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Cantabile of Skagit Valley

A DIVERSE MUSICAL WEEKEND On Stage and Tuning Up, Pages 8-9

Baby Cakes

Tekla Waterfield and the Sweet Nothings

Classic Roads

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TUNING UP

THIS WEEKEND Decoy carving competition set for Saturday at Holiday Sports in Burlington PAGE 3

Mary Ellen Lykins and the CC Adams Band play the Longhorn Saloon on Friday night PAGE 9

MOTHER’S DAY We offer plenty of options for kids to treat mom this weekend PAGE 4

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THIS WEEKENDin the area ANACORTES AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE The Anacortes American and the Anacortes Museum Foundation will host a joint celebration of the newspaper’s 125th anniversary and the release of Wallie Funk’s new book during an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, May 9, at the Anacortes Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. Anacortes American Publisher Jack Darnton will offer a short program at noon, followed by the book release party.

“Pictures of the Past: Celebrating 125 Years of Anacortes History” includes a collection of Funk’s Anacortes American history columns, illustrated with more than 180 rare images from the museum’s vast Funk collection.

Funk served as the American’s editor and copublisher from 1950-64. Free. 360-293-1915 or museum.cityofanacortes.org.

PIRATE PARTY Kids ages 6 to 8 are invited to celebrate pirates from the Seven Seas at 2 p.m.

Saturday, May 9, at the Mount Vernon City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St., Mount Vernon.

Throw on some pirate gear and be prepared to walk the plank, go on a treasure hunt and more. Free. 360-336-6209.

Decoy carving competition The Washington Brant Foundation will host the 2015 Puget Sound Open Decoy Carving Competition from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at Holiday Sports, 895 Nevitt Road, Burlington. Activities will include judging of entries from across the U.S., sporting goods vendor demos, children’s activities, live and silent auctions of winning decoys and outdoor items. 425-2316497, 360-202-0415 or wabrant.org.

JAZZ AT THE LIBRARY Carrie Wicks and Nick Allison will perform from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 10, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or jazzatthelibrary.com.

RUN FOR YOUR MUM The 5K Run and 2-mile

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Walk benefiting Pregnancy Choices will take place Saturday, May 9, on the Nature Trails at the Port of Skagit, Crosswind Drive, Burlington. Registration opens at 8 a.m., followed by the 2-mile walk at 9 a.m. and the 5K run at 9:30 a.m. Awards will be given to the overall male and female winners and the male and female winners in each age group. Runners and walkers can either raise pledges or pay a small entry fee. Registration is free for ages 12 and younger. 360-428-4777 or runforyourmum.com.

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In ‘Hot Pursuit’ of laughs and respect

By REBECCA KEEGAN Los Angeles Times

Behind Reese Witherspoon’s back, Sofia Vergara was lowering her eyelids in a mock, come hither stare.

“You can really tell what Sofia is passionate about,” Witherspoon said, earnestly attempting to make a point about Vergara’s strong personal brand.

When Vergara started cackling, Witherspoon whipped around. “Why are you making that face? The entire time I talk she makes faces behind my back.”

Co-stars in the new comedy “Hot Pursuit,” Vergara and Witherspoon are physical and temperamental opposites.

Petite, New Orleansborn Witherspoon, 39, is best known for her performances in dramatic movies like “Wild” and “Walk the Line” and comedies like “Legally Blonde,” and she cultivates a proper, Southern-belle persona filtered through a type-A personality.

Vergara, 42, curvy, born in Barranquilla, Colombia, is best known for her performance as feisty matriarch Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on ABC’s “Modern Family” and her high-profile brand endorsements such as “Cover Girl,” and she cultivates a spontaneous, hot Latina persona.

What the actresses share is a sharp business sense, which they brought to their work on “Hot Pursuit.” In the movie, which opens Friday, Witherspoon plays an uptight cop charged with protecting Vergara, the widow of a drug lord. The actresses, who developed the movie together, recently gathered with their “Hot Pursuit” director, Anne Fletcher — herself a rarity as a female director of studio comedies — for a candid conversation about money,

media and the challenges of being women in show business.

Q: Reese, you speak some Spanish in this movie. Are you fluent?

Witherspoon: That would be seventh-grade Spanish.

Vergara: When I hear her speak Spanish I realize why I’m funny to Americans. It was one of the great scenes for me because I would see how she was struggling and suffering. It’s hard to really be acting when you’re translating. The emotion can’t come. So I enjoyed this because she was feeling what I feel every day.

Q: You’re both credited as producers on this. How did the movie come about?

Witherspoon: There wasn’t a lot of development going on for female comedy. Whatever you want to do, you’ve got to sort of do it yourself. I was a big fan of Sofia’s, and I thought it would be a good idea just to talk and see if she even wanted to do a movie together. We talked about a couple of funny ideas, and this is the one we decided to develop together.

Q: Sofia, why do you think there is such a big gap between the size of the Latin movie-going audience and the number of films starring Latin actors?

Vergara: Mainly the problem is there aren’t Latin

woman takes care of the family.

Witherspoon: I think at the fundamental beginning level we’re not nurturing female directors and writers at the same level that we should be. It’s incumbent on all of us to hire female interns, to let them come on sets to watch us work Sofia Vergara (left) and Reese Witherspoon star and we’ve got to encourage it. Also there’s this weird in “Hot Pursuit.” phenomenon, I don’t know Warner Bros. Pictures via AP if you’ve read Kirsten Gillibrand’s book, “Off the people creating content.

Sidelines,” about how do Many of them are doing we get more women active soap operas. It is a lack of in politics and every field.

Latin people writing. It’s not There’s an interesting phethe fault I think of an Amer- nomenon that women want ican writer. Usually when to be asked instead of volunyou write, you write what teering. We don’t raise our you know about. I admire hands ‘cause culturally we the people who write for see that as bossy.

Gloria in “Modern Family.”

Actually you have to be They’re mostly men. Mostly a little bit assertive and selfthey’ve had wives like Julie promoting, and you kind of Bowen’s character, but have to think you’re great, they’ve never had a Latin and that’s a quality we don’t woman. foster. Women don’t say, “I’m actually a pretty good Q: Anne, this movie has writer. I think I could be a a scene where Reese and really good director.” I do Sofia pretend to be a lesbian think it’s changing when couple to get out of a jam, I see people like Tina Fey and a period joke. Did you and Amy Poehler and Amy think a buddy comedy star- Schumer going, “I don’t care ring two women required a what you think of me.” different approach from one starring men?

Q: Sofia, I read in Forbes Fletcher: For me it was that you’re the highest-paid important not to take a male TV actor … genre and slot women into Vergara: Don’t listen to it. One of the things in com- all the gossip. edy now is making women act like men. That’s not Q: Is that gossip? It’s funny to me. Women need Forbes. to act like women. We’re Witherspoon: I think very funny. We have a point that’s amazing. We as of view. women don’t communicate about how we’re doing Q: As a female directing financially. I was talking to a studio comedy you’re in a this woman last night about very small group. Why aren’t young men who are actors there more women doing who roll around with big what you do? entrepreneurs and they Fletcher: I think it’s invest in Twitter and Uber changing. The difference is and there’s not a lot of women have to make the women rolling around that decision to have kids. We way. We need to be more run out of time. In a typical candid about those converheterosexual couple … the sations.

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CAMANO STUDIO TOUR: The 17th annual Camano Island Studio Tour will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday through Sunday, May 8-10, and Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17, at locations around Camano Island and Stanwood.

Check out artwork in a wide variety of media offered by 43 juried artists, 30 studios and three galleries. Pick up a self-guided tour map at local merchants or at camanostudiotour.com.

Free. 425-263-2813.

