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May 16, 2013

At the Movies“Star Trek Into Darkness” – we have seen this before

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ReviewsMusic: Trace Adkins, She & Him Video Games: “Metro: Last Night”

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Tuning UpBr’er Rabbit plays the Brown Lantern Ale House in Anacortes on Saturday

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Just the event for cruising enthusiasts

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YOUR ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION GUIDE TO WHAT’S GOING ON IN SKAGIT COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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Music, Game Reviews .................6-7

Travel ...........................................8-9

On Stage ....................................... 10

Tuning Up..................................... 11

At the Lincoln Theatre ................. 12

Hot Tickets ................................... 13

Get Involved ................................. 14

Movie Listings .............................. 17

Movie Mini-Reviews .................... 17

Out & About ............................18-19

“Cloud Atlas”: Events and actions in one time period have an effect on past and future eras. Tom Hanks stars. Not since “2001: A Space Odyssey” has a film come along that’s such a marvel of moviemaking and a frustrating test of comprehension as “Cloud Atlas.”

The latest work by Andy and Lana Wachowski, the minds behind “The Matrix,” re-imagines the art of movie-making by creating a product that finds cohesion in confusion, distinction in disorder and symmetry in asymmetry. It takes an omnipotent look at how actions affect past and future generations as told through six stories set in diverse time periods covering a 500-year span.

Unlike the original book by David Mitchell that was generally linear in design, the Wachowski siblings, along with Tom Tykwer, have written a script that bounces forward and backward through time, never resting too long in one era.

It’s easy to admire the brilliant crafts-manship that went into making of the film. It takes a lot more concentration to fully appreciate the method in what appears to be six lifetimes of madness.

“Dexter: Season Seven”: The season starts with the aftermath of the grand reveal at the end of season six. The exposure of Dexter’s (Michael C. Hall) killer secret takes the first-rate series in the wrong direction. This series has always thrived on Dexter being able to work in the shadows.

What saves it is the addition of Yvonne Strahovski as the mysterious Hannah. The awkward emotional games she plays with Dexter pushes the show to new creepy levels.

The Blu-ray Disc and DVD sets includes all 12 episodes plus bonus material,

“Liz & Dick”: The stories that came out during the filming of this cable movie about the explosive relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were more interesting than the actual film. That’s what happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan. The film looks at the turbulent relationship that made the pair the most notorious of the time. There are some interesting moments, but they get buried by the uneven acting and uninspired camera work. Pick up a Taylor-Burton movie instead of wasting time on this weak effort.

“Fraggle Rock: 30th Anniversary Collection”: The series from The Jim Henson Company features the always-working Gobo, Red, Boober, Wembly,

Mokey and Traveling Matt.“A Glimpse Inside the Head of

Charlie Swan III”: A successful graphic designer falls apart after his true love leaves him.

“Wordgirl vs. the Energy Monster”: Introduces new vocabulary words and reinforces their meanings.

“Frankie Go Boom”: Two battling brothers join forces to undo damage caused by video.

“Back to 1942”: Travelers during World War II face the harsh realities of the time.

“Mythbusters: Collection 9”: The team continues to tackle big myths.

“The Bletchley Circle”: Four ordi-nary women have the extraordinary ability to break codes.

“Power Rangers Samurai: The Sixth Ranger Volume 4”: Antonio, the Gold Ranger, tries to prove he has the neces-sary skills to become a Samurai.

“Doctor Who: The Visitation Special Edition”: The Doctor (Peter Davison) arrives in England during the Great Plague.

“Team Umizoomi: Animal Heroes”: The team goes on four missions.

“Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate”: PBS documentary tackles big questions about hate.

“Face 2 Face”: TV director Kather-ine Brooks makes an 11,000-mile trip to reconnect with the world.

n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK

Upcoming movie releases Following is a partial schedule of com-ing movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

MAY 21Beautiful Creatures - WarnerThe Last Stand - LionsgateParker - SonySide Effects - UniversalStand Up Guys - LionsgateYossi - Strand

MAY 28Dark Skies - Anchor Bay

JUNE 4The Last Ride -- FoxMosquita y Mari -- WolfeWarm Bodies -- Lionsgate / Summit

JUNE 11 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters -- ParamountOz the Great and Powerful -- DisneySnitch -- Lionsgate / Summit

n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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COMMUNITY

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The annual Trawler Fest for cruising enthusiasts will take place today through Sunday, May 16-19, at Cap Sante Boat Haven in Anacortes.

Check out more than 40 boats on the water, daily seminars and activities, and more than 30 exhibitors showcasing a variety of boating products, services and accessories.

$15 daily; seminars, evening programs and pre-Fest “Trawler University” classes require additional fees.

For more information, call 888-487-2953 or visit trawlerfest.com.

Trawler time Nautical festival in Anacortes features activities, seminars and more

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MOVIES

T his meeting did not take place. The people involved do not exist.

No plans being discussed here will ever come true.

And yet …STUDIO EXEC NUM-

BER ONE: Did you see the numbers?

STUDIO EXEC NUM-BER TWO: Of course I saw the numbers. How could I miss $700 million world-wide? “Iron Man 3” is a monster.

NUMBER ONE: We’ve got to get a piece of that action.

NUMBER TWO: I don’t think Marvel and Disney are in the mood to share.

NUMBER ONE: No, I’m not saying that we can get in on “Iron Man 3,” but I do think we can cash in on the public’s fascination with this comic-book character.

NUMBER TWO: What do you have in mind? They own the rights to Iron Man.

NUMBER ONE: Why not create our own super-hero?

NUMBER TWO: I don’t think you can just make these things up. I think Stan Lee has to invent them or something.

NUMBER ONE: Stan Lee isn’t the boss of me. I went to Harvard. I’m a smart guy. How tough could it be to make up a super-hero?

NUMBER TWO: I don’t think it’s as easy as you think. These characters have been around for decades in comic books, and they have built a fan base from early childhood. Some of those comic book fans now run studios, and that’s why we have so many comic book movies.

NUMBER ONE: Are you saying that I’m not as clever as a comic book geek? I’ve seen “The Big Bang Theory.” I’m smarter than those guys.

NUMBER TWO: Those guys are actors. They’re not even real comic book geeks.

UPPER LEFT; Kim Basinger and Jack Nicholson, as The Joker, in the 1989 film “Batman.”

Warner Bros. via AP

UPPER RIGHT: Willem Dafoe, as Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis, the Green Goblin, in the 2002 film, “Spider-Man.

Columbia Pictures via PRNewsFoto

BOTTOM LEFT: Robert Downey Jr., as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and Gwyneth Paltrow, as Pepper Potts, in “Iron Man 3.”

Disney, Marvel Studios via AP

NUMBER ONE: The point is that you and I could invent a comic book fran-chise right here.

NUMBER TWO: Do you have any ideas, or are you just talking?

NUMBER ONE: I have plenty of ideas. If the public loves Iron Man so much, we probably should keep with the metal theme. What about Tin Man?

NUMBER TWO: Seri-ously?

NUMBER ONE: What’s wrong with Tin Man?

NUMBER TWO: Have you ever heard of “The Wiz-

ard of Oz”?NUMBER ONE: The

movie with James Franco?NUMBER TWO: OK,

there’s that one. I was kind of thinking about the 1939 version with Judy Garland?

NUMBER ONE: Never heard of her. Is she a Kar-dashian?

NUMBER TWO: No, she’s not a Kardashian. She actually had talent. She was a real star.

NUMBER ONE: How old are you, dude?

NUMBER TWO: The bottom line is that you can’t use Tin Man. What else have

you got?NUMBER ONE: What

about Copper Man?NUMBER TWO: No.NUMBER ONE: Lead

Man?NUMBER TWO: No.NUMBER ONE: Zinc

Man?NUMBER TWO: No.NUMBER ONE: Alumi-

num Man?NUMBER TWO: No.NUMBER ONE: Chro-

mium Man?NUMBER TWO: You’re

really stretching.NUMBER ONE: Bronze

Man?

NUMBER TWO: George Hamilton already plays him.

NUMBER ONE: I don’t get it.

NUMBER TWO: Ask your grandparents.

NUMBER ONE: What about Gold Man?

NUMBER TWO: Hmmm … I do like gold.

NUMBER ONE: Every-body likes gold.

