minutes to to be idle curiosity leading

me to check in on Dave and Jimmy (Jimmies) and Craig and, yes, even Jay every now and again has all but vanished.

Stewart and Colbert deliver taut, compelling and innovative cultural and political satire. (And this has remained true while “Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver has filled in for Stewart during the host’s three-month leave to direct a film derived in part from a “Daily Show” field report.)

Mr. Leno, Mr. Letterman and Mr. Kimmel, to name three, bring varying degrees of effort and achieve varying degrees of success. But what they have in common is a laconic format that is meant to be winningly casual but comes across, too often, as dead weight.

Case in point: June 24.

“The Daily Show” found blistering topical comedy in a Rolling Stone report alleging credit rating agencies took payouts to allow banks to get away with risky financial dealings before the economic collapse.

It culled old footage (why can’t network news be as sharp about combing through archives, holding people responsible for what they’ve said and done, as “The Daily Show” is?) of Al

Franken explaining a political cartoon to his fellow senators, with Oliver noting that the Minnesota Democrat “has cracked the code on how to talk to senators — as though they were 6-yearold children.” It savaged the TV financial analysts who pretended not to understand an amendment Franken had introduced.

Then it followed it up with a field report on how Canada’s highly regulated banking system has been so much more stable over the decades than that of the U.S., with our much freer markets. While this may sound in recap like the opinion page, you can look it up online to see how funny it all became on air. And it was a deeper, richer humor because it was rooted in uncomfortable truths about the world. When the other shows get political, it’s not to tell us that our politicians and bankers are failing us in profound ways; it’s to make fun, yet again, of John Boehner’s skin tone.

Colbert goes after that same level of truth-telling, but he wraps it, to great effect, in more delirium and goofiness. Yes, he is playing a character — dim-bulb rightwing host Stephen Colbert — and so he has license to

be a little giddy, but it’s also a looser tone he sets. Where Stewart and team manage to be very funny en route to their goal of making a point, occasionally landing on the side of sanctimony, Colbert’s first goal is being funny.

His latest addition is having a guy crouching behind his desk stick up his hand for a high-five after the host delivers, say, a bad pun. On Monday, the crux of the pun was NSA spying case figure Edward Snowden and the empty seat photographed aboard an airplane he was rumored to have been traveling on. He either wasn’t on the plane, Colbert concluded, “or he was in the bathroom. After all, he is a known leaker.”

Big smile on Colbert’s face, quick turn in the chair and — bam! — a ringing high-five to the suddenly present upraised hand.

But then his “The Word” essay was an expertly crafted takedown of the trend in media to ask viewers for their opinions and then reflect them right back at people. “We report what you decided” is the new mantra, he said. It’s not just humor; it’s cutting-edge media criticism. It’s comedy with flesh on its bones, with a point of view about the bigger world.

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GET INVOLVED ART

all art materials and chaperoned ferry transportation from Anacortes. For information, call 360-293-8878 or visit towerartsstudio. com.

about 12 musicians, playing a variety of styles. Rehearsals are the first and third Mondays in Burlington, with regular performances.

Contact David Soiseth at 360-757-0351 or dsois@ CAMANO SUMMER ART comcast.net.

CAMPS: Art Quest for Kids Summer Art Camps DANCE will be held during July and CLOG DANCING FOR August at the Delzell StuBEGINNERS: Free lesson dio, 2177 Highland Drive, from 10 to 11 a.m., folCamano Island. Camps lowed by regular clog dancmeet from 10 a.m. to 2:30 ing from 11 a.m. to noon p.m. Monday through Thursdays, at the Mount Thursday and feature a Vernon Senior Center, variety of art projects, 1401 Cleveland St., Mount beachcombing and swimVernon. No fee, no partner ming. $160 per child per needed. First three lessons four-day session. Ages 7-17. are free. Wear comfortable 360-387-2251 or camano shoes. For information, call artcamp.com.

Rosie at 360-424-4608.

CALL TO ARTISTS: Skagit Regional Health seeks permanent art for its new medical office building, Skagit Regional Clinics Riverbend, which will open in mid-2014 in north Mount Vernon. Artwork must be of superior quality and may include a wide range of styles and mediums. Artists may submit up to six images of original work by Sept. 30. Submissions may be either existing work for sale or representative work that can be completed by Feb. 1, 2014. Include the name of each work, its medium, size and asking price. Send submissions by email to wragusa@skagitvalleyhospital.org. For ART CLASSES: Dakota information, contact Wendy Art Center offers a variety Ragusa at 360-814-5747. of art classes and workshops at 17873 Highway ART CLASSES 536, Mount Vernon. 360POTTERY CLASSES: 416-6556, ext. 5, or dakota Themed weeklong summer artcenter.com. pottery camps for kids and teens will be held through CLAY CLASSES: CeramAug. 30 at Handz in Clay ic artist Sue Roberts offers Pottery School, 525 E. a variety of classes and Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. workshops at Tower Arts Adult classes are available Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, year-round. Learn handGuemes Island. For inforbuilding and pottery wheel mation, call 360-293-8878 techniques. Multichild dis- or visit towerartsstudio. count available. For inforcom. mation, contact Phoenix at 360-202-2329 or visit handz AUDITIONS inclay.com.

CALL FOR MUSICIANS: Whidbey Playhouse seeks KIDS’ SUMMER ART CAMPS: Tower Arts Studio one or two cello players, a guitar player and a violin will offer summer “Island Art Camp Adventures” for player for its production of “The Last Five Years,” kids beginning Monday, set to run Aug. 15-24 at the July 8, on Guemes Island.

Whidbey Playhouse, 730 Local professional artists SE Midway Blvd., Oak will teach a variety of art Harbor. There is a minimal techniques to kids ages 6 to 12 during weeklong rehearsal process and only sessions from 9:30 a.m. to six show dates. Call 3602:30 p.m. Monday through 679-2237 or email heather Friday at Tower Arts Stubgood@gmail.com. dio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, Guemes Island. Kids can BRASS CHOIR: The work with clay, acrylics, Basically Brass Choir seeks sculpture, mosaic and more. trumpet and trombone $295 per session, includes players to join a group of

TANGO LESSONS: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, July 11 and 18, at the Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

Advance registration required. $75. Call 360-4642229 or visit anacortes centerforhappiness.org.

MISCELLANEOUS

for each performance slot. The market supplies a 10-by-10-foot overhead canopy and two 110V outlets. Contact market manager Leslie Collings at 360202-3932 or email leslie@ portsusan.org.

PIANO CAMP: 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. today through July 25 (no class July 4), St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St. Fun, 50-minute “camps” introduce kids ages 7-13 to beginning piano skills. Parents encouraged to stay and participate; home keyboard recommended. $72 (second child $64) plus $8 for lesson book. Call Sally at 360-8564938 for information.

ON STAGE OPEN MIC: 9 p.m. to midnight, Wednesdays, at the 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Ages 21 and older. No cover. 360336-3012 or riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

RECREATION

TRAIL TALES: Friends of Skagit Beaches lead a series of informative walks along the Tommy Thompson Trail in Anacortes. For information, visit skagit beaches.org.

Next up: Strands that Connect Mountains to the Sea: 10 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, MUSIC July 10. Meet at Fidalgo CALL FOR MUSICIANS, RV Park, 4701 Fidalgo Bay PERFORMERS: Soloists, Road. From the distant duets or trios with low snow-capped Cascades amplification are needed to down to Fidalgo Bay, learn perform between 3 and 7 how Anacortes is connectp.m. Fridays, July 5-Oct. 18, ed to the mountains by the at the Port Susan Farmers waters that travel between Market, located at Viking them. The flat, paved trail is Village, corner of Highway handicapped accessible.

532 and 88th Avenue NW, Bayside Chat: 11 a.m.

Stanwood. Performers can to 2 p.m. Saturday and sign up for one-hour slots Sunday, July 13-14. Meet and may set out a tip jar at the Rotary pocket park and sell CDs. The market on the Tommy Thompson also offers a small stipend Trail, just south of 34th SEEKING VENDORS: The Skagit County Fair seeks vendors of all types for the annual event, set for Aug. 7-10 in Mount Vernon. For information, call 360-3369414, email fairgrounds@ co.skagit.wa.us or visit skagitcounty.net/fair.

