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Skagit Valley Herald Thursday October 3, 2013

On Stage

Reviews

At the Movies

Gospel-folk blues artist Eric Bibb in concert on Saturday at McIntyre Hall

Music: Alan Jackson, Kings of Leon Video Games: “Grand Theft Auto V”

“Gravity”: Being lost in space can be a very scary proposition

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “This Is the End”: Hollywood celebrities try to survive the end of the world. Seth Rogen stars. There’s every reason in the world to hate “This Is the End,” which makes an unapologetic assault on everything from religious beliefs to sexuality with humor that’s pitch black in tone. And it takes gross-out material so far beyond conventional social limits that it makes “The Hangover” look like a Nickelodeon movie. It lewdly kicks what’s acceptable right in the political correctness. What makes this movie work is the take-no-prisoners script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. No one’s career or public persona is safe from comic attack. Rogen even talks about his past film failures, particularly “The Green Hornet.” You will never be able to think of Emma Watson or Michael Cera the same way after what he’s put them through in this film. “The Croods”: If this is an example of what’s supposed to be prehistoric comedy, then the genre should be allowed to become extinct. There’s the potential for humor, but it never develops beyond a few sight gags that will entertain the preschool crowd. The movie follows a family of cave dwellers — The Croods — who only venture out long enough to search for food. They are afraid of anything new, the dark and, apparently, any joke that doesn’t have to do with one of them falling down. The only member of their group with an adventurous heart is Eep (voiced by Emma Stone), but she would have to defy her protective father, Grug (Nicolas Cage), if she wants to see the world. “The Croods” would have worked if the humor and animation had been more evolved. “The Little Mermaid”: The animated tale of a mermaid who longs to leave the water is being released for the first time on Blu-ray. The film is a magical mix of engaging story, wonderful characters and a soundtrack that features some of the best tunes in the history of Disney animation. “Glee: The Complete Fourth Season”: It’s a season of big changes as Rachel and Kurt move to New York. “Beauty & The Beast — The First Season”: Kristin Kreuk and Jay Ryan star in the CW series. “So This Is Christmas”: A teen’s life changes after she volunteers to be in a Christmas play. “China Beach: The Complete Sea-

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: OCT. 8 After Earth - Sony The Hangover Part III - Warner Much Ado About Nothing - Lionsgate

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OCT. 15 The Heat - Fox Pacific Rim - Warner OCT. 22 The Conjuring - Warner The Internship - Fox The Way, Way Back - Fox OCT. 29 Monsters University - Disney R.I.P.D. - Universal NOV. 5 Grown Ups 2 - Sony The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition - Warner White House Down - Sony NOV. 12 Man of Steel - Warner n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

son One”: Dana Delany stars in this TV drama set during the Vietnam War. “Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Series 7 & 8”: David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie’s mustachioed mystery-solver. “Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited: Fifth-Eighth”: Features Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann as The Doctor. “North America”: Discovery Channel natural history series narrated by Tom Selleck. “From Here to Eternity”: The Oscarwinning film is available on Blu-ray. “The Frozen Ground”: An Alaskan state trooper sets out to end the murderous rampage of a serial killer. “1984 Detroit Tigers World Series Collector’s Edition”: A look at the team’s drive to win the championship. “Shaquille O’Neal Presents All Star Comedy Jam — Live from Atlanta”: Lineup was picked by Shaquille O’Neal. “House of Wax”: Remastered version of the 1953 horror film. “Morning”: Married couple tries to deal with the tragic death of their only child. “The Wizard of Oz”: Remastered version of the film is being released to mark the 75th anniversary. n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

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Get Involved.................................6-7 Travel............................................8-9 On Stage........................................ 10 Tuning Up..................................... 11 Music, Game Reviews..............12-13 Hot Tickets.................................... 14 Movie Review: “Gravity”............... 16 At the Lincoln................................ 17 Movie Reviews, Listings............... 17 Out & About.............................18-19

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COMMUNITY

ANACORTES OKTOBERFEST

Bier on the Pier!

