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Skagit Valley Herald Thursday October 24, 2013

On Stage

Reviews

At the Movies

The Skagit Symphony performs on Saturday night at McIntyre Hall

Music: Warbringer, Katy Perry Video Games: “Beyond: Two Souls”

Robert Redford goes it alone out at sea in “All Is Lost”

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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “The Conjuring”: A family turns to experts to help deal with a house occupied by an evil spirit. Ron Livingston stars. With “Saw,” director James Wan showed that he could create terror using buckets of blood and violence.

With “The Conjuring,” he shows he can create just as many scares merely using things that go bump in the night. Don’t be shocked if you decide to leave a light on after seeing this based-on-a-truestory movie.

“Before Midnight”: Almost two decades after meeting, a couple (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy) deal with their life together. “Before Midnight” is a beautiful reminder that a movie with nothing more than two people talking can have just as many explosions and fireworks as any high-tech summer blockbuster.

And it shows that big-relationship moments can be even more entertaining than a car crash or planet’s demise because they resonate with anyone who has ever felt the joy and the pain of being in love.

“The Way, Way Back”: Teenage boy finds happiness through a summer job at a water park. Sam Rockwell and Steve Carell star. In their Oscar-winning script for “The Descendants,” writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash had remarkable skill for showing the fear and confusion adults face when they reach a major crossroads in their lives. With their latest movie, they use that same sparkling writing style to show the emotions young people deal with during their own life-changing moments.

“Bruce Lee the Legacy Collection”: The set includes the first Blu-ray versions of “The Big Boss,” “Fist of Fury, “Way of the Dragon” and “Game of Death.” If that isn’t reason enough to pick up the DVD collection, there’s a bonus disc with hours of new content exclusive to the set, plus 68 pages of archival materials and never-beforereleased photos.

“Just Like a Woman”: Two emotionally scarred women pair up to take control of their lives.

“The Vincent Price Collection”: Six films starring Price, including “Fall of the House of Usher.”

“I Give It a Year”: Family and friends doubt a wedding will last. Anna Faris stars.

“The Internship”: Two men looking for work apply to become interns at a tech company.

“Storm Rider”: Troubled teen is given an orphaned horse to foster and train.

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. 29 Monsters University - Disney R.I.P.D. - Universal

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NOV. 5 Girl Most Likely - Lionsgate Grown Ups 2 - Sony The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition - Warner Parkland - Millennium Lovelace - Anchor Bay Passion - Entertainment One White House Down - Sony NOV. 12 Blackfish - Magnolia Man of Steel - Warner Prince Avalanche - Magnolia Turbo - Fox/DreamWorks NOV. 19 Paranoia - Fox Planes - Disney The To Do List - Sony 2 Guns - Universal We’re the Millers - New Line The World’s End - Universal

The NOAH Center in Stanwood hosts the Harvest Carnival on Saturday

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NOV. 26 Getaway - Warner The Grandmaster - Anchor Bay Jobs - Universal RED 2 - Summit

Phone 360-416-2135

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“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”: The extended edition includes 13 minutes of new footage.

“Love and Bullets”/“Russian Roulette”: Charles Bronson double feature.

“Dead in Tombstone”: Story of greed, revenge and atonement set in a Gold Rush boomtown.

“Kindred: The Embraced — The Complete Series”: Includes unseen footage of the conclusion to the shortlived thriller series starring C. Thomas Howell.

“The Garfield Show: A Purr-fect Life”: Includes six episodes of the animated show.

“Homecoming”: College friends reunite for homecoming weekend nearly 20 years after graduation.

“The Wall”: A woman is trapped behind an invisible, unyielding wall on the Austrian countryside.

“The JFK Collection”: A 3-disc DVD set that explores one of America’s most legendary families. n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

SUBMISSIONS E-mail features@skagitpublishing.com vrichardson@skagitpublishing. com (recreation items)

Hand-deliver 1215 Anderson Road Mount Vernon, WA 98274

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

Mailing address P.O. Box 578 Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Online events calendar To list your event on our website, visit goskagit.com and look for the Events Calendar on the home page HAVE A STORY IDEA? w For arts and entertainment, contact Features Editor Craig Parrish at 360-416-2135 or features@skagitpublishing.com w For recreation, contact staff writer Vince Richardson at 360-416-2181 or vrichardson@ skagitpublishing.com TO ADVERTISE 360-424-3251

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PUMPKIN PATCH & CORN MAZE: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, through Oct. 31, Foster’s Produce & Corn Maze, 5818 Highway 530 NE, Arlington. Enjoy u-pick pumpkins, “Pirate Ship Adventures” corn maze, animal barn, kids’ activities and more.

Wagon rides and additional activities available for additional fees. Bring a flashlight and play in the spooky Night Maze and Giant Pumpkin Hunt from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. Free admission to the farm.

Corn maze: $6, $25 family pass (six people), free for ages 4 and younger. Night maze: $8.50, $45 family pass. 360-435-6516 or fosterscornmaze.com.

CORN MAZE, PUMPKIN PATCH: Biringer’s Black Crow Pumpkins & Corn Maze Farm is open from noon to 6 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 31, at 2431 Highway 530 NE, Arlington. Kids can enjoy a hay bale maze, kiddie slide, skeleton graveyard picnic and more. Pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks, cider and apples available for purchase. Corn maze admission: $8 before 6 p.m., $9 after 6 p.m. Free for kids under 46 inches tall, day or night. 360-4355616 or facebook.com/biringers. black.crow.

CONCRETE GHOST WALK: The eighth annual Concrete Ghost Walk will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, departing from the Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. The walk features stories and legends of the town’s past, a tour of historic landmarks and tales told by local residents. Ages 13 and older (minors must be accompanied by an adult). $10.

Advance reservations required: 360-941-0403 or concrete-theatre.com.

COSTUME RENTALS: The Whidbey Playhouse Workshop will offer costume rentals from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, and Monday through Wednesday, Oct. 28-30, and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26, at 684 Oak St., Oak Harbor. Browse through the theater’s wardrobe depart-

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$5 students/seniors, $8 general admission. 360-855-3510.

HAUNTED FOREST: “Back From the Dead”: 7:30 p.m. Friday through Wednesday, Oct. 25-30, Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Recommended for ages 11 and older.

Tickets: $10 at the gate starting at 7 p.m. nightly. 360-336-6215.

Halloween is a week away, calendar-wise, but events this weekend provide a jumpstart for ghoulish, frightful, candyinfested fun.

HALLOWEEN IN THE AREA ment and dress up for Halloween as a pirate, princess, ghoul, soldier and more. 360-679-2237.

HAUNTED DEPOT: The second annual Haunted Depot will be open from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26, at The Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes.

This year’s theme, “Bad Things Happen When You’re Waiting for a Train,” is based on the fictitious storyline of the 50-year anniversary of the infamous 1963 crash of the Anacortes Red Line Express. Unknown to passengers, this train carried one car filled with terrifying “special cargo.” Not recommended for ages 11 and younger.

A kids-themed “Family Haunt” will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26. The Haunt, recommended for ages 7 and older, will feature scary, yet recognizable characters from kids’ movies and comic books.

Tickets: $5 at the door. Bring a nonperishable donation for the food bank and get $1 off.

360-293-7922 or anacortes farmersmarket.org.

“ADDAMS FAMILY” AT S-WHS: Sedro-Woolley High School drama troupe will present “The Addams Family” at 7 p.m. today through Saturday, Oct. 24-26, in the school theater, 1235 Third St., Sedro-Woolley.

MOTHER GOOSE AND FRIENDS: Enjoy an after-hours family storytime at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at the Stanwood Public Library, 9701 271st St. NW, Stanwood. Come in costume and step into the pages of a picture book with dark nights, first frost, bats, cats and pumpkins. Mother Goose, Billy Shakespeare and a cast of puppets and storytime characters will lead songs, stories and games. Free. To register, call 360-629-3132 or visit snoisle.org.

STANWOOD HAUNTED HOUSE: The seventh annual event will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26, at the Stanwood Community and Senior Center, 7430 276th St. NW, Stanwood. $5.

360-629-7403 or stanwood seniorcenter.org.

COSTUMES, DANCE MUSIC: Ann ‘n’ Dean will perform a variety of dance music from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Mount Vernon Elks lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

Costumes welcome. Open to the public. 360-848-8882.

PROHIBITION PARTY & MONTE CARLO CASINO NIGHT: The 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy will host a 1920s party from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday, Oct. 25, at 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Break out your gangster and flapper outfits and enjoy food, spirits, a costume contest, casino tables, raffles and more. $5 cover. 360-336-3012 or river belledinnertheatre.com.

“DRACULA”: Enjoy a performance by the Northwest Ballet Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon.

Bram Stoker’s novel comes

to life with elaborate sets and gothic “steam punk”-style costuming. $24-$35. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

BONESHAKER BICYCLE FESTIVAL: This Halloween-inspired celebration of all things bicycle will take place beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in and around La Conner. The familyoriented event will include a pre-event motivation gathering, postride celebration, guest speakers, live music and entertainment, bike decorating, bike safety rodeo and lots of contests with raffles and prizes. Seven different self-guided bicycle routes will follow mostly flat loops from 4 to 25 miles starting and ending at the La Conner Boys & Girls Club, 305 N. Sixth St. Costumes are encouraged, with prizes for the best human and bike costumes. Entry fees: $45, $75 tandem, $90 family, free for ages 4 and younger. 360-5364801 or boneshakerbikefest. com.

ZOMBIE 5K: The Skagit Valley Boys & Girls Club will host the Zombie 5K at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the La Conner Boys & Girls Club, 305 N. Sixth St., La Conner. Participants, either as runners or zombies, will try to avoid pushing daisies while navigating a challenging 5K course for two hours along the Swinomish Channel. A celebration with music and food will follow. $25, student athletes, no T-shirt; $50, includes T-shirt.

Teams/sponsors/volunteers welcome. skagitvalleyzombie5k.org or kstevens@bgcskagit.org.

HARVEST CARNIVAL: Trick-or-treaters of all ages are invited to stop by from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the NOAH Center, 31300 Brandstrom Road, Stanwood. Enjoy games and prizes, face painting, a bouncy house, cider press, goodie bags and more. Admission is free, but nonperishable food donations are requested to benefit the Stanwood Food Bank. For information, contact the NOAH Animal Adoption & Spay/Neuter Center at 360-6297055 or thenoahcenter.org.

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HALLOWEEN DANCE: Wear your costume or don’t for the annual Halloween Dance, with Continued from Page E3 music by Camano Junction, from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at HALLOWEEN PARTY: Heart Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead to Heart Charity will host the Road, Camano Island. $10, $7 second annual Halloween Party members. Includes light snacks.

Fundraiser from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26, at the old Town 360-387-0222 or camanocenter. org.

Hall in Lyman. Enjoy a pumpkin painting table, raffle, cake MONSTER MASH STREET walk, hayride, photo booth, game BASH: 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, booths and other activities. CosOct. 26, Midway Boulevard in tumes are encouraged. Admission: $2 child, $1 adult. For more Oak Harbor. The festivities will include a zombie crawl, zominformation or tickets, call 360bie golf, monster movie, boogie 826-3818, email HeartToHeartbash, jack-o-lantern decorating Charity@gmail.com or visit face book.com/HeartToHeartCharity. contest, kids’ activities and more.

