ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday, May 2, 2015
BRIEFLY
Brewfest event
announces special
kickoff dinner
SILVERTON — A Brewer’s
Tasting Dinner will kick off
the popular Oregon Garden’s
Brewfest.
Limited seating is available
for the pre-festival meal,
which features six courses.
Each plate is paired with a
unique beer from six specially
selected breweries. The event
is Thursday, June 18 at 7 p.m.
at the Oregon Garden Resort,
Silverton. The cost is $50 per
person.
Representatives from
each of the breweries will
give a presentation about
their beer during the dinner,
which is attended by
brewers participating in the
festival, industry insiders and
EHHUD¿FLRQDGRV
A special overnight
package is available at resort that
includes tickets to the
Brewer’s Tasting Dinner
and a three-day ticket to the
Brewfest. Packages, which start
at $239, can be booked at www.
oregongardenresort.com or by
calling 503-874-2500.
The Oregon Garden Brewfest
is Father’s Day weekend —
June 19-21. It features 70
breweries pouring 140 beers,
ciders and meads
from throughout Oregon and
across the country. There’s also
live music and food vendors.
Admission ranges from $15-$50
and includes a souvenir tasting
glass and tasting tickets. Parking
is $5 or free shuttles are
available from several locations
in Silverton.
For more information,
visit www.oregongarden.org/
events/brewfest.
Comedy show
includes stunts
WALLA WALLA — A
unique combination of stand-up
comedy and physical stunts is
featured in an upcoming show at
the Power House Theatre.
Matt Baker’s Comedy +
Stunt Show is an action-packed
event with funny stories, clean
jokes, audience participation and
displays of incredible skills. The
show is Friday, May 16 at 7:30
p.m. at 111 N. Sixth Ave., Walla
Walla. Tickets are $25 each and
are available at www.phtww.
com or by calling 509-529-6500.
Baker’s diverse skills have
ODQGHGKLP¿YH*XLQQHVV:RUOG
Records and appearances on
Tosh.0, America’s Got Talent
and Last Comic Standing. His
hip hot style and jaw-dropping
stunts — like catching a bowling
ball on his head, spearing
vegetables on spikes, escaping
handcuffs and juggling with
his mouth — engages even the
toughest crowds.
For more information about
Baker, including video clips of
his performances, visit www.
comedystuntshow.com.
MUSIC REVIEW
Built to Spill returns
with cathartic
‘Untethered Moon’
Built to Spill, “Untethered
Moon” (Warner Bros.)
(AP) — On the lead track
of Built to Spill’s latest album,
Doug Martsch sighs, “And now
we settle for this complicated
metaphor and leave this simple
truth unsaid.” His sentiment
gets at the center of “Unteth-
HUHG0RRQ´DUHFRUGÀXVKZLWK
blustery guitar passages, hooks
and heart.
“All Our Songs” rumbles
out of the gate with pounding
percussion before giving way to
a quip from Martsch’s boyish,
high register: “It’s so hard to tell
a face that never rang a bell.”
Along the way, three different
solos torch the verses. “Living
Zoo” grazes on everything from
early R.E.M. to Dinosaur Jr.
before settling into one of his
bleary-eyed choruses that never
gets old.
A few songs are grounded
LQDPRUHFODVVLF3DFL¿F
Northwest sound (the band is
based in Boise, Idaho), but pull
back or morph into chugging
ramblers with psych moves and
serpentine melodies around
every corner. The blazing “So”
VHHVDZVEHWZHHQFDPS¿UH
ballad and towering shards of
incendiary guitar.
At one point, Martsch lets on
that he’s found a place where
he’ll “always be tethered,” and
WKDWKH¶OO³EH¿QHLQ,GDKR
America, in the 21st century.”
Eight albums deep and after a
UHFHQWOLQHXSVKXIÀHWKHVLPSOH
welcome truth is, Built to Spill
hasn’t changed much.