NUMBER TWO: Gold might work. It certainly would make a shiny cos-tume. What would be his super power?

NUMBER ONE: How about his ability to buy him-

self out of trouble?NUMBER TWO: That

sounds a little thin.NUMBER ONE: We’re

just spitballing here. We can work out the details later. But off the top of my head, I’m thinking that he could carry gold bars in holsters, and throw them at the bad guys.

NUMBER TWO: Do you have a supervillain in mind? In these movies, the hero is only as strong as the villain.

NUMBER ONE: I do. Picture this: Dr. Tarnish.

NUMBER TWO: Really? Not Green Goblin? Not Lex Luthor? Not the Joker?

NUMBER ONE: I’m sure that the name Green Goblin sounded silly when someone first suggested it a million years ago. It only makes sense now because you’ve heard it your whole life. If you heard the name Dr. Tarnish since you were a child, it would make per-fect sense. Tarnish is the enemy of gold in the real world, and Dr. Tarnish is the enemy of Gold Man in the world of comic book movies.

NUMBER TWO: You’re a genius.

NUMBER ONE: That’s very nice of you to say, but I’m just a humble 26-year-old studio executive trying to do the right thing, which is to make my company bil-lions of dollars in sequels, merchandising revenue and the home entertainment market.

NUMBER TWO: You know what’s so brilliant about your idea? It’s not a sequel, a prequel, a remake or a reboot.

NUMBER ONE: I know. It’s almost like that black-and-white silent French film that won the Oscar a couple of years ago, only our movie will be in color, will have sound and won’t even have French fries in it. It’s a completely original summer movie.

Don’t let this golden opportunity slip away By BARRY KOLTNOWThe Orange County Register

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THIS WEEKENDin the area

“ALADDIN” LaVenture Middle School will perform Disney’s “Aladdin” in English and Spanish at 7 p.m. today and Friday, May 16-17, and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sat-urday, May 18, at 1200 LaVenture Road, Mount Vernon. $5. Tickets are available at the door half an hour before each perfor-mance. 360-428-6116.

CHORUS IN CONCERT The Shelter Bay Cho-rus will present “Say It With a Song” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, and 2 p.m. Sat-urday, May 18, at the Shelter Bay Club-house in La Conner. Donations accepted at the door. 360-466-3805.

LINCOLN LOVERS’ SPRING FLING The event will take place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, at Re-Feather Your Nest, 121-A Freeway Drive, Mount Vernon. Enjoy live music by the Spencer Redmond Trio, hors d’oeuvres, wine, silent and live auctions and more. Ages 21 and older. $45 until May 7, then $50. Proceeds benefit the Lincoln Theatre. 360-336-8955 or ilovethe

lincoln.com.

MULTICULTURAL FEST Skagit Valley Col-lege will host “Celebrate the World! A Multicultural Family Festival” from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Enjoy arts and crafts, entertainment, food, a children’s village and more from around the world at this free family-friendly event. For information, contact Anita Ordonez at 360-416-7786 or email anita.ordonez@

skagit.edu.

Spring Fling

Clear Lake Community Connection will host the Clear Lake Spring Fling concert and dance with Maggie’s Fury and the

An-O-Chords Gateway City Four (pictured) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Clear Lake

Elementary School gym, 23631 Lake St. Admis-

sion is $5. The event will include a raffle. Money raised will help pay for

Clear Lake Cemetery improvements. Contact July André at 360-856-

4518 for information.


REVIEWS

MUSIC CDS

Compiled from news services

Trace Adkins“Love Will .”

Trace Adkins works with five dif-ferent producers on his 11th album, suggesting the coun-try music veteran and reality TV star is searching for an infusion of fresh energy.

And “Love Will .” does find Adkins occasionally trying out new sounds. There’s the soul-country vibe of “So What If I Do,” which features a saxophone to play up the pop-crossover possibilities. And there’s a duet with pop singer Col-bie Caillat on “Watch The World End,” a strange love song set during the apoca-lypse.

While the arrangements test new terri-tory, the themes tend toward the middle-of-the-road romanticism he’s stuck with for two decades. Eschewing any up-tempo rockers, the tall, muscular former oil rig-ger concentrates on romantic themes, some of which push at the steamier edges of conservative country music conven-tions — as on his cover of the Exile pop hit “Kiss You All Over.”

For such a roughneck guy, he excels at tender ballads, as on “Come See Me” and the spiritually oriented title song, which features the Harlem Gospel Choir. But there’s nothing here likely to lift him to the upper tier of country stars — which seems like a missed opportunity, consider-ing the high media profile his role on TV’s “Celebrity Apprentice” has given him.

n Michael McCall, Associated Press

PJ Morton“New Orleans”

PJ Morton’s major label debut, “New Orleans,” offers an introspective take on his life and internal desire to return to the roots of the music that made him happy years ago. To that end Morton has made the album he set out to make.

Still, it falls short in terms of songwrit-ing and depth. Tracks featuring Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and the legend-ary Stevie Wonder offer a little bit of zest to an otherwise middling R&B album.

Levine’s vocal turn on “Heavy” is a high note. And Wonder’s brief harmonica work on “Only One” is instantly recognizable and enjoyable on the album’s best track.

Most of the other songs, like “Trade It All,” wear a patina of artistic regret. We find Morton singing about achieving recording industry success, but question-ing his artistic path. Those questions would be fine fuel for better songwriting with fewer hit-seeking hooks and more texture.

As it stands, Morton has treated his complex feelings rather routinely on “New Orleans.”

n Ron Harris, Associated Press

Patty Griffin“American Kid”

Patty Griffin book-ends her seventh album “American Kid” with two songs about the death of her father, opening with the wistful, spiri-tually open-hearted “Go Wherever You Wanna Go.” The song features a series of poetic images conveying to a loved one that it’s OK to let go and pass to the other side. She closes with the sweetly mournful “Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone,” which blends old jazz chords set against a background of haunting, sustained key-boards.

Typical of Griffin’s artful and searching work, she eschews autobiographical narra-tives for oblique references to nature and the joy, pain and transcendent values of everyday life, all delivered with her pow-erful, subtly emotional voice.

“American Kid” is unlike Griffin’s past work. She’s not prone to repeating herself and this is another gem in her catalog.

She’s backed for much of the album by Cody and Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, a group that opened for Robert Plant’s Band of Joy that included Griffin as a member. Plant’s taste for modal folk music can be heard on “Ohio,” on which he harmonizes with her.

But “American Kid” is wholly Griffin’s — a poignant collection that probes per-sonal and spiritual issues about the most important aspects of life.


Talib Kweli“Prisoner of Conscious”

Throughout his career, whether in his early collabora-tive work with fellow Brooklynite Mos Def in Black Star or with the Cincinnati producer-rapper Hi-Tek, Talib Kweli consistently combined his conscious approach to writing with a verbal dexterity marked by a dazzling rapid-fire delivery.

His fifth solo album, “Prisoner of Conscious,” is being billed as a depar-ture of sorts because of the inclusion of tracks like “High Life,” a collaboration with the Sierra Leone artist Bajah and rapper Rubix Cube that celebrates the music style of one of Kweli’s heroes, the late Nigerian singer-activist Fela Kuti. Another genre detour is a track featuring the Brazilian singer Seu Jorge, an ode to the slums of that country’s cities called “Favela Love.”

And there is a litany of other featured artists sprinkled throughout the record’s 16 tracks, including Miguel, Kendrick Lamar, Busta Rhymes and Melanie Fiona.

But it is Kweli’s expert lyrical flow with its torrent of pop-culture and historical references that shower the listener nearly every time he grabs the mic that underpin this fine record.

n James H. Collins, Associated Press

She & Him“Volume 3”

Is there any limit to Zooey Deschanel’s creativity?

With her comical hit show, “New Girl,” it’s hard to work out when she would have the time to write music. And the new album “Volume 3” from her duo, She & Him, with singer-songwriter M. Ward, def-initely doesn’t sound like an album that’s been made on the side.

Their third record bursts to life with the bluesy “I’ve Got Your Number, Son,” and Deschanel’s tone is dulcet. It’s the kind of song you imagine being played on the jukebox in a 1950s diner.