For information, contact the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce HARVEST FESTIVAL AND HAUNTED BOOOTHOUSE: Enjoy at 360-675-3755 or visit oak harborchamber.com. family fun from noon to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26, at Cama Beach HALLOWEEN FAMILY READState Park, 1880 SW Camano ING NIGHT: Children and their Drive, Camano Island. Enjoy caregivers can join Ria for fun pumpkin decorating, VegiCar Halloween stories and games races and games and skill chalfrom 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, lenges for treats from noon to 4 Oct. 30, at the Anacortes Public p.m. Get in the Halloween spirit by entering the Haunted Boooat- Library, 1220 10th St. Children are encouraged to wear costumes. house from 4 to 8 p.m. Free; Each child will receive a free donations accepted. Discover book of his or her choice. No regPass required for parking. 360istration required. 360-293-1910.

387-1550 or camabeachfound ation.org.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS COOKING CLASS: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

COSTUME CONTEST: ComWednesday, Oct. 30, Gretchens pete for cash prizes at the HalKitchen, 509 S. First St., Mount loween Costume Contest from Vernon. Carlos Carreon from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, Calle Tacos Tequila will share at Swinomish Casino & Lodge, traditional recipes for the Day of 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes.

Registration starts at 5 p.m., with The Dead, including caramelized judging at 9:30 p.m. The top four sweet potato, pozole soup, and flan. $40. Preregistration required: costumes will win cash, with a 360-336-8747 or gretchens $1,000 prize for first place. 888kitchen.com.

288-8883 or swinomishcasino andlodge.com.

HALLOWEEN PARTY: 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31, Conway Muse, HALLOWEEN BALL: Enjoy 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. music by Platinum Spandex, Music by El Colonel and Mary dancing, a costume contest and De La Fuente, prizes for best cosmore from 8 p.m. to midnight tume. $14. 360-445-3000.

Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Pacific Showroom, Skagit Valley Casino OPEN MIC/HALLOWEEN Resort, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. COSTUME PARTY: 9:30 p.m.

Cash prizes will be awarded for Thursday Oct. 31, Brown Lantern the top three costumes, with Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., $500 for first place. Costumes Anacortes. 360-293-2544. that disguise the identity of the wearer (full face paint, masks, TRICK OR TREAT & COSTUME etc.) and real or toy weapons are not permitted on the casino floor. CONTEST: Bring the kids for safe trick or treating from 3 to 5 p.m.

Admission: $20. 877-275-2448 or Thursday, Oct. 31, at participating theskagit.com.

stores on First Street in downtown Mount Vernon. A costume contest for all ages will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. Prizes will be awarded for the top three in the children’s categories: ages 4 and younger, 5-8, and 9 and older. One prize will be awarded for the best-dressed “young at heart” entry age 18 or older. Free. 360-336-3801 or mountvernondowntown.org.

TRICK OR TREAT AT THE MALL: Kids in costume can trick or treat while staying warm and dry from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at Cascade Mall, 201 Cascade Mall Drive, Burlington.

No realistic looking weapons, no masks on children over age 13, no suggestive or explicit costumes or costumes with gang associations.

Free. 360-757-2070.

HALLOWEEN STORIES: The Bellingham Storytellers Guild will offer up ghoulish tales from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at Village Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham. Free. 360-671-2626 or villagebooks.com.

MUSIC, COSTUME CONTEST: David Bowie cover band Scary Monster & The Super Creeps will perform at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. Dress up in your best costume and compete for prizes. 360-766-6266.

CONCRETE HALLOWEEN PARTY: The Lions Club Halloween Party for children of all ages will take place from 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Concrete K-8 School Gym, 7838 S. Superior MONSTER BASH: 8 p.m. to 1 Ave., Concrete. Enjoy games, hot a.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, Tulalip dogs, cider and more. Free. 360Resort Casino’s Orca Ballroom, 853-4848.

10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip.

Enjoy music by The Rhythm HALLOWEEN HORROR: Enjoy Nation and a costume contest a screening of “The Anniversary” with a $1,000 grand prize. $20 TRUNK OR TREAT: Family at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at the advance, $25 day of event. 888Life Assembly, 1617 29th St., Anacortes, will host Trick or Treat Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., 272-1111.

Concrete. Set in the 1980s, this from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, wild ride introduces us to colorful Oct. 31. Kids can collect treats KIDZ KARNIVAL: Mount Verfrom cars, and the event will also women who aren’t afraid to be non Church of the Nazarene, include a fresh apple cider press, themselves – until a brutal past 2710 E. Fir St., will host Kidz Kardemands bloody vengeance. “The nival from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursgames and a photo booth. Free.

360-293-2219 or familylifeag.net. Anniversary” is an independent day, Oct. 31. Games, crafts, stories, horror movie filmed in Concrete snacks and more. and other Pacific Northwest locaS-W HALLOWEEN PARADE: Halloween activities for fun-lov- tions. Cast and crew will be on HALLOWEEN MUSIC: Horhand for questions and answers. ers young and old begin at noon rorBusiness, Pantera Lives! and Rated R. $10. 360-941-0403 or Thursday, Oct. 31, in downtown MotleyCrew will perform at 9 concrete-theatre.com.

Sedro-Woolley with the Merp.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at The chant Costume Contest judging.

Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., STANWOOD TRICK OR TREAT: Bellingham. $8-$10. 360-778-1067 (Hint: The judges are looking Young goblins can trick or treat for the best themes this year.) or shakedownbellingham.com.

The Sedro-Woolley Kiddies Hal- from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at participating merchants in loween Parade will begin at 4 HALLOWEEN NIGHT: Enjoy p.m., followed by Merchant Trick downtown Stanwood. Look for music by the Legendary Chucklethe “Trick or Treat Here” signs in nuts at 9 p.m. and Luke Warm & or Treating for children. Parade shop windows along Main Street. The Moderates at 10 p.m. Thursparticipants should line up in the municipal parking lot behind day, Oct. 31, at Boundary Bay TRICK-A-TRUNK: Bring the Wells Fargo Bank. 360-855-1841 Brewing Co., 1107 Railroad Ave., or sedro-woolley.com to enter the kids for safe and fun trunk-orBellingham. Dress your best for treating from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, a chance to win a prize. Ages 21 parade.

Oct. 31, at the Whidbey Playhouse and older. $5 cover. bbaybrewery. parking lot, 730 SE Midway Blvd., com.

TRICK-OR-TREATERS Oak Harbor. Free. 360-679-2237 PARADE: La Conner’s annual parade of elementary and middle or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE school trick-or-treaters will take SHOW: Enjoy a special screenDOWNTOWN BELLINGHAM place at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. ing of this camp classic at 8 p.m.

TRICK-OR-TREAT: Children can 31, from the La Conner Marina Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Lincoln dress up in costume and trick parking lot at North First Street Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount or treat for goodies from 3 to 6 to the parking lot at the end of Vernon. The Art Bar will open p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at partici- one hour before the show. Rated South First Street, followed by merchant trick-or-treating on the pating merchants in downtown R. Not recommended for children Bellingham. Look for trick-orsidewalks back to the Marina under 16. Advance tickets: $10, treat balloons and posters on the $8 members. $12 at the door. Add parking lot. For information, doors and windows of participat- $5 for a Rocky Horror prop bag. call the La Conner Chamber of ing businesses. 360-527-8710 or Commerce 888-642-9284 or visit 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre. downtownbellingham.com. laconnerchamber.com. org.

DOWNTOWN ANACORTES TRICK-OR-TREAT: Kids ages 12 and younger can trick-or-treat at participating merchants from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Goodies for the kids, coupons and specials for the adults. Costume contest at 4:30 p.m. Kids must be accompanied by an adult. 360-293-7911.

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THIS WEEKENDin the area ANNUAL LIGHTING EVENT The fourth annual showing of handcrafted stained glass lamps will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 25-27, at Northwest Garden Bling, 44574 Highway 20, Concrete. The show will also feature additional artwork created by local artists. 360-708-3279 or facebook. com/northwestgardenbling.

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ZOMBIE 5K The Skagit Valley Boys & Girls Club will host the Zombie 5K at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the La Conner Boys & Girls Club, 305 N. Sixth St., La Conner.

Participants, either as runners or zombies, will try to avoid pushing daisies while navigating a 5K course for two hours along the Swinomish Channel. A celebration with music and food will follow. $25, student-athletes, no T-shirt; $50, includes T-shirt. Teams/sponsors/volunteers welcome. skagitvalleyzombie5k.org or kstevens@bgcskagit.org.

FALL COLOR TRAIN RIDE The Lake Whatcom Railway will run a special train to see fall colors at noon Saturday, Oct. 26, departing from Wickersham Station, about 15 miles north of Sedro-Woolley on Highway 9. The 90-minute ride on an early 1900s Northern Pacific Railway steam train includes a short stop in the woods near Mirror Lake, where passengers can take a short walk to a waterfall. Advance tickets only: $12.50-$25. 360-595-2218 or lakewhatcomrailway.com.

SCANDINAVIAN CELEBRATION The Daughters of Norway, Ingeborg Lodge 43, will host a community Cultural Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Sons of Norway Hall, 9910 270th St. NW, Stanwood. Demonstrations will reflect Scandinavian culture and traditions, including Norwegian woodworking, rosemaling, krumkaker baking, lefse making, tatting, Swedish weaving and gingerbread house making. A genealogist will help visitors explore their cultural heritage. Traditional Scandinavian delicacies and specialty items will be for sale, along with used books focusing on Scandinavian authors. 360-387-7401.

AWARD WINNERS IN CONCERT The Mount Baker Toppers men’s a cappella chorus and ladies’ barbershop quartet Elation will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. The Mount Baker Toppers, 2013 Evergreen District Division 1 Chorus Champions, will perform a variety of music genres including pop, doo-wop, gospel and barbershop. The award-winning ladies’ quartet will perform a close-harmony gospel set. $15.

Proceeds will benefit the Immaculate Conception Church building fund. For tickets, call Leslie at 360-848-8707.

Trick-or-treaters of all ages are invited to stop by from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at The NOAH Center, 31300 Brandstrom Road, Stanwood. Enjoy games and prizes, face painting, a bouncy house, cider press, goodie bags and more. Admission is free, but nonperishable food donations are requested to benefit the Stanwood Food Bank. For information, contact the NOAH Animal Adoption & Spay/Neuter Center at 360-629-7055 or thenoahcenter.org.

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GET INVOLVED ART CLASSES ACRYLICS FOR BEGINNERS: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18-19, Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $165, plus optional $20 fee to borrow Jennifer Bowman’s materials. 360464-2229 or anacortes centerforhappiness.org.

CLASSES, WORKSHOPS: Dakota Art Center offers a variety of art classes and workshops at 17873 Highway 536, Mount Vernon.

360-416-6556, ext. 5, or dakotaartcenter.com.

CERAMICS FOR EVERYONE: The six-week introduction to forming, decorating and glazing clay objects will begin Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, a short walk from the ferry dock on Guemes Island. Learn basic hand-building construction including coils, slabs and working with plaster forms, while creating decorative, useful objects for your home. Students will learn different finishing techniques using wax-resist, sgraffito, slips and low fire glazes. Open to all levels of experience. $195, includes 12 pounds of clay, glazes, firing and open studio. 360-2938878 or towerartsstudio.com.

BASIC CARTOONING: 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Nov. 5-26, Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington.

Ages 7 to 12. Learn basic cartooning skills and leave the course with a portfolio spotlighting favorite cartoon characters. $40. Register by Oct. 29: 360-755-9649.

INTERMEDIATE WATERCOLOR: 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Wednesdays, Nov. 6-27, Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. Ages 7-13.

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 360588-8239.

performers, listeners and guests to join the fun at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at Vasa Hall, 1805 Cleveland St., Mount Vernon. Come and sing, play an instrument or just enjoy the music. Free.

For information, call Marsha Pederson at 360-757-4906.

