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Movies“Spider-Man 2” lacks elements that made Maguire-Dunst series special

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ReviewsMusic: Neon Trees, Rodney Crowell Video Games: “Hearthstone ...”

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On StageSkagit Valley Chorale to perform Saturday, Sunday at McIntyre Hall

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BENEFIT CONCERT AT CONWAY MUSE TO HONOR LEGENDARY FOLK SINGER PETE SEEGER

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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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Get Involved ....................................... 6

Music, Video Game Reviews ..........8-9

On Stage, Tuning Up ...................10-11

Hot Tickets ....................................... 14

Movie Listings, Reviews .............16-17

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

Elliott Hofferth will headline

an evening of magic and

comedy on Friday night at Anacortes High School

“Labor Day”: An escaped convict comes into the life of a 13-year-old boy and his mother. It’s based on the book of the same name by Joyce Maynard.

A key moment in “Labor Day” has the character Frank, an escaped convict (Josh Brolin), demonstrating the proper way to make a pie. His point is that it’s not the ingredients that make a pie good but how they are put together. Director/writer Jason Reitman should have fol-lowed that recipe in putting together the movie.

The film has wonderful performances by Brolin and Kate Winslet, who plays emotionally broken single mom Adele. And it is a romance that should be enjoyed with someone you love. The problem is its tempo (it would have to double in speed to reach a snail’s pace), a script full of contrivances and the most ominous musical soundtrack since “Hal-loween.”

“Hill Street Blues: The Complete Collection”: There’s a reason this series won 26 Emmy Awards including the Outstanding Drama Series four years running.

The NBC cop drama from Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll redefined the TV police series format by introduc-ing a group of flawed characters who worked in a world of criminal and per-sonal chaos. The show embraced a gritty realism that many TV series have cop-ied but none been able to match.

The series features an amazing cast that includes Daniel J. Travanti, Veroni-ca Hamel, Bruce Weitz, James B. Sikking and Betty Thomas.

“Escape from Tomorrow”: The film has garnered a lot of attention for the guerrilla filmmaking writer/director Randy Moore used to make the hor-ror film. The majority of the movie was shot at Disneyland and Disney World without permission of the entertainment giant.

It’s kind of fun to watch the movie and try to figure out how secretive the cast and crew had to be. Once that initial interest wears off, “Escape from Tomorrow” becomes a slowly paced, badly acted horror movie that will take its place among cult favorites like “Pink Flamingos.”

“Locker 13”: Theme park janitor looks into the mysteries surrounding an old locker.

“Gimme Shelter”: Teen (Van-essa Hudgens) fights for survival and redemption on the streets.

“The Legend of Hercules”: The origi-

nal story of the mythical Greek hero.“You, Me & Them, Series 1”: British

sitcom about a couple navigating their May-December romance.

“The Devil’s Due”: A couple deal with a devilish pregnancy.

“Prince Killian and The Holy Grail”: Tale of swords and sorcery set in the 12th century.

“SpongeBob, You’re Fired!”: Sponge-Bob must learn to find a life outside of Mr. Krab’s watchful eyes.

“Sophie’s Choice”: The Meryl Streep film is available on Blu-ray for the first time

“The Rise & Fall of The Clash”: Documentary about the final chapter of the juggernaut band.

“Civil War: The Untold Story”: Eliza-beth McGovern narrates the documen-tary that provides new insights into the causes of the war.

“Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed”: The fourth comedy special from the “King of Clean Comedy.”

“Bad Country”: Detective (Willem Dafoe) teams with a contract killer-turned-informant (Matt Dillon) to take a powerful criminal.

“Mr. Selfridge Season 2”: Jeremy Piven plays the man who brought seduc-tive shopping to early 20th-century London.

“The Strange Woman”: The 1946 film starring Hedy Lamarr is being re-released.

“Approved for Adoption”: Animated documentary tracing the unconven-tional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin.

“Star Trek: Enterprise — Season Four”: The space travel TV series is available on Blu-ray for the first time.

n Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee

NEW ON DVD THIS WEEK

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

MAY 6The Art of the Steal - Anchor BayBurn - Passion RiverStill Mine - FoxVeronica Mars - Warner

MAY 13Her - WarnerI, Frankenstein - LionsgateStalingrad - SonyThat Awkward Moment - Sony

n McClatchy-Tribune News Service

ON THE COVER: META presents “The Outsiders,” opening Friday at the Lincoln Theatre. From left: Aengus Cronin, Pavel Kaparchuk, Lincoln Douglas, Gabe Guevara, Jonathan Herrera and Logan Price.

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ON STAGE

Skagit Valley Herald staff

Multicultural Educational Theatre Arts (META) presents “The Outsid-ers,” opening Friday, May 2, at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon.

Based on the coming-of-age book written by S.E. Hinton when she was only 16 years old, “The Outsiders” tells the story of growing up in 1967 Oklahoma, where three orphaned

brothers — Ponyboy, Darry, and Soda Pop — are part of a group

called The Greasers.The Greasers — which also

include Soda Pop, Johnny and Dallas — are uniformly poor, and for that they are in constant conflict with the Socs, the privileged teenagers in town.

Darry, the oldest brother, fights to keep his family together, working two jobs in hopes that his smarter youngest brother, Ponyboy, will

make it out and become something more than just a Greaser.

Despite their harsh upbringing and unprivileged conditions, these Greaser friends show loyalty, love and friendship that is uncommonly expressed in the world today, accord-ing to a META news release. There is loss, triumph, forgiveness and even poetry from Robert Frost that serves as an inner thesis to this story.

META brings ‘The Outsiders’ to the Lincoln‘The Outsiders’ When: 7:30 p.m. May 2-3, 8-10, 15-17; 2 p.m. Sunday, May 11 Where: Lincoln Theatre Tickets: $16; lincolntheatre.org or 360-336-8955


ON STAGE

On what would have been his 95th birthday, a group of musicians and friends of the late folk great Pete Seeger will come together Sunday, May 4, at the Conway Muse to pay homage to a man who touched many.

“A Tribute to Pete Seeger: For Pete’s Sake” will kick off at 1:30 p.m. with a song circle led by Andy Friedlander and Dennis Froelich.

At 4 p.m. the gathering will move into a stage show driven by the styles of folk, blues, bluegrass and activism with Dana Lyons, Tom Rawson, Marc Black, Mike Marker and The Slough Dogs performing.

Seeger was an American folk singer, song-writer and activist who sang for causes he believed in — the labor movement, civil rights, peace and a cleaner Earth.

After his works became popular on national radio in the 1940s, Seeger wrote a number of hit records as a member of The Weavers, pro-ducing songs like “If I had a Hammer” and “Kisses Sweeter than Wine.” As a solo artist

in the 1960s he wrote hits such as “Turn, Turn, Turn” and participated in the civil rights and anti-war movements.

“He taught us not only a bunch of great songs to play, but the history of the labor movement … ” said Froelich, a local musi-cian, stringed instrument builder and one of the event organizers. “He taught us all about American history and he taught us the impor-tance of being involved in democracy.”

Seeger, a four-time Grammy winner, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. He died at age 94 on Jan. 27, 2014.

“The song circle is something Pete Seeger himself urged people to do — get together and sing meaningful, uplifting songs together,” said Roger Sussman, who is organizing the concert with Froelich.

Many of the artists performing are activ-ists in the tradition of Seeger, and some were friends of the late folk legend, Froelich said.

A $7 to $10 donation is requested to benefit food stamp assistance through Community Action of Skagit County.

Pete Seeger tribute

event set for

Sunday at Conway

MuseBy MARK STAYTON

@Mark_SVH

AP file photo / 2013


THIS WEEKENDin the area

Magic & comedy

SKAGIT VALLEY ART ESCAPE The monthly event will include Art Walks from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in downtown Mount Vernon; 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 2, in downtown Anacortes; and 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in Edison and La Conner. Check out artwork by local and regional artists, music, wine, chocolate, dinner and more. skagitvalleyartescape.com.

DENTAL DINNER The Mt. Baker District Dental Soci-ety will host its annual year-end dental care access rec-ognition and fundraising cel-ebration with a wine dinner at 7 p.m. (no-host cocktails at 6 p.m.) Friday, May 2, at the Skagit Golf and Country Club, 16701 Country Club Drive, Burlington. Washing-ton Dental Service Founda-tion President/CEO Laura Smith will report on dental health initiatives across the state. $90. More information at 360-676-2683 or brandi [email protected].

MUSICAL FUNDRAISER Joyful Noise and Mudflat Ramblers will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, in a fundraiser for the North Cascades Concert Band at Bethlehem Luther-an Church, 1006 Wicker Road, Sedro-Woolley. Admission by donation.

FILM SERIES Movie man Nick Alphin will host the Spring Film Series at 7 p.m. Fridays at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org. Next up:

May 2: “Memphis Belle”: Starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz and Tate Donovan, the film tells the story of the American crew of the B-17 bomber “Memphis Belle,” the first U.S. airmen to complete a full tour of 25 mis-sions during the air battle of Europe during the Second World War. The film begins the night before the Belle’s last mission, and follows the crew through the hectic flight that they must endure, and survive, in order to go home. (PG-13, 1990).

Elliott Hofferth and (pictured) special guest JR Russell and

assistant Aliya Zaheer will present an evening of magic and comedy appropriate for all ages at 7 p.m.

Friday, May 2, at Brodniak Hall on the Anacortes High School campus,

1600 20th St., Anacortes. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with preshow by

JR. Advance tickets cost $6 and are available in Anacortes at Read Me a Story, 1005 Ninth St.; and Boxes

and Bears, 709 Commercial Ave. $8 at the door. Proceeds will benefit

the AHS Class of 2016 alcohol- and drug-free grad night.