Street. Chat with Washington Department of Ecology staff members Sandra Caldwell and Hun Seak Park to learn about Ecology’s Phase 2 cleanup work at the old plywood mill site along the Tommy Thompson Trail.

The Changing Face of Fidalgo Bay: 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 20. Meet at Fidalgo RV Park, 4701 Fidalgo Bay Road. Find out how human habitation and industry have changed the bay, both above and below the water’s surface.

Learn about the importance of the Fidalgo Bay Aquatic Reserve and plans for improving the quality of this resource. The flat, paved trail is handicapped accessible.

WASHINGTON PARK WALKS: Friends of Washington Park leads guided walks through the park, 6300 Sunset Ave., Anacortes. Meet at the restroom at the start of the loop road. Free. For information, call Ann at 360-293-3044.

Next up: Geology and History of Washington Park: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 13. Terry Slotemaker, retired educator with the Anacortes Schools and the Anacortes Museum, will explore the geology and history of the park.

FAMILY BICYCLE RIDE: The second annual Family Fun Ride will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 6, starting at the Ben Root Skate Park, 2313 R Ave., Anacortes.

The event will include free bicycle safety checks, free bike helmets for kids while supplies last, and a raffle for a new youth bike.

After check-in, participants can ride along the Tommy Thompson Trail over Fidalgo Bay and around March

Point. No preregistration required. 360-293-1918.

THEATER SUMMER THEATER CAMP: Theater Arts Guild will offer a Summer Theater Camp for ages 11 and older from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday, July 9-12 or July 16-19, at Skagit Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 500 W. Section St., Mount Vernon.

Aspiring young actors will receive training in audition preparation and use of theater spaces, masks and puppetry, the “Stanislavski Method” of acting, dance and movement, vocal training for speaking and singing and more. $150 per week. Snacks and bottled water provided; bring your own lunch. For information or to register, contact Jane Skinner at bandjskinner@ comcast.net or visit theater artsguild.org.

WORKSHOPS PRINTMAKING SAMPLER: 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, through July 16, at Harmony Fields, 7465 Thomas Road, Bow. Explore a variety of printing styles and techniques including linocut, woodblock and intaglio prints. Open to all levels of experience. $140 plus $10 materials fee. 360-941-8196 or hfproduce.com.

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ORCAS ISLAND — Check out fireworks beginning at dusk at Eastsound Waterfront Park.

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donation: $5. Proceeds will benefit student-related projects, technology, materials and activities throughout the Sedro-Woolley School District. 360-855-3594.

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The 36th annual Great SedroROCKPORT — Enjoy a Woolley Footrace will begin Fourth of July concert with at 9:30 a.m. at Sedro-Woolley live music, dinner and beauti- High School, 1235 Third St. ful scenery from 5 to 9 p.m. at Check-in and day-of-race Glacier Peak Winery, 58575 registration will begin at 7:30 Highway 20, Rockport. Petty a.m., followed by the 5.17Thief will perform a tribute mile race and 2-mile fun run/ to the music of Tom Petty walk. Registration: $20 withand the Heartbreakers. $20, out T-shirt. Free for ages 14 includes steak or salmon and younger and ages 70 and dinner. Beverages available older, but registration is still for purchase. Reservations: required. Day-of-race T-shirts: 360-873-4073. Information: $10 while they last. Register glacierpeakwinery.com. at sedrowoolleyfootrace.com, download a registration form SEDRO-WOOLLEY — at loggerodeo.com or skagitThe Sedro-Woolley Schools runners.org, or pick one up at Foundation will host its the Sedro-Woolley Chamber annual Pancakes for Kids of Commerce, 714-B Metcalf breakfast fundraiser from St. Information: Kyle, 3606:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the 856-4465.

Sedro-Woolley Senior Center, 715 Pacific St. Suggested SEDRO-WOOLLEY —

The 79th annual Loggerodeo Grand Parade will start at 11 a.m. Fireworks will start at dusk adjacent to Riverfront Park. Activities all weekend.

360-770-8452 or loggerodeo. com.

STANWOOD — The Old Fashioned Independence Day Parade will start at 11 a.m. at the Josephine Sunset Home parking lot, 9901 272nd Place NW, and end with an ice cream social at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27108 102nd Ave NW. 360629-6110 or sahs-fncc.org.

Skagit Artists Together 2013 Studio Tour

SATURDAY, July 6 BURLINGTON — Skagit Speedway, 4796 Highway 99N, will present the Les Schwab Tires Fireworks Extravaganza in conjunction with the Les Schwab Midseason Championships. The gates will open at 5 p.m., racing will start at 7 p.m. and the fireworks will start at dusk.

360-724-3567 or skagitspeed way.com.

Skagit Artists Together 2013 Studio Tour

10th ANNUAL STUDIO TOUR Saturday, July 20 • Sunday, July 21 10 am to 6 pm www.skagitart.com

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GETTYSBURG – THEN AND NOW Pennsylvania town commemorates 150th anniversary with images then and now of famous Civil War battle

By GENARO C. ARMAS Associated Press

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — From graphic images of the dead on battlefields to portraits of troops in between skirmishes, the Civil War was the first American military conflict captured by photographers and the first foray into photojournalism in the United States.

No camera phones.

Forget Polaroids. Photography had been around for decades by the time of the Civil War in the 1860s, and most towns had a photographer. But the practice itself was laborious, at least compared to today’s instant standards and the way Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke captured images of the re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg on its 150th anniversary.

So in the Civil War, photographers sensed opportunity, according to John Rudy, an instructor of Civil War-era studies at Gettysburg College.

Very rarely were scenes of war taken, Rudy said, simply because the exposure time of three to five AP seconds was too long to capture moving action.

This combination image shows (top) a photo by Timothy H. O’Sullivan made “These men were workavailable by the Library of Congress of the 93rd New York Infantry’s drum corps taken between August 1863 and November 1863, and (bottom) Union re-enactors ing for pay. They’re partartist, part-chroniclers, but marching by Confederates during ongoing activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg on June 28 at Bushey Farm in Gettysburg, also keenly aware that their image has to sell,” Rudy Pa. O’Sullivan was one of 23 men employed by American Civil War photographer says.

Matthew Brady to document the war.

Renowned Civil War photographer Alexander

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Re-enactors from the 2nd Florida infantry recreate the assault and retreat of the 1st North Carolina from the Battle of Culp’s Hill, on Friday in Gettysburg, Pa. Gardner, for instance, had to load two wagonloads full of equipment before rushing to Gettysburg when he heard of the potential for a major conflict in the Pennsylvania town. Gettysburg is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle that took place July 1-3, 1863.

The first true images of the war were produced in September 1862 at Antietam, according to the National Park Service’s website for the Maryland battlefield. Gardner made to trips to Antietam, the first two days after battle, and captured grim images.

Gardner made a second trip two weeks later when President Abraham Lincoln visited the battlefield.

“During both of his trips, Gardner moved across the battlefield taking advan-

tage of another new photographic technique that increased the impact of war images — stereograph.

Two lenses capture two simultaneous photographs, and when seen through a viewer, the mind creates a three-dimensional image,” the National Park Service said.

Any close-up shots that may have appeared to be taken on the battlefield were likely staged. Some men also chose to have portraits taken in camp.

Such shots were very rare then — a portrait may have only been taken once or twice during an American’s lifetime then, Rudy said.

Newspapers rarely printed photos then, but major national publications did use illustrations from sketch artists to depict war scenes.

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TRAVEL “It’s very much used as a replacement for the fact that you can’t take a photo of me moving. The sketch artist replaces the on-thescene footage,” Rudy said.

“It’s not true to life. The sketch helped bring the war to the American people, but brought it to them in a different way.”

In the 1880s, French artist Paul Philippoteaux’s cyclorama paintings of Pickett’s Charge during the third day at Gettysburg proved to be a popular attraction in its time.

A cyclorama is a massive inthe-round painting that Rudy equated in modern standards to seeing the movie “World War Z” in 3-D. Painted post-Reconstruction, Philippoteaux painted the Gettysburg cyclorama during a period when views of the war had shifted amid the rise of a veterans culture — a “romantic image of

war where both sides fought valiantly for something they believed in,” Rudy said.

Motion pictures made the cyclorama obsolete by the late 1800s and the paintings quickly vanished. The only cycloramas on display in the United States are at the National Park Service visitor center in Gettysburg and one of the Battle of Atlanta, which resides in Grant Park in that city.

