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NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK “TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES”: This is the animated story of the comic book world’s best known sidekick, Robin (voiced by Scott Menville), and his fellow Teen Titans. The Boy Wonder is convinced the only way the group — which also includes Beast Boy (Greg Cipes), Cyborg (Khary Payton), Raven (Tara Strong) and Starfire (Hynden Walch) — will be taken seriously is if they star in their own movie. Robin and the gang go to Hollywood, where they try to convince Jade Wilson (Kristen Bell), the director behind all of the other DC Comics superhero movies, to make a film about them.

The story is told through an animation style that explodes off the screen with color and light. It’s not hampered by the kind of bleak imagery that has been the norm in so many movies based on DC characters.

Combine the fast pacing of the story, the wonderful embrace of bold colors and plenty of silliness and the movie works on a basic comedy level.

The film continues the crazy style of the television series that has made it so popular.

In a world where superheroes tend to either be moodily self-reflective or All-American good, the Teen Titans are wild, impulsive and a lot of fun.

“MURDOCH MYSTERIES: THE CHRISTMAS CASES LIMITED EDITION”: It’s not too early to start thinking about holiday shopping, and this boxed set of the award-winning Canadian period mystery series should be on your list. The series is set in Toronto in the late 1890s and early 1900s and centers on Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), who uses new forensic techniques to solve some of the city’s most gruesome murders.

What makes the series so much fun is it has the procedural elements of “CSI” coupled with the kind of period setting that makes shows like

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The set includes three feature-length mysteries set in Edwardian Toronto, including: “A Merry Murdoch Christmas,” “Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas” and “Home for the Holidays.” In addition there are bonus featurettes and a collectible Christmas card.

“2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY”: Stanley Kubrick’s epic space tale will be released in 4K Ultra HD to mark its 50th anniversary.

“THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME”: Two best friends end up involved with an international conspiracy. Mila Kunis stars.

“THE MATRIX TRILOGY”: Includes “The Matrix,” “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions.”

“BELIEVER”: Remake of Johnnie To’s ”Drug War” from director Lee Hae-young.

“THE PADRE”: Two men track down a small-time con man (Tim Roth) posing as a priest in a small Colombian town.

“UMBANGO”: In the 1986 film, KwaZulu-Natal, Jack and Owen prepare to fight a cunning businessman bent on revenging his dead brother.

“MANDY”: The peaceful existence of a loving couple is destroyed by a cult sparking a search for vengeance. Nicolas Cage stars.

“NEVER GOIN’ BACK”: Two best friends dream of escaping their waitressing jobs.

“DRAGNET: Collector’s Edition”: The Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks film based on the classic TV series is being released on Blu-ray and includes additional material.

“THE DARKEST MINDS”: Teens who mysteriously develop new abilities are declared a threat by the government.

“FISHY STONES”: Poorly executed jewelry store heist leaves two amateur thugs on the run from the cops in this 1990 release.

“VALLEY GIRL (COLLECTOR’S EDITION)”: The Deborah Foreman film is being released on Blu-ray for the first time to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary.

“GONE CRAZY”: Psychopath seeking revenge on a small-town mayor steals a mega-bomb with plans to blow up the dam and drown the town.

BEING RELEASED ON DIGITAL HD OCT. 30

“THE MEG”: Crew of a deep-sea submersible must be saved from the bottom of the ocean after being attacked by a giant creature. Will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Nov. 13.

“ALPHA”: Teen and wolf become friends as they fight to survive during the last Ice Age. Scheduled for Nov. 13 release

Upcoming DVD releases Following is a partial schedule of DVD releases (dates subject to change):

NOV. 6

n Incredibles 2 n Christopher Robin n BlacKkKlansman n Papillon n Loving Pablo n A Crooked Somebody n Beyond The Sky n Destination Wedding n Elementary: The Sixth

Season n Mara n Masterpiece: Poldark, Season 4 n Succession: S1 n The Good Fight: Season Two n The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time — Tribune News Service

on DVD and Blu-ray.

“JULIET, NAKED”: Annie (Rose Byrne) develops an unlikely transatlantic romance with a washed-up singer-songwriter. Set to be available on DVD and Blu-ray Nov. 13.

“MILE 22”: Mark Wahlberg stars in this story of an elite government group assigned to transport a valuable package to safety. Will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Nov. 13.

— Rick Bentley, Tribune News Service

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Thrillingham brings dancing zombies to Bellingham HALLOWEEN PUB CRAWL

Dress in costume and experience six of Sedro-Woolley’s best bars at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. Meet at Hammer Heritage Square. $25.

By Skagit Valley Herald staff

Get your spook on and support a local charity during Thrillingham in Bellingham.

During the annual event, about 45 people will dress as zombies and perform a dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

The free event will be held Halloween night on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at Maritime Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly St. The opening acts begin at 8 p.m., followed by the “Thriller” performance and a dance party open to the audience for the rest of the evening. {span} Jalepeños Mexican Restaurant will have a taco truck nearby.{/ span} Thrillingham began about 10 years ago as a flash mob and has since evolved, organizer Tonya Kniest said.

For the second year in a row, the dance will support Whatcom-based Brigadoon Service Dogs. Last year, Kniest said the event raised about $2,000 for the organization.

None of the 45 dance participants are professional dancers or organizers, Kniest said.

“We’d like to think Michael Jackson would be proud of us, even if our moves aren’t what his were,” she said.

Here are some more ways to celebrate Halloween in the region: ADULT PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST

MOUNT VERNON DOWNTOWN TRICK-OR-TREAT, COSTUME CONTEST

The Mount Vernon Downtown Association’s annual Safe Halloween Trick-or-Treat will take place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, followed by the costume contest at the Lincoln Theatre. Participating First Street businesses will share treats with your children in a safe, festive environment. Free. 360-336-3801.

HISTORIC EVERETT THEATRE HAUNTED HOUSE

Resident ghost “Smilin’ Al and the Apparitions” will be haunting the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, Oct. 28-31. $5-$10.

Thrillingham, where people dressed as zombies and perform a dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” will take place at 8 p.m. Halloween night on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at Maritime Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly St., Bellingham.

RSVP: 360-678-9536 or travel@ islandtransit.org.

MONSTER MASH HALLOWEEN BALL

Dress up and dance to live music from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Marsyville Opera House, 1225 Third St., Marysville. $15, must be 21 or older to attend.

Costume contest.

GHOULS AND GEARS GALA

Bring a pumpkin and everything else will be supplied at this event for ages 21 and over at 6 p.m. today, Oct. 25, at Fireweed Terrace at Eaglemont Golf Course, 4800 Eaglemont Drive, Mount Vernon.

Free. fireweedterrace.com.

Support the Anacortes FIRST Robotics teams at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Swinomish Casino and Lodge, 1901 Down Jones Way, Anacortes. Silent auction, raffles, frights and more await. $74. my360tix.com.

HALLOWEEN HOWL

CASA TRICK OR TREAT

Board the bus for a free twilight tour to Deception Pass State Park with Native American storyteller Lou Labombard and others sharing stories around a fire from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26. Dress in costume and bring a flashlight.

The Camano Animal Shelter (CASA) invites everyone to the shelter, 198 N. Canku Road, Camano, for trick-or-treating and animal petting from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27. camanoanimalshelter.org.

RELAY FOR LIFE HALLOWEEN PARTY

and Wednesday, Oct. 31. $5.

HALLOWEEN DANCE

Food, games, contests and more are in store at this Halloween party from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Samish Valley Grange, 4320 Highway 9, Sedro-Woolley. $5 suggested donation. RSVP: lead. skagitrelay@gmail.com.

Dance in costume from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $10 adults, $8 students. No-host bar and snacks available. 360-387-0222.

COSTUME PARTY

FALL EXTRAVAGANZA

Put on a costume and enjoy a night of food, drink, dancing and live music by the Tighty Whities at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Fireweed Terrace at Eaglemont Golf Course, 4800 Eaglemont Drive, Mount Vernon. Free, Ages 21-plus. fireweedterrace.com.

Dress up for the second annual Fall Extravaganza from 1 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27, at United Methodist Church of Anacortes, 2201 H Ave., Anacortes. Bring a pumpkin to carve. All ages welcome. Enjoy games of mini-golf, broom shuffle and more. 360-293-0604.

HAUNTED FEAR GARDEN

SATURDAY NIGHT HALLOWEEN PARTY DANCE

Boundary Bay Brewery’s warehouse and beer garden, 1107 Railroad Ave., Bellingham, will be transformed into spooky scenes with surprises at every turn. It’s open to all ages from 6 to 9 p.m. and ages 21-plus from 9 to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27,

Come in costume, if you’re feeling ghoulish, and enjoy a variety of country and rock music from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. Free. 360-7082182.

”ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW”

Theaters around the region present late night and midnight showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (some include additional live actors and call-and-responses): n Mount Baker Theatre: 8 p.m. and midnight Friday, Saturday and Wednesday, Oct. 26, 27 and 31. $15.

104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. n Historic Everett Theatre: Midnight Wednesday, Oct. 31. $15, adults only. 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. n Lincoln Theatre: 8 and 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. $12.

712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

SCREAM FAIR HAUNTED HOUSE

7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St., Lynden. $10-$12. screamfairhaunt.com.

HALLOWEEN – WEEN TRIBUTE

Attend HalloWEEN, an Americana tribute to Ween, at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the Brown Lantern, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Free, ages 21-plus.

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OUT AND ABOUT

ART

MODEST FORMS OF BIOCULTURAL HOPE: Four art installations explore the complex relationships between biology and culture at Western Gallery, 516 High St., Bellingham. The exhibit runs through Dec. 8.

