ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday, January 27, 2018
East Oregonian
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PENDLETON
Photo collections preserve Hells Canyon
East Oregonian
An upcoming exhibit at
the Pendleton Center for
the Arts shows how fine art
photography can be used to
affect change and save scenic
areas from devastation.
Wilderness & Sublimity:
Photography and the Conser-
vation of Hells Canyon
features two collections of
photos, one from the late-
1960s and early-1970s and
the other from 2016. Both
highlight the beauty and
power of the Snake River as it
flows through Hells Canyon.
The opening reception is
Thursday, Feb.1 from 5:30-7
p.m. at the arts center, 214 N.
Main St., Pendleton. Photog-
rapher Kendrick Moholt,
who organized the traveling
exhibit, will be in attendance.
The event is free and open to
the general public.
Boyd Norton is the
photographer who connects
the two series of works. In
the late ’60s, he was working
as a nuclear physicist with
the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion’s Nuclear Reactor
Testing Station in Idaho.
A founding member of the
Hells Canyon Preservation
Council, the group formed
to fight the proposal to build
a huge dam that would flood
the Hells Canyon area of
the Snake River. Norton
began photographing the
scenic area, documenting the
Photo contributed by Boyd Norton
Folk musician Pete Seeger sings on
the shore of the Snake River at Hells
Canyon in the early 1970s.
dynamic landscape during
hikes and float trips with
other conservation allies,
including Arthur Godfrey and
Pete Seeger.
Well-known folk musi-
cians, their support lent a
bit of celebrity to the cause.
However, it was Norton’s
photographs that were the
true stars of the project.
After seeing the photos,
former Sen. Bob Packwood
championed the effort to
protect the free-flowing
portion of the river. After eight
Photo contributed by Kendrick Moholt
A photo taken on a stretch of the Snake River during a guided float trip 40 years after the Hells
Canyon National Recreation Area Act was passed by Congress to protect the area.
long years, the Hells Canyon
National Recreation Area
Act was passed by Congress
— protecting the area, which
included prohibiting dams in
the vicinity.
Norton left the nuclear field
to further pursue photography
and conservation writing. In
addition to his work appearing
in many publications, he has
won numerous awards. In
2010, he was named “One
of the 40 most influential
nature photographers from
around the globe” by Outdoor
Photography Magazine.
More than 50 years after the
Hells Canyon conservation
effort began, Josephy Center
for Art and Culture created a
residency program to produce
art on another float trip on
the Snake River. Guided by
Winding Waters River Expe-
ditions, Norton, along with
photographers Jason Yale,
Amy Gulick, Terry Donnelly,
Rick McEwan, Kendrick
Moholt and poet Cam Scott,
traveled through the river’s
spring flood waters to capture
PENDLETON — A casual
atmosphere offers the perfect
backdrop for strumming some
tunes.
Musicians of all experience
levels are invited to grab guitars,
bongos, banjos, mandolins or
whatever you have and join in the
fun. Blues, rock, folk, county, pop
and more will the air as participants
experiment with sound.
Jam Night is the first Thursday
of the month at 7 p.m. at Pendleton
Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main
St. There is no fee for the free
drop-in event.
For more information, call
541-278-9201 or visit www.
pendletonarts.org.
First Friday Art Walk
offers sweet gifts
BAKER CITY — With
Valentine’s Day just a few weeks
away, chocolate and artwork could
be the unique gift you’re looking
for.
The First Friday Art Walk
will showcase a variety of works
by a number of regional artists.
In addition, Places of the Heart,
a regional open exhibit, is at
Crossroads Carnegie Arts Center,
2020 Auburn St. The exhibit
features artists’ interpretation of
deep connections with people,
places and things.
And at Peterson’s Gallery and
Chocolatier, their “last name” takes
center stage during Valentine’s
Day. Be sure to stop in and browse
the artisan chocolates. It’s located
at 1925 Main St.
The First Friday Art Walk is
Feb. 2 from 5-8 p.m. in historic
downtown Baker City. For more
information about the art walk,
including participating galleries
and featured artists, call 541-523-
5369.
the Stewards of the Umatilla
River Environment and orga-
nized many river cleanups
and beautification projects.