Re-enactors perform Pickett’s Charge during activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, on June 30 in Gettysburg, Pa. Union forces turned away a Confederate advance in the pivotal battle of the Civil War fought July 1-3, 1863, which was also the war’s bloodiest conflict with more than 51,000 casualties.

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Local travel YOGA ADVENTURE SERIES: Join

Dawn Jex for day trips and yoga.

Each adventure includes activities at an area attraction combined with a yoga class. For information or to register, call Dawn at 360631-0587 or visit yoga-gypsies. com. Next up: July 13: Vancouver Granville Island Tour and Yoga: Travel via Amtrak to Vancouver, Canada, ride the foot ferry to the markets and bistros of Granville Island, then enjoy practicing yoga in the peace and quiet of Ron Basford Park.

Sample the confections of the island markets, then make your way back to the train station and home, or make a weekend of it and stay awhile in Vancouver. Purchase train tickets through Amtrak ($44). False Creek Ferry round-trip tickets ($10) must be purchased at the terminal. Ron Basford Park yoga and Granville Island guided tour, $40.

Aug. 11: Anacortes Kayak Yoga Trip: Join Jex at 9 a.m. in Anacortes for a six-hour kayak tour of the San Juan Islands that will include an hour of beach yoga.

Bring your own lunch and water-

safe shoes. $117.94, includes kayak rental, all gear and yoga.

1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon.

Check out the 51st annual Abbotsford, B.C., International Airshow.

SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Wear weather-appropriate clothing Parks and Recreation offers travel and comfortable walking shoes. opportunities for ages 12 and Proof of citizenship required older (adult supervision required (passport, DMV enhanced driver’s for ages 18 and younger). For infor- license or NEXUS card). $68-$70. mation or to register, call 360-336- Register by Aug. 2.

6215. Next up: “San Juan Island: Something ESCORTED TOURS: The Whatfor Everyone”: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 com County Tour Program offers p.m. Friday, July 19, departing a variety of day trips and longer from and returning to Hillcrest tours, with most trips departing Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Ver- from and returning to the Bellnon. Journey to San Juan Island to ingham Senior Activity Center, visit the 12th annual SJI Lavender 315 Halleck St., Bellingham. For Festival at Pelindaba Lavender information or to register: 360Farm, followed by a no-host lunch 733-4030, press #, ext. 47015, or at Roche Harbor and a behind-the- wccoa.org/index.php/Tours. Next scenes tour of the Westcott Bay up: Cidery and San Juan Island Distill- Fall Foliage Mississippi River ery, where you’ll taste their ciders Steamboat Cruise: Oct. 4-12. and spirits. Wear weather-appro$3,199-$3,999. priate clothing and comfortable New York City and Upstate New walking shoes, and bring money York Fall Colors Tour: Oct. 4-13. for food and purchases. Ages 21 $2,999-$3,799. $300 deposit due and older only. $75-$77. Register at signup. Final payment due in

by July 12.

August.

Abbotsford Airshow: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, departing from EXTENDED TRIPS: The Oak Harand returning to Hillcrest Park, bor Senior Center is organizing two

small-group trips for 2014: Mississippi River Cruise: America’s Heartland, Nashville to New Orleans: March 19–30, 2014.

Scotland: June 2014.

Trips will depart from Oak Harbor/Mount Vernon. Contact Pat Gardner at pgardner@oakharbor. org.

STANWOOD SENIOR CENTER TRIPS: The Stanwood Senior Center offers occasional trips around the Puget Sound area and beyond, departing from and returning to the center, 7430 276th St. NW, Stanwood.

For information or reservations, contact Sandy Kitchens at 360629-7403.

PASSPORT APPLICATIONS: The Anacortes Public Library accepts passport applications from noon to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays at 1220 10th St., Anacortes.

Passport forms and information on fees and how to apply available at travel.state.gov, or pick up an application and passport guide at the library.

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY WALK

July 5th 6-9pm Anne Martin McCool Gallery Burton Jewelers Scott Milo Gallery The Majestic Inn and Spa Apothecary Spa (2nd floor Majestic Inn)

Gallery at the Depot www.anacortesart.com

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area July 6-13 MARCIA KESTER

TUNING UP Playing at area venues July 4-11 THURSDAY.4

THURSDAY.11

SATURDAY.6: Noon to 2 p.m., Cap Sante Boat Haven Central Pier, 1019 Q Ave., Anacortes.

FRIDAY.12: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pine Square, Mount Vernon.

SATURDAY.13: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mount Vernon Farmers Market, corner of Cleveland and Snoqualmie streets; 6:30 to 10 p.m., Anacortes Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes.

El Colonel and Doubleshot, with Mary de la Fuente: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7.

360-445-3000.

DANA LYONS 6 to 8 p.m., Elizabeth Park, Bellingham. Bring a blanket or chair for seating. Free.

Nick Vigarino (blues): 8 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360-3991037.

Ann ‘n’ Dean (country): 7:30 p.m., American Legion Hall, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-0520.

SUNDAY.7

SATURDAY.6 MIA VERMILLION 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360-399-1037.

KNUT BELL & THE BLUE COLLARS 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

FRIDAY.5

Saturday.6

Friday.12

Saturday.13

MUSIC

MUSIC

IMPROV

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): Noon to 2 p.m., Cap Sante Boat Haven Central Pier, 1019 Q Ave., Anacortes. 360-757-9687.

Thursday.11 MUSIC

Dana Lyons: 6 to 8 p.m., Elizabeth Park, Bellingham. Bring a blanket or chair for seating. Free. theeldridgesociety. org/concerts/html.

THEATER

“Hamlet”: Shakespeare Northwest, 7 p.m., Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheatre, 19299 Rexville Grange Road, Mount Vernon. $12, $10 with student ID. 206317-3023 or shakesnw.org.

Friday Lunch Music Series: Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop), 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pine Square, Mount Vernon. 360-757-9687.

Ted Vigil (John Denver tribute): 7 p.m., Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $20. 360-336-3321, 360-336-8066 or thehaynieopry.com.

THEATER

“Hamlet”: Shakespeare Northwest, 7 p.m., Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheatre, 19299 Rexville Grange Road, Mount Vernon. $12, $10 with student ID. 206317-3023 or shakesnw.org.

Upfront Theatre: 8 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. $12. 360354-3600 or jansenartcenter.org.

MUSIC

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mount Vernon Farmers Market, corner of Cleveland and Snoqualmie streets. 360-757-9687.

Amara Grace Concert: Philip Nakano on sax and percussion, 8 p.m., Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-464-2229 or anacortescenter forhappiness.org.

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): 6:30 to 10 p.m., Anacortes Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes. For guest sign-in, call 360-757-9687.

Haynie Opry Southern Gospel Matinee: Matt Audette and The Circle of Friends Band, 3 p.m., Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $10 at the door. 360-336-3321, 360-336-8066 or thehaynieopry.com.

Ted Vigil (John Denver tribute): 7 p.m., Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $20. 360-336-3321, 360-336-8066 or thehaynieopry.com.

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

The Don Richards Band: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360445-3000.

Ann ‘n’ Dean (country): 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

360-848-8882.

Open to the public.

Scratch Daddy: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover.

360-755-0165.

Teresa Mooney & Richard Hughes (acoustic blues): 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360399-1037.

Skip Hamilton: 6 to 9 p.m., Frida’s Gourmet Mexican Restaurant, 416 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-2992120.

Tigon, Cascabel, Mercy Ties: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6.

360-778-1067.

Jeffrey Fullner: 6:30 to 8 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600.

Jeremy Serwer (Americana, folk): 8-10 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-3012 or riverbelledinner theatre.com.

Holmes/Shea Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

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

Nick Vigarino’s Meantown Blues: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-4453000.

Randy Oxford: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360755-3956.

Mia Vermillion (blues): 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover.

360-399-1037.

Highway 20 Band: 6 to 8 p.m., Challenger Ridge Vineyard & Cellars, 43095 Challenger Road, Concrete.

Free admission with purchase of a bottle of wine per adult. 425-4226988.

My Goodness, Baltic Cousins, The Gallow Swings: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7.

360-778-1067.

John Dennis: 6 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Firehall Cafe, 321 Front St., Lynden.

No cover. 360-3543600.

SATURDAY.6 Equal Opportunity: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Longhorn Saloon, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666330.

SUNDAY.7 Zydeco Explosion: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

MONDAY.8 Knut Bell & The Blue Collars: 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway.