GET INVOLVED

ART CLASSESFAMILY ART DAYS AT

MoNA: The Museum of Northwest Art offers Fam-ily 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 ses-sion. Workshops are free, but registration is required. 360-466-4446 or monamuseum.org. Next up:

“Whimsical Animals with Mixed Media”: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m. Satur-day, May 10. Learn how to draw whimsical animals by using basic shapes as you work with watercolors, pens, pencils, paints and everyday materials from around the house.

WATER MEDIA: Beyond Watercolor, 4:40 to 6 p.m.

Wednesdays, May 7-28, Burlington Parks and Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave., Burlington. Ages 7-13. Students can try out watercolor pencils and crayons, acrylic mediums and more, with a different subject each week — circus creatures, go Van Gogh, mixed up Monet and night-scapes. $45, plus $20 supply fee payable to instructor. 360-755-9649.

ART WORKSHOPS: Art-ists working in a variety of mediums will offer work-shops at Harmony Fields, 7465 Thomas Road, Bow. For information or to regis-ter, call 360-941-8196 or visit hfproduce.com. Next up:

Monotype Printmaking, with Kris Ekstrand Moles-worth: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4. Celebrate the transition into spring on a working organic farm in the heart of the Skagit Valley. Open to all levels. $95 plus $10 mate-rials fee.

AUDITIONSMBT SUMMER REP:

Auditions for the Mount Baker Theatre’s Summer Repertory Theatre will be held at 1 p.m. today in the Mount Baker Theatre Encore Room, 104 N. Com-mercial St., Bellingham. Parts are available for sever-al men and women in “Tal-ley’s Folly” by Lanford Wil-son, “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” by Neil Simon and “Becky’s New Car” by Ste-ven Dietz. Paid and unpaid roles are available. Casting in more than one show is possible. Prepare two con-trasting monologues, one comedic; no more than three minutes total. Auditions may include cold readings from the scripts. Rehearsals will be held July 5-17; perfor-mances are July 15-Aug. 10, with varying days and times. Homestays/housing pro-

vided for non-Bellingham actors. For information or to schedule an audition, email Alison.Terry@mountbaker theatre.com.

DANCECOMMUNITY DANCE:

Dance to the big band sounds of Camano Junction from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Camano Cen-ter, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. $10-$12. 360-387-0222 or camano center.org.

FOLK DANCING: Skagit-Anacortes Folkdancers meet at 7 p.m. most Tuesdays at the Bayview Civic Hall, 12615 C St., Mount Vernon. Learn to folkdance to a vari-ety of international music. Instruction begins at 7 p.m. followed by review and request dances until 9:30. The first session is free, $3 thereafter. All are welcome. No partners needed. For information, contact Gary or Ginny at 360-766-6866.

THURSDAY DANCE: Enjoy dancing to the music of the Skippers from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursdays at Hill-crest Lodge, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. For informa-tion, contact Doris at 360-588-8239.

ON STAGEANACORTES OPEN MIC:

9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Brown Lantern Ale House, 412 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. 360-293-2544.

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

OAK HARBOR OPEN MIC: 9 to 11 p.m. Thursday, April 24, Haze Lounge, 1090 SE Pioneer Way, Suite 101, Oak Harbor. Ages 18 and older. 360-682-2033 or oakharborhookah.com.

RECREATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB

SUMMER PROGRAMS: Registration is open for summer programs at Skagit Valley Boys & Girls Clubs. Children can participate in educational programs from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon-days through Fridays, June 23-Aug. 15. Programs that encourage academic success, good character and citizen-ship, and healthy lifestyles are designed around dif-ferent themes each week. The cost for Day Camp and regular Club hours is $100 per week plus the monthly membership fee, which starts at $25. A reduced rate is available if your fam-ily qualifies for the free or reduced school lunch pro-gram. Registration is limited, and closes May 30. To learn more or sign up your child, stop by your local club, visit SkagitRaisesGreatKids.org/summer or call the club director listed below:

Anacortes: Cory Oppel, 360-588-9045.

La Conner: Kendrick Davis-Pittmon, 360-466-3672.

Mount Vernon: Vesta Anderson, 360-428-6995.

Sedro-Woolley: John Gar-man, 360-856-1830.

TRAIL TALES: Friends of Skagit Beaches will lead a series of informative walks along the Tommy Thompson Trail in Anacortes. For infor-mation, visit skagitbeaches.org. Next up:

Interpretive Walk: Early Anacortes Maritime Scene: Join Trail Tales docents for a short “Journey of Discovery” walk at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4, by the flagpoles at Cap Sante Marina, 11th Street and R Avenue. Learn about Anacortes’ rich marine his-tory and the changes that have taken place along the waterfront on this one-hour, half-mile walk on a level paved walkway around the

marina to the Rotary Park Gazebo. Free.

TRAIL WORK: The Skagit, Whatcom, Island Trail Maintaining Organization (SWITMO) seeks volun-teers for trail work through October. The next work party will be held Saturday, May 3. 360-424-0407 or [email protected].

TAI CHI FOUNDATIONS: The nine-week series will meet from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Thursdays, May 1-June 26, at Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. Par-ticipants will cover the first section of the Bow 52 form, same as the Yang Style long form section 1. $105-$107. To register, call 360-336-6215.

SPRING PLANT WALKS: The Washington Native Plant Society hosts plant walks from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at area parks. For information, call Ann at 360-293-3044 or Susan at 360-659-8792. Next up:

May 6: Sharpe County Park. Enter off of Rosario Road just south of Sharpe Road. The easy-to-moderate walk includes a pond, woods rich with mosses and lichens, and open bluffs.

KIDS’ FISHING DERBY: The Wildcat Steelhead Club’s annual Fishing Derby for ages 14 and younger will take place Saturday, May 3, at the Northern State Ponds off Fruitdale Road in Sedro-Woolley. Gates open at 7 a.m.; fishing begins at 8 a.m. Bring your own gear and bait. Prizes will be awarded. Parking limited; carpooling recommended. Free. Release forms are available at Big Scoop Ice Cream in Mount Vernon, Holiday Market in Burlington, Morgan Outfit-ters or Oliver & Hammer in Sedro-Woolley, at the Derby site the day of the event or online at wildcatsteelhead-club.org. 360-855-2291.

HAVE A HEART RUN: The fifth annual Have a Heart 5K/10K Run/Walk and 2K Walk will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 3, at Edgewa-ter Park, 600 Behrens Mil-let Road. Proceeds benefit Community Action of Skagit County’s efforts to fight hun-ger and homelessness. Timed 5K and 10K; 2K course is not timed. Noncompetitive Half-Pint Half Mile for kids up to 9 years is free. Trophies awarded to fastest 5K and 10K finishers, and awards for first- and second-place winners in several age cat-egories. Day-of registration opens at 8:15 a.m. Prereg-ister at haveaheartrun.org, includes random prize draw-ing. 360-588-5737.

MARINE NATURALIST TRAINING: The Whale Museum, 62 First St. N., Friday Harbor, is accepting applications for its Marine Naturalist Training Program. Classes will be held May 3-25. The course includes presentations on cetaceans, pinnipeds, otters, intertidal invertebrates, marine birds, geology, marine conserva-tion and current research projects. $375, includes an orca adoption and a muse-um membership. For infor-mation or to register, call 360-378-4710, ext. 23, email [email protected] or visit whalemuseum.org.

THEATERCALL FOR HOUSE MAN-

AGERS: Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE Midway Blvd., Oak Harbor, seeks volunteers to serve as house managers during performances. House managers are in charge of the “front of the house” on a single night of play per-formances, and look after the needs of the audience. Training is available through the theater’s mentoring program. 360-679-2237 or [email protected]

FIRST FRIDAY GALLERY WALK

May 2 6-9pm

Industrious Industries

Anne Martin McCool Gallery

Gallery KP

Burton Jewelers

Scott Milo Gallery

The Majestic Inn and Spa

Apothecary Spa

(2nd f loor Majestic Inn)

Fidalgo DanceWorks Studio

Gallery at the Depot


‘The Outsiders’7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, May 2-37:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8

This drama, presented by META, is based on the story written by S.E. Hinton. The story unfolds in 1967 Oklahoma, where two sets of kids, the Greasers and the Socs, fight out their differences, and learn from one another along the way. Characters such as Ponyboy, Soda Pop, Darry, Dallas, Two Bit and Johnny Boy show tremendous friendship, loyalty and love despite their harsh and unprivileged upbringing. Directed by local actress Lindsey Bowen.

$16. Thursday, May 8 performance: Pay-what-you-can tickets available at the door, two hours prior to the performance.

Cosi Fan Tutte1 p.m. Sunday, May 4

Director James Levine makes his long-

awaited return to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of love. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars: Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard are the sisters Fiordi-ligi and Dorabella, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov are their lovers, with Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina.

$23 adults; $19 seniors; $16 students with $2 off for Lincoln members.

MVHS Jazz Band Series7 p.m. Tuesday, May 6

The jazz bands, directed by Jacob Scheer, are part of the nationally known Fine Arts department at Mount Vernon High School.

Enjoy the music of Sammy Nestico, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Marvin Fisher, Count Basie and more.

$6. All proceeds benefit the MVHS Jazz Program.

AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE

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

New video game releases These games are scheduled for release this week, according to Gamestop.com:n The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlaySta-tion 4, Xbox 360; rated T)n Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (Nintendo 3DS; rated E)n Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends (Nintendo 3DS; rated E)n Rambo: The Video Game (PC, PlayStation 3; rated M)

n Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Ky.)

By MESFIN FEKADUAP Music Writer

NEW YORK — You can soon buy concert tickets from StubHub for shows produced by StubHub.

The company, which helps brokers and fans buy and sell tickets on its website, announced Wednesday it will sell tick-ets to concerts that it will produce. It has five shows planned so far featuring “emerging acts” and will launch its first self-pro-duced concert May 18 in Los Angeles.