East Oregonian
Page 3C
Dance company to work with Pendleton ‘stars’
East Oregonian
A group of Pendleton “stars”
ZLOOKLWWKHGDQFHÀRRUWRKHOSUDLVH
PRQH\ IRU WKH FKDULW\ RU QRQSUR¿W
organization of their choice.
The Utah Ballroom Dance
Company is coming to town to
work with Pendleton Police Chief
6WXDUW 5REHUWV GDQFH DQG ¿WQHVV
teacher and coach Debbie Kish-
paugh, Travel Pendleton’s event
recruiter Pat Beard, former Pend-
leton chamber executive Leslie
Carnes, artist/musician extraordi-
naire Peter Walters and Tammie
Parker, assistant vice president of
human resources at Blue Mountain
Community College.
The professional dancers will
be in town working daily during
the week leading up to the May 30
performance. Dances include the
elegant foxtrot, the timeless waltz
and the scintillating salsa. Also, the
stars and their professional partners
will be dressed in costumes as they
perform for a judging panel. The
audience also will cast votes in
determining the winner.
Roberts will be dancing for
Guardian Care Center, which works
to address child abuse. Kishpaugh
will raise money for Rhythmic
Mode, the high school dance team
she coaches. Beard will dance
for the Pendleton Cattle Barons
Scholarship Fund. Carnes, who is
the church ministry coordinator at
Cornerstone Community Church,
Dancing With Your
Pendleton Stars
WHEN: Saturday, May 30
TIME: 7 p.m., doors open at
6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Vert Auditorium, 480
S.W. Dorion Ave.
ADVANCE TICKETS:
adults/$30, youths/$15
AT THE DOOR: adults/$35,
youths/$20
EO file photo
Seth Ward of the Utah Ballroom Dance Company works with Kristi
Smalley of Hermiston in January while preparing for Dancing With
Hermiston Stars. The dance company is teaming up with CAPECO
to present Dancing With Your Pendleton Stars May 30 at the Vert
Auditorium.
will dance for Lost & Found Youth
Outreach. Walters is dancing for
the Oregon East Symphony and
Parker will dance for the BMCC
Foundation.
In addition to watching the
locals as they show off what
they’ve learned, members of the
professional dance company will
showcase ballroom dance pieces
from their full program. The audi-
ence will be treated to breath-taking
lifts, beautiful costumes, enchanting
theatrical story lines and a variety of
ballroom dancing styles.
The Utah Ballroom Dance
Company is the United States
National Formation champions in
both Latin American and Standard
ballroom dancing. They have
toured throughout the United States,
Europe, Canada and Latin America
— receiving numerous accolades
for their performances.
The company maintains a touring
program that typically reaches
more than 75 cities across the
United States and internationally.
With more than 100 performances
each year, this professional-level
ensemble delights, entertains and
uplifts thousands worldwide.
“This show is unbelievably
theatrical,” said James Palmer of
New York City. “It is dance theatre,
comical and dramatic, sensual and
lyrical, acrobatic and romantic, all
in one show.”
In addition to raising money for
each dancer’s cause, the event will
provide assistance to the CAPECO
Food Bank. Tickets purchased in
advance are $30 for adults and
$15 for youths. Tickets bought
at the door are an additional $5
each. Tickets can be purchased at
Pendleton Chamber of Commerce,
MaySon’s, Elite Guns & Bows, DG
Gifts, Pendleton Book Co. or www.
brownpapertickets.com
For more information about the
event, contact Fred Bradbury at
fbradbury@yahoo.com or 541-377-
7474. For more about the Utah
Ballroom Dance Company, visit
utahbdc.com
WHAT TO DO
Festivals
Spring Release Weekend
•May 1-3
•Milton-Freewater,
Walla
Walla Valley
www.wallawallawine.com
6HH ZHEVLWH IRU VSHFL¿F
events at various tasting rooms,
wineries and other venues.
Krazy Horse Quilt Show
•Saturday, May 2; 9 a.m.-5
p.m.
•Sunday, May 3; 10 a.m.-3
p.m.