School, 305 N. Sixth St., La Conner. For a booth application, stop by the La Conner Library or contact Joy Neal at 360-466-3352, or email jneal@lclib.lib.wa.us.

SEEKING MODEL TRAIN ENTHUSIASTS: The Whatcom Skagit Model Railroad Club seeks new members ON STAGE for its On30 narrow gauge ANACORTES OPEN MIC: group in Bellingham. The 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Brown club has constructed a Lantern Ale House, 412 modular layout with 14 Commercial Ave., Anamodules, each 5 feet by 30 cortes. 360-293-2544. inches, designed to be set up in a variety of configuraNORTH COVE OPEN MIC: tions. The modules still need Skagit Valley Herald file Daniel Burnson hosts an some work and refinement, ROLLER DERBY INFO JAMBOREE: Skagit Valley open mic from 7 to 10 p.m. and the club is looking for Roller Derby holds an Info Jamboree from 2 to 4 Saturdays at North Cove CREATIVE RHYTHM & new members interested in p.m. the first Sunday each month at The Skateway, MOVEMENT DANCE CLASS: Coffee, 1130 S. Burlington completing the work and 1834 Highway 20, Sedro-Woolley. Positions include Blvd., Burlington. All genres showing the layout at area Ages 3 to 6, 4 to 4:50 p.m. roller girls, referees, sponsors and volunteers. welcome — rock, blues, Mondays, Nov. 4-25, Hilltrain shows. Contact Karl The derby hosts drop-in practice sessions from 6 funk, folk, ukulele, poetry or Kleeman at trainswas@ crest Park Skylight Room, to 8 p.m. Mondays, 1 to 3 p.m. Thursdays, noon to 2 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Ver- performance. 360-707-2683 gmail.com or Mike O’Brien p.m. Saturdays and 6 to 8 p.m. Sundays. After eight or northcovecoffee.com. non. The ballet-based class at sales@xtrains.com. practices, skaters can test their minimum skills for will focus on coordination, a spot on the team. Bring tennis shoes, yoga mat or CONWAY PUB OPEN skipping, leaping and jumpWORKSHOPS chair, water, medical insurance card, quad skates MIC: Jam Night, 9 p.m. to ing with continual change (not inline), knee/elbow pads, wristguard, mouth SCRAPBOOKING SUPER 12:30 a.m.

Thursdays, of music rhythms. $40-$42. guard and helmet. Ages 18 and older. $5 per pracSWAP MEET: Rent a table Register with Mount Vernon Conway Pub & Eatery, tice, $20 for five. 360-399-6044 or www.skagitvalley for $25 to sell your extra 18611 Main St., Conway.

Parks and Recreation, 360rollerderby.com. craft and scrapbooking 360-445-4733.

336-6215. supplies from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 2, at RECREATION the Burlington Parks and Students who have already email director Gaye Litka at MUSIC CALL FOR YOUNG VENCALL FOR MUSICIANS: Recreation Center, 900 E. taken the “Introduction to whidbey995@comcast.net.

DORS: Vendors ages 18 and Fairhaven Ave., Burlington.

Allied Arts of Whatcom Watercolor” class will learn younger are needed for the Supplies and accessories more techniques and tips SHELTER BAY CHORUS: County seeks musicians for Kids’ Giant Garage Sale, set only, no finished crafts. Free the 34th annual Holiday Fesusing light and shadow, still- Practices are held from 2:45 for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, admission for the public. tival of the Arts, set for Nov. life with a limited palette, to 4:45 p.m. every Thursday Nov. 9, at the Burlington 15-Dec. 24 in Bellingham.

360-755-9649. seascapes and portraits. $50, at the Shelter Bay ClubParks and Recreation CenMusic will be scheduled plus $20 supply fee payable house in La Conner. New ter, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., “WRITING FROM THE to instructor. Register by members welcome. No need every weekend during the Burlington. Youth-only ven- HEART”: 9:30 a.m. to 6 Oct. 30: 360-755-9649. to be a Shelter Bay resident. festival and musicians may sell their CDs and merchan- dors can sell their sporting p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at 360-466-3805. equipment, furniture, childise as well as collect tips, the Anacortes Center for AUDITIONS dren’s clothing, games and with no commission taken.

Happiness, 619 Commercial WOMEN SING FOURmore. Limited number of CALL FOR THEATER A piano and sound system Ave., Anacortes. Matthew PART HARMONY: Join tables available. $15. Ages 12 Brouwer believes everyone VOLUNTEERS: Whidbey will be provided. the women of Harmony and younger must be accom- has a powerful story to tell.

Playhouse seeks a team of Application deadline: Northwest Chorus from 7 panied by an adult. To regis- Participants “will move to behind-the-scenes folks Nov. 1.

Pick up an applicato 9:30 p.m. every Monday ter, call the Burlington Parks a place of depth in order for its April 2014 producat the Mount Vernon Senior tion at the Allied Arts Galand Recreation Department to increase the clarity and tion of the Tony-award lery, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Center, 1401 Cleveland Ave. winning musical “1776” at 360-755-9649.

Bellingham, or apply at potency of [their] writing.”

Seeking women who like to that celebrates the birth of alliedarts.org. For informaFor new or experienced sing a cappella music. All our nation. Assistance is CALL FOR CRAFTERS: tion, contact Katy Borden at writers of all mediums – skill levels welcome. needed for set-building and 360-676-8548, ext. 5, or email The La Conner Kiwanis poetry, fiction, nonfiction, decorating, lighting, prop seek vendors for their annu- journaling, etc. Pay what katy@alliedarts.org. acquisitions and costuming. DANCE al Holiday Bazaar, set for makes you happy. 360-464THURSDAY DANCE: For information, contact the 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, 2229 or anacortescenterfor SKAGIT VALLEY MUSIC theater at 360-679-2237 or Enjoy dancing to the music CLUB: The club welcomes Dec. 7, at La Conner Middle happiness.org.

BEGINNER SQUARE DANCE LESSONS: 7 p.m.

Tuesdays, beginning Nov. 12, at the Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland St. Couples and singles welcome. First two weeks are free, then $4 per lesson.

Sponsored by the Mt. Baker Singles and Skagit Squares.

For information, call 360424-4608 or 360-424-9675, or email rosie@valleyint.com.

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HOLIDAY BAZAARS LEGION CRAFT BAZAAR: American Legion Post 43 Auxiliary will hold its annual Craft Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2, at the Legion hall, 701 Murdock St., SedroWoolley. Sandwich and soup lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Craft vendors will offer a variety of gift ideas. Free admission.

Tables rent for $10$15 per day, payable in advance; call 360-333-8213 or 360-770-6656. Rental fees help the Legion provide Christmas baskets.

360-325-6780.

ed gift wares. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will match all proceeds to benefit Friendship House in Mount Vernon and two other homeless organizations in Snohomish County. khuston518@aol.com or 360-629-8510.

BAZAAR, TEA & FASHION: The Stanwood Senior Center’s Fall Bazaar will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7430 276th St. NW, Stanwood, with a wide choice of craft and gift items. The Tea Room will offer lunch with tea, scones, sandwich, fruit and dessert from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and include a CHURCH BAZAAR: The fashion show presented by Freeborn Lutheran Bazaar A Girl and Her Doll. Tickwill be held from 10 a.m. to ets: $5 advance, $8 at the 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at door. Reservations encourthe church, 2304 300th St. aged: 360-629-7403.

NW, Stanwood. Some 25 regional crafters and venHOLIDAY BAZAAR: The dors will be selling assort- Concordia Lutheran Wom-

Video game releases The following games are among those scheduled for release this week, according to Gamestop.com: n Deus Ex Human Revolution: Director’s Cut (Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; rated M) n Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; rated T) n SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton’s Robotic Revenge (Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; rated E) n The Sims 3: Into the Future (PC; rated T) n LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3,

en’s Missionary League will present its annual Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the church, 590 N. Oak St., Oak Harbor. Choose from a variety of crafts, baked goods, new and gently used treasures.

Coffee and sweet treats will be served from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with lunch available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

All proceeds will fund mission projects sponsored by the L.W.M.L. 360-675-2548 or CLCstaff@concordia lutheranwhidbey.org.

HARVEST BAZAAR: The Oak Harbor Lutheran Church Harvest Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, in the church’s Herrigstad Hall, 1253 NW Second Ave., Oak Harbor.

Select from holiday decor, gift items, baked goods, Granny’s Attic, bis-

PS Vita, Xbox 360; rated E10+) n Hometown Story (Nintendo 3DS; rated E10+) n Rocksmith 2014 (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; rated T) n Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360; rated E10+) n Just Dance Kids 2014 (Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Xbox 360; rated E) n Batman: Arkham Origins (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; rated T) n Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate (PS Vita; rated T). Wii Party U (Nintendo Wii U; rated E) n Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Ky.)

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October 25-30 Hillcrest Park Tickets $10/Person

Last chance for pre-sale tickets. Get yours today by 5pm for $8 Not recommended for children younger than 10 years old Contact MVPR for tickets or more information 360.336.6215

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tro snacks and beverages.

360-679-1561.

301 N. Burlington Blvd., Burlington.

The 23rd annual event JOSEPHINE’S BAZAAR: will host more than 100 Josephine’s Holiday vendors and supports the Bazaar will be held from 10 B-EHS Band Program. a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. Contact Billie Murdock, 8, in the activity center mbtigger@aol.com or 360at Josephine, 9901 272nd 202-9729.

Place NW, Stanwood.

Josephine residents, staff ANGEL TREE BAZAAR: and community members The Angel Tree Holiday will offer copper and glass Bazaar will be held from art, unique jewelry, olive 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, wood from Bethlehem, raw Nov. 23, at: 720 Puget Ave., honey and numerous other Suite B, Sedro-Woolley; crafts and gift ideas. The and Secret Harbor, 225 Josephine Auxiliary will N. Walnut St., Burlington. sell pie and lunch from 10 Proceeds will benefit the a.m. to 1 p.m. To inquire, Heart to Heart Charcall Becky at 360-629-2126, ity Christmas Angel Tree. ext. 146.

Choose items from a variety of crafters/vendors.

BAND CRAFT FAIR: The Some tables are available, Burlington-Edison High or vendors can bring their School Band Booster Craft own, $20 per space.

Fair will be held from 8:30 To register or inquire, a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, contact Tammie at heartNov. 9, in the school’s field- toheartcharity@gmail.com house, cafetorium and gym, or 360-826-3818.

GIFT & CRAFT BAZAAR: The Camano Center’s annual Gift & Craft Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 23, at 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Dozens of vendors will offer homemade items for sale. There will also be a bake sale, and lunch will be available for purchase.

360-387-0222 or camanocenter.org.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: The annual La Conner Kiwanis Holiday Bazaar will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at La Conner Middle School, 305 N. Sixth St., La Conner.

Table fees will help fund Kiwanis activities that support La Conner children.

Vendors may apply at the La Conner Public Library or contact Joy Neal, jneal@ lclib.lib.wa.us or 360-4663352.

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TRAVEL

Nature’s beautiful leaf show in the Carolinas they are able to follow the colors south.

“This weekend is the peak for COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fall the Blue Ridge Parkway, probfoliage experts in North Caroably above 3,000 feet,” predicted lina and South Carolina say the Howie Neufeld, a professor of weather during the past several plant physiology at North Caromonths has paved the way for lina’s Appalachian State Univergreat leaf viewing in the coming sity in Boone. days.

Neufeld, who uses the handle While colors in the northern, “Fall Color Guy” on his Twitter higher elevations of South Caro- and Facebook pages, offers daily lina are still emerging, trees are updates on the latest spots to exploding with color at the upper view the region’s wide ranges of elevations in western North fall color.

Carolina.