Christianson’s hosts event heralding fall colors

OPERA BY JOSE INIGUEZ: Watch the dance and music of local performers, including tenor Jose Iniguez, and support Mari’s Place from 5 to 8 p.m. today, Oct. 25, at 1402 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett.

ROBERT E GIGLIOTTI: The sculptor is the featured artist at The Good Stuff Arts Gallery, 604 Commercial Ave., Anacortes, through Oct. 30.

INCANTATIONS AND DANCE: The Skagit Community Band will open its 2018-19 concert season at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 26, at Maple Hall, 104 Commercial. La Conner.

Free, donations will be accepted. skagitcommunityband.org.

PEREGRINE O’GORMLEY, JASMINE VALANDANI: The wood carvings and bronze casts of O’Gormley and the delicate abstract works on paper of Valandani will be featured through Oct. 28 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. smithandvallee.com.

STILL MAKING: New sculptures by Dan Freeman are on display through Oct. 29 at the Rob Schouten Gallery, 101 Anthes Ave., Langley.

VOYAGER: The work of artist Steve Jensen is on display through Nov. 3 at Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt Ave., Everett. schackartcenter.com.

SELF-CENTRIC: Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W Holly St., Bellingham, presents a new show through Nov. 10.

LEO OSBORNE: The goldleaf acrylic paintings and sculptures by Leo Osborne are featured at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes, along with other new works.

HOME: Sunnyshore Studio, 2803 SE Camano Drive, Camano, is exhibiting new art by Jed Dorsey. The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. To schedule a viewing: 317-209-6768.

SPIRIT UNBROKEN: Skagit Animals In Need and Dirtie Dog Photography are partnering for “Spirit Unbroken,” a benefit event showcasing the stories of

321 Front St., Lynden, hosts free live music at noon on Wednesdays in the piano lounge.

STEPHANIE BANASZAK

By Skagit Valley Herald staff

MOUNT VERNON — Appreciate the changing colors of fall foliage at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27.

Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon, will host a Fall Color Walk rescued animals. Admission is free and families are welcome from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Farmstrong Brewing Company, 110 Stewart Road, Mount Vernon.

GAIL HARKER STUDENTS: The Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts will present an exhibition of certificate students’ work from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, in the Two Forks Room at the La Conner Country Inn, 107 N. Second St., La Conner. The exhibitors are Nancy Drake of Anacortes, Christina Fairley Erickson of Bellevue, Barbara Fox of Silverdale and Marilyn Olsen of Bellingham.

MOUNTAINEERING EXHIBIT: Western Washington University’s Libraries Heritage Resources is hosting an exhibi-

through the nursery’s display gardens and the adjoining La Conner Flats.

John Christianson will lead the walk and share his favorite trees and shrubs on the lot.

Guests should dress for mud and adverse weather. The stroll will start in front of the schoolhouse.

Call 360-466-3821 to reserve a spot.

tion exploring the relationship between humans’ love of high altitudes and issues of gender, race and class through March 22 in the Special Collections floor of the Wilson Library, 516 High St., Bellingham. Free.

FALL JURIED EXHIBIT: The Jansen Art Center’s Fall juried exhibit is at the center, 321 Front St., Lynden. jansenartcenter.org.

STUDIO TOUR SHOWCASE: See the work from many of the artists participating in the 2018 Whatcom Artists Studio Tour at the Jansen Art Center through Friday, Nov. 30.

CHARLES GORRELL: See the new exhibition “Places I’ve Painted” by Charles Gorrell at Woods Coffee, 1135 Railroad Ave., Bellingham.

EXHILARATING TEXTURES: Acrylic and mixed media artist Terry MacDonald’s work is featured at the Good Stuff Arts Gallery, 604 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

BALLENGER STUDIO: See the work of Melissa Ballenger, Ron King, Ellen Dale and Annette Tamm at the Ballenger Studio Show Room, 15502 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. Open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

MUSIC

LIVE AT THE PIANO LOUNGE: The Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden, hosts free live music at 6 p.m. Thursdays in the piano lounge.

WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME MUSIC: The Jansen Art Center,

HALLOWEEN TRIBUTE: Paisley and Todd Gray, of Pickled Okra, will play Ween songs at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the Brown Lantern, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

THEATER

LIVE THEATER BROADCASTS AT THE LINCOLN: Watch live broadcasts from the National Theatre stage in London at the Lincoln Theatre, 721 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $14-$18. lincolntheatre.org.

■ “Frankenstein”: 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 28, and 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 29. ”THE SKRIKER”: The play telling the supernatural fable of an ancient fairy is playing at the Sylvia Center for the Arts, 205 Prospect St., Bellingham.

Showings are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 25-27. $16-$20. sylvicenterforthearts. org. ”THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW”: Take part in the tradition of midnight movie showings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” with audience participation at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. Showings are 8 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, and Wednesday, Oct. 31. $15. mountbakertheatre.com.

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OUT AND ABOUT

LECTURES & TALKS

AUTHOR TO SPEAK: P. HainesAinsworth will read from her new novel “Jef Walker and Mr. B” at 7 p.m. today, Oct. 25, at Village Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham.

MYSTERY IN BURROWS BAY: Dr. Kirt Onthank, Walla Walla University professor and director of The Onthank Cephalopod Lab, will present the story of the discovery of a new octopus species in Puget Sound, at 6:30 p.m. today, Oct. 25, at Mount Vernon City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St., Mount Vernon.

LEADERSHIP FORUM: Alan Mulally, retired president and CEO of the Ford Motor Corporation, will be the keynote speaker at the Western Washington University Leadership Forum at 11:30 a.m. today, Oct. 25, at Hotel Bellwether, 1 Bellwether Way, Bellingham. $150. wwu. edu/leadershipforum.

TOOLS FOR TOUGH CONVERSATIONS: Join a training series for past participants of conflict training programs at the Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center, 13 Prospect St. Suite 201, Bellingham.

Each session is from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. whatcomdrc.org.

■ Oct. 25: Explore Bias and Opportunities for Inclusion.

■ Oct. 30: Practice Speaking Up When it Matters Most.

■ Nov. 1: Find Common Ground in Times of Difference.

■ Nov. 6: Respond with Poise in Moments of Crisis.

JESSICA GIGOT & BILL RANSOM: The local authors will speak at 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 26, at Pelican Bay Books, 520 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

GHOSTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Discover the legends of ghosts in Whatcom County at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Whatcom Community College, 233 Kellogg Road, Bellingham.

“ALGAE AND PLANKTON”: Biologist Dr. Brady Olson will present “An Eye-Opening View of Algae and Plankton” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at the Mount Vernon City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St., Mount Vernon.

MORE FUN

BIRDING FOR KIDS: An “I Spy” Adventure in Skagit Valley: 9 a.m. to noon

and 1 to 4 p.m., weekends and holidays.

Binoculars provided. Reservations required: Skagit Guided Adventures, 360-474-7479, skagitguidedadventures. com.

BIRDING FOR SENIORS: A “Bird Bingo” in Skagit Valley: 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. daily. Binoculars provided. Skagit Guided Adventures, 360-4747479, skagitguidedadventures.com.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Find gifts at this bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at 2405 Austin Lane, Mount Vernon.

FILM SERIES: Anacortes Public Library is hosting a fall film series at 7 p.m. on Fridays during October. anacorteswa. gov/220/library.

AN EVENING OF HOPE: Meet with local agencies and organizations and learn about services available to you and your family on topics such as high school prep, bullying and peer pressure, suicide prevention and more. Free; open to the public, 6 to 8 p.m. today, Oct. 25, La Venture Middle School, 1200 N. La Venture Road, Mount Vernon.

CHRISTMAS AT NORTH CREEK: Shop for handcrafted items from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. todau and Friday, Oct. 25-26, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at 621 164th St. SE, Mill Creek.

HERITAGE MURAL: Attend the unveiling of Skagit Valley College Whidbey Island Campus’s outdoor Heritae Mural at Hayes Hall at 12:30 p.m. today, Oct. 25, at the school, 1900 SE Pioneer Way, Oak Harbor.

COMMON THREADS HARVEST DINNER: Support Common Thread’s mission to educate and connect children to healthy food and gardening at its ninth annual harvest Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. today, Oct. 25, at the Whatcom Middle School cafeteria, 810 Halleck St., Bellingham. $10, free for kids under 10. commonthreadsfarm.org.

KIDS NIGHT OUT: Students in grades K-5 can explore hands-on science activities from 7 to 9:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at Western Washington University, 516 High St., Bellingham. $25-$30. https:// ee.wwu.edu/youth-programs/programs/ kids-night-out-western-know-bellingham.

Cats take center stage at Monroe show

By Skagit Valley Herald staff

MONROE — Maine coons, bengals, American shorthairs and almost every breed of cat await visitors at the North Cascade Cat Fanciers Cat Show this weekend.

It’s a family-friendly event all about cats and the people who care for them.

The North Cascade Cat Fanciers are a branch of the American Cat Fanciers.

The show will take place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Oct 27-28, in Commercial Building No. 400 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Ave. SE.

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OUT AND ABOUT A PLASTIC OCEAN: Join a viewing of of “A Plastic Ocean” to learn about the state of our oceans at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at Central Skagit Library, 802 Ball St., Sedro-Woolley.

New music by William O. Smith in Conway

WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL: Join an evening of short films to support the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the Lincoln Theatre, 721 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $15-$25.

JET CITY ROLLER DERBY SEASON OPENER: 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, Seaview Gym at Edmonds Community College, 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood.

CAT SHOW: View an array of cats at the North Cascade Cat Fanciers Cat Show from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28, in Commercial Building No. 8, 14405 179th Ave. SE, Monroe.