360-445-4733.

Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., SedroWoolley. 360-855-2263.

C.C. Adams and friends Sunday Jam, featuring $cratch Daddy, Coyote Blues and more: 4 to 8 p.m., Station House, 315 E. Morris St., La Conner. 360-466-4488.

Bob Log III, Party Favorites, Audios Amigos: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8-$10. 360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.11 Scott Pemberton Trio, with Ryan Bart (the Magic Man): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

Nick Swanson (piano): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Firehall Cafe, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area July 6-13 MARCIA KESTER

TUNING UP Playing at area venues July 4-11 THURSDAY.4

THURSDAY.11

SATURDAY.6: Noon to 2 p.m., Cap Sante Boat Haven Central Pier, 1019 Q Ave., Anacortes.

FRIDAY.12: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pine Square, Mount Vernon.

SATURDAY.13: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mount Vernon Farmers Market, corner of Cleveland and Snoqualmie streets; 6:30 to 10 p.m., Anacortes Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes.

El Colonel and Doubleshot, with Mary de la Fuente: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7.

360-445-3000.

DANA LYONS 6 to 8 p.m., Elizabeth Park, Bellingham. Bring a blanket or chair for seating. Free.

Nick Vigarino (blues): 8 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360-3991037.

Ann ‘n’ Dean (country): 7:30 p.m., American Legion Hall, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-0520.

SUNDAY.7

SATURDAY.6 MIA VERMILLION 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360-399-1037.

KNUT BELL & THE BLUE COLLARS 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

FRIDAY.5

Saturday.6

Friday.12

Saturday.13

MUSIC

MUSIC

IMPROV

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): Noon to 2 p.m., Cap Sante Boat Haven Central Pier, 1019 Q Ave., Anacortes. 360-757-9687.

Thursday.11 MUSIC

Dana Lyons: 6 to 8 p.m., Elizabeth Park, Bellingham. Bring a blanket or chair for seating. Free. theeldridgesociety. org/concerts/html.

THEATER

“Hamlet”: Shakespeare Northwest, 7 p.m., Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheatre, 19299 Rexville Grange Road, Mount Vernon. $12, $10 with student ID. 206317-3023 or shakesnw.org.

Friday Lunch Music Series: Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop), 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pine Square, Mount Vernon. 360-757-9687.

Ted Vigil (John Denver tribute): 7 p.m., Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $20. 360-336-3321, 360-336-8066 or thehaynieopry.com.

THEATER

“Hamlet”: Shakespeare Northwest, 7 p.m., Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheatre, 19299 Rexville Grange Road, Mount Vernon. $12, $10 with student ID. 206317-3023 or shakesnw.org.

Upfront Theatre: 8 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. $12. 360354-3600 or jansenartcenter.org.

MUSIC

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mount Vernon Farmers Market, corner of Cleveland and Snoqualmie streets. 360-757-9687.

Amara Grace Concert: Philip Nakano on sax and percussion, 8 p.m., Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-464-2229 or anacortescenter forhappiness.org.

Marcia Kester (country, rock, blues, pop): 6:30 to 10 p.m., Anacortes Eagles Hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes. For guest sign-in, call 360-757-9687.

Haynie Opry Southern Gospel Matinee: Matt Audette and The Circle of Friends Band, 3 p.m., Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $10 at the door. 360-336-3321, 360-336-8066 or thehaynieopry.com.

Ted Vigil (John Denver tribute): 7 p.m., Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $20. 360-336-3321, 360-336-8066 or thehaynieopry.com.

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

The Don Richards Band: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360445-3000.

Ann ‘n’ Dean (country): 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

360-848-8882.

Open to the public.

Scratch Daddy: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover.

360-755-0165.

Teresa Mooney & Richard Hughes (acoustic blues): 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover. 360399-1037.

Skip Hamilton: 6 to 9 p.m., Frida’s Gourmet Mexican Restaurant, 416 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-2992120.

Tigon, Cascabel, Mercy Ties: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6.

360-778-1067.

Jeffrey Fullner: 6:30 to 8 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600.

Jeremy Serwer (Americana, folk): 8-10 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

360-336-3012 or riverbelledinner theatre.com.

Holmes/Shea Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

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

Nick Vigarino’s Meantown Blues: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-4453000.

Randy Oxford: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360755-3956.

Mia Vermillion (blues): 7:30 p.m., Washington Sips, 608 S. First St., La Conner. No cover.

360-399-1037.

Highway 20 Band: 6 to 8 p.m., Challenger Ridge Vineyard & Cellars, 43095 Challenger Road, Concrete.

Free admission with purchase of a bottle of wine per adult. 425-4226988.

My Goodness, Baltic Cousins, The Gallow Swings: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7.

360-778-1067.

John Dennis: 6 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Firehall Cafe, 321 Front St., Lynden.

No cover. 360-3543600.

SATURDAY.6 Equal Opportunity: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Longhorn Saloon, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-7666330.

SUNDAY.7 Zydeco Explosion: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

MONDAY.8 Knut Bell & The Blue Collars: 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway.

360-445-4733.

Gary B’s Church of the Blues (blues, classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tavern, 708 Metcalf St., SedroWoolley. 360-855-2263.

C.C. Adams and friends Sunday Jam, featuring $cratch Daddy, Coyote Blues and more: 4 to 8 p.m., Station House, 315 E. Morris St., La Conner. 360-466-4488.

Bob Log III, Party Favorites, Audios Amigos: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8-$10. 360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.11 Scott Pemberton Trio, with Ryan Bart (the Magic Man): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

Nick Swanson (piano): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Firehall Cafe, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600.

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POP CULTURE Q&A

REVIEWS

‘Iron Chef’ chairman has varied career; Tim Allen will return in ‘Last Man Standing’

By RICH HELDENFELS Akron Beacon Journal

Q: I enjoy “Iron Chef America” on the Food Network and was wondering how Mark Dacascos became “the Chairman.” I have seen him on a few TV shows and was curious about his career.

A: Dacascos is an actor with a long resume, including playing the villain Wo Fat on the current version of “Hawaii Five-O.” (Dacascos, by the way, was born in Hawaii.)

He is also a martial artist. When he was contacted about “Iron Chef America,” he asked if the producers “knew that I ‘KICK,’ not ‘COOK.’?’’ He told the LAist website that the makers of the original Japanese “Iron Chef” series had casting approval for the chairman on the American version — and Dascacos was on their short list.

“Two French films that I had done, ‘Brotherhood of the Wolf’ and ‘Crying Freedom,’ had done very well in Japan, and the producers of ‘Iron Chef’ knew me from that,” he said.

Q: I was wondering what happened to the Tim Allen show “Last Man Standing” and the Reba show that was on right after it.

A: “Last Man Standing” will be back on ABC in the fall. “Malibu Country,” the Reba McEntire show that you mentioned, will not.

Q: Who is the man with the beautiful voice who narrates a commercial for G.E. starting with something about a “talking car” then switches to a “talking train?”

His voice is so familiar to me.

A: As well it should be. That is the voice of William Daniels, an actor who in 60 years of screen acting has included work on “St. Elsewhere” (for which he won two Emmys), “Boy Meets World,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Graduate.”

But the work in the G.E. commercial is based on another Daniels role, as the voice of the car K.I.T.T. on the David Hasselhoff version of “Knight Rider.” (Before you ask: Val Kilmer was the car’s voice in

the 2008-09 “Knight Rider” revival starring Justin Bruening.) That’s the car in the G.E. ad, complete with license plate saying “Knight.”

Q: I am interested in finding out if the series “Justified” is coming back on this season. It is my favorite.

A: FX has renewed the excellent drama starring Timothy Olyphant for a fifth season. Look for it in early 2014.

Q: I love the Jesse Stone movies with Tom Selleck. When will the next one be released?

A: Selleck made eight of the movies based on a character created by novelist Robert B. Parker, but “Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt in 2012” was the last one done for CBS. While the network had aired all the films, it did not have room for more in part because it does not do much at all in the way of TV movies. Although reports in 2012 said Selleck and associates were shopping the movies to other networks, there has been no news to date of a deal.

But Selleck will be back on CBS this fall with a new season of “Blue Bloods.”

Q: What about HBO’s “Newsroom?”

Will it be back?