The professor, who has taught And if the winds stay calm at the southern Appalachian and temperatures cool in the school for 26 years, has made two states, leaf watchers may be the study of fall color a able to enjoy Mother Nature’s big part of his fall show for several weeks if

By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER Associated Press

research. He said the region’s diversity of trees and its variants of low-high elevation ranges make for optimum leaf peeping.

The weather patterns in August and September were key to a great show this fall, he said in a telephone interview.

“This year, we haven’t had the drought. While it rained earlier John D Simmons / Charlotte Observer in the summer, in August it dried A horse feeds inside a barn on Poverty Branch Road in up. With it being cool and sunny Barnardsville, N.C. in September, that has provided the two conditions for good color formation,” Neufeld said.

There was a recent spell of temperatures reaching the 80s

A woman stops to take a photo of the fall foliage along the bridge over Green Mountain Creek on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Grandfather Mountain in Linville, N.C. Grandfather Mountain via AP

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Changing leaves provide a frame for the Linville River above Linville Falls in Linville, N.C. that slowed the color development somewhat, but the coming weeks should make for prime viewing — if the winds remain calm and rainstorms don’t blow the leaves off the trees, he added.

“Dedicated leaf lookers should be happy,” Neufeld said.

Peak colors have been reached in the Boone, Blowing Rock and Grandfather Mountain areas in the western portion of North Carolina, he said.

Donald Hagan, a forest ecologist and lecturer at Clemson University in northwestern South Carolina, said in a separate interview that he thinks the

heavy rains the Southeast experienced during the summer provided a moist soil for the region that may help the trees in the state retain their leaves for a longer period.

During a recent trip to Table Rock State Park near Pickens in northern South Carolina, the colors had barely begun to switch, he said.

“It will be a few more weeks before the trees really begin to peak in South Carolina,” Hagan said. “But in areas to the north, around the Blue Ridge Parkway, the colors are really popping right now.”

Hagan said only the dogwoods, black gums and sour-

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woods are beginning to turn at higher elevations in South Carolina.

And while a wet soil might mean the trees will hold onto their leaves longer this year, that doesn’t necessarily translate into vibrant colors with variations of yellows, oranges and reds, he added.

It is the combination of cool night temperatures followed by mild, sunny days that force the bright yellows and reds to be seen, he said.

The green chlorophyll in leaves decreases as days become shorter and nights cooler, allowing the yellow or red pigments in the leaves to emerge in the sun, he said.

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SENIOR CENTER TRIPS: Skagit County Next up: senior centers offer short escorted trips Reifel Bird Sanctuary and Historic Stedeparting from and returning to local senior veston Village: 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. centers. For information, call the Anacortes Sunday, Oct. 27. Check out one of the Senior Center at 360-293-7473 or sign up top bird-watching sites in the heart of the at your local senior center. Next up: Fraser River estuary, home to some 268 LeMay-America’s Car Museum, Tacoma species of birds. Then head over to the Waterfront & Brown and Haley Candies: historic waterfront town of Steveston, with 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. shops, cafes and a picturesque boardwalk.

13. Tour LeMay’s nine-acre campus and Passport, enhanced driver’s license or four-story museum, which holds one of NEXUS card required to cross the border. the world’s largest collections of vintage, Ages 12 and older. $67-$69. Preregister by custom and classic motor vehicles. Then Oct. 21. enjoy lunch and shopping on the Tacoma Bakeries and Spices and Goodies: 9 a.m. waterfront and a stop at the Brown and to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16. Visit some of Haley Candy Store, home of world-famous the best rated bakeries in the Northwest, Almond Roca and Mountain Bars. $69. out-of-the-way food and spice stores and Register by Nov. 6. a variety of diverse and interesting shops “New Day Northwest,” Bothell’s Country specializing in imported delicacies, organic Village and Seattle Times: 8 a.m. to 5:30 products and more. Ages 12 and older. p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21. Watch a live taping $55-$57. Preregister by Nov. 8. of KING-5’s “New Day Northwest,” a visit Victorian Country Christmas: 8:30 a.m. to Bothell’s historic Country Village Shops, to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5. Visit the 26th no-host lunch and a private tour of the annual Victorian Country Christmas FesSeattle Times North Creek printing facility. tival at the Washington State Fairgrounds $54. Register by Nov. 14. at Puyallup. Check out an old-fashioned Historic Burnaby Village and Van Dusen Victorian village with more than 530 stores Botanical Garden’s Festival of Lights, in tended by shopkeepers in Victorian attire, British Columbia: Noon to 9 p.m. Wednes- strolling musicians, Christmas decor and day, Dec. 11. Note: Valid passport, DMV animated displays and a variety of holiday enhanced driver’s license or NEXUS card entertainment. Ages 12 and older. $67required to cross the border. $69. Register $69. Preregister by Nov. 29.

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Best of Bellevue: Holiday Garden The Blind Boys of Alabama at Benaroya D’Lights and Snowflake Lane: 1:30 to 9 Hall: 3:30 to 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17. p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12. Enjoy shopping at The Blind Boys of Alabama perform “Go Bellevue Square, followed by a visit to the Tell It On The Mountain,” their GrammyGarden D’Lights at the Bellevue Botanical winning Christmas show. $85. Register by Garden, transformed into a winter wonDec. 2. derland with more than half a million tiny lights. Then head back downtown to Snow TRAVEL TALK: Learn about guided tour flake Lane for the holiday show. Ages 12 options with Trafalgar at 6 p.m. Wednesand older. $57-$59. Preregister by Dec. 5. day, Nov. 13, at AAA Travel, 1600 E. College Way, Suite A, Mount Vernon. Free.

EXTENDED TRIPS: The Oak Harbor RSVP: 360-848-2090.

Senior Center is organizing several smallgroup trips for 2014: San Antonio in SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and March, Scotland in June, Trains of Colorado Recreation offers travel opportunities in July and New England in September. for ages 12 and older (adult supervision Trips will depart from Oak Harbor/Mount required for ages 18 and younger). Trips Vernon. Contact Pat Gardner at pgardner@ depart from and return to Hillcrest Park, oakharbor.org.

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saturday 11/2

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Contemporary Country Dance Band 9 pm - 1 am

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 24-30

TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 24-31 SATURDAY.26 SKAGIT SYMPHONY 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $20-$40, $10 students, $5 ages 16 and younger. (Enjoy a preconcert reception with hors d’oeuvres and champagne at 6 p.m. in the lobby, $20.) 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

THURSDAY.24

SATURDAY.26

Knut Bell (country, folk): 7 p.m., Big Rock Cafe, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. No cover. 360-424-7872.

DAVID ROGERS 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Randy Norris & Jeff Nicely: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Sarah In The Wild, Hillary Susz, NEVER!!!: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $3. 360-778-1067.

Steve Rudy (jazz): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600.

FRIDAY.25 THE SWEET DOMINIQUES 9:30 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

FRIDAY.25 The Sardines: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

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Sunday.27

MUSIC

BALLET

MUSIC

MUSIC

THEATER

IMPROV

“Rhythm of the Rain”: Mount Vernon High School Small Ensembles, 7 p.m., MVHS auditorium, 314 N. Ninth St., Mount Vernon. $8-$10. 360-540-4276.

“The Addams Family”: Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Troupe, 7 p.m., S-WHS Theater, 1235 Third St., SedroWoolley. $5-$8. 360-855-3510.

“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.

“Dracula”: Northwest Ballet Theater, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $24-$35. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Whose Live Anyway”: Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Joel Murray and Jeff B. Davis; 9 p.m., Wa-Walton Event Center, Swinomish Casino & Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. $40-$75. 888-2888883 or swinomishcasinoandlodge.com.

THEATER

“The Addams Family”: Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Troupe, 7 p.m., S-WHS Theater, 1235 Third St., SedroWoolley. $5-$8. 360-855-3510.

“Little Shop of Horrors”: comedy/horror/musical, 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Fidalgo Youth Symphony Fall Concert: 1 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$15, $1 students and children. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Skagit Symphony Gala Concert: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $20-$40, $10 students, $5 ages 16 and younger. (Enjoy a preconcert reception with hors d’oeuvres and champagne at 6 p.m. in the lobby, $20.) 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyre hall.org.

THEATER

“The Addams Family”: Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Troupe, 7 p.m., S-WHS Theater, 1235 Third St., SedroWoolley. $5-$8. 360-855-3510.

“Little Shop of Horrors”: comedy/horror/musical, 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Eddie and the Touks (rhythm & blues): 8 p.m., Big Rock Cafe, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. No cover.

360-424-7872.

The Sweet Dominiques Bali Girls, Tacos!, Grenades, Gregory Rawlins: 8 p.m., (surf, reggae): 9:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Eternal Bad: 10 p.m., The Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main, Conway. 360-445-3000. Shakedown, 1212 N. State Main St., Conway. 360-445St., Bellingham. $6. 360-7784733.

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Jim Cull: 7 to 10 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-8488882.

SATURDAY.26

Mount Baker Toppers men’s a cappella chorus, Elation ladies’ quartet: 3 p.m., St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. $15. Proceeds benefit Immaculate Conception Church building fund. 360-848-8707.

Chris Eger Band: 9 p.m. to midnight, Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington.

No cover. 360755-0165.

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

360-422-6411.

Scott Haynes: 8 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $5 cover. 360336-3012.

Wednesday.30

Ann ‘n’ Dean (variety dance music): 7 to 10 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

Costumes welcome; open to the public. 360848-8882

David Rogers (classical guitar): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $7. 360-4453000.

Gertrude’s Hearse: 9 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Idol Eyez: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

877-275-2448.

Jesse Taylor & The Rainy Day Devils (country): 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6266.

Br’er Rabbit: 9 p.m. to midnight, Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6330.

Halloqueen, Voyager: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8.

360-778-1067.

STORYTELLING

Megan Hicks: 6 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. Donations accepted.

360-445-3000.

SUNDAY.27 Knut Bell & The Blue Collars: 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. $3 cover.

360-445-4733.

WEDNESDAY.30 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.

Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6266.

Eagle Teeth, VR Trainers, Out On The Streets, The Shows: The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Hamilton/Cox: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

THURSDAY.31 Dark Stories, Acts, Music and Halloween Costume Party: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $14. 360-4453000.

Open Mic/ Halloween Costume Party: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-293-2544.

HorrorBusiness, Pantera Lives!, MotleyCrew: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8-$10.

360-778-1067.

Andy “Badd Dog” Koch (blues): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden.

No cover. 360-3543600.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 24-30

TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 24-31 SATURDAY.26 SKAGIT SYMPHONY 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $20-$40, $10 students, $5 ages 16 and younger. (Enjoy a preconcert reception with hors d’oeuvres and champagne at 6 p.m. in the lobby, $20.) 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

THURSDAY.24

SATURDAY.26

Knut Bell (country, folk): 7 p.m., Big Rock Cafe, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. No cover. 360-424-7872.

DAVID ROGERS 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Randy Norris & Jeff Nicely: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Sarah In The Wild, Hillary Susz, NEVER!!!: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $3. 360-778-1067.

Steve Rudy (jazz): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover.

360-354-3600.

FRIDAY.25 THE SWEET DOMINIQUES 9:30 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

FRIDAY.25 The Sardines: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Big Lake Bar & Grill, 18247 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 360-422-6411.

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“Rhythm of the Rain”: Mount Vernon High School Small Ensembles, 7 p.m., MVHS auditorium, 314 N. Ninth St., Mount Vernon. $8-$10. 360-540-4276.

“The Addams Family”: Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Troupe, 7 p.m., S-WHS Theater, 1235 Third St., SedroWoolley. $5-$8. 360-855-3510.

“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.