The lyrics throughout the album are

dreamy and full of unrequited love, but sung in an almost theatrical way. In “Never Wanted Your Love,” Deschanel adopts a Texan drawl. The addition of Ward’s voice on “Baby” creates a beauti-ful harmony with Deschanel’s tone, and an electric guitar riff adds a rock ‘n’ roll spin to the record.

The album’s only weak moment is the cover of Blondie’s “Sunday Girl,” which comes off flat. Otherwise, She & Him has a winner.

n Sian Watson, Associated Press

George Strait“Love Is Everything”

George Strait is amid a two-year tour before retiring from the road, but new album “Love Is Everything” proves he still has plenty of great new country music in him.

As usual, he proves he can stay con-temporary, nicely handling the modern romantic ballad “I Believe,” with its orchestrations and organ accents, and the tricky melody of “Give It All We Got Tonight,” his current hit.

For all his modern moves, it’s on the more traditional cuts that Strait excels, directly contradicting all the current Music Row trends. The steel-guitar-drenched “Blue Melodies” and the delightfully fiddle-driven “I Thought I Heard My Heart Sing” are reminders of how outstanding Strait is at classic coun-try.

The album’s only misstep arrives with “Got A Car,” a first-person story of young love that would have been better left to a more age-appropriate vocalist.

For the most part, the best of “Love Is Everything” would have stood out on any of his albums in the last 32 years. Which means this veteran may hang up his traveling boots, but his consistency as a recording artist isn’t slowing down.


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REVIEWS

‘Metro: Last Light’Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PCGenre: ActionPublisher: 4A GamesESRB Rating: M, for MatureGrade: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

At the conclusion of “Metro 2033,” you were given a choice to make: hope or destruction. I chose the more positive route, relatively speaking, considering the apocalyptic nature of the story. But “Last Light” assumes I’m otherwise coldhearted and opens with the death-dealing nuclear-missile strike. Sadly, not long after the opening sequences you discover that the Dark Ones were not extinguished, thus thrusting you back into a desperate game of quiet, but intense, survival.

You continue the role of Artyom, once a lowly Russian survivor but now a trained killer over the course of “2033” and the time that precedes “Last Light.” The strength of the game lies in its nar-rative, and how it superbly paces you

throughout the game. Rather than a nonstop barrage of room-clearing shootouts, you are given time to catch your breath and converse with other survivors. The small enclo-sures where

bands of people are struggling to survive allow for interesting moments of levity and depth. This means when everything inevitably gets violent, you care a bit more about these people’s survival.

And yes, there will be guns and shoot-outs. The tight quarters of the under-ground subway system set the scene for creaky noises in the distance that put you on high alert, then trick your senses with potential sounds and movement in the

shadows that may turn out to be nothing at all. Or you may flick your flashlight or lighter to the side and discover that a creature is about to rip off your face. Clearly, you should wait until 1 a.m. to start playing and let the atmosphere of the tunnels suck you in and appropriately scare you.

Thankfully, as survivalists you are given tools to survive. Fighting off Dark Ones with your bare hands would be futile, so guns are usually available. Unfortunately, ammo is harder to come across, which often leaves you with tough choices on how to proceed. You’ll likely choose dark-ness and stealth as your trusty compan-ions, saving the bullets for larger encoun-ters. Patience pays off for those willing to hoard bullets; an itchy trigger finger is not your friend.

Dark Ones are not your only foes. Other soldiers and survivors sometimes must see the pointy end of your blade. Environmental tricks allow you to shut off lights or create distractions to evade

detection, and using them makes for smart gaming. One advantage is that the intel-ligence of the characters often mimics that of a rusty doorknob, so getting the advan-tage won’t prove terribly difficult.

You have to emerge and scour the surface for items and weapons, but just because nuclear fallout has left the land-scape in desolation does not mean you get easy passage to your destination. Dark Ones scour the ruins as well, and when not fending them off you desperately hunt for new filters for your gas mask to keep your oxygen clean — because this isn’t exactly eco-friendly living. So the times you get to see the sunlight are precious and lovely to take in before chaos again shatters the silence.

Ignorant enemy AI and some closing chapters to the story keep “Last Light” from achieving legendary game status. But this survival-action effort is absolutely worth your time.

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TRAVEL

Photos by Felipe Dana / AP

Homes are lit at night as cable cars move commuters over the Complexo do Alemao complex of shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The cable-car system linking six of its hilltops over a 2.3-mile route has become a popular tourist attraction.

By JULIANA BARBASSAAssociated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, gig-gling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed off over the con-glomerate of bare-brick shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns.

Three years ago, the communities below made national news as law enforcement swarmed up their narrow alleyways, sending drug dealers who’d long controlled the area scurrying. Millions watched the dramatic scenes on television.

Now, with “police paci-fication units” established within Alemao’s 13 favelas as part of a statewide pub-lic security plan, the previ-ously impenetrable com-munity is open to visitors. And a remarkable cable-car system linking six of its hilltops over a 2.3-mile route has become a popu-lar tourist attraction.

Of the nearly 12,000 people on average who ride it daily, fully 65 percent on weekends and 36 percent on weekdays are not from Alemao. Most are visitors like Martins, a Rio native who was curious about a side of her own city she’d never glimpsed. But for-eigners are also signing up for the half-hour round-trip ride into — or at least over — a world they’d only heard of on news reports.

Danish tour guide Ras-mus Schack was visiting Alemao and taking the cable car for the first time to gauge whether future tours here would be a good idea — and he liked what

he saw.“You can see that the

locals really appreciate that people are coming here to visit, and that could have a positive impact for them in the future,” he said. “Maybe they could have local guides, more business-es focusing on the visitors. It’s very interesting, and it is an opportunity for them as well.”

Chatter onboard the gondola on a recent Satur-day soon revealed that all had come expressly to ride the 10-person cable-cars and get to know this long-forsaken part of Rio.

Soon after the fire-engine-red cab took off, Martins forgot her jitters about the height and began to gawk at the view, point-ing out Rio de Janeiro’s landmarks to her husband and two boys as she stood up and snapped photos with her iPad.

“How beautiful!” she said as the Penha church, perched atop a 364-foot sheer granite boulder, came into view. Her husband, Tiago de Melo, and another couple began calling out the sights: to the left, the

airport, and beyond it, the Guanabara Bay, a liquid silver mirror reflecting the few clouds above.

In the distance, the craggy mountains of the Orgaos mountain range cut a jagged outline against the blue. To the right was the massive Christ the Redeemer statue, soaring on its own hilltop, and then the great floating arches of Stadium Rio, a 46,000-per-son stadium popularly known as Engenhao.

Just as interesting was the view that spread out below. Before the cable cars, Alemao was not only off-limits because of armed dealers from Comando Vermelho (Red Command) keeping guard. It was also inaccessible because navigating it required something no outsider had: an intimate knowledge of the landscape, an immense stretch of unfinished, flat-roofed brick houses set in a maze-like configuration over the Serra da Miseri-cordia (Mercy Mountains).

Now, life in Alemao is laid out in full view. Soar-ing over the roller coaster of hills, passengers in one

Unlikely tourist ride: Rio shantytown cable car

A resident commutes inside a cable car over the Complexo do Alemao complex of shantytowns.


TRAVEL

Local travelEXPERIENCE CHINA: Skagit Valley Col-

lege is accepting applications through today for an Aug. 22-Sept. 8 trip to China. The tour’s primary focus is to journey to the remote villages of Yunnan province to work with a partner organization devoted to helping village communities empower minority children through culture, art and music. Travelers will also learn about China’s history and culture through visits to its modern capital, Beijing, and its ancient capital, Xi’an. College credit is available. For information, including cost, application instructions and photos from past trips, visit skagit.edu/chinatrip, or contact Ted Maloney at 360-416-7774.

YOGA ADVENTURE SERIES: Join Dawn Jex for day trips and yoga. Each adventure includes activities at an area attraction combined with a yoga class. For informa-tion or to register, call Dawn at 360-631-0587 or visit yoga-gypsies.com. Next up:

June 15: Theo Chocolate Factory Tour and Troll Yoga. Meet at 10:15 a.m. at the Theo Chocolate Factory, 3400 Phinney Ave., Seattle. Tour the factory, taste a little choc-olate and then head up to the Troll under the Fremont bridge for some “Troll Yoga.” Afterward, explore Fremont for lunch, shop-ping or sightseeing. $20.