•Pendleton Convention Cen-
ter, 1601 Westgate
www.krazyhorsequilters.org
$5 (good for both days). Fea-
tured quilter is Marca Davies of
Sequim Washington. Also in-
cludes quilting vendors.
Milton-Freewater Junior
Show
•May 4-10
•Milton-Freewater Jr. Show
Grounds, behind Bordertown
Feed & Supply, 84575 Highway
11
www.mfjrshow.com
Visit www.mfjrshow.com and
click on Forms and Contracts,
then Schedule of Events for a full
schedule.
Pendleton Cattle Barons
Weekend
•Downtown Hermiston
Features a parade (10 a.m.),
live entertainment, soccer tour-
QDPHQW UDIÀHV VDOVDJXDFD-
mole contests, kids activities, a
petting zoo and giveaways.
Hermiston
•Sunday, May 3; 11:30 a.m.-
9 p.m.
•Downtown Hermiston
Features a parade (11:30
a.m.), live music, vendors, food,
beer garden, kids activities and a
carnival.
Heppner
•Sunday, May 3; 4-6 p.m.
•St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, 525
N. Gale St., Heppner
Cinco de Mayo dinner in-
cludes two soft tacos, rice, re-
fried beans, chips, salsa, drink
and Mexican dessert for $8, chil-
dren’s plate of a cheese quesa-
dilla, rice, beans, salsa, drink and
dessert for $5.
Sunnyside, Washington
•Saturday, May 2; 10 a.m.-10
p.m.
•Sunday, May 3; 10 a.m.-8
p.m.
•Downtown Sunnyside
www.sunnysidechamber.
com
Three days featuring music,
food, carnival rides and vendor
booths.
•May 8-9
•In and around Pendleton
Convention Center
www.cattlebarons.net
Features stock saddle bronc
riding, Western Select Invitation-
al Horse Sale, stock dog sale, Bit,
Spur & Silversmith Show, saddle
maker and tooled fender contest,
Buckaroo Barbecue Challenge
and Tradin’ Post Trade Show.
Art
Cinco de Mayo
Jane Kirkpatrick book
signing
Boardman
•Saturday, May 2; 4-10 p.m.
•Boardman Marina Park
Features live music, street
dancing, a beer garden, food
vendors and children’s games.
Milton-Freewater
•Saturday, May 2; 11:30 a.m.-
9 p.m.
First Saturday Spin-In
•Saturday, May 2, noon-4
p.m.
•Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St.
Fiber obsessed folks can
drop-in and bring a project to
work on. Coffee, tea and work
space provided.
•Sunday, May 3, 4:30-5:30
p.m.
•Wildhorse Resort & Casino
www.jkbooks.com
The central Oregon au-
thor will be on hand to sign her
books, which will be available for
purchase. Kirkpatrick, who has
won numerous awards, is known
for her well-researched historical
¿FWLRQ
Priscella Preus
•Monday-Thursdays,
11
a.m.-2 p.m.
•Betty Feves Memorial Gal-
lery, BMCC, 2411 N.W. Carden
Ave., Pendleton.
Gallery also open by appoint-
ment by calling 541-278-5952.
The exhibit, which features
the paintings of the Hood Ca-
nal, Washington woman, runs
through June 3 (closed on Me-
morial Day).
Alice Fossatti Ceramics
Studio dedication
•Saturday, May 9, 2-4 p.m.
•Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St.
Fossatti, who celebrated her
100th birthday last year, plans to
attend the event.
Cowgirls in Cahoots
•Monday-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5
p.m.
•Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
•Pendleton Art + Frame, 36
S.W. Court Ave.
Free. Exhibit features west-
ern artwork of nationally know
artists Janene Grende and
Connie Spurgeon. Continues
through May 4.
Open Regional Exhibit
•Tuesday-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4
p.m.; Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.
•Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St.
www.pendletonarts.org
Free. Features the artwork of
local teens and adults. Continues
through May 29.
Ramp It Up: Skateboard
Culture in Native America
•Monday - Saturdays, 9 a.m.-
5 p.m.
