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Skagit Valley Herald

Thursday

November 8, 2012

Roger EbertSpielberg explores the political side of Abraham Lincoln in “Lincoln”

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George LucasA landmark 40-year filmmaking career rooted in rebellion

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ReviewsMusic: Aerosmith, Etta Britt, Ne-Yo Video Games: “Halo 4”

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Honoring our vets

VETERANS DAY EVENTS IN THE AREA, PAGE 3

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HAVE A STORY IDEA?w For arts and entertainment, contact Features Editor Craig Parrish at 360-416-2135 or [email protected] For recreation, contact staff writer Vince Richardson at 360-416-2181 or [email protected]

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

Get Involved ................................... 8

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

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

Travel .......................................12-13

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

Roger Ebert ................................... 16

At the Lincoln Theatre ................. 17

Movie Listings, Mini Reviews...... 17

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

“Arthur Christmas”: The animated film about Santa’s son saving Christmas is not a perfect gift, but it does feature enough holiday cheer and silly fun to make it more entertaining than 10 lords a-leaping. It helps that the film also has a warm message about how tradition should never be sacrificed for efficien-cy’s sake. First-time film director Sarah Smith creates an up-tempo — at times frantic — pace for most of the movie. The story occasionally gets bogged down by the script from Peter Baynham and Smith. Arthur’s long trip to deliver the last gift could have used fewer pit stops. But the script does have a nice blend of jokes aimed at kids and adults, and it is filled with so many visual gags they can finally all be appreciated now that the film is on DVD.

“Call the Midwife: Season One”: This is the original version of the series that aired in Britain before coming to America via public television. The series, based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, is a beautiful, heart-touching and occasionally funny look at a young midwife working in one of the poorest sections of London during the 1950s. The young woman’s eyes are opened to the real world when she must deal with everything from a woman on her 25th pregnancy to a 15-year-old preg-nant prostitute. Jessica Raine turns in a masterful performance to highlight this brilliant series.

“Entourage: The Complete Series”: Fans of this HBO series — based loosely on the association of executive producer and series creator Doug Ellin with actor Mark Wahlberg — is a must-own for fans of the show. If you aren’t a fan, this is a great way to power watch your way through a series that offers a look behind the curtain of the life of a successful Hollywood actor. Crisp and clever writing combined with a strong cast — especially Jeremy Piven as agent Ari Gold — make this set worth owning. If that wasn’t enough, it comes with six hours of bonus material.

“Sunset Boulevard”: Billy Wilder’s film debuts on Blu-ray.

“The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams: Season One”: Dan Haggerty plays TV mountain man.

“Law & Order: The Eleventh Year”: Full season of the long-running TV crime drama.

“The Courtship of Eddie’s Father: The Second Season”: Bill Bixby stars.

“Chilly Christmas”: Story of how holiday miracles can come true.

“Louie Anderson: Big Baby Boomer”: Comic’s Las Vegas stand-up routine.

“American Restoration: Volume 2”: Rick Dale shows he can restore almost anything.

“Christmas With Danny Kaye”: Includes two holiday episodes of Kaye’s TV show.

“Javier Bardem 3-Film Collection”: Includes “No Country for Old Men,” “Biutiful” and “Mondays in the Sun.”

“They Live”: John Carpenter’s thriller is available on Blu-ray.

“Narrow Escapes of World War II”: Documentary on exploits that shaped WWII outcome.

“What Happened To Kerouac?”: A look at what happens when fame and notoriety are thrust upon a reticent man.

“Rags to Riches: The Mary Pickford Collection”: Set celebrates 120th anni-versary of her birth.

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:

NOV. 13Brave - DisneySavages - UniversalThe Watch - Fox

NOV. 20The Expendables 2 - Lionsgate

NOV. 27The Apparition - WarnerThe Day - Anchor BayLawless - Anchor BayParaNorman - UniversalNOV. 30Men in Black 3 - SonySparkle - Sony

DEC. 4Beasts of the Southern Wild - FoxButter - Anchor BayHope Springs - SonyThe Odd Life of Timothy Green - Disney

DEC. 11The Bourne Legacy - UniversalIce Age: Continental Drift - FoxTed - Universal

DEC. 18Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Fox10 Years - Anchor BayTrouble With the Curve - Warner

DEC. 21Arbitrage - LionsgatePremium Rush - Sony

n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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COMMUNITY

Anacortesw The annual Veterans Day

celebration will begin at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at Causland Memorial Park, 710 N Ave., Ana-cortes. The celebration will then move to the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed Event Center, 100 Commercial Ave., where it will continue until 1 p.m. Participants will include Town crier Richard Riddell, Fidalgo Artillery, NAS Whidbey Color Guard, Jazz Underground, Anacortes Mason-ic Lodge, American Legion and others. Free. 360-293-3134 or www.portofanacortes.com.

w 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in the basement at the Anacortes Eagles hall, 901 Seventh St., Anacortes. Join the veterans and ladies auxiliary for a full turkey dinner in honor of Veterans Day. Suggested $5 donation. 360-293-9218.

Bellinghamw The public is invited to a Vet-

erans Day ceremony from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in the Viking Union multipurpose room at Western Washington Univer-sity in Bellingham. The event will include several guest speak-ers followed by a reception. The Viking Union Art Gallery, room 507, will feature art created by veterans and a display of veteran uniforms. Parking will be avail-able in WWU parking lots from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (this does not include reserved or disability parking spaces). 360-650-7545.

w The Ron Davenport Memo-rial Chapter 165 Vietnam Veter-ans of America will present the eighth annual Musical Salute to Veterans at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Mount Baker Theatre Main Stage, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. The show will honor six local veterans, nomi-nated by their fellow veterans based on their outstanding ser-vice. Local musical performers will fill the theater with songs and music that inspired our nation’s soldiers during war and peacetime. $15-$24 plus handling fees, free for uniformed mem-bers of the U.S. Armed Forces, Reserves and National Guard.

360-734-6080 or www.mountbak-ertheatre.com.

Burlingtonw The 17th annual Burlington

Veterans Day Parade will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, proceeding down Fairhaven Avenue from Walnut to Regent Street. Master Sgt. Shane Inman, U.S. Marine Corps, and Sgt. First Class Fred Wahlgren, U.S. Army, will be the grand marshals for the event, which will include rep-resentatives from local veterans groups, marching bands, a U.S. Navy fly-over and more. 360-540-2920.

w Skagit Valley Chapter 59 of the Disabled American Veterans will hold a Forget Me Not drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Fred Meyer store in Burlington. Forget Me Not drives provide funds to support

claims processing and health ser-vices for Skagit County veterans.

360-420-4046 or www.dav.org.

Concretew The third annual Veterans

Day Parade will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, down Main Street, in Concrete. Participants and spectators are welcome. For information, contact Kris at 360-708-3904 or email [email protected].

Mount Vernonw The City of Mount Vernon

will hold a Veterans Recognition Ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at St. Joseph Center, 215 N. 15th St., Mount Vernon. Following a complimentary breakfast for veterans and their families at 8 a.m., the ceremony

will include a welcome from Mayor Jill Boudreau, invoca-tion and benediction by Pastor Ron Deegan, a performance by the Mount Vernon High School Band, color guard from Sedro-Woolley American Legion Post 43, and a military flyover at 10:15 a.m. Capt. Steve Deal, command-er, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing TEN, and Robert Lougee, Disabled American Veterans, will be the guest speakers. For infor-mation, call Richard Sundance, 360-420-4046, or Kirk Duffy, 360-424-1154.

w The Mount Vernon Lions Club will present a display of U.S. flags to honor all past and present military personnel on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, at Lions Park, 501 Freeway Drive, Mount Vernon. Donations will be accepted to replace worn existing flags and expand the present dis-play. 360-424-1888.

w A service to honor military veterans, both active and retired, will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at Avon United Meth-odist Church, 13743 Avon Allen Road, Mount Vernon. The event will also honor those who have fallen in the line of duty. Included in the service will be the unveil-ing of the church’s official Vet-erans Remembered Flag and a salute to its inventor, the late Jim Parks, U.S. Navy veteran from World War II. 360-424-3070.

Oak Harborw The Navy League will pres-

ent a Veterans Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Oak Harbor High School Perform-ing Arts Center, 950 NW Second Ave., Oak Harbor. The keynote speaker will be RADM Bill McDaniel, who was in charge of the hospital ship Mercy during the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004. Music by DayBreak Trio, First United Methodist Church Choir, Oak Harbor High School Singers and All-Island Commu-nity Band. Free. 360-675-3755.

w The first Oak Harbor Veter-ans Day Parade will get under way at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, on Pioneer Way in downtown Oak Harbor. Sponsored by Whitehead-Muzzall VFW Post

7392. For information or to par-ticipate in the parade, call 360-672-8339.

Region, statew In recognition of Veterans

Day, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will offer free admission to all state parks Saturday through Monday, Nov. 10-12. During this weekend, the Discover Pass will not be required to enter state parks. The pass is still required to access lands managed by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Natural Resources. www.parks.wa.gov.

w The National Park Service and Bureau of Land Manage-ment will offer free admission at locations that usually charge admission fees during Veterans Day weekend, Saturday through Monday, Nov. 10-12. Other fees such as reservation, camping, tours, concession and fees col-lected by third parties are not included unless stated otherwise. www.nps.gov or www.blm.gov.

w Applebee’s restaurants nationwide will thank our nation’s veterans and active duty military personnel by offering them a free meal on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, at their neighborhood Applebee’s loca-tion. Proof of current or former military service is required.