July 13: Vancouver Granville Island Tour and Yoga: Travel via Amtrak to Vancouver, Canada, ride the foot ferry to the markets and bistros of Granville Island, then enjoy practicing yoga in the peace and quiet of Ron Basford Park. Sample the confections of the island markets, then make your way back to the train station and home, or make a weekend of it in Vancouver. Purchase train tickets through Amtrak ($44). False Creek Ferry round-trip tickets ($10) must be pur-chased at the terminal. Ron Basford Park yoga and Granville Island guided tour, $40.

SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation offers travel opportunities for ages 12 and older (adult supervision

required for ages 18 and younger). For information or to register, call 360-336-6215. Next up:

Riches of Richmond, B.C.: 1:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 14, departing from and returning to Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Check out the Inter-national Buddhist Temple, Steveston’s restored waterfront and the most popular night market in North America, with 80 food booths and more than 200 retail vendors. Wear weather-appropriate clothing and com-fortable walking shoes. Proof of citizenship required (passport, DMV enhanced driver’s license or NEXUS card). $55-$57. Register by June 7.

San Juan Island: Something for Every-one: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 19, departing from and returning to Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Enjoy the 12th annual SJI Lavender Festi-val at Pelindaba Lavender Farm, followed by a no-host lunch at Roche Harbor and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Westcott Bay Cidery and San Juan Island Distillery, where you’ll taste their ciders and spirits. Wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfort-able walking shoes, and bring money for food and purchases. Ages 21 and older only. $75-$77. Register by July 12.

ESCORTED TOURS: The Whatcom County Tour Program offers a variety of day trips and longer tours, with most trips departing from and returning to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St., Bellingham. For information or to register: 360-733-4030, press #, ext. 47015, or wccoa.org/index.php/Tours.

Next up:Oregon Coast and Yosemite: May

29-June 7. Check out the California coast-line and loop through Oregon’s wine and lake region. Enjoy sites like Seaside, Gold Beach, Yosemite and Redwood National Park, San Francisco’s Chinatown and the Embarcadero waterfront. $2,650-$3,450. Includes round-trip motorcoach, hotel accommodations, 14 meals, entrance fees, tour guides and escort.

of the 152 gondolas can look down on women hanging laundry or chatting on corners, and on children playing on the rooftops, running through the streets or flying kites. In one of the few open spaces, a game of soccer was drawing cheers from onlookers. The scent of barbecue wafted up, along with various beats from stereos turned up loud to get the weekend going: samba, forro, funk, and at times a cacophony of all these combined.

At the last station, called

Palmeiras, visitors and locals stop by stands sell-ing locally made crafts and souvenirs, while barbecue and beer sellers also do brisk business.

The price for a ride, kept at a very low 50 cents at first, has gone up to $2.50 for visitors. But they’re still 50 cents for residents, who also have the right to two free rides a day.

And while public trans-portation elsewhere in Rio is unpredictable at best, the cable car stations are organized and clean, with

well-ordered lines and uni-formed greeters who make sure patrons get on and off safely.

But the best aspect of riding the cable car is the sense of place it provides, intimate and distant at once, said rider William Andreas Wivel, in Rio from Denmark for an internship.

“It is a visually amazing experience — aesthetically very beautiful,” he said. “It’s like being in a bus or a train, very safe, but you get close up, you see how people live.”

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area May 16-23 TUNING UP Playing at area venues May 16-23

Thursday.16MUSIC

Little Wings: 7:30 p.m., The Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. $5.

THEATERDisney’s “Aladdin” (dual language edi-

tion): musical, 7 p.m., LaVenture Middle School, 1200 LaVenture Road, Mount Vernon. $5. 360-428-6116.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Mid-way Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Soapbox”: Western Washington Uni-versity Department of Theatre and Dance, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or tickets.wwu.edu.

Friday.17MUSIC

“Say It With a Song”: Shelter Bay Cho-rus, 7:30 p.m., Shelter Bay Clubhouse, La Conner. Donations accepted at the door. 360-466-3805.

Bards of KeyPoynt (original Renais-sance music): 8 to 10 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $5 cover. 360-336-3012 or riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

Kay Zavislak (classical piano): 7:30 p.m., Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave., Bellingham. Free. 360-650-3130.

THEATER“Driving Miss Daisy”: Alger Lookout

Thespian Association Dessert Theatre, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Sil-ver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors and students. 360-424-5144 or altatheatre.com.

Disney’s “Aladdin” (dual language edi-tion): musical, 7 p.m., LaVenture Middle School, 1200 LaVenture Road, Mount Vernon. $5. 360-428-6116.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: 7:30 p.m., Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $16. 360-679-2237 or whidbeyplayhouse.com.

“Soapbox”: Western Washington Uni-versity Department of Theatre and Dance, 7:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Bellingham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or tickets.wwu.edu.

VAUDEVILLEFlying Karamazov Brothers: 8 p.m.,

Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. $20-$42. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com.

Saturday.18MUSIC

Masterpiece Concert: Skagit Valley Symphony, with soloist Bonnie Wilken, violin, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $20-$40, dis-counts available for seniors, students and children. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyre hall.org.

“Say It With a Song”: Shelter Bay Chorus, 2 p.m., Shelter Bay Clubhouse, La Conner. Donations accepted at the door. 360-466-3805.

“Hometown Hootenanny: How-dee and Happy Trails”: with Rachel Mae, Larry Murante, Jesse Taylor and The Hometown Band, 7:30 p.m., Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. $16.50, $13 seniors, students and military, $5 for ages 12 and younger. 425-258-6766 or redcurtainfoundation.org.

THEATERDisney’s “Aladdin” (dual language edi-

tion): musical, 2 and 7 p.m., LaVenture Middle School, 1200 LaVenture Road, Mount Vernon. $5. 360-428-6116.

“Driving Miss Daisy”: Alger Lookout Thespian Association Dessert Theatre, 7 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Sil-ver Run Lane, Alger. $14, $12 seniors and students. 360-424-5144 or altatheatre.com.


“Soapbox”: Western Washington Uni-versity Department of Theatre and Dance, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., WWU Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theater, Belling-ham. $8-$12. 360-650-6146 or tickets.wwu.edu.

Sunday.19ILLUSION

Brian Ledbetter, Mindbending Mental-ist: 3 and 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $10. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

MUSIC“Kids Reaching Kids”: Youth Concert

Series, 3 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. Admission by donation. 360-354-3600.

THEATER“Driving Miss Daisy”: Alger Lookout

Thespian Association, 2:30 p.m., Alger Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. $10. 360-424-5144 or altatheatre.com.


Tuesday.21VARIETY

Betty Desire: 9 p.m. to midnight, 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $3 cover. 360-336-3012 or riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

Wednesday.22MUSIC

Bands’ finale concert: Mount Vernon High School, 7 p.m., 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Thursday.23MUSIC

Spring Finale Concert: Fidalgo Youth Symphony, with soloists Shalana Vanderlinden, violin; Katie Swanson, violin; and Wyatt Homola, saxophone, 7 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15, $10 seniors, $1 children and students. 360-416-7727 or mcintyrehall.org.

THEATER“A Rotten Demise”: interactive comedy

murder mystery, 7:30 p.m., 1st Street Caba-ret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $45, includes dinner. Wine and beer available for purchase. 360-336-3012 or riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

FRIDAY.17

SATURDAY.18

SUNDAY.19

Trish Hatley, with Hans Brehmer and John Anderson: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Wired Band: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

Swil Kanim (Lummi storyteller, violinist): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 360-445-3000.

Steve Rudy: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.

Jack Mattingly & The Distractions: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Varsity Inn, 112 N. Cherry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-755-0165.

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

The Jefferson Rose Band (world music): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10 cover. 360-445-3000.

Voyager (hard rock, ’80s metal tribute): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

Rose Windows, La Luz: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $6. 360-778-1067.

Jenny and the TomCats: 6:30 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-848-8882.

Mikey Eldred (folk): 8 to 10 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $5 cover. 360-336-3012.

Daddy Treetops, The Howling Tomcats: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Longhorn Saloon, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6330.

Woodrush (alterna-tive, Americana): 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7 cover. 360-445-3000.

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

Br’er Rabbit: 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-293-2544.