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Event Center, 100 Commercial Ave. The fourth annual event will The first weekend of October feature 30 breweries, costume and brings two days of unique revelry yodeling contests, bands and more. in the form of the Anacortes OktoAges 21 and older. $20 advance, berfest. $25 at the door, includes six tasting In order to fully embrace the tickets and festival glass. Two-day theme of â€œBier on the Pier,â€? you can pass: $35 advance, $45 at the door. enjoy German food, music, beer and Admission is free for designated more from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and drivers. noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4-5, at For more information, call 360the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed 293-7911 or visit anacortes.org. Skagit Valley Herald staff

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MOVIES

he summer of 2013 was good for science fiction. Major studios backed such blockbuster entries as “Oblivion,” “Elysium” and “Pacific Rim,” and audiences flocked to see them. But the most ambitious sci-fi entry of the year is a different beast. It’s not futuristic, politically charged, nor concerned with alien invaders. The 3-D space adventure “Gravity,” opening Friday, is a story about spacewalking astronauts stranded in Earth orbit after a barrage of satellite debris destroys their shuttle. It is a technically rigorous, “hard-science” rendering of powerful emotional themes — hope, survival and transcendence. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play the shipwrecked astronauts, cast away with few options and dwindling air supplies. Director Alfonso Cuaron (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Children of Men”) filmed in gliding, fluid takes that evoke universal feelings of anxiety and isolation. After the film’s debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, Bullock and Cuaron discussed the film’s monumental — and potentially dangerous — technical challenges, the casting process and her fear of flying. “I appreciate not being in my comfort zone because that means I’ve gotten as far away as possible,” Bullock said. “It unlocks things that scare you, frustrate you, but it also forces you to dig very deep. This scared me on every single level, primarily because originally it was supposed to be shot in the ‘Vomit Comet’” — NASA’s Reduced Gravity Aircraft, a Boeing 727 designed to make plummeting dives that send everyone aboard floating. That was not a happy prospect for Bullock.

‘Gravity’ presented fearful challenges for Sandra Bullock Story by COLIN COVERT / Minneapolis Star Tribune Warner Bros. Pictures picture via AP

“I’m deathly afraid of flying. It’s one of my greatest fears. I thought it was just time to get over that fear. The whole film is an experiment in what you have that you don’t know you have.” Up until a week before shooting, she was led to believe that the production would be airborne, but Cuaron and company found other means to achieve the appearance of weightlessness. “Gravity” begins with a spectacular, uninterrupted 17-minute shot that puts the viewer alongside the astronauts in orbit 375 miles above Earth. It was a major challenge of choreography that involved stringing up two of the world’s biggest movie stars like puppets dangling from strings.

“The biggest obstacle was the lack of gravity. When you are staging stuff, you are used to working with horizons and weight,” Cuaron said. “And here you didn’t have either. There is no up and there is no down. Everything is in constant motion.” Designing intricate sequences of movements involving two actors and countless items of space debris was a major factor in the $100 million production’s 41⁄2-year production. When the film was in the planning stage, Cuaron learned that there was no technology to film the scenes he envisioned with the feel of a NASA space documentary. “We had to invent a new set of tools,” he said, from robotic rigs that would con-

trol cameras moving through 3-D space, to unproven digital technologies, to marionettelike cable systems for the stars. The actors’ challenge was “not only knowing it was going to mean long, long, long, takes,” Cuaron said, “but it was going to be in really uncomfortable positions. Full credit goes to Sandra and George because they gave reality to the shots.” “It was certainly something completely new” to shoot in such unorthodox conditions, Bullock said. “More like being part of Cirque du Soleil than what we’d been used to as actors.” To match the ever-changing light sources from Earth and the sun, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki

designed a 9- by 14-foot box whose interior was lined with LED bulbs. The box was big enough to hold one actor at a time while projecting shifting light. “It was the most bizarre series of contraptions,” Bullock said. “Beyond the box, there were the arms that make the cars in Detroit, with the camera on it, which would rush toward you while you’re clamped from the waist down. Then there was the 12-wire system where you’re basically floating, while being manipulated by puppeteers.” She performed on a bicycle seat welded to a pole, balancing with one leg strapped down so her body could be free to simulate weightlessness, and sitting in an office chair on a hydrau-