USED BOOK SALE: The Friends of the Burlington Library will hold its annual fall used book sale on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, at the Burlington Public Library, 820 Washington Ave., Burlington.

GHOULS AND GEARS GALA: Anacortes FIRST Robotics will host a fundraiser from 5:30 to 11 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27, at Swinomish Casino & Lodge in Anacortes. The event features an auction, raffle and more. $75. my360tix. com/events/ghouls-andgears-gala.

FALL COLOR WALK: Walk through colorful trees and shrubs from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon. Free, reservations required: 360-466-3821.

CORRESPONDENCE CLUB: Make, write and send your own letter at Mindport’s Correspondence Club from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27, at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St., Bellingham.

Free.

HALLOWEEN DANCE: Dance in cos-

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Shop for handmade gifts and support the Espirit de Corps 4-H Club of Monroe from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27, at First Baptist Church, 17922 149th St. SE, Monroe.

FUN FALL FESTIVAL: Attend a free, family-friendly Fall Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, at Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1515 E. College Way, Mount Vernon.

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CONWAY — William O. Smith, jazz clarinetist and composer, will perform new works at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 30, at Fir-Conway Lutheran Church, 18101 Fir Island Road, in celebration of his 92nd birthday.

Smith will be accompanied by Jeffrey Cohan on the flute and Sharyn Peterson on the violin. The concert will also feature work by Seattle composer Huntley Beyer and Slovenian composer Igor Dekleva.

Smith has been experimenting with clarinet techniques since the 1960s and was a professor of clarinet, composition and contemporary music at the University of Washington for 30 years.

Tickets are by donation (suggested $15-$25). tume from 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $10 for adults, $8 for students. No-host bar and snacks available.

360-387-0222.

INDOOR SWAP MEET: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28, Barn 610, 14405 179th Ave SE, Monroe.

PLAY AND LEARN WITH LISA: An all-age storytime that focuses on the five early literacy skills — singing, talking, reading, playing and writing — takes place at 10 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave., Burlington.

LOOKING AHEAD

SURGE: The Museum of Northwest Art, 121 First St., La Conner, is hosting an exhibition designed to draw attention to climate change featuring 21 artists. The exhibit is open until Jan. 6.

KAITLYN BUSKIRK: The photography of Kaitlyn Buskirk will be

displayed at Woods Coffee, 1135 Railroad Ave., Bellingham, until December.

LORNA LIBERT: Work from oil artist Loina Libert is featured at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes, until Dec. 4. A reception for the artist will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2.

SUZANNE POWERS: Oil artist Suzanne Powers will be featured at The Good Stuff Arts Gallery, 620 Comercial Ave., Anacortes, in November.

Powers will demonstrate her technique from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE: The oil paintings of Mark Bistranin are on display at the La Conner Seaside Gallery, 101 N. First St., through Nov. 30.

SKAGIT ARTISTS’ ARTS ALIVE: Artists from around the region are featured in this juried art show at the La Conner Garden Club, 622 Second St., La Conner. The show opens Friday, Nov. 9, with a reception and awards ceremony and continues until 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11. skagitartists.com.

INSPIRED BY DESIGN: Art from local artists representing the area’s beauty will be on display at WaterWorks Gallery, 315 Argyle Ave., Friday Harbor, from Nov.16Jan.5. A reception will take place from 4 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 16.

LIBRARY ARTISTS NEEDED: The Friends of the Anacortes Library’s Art Committee calls for artists for the next art exhibit in the community room of the Anacortes

Public Library. Artists residing in the 98221 zip code are eligible to submit digital photos of their 2-D art for consideration.

Information: folartcommittee@gmail.com requesting information on how to apply. Submission deadline is Nov. 9.

RISING: Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St., Bellingham, presents a new exhibition of work ranging from traditional to avant-garde. The exhibition opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, and runs to Dec. 31.

DICK WARWICK: Poet and songster Dick Warwick will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Guemes Island Community Center, 7549 Guemes Island Road, Anacortes. $15.

KARL BLAU: Local musician Karl Blau will perform with The Easy Leaves at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Marysville Opera House, 1225 Third St., Marysville. $18. marysvillewa.gov.

SUNDAY AT THREE: The Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden, will present a youth concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4.

WESTWIND: Traditional country music will be performed at 6 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 10, at Eagle Haven Winery, 8243 Sims Road, Sedro-Woolley. $10.

HERMAN CONTI CELLO CONCERTO: Cellist Clive Greensmith joins the Whatcom Symphony for a performance at 3 p.m.

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OUT AND ABOUT MIKE ALLEN QUARTET: Saxophonist Mike Allen will be joined by friends for a jazz concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, at the Sylvia Center for the Arts, 207 Prospect St., Bellingham. $5-$10. wjmac.org.

THE CAPITOL STEPS: A troupe of bipartisan ex-staffer comedians take the stage to “Make America Grin Again” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. $30-$50. mountbakertheatre.com.

THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNES: See what happens when an ordinary man’s life becomes a musical in this satire/rom-com at Village Theatre, 2710 Wetmore Ave., Everett. It runs Wednesdays through

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VISIONARY INDUSTRIALIST: James Delmage Ross believed that access to electricity was a right of all people. Jesse Kennedy will share the story of J.D. Ross and the development of the Skagit Hydroelectric Project during its earliest years at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave., Burlington.

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AUTHOR PRESENTATIONS: Renee Sarojini Saklikar, co-author of “Listening to the Bees,” and Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of “This is Paradise,” will read from their books at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Village Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham.

LAUREN DANNER: Author Lauren Danner will read from her book “Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park” at 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 3, at Upper Skagit Library, 45770 B Main St., Concrete.

THE BATTLE AT LITTLE BIGHORN: Learn about the characters and events that shaped this historic American battle at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Stanwood Camano Community Resource Center, 9612 271st NW Stanwood St., Stanwood.

TESOL CERTIFICATE INFO SESSION: Learn more about earning a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Landuages (TESOL) at this info session from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Miller Hall Room 115, Western Washington University, 516 High St., Bellingham. Free.

By Skagit Valley Herald staff

BELLINGHAM — Horror, naturalism and magical realism blend together in “The Skriker,” the first Main Stage Production this season by the iDiOM Theater.

FOCUS ON FARMING CONFERENCE: 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, Evergreen State Fairgrounds, 14405 179th Ave. SE, Monroe. $60-$65. focusonfarming.org.

EVENING WITH AN AUTHOR: Mystery writer Rosemary Reeve will read from and sign her new Bellingham-based legal thriller “Only the Good” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at Village Books, 1200 11th Ave., Bellingham.

YOUNG ADULT AU-

It tells the story of an ancient fairy who pursues two teenage mothers by transforming into different objects and people.

The supernatural horror piece was written by Caryl Churchill and features a predominantly female cast.

THOR: New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer will read from her new book “Archenemies” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at Village Books, 1200 11th St., Bellingham.

Dress up as a character from her books to be entered to win a prize.

HOW CHILDREN’S LITERATURE INSPIRES BOLD CONVERSATIONS: Anu Taranath will showcase a variety of children’s books at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the Burlington Public Library,

The three remaining showings are set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Friday, Oct. 25-27 at The Sylvia Center for the Arts, 205 Prospect St., Bellingham.

Tickets are $20 for general audiences, $15 for Sylvia Center members.

820 E. Washington Ave., Burlington.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: The Hope Unlimited Anti-Trafficking Initiative invites parents and children to attend a presentation on the dangers of human trafficking and methods used to trap children at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Camano Island Library, 848 N. Sunrise Blvd, Camano Island.

WORLD ISSUES FORUM SLATE: Western

Washington University will host a lecture series on a variety of world issues at noon every Wednesday in the Fairhaven College Auditorium, 516 High St., Bellingham. Free.

■ Nov. 7: How to Stop a Dam with Indigenous Resistance.

■ Nov. 14: Human Rights Norms, Institutions and Enforcement in Reality: with a Focus on Enforced Disappearances.

■ Civil Society Development in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries.

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OUT AND ABOUT AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE: Burlington Chamber of Commerce will host an awards ceremony for those who have made a positive impact in the community from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at The Skagit Casino Resort. burlington-chamber.com.

Bleedingham presents horrific filmmaking

SKAGIT VETERANS DAY PARADE: Honor veterans at this parade, featuring activities before and after, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Burlington Visitor Center, 520 E. Fairhaven Ave.

GREAT FUTURES GALA: Support the Boys & Girls Club of Skagit at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, at Corporate Air Center, 15452 Airport Drive, Burlington. $200. skagitclubs. org.

WARM BEACH SENIOR HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Shop through a huge assortment of Christmas decorations and gifts from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2-3, at the Beachwood Room at Warm Beach Senior Community, 20420 Marine Drive, Stanwood.

MUSEUM ANNIVERSARY PARTY: The Skagit County Historical Museum will host a 1968-themed 50th anniversary party from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Maple Hall in La Conner. $50 per person, $350 for a table of eight. Prices include two drink tickets per person. Tickets at the museum or my360tix. com. 360-466-3365 or museum@co.skagit.wa.us.

MATTRESS SALE: Support the Anacortes High School and Middle School choirs at their fourth annual mattress sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Anacortes Middle School, 2202 M Avenue, Anacortes.

CAMANOCON COSPLAY: Cosplayers and LARPers of all genres and fandoms are invited to

E-CYCLE: Donate old computers, TVs and monitors to the Stanwood Camano Kiwanis Aktion Club to be e-cycled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at 27001 94th Drive NW, Stanwood.

Free.

By Skagit Valley Herald staff

BELLINGHAM — Local horror filmmakers will present their macabre movies this weekend at the Bleedingham Film Festival.