Mother’s Day events in the area

fare-paying companion on a special train trip at noon Saturday, May 9. The train will leave TAKE MOM SAILfrom Wickersham, ING: The Center for Wooden Boats will offer located 10 miles north free boat rides from 10 of Sedro-Woolley on a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Highway 9, and will stop at a waterfall and May 9, at Cama Beach State Park, 1880 S. West a small park during the Camano Drive, Camano 1-1/2-hour ride aboard Island. Enjoy free rides vintage passenger coaches dating from in a variety of classic wooden boats, toy boat 1910 to 1925. $25 ages 18 and older; $12.50 building and more. children; free for ages Free. Limited parking.

Discover Pass required. 1 and younger. Tickets must be purchased in 360-387-9361 or cwb. advance from Bellingorg. ham Railway Museum, MOTHER’S DAY TEA: 1320 Commercial St., Bellingham, or by The La Conner Quilt phone at 360-441-0719. & Textile Museum For information and will offer a traditional Victorian Tea with seat- directions, visit lake ings at noon and 3 p.m. whatcomrailway.com.

Saturday, May 9, at the MOTHER’S DAY CONmuseum, 703 S. Second CERT: Meerkerk RhoSt., La Conner. Enjoy tea sandwiches, scones, dodendron Gardens desserts, lemonade and will host its traditional Mother’s Day concert tea, while volunteers from noon to 4 p.m. stroll from room to room displaying a vari- Sunday, May 10, at 3531 ety of Victorian textiles Meerkerk Lane, Greenand fashion items. Each bank, Whidbey Island.

Enjoy Harper Tasche’s guest will also receive a small favor. $30. Res- folk harp music on the Gazebo Green. Bring a ervations required: garden chair or blanket 360-466-4288 or lacon and picnic basket. $10, nerquilts.org. free for ages 15 and younger accompanied MOTHER’S DAY TRAIN: Lake Whatcom by an adult. Dogs permitted on leash. 360Railway will let moms ride for half price when 678-1912 or meerkerk accompanied by one gardens.org.

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OUT & ABOUT ART SKAGIT VALLEY ART ESCAPE: On the first weekend of each month, through October, the Skagit Valley Art Escape invites local residents and out-of-area visitors to experience gallery art walks, music performances, artist demonstrations and more at participating locations.

Mount Vernon: 5 to 8 p.m. first Thursday.

Anacortes: 6 to 9 p.m. first Friday.

Edison and La Conner: 5 to 8 p.m. first Saturday.

4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or scottmilo.com.

OILS & ENCAUSTICS: “HOMAGE,” a show of artwork by Sharon Kingston and Eric Eschenbach, continues through May 31 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison.

Kingston is an oil painter who uses the properties of her medium to create paintings that look inward and outward — responding to both the atmosphere of her surroundings and the poetry within. Eschenbach’s oils and encaustics explore our changing “SPRING TIME”: Paint- landscape. He sees Western ings by Anne Martin Skagit Valley Herald staff Washington’s varying tidal McCool and Cathy Schoen- zones as the perfect metaberg are featured in a phor symbolizing both the Enjoy free film screenshow continuing through impact of man and climate ings at 7 p.m. Fridays at May 15 at McCool Galchange and nature’s cycles the Anacortes Public lery, 711 Commercial Ave., of rejuvenation. The gallery Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. McCool creates is open from 11 a.m. to 5 Anacortes. Free. 360-293paintings using layers of p.m. daily. 360-766-6230 or 1910, ext. 21, or library. color, and Schoenberg’s smithandvallee.com. cityofanacortes.org. Next new paintings feature up: brightly colored flowers.

NEW PAINTINGS: “SancMay 8: “Black StalGallery hours are 11 a.m. tuary: Trees of Life” conlion” (adventure): Starto 5 p.m. Tuesday through tinues through June 4 at ring Kelly Reno, Mickey Saturday and noon to 4 Raven Rocks Gallery, 765 Rooney, Hoyt Axton and p.m. Sunday. 360-293-3577 Wonn Road, Greenbank.

Teri Garr. Shortly after or annemartinmccool.com. The show features new World War II, 10-year-old acrylic paintings, pen and Alec Ramsey, traveling OILS & PASTELS: A ink and watercolor work with his father back to show featuring a new colby Mary Jo Oxrieder, as England by ship, finds lection of oils and pastels well as new watercolors by himself shipwrecked on

by Amanda Houston Windwalker Taibi. Both a deserted island along continues through June 2 artists are also showing with a black Arabian stalat Scott Milo Gallery, 420 new collections of waterlion he had befriended Commercial Ave., Anacolor and mixed media onboard the ship. Rescortes. miniatures. For informacued and back home in The show features Hous- tion, including gallery America, Alec and former ton’s classic landscape style hours and directions: 360jockey Henry Dailey in both pastel and oil on 222-0102 or ravenrocks (Rooney) set out to train canvas, in addition to her gallery.com. the stallion to compete Northwest bird images. against the fastest horses Also showing: acrylics on LYNDEN ART EXHIBin the world. Rated G. canvas by Jennifer BowITS: Check out several art May 15: “Life is Beauman, color photographs by exhibits through May 30 at tiful” (drama): Starring Randy Dana, floral mono- the Jansen Art Center, 321 Roberto Benigni, Nicoprints by Marie Powell Front St., Lynden. “Paintletta Braschi and Giorgio and impressionistic oils by ings by Quincy Anderson” Cantarini. In 1930s Italy, Donna Nevitt Radtke, as offers an exploration Jewish bookkeeper Guido well as a selection of jewof reflections on water elry, glass work, sculptures inspired by the rivers of and tables. The gallery is France, garden ponds of Venice. “Promising open from 10:30 a.m. to of Thailand and canals Futures: Whatcom County

dents. The “Spring Juried Exhibit” showcases the artistic talent of Whatcom County and the surrounding region. 360-354-3600 or jansenartcenter.org.

‘Black Stallion’ next up on Anacortes library’s Spring Film Series courts and marries a lovely woman. They have a son and live happily together until German forces occupy Italy and pack them off to a Jewish concentration camp. To protect his son from the horrors of the camp, Guido tells him they are playing a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank. Winner of three Oscars. Rated PG-13.

May 22: “Last Chance Harvey” (romantic comedy): Starring Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson and Kathy Baker. In London for his daughter’s wedding, jingle writer Harvey Shine (Hoffman) misses his plane, loses his job and feels pushed to the sidelines by his exwife and daughter. Then he meets Kate Walker (Thompson), unmarried and in danger of becoming a spinster. Their unlikely pairing blossoms into romance, but not before an unfortunate series of mishaps and misadventures. Nominated for two Golden Globes.

Rated PG-13.

High School Student Art” features artwork stu-

“THE ART OF MARK IVERSON: A Friend Remembered”: An exhibit featuring art created by Mark Iverson will open Friday, May 8, and continue through May 31 at the Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Iverson’s friends and family have loaned the museum a selection of paintings to honor his memory. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission: $5 adults, $4 seniors and children ages 6-12, $10 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-4663365 or skagitcounty.net/ museum.

CAMANO STUDIO TOUR: The 17th annual Camano Island Studio Tour will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, May 8-10, and Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17, at locations around Camano Island and Stanwood. Check out artwork in a wide variety of media offered by 43 juried artists, 30 studios and three galleries. Pick up a self-guided tour map at local merchants or at camanostudiotour.com.

Free. 425-263-2813.

QUILTS/BEAD ART: Several new exhibits of quilts and bead art are on display at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St., La Conner: “Revealing the Hidden: Contemporary QuiltArt Association”: The Contemporary QuiltArt Association includes more than 100 Washington artists working with fiber, thread and tex-

tiles. Member artists have created a wide range of two- and three-dimensional artwork incorporating a variety of techniques. The show continues through June 28.