“Dracula”: Northwest Ballet Theater, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $24-$35. 360-4167727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Whose Live Anyway”: Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Joel Murray and Jeff B. Davis; 9 p.m., Wa-Walton Event Center, Swinomish Casino & Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. $40-$75. 888-2888883 or swinomishcasinoandlodge.com.

THEATER

“The Addams Family”: Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Troupe, 7 p.m., S-WHS Theater, 1235 Third St., SedroWoolley. $5-$8. 360-855-3510.

“Little Shop of Horrors”: comedy/horror/musical, 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Fidalgo Youth Symphony Fall Concert: 1 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$15, $1 students and children. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Skagit Symphony Gala Concert: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $20-$40, $10 students, $5 ages 16 and younger. (Enjoy a preconcert reception with hors d’oeuvres and champagne at 6 p.m. in the lobby, $20.) 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyre hall.org.

THEATER

“The Addams Family”: Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Troupe, 7 p.m., S-WHS Theater, 1235 Third St., SedroWoolley. $5-$8. 360-855-3510.

“Little Shop of Horrors”: comedy/horror/musical, 8 p.m., Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20.

360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

Eddie and the Touks (rhythm & blues): 8 p.m., Big Rock Cafe, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. No cover.

360-424-7872.

The Sweet Dominiques Bali Girls, Tacos!, Grenades, Gregory Rawlins: 8 p.m., (surf, reggae): 9:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Eternal Bad: 10 p.m., The Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main, Conway. 360-445-3000. Shakedown, 1212 N. State Main St., Conway. 360-445St., Bellingham. $6. 360-7784733.

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Jim Cull: 7 to 10 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-8488882.

SATURDAY.26

Mount Baker Toppers men’s a cappella chorus, Elation ladies’ quartet: 3 p.m., St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. $15. Proceeds benefit Immaculate Conception Church building fund. 360-848-8707.

Chris Eger Band: 9 p.m. to midnight, Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington.

No cover. 360755-0165.

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

360-422-6411.

Scott Haynes: 8 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $5 cover. 360336-3012.

Wednesday.30

Ann ‘n’ Dean (variety dance music): 7 to 10 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon.

Costumes welcome; open to the public. 360848-8882

David Rogers (classical guitar): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. $7. 360-4453000.

Gertrude’s Hearse: 9 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-755-3956.

Idol Eyez: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover.

877-275-2448.

Jesse Taylor & The Rainy Day Devils (country): 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6266.

Br’er Rabbit: 9 p.m. to midnight, Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6330.

Halloqueen, Voyager: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8.

360-778-1067.

STORYTELLING

Megan Hicks: 6 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. Donations accepted.

360-445-3000.

SUNDAY.27 Knut Bell & The Blue Collars: 5 to 9 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. $3 cover.

360-445-4733.

WEDNESDAY.30 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.

Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison.

360-766-6266.

Eagle Teeth, VR Trainers, Out On The Streets, The Shows: The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $5.

360-778-1067.

Hamilton/Cox: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-588-1720.

THURSDAY.31 Dark Stories, Acts, Music and Halloween Costume Party: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $14. 360-4453000.

Open Mic/ Halloween Costume Party: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

360-293-2544.

HorrorBusiness, Pantera Lives!, MotleyCrew: 9 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8-$10.

360-778-1067.

Andy “Badd Dog” Koch (blues): 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden.

No cover. 360-3543600.

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E12 - Thursday, October 24, 2013

REVIEWS MUSIC CDS Compiled from news services

Katy Perry

“Walking on Air,” a collaboration with Swedish producer Klas Ahlund, is a shin“Prism” ing effort, while the bonus track “Spiritual,” co-written with beau John Mayer, is Katy Perry’s a groovy highlight.

“Teenage Part of the problem with “Prism” is it Dream” was doesn’t showcase much of Perry’s perperfect pop sonality. There is no high-volume party pleasantry, full of anthem like “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” back-to-back hits that captured her silly and playful side, no that were oh-so-fun and addictive, fused spitting fire anger of “Circle the Drain” with humor, emotion and a hint of edge. or the deeply felt, powerhouse vocals of How could you resist?

“Thinking of You” from her 2008 debut, Perry has some of that energy on “One of the Boys.”

“Prism,” her third album, which comes Instead, Perry comes off like a pop three years after her pop star breaktart robot on her new effort. She’s busy through. But she lacks some of the fiery keeping up with radio and others, and not fierceness and excitement that dominated creating her own lane: Even the begin“Teenage Dream.” The singer’s new elec- ning beat of “This Moment” sounds like tro-pop songs are likable — and surely Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own” — in the there are some Top 10 hits here — but way “Roar” sounds like “Brave.” she’s playing it safe. “Prism” is Perry as “Prism” is enough to keep Perry on the plain Jane. charts, but it’s time to think outside of the The California girl, who turns 29 on Billboard.

Friday, is now singing self-help anthems n Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press and about recovering from her 2011 divorce from comedian-actor Russell Brand. The songs, though, don’t drip with Warbringer emotion and she rarely gets deep: The “IV: Empires Sia-penned “Double Rainbow” and “By Collapse” the Grace of God,” slow grooves that close the album, don’t really scratch the If “IV: surface. They are good, but could be great Empires Colif Perry didn’t hold back and explored lapse” proves more lyrically and sonically. “Wasn’t to be a careergoing to let love take me out that way,” defining she sings on “Grace of God,” apparently snapshot for about contemplating suicide. While that Warbringer — and that strongly appears topic is heavy, the song sounds like “Wide to be the case — then the band’s future is Awake” 2.0. bright indeed.

“Prism” was primarily written and Warbringer is a leader, along with produced with her frequent collaborators Evile, Havoc, Lich King and a few others, and hitmakers Max Martin, Dr. Luke and of the resurgence of thrash metal (apply Bonnie McKee. But they don’t always the poser-level subgenre term of your bring out the best Perry: “International choice here). A style that has floudered Smile” is cheesy and “Legendary Lovers” and resurfaced dozens of times since its is forgettable. Even “Roar,” the eighth early 1980s inception, thrash pioneers No. 1 hit for Perry, lacks oomph and swag. include Metallica, Anthrax and Exodus, It can’t compete with Sara Bareilles’ simi- and dozens more to varying degress.

That view is of course open to interprelar “Brave.”

Her team fares better on the sultry and tation — diehards may claim Motorhead started it all, and the band certainly was upbeat “Birthday” and “Dark Horse,” a primary influence — but the first wave featuring rapper Juicy J, which works primarily roared from the Bay Area thanks to its mesh of Southern hip-hop around 1981. The style withered nearly and electronic flavors. to extinction when Nirvana and their When Perry borders on changing up flannel-clad ilk seized the industry, but her sound and taking some risks, she is while grunge ignited quickly but couldn’t best. The irresistible deep house track

sustain itself, metal kept lurking at the fringe.

Now with their fourth full-length album soon on the street, and thousands of miles and hundreds of gigs having cleared a path, Warbringer have taken their core elements, thrown in a jarring twist or two, and forged a new blueprint.

The first released song, “Hunter-Seeker,” is a prime example of what Warbringer does so well: blinding speed, the requisite crunch, and John Kevill’s throatshredding vocals. But not so fast: the band incorporates a hint of atmospheric doom, elements of jazz and swing (!) and some dual guitar leads by John Laux and Jeff Potts that bring to mind Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Mercyful Fate. The band has a sense of humor as well; the lyrics to “Iron City” are a high-velocity goof on the metal lifestyle.

Also noteworthy is the production: loud and clear, it doesn’t fall victim to the overcompressed, oversaturated, “our record is louder than yours” mentality that has plagued many recent releases.

With “IV: Empires Collapse,” Warbringer have broken new ground and set the bar to a top-shelf level. n Craig Parrish, Skagit Valley Herald

Linda Thompson “Won’t Be Long Now”

Linda Thompson briefly plays the role of proud parent on her new album, happily slipping into the background while her children sing Anna McGarrigle’s “As Fast As My Feet.”

It’s a rousing rendition and a rare moment of peppy pop on “Won’t Be Long Now.” With Thompson front and center, doom and gloom dominates the rest of the record — no surprise to longtime fans of Thompson and her exhusband, Richard.

She sings of war, fear, domestic abuse, loneliness and death, and like the gray sky on the cover, there’s a bleak beauty to the music. Thompson’s bracing, unvarnished alto remains a wonder despite her history of career-curtailing voice trouble.

She chooses her material wisely, mixing

traditional British and Irish folk with songs she wrote that have the same timeless feel.

The family provides plenty of help.

Daughter Kami takes the lead on “As Fast As My Feet,” and son Teddy contributes as a composer on four songs, including the wry title cut. Even Richard lends a hand, with his acoustic guitar the only backing instrument on the lovely opener “Love’s for Babies and Fools.” It sounds like something they might have performed together 40 years ago — again, timeless. n Steven Wine, Associated Press

Willie Nelson

“To All the Girls …”

Willie Nelson loves to duet, and judging by his myriad guest appearances, he’ll sing with just about anybody (Billy Currington?). There’s no questioning his taste or his material here, though, as the 80-year-old Red-Headed Stranger teams with 18 female guests — from eminences like Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris to young lights like Miranda Lambert and Brandi Carlile — on a set whose title alludes to Nelson’s biggest duet smash of all, with Julio Iglesias in 1984.

Just about everything here — from the country-oriented character of “Somewhere Between” with Loretta Lynn to the more supper-club strains of “Far Away Places” with Sheryl Crow — possesses the drily understated elegance that has been the hallmark of Nelson’s best work. Tersely lyrical Willie guitar solos and Mickey Raphael’s trademark keening harmonica punctuate many of the arrangements, helping to provide a unifying undercurrent.

And if the mood is predominantly mellow, Nelson does occasionally shift gears to good effect — racing through a twangfueled “Bloody Mary Morning” with Wynonna, Western swinging with Shelby Lynne on “Till the End of the World,” or injecting some bluesy grit with Mavis Staples on “Grandma’s Hands.” n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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REVIEWS VIDEO GAMES Chris Campbell, Scripps Howard News Service

‘Beyond: Two Souls’

about Jodie’s fate becomes easy from the opening scenes.

Watching the cinematic sequences is not just a passive experience. You often get to help Jodie decide how scenes play out, either as a timid woman struggling to control and understand Aiden’s abilities, or as an aggressor, with Aiden as your Look, I get assistant in wreaking havoc and exacting it. Some people revenge. How other characters react to choose “Battleyour decisions makes replaying the game field” or “World almost a requirement because, as with any of Warcraft” good movie, the more you watch events or even “Fruit unfold the more subtleties you notice and Ninja” as their appreciate. See how characters react to gaming environs your decisions. Some decisions help forge of pleasure — new relationships, while others may tear games where it’s the fabric of Jodie’s peace just when she’s action, action, getting comfortable in her surroundings. action at all times, taking you far from Though the action isn’t on par with the reality of your 9-to-5 desk job and giving you the opportunity, even if wildly “Call of Duty” or even “Tomb Raider,” the game delivers some tense moments: fictional, to live a fantastical life of crazy possibility or just to pass some time away. a fight sequence aboard a speeding train and infiltration of a secret laboratory.

The typical conventions of gaming More character-driven passages involve made 2010’s “Heavy Rain” a polarizing aiding a family under harassment or findgame. David Cage’s “Rain” had gamers either loving the cinematic experience or ing food and supplies when you are sheltered by a community of homeless people. expressing outright disdain for a game Some traditional gamers abhor this that played out a narrative on screen with kind of video game, which favors story occasional quick-time events to make it and characters over classic tropes like appear “interactive.” running-and-gunning or beating people I relished the game and its blend of into a pulp. I can defend “Two Souls” character study and plot — even when confidently by saying that Cage tested those elements had holes a truck could the rules and boundaries of what a video drive through. Thankfully, Cage returns game could be with “Heavy Rain” and with an entirely new story in “Beyond: has gone a few steps further with this Two Souls.” release.