The screenings start with the Creepy Cornucopia, a collection of local and international short and creepy films, at 2:30 p.m. attend the second annual CamanoCon from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. The event is for all ages, free and features panels and prizes.

FREE MICROCHIP CLINIC: The Camano Animal Shelter Association (CASA) will host a free microchip clinic for cats and dogs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at CASA, 198 Canku Road, Camano Island.

PASSPORT FAIR: Bring your documents and apply for a passport, no appoint-

Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Limelight Cinema, 1416 Cornwall Ave. At 8 p.m. the Washington State 2018 Official Selection screenings start at the Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St., Bellingham.

Two filmmakers will take home cash prizes, either $500 or $1,000.

From 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, the Night Gallery will open to everyone dead or alive. It’s a bit of

ment necessary, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes.

KIDS GIANT GARAGE SALE: Kids 17 and under can sell and purchase “kid-related” things from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. $15 for a booth, free entry. 360-755-9649 or burlingtonwa.gov/parksandrec.

FRIENDS OF THE FOREST BENEFIT: Enjoy

a Comic-Con style gathering for horror fans. Artists, crafters, tarot readers, ghost hunters and more will be at the Majestic Ballroom, 1027 N. Forest St., Bellingham.

The festival started seven years ago by two local horror enthusiasts and filmmakers and it has been growing ever since. Tickets for the showings range between $8-$10.

drinks, music and auctions while supporting the Friends of the Forest from 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Port of Anacortes

Event Center, 100 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $65 per person, $500 for a table of eight. friendsoftheacfl.org.

FACE OF WINTER: Great athletes come together to pay tribute to winter sport filmmaker Warren Miller in the film “Face of Winter” at 8 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. $22.

SANTA PICTURES FOR PETS: Bring your pet to the Skagit Farmers Country Store, 8815 272nd ST. NW, Stanwood, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area October 25 – November 1 Thursday.25 THEATER ”HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING”: 7:30 p.m., ACT Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

”THE SKRIKER”: 7:30 p.m., Sylvia Center for the Arts, 207 Prospect St., Bellingham. $16$20. sylviacenterforthearts. com.

COMEDY THE GBU: 7:30 p.m., The Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St., Bellingham. $8. 360-733-8855 or theupfront.com.

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, IMPROVISED: 9:30 p.m., The Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St., Bellingham. $5. 360-733-8855 or theupfront.com.

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THEATER ”HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING”: 7:30 p.m., ACT Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

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THEATER ”HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING”: 7:30 p.m., ACT Theatre, 918 M Ave., Anacortes. $20. 360-293-6829 or acttheatre.com.

OPERA ”LA BOHEME”: 3 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $25-$65.

360-416-7727 or mcintyrehall. org.

MUSIC MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ & MARIACHI: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon.

Free. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

”THE SKRIKER”: 7:30 p.m., Sylvia Center for the Arts, 207 Prospect St., Bellingham. $16$20. sylviacenterforthearts. com.

COMEDY HELLINGHAM: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., The Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St., Bellingham. $10-$12. 360-733-8855 or theupfront.com.

OPERA ”LA BOHEME”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $25-$65.

360-416-7727 or mcintyrehall. org.

SHARYN PETERSON

7 p.m., Fir-Conway Lutheran Church, 18101 Fir Island Road, Conway. Suggested donation ($15, $20 or $25), 18 and under free. salishseafestival.org/ newmusic or 360-445-5396.

”THE SKRIKER”: 7:30 p.m., Sylvia Center for the Arts, 207 Prospect St., Bellingham. $16$20. sylviacenterforthearts. com.

COMEDY HELLINGHAM: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., The Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St., Bellingham. $10-$12. 360-733-8855 or theupfront.com.

Tuesday.30 MUSIC WILLIAM O. “BILL” SMITH, JEFFREY COHAN, SHARYN PETERSON: 7 p.m., Fir-Conway Lutheran Church, 18101 Fir Island Road, Conway. Suggested donation ($15, $20 or $25), 18 and under free. salishseafestival.org/newmusic or 360-445-5396.

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TUNING UP Playing at area venues October 25 – November 1 Thursday.25

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RANDOM RAB: 9 p.m., Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St., Bellingham. 360-746-8733 or wildbuffalo.net.

THE FAT FRIDAYS: 11 a.m., Angel of the Winds Casino, 3438 Stoluckquamish Lane, Arlington. angelofthewinds.com.

LOUIS LEDFORD: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-4453000 or conwaymuse. com.

Tuesday.30 LA LUZ, SHY BOYS: 8 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 State St., Bellingham. $14. 360-77-1067 or shakedownbellingham.com.

Friday.26 THE PENNY STINKERS: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway.

360-445-3000 or conwaymuse.com.

THE WHATEVERLY BROTHERS: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000 or conwaymuse.com.

THE MOSSTONES & THE ENTHUSIASTS: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-293-2544 or brownlantern.com.

LEE HOWARD: 6:30 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. Members and signed-in guests only.

360-848-8882.

LLOYD JONES: 8 p.m., Rockfish Grill & Anacortes Brewery, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720 or anacortesrockfish.com.

Saturday.27 TONEY ROCKS: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 360-445-3000 or conwaymuse.com.

Wednesday.31 THE NAOMI MOON SIEGEL QUINTET: 7 p.m., Sylvia Center for the Arts, 207 Prospect St., Bellingham. $5-$10.

Saturday.27 THE LOWDOWN DRIFTERS

9 p.m., Loco Billy’s, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. 425-737-5144, 360-629-6500 or locobillys.com

BABY GRAMPS AND HOT DAMN SCANDAL: 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 360-445-3000 or conwaymuse.com.

GREAT AMERICAN TRAIN WRECK, PICKLED OKRA, PICKUP TRUCKERS: 8 and 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-293-2544 or brownlantern.com.

SWINGNUTS: 6 p.m., Rockfish Grill & Anacortes Brewery, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Free. 360588-1720 or anacortesrockfish.com.

LEMON CREEK: 8:30 p.m., The Old Edison, 5829 Cains Court, Bow. 360-766-6266 or theoldedison.com.

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

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WHALIEN: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-293-2544 or brownlantern.com.

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ANN ‘N DEAN: 6:30 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks Lodge, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. Members and signed-in guests only. 360-848-8882.

THE LOWDOWN DRIFTERS: 9 p.m., Loco Billy’s, 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood. 425737-5144, 360-629-6500 or locobillys.com.

THE PENNY STINKERS

7:00 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 360-445-3000 or conwaymuse.com.

Sunday.28 JIMMY WRIGHT BAND: 5:30 p.m., The Old Edison, 5829 Cains Court, Bow. 360-766-6266 or theoldedison.com.

BLUES OUT WEST: 4 p.m., Big Rock Roadhouse, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. 206618-4033 or bigrockroadhouse.com.

EL COLONEL AND DOUBLESHOT WITH MARY DE LA FUENTE: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/ Main, Conway. 360-4453000 or conwaymuse. com.

KEVIN CARROLL: 5 p.m., Anacortes Senior Center, 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. $10.

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Academy taps Donna Gigliotti to produce shorter, zippier 91st Academy Awards

By GLENN WHIPP Los Angeles Times

The motion picture academy has tapped Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti to produce next year’s Academy Awards — a ceremony that will be scrutinized more than ever because of the group’s recent mandate to limit the telecast to three hours.

Glenn Weiss will co-produce and direct the show. Weiss won an Emmy in September for producing this year’s Oscars, providing the Emmys with one

of its most memorable moments by proposing to girlfriend Jan Svendsen during his acceptance speech.

Responding to perennial criticism that the telecast runs too long — typically pushing well past three hours, with the longest, in 2002, clocking in at an epic four hours and 23 minutes — the academy recently announced that it would cap the show at three hours, moving the presentation of six to eight of the 24 awards categories to commercial breaks during the program.

Winning moments from those

categories, which have not yet been announced and which will be rotated each year, will then be edited to air later in the broadcast — a means of streamlining the show that the Tony Awards also employs, academy President John Bailey pointed out.

“We are committed to a threehour show,” Bailey told The Times in September. “I feel we have a responsibility to the people who watch that show in the Eastern time zone, which is a huge market, to have that show ended by 11 o’clock.”

The academy hopes a tighter

show will reverse, or at least curtail the ratings slide that has plagued Oscar telecasts in recent years.

This year’s ceremony drew a record low average of 26.5 million people, a drop of nearly 20 percent from 2017. The previous low came in 2008, when an average of 32 million people watched the telecast hosted by Jon Stewart.

The numbers mark a dramatic drop-off from as recently as 2014, the year the Ellen DeGeneres-led show pulled in an average audience of nearly 44 million viewers.

Gigliotti declined further com-

ment at this time. A host for the upcoming ceremony has yet to be announced.

Gigliotti won an Oscar as a producer of the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love.” She has also been nominated for producing “The Reader,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Hidden Figures.”

She was executive vice president at Miramax Films from 1993 to 1996, and in 2010, became president of production for the Weinstein Co. She spent two years as president of production at Barry Diller’s USA Films in the early 2000s.

OUT AND ABOUT

Events/from E9 VETERANS DAY DINNER: The Camano Chapel HIS Veterans Day Dinner will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at 867 SW Camano Drive. Camano Island. The dinner is free for veterans and their families and those who support veterans’ services in the community. RSVP with Lynda Buehring: Goldracket@aol.com or 206-550-4409.

VETERANS DAY CELEBRATION: 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, Hillcrest Park Lodge, 1717 South 13th St., Mount Vernon.

TEEN SUSHI: Kids ages 12 to 18 can create sushi from candy at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. No need to register, but supplies are firstcome, first-served.

