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THIS issue editor: Ron Evans contributors: Holly Thorpe,Cory Calhoun, Dustin Hays, Jamie Howell, Allegra Hart WEB: thecometmagazine.com facebook.com/thecometmagazine instagram: @thecometmagazine twitter: @cometmagazine info@thecometmagazine.com

B-SIDES...................................PAGE 4 THE DOCTOR IS IN....................PAGE 5 chris quinn..........................PAGE 6 crossword...........................PAGE 7 events..................................PAGE 8 alondra duarte..................PAGE 12 Howell at the movies........PAGE 16 comet tales.........................PAGE 18 monica miller.....................PAGE 19 edgar rue comic..................PAGE 20 the spacepod.......................PAGE 22

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COMET HEADQUARTERS may 30, 2018 Note From The Editor. Early summer. That magical time when the heat is still a novelty, the clothes are merely an option and the hills have yet to catch an apocalyptic blaze. There’s an indescribable electricity in the air this time of year as we crawl out into the shame-inducing light , revealing a pallor only two solid months of Netflix could be credited for. But fight through the shame we must, for it’s the only way we will be rewarded with all those fine summertime doin’s like brewfests, art walks, and outdoor concerts to name a few. We are here for you during this confusing and mildly terrifying time. We offer you a bit of a road map for your brave journey out of the dark. Join us. We have an exciting addition this month as Dr. Allegra Hart, a local licensed Naturopathic Physician, joins the team with a monthly column on diet, nutrition and overall natural health. Holly and I agreed that this would add an interesting element to the Comet, especially with the a “Dear Abby” approach with readers getting access to the good doctor with specific questions. Happy to have her aboard! Dustin is back once again with more unearthed treasures from the historical vaults of Wenatchee music. This month he focuses his research on Julian Records’ recording artists, The Talismen. It continues to blow me away how much music has been made in this sleepy little valley over the last fifty years. I sat down with local artist Chris Quinn for a chat about airbrushing, sculpture and the often misunderstood nature of commercial art. I appreciate Quinn’s outlook on the business of art as well as his philosophy on not letting snobs steer you from being true to your passion and creative interests. Speaking of staying true to your passions, Holly had a very intriguing talk with Alondra Duarte on her continuing artistic education and about all the things that make somebody want to create. Art is a never-ending journey and Alondra takes us through some of the more poignant revelations and growth she has experienced along the way. Jamie Howell is back in the front row with a great story on the new Star Wars film “Solo.” He sets his focus on critics that may have lost their inner kid and no longer have the ability to appreciate a fun movie on its own merit. Many of us have lost that inner kid to some degree and Jamie’s article makes you want to rage against that machine, post-haste.

Holly’s beast, Jameson prefers to ride out the dog days of summer near the central air vent.

loudly is a sign of intelligence. Coincidence?

Get out there and enjoy that fresh summer air while you can my friends. I We are happy to have featured local writer LE Francis in this month’s Comet can hear my neighbors loading the fireworks into the truck as we speak so... tick tock. Tales. Her succinct and bittersweet style fits right in around here and we hope to read more from her in the near future. Finally, I asked Monica Miller 8 Questions about her experience as the director of Gallery One in Ellensburg. She offers some excellent tips on how to Happy trails, approach galleries (or how not to) and gives some insight on what it takes to Ron Evans Editor, The Comet Magazine keep one of Washington State’s premier galleries trucking along. While you are out on sunning in the park, or hiding in the bar like me, Cory “Damn You” Calhoun’s ever-challenging crossword puzzles are an easy item to pack along. Scientific studies prove that working on crossword puzzles actually makes you smarter. Scientific studies also prove that swearing

Ron Evans is the owner of RadarStation art gallery at 115 S. Wenatchee Ave., host of the Tales from the Spacepod podcast, author of “Edgar Rue,” and creator of many other things, many of which have robots in them.

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B-SIDES: 52 years since The Talismen’s debut T

here’s no argument that Don Bernier’s Julian Records was a shining light for Wenatchee bands and music lovers alike during the 1960s. Bernier, a local disc jockey in his 20s, had formed the local label in 1960 with songwriter Robert “Blane” Gifford. The label only released four singles during the first half DUSTIN HAYS of the decade, Musician/Music Historian two of which were Gifford’s. 1966 marked the beginning of the label’s most productive period, with five more records being released that year. The year began with the 45 release of East Wenatchee’s Billy & the Kids. In a ’66 article on the Julian label, The Wenatchee World reported that the single sold out locally during the first week of its release. The label’s sixth release was recorded in May and released the next month, featuring one of the valley’s premier rock ‘n’ roll groups, The Talismen. Initially performing as an instrumental combo, The Talismen had formed in 1963 featuring brothers Jack and Rick Cooper on guitar and bass, respectively, Joe Britt on drums, Loren Bollinger on saxophone and Fred Robbins on the electric piano. Robbins, who came up with the band’s moniker, left the group a week after it was founded. All high school students, the lot

performed at the town’s grange halls and local dances. In December of ’63, the band took 2nd place at a Battle of the Bands held in Soap Lake, with Spokane instrumental group The Playboys taking 1st. After the Beatles craze of 1964, the group began employing vocalists, rotating through several female singers, before landing John Wood in ’65. Rick Cooper left the group around that time, being replaced by Leon Jeffrey, with Bollinger ditching the saxophone for guitar. Already “veterans” of the local teen scene, The Talismen initially landed a recording opportunity in ’66 to be the backing for two local 5th grade girls, in exchange for their spot on the flip-side of the record. Julian Records owner, Don Bernier had been approached by local music teacher, Ed Barnhart after two of his students approached him with a song they had written. The students, Debbie Carmichael and Gaylis Linville, were 5th graders and East Wenatchee’s Grant School at the time. Needing a band to back the girls, Bernier employed The Talismen. Recorded on May 22, 1966 at Spokane’s Sound Recording Company, the Talismen backed the pre-teen duo on “I’m So Lonely.” The Debbie & Gaylis original, bearing a strong resemblance to “Soldier Boy” (a 1962 R&B hit by The Shirelles), features the girls singing about lost love and the loneliness that follows. Talismen guitarist Jack Cooper only remembers performing with the girls once, at a performance in Waterville, Wash. The A-side of J-105 features The Talismen composition “She

