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ENTERTAINMENT Saturday, August 8, 2015 BRIEFLY Maryhill opens doors to Morrow Co. GOLDENDALE, Wash. — Morrow County residents are among those who will receive free admission Aug. 15-16 at Maryhill Museum of Art. In addition, residents of eight other Oregon counties have an opportunity to explore the world-class museum for free by presenting their driver’s license. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maryhill features a large permanent collection, rotating exhibits, an outdoor sculpture garden and a life-sized replica of Stonehenge, which is located four miles east of the grounds. Maryhill Museum of Art is located off Highway 97 at 35 Maryhill Museum Drive, Goldendale, Wash. To get there, drive west on Interstate 84 and take Exit No. 104. Junkerdash melding at free concert PENDLETON — Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir is a trio of neo-traditionalists playing traditional music for non-traditional times. They call it junkerdash, and it’s a sound brewed from folk, bluegrass, punk, string-band EOXHVDQGRWKHULQÀXHQFHV musical and otherwise. To experience junkerdash, head to this week’s Wednesday in the Park Concert Series from 6-8 p.m. at Roy Raley Park, 1205 S.W. Court Ave., Pendleton. There’s no admission charge. People are encouraged to bring a chair or blanket. Also, food and beverages will be available for purchase. Publisher launches bilingual poetry book LA GRANDE — Amelia Dí az Ettinger’s debut book is featured in a book launch through Redbat Books. The publication, which is a collection of poetry in English DQG6SDQLVKLVWKH¿UVWRIWKH SXEOLVKHU¶V³3DFL¿F1RUWKZHVW Writers Series.” The launch event is Thursday, Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. at Looking Glass Books, 1118 Adams Ave., La Grande. The book retails for $15 and is available at www. redbatbooks.com or by special order through local book stores. For more information, contact 541-962-7176, info@ redbatbooks.com or visit www. redbatbooks.com. Luke Bryan grows on ‘Kill the Lights’ On the songs “Fast” and “Way Way Back,” from Luke Bryan’s new album “Kill the Lights,” the perpetually upbeat VWDUWDNHVKLV¿UVWVWHSVWRZDUG acknowledging the complexities that come with maturity. Country music’s reigning entertainer of the year, Bryan ¿OOVVWDGLXPVZLWKUK\WKP driven, good-time songs about partying, friendship, love and the rural lifestyle. At age 39, however, the Georgia native is expanding his themes and sound. Bryan loads the album with seductive love songs: “Strip It Down,” ‘’Love It Gone” and “Home Alone Tonight,” an engaging duet with Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, all deal with moving an evening from social to sexual. He also tackles disappointment on “Razor Blade” and nostalgia for his youth on “Fast.” East Oregonian Page 3C MOVIE REVIEW ‘Fantastic’ may be an overstatement I ’ll admit it. About an hour into “Fantastic Four,” the inexplicably plodding and dreary new attempt to adapt the beloved Marvel story, I started thinking about Ethan Hunt from “Mission: Impossible.” Wouldn’t it be nice, I thought, as I watched these fake young superheroes battle unconvincingly on a fake-looking planet for a reason nobody seemed to care much about anyway, to see Ethan swoop in — a real middle-aged guy hanging off a real plane by his bare knuckles, with a clear and immediate purpose and a real, throbbing pulse? OK, enough wistfulness. “Fantastic Four,” directed by Josh Trank, deserves to be judged on its own merits. So here goes: It’s not wholesale terrible — just depress- ingly mediocre, and at a certain point you sort of start wishing LW:(5(GH¿QLWLYHO\WHUULEOH because that would at least make it more entertaining or give it a certain strange raison d’etre. (Let’s DPHQGWKDWVOLJKWO\WKH¿QDOVFHQH IS terrible. But we’ll get to that.) It’s not that the raw materials aren’t there. Aside from the known story — in a few words, science- loving humans experience a cosmic accident while exploring inter-di- mensional travel and emerge with formidable superpowers — we have some talented actors on hand. They include the usually very compelling Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan, along with Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Reg E. Cathey Festivals Peach Festival •Aug. 8 •Bill’s Berry Farm, Grand- view, WA Free admission, $5/parking on Saturdays. Features pony rides, barbecue foods, hay- rides, barnyard train and farm animals. In addition, U-pick and pre-picked peaches, plums and apricots, hot peach donuts, pies and a barn store. Wallowa County Fly-In •Saturday, Aug. 8; 7 a.m. •Joseph Airport 7he ¿ rst people will re- ceive a free airplane ride. Event features breakfast form 7- a.m. $/adults, free/kids under 12). Event also features classic aircraft, gyrocopter rides, À ight simulator demonstrations, raf- À es and a display highlighting Women in Aviation. Bronze Brews & Blues Festival •Saturday, Aug. 8; noon-1 p.m. •Joseph City Park $/pre-sale, additional $5 at the gate, free/kids 1 and un- der. Activities available for kids. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as seating isn’t provided. Food available for purchase. Five bands perform, including festival headliner Royal Southern Broth- erhood. Umatilla County Fair •Aug. 11-15 •Umatilla Co. Fairgrounds, Hermiston $1/adults, $8/seniors, $/ ages -12, free/5 and under. Season passes also available. Includes festival seating for eve- ning concerts (reserved seats are $12): Dustin Lynch (Tues- day), John Michael Montgom- ery (Wednesday), Latino Night (Thursday), Hinder (Friday) and Warrant (Saturday). Muddy Frogwater Coun- try Classic Festival •Aug. 1-1 •Yantis Park, Milton-Free- water Free family festival. Fea- tures food/vendor booths, a ¿ ne art show, kids’ activities, a softball tournament, a parade, pretty baby contest, Talent of the 9alley contest ¿ nals, beer/wine garden, salmon bake and corn roast, a barbecue contest, ¿ re- men’s water ¿ ght and from 7-1 p.m. Friday/Saturday nights live “Fantastic Four” ۻۼۼۼ PG-13, 100 minutes (“The Wire”) and an expertly creepy Tim Blake Nelson. It all begins promisingly, with a setup that introduces Reed Richards and Ben Grimm as ¿IWKJUDGHUVRQ/RQJ,VODQG5HHG is a bespectacled science nerd; he tells his class his life goal is “to be WKH¿UVWSHUVRQLQKXPDQKLVWRU\WR teleport myself.” The unimpressed teacher directs Reed to come back with a more realistic goal. But the precocious lad has already developed a mini-version of said teleporter. Years later, Reed (now Teller) is back with his invention at the high school music (Friday, Joker; Saturday, Eleventh Hour) and Sunday from 12--: p.m., Shaniko. Art & Museums Naamí Nisháycht, Our Liv- ing Culture Village •Saturdays, 1 a.m.- p.m. through Sept. 5 •Tamástslikt Cultural Insti- tute, near Wildhorse Resort & Casino. $1/adults, $/senior citi- ]ens, $/youths, free/5 and un- der or $25/family of four. Aug. 8: Horse Culture. Aug. 15: Tradi- tional Survival Skills. Frank Janzen •Tuesday-Fridays, 1 a.m.- p.m., Saturdays, 1 a.m.- p.m. •Pendleton Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main St. Free. Print exhibition of the master printer from Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts runs through Aug. 2. Adam Sims •Monday-Thursdays; 11 a.m-7 p.m., •Friday-Saturdays; 1 a.m.-5 p.m. •Hermiston Public Library, 25 E. Gladys Ave. Photography by Adam Sims is on display through August. Rip Caswell & Bonnie Zahn Griffi th •Monday-Fridays, 1 a.m.-5 p.m. •Saturdays; 1 a.m.-2 p.m. •Pendleton Art Frame, S.W. Court Ave. Free. The sculptors of Rip Caswell and landscape art of Bonnie =ahn Grif¿ th on display through August. Heritage Station Museum •Tuesday-Saturdays, 1 a.m. to 4 p.m. •18 S.W. Fra]er Ave., Pendleton $5/adults, $2/student, $4/se- niors, $1/family. “Our Old Quilts: Patterns of Love & Memory” •Wednesday-Saturdays; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. •Dayton Historic Depot, 222 E. Commercial St., Dayton, WA Admission by donation. Runs through Oct. 1. Sherman County Histori- cal Museum •Daily; 1 a.m.-5 p.m. •2 Dewey, Moro $5/adults, $1/students. one-dimensional, why do we want to get there so badly?) The idea is just WRSODQWDÀDJEXW5HHG¶V curiosity leads him close to a mysterious energy force, and havoc ensues. When the group returns, they’re forever changed. The best scene is where everyone discovers their new forms. Reed (Mister Fantastic) has limbs that VWUHWFKLQGH¿QLWHO\-RKQQ\ (Human Torch) is a blaze RIÀDPHV6XH,QYLVLEOH Woman) can disappear. Poor Ben (The Thing), is unrecognizable, a powerful mass of rocks. Twentieth Century Fox If you know the story, created more than a science fair. Here, he and Ben half-century ago by Stan Lee and meet Dr. Franklin Storm (Cathey) Jack Kirby, you know that the four and daughter Sue (Mara), who PXVW¿JKWWKHLUHUVWZKLOHFROOHDJXH