lic lift. “It was genius what they came up with.” Because the process of setting up the film was so protracted, potential stars came together and fell apart. Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman and Robert Downey Jr. all were attached to the project before Bullock and Clooney. Cuaron met the actress following her Oscar win for “The Blind Side” and her painful split from thenhusband Jesse James. What impressed him most, he said, was “how in tune Sandra was with the theme of the film, which is adversity and the possibility of rebirth as an outcome of adversity. I thought, ‘Wow, I have a collaborator’?” Bullock spent six months in physical training to prepare for shooting. She underwent a transformation to suggest that her character, who is plagued by memories of a private tragedy, had consciously stripped away her femininity, becoming “a shell of a woman.” “You’re getting your story not just from what the humans are saying, but visually what’s happening,” Bullock said. “What is her background physically, emotionally; how is she in that environment?” Working for much of the shoot in high-tech solitude actually helped her identify with the character, she said. “The technology was helpful because you would feel so frustrated, so lonely, so panicked about the long time you’re attached to something and you can’t use your body the way you’re used to.” It wasn’t all hardship. Bullock’s star perk on the film set outside London was a play area for her 3-yearold son, Louis. Clooney’s was a tiki bar. “Both my children knew exactly what they wanted,” she said with a laugh.

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THIS WEEKENDin the area SKAGIT VALLEY FESTIVAL OF FAMILY FARMS 10 a.m. to

4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5-6. Learn how farms work while participating in numerous activities at more than a dozen local farms. Tours, harvest markets, educational displays, demonstrations, kids’ activities, corn and hay mazes, animal exhibits, pumpkin patches, hay rides, food, music and more. Free admission, parking. farmtour.com.

NEW ART EXHIBITS The Museum of Northwest Art, 121

S. First St., La Conner, will host two new shows, opening with a reception from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, and continuing through Jan. 5: w “Ric Gendron: Rattlebone” features paintings and related works of Spokane artist Ric Gendron, a dualenrolled member of the Arrow Lakes Band of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. w “Geology”: from the Permanent Collection: This multidisciplinary exhibit pairs science and art with the Northwest’s geological findings and the collection’s palette. Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. $8 adults, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4446 or museumofnwart. org.

ANIMAL SHELTER OPEN HOUSE Pawsitive Alliance will

hold its annual Statewide Animal Shelter Open House from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at shelters across the state. Numerous dogs and cats will be available for adoption at two nearby shelters: Humane Society of Skagit Valley, 18841 Kelleher Road, north of Burlington, 360-757-0445; and the N.O.A.H. Center, 31300 Brandstrom Road, Stanwood, 360-629-7055.

HARVEST HAPPENING The Sedro-Woolley Schools Foundation will present the “Harvest Happening Oktoberfest” at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Skagit County Fairgrounds, 1410 Virginia St., Mount Vernon. Enjoy a German-style dinner, beer and wine tasting, auctions and raffles, with music provided by an “oompah” band. $50. Table sponsorships and donations of auction and raffle items are still being accepted. 360-428-5972.

“NOT IN OUR HOUSE” David Brook, also known as That

Gratitude Guy, will be the keynote speaker at “Not In Our House,” a fundraiser to benefit local homeless shelter Friendship House, from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. The evening will feature a dessert dash and silent auction. Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 in advance from Beaches Tanning or Riverside Salon. 360-8408099.

Skagit County Bridal Expo The Skagit County Bridal Expo will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at the Cascade Mall in Burlington. Connect with highly qualified vendors offering a variety of wedding-related products and services. Enjoy prize drawings and more. Free admission. Limited vendor space available. 360-428-5972 or info@ccevent planning.com.

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GET INVOLVED ART CALL TO ARTISTS: “Fall Into Art,” the Autumn Community Art Walk, will take place Oct. 1-15 in downtown Sedro-Woolley. Artists can enter up to four pieces of art for a $20 entry fee. For information or an application, contact the Arts Council of SedroWoolley at 360-588-4384.

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 information, contact Wendy Ragusa at 360-814-5747.

riversidehealthclub.com. Playhouse at 360-679-2237 or visit whidbeyplayhouse. For other information, com. contact Vangi DeMaster at 360-424-5144 or visit alta theatre.com. DANCE “MAMA WON’T FLY”: Auditions will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5-6, at Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. Parts are available for two men and six women. The PG-rated comedy will run Nov. 29-Dec. 22. For information, contact director Martin Iverson at 360-2932182, 360-202-0283 or email martin@fidalgo.net. actthe atre.com.