Was Good.” The tune undoubtedly shares a similar cadence to “Louie Louie,” a Richard Berry song made a hit by Oregon’s the Kingsmen in ’63. The band would rehearse in a shed in the middle of the Bolinger’s orchard property (close to where the East Wenatchee Safeway now stands) with Loren bringing stacks of 45s to each rehearsal for the group to learn by ear. Released the week of June 20th, the record quickly climbed the Top 40 survey at Wenatchee’s KMEL Radio, a station where Julian owner Don Bernier worked as a disc jockey and program director. Funded solely by Bernier, the record was pressed in a small quantity, causing the 45 to be sold out locally in the first week of its release. In August, “She Was Good” was featured as #19 on Richland Washington’s KALE (960 AM) “Young American Top 40 Survey.” Following The Talismen single, Wenatchee groups The Chargers and New Folk released singles on Julian Records, before the Talismen closed the year with the release of their second and final single. Just six months after the recording of their first single, the group returned to Spokane’s SRC studio, recording “I’ll Take A Walk” and “I Know A Girl,” two songs which were released together on Julian Records’ 9th disc (J-108), in December of 1966. Similar to many local groups of the ’60s, as members graduated, moved or married, the group dissolved.

Over the past 50 years since The Talismen’s first release, “She Was Good” has been featured on a wide variety of releases, appearing on well-known “garage rock” compilations “Highs In The MidSixties” and Germany’s “Teenage Shutdown” series, as well as being covered by Finland’s the Flaming Sideburns, Norway’s rock group The Dogs and most recently by Washington DC’s 10-piece punk group Go Mod Go! in January 2016. Though the band has been split for over half a century, and a countless number of bands and performers have taken their place on local bills, the sounds the band created so long ago have somehow traveled the world, and successfully staked their spot in northwest music history. Dustin Hays is a Wenatchee musician, local music history aficionado and enthusiastic member of the local music scene. He performs as a solo singer-songwriter around the area and as a member of one of the valley’s newest groups The Nightmares. Hays also hosts “Sounds of the Valley” a weekly radio show on KORE FM Community Radio (99.1/105.9 FM) focused on the local music scene, both past and present.

Original 1963 Talismen lineup. Photo courtesy of Rick Cooper

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the doctor is in: concerning lard-o-phobia

mals are unhappy and inflamed. This means that their meat and fat are going to be inflammatory rather than supportive. But if you have a happy pig, guess what? You have healthier fat that is more nutritious and environmentally sustainable. Are you in? This is an essential piece. There’s an interesting story about how Q: Is lard good lard fell from grace. In the early 1900s, for you? lard and butter were one of the most comWell, it all de- monly consumed fats in the United States. pends. It depends But then something changed that shifted on how the lard is the way our society viewed lard. I bet sourced and how that you can’t guess what it is. Any ideas? it’s processed. Any, maybe, light bulbs going off? You Lard can be a see it was the light bulb of all things that very healthy fat, changed the trajectory of the way Ameriif it is from happy, cans consume lard. ALLEGRA HART When the light bulb was created, Prochealthy pigs that Naturopathic Physician have played out- tor & Gamble owned a lot of cotton planside and frolicked in the sun. These pigs tations and realized that their cottonseed have more vitamin D, more omega-3s, and oil would no longer be in high demand more vitamin A in their fat than pigs that for use in candles and lamps. They felt it was necessary to find a different way to are factory-farmed. The reality is that factory-raised ani- sell the product. They hired a German sci’m Dr. Allegra Hart, a licensed Naturopathic Physician. I help women worldwide reactivate their joy and rebuild their health.

entist who had figured out how to hydrogenate oil. This meant that cottonseed oil could be made into a product that looked and acted like lard. And that is when everything began to change. These men then launched one of the most successful and biggest marketing campaigns in history to villainize lard. This campaign was supported by the sugar industry. Their tactics were to go after how moms care for their families. The ads told moms that if they were a “good mom,” they wouldn’t feed their kids lard, they would feed them Crisco (short for crystallized cottonseed oil). While it took time, this changed public consciousness and made the public believe that a fat previously viewed as healthy, was now going to kill them and their families. This created such a mighty shift in our public health, the lipid hypothesis was presented and fat was aggressively and systematically removed from its dominant place in the American diet. This is where the perception of fat creating cardiovas-

cular damage began. This hypothesis has long since been proven false, but the fatphobia that runs rampant in our society is still very prevalent. So when we break it all down, yes, properly raised and prepared lard is a healthy option. When you’re looking for the best lard, make sure it is from pasture-raised pigs. Make sure this lard is not hydrogenated and does not have any preservatives. Lard is a great cooking fat and can be a wonderful way to increase the amount of good fat you’re consuming. Good fat helps support healthy hormone balance. Who knew the light bulb could have such a negative impact on the way we eat? C If you have a question for Dr. Allegra, please send it to info@naturaeclinic.com with the subject “The Doctor Is In Question”.