The performer will be announced next week.

StubHub is getting

involved in a business dominated by Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary. AEG is also a big player in concert promotion and ticketing of concerts at its own venues like the Sta-ples Center in Los Angeles through its ticketing arm, AXS.

Michael Lattig, Stub-Hub’s chief marketing offi-cer, said ticketing its own concerts is not a “one-off” project.

“This is about doing something that we can repeat and continue to bring around the country and deliver to fans in as many markets as makes

sense,” Lattig said.StubHub, a subsidiary of

eBay Inc., was launched in 2000. It is targeting 300- to 600-seat venues for its self-ticketed shows.

Tickets for the May 18 self-produced StubHub show will go on sale next week for $60. The Stub-Hub shows, which will benefit the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, will play in Nashville, Tennessee; San Francisco; Chicago; and New York.

StubHub is also partner-ing with Pandora for five free concerts, kicking off April 30 with Tokyo Police Club at Los Angeles’ Bou-levard 3.

StubHub plans to ticket, produce its own concerts

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REVIEWS: MUSIC

Damon Albarn“Everyday Robots”

Twenty years after he became a Brit-pop poster boy as lead singer of Blur, Damon Albarn has released his first solo album.

He’s been busy in the meantime, front-ing cartoon hip-hop band Gorillaz, form-ing the supergroup The Good, the Bad and the Queen and even writing a couple of operas. So “Everyday Robots” is hardly the work of a novice — rather of a man in his 40s looking back with a mixture of wonder and regret.

The songs, suffused with nostalgic mel-ancholy, blend the digital and the organic, scattering samples of speech and street sounds over electronic beats, winsome guitar and plinky piano.

Lyrically, Albarn explores the tension between isolation and connection in the digital age, and the feelings of guilt and absolution that come with aging.

The melancholy title track sets the tone, with Albarn’s vulnerable vocals laid over ragged samples and jagged violin. It’s an understated number that worms its way under the skin.

“Hostiles” and “Hollow Ponds” con-tinue the mood of languid reverie, while “You and Me” refers to Albarn’s long-ago use of heroin, a drug he has said he found alluring and dangerous.

There are a couple of more up-tempo numbers in “Mr. Tembo” — an ode to an orphaned baby elephant — and “Heavy Seas of Love,” a low-key sing-a-long fea-turing Brian Eno and a church choir.

More typical of the bittersweet mood are “Lonely Press Play” (“If you’re lonely, press play”) and the lovely, delicately hopeful “Photographs (You Are Taking Now”).

“Everyday Robots” is an album of subtle pleasures.

n Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Death“III”

Feverish and socially conscious, the final set of Death’s 1970s recordings affirms why they rose from the ashes and gained an audience after

debuting in 2009.“III,” the Detroit-based sibling trio’s

third album, is their grooviest collec-tion yet. It comes after the label Drag City released the group’s stylistic hard rock album recorded in 1974, “… For the Whole World to See,” in 2009. “Spiritual, Mental, Physical” followed in 2011.

On “III,” the Hackney brothers have mellowed the thrashing, though the hard and fast still dominates when they muse on the grimy “North Street.” But they have more funk, soul and psychedelic sounds on the latest effort, which includes songs recorded in 1975, 1976, 1980 and 1992.

Guitarist David — who died of lung cancer in 2000 — paces himself on the intro, an instrumental simply titled “Intro-duction by David” (vocalist Bobby and drummer Dannis round out the trio). David’s eerie, bewitching riffs begin steady, but after a lengthy pause, irrupt in a wash of lavish, hurried reverb.

Leading with a line of spoken word, “We Are Only People” is a spaced-out trip that slowly reaches a jamming rock climax. It’s the most satisfying moment next to the bluesy “Open Road,” which offers a funky bent rhythm chopped by pregnant pauses.

Two of the nine songs were recorded at Groovesville studio in Detroit, while most of the others were cataloged at the trio’s home. Due to the poor recording quality, the vocals sound distant and muffled on a few tracks, but their tight progressions never falter.

n Jessica Herndon, Associated Press

Pixies“Indie Cindy”

Twenty-three years is a long time between drinks, and that’s what’s passed between the Pixies’ last studio album (1991’s “Trompe le Monde”) and this handsome cobbling-together of new EPs, recorded with original members (Black Francis, Joey Santiago, David Lov-ering) and their premier producer, Gil Norton.

In this reteaming, with several still-raw bruises (not to mention their well-documented shifts in female bassists), the Pixies’ instrumental menace and spidery arrangements are zealously intact, along with their signature start-and-stop-on-a-dime dynamics, jangle-crunch guitars,

and Francis’ insistently icy allusions to grouchy gods and mopey monsters of all stripes.

Like much of “Indie Cindy’s” best, a savage song such as “Bagboy” would be right at home on their classic album “Doolittle.” Not that Francis’ corrosive kvetches, moans and heated hollers — or the band’s instrumental wall of woe — sounds dated. Their ferocity feels particu-larly fresh-yet-familiar on tracks such as “Andro Queen.” What’s updated is the sound, the way tunes like “What Goes Boom” and “Snakes” bound from your speakers, whether spin-cycle slow or rag-ingly hyperactive.

One complaint: “Indie Cindy” should have included newer songs beyond the recent-and-very-recently released EPs.

n A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia Inquirer

Rodney Crowell“Tarpaper Sky”

In a 2005 inter-view, Rodney Crowell talked about how he had become interested in pursuing a “singular sensibility” rather than hit records. That may sound preten-tious, but at his best Crowell has always melded artistry and accessibility.

Now, coming off his Grammy-winning collaboration with Emmylou Harris on “Old Yellow Moon,” he has done it again.

With “Tarpaper Sky,” Crowell wields his considerable skills to play everything from the voice of hard-won experience (the bookends “The Long Journey Home” and “Oh What a Beautiful World”) to a wounded lover (“God I’m Missing You”), to a wayward son (“Jesus Talk to Mama”)

or a loving portraitist (“Grandma Loved That Old Man”).

If the 63-year-old Crowell sounds like the sage elder amid all the tasteful Ameri-cana, well, he can still get pretty frisky: “Frankie Please” is pure adrenaline rush, a breakneck rocker with a Chuck Berryish tumble of words to match, and “Some-body’s Shadow” is a blast of sax-fueled R&B that would be right at home in a rough-and-tumble roadhouse.

n Nick Cristiano, Philadelphia Inquirer

Wye Oak“Shriek”

Like them or not, you gotta give it up for Wye Oak in terms of their sheer artistry and refusal to play it safe.

Rather than attempting to lazily repli-cate 2011’s breakout album “Civilian,” the Baltimore twosome of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have the pluck to dive into experimentation, accepting the risk that they may fall on their face in the process. With “Shriek,” the webbing and tethers of Wye Oak’s safety net are severed, that ubiquitous element of modern music and the foundation of the group’s past work — the guitar — kicked to the wayside.

n Cole Waterman, popmatters.com

Neon Trees“Pop Psychology”

Neon Trees conquered the re-creation of the buzz and energy of ’80s new wave years ago, with their smash singles “Animal” and “Every-body Talks.” But on the Provo, Utah, quar-tet’s third album, “Pop Psychology,” singer Tyler Glenn and friends graduate to chan-neling the angst of the time as well.

On the current hit “Sleeping With a Friend,” and for much of the album, there is deeper emotional subtext as well as candy-coated catchiness. Neon Trees also branch out into other retro areas, updat-ing The Strokes in the jumpy “Text Me in the Morning” and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in the lovely “Voices in the Halls.”

n popmatters.com

Other notable releasesn String Cheese Incident — “Song in My Head”n Death — “Leprosy”n Johnnyswim — “Diamonds”n Ray LaMontagne — “Supernova”n Old 97s — Most Messed Up”n Pink Mountaintops — “Get Back”n Pixies — “Indie Cindy”n Rodrigo y Gabriela — “9 Dead Alive”n William Tyler — “Lost Colony”

n popmatters.com


REVIEWS: VIDEO GAMES

‘Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft’Publisher: Blizzard EntertainmentPlatform: iPad, PC, MacCost: FreeRating: 3.5 stars (out of four)

Video game publishers don’t take many risks with their most popular fran-chises.

You know exactly what you are going to get from a new “Call of Duty” or “Madden NFL” game — it will probably be pretty good, but won’t offer any surprises.

That’s part of what makes “Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft” such a delight. It couldn’t be any less like its parent, the mas-sively multiplayer online role-playing behemoth “World of Warcraft.” While “WoW” is sprawling, time-consuming and somewhat intimidating, “Hearth-stone” is tightly focused, fast-paced and accessible to just about anyone.

Essentially, it’s a one-on-one card duel. Each player is represented by a “hero,” who has 30 health points and 30 cards. Most cards generate “minions,” who can attack your opponent or defend your hero.

Other cards allow you to directly attack enemies, make minions more power-ful or recover lost health points. If you can whittle down the competition’s health points to zero, you win.

It’s a virtual version of a collectible card game like “Magic: The Gathering” or “Pokemon.” Win a few games and you’re rewarded with more powerful cards to add to your deck. The basic decks provided with the game are good enough for a few practice games, but you’ll want to start building your own after

you get crushed by online competitors.

And that’s where “Hearthstone” leaps from a 15-minute diversion to an obsession. There are more than 450 cards available, some of which you have to create using a clever craft-ing system. There are nine different heroes — mages, warriors, rogues and so on — each of whom has cards only he or she can use. You’ll want to spend time playing as each char-acter and then, once you’ve picked a favorite, build the optimal 30-card deck.

If you’re worried that your deck will never match up to that of a “Hearth-stone” veteran, try visiting the Arena. There, each player is forced to assemble a fresh deck from randomly selected cards, adding a bit more luck to the equation.