CRAFT BAZAAR: The American Legion Post 43’s annual Craft Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16-17, at the Sedro-Woolley American Legion Post 43, 701 Murdock St., Sedro-Woolley. Proceeds benefit the Christmas basket program.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, Stanwood Fairgrounds Bonnie Cole Build-

ing, 6431 Pioneer Highway.

LIBRARY TEEN ADVISORY GROUP: Teens are invited to help make Burlington Public Library, 820 Washington Ave., a more teen-friendly place at a meeting 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26.

FESTIVAL OF TREES OPENING NIGHT: Join the opening night of the weeklong Festival of the Trees at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Tulalip Resort, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd. $65. A free community open house will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28.

CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Attend a recording of local variety show the Chuckanut Radio Hour at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Whatcom Community College’s Heiner Theater, 237 W. Kellogg Road, Bellingham. $5. brownpapertickets.com.

FESTIVAL OF TREES GALA: Attend an elegant gala event with champagne, a three-course dinner, live auction, tree viewing and more at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at Tulalip Resort, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip. $250.

“A CHRISTMAS CAROL ...

MORE OR LESS”: This twist on a Christmas classic written

by Stefano LoVerso and Mary Irey will be presented during the

Ghouls and Gears gala Saturday in Anacortes

By Skagit Valley Herald staff

ANACORTES — Spend Saturday, Oct. 27, in costume at a frighteningly fun gala to support the Anacortes FIRST Robotics teams.

The Ghouls and Gears Gala will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Swinomish Casino and Lodge, 12885 Casino Drive. The soiree is for ages 21 and over who want to enjoy an evening of Halloween fun.

There will be signature drinks, a silent auction, a live auction, dinner and dessert, raffles and so much more.

The night will end with a group dance lesson to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Tickets are $75 per person and the proceeds support the FIRST Robotics programs for Anacortes school children from K-12. my360tix. com.

Lights of Christmas Festival at Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center, 20800 Marine Drive, Stanwood. $38-$59.

Schedule at thelightsofchristmas.com.

“THE NUTCRACKER”: The Northwest Ballet Theater presents the 20th anniversary of “The Nutcracker” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Mount Baker Theater, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham.

Also at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec.

15, at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $12-$35.

SWANS OF SKAGIT: Martha Jordan, wildlife biologist and executive director of the Northwest Swan Conservation Association, will present a lecture on swans from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 1, at Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon. She will also present lecture on snow geese from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 8 $8, reservations required: 360-466-3821.

CHILDREN’S SHOPPING EXTRAVAGANZA: Kids are invited to go shopping on a budget from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Hillcrest Park recreation building, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. All items are priced $5 or under.

THE LIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS: Enjoy the holiday season at this festival boasting over one million lights at Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center, 20800 Marine Drive, Stanwood.

The festival is open from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday through Sunday from Nov. 29-Dec. 16 and 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday from Dec. 19-29. $16. thelightsofchristmas.com.

E-CYCLE: Donate old computers, TVs and monitors to the Stanwood Camano Kiwanis Aktion Club to be e-cycled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 27001 94th Drive NW, Stanwood. Free.

SURVIVAL SKILLS CAMP: This camp will teach kids basic outdoor survival skills from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, at Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven, Burlington. $42.

BABYSITTING BASICS: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven. $42.

360-755-9649.

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HOT TICKETS GIRAFFAGE & RYAN HEMSWORTH: Oct. 25, Neptune Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

‘LA BOHEME’: Oct. 26, 28, Nov. 2, 4, McIntyre Hall, 2501 College Way, Mount Vernon. 360.416.7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

CHRIS HARDWICK: Oct. 26, Neptune Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

MITSKI, JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD: Oct. 31, Showbox Sodo, Seattle. 888-9297849 or showboxpresents. com.

SMOKEY ROBINSON: Nov. 1, Snoqualmie Casino, Snoqualmie. snotickets.com.

DAVID CROSBY: Nov. 2, Neptune Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS: Nov. 2, Tulalip Resort Casino Orca Ballroom,

Tulalip. 360-716-6000 or ticketmaster.com.

GOO GOO DOLLS: Nov. 3, Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

TANK AND THE BANGAS & BIG FREEDIA: Nov. 6, Neptune Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

TROYE SIVAN: Nov. 7, Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

FRANKIE COSMOS, KERO KERI BONITO: Nov. 9, Neptune Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

‘A CHORUS LINE’: Nov. 9-11, 16-18, McIntyre Hall, 2501 College Way, Mount Vernon. 360.416.7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

NICKI MINAJ AND FUTURE: Nov. 10, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

KIP MOORE: Nov. 10, Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

GOO GOO DOLLS: Nov. 13, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: Nov. 12-13, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: Nov. 14, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

TWENTY ONE PILOTS: Nov. 16, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

FLEETWOOD MAC: Nov. 17, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma.

800-745-3000 or livenation. com.

RON WHITE: Nov. 17, Tulalip Resort Casino Orca Ballroom, Tulalip. 360-7166000 or ticketmaster.com.

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ma Dome, Tacoma. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA: Nov. 25, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

NEKO CASE: Nov. 29, Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

PENN & TELLER: Nov. 30, Paramount Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

MAVIS STAPLES: Dec. 1, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 800745-3000 or livenation.com.

LVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS: Dec. 3, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

MIKE STERN/DAVE WECKL BAND: Dec. 4-5, Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, Seattle. 206-441-9729 or jazzalley.com.

TOMMY EMMANUEL, JERRY DOUGLAS: Dec. 5, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 800-

745-3000 or ticketmaster. com.

ROSEANNE CASH: Dec. 7, Moore Theatre, Seattle.

800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS: Dec. 15, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 800-7453000 or ticketmaster.com.

MYLES KENNEDY & CO: Dec. 16, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

ALLEN STONE: Dec. 17, Neptune Theatre, Seattle.

360-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

JOHN LEGEND: Dec. 18, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800745-3000 or livenation.com.

BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND: Feb. 9, 2019, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

SARAH BRIGHTMAN: March 16, 2019, Paramount Theater, Seattle. 800-745-

3000 or livenation.com.

TOWER OF POWER: April 11-14, 2019, Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, Seattle. 206-441-9729 or jazzalley.com.

KENNY G: April 18-21, 2019, Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, Seattle. 206-441-9729 or jazzalley.com.

BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON: May 3, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK: June 1, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-7453000 or livenation.com.

JEFF LYNNE’S ELO: June 28, 2019, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

ERIC CHURCH: June 2829, 2019, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

ELTON JOHN: Sept. 1718, 2019, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

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GET INVOLVED

ART

CALL TO ARTISTS: Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden, is opening registration for jewelry artists interested in participating in the “Falling Out of the Box Jewelry Challenge.

More information: jansenartcenter.org.

ART CLASSES

KREATE WITH KARA: Create your own painting with Kara. Be guided step by step, no experience necessary. Contact: kreate. kara@hotmail.com. n 6 p.m., Oct. 29, Local 20 Taproom, 102 Woodworth St., Sedro-Woolley. $33.

DSLR NEXT STEPS: Dive deeper into advanced photographic techniques with your DSLR at this workshop from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E Fairhaven Ave. $40. Must have taken beginner DSLR class or be very comfortable shooting in manual mode.

CERAMICS FOR EVERYONE: Wednesdays, Oct. 31 to Dec. 12 (no class Nov. 21), Tower Arts Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, Guemes Island. Morning and evening classes available. Cost is $210 for six-week class. towerartsstudio.com or 360-770-6140.

GRUMBACHER DRAWING AND WATERCOLOR: 6:30 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nov. 1-Dec. 27, Michael’s, 1567 S. Burlington Ave. Each class is $15.

COMPOSITION AND PHOTO EDITING: 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 8, Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave. $40.

TRI DEE ARTS WORKSHOPS: Art classes on a variety of topics are available at Tri Dee Arts, 215 S. First St., Mount Vernon. trideearts.com.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST QUILT AND FIBER ARTS

MUSEUM: Varied exhibits and classes are available to the public at 703 S. Second St., La Conner.

Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

Admission: $7, $5 students and military, free for members and children ages 11 and under. 360466-4288 or laconnerquilts.org. n Fiber Fridays: bring any type of fiber art project, quilting, knitting, embellishing, etc., to work on while visiting with other fiber artists from 9 a.m. to noon every Friday. Free and open to all.

GAIL HARKER CENTER: Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts offers a variety of art classes and workshops for artists of every level at 12636 Chilberg Road, Mount Vernon. Online courses are also available. For information and a complete schedule: 360-466-0110 or gailcreativestudies.com.

PACIFIC NW SCHOOL: Choose from painting, photography, fiber and 3D art workshops taught by professional artists at the Pacific NorthWest Art School, 15 NW Birch St., Coupeville. For information and a complete schedule: 360-678-3396 or pacificnorthwestartschool.com.

DAKOTA: Dakota Art Center offers a variety of art classes and workshops at 17873 Highway 536, Mount Vernon. 360-4166556, ext. 5, or dakotaartcenter. com.

STANWOOD CAMANO ARTS GUILD: A Guilded Gallery, 8700 271st St. NW, Stanwood, offers a variety of art classes and workshops.

For information or to register: 360-629-2787 or stanwoodcamanoarts.com.

AUDITIONS

”MAMMA MIA”: Auditions for Theater Arts Guild’s production of “Mamma Mia,” with performances March 29-April 13, 2019, at McIntyre Hall, will be held Nov. 13-14 at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Audition times are 6, 7 and 8 p.m. To schedule an au-

dition or for more information: theaterartsguild.org/auditions.

CALL FOR DIRECTORS AND PLAYS: Whidbey Island Playhouse seeks seasoned directors for the 2019-2020 season. Visit whidbeyislandplayhouse.com for more details or email kevinwm. meyer@gmail.com with questions.