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Chris quinn: androids, black light and that poster shit

BY RON EVANS

enatchee artist Chris Quinn’s work has been seen around the valley in galleries, art stores and distinguished party houses for decades. For 31 years he’s been patiently and meticulously honing his skills, mostly with acrylics and airbrush. These days he’s spending more time in the metal shop constructing nightmarish robotic fiends straight out of a Terminatoresque apocalypse. I caught up with him for a chat about his work, his inspirations and his straightforward approach to commercial art. What drew you toward a more popculture based art form subject-wise? My friends urged me to paint less creepy stuff. Subject matter that would be more readily sellable. Also I just loved those images of Jim Morrison and Marilyn Monroe. The fine art world in the past has looked down their nose at commercial art but with the lowbrow and popsurrealism movement, that tide has changed to some degree. Have you had anyone try to steer you toward a more traditional “fine art” path? I had an acquaintance who was a famous artist and once I asked him to look at my portfolio. He was very stern and critical of what he called “that poster shit” and asked me if I was just interested in making money or if I

wanted to be taken seriously. I said, to me money is pretty serious.

for yard art and I was building a robot. Of course I was going to build a robot, right?

You used to hold showings of your works at your house in what we now call pop-up shows. How did this shape the way you created a following and handled sales? Having art shows at my house was more of a way to get girls than it was a way to sell art, although it worked out pretty well. And now being older, it makes more sense to put it in a gallery and let someone else deal with the sales. I found I’m not that great at marketing. I should be painting and letting someone else handle that.

One of the more unique aspects of your work comes from the ultraviolet paintings. How did you get involved with painting for black light? Even as a young man I’ve been completely fascinated with the properties of black light. The fact that we can’t actually see the light but only what reacts to it seemed to be the perfect medium to create something strange and unusual and that’s my favorite style.

Your paintings are mostly acrylic via airbrush. This is a common yet often intimidating way to paint. Talk about why you prefer using compressed air to make pictures over brushes or pens? I prefer using an airbrush for one simple reason. Once the tool is mastered the process is greatly sped up. The way I use it still takes some time though, as it’s about finesse. You are now creating sculptures in your shop as well. Is metal work new for you? I started welding 16 years ago. My partner was paying half the rent at the shop - he was cutting out Kokopellis

Describe any differences in the creative process when dealing with metal and fire versus paints and canvas? For me when I am painting I need a detailed plan. I just don’t start with pen to paper and end up creating a masterpiece. With metal that’s different because you can put it together like a puzzle using different parts of transmissions and any other free material you acquire. The pertinent difference is it takes me months to complete a metal sculpture and only hours to complete a painting. What would be an ideal career for you in the arts? Probably a creature creator for movies, kind of like HR Geiger’s input to Alien.

Have commissioned works been a large part of your creative output? I used to do a lot of commissions but I realized the hard way that no matter how good of an artist you are, you can’t make everybody happy. And if somebody cannot put down on paper what they see in their head, you better make damn sure you understand fully what they’re wanting, or it’s a recipe for disaster. Painting originals of a trademarked entity, characters from films or celebrities is often covered under fair use. It gets trickier when trying sell prints or other products bearing these images. Have you had any issues with these troubles or is it a don’t ask don’t tell sort of situation? I have never done very much printing. I have primarily sold originals so I haven’t had to deal with that issue much yet, although I have been contacted by the original artist of a painting I had done for myself. He was upset that I didn’t give him credit. That’s only because it was a magazine clipping and I didn’t have his name, but he received credit as soon as he sent me the email. What’s up next for you art wise? I think I would like to do another black light show soon. C

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CONTINENTAL DIVIDES

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GTFO: EVENTS WORTH LEAVING YOUR HOUSE FOR The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

sasquatch revealed JUNE 1: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Numerica PAC 7:00 p.m. The greatest country-blues band in the world. Led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today.

JUNE 2: Bare Bones Tour of the Mansion Renovation

JUNE 9: 8th Annual Snatchee Records Joe’s to Wally’s Zombie Pub Crawl JUNE 15: John Underwood, Shootdang, Riverdog Shakedown JUNE 16: Pagan County Rebels, Sponsored by The CIA, Not All There JUNe 22: Michael Carlos Band, Devils Gulch, The Missionaries! JUNe 23: Riva Rebels, Filthy Traitors, The Nightmares JUNe 24: The Fibs,The Know Knothingz, NRTHWND, Dustin Hays, Twin Skinny JUNe 30: Circle Twerks, The Patsys, Chilli Mutiny

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center This event gives you the opportunity to walk thru the Conrad Rose Mansion during the post-demolition phase of its renovation. You will experience an archaeological story of the Mansion architecture. During the tour, you will be able to see the bare bones structure of the past and hear about the future plans for the Mansion as it continues its trajectory through time. 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Visit wenatcheevalleymuseum.org/events/ for June 3: The Radar Dames Burlesque tickets and more info. RadarStation Four girls, a magician and a swanky strip-o-rama June 2: Daniel Donavon, Ash Kyrie, & Yvette Pino soundtrack. What more could you ask for from a Gallery One, Ellensburg Sunday afternoon? An encore presentation of last Donavon, Kyrie and Pino will discuss their contin- month’s sold out performance. Don’t miss it twice! ued service from soldier to artist. Join us for this Doors at 3:30 p.m. and show starts at 4:30 p.m. $10 free event starting at 11 a.m. Tickets at radarstationart.com/tickets

JUNE 2-30: multiple events at WALLY’S HOUSE OF BOOZE JUNE 2: Shadowcats, Lazer Blade, Dylan Morrison

June 8: Hackensaw Boys

Brewminatti in Prosser Americana string band with punk-folk sensibilities. Before string bands were a “thing” in popular culture, there was the Hackensaw Boys. Tickets available at therootscellar.com/tickets/hackensaw-boys.

june 10: Champagne Sunday der Hinterhof This highly entertaining duo are bringing their unique blend of baroque, pop and showtunes to Leavenworth for the first time. Show starts a 1 p.m.