“Hearthstone” has been available for a few months on PC and Mac, but the just-released iPad version shines particularly bright. The illustrations on the cards are gorgeous, and

the animations and sound effects are elegant and effective. It’s a beautifully executed labor of love from a company that usually works on a much bigger canvas.

And it’s free. Yes, you’ll need to spend some money if you expect to track down some of the more rare cards, but you can expect dozens of hours of enjoy-ment from “Hearthstone” without investing one cent.

‘Hitman Go’Publisher: Square EnixPlatform: iPadCost: $4.99Rating: 3 stars

“Hitman Go” takes another AAA series in an unexpected direction, transforming the violent assassination thriller into a battle of wits.

Agent 47, the cold-blooded killer from the “Hitman” franchise, has been transformed into a board-game token, and each of his missions is now a series of a dozen or so

logic mazes.If any of the guards sta-

tioned around the maze sees 47, he gets knocked

off the board — though if you approach a guard from behind or from either side, you can knock him off.

Whenever 47 moves, the guards move, too, so you need to figure out their patterns to escape each level.

As the puzzles get more complex, new tools are introduced: You can hide behind bushes, throw rocks to distract guards or hide in secret passages.

It’s a satisfying pack-age of deviously designed brainteasers that will even appeal to players who can’t stomach the gore in a regu-lar “Hitman” game.

n Lou Kesten, Associated Press

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ON STAGE in the Skagit Valley and surrounding area May 1-8 TUNING UP Playing at area venues May 1-8

Thursday.1THEATER

“All Shook Up!” (musical based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” featuring the songs of Elvis Pres-ley): Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Dept., 7 p.m., Sedro-Wool-ley High School auditorium, 1235 Third St., Sedro-Woolley. $10, $5 students/seniors. 360-855-3510.

“Leading Ladies” (comedy): 7 p.m., Nooksack Valley High School Performing Arts Center, 3326 E. Badger Road, Everson. $8. 360-988-4754 or [email protected].

Friday.2MAGIC/COMEDY

Elliott Offerth, JR Russell and Aliya Zaheer: 6:30 p.m., Brodniak Hall, Anacortes High School, 1600 20th St., Anacortes. Tickets: $6 advance in Ana-cortes at Read Me a Story, 1005 Ninth St.; and Boxes and Bears, 709 Com-mercial Ave. $8 at the door.

MUSIC“Spring Potpourri”: Whidbey

Community Chorus and Oak Har-bor High School’s award-winning Harbor Singers, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1050 SE Ireland St., Oak Harbor. Free, donations accepted. 360-678-4148.

“How Beautiful: A Collection of Treasured Wedding and Love Songs”: soprano Wendy Donaghy and pianist Terhi Miikki-Broersma, 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., Lynden. $10. 360-354-3600 or jansenartcenter.org.

THEATER“The Outsiders”: META Per-

forming Arts, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $16. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.


“Leading Ladies” (comedy): 7 p.m., Nooksack Valley High School Performing Arts Center, 3326 E. Badger Road, Everson. $8. 360-988-4754 or [email protected].

VARIETYCabaret Showcase (dance, the-

ater, song, poetry, improvisation): Western Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, 8 p.m., Room 16, Performing Arts Center at Western Washington University, Bellingham. $4. 360-650-6146 or tickets.wwu.edu.

Saturday.3MUSIC

“Celebrating in Song”: Skagit Valley Chorale, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $14-$25. 416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

“Celebration of Life”: 7 p.m., Bethany Covenant Church, 1318 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon. Free. 360-424-9399.

THEATER“The Outsiders”: META Per-

forming Arts, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $16. 360-336-8955 or lin-colntheatre.org.


VARIETYCabaret Showcase: Western

Washington University Depart-ment of Theatre and Dance, 8 p.m. Room 16, Performing Arts Center at Western Washington University, Bellingham. $4. 360-650-6146 or tickets.wwu.edu.

Sunday.4MUSIC

“Celebrating in Song”: Skagit Valley Chorale, 2 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $14-$25. 416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

Student Dessert Recital: Per-formances every hour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland St., Mount Vernon. Suggested donation: $5, $10 family. skagitmusicteachers.org.

“Spring Potpourri”: Whidbey Community Chorus, 4 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1050 SE Ireland St., Oak Harbor. Free, donations accepted. 360-678-4148.

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Whatcom Symphony Orchestra, 3 p.m., Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St., Bellingham. $12-$39. whatcomsymphony.com.

THEATER“Leading Ladies” (comedy):

2 p.m., Nooksack Valley High School Performing Arts Center, 3326 E. Badger Road, Everson. $8. 360-988-4754 or [email protected].

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SUNDAY.4

Scott Hanes: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Big Rock Café, 14779 Highway 9, Mount Vernon. All ages. No cover. 360-424-7872.

The Spencetet Classic Jazz Quartet: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jan-sen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.

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

Aaron Crawford (top 40 country rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

Sabrina y Los Reyes (Latin fusion): 7:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7. 360-445-3000.

Ben Starner: 8 to 11 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. 360-588-1720.

Totalizer, The Basque Rats, Some Kind of Nightmare, The Vaticxnts: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $4. 360-778-1067.

Aaron Crawford (top 40 country rock): 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Win-ners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. No cover. 877-275-2448.

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

R.X. Bertoldi: 8:30 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $5. 360-445-3000.

Alice Stuart: 7:30 p.m., H2O, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-755-3956.

Margaret Wilder Band: 8:30 p.m., Edi-son Inn, 5829 Cains Court, Edison. 360-766-6266.

1967: 9 p.m. to midnight, Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6330.

A King Also, Landon Wordswell, Ether XOXO featuring Ashley Douglas, MT$: 10 p.m., The Shakedown, 1212 N. State St., Bellingham. $8. 360-778-1067.

Damon Jones: 6:30 to 8 p.m., Jansen Art Center Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lynden. No cover. 360-354-3600.

Gary B’s Church of Blues: Jam Night, 6 to 10 p.m., Conway Pub & Eatery, 18611 Main St., Conway. 360-445-4733.

Tribute to Pete Seeger: Dana Lyons, Tom Rawson, Marc Black, Mike Marker, The Slough Dogs; 1 to 8 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $7-$10 donation to benefit Mount Vernon Food Bank. 360-445-3000.

Patchy Sanders: 6 p.m., Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce/Main, Conway. $5. 360-445-3000.

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

Desperate Measures (classic rock): 6 to 10 p.m., Castle Tav-ern, 708 Metcalf St., Sedro-Woolley. No cover. 360-855-2263.

Blues/rock jam with CC Adams and Friends: 4 to 9 p.m., La Conner Pantry & Pub, 315 Morris St., La Conner. 360-466-4488.

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

Deanne Savage and Friends: 6 to 9 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 360-588-1720.

Andy “Badd Dog” Koch: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Jansen Art Cen-ter Piano Lounge, 321 Front St., Lyn-den. No cover. 360-354-3600.

THURSDAY- SATURDAY.1-3“ALL SHOOK UP!”Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Dept., 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School auditorium, 1235 Third St., Sedro-Woolley. $10, $5 stu-dents/seniors. Pictured: Taylor Huckaby-Vallejos, Quinn Krivanek and Andy Murrell.Rachel Elder photo

LOOKING AHEADTUESDAY.6 “All Shook Up!” (musical based on Shake-speare’s “Twelfth Night,” featur-ing the songs of Elvis Presley): Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Dept., 4 p.m., Sedro-Wool-ley High School auditorium, 1235 Third St., Sedro-Woolley. Pay-what-you-can. 360-855-3510. Mount Vernon High School Jazz Band: 7 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. $6. 360-336-8955 or lincoln theatre.org.

THURSDAY.8 “The Outsid-ers”: META Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m., Lin-coln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Pay-what-you-can. Tickets available two hours before show time. 360-336-8955 or lincolntheatre.org.

“All Shook Up!” (musical based on Shake-speare’s “Twelfth Night,” featur-ing the songs of Elvis Presley): Sedro-Woolley High School Drama Dept., 7 p.m., Sedro-Woolley High School audito-rium, 1235 Third St., Sedro-Wool-ley. $10, $5 stu-dents/seniors. 360-855-3510.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY.3-4“CELEBRATING IN SONG”Skagit Valley Chorale, 7:30 p.m., McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, Mount Vernon. $14-$25. 416-7727, ext. 2, or mcintyrehall.org.

FRIDAY.2

WEDNESDAY.7 THURSDAY.8

FRIDAY.2BEN STARNER 8 to 11 p.m., Rockfish Grill, 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.

SATURDAY.319679 p.m. to midnight, Longhorn Saloon & Grill, 5754 Cains Court, Edison. No cover. 360-766-6330.


TRAVEL

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The Necropolis in Glasgow, Scotland, regarded as one of the most significant cemeteries in Europe. The immense Victorian monument garden of 37 acres provides a stunning elevated view of the city and is the final resting place of more than 50,000 people, many of them notable.

LEFT: The Duke of Wellington statue, which is rarely seen without a traffic cone on its head. It started as a joke by students decades ago but is now an almost permanent symbol of local humor.Stewart Cunningham / AP

RIGHT: Botanic Gardens, an internationally renowned garden in the heart of Glasgow’s West End.Glasgow City Marketing Bureau via AP

By PAUL KELBIEAssociated Press

GLASGOW, Scotland — The image of Scotland’s largest city as a hard and dirty industrial center is long gone. Instead, this former European Capital of Culture is now widely regarded as one of Brit-ain’s most lively and stylish urban destinations.

It boasts the best shop-ping experience in the U.K. outside of London and is home to a variety of annual festivals celebrating every-thing from rock music and comedy to literature and the arts.

Once regarded as “The Second City of the British Empire,” it remains a well-preserved example of Vic-torian excess and enlight-enment, offering numerous museums and art galleries, of which more than 20 are free to visit.