THURSDAY DANCE: Enjoy dancing to the music of the Skippers from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays at Hillcrest Lodge, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. For information, contact Doris at 360-588-8239.

Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Ages 21 and older. No cover. 360336-3012 or riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

RECREATION

LUMINARY WORKSHOPS: Skagit Conservation Education Alliance will offer free luminaryART CLASSES making workshops from 6 to 9 p.m. today and Friday, CLASSES: Dakota Art Oct. 3-4, and 11 a.m. to 4 Center offers a variety of CALL TO ARTISTS: p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at art classes and workshops Skagit Regional Health SALSA DANCE LESThe Breazeale Interpreat 17873 Highway 536, is seeking permanent art SONS: 7 p.m. Thursdays Mount Vernon. 360-416for its new medical office through Oct. 17 at the Ana- tive Center at Padilla Bay Reserve, 10441 Bayview6556, ext. 5, or dakotaart building, Skagit Regional cortes Center for Happicenter.com. Clinics Riverbend, which ness, 619 Commercial Ave., Edison Road, Bayview. will open in mid-2014 in Anacortes. Learn the basic Design and construct your own luminary in the shape CLAY CLASSES: Ceramnorth Mount Vernon. Artsalsa rhythm, Cuban body of a watershed creature. ic artist Sue Roberts offers work must be of superior motion, leading/following “BOOK OF DAYS”: AudiMaterials are free to low a variety of classes and quality and may include a techniques, footwork and tions will be held from 4 to cost, depending on the style workshops at Tower Arts wide range of styles and basic turns. $10 per class. Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunmediums. Individual art360-464-2229 or anacortes and complexity of your day, Oct. 5-6, at Whidbey design. Attend one or more Guemes Island. 360-293ists may submit up to six centerforhappiness.org. Playhouse, 730 SE Midway sessions, as needed, to finimages of original artworks 8878 or towerartsstudio. Blvd., Oak Harbor. Parts ish your creation. Free. com. by Sept. 30. Submissions EAST COAST SWING: are available for men in How to Light and Dismay be either existing work The four-week class with their 30s to 60s and women play a Luminary: 6 to 9 AUDITIONS Kim Hargrove from Happy from 20s to 50s. Auditions p.m. Thursday or 11 a.m. Valley Dance will meet at SHELTER BAY CHORUS: will be by cold readings to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10-11. Practices are held from 2:45 from the script. Scripts are 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Nov. 12-26 Learn the finishing touches and Dec. 10, at the Anato 4:45 p.m. every Thursday available for checkout at to make your luminary cortes Center for Happiat the Shelter Bay Clubthe theater. The mystery glow and ready to go. Free. house in La Conner. New will run Jan. 24-Feb. 9. 360- ness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $38, $70 couple. members welcome. No 679-2237 or whidbeyplay SUPERHERO TRAINING: 360-464-2229 or anacortes need to be a Shelter Bay house.com. The Skagit Valley Family centerforhappiness.org. resident. 360-466-3805. YMCA will host Superhero “CHRISTMAS SNAPTraining for ages 3-6 from GALLERY WALK WOMEN SING FOURON STAGE SHOTS”: Auditions will 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Fridays, PART HARMONY: Join the be held for the annual NORTH COVE OPEN Oct. 4-Nov. 1, at the YMCA women of Harmony North- Christmas Holiday MusiMIC: Daniel Burnson hosts Activity Center and Pool, west Chorus from 7 to 9:30 cal Revue on Monday and an open mic from 7 to 10 215 E. Fulton St., Mount p.m. every Monday at the Tuesday, Oct. 14-15, at the p.m. Saturdays at North Vernon. Mount Vernon Senior Cen- Whidbey Playhouse Star Cove Coffee, 1130 S. BurEach day the “Superter, 1401 Cleveland Ave. Studio, 730 SE Midway lington Blvd., Burlington. heroes in Training” will Seeking women who like to Blvd, Oak Harbor. AudiAll genres welcome — complete a mission teachsing a cappella music. All tions for children in first rock, blues, funk, folk, uku- ing them the importance Anne Martin McCool Gallery skill levels welcome. through eighth grades lele, poetry or performance. of being a Superhero while will take place from 4 to 360-707-2683 or northcove developing basic motor Burton Jewelers “MAN OF LA MANCHA”: 6 p.m., followed by audiskills. Creative superhero coffee.com. Auditions will be held at attire is encouraged; clothtions from ninth grade to Scott Milo Gallery 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 ing should be appropriate senior adult from 7 to 9 CONWAY PUB OPEN p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5-6, at for active play. $15-$25. p.m. Come prepared to sing MIC: Jam Night, 9 p.m. to The Majestic Inn and Spa Alger Community Church, a Christmas song and learn 12:30 a.m. Thursdays, Con- Call 360-336-9622 or email 1475 Silver Run Lane, j.kerkvliet@skagitymca.org a dance routine. Bring way Pub & Eatery, 18611 Apothecary Spa Alger. Musical lead and for more information. a wallet-sized photo of Main St., Conway. (2nd floor Majestic Inn) nonsolo parts are availyourself. Performances will 360-445-4733. CALL FOR YOUNG VENable. The play will run Jan. take place Dec. 12-21. For Gallery at the Depot 31-Feb. 16, 2014. For audiinformation, contact show 1ST STREET OPEN MIC: DORS: Vendors ages 18 tion requirements, email director Sarah Russell at 9 p.m. to midnight, Wednes- and younger are needed www.anacortesart.com Karen Westra at karen@ for the Kids’ Giant Garage 360-929-4845, the Whidbey days, 1st Street Cabaret &