BOOKS

GREAT BOOKS READING GROUP MEETING: The Great Books Reading Group examines passages from important writings in history from 6 to 8 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month at the Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. 360-941-1437 and shunji.asari@ gmail.com.

DANCE

BEGINNING LINE DANCING: 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Burlington Community Center, 1011 Greenleaf Ave., Burlington. $6 drop-in, $25 for five classes.

Adults and teens 13 and older.

Register: burlingtonwa.gov/recreation or 360-755-9649.

FOLK DANCING: Skagit-Anacortes Folk Dancers meet Tuesdays at Bay View Civic Hall, 12615 C St., Bay View.

Learn to folk dance to a variety of international music from 7 to 9:30 p.m. First session free, $5 thereafter. No partners needed.

Gary or Ginny, 360-766-6866.

SCOTTISH DANCING: Bellingham Scottish Country Dancers meet from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Wednesdays at the Fairhaven Library auditorium (upstairs), 1117 12th St., Bellingham. Wear comfortable clothes and softsoled shoes without heels. $8 per class. For information, call Mary Anderson at 360-933-1779 or visit bellinghamscd.org.

SCOTTISH HIGHLAND AND IRISH STEP DANCE: The Clan Heather Dancers offer year-round Scottish Highland and Irish step dance classes in Bellingham, Everett and Mount Vernon. More

info: clanheather.com.

JOLLY TIME CLUB: Dance to live music from 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Thursdays at Hillcrest Lodge, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon.

For information, contact Gisela at 360-424-5696.

MUSIC

SCOTTISH MUSIC SESSIONS: Musicians from around the valley meet at 3 p.m. the first Sunday of each month at Littlefield Celtic Center, 1124 Cleveland Ave., Mount Vernon. The jam session generally focuses on Scottish music.

donations accepted. 360-6301156.

SHELTER BAY CHORUS: Practices are held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays at the Shelter Bay Clubhouse, 1000 Shoshone Drive, La Conner. New members welcome. 360-223-3230.

SING IN HARMONY: Join the women of Harmony Northwest Chorus from 6:30 to 9 p.m. every Monday at the Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland Ave. Seeking women who like to sing a cappella music. All skill levels welcome. 360-201-5861 or harmonynorthwest.org.

BEGINNER UKULELE LESSONS: 2:45 p.m. Thursdays, Nov. 8-March 14, Anacortes Senior Center, 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. $5 suggested donation. Register: zuke.uke@gmail. com.

ANACORTES OPEN MIC: 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360293-2544.

MUSIC LESSONS: Three professional instructors at the Peterson Conservatory of Music & Arts, 314 S. Section St., Mount Vernon, are offering a variety of classes for music students from ages 6-10 ($10) to ages 11 to adult ($40-50). pcmusical.org.

RECREATION

UKULELE FUN & SONG CIRCLE: 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland St. Free.

Beginners welcome and loaner ukuleles available. Song sheets provided. 206-790-4862 or yogaheartspace0@gmail.com.

BARBERSHOP HARMONY: Join the An-O-Chords, a fourpart barbershop harmony group that meets at 7 p.m. Thursdays at Bethany Covenant Church, 1318 18th St., Mount Vernon.

No experience necessary, no auditions required. Learn by rote, you don’t have to read music. All ages welcome. anochords.org.

360-466-0109.

TIME FOR FIDDLERS: The Washington Old Time Fiddlers play at 6:30 p.m. the second and fourth Fridays of each month at the Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland. St. Free;

OPEN MIC: Jam Night, 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Thursdays, Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

AMERICA’S BOATING COURSE: The U.S. Coast Guard approved boating course is being offered on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 3, 17 and Dec. 1 in the Anacortes Marina classroom, 2415 T Ave., Anacortes. $55 per person or $65 for two family members sharing one book. Register by Oct. 27 with Bob Miller: 360-588-9950 or bobmillerwa@hotmail.com.

LACROSSE: The Skagit Valley Flyers is a lacrosse club for boys and girls, grades 2-12. Participation is free and no experience is necessary. svflyers.uslaxteamsw. com. Questions? Email: svflyers2009@gmail.com.

GRUMPY OLD MAN’S YOGA: Build strength and flexibility at this accessible yoga class 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Thursdays at Burlington Senior Center, 1011 Greenleaf Ave., Burlington. Despite the name, women are welcome. $5 donation.

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AT THE LINCOLN

DINING GUIDE

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will play at 8 and 11:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 27.

The first show is sold out.

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6:30 P.M. FRIDAY, OCT. 26 The evening of short films will kick off with a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the Art Bar featuring beer, wine, desserts and music by Lizzie Weber, followed by the films at 7:30 p.m. $15, $25.

5:30 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 28 7:30 P.M. MONDAY, OCT. 29 Directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting,” “Slumdog Millionaire”), “Frankenstein” features Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. $14-$18 adults. Lincoln members receive $2 off.

8 AND 11:30 P.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 27 (FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT) The 1975 camp classic returns to the Lincoln for its annual Halloween show.

Prop bags will be available for $5.

Rated R. $12, with $10 tickets for Lincoln members and groups of 10 or more.

The MET Live in HD: ‘Samson et Dalila’ 1 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 28 Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic “Samson et Dalila” stars Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna in the title roles; the pair was last seen together by HD audiences in the 2010 transmission of Bizet’s “Carmen.” Laurent Naouri co-stars as the High Priest, with Elchin Azizov as the Philistine King Abimélech and Dmitry Belosselskiy as the Old Hebrew. $17-$23. Lincoln members receive $2 off.

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Warning: “Freaks” was banned in many countries (for 30 years in Britain) as too graphic a display of humans with the severest of physical disabilities. $8-$10.50. Lincoln members receive $2 off.

‘Night of the Living Dead’ 7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 Siblings Johnny and Barbara whine and pout their way through a graveside visit in a small Pennsylvania town, but it all takes a turn for the worse when a zombie kills Johnny. Barbara flees to an isolated farmhouse where a group of people are already holed up. Bickering and panic ensue as the group tries to figure out how best to escape, while hoards of undead converge on the house. $8-$10.50. Lincoln members receive $2 off.

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TRAVEL

FA M I LY T R AV E L FI V E

Smart way to go is the cool way to go

By LYNN O’ROURKE HAYES FamilyTravel.com

Here are five places that will supercharge your family’s brainpower: 1. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, CHICAGO: Encouraging curiosity and celebrating questions, this is the place to see a German submarine, understand how tornadoes and avalanches happen and discover the process behind Pixar’s popular films and characters.

Explore the mathematical patterns that surround us every day in the natural world — from the delicate nested spirals of a sunflower’s seeds to the ridges of a majestic mountain range in a compelling exhibit called Numbers in Nature. Then make your way to the Whispering Gallery to understand how sound travels in different environments. A theater and hands-on exhibits further enhance the experience. msichicago.org 2. THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANAPOLIS: With more than 472,900 feet of exhibit space on five floors and covering 29 acres, this extraordinary nonprofit institution has been entertaining and educating families since 1925.

Considered the largest children’s museum in the world, kids can learn about the day-to-day duties of astronauts and discover how dinosaurs

Local travel briefs SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation offers travel opportunities for ages 8 and older (adult supervision required for ages 17 and younger). Trips depart from and return to Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. For information or to register, call 360-336-6215.

RECREATION WITHOUT BORDERS: The organization offers recreational trips, tours and adventures throughout the Northwest and British Columbia. 360-766-7109 or recreationwithoutborders.com.

OAK HARBOR DAY TRIPS: The Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St., offers fun day trips for members. For details call 360-279-4587.

WHATCOM SENIOR TOURS: Whatcom Senior Tours is hosting a series of trips for seniors who want to get out and have fun. Sign up by calling 360-733-4030, ext. 1015 or visiting the tour office at 315 Halleck St., Bellingham.

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The National Aquarium in Baltimore

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Families are charmed by an historic carousel and inspired by exhibits that explain how plant science can help the world by cleaning up oil spills and cultivating healthy food. childrensmuseum.org 3. EXPLORATORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO: More than 600 exhibits encourage every member of the family to see the world differently. A scientific funhouse, the learning lab encourages creativity and “tinkering” as a means of expanding our perceptions. Young children and toddlers are engaged by shadow, light, bubbles and color as a means of exploration and discovery. Kids can create a marble machine, dance with their own shadow, study plankton populations, or check out an “upside down world.” exploratorium.edu

4. EXPLORA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: How do you make a green chile pepper appear black?

Find out during a visit to this family-friendly museum that mixes art and science to spur creativity and discovery within the worlds of physics, math, biology and beyond.

Investigate the properties of bubbles as you blow, pop and float them in a dedicated exhibit space.

Kids can also use their own bodies to study the concepts of ratio and proportion in the Math Moves exhibit. explora.us 5. NATIONAL AQUARIUM, BALTIMORE: Did you know that an octopus has a highly developed brain and is a master of camouflage? Collect the details before you check out Black Tip Reef, a cor-

al-filled exhibit replicating Indo-Pacific underwater landscapes. Learn about the wild extremes of Australia in an award-winning immersive exhibit featuring freshwater crocodiles, turtles, fishes, snakes, lizards, free-flying birds and flying foxes.

The kids will love their visit with bottlenose dolphins where they’ll also observe training, feeding and playtime with trainers. Before days’ end discover the importance of jellyfish, observe sharks in an open tank and see more than 500 exotic species in an Atlantic Coral Reef Exhibit. aqua.org — Lynn O’Rourke Hayes (www.LOHayes.com) is an author, family travel expert and enthusiastic explorer.