“Impressions in Fabric”: Denise Miller and Nancy Ryan create fabric landscapes reminiscent of the pointillism of the neo-impressionist painters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Where they used dots of paint, Miller and Ryan’s quilting technique uses tiny pieces of fabric. A second technique involves the use of fusible appliqué to create floral designs, as well as parts of some of the landscapes. The show continues through June 28.

“Pastels and More: Selections from our Permanent Collection”: The museum features a variety of quilts reminiscent of the colorful spring flowers blooming in the fields around Skagit Valley.

The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily during April. Admission: $7, $5 students and military with ID, free for members and ages 11 and younger.

360-466-4288 or laconner quilts.org.

NEW ART SHOWS: Two new art shows continue through May 30 at Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. “Promising Futures: Whatcom County High School Student Art” showcases work by students.

The other show features paintings by Seattle artist Quincy Anderson, whose work is greatly influenced by her study of calligraphy, haiga painting and the tea ceremony in Japan.

The center’s Spring Juried Exhibit also continues through May. 360-354-3600 or jansenartcenter.org.

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OUT & ABOUT ANNIVERSARY SHOW: The Shop is celebrating its two-year anniversary with a show of new work by Kathleen McCarty at 18623 Main St., Conway. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday.

360-391-2691 or theshop conway.com.

WORLD ISSUES FORUM: Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies holds its annual World Issues Forum from SPRING ART: “The noon to 1:20 p.m. WednesCelebration of Spring” days in Haggard Hall, continues through June 14 LECTURES room 253, on the WWU at Matzke Fine Art Galcampus in Bellingham.

AND TALKS lery and Sculpture Park, Presentations are free GENEALOGY 2345 Blanche Way, Camano and open to the public.

“SAVING THE ENVIRESEARCH: Professional Island. The show features 360-650-2309 or wwu.edu/ RONMENT: Sustainable fairhaven/news/worldisArt”: The show of artwork work by stone carvers Sue genealogist Winona Laird Taves and Kentaro Kojima; will present “Crossing the suesforum. Next up: featuring recycled/repurPond to Scotland for Genepaintings by Janie Olsen, May 13: “Terrorism, posed materials continues alogy Research” at the Janet Hamilton, Mary Propaganda and U.S. Midthrough May 30 at the Skagit Valley Genealogical east Policy”: with David Molyneaux and Donna Schack Art Center, 2921 Society’s meeting from 1 to Barsamian, founder and Watson; prints by Karla Hoyt St., Everett. Particidirector of Alternative pating artists have scoured Matzke; ceramics by Leon 3 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at the Burlington Senior Cen- Radio.

White and Ruth Westra; junk stores, second-hand ter, 1011 Greenleaf Ave., and new sculptures in the May 20: “National shops, trash bins and surInsecurity: The Cost of plus venues to source mate- 10-acre sculpture park. The Burlington.

Laird will introduce American Militarism”: rials to create a selection of gallery is open from 11 a.m. research methods and to 5 p.m. weekends, weekwith Melvin Goodman, “whimsical, sculptural and days by appointment. 360- record types needed for director of National Secucontemplative artwork,” rity Project at the Center including lamps and clocks 387-2759 or matzkefineart. successful long-distance research. Even if you don’t for International Policy com. made from corrugated have Scottish heritage, the in Washington, D.C., and cardboard; baskets, hats, basic genealogy research adjunct professor of govpurses and life-size people FESTIVALS principles discussed will ernment at Johns Hopkins PENN COVE WATER be helpful for your own University.

FESTIVAL: The annual research. Free. skagitvalleyPenn Cove Water Festival genealogy.org. will take place from 11 a.m.

MUSIC to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 16, “HOW IT’S MADE”: FOLK LEGACY CONon the Coupeville waterWhatcom Symphony CERT: 7 p.m. Wednesday, front. Events will include Orchestra conductor Yaniv May 13, Anacortes Public tribal canoe racing, Native Attar will discuss music Library, 1220 10th St., music, singing and dancing, during the Holocaust at Anacortes. Join singer/ storytelling, a juried art 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, songwriter Bethany Lynn show, children’s activities, at the Jansen Art Center, for a musical journey from Night of the food, arts and crafts and 321 Front St., Lynden. Free. the 16th century through Living Dead more. Free. penncovewater 360-354-3600 or jansenart the 1960s Folk Revival, center.org. with historical background Skagit Valley College festival.com.

ALASKAN FISHERIES: for each song. Free. 360May 8 - 16 EDMONDS WATER7 p.m. Wednesday, May 20, 293-1910, ext. 21, or library.

FRONT FESTIVAL: The Anacortes Public Library, cityofanacortes.org.

28th Edmonds Rotary 1220 10th St., Anacortes.

Tribute Concert Waterfront Festival will Filmmaker and former Mount Vernon MORE FUN take place from 3 to 10 p.m. fisherman Mark Lunsten High School Bands Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

SOUND PRAYER HEALexplains the story of AlasING: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 kan fisheries is really the May 28 May 8, Anacortes Center p.m. Sunday, May 29-31, story of the halibut and for Happiness, 619 Comat the Port of Edmonds salmon fisheries, starting Ten Strings & mercial Ave., Anacortes.

Marina, 358 Admiral Way, over 100 years ago and Listen, meditate and pray Edmonds.

Enjoy music and teaching a lesson in susA Goat Skin to drums, rattles, singing entertainment, classic boats tainable living. Free. 360McIntyre Hall Presents and yachts, hydroplane dis- 293-1910, ext. 21, or library. bowls and singing. $10, free plays, arts and crafts, kids’ cityofanacortes.org. for ages 16 and younger.

May 29

360.416.7727 mcintyrehall.org

made from plastic bags; masks and sculptures from old typewriters; and much more. 425-259-5050 or schack.org.

activities, free fishing for kids on Saturday and Sunday, beer and wine garden, food and more. Admission: $3, free for ages 12 and younger. edmondswater frontfestival.com.

360-464-2229 or anacortes centerforhappiness.org.

May 16, at Seafarer’s Park in Anacortes. Small boat enthusiasts are invited to MODEL RAILROAD meet all sorts of small craft DISPLAY: The Whatcomand their owners. Bring Skagit Model Railroad your own boat and check Club will host its last open out gigs, whitehalls, kayaks, house of the season from skin-on-frame boats and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, a variety of other sailing May 9, at 1469 Silver Run craft. Enjoy demonstraLane, Alger. Check out the tions, fun and games, with club’s large, permanent a potluck lunch at 12:30 HO- and N-scale indoor p.m. Barbecues will be railroad layouts. Admission provided for grilling. Free. is by donation to maintain For information, call Andy and expand the layouts. at 360-293-4161 or visit whatcomskagitmrc.org. anacortessmallboatcenter. com.

EXPLORE THE NIGHT SKY: View distant galaxies, ROCKS & GEMS: Picplanets and nebulas beginture sandstone will be the ning at dark Friday, May 15, featured rock at the Mt. at Fort Nugent Park, 2075 Baker Rock & Gem Club SW Fort Nugent Road, meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Oak Harbor. This free pubMay 18, at the Bloedel lic Star Party will be hosted Donovan Community by the Island County Building, 2214 Electric Astronomical Society. No Ave., Bellingham. Sandtelescope is required. All stone is sometimes colored ages welcome. The event by iron oxide and other will be canceled if cloudy. minerals and is collected as For information, contact a natural work of art. The Dan at 360-679-7664 or evening also will include visit icas-wa.webs.com. door prizes, refreshments, a silent auction and a brief GARDEN, GIFTS & business meeting. Visitors JUNK: The Spring Garden & Gift Faire will take are welcome, with or without rocks. 360-734-3994 or place from noon to 6 p.m.

Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. mtbakerrockclub.org.

Saturday, May 15-16, at FILM SCREENING: The the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Anacortes Center for HapFairhaven Ave., Burlington. piness will host a screening Shop for a wide variety of of “The Way” at 7 p.m. items including plants, art, Friday, May 29, at 619 handmade gifts, home busi- Commercial Ave., Ananess consultants and more. cortes. Directed by Emilio On Saturday, check out the Estevez and starring his Junk in Your Trunk garage father, Martin Sheen, “The sale outside the rec center Way” is about a father who heads overseas to recover from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free the body of his estranged admission to both events. son who died while travel360-755-9649. ing the “El camino de Santiago,” and decides to take SMALL BOAT ‘MESSthe pilgrimage himself.

ABOUT’: The Pull and Be Damned Small Boat Mess- Admission by donation.

360-464-2229 or anacortes about will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, centerforhappiness.org.

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “Selma”: At the heart re-released to mark the of the film are the efforts 40th anniversary.

Upcoming

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E8 Thursday, May 7, 2015

ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area May 7-14

TUNING UP Playing at area venues May 7-14 LOOKING AHEAD WEDNESDAY.13

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24.

360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

CANTABILE OF SKAGIT VALLEY FRIDAY.8: 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 Ninth Ave. Anacortes. $15 suggested donation.

SATURDAY.9: 7:30 p.m., First Reformed Church, 250 SW Third Ave., Oak Harbor. $15 suggested donation.

360-766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

Thursday.7 THEATER

“Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. Free. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater. com.

“A Very Brady Musical!”: 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 3rd St, SedroWoolley. $5-10. 360-855-3510.

Friday.8 MUSIC

Trio Affettuoso: Shelley Ross, flute; John Flancher, flute and contrabass viol; and Lynne Berg, harpsichord: 7 p.m., Croatian Cultural Center, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. $20 at the door, free for children. 360-293-4930 or anacortesarts foundation.org.

“Soul Rising”: Cantabile of Skagit Valley: 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 Ninth Ave. Anacortes. $15 suggested donation. 360-766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

THEATER

“Night of the Living Dead”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15. Student discount available. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-3368955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“Anne of Green Gables”: Whidbey Children’s Theater, 7 p.m., WCT, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $8 students. 360-221-8707 or wctmagic.org.

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“Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

“Anne of Green Gables”: Whidbey Children’s Theater, 7 p.m., WCT, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $8 students. 360-221-8707 or wctmagic.org.

“Broken Holmes” and “In a Handbag Darkly” (parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”): 9:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door.

360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

“Broken Holmes” and “In a Handbag Darkly” (parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. $25.

360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

A Very Brady Musical!”: 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 3rd St, SedroWoolley. $5-10. 360-855-3510.

“The Glasses” (farce): 9:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

Saturday.9

“A Very Brady Musical!”: 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 3rd St, SedroWoolley. $5-10. 360-855-3510.

MUSIC

“Soul Rising”: Cantabile of Skagit Valley: 7:30 p.m., First Reformed Church, 250 SW Third Ave., Oak Harbor. $15 suggested donation. 360766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

Haynie Opry tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens: Claudette Dykstra Sterk with Matt Audette and the Circle of Friends Band, 7 p.m., Haynie Opry, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $10, free for ages 12 and younger. 360-336-3321.

THEATER

“Night of the Living Dead”: 7:30 and 10 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15. Student discount available. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-3368955 or lincolntheatre.org.

Sunday.10 MUSIC

“Soul Rising”: Cantabile of Skagit Valley, 3 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. $15 suggested donation. 360766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

THEATER

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 2 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“Anne of Green Gables”: Whidbey Children’s Theater, 2 p.m., WCT, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $8 students. 360-221-8707 or wctmagic.org.

“The Glasses” (farce): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

“Night of the Living Dead”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15.

Student discount available. 360416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall. org.

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24.

360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”: La Conner High School Drama Club, 7:30 p.m., La Conner schools auditorium, 304 N. Sixth St., La Conner. $10 adults, $7 students and seniors. 360-4663171.

“Broken Holmes” and “In a Handbag Darkly” (parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door.

360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

THURSDAY.7 Marcia Kester (country, soft rock, oldies, pop, blues): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway.

360-445-3000.

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

FRIDAY.8

Jenny & the TomCats: 5 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-982-2649.

MARY ELLEN LYKINS AND THE CC ADAMS BAND 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6330.

SATURDAY.9 TEKLA WATERFIELD AND THE SWEET NOTHINGS 9 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

FRIDAY.8 Goodsons: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360422-6411.

MuseBird Cafe: Caryn Jamieson, Norman Baker and Allison Preisinger, 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

Michelle Taylor Band (R&B, classic rock, blues): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

The Skeptix: 8 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

No cover. 360-7666266.

Gin Creek Duo: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Lloyd Hooper and the Cascade Ramblers (classic country dance): 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., Sedro-Woolley American Legion Hall, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-5111.

Jukebox Duo: 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

360-848-8882

Mary Ellen Lykins and the CC Adams Band: 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666330.

Josh Harty and Andrea Peterman: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

Tekla Waterfield and the Sweet Nothings: 9 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-4453000.

Michelle Taylor Band (R&B, classic rock, blues): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

Little Bill and the Bluenotes: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Baby Cakes: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

Lloyd Hooper and the Cascade Ramblers (classic country dance): 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., Sedro-Woolley American Legion Hall, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-5111.

Classic Roads: 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6330.

SATURDAY.9 North bye Northwest: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360422-6411.

SUNDAY.10 Gary B’s Church of Blues: Jam night, 6 to 10 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360445-4733.

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

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

360-466-4488.

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

WEDNESDAY.13

THURSDAY.14

The Stilly River Band: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Open Mic: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. Signups start at 6:30 p.m. 360-4453000.

The Revelers: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, Bard Room, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Prozac Mountain Boys (bluegrass, Americana): 6 to 9 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-982-2649.

Eric & Anissa: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600 or jansenartcenter. org.

E8 Thursday, May 7, 2015

ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area May 7-14

TUNING UP Playing at area venues May 7-14 LOOKING AHEAD WEDNESDAY.13

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24.

360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

CANTABILE OF SKAGIT VALLEY FRIDAY.8: 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 Ninth Ave. Anacortes. $15 suggested donation.

SATURDAY.9: 7:30 p.m., First Reformed Church, 250 SW Third Ave., Oak Harbor. $15 suggested donation.

360-766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

Thursday.7 THEATER

“Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. Free. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater. com.

“A Very Brady Musical!”: 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 3rd St, SedroWoolley. $5-10. 360-855-3510.

Friday.8 MUSIC

Trio Affettuoso: Shelley Ross, flute; John Flancher, flute and contrabass viol; and Lynne Berg, harpsichord: 7 p.m., Croatian Cultural Center, 801 Fifth St., Anacortes. $20 at the door, free for children. 360-293-4930 or anacortesarts foundation.org.

“Soul Rising”: Cantabile of Skagit Valley: 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 Ninth Ave. Anacortes. $15 suggested donation. 360-766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

THEATER

“Night of the Living Dead”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15. Student discount available. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-3368955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“Anne of Green Gables”: Whidbey Children’s Theater, 7 p.m., WCT, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $8 students. 360-221-8707 or wctmagic.org.

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THURSDAY.14

“Best of Brass Monkey” (six short plays): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

“Anne of Green Gables”: Whidbey Children’s Theater, 7 p.m., WCT, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $8 students. 360-221-8707 or wctmagic.org.

“Broken Holmes” and “In a Handbag Darkly” (parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”): 9:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door.

360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

“Broken Holmes” and “In a Handbag Darkly” (parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. $25.