FIRST FRIDAY

Oct. 4 6-9pm

Sale, set for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. Youth-only vendors can sell their sporting equipment, furniture, children’s clothing, games and more. Limited number of tables available. $15. Ages 12 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. To register, call the Burlington Parks and Recreation Department at 360-7559649. MV “BAND AID” FUN RUN: The Mount Vernon District Band Program’s third annual Fun Run will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the parking lot at Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Choose from the 10K run or 5K run/walk. $25, free for ages 10 and younger. Day-ofevent registration opens at 8:30 a.m. Register at mvbands.org. For information, contact Jacob Scherr at 360-428-6100, ext. 41217.

THEATER FREE ADULT ACTING CLASSES: Anacortes Community Theatre offers free acting classes for adults from 10 a.m. to noon the third Saturday each month at 918 M Ave., Anacortes. Classes include scripted scenes and a variety of acting games, with a different topic each month. Each class is independent, so you don’t have to commit to every session. 360-840-0089 or acttheatre.com.

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Breaking bad: Best and worst endings of TV series Here’s my list of the best show, Newhart wakes up on what appears to be the and worst TV show endset of his previous comings: The finale of “Breaking edy, “The Bob Newhart Bad” aired Sunday night, Show.” He talks — with his Best and it was really, really “Bob Newhart Show” wife, 1. “Six Feet Under”: The good. Suzanne Pleshette — about theme of this superb HBO Despite 10.3 million the weird dream he had series was death and that people watching the epiabout being an innkeeper sode, many of you may not was played out to the very in Vermont. end. In the last episode, have watched it yet. So I 3. “Breaking Bad”: The won’t give away any spoil- it was revealed how and perfect ending to a perfect when each major characers except to say that the show. AMC series ended with the ter would die. Some were 4. “M*A*S*H”: It made natural causes and others same superb writing, actsense the show about medweren’t. After investing ing and production values ics during the Korean War that made it one of the best so much in the characters, would end with the war it was one beautiful and shows in TV history. being over. That closing It is also one of the best touching moment after scene of the word “GOODanother. Nothing has come BYE,” written in rocks and endings ever for a series. close to beating this ending. seen from a departing heliI know, that list is limited 2. “Newhart”: Viewers because a lot of TV shows copter, is one of the most get canceled without notice. of the CBS comedy about memorable moments in TV. a Vermont innkeeper (Bob But there have been 5. “The Shield”: Vic Newhart) and his weird plenty of shows — ones Mackey (Michael Chikfamily and friends were with lots of time to crelis) was an anti-hero long caught off guard when, ate a proper finale — that before “Breaking Bad” bombed. in the final scene of the came along. The talk was By RICK BENTLEY The Fresno Bee

that Mackey had to be punished for his evil ways. But sending him to jail would have been a letdown. Having the maverick detective assigned to a desk job was perfect punishment and a proper ending.