realize what Reed has — a better now Dr. Doom, to save Earth. The teleporter than their own. Storm ¿JKWLVHQHUJHWLFEXWIHHOVUDWKHU gives Reed a scholarship at his perfunctory. And then there’s the science institute to pursue his ¿QDOVFHQHZKHUHWKHWHDPVWDQGV dream. together, and the dialogue suddenly There, Reed meets Storm’s becomes so silly, people erupted in son Johnny (Jordan), a reluctant laughter at my screening. scientist but expert builder, and 7KLVPRYLHLVQ¶WWKH¿UVWDWWHPSW the disaffected but talented young WRPDNHWKLVVWRU\LQWRDSUR¿WDEOH scientist Victor von Doom (Toby franchise. Previous efforts failed, Kebbell). Soon, they’re a team. and the thought here must have And eventually, the full-blown been to re-energize things with teleporter is ready. One night, the a young and appealing cast. But youngsters get tipsy and decide to these actors — unlike, say, Andrew take a test spin. *DU¿HOGDQG(PPD6WRQHLQWKH Oops! They end up on Planet UHFHQW³6SLGHU0DQ´¿OPV²DUH Zero, aka the other dimension, not well used, and their charisma but we’ll just call it Planet-Very- remains largely untapped. Bad-CGI. (Are these really the The result? Something much best special effects money can less than fantastic. — Jocelyn buy? And here’s another question: Noveck, Associated Press If the other dimension is so, um, WHAT TO DO Music Fair Kick-off Party •Saturday, Aug. 8; 5 p.m. •Nookies/Hermiston Brew- ing Co., 125 N. First St., Herm- iston Watch the Umatilla County Fair parade while drinking beer and listening to live music with Dallin Puzey Music & Tucker and Shanks Pony! Also it’s the release of Bellinger Farms wa- termelon beer Rind Wrecker. Music on the Lawn-Mandi Miller & Margaret Mayer •Saturday, Aug. 8, p.m. All ages No cover •Hamley Steakhouse lawn, 8 S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton Pop Rocks •Saturday, Aug. 8, p.m.-1 a.m. No cover •Wildhorse Sports Bar at Wildhorse Resort & Casino, off Highway 1, Mission. Eric Jepsen & John Wam- beke •Monday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m. All ages. No cover. •Boardman Marina Park Free. Bring a blanket or chairs and a picnic for Music in the Parks. Hillfolk Noir •Wednesday, Aug. 12, -8 p.m. •Roy Raley Park, 125 S.W. Court Ave., Pendleton. Free. Wednesday in the Park Concert Series. Food, beer and wine available for purchase. Bring a chair of blanket. Oregon Spirit of ’45 •Friday, Aug. 14, 7 p.m. •9ert Auditorium, 48 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton Free. Concert tour celebrat- ing the 7th anniversary of the end of World War II. Oregon’s Own 24th Army Band will per- form. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/Oregon- SpiritOf45 Three Legged Dog •Friday, Aug. 14; Saturday, Aug. 15, p.m.-1 a.m. No cover •Wildhorse Sports Bar at Wildhorse Resort & Casino, off Highway 1, Mission. The Outsiders •Monday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m. All ages. No cover. •Irrigon Marina Park Free. Bring a blanket or chairs and a picnic for Music in the Parks. The Weather Machine •Wednesday, Aug. 1, -8 PENDLETON Concert tour celebrates WWII anniversary East Oregonian Spontaneous celebrations broke out across America in August 1945 as news spread that the most destructive war in history was over. More than 60 million people lost their lives in World War II, including 413,000 of the 16 million Americans who served. Of the 150,000 Oregonians who served, more than 5,000 made the VXSUHPHVDFUL¿FH In recognition of the 70th anniver- sary of the end of World War II, the Spirit of ’45 is preserving the legacy of ordinary heroes. The focus is to honor the Greatest Generation and inspire today’s youth. The “Spirit” movement recognizes those who endured the Great Depres- sion, fought to defend democracy in the largest mobilization of manpower since the building of the pyramids and the unprecedented effort to lay the founda- tions for a better future. Oregon Spirit of ’45, a statewide concert tour, is planned Aug. 9-15, including a stop in Pendleton. Featuring Oregon’s Own 234th Army Band, the free concert is Friday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Vert Auditorium, 480 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton. The six-city tour aims to honor and celebrate the achievements of the Greatest Generation — a term orig- inating with journalist Tom Brokaw, referring to Americans who grew up during the Depression — highlighting their example of