The arts center is open
Tuesday through Fridays
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m.
The exhibit runs through Feb.
24. Also, paintings by Pend-
leton artist Judith Graham
are featured in the Lorenzen
Board Room Gallery. For
more
information,
call
541-278-9201 or visit www.
pendletonarts.org.
WHAT TO DO
BRIEFLY
Pendleton Jam Night
picks up the beat
images and write poetry.
The exhibit features the
decades old photos Norton
took, poems written and
images shot during the
2016 trip, and congressional
documentation from the
formation of the HCNRA.
Together, the works celebrate
the art and heroic efforts that
helped in preserving the wild
landscape.
The arts center exhibit
was underwritten by Betty
Klepper, a retired scientist
who has been involved with
Festivals
Melonville Comedy Fes-
tival
•Saturday, Jan. 27; 8 p.m.
•Hermiston
Conference
Center, 415 S. Highway 395
www.facebook.com
$35. 21-and-older show
features co-headliners Ker-
met Apio and Derek Richards.
Opening the show is Cory Mi-
chaelis. Tickets available at the
conference center. Food avail-
able for purchase.
IF: Gathering Hermiston
•Friday, Feb. 9; 5-9 p.m.
•New Hope Community
Church, 1350 S. Highway 395,
Hermiston
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 9 a.m.-
5 p.m.
•Held in 30 smaller venues
around the community
https://register.ifgathering.
com/event/ifhermiston
$1/suggested donation. A
worldwide women’s faith-based
conference with a livestream
from Austin, Texas. Based on
What IF we followed God with
perseverance instead of in-
security? Childcare available
by donation.(Heather Beal, if-
.hermiston@gmail.com)
Art, Museums
& Authors
Wilderness & Sublimity:
Photography and the Con-
servation of Hells Canyon
•Thursday, Feb. 1; 5:30
p.m., opening reception
•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. Photographer Kend-
rick Moholt organized two col-
lections of photos (late 1960s to
early 1970s and 2016) for a the
exhibit. Runs through Feb. 24.
Photography Club Exhibit
•Monday-Thursdays;
11
a.m-7 p.m.,
•Friday-Saturdays; 10 a.m.-
5 p.m.
•Hermiston Public Library,
235 E. Gladys Ave.
www.hermistonlibrary.us
Free. The work of Photog-
raphy Club members is on dis-
play. Runs through Jan. 31.
First Saturday Spin-In
•Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St.
Free. Fiber enthusiasts can
drop-in and bring a project to
work on. Coffee, tea and work
space provided.
New Year’s Show
•Tuesday-Sundays,
10
a.m.-6 p.m.
•Peterson’s Gallery and
Chocolatier, 1925 Main St.,
Baker City
www.petersonsgallery.net
Free. Features the work of
three of the past year’s most
requested artists. Runs through
Jan. 31.
Fishtrap Fireside
•Friday, Feb. 2; 7 p.m.
•400 E. Grant St., Enterprise
www.fishtrap.org
Free. Featured Wallowa
County writers will share from
their works, including Jenner
Hanni, Catherine Matthias and
Zanni Schauffler. An open mic
follows for audience to share
their stories.
Watercolor Society of
Oregon
•Monday-Thursdays, 9:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m.
•Betty Feves Memorial Gal-
lery, Blue Mountain Community
College, 2411 N.W. Carden
Ave., Pendleton.
Free. The traveling show
features 20 award-winning
paintings from the society’s
bi-annual juried exhibition by
noted artist/juror Paul Jackson.
Gallery also open by appoint-
ment by calling 541-278-5952.
Runs through Feb. 15.
2018 ArtWORKz Junior
Art Show & Competition
•Jan. 27-March 17; exhibit
displayed
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 1 p.m.,
artists’ reception
•Tamástslikt Cultural Insti-
tute, near Wildhorse Resort &
Casino.
www.tamastslikt.org
Free. Features artwork of
regional artists who are 19 and
under. Runs through March 17.
Music
Two-Lane Highway Band
•Saturday, Jan. 27; 8:30
p.m.
•Midway Bar & Grill, 1750 N.
First St., Hermiston
No cover.