series set in a hospital was actually just in the mind of an autistic child, based on an image in a snow globe. That meant all that time watching was for nothing. “Newhart” used a similar twist, but it’s easier to get away with a move like this when it’s a comedy. Worst 4. “Roseanne”: Twist 1. “Seinfeld”: This show endings don’t always work, about nothing had a noth- even in comedies. The ABC ing ending as the four main series ended by revealing characters were sent to jail. that what viewers thought It’s the writers who should had happened on the show have been convicted. were just part of a novel 2. “Dexter”: I won’t say being written by Roseanne. much because many of you The show didn’t end. It still haven’t seen the finale, died. which aired Sept. 22. If you 5. “Quantum Leap”: The haven’t seen it, skip it. The decision to end the show ending is trite, cliched and came so late there was no predictable. It was a sad way to get the title characway to end such a fantastic ter, Dr. Sam Becket (Scott series. Bakula), back home from 3. “St. Elsewhere”: The all his time-jumping herolast scene shows that this ics. The show ends with the

words, “Dr. Sam Becket never returned home.” It would have been nice to have time traveled to fix the script.

In the middle “The Sopranos”: It’s been years, but I still haven’t made up my mind whether going to a black screen is genius or a letdown. It can be debated either way. n Rick Bentley: rbentley fresnobee.com

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TRAVEL

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Linda Emmet, the daughter of musician Irving Berlin, plays on her father’s piano at the Red Star Line museum in Antwerp, Belgium. The newly opened museum tells the universal story of migration based on the stories of actual Red Star Line passengers. Between 1873 and 1934, the Belgian shipping company Red Star Line transported approximately 2 million people from Antwerp to New York. Berlin, then a 5-year-old boy named Israel Isidore Baline, made the trip to the U.S. from Russia.

Belgian museum shows travel could be life or death By RAF CASERT Associated Press

ANTWERP, Belgium — In today’s world of cruise ship travel, it is easy to forget how life-changing boarding a steamer once was. When young Sonia Pressman Fuentes stepped aboard the Westernland II ship in Antwerp with her family on April 20, 1934, it was the biggest leap she would ever take. “It made it possible for me to be alive — very simple answer. Otherwise we would have been killed,” the Jewish feminist leader said, recalling her family’s flight from the Nazis.

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“We would have been killed in Germany had we remained there. We would have been killed in Belgium had we remained there. And we would have been killed in Poland if we had been deported there,” she continued. “The Red Star Line saved all our lives.” Pressman Fuentes was back at the original docks of this huge North Sea port for Friday’s ceremonial opening of the Red Star Line migration museum, which shows how millions of Europeans steamed across the ocean toward the United States and Photographs of people who arrived on Ellis Island, New York, from Antwerp, Belgium.

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TRAVEL other parts of the Americas over the past two centuries. It charts the migrations of everyone who traveled on the shipping line, from composer Irving Berlin to scientist Albert Einstein to Israeli politician Golda Meir. It is the story of countless people escaping poverty, seeking adventure, avoiding persecution or dodging certain death. “What we are trying to achieve with the museum is to bring back all the stories of lives that were changed here,” said museum project coordinator Luc Verheyen. Some 2 million passengers sailed from Europe to America between 1873 and 1934 on the Red Star Line. Antwerp was popular because it already was a massive port and it had a well-established Jewish community. In 1893, 5-year-old Israel