Burlington: 188 Cascade Mall Drive, 360-757-1414.

Oak Harbor: 31810 Highway 20, 360-679-6100.

Bellingham: 1069 E. Sunset Drive, 360-671-6000.

Sedro-Woolleyw S-W Community Troop

Support will continue to collect care package items for the 2012 Christmas Campaign through Veterans Day, Nov. 12. Letters and tax-deductible cash dona-tions are especially welcome and are used to purchase needed items and pay shipping expenses. They can be mailed to SWCTS, P.O. Box 817, Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284, or visit www.swcommunity troopsupport.com for more infor-mation.

VETERANS DAY 2012

Veterans Day is Monday, Nov. 12. The items listed here are several ways to honor veterans around the area over the course of the next several days.


MOVIES

By CHRISTY LEMIRE, MICHAEL LIEDTKE and RYAN NAKASHIMAAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — There’s no mistaking the similarities. A child-hood on a dusty farm, a love of fast vehicles, a rebel who battles an overpowering empire — George Lucas is the hero he created, Luke Skywalker.

His filmmaking outpost, Sky-walker Ranch, is so far removed from the Hollywood moviemaking machine he once despised, that it may as well be on the forest moon of Endor.

That’s why last week’s announcement that Lucas is sell-ing the “Star Wars” franchise and the entire Lucasfilm business to The Walt Disney Co. for more than $4 billion is like a laser blast from outer space.

Lucas built his film operation in Marin County near San Francisco, largely to avoid the meddling of Los Angeles-based studios. His aim was to create artistic independent films.

Today the enterprise has far surpassed the 68-year-old film-maker’s original goals. The ranch covers 6,100 acres and houses one of the industry’s most acclaimed visual effects companies, Industrial Light & Magic. Lucasfilm, with its headquarters now in San Francisco proper, has ventured into books, video games, merchandise, special effects and marketing. Just as Ana-kin Skywalker became the villain Darth Vader, Lucas —once the out-sider— had grown to become the leader of an empire.

“What I was trying to do was stay independent so that I could make the movies I wanted to make,” Lucas says in the 2004 documentary “Empire of Dreams.” ”But now I’ve found myself being the head of a corporation … I have become the very thing that I was trying to avoid.”

After last week’s blockbuster sale announcement, Lucas expressed a desire to give away much of his fortune, donate to educational causes and return to

the experimental filmmaking of his youth. Still, the move stunned those who’ve followed him. He’d con-templated retirement for years and said he’d never make another “Star Wars” film.

Dale Pollock, author of the 1999 biography “Skywalking,” said Lucas disdained the Disney culture in interviews he gave in the 1980s, even though he admired the com-pany’s founder. “He felt the corpo-rate ‘Disneyization’ had destroyed the spirit of Walt,” Pollock said.

Growing up in the central Cali-fornia town of Modesto, the inde-pendent streak was strong in young Lucas. The family lived on a walnut ranch and Lucas’ father owned a stationery store. But, like the fic-tional Luke, George had no interest in taking over the family business. Lucas and his father fought when George made it clear that he’d

rather go to college to study art than follow in his father’s footsteps.

Lucas loved fast cars, and dreamed that racing them would be his ticket out. A near-fatal car crash the day before his high school grad-uation convinced him otherwise.

“I decided I’d better settle down and go to school,” he told sci-fi magazine Starlog in 1981.

As a film student at the Uni-versity of Southern California, he experimented with “cinema verite,” a provocative form of documentary, and “tone poems” that visualized a piece of music or other artistic work.

The style is reflected in some of the short films he made at USC: “1:42:08” focused on the sound of a Lotus race car’s engine driving at full speed and “Anyone Who Lived in a Pretty How Town,” inspired by an e.e. Cummings poem. In later interviews, Lucas described his early films as “visual exercises.”

Lucas’ intellectual explorations led to an interest in anthropology, especially the work of American mythologist Joseph Campbell, who studied the common thread link-ing the myths of disparate cultures. This inspired Lucas to explore archetypal storylines that resonated across the ages and around the world.

Lucas’ epic battle with the movie industry began after Warner Bros. forced him to make unwanted changes to an early film, “THX 1138”. Later, Universal Pictures insisted on revisions to “American Graffiti” that Lucas felt impinged on his creative freedom. The expe-rience led Lucas to insist on having total control of all his work, just like Charlie Chaplin and Walt Dis-ney in their heyday.

“In order to get my vision out there, I really needed to learn how to manipulate the system because the system is designed to tear you down and destroy everything you are doing,” Lucas said in an inter-view with Charlie Rose.

He shopped his outline for “Star Wars” to several studios before finding a friend in Alan Ladd Jr., an executive at 20th Century Fox. Despite budget and deadline over-runs, and pressure from the studio, the movie was a huge success when it was released in 1977. It grossed $798 million in theaters worldwide and caused Fox’s stock price at the time to double.

In one of the wisest business moves in Hollywood history, Lucas cut a deal with distributor Fox before the film’s release so that he could retain ownership of the sequels and rights for merchandise. He figured in the 1970s that might mean peddling a few T-shirts and posters to fans to help market the movie. Over the decades, merchan-dising has formed the bedrock of his multibillion-dollar enterprise, resulting in a bonanza for Lucas from action figures, toys, spinoff books and other products.

Industrial Light & Magic, the unit he started in a makeshift space in the Los Angeles suburb of Van Nuys, moved to the ranch in north-

ern California and lent its prowess to other movies. It broke ground using computers, motion-controlled cameras, models and masks. Its reach is breathtaking, notably among the biggest science fiction movies of the 1980s: “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Poltergeist,” “Back to the Future,” “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and more.

“Between him and (Steven) Spielberg, they changed how mov-ies got made,” said Matt Atchity, editor-in-chief of movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.

Lucas helped make the tools that were needed for his films. ILM developed the world’s first com-puterized film-editing and music-mixing technology, revolutionizing what had been a cut-and-splice affair. Pixar, the imaging com-puter he founded as a division of Lucasfilm, became a world-famous animated movie company. Apple’s Steve Jobs bought and later sold it to Disney in 2006.

But the goliath Lucas cre-ated began to weigh on him. Fans-turned-critics felt the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy he directed fell short of the first films. Oth-ers believed his revisions to the re-released classics undid some of what made the first movies great.

Giving up his role at the head of Lucasfilm may shield him from the fury of rebellious fans and crit-ics. He said in a video released by Disney that the sale would allow him to “do other things, things in philanthropy and doing more experimental kind of films.”

“I couldn’t really drag my com-pany into that.”

Still, Lucas is not planning on going to a galaxy far, far away.

Speaking on Friday night at Ebony magazine’s Power 100 event in New York, Lucas said: “It’s 40 years of work and it’s been my life, but I’m ready to move on to bigger and better things. I have a founda-tion, an educational foundation. I do a lot of work with education, and I’m very excited about doing that.”

ABOVE: George Lucas poses in Las Vegas in a portrait publicizing the 2008 movie he wrote and produced, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

March 13, 2008 / AP

LEFT: George Lucas (left) and Mark Hamill, who portrayed young Luke Skywalker, are shown on the salt flats of Tunisia during principal photography of the original “Star Wars.”

1976 / Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM via AP

George Lucas’ filmmaking rooted in rebellion


STAR PARTY Explore the night sky and view distant galaxies, planets and nebulas beginning at dark Friday, Nov. 9, at Fort Nugent Park, 2075 SW Fort Nugent Road, Oak Harbor. No telescope is needed and all ages are welcome. Dress warmly. Canceled if cloudy. Free. For

information, call Dan Pullen at 360-679-7664 or

visit www.icas-wa.webs.com.

CARNIVAL AT THE MALL Children’s Museum of Skagit County will present an indoor carnival from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10-11, at the Cascade Mall, 201 Cascade Mall Drive, Burlington. Enjoy main-stage performances, face painting, games and prizes, bouncy house and slide, Zorb Balls, sweet treats and more. Includes free and paid activities. 360-757-8888 or www.skagit

childrensmuseum.net.

CHILI COOK-OFF The Camano Island Chamber of Com-merce will present the 17th annual Chili Chowder Cook-Off from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $10 admis-sion covers 10 tastes, and the public is invited to vote for their favorite chili, chowder and best decorated booth. Raffle, live music and live art auction at 5:30 p.m. Beer and wine available for purchase. Free shuttle from parking at Utsalady Elementary School, 608 N. Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. 360-629-7136.

KIDS’ GIANT GARAGE SALE 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 10, Burlington Parks and Rec-reation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burling-ton. Kids ages 18 and younger will sell gently used and new books, games, toys, sports equip-ment and more. Tables available for $15. Free admission. 360-755-9649.