Gather more travel intel on Twitter @lohayes, Facebook, or via FamilyTravel.com

STATE VISITOR CALL CENTER: The Washington Tourism Alliance’s ExperienceWA Call Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. 1-800-544-1800 or tourisminfo@watourismalliance.com. Staff members assist travelers who have questions, refer them to specific destination marketing organizations and other travel resources across the state for more detailed information, and take orders for the Washington State Visitors Guide.

PASSPORT APPLICATIONS: Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes, accepts new passport applications and applications for passports that have been expired for more than five years by appointment from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Passport forms and information on fees and how to apply are available at travel.state. gov, or pick up an application and passport guide at the library.

Burlington Municipal Court accepts passport applications from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 311 Cedar St., Suite A, Burlington. New and renewal forms are available. 360755-0492.

Post offices in Mount Vernon, Sedro-Woolley and Oak Harbor accept passport applications by appointment.

Contact individual offices for available days and times.

Oak Harbor Senior Center, 51 SE Jerome St., Oak Harbor, accepts passport applications Monday through Friday. Appointments are recommended. 360-279-4580.

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The 21 best horror films of the 21st century, so far

By RAFER GUZMÁN Newsday

The horror film resurgence of recent years has been wildly diverse, encompassing a range of artful, innovative, even socially provocative films.

The different cinematic styles, from the historical realism of “The Witch” to the laptop-based “Unfriended,” are as varied as the subject matter, which might tackle female sexuality (“Jennifer’s Body”), racism (“Get Out”) or even the American justice system (“The Purge”).

What’s more, as the genre achieves that magic combination of critical praise and big box-office, it is attracting major talents: Vera Farmiga, Toni Collette and John Krasinski are a few examples.

Horror also got a rare Oscar moment earlier this year when “Get Out” earned a nod for best picture.

In short, horror is achieving a credibility it hasn’t had since the days of “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Exorcist.” Those classics still rank high on any all-time greats list, of course, but maybe it’s time to take stock of more recent titles that are pushing horror to new heights of acclaim and popularity.

Here are the 21 best horror films — so far — of the 21st century.

1. HEREDITARY (2018): After her mother’s death, Annie, an obsessive artist (Toni Collette), suspects that her recent misfortunes may stem from her recently deceased mother. If that sounds like familiar territory, be warned: Ari Aster’s riveting debut feature goes where most movies wouldn’t think to go. Combining inventive camerawork,

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Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette, Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro star in “Hereditary.” unspeakable tragedies and an excellent cast (including Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff and newcomer Millie Shapiro), “Hereditary” is horror’s new high water mark.

2. GET OUT (2017): Jordan Peele’s debut film about a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) who meets his white girlfriend’s parents became not just a major hit but the Movie of the Moment. Poking fun at white hypocrisy and black paranoia at a time of heightened racial rancor, the movie found an entertaining way — part horror, part satire — to address a difficult and discomfiting issue. “Get Out” already seems to be paving the way for a new wave of indie black cinema, from the surreal comedy “Sorry to Bother You” to the rap-themed drama “Blindspotting.”

3. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2009): Not since “The Blair Witch Project” has a horror movie done so much with so little. Set in a haunted McMansion, “Paranormal

Activity” uses flickering lights, self-slamming doors and other un-special effects to build a hair-raising sense of tension. Shot for $15,000, Oren Peli’s film earned $193 million, spurred five sequels and helped turn the Blumhouse horror-studio into the powerhouse behind “Split,” “The Purge,” “Get Out” and many others.

4. BLACK SWAN (2010): Natalie Portman won an Oscar for portraying a mentally unraveling ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s deliriously weird masterpiece. For such a freaky film, “Black Swan” became a $329 million hit and earned four other Oscar nods, including best picture.

5. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008): John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel about a 12-year-old boy and the vampire girl next door has been adapted twice. This Swedish original is a standout: a ghastly and mournful allegory of childhood.

Heart-tugging performances from Kare Hedebrant as mortal Oskar and Lina

Leandersson as his vampire beloved.

6. LET ME IN (2010): The American version of the Lindqvist story, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, is slightly jazzed up with bloody effects. Still, it’s uncommonly pensive, bleak and beautiful. It’s just about, er, neck and neck with the original.

7. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012): Drew Goddard’s Russian nesting-doll of a movie, about two guys in a control room who manipulate humanity, is a mischievous mindblower without a single predictable moment. A modest hit that should have been a blockbuster.

8. THE BABADOOK (2014): An exhausted mother (Essie Davis) and her seizure-prone son (an unsettling Noah Wiseman), are haunted by a storybook creature. Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut takes a classic horror-subtext — a parent’s weakness becomes a physical monster — and

brings it powerfully to the surface.

9. THE WITCH (2015): Anya-Taylor Joy’s breakout role came in this beautifully crafted period-piece about an American Colonialist girl whose family begins blaming her for their misfortunes.

Exceptionally spooky, with a strange, hypnotic ending.

10. A QUIET PLACE (2018): John Krasinski stars in his own directorial debut as a man trying to protect his family from alien creatures that hunt by sound.

This is 90 solid minutes of try-not-to-scream moments, with barely a word of spoken dialogue.

11. CRIMSON PEAK (2015): An aspiring author (Mia Wasikowska) marries a doomed aristocrat (Tom Hiddleston) and moves into his decrepit mansion. An exceptionally vivid Gothic romance, part Poe and part Bronte, from Guillermo del Toro.

12. SPLIT (2016): A young woman (Anya Taylor-Joy) is kidnapped by a mentally ill man (James McAvoy) who has 23 personalities. M. Night Shyamalan’s surprise comeback was a secret sequel to his hit “Unbreakable,” and now it has spawned another film, “Glass,” due for release in January.

13. WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000): Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer are a married couple whose lakeside house is haunted by a drowned woman’s ghost. Some 20 years on, this Robert Zemeckis film might feel a little old-fashioned, but it’s a great Gothic chiller with an A-list cast.

14. IT (2017): This big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel — about a clown who preys on children — was a critical and commercial smash. Like “Stand By Me,” “It” has an emotional core that feels as strong as the scares.

15. SAW (2004): Gratu-

itously gross, morally bankrupt, aesthetically anemic — say what you will, this gory tale of a sadistic serial killer gave us the term “torture porn” and dominated horror the way “Halloween” did 40 years ago.

16. DRAG ME TO HELL (2009): A loan officer (Alison Lohman) turns down an elderly woman who blasts her with a curse. Sam Raimi’s last horror film (at least to date) is a darkly funny fable about greed and selfishness, with an uproariously good finale.

17. DEVIL (2010): Five people stuck in a high-rise elevator begin dying in horrible ways. John Erick Dowdle’s economical horror-thriller is claustrophobic, wickedly funny and quite effective.

18. TRUTH OR DARE (2018): During spring break in Mexico, several college friends play a well-known drinking game, only to find that they must keep playing — or die. The idea of a haunted game feels somewhat new, and the various deaths have a fiendish irony.

19. THE LAST EXORCISM (2010): A fraudulent preacher (Patrick Fabian) encounters a “possessed” girl (Ashley Bell) in the backwoods of Louisiana. It’s an intelligent twist on an old theme; inspired by the 1972 documentary “Marjoe.”

20. UNFRIENDED (2014): The ghost of a suicidal teenager preys on her classmates during a group Skype call.

It’s a clever update of the found-footage genre, with everything unfolding on a computer screen.

21. THE CONJURING (2013): Horror went classy with this Warner Bros. production starring Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air”) and Patrick Wilson as paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren.

Low on bloodshed, long on ambience.

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MOVIES

NEW THIS WEEK

MINI REVIEWS

Mulligan gives career performance in marital drama ‘Wildlife’

By JUSTIN CHANG Los Angeles Times

“Wildlife,” Paul Dano’s keenly intelligent and quietly piercing directing debut, is about a marriage that collapses during fall 1960.

It’s a dry season in Great Falls, Mont., and 14-yearold Joe Brinson (Australian actor Ed Oxenbould) watches as his newly unemployed father, Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal), impulsively leaves town to help fight a forest fire raging in the mountains nearby.

Dad’s departure ignites a different kind of conflagration at home, where Joe’s mother, Jeanette (Carey Mulligan), releases years of pent-up dissatisfaction and emerges into a defiant new understanding of herself.

Joe, for his part, is a smart, sensitive kid and a mostly silent onlooker, not participating in the drama of his parents’ marital meltdown so much as recording it for our benefit. In this he serves much the same function he did as the narrator of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel (skillfully adapted here by Dano and the actress-writer Zoe Kazan, his longtime partner). A viewer conditioned to expect only active, forceful movie protagonists may have some initial trouble adjusting to Joe’s passivity and also to the still but deep-running waters of Oxenbould’s performance.

But it is well worth the adjustment. Anyone who can remember the first time they saw their parents as broken, vulnerable individuals and experienced a sense of powerlessness verging on paralysis should recognize Joe’s plight. His

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Ed Oxenbould and Carey Mulligan star in “Wildlife.”

circumstances are especially painful because they seem to materialize out of nowhere, the product of a sudden shift in the emotional weather that turns out to have been a long time in the making.

As the story opens, the Brinsons have recently moved to Montana from Idaho, not the first time Jerry has uprooted them on a whim. While we see Mom and Dad being affectionate with each other early on, the cracks begin to appear soon after Jerry loses his job teaching golf at a country club. Jeanette, eager to make the best of things, gets a job as a swim teacher and encourages her husband to take whatever work he can get.

But Jerry, his pride too wounded for him to accept any old job, decides to join the men making their way toward fire country — a poorly paid gig and a reckless act of machismo that becomes the last straw for the long-suffering Jeanette.

Meanwhile, Joe, though busy with school and football, good-naturedly supplements their meager

income by working part time at a photographer’s studio.