360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

A Very Brady Musical!”: 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 3rd St, SedroWoolley. $5-10. 360-855-3510.

“The Glasses” (farce): 9:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

Saturday.9

“A Very Brady Musical!”: 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 3rd St, SedroWoolley. $5-10. 360-855-3510.

MUSIC

“Soul Rising”: Cantabile of Skagit Valley: 7:30 p.m., First Reformed Church, 250 SW Third Ave., Oak Harbor. $15 suggested donation. 360766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

Haynie Opry tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens: Claudette Dykstra Sterk with Matt Audette and the Circle of Friends Band, 7 p.m., Haynie Opry, 3344 Haynie Road, Blaine. $10, free for ages 12 and younger. 360-336-3321.

THEATER

“Night of the Living Dead”: 7:30 and 10 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15. Student discount available. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-3368955 or lincolntheatre.org.

Sunday.10 MUSIC

“Soul Rising”: Cantabile of Skagit Valley, 3 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. $15 suggested donation. 360766-6866 or cantabileofskagitvalley.org.

THEATER

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 2 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“Anne of Green Gables”: Whidbey Children’s Theater, 2 p.m., WCT, 723 Camano Ave., Langley. $15 adults, $12 seniors, $8 students. 360-221-8707 or wctmagic.org.

“The Glasses” (farce): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door. 360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

“Night of the Living Dead”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15.

Student discount available. 360416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall. org.

“Once Upon a Mattress” (musical-comedy): Theater Arts Guild, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$24.

360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”: La Conner High School Drama Club, 7:30 p.m., La Conner schools auditorium, 304 N. Sixth St., La Conner. $10 adults, $7 students and seniors. 360-4663171.

“Broken Holmes” and “In a Handbag Darkly” (parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”): 7:30 p.m., iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $10 advance, $12 at the door.

360-305-3524 or idiomtheater.com.

THURSDAY.7 Marcia Kester (country, soft rock, oldies, pop, blues): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway.

360-445-3000.

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

FRIDAY.8

Jenny & the TomCats: 5 to 8 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-982-2649.

MARY ELLEN LYKINS AND THE CC ADAMS BAND 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6330.

SATURDAY.9 TEKLA WATERFIELD AND THE SWEET NOTHINGS 9 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

FRIDAY.8 Goodsons: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360422-6411.

MuseBird Cafe: Caryn Jamieson, Norman Baker and Allison Preisinger, 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

Michelle Taylor Band (R&B, classic rock, blues): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

The Skeptix: 8 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

No cover. 360-7666266.

Gin Creek Duo: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Lloyd Hooper and the Cascade Ramblers (classic country dance): 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., Sedro-Woolley American Legion Hall, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-5111.

Jukebox Duo: 7 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

360-848-8882

Mary Ellen Lykins and the CC Adams Band: 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. 360-7666330.

Josh Harty and Andrea Peterman: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

Tekla Waterfield and the Sweet Nothings: 9 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-4453000.

Michelle Taylor Band (R&B, classic rock, blues): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

Little Bill and the Bluenotes: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Baby Cakes: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover.

360-766-6266.

Lloyd Hooper and the Cascade Ramblers (classic country dance): 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., Sedro-Woolley American Legion Hall, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-855-5111.

Classic Roads: 9 p.m., Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6330.

SATURDAY.9 North bye Northwest: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360422-6411.

SUNDAY.10 Gary B’s Church of Blues: Jam night, 6 to 10 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360445-4733.

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

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

360-466-4488.

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

WEDNESDAY.13

THURSDAY.14

The Stilly River Band: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

Open Mic: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. Signups start at 6:30 p.m. 360-4453000.

The Revelers: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, Bard Room, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10.

360-445-3000.

Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Prozac Mountain Boys (bluegrass, Americana): 6 to 9 p.m., The Woolley Market, 829 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley.

360-982-2649.

Eric & Anissa: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600 or jansenartcenter. org.

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GET INVOLVED AUDITIONS

and request dances until 9:30. The first session is free, “PIRATES OF PENZANCE, $3 thereafter. All welcome.

YOUTH PRODUCTION”: No partners needed. For The Whidbey Playhouse information, call Gary or Would-Be-Players will hold Ginny at 360-766-6866. auditions from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Monday and Tuesday, May SCOTTISH DANCING: 11-12, at the Star Studio, Bellingham Scottish Coun730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak try Dancers meet from 7 to Harbor. Thirty parts are 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the available for ages 8-18. Per- Fairhaven Library auditoriformers should be ready to um (upstairs), 1117 12th St., sing and dressed for dance Bellingham. Wear comfortmovement. Rehearsals able clothes and soft-soled will normally be held from shoes without heels. $8 per 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays, class. For information, call Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Mary Anderson at 360-933Performances of the comic 1779 or visit bellinghamscd. operetta will take place org.

June 25-28. For information, including registration THURSDAY DANCE: costs, contact director Stan Dance to The Skippers from Thomas at 360-675-0574 or 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays visit whidbeyplayhouse.com/ at Hillcrest Lodge, 1717 S. youth-theater.html.

13th St., Mount Vernon. For information, contact Gisela “THE ROCKY HORROR at 360-424-5696.

SHOW”: Theater Arts Guild will hold auditions from COMMUNITY DANCE: 6 to 9 p.m. Monday and Dance to the big band music Tuesday, June 8-9, at the of Camano Junction from Mount Vernon High School 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June auditorium, 314 N. Ninth St., 6, at Camano Center, 606 Mount Vernon. Parts are Arrowhead Road, Camano available for seven males, Island. $15, includes snacks. three females and several No-host bar available. 360male and female “phan387-0222 or camanocenter. toms.” Prepare a dramatic org.

1-1/2-minute monologue and a song not from the MUSIC show, and be prepared to BARBERSHOP HARMOlearn a short choreography NY: Attend a free, no-comroutine. Auditioners must mitment rehearsal of the be at least 16 years old by An-O-Chords, a four-part opening night (Oct. 23); barbershop harmony group. those under 18 must have No experience necessary, no parental consent. The auditions required. Learn by musical comedy will run rote, you don’t have to read Oct. 23-Nov. 7. theater music. Ages 12 and up welartsguild.org. come. Drop in any Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Northwest DANCE Educational Service BuildFOLK DANCING: Skagiting, 1601 R Ave., Anacortes.

Anacortes Folk Dancers Rides available. Bob Lunmeet at 7 p.m. Tuesdays dquist, 360-941-5733 or at the Bayview Civic Hall, svenbob@cheerful.com.

12615 C St., Bay View.

Learn to folkdance to a CALL FOR MUSICIANS: variety of international 5b’s Bakery, 45597 Main music. Instruction begins at St., Concrete, is looking for 7 p.m. followed by review musicians to perform easy-

listening acoustic music from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during Sunday Brunch. In exchange, musicians will receive audience contributions and a meal. 360-853-8700 or info@5bsbakery.com.

includes six hikes throughout Skagit County and the surrounding area. Your team of two or more people will have two weeks to complete each hike, at your own pace and convenience.

Hidden at the end of each TIME FOR FIDDLERS: hike is a treasure chest with The Washington Old Time a riddle inside. Complete Fiddlers play acoustic oldall six hikes, solve the riddle time music at 6:30 p.m. the and find the treasure. Hikes second and fourth Fridays start June 5. For information of each month at the Mount or to register, call the UnitVernon Senior Center, 1401 ed General Fitness Center Cleveland. St. Free; donaat 360-856-7524 or visit tions accepted. 360-630trekfortreasure.org.

9494.