A: The drama created by Aaron Sorkin begins its second season on HBO on July 14. The new season picks up 14 months after the first one ended, but then backtracks to follow fallout from a comment at the end of the first season by anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and a major crisis over reporting by the “News Night” program.

Q: I have been wondering for months now what happened to Jack Cafferty, who was a regular on CNN. I’m a regular watcher and sure miss him.

A: Cafferty, whose name seldom appeared in print without the word “curmudgeon” attached, left CNN in November; the TV Newser website said his contract was not renewed.

I have not found any indication of what he is doing now.

MUSIC CDS Compiled from news services

J. Cole

Luther King Jr. in the club, battling temptation.

Luckily, everything else is golden.

Rapper J. Cole doesn’t quite know who he wants to be on this, his second album.

He’s got a crown reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat on the cover of “Born Sinner’s” deluxe edition. Cole samples Notorious B.I.G., the Whispers, and even comedian Mike Epps throughout, pens an ode to Nas, and pairs with the remnants of TLC on the caramel soul of “Crooked Smile.”

That’s some strong evidence of an oldschool cultural revolution afoot.

Yet for all his snagging of the AfroAmerican ’80s and ’90s, he’s got a fondness of hard futurist bass sounds and a love of aged and lilting jazzy melody and post-Bop rhythm that carries through to his most thrillingly mellifluous songs. So maybe Cole doesn’t know exactly who he wants to be. He sounds good trying to figure it out.

Though Cole has guests in fellow young MCs Kendrick Lamar and Miquel (to say nothing of those samples and nods), “Born Sinner” is an all-Cole creation, especially considering that he produced most of it.

Lyrically, he’s still green — “Land of the Snakes” heavy-handedly rants against L.A., while in “She Knows,” he awkwardly posits himself as the Rev. Dr. Martin

n A.D. Amorosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Born Sinner”

Mikal Cronin “MCII” Guitarist Mikal Cronin, based in California’s Bay Area, is strongly associated with his rowdy garage-rockplaying buddy Ty Segall, in whose band he regularly tours. On “MCII,” the 27-year-old singer’s second solo disc and first for indie stalwarts Merge, he confidently steps out on his own with a 10-song collection of brightly catchy tunes.

MCII splits the difference between strummy, sun-kissed, bittersweet pop like the harmony happy “I’m Done Running From You” and the chugging power chord crunch of “See It My Way.” Cronin’s sophomore release is a self-querying comingof-age record, with the shimmering “Peace of Mind” at its existential core (“I want to say I’m on my way,” he sweetly sings. “But I can’t find that peace of mind.”)

Cronin doesn’t pretend to have found any answers but sure makes his postcollegiate confusion sound enticing. n Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer

UK Jewish Museum explores the real Amy Winehouse talent.”

“Amy Winehouse: A LONDON — Amy Family Portrait” brings Winehouse seemed to live together items from the late in public, but her fans never singer’s London childhood, knew the private person. her stage-school years and An exhibition at Lonher short but stratospheric don’s Jewish Museum aims career in music — from her to reveal an intimate side first guitar to a posthumous to a troubled star who was Grammy Award. also, in the words of her By the time she died in older brother Alex, “sim2011 at the age of 27, Wineply a little Jewish kid from house was a larger-than-life North London with a big figure whose battles with Associated Press

drugs and alcohol, splashed across front pages around the world, sometimes seemed to overshadow her talent. The exhibition shows that she was also a young woman who loved music, loved London and loved her family.

“It’s a story that people don’t know about Amy, her family story,” museum chief executive Abigail Morris said.

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REVIEWS VIDEO GAMES Chris Campbell, Scripps Howard News Service

‘Fuse’

fancy weapons that enhance their own skills, making each one an important cog in the Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 enemy-blasting department. But why shoot Genre: Shooter a guy with an exploding crossbow dart when Publisher: EA Games it’s more fun to do so after your buddy has ESRB Rating: M, for Mature frozen him in black crystal?

Grade: 2.5 stars (out of 5) Mastering each person’s weapon won’t tax you, but discovering combinations of Some video games using them together makes for great fun. encourage you to play Dalton’s shield at times makes the action cooperatively online almost too easy (until you run into a powerto get the best expeful mini-boss), and Naya’s flame burst takes rience. Other titles on ludicrous appeal once you start timing it require cooperative with other members’ weapons. This creates a play. “Fuse” encourcampaign mode in which everything happens ages group play, but fast but can be settled easily. should require it, The best way to appreciate the game is to because going at the ditch the campaign mode and swan-dive into action solo only leads the online multiplayer. The echelon mode to frustration. The game’s bones are solid, but the execution fails in ways that make you quickly sucks you into its maps and hordelike gameplay. Granted, you may replay a beg for online compatriots. lot, because without friends you have zero The campaign mode treads on well-worn territory familiar to anyone who has played a chance to survive.

You won’t find a sticker on the package video game since Bill Clinton was president. that reads, “Pay $60, but you won’t enjoy this Mercenaries encounter a situation far worse game without friends.” But that’s the truth than anticipated, and soon find themselves about “Fuse.” locked in a struggle to not only save themselves, but save all of humanity. n Chris Campbell on Twitter @campbler or All four members of the team discover email him at game_on_games@mac.com.

Nettflix, Amazon offer new ways to ward off kids’ summer boredom

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FRED ARMISEN, IAN RUBBISH: July 7, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

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CHRIS BOTTI: July 13, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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PAUL McCARTNEY: July 19, Safeco Field, Seattle. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com.

PETER MURPHY (of Bauhaus): July 19, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

BLACK FLAG: July 19, El Corazon, Seattle. elcorazonseattle.com.

AMERICAN IDOL LIVE 2013: with Amber Holcomb, Angie Miller, Burnell Taylor, Candice Glover, Curtis Finch Jr., Devin Velez, Janelle Arthur, Kree Harrison, Lazaro Arbos, Paul Jolley and Aubrey Cleland: July 19, ShoWare Center, Kent. 866973-961 or showarecenter.com.

DARRINGTON BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: featuring Ralph Stanley II, The Chapmans, Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice: July 19-21, Darrington Bluegrass Music Park. 360-4361006 or darringtonbluegrass.com.

JOHN MAYER: July 20, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

AMY GRANT, BRANDON HEATH: July 20, Overlake Christian Church, Redmond. 855-443-8499 or lmgconcerts.com.

BRUNO MARS: July 21, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

NATALIE MAINES: July 22, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticket master.com.

COURTNEY LOVE: July 23, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

WE THE KINGS: July 23, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

PHISH: July 26-27, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE FESTIVAL OF JAZZ: with Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Norman Brown, Peter White, David Benoit, David Pack, Marion Meadows, Vincent Ingala and Paul Taylor: July 27, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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GIPSY KINGS: July 28, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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THE CULT: July 30, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

GIGANTOUR 2013: with Megadeth, Black Label Society, Device, HELLYEAH, Newsted, Death Division: July 30, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or comcastarenaeverett.com.

PEPPER: Aug. 1, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

MOUNT BAKER RHYTHM & BLUES FESTIVAL: Featuring California Transit Authority, Anthony Gomes, Trampled Under Foot and many more. Aug. 2-4, Deming Log Show Grounds, Deming. baker blues.com.

LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND: Aug. 2, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800745-3000 or ticket

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MICKEY HART BAND: Aug. 3, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

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TILTED THUNDER RAIL BIRDS: Banked Track Roller Derby: Aug. 3, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866332-8499 or comcastarenaeverett. com.

PINK MARTINI: with China Forbes: Aug. 4, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or marymoorconcerts.com.

KURT VILE: Aug. 6, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

SUBLIME WITH ROME: Aug. 6, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888929-7849 or marymoorconcerts. com.

GLADYS KNIGHT & THE O’JAYS: Aug. 8, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

BASS ACADEMY: featuring Zomboy and Eptic: Aug. 9, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

FITZ & THE TANTRUMS: Aug. 9, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

HARRY CONNICK JR.: Aug. 9-10, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

FIVE IRON FRENZY: Aug. 10, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

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107.7 THE END’S SUMMER CAMP: Aug. 10, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or marymoorconcerts.com.

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DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES: Aug. 13, Marymoor Park, Redmond.

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TRAIN, THE SCRIPT, GAVIN DEGRAW: Aug. 14, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

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HUNTER HAYES: Aug. 15, Northwest Washington Fair, Lynden. nwwa fair.com.