Pushing his vision forward on cinI wish the overall narrative and plot ematic gaming, “Beyond” tells the tale infused more tension and mystery like of Jodie, a girl with a spirit companion “Rain.” But the characters in “Two Souls” named Aiden. Button prompts and joyare stronger and more complex. No matstick commands guide both Jodie and ter what issues the game play may have, Aiden. When the two aren’t controlled this cinematic game remains more moviedirectly, the on-screen action plays out like a movie thriller. Ellen Page and Wil- like than many Hollywood feature films.

I have nothing but confidence and high lem Defoe lend not just their voices but hopes for Cage’s next story. With new their likenesses, cementing the game’s cinematic quality. The characters’ conver- consoles about to hit the market, I hope sations chart their progress from mentor the wait will be even shorter. and teacher to potential adversaries. The n Follow Chris Campbell on Twitter @camp storyline rarely loses its focus, and caring bler or email game_on_games@mac.com.

Platforms: PlayStation 3 Genre: Adventure Publisher: Sony ESRB Rating: M for mature Grade: 4 stars (out of 5)

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E14 - Thursday, October 24, 2013

HOT TICKETS BONOBO: Oct. 24, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Oct. 24, El Corazon, Seattle.

800-514-3849 or elcorazon seattle.com.

OKKERVIL RIVER: Oct. 25, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

ENDUROCROSS EXTREME MOTORCYCLE RACING: Oct. 26, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866332-8499 or comcastarena everett.com.

SARAH BRIGHTMAN: Oct. 26, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877784-4849 or livenation.com.

RISQUE HALLOWEEN PARTY: Oct. 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

J. COLE: Oct. 30, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 206-224-5481 or aeglive.com.

JANELLE MONAE: Oct. 30, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

HOODIE ALLEN: Oct. 31, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

HELL’S BELLES (AC/DC Tribute), HALLOQUEEN (The music of Queen): Oct. 31, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

SLAYER: Nov. 1, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

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

WINDOWPANE, MECHANISM: Nov. 2, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

TRIVIUM, DEVILDRIVER: Nov. 5, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

NADA SURF: Nov. 7, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

MINUS THE BEAR: Nov. 8, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

GRETA METASSA, MILES BLACK TRIO, JOVON MILLER: Nov. 9, Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Bellingham. 360-671-1709 or suddenvalleylibrary.org.

KATONA TWINS (classical guitar duo): Nov. 9, Benaroya Hall, Seattle. 206-297-8788 or seattleguitar.org.

RED FANG: Nov. 9, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

PRETTY LIGHTS: Nov. 22, Sho Ware Center, Kent. 866-973-961 or showarecenter.com.

POLICA: Nov. 23, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA: Nov. 23, KeyArena, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

JOHN LEGEND: with Tamar Braxton: Nov. 25, Paramount Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

LESS THAN JAKE: Nov. 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

SOL & FRIENDS: Nov. 27, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

DECK THE HALL BALL: with Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, The Head and The Heart, Alt J, Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, Foals, Tame Impala: Dec. 3, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation. com.

ADVENTURE CLUB: Dec. 4, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

DRAKE: with special guest Miguel, Dec. 4, Tacoma Dome, AP Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

PEARL JAM: Dec. 6, KeyArena, UNASHAMED TOUR V: Nov. DELTRON: Nov. 17, Showbox 9, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800at the Market, Seattle. 800-745- Seattle. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

745-3000 or showboxonline.com. 3000 or showboxonline.com.

BJ THOMAS: Dec. 6-7, Skagit LAMB OF GOD, KILLSWITCH THOMAS DOLBY: Nov. 18, Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877ENGAGE: Nov. 11, ShoWare Cen- Showbox at the Market, Seattle. ter, Kent. 866-973-961 or sho 800-745-3000 or showboxonline. 275-2448 or theskagit.com.

BLACK CROWES: Dec. 7, Parawarecenter.com. com.

KREATOR, OVERKILL, THE GREEN: Nov. 19, Showbox mount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784WARBRINGER: Nov. 12, El Cora- at the Market, Seattle. 800-745- 4849 or livenation.com.

THE WHITE BUFFALO: Dec. 7, zon, Seattle. 800-514-3849 or 3000 or showboxonline.com.

The Crocodile, Seattle. 800-745elcorazonseattle.com.

LUPE FIASCO: Nov. 19, Show3000 or LiveNation.com.

SELENA GOMEZ: Nov. 12, box SoDo, Seattle. 800-745 106.1 KISS FM JINGLE BALL: KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 3000 or showboxonline.com. or livenation.com.

JAMES BLAKE: Nov. 20, Show- with Selena Gomez, Flo Rida, Fall Out Boy, Austin Mahone, Icona TORO Y MOI: Nov. 12, Showbox box SoDo, Seattle. 800-745Pop, Fifth Harmony, Travie McCoy, at the Market, Seattle. 800-745- 3000 or showboxonline.com.

New Politics: Dec. 8, Comcast 3000 or showboxonline.com.

3OH!3: Nov. 20, Showbox at Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 ALESSO: Nov. 14, Showbox the Market, Seattle. 800-745or comcastarenaeverett.com.

SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or 3000 or showboxonline.com.

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS: showboxonline.com.

DIR EN GREY: Nov. 21, ShowDec. 10, KeyArena, Seattle. 800GRAMATIK: Nov. 15, Showbox box at the Market, Seattle. 800at the Market, Seattle. 800-745- 745-3000 or showboxonline.com. 745-3000 or livenation.com.

CHRIS HARDWICK: Dec. 13, 3000 or showboxonline.com.

DISNEY ON ICE PRESENTS Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

MORGAN PAGE: Nov. 15, “ROCKIN’ EVER AFTER”: Nov. Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 80021-24, Comcast Arena at Everett. 800-745-3000, showboxonline. com.

745-3000 or showboxonline.com. 866-332-8499 or comcastarena FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE: with MARGARET CHO: Nov. 16, everett.com.

Moore Theatre, Seattle. 877-784- 34TH ANNUAL SEATTLE INTER- Colt Ford and Dallas Smith: Dec. 4849 or livenation.com.

NATIONAL COMEDY COMPETI14, ShoWare Center, Kent. 866SLEEPING WITH SIRENS: Nov. TION SEMIFINALS: Nov. 22, 973-9613 or ShoWareCenter.

16, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800- Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. com.

745-3000 or showboxonline.com. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com. SIZZLA: Dec. 22, Showbox at KMFDM: Nov. 16, Showbox at NINE INCH NAILS: Nov. 22, the Market, Seattle. 800-745the Market, Seattle. 800-745KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 3000 or showboxonline.com.

3000 or showboxonline.com. or livenation.com.

SUPER DIAMOND: THE NEIL

SELENA GOMEZ Nov. 12, KeyArena, Seattle. 800745-3000 or livenation.com.

DIAMOND TRIBUTE: Dec. 31, Showbox at the Market, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or showboxonline. com.

REVEREND HORTON HEAT: Jan. 9, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

PANIC! AT THE DISCO: Jan. 14, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: Jan. 17, 2014, KeyArena, Seattle. 800745-3000 or livenation.com.

DISNEY JUNIOR LIVE ON TOUR! PIRATE & PRINCESS ADVENTURE: Jan. 19, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or comcastarenaeverett.com.

JAKE BUGG: Jan. 20, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-7844849 or livenation.com.

LORD HURON: Jan. 24, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

COLIN HAY (of Men At Work): Jan. 24-25, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com.

IMAGINE DRAGONS: Feb. 11, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

KYARY PAMYU PAMYU: Feb. 13, 2014, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS: Feb. 16, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or comcastarenaeverett.com.

DOC SEVERINSEN, THE SAN MIGUEL FIVE: Feb. 21-22, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877275-2448 or theskagit.com.

GALACTIC: March 13, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

ROBIN THICKE: March 26, 2014, WaMu Theater, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or ticketmaster. com.

GUNGOR: March 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-7453000 or showboxonline.com.

HE WANTED: April 26, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

SUDDEN VALLEY JAZZ SERIES: April 26/Nov. 15, 2014, Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Bellingham.

360-671-1709 or suddenvalley library.org.

STEPHEN “RAGGA” MARLEY: May 6, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 206-224-5481 or aeglive.com.

CHER: June 28, 2014, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013 - E15

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“With any luck, they’ll soon get voted out, and I’ll still have the Mark Twain prize.”

Fey opened the show with some jokes about the recent government shutdown and about fears over “Obamacare.” But she quickly turned to showering Burnett

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MOVIES

Robert Redford, alone on a wide, wide sea

By STEVEN REA The Philadelphia Inquirer

It’s hard to imagine being farther off the grid than the weathered yachtsman played by Robert Redford in the majestic, melancholy “All Is Lost.” There he is, solo on a 39-foot sailboat in the middle of the Indian Ocean, taking on water after a freak accident: During the night, while he slept, his boat struck a drifting shipping container, and a corner of the giant corrugated metal box pierced its hull.

‘ALL IS LOST’

HHHH Directed by J.C. Chandor.

With Robert Redford. Distributed by Roadside Attractions.

Running time: 1 hour, 46 mins.

Rating: PG-13 (profanity, adult themes)

Redford’s nameless mariner wakes up to find the contents of his galley bobbing like rubber duckies in a bath. But he isn’t panicking. He goes about patching the hole, pumping out the water — although, with the electricity out, this is no easy feat.

And the radio and radar are offline, too. He has a manual for celestial navigation, and a sextant, which he’ll have to figure out how to use.

Written and directed by J.C. Chandor, whose previous film, “Margin Call,” was the polar opposite — clipped, talky, set in the teeming canyons and corridors of Wall Street — “All Is Lost” is as simple a tale of survival as it gets. A man, a boat, the sea, the sky.

And all the questions of our lives — how we relate to our families, our loved ones, how we think of death, do we believe in a God, an afterlife — are there to consider. To consider wordlessly, because, with the exception of an opening voice-over and a guttural profanity aimed at the heavens,

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Robert Redford stars in “All Is Lost.”

Redford’s man (identified only as “Our Man” in the end credits) hardly speaks. There is no one to speak to.

Instead, we hear the creak and yaw of the boat, the waves lapping against its side, the — uh-oh — rumble of thunder and roar of a storm.

“All Is Lost” — whose ending is open to interpretation without necessarily being ambiguous — explores themes remarkably similar themes to those in Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity.” The crisis of Sandra Bullock’s astronaut, spinning in a crippled craft in space,

is even brought about in the same way, by a surreal onslaught of debris. But where “Gravity” frames its isolated humans in the vast, zero-g expanse, “All Is Lost” uses that most primal element, water. It covers more than twothirds of the Earth, and Our Man and his boat are specks caught in its currents. The sun beats down, the stars arch overhead.

How he got here, and why, are questions only partially answered by the narration that opens the film. What we know: he is on his own, and he has left loved ones behind, with some heartache, and

regret, and sense of failure.

Redford, his skin as burned and leathery as someone who has spent years sailing (or skiing and hiking and riding in his Sundance home), delivers a performance as powerful and soulful as it is quiet and indrawn. He is on screen just about every minute, and lets all his vanity go — a hardy septuagenarian gingerly pulley-ing himself up the mast to try to fix his radar, or dangling by ropes and rigging off the boat’s side, or hunched over a book, a can of food. There is incredible tension in this ordeal, this effort to sur-

vive, to find rescue, and Redford — an icon of the American film experience for more than half a century now — makes that tension deeply palpable.