FREE PARK ADMISSION: SECOND FRIDAY DRUM The Washington State Parks CIRCLE: 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, and Recreation Commission May 8, Unity Church, 704 W. will offer free admission to Division St., Mount Vernon. all state parks on Sunday, Freewill donation. heat May 10. The Discover Pass miser@inbox.com. will not be required to enter state parks, but will SHELTER BAY CHORUS: be required to access lands Practices are held from 2:45 managed by the Washington to 4:45 p.m. every Thursday Department of Fish and at the Shelter Bay ClubWildlife and the Departhouse in La Conner. New ment of Natural Resources. members welcome. No need parks.wa.gov. to be a Shelter Bay resident.

The U.S. Forest Service 360-466-3805. will recognize National Trails Day by waiving LOVE TO SING? Join fees for visitors to the Mt. the women of Harmony Baker-Snoqualmie National Northwest Chorus from 6:30 Forest on Saturday, June 6. to 9 p.m. every Monday at Fees will be waived at most the Mount Vernon Senior day-use sites on the forest.

Center, 1401 Cleveland Ave. fs.usda.gov/mbs.

Seeking women who like to sing a cappella music. All FRIENDS OF THE FORskill levels welcome.

EST HIKES: Join Friends of

Little Cranberry Lake Loop: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 16. Meet at the Little Cranberry Lake parking lot on the north end of the lake. (Take Georgia south off of Oakes Avenue.

Three blocks up take a right on Little Cranberry Road and follow the gravel to the parking lot.) The trail provides constant lake views in this wildlife-rich area, where rocky meadows, bog islands and deep forest converge to create habitat for hundreds of native plants and animals.

WOMEN’S RUN & WALK: The 33rd annual Bay View Women’s Run & Walk will be held Saturday, May 16, beginning at the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center, 10441 BayviewEdison Road, Bay View.

Registration opens at 8 a.m. followed by the race at 10 a.m. The 2-mile run and walk, and 5K and 10K runs include some gently rolling hills, but the longer distances are along the flat Padilla Bay Shore Trail. Proceeds will benefit Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services GOLF TOURNEY: Golfer and women’s health issues. registrations and sponsorships are being accepted for Day of race registration: the annual Ford Golf Clas- $25-$45. Free for ages 12 sic, scheduled for noon Fri- and younger (no shirt). 360708-7273, 360-707-0258 or day, May 8, at Avalon Golf Links, 19345 Kelleher Road, bayviewwomensrun.com.

Burlington. Registration SPRING PLANT WALKS: opens at 10 a.m. $150 golfer registration includes use of a The Washington Native golf cart, continental break- Plant Society hosts plant fast, lunch and refreshments walks from 10 a.m. to noon throughout the day. Golfers Tuesdays at area parks. For information, call Ann at will be treated to a dinner 360-293-3044 or Susan, 360from Max Dale’s Steak & Chop House, followed by an 659-8792 or 360-333-7437. awards ceremony. Proceeds Next up: May 12: Washington will help fund scholarships Park, Anacortes. Meet in for Skagit Valley College students. skagit.edu/founda the parking lot by the restroom for an easy walk. tion, kelly.reep@skagit.edu or 360-416-3229.

BASEBALL BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT: The Skagit Valley Lumberjacks of the newly formed Mount the Forest for scenic hikes ANACORTES OPEN MIC: in the forest lands around Rainier Professional Base9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Brown Anacortes. Dress for the ball League will host a Lantern Ale House, 412 four-man best ball golf tourweather and wear sturdy Commercial Ave., Ananament at 10 a.m. Friday, shoes. No pets. Free. 360cortes. 360-293-2544.

293-3725 or friendsoftheacfl. May 15, at Overlook Golf Course, 17523 Highway 9, org. Next up: OPEN MIC: Jam night, 9 Senior/Adult Hike: Pine Mount Vernon. Each team p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Thursdays, Ridge, 10 a.m. to noon will include one player from Conway Pub & Eatery, the Lumberjacks. Following Friday, May 8. Meet at the 18611 Main St., Conway. base of Mount Erie on Ray the tournament there will be 360-445-4733. a barbecue lunch and meet Auld Drive. Enjoy a hike through shore pine to a hid- and greet with Lumberjacks RECREATION players and staff. Registraden meadow with lovely “TREK FOR TREASURE”: views, then continue around tion: $50, includes greens fees and lunch. Register at Registration is open for the the dark side of the ridge and connect with old growth the course or call 360-422fourth annual hiking challenge and treasure hunt. It south of Heart Lake.

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WORKSHOPS

WWU FILM WORKSHOPS: Veterans of the big and small screen will present the second Cascadia Film Workshop, featuring courses in directing, acting for the camera, special effects, makeup and screenwriting, starting June 22 at Western Washington University in Bellingham.

Courses will be offered both as for-credit or noncredit, and admission to Western is not required.

Space is limited. Registration is open until May 15 for one- or two-week classes beginning June 22. 360650-3308 or cfpa.wwu.edu/ cascadia-film-workshop.

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TRAVEL & LEARN: Skagit Valley College will offer a travel-based Integrative Experience course July 7-27 that will explore the symbiotic relationship that exists between nature and civilization in Italy. Students will visit traditional centers of art and culture including Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Cinque Terre and Carrara.

Offered as a 10-credit course for SVC students, a noncredit option is available for community members. The trip fee of $5,000 covers meals, lodging and in-country ground travel.

Airfare is not included. For information, contact Cliff Palmer at 360-416-7656 or

cliff.plamer@skagit.edu.

LANGUAGE-INTENSIVE WEEKEND: The Northwest Language Academy will host a language-intensive course on French on Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17, at the NWLA Cultural Center, 5023 Langley Road, Langley.

The course will include a weekend of language and cultural immersion. Tuition is $198, which includes some meals. Onsite lodging is also available. 360-3212101 or nwlanguageacad emy.com.

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What’s hot: I was skeptical because this is not a new idea, but when I looked at the experiences in Rome, where I’d be meeting family this summer, I got excited. The opportunities seemed more personal and unique — such as a tour of Rome from the back of a Vespa or a tailor-made culinary tour of Tuscany — than what I was finding on other local sites. Other fascinating tours include one of

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than relaxing on a beach or museum-hopping in the city.

Plan a volunteer vacation that helps those less fortunate. Teach English, read to children, paint a building or help plant a garden. Many resorts and cruise programs offer the opportunity to give back in local communities. beaches.com; togetherfor good.org; globeaware.org.

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Vernon. RSVP: 360-848Friday, May 22. Visit the 2090. first Vancouver Centre International Art event, SENIOR CENTER TRIPS: featuring paintings, photoSkagit County Senior Cengraphs, sculptures, mixed ters offer short, escorted media and more from trips. For information, call artists around the world. the Anacortes Senior Cen$115, includes transport ter at 360-293-7473 or and entry to Arts Vancouver sign up at your local senior Fair, Equinox Gallery, lunch center. and escort. Passport or enhanced drivers license ESCORTED TOURS: The required.

Whatcom County Tour Pro Coupeville Waterfront & gram offers a variety of day Garden Tour: Wednesday, trips and longer tours, with May 27. Enjoy a guided tour most trips departing from of Meerkerk Rhododendron and returning to the Belling- Gardens, the Coupeville ham Senior Activity Center, boardwalk and a guided 315 Halleck St., Bellingtour of the Island County ham. 360-733-4030, ext.

Historical Museum. $69.99, 1015, or wccoa.org/index. includes round-trip transporphp/tours. Next up: tation, guided tours, no-host Art of Vancouver, B.C.: dining and escort.

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‘Once Upon a Mattress’

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, May 8-9 2 p.m. Sunday, May 10 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, May 13-14 Theater Arts Guild presents the Broadway musical “Once Upon A Mattress.” Carried on “a wave of songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship and comeuppance provides for some side-splitting shenanigans.”