THIS WEEKENDin the area

Jazz at the libraryThe Scot Ranney Trio will perform from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 30, or www.jazz atthelibrary.com.


REVIEWS

MUSIC CDS

Compiled from news services

Aerosmith“Music From Another Dimension”

If Aerosmith’s definition of the sound of “anoth-er dimension” is indeed true, the world is a much less mystical place than we would like to believe. Rather than offering previously unimaginable tones and visions, “Music From Another Dimension” delivers riffs, cliches, solos, yowls and a virtual ban-quet of the same one-dimensional tropes Aerosmith has been offering for years. Mixed in, however, are a few gems that might be considered worthy additions to the band’s catalog were they offered without such grand promises.

It’s not that Aerosmith’s first studio album of all-new material in 11 years doesn’t rock. It’s loud, brash and proves that vocalist Steven Tyler can still yelp (and occasionally sing), the dueling guitars of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford can still find big blues-based riffs, and drummer Joey Kram-er still hits hard, keeping pace with bassist Tom Hamilton.

But there are only so many original com-binations of blues riffs and sexual boasts one can deliver in a single lifetime. And “Another Last Goodbye” sounds like a “Weird Al” Yankovic parody of its power ballad “Dream On.” Whatever dimension Aerosmith has claimed to visit, it certainly wasn’t a new one.

n Randall Roberts, Los Angeles times

Cody ChesnuTT“Landing on a Hundred”

You remem-ber Cody Ches-nuTT: He’s the guitar-slinging soul man who came up with the killer riffage on “The Seed,” the deathless track off his 2002 double-album debut “The Headphone Masterpiece” that appeared in altered form on the Roots’ “Phrenology” (and is still a centerpiece of the band’s live show).

“Landing on a Hundred” is ChesnuTT’s

first full-length album in a decade, and like his debut, it’s a self-released effort by the Atlanta native that genre-blends R&B, soul and rock, filtered through its auteur’s gruff and sweet vocal maneuvers and his idiosyn-cratic sensibility.

n Dan DeLuca, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Paul Buchanan“Mid Air”

Everything seems to move at a glacial pace in Paul Buchanan’s world. His band the Blue Nile released only four somber, majestic albums between 1984 and 2004, including 1989’s classic “Hats,” and “Mid Air” is the Scotsman’s first solo release. In contrast to the Blue Nile’s care-fully textured, synth-based arrangements, “Mid Air” is a bare-bones affair, just piano and Buchanan’s understated baritone, with strings or distant synthesizer tones gracing a few of the sparse tracks.

These heartbroken love songs contain nearly as much silence as sound: they’re full of pauses and gently fading chords. They share an intimacy and an after-hours sobri-ety with the sentimental ballads of Tom Waits: they can be maudlin, but they’re ear-nest. Buchanan is a master of singing slowly, every-so-slightly behind the beat, and “Mid Air” is captivating and commanding in its quietude.

n Steve Klinge, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Paul Banks“Banks”

As sulk-rock throwbacks, the band Interpol ran out of ideas so quickly that all it has taken is a solo hodge-podge to actually make their lead singer sound fresh again. Where the comparative dourness of their indie-band peers the National could be attributed to bad eco-nomic times, Banks’ “Banks” was unlikely to have a title track that lambasted Big Corporate.

The dryly hilarious “I’ll Sue You” is a sur-

prise, though — maybe the hopeless chap doesn’t just live inside his own head. And this is the poppiest album ever released by a Joy Division habitu; the jingling details of “No Mistakes” and the vaguely ragtime guitars of “Arise Awake” are musical mag-netic poetry, much like the Notwist’s “Neon Golden.” In the song called “Young Again,” the line “jobs are disgraceful” could even be construed as political.

n Dan Weiss, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Etta Britt“Out of the Shadows”

“Out of the Shadows” is a title that aptly describes what is going on here: This is the debut album by a singer who has made a career, going back to the late ’70s, of being a backup vocalist. It may be a long time coming, but Etta Britt has certainly made the most of her chance.

The Nashville-based Britt shows the kind of versatility that has made her a singer’s singer, while still lending the album a cohesive feel. She goes toe-to-toe with Delbert McClinton as they tear through the roadhouse raveup “Leap of Faith,” but she is equally at home uptown on the more smooth and sensual R&B of “High.” Coun-try-soul comes to the fore on a standout version of “The Chokin’ Kind,” but the set’s rootsy thrust also gives way in a couple of places to elegant piano-and-strings ballads.

n Nick Cristiano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bobby Sanabria Big Band“Multiverse”

Connections go deep for the percussionist leader Bobby Sanabria, a self-proclaimed Nuyorican from the Fort Apache section of the South Bronx, whose big band harks back to the volup-tuous Latin jazz bands of yore.

There’s also a modernizing thing going on, like the splashes of free piano that Enrique Haneine lays down, the chaos that

Sanabria uses to manufacture energy, or the otherworldy wailing on didgeridoo that trombonist Chris Washburne indulges in.

At the heart of this fiery congregation sits Sanabria, who fashions the music as pulsing, muscular and hard-hitting, like the horns that come off big on the ululating rhythms of “Jump Shot.” There’s a soft bal-lad side on “Over the Rainbow” with singer Charanee Wade, a 2010 Monk competition first runner-up, and a kind of English-Span-ish rap for a fellow New Yorker, Cuban-born bandleader Mario Bauza.

n Karl Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ne-Yo“R.E.D.”

Ne-Yo has said that the follow-up to his coolly received 2010 concept album “Libra Scale” repre-sents a kind of creative retrenchment — an effort “to just get back to the basics,” as the R&B star recently told Vibe Vixen maga-zine.

You get some of that from the first two songs on “R.E.D.,” both of which Ne-Yo co-wrote with Shea Taylor, who also produced. “Cracks in Mr. Perfect” and “Lazy Love” share an up-close intimacy with tunes Taylor has made with Beyonce and Frank Ocean, and the album’s third cut, “Let Me Love You (Until You Love Yourself),” seems designed to remind us of simpler times by recycling a portion of its title from the 2004 Mario hit that was one of Ne-Yo’s first big songwriting successes.

After that, though, “R.E.D.” doesn’t real-ly stick to the idea of less is more. In “Don’t Make ’Em Like You” the singer teams with Wiz Khalifa for a relatively bumptious hip-hop track, while “Forever Now” and “Shut Me Down” extend Ne-Yo’s flirtation with pulsating dance music. Tim McGraw even joins him for a lightly country-fried duet in “She Is,” repaying a favor Ne-Yo did McGraw on the latter’s “Emotional Traf-fic.” The sound narrows again in “Stress Reliever,” another lovely Taylor production built atop a minimal deep-space drum beat. But it only cleanses your palate for more flavors to come.

n Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times


VIDEO GAMES

Chris Campbell, Scripps Howard News Service

REVIEWS

‘Halo 4’ Platform: Xbox 360 Genre: Shooter Publisher: Microsoft ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: 4.5 stars (out of 5)

I had my feet firmly planted in the classic “Halo” camp, happy that devel-oper Bungie had left the fates of Master Chief and Cortana nebulous and uncertain. Then I played “Halo 4” by new developer 343 Industries, and darned if I’m not giddy to re-enter the fight to save humanity after I was ready to leave it for dead at the end of “Halo: Reach.”

A new enemy has risen in the wake of Master Chief’s four-year cryosleep. He awakens to new dangers and his artificial intelligence companion, Cortana, near-ing the end of her shelf life. Multiple story threads pull the adventure in captivating new directions, so playing through the 10-hour campaign is both fun and visually stunning. Just know that you’ll have to dedi-cate a massive chunk of your console’s hard drive to the mandatory game installation.

343 did an excellent job of keeping the layout and playing experience similar to Halo’s predecessors, so there was not a huge logic gap from previous games to this one. Developers also made small but noticeable tweaks to put their stamp on the franchise (gun loadouts, multiplayer modes, etc.) and nothing feels wasted or overdone.

Once in multiplayer, the familiar tropes await. The Forge map creator remains one of the most robust and enjoyable aspects of this series, and the ability to customize just about anything is outstanding.

‘Medal of Honor: Warfighter’ Platforms: Xbox 360, Play-Station 3, PC Genre: Shooter Publisher: EA Games ESRB Rating: M, for Mature Grade: 2.5 stars

“Medal of Honor: Warfighter” disap-points because this franchise used to steer the wheel of innovation in military shooters, but now it relaxes in the back seat. There’s nothing to hate about “Warf-ighter,” but nothing stands out, either, and that is telling.

The classic tropes of first-person shoot-ers are here: Run to cover, pick off evildo-ers, watch occasionally dramatic cutscenes, partake in a high-speed chase, bomb enemy encampments. These events are par for the course, but while enjoyable, they never raise the bar.

The game’s only standout mission fea-tures one part stealth and another part driving. I loved the mission’s originality, even if it’s surrounded by stereotypical missions of crawling through snow or pelt-ing enemy forces from the relative safety of an armored helicopter.