Those blue eyes have never looked less cocky, less certain, more overwhelmed by the magnitude of his predicament.

And in the grander, metaphoric view, it’s a predicament we all could find ourselves in, some time, some place: abandoned, navigating existence with only our minds, and spirits, to keep us on course — or throw us desperately off.

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MOVIES MINI-REVIEWS Compiled from news services.

Ratings are one to four stars.

“A.C.O.D.” — Despite an excellent ensemble cast including Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara and Amy Poehler, “A.C.O.D” delivers only a few sporadic chuckles amidst clunky scenes in which various members of an extended dysfunctional family behave rudely and say mean things to one another. Comedy, R, 87 minutes. HH “Afternoon Delight” — Star Kathryn Hahn seems to be trying too hard as a stay-at-home mom deep in the throes of a 30-something life crisis. Just about everyone in this edgy yet predictable film — including the people we’re supposed to like or at least want to spend time with — is self-absorbed, whiny and depressed. Comedy drama, R, 99 minutes. HH “Captain Phillips” — Director Paul Greengrass (“The Bourne Supremacy”) delivers another intense, emotionally exhausting thriller with amazing verite camerawork and gut-wrenching realism. Smack in the middle is Tom Hanks in a career-crowning performance as a worldly sea captain taken hostage by Somali pirates. Even as Greengrass’ signature kinetic style renders us nearly seasick and emotionally spent from the action, it’s the work of Hanks that makes this film unforgettable. Thriller, PG-13, 134 minutes. HHHH “Don Jon” — Joseph GordonLevitt delivers as the writer, director and star of this offbeat, frank and often surprising gem about a preening, narcissistic meathead who prefers online porn to his weekly one-night stands. With Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore and Tony Danza. Romantic comedy, R, 90 minutes. HHH “Enough Said” — The late James Gandolfini delivers one of the richest performances of his career as a middle-aged man who falls in love with a middle-aged woman (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Writer-director Nicole Holofcener (“Friends With Money”) again gives us mature, sometimes sardonic, authentic people moving about in a world we recognize.

Romantic comedy, PG-13, 93 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Gravity” — An accident sets two astronauts, a veteran (George Clooney) and a rookie (Sandra Bullock), adrift in space. Both a stunning visual treat and an unforgettable thrill ride, director Alfonso Cuaron’s amazing space adventure

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AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE “Salinger” — One can understand why the reclusive author OAK HARBOR CINEMAS J.D. Salinger (and the critics of Oct. 25-31 this film) would cringe at many ANACORTES CINEMAS Jackass Presents: Bad of the suppositions and stylistic Oct. 25-31 Grandpa (R): Friday-Saturday: flourishes in this documentary.

Metropolitan Opera: The 1:20, 3:25, 6:50, 8:55; SunBut despite its considerable Nose (NR): Saturday: 9:55 day-Thursday: 1:20, 3:25, flaws, “Salinger” is a valuable a.m.

6:50 and engrossing biography of Captain Phillips (PG-13): Escape Plan (R): Fridaythe author of arguably the most Friday-Saturday: 1:00, 3:45, Saturday: 1:10, 3:35, 6:40, beloved American novel of the 6:30, 9:15; Sunday-Thurs9:05; Sunday-Wednesday: 20th century. Documentary, day: 1:00, 3:45, 6:30 1:10, 3:35, 6:40; Thursday: PG-13, 129 minutes. HHH Gravity (PG-13): Friday1:10, 3:35 “Thanks for Sharing” — Saturday: 1:10, 3:15, 6:40, Captain Phillips (PG-13): Though containing some dra8:40; Sunday-Thursday: Friday-Saturday: 1:00, 3:45, matic moments, “Thanks for 1:10, 3:15, 6:40 6:30, 9:15; Sunday-ThursSharing” is mostly a romantic Enough Said (PG-13): day: 1:00, 3:45, 6:30 comedy asking us to sympaFriday-Saturday: 1:20, 3:25, The Rocky Horror Picture thize with sex addicts, including 6:50, 8:55; Sunday-WednesShow (R): Thursday: 9:00 Adam (Mark Ruffalo), a handday: 1:20, 3:25, 6:50; 360-279-2226 some consultant fighting the Thursday: 1:20, 3:25 temptation of self-destructive The Rocky Horror Picture STANWOOD CINEMAS encounters. We care about Show (R): Thursday: 9:00 Oct. 25-31 these people, we believe their 360-293-6620 Metropolitan Opera: The problems are real and we want Nose (NR): Saturday: 9:55 them to get the help they so CONCRETE THEATRE a.m. desperately need. Tim Robbins, Oct. 25-27 Jackass Presents: Bad Gwyneth Paltrow and Josh Gad Gravity (PG-13): Friday: Grandpa (R): 1:15, 3:30, co-star. Comedy drama, R, 112 7:30 p.m. (3D); Saturday: 6:45, 8:55 minutes. HHH 4 p.m. (2D) and 7:30 p.m.

Carrie (R): Friday-Wednes “The Family” — A mobster (3D); Sunday: 4 and 6:30 day: 1:10, 3:20, 6:40, 8:50; turned informant (Robert De p.m. (both 3D) Thursday: 1:10, 3:20, 6:40 Niro) enters the Witness Protec 360-941-0403 Escape Plan (R): Fridaytion Program with his equally Wednesday: 1:05, 3:35, hot-tempered wife (Michelle CASCADE MALL 6:35, 9:05; Thursday: 1:05, Pfeiffer) and kids. Tommy Lee THEATRES 3:35, 9:05 Jones is deadpan perfection as Burlington the agent in charge of the fam For listings: 888-AMC-4FUN Captain Phillips (PG-13): 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 ily’s protection. There are just (888-262-4386).

Gravity (PG-13): Fridayenough moments of inspiration Wednesday: 1:20, 3:25, in this cheerfully violent comedy BLUE FOX DRIVE-IN 6:50, 9:00; Thursday: 1:20, to warrant a recommendation Oak Harbor 3:25, 6:50 -- especially if you know what Oct. 25-27 The Rocky Horror Picture you’re getting into. It’s weird.

The Counselor (R) and RunShow (R): Thursday: 8:00 It’s different. It’s effective more ner Runner (R): First movie often than not. Crime comedy, starts at approximately 7 p.m. 360-629-0514 R, 111 minutes. HHH 360-675-5667 “The Fifth Estate” — Benedict Cumberbatch shines as the mercurial Wikileaks founder evokes “Alien” and “2001: A of a thriller, falling short of Space Odyssey.” During some greatness only because it goes Julian Assange, playing him as someone who’s so disconharrowing sequences, you’ll on too long. Thriller, R, 153 nected from normal human have to remind yourself to minutes. HHH1⁄2 breathe. Thriller, PG-13, 91 min- “Runner Runner” — After an politeness he seems borderline 1 autistic. Neither hagiography utes. HHH ⁄2 intriguing setup about a young nor character assassination, “Paradise” — Writer-director poker whiz (Justin Timberlake) “The Fifth Estate” unfolds at Diablo Cody, who won the entering the inner circle of an a sometimes feverish pace, Oscar for her screenplay for online gambling mogul (Ben “Juno,” goes surprisingly bland Affleck) in Costa Rica, “Runner capturing that mad rush of adrenaline felt by those who and obvious for her first foray Runner” devolves into a bypost breaking news online and behind the camera. Starring as the-book thriller. Thriller, R, 91 raising fascinating, complex a sweet thing who denounces minutes. HH questions about the evolving her deep Christian upbringing “Rush” — “Rush” ranks and sets out for Vegas, Juliamong the best movies about nature of journalism. With anne Hough delivers the kind auto racing ever made, featurDaniel Bruhl, as Assange’s first of bland, sometimes awkward ing great performances from chief disciple, Laura Linney work that makes us appreciate Daniel Bruhl as detail-obsessed and Stanley Tucci. Biographical real actors. Comedy, PG-13, 86 Formula One driver Niki Lauda drama, R, 124 minutes. HHH minutes. HH and Chris Hemsworth as his “The To Do List” — Aubrey “Prisoners” — When his cocky rival, James Hunt. Even Plaza is too mature to play daughter and her friend go if you don’t know Formula One a high school valedictorian missing, Keller Dover (Hugh from the Soap Box Derby, Ron suddenly determined to fulJackman, more impressive Howard’s “Rush,” like all great fill a bucket list of sexual than ever) becomes a man pos- sports movies, is foremost adventures. Genuinely funny sessed. The masterful script about getting to know and moments are few in a comedy takes us through a maze of understand the characters. This that wastes the talents of TV plot complications and posis one of his most impressive stars including Connie Britton, sible suspects. “Prisoners” is a efforts. Sports action, R, 123 Donald Glover and Bill Hader. white-knuckle, near-masterpiece minutes. HHHH Comedy, R, 104 minutes. H

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by Clare Higgins (Ger(Shostakovich) trude), Patrick Malahide 9:55 a.m. Saturday, Oct 26 (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James LaurenPaulo Szot reprises his son (Ghost/Player King) acclaimed performance of a and Ruth Negga (Ophelia). bureaucrat, whose satirical $15 general; $13 seniors; misadventures in search of $11 students with $2 off for his missing nose are based Lincoln members. on Gogol’s comic story.

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“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family.

National Theatre Live will broadcast the Manchester International Festival production of “Macbeth,” with Kenneth Branagh as the Scottish king and Alex Kingston as Lady Macbeth, directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh. $15 general; $13 seniors; $11 students with $2 off for Lincoln members.

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OUT & ABOUT ART IN THE ART BAR: Artworks by Deirdre Czoberek are on display through Oct. 31 at the Lincoln Theatre Art Bar, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Czoberek was the set artist for “PAN the Musical,” which recently completed a successful run at the Lincoln. 360-3368955 or lincolntheatre.org.

B&W PHOTOS: Thaddeus Hink is showing a selection of black and white photographic prints, by appointment, at Think Studios, 1010 Fifth St., Suite 320, Anacortes. 360-7704528.

NEW PAINTINGS: New paintings by Andy Friedlander are on display through Oct. 31 at the 1st Street Cabaret, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. 360336-3012.

BJ DOLLAHITE: MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE: The exhibition, featuring a collection of Friday Harbor artist BJ Dollahite’s mixed media landscapes, seascapes and florals, created by layering handmade papers in a variety of colors and textures, continues through Oct. 25 at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The gallery is also showing oils

by Matt Dollahite, photographs by Lewis Jones, oils

by Ramona Hammerly and pastels by Steve Hill. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or scottmilo.com.

“FOCUS ON FIBER”: Fiber artists Mary Burks, Linda LaMay, Joyce Noordmans and Martha Tottenham are featured in a show that continues through Oct. 31 at Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

in Traditional Pieced, Non-Traditional Pieced, Wearable Arts, Best Use of Recycled Materials and Best Use of Embellishment categories. The People’s Choice award-winner also will be on display.

“Abstracted”: The exhibition by the Fiber Art Network from Western Canada explores the concept of realistic and abstract art.

Pairs of artists will illustrate their subject — one in a representative fiber art piece and one in an abstract/non-representative piece. Vivian Kapusta is the show’s guest curator. The show continues through Dec. 29.