June 22: SASQUATCH REVEALED Moses Lake Museum Opening Reception: June 22nd, 2018 - Friday Time: 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. For well over a decade, the Sasquatch Revealed exhibit has traveled throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, engaging audiences of both skeptics and believers in the cultural phenomenon we know as Sasquatch or Bigfoot.

june 22- Bill Johnson & Anthea Sharp A Book For All Seasons 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Bill Johnson & Anthea Sharp in Conversation with Kay Kenyon on fiction writing.

JUNe 23: Caveman Dave Spring/Summer Tour 2018

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Eilen Jewell

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der Hinterhof Americana blend of folk tunes from silly kids songs to heartfelt, gritty tales of travel, invokes influences from Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Shel Silverstein, Raffi & Leon Redbone to Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Wilco, JJ Cale & Talking Heads.

JUNe 23: First Annual Methow Valley Brewfest Old Schoolhouse Brewery is thrilled to announce, in collaboration with Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance - Methow Chapter the FIRST ANNUAL METHOW VALLEY BREWFEST! We have a fun evening of live music and some amazing breweries and cideries joining us, including many collaboration beers that our head brewer, Kyle has spearheaded. Delicious food will be available at the event. During the day, there are also some remarkable mountain bike events that you won’t want to miss. Advance Tickets: $35 available at Old Schoolhouose Brewery.

JUNe 23: Eilen Jewell Brewminatti Eilen Jewell is the queen of the minor key. Sad songs are her wealth and finery. The Idaho native’s unique originals feature a blend of influences from early blues, rockabilly and surf-noir, to 1960s era rock and roll Tickets available at

therootscellar.com/tickets/eilen-jewell

JUNe 23: Wenatchee Pride Festival 2018 Pybus Public Market - RadarStation • Celebration 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Family-friendly Come and enjoy mingling and connecting with others in a fun, family-friendly environment at Pybus Public Market. There will be activities for kids, live music (we’re featuring Cowboy Dan, Cobrahawk, Marina Obscura, and Michael Carlos Band!) vendor tables and information about the organizations that serve the LGBTQ+ community in the Wenatchee area, raffles, prizes and giveaways. Columbia Valley Brewery will be serving up some delicious icy cold beers in the 21+ beer garden. There will be a bouncy house for kids. Nikki, from KW3 is our event MC. Location: Pybus Public Market Event Center • Out at Night with Wenatchee Pride Tickets on sale June 1 at wenatcheepride.com. Get OUT and celebrate Pride at the Wenatchee Pride “Out at Night” celebration. Mingle, dance, make new connections and enjoy a special performance by the amazing, Radar Dames Burlesque. Cash bar - craft beer and wine. Open to 21+ only. All members of the LBGTQ+ community and straight allies are welcome to attend. This is a night where you can be yourself and celebrate

diversity in a safe, fun space! Costumes and pride gear will be welcomed. Space is limited to 70 people, so get your tickets while they last! Location: RadarStation Time: 7:30pm - 11:00pm 21+ adults-only

JUNe 25: Extreme Midget Wrestling Wenatchee Eagles 204 All Ages. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show Time: 7 p.m. Tickets at buytickets.at/extrememidgetwrestling/170486

JUNe 30: Alki Jones The Vogue in Chelan Free all ages show. 8 p.m. For more information visit alkijones.com.

Are you putting on a cool event? Is your band playing in town? To have an event listed in The Comet, email info@thecometmagazine.com

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wenatchee first friday Kasey Koski with Wenatchee First Fridays helped put together this list of shows, along with their First Friday hours. Remember, while most places have special events, artists receptions and free admission during First Friday, the art itself is on exhibit all month long in most locations.

Ye Olde Bookshoppe

Tumbleweed Shop & Studio

11 Palouse St. Mon: 11-6, Tue-Thur: 10-6, Fri-Sat: 10-8, Sun 12-4 Art Walk Hours 5-8 P.S. Rowland, poet. Booksigning and Reading 5-8 p.m. P.S. Rowland a local poet, writes beautiful life changing poetry, probing the intuitive language of the heart, and the universal human experiences of life. She’s been published in a variety of online poetry sites, and papers.

105 Palouse Tue-Sat:11-6, Sun:11- 4, First Friday 5-8 Vagabond Leatherworks is owned and operated by Wade Worthing. A Wenatchee local, Wade grew up interested in creative hands-on activities. “I always liked making things, be that Legos or skateboard ramps. Putting random components together to make something more than the parts has always appealed to me.” Wade started leatherworking in 2012 as a casual hobby to make journals for friends and family and kept going from there. In addition to journals, Vagabond Leatherworks also makes key fobs and watch bands. In his free time Wade enjoys biking, hiking and DIY projects.

Lemolo Cafe & Deli 114 N Wenatchee Ave. Sun & Mon 11-4, Tue-Sat 11-6 Open First Friday until 6 Cory Pearson is a local artist working in various mediums. This is not his first show at Lemolo Café but you wouldn’t recognize the work from his past presence. This year he chose to express himself with found object sculptures. His inspiration and materials come from local thrift stores and garage sales.

Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce 137 North Wenatchee Avenue 509.662.2116 First Friday Reception 5pm-8pm. Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce is celebrating with the “Art of Beer Making.” This evening will feature local brewers from Wenatchee Brewers Row including Columbia Valley Brewing, Wenatchee Valley Brewing and Badger Mountain Brewery. They will be discussing beer and food pairing information. On display will be photos of the Bronze sculptures that are available for purchase in the rotating collection of Art on the Avenues. Art on the Avenues has been a labor of love for many and one that is celebrated daily by locals and visitors. Come hear the story of what is needed and how you can help with this outstanding community asset.