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MONETA: Aug. 16, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

MELVINS: Aug. 16-17, Neumos,

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SUMMER SLAUGHTER: featuring The Dillinger Escape Plan: Aug. 19, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE: Aug. 21, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

ANDREW STOCKDALE (of Wolfmother): Aug. 22, Neumos, Seattle.

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COCO MONTOYA: Aug. 23, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon. 360336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

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CHRIS ISAAK: Aug. 24, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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BLACK SABBATH: Aug. 24, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800745-3000 or livenation.com.

1964 THE TRIBUTE (Beatles tribute show): Aug. 25, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville.

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PINBACK: Aug. 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

THREE DAYS GRACE: Aug. 27, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

RUSSELL BRAND: Aug. 30, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-7844849 or livenation.com.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Aug. 30-Sept. 1, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

ONEREPUBLIC, SARA BAREILLES, CHURCHILL: Sept. 2, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

THE EAGLES: Sept. 4, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR: Sept. 5, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: Sept. 6, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

CRAIG MORGAN: Sept. 6, Washington State Fair in Puyallup. 888559-3247 or thefair.com.

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ALABAMA: Sept. 16, Washington State Fair in Puyallup. 888-5593247 or thefair.com.

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JASON ALDEAN: with Jake Owen and Thomas Rhett: Sept. 27, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

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MOVIES

Armie Hammer (left) and Johnny Depp star in “The Lone Ranger.”

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‘The Lone Ranger’ goes goofy and grim

By ROGER MOORE McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Saying the new “Lone Ranger” has “tone issues” is just code for “I could have done without the bad guy tearing out somebody’s heart and taking a bite out of it.”

The folks who did the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies go overboard with the violence in what is essentially a playful spin on a myth — or a TV version of a legend. The cavalry carries out massacres, “progress” is an act of venal destruction and corruption, and “stupid white man” is the eccentric Tonto’s favorite putdown.

No, this is not John Wayne’s Old West.

It’s all in service of a tall tale being told by an ancient Indian (Johnny Depp) who may or may

‘THE LONE RANGER’

HH Cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Ruth Wilson, William Fitchner, Tom Wilkinson, Helena Bonham Carter Running time: 2:29 MPAA rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence and some suggestive material.

not be Tonto, a sideshow attraction who spins this yarn to a little boy (Mason Cook) wearing a Lone Ranger get-up in a fair in 1930s San Francisco. Tonto remembers the days of yore when he rode sidekick to the masked man.

Gore Verbinski’s film is an overlong array of noisy, digitally

assisted chases, shootouts, crashes and explosions, with the occasional flash of homage to the “real” Lone Ranger that suggests a better movie than the pricey, jumbled compromise Verbinski delivered.

Armie Hammer is John Reid, the new Colby, Texas, district attorney who witnesses the latest and last heroic act of his lawman brother (James Badge Dale), who has “saved the day, as usual.”

Brother Dan is killed by the vile Butch Cavendish (William Fitchner) and lawyer Reid is left for dead. But he isn’t, and when Tonto (who has escaped from the law, charged with being an “Indian”) sees the white horse that saved Reid, he decides that this stranger is a ranger — or “spirit warrior” who cannot be killed. And if justice is to be done,

this spirit warrior will need to hide his identity.

There’s a railroad being pushed through, shortcuts being taken in Indian territory by conspiracists whom you just know include fat cat Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson).

Somebody’s got to mount up, put on a mask and sets things to right. (“Who WAS that masked man?”)

Hammer strikes just the right note — naive, valiant and in over his head. It is, of course, Depp’s movie, and the quirks he piles onto poor Tonto make Captain Jack Sparrow look mild-mannered by comparison. One gag that works: His fellow tribesmen disavow Tonto, whose makeup and mannerisms are too eccentric, even for them.

Heroic moments scored to “The William Tell Overture” still have

the power to thrill. Everyone in this setting is seriously sun-baked and weathered, a nice touch of authenticity. And many of the jokey predicaments — Tonto and Reid buried up to their necks, Tonto and the Lone Ranger forced to rob a bank, Tonto’s attempt to warn his blundering captors of their doom or Reid’s “burial” at the top of a rickety tower — pay off hilariously.

Then Fitchner’s villain does something bloody-minded and psychotic, Wilkinson’s villain crosses a line no sane man would cross, or Barry Pepper shows up doing a pompous based-on-Custer impersonation with an idea for wiping out the Red Man. And the cheerful cartoon this might have been goes all dark and dismal.

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Thursday, July 4, 2013 - E17

MOVIES MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

Ratings are one to four stars.

“Epic” — The latest animated film from Fox’s Blue Sky division, “Epic” depicts good vs. evil forces battling over the fate of the natural realm.

Director Chris Wedge (“Ice Age,” “Robots”) gives us lush, often breathtaking visuals of a world within our world -- a forest populated by tiny Leaf Men who ride hummingbirds and do battle with an equally minuscule army of nasty creatures known as Boggans. An all-star cast provides the voice work, which proves to be distracting. Kids won’t mind, but the voices will take adults out of the story. Animated adventure, PG, 100 minutes. HH1⁄2 “Fast & Furious 6” — Against all odds, the “Fast & Furious” franchise is actually picking up momentum, with “FF6” clocking in as the fastest, funniest and most outlandish chapter yet. Whether we’re seeing stunt work or special effects or a combo platter, director Justin Lin keeps raising the bar, going for intentional laughs and thrilling moments as cars pull off impossible maneuvers and humans keep flying in the air and landing with thuds. “Furious 6” couldn’t be any less plausible if it were animated, but that’s sort of the point. Action, PG-13, 130 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Man of Steel” — This is the most ambitious and occasionally the most impressive take on the Superman myth we’ve ever seen, but it falls far short of the bar set by the “Dark Knight” trilogy or even the “Iron Man” troika. Though there are moments, even complete scenes, when we see glimpses of what might have been, we’re plunged back into a mostly underwhelming film, with underdeveloped characters and supercharged fight scenes that drag on forever and offer nothing new in the way of specialeffects creativity. Henry Cavill looks the part as Superman, Amy Adams plays the everplucky Lois Lane, and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner are young Clark’s loving parents.

Superhero action, PG-13, 143 minutes. HH “Monsters University” — A slight and underwhelming prequel that isn’t nearly as inventive, funny or involving as the original, “Monsters Inc.” (2001). Though colorful and sweet-natured and occasionally capable of producing the mild chuckle, this is a safe, predict-

AT AREA THEATERS ANACORTES CINEMAS July 4-11 Despicable Me 2 (PG): 12:50, 3:00, 6:40, 8:50 The Lone Ranger (PG-13): 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 The Heat (R): 12:40, 3:10, 6:50, 9:20 360-293-6620 BLUE FOX DRIVE-IN Oak Harbor 360-675-5667 CONCRETE THEATRE July 4-7 The Long Ranger (PG-13): Thursday: 2 p.m.; Friday: 7:30 p.m.; Saturday: 5 and at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday: 4 p.m.

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OAK HARBOR CINEMAS July 4-11 Despicable Me 2 (PG): 1:00, 3:10, 6:30, 8:40 The Lone Ranger (PG-13): 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Monsters University (G): 3:20, 6:50 World War Z (PG-13): 12:50, 9:15 360-279-2226