Reserved tickets: $24 first section; $20 second section; $10 third section.

Bono and U2 set as sole guests on Friday’s ‘Tonight Show’ platform Monday performing “Angel of Harlem.”

NEW YORK — New Elsewhere, Bono and Yorkers have been runFallon were seen riding ning into Bono and his bikes in preparation for band, U2, all over town a comedy bit spoofing the past few days.

Bono’s all-too-real bicycle The group has been tap- crash in New York’s Cening music and comedy bits tral Park a few months to include in their Friday ago, which resulted in appearance on NBC’s injuries that forced the “Tonight Show Starring band to cancel its schedJimmy Fallon,” where uled weeklong “Tonight” they’ll be the only guests. engagement.

Lucky subway riders at The band’s world tour Grand Central Terminal starts in Vancouver, B.C., found the band on a train on May 14.

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MOVIES NEW REVIEWS By this point in the virus’s decades-long mutation, we’ve seen pretty much everything zombies have to throw at us.

They won’t die, even as their corpses rot and turn green, and they’re always on the (usually slow) hunt for brains and human flesh. Which is why “MAGGIE” is so unexpected. This is a walking dead drama laden with doom, a young woman’s horrific and depressed death spiral in which she knows death is the least of her horrors. Most surprising is the tender, sad companion and caretaker as she dies — her quiet, compassionate and mournful father, played with great sensitivity by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Maggie’s been exposed to what the news calls “the necroambulist” virus. Society is functioning, hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, government is packing the infected off to quarantine camps where they wait for “the turn.” It’s not as if they’re being treated or cured. They just wait for the end.

Wade is a farmer who has overseen the burning of crops that newscasts suggest were the cause of the infection. The only time he picks up a gun is when he has to dispatch the neighbors, including a child, who have “turned” and hidden from the authorities. And then Maggie (Abigail Breslin) comes home. She knows what’s happening to her, cannot stop picking at the skin that is going bad and whacks her own finger off as a desperate, impulsive effort to stop the disease.

Breslin is as doom-laden as any zombie heroine of recent vintage, and quite good at it. Schwarzenegger, as Wade, isn’t a man of action here. He mostly reacts — on the edge of tears, mostly — to the warnings and counsel of his stoic second wife (Joely Richardson), local sheriff and sympathetic doctor.

1:35. Rating: PG-13 for disturbing thematic material including bloody images, and some language. HH1⁄2 See Helen Hunt surf. Check out how well-preserved Helen Hunt looks in a wetsuit. Remember how good Helen Hunt handles biting, witty banter. See Helen — or her character — try a little pot and get giggly.

Yes, “RIDE” is the very definition of a “vanity project.”

Hunt wrote and directed this pleasant-enough star vehicle, and it shows a refreshing self-awareness in the character she created for herself and the arc she created for her.

Jackie Durning is a brittle, smothering Type A New Yorker who is in publishing. Her college-ready son (Brenton Thwaites) wants to be a writer, but all her feedback on his work is criticism. They have a sophisticated, tetchy relationship. He calls her by her first name, she treats him more like a spouse or boyfriend — constantly calling, supervising his admission to college.

Then Angelo, the son, goes to L.A. to summer with his dad. His surfing hobby takes over, he withdraws from school and Jackie is on a plane, ready to risk career, savings and her dignity to stalk, nag and otherwise intervene on this wouldbe writer’s headstrong decision. But Angelo sees a different path, and all her banter can’t talk him out of it. She secretly takes surfing lessons in an effort to reconnect.

If Hunt casting herself as this highly-strung New Yorker is on-the-nose, making Luke Wilson the faintly dismissive laid-back surfer/surf instructor is even more so. But Hunt and Wilson click, and the pratfalls in the surf, Jackie’s clumsy arrogance with her chauffeur (David Zayas) and her dabbling with the other part of surfer culture — she becomes “a woman who partakes” (pot) — is worth a giggle.

1:33. Rating: R for language and some drug use. HH n Roger Moore, Tribune News Service

MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

Ratings are one to four stars.

“Avengers: Age of Ultron” — Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the rest are back in a giant superhero adventure that’s sometimes daffy, occasionally baffling, surprisingly touching and even romantic with one kinetic thrill after another. It earns a place of high ranking in the Marvel Universe. Superhero action, PG-13, 1 142 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Cinderella” — Disney’s live-action “Cinderella” movie is an enchanting, exhilarating romantic adventure with gorgeous scenery, terrific sets, stellar cinematography and Oscar-worthy costumes.

Lily James sparkles in the title role, and Cate Blanchett makes a deliciously terrifying evil stepmother. Instead of a re-imagined reboot, it’s oldfashioned, and that’s kind of refreshing. Fantasy, PG, 105 1 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Clouds of Sils Maria” — An expertly filmed insider’s look at the film business, the trappings of fame and the unstoppable, sometimes bone-chilling march of time. It’s rare when a film has three robust, deeply drawn female characters, and Juliette Binoche, Chloe Grace Moretz and Kristen Stewart deliver memorable, nuanced performances. 1Drama, R, 124 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Ex Machina” — If you’re going to go all-in with the gorgeous, chilling and sometimes ludicrous “Ex Machina,” you’ll have to check your logic at the ticket counter. Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson star in a dizzyingly effective sci-fi/ thriller. Sci-fi drama, R, 108 1 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Furious 7” — This is one of the most ridiculous thrillers I’ve ever seen, but I have to admit I was entertained by the sheer audacity of the car chases and battle sequences -- and there were even some genuinely touching moments. Action, PG-13, 137 minutes. HHH “Get Hard” — A racist moron convicted of fraud (Will Ferrell) hires the guy who washes his car (Kevin Hart) to prepare him for prison. The stars have terrific chemistry, but this tired and unimaginative comedy relies too heavily on rape jokes and racial and gay stereotypes. Comedy, R, 100 minutes. HH “Home” — A little Jim Parsons goes a long way, and he grates on your nerves voicing

AT AREA THEATERS ANACORTES CINEMAS May 8-14 Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13): FridaySaturday: 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10; Sunday-Wednesday: 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30; Thursday: 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 7:30 The Age of Adaline (PG-13): FridaySaturday: 12:40, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30; SundayThursday: 12:40, 3:30, 6:45 Driving Miss Daisy: On Stage (NR): Thursday: 7:30 p.m.

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360-675-5667 CONCRETE THEATRE 360-941-0403 CASCADE MALL THEATRES Burlington For listings: 888-AMC-4FUN (888-2624386). an alien on the run with a smart seventh-grader (Rihanna). Kids will probably enjoy the colors and the music, but anyone over 10 will see the plot twists a mile away.

Animated adventure, PG, 96 minutes. HH “Kingsman: The Secret Service” — In a very violent and very silly movie, Colin Firth gives a disciplined, serious performance as a spy from a super-secret British agency.

“Kingsman,” a relentless, hardcore spoof of the old-school James Bond movies, is the craziest movie I’ve seen in a long time. Spy adventure, R, 129 1 minutes. HHH ⁄2 “Serena” — After a string of fine performances, Bradley Cooper is utterly unbelievable as a ruthless, Depression-era timber baron who looks like he just stepped off a GQ photo shoot. And as his bonkers new bride, Jennifer Lawrence is monumentally bad. Despite all the ingredients for a prestige film, what we have here is an epic clunker. Drama, R, 109 minutes. H “The D Train” — Jack Black gives a heavy-on-the-mugging performance as a sad sack determined to recruit the star of his high school class (James Marsden) to the 20-year reunion. Nothing feels the least bit authentic, and worse, little about it is funny — a deadly recipe for a dark comedy. Comedy, R, 98 minutes. H

OAK HARBOR CINEMAS May 8-14 Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13): FridaySaturday: 12:30, 1:45, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30; Sunday-Thursday: 12:30, 1:45, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00 Woman in Gold (PG-13): Friday-Saturday: 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15; Sunday-Wednesday: 1:00, 3:40, 6:40; Thursday: 1:00, 3:40 Mad Max: Fury Road (R): Thursday: 7 p.m.