While all the online multiplayer modes are done well, the Fireteam mode is truly outstanding. This two-man-team system requires cooperation and rewards tactical play.

Legions will probably buy this release, but I doubt anyone will deem it wildly compelling.

n Follow Chris Campbell @campbler or email him at [email protected].

New releasesn Mass Effect 3 (Wii U, rated M)n Freakyforms Deluxe: Creations Alive (3DS, rated E)n History: Legends of War Patton (Xbox 360, PS3 and PS Vita; rated T)n NASCAR The Game: Inside Line (Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii; rated E)n LittleBigPlanet: Karting (PS3, rated E)n Mass Effect Trilogy (Xbox 360 and PC, rated M)n Midway Arcade Origins (Xbox 360 and PS3,

rated T)n DragonBall Z Budokai HD Collection (Xbox 360 and PS3, rated T)n Nickelodeon Dance 2 (Xbox 360 and Wii, rated E)n Big Time Rush (Wii and DS, rating pending)n Karaoke Joysound (Wii, rated E10+)n Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 (Wii, rated E)n Harvest Moon: A New Beginning (3DS, rated E)n Rayman: Origins (3DS, rated E)Ragnarok: Tactics (PSP, rated T)

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GET INVOLVED

ARTCALL FOR ARTISTS:

Skagit Art Association has openings for a limited num-ber of artists in its annual Holiday Art Show, set for Nov. 14-30 at 177 Cascade Mall Drive, Burlington. The booth fee is $80 for the run of the show. For infor-mation or an application, contact Louise Magno by email: [email protected].

SEEKING VENDORS: Vendors of high-quality handmade arts and crafts can submit applications through Nov. 9 for the 12th annual Burlington Holiday Fine Arts and Gift Show, set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16-17, at the Burling-ton Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. For information or an appli-cation, call 360-755-9649 or visit http://recreation.ci.burlington.wa.us.

MR. YUK POSTER CON-TEST: Young Washington artists ages 6 to 12 are invited to create poison safety-awareness posters for the Washington Poison Center’s 2012 Mr. Yuk Poster Contest. Entries on the theme “Be Safe With Mr. Yuk!” must be post-marked by Jan. 4, 2013. A $500 grand prize and four $100 runner-up prizes will be awarded. All contest participants will receive a small gift from Mr. Yuk in the mail. The winning design will be featured as the poster for Washington Poison Prevention Week in March. Contest rules and the required entry form are available online at www.wapc.org.

ART CLASSESFAMILY ART DAYS

AT MoNA: Skagit Artists Together and the Museum of Northwest Art offer

Family Art Days each month at MoNA, 121 S. First St., La Conner. Ses-sions are open to all ages and skill levels and include guided walk-throughs of MoNA exhibitions. Limited to 15 participants per ses-sion.

To register: 360-466-4446, ext. 108, or [email protected]. Information: www.museumofnwart.org. Workshops are free with museum admission. Admission: $8 adults, $5 seniors, $3 students, free for members and ages 11 and younger.

Next up:Make a Star Book and

Ornament: with Mary Quintrall, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. Use collage tech-niques to create unique papers, then turn them into a one-of-a-kind book, which doubles as a holiday decoration.

ART CLASSES: Choose from painting, photography, fiber and 3D art workshops taught by professional art-ists at the Pacific North-West Art School, 15 NW Birch St., Coupeville. For information and a complete schedule: 360-678-3396 or www.pacificnorthwest artschool.com.

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.dakotaartcenter.com.

CLAY CLASSES: Ceram-ic artist Sue Roberts offers a variety of classes and workshops at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, Guemes Island. For infor-mation, call 360-293-8878 or visit www.towerartsstu-dio.com.

Next up:Parent & Child Clay

Workshop: 9:30 a.m. to 3

p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17. A child and their special adult will learn basic hand-build-ing techniques and surface decoration while work-ing together on animal-inspired mugs and plates. Pieces will be fired and ready for pickup two weeks after the workshop. For children ages 6 to 12 and adults of all ages. $75 per parent/child pair, $30 each additional child. Includes clay, glazes and firing. john

NUNO-FELT WORK-SHOP: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sun-day, Nov. 10-11, at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 S. Shore Drive, Guemes Island. Learn how to laminate wool with sheer fabrics and then felt all the mate-rials together. Participants should leave with one or two scarves and the knowl-edge to continue making nuno felt at home. Bring your own fabric; wool and other supplies will be pro-vided. $195. 360-293-8878 or www.towerartsstudio.com.

PAPER PLAYSHOPS: Join Kari Bishay to get cre-ative and “play with stuff” at the Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Commer-cial Ave., Anacortes. Work-shops are held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays. All materials are provided. $15 each, $40 for all three. Preregistra-tion required: 360-464-2229 or www.anacortescenter-forhappiness.org.

Next up:Little Books: Nov. 18.

Create and embellish three different little books: a perfect little photo album, a notebook made with recycled papers and a third one that opens up to form a star.

ACRYLIC PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS: Award-win-ning artist Jennifer Bow-man will offer a weekend

painting class for beginners from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat-urday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10-11, at the Anacortes Center for Hap-piness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Classes include demonstrations and hands-on practice. $165, plus $20 materials fee or bring your own. Limited enrollment. Preregistration required: 360-464-2229 or www.anacortescenterfor happiness.org.

MIXED MEDIA COL-LAGE WORKSHOP: with Sylvia K. Griffin, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Explore a variety of fun collage activ-ities, suitable for the whole family. Inspired by the poetry and language in the current exhibit, old book pages and found materials will be used to create per-sonal designs in the form of bookmarks and more. $5 suggested donation. All materials provided. RSVP to [email protected].

AUDITIONS“STEEL MAGNOLIAS”:

Auditions will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10-11, at Anacortes Com-munity Theatre, 911 M Ave., Anacortes. Parts are available for six women: two 20-something, two 40-something and two 60-something. Auditions will be cold readings from the script. The play will run Jan. 15-Feb. 16, 2013. For information, contact director Judy Hendrix at 360-293-5544 or visit www.acttheatre.com.

“ARMS AND THE MAN: AN ANTI-ROMANTIC COM-EDY”: The Alger Lookout Thespian Association will hold auditions at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sun-day, Nov. 17-18, at Alger

Community Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane, Alger. Parts are available for five men and three women in this wartime romance that satirizes both the glory of the battle and a young girl’s idealistic notions of love. The play will run Jan. 25-Feb. 10, 2013. For infor-mation call 360-424-5144 or visit www.altatheatre.com.

MUSICPIANO MASTER CLASS:

Award-winning pianist Denis Kozhukhin will pres-ent a free master class from 5 to 7 p.m. today, Nov. 8, in the Western Washington University Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Bellingham. Winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competi-tion in Brussels, the Rus-sian-born Kozhukhin will kick off the WWU Sanford-Hill Piano Series’ “Sea-son of Pure Gold” with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in the PAC Concert Hall. 360-650-6146.

RECREATIONFREE PARK ADMIS-

SION: In recognition of Veterans Day, the Wash-ington State Parks and Recreation Commission will offer free admission to all state parks Saturday through Monday, Nov. 10-12. During this week-end, the Discover Pass will not be required to enter state parks. The pass is still required to access lands managed by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Natu-ral Resources. www.parks.wa.gov.

SENIOR HIKE: Join Friends of the Forest from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 9, for a tour of the Little Beaver Pond loop trail in Anacortes. Meet at the end of 29th Street, west off of D

Avenue. Check out winter waterfowl, now arriving in our forest ponds and lakes for a safe place to rest and feed. Free. 360-293-3725 or www.friendsoftheacfl.org.

RESTORE SALMON HABITAT: Help Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group restore local salmon habitat at scheduled plant-ing parties. Dress for the weather and bring knee boots and gloves. Snacks and porta-potties provided. To sign up, call 360-336-0172 or email [email protected].

Next up:Saturday, Nov. 10:

Dugualla Bay, Oak Har-bor. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Take Frostad Road east off of Highway 20, about 5 miles south of Deception Pass. Continue going straight at the stop sign where Frostad turns into Dugualla Road. Park along the road at the planting site.

THEATERIMPROV CLASSES:

Awaken the spontaneity within with free improv classes taught by Sheila Goldsmith of Improv Playworks. Registration required: 360-756-0756 or www.improvplayworks.com.

Adults and teens: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at Improv Playworks Studio, 302 W. Illinois St., Belling-ham.

WORKSHOPSQUILTING FOR BEGIN-

NERS: Learn how to hand quilt from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays at the Con-crete Center, 45821 Rail-road Ave., Concrete. Bring a flat edge thimble, round-needle puller, small scissors and No. 9 go-betweens quilting needles. Tips and technique how-tos on the last Monday each month. 360-853-8400.


Bazaars in the area JOSEPHINE BAZAAR: Josephine Sunset Home’s annual bazaar will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, 9901 272nd Place NW, Stanwood. Free admis-sion. Lunch and beverages will be avail-able for purchase. 360-629-2126, ext. 146.

ARTS & CRAFTS: The Anacortes Senior Activity Center will hold its annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10, at 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. The show will include 30 vendors, along with bake, book and white elephant sales. Light lunch will be available for purchase. 360-293-7473.