Holmes/Shea Band: 8:30 to 11:30 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

The Offshoots: 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., H2O, 314 Commer-cial Ave., Anacortes. 360-755-3956.

Voyager (hard rock, ’80s metal tribute): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Win-ners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

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

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

Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

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

Jerri Mercer: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.

THURSDAY.23“A ROTTEN DEMISE”7:30 p.m., 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $45, includes dinner. Wine and beer available for purchase. 360-336-3012 or river belledinnertheatre.com.

THURSDAY.23FIDALGO YOUTH SYMPHONYWith soloists (from left) Shalana Vanderlinden, violin; Katie Swanson, violin; and Wyatt Homola, saxophone, 7 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $15, $10 seniors, $1 children and students. 360-416-7727 or mcintyre hall.org.

THURSDAY.16

WEDNESDAY.22 THURSDAY.23

SATURDAY.18BR’ER RABBIT 9:30 p.m., Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-293-2544.

FRIDAY.17JENNY AND THE TOMCATS6:30 p.m., Mount Vernon Elks, 2120 Market St., Mount Vernon. 360-848-8882.


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The Burlington-Edison High School music program will present its spring concert at 7 p.m. today in the gym, 301 N. Burlington Blvd., Burlington. Special guests Basically Brass (pictured), an ensemble with members primarily from the Skagit Valley, will also appear.

NT Live: ‘This House’7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16

It’s 1974 and the cor-ridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infight-ing and backbiting as Brit-ain’s political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes. In this hung parliament, the ruling party holds on by a thread. Votes are won and lost by one, fist fights erupt in the bars, and ill MPs are hauled in to cast their votes.

It’s a time when a staggering number of politicians die, and age-old traditions and allegiances are thrown aside in the struggle for power. James Graham’s biting, energetic and critically acclaimed new play strips politics down to the practical reali-ties of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to maneu-ver a diverse and conflict-ing chorus of MPs.

$15 general, $13 seniors, $11 students with $2 off for Lincoln members.

‘Silver Linings Playbook’7:30 p.m. Friday- Saturday, May 17-187:30 p.m. Monday, May 20

Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost every-thing — his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months is a state institu-tion on a plea bargain.

Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the chal-

lenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet, and to share their family’s obses-sion with the Philadelphia Eagles football team.

When Pat meets Tiffany (Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get compli-cated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he’ll do something very impor-tant for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.

Rated R. $10 general; $9 seniors, students and active military; $8 members; $7 children 12 and under. Bargain matinee prices (all shows before 6 p.m.): $8 general, $6 members, $5 children 12 and under.

Mindbending Mentalist Brian Ledbetter3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, May 19

Brian Ledbetter uses principles of psychology, magical illusion, intuition and perceptual manipula-tion to make the seemingly impossible become a total reality.

Imagine seeing inani-mate objects moving using apparently only the power of the mind. Forks bend, spoons twist in a knot, even a wine glass melts and warps like soft butter. Ledbetter charm-ingly reads the thoughts of strangers he’s never met, recites the serial number of a dollar bill he’s never seen or touched, and cor-rectly predicts the word that is merely thought of by an audience volunteer.

Tickets $10 at the door.

AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE

712 S. First St., Mount Vernon360-336-8955 n www.lincolntheatre.org

By RICH HELDENFELSAkron Beacon Journal

Q: I watch Encore’s Westerns channel a lot. Robert J. Wilke is not a well-known name, but his face is very recognizable. Can you give me a condensed bio on him?

A: Like you, I did not know the name but had an “Oh, yeah, that guy” reaction to the face. He was part of the villainous three waiting at the train station in “High Noon” (the others were Lee Van Cleef and Sheb Wooley). According to the “All Movie Guide” (via nytimes.com), the Cincinnati native’s “first taste of popularity came while he was performing with a high-dive act at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. Encouraged to give Hollywood a try, Wilke entered films as a stunt man and bit player in 1936. He spent most of his movie career in Westerns ... gen-erally playing bad-guy roles ...”

He worked frequently; the Internet Movie Database’s long list of his credits includes five different guest-starring roles on “Bonan-za,” five others in “Laramie” and four on “Wagon Train.” Besides “High Noon,” you may also have spotted him in the original “Magnificent Seven,” the ’50s TV series “The

Untouchables” (where, according to IMDB, he played both Bugs Moran and Dutch Schultz) or as a general in the Bill Murray comedy “Stripes.” He died in 1989; he was 74.

Q: What was the name of the TV show in the early to middle ’50s that Robert Young was in? Are any of the cast members alive?

A: “Father Knows Best,” the family comedy starring Young, originally ran from 1954-60. According to “The Complete Direc-tory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows,” the show was unsuccessful at first, with CBS canceling it after a single season. But viewer protests prompted NBC to renew the show and air it for three seasons before it returned to CBS for two more. By then it was so popular, CBS aired reruns in prime time for two seasons, and ABC for another season after CBS.

The core cast included Young as insurance man Jim Anderson, Jane Wyatt as his wife, Margaret, and Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin as their children Betty (also known as Princess), Bud and Kathy (or Kitten). Young died in 1998, and Wyatt in 2006. But the three younger actors are still with us at this writing.

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“Silver Linings” will be shown May 17-18 and 20 at the Lincoln

B-E SPRING CONCERT

POP CULTURE Q&A

Westerns and ‘Father Knows Best’


HOT TICKETSYO LA TENGO: May 17, Showbox at the

Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

SESAME STREET LIVE: “Can’t Stop Sing-ing”: May 17-19, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or comcastarenaeverett.com.

BRIT FLOYD: World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show: May 18, Paramount Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

ROSS MATHEWS: “Man Up!” Comedy Tour: May 18, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

MARIANAS TRENCH: May 18, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

CANNIBAL CORPSE, NAPALM DEATH: May 19, El Corazon, Seattle. elcorazonseattle.com.

FLEETWOOD MAC: May 20, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

FABOLOUS & PUSHA T: May 21, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

FLYING LOTUS: May 22, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

OZOMATLI: May 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com.

JEWEL: May 30, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

JUICY J: May 31, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. FIJI & DREW DEEZY: May 31, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com.

NEW FOUND GLORY: June 2, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

ALKALINE TRIO: June 7, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

THREE DOG NIGHT: June 7, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mount bakertheatre.com.

JOSEPHINE HOWELL: June 8, Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Bellingham. 360-671-1709 or suddenvalleylibrary.org.

ANTHONY JESELNIK (comedy): June 8, Neptune Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com.

ONE MORE TIME: A TRIBUTE TO DAFT PUNK: June 8, Showbox at the Market, Seat-tle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

KUBE 93 SUMMER JAM: featuring T.I., Trey Songz, 2 Chainz, Wale and J. Cole, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: June 8, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: June 12, Show-box SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com.

GIN BLOSSOMS: June 14-15, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or the skagit.com.

GARRISON KEILLOR: “Prairie Home Com-panion” live broadcast: June 15, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

VANS WARPED TOUR: June 15, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or live nation.com.

FALL OUT BOY: June 19, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

DAMIAN “JR. GONG” MARLEY, STEPHEN MARLEY: featuring the Ghetto Youths Crew: June 19, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or marymoorconcerts.com.

BAD COMPANY, LYNYRD SKYNYRD: June

20, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. CSS: June 20, Showbox at the Market, Seat-tle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

THE DANDY WARHOLS: June 21, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

CAMERA OBSCURA: June 22, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com.

CODY SIMPSON: June 23, Paramount The-atre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com. HINDER: June 25, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD: June 26, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

TWISTA: June 28, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

TIESTO, KASKADE & MANY MORE: Para-diso Festival: June 28-29, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or www.livenation.com.

CHINO Y NACHO: June 29, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com.

STEVE MILLER BAND: June 29, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

BARENAKED LADIES, BEN FOLDS FIVE, GUSTER: June 29, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

TILTED THUNDER RAIL BIRDS: Banked Track Roller Derby: June 29, Comcast Arena at Everett. 866-332-8499 or comcastarena everett.com.

FACE TO FACE: June 30, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxon line.com.

VICTORIA JUSTICE: July 3, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or marymoorcon certs.com.

ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FES-TIVAL: Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastodon, Amon Amarth, Machine Head, Chil-dren of Bodom, Behemoth and more: July 3, White River Amphitheatre, Auburn. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

SAY ANYTHING: July 5, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com.