Numerica Performing Arts Center The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Friday, June 1 at 7:30pm Enjoy an evening of dazzling guitar mastery and vivid, emotionally impactful songwriting from America’s foremost country blues outfit. This trio has studied under such blues masters as T-Model Ford and Robert Belfour. Tickets starting at $17 and available at the door!

Mela 17 N. Wenatchee Ave. caffemela.com Mon - Fri: 6- 6, Sat- -Sun: 8- 4 First Fridays Opening Reception: 5-8 The most recent works of Artist Nik Penny merge experiences in textile design, painting, and woodworking. They mark a point of departure. “Until now what I’ve done in the wood shop, on a loom, and on an easel have each had its own inspiration, work flow, and purpose. Now these processes are merging to create pieces that exists somewhere between a painting and a textile.” says the artist.

Two Rivers Gallery 102 N Columbia 2riversgallery.com Wed-Sat:11- 4, Sun:1-4 First Friday Reception 5-8 PERSONALIZING the NATURAL WORLD: featuring Jane Walter Bousman Jane is a teacher of children, art teacher, and illustrator of historical novels, The Strawberry Mountain Series, by Jae Carvel and a soon-to-bepublished children’s poetry book by author Nancy Bond. She say’s artists stimulate appreciation of the world and art helps us know ourselves. Music by jazz duo Jac Tiechner and Steve Sanders with complimentary refreshments and wines by 37 Cellars.

Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street wenatcheevalleymuseum.org

T-Sat: 10-4, First Friday (FREE): 10-8 The 3rd NCW Juried Art Show & Sale presented by the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center showcases quality work by regional artists in a museum setting. This year’s event highlights area artists of both two and three dimensional original works that will be on display and for sale. The exhibit will be open to the public during regular museum hours through the First Friday of September.

MAC Gallery Wenatchee Valley College Music and Art Center 1300 Fifth Street Mon-Fri 9-5, Open First Friday 5 -7 June 1—July 27 The MAC Gallery is proud to present the work of WVC’s second cadre of students graduating with our AA Degree in Graphic Design. Throwing Spaghetti at Dingos is a capstone project which seeks to answer the question “What is graphic design?” with the help of the students’ portfolios compiled over the two-year program (along with a mixedmetaphor). Exhibiting students include Maxwell Backer, Hannah Bodily, Alondra Duarte, Maria Estrada, Bill Evans, Makenna Faulkner, Emily Hutton, Kristina Pruhl, Zhorik Roseburg, Heather Seman, Joe Server, Caleb Smith, and Joi West.

RadarStation 115 S. Wenatchee Ave. First Friday Reception 5-10 pm Cat Butts: A Fine Art Experience A group show of local and national artists paying homage to the things cats are clearly the most proud of. You will not want to miss this evening of refinement and sophistication. Mini cat butt paintings in the Dish of Fate. $10 gets you a spin!

Pans Grotto 3 N Wenatchee Ave, Suite 2 Wenatchee Wa 98801 509-293-9881 Don@pansgrotto.com Fairy Flowers: A group tribute to the beauty of nature. Flowers in the Valley are in full bloom, and so are the ones for this show. Come see what kind of paintings and creations the fairies have inspired. This show runs for the entire month of June, be sure to check it out.

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ALONDRA DUARTE: student artist exploring art and design

BY holly thorpe month, Wenatchee Valley College student Alondra Duarte Twillhis be in her third art show. The show, titled “Throwing Spaghetti at Dingos (Graphic Design, As Explained by Students)” is the capstone project for students in the college’s graphic design program. She will have her work shown along with 12 others. For Duarte, 23, this is the culmination of a tumultuous five years since graduating Wenatchee High School. “I really focused on working because when I was in high school I didn’t know I was able to go to college,” she said. “I was in limbo for a while, because I didn’t know what to do because that was never an option for me.” Part of the reason college seemed

out of reach is because Duarte is alized that it wasn’t for me at all. undocumented. It wasn’t until she I can’t push a product on somebecame a DACA (Deferred Action one or try to sell something that I for Childhood Arrivals) recipient might not truly believe in.” So, she started considering oththat she received a social security er options. number and “I’d always was able to “I was trying to come up with wanted to work. Once she something that would make a go back to school,” she graduated she worked statement, something that people said. “[But] in retail and don’t like to talk about. That could at the time I didn’t know h o u s e ke e p - make a room uncomfortable.” what I wanting. ed to do.” “It was a With the help of her partner, she wake-up call,” she said. “At first, I thought that business would applied for college and enrolled be the right way to go, I always in online classes. “I was working full-time and thought that business was associated with money somehow… trying to do college...I didn’t think when I got involved in that and at the time that I could apply for it was direct salesmanship, I re- financial aid,” she said, adding:

“I’m a tactile, visual learner… let’s just say it didn’t go very well.” Eventually, she received financial aid, started working parttime, and really started exploring her options. For the first time, art was seeming like a possibility. “I’d never thought about taking art seriously, it was always kind of like a hobby,” she said, “but I realized that if I liked doing it maybe it’s something I should think about career-wise.” The interest in art had always been there. She was creative when she was young, drawing and sketching, and in high school she took whatever art classes were available. It all started to fall into place when she met with her adviser: Director of the WVC art program