The city is easy to get around. Many of the attrac-tions are within walking distance of each other or can be reached by the city’s unique subway system known fondly as the Clock-work Orange.

Opened in 1896, it is the third oldest metro system in the world after London and Budapest, and has only one circle line serving 15 stations with a train every four minutes at peak times.

CITY CENTERThe streets of this

800-year-old city are paved with history built upon the profits of shipbuild-ing, Caribbean sugar and American tobacco and cotton.

Glasgow was designated U.K. City of Architecture and Design in 1999 and even a brief walk through its streets will reveal the legacy of renowned architects and designers, such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander “Greek” Thomson among others.

There are numerous monuments and statues to leading scientists, inventors, poets, politicians and war heroes throughout the city. The most popular is that of the Duke of Wellington outside the Gallery of Modern Art, but the statue is rarely seen without a traffic cone on its head.

What started as a joke by students more than 40 years ago is now an almost permanent symbol of Glas-wegian humor. When the city council tried to raise the statue higher to stop the prank, there was a pub-lic protest that attracted tens of thousands of sup-porters calling for the cone to stay.

RIVERSIDE MUSEUMOne of the most modern

city attractions is the River-side Museum on the banks of the Clyde.

Designed by Zaha Hadid, this iconic build-

Five free things in Glasgow, from gardens to museums

ing, which was voted 2013 European Museum of the Year, has more than 3,000 exhibits showcasing a vari-ety of “Clyde-built” trams, trains and cars — built when the waterfront was home to a major indus-trial center. The museum also includes three recon-structed streets showing Glasgow as it would have been between 1895 and 1930.

Visitors are encouraged to climb aboard many of

the exhibits, including the U.K.’s only floating Clyde-built sailing ship, which is permanently moored out-side the museum.

HUNTERIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY

The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at the Uni-versity of Glasgow is the oldest museum in Scotland, dating back more than 200 years.

Used extensively for academic research but also

open to the public, the collection features a wide range of artifacts ranging from an entire section of the wall built by Romans in Scotland in the 2nd century to scientific instru-ments used by some of the world’s greatest scientists and objects from Captain Cook’s voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

The Art Gallery is home to one of the world’s great-est collections of work by Charles Rennie Mackin-

tosh, including the reas-sembled interior of his for-mer Glasgow home. It also houses paintings by famous artists such as George Stubbs and James McNeill Whistler.

NECROPOLISIf you don’t mind some-

thing a little more maca-bre, the Necropolis is well worth a wander.

Regarded as one of the most significant cem-eteries in Europe, the


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Local travel SHORT TRIPS: Mount Vernon Parks and Recre-ation offers travel oppor-tunities for ages 12 and older (adult supervision required for ages 18 and younger). Trips depart from and return to Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St., Mount Vernon. For informa-tion or to register, call 360-336-6215. Next up: “Northwest Wine and Cheese Tour”: Ages 21 and older, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 4. Travel by van and ferry to the Olympic Peninsula to sam-ple new wine releases and ciders paired with a variety of local artisan cheeses. Enjoy a no-host lunch and time to explore Port Townsend. $66-$68. Some locations may charge an additional tasting fee. “Backyard Bonanza: Birds, Bees, Begonias and More”: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 10. The 14th annual Backyard Wild-life Festival will feature pre-sentations from experts, educational exhibits, arts and crafts and a native plant sale. There will also be a guided bird tour along the Duwamish River, a no-host lunch, a visit to Seat-tle’s Kubota Garden and a stop at Sky Nursery on the way home. $55-$57. Reg-ister by May 5. “Wallabies and Water-falls”: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14. Travel to Snoqualmie to view the 286-foot Snoqualmie Falls and adjoining hydroelectric project, followed by time to enjoy a no-host lunch and exploration of the quaint downtown. Next, the group will head over to the Fall City Wallaby Ranch for a private tour, including a chance to pet, feed and learn all about gray and albino Bennett’s wallabies and red kangaroos, with one final stop at Maltby for an afternoon treat at Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream. $62-$64. Register by June 6. “San Juan Island His-tory, Hiking and Whales”: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28. Travel by van and ferry to Friday

Harbor for hiking and great views at American Camp, then on to Lime Kiln Point State Park, considered one of the best locations to see migrating orca whales. After a picnic lunch, head back to Friday Harbor for time on your own to explore shops, cafes and maybe even the Whale Museum. Pack a lunch and beverages and wear weath-er-appropriate clothing and hiking shoes. $72-$80. Register by June 20.

WEEKEND LANGUAGE INTENSIVES: The North-west Language and Cul-tural Center offers week-end language and culture immersion sessions at its Whidbey Island facility in Langley. Each two-day ses-sion includes 12 hours of language and cultural activ-ities. Student at all levels are welcome. Tuition: $185 per session. 360-321-2101 or [email protected]. Next up: Italian, May 3-4: Roberto Tauriello Torgerson of Seattle’s Percorso Italiano language school.

JAPANESE TEA TASTING, CEREMONY: Learn about Japanese tea and the tea ceremony at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at Gretchens Kitchen, 509 S. First St., Mount Vernon. Tatsuo Tomeoka from Charaku Fine Japanese Tea Company will discuss the history, culture and preparation surrounding the tea ceremony. Attendees will taste several Japanese green teas, ending with a tasting of matcha, the tradi-tional tea used for tea cer-emonies, and a Japanese sweet from Chef Tokara’s Japanese bakery in Seattle. $10. 360-336-8747 or gretchenskitchen.com.

GLASS SCHOOL TOUR: The Pilchuck Glass School will host an open house from noon to 5 p.m. Sun-day, July 13, at its private campus near Stanwood. Enjoy hot glass demonstra-tions, docent-led tours of the studios and gallery, live music and more. Hands-on activities, including glass

blowing and printmaking, and an “off the beaten path” tour are available for additional fees. General admission: $20, $10 ages 6 to 12, free for ages 5 and younger. Food and bev-erages will be available for purchase. For information or reservations, call 206-621-8422, ext. 26, or visit pilchuck.com.

WWU FACULTY-LED TRAVEL PROGRAMS: Western Washington University will offer sev-eral educational travel programs this summer in Italy and Africa. Global Dis-covery trips are not for uni-versity credit or restricted to Western students. Trips include: Tuscany, Italy: Aug. 31-Sept. 14. Mount Kilimanjaro Climb and Serengeti Safari Extension: July 5-19. Serengeti Safari and Kilimanjaro Culture Tour Extension: July 14-26. Details: 360- 650-6409, [email protected], wwu.edu/GlobalDiscovery.

EXTENDED TRIPS: The Oak Harbor Senior Center is organizing several extended trips: New England, Sept. 26-Oct. 3; “Southern Charm,” Dec. 14-19; Panama, February 2015; “Blue Danube,” April 14-28, 2015; and Portugal, fall 2015. Contact Pat Gardner 360-279-4582 or email at [email protected].

PASSPORT APPLICA-TIONS: The Anacortes Public Library accepts passport applications from noon to 6:30 p.m. Tues-days and Wednesdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays at 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Passport forms and infor-mation on fees and how to apply are available at travel.state.gov, or pick up an application and pass-port guide at the library.The Oak Harbor Senior Center accepts passport applications, by appoint-ment, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at 51 SE Jerome St., Oak Harbor. 360-279-4580.

Victorian monument gar-den of 37 acres is over-looked by Glasgow Cathe-dral and provides a stun-ning elevated view of the city.

As the final resting place of more than 50,000 people, many of them notable, it is full of amazing stories and gothic monuments. There are regular free walking tours from well-informed volunteer guides but visi-

tors may also explore on their own.

BOTANIC GARDENSFounded initially in

1817, the internationally renowned Botanic Gardens in the heart of the West End of Glasgow provide an oasis of calm and respite.

There are more than 50 acres of formal gardens, woodland walks and archi-tecturally impressive glass-

houses filled with an exten-sive array of temperate and tropical plants from around the world to explore.

Open from 7 a.m. to dusk every day, the gardens are within a short walking distance of Byers Road, one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan areas of the city, filled with a range of cafes, bars and some of Glasgow’s most popular restaurants.

ABOVE: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, the oldest museum in Scotland, dating back more than 200 years. University of Glasgow via AP

LEFT: Riverside Museum on the banks of the Clyde River.

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STEEL PANTHER: May 3, Show-box SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. IRA GLASS: May 3, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com. THE GLITCH MOB: May 3-4, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. STEPHEN “RAGGA” MARLEY: May 6, The Showbox, Seattle. 206-224-5481 or aeglive.com. WHO’S BAD: “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band”: May 8, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. LED ZEPAGAIN (tribute to Led Zeppelin): May 9, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com. STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS: Featuring Edie Brickell: May 10, Mount Baker The-atre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com. DANNY BROWN: May 10, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. OLD 97s: May 12, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com. PRISCILLA AHN: May 13, Columbia City Theater, Seattle. 800-838-3006 or columbiacity theater.com. RIFF RAFF: May 14, The Show-box, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. MICKEY AVALON: May 15, The Crocodile, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. KARLA BONOFF & JIMMY WEBB: May 15, Mount Baker The-atre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com. LIL JON - DJ SET: May 16, Show-box SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. FLIGHT TO MARS: featuring Mike McCready of Pearl Jam: May 16, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. NICKEL CREEK: May 17, Moore Theatre, Seattle. 877-784-4849 or livenation.com. KYLE GASS BAND: May 18, The Crocodile, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. FAILURE: May 18, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com. KISHI BASHI: May 20, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. LINDSEY STIRLING: May 21, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. BACKSTREET BOYS, AVRIL