HOLIDAY ARTS/GIFT SHOW: The annual Burlington Holiday Fine Arts and Gift Show will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. Handmade items only. Booths, $40; register by Nov. 9. Visit http://recre-ation.ci.burlington.wa.us or call 360-755-9649.

CRAFT FAIR: The 22nd annual Burl-ington-Edison High School Band Booster Craft Fair will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Burlington-Edison High School fieldhouse,

cafetorium and gym, 301 Burlington Blvd., Burlington. More than 150 vendors will offer a variety of items. Proceeds benefit the B-EHS Band Program. For information, email [email protected].

HARVEST MARKET/CRAFT FAIR: The Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market Harvest Market and Craft Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Sedro-Woolley Senior Center, 715 Pacific St. Check out new and your favor-ite vendors for holiday goodies and gift shopping. Vendor booths: $17. Contact Jeremy, 360-202-7311.

HOLIDAY CRAFT & GIFT BAZAAR: Camano Center’s annual Holiday Craft and Gift Bazaar will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17-18, at 606 Arrow-head Road, Camano Island. Choose from a wide variety of handmade crafts and gifts, baked goods and more. Lunch will be available for purchase. Free admis-sion. 360-387-0222.

CHRISTMAS CRAFT BAZAAR: The Skagit Valley Eagles Auxiliary will hold its Christmas Craft Bazaar from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 119 N. Cherry St., Burlington. Tables are available for $10 plus one donated item for the Auxil-iary table. 360-391-9741.

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area November 8-15 TUNING UP Playing at area venues November 8-15

Thursday.8COMEDY

Comedy Night with Nigel Lawson, David Crowe and Michelle Westford : 8 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $10. 360-755-3956 or www.ana cortesH2O.com.

THEATER“Footloose: The Musical”: 7:30 p.m.,

McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. All seats $10; festival seating. 360-416-7727, ext. 2.

“Motherhood Out Loud”: Anacortes High School Theatre Department, 7:30 p.m., Brodniak Hall, 1600 20th St., Ana-cortes. Admission by donation. 360-503-1369.

Friday.9MUSIC

Denis Kozhukhin: Sanford-Hill Piano Series, 7:30 p.m., Western Washington University Performing Arts Center Con-cert Hall, Bellingham. $9-$24. 360-650-6146 or www.tickets.wwu.edu.


McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $10-$40. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.


“Murder at Club Babalu”: an “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $40 dinner and show; $30 dessert buffet and show, $20 show only. Reservations required: 360-336-3012 or www.riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

Saturday.10IMPROV

Whidbey Improv Team: 7 p.m., Whid-bey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor. $10. 360-679-2237 or www.whidbeyplayhouse.com.

MUSICMatt Audette and the Circle of

Friends Band present the 1969 Johnny Cash at San Quentin Prison Concert: 7 p.m., Stillaguamish Grange, 6521 Pio-neer Highway, Stanwood. $20. 425-220-3903 or www.thehaynieopry.com.




“Murder at Club Babalu”: an “I Love Lucy” murder mystery parody, 7:30 p.m., RiverBelle Theatre, Old Town Grainery, 100 E. Montgomery, Mount Vernon. $40 dinner and show; $30 dessert buffet and show, $20 show only. Reservations required: 360-336-3012 or www.riverbelle dinnertheatre.com.

Sunday.11MUSIC

“Jazz at the Library”: Scot Ran-ney Trio, 2 to 3 p.m., Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 30.

“Musical Salute to Veterans”: 2 p.m., Mount Baker Theatre Main Stage, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. Eighth annual show will honor six local veterans, nominated by their fellow veterans based on their outstanding service. Presented by the Ron Davenport Memorial Chap-ter 165 Vietnam Veterans of America. $15-$24 plus applicable fees, free for uniformed members of the U.S. Armed Forces, Reserves and National Guard. 360-734-6080 or www.mountbaker theatre.com.

PUPPETRY“The Magic of Chinese Puppetry”:

Dragon Art Studio, 1 p.m., Concrete Theatre, 45920 Main St., Concrete. $5 suggested donation. 360-941-0403 or www.concrete-theatre.com.

THEATER“Footloose: The Musical”: 2 p.m.,


Monday-Tuesday.12-13No events submitted

Wednesday.14THEATER

“Footloose: The Musical”: 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. All seats half price; regu-lar price $10-$40. 360-416-7727, ext. 2, or www.mcintyrehall.org.

Thursday.15MUSIC

“Music from the British Isles”: WWU Wind Symphony, 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Western Washing-ton University, Bellingham. Free. 360-650-3130 or www.wwu.edu/music.




THURSDAY.8 FRIDAY.9

NINTH ANNUAL BREWGRASS!, ANACORTES • 9 P.M.-12:30 A.M. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOV. 9-10

Gail Pettis: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. No cover. 360-588-1720.

Teresa Tudury (alt-country): 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Con-way. $10. 360-445-3000.

Equal Opportunity: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Var-sity Inn, 112 N. Cher-ry St., Burlington. No cover. 360-755-0165.

Steve Meyer and Ben Starner (piano): 7:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

Kirtan with Dave Stringer: 8 p.m., Presence Studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham. $15-$25. www.brownpaper tickets.com.

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

The Dogtones (classic rock): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. 360-629-4800 or www.cyndysbroiler.com.

The Scott Cossu Trio: 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $10. 360-445-3000.

The D’Vas: 8:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6266.

Jon Mutchler (piano): 6 to 9 p.m., Stars Restaurant at Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine. www.semiahmoo.com.

Blues Union: 9 p.m. to midnight, Packers Lounge at Semiah-moo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Park-way, Blaine. www.semiahmoo.com.

Matt Audette and the Circle of Friends Band present the 1969 Johnny Cash at San Quentin Prison Concert: 7 p.m., Stillagua-mish Grange, 6521 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood. $20. 425-220-3903 or www.thehaynieopry.com.

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

Classic Roads (classic rock, country): 9 p.m. to midnight, Cyndy’s Broiler, 27021 102nd Ave NW, Stanwood. 360-629-4800 or www.cyndysbroiler.com.

Wreckless Spenders: 8:30 p.m., Max Dale’s Martini Lounge, 2030 Riv-erside Drive, Mount Vernon. No cover. 360-424-7171 or www.maxdales.com.

Prozac Mountain Boys (Northwest bluegrass): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Bow Diddlers: 5:30 p.m., Edison Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edi-son. No cover. 360-766-6266.

Puirt na Gael (traditional Celtic instrumen-tals): 3 to 6 p.m., Skagit River Brew-ery, 404 S. Third St., Mount Ver-non. 360-336-2884.

Dudley Taft Band (blues, rock): 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Mount Vernon High School jazz bands: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Ver-non. $6. Pro-ceeds benefit the MVHS Jazz Program. 360-336-8955 or www.lin-colntheatre.org.

Stilly River Band: 6 to 9 p.m., Rock-fish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. No cover. 360-588-1720.

Amara Grace and Phil Nakano: 7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. 360-445-3000.

SUNDAY.11

SUNDAY.11DUDLEY TAFT BAND7 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

THURSDAY.8COMEDY NIGHT WITH NIGEL LAWSON, DAVID CROWE AND MICHELLE WESTFORD 8 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. $10. 360-755-3956 or www.anacortesH2O.com.

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TRAVEL

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Hikers in wetsuits and helmets wade in Salome Creek in Salome Canyon, in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. The sport of canyoneering includes hiking, climbing, sliding and wetsuit-wading but can be tackled by novices accompanied by an experienced guide.

Canyoneering presents a unique, euphoric experienceBy CHARMAINE NORONHAAssociated Press

SALOME CANYON, Ariz. — I was about to follow a man I’d just met through a sweltering des-ert, into the crevices of a canyon, over wet boulders, down a waterfall, through a bone-chilling creek, down rock faces and up through the desert again.

“Sometimes while you’re in the canyon, you won’t be able to hear me,” said my (hopefully) trustwor-thy canyoneering guide Chuck Chapman as I and three others embarked on a canyoneering adventure in Tonto National Forest, a sprawling desert landscape about 75 miles from Phoe-nix. “If I tap my helmet along the way, I expect you to respond by tapping yours to tell me you’re OK.”

Several things raced through my mind in response as we prepared to throw caution, and apparently our bodies, to the wind and rock face of Salome Canyon.

Such as: When are you not OK when you are lowering yourself into a canyon? If you are not OK, would Chapman realize before it’s too late?

Also: Was staying out until 3 a.m. the night before doing this really the best idea? Did the wet suit make me look fat? Should I really have eaten two slabs of chocolate for

breakfast?And was the world

ready for “127 Hours, Part Deux?” I certainly was not.

Then Chapman added, “But you should be fine,” and motioned us to follow him on my first foray into canyoneering.

Canyoneering started in Europe during the 1970s, but it’s probably best-known from the 2010 film, “127 Hours” in which James Franco portrayed Aron Ralston, a real-life canyoneer whose arm got stuck under a boulder in a remote slot canyon in Utah.