Matt Borden and the
MFB’s
•Saturday, Jan. 27; 9 p.m.
•The Pheasant, 149 E. Main
St., Hermiston
thepheasant.ticketleap.com
$10/advance,
$15/door.
Features “Wild Child,” an Or-
egon boy growing up listening
to country and western in Red-
mond, where he played in local
bars at age 16.
Jam Night
•Thursday, Feb. 1; 6:30-8
p.m.
•Pendleton Center for the
Arts, 214 N. Main St.
www.pendletonarts.org
Free. Join other local musi-
cians for an informal evening of
jamming.
The Mix
•Friday, Feb. 2; Saturday,
Feb. 3; 8 p.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
Oldies Night: Fats Domino
•Saturday, Feb. 3; 7-10 p.m.
•Wesley United Methodist
Church, 816 S. Main St., Mil-
ton-Freewater
Free. BJ the DJ will explore
Domino’s impressive musical
career, including his number
one hits as well as lesser-known
works. Snacks by The Frogs.
Time Machine Radio
•Friday, Feb. 9; Saturday,
Feb. 10; 8 p.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
Misty Mouth CD Release
Party
Troy Fair Band
•Saturday, Jan. 27; 8 p.m.
No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
Ezza Rose Band
•Saturday, Feb. 4; 1-4 p.m.
p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Cof-
fee Co., 403 S. Main St., Pend-
leton
No cover. All ages show
features the Portland-based
band whose sound is described
as dreamy, soul and rock ’n’ roll
with minimalist melodies and
eerie harmonies.
•Saturday, Jan. 27; 7-9:30
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 8-10
p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Cof-
fee Co., 403 S. Main St., Pend-
leton
No cover. All ages. Classi-
cally and garage band trained,
the Pendleton-based band fea-
tures Adam Lange on bass and
vocals, Addison Schulberg on
lead guitar, Greg Schulberg on
percussion and Rian Beach on
lead vocals/rhythm guitar.
Ben Walden
•Tuesday, Feb. 13; 7-9 p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Cof-
fee Co., 403 S. Main St., Pend-
leton
No cover. All ages. After
graduating from Moscow High
School in Idaho, the sing-
er-songwriter attended Berklee
College of Music in Boston. Re-
turning the Pacific Northwest,
he released three albums in
2016.
Groove City
•Friday, Feb. 16; Saturday,
Feb. 17; 8 p.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
Stompin’ Ground
•Saturday, Feb. 17, 9 p.m.
No cover
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501
Sixth St., Umatilla
Tylor & the Train Robbers
•Monday, Feb. 19; 7-9 p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Cof-
fee Co., 403 S. Main St., Pend-
leton
No cover. All ages. Former
Helix resident Tylor Bushman
Ketchum hardly needs an in-
troduction. He’s bringing his
Boise-based band to town to
perform their unique blend of
outlaw honky tonk.
Night life
Karaoke w/DJ David
•Saturdays; 8 p.m.
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501
Sixth St., Umatilla
DJ & Trivia
•Saturdays; 9 p.m.
•Midway Tavern, 1750 N.
First St., Hermiston
Thirsty Thursdays
•Third Thursday; 6 p.m.
•Midway Bar & Grill, 1750 N.
First St., Hermiston
No cover. Hosts a local
brewery offering tastings. Jan.
18: Pelican Brewing Company.
LOL Comedy Jam
•Thursdays; 8 p.m.
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
No cover. Feb. 1: Marcus
Coleman, Tyler Boeh; Feb. 8:
PJ McGuire, Todd Johnson
Wine tasting
•Fridays, 4-8 p.m.
•Sno Road Winery, 111 W.
Main St., Echo.
Karaoke w/DJ David
•Fridays; 8 p.m.
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501
Sixth St., Umatilla
DJ and dancing
•Fridays, 8 p.m.
•The Pheasant, 149 E. Main
St., Hermiston
Karaoke
•Fridays; 9 p.m.
•Midway Tavern, 1750 N.
First St., Hermiston
Cimmi’s Late Night Marti-
ni Lounge
•Fridays; 9 p.m.-midnight
•Virgil’s at Cimmiyotti’s, 137
S. Main St., Pendleton
No cover. Features martinis,
mixology and music.