LAVIGNE: May 22, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or ticket master.com. TECH N9NE: May 23-24, Show-box SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. THE NYLONS: May 24, Skagit Val-ley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com. LANA DEL REY: May 27, WaMu Theater, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. BLACK FLAG: May 27, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. HOODIE ALLEN: May 27, The Crocodile, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. LADY GAGA’S artRAVE: May 28, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. LIONEL RITCHIE: with CeeLo Green: May 30, KeyArena, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. “IN MY LIFE”: A Musical Tribute to the Beatles: June 5, Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham. 360-734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com. KUBE 93 SUMMER JAM: June 6-7, Gorge Amphitheatre, George. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. GRIEVES: June 7, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or show boxonline.com. BRIT FLOYD: June 9, McCaw Hall, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or livenation.com. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: June 10, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. ONEREPUBLIC: June 12, Com-cast Arena at Everett. 866-332-

8499 or comcastarenaeverett.com. ALLEN STONE: June 13, Cha-teau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. THE FRAY: with Barcelona and Oh Honey: June 17, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. DIGITOUR: June 20, The Show-box, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES: June 20-21, Skagit Valley Casino Resort, Bow. 877-275-2448 or theskagit.com. SARAH McLACHLAN: June 20-21, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. RODRIGO AMARANTE: June 21, The Barboza, Seattle. 206-709-9442 or thebarboza.com. MERLE HAGGARD, EMMYLOU HARRIS: June 22, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville. 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. GAVIN DEGRAW AND MATT NATHANSON: with Mary Lambert: June 24, Marymoor Park, Red-mond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: June 26, The Showbox, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. ROBYN + RÖYKSOPP: Do It Again Tour: June 26, Marymoor Park, Redmond. 888-929-7849 or AXS.com. FITZ & THE TANTRUMS: June 27, Showbox SoDo, Seattle. 800-745-3000 or showboxonline.com. MINUS THE BEAR: June 27, Columbia City Theater, Seattle.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Should we get ready for a Purple Flood?

Only Prince knows what music he might release under a new agreement with his old label, Warner Bros., that also gives him control of the much-coveted master recordings of his first 19 albums. The only certainties are a deluxe edition of his bestseller “Purple Rain,” which marks its 30th anni-versary this summer, and an album of new material with 3rdEyeGirl.

What else might emerge from Prince’s long-touted vault of unreleased music? Album projects that were abandoned? Outtakes? Demo recordings? Live albums?

The Rock Hall of Famer was a notoriously hyperpro-ductive musicmaker in his Warners years, from 1978 to about 1996. “We used to record two songs a day,” said David Z, Prince’s main engi-neer from 1976 until 1994.

Whatever rarities are released, they belong to Prince, not the label.

“We exhausted the War-ner Bros. vault years ago,” said Gregg Geller, former Warners vice president of A&R. He put together 1993’s “The Hits/The B Sides,” which included a handful of unreleased tunes that Prince delivered expressly for the boxed set. “One problem Prince had was productivity. He cre-ated an avalanche of music that kept coming for years. Record companies don’t move that quickly.”

But Prince never submit-ted finished material to War-ners unless he was ready to release it. The exception was 1987’s “The Black Album,” which he pulled the plug on.

The label eventually issued it in 1994.

Prince’s vision seemed to be at odds with Warners’ strategies. “He did great stuff (but) he’d say: ‘That’s what they want from me. I don’t want to put it out,’” David Z said. “He wanted to be more obscure, I guess.”

A year or so after sign-ing a reported $100 million deal with the label in ’92, he started writing “slave” on his cheek and protest-ing his lack of ownership of his master recordings. He and Warners eventually divorced.

The new deal could mean considerably more money for Prince. In 2013, his War-ners catalog sold 286,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. If Prince had owned his catalog, Billboard magazine estimates his take would have been $1.7 mil-lion instead of the estimated $657,000 in royalties he likely received.

A deluxe version of the Oscar- and Grammy-win-ning “Purple Rain” not only promises improved sound but bonus material that could include the August 1983 concert at First Avenue when the film’s songs were introduced.

“It would be a great live album,” said David Z, who oversaw the recording that night. “It was the first time Wendy (Melvoin, guitar-ist) joined him. People had never heard the songs and didn’t react because none of it was familiar. There are a few songs that weren’t used in the movie or album.”

Among the outtakes are an instrumental written by Prince’s father, John Nelson, and a song by Jill Jones, a singer in the movie. But there were no demos for “Purple Rain,” David Z said. Prince didn’t operate that way with his band.

What might emerge from Prince’s vault?


MOVIES

By CRAIG PARRISH Entertainment/Lifestyles Editor

It’s difficult to imagine how “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” could have been any worse.

Long gone are the elements that made the Tobey Maguire/Kirsten Dunst “Spider-Man” series so effective: genuine charm and humor, breathtaking action, and the correct amount of darkness and menace.

In its place is a wildly connected cacophony, alternately chaotic and would-be serene, baffling in its lack of originality and its reliance on worn cliches.

It’s visually impressive, but for more than $200 million of Marvel’s money, it had better be. The 3D effects are effective, but shouldn’t there be a limit to how many times the audience is showered with shards of glass?

Andrew Garfield returns to play Spider-Man/Peter Parker, and he and Emma Stone (playing Gwen Stacy, the somewhat devoted girl-friend who is exploring her future options) are among the two more luminous actors working today.

But when saddled with a script not nearly as clever as the film-makers would like to think, any chemistry the two may have culti-vated fades quickly, just in time for the next explosion of lightning and electricity.

The film makes ample use of electricity, both good and bad. Jamie Foxx plays Max Dillon, an electrical engineer at Oscorp, the behemoth of a company that yields dark secrets, only known to a few of its minions.

Dillon suffers an on-the-job accident that turns him into Elec-tro, a blue/translucent who can

harness massive amounts of elec-tricity and fire it from his hands; destruction of a well-lit New York City soon ensues. And since Dil-lon/Electro’s mishap occurred on his birthday, the script provides him with this groaner: “It’s my birthday, I’m going to light my candles.”

Electro is captured by Oscorp minions, strung up with cables and hidden, as to not alarm the com-pany’s stockholders.

But things change when 20-year-old Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) steps in to take over Oscorp from his recently deceased father Norman (Chris Cooper, in a brief appearance that provides the movie’s only real squirm-inducing dread).

Harry suffers from the same

malady that killed his father, and he seeks Spider-Man’s blood as a possible cure. Spider-Man says no, Harry vows revenge, and he and Electro team up for the requisite destruction.

Director Marc Webb pres-ents Harry as a physically unim-posing rich-kid-with-an-attitude, with a horrific Euro-trash comb-over and leer that all but screams “Bad Guy,” even though he and Peter are longtime friends.

The money is on the screen. The screenplay, by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner, tries way, way, too hard to be clever and glib.

It is neither. That much is made clear in the movie’s first action sequence, when Spider-Man foils a hijack attempt of volatile nuclear materials, trading silly verbal jabs with the getaway driver and trying to secure the nuclear vials with laughable (not funny) quips like “Heel!” and “Come here!”

Recall the postcredits scene in “The Avengers”? The heroes are eating in a Shawarma diner, not exchanging a word. That scene has more believable dialogue than anything in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”

Noisy ‘Spider-Man 2’ is not nearly as clever as it thinks it is

‘THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2’

H Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dan DeHaan, Sally Field Running time: 2:20 MPAA rating: PG-13 for sequences for sci-fi action/violence

Columba Pictures photos via MCT

Jamie Foxx stars as Electro in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”

Andrew Garfield plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man.


MOVIES

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

“Bad Words” — I loved the misanthrope played by Jason Bateman in his directorial debut, and you might, too, if your sense of humor is just sick enough. A loophole has allowed this big bowl of hate to compete against fourth-graders in a spelling bee, where he spews insults with a deadpan style that leaves his victims speechless. A pitch-black dark comedy. Comedy, R, 89 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” — The more screen time Chris Evans accrues as Captain America, the more engaging the per-formance. He’s terrific in this adventure, more complex and more compelling than in his 2011 debut. Amid well-cho-reographed action sequences and a couple of nifty twists and turns, we get another rock-solid chapter in the big-screen story of Marvel. Scar-lett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Redford co-star. Sci-fi action, PG-13, 136 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Draft Day” — The gen-eral manager of the hapless Cleveland Browns (Kevin Cost-ner) tries to coax some star power during the NFL draft in this sentimental, predictable and thoroughly entertaining movie. I would have liked to see less soap-opera subplot (a pregnant girlfriend, an ego-tistical team owner) and more inside football machinations. Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella and Chadwick Boseman co-star. Sports drama, PG-13, 110 minutes). HHH “Fading Gigolo” — Writer-director John Turturro casts himself as the lead in this offbeat and sometimes just plain nutso story about a flo-rist who takes money to ser-vice beautiful women, includ-ing Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara, and gives a cut to his pimp (Woody Allen). This improbable film is all over the map, veering from pathos to absurdist comedy to romance to weirdness for the sake of weirdness. Comedy, R, 90 minutes. HH “Frozen” — When a queen with icy powers (voice of Idina Menzel) accidentally freezes her kingdom, she runs away

and her intrepid sister (Kris-ten Bell) goes to find her. Sure to delight kids and capti-vate adults, Disney’s musical “Frozen” is the instant favor-ite for the animated feature Oscar. Animated musical, PG, 102 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Hateship Loveship” — Kristen Wiig’s performance as a caretaker duped into believ-ing she’s being courted is so beautifully muted it takes a while to appreciate the loveli-

ness of the notes she’s hit-ting. She’s playing someone a bit, well, crazy, but her quiet resolve is kind of heroic. She’s pretty awesome. With Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte. Drama, R, 101 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Locke” — In writer-director Steven Knight’s mesmerizing jewel of a film, Tom Hardy is so brilliant we readily watch him drive a car and talk on the hands-free phone for virtu-