If you go Salome Canyon: Easily reached by car, located about 75 miles from Phoenix. Tours: By 360 Adven-tures, www.360-adven-tures.com, $400 for one person, $200 for each additional person; groups of four or more are $200 per person. Fee includes permits, park entry fees, skilled guides, transportation, gear, wet suits, safety equipment, lunch, water, snacks and dry day packs. Hiking time, five hours, but the expedi-tion lasts a few hours longer due to breaks for snacks and dinner. Tips: Wear comfortable hiking shoes (but not boots) with good grips or consider buying water-resistant hiking shoes, and wear a bathing suit under your wet suit.


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Local travel SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation offers travel opportunities for participants ages 12 and older (adult supervision required for ages 18 and younger). For information or to register, call 360-336-6215. Next up: Bainbridge Island Winter Artist Studio Tour: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, departing from Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Travel by van and ferry to Bainbridge Island for the 29th annual show and sale. Located in unique studios and historic community halls, the tour features work by some 70 artists showcasing pottery, glass, photography, woodworking, paintings, jewelry, fiber arts and more. No-host lunch. $63-$65. Regis-ter by Nov. 21. Country Village and Garden D’Lights: 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, departing from Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Visit the historic Country Village Shops in Bothell, home to more than 40 boutiques, specialty stores and cafes. After exploring the holiday-

decorated shops and enjoying a no-host late lunch/early dinner, head over to the Garden D’Lights, comprised of more than half a million tiny lights, which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a blossoming winter wonderland. $53-$55. Register by Dec. 5.

CAROLERS LUNCH CRUISE: Camano Center is offering a Dickens Carolers Lunch Cruise for seniors on Tuesday, Dec. 11, departing from and returning to Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Enjoy a holiday feast accompanied by Christmas carolers. $52-$57. Pay by Nov. 26. 360-387-0222 or www.camanocenter.org. PASSPORT APPLICATIONS: The Ana-cortes Public Library accepts U.S. pass-port applications from noon to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays at 1220 10th St., Ana-cortes. Passport forms and information on fees and how to apply are available online at http://travel.state.gov or pick up an application and passport guide at the library.

TRAVEL

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Charmaine Noronha rappels over Salome Creek.

Ralston was eventually forced to amputate his own arm to free himself.

As harrowing as that sounds, canyoneering, while exciting, can be done safely — and without too much difficulty — by the average person in the com-pany of an experienced guide. I was a novice in all that it entails: rock climb-ing, bouldering, rappelling and wet suit wading.

The idea of the sport is to navigate a canyon using water flow as your trail, down into waterfalls, creeks, and whirlpools. While canyoneering hot spots include Mexico’s Copper Canyon, Colorado, the Pyrenees in Spain, the Blue Mountains in eastern Australia, New Zealand and Costa Rica, Utah reigns supreme as a desti-nation for the sport, with Arizona as a close rival.

As we hiked the Sagua-ro cactus-studded desert of Tonto park toward the salmon-, rust- and white-speckled sandstone of the canyon, the landscape’s appeal was obvious. The expanse of wilderness stretched out beyond where the eye could see; an eagle glided through the cloudless sky, dipping into and out of the Sierra Ancha Mountain range.

An hour or so after we began our hike, we were in the chilly Salome Creek. Wearing wet suits and hel-mets, our gentle descent and careful balancing over slippery, small rocks, gave way to crab-crawling, scrambling, sliding and gliding over wet granite boulders.

It was like a real-life game of Tetris as we descended from one boul-der to the next, through

crevices and slender slots, problem-solving as we went along, becoming one with the canyon.

The Arizona desert sun, which often feels hot enough to fry an egg on concrete, turned decep-tive as we headed down, sometimes glistening on the water, sometimes hid-ing behind rock peaks and leaving the creek in dark, chilly shadows.

The water temperature was a cool 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 Celsius), and the chill intensified when we approached a small waterfall. The only way down was to channel our Spider-Man senses and attempt to latch onto the slabs of rock face buttress-ing the waterfall before we shot down the gush-ing water into the creek. Shouts of “Wheee!” soon turned into “Aaaah! It’s

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As a first-time rappeller, my heart raced, in a good way, as I latched onto the wiry rope. I slid down, feel-ing all Indiana Jones-like up in this temple of beauty.

We were never in a dangerous spot, so I never needed to tap my helmet to let the guide know I was OK. But I did appreciate the opportunity to tap into the world of canyoneering.


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Daniel Day-Lewis, as President Abraham Lincoln, looks across a battlefield in the aftermath of a terrible siege in this scene from “Lincoln.”

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I ’ve rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” that Abra-ham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practi-

cal, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. He had less than a year of formal education, and taught himself through his hungry reading

of great books. I still recall from a childhood book the image of him taking a piece of charcoal and working out mathematics by writing on the back of a shovel.

Lincoln lacked social pol-ish, but he had great intel-ligence and knowledge of human nature. The hallmark of the man, performed so powerfully by Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln,” is calm

self-confidence, patience and a willingness to play politics in a realistic way. The film focuses on only a few months of Lincoln’s life, including the passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the surrender of the Confederacy and his assassination. Rarely has a film attended more carefully to the details of politics.

Lincoln believed slavery was immoral, but he also considered the 13th Amendment a masterstroke in cutting away the financial foundations of the Confederacy. In the film, the passage of the amendment is guided by William Seward (David Strathairn), his sec-retary of state, and by Rep. Thaddeus Ste-vens (Tommy Lee Jones), the most powerful abolitionist in the House. Neither these nor any other performances in the film depend on self-conscious histrionics; Jones in par-ticular portrays a crafty codger with some secret hiding places in his heart.

The capital city of Washington is por-trayed here as a roughshod gathering of politicians on the make. The images by Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg’s frequent cin-ematographer, use earth tones and muted indoor lighting. The White House is less a temple of state than a gathering place for wheelers and dealers. This ambience reflects the descriptions in Gore Vidal’s historical novel “Lincoln,” although the political and personal details in Tony Kushner’s concise, revealing dialogue are based on “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The book is well-titled. This is a film not about

an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his opponents as a hayseed from the backwoods.

Lincoln is not above political vote-buy-ing. He offers jobs, promotions, titles and pork barrel spending. He isn’t even slightly reluctant to employ the low-handed tactics of his chief negotiators (Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, John Hawkes). That’s how the game is played, and indeed we may be reminded of the arm-bending used to pass the Civil Rights Act by Lyndon B. Johnson, the subject of another biography by Good-win.

Daniel Day-Lewis modulates Lincoln. He is soft-spoken, a little hunched, exhausted after the years of war, concerned that no more troops die. He communicates through stories and parables. He has a lock on an Oscar nomination. At his side is his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field), who is sometimes seen as a social climber, but here is focused as wife and mother. Field is typi-cally sturdy and spunky. She has already lost one son in the war, and fears to lose another. This boy, Robert Todd Lincoln (Joseph Gor-don-Levitt), refuses the privileges of family.

There are some battlefields in “Lincoln,” but the only battle scene is at the opening, when the words of the Gettysburg Address are spoken with the greatest possible impact, and not by Lincoln. Kushner also smoothly weaves the wording of the 13th Amendment into the film without making it sound like an obligatory history lesson.

The film ends soon after Lincoln’s assas-sination. I suppose audiences will expect that to be included. There is an earlier shot when it could have ended, of Lincoln walk-ing away from the camera after his amend-ment has been passed. The rest belongs to history.

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Abraham Lincoln ........... Daniel Day-LewisMary Todd Lincoln ...................Sally FieldWilliam Seward .............. David StrathairnRobert Todd Lincoln . Joseph Gordon-LevittW.N. Bilbo ......................... James SpaderFrancis Preston Blair ............Hal HolbrookThaddeus Stevens ........ Tommy Lee Jones

n Running time: 149 minutes. MPAA rat-ing: PG-13 (for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language).

Roger Ebert

Spielberg examines the way Lincoln played politics


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MINI-REVIEWSCompiled from news services.Ratings are one to four stars.