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and MAC Gallery Scott Bailey. “Alondra came in at kind of a crossroads. She really didn’t know we had a graphic design program,” Bailey said. Duarte laughs thinking about the process and the thinking that led her to the art program. “Everything seemed to happen kind of by accident… because I told Mr. Bailey that I wanted to be in architecture,” she said, “and I wanted to focus on architecture because I wanted to build my mom a home, right? We’ve never owned a home, so to me that was really special and it felt like enough to motivate me to really want to do that.” He told her to start learning the relevant software, including design and 3D rendering. “I started taking those classes and I realized that it wasn’t a hassle for me — it wasn’t easy, but I really enjoyed just making things on the computer,” she said. “All of those softwares remove, slightly, the need to carry tools everywhere, right? And I think that’s really cool.” She began exploring Illustrator, Photoshop and other Adobe programs and was excited by the possibilities of what she could make. “I feel like it opens up opportunities,” she said. “There’s so much you can do. It still blows my mind what you can do with Photoshop.” She was taking classes that were challenging and fun, and she had an idea of what she wanted from the program. “And she went for it,” Bailey said. “She really wrung out everything that she could of this program...It speaks to her drive, I think, that she’s committed to being excellent in whatever she does.” Duarte’s sculpture piece in the previous student art show, the 2018 Student Art Exhibition, received an honorable mention. “It’s called ‘Some Girls,’ as in ‘Some girls live that world,’” she said. The sculpture addresses the issue of child marriages. It was a topic she stumbled upon while researching styles for a class project. As a passionate feminist, the issue struck her as deeply important.

“I was trying to come up with something that would make a statement, something that people don’t like to talk about. That could make a room uncomfortable,” she said. “I started looking into that because it was something I felt very strongly about. In some cultures, this is very normal, but it doesn’t only happen in those cultures.” Sex trafficking, she said, is a problem world-wide. “My thinking was: portray a child, the bride, in white, and a patriarchal, strong, intimidating figure along with it,” she said. “I don’t think a lot of people get it. Maybe it would require some explaining.” The piece has been on display for over a month now at the MAC gallery, where it dominates the space: the black figure stands over four feet tall and the two pieces sit over three feet apart — seeming to stare at each other. When Duarte first saw it completed, it surprised her. “I couldn’t believe I did it,” she said. “It’s not like I’ve been doing this my whole life. I love working with my hands and I’ve always loved doing that my whole life, but just building random structures… I learned how to weld for that piece, and it’s something that I value now, that knowledge that I learned.” She estimates it took about three weeks from start to finish — plus some additional drying time. “The sculpture that she’s done is really ambitious,” Bailey said. “It’s striking because it’s done well, but it’s also kind of done simply — she’s found a way to do what she’s trying to do very well.” For Duarte, the art has always been about the message. “When there’s room in my projects that I’ve done, I like to try and convey a message — a positive message, and sometimes it’s not clear skies and rainbows — by how I try to portray or how I choose to depict something,” she said. “Something that’s typically a political issue. I want my art to stand for that I strongly believe in and I feel like if you’re passionate about something then it’s going to show in your work.” Studying art has changed a lot

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for her, Duarte said. Including the way she sees herself. “Because I never knew I was going to take art seriously and it was more like a hobby, there was some kind of lack of confidence in what I was gonna do and that translated to other things, right? So, as you become confident in something that you wanna do it shows in your personality,” she said. One example is how it changed her thinking about color. “I was always attracted to darker colors, even the way I dressed, it was grey, blue, and that’s not a bad thing right? But the more that I’ve expressed myself, the more I’ve tried to branch out, I’ve realized I should have been focused on color my whole life, down to what I was wearing,” she said. “Anytime I see something bright and colorful it captures my attention… there’s this specific color right now, it’s like magenta, maybe fuschia — I love that color, it gives me life. And that’s how I feel about color in gen-

eral now, it makes life beautiful.” For the “Throwing Spaghetti at Dingos” show, Duarte has been involved in the curation and presentation of the show — work she’s also found rewarding.

“She’s just very mature — she stands out in that way,” Bailey said. “She’s able to take what all the students are getting it and experience it at another level and show that through her work. We’re proud of her.” Duarte plans to continue school at WVC — pursuing the digital design program next, to work more on 3D rendering and design. “I’ve still got more schooling. I want to go to a four year. That never seemed like something that could happen for me, so now that it can, I want to get to a four year — I want to get my bachelors, I wish I could get my PhD in some kind of design...I want to learn all kinds of stuff, I don’t know where I might end up,” she said. “I want to do something that never crossed my mom’s mind that I could do. I’m a college student now and I’m the first of my family to go to college, and I want to see how far I can go.” c Details for the Throwing Spaghetti at Dingos show on page 10.

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Howell at the movies: solo: How the critics have lost their inner kid

learly, the critics panning the new “Solo: A Star Wars Story” weren’t there with me in 1977. Or, if they were, they’ve forgotten. That was back when you could still change the world with an $11 million movie. I sat there, glued to my red-cushioned seat at the Liberty BY jamie howell Theater, meeting a chirpy little R2D2 for the first time, developing a throbbing kid crush on the double-bunned Princess Leia, and cracking up at wisecracks fired from the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon by that lovable lech, Han Solo. The original “Star Wars: A New Hope” was the first movie to truly transport me to incredible new worlds. Coming as it did at such an impressionable age, I wound up with something better than, say, a lifelong nicotine addiction from schoolyard cigarettes. I went back to see it six times, — something I’d never done before or since — and came away with an insatiable craving for sci-fi. It led

me to read the complete works of Isaac Asimov, all things Dune, and every word Harlan Ellison could churn out. It’s an addiction for which I’m thankful to this day and, 41 years later (Sith Lord), when a new Star Wars installment hits the screen, I’m still there, excited. So when “Solo: A Star Wars Story” opened in theaters over Memorial Day, there I stood, ready to pitch my thirty bucks into the $83 million opening weekend take. “Eighty-three million? P-shaw!” The critics are not impressed, not by the movie, not by the money. Star Wars installments these days are expected to hit box office grosses in the billions — a function of our Disney-ized, quarterlyprofit-report-driven world. Every movie has to be bigger, bolder and, for The Force’s sake, more lucrative than the last, or it gets slammed by the know-italls. One thing I know about critics they’re paid to be critical. They bone up on movies, establishing their authority, and then they smugly commence picking those movies apart. They whine through their expertise like the New York Times did about the, “shamelessly recycled clichés.” “A B-movie,” poo-pooed the Boston Globe’s assassin of cinema. “A bit of a clunker,” was all the excitement the