JAMBASE LIVE FESTIVAL: Robert Plant, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Slightly Stoopid, Michael Franti and more: July 5-6, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com.

SANCTUARY: July 6, El Corazon, Seattle. elcorazonseattle.com.

PAT BENATAR & NEIL GIRALDO, BERLIN WITH TERI NUNN: July 7, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK, 98 DEGREES, BOYZ II MEN: July 9, Tacoma Dome, Tacoma. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. RANCID: July 11-12, Showbox SoDo, Seat-tle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. MICKEY AVALON: July 12, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showbox online.com. ECLECTIC APPROACH: July 13, Showbox at the Market, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com. CHRIS BOTTI: July 13, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. COUNTING CROWS, THE WALLFLOWERS: July 15, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodin-ville. 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com.


ARTMV ARTS COMMISSION: The

commission will meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today in the Hillcrest Park conference room, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. 360-336-6215.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: The Skagit River Salmon Festival invites artists to submit an appli-cation by May 24 to have their work featured in the 2013 Artis-tic Rain Barrel Project.

Selected artists will turn a rain barrel into a work of art as a fun way to educate the community on the benefits of using rain bar-rels to conserve water, prevent runoff and protect the resources of the Skagit River.

Completed barrels will be displayed this summer at Skagit County locations and posted on the Skagit River Salmon Festival website.

The barrels will be sold by silent auction at the Skagit River Salmon Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7, with proceeds benefiting the Children’s Museum of Skagit County and its “Mighty Skagit” Watershed exhibit.

For information or entry forms, call 360-428-5972, email [email protected] or visit skagitriverfest.org.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: The Anacortes Arts Commission seeks boating-themed artwork in all mediums for the “On The Water” art show, set for June 1-2, at the Depot Art & Community Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. For information, contact Karla Locke at 360-588-6968 or email [email protected].

POOCHAPALOOZA SEEKS VENDORS: The seventh annual Marysville Poochapalooza seeks pet-related business sponsors and vendors for the dog-friendly event set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at Strawberry Fields Athletic Park, 6100 152nd St. NE, Marysville.

For information and vendor applications, call 425-268-5285, email [email protected] or visit poochapalooza.org.

ART CLASSESFAMILY ART DAYS AT MoNA:

The Museum of Northwest Art offers Family Art Days each month at MoNA, 121 S. First St., La Conner. Sessions are open to ages 5 and older at all skill levels and include guided walk-throughs of MoNA exhibitions. Limited to 15 participants per session. To register: 360-466-4446, ext. 108, or FAD@museumofnw art.org. Information: museumof nwart.org. Workshops are free with museum admission. Admis-sion: $8 adults, $5 seniors, $3 stu-dents, free for members and ages 11 and younger.

Next up:Textured Clay Tiles: 11 a.m.

to 1 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 18. Create your own tex-tured clay tile, with added glass for a touch of color. Fired tiles can be picked up from MoNA after June 15.

ART CLASSES: Dakota Art offers a variety of art classes and workshops at 17873 Highway 536, Mount Vernon. 360-416-6556, ext. 5, or www.dakotaart center.com.

INTRO TO ILLUSTRATION ART CLASSES: Burlington Parks and Recreation is offering a series of art classes for ages 7 to 12. Instructor Max Elam will intro-duce young artists to a variety of styles and art mediums. Each four-session class costs $45. Sup-plies are included. To register, call 360-755-9649.

Basic Cartooning: 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, June 4-25. $40.

AUDITIONS“PAN: THE MUSICAL”: Audi-

tions will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednes-day, May 28-29, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Based on J.M. Barrie’s story of Peter Pan, Hook, Wendy and the Lost Boys in Neverland, male and female roles are avail-able for ages 5 to 50 and older. Prepare a one-minute contem-porary or Broadway song with backing by CD, iPod or sheet music, and a one-minute mono-

logue. English accents are a plus. Young children auditioning for roles as “wild animals” may recite a poem or nursery rhyme, and may sing without backing music. The play will run Sept. 20-Oct. 6. For information or to sign up for an audition, visit panmusical.com.

BRASS CHOIR: The Basically Brass Choir seeks trumpet and trombone players to join a group of about 12 musicians, playing a variety of styles. Rehearsals are the first and third Mondays in Burlington, with regular perfor-mances. Contact David Soiseth at 360-757-0351 or dsois@com cast.net.

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evening of social dancing from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at 1412 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. Tango Populare will offer a spe-cial orientation class from 8 to 8:45 p.m. followed by dancing to live music by Tocato Tango. $10, $7 students. 360-708-8076.

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CLUB: The club welcomes per-formers, listeners and guests at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at Vasa Hall, 1805 Cleveland St., Mount Vernon. Come and sing, play an instrument or just enjoy the music. Free. For information, call Marsha Pederson at 360-757-4906.

ON STAGEOPEN MIC: 9 p.m. to midnight

Wednesdays at the 1st Street Cabaret & Speakeasy, 612 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Ages 21 and older. No cover. 360-336-3012 or riverbelledinnertheatre.com.

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31st annual Bay View Women’s Walk & Run will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at Bay View State Park, 10901 Bay View-Edison Road, Mount Vernon. Choose from 2-mile and 10K runs or a 2-mile walk to ben-

efit Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services and women’s health issues. Registra-tion: $25-$45, free for ages 12 and younger. Sign up at active.com or from 8 to 9:30 a.m. day of race. 360-757-4815.

FREE TAI CHI WORKSHOPS: Amitofo Chinese Martial Arts School will present its annual Tai Chi Celebration, with workshops from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at 325 N. Cherry St., Burlington. All ages and levels of experience are invited to join Master Joe Liao to explore ancient Chinese Tai Chi concepts. Free. 360-755-9359 or amitofochinesemartialarts school.com.

BIKE-TO-WORK DAY: Stop by on your bike and enjoy free organic bananas and coffee from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Friday, May 17, at the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Come back between 4:30 and 6 p.m. to pick up a coupon good for a free organic ice cream cone. Co-sponsored by Mount Vernon Parks Foundation and Mount Vernon Downtown Association. 360-336-9777.

ALL-COMER TRACK MEETS: Athletes of all ages can compete in a variety of track events at 5 p.m. Wednesdays, June 5-26, at Burlington-Edison High School, 301 N. Burlington Blvd., Burling-ton. Registration opens at 5 p.m., followed by field events at 5:30 p.m. and running events at 6 p.m.

Running events for ages 13 and older start around 6:45 p.m. $5 per meet. $20 season pass includes entry for all four nights plus a T-shirt and faster check-in.

For information, contact Bur-lington Parks and Recreation Department at 360-755-9649 or visit www.ci.burlington.wa.us.

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NAR: Hollywood script doctor Aubrey M. Horton will present “How to Write a Funny Screen-play” at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Pickford Cinema, 1318

Bay St., Bellingham. Horton has consulted on projects for Warner Bros., Paramount and HBO. For information, visit scriptdoctor 911.com.

DIGITAL PHOTO CLASSES: Back to Basics Photography, With a Twist: Alternative Focus will offer a series of classes on digital photography at the Ana-cortes Chamber of Commerce board room, upstairs at 819 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

Each class will include discus-sion of a basic photo topic in the morning, followed by a photo assignment and afternoon cri-tique session.

Each class can be taken inde-pendently of the others. Bring your owner’s manual. $50 per session, $125 for all three. To register, call Karla Locke at 360-588-6968 or email at [email protected].

Aperture: F-Stop: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Learn how the F-stop controls the amount of light your camera “sees,” and how different apertures affect the final image, including the depth of field.

Shutter Speed: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 22. Learn what longer exposure times cre-ate, the importance of making very short exposures and how to determine which shutter speed to use to make a great image.

Composition: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 29. Learn the basic rules of composition, when and how to break them, and the difference between rules and creativity.

FREE ADULT ACTING CLASS-ES: Anacortes Community Theatre will present a series of acting classes for adults from 10 a.m. to noon the third Satur-day each month at 918 M Ave., Anacortes. Classes will include scripted scenes and a variety of acting games, with a different topic each month: May 18: stage presence; June 15: performance. Each class will be independent, so you don’t have to commit to every session. 360-293-4373 or www.acttheatre.com.

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By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie Writer

“Star Trek Into Dark-ness” is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It’s reverential, it’s faith-ful, it’s steeped in “Trek” mythology.