ally the entirety of the movie. It’s a beautiful film to watch, as the headlights seem animated in the rain-filtered colors of the night while a man drives and drives and makes life-changing phone calls. Drama, R, 85 minutes. HHHH “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” — The old TV cartoon about a genius dog, his adopted son and their time-traveling adventures becomes a whip-smart, consistently funny and good-natured film with terrific voice performances led by Ty Burrell as Peabody. Lots of sight gags and goofy puns, with some clever one-liners intended for the parents in the audience. Animated adventure, PG, 90 minutes. HHH “Nebraska” — What a joy it is to watch Bruce Dern play-ing such a miserable SOB in the best role of his long career. Woody Grant is a crab-by, boozy, sometimes delu-sional old guy on a road trip with his son (Will Forte) to collect a sweepstakes prize. Alexander Payne’s latest film is a modern American classic about the dynamic between a father from the generation that didn’t speak about its feelings and a grown son who’s still trying to get his father to explain himself. Stark, beautiful and memora-ble. Drama, R, 115 minutes. HHHH “Noah” — One of the most dazzling and unforgettable biblical epics ever put on film. Director Darren Aronofsky has delivered an emotion-ally involving and sometimes loony interpretation of the tale of a God-loving man (Rus-sell Crowe, ferocious and razor-sharp) and his ark. Jen-nifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins round out a stellar cast. Biblical epic, PG-13, 131 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Oculus” — Here is a horror movie that will reach out and grab that spot on your spine that produces all the chills. Thanks to the wonderfully twisted style of director Mike Flanagan and four terrific young actors playing brother and sister as children and adults, “Oculus” is one of the more elegant scary movies in recent memory. Horror, R, 105 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “Sabotage” — After steal-ing $10 million from a drug

cartel, elite DEA agents become targets in a brutal, bloody, dark and at times gruesomely funny thriller. The team is played by a strong cast headed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, being typical-ly Arnold, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams and Terrence Howard. Action thriller, R, 109 minutes. HHH1⁄2 “RoboCop” — The 2014 version of “RoboCop” takes advantage of the superior technology available now, but doesn’t match up to the origi-nal when it comes to story and cast. As Alex Murphy, the wounded officer converted into RoboCop, Joel Kinnaman comes across as a wooden human being AND a wooden robot. Sci-fi action, PG-13, 118 minutes. HH “Son of God” — The first feature in recent memory tell-ing us a life-spanning story of Jesus Christ recounts the events with great rever-ence but, alas, is not a good movie. The special effects are just OK, and in the title role, Portuguese-born heart-throb Diogo Morgado hits a lot of wrong notes. Historical drama, PG-13, 138 minutes. H1⁄2 “The Bag Man” — One can’t help but wonder what Robert De Niro and John Cusack saw in the script for “The Bag Man” that made two of our most interesting actors sign up for this irritat-ing mess of a movie. It’s warmed-over Tarantino mixed with a third-rate tribute to the Coen brothers with a dose of David Lynch-ian madness. Thriller, R, 108 minutes. H “The Other Woman” — This would-be comedy is so tone-deaf, so excruciatingly awful, it’s a minor miracle the studio didn’t confiscate the original print and lock it up. None of the stars — Cameron Diaz, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau or espe-cially the big and broad Leslie Mann — escapes this mess with a shred of dignity. Com-edy, PG-13, 109 minutes. H “The Railway Man” — Based on the true story of a British Army officer (Colin Firth) in World War II and the Japanese Imperial Army officer who tortured him. This is another prestige film that sometimes feels more like a history assignment than entertainment. Sometimes it’s hard to watch. It’s also

hard to imagine anyone watching it and not being deeply moved. Drama, R, 108 minutes. HHH “3 Days to Kill” — The term “guilty pleasure” was invented for this kind of movie. Nearly every other scene is so audaciously ter-rible, you don’t know whether to cringe or chortle. But the star power of Kevin Costner as an aging CIA hit man turns schlock into pure entertain-ment. Action, PG-13, 117 minutes. HHH “Transcendence” — In a bold, beautiful, sometimes confounding flight of futuris-tic speculation, Johnny Depp plays a scientific visionary whose thoughts and person-ality are uploaded before he dies. He uses his ever-increasing intelligence to cure the sick and heal the planet, but fears arise that he will accumulate so much power and intelligence he’ll become the greatest threat to freedom the world has ever known. What a stun-ning piece of work. Sci-fi thriller, PG-13, 119 minutes. HHHH “Under the Skin” — An alien on Earth (Scarlett Johannson) cruises Scotland in a van, hitting on young lads, in a stark mood piece that drills into your psyche and will stay there forever. It’s weird, polarizing work, but I found it the most memorable movie of the first few months of 2014. Sci-fi drama, R, 108 minutes. HHHH “Veronica Mars” — This big-screen update of the Kris-ten Bell TV series, the result of a Kickstarter campaign, looks and feels like a glori-fied TV movie, with mostly unexceptional performances and ridiculous plot develop-ments no more innovative than you’d see on a dozen network TV detective shows. Crime comedy, PG-13, 108 minutes. HH “Walking With the Enemy” — In a plodding and clunky drama based on an amazing true-life story, a Hungarian Jew wears a stolen Nazi uniform and assumes the identity of the enemy to save lives during World War II. As earnest and heartfelt as a movie can be, “Walking With the Enemy” never misses an opportunity to embrace a cli-che. War drama, PG-13, 123 minutes. HH

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BLUE FOX DRIVE-INOak HarborMay 2-4 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) and The Other Woman (PG-13). First movie starts at approximately 8:30 p.m. 360-675-5667

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OUT & ABOUT

ARTFIRST THURSDAY

ART WALK: The Mount Vernon Downtown Asso-ciation will present the First Thursday Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. today in downtown Mount Vernon. Part of the Skagit Valley Art Escape, the walk will feature work by Lavone Newell-Reim, showing at the Front Gallery, 420 Myr-tle, and Cathy Schoenberg, whose painted panels will be permanently installed in the upper story windows in the “Alley Gallery” north of Pine Square.

Newell-Reim, who has been a member of the Skagit Valley artist commu-nity for 50 years, recently returned from a successful exhibit of her work in New York.

Schoenberg has been an artist in the Skagit Valley since 1981. Her artwork has been featured as posters for the Anacortes Arts Fes-tival and at MONA Style. mountvernondowntown.org.

ANACORTES MURALS: The Anacortes Arts Com-mission will present “Cel-ebrating 30 Years: Bill Mitchell Mural Project” from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 2-3, at the Gallery at the Depot, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. Mitchell has created more than 150 murals spanning 150 years of Anacortes history. 360-293-1918 or anacortes artscommission.com.

PAINTINGS AND PAS-TELS: “Amanda Houston: Oils and Pastels” will open with a reception during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Fri-day, May 2, and continue through June 3 at Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commer-cial Ave., Anacortes. The show includes Houston’s brilliantly colored oils as

well as a selection of softer pastel landscapes. Also showing: oils by Seattle artist Brooke Borcherd-ing, black and white pho-tography by David Lucas, pastels by Pat Meras, oils by Donna Trent and mixed media by Renate Trapkowski. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. 360-293-6938 or scottmilo.com.

“LANDSCAPE/MIND-SCAPE”: A show featur-ing artists Mike Adams, Susanna Bluhm, Jennifer Campbell and Jennifer Zwick will open May 2 and continue through June 1 at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Ana-cortes. Using landscape as a metaphor for a place within the mind, regional artists use sculpture, instal-lation, video and mixed media works to create landscapes that suggest memory, humor and fear. Curated by Ann Chad-wick Reid. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. 360-755-3140 or anchorartspace.org.

FABRIC ART: A show of quilts by fabric artist Lou-ise Harris will open with a reception during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 2, and continue through May 31 at McCool Gallery, 711 Com-mercial Ave., Anacortes. The show will also feature paintings by Anne Martin McCool, jewelry by Carole Cunningham and Debbie Aldrich, wood by George Way and Art Learmonth, sculptures by Tracy Powell, ceramics by Patsy Cham-berlain and Barbara Hath-away, handwoven scarves by Martha Tottenham and gourd art by Vicki Hampel. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. 360-293-3577 or mccoolart.com.

CHILDREN’S ART WALK: The 14th annual Children’s Art Walk will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 2, in downtown Bellingham. Presented by Allied Arts of Whatcom County, the event will include art displays, activi-ties for kids and adults, music and more to cel-ebrate the arts in schools. In addition, Allied Arts Gallery, 1418 Cornwall Ave., will feature profes-sional work by Allied Arts Teaching Artists in What-com County. Art will stay on display through May 31 in honor of the statewide Arts Education Month and ArtsEd WA, a new program exploring issues in arts and education. 360-676-8548 or alliedarts.org.

PAINTINGS & CERAM-ICS: An exhibition of

new paintings by Becky Fletcher and ceramics by Jeffrey Hanks will open with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, and continue through June 1 at Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., Edi-son. Fletcher’s new body of work, “Reiterations,” explores the repeated lines and shapes offered visually by nature. Hanks’ ceramics are fired in either a wood-burning kiln or in clay con-tainers known as saggers, which infuses the surface with random flashes from the flame strike. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. 360-766-6230 or smithandvallee.com.

CAMANO STUDIO TOUR: The 16th annual Camano Island Studio Tour will take place on Mother’s

Day weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, May 9-11 and May 17-18, at numerous locations around Camano Island and Stanwood. Check out artwork in a variety of media offered by 41 juried artists and three galleries. Pick up a self-guided tour map at local merchants or at camano-arts.org. Free. 425-478-0777.

SAN JUAN ART TOUR: The 23rd anniversary San Juan Island Artists’ Studio Tour will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 31-June 1, at 15 artists’ studios. Check out a variety of original artworks by more than 40 artists on display and offered for sale from the source, with a chance to enter a drawing for art at each location. Maps and brochures for the free self-guided tour are available at Friday Harbor businesses or at sanjuanislandartists.com.