We see Joe carefully taking portraits of his customers, freezing their strained smiles and stilted poses into idealized tableaus of domestic happiness. Dano, while pursuing a deeper, thornier kind of family snapshot, works with a similarly exacting precision. You can sense him methodically framing and reframing his characters and their environs, ensuring that every shift in facial expression and every aspect of Akin McKenzie’s Eisenhower-era production design rings true.

Dano’s attentiveness subverts a common stereotype about actors-turned-directors, namely that they indulge their performers at the expense of visual style and mise-en-scene, the building blocks of film language. “Wildlife” disperses its attention evenly between background and foreground.

The camera often glimpses the characters from a stately remove, taking the measure of their circum-

stances and gesturing at unseen, atmospheric forces hovering off-screen.

If the drama feels somewhat studied — though it would be more accurate to say that it simply feels thought through — it is never airless or constricted. The story maintains a steady emotional pulse alongside its meticulous accrual of details, from the autumnal chill that eventually descends on Great Falls to the stylish shades of red and green that begin to seep into Jeanette’s wardrobe.

Joe’s father is absent for a long stretch of the picture, and Gyllenhaal makes you feel the weight of his absence. Without trying to clarify, much less redeem, Jerry’s crisis of masculinity, he makes him a decent, likable, frustrated and frustrating figure, someone whose good intentions and misguided impulses spring from the same uncertain place.

Jeanette, played by Mulligan in a vividly nuanced, career-best performance, presents an even more ferocious study in emotional confusion. Her patience

and optimism flaring into rage and resentment, she stews in her sense of abandonment for a while before boldly embracing her liberation. Before long she has begun seeing a wealthy older divorced man named Warren Miller (Bill Camp, superbly controlled), a cynical and repellent man who can nonetheless offer her a stability she has never known.

What’s especially unnerving about this isn’t just the scandalous prospect of adultery but the way Jeanette effectively betrays Joe in the process. She neglects her son one moment and directs her fury at him the next, finally bringing him to a painfully awkward dinner with Warren where the ugly truth is dragged into the open. Remarkably, despite his rigorous adherence to Joe’s perspective, Dano doesn’t forsake Jeanette here or sell her out. He’s there to catch her even as she’s coming apart.

One could read Jeanette’s transformation, coming at the tail end of the ’50s, as a violent, symbolic rejection of the conformity, patriarchy and other stifling social attitudes that held sway during that decade.

But Mulligan’s performance is too specific and too wrenching to be reduced to a mere generational statement. This is her most fully formed role since her performance in another early ’60s piece, the British coming-of-age drama “An Education,” and in some ways it feels like a rejoinder, perhaps even a corrective.

The American suburbia of “Wildlife” promises a different awakening, and an infinitely sadder one.

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Ratings are 1 to 4 stars.

“Halloween” — Four decades after Michael Myers killed five people on the night of Oct. 31, survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, so terrific) is now a tightly wound, heavily armed grandma convinced the imprisoned Myers will escape and kill again — and so he does. This is the B-movie sequel the original “Halloween” has always deserved.

Horror, R, 106 minutes. HHH “Studio 54” — Some four decades after New York’s Studio 54 blazed like a comet across the nightlife landscape, this documentary is an energetic, colorful, warts-and-all reminder it was arguably the most famous (and infamous) American establishment of its kind.

It’s fun and campy, but sometimes sobering and occasionally melancholy.

Documentary, not rated, 98 minutes. HHH “The Oath” — As the deadline nears for Americans to sign the president’s Patriot’s Oath, a self-righteous liberal (Ike Barinholtz) argues with his family over Thanksgiving dinner in this blunt instrument of social satire. Toward the end, the story takes an absurd turn.

Action comedy, R, 93 minutes. HHH “Beautiful Boy” — Though showered with love and attention as he grows up, Nic (Timothee Chalamet) becomes a crystal meth addict, prone to lashing out at anyone who tries to help him, including his dutiful father (Steve Carell).

We’ve seen this story many times before, but it’s the fine writing and the heartfelt performances that elevate “Beautiful Boy” to something more than just another wellmade cautionary tale. Drama, R, 120 minutes. HHH

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MOVIES

REVIEW

‘The Guilty’ unfolds in single location, but is a multidimensional drama

the skill to convince us as well.

Working with co-writer Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Möller has set his film in the police emergency services control room of a large city — unnamed, though presumably Copenhagen.

The first sounds we hear, not surprisingly, are ringing phones. The first image we see in Jasper Spanning’s taut cinematography is the close-up of an ear with a telephone earpiece firmly in place.

One dispatcher on duty this evening is officer Asger Holm, played with an impact that gradually

overpowers you by top Danish actor Jakob Cedergren.

Asger, it’s clear almost immediately, is not business as usual as a dispatcher. When people call in for help, he is as likely as not to give them a sarcastic hard time for getting drunk or being in the red-light district in the first place as he is to send help.

Cedergren has given Asger a stern, rigid visage, presenting him physically as well as verbally as an uncompromising moralist with a sense of mission, someone who has no doubt he knows right

from wrong.

That doesn’t mean, however, that he can’t be disturbed or unsettled, as he is by a call on his personal mobile from a journalist who asks him if he has any comments on his court date the following day.

What becomes clear is what we could have guessed: dispatcher is not Asger’s regular beat.

He has been temporarily assigned there pending the outcome of that legal proceeding, the cause of which we gradually learn more about.

All this is merely the setup for the main event.

The phone rings again and on the line is no disoriented drunk but someone whose situation will change the nature of Asger’s night, maybe even of his life.

The caller is Iben (Jessica Dinnage), a woman who sounds like she is talking to her young daughter.

Asgar quickly catches on

is a B-movie — a lurid, darkly funny, period piece that feels like a Quentin Tarantino film from the 1990s. Thriller, R, 140 minutes. HHH “First Man” — For this alternately operatic and intimate moon-mission film, director Damien Chazelle gives the Neil Armstrong role to Ryan Gosling, who has a natural affinity for playing characters who internalize their feelings. Put it right up there with “The Right Stuff” and “Apollo 13” in the ranks of the best movies ever made about NASA. Biography, PG13, 138 minutes. HHHH “Venom” — The great

Tom Hardy flounders his way through a terrible clunker about a man inhabited by a bloodthirsty alien. The special effects are underwhelming, and the villains — human and extraterrestrial — are forgettable. Action/sci-fi, PG-13, 112 minutes. H½ “All About Nina” — A self-destructive New York stand-up comic with a chip on her shoulder (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) takes the plunge and moves to Hollywood, where she tries to overcome doubts about her career and a decent guy (Common). The movie is sharp and funny and dark and so very timely. Com-

edy-Drama, R, 97 minutes.

HHH “The Old Man & the Gun” — Inspired by true events, this whimsical film stars Robert Redford in a damn good performance as a career criminal who keeps on committing crimes, keeps on getting caught — and keeps on escaping. It’s said to be Redford’s final film as an actor and serves as a fitting curtain call. Comedy-Drama, PG-13, 93 minutes. HHH½ “A Star Is Born” — In his directorial debut, Bradley Cooper (also the leading man) strikes the perfect balance between a showbiz fable and an

By KENNETH TURAN Los Angeles Times

If the setting of “The Guilty” couldn’t be simpler, its immaculate execution by first-time director Gustav Möller couldn’t be more gripping and involving.

A disturbing Danish psychological thriller and a real-time police drama that’s equal parts provocative and emotional, “The Guilty” wrings complex drama out of its minimalist physical trappings.

Like 2014’s Tom Hardy vehicle “Locke,” “The Guilty” is a single-location film that consists almost entirely of a series of telephone conversations that get increasingly complex and unexpected.

A precise, sure-handed filmmaker, Möller not only believes that “the strongest images in film, the ones that stay with you the longest, they are the ones you don’t see,” he has

“The Hate U Give” — A teen who lives in a poor neighborhood but goes to a rich school (Amandla Stenberg) faces pressure from all sides when a police officer shoots and kills her friend. This fictional but wholly authentic slice of American life in the 2010s is filled with immediacy and urgency, but also so much heart, soul and love. Drama, PG-13, 132 minutes. HHH½ “Bad Times at the El Royale” — Even with the A-list cast including Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth and Dakota Johnson, this thriller and occasional musical about a faded hipster hotel in 1969

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Jakob Cedergren in “The Guilty.”

that Iben is talking to him in a kind of code, trying to convey that she is in trouble without coming out and saying it, and he helps her along by asking a series of yes or no questions about her situation. What he discovers is that Iben is in a car being driven by her ex-husband and being taken somewhere very much against her will.

Alive to all the grim possibilities a kidnapping presents, the moralist in Asger tries to piece together what is going on, bending heaven and earth to do the right thing for this endangered woman.

It can’t be over-emphasized how carefully screenwriters Möller and Albertsen have constructed this story, doling out information sparingly, on a need-to-know basis, letting their plot purposefully unroll like a ball of twine.

As that is happening, “The Guilty” is ratcheting up both the level of

tension and our worry for the people involved as the nature of the unexpected kinds of jeopardy they are involved in gradually becomes clearer.

Helping in this is the superior nature of the performances, starting with star Cedergren, who brings startling nuance and expression to the tight close-ups that dominate the film.

One of “The Guilty’s” more potent elements is its emphasis on Asger’s genuine passion for police work. “We’re protection, we protect people who need help,” he says on the phone at one point, and his sincerity is never in doubt.

How that belief, that sense of purpose, interacts with the real world in this twisty story — and whether things will work out the way those on the screen or in the audience expect — is the heart of this very fine film. It’s a heart that beats as strongly as anyone could hope for.

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