“Argo” — Ben Affleck directs and stars in the incredible true story of how, at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis, a CIA agent and a couple of Hollywood professionals dreamed up a cockamamie scheme to free six Americans who were not being held in the American Embassy but had found refuge with the Canadian Embassy. Kept top secret for 18 years, the operation created a fake sci-fi produc-tion named “Argo,” con-vinced the Iranians it was real and used it to spirit the Americans out of the coun-try. With lots of tension and also some humor from John Goodman and Alan Arkin as the Hollywood pros involved. Drama, R, 120 minutes. HHHH “End of Watch” — One of the best police movies in recent years, a virtuoso joini-wng of performances and startling action. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as Taylor and Zavala, two Los Angeles street cops who bend a few rules but must be acknowledged as heroes. They’re transferred to a tough district, where their persistence leads them to a Mexican drug cartel operat-ing in L.A. This is really an assignment for a detective, but they don’t avoid risk, and eventually become so dan-gerous to the cartel that a hit is ordered against them. Action drama, R, 109 min-utes. HHHH “Flight” — After opening with one of the most terrify-ing flying scenes I’ve wit-nessed, in which an airplane is saved by being flown upside-down, Robert Zem-eckis’ “Flight” segues into a brave and tortured perfor-mance by Denzel Washing-ton -- one of his very best. Not often does a movie char-acter make such a harrowing personal journey that keeps us in deep sympathy all of the way. Washington plays a veteran commercial pilot who has built up a tolerance for quantities of alcohol and cocaine that would be lethal for most people. Drama, R, 138 minutes. HHHH “Frankenweenie” — Young

Victor Frankenstein loves his dog, Sparky, and when the mutt runs into traffic and is blindsided, Victor takes inspiration from a science class and re-animates his pet using lightning bolts. Tim Burton’s stop-action, black and white comedy takes its inspiration from “The Bride of Frankenstein” and other horror movies, and the char-acter of Mr. Rzykruski, the science teacher, is certainly modeled on Vincent Price. With the voices of Martin Landau, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Charlie Tahan and Winona Ryder. Animated comedy, PG, 87 minutes. HHH “Sinister” — A story made of darkness, mysterious loud bangs in the attic, distant moans from the dead, vulnerable children, an egomaniacal crime writer and his long-suffering wife, who is plenty fed up -- even before she discovers he has moved his family into the same house where horrifying

murders took place. Ethan Hawke stars as the best-sell-ing true crime writer, Juliet Rylance is his increasingly alarmed wife and their chil-dren experience night terrors and sleepwalking. Few films have ever been bathed in so much darkness. Thriller, R, 109 minutes. HHH “Skyfall” — “Skyfall” tri-umphantly reinvents 007 in one of the best Bonds ever made. This is a full-blooded, joyous, intelligent celebra-tion of a beloved cultural icon, with Daniel Craig tak-ing full possession of a role he earlier played unconvinc-ingly. The film at last pro-vides a role worthy of Judi Dench, returning as M, who is one of the best actors of her generation. She is all but the co-star, with a lot of screen time, poignant dia-logue, and a character who is far more complex and sympathetic than we expect. In this 50th year of the James Bond series, with the dismal “Quantum of Solace”

(2008) still in our minds, I don’t know what I expected in Bond No. 23, but cer-tainly not an experience this invigorating. If you haven’t seen a 007 for years, this is the time to jump back in. Action, PG-13, 143 minutes. HHHH “Wreck-It Ralph” — The new Disney animated fea-ture for families takes place inside several arcade-style video games, providing an excuse for the back-grounds, ground rules and characters to constantly reinvent themselves. Its hero is one of those clumsy, misunderstood big guys who dream only of being loved. Ralph (voice by John C. Reilly) spends every day knocking down an apart-ment building, which is constantly repaired by Fix-It Felix Jr. (Jack McBrayer). Lively, endlessly colorful nonstop action, also with Jane Lynch and Sarah Sil-verman. Animated comedy, PG, 101 minutes. HHH

‘Intouchables’7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 9-105:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 117:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12

The crowd-pleasing French buddy comedy tells the true story of a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker, the picture of estab-lished French nobility, who lost his wife in an accident and whose world is turned upside down when he hires a young, good-humored, black Muslim ex-con as his caretaker. Their bond proves the power and omniscience that love and friendship can hold over all social and economic differ-ences.

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.

The Met Live in HD: ‘The Tempest’9:55 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10

Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his own work, with baritone Simon Keenlyside starring as Pros-pero. Director Robert Lep-age recreates the interior of 18th-century La Scala in this inventive staging. Includes pre-opera lecture with Stassya Pacheco 30 minutes before the start time.

$23 adults; $19 seniors; $16 students and children with $2 off for Lincoln The-atre members.

‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10

The ultimate 1975 camp classic returns to the Lin-coln for a special Hallow-

eenish show.The story: a loving cou-

ple, a few lost monsters and a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania sing and dance through a sloppy salute to horror movies and sexual libera-tion. Bring your sense of humor … and some toast (unbuttered, of course).

“Rocky Horror” prop bags will be available for $5.

Rated R; not recom-mended for children under 16. Advance tickets: $10 general, $8 for Lincoln members and groups of 10 or more. Tickets will be $12 at the door.

NT Live: ‘Timon of Athens’7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12

Simon Russell Beale takes the title role in Shakespeare’s strange fable of consumption, debt and ruin, written in collabora-tion with Thomas Middle-ton. The performance is part of National Theatre Live, the best of British theater broadcast live to cinemas worldwide.

Wealthy friend to the rich and powerful, patron of the arts, ostentatious host, Timon of Athens is surrounded by freeloaders and sycophants. He vastly outspends his resources but, finding his coffers empty, reassures his loyal steward that all will be well. When he calls upon his associates, instead of offering help, they hang him out to dry. After a final, vengeful ban-quet, Timon withdraws to a literal and emotional waste-land, living off roots and pouring curses on a morally bankrupt Athens.

$15 adults, $13 seniors and $11 students, with $2 off for Lincoln Theatre members.

AT AREA THEATERSANACORTES CINEMASNov. 9-15 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (PG-13): Thursday: 10 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest (NR): Saturday: 9:55 a.m. Skyfall (PG-13): Friday-Sunday: 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15; Monday-Thursday: 1:00, 3:45, 6:30 Wreck-It Ralph (PG): Friday-Sunday: 1:10, 3:25, 6:40, 8:50; Monday-Thurs-day: 1:10, 3:25, 6:40 Argo (R): Friday-Sunday: 1:20, 3:35, 6:50, 9:10; Monday-Thursday: 1:20, 3:35, 6:50 360-293-7000

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STANWOOD CINEMASNov. 9-15 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (PG-13): Thursday: 10 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest (NR): Saturday: 9:55 a.m. Skyfall (PG-13): Friday-Thursday: 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Dr. Faus-tus (NR): Tuesday: 7 p.m. Wreck-It Ralph (PG): Friday-Thursday: 1:30, 3:55, 6:45, 8:50 Argo (R): Friday-Thursday: 1:10, 3:25, 7:00, 9:20 Here Comes the Boom (PG): Friday-Monday: 1:20, 3:35, 6:40, 8:55; Tuesday: 1:20, 3:35; Wednesday-Thursday: 1:20, 3:35), 6:40, 8:55 Looper (R): Friday-Wednesday: 1:25, 3:50, 6:50, 9:10; Thursday: 1:25, 3:50, 6:50 360-629-0514

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SIMON”: Gallery Cygnus reintroduces John Simon’s artwork to the public in a show continuing through Nov. 26 at 109 Commer-cial St., La Conner. More than 30 paintings from the late artist’s estate will be presented. This work spans the artist’s career and has not been seen by the pub-lic since Simon’s death in 2010.

A second show of Simon’s art will open with a celebration during La Conner’s Final Friday Art-walk from 5 to 9 p.m. Fri-day, Nov. 30, and continue through Dec. 24.

Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. 360-708-4787 or www.gallerycygnus.com.

MIXED MEDIA PAINT-INGS: A show of paint-ings by La Conner artist Peter Belknap continues through Nov. 30 at Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. After Thanksgiving weekend, the gallery will be open Monday through Satur-day. 360-293-3577 or www.mccoolart.com.

“FINDING BALANCE”: A show of new work by Joe Menth continues through Dec. 4 at Raven Rocks Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank. The exhibi-tion features Menth’s latest photo transfers on wood panels with encaustic. For information, including gal-lery hours and directions, call 360-222-0102 or visit www.ravenrocksgallery.com.

“THIS TOWN”: The Allied Arts Juried Artist Series will feature work from Anita Aparicio, David

Ridgway and Donald Simp-son, continuing through Dec. 1, at the Allied Arts of Whatcom County Gallery, 1418 Cornwall Ave., Bell-ingham. Aparicio combines Victorian-era photographs of people with her own renditions of local archi-tecture to create what she calls “Bellingham Gothic.” Ridgway’s paintings focus on the places where man and landscape collide. Simpson’s creative experi-ments in urban and land-scape photography utilize traditional photography, panoramic, long exposure and texture techniques. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. 360-676-8548 or www.alliedarts.org.

“HOME FOR THE HOLI-DAYS”: The show contin-ues through Jan. 1 at Rob Schouten Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank. Twenty-four of the region’s finest artists have created a variety of affordable gifts: handblown glass, silk scarves, jewelry, sculpture, ceramics, paintings and prints and more. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, closed Tuesdays. 360-222-3070 or www.robschoutengallery.com.

“FIRE”: NEW WORK BY PEREGRINE O’GORMLEY: The show continues through Nov. 25 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edison. O’Gormley approaches the concept of fire holistically. In this exhibition, fire becomes an allegory for the spirit and fade of life — fire gives us life and ultimately con-sumes us as we return to ash. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. 360-766-6230 or www.smithand vallee.com.

TULIP FESTIVAL POST-ER UNVEILING: Meet poster artist Karen Sistek from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today at Skagit Valley Gardens, 18923 Peter Johnson Road, Mount Vernon. Pick up a free required invitation at the Tulip Festival office, 311 W. Kincaid St., or any branch of Whidbey Island Bank. 360-428-5959 or www.tulipfestival.org.