360-279-2226 STANWOOD CINEMAS May 8-14 Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13): 1:00, 3:00, 6:15, 8:45 Avengers: Age of Ultron in 3D (PG-13): Friday-Wednesday: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Thursday: 12:30, 3:30, 9:30 The Age of Adaline (PG-13): 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:05 Monkey Kingdom (G): 1:10, 6:50 Unfriended (R): 4:00, 9:15 Furious 7 (PG-13): Friday-Wednesday: 12:45, 3:35, 6:25, 9:20; Thursday: 12:45, 3:35, 9:20 Mad Max: Fury Road (R): Thursday: 7 p.m.; 7:15 p.m. (3D) 360-629-0514 – Show times subject to change

“The DUFF” — A socially awkward high school senior (the eminently likable Mae Whitman) ditches her besties after learning she’s their “Designated Ugly Fat Friend.” This well-intentioned and sometimes quite sharp movie falls just short due to a few way-off-the-mark scenes and too much heavy-handed preaching. Teen romance,1 PG-13, 104 minutes. HH ⁄2 “The Forger” — John Travolta murders his Boston accent as a world-class art forger hired to fake a Monet and swap it out with the real thing.

Even with a terminally ill teenage son character, “The Forger” is consistently ineffective as a sentimental tearjerker -- and an even bigger failure as a heist movie. 1Crime drama, R, 92 minutes. H ⁄2 “The Gunman” — Rarely have two Oscar-winning actors been so stunningly off the mark as Sean Penn (ripped and deeply bronzed) and Javier Bardem are in this international thriller. “The Gunman” follows a predictable pattern: cheesy, semitense dialogue followed by either a shootout or a “Bourne”-type fight scene.

Action thriller, R, 115 minutes.

H “The Longest Ride” — These Nicholas Sparks movies tend to get jumbled into one big cliche-riddled story.

This time around, we get two romances -- one set in modern times, one dating back to the

1940s -- with a twist that’s so ridiculous I think we’re almost supposed to laugh. Romance, PG-13, 139 minutes. HH “The Water Diviner” — Russell Crowe’s lifetime of experience on film sets shows in his directorial debut, a first-rate post-World War I drama with a heavy dose of sentiment and a gripping storyline. He stars as a grieving Australian who journeys to Turkey to find the remains of his sons, all killed in battle. Drama, R, 111 min1 utes. HHH ⁄2 “True Story” — James Franco delivers a compelling performance as the conniving albeit charming sociopath Christian Longo in a story based on one of the more bizarre journalist/defendant alliances in modern annals.

Jonah Hill co-stars as Michael Finkel, a disgraced superstar journalist who seizes the opportunity through Longo for a possible career comeback.

Drama, R, 100 minutes.

1 HHH ⁄2 “While We’re Young” — Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as aging Generation X’ers who adopt the trappings of their fatuous new 20-something friends (Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried). Though it takes a nosedive at the end, much of writer-director Noah Baumbach’s film plays like razor-sharp Woody Allen in his prime. Comedy, R, 94 minutes.

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MUSIC REVIEWS SHELBY LYNNE, “I Can’t Imagine” — Shelby Lynne was already a veteran when she won the Best New Artist Grammy for 1999’s “I Am Shelby Lynne.” But the deserved acclaim for that album, which last year was reissued in a deluxe edition, did not translate into long-term mainstream success, and Lynne has settled into a career as an outsider. “I Can’t Imagine,” her 13th album (not including a Christmas collection), is another in a string of earthy, forceful roots records.

Recorded mostly in Louisiana with her touring band, “I Can’t Imagine” ranges from the swampy “Paper Van Gogh” to the country-rock rave-up “Down Here” to the introspective, stripped-down “Following You.” It includes two songs written with Ron Sexsmith and several cameo vocals from Clarence Greenwood (Citizen Cope).

But Lynne’s powerful, husky alto is the star.

Her voice is world-weary and thoughtful, earnest and natural. “I Can’t Imagine” isn’t a surprising record, but it’s a confident, reassuring one.

impressive jazzy solo on the title cut.

Elsewhere Regen keeps things deceptively simple, and that’s fine. His sturdy songs, pleasing tenor and 7-foot grand are a captivating combination, even when the notes are kept to a minimum.

Regen’s music is two-drink minimum material, made for late at night in a cozy club with the piano in the middle of the room. While his playing is free of frills, his lyrics are straightforward too as he sings about persistence, resilience, allegiance and distance.

These are piano ballads that swing, thanks in part to Elvis Costello’s rhythm section. The intimate arrangements are beautifully spare, so that on “Morning Papers,” even a single cymbal tap resonates.

At times the mix of pop and jazz recalls Bruce Hornsby, and that’s meant as high praise. The album title refers to Regen’s wish that life could be put on pause, but these songs are made for the repeat button. n Steven Wine, Associated Press

ACTION BRONSON, “Mr. Wonderful” — Action Bronson is a big man with a big JON REGEN, “Stop Time” — This beard, a broad sense of humor, and an 10-song set is nearly half over before pianist even grander sound on this, his major-label Jon Regen stretches out, launching into an debut. He’s had a chance to ease into a sort n Steve Klinge, The Philadelphia Inquirer

of cut-and-paste R&B-rap, having released indie albums like the silly spook-house vision of 2011’s Dr. Lecter.

Once menacing and off-putting, his jokes are now part of a vision in which Bronson plays the mescaline bandito/hero “riding the Harley into the sunset,” as on the closing track, “Easy Rider,” to an arrangement of dozy samples, loping beats, and dizzying guitar solos.

With a voice part chocolate and part sand, Bronson manages his palette of laidback beats and delirious instrumentation like Herb Jeffries on his horse: with likable, cool command. On “City Boy Blues,” Bronson mumbles weird, woeful blues over a jazz-bar groove. Hysterically fantastical lyrics (as in “Galactic Love” or “Terry”) portray how eerily expressionistic he can get. Light piano and a repetitive rhythm on the snare set the tone for “Baby Blue.”

Bronson’s back-and-forth between grainy, soulful singing and rapping comes across like a modern-day Todd Rundgren circa “I Saw the Light.” n A.D. Amorosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer

BUILT TO SPILL, “Untethered Moon” — On the lead track of Built to Spill’s latest album, Doug Martsch sighs, “And now we

settle for this complicated metaphor and leave this simple truth unsaid.” His sentiment gets at the center of “Untethered Moon,” a record flush with blustery guitar passages, hooks and heart.

“All Our Songs” rumbles out of the gate with pounding percussion before giving way to a quip from Martsch’s boyish, high register: “It’s so hard to tell a face that never rang a bell.” Along the way, three different solos torch the verses. “Living Zoo” grazes on everything from early R.E.M. to Dinosaur Jr. before settling into one of his bleary-eyed choruses that never gets old.

A few songs are grounded in a more classic Pacific Northwest sound (the band is based in Boise, Idaho), but pull back or morph into chugging ramblers with psych moves and serpentine melodies around every corner. The blazing “So” seesaws between campfire ballad and towering shards of incendiary guitar.

At one point, Martsch lets on that he’s found a place where he’ll “always be tethered,” and that he’ll “be fine in Idaho, America, in the 21st century.” Eight albums deep and after a recent lineup shuffle, the simple welcome truth is, Built to Spill hasn’t changed much. n Jake O’Connell, Associated Press

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