courage, shared VDFUL¿FH ³FDQGR´ VSLULW DQG VHUYLFH to others. Brig. Gen. James B. Thayer serves as Oregon’s Spirit of ’45 honorary chairman and national spokesman for U.S. Army Ground Forces. In an effort to inspire today’s younger generation, Oregon youth will join the high-tech musical tour. In 2013, Oregon mirrored congres- sionally-endorsed 2010 legislation and EHFDPHWKH¿UVWVWDWHWROHJLVODWH6SLULW of ’45 Day, the second Sunday of each August. The day recognizes the Greatest Generation for all they did to ensure freedom for Americans and through their example, to inspire America’s youth. This year, Oregon became a part of the international coalition to reach out to America’s ally countries to participate in an Across the World Tribute. Oregon Spirit of ’45 founder Barbara Jensen, who is the daughter of an English war bride, serves as liaison to the England and France for coordi- nation at each site. Fort Stevens at Astoria will be Oregon’s lead for the Worldwide Tribute and will celebrate the entire 70th commemorative weekend. The Spirit tribute is expected to be held at nearly a dozen ally cemeteries Sunday, Aug. 16 during the WWII 70th Commemoration Weekend. For more information about the Spirit of ’45, visit www.spiritof45.org p.m. •Roy Raley Park, 125 S.W. Court Ave., Pendleton. Free. Wednesday in the Park Concert Series. Food, beer and wine available for purchase. Bring a chair of blanket. Night life Summer Beer Pong Challenge •Saturdays, 1 p.m. •Mac’s Bar & Grill, 14 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton 21 and older. No entry fee. $1 Mac’s gift card to weekly winning team. Weekly winners compete in ¿ nals for all-expens- es trip to Las Vegas to compete in the World Series of Beer Pong with a chance to win $5,. Get a partner and come up with a team name-best name wins a pizza at Big John’s. Thursday Night Comedy •Thursdays, 8 p.m. •Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild- horse Resort & Casino, off High- way 1, Mission. Digital Karaoke •Thursdays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. •The Pheasant, 14 E. Main St., Hermiston Wine tasting •Fridays, 4-8 p.m. •Sno Road Winery, 111 W. Main St., Echo. Open Mic •First/third Friday each month, 8 p.m.-midnight •The Packard Tavern, 118 S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton Karaoke •Fridays 8 p.m. ( p.m. if game on) •Riverside Sports Bar, 151 Sixth St., Umatilla DJ and dancing •Fridays, 8 p.m. •The Pheasant, 14 E. Main St., Hermiston Theater, stage & fi lm “Rocky Horror Show” •Saturday, Aug. 8; 7: p.m. •Columbia Basin College theatre, 2 N. 2th Ave., Pas- co $17/adults, $15/senior citi- zens via www.columbiabasin.tix. com or 5-542-551. A humor- ous tribute to the science ¿ ction and horror B movies of the late 14s through the early 17s. The musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transves- tite scientist unveiling his new creation, a muscle man named Rocky Horror. Rated NC-17 for gender themes, adult language, content and semi-nudity. Movies in the Park •Fridays through Aug. 21; dusk •Mc.enzie Park, 2 S. First St., Hermiston Free. Family-friendly mov- ie. Bring a chair or blanket. No movie Aug. 14 Movies in the Park •Saturdays through Aug. 15; 8-1 p.m. •Community Park, 1 S.W. 7th St., Pendleton Free. Family-friendly movie. Bring a chair or blanket. Con- cessions available for purchase. “As You Like It” •Aug. 2-22; 7: p.m. Aug. 2; 2 p.m. •Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth St., Walla Walla $24-$2/adults, $/students. The Seattle Shakespeare Com- pany presents the story of Ro- salind and Celia, who are exiled from their homes and disguised as men to avoid attention. Seeking refuge in the secluded Forest of Arden, the witty pair get caught up in the romantic tangles of the locals and ¿ nd their own love interests as well, although not without complica- tions. Hot tickets •Pendleton Round-Up Con- cert features Scotty McCreery and Jackson Michelson. Sept. 12, Happy Canyon Arena, Pend- leton. Tickets ($4-$1) avail- able via 541-27-255, 8-457- or www.pendletonroundup. com/events/2015/concert. •Gentlemen of the Road Stopover featuring Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips and other national, regional and local bands. Aug. 1-15, Walla Walla. Reserved seats ($1) via www.mumfordandsons.com. •Foo Fighters. Saturday, Sept. 12, Gorge Amphitheater, George, Wash. Reserved seats ($45-$75) via www.livenation. com.