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STANWOOD CINEMAS July 4-11 Despicable Me 2 (PG): 12:50, 3:05, 6:40, 8:50 The Lone Ranger (PG-13): 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 The Heat (R): 12:40, 3:10, 6:50, 9:15 Monsters University (G): 1:15, 7:00 World War Z (PG-13): 1:00, 3:30, 6:25, 9:05 Man of Steel (PG-13): 3:35, 9:20 360-629-0514

its mission, which is to poke now, and you feel “The Walking but thanks to the wickedly fun at its stars, exhaust every Dead” cable TV series has set vibrant source material (Max R-rated possibility to get a the all-time standard for popu- Brooks’ 2006 horror novel), laugh, and even sneak in a lar culture entertainment about some slick and darkly funny few insights into Hollywood, the flesh-chomping undead, directorial choices by Marc Forthe celebrity culture and the your reluctance to see “World ster and terrific performances next chapter(s). With Chris able, edge-free, nearly bland nature of faith. (Comedy, R, War Z” is understandable. All from Brad Pitt and the supporteffort from Pixar, a studio that Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict 107 minutes. HHHH I can tell you is, there’s fresh ing cast, it’s entertaining as rarely hedges its bets. It’s bet- Cumberbatch. Sci-fi adventure, “World War Z” — If you’re blood here. “World War Z” traf- hell. Action thriller, PG-13, 116 PG-13, 132 minutes. HHH ter than “Cars 2,” but not in as zombie’d out as I am by fics in a lot of familiar territory, minutes. HHH1⁄2 “The Heat” — Give it up for the same league as the “Toy Story” sequels. Animated com- Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. You’ll never see edy, G, 110 minutes. HH1⁄2 “Now You See Me” — Here’s them work harder at comedy than in “The Heat,” a stuma slick con, all flash and no bling, aggressively loud and substance, about The Four profane cop buddy picture Horsemen, illusionists who where they struggle to wring have been recruited to pull off “funny” out of a script that some of the most audacious isn’t. Plot? It’s more a colstunts in the history of deception. “Now You See Me” seems lection of scenes that force awfully sure of itself, with self- the stars to riff and riff until something coarse and amusimportant, intrusive music, ing comes out, topped by sweeping tracking shots and actors chewing up the scenery. something else coarser and more amusing. Bullock is the Ultimately, however, there’s know-it-all, overly coiffed FBI no there there. By the time agent Ashburn -- a Miss Priss it’s over, we’re left with more Deming Log Show Grounds former Lead Singer former Lead Singer none of her fellow agents like. questions than answers -- and She is sent to Boston, osteneven more damning, we don’t care all that much about those sibly to prep for a promotion. unanswered questions. Thriller, Mainly, it’s to get her out of 1998-2006 1993-2006 the hair of her boss (Demian PG-13, 116 minutes. H1⁄2 Bichir). That’s where Ashburn “Star Trek Into Darkness” Chris Eger Band Dr. Strangelove Band runs afoul of the foul-mouthed — Director J.J. Abrams is a JAMIE O’NEAL Memphis Rain Appalossa detective Mullins (McCarthy), true talent, and he’s also a TAYLA LYNN Medicine Hat Hambone a shambling train wreck of the pop-culture savant who has Avalanche And Many More (Loretta Lynn’s Grandaughter) American junk food diet run great respect for the legacy amok. She’s so irritable that of this franchise as well as her boss (Tom Wilson of “Back a keen understanding of the mega-importance of box-office to the Future”) is as afraid of Reserved Camping, Two Beer Gardens, After hour party (limited tickets), her as her favorite drug-dealfigures. There’s no better ing perp. R, 117 minutes. H1⁄2 choice to make the best, the Margaritaville, International Wood Carving For Charity, Pancake Breakfast.

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and Rube Goldberg — is filled with complex patterns and interrelated shapes, rich with detailed symbolism and mythological themes. For information, including gallery hours and directions, call 360-222-0102 or visit raven rocksgallery.com.

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY WALK: Check out a variety of artwork from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, July 5, at several galleries and other venues along Commercial Avenue and other locations in downtown Anacortes. 360293-6938.

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ARTIST SERIES: The Challenger Ridge summer Artist Series will feature David Gehrcke, RSin metal artist from 1 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, July 13, at Challenger Ridge Vineyard & Cellars, 43095 Challenger Road, Concrete. Gehrcke “MIXED MEDIA, MIXED will offer a selection of his “SCENES OF SKAGIT original metal artworks MESSAGES”: The next COUNTY”: The Cultured show in the Allied Arts Jur- for sale. Free admission.

Palette Artists of Skagit 425-422-6988 or challenger ied Artist Series will open County will exhibit their with a reception during the ridge.com. artworks in watercolor, Downtown Art Walk from acrylics and other media ART BY THE BAY: The 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5, through July 31 in the mezand continue through July Stanwood Camano Arts zanine dining area at the Guild will present its annu27 at the Allied Arts of Skagit Valley Food Co-op, Whatcom County Gallery, al juried event from 10 a.m.

202 S. First St., Mount Verto 5 p.m. Saturday and Sun1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellnon. day, July 13-14, at the Staningham. An exhibit walkwood-Camano Fairgrounds, through with the artists “A EUROPEAN TOUR”: will begin at 7 p.m. opening 6431 Pioneer Highway, The show featuring oil Stanwood. The event will night. The show features Anne Martin McCool and Debbie Aldrich celebrate with a reception during the paintings by Whidbey work from Anita Aparicio, feature original artworks First Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5, and continuing through Island artist James Moore by more than 100 artists Mary Dudley, Heather July 31 at Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Check will open with a reception Salsbury, Richard Bulman and craftspeople, along out paintings and prints by Anne Martin McCool and jewelry by Debbie Aldrich, from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July both of whom have birthdays in July. The gallery will also feature work by other with live music, plants, food and Julia Loyd. All of the 5, and continue through and more. Free admission. gallery artists. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon artists use nontraditional July 30 at Scott Milo Galstanwoodcamanoarts.com. to 4 p.m. Sunday. 360-293-3577 or annemartinmccool.com. Pictured: “Night techniques. Gallery hours lery, 420 Commercial Ave., Music” Oil on Canvas by Anne Martin McCool are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. MonAnacortes. Moore’s café COLLAGE DISPLAY: day through Friday and scenes and landscapes Three-dimensional paper noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. present a “tourist’s view of ent media, but who use then tabulate the results tion of the theme and more 360-676-8548 or alliedarts. collages by Ans Schot Tuscany.” Also working in will be on display July 15 themselves as the subject. and offer a performance at deliberate arrangements org. the European theme are through Aug. 31 in the LinNot self-portraits in the 8 p.m. involving slapstick of objects telling a story artists Cindy Briggs and coln Theatre Art Bar, 712 traditional sense, in these humor, cartoon violence with images that are magiNEW ART EXHIBIT: A Theresa Goesling, waterworks personal identity and politically charged cally surreal and at once show of new work by Terry S. First St., Mount Vernon. colors; Elizabeth Ockwell, is submerged and larger words and phrases. familiar.

Leness and David Wall will 360-336-8955 or lincoln etchings and prints; and Jan themes are explored. ArtSpencer’s bronze and open with a reception from theatre.org.

Wall, pastels. The gallery STILL LIFES: A show of stone sculptures reveal an ists include Nancy Johnson, 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July will also offer new jewelry Ben Moreau, Scott Kolbo ART STUDIO TOUR: new work by Anne Belov, intense fascination with 6, and continue through

by Cate Grinzell, as well as and Tip Toland. Curated by Pete Jordan, Rob Schouten native cultures and deep Skagit Artists Together July 28 at Smith & Vallee new glasswork, sculptures will present its 10th annual and Sharon Spencer will Natalie Niblack. Gallery love and respect for aniGallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., and custom tables. GalStudio Tour from 10 a.m. open with a reception from mals and the earth. Gallery Edison. Leness considers hours are noon to 5 p.m. lery hours are 10:30 a.m. to Friday through Sunday or to 6 p.m. Saturday and 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 5, hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. herself a photo-realist; 4:30 p.m. Monday through by appointment. anchor and continue through July daily. 360-222-3070 or rob- however, she is not a slave Sunday, July 20-21, with Saturday. 360-293-6938 or 30 at the Rob Schouten artspace.org. schoutengallery.com. to reproducing every detail. work by 29 artists on disscottmilo.com.

Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Escalation: An InteracThe exhibition will feature play at 17 locations around Greenbank.

Skagit Valley. Check out tive And Participatory “LIZARD AND FISH her quintessential houses, “OTHER/SELF”: The Belov’s egg tempera Performance By The StinkTALES: The Artwork of trailers and buildings along paintings, ceramics, jewelry, exhibition will open with a town 2: Visitors are invited paintings and classic oil Tim Potter”: The show will with a selection of autobio- glass, fiber art, sculpture, reception during the First paintings feature patterned open with a reception from graphical cake paintings. woodwork and more as during the opening recepFriday Gallery Walk from fabrics, fruits and flowers. artists around the valley tion to participate in an 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 5, Wall interlays cut maps, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July open their studios to the interactive performance art Jordan’s work contains a and continue through Aug. charts and diagrams using 5, and continue through nostalgia of antique tools piece by watching several 1 at Raven Rocks Gallery, encaustic-like resins to seal public for the weekend.