Detroit News could muster. I get that we’re a more crass, less easily aroused society in 2018. That’s precisely the affliction for which a movie like this offers the antidote. We can forget for a moment that Princess Leia died a kooky alcoholic or that Luke Skywalker was subsequently relegated to the gulags of cartoon voiceover work. Instead, we get to go backward in time to when John Williams’ iconic scores first washed over us, to a bygone era when the dark side gave us all the darkness we needed without covering us in CG entrails from video game bloodbaths (“Solo” is practically pre-light saber). Yes, there are things to pick at in “Solo,” but I don’t really care if Disney makes their $300 million back (which they will, of course). I don’t even care that Ron Howard used his directorial takeover as an opportunity to cast his malformed kid brother in another bit part. I care about being transported yet again — and with “Solo,” I was. And to a place that I enjoy very much. So, if I might prevail upon you to grab a broken pipe and wedge it sideways in the trash compactor of modern movie criticism, you may just escape with your childhood joys uncrushed enough to allow yourself a moment of revelry in the simple fun of seeing Chewie sit down to

his first-ever game at the holographic Dejarik Chess table aboard the Millenium Falcon. You might find that the cockpit wisecracks are still funny, that Emilia Clarke (as Qi’ra) is supremely crushworthy and that this 20-something Solo is the exactly the sentimental scoundrel you’d hoped for. Show up with your cynical adult self if you like, but if instead you go as that Star Wars-addicted child ducking the fearsome onscreen TIE fighters from your seat, “shameless recycling” begins to feel a lot more like “delightful homage.” Here’s my recommendation: You march down to the Gateway VIP. While you wait in the slow creep of the concession line for your overpriced bucket of beer, scan the wonderful Star Wars paintings on the walls by artist Tom Roche to see if you can find the hidden Kama Sutra stick figures making galactic love right under your nose. Then take your upgraded 21st Century pleather seat, sink into “Solo” and make up your own damn mind, kiddo. Enjoy the show! C

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COMET TALES: rEADER SUBMITTED WRITINGS Satellite

by lE Francis

When the wild & the broken arched their bristled backs & knew the blinkless stars through song; When the night glimpsed its own face in a mirror abyss, fractured & refracted spectrum unspun; When the towers hold back the hills, when midnight-slunk shadows confess, when seeing waters moan & shrink, the whole of the world under duress; Chaos for the sake of the unseen remaining unseen the perfect shade of nothingness obscures card seventeen.

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She’s always digging tousled bed, ratty hands, the ground who knows she’s coming — She was never secure in being held, in being fixed like a painting on the wall, ”Oh, I wish you’d quit looking at me.” His eyes making circles, screwed in, screwed skyward, mad as a summer nap. “Just let me sleep dear, just let me drink you down.” “So, the chalice has cracked. So, here’s my life, finish it off. Damn, if you’d just let me look down to you from where I hang, tapestry tape and tilted face, jilted heart left tap-tapping, string fingernails and dirt your greatest work of charity, sir, hanging high and buried alive.”

Love Song for the New Order By le francis This is like a kiss. A transmission of emotion delivered through physical impulse. Read into it what you will, but I have surrendered some soft part of myself to make this be. I have surrendered my time to send this message that spoke best through a connection of skin. A connection initiated by the narrow beams of my fingers folded, tucked steady and compact against the ink-smudged ridge of my hand This is like a kiss and we are like lovers, exchanging the conditions of our continued cohabitation. Some marry for love, some for money, but our conditions have little to do with the two of us. Our exchange demands moral baggage that no prenup can zipup. Our conditions are an endless song and I am only an amplifier. This is love, my beau, so let’s dance. The red gloves that bloom from our knuckles, the candlelight that plays over the clouded nightmarescape of your shorn and inked scalp. Let’s dance and show the world what love can change…

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A contested folktale: His heart in your hand, the circumference of the pyre and the lapse of your stride. The lips of future beautiful corpses blue and aching last exhalations mingling with spice and humidity. The broad slash of the Mediterranean tearing the hanging belly of Europe: the slumping body, the slit-neck channel — remember, head is home. You were in-betweens, undercover pagans converting the faithful. Still trouble-chewing, incomplete, bowing at society balls with a head full of wax and fallen wick eyes that betrayed the answers you never

questioned. It seems your sincerity has lapsed.

Are you a writer? Send your short story, poetry, essay or excerpt to comettales@thecometmagazine.com and we may publish it in the next issue.

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monica miller: 8 questions with a gallery director

BY RON EVANS

onica Miller has worked with arts organizations for over 15 years in fundraising, grants management and professional development for artists. She is currently the director at Gallery One in Ellensburg. We asked her 8 Questions. How did you first get involved with Gallery One? My husband and I were dating and though I lived in Seattle, I thought I’d get to know the place by volunteering on the events committee. I’ve always loved a good party, and after 10 years I still do. How do you find art and artists for your exhibits? Whenever I’m traveling, I make it a point to stop in galleries, museums, or art spaces wherever I go. Serving on the State Arts Commission has given me a great opportunity to check out new communities. Facebook and

Instagram have also been really good for staying connected with artists from outside of Ellensburg. What are you looking for in artists/ work to be featured at the gallery? I strive to exhibit a range of mediums, materials and voices. I try to not focus on what I’m attracted to personally. I also aim to integrate local artists with regional artists and emerging and professional artists into the same exhibits to set up a dialogue between the work and the artists equally. Craftsmanship and the artist’s voice are also important to me. An artist can be unique but if the piece feels unfinished somehow, I question their commitment. I have found art galleries are not necessarily the first thing on people’s’ minds when it comes to an enlightened evening out. What are some of the challenges you face in terms of getting people excited

about coming to see art? Our number one key to success has been that we put people first and we use art to introduce people to each other to create connections to one another and therefore create a community. For example, our Pecha Kucha events share people’s ideas, our First Friday events are a way to connect the artist to the community and our workshops try to encourage socializing as part of the classes. If people learn something about art or are inspired by a piece, YAY!