It’s also an excessively derivative what-if rehash of themes and interactions that came before, most of the characters lesser cop-ies and even caricatures of the originals. The scenario’s been hijacked and rejig-gered from better “Trek” plots of decades ago, the best verbal exchanges lifted nearly verbatim from past adventures.

In short, the new chiefs of Starfleet aren’t coming up with much to call their own.

They pile on the spec-tacle in a way that’s never been seen before in “Star Trek,” whose old big-screen incarnations were so notoriously underfunded they had to go back and borrow props, miniatures and visual effects from previous installments. The action in “Into Darkness” is top-notch, the visuals grand, though the movie’s needless conversion to 3-D muddies the images.

But the heart is, well, halfhearted, as though the people of the 23rd century are there to mouth the standard logic-vs.-emotion, needs-of-the-many-vs.-needs-of-the-few patter of “Star Trek” to count time before the next space battle or ray-gun shootout.

Director J.J. Abrams was most definitely not a fan-boy for this franchise when he made 2009’s “Star Trek,” which reintroduced Kirk, Spock and the rest of the starship Enterprise gang with a time-travel twist that allowed the William Shatner-Leonard Nimoy original to coexist with an entirely different destiny for the new players.

Abrams grew up a fan of “Star Wars,” the next space saga he’ll be reviving with the launch of a third trilogy. But his key col-laborators, screenwriters Robert Orci, Alex Kurtz-man and Damon Lindelof, are “Trek” fan-boys to their marrow. They know this world, they love this world, and like many fans, they have a particular fixation on 1982’s “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan,” the best that the franchise has ever had to offer, on the big-screen or TV.

The 2009 reboot replayed and tweaked elements connected to “Wrath of Khan,” and “Into Darkness” mines that

vein further. Some of that revisitation is cool in an alternate-history way, but the filmmakers remain so closely in orbit around yes-teryear’s “Star Trek” that they wind up zigzagging fitfully through the Enter-prise’s greatest hits.

“Into Darkness” opens with a splashy action sequence to again show the cockiness of Capt. James Kirk (Chris Pine) — with his willingness to flaunt the rules — and the icy intel-lect of half-Vulcan First Officer Spock (Zachary Quinto), who’s willing to sacrifice his life to stick to the Starfleet playbook.

It’s clear these two young’uns don’t play well together, but just as the space brass is about to split them up, Starfleet is hit by savage terrorist attacks by mysterious desperado John Harrison (Benedict

Cumberbatch). Kirk, Spock and their Enterprise crew are dispatched to take Har-rison out with weapons that could prove the mother of all drone strikes, maintain-ing the usual see-how-rele-vant-we-are conceit of the “Trek” cosmos.

But loyalties slip and shift as the Enterprise uncovers the strange his-tory of Harrison and his connections to a hawkish Starfleet admiral (Peter Weller).

Along the way, Spock hits some speed bumps in his romance with Zoe Saldana’s beautiful and brilliant Lt. Uhura, while Kirk meets Alice Eve’s beautiful and brilliant Dr. Carol Marcus (“Wrath of Khan” fans well know who she is and her importance to “Star Trek”).

The rest of the gang keeps up their routines.

Curmudgeonly Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) gripes and moans, helmsman Sulu (John Cho) ably steers the ship, navigator Chekov (Anton Yelchin) does his precocious shtick and engineer Scott (Simon Pegg) works his technical miracles.

Fine acting has rarely been a cornerstone of “Star Trek,” but much of the “Into Darkness” cast seems to have taken ham lessons from Shatner. Urban main-tains the same grouchy, stick-up-his-butt expres-sion throughout, while Chekov with his almost incomprehensible Rus-sian accent and Pegg with his “Shrek”-thick Scottish brogue become downright cartoonish.

Though they squabble like bratty teens early on, Pine and Quinto eventually show sparks of the Kirk-

Spock fraternal love at the core of “Star Trek.”

The big find here is Cumberbatch, who joins Ricardo Montalban, Chris-topher Plummer and Alice Krige in a fairly limited ros-ter of great “Trek” villains. With his rumbling voice and stony stare, the star of Britain’s detective update “Sherlock” is fearsome and relentless, a one-man army who truly seems like more than a match for poor Enterprise, all on his own.

As Abrams moves on to “Star Wars,” it falls to some next-generation filmmaker to carry on “Star Trek” should more sequels fol-low. Abrams hasn’t really guided the franchise into deep space, but he leaves it in a good place for succes-sors to tell some rip-roaring sci-fi stories, without rely-ing on reruns of old “Trek” moments.

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ding” easily earns its R rating, what with a nude scene and raunchy dialogue that gets pretty nasty at times. Comedy, R, 90 minutes. HH “The Great Gatsby” — Big and bold and brassy, Baz Luhrmann’s “Gatsby” fills every second of its 142-minute running time with images designed to take your breath away, but it is first and foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Gatsby.” Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Gatsby, in perhaps the most overtly vulnerable version of the character, and Carey Mulligan gives a delicate, intricately crafted performance as Daisy Buchanan. Luhrmann’s dazzling sense of visual style is perfectly suited to the first half of the movie, but when the story becomes more about confrontations, you can almost sense Luhrmann fidgeting as he tries to figure out how to keep the plates spinning. Drama, PG-13, 142 minutes. HHH1⁄2

AT AREA THEATERSANACORTES CINEMASMay 16-23 Star Trek Into Darkness (PG-13): Today: 12:50, 3:55, 6:40; Friday-Saturday: 12:50, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20; Sunday-Thursday: 12:50, 3:55, 6:40 The Great Gatsby (PG-13): Today: 12:40, 3:35, 6:30; Friday-Saturday: 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25; Sunday-Thursday: 12:40, 3:35, 6:30 Iron Man 3 (PG-13): Today: 1:00, 3:45, 6:50; Friday-Saturday: 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30; Sunday-Thursday: 1:00, 3:45, 6:50 360-293-6620

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ARTIN THE ART BAR: Art-

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JURIED ART EXHIBIT: The annual Skagit Valley College Juried Art Exhibit is on display through May 23 in the SVC Art Gallery, located in the Gary Knut-zen Cardinal Center on SVC’s Mount Vernon cam-pus. The exhibit features student art in a variety of mediums including paint-ing, drawing, photography, ceramics and mixed media. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 360-416-7812.

“STEVE HILL: PASTELS”: A show of new pastels by Lopez Island artist Steve Hill continues through June 4 at Scott Milo Gal-lery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Also showing are color photographs by Randy Dana, a collabora-tive theme of oils by Deder-ick Ward and photographs by poet Jane Alynn, oils by Anne Belov and acrylics by Cynthia Richardson. Gal-lery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or scottmilo.com.

GALLERY ARTISTS: Anne Martin McCool Gallery features a variety of artwork by gallery artists through May 31 at 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The show includes paintings and prints by Anne Martin McCool, Tracy Powell sculpture, Jane Hyde baskets, George Way and Art Learmonth hand-turned wood, Bryce Mann photographs, Bob Metke glass, Carole Cunningham and Debbie Aldrich jewelry and work by other gallery

artists. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-3577 or annemartinmccool.com.

“THE RAVENS OF MAE: WHIMSICAL RAVENS SHARE THE WISDOM OF MAE WEST”: The show of new artwork by Wind-walker Taibi continues through June 6 at Raven Rocks Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank. The newest additions to Taibi’s “Ravens in Love” series feature witty quotes from Mae West. The show also includes a selection of artwork by other gallery artists. For information, including gallery hours and directions, call 360-222-0102 or visit ravenrocks gallery.com.

“THE HARMONY OF SILENCE”: The exhibit con-tinues through June 16 at Anchor Art Space, 216 Com-mercial Ave., Anacortes. Alma Chaney, Aaron Haba, Trish Maharam and Timea Tihanyi mine the expressive potential of quiet restraint with works in a variety of media including textile, por-celain, oil and wax. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Fri-day through Sunday. anchor artspace.org.

SOLO ART SHOW: “Frag-ments of Place,” a show of new artwork by Kris Ekstrand Molesworth, continues through May 26 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. In her second solo show at the gallery, Molesworth brings together shards and frag-ments of objects and land-scape — encountered as she works, travels and explores — to tell the story of her home in the Samish Valley. 360-766-6230 or smithand vallee.com.