“Inspired to Design: Art Quilts by Elizabeth Barton”: Barton paints or dyes all of the fabric she uses in her nontraditional quilts, which she describes A show of paintings by Eric Wiegardt will open with a reception during the First as “contemporary,” “art Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and continue through Dec. 3 quilts” or “fiber collages.” at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The show will feature Her work is focused on Northwest landscapes, seascapes and florals painted in Wiegardt’s impressionist a few particular themes: NEW PAINTINGS: A style. Also showing: oils by Sandy Byers, photographs on canvas by Dick Garvey, buildings and cityscapes, show of new paintings by photo encaustics by Kathy Hastings and watercolors and etchings by Elizabeth industrial landscapes, black Edison artist Todd Horton Ockwell. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. and white curves and landcontinues through Oct. 27 360-293-6938 or scottmilo.com. Pictured: “Good Company” by Eric Wiegardt. scapes. The show continues at Smith & Vallee Gallery, through Dec. 29.

5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison.

A reception for the artThe gallery will showcase dolls, small watercolors kane artist Ric Gendron, a Horton challenges traditional concepts of painting and ists will take place from 1 hand-woven and hand-spun and inspiration plaques. dual-enrolled member of fiber art, including wearAlso on display: Lynne the Arrow Lakes Band of pushes the physicality of the to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the museum. Free with ables and tapestries. Anne Adams’ jewelry, Tim Potthe Confederated Tribes media. His work involves Martin McCool paintings ter’s “meticulous whimsy” of the Colville and the landscape, wildlife, mystery museum admission.

Museum hours are 11 and works by other gallery creations, Roger White’s Confederated Tribes of and chance — sometimes artists will also be shown. unique driftwood feathers, the Umatilla. Gendron is a all in the same composition. a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. $7, $5 stuGallery hours are 11 Bob and Lorena Higbee’s little-known but important Gallery hours are 11 a.m. dents and military, free for a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday turned wood vases, North- late-career Native artist; to 5 p.m. Tuesday through members and ages 11 and through Saturday and noon west note cards by Sharon the exhibition will feature Sunday. 360-766-6230 or younger. 360-466-4288 or to 4 p.m. Sunday. 360-293Stapleton and stained glass more than 30 years of his smithandvallee.com. laconnerquilts.com.

3577 or mccoolart.com. mosaics by Sandy and Carl vibrantly expressionistic Bryant. For information, and lyrical paintings and QUILTS, FIBER ARTS: RIVER GALLERY: The “THE WARMTH OF including gallery hours and prints. Curated by Ben Three new shows continue annual Fall Art Show conAUTUMN”: The show con- directions, call 360-222Mitchell, “Rattlebone” at the La Conner Quilt & tinues through Oct. 31 at 0102 or visit ravenrocks originated at Missoula Art Textile Museum, 703 S. Sec- tinues through Nov. 3 at 19313 Landing Road, near Raven Rocks Gallery, 765 gallery.com.

Museum in November ond St., La Conner.

La Conner. The show feaWonn Road, Greenbank.

2012, and will next travel “Best of the Festival tures more than 200 small New tapestry purses and NEW ART EXHIBITS: to the Museum of Contem- 2013”: Featuring the top wall hangings from WindThe Museum of Northwest porary Indian Arts at the award-winning quilts from works by 32 local artists, walker Taibi are joined by Art is hosting two new Institute of American Indi- the museum’s annual Quilt including paintings, sculptures, glass and jewelry. his hand-spun yarns, bear shows through Jan. 5 at 121 an Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Festival, the show will Gallery hours are 10 a.m. fetish necklaces, paintings S. First St., La Conner. n “Geology”: from the continue through Nov. 24. to 5 p.m. Friday through and raven note cards. New n “Ric Gendron: Rattle- Permanent Collection: This The exhibit will include Sunday. 360-466-4524 or from Mary Jo Oxrieder bone” features paintings multidisciplinary exhibit the Best of Show winner rivergallerywa.com. are knitted caps, Scrumble and related works of Spopairs science and art with as well as the top entries

WATERCOLORS AND ACRYLICS

the Northwest’s geological findings and the collection’s palette. The works offer an abstract interpretation of our otherwise familiar environment.

The show will include works by Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Francis Celentano, Doris Chase, William Current, John C. Ebner, Ray Hill, JohnFranklin Koenig, Alden Mason, Peter Millet, Allen Moe, Keith Monaghan, Carl Morris, Spencer Moseley, Geoffrey Pagen, Camille Patha, Richard M. Proctor, Kait Rhoads, Paul Soldner, Mark Tobey and Gerard Tsutakawa.

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 museum ofnwart.org.

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OUT & ABOUT “AUTUMN WINDS”: GLASS, METAL, STONE AND NORTHWEST PAINTINGS: The show continues through Nov. 10 at Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island.

The exhibition features artwork by Mike Adams, Todd Horton, Anne Martin McCool, Jennifer Phillips, Susan Cohen Thompson and Hiroshi Yamano, as well as new sculptures in the 10-acre sculpture park

by Jan Hoy, Norbert Jager, Dan Freeman, Lawrence McLaughlin, Lin McJunkin and Richard Nash, and an outdoor installation by Barbara DePirro. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends (weekdays by appointment). 360-3872759 or matzkefineart.com.

GALLERY WALK: View a wide range of art and fine crafts during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at galleries and other venues along Commercial Avenue and other locations in downtown Anacortes. Featured artworks include paintings, sculptures, fiber arts, gourd art, jewelry, art glass, mixed media, pastels, photos and more. 360-293-6938.

“TEXTURES”: Photography and textiles join together for a show from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1-2, at the Gallery at the Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes.

Photographers will show off their portrait photos, locally and from around the world. Joining them are the “DIVAS,” a mix of fabric artists specializing in clothing, and local jewelry artists. Also, “Textures” will be on display at Starbucks, 18th and Commercial, during November.

PAINTINGS & GOURDS: Check out new paintings

Commercial St., La Conner.

A reception for the artist will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2. Behnke combines materials in nontraditional ways, using relief printing, casting and assemblage. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. 360-7084787 or gallerycygnus.com.

edu/fairhaven/news/world issuesforum. Next up: Oct. 30: “A History of Partition: the Gordian Knot of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”: Martin Bunton, University of Victoria professor of history, applies his nine-volume collection of primary sources on land legislation in Palestine to find a tolerable ART’S ALIVE: Stanwood/ resolution for both sides Camano artist Jack Gunter in the 120-year-old Israeliwill be the featured artist at Palestinian conflict.

Nov. 6: “Frictions of the 29th annual event, set for Friday through Sunday, Conversion and Contention: Religion and ActivNov. 1-3, in La Conner.

Check out the Invitational, ism in Mexico’s Tohono Kathleen Kaska, author O’odham Borderlands”: Emerging and Open Art of “The Alfred Hitchcock Shows, demonstrations and Raised on both sides of Triviography and Quiz the U.S.-Mexico border, exhibitions all over town.

Book,” will present 360-466-4778 or lovelacon University of Washington “Behind the Camera: associate professor Jose ner.com/arts-alive. an Alfred Hitchcock Antonio Lucero is an outFew Knew” at 7 p.m. spoken advocate against ART AT THE MUSE: A Wednesday, Oct. 30, at U.S. Border Patrol policies show of artwork by Lloyd the Anacortes Public that cause the deaths of Houston will open with a Library, 1220 10th St., thousands of immigrants reception from 6 to 9 p.m.

Anacortes. Free. 360-293Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Con- who cross the Tohono 1910, ext. 21, or library.

O’odham lands. Lucero will way Muse, 18444 Spruce/ cityofanacortes.org. also discuss the controversy Main, Conway. 360-445surrounding Mike Wilson, 3000 or conwaymuse.com. a former Green Beret

by Anne Martin McCool who, against the wishes of and “Curious Gourds” by LECTURE his tribe, leaves water for Vicki Hampel, opening AND TALKS migrants. with a reception from 6 to MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, and DIALOGUE: The discussion WATER QUALITY: Polcontinuing through Nov. lution prevention special30 at Anne Martin McCool series featuring PakistaniAmerican Jafar (Jeff) Sidist Lee First will present Gallery, 711 Commercial “Our Water: Exploring the Ave., Anacortes. The show diqui and moderated by Rev. George Lockwood Streams, Rivers and Marine will feature McCool’s Northwest-inspired acrylics concludes with a summary Shorelines of Whatcom and and review from 6:30 to Skagit Counties” at 4 p.m. on canvas and Hampel’s 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, today in Communications gourds, hand-carved and at the La Conner United Facility 105 on the Western painted with a variety of Washington University animals and other themes. Methodist Church, 601 S. Second St., La Conner.

The gallery will also feacampus in Bellingham. First 206-228-5732. ture fine crafts in wood, will highlight examples fiber, jewelry, sculptures, of water quality, habitat WORLD ISSUES glass and ceramics by other and critical area problems, FORUM: Western Washing- including a variety of gallery artists. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ton University’s Fairhaven examples — from pollution College of Interdisciplinary that homeowners cause Wednesday through SatStudies holds its annual urday and noon to 4 p.m. in urban yards to manure World Issues Forum from Sunday. 360-293-3577 or spreading on flooded fields. noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednes- She also will discuss the mccoolart.com. days (unless otherwise process of reporting and PRINTS & SCULPTURE: noted) in the Fairhaven documenting pollution, Jean Behnke’s one-woman College auditorium on the ways to remedy the probWWU campus in Bellingshow will run Nov. 1-Dec. lems and some local sucham. 360-650-2309 or wwu. cesses. Free. 360-650-3520.

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FILM, DISCUSSION: “Seeds of Freedom” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at the Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. The film highlights the extent to which the industrial agricultural system — and genetically modified seeds in particular — have impacted the enormous agro-diversity evolved by farmers and communities around the world since the beginning of agriculture.

Sue Shellenberger will moderate a discussion after the film. Free.

TRAIL TALES: “PROJECTING FUTURE SCENARIOS FOR FIDALGO BAY: MODELING WATER CIRCULATION AND COASTAL CHANGES”: with Dr. Eric Grossman, research geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 8, Northwest Educational Services District 189 Building, 1601 R St., Anacortes. Learn how the U.S. Geological Survey is constructing a 3-D hydrodynamic model of Fidalgo Bay as part of a larger Salish Sea model to study how climate change, sea level rise and land use might influence coastal communities, ecosystem restoration outcomes and Fidalgo Bay. Find out how you can get involved as a volunteer. Sponsored by Friends of Skagit Beaches Trail Tales, Fidalgo Bay Aquatic Reserve Citizen Stewardship Committee, Washington Environmental Council and Re-Sources.

Free. For information, contact Wendy Steffenson at 360-733-8307 or email wendys@re-sources.org.

MUSIC PIANO CONCERT: John Nilsen will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at First Christian Reformed Church, 701 W. Blackburn

Road, Mount Vernon.

Nilsen is an award-winning pianist from Oregon who has toured nationwide and in Europe and Asia. 360336-2405 or firstcrcmv.com.

BLUEGRASS JAM: The Skagit Bluegrass & Country Music Association’s Monthly Jam will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at Evergreen Elementary School, 1007 McGarigle Road, Sedro-Woolley.

Come and play along, dance or just enjoy listening. Free. 360-856-1058.

MORE FUN SKAGIT COUNTY ANNIVERSARY: Celebrate the 130th anniversary of Skagit County with a special exhibit continuing through Nov. 10 at the Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. The exhibit features artifacts, photographs and stories. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. $5 adults, $4 seniors and ages 6 to 12, $10 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or skagitcounty.net/museum.

MOVIE NIGHT: Enjoy a screening of “Shirley Valentine” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at the Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Admission by donation. RSVP: 360-464-2229 or anacortes centerforhappiness.org.

CHAIR-ITY AUCTION & DINNER: The 10th annual event will take place at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at Swinomish Casino & Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive, Anacortes. Enjoy dinner, silent and live auctions and more. $70, $130 for two. Proceeds will benefit the Children’s Museum of Skagit County. 360-7578888 or skagitchildrens museum.net.

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