CAR SHOWSALL AMERICAN CAR

SHOW: The Humane Soci-ety of Skagit Valley will host the All American Car Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at the HSSV Adoption Cen-ter, 18841 Kelleher Road, Burlington. Any American-make car from any year can be entered. Trophies will be awarded in 12 cat-egories. $10 entry fee. Free for spectators. Proceeds will benefit the Humane Society of Skagit Valley. For information, contact Kandi at 360-853-3373 or skagithumane.com.

FESTIVALSPENN COVE WATER

FESTIVAL: The annual Penn Cove Water Festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 10, on the Coupeville water-

front. Events will include Tribal canoe racing, Native music, singing and danc-ing, storytelling, children’s activities, food, arts and crafts and more. penn covewaterfestival.com.

LECTURES AND TALKS

WORLD ISSUES FORUM: Western Washington Uni-versity’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Stud-ies holds its annual World Issues Forum from noon to 1:20 p.m. Wednesdays in the Fairhaven College audito-rium on the WWU campus in Bellingham. Presenta-tions are free and open to the public. 360-650-2309 or wwu.edu/fairhaven/news/worldissuesforum.

Next up:Monday, May 5: “Not

One More Deportation”: with Maru Mora Villal-pando, Latina immigrant organizer and consultant for nonprofits working for racial justice, advocacy.

May 7: “A Different Kind of Travel: Global Inquiries”: with Brittaney Schunzel and Steven Riley. Riley and Schunzel will dis-cuss their individual experi-ences traveling throughout Egypt, Mongolia and China and creating dialogue abroad through Fairhaven College’s Adventure Learning Grant in 2012-2013.

May 21: “The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: An Update”: with Tony Payan, professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Twenty years after NAFTA, the three coun-tries of North America have failed to take advan-tage of a unique histori-cal opportunity to move the borders from lines of defense and opposition to lines of encounter and cooperation, according to a news release.

‘MEMOIRS OF A BIRD’Check out Northwest artist Anne Schreivogl’s new exhibition, showing May 1-30 at La Conner Seaside Gallery, 101 First St., La Conner. The show features Schreivogl’s upbeat, colorful paintings, delighting in the reader’s and writer’s world, with images of type-writers, books, and letter-writing. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 360-202-2956 or lacon-nerseasidegallery.com.


OUT & ABOUT

Overlooked are the lives of tens of millions of people who have had their economic prosperity cur-tailed, mobility truncated, and sense of security upset by deployment of technol-ogy and force, which are channeled into controlling rather than efficiently man-aging our borders, accord-ing to the release.

VISION 2030: Transition Fidalgo & Friends invite community members to learn about the group’s newly completed Vision 2030 document at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 6, at the Ana-cortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Vision 2030 was created to explore what Fidalgo and Guemes Island residents might do to build a positive future in the face of rising climate, energy and economic impacts. Read the docu-ment at transitionfidalgo.org/vision-2030 and bring your comments, questions and suggestions. Free. transitionfidalgo.org.

LOCAL RADIO: “Speak Up! Speak Out!”: 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, on KSVR 91.7 FM radio. Ginny Wolff will talk with Evelyn Adams and Jan Woodruff about Vision 2030, a roadmap to a vibrant community for Fidalgo and Guemes islands in a future faced with climate change. (Show will repeat at 8 p.m. Sun-day, May 11). speakup speakoutradio.org.

CYBER BULLYING: West-ern Washington University in Bellingham will host an expert panel of profes-sors and Western Police Chief Darin Rasmussen to discuss social networking and cyber harassment at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, in Academic West Room 204. The lecture will dis-cuss online harassment,

legal issues, self-esteem and identity development, mental health, narcissism, anonymity, digital citizen-ship and resources for safely using social network-ing. Free. For information, contact WWU Professor of Psychology David N. Sattler at 360-650-3525 or email [email protected].

CLIMATE CHANGE: Bill McKibben, one of Amer-ica’s best-known environ-mentalists, will present “350: The Most Important Number in the World” at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at the Western Washington University Performing Arts Center Mainstage in Bell-ingham.

MUSICSTUDENT DESSERT

RECITAL: Enjoy student musical performances every hour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Mount Vernon Senior Center, 1401 Cleveland St., Mount Vernon. Suggested donation: $5, $10 family. Proceeds will benefit schol-arships from the Skagit Valley Chapter, Washing-ton State Music Teachers Association. skagitmusic teachers.org.

JAZZ AT THE LIBRARY: Dmitri Matheny will perform from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 11, at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., Anacortes. Free. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or jazzatthelibrary.com.

MORE FUN“DEAR MOTHER”: A

special exhibit celebrat-ing the mothers of Skagit County will run today through June 1 at the Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St., La Conner. The exhibit features photos, flowers and china. The museum is

open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. $5 adults, $4 seniors and children ages 6 to 12, $10 families, free for members and ages 5 and younger. 360-466-3365 or skagit county.net/museum.

SPRING GARDEN/GIFT FAIRE: The city of Burlington’s Spring Gar-den and Gift Faire will take place from noon to 6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 2-3, at the Burlington Parks & Recreation Center, 900 E. Fairhaven Ave. Check out a wide variety of local art, handcrafts, farm products, food, flowers, workshops, demonstrations and more. Free admission. 360-755-9649 or recreation@ burlingtonwa.us.

QUILT EVALUATIONS: The La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum will pres-ent two sessions of “QSI: Quilt Scene Investigators” from 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the museum, 703 S. Second St., La Conner.

Quilt restorer Anne Dawson, quilt appraiser Ann Bodle-Nash and quilt historian Karen Alexander will help you discover the age of your quilts and offer valuable tips on cleaning, restoration, storing and record-keeping of your quilts. $20 for one quilt; add a second quilt for $10 more or sit in without a quilt for $15. Includes museum admission. Seating is lim-ited. 360-466-4288 or lacon nerquilts.org.

BOAT PARADE: The Swinomish Yacht Club’s annual Opening Day Boat Parade through the Swin-omish Channel will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, beginning at the La Conner marina, cruising past the historic downtown busi-ness district, then under

the Rainbow Bridge. For some of the best views of this year’s “Red, White and Blue”-themed flotilla, make reservations at one of La Conner’s waterfront restaurants. swinomish yachtclub.org.

WOMEN’S EXPO: The sixth annual Women’s Expo will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Camano Cen-ter, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. The event will include more than 70 vendors with products and services especially for women, a fashion show, summer grilling demos, tips on developing mar-ketable skills and gaining confidence in the work-force, small-business plan assistance, fitness demos, raffle prizes, chair mas-sages, beauty tips, a martini bar and lunch available for purchase.

Swedish Hospital will offer mobile mammograms by appointment: visit mam-mappointment.swedish.org. Free admission. 360-387-0222 or camanocenter.org.

CINCO DE MAYO: West View Elementary’s annual Cinco de Mayo celebra-tion will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at Burlington-Edison High School, 301 N. Burlington Blvd., Burlington. The event will include tradi-tional Mexican folk dances performed by K-12 stu-dents, a variety of games, a cake walk, inflatable slide, maze, loteria, face paint-ing and more. Food and snacks will be available for purchase, including cotton candy, sno-cones, aguas frescas, nachos and chicken en mole. Organized by the West View PTA, the fundraiser supports many school events, field trips and classroom materials. 360-757-3391.

WINE WALK: The first La Conner Wine Walk will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in down-town La Conner. Sample wines from a variety of wineries at 10 downtown locations. Advance tickets: $20; day-of-event: $25. Includes 10 sips. For tickets of information, contact the La Conner Chamber of Commerce at 360-466-4778 or visit lovelaconner.com/wine-walk.

WINE, CHEESE TAST-ING: The Rexville Gro-cery’s 13th annual Spring Wine Tasting will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at 19271 Best Road, Mount Vernon. Sample a variety of hand-picked wines, cheeses and local foods. $3. 360-466-5522 or rexvillegrocery.com.

GEM & JEWELRY SHOW: The Everett Rock & Gem Club’s 61st annual Gem & Jewelry Show will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 3-4, at the Everett Community College student fitness cen-ter, 2206 Tower St., Everett. Check out dealer displays, fossils, crystals and min-eral specimens, beads and pearls, exotic shells, decora-tive stone artwork and sil-ver jewelry, free gemstone identification, demonstra-tions, door prizes, kids’ activities, a silent auction, refreshments and more. Free admission. 425-232-0809 or everettrockclub.com.

KIRTAN: The monthly celebration with chanting and dancing will take place at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Anacortes Center for Happiness, 619 Com-mercial Ave., Anacortes. No experience necessary. All ages are welcome. $5-$10 suggested donation. 360-

464-2229 or anacortes centerforhappiness.org.

TIME BANK: Learn more about Fidalgo & Friends TimeBank service exchange at its Spring Social at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Anacortes Senior Activity Center, 1701 22nd St., Anacortes. Find out how the Time-Bank can help you save money, sharpen your skills, share your gifts and become part of a caring community. Bring a finger food to share and your own place setting. No reserva-tion necessary. For infor-mation, call 293-4048.

ANTIQUE TRACTORS, FARM MACHINERY: The 31st annual GAS-UP event will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the Skagit County Fairgrounds, 1410 Virginia St., Mount Vernon. Watch demonstrations of operating early-day gas engines, classic tractors and antique farm machinery presented by the Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association, Branch 26. Free. For information, call 360-826-3782 or email [email protected].

SWING DANCE: The Ana-

cortes Public Library Jazz Committee will hold its fifth annual Swing Dance with music by Dillinger’s Clam-bake from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at Skyline Beach Club, 6041 Sands Way, Anacortes. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door. Snacks and water included; soft drinks, wine and beer available for purchase. Pro-ceeds benefit the library and local jazz students. 360-293-1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org.

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