Theater, stage,
film & lectures
“Totally 80s Totally Mur-
der” Dinner Show
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 5 p.m.
•Sub Zero Restaurant &
Lounge, 100 W. Highway 730,
Irrigon
$40/if purchased by Jan.
20, then $49, $59.95/VIP ($50 if
purchased by Jan. 20). Includes
dinner and interactive murder
mystery event. Costume con-
test with ’80s style, awards,
drawings and raffles. Lucky
Coyote show follows. 541-922-
4374.
Hot tickets
•Blue Oyster Cult (April 20)
and Hal Ketchum (May 26),
at Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
Tickets for the 21-and-older
show (price to be announced)
go on sale Feb. 8 via the Wild-
horse Gift Shop or www.wild-
horseresort.com
•Buddy-the Buddy Holly
Story. Feb. 25, Toyota Center,
Kennewick. Tickets ($27-$67)
via www.ticketmaster.com
•Eagles. May 5, Moda Cen-
ter, Portland. Tickets ($59-$400)
via www.ticketmaster.com
———
Want to get your event
listed in our calendar? Send
information to community@ea-
storegonian.com, or c/o Tammy
Malgesini, 333 E. Main Street,
Hermiston, OR, 97838.
MOVIE REVIEW
Forward motion of ‘Maze Runner’ series stalls in third entry
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK — Moviegoers
who come late to the “Maze
Runner” franchise, which now
numbers three, will doubtless
have one very reasonable ques-
tion: Where, pray tell, are all the
mazes I was promised?
Alas, the maze of “Maze
Runner” — referred to as
“the Glade” by the few dozen
teenagers who were mysteriously
dropped into it — has been in
the rearview since the first 2014
installment, a modestly budgeted
YA adaption and a bit of a
“Hunger Games” knockoff. But
what the two sequels, first “Maze
Runner: Scorch Trials” and now
“Maze Runner: The Death Cure,”
have lacked in labyrinths, they
have made up for in running.
Literal running but also a genu-
inely kinetic forward movement.
The “Maze Runner” films, which
“Maze Runner:
The Death Cure”
★★☆☆
PG-13, 142 minutes
Twentieth Century Fox via AP
This image shows, from left, Dylan O’Brien, Giancarlo Esposito and
Rosa Salazar in a scene from “Maze Runner: The Death Cure.”
have all been directed by former
visual effects supervisor Wes
Ball, move better than the average
dystopia. So many fantasies bog
themselves down with backstory
and world-explaining, but the
chief pleasure of the “Maze
Runner” films is that the charac-
ters are perpetually grasping their
predicament right along with the
audience.
Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and
his close-knit crew of escapees-
turned-rebel fighters (Thomas
Brodie-Sangster, Rosa Salazar,
Barry Pepper) are among the
few left on Earth immune to a
virus that turns all into zombies.
In “Maze Runner,” they escaped
the enormous concrete maze
they were plopped into with their
memories erased. By “Scorch
Trials,” they realized the institu-
tion that sheltered them wasn’t
to be trusted. They broke out and
joined with a band of resistance
fighters. In “The Death Cure,”
they try to free the remaining lab
rats who are housed in the last
remaining city, a walled-in cluster
of skyscrapers.
“The Death Cure” is the
biggest budgeted, most bloated
and longest running entry for the
franchise. It maintains the movies’
quick pace before stalling in an
overlong finale. It should be a
mutually understood condition
that if you’re going to name your
movie “Maze Runner: The Death
Cure,” you’ve got to turn in a cut
under two hours.
But if the “Maze Runner”
films have chronicled major
stages of young adulthood, they
have graduated a few along the
way. O’Brien has shouldered
the films well, even as much of
their enjoyment derives from the
scattered ensemble of characters
actors (Giancarlo Esposito, Will
Poulter, Walton Goggins). But
Ball’s command of the camera
and his ability to hurtle his
character through science-fiction
realms has visibly grown through
the three movies. For too long
“The Death Cure” stays in one
place; it’s best when on the move.
And now, it’s probably time for
Ball to move on, too.