CAMANO STUDIO TOUR: The 15th annual Camano Island Studio Tour contin-

ues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19, at locations around Camano Island and Stan-wood. Check out artwork in a variety of media offered by 48 artists, 31 studios and three galleries. Pick up a self-guided tour map at local merchants or at camanoarts.org. Free. 425-478-0777.

MoNA SPRING EXHIBI-TIONS: The Museum of Northwest Art is featur-ing three new art exhibits through June 9 at 121 S. First St., La Conner.

“Rik Allen: Seeker”: Allen transforms MoNA’s main galleries into an inter-stellar environment with his sculptural works and a site-specific installation. His metal and glass spaceships evoke the limitless expanse of far-reaching galaxies.

“Allen Moe: The Earth Below – the interactions of sand, water and gravity at the mouth of the Skagit River”: The show features Moe’s modified cement castings, a kind of organic expressionism documenting

the the very land they came from.

“Structures from the Per-manent Collection”: This multiple media grouping of architectural landscapes and sculptures includes works by Guy Anderson, Susan Bennerstrom, Kenneth Cal-lahan, Bill Colby, Morris Graves, Paul Havas, Karin Helmrich, William Hixson, William Ivey, Steve Klein, John-Franklin Koenig, Ken-jiro Nomura, Maxi Power, Jay Steensma and Mark Tobey.

Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Sundays and Mondays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. $8, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4446 or museum ofnwart.org.

QUILT EXHIBITS: The La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St., La Conner, is featuring two quilt shows through June 23.

Historical Quilts from the Latimer: The exhibit includes antique and con-temporary quilts from the

Latimer Quilt & Textile Center in Tillamook, Ore. The show includes appli-quéd, pieced and crazy quilts dating back to the 1850s, as well as several 20th century quilts includ-ing the “Balloon Bouquet” with more than 1,000 hand-appliquéd balloons and a Petroglyph Quilt based on symbols carved into the rock walls along the Colum-bia River thousands of years ago.

At Home in High Places: Longtime Alaska resident Karin Franzen has created a body of work based on the birds of Alaska – not just their visual characteristics, but also their individual behaviors, habitat prefer-ences and ecological rela-tionships.

Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. $7, $5 stu-dents, free for members and ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4288 or laconnerquilts.com.

WATERCOLORS ON DIS-PLAY: Watercolor paintings by Ginny Ternsten are on display through May at United General Hospi-tal, 2000 Hospital Drive, Sedro-Woolley. Ternsten is a member of Skagit Artists Together.

NOT JUST NATURE ART: New work by Todd J. Horton and Peregrine O’Gormley continues through May 19 at Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave., La Conner. Not just nature artists, Horton and O’Gormley think deeply about their subjects and their human relationship to the rest of the world. Horton practices a kind of “catch and release” form of painting, daring to nearly destroy what he has so perfectly rendered in paint. O’Gormley’s work involves a study of the life and times of his subject, often delving into deeper issues of well-being that touch our own.

Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, or by appointment. 360-708-4787 or gallery cygnus.com.

STOREFRONTS MOUNT VERNON: View the Store-fronts Mount Vernon pro-gram’s first two “pop-up” art projects at 511 S. First St. and 602 S. First St., downtown Mount Vernon.

Julia Haack’s large-scale sculptural works, like the installation at 511 S. First St., start as remnants of wood lath salvaged from demolition sites across the Northwest. She paints and arranges the pieces into bright, colorful, celebratory pieces. Her installation will remain on display through May 24.

Celeste Cooning’s installation, “Heaven and Earth,” at 602 S. First St., serves up a three-dimen-sional environment created out of cut-paper panels. Her storefront display will continue through May 31. www.storefrontsmount vernon.com.

FESTIVALSANACORTES WATER-

FRONT FESTIVAL: The annual festival will kick off with a dinner party at 6 p.m. Friday, May 31, at the Transit Shed Event Cen-ter, 100 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Enjoy dinner, hors d’oeuvres and music by The Walrus. $45 before May 17, $65 at the door. 360-293-3134. The festival will continue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 1-2, on the waterfront around Cap Sante Boat Haven, 1019 Q Ave. www.anacortes.org.

LECTURES AND TALKS

VOLCANO PRESENTA-TION: Volcanologist Dave Tucker will discuss Mount Baker’s eruption history,

HOMETOWN HOOTENANNYFuture Grand Ole Opry member Rachel Mae will headline “How-dee and Happy Trails” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. Other performers include Larry Murante, Jesse Taylor, The Hometown Band and more. $16.50, $13 seniors, students and military, $5 for kids ages 12 and younger. 425-258-6766 or redcurtainfoundation.org.


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OUT & ABOUTpotential hazards and more at 7 p.m. today, May 16, at the Phillip Tarro The-atre, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. Tucker is the director of the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center. Limited seating; doors open at 6 p.m. There is no admission charge, but donations are requested to benefit the MBVRC and the Skagit Valley Col-lege Veterans Club. mbvrc.wordpress.com.

SKAGIT TOPIC: HENRY KLEIN: 60 YEARS OF DESIGN: 6 p.m. today, May 16, Skagit County Histori-cal Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. Join David Hall and Loyal Larson as they reminisce about the designs and life of Henry Klein. Free with museum admission. $5 adults, $4 seniors and ages 6 to 12, $10 families, free for

members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or skagitcounty.net/museum.

HOMELESS-RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO SPEAK: Tim Harris, founding director of the Real Change News and the Homeless Empower-ment Project, will speak at 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 24, at Western Washington Uni-versity, Communications Facility, room 115, Belling-ham. Harris will discuss his work as an activist and orga-nizer for the rights of the homeless for more than two decades. Prior to moving to Seattle in 1994, he founded the Spare Change homeless newspaper in Boston in 1992 while working as executive director of Boston Jobs with Peace. Free. For information, contact Kelsey Taylor at [email protected] or Susanne Seales at [email protected].

MORE FUNFREE FILM SCREEN-

ING: Enjoy a screening of “Occupy Love” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, at the Ana-cortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. The film explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or mean-ing. It features some of the world’s key visionaries on alternative systems of eco-nomics, sustainability and empathy. Free. RSVP: 360-464-2229 or anacortescenter forhappiness.org.

SPRING GARDEN & GIFT SHOW: The Burlington Spring Garden and Gift Show will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 17-18, at the Burling-ton Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven

Ave, Burlington. Visitors can buy flower and vegetable starts, garden art, wooden furniture, jewelry and more. Half-hour gardening and sustainability workshops will be held each day. Admis-sion and workshops are free. ci.burlington.wa.us or 360-755-9649.

WELDING RODEO: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17-18, at Bellingham Techni-cal College, 3028 Lindbergh Ave., Bellingham. Watch as teams of professional, ama-teur and student welders compete to design and weld finished sculptures, up to 8 feet tall, out of a variety of scrap metal during the two-day event. The top sculp-tures will win cash prizes.

Welders of all ages and skill levels can participate in a “skills challenge,” where they compete for

prizes by demonstrat-ing their skills in basic to advanced cutting and welding techniques. Chal-lenge registration is on a first-come, first-served basis: free for high school students, $5 per day for col-lege students and $10 per test for professionals.

The event will also include a public weld-ing booth where you can try your hand at welding, blacksmithing demonstra-tions, vendor displays, a sale of welded items for home and garden, food, raffles, an auction and more. Free admission. 360-752-7000 or weldingrodeo.com.

SPRING FLING: Clear Lake Community Connec-tion will host the Clear Lake Spring Fling concert and dance with Maggie’s Fury and the An-O-Chords Gate-way City Four from 6:30 to

9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Clear Lake Elementa-ry School gym, 23631 Lake St. Admission is $5. The event will include a raffle. Money raised will help pay for Clear Lake Cemetery improvements. Contact July André at 360-856-4518 for information.

LUNCHEON & FASHION SHOW: A Spring Tea Lun-cheon and Fashion Show will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Stanwood Community and Senior Center, 7430 276th St. NW, Stanwood. Enjoy an afternoon with tea and sand-wiches, homemade scones, Devonshire cream, fruit and desserts. Candie’s Kids and Starlight Vintage Emporium will present a fashion show. $10. A gift bazaar will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 360-629-7403.

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