•Tamástslikt Cultural Institute,
near Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
www.tamastslikt.org
5HJXODU DGPLVVLRQ LV
DGXOWV VHQLRU FLWL]HQV
\RXWKV IUHH DQG XQGHU RU
IDPLO\ RI IRXU 6PLWKVRQLDQ
Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service celebrate the vibrancy,
creativity and history of the Amer-
ican Indian skateboarding cul-
ture. Continues through May 25.
Heritage Station Museum
•Tuesday-Saturdays, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
•108 S.W. Frazer Ave., Pend-
leton
www.heritagestationmuse-
um.org
DGXOWV VWXGHQW VH-
QLRUVIDPLO\
Music
Phamous Phaces
•Saturday, May 2, 9 p.m.-1
a.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar at
Wildhorse Resort & Casino, off
Highway 331, Mission.
Inland Northwest Orchestra
•Saturday, May 2; 7 p.m.
•Hermiston High School, 600
S. First St.
•Sunday, May 3; 4 p.m.
•Southridge High School,
Kennewick
Donations accepted. Concert
includes three of the four Young
Artist Competition winners and
features the “William Tell Over-
ture” by Gioacchino Rossini and
“Overture on Russian Themes”
by Rimsky-Korsakov. A reception
follows each performance.
John Moreland
•Saturday, May 2, 8 p.m. All
ages. No cover.
*UHDW3DFL¿F:LQH&RIIHH
Co., 403 S. Main St., Pendleton
Hours of Hymns & Gaither
Songs
•Sunday, May 3, 6 p.m.
•New Hope Community
Church, 1350 S. Highway 395,
Hermiston.
Free. Enjoy the accompani-
ment of Louise Sundvall during
this gospel songfest.
The Eclectics
•Friday, May 8; Saturday,
May 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar at
Wildhorse Resort & Casino, off
Highway 331, Mission.
Dan Myers on piano
•Friday, May 15, 7 p.m. No
cover
•Sno Road Winery, 111 W.
Main St., Echo
$5 Fine
•Friday, May 15; Saturday,
May 16, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar at
Wildhorse Resort & Casino, off
Highway 331, Mission.
Thirteen Moons
•Saturday, May 16, 6 p.m. No
cover
•Sno Road Winery, 111 W.
Main St., Echo
No cover. Native American
New Orleans jazz
Night life
Thursday Night Comedy
•Thursdays, 8 p.m.
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off High-
way 331, Mission.
Digital Karaoke
•Thursdays and Saturdays,
8 p.m.
•The Pheasant, 149 E. Main
St., Hermiston
Mac’s Trivia Night
•Thursdays, 8 p.m. No cover
•Mac’s Bar & Grill, 1400 S.W.
Dorion Ave., Pendleton
21 and older. Teams of 2-8
compete in trivia contest with
other teams. Live host and priz-
es.
Wine tasting
•Fridays, 4-8 p.m.
•Sno Road Winery, 111 W.
Main St., Echo.
Open Mic
)LUVWWKLUG )ULGD\ HDFK
month, 8 p.m.-midnight
•The Packard Tavern, 118
S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton
www.facebook.com/groups/
pendletonopenmic
Karaoke
•Fridays 8 p.m. (9 p.m. if
game on)
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501
Sixth St., Umatilla
DJ and dancing
•Fridays, 8 p.m.
•The Pheasant, 149 E. Main
St., Hermiston
———
Want to get your event
listed in our calendar? Send
information to tmalgesini@eas-
toregonian.com, or c/o Tammy
Malgesini, 333 E. Main Street,
Hermiston, OR, 97838.
MOVIE REVIEW
‘Age of Ultron’ is an Avengers overdose
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
It will surely stand as one of the
most peculiar and possibly ironic
HQWULHVLQDGLUHFWRU¶V¿OPRJUDSK\
that in between Joss Whedon’s
WZR³$YHQJHUV´¿OPVWKHUHUHDGV
“Much Ado About Nothing”:
a low-budget, black-and-white
Shakespeare adaption sandwiched
between two of the most
gargantuan blockbusters ever made.