July 28 at Anchor Art and shop items in “found brief videos featuring par765 Wonn Road, Greenand add dimension to each Free admission. Find a stuSpace, 216 Commercial tisan political debate, then around the house” style bank. Self-described as artwork. Gallery hours are dio map at skagitart.com Ave., Anacortes. The show casting votes for the side arrangements. “meticulous whimsy,” Pot- 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesor pick up a copy at parfeatures work by four Schouten offers both a that best represents their ter’s art — reminiscent of ticipating studios and other day through Sunday. artists using very differvalues. The Stinktown 2 will nature-based interpretathe works of M.C. Escher locations.

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OUT & ABOUT “IN OUR MIDST”: See Northwest Modernism at its best in a show that continues through July 14 at Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave., La Conner. The show will feature sculptures and vessels by Clayton James, landscape photography by Mary Randlett and drawings by the late Barbara James.

Randlett and the Jameses were members of the socalled Northwest School of artists, which included Morris Graves and Guy Anderson. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. 360-708-4787. gallerycygnus.com.

trate the process she uses to design and create her works of art, including a discussion about her dying methods, discharging methods and rusting techniques. She will lead a tour of her exhibit following the lecture. $18, $15 members.

“Kaleidoscope: Fiber Embroidery by Liz Whitney Quisgard”: Using careful placement of hundreds of tiny stitches on a buckram base, Quisgard’s vibrant fiber embroideries — reminiscent of Byzantine and Islamic mosaics — feature a three-dimensional quality captured on a two-dimensional surface. Museum KEVIN PAUL: MASTER hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

CARVER: An exhibit of Wednesday through Sunworks by Swinomish master day. Admission: $7, $5 stucarver Kevin Paul continues dents and military, free for through July 7 at the Skagit members and ages 11 and County Historical Museum, younger. 360-466-4288 or 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. laconnerquilts.com.

The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. $5 adults, $4 CAR SHOWS COLLECTORS’ CAR seniors and ages 6 to 12, $10 SHOW: Check out classic families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360- cars and trucks of all makes and models at the 22nd 466-3365 or skagitcounty. annual Collectors’ Car net/museum.

Show, Outdoor Market and Poker Run from 10 a.m.

ART QUILTS, EMBROIDERY: Two new shows con- to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at Camano Center, 606 tinue through Oct. 6 at the Arrowhead Road, Camano La Conner Quilt & Textile Island.

Museum, 703 S. Second St., Enjoy live entertainLa Conner. ment, children’s activities “From Nature’s Studio: and more. The Poker Run Regina V. Benson”: The will begin at 8 a.m. with show features Benson’s art prizes for the best and quilts and installation textiles using techniques based worst hands; $5 per card. on ancient processes she has Car check-in begins at 9 redesigned to work more a.m. Car registration: $15 gently with the environment though July 19, then $20. and her own health. Her Free admission for specdramatic surface designs tators. 360-387-0222 or incorporate her love of camanocenter.org. nature, both in design and process.

LECTURES Benson will present a lecture, “Working with Nature,” AND TALKS POSTAL CRISIS: “Crisis from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, in the U.S. Postal Service” June 29, at the Civic Garden Club, 622 S. Second St., will be the topic at the Fidalgo Democrats’ next across the street from the museum. Benson will illusmeeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday,

July 9, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes.

Maria Risener, district representative and executive board member for Washington state American Postal Workers Union and Lynden post office clerk, will speak about what the Postal Service is facing, why and what legislation could prevent privatization. A moderated period of questions and comments will follow. The meeting is open to the public. Bring a nonperishable donation for the food bank. For information, contact Corinne Salcedo 360-293-7114.

WORDS OF PEACE: Northwest Language Academy will host the Words of Peace presentation “The Language Of The Heart” with world traveler and inspirational speaker Charananand from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, at the NWLA Cultural Center, 5023 Langley Road, Langley. The talk will begin at 7 p.m. following a home-cooked Indian meal.

The talk is free. Dinner is by donation, and reservations are required by July 8: call 360-321-2101 or email josette@nwlanguageacad emy.com.

MUSIC AMERICAN ROOTS CONCERT SERIES: Discover the roots of American music at a series of free summer concerts at 7 p.m. Saturdays in the West Beach amphitheater at Deception Pass State Park.

Discover Pass required for park admission. 360-6753767.

Next up: July 13: Ryan McKasson and Dave Bartley. Traditional Scottish music on fiddle and guitar.

July 20: La Famille Léger. Acadien and Québé-

cois house music from east- Lane, Greenbank. Assorted natural plant materials will ern Canada. be provided. Admission: $5, free for ages 11 and SUMMER CONCERT younger accompanied by SERIES: The sixth annual an adult. 360-678-1912 or Cap Sante Summer Conmeerkerkgardens.org. cert Series will feature live concerts at Seafarers’ NEW MOON CELEBRAMemorial Park in AnaTION: The event will take cortes. All shows start at place from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

7 p.m. Bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating. Free. Monday, July 8, at the Ana425-303-1848 or snohomish cortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., artistguild.org.

Anacortes. Join Rev. Elke Next up: Friday, July 19: The Hit- Macartney to drum in new men, NW soul band revue. ideas for the month and drum out the old. Bring Friday, July 26: Black your own hand drums and Vinyl All-Stars, Seattle’s rattles or borrow hers.

Led Zeppelin Band. $5-$10 suggested donation.

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CERT/FOOD DRIVE: The 18th annual Skagit Valley STAR PARTY FOR HELP Highland Games will kick HOUSE: Explore the night off with a free community sky and view distant galaxconcert at 7 p.m. Friday, July 12, on the Celtic Stage ies, nebulas, planets and the moon from 7 p.m. to at Edgewater Park, 600 midnight Friday, July 12, Behrens Millett Road, Mount Vernon. The concert weather permitting, at Windjammer Park, Oak will feature the Troy MacHarbor. Island County Gillivray Trio from Nova Astronomical Society Scotia, Canada. Refreshmembers will be on hand ments will be available for purchase. Bring a non- to answer questions, and will provide an assortment perishable food donation to benefit the Skagit Food of telescopes for viewing.

All ages welcome. Bring Bank. 360-416-4934 or donations of canned food celticarts.org. or money to benefit North BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: Whidbey HELP House.

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The 37th annual Darwebs.com. rington Bluegrass Festival will take place Friday KIDS-R-BEST FEST: 11 through Sunday, July 19-21, a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July at the Darrington Blue13, at Storvik Park, 1110 grass Music Park, located 32nd St., Anacortes. Enjoy on Highway 530, 3 miles west of Darrington. Week- games, activities, live entertainment, prizes and more. end pass: $55. Day passes: Free. Food will be available $20-$25. Camping availfor purchase. able. 360-436-1006 or darringtonbluegrass.com.

QUEST TO THE CASTLE: Hosted by New Day MORE FUN Children’s Foundation, FAIRY HOUSE FESTIVAL: the Quest to the Castle Boys and girls of all ages motorcycle run will take can build fairy houses from place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sat- Saturday, July 13, starting urday, July 6, at Meerkerk at MossyBack Farm, 29203 Highway 99, Stanwood. The Gardens, 3531 Meerkerk

event will end at The Castle in Sedro-Woolley with live music by Michelle Taylor & The Blues Junkies, food, drinks and drawings for cash and other prizes. $10 per rider. Proceeds will benefit youth in Skagit, Island and Snohomish counties. Register at newdaychildrensfoundation.org or at 10 a.m. the day of the ride. For information, call 425-327-2275 or email newdayworldchildrens foundation@gmail.org.

FAMILY FUN FAIR: Bring the family and enjoy train rides, games, music and hot dogs from noon to 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 14, at Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger.

Free. 360-724-5211.

CONCRETE FLY-IN: Check out a variety of vintage, classic and antique airplanes at the Concrete North Cascades Vintage Fly-in Friday through Sunday, July 19-21, at Mears Field, located just southwest of Concrete on Highway 20. Early arrivals will be landing on Friday, and aircraft judging will take place all day Saturday, with departures on Sunday.

Breakfast will be available from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Concrete High School, across the street from the airport. Food vendors will be on site all day Saturday. skagitaero.com.

SHIPWRECK FESTIVAL: The 34th annual Shipwreck Festival will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 20, in downtown Anacortes. More than 200 vendors will offer treasures, one-of-a-kind antiques, food, kids activities and more at this antique flea market and giant community garage sale. Booth space is still available. 360299-9390 or shipwreckfest. org.

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