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“God Bless America” and “White Christmas” made him famous in his new country and around the world. Now, one of Berlin’s pianos stands in the museum, on extended loan from the family. His daughter and two granddaughters were on hand for the opening. “Coming to this museum is like completing a circle. To think my father left from this building, and here we are in it!” his daughter Linda Emmet said. “It wasn’t an easy voyage,” she added. “The man in the upper bunk dropped his penknife onto my Virginia Mayo / AP father’s forehead. It left a Linda Emmet (second from right), daughter of Red Star Line passenger Irving scar for the rest of his life.” Berlin, views a model exhibit of the ship that her father traveled on, at the Red No lasting damage was Star Line museum in Antwerp, Belgium. done to Berlin. A few decades later, his fame became such that the Red Isidore Baline was among Semitic violence in Russia. the United States and setthe émigrés, part of a fam- Baline became Irving Ber- tled in New York’s Lower Star Line’s SS Belgenland ily fleeing increasing antilin after the family entered East side. His classics like was playing a Berlin foxtrot

lunch and gaming, topped off with time for shopping at dozens of out CRUISE SHOW: AAA Travel will let stores. $50. Register by Oct. host the event from 9 a.m. to 2 16. p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Skagit LeMay-America’s Car Museum, Valley Casino Resort, 5984 Darrk Tacoma Waterfront & Brown and Lane, Bow. AAA Travel experts will Haley Candies: 8 a.m. to 5:30 be joined by industry representap.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13. Tour tives to discuss cruising trends, LeMay’s 9-acre campus and fourtips for travelers and a wide varistory museum, which holds one of ety of upcoming cruise and tour the world’s largest collections of options. RSVP: 360-848-2090. vintage, custom and classic motor vehicles. Then enjoy lunch and SENIOR CENTER TRIPS: Skagit shopping on the Tacoma waterCounty senior centers offer short escorted trips departing from and front and a stop at the Brown and Haley Candy Store, home of worldreturning to local senior centers. For information, call the Anacortes famous Almond Roca and MounSenior Center at 360-293-7473 or tain Bars. $69. Register by Nov. 6. sign up at your local senior center. “New Day Northwest,” Bothell’s Country Village and Seattle Next up: Leavenworth: 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 Times: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursp.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. Enjoy fall day, Nov. 21. Watch a live taping of King-5’s “New Day Northwest,” colors, shopping and sightseeing in and around Leavenworth, with a a visit to Bothell’s historic Country stop in Peshastin to shop for fresh Village Shops, no-host lunch and picked fruit, jams, jellies and more. a private tour of the Seattle Times North Creek printing facility. Bring Bring money for lunch and shopmoney for lunch and purchases. ping. $55. Register by Oct. 9. Wear weather appropriate clothing Hibulb Cultural Center, Tulalip Resort and Seattle Premium Out- and comfortable, closed-toe walklets: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, ing shoes. $54. Register by Nov. Oct. 30. Enjoy a private tour of the 14. Hibulb Center’s interactive exhibits, SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon longhouse and research library, followed by a stop at the resort for Parks and Recreation offers travel

opportunities for ages 12 and older (adult supervision required for ages 18 and younger). Trips depart from and return to Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. For information or to register, call 360-336-6215. Next up: Chihuly Garden and Glass and Pilchuck On Display: 1:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17. Visit the Chihuly Garden and Glass attraction at Seattle Center, then preview some 250 artworks to be sold at the annual Pilchuck Glass School Auction. Includes free time to explore shops and restaurants between the two stops. Ages 16 and older. $77-$79. Preregister by Oct. 10. Reifel Bird Sanctuary and Historic Steveston Village: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Check out one of the top bird-watching sites in the heart of the Fraser River estuary, home to some 268 species of birds. Then head over to the historic waterfront town of Steveston, with shops, cafes and a picturesque boardwalk. Passport, enhanced driver’s license or NEXUS card required to cross the border. Ages 12 and older. $67$69. Preregister by Oct. 21. EXTENDED TRIPS: The Oak

Harbor Senior Center is organizing two small-group trips for 2014: Mississippi River Cruise: Nashville to New Orleans, March 19-30; Scotland, June 2014. 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 360-629-7403. 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 are available at travel.state.gov, or pick up an application and passport guide at the library. The Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St., Oak Harbor, accepts passport applications, by appointment, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. 360279-4580.

for its first- and secondclass passengers. Nobel Prize winner Einstein was another famous passenger. When he was on the Belgenland II in 1933, he learned that the Nazis had confiscated his possessions so he decided not return to Berlin. Instead, he used Red Star Line stationery to declare his resignation from the Prussian Academy for the Sciences. The museum highlights the eternal struggle of migration, a lesson as true today as it was decades ago. “We tend to forget how hard it is to emigrate,” said Caroline Emmet-Bourgois, Berlin’s granddaughter. “You are leaving behind your identity. You are going into the unknown. You are trying to give a future to your children and you are willing to lose what you already have to start anew.”