ART GLASS DISCUS-SION: “Pilchuck Reunion”: 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, Museum of Northwest Art,121 S. First St., La Conner. Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace will lead a discussion with artists who made the Pilchuck Glass School famous. $15, $10 members. 360-466-4446 or

www.museumofnwart.org.

OAXACAN RUGS: Ginny Darvill will present a show and sale of naturally dyed, handwoven Oaxacan wool rugs and weavings from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Janet Laurel Studio, 605 Maple Ave., La Conner. Darvill buys directly from Vida Nueva Women’s Weaving Cooper-ative in Teotitlán del Valley, Oaxaca, and sells at cost to support the women’s work. The cooperative of mostly single women provides eco-nomic and artistic opportu-nities for women, support in everyday challenges and service to the community. Janet Laurel’s Día de los Muertos paintings will also be on display. 360-424-5854.

LUMMI ISLAND STUDIO TOUR: The Lummi Island Artists’ Holiday Studio Tour will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10-11. More than 18 artists and craftspeople will offer their work at a dozen locations around the island. Check out paintings and drawings, ceramics, jewelry, sculp-ture, glass art, quilts and clothing, photography and more. Call 360-758-7121 or 360-758-2815 or visit www.lummi-island.com.

HOLIDAY ARTS/GIFT SHOW: The annual Burl-ington Holiday Fine Arts and Gift Show will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. Hand-made items only. Booths, $40; register by Nov. 9. Visit http://recreation.ci.burlington.wa.us or call 360-755-9649.

“CALIFORNIA IMPRES-SIONISM, SELECTIONS FROM THE IRVINE MUSE-UM”: The exhibit will open Saturday, Nov. 17, and con-tinue through Feb. 17, 2013, at the Whatcom Museum, 250 Flora St., Bellingham. The show features 50 paint-ings from the Impressionist Period (1890-1930) show-casing an array of Califor-nia landscapes, from coastal beaches to vast deserts. Also called California plein air painting, California Impressionism focused on capturing the special light and color of the state’s landscape and helped to define modern landscape painting.

n Jean Stern will present a lecture about the exhibit at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17.

n “Impressions Improv”: Enjoy a night of improvisa-tion by local poets, dancers and musicians performing

their interpretation of the paintings on display during the Downtown Art Walk Friday evening, Dec. 7.

Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. $10, $8 student/senior/military, $4.50 chil-dren ages 5 and younger, free for museum members. 360-778-8933 or www.what commuseum.org.

“STRANDS: DRAW, CUT, STITCH, WRITE”: An exhibition by visual and literary artists continues through Nov. 18 at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The show brings together artists and poets to convey a collec-tive reflection of living in a challenging social and envi-ronmental era.

Exhibiting artists are Eve Deisher and Ann Reid. Participating poets include Lana Hechtman Ayers, Anita K. Boyle, Matthew Brouwer, Nancy Can-yon, Karen Finneyfrock, Kathleen Flenniken (Poet Laureate of Washington), Maria McLeod and Susan Rich.

Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. www.anchorart space.org.

QUILTED ART: Two new quilt shows continue through Dec. 20 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 Second St., La Conner.

“Material Men: Innova-tion & The Art Of Quilt-making”: The exhibit showcases the work of 16 male quilters and the many innovations in design, technique and materials these men have brought to the traditionally “women’s work” of quilting.

“Best of the Festival”: Check out the quilts that were juried and judged to be the best at the 2012 Quilt Festival. In addition to the Best of Show, the

MIRA KAMADA: OILSA show of Mira Kamada’s abstract oil paintings with a botanical flair continues through Dec. 4 at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. Also showing are big sky oils by Dederick Ward, watercolors by Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling inspired by their travels abroad, and botanical and nonrepresentational acrylics by Richard Nash. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or www.scottmilo.com. Pictured: “Autumn Fantasia” by Mira Kamada.


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exhibit also includes the top entries in the tradi-tional and nontraditional pieced quilts, wearable arts, eco-green and embellished categories.

Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Regular admission: $7, $5 students and military, free for mem-bers and children ages 11 and younger. 360-466-4288 or www.laconnerquilts.com.

LECTURES AND TALKS

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: Noemi Ban will speak at 6 p.m. today, Nov. 8, in Arntzen Hall, Room 100, at Western Washington University, Bellingham. On the 74th anniversary of the Krystallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass,” the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp survivor will tell how she lost most of her family in the Nazi death camps, and how she shares her story to inspire current and future generations to pre-vent similar genocides from happening. Free, but reser-vations are required. Call 360-650-4529 or visit www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/NWCHE.

“BEARS TO BAR-NACLES: INCREDIBLE ANIMALS OF THE SALISH SEA”: Dr. Joe Gaydos, SeaDoc chief scientist and wildlife veterinarian, will speak about the web of life in our coastal ecosystem at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Ana-cortes. Hear about some of the biggest, longest-living and most unusual animals in the Salish Sea, as well as the unexpected connec-tions between land and sea that Gaydos and collabo-

rators uncovered in their recent landmark compila-tion of all the birds and mammals of the Salish Sea. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org.

“SHALL WE PLAY THAT ONE TOGETHER?: THE LIFE & ART OF JAZZ PIANO LEGEND MARIAN MCPARTLAND”: 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Paul de Bar-ros, jazz columnist for the Seattle Times, will discuss his new biography of Mari-an McPartland, a living leg-end in the annals of piano jazz. Born in England and schooled in classical piano, McPartland made music history, appear-ing with Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Ben Webster and other jazz luminaries. Among her greatest accomplishments is National Public Radio’s esteemed “Piano Jazz,” a program she started in 1979 and hosted for 32 years. At age 92, McPartland contin-ues to serve as the show’s artistic director. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org.

BIRDS, YARD HABI-TAT & BEYOND: Craig and Joy Johnson will be the guest speakers at the Skagit Audubon Society meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center, 10433 Bayview-Edison Road, Mount Vernon. Watercolor artist and photographer Craig Johnson and writer Joy Johnson have created and published four books containing colorful, close-up photographs of birds. Enjoy a virtual tour of the Johnsons’ yard and beyond, and get simple suggestions

to increase bird activity in your own yard. Free. 360-336-8753.

SKAGIT TOPICS: “HAR-VEST OF SHAME”: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Skagit County Histori-cal Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. The event will feature a viewing of the controversial Edward R. Murrow documentary on migrant farm workers, followed by a discussion on the current situations impacting farm workers. Free with museum admis-sion. $4, $3 seniors and children ages 6 to 12, $8 families, free for members and children ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or www.skagitcounty.net/museum.

MARITIME SPEAKER SERIES: Author Joe Upton will discuss his latest book, “Bering Sea Blues: A Crab-ber’s Tale of FEAR in the Icy North,” at 4 p.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 17, at the Ana-cortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Upton spent 20 years as a com-mercial fisherman and fish buyer in Alaska. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org.

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OPEN HOUSE: The Whatcom-Skagit Model Railroad Club will host an open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at 1469 Silver Run Lane, Alger. The club operates large, permanent HO- and N-scale model railroad layouts. Admission is by donation to help continue building the layouts. www.whatcomskagitmrc.org.

ROCKY HORROR PIC-TURE SHOW: Enjoy a

special showing at 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Rated R. Not recommended for children under 16. $10, $8 members. Add $5 for a Rocky Horror prop bag. 360-336-8955 or www.lin colntheatre.org.

HOLIDAY BALL & AUC-TION: The Mount Vernon Rotary Club will host “An Evening Under the Stars” at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Skagit Valley Gardens, 18923 Peter Johnson Road, Mount Vernon. Enjoy a fine Northwest dinner, entertain-ment and lively bidding on a variety of items to benefit Rotary service projects locally and around the world. For tickets or infor-mation, visit www.mount vernonrotary.com.

NEW MOON FAMILY DRUM CIRCLE: 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, Ana-cortes Center for Hap-piness, 619 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The Rev. Elke Macartney will lead the event to drum in new ideas and drum out the old. Bring your hand drums and rattles or borrow hers. Sug-gested donation: $5-$10. 360-464-2229 or www.ana cortescenterforhappiness.org.

LADIES NIGHT OUT: Skagit Valley Gardens will host Ladies Night Out from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at 18923 Peter Johnson Road, Mount Vernon. Enjoy appetizers, spirits, door prizes, music, shopping and more. $5. Proceeds benefit The For-gotten Children’s Fund. 360-424-6760.

HOLIDAY FARMERS MARKET: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday,

Nov. 17-18, at the Port of Anacortes Warehouse, 100 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. Shop for produce, cheese, honey, bread, pies, sweet treats, fudge, jams, syrups, mustards, granola, local meats, jewelry, cloth-ing, fabric art, wood carv-ings, home decor, pottery, handcrafted soap, candles, brooms, knitted hats, scarves, socks and more. Door prizes and live music all day. Free admission. www.anacortesfarmers market.org.

BROADWAY MOVIE

CLIPS: Hollywood sound man and Academy Award nominee Nick Alphin will present clips from some of his favorite Broadway mov-ies at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org.

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