In “Avengers: Age of Ultron,”
WKHUHLVGH¿QLWHO\DSOHQW\DGRLQJ
Too much, certainly, but then again,
we come to the Avengers for their
clown-car excess of superheroes,
their colorful coterie of capes.
What binds Whedon’s spectacles
with his Shakespeare are the quips,
which sail in iambic pentameter in
one and zigzag between explosions
in the others. The original 2012
“Avengers” should have had more
of them, and there’s even less room
in the massive — and massively
overstuffed — sequel for Whedon’s
dry, self-referential wit.
As a sequel, “Age of Ultron”
pushes further into emotionality and
complexity, adding up to a full but
not particularly satisfying meal of
franchise building, and leaving only
a bread-crumb trail of Whedon’s
banter to follow through the rubble.
The action starts predictably
with the Avengers assaulting
a remote HYDRA base in the
¿FWLRQDO(DVWHUQ(XURSHDQUHSXEOLF
of Sokovia. They are a weaving
force: Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron
Man, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor,
“Avengers:
Age of Ultron”
ۻۻۻۼ
PG-13, 141 minutes
mechanical monsters to equal
Tom Hiddleston’s great Loki, the
QHPHVLVRIWKHODVW³$YHQJHUV´¿OP
But Spader’s jocular menace adds
plenty.
But the drama of “Age of
Ultron” lies only partly in the battle
ZLWK8OWURQ7KH¿OPLVUHDOO\
focused on the fraying dysfunction
of the Avengers and their existential
Jay Maidment/Disney/Marvel via AP
TXDQGDULHVDVSUR¿FLHQWNLOOHUVQRZ
Chris Evans, left, as Captain America/Steve Rogers, and Chris untethered from the dismantled
Hemsworth as Thor, in a scene of the new film, “Avengers: Age
S.H.I.E.L.D. agency.
Of Ultron.”
There’s not a wrong note in
Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, Chris
RWKHUIDX[VHULRXVVXSHUKHUR¿OPV the cast. But the dive into the
Evans’s Captain America, Scarlett
(See: “Man of Steel,” or rather,
vulnerability of the Avengers
Johansson’s Black Widow and
don’t.)
doesn’t add much depth (is the
Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye.
In Sokovia, they encounter
home life of an arrow slinger
Their powers are as various
duplicitous twins: the quick-footed
named Hawkeye important?) and
(supernatural, technological,
Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) VDSVWKH¿OP¶V]LS
P\WKRORJLFDODVWKHLUÀDZV,URQ
and the mystical Scarlet Witch
All the character arcs — the
Man’s narcissism, the Hulk’s
(Elizabeth Olsen). The real villain,
Avengers, the bad guys and the new
rage, the Black Widow’s regrets).
though, is the titular Ultron, an
characters — are simply too much
Downey’s glib Tony Stark/Iron
DUWL¿FLDOLQWHOOLJHQFHWKDWWKH6FDUOHW to tackle, even for a master juggler
Man is the lead-singer equivalent
Witch slyly leads Stark to create,
like Whedon. The movie’s hefty
of this super group and, I suspect,
birthing not the global protection
machinery — the action sequences,
the one Whedon likes writing for
system he hopes, but a maniacal
the sequel baiting — suck up much
the most.
Frankenstein born, thankfully, with
of the movie’s oxygen.
What “Age of Ultron” has
some of his creator’s drollness.
In the relentless march forward
going for it, as such references
Ultron (James Spader) builds
of the Marvel juggernaut, “Age of
prove, is a sense of fun, a lack of
himself a muscular metallic body
Ultron” feels like a movie trying
self-seriousness that persists even
and begins amassing a robot
to stay light on its feet but gets
when things start going kablooey
army to rid the planet of human
swallowed up by a larger power:
— something not always evident in life. Ultron is too similar to other
The Franchise.