Skagit County

Sunday, Oct. 6th Cascade Mall, Burlington

11am - 4pm

Free Admission Connect with highly qualified vendors in a variety of categories. Enjoy viewing products and services throughout the day.

Drawings for great prizes!

E10 Thursday, October 3, 2013

ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 3-10

TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 3-10

Thursday.3

SATURDAY.5

THEATER

ERIC BIBB Gospel-infused folk blues, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $25. 360-416-7727.

“PAN the Musical”: META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. All seats $10; first come-first served. Tickets available two hours prior to curtain. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

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FRIDAY.4 MIA VERMILLION (pictured) & KEVIN SUTTON 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $12. 360-445-3000.

“Little Shop of Horrors” (comedy/horror/musical): 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Friday.4 MUSIC

Reilly & Maloney: 7:30 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. $17 advance, $20 at the door. 360-941-0403 or concrete-theatre.com.

SUNDAY.6

THEATER

“PAN the Musical”: META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$20. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

1967 (THE BAND) 5 p.m., The Corner Pub, 14565 Allen West Road, Bow. No cover. 360-757-6113.

“Little Shop of Horrors” (comedy/ horror/musical): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

THURSDAY.3

Saturday.5

Marvin Johnson (swing, rock, blues): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Firehall Cafe, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.

MAGIC

“Three Magic Guys,” with Mark Paulson, J.R.Russell and Jim Earnshaw: One-hour Kids and Family show at 1 p.m.; two-hour Family and Friends show at 7 p.m.; Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd, Oak Harbor. Tickets: 1 p.m. show, $6 ages 15 and older, $4 ages 4-14; 7 p.m. show, $10 ages 15 and older, $5 ages 4-14. 360-679-2237 or whidbey playhouse.com.

Sunday.6

Wednesday.9

Thursday.10

MUSIC

THEATER

Eric Bibb (gospel-infused folk blues): 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $25. 360-416-7727.

THEATER

“PAN the Musical”: META Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$20. 360336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org. “Little Shop of Horrors” (comedy/ horror/musical): 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

FRIDAY.4

Keith Perry photo

Skagit Bluegrass & Country Music Association Monthly Jam: 1 to 5 p.m., Evergreen Elementary School, 1007 McGarigle Road, Sedro-Woolley. Free. 360-856-1058.

THEATER

“PAN the Musical”: META Performing Arts, 2 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10-$20. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org. “Little Shop of Horrors” (comedy/ horror/musical): 2 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or act theatre.com.

The Mike Allen Quartet: 7:30 p.m., Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth, 1059 N. State St., Bellingham. $10, $8 Jazz Project members, free for students ages 17 and younger and WWU students. 360-650-1066 or jazzproject.org.

“Little Shop of Horrors” (comedy/ horror/musical): 7:30 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre. com.

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

SATURDAY.5 Goodson: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

WEDNESDAY.9

Mia Vermillion & Kevin Sutton (blues, jazz, folk): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $12. 360-445-3000.

RA Scion, Ether XOXO, Deadly D, Heist: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8-$10. 360-778-1067.

SUNDAY.6 The Bouchards: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-755-3956.

TUN the Band (funk, rock, blues): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. No cover. 360-4453000.

John Dennis (acoustic guitar): 6:30 to 8 p.m., Jansen Art Center Firehall Cafe, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-3543600.

Knut Bell & The Blue Collars: 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. $3 cover. 360-445-4733.

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

C.C. Adams and friends Sunday Jam, featuring $cratch Daddy, Coyote Blues and more: 5 to 9 p.m., Station House, 315 E. Morris St., La Conner. 360-466-4488.

1967 (the band): 5 p.m., The Corner Pub, 14565 Allen West Road, Bow. No cover. 360-7576113.

J Roddy Walston & The Business, Gringo Star, Waterbear: 9:30 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5. 360-778-1067.

THURSDAY.10

Stilly River Band: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, David’s Drinking Band: 7:30 p.m., 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 1720. $3. 360-445-3000.

Trish Hatley: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Cave, Zach and Labotz: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $7. 360-778-1067.