Bringing in the actual artwork, unannounced, is the most awkward thing for me. Have you found any consistent challenges with dealing with artists? No, they are all rare, exotic, unique, special flowers.

What are you most excited about concerning the future of Gallery One? The children! No, really, I am loving the inter-generational groups coming in and experiencing the place and Any advice on how fledgling artists I have to give a shout out to parents who make art important to their lives. can go about approaching galleries We’ve been able to take our programs for representation? to schools this year which I really Take decent images of your work and put them on a website. Send us the link enjoy. Every day is different here so I and a nice note about why we would be encourage people to stop in and see a great spot for you to show your work. what’s new! C What’s a common mistake artists make when approaching a gallery?

Stay up to speed on future Gallery One exhibits and events by visiting them on Facebook or online at gallery-one.org.

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the spacepod: in memoriam to art bell

BY ron evans

his past month beloved talk radio pioneer, Art Bell passed away at the age of 72. Of all the people that have had any epochal impacts on my life, Art was the epochalest. The dude changed me forever. Now, I had thought about things like aliens and ghosts of course, although not with any real intent on getting to the bottom of things. But once I discovered Coast To Coast AM on a sleepless night back in the early ’90s, I was never so happy to be an insomniac. Art was my insomniac buddy for years and years. I hated when he left, it really was never the same show after that. Some people love his replacement, George Noory, and some people despise him, I’m neither here

nor there on him but Art was the king of this kind of show. The undisputed king. One of the first shows I remember hearing was about Roswell. Roswell was all the rage at this time because it was the near 50th anniversary of that infamous alleged UFO crash in New Mexico and movies were being made about it. The X-Files was a hit at this point as well and people were getting balls deep in alien shit. Balls deep in alien shit. Not a bad book title. I’d read them shits. I may write them shits. Anyway, I was up all night listening and he had Jesse Marcel Jr. on talking about how his dad told the family the truth and how the government made him lie about it and

all the strangeness that surrounded their lives after this event. What more could you hope for in the mid ’90s piping out of the radio over AM in a small town like Wenatchee? You gotta remember what life was like back then. No internet, no news groups, no hi-def video on your phones, no Pornhub. Take a deep breath. The nightmare’s over. We have Pornhub now. But back then there was no instant or streaming anything. If you wanted to know something you had to be holding a book or a newspaper or watching a documentary. So radio, in a lot of ways, was as close as you got. It was often live and happening right now. It was always on, always current, and

you had your variety of topics. But talk radio was new in these kinds of markets, so before any of these things we take for granted now, you had Art Bell. Sitting in his house. Yes, he did the show from his house in Pahrump, Nevada. Chain smoking cigs and talking about the craziest shit you’d ever heard in the entire galldurn universe and nothing I have encountered in life since has had such an impact on me. It made me the weird flying saucer kid. I was the guy that thought maybe JFK didn’t go down the way we were told. Again, this was not terribly common back then. Now, almost everyone can at least get behind some of these theories. Maybe not the 9/11 or chem-

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trails stuff, but aliens? Military cover ups? Strange legends of odd creatures? Aside from rich white housewives arguing about pinot gris, shows on the paranormal are all that’s on TV in prime time these days. There was something for everybody on Art’s show, and even if the topic of the night was ri-goddang-diculous, it was fun to listen to, because Art was no dummy. But he would entertain almost everything to some degree because he was smart enough to know that there was no show otherwise. But more importantly, he had an open mind. I really think a lot of my openmindedness came from listening to the way that man saw life and the universe. It wasn’t in some Pollyanna -oh the wonder of it all- way that some tv or radio personalities are. But it was a real world curiosity and understanding that, yes life is amazing and mys-

terious and cool, but also... terrifying as fuck. There are men doing very, very dark things in this world. Exposing that is important. There are things that do go bump in the night. Dreaming about those possibilities fuel our imaginations on levels we can’t even truly measure. There are comets coming toward us. The damn earth is melting. Art Bell went on Matt Lauer’s morning show in the early ’90s talking about this far-fetched crazyass conspiracy theory they were calling Global Warming., and Matt Lauer poked fun at him. Years later, when everyone was catching up to this idea, Matt had Art back on the show to talk about his book with Whitley Strieber, “The Coming Global Superstorm,” later made into the feature film “The Day After Tomorrow,” and Art stuck it to him a little bit. I loved that about him. He could be a little catty. He

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would entertain some crazy things but he wouldn’t let anyone treat him badly. I try to live my life by that model. He will be missed. He will be emulated. His impact on people like me will continue in a myriad of ways. I have written songs about flying saucers and Mel’s Hole. I named my cat Yeti after his cat Yeti. I started a podcast about this whole paranormal world with by best pals and I opened a gallery with bigfoot tracks meeting you at the door. This all came from discovering this man back in my late teens when I should have been resting for a math test the next day at school. I guess it’s telling that I never graduated high school. But I did go on to live a life completely inspired, informed and all-around made more interesting by a man named Art Bell. And I’ll drink a cheers to that. RIP,

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and 73s my friend. Go out there and make a name for yourself, kids. Go inspire people to write songs. Go do things that cause other souls to reflect upon and completely change the trajectory of their path. Go live a life worth getting strangers to cheers you when you leave this crazy spinning rock in space. C Listen to Tales From The Spacepod at talesfromthespacepod.com, iTunes or your favorite podcasting app.

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