ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday, February 10, 2018
East Oregonian
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MISSION
Wildhorse gets ready for sizzling summer entertainment
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
A man-tastic male revue,
an amazing medium, a ’90s
hip-hop party and the King
of Accordion are all featured
during summer shows at
Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
Tickets are now on sale
for Hunks the Show, Kim
Russo: The Happy Medium,
Naughty by Nature and
Ramon Ayala. Club Wild
members can receive a $10
discount on the lowest-level
priced tickets.
Get ready, ladies, as
Hunks, an exotic male
dance show, comes to town
for a pair of cheeky perfor-
mances. The high-energy
21-and-older shows are
Saturday, June 2 at 6 p.m.
and 9 p.m. in the Rivers
Event Center. Get ready for
dazzling lights, thumping
beats, singing, dancing
and abs-solutely amazing
choreographed dis-robing.
Standing room only
tickets are $29 each, party
seats are $45, which include
party favors and table
service, and business seats
are $65, featuring the best
tables in the house, a gift
bag and table service. Also,
photo ops are available after
the show.
Connected with the spirit
world since she was age 9,
Russo has appeared on A &
E’s “Paranormal State” and
“Psychic Kids,” The Biog-
raphy Channel’s “Celebrity
Ghost Stories” and currently
hosts “The Haunting Of
Contributed photo
Naughty By Nature, a Grammy Award winning group,
headlines an outdoor hip-hop party July 27 at Wildhorse.
Contributed photo
Hunks the Show performs June 2 at Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
Contributed photo
Tickets are now on sale as Ramon Ayala returns for a
July 28 outdoor show at Wildhorse Resort & Casino.
...” She brings her show to
the Rivers Event Center
Saturday, June 16 at 8 p.m.
Russo will walk around
the room providing random
readings. A camera will
follow Russo with images
of her and reading recipients
being projected onto screens.
Tickets for the 21-and-older
show are $65.
Naughty By Nature, a
Grammy
Award-winning
New Jersey super-group,
is headlining an outdoor
hip-hop show. People 18
and up are invited to get into
the groove Friday, July 27 at
BRIEFLY
Theater offers
sensory-friendly
viewing
HERMISTON — The
lights are up a little and the
volume is down for a special
screening of “Peter Rabbit.”
In conjunction with The
Arc Umatilla County, the
sensory-friendly show can
be viewed Saturday, Feb. 17
at 10:30 a.m. at Hermiston
Stadium 8 Cinema, 355 W.
Theater Lane. Tickets are $5.
The animated adventure
comedy features the voice
of James Corden as Peter
Rabbit. The recently released
flick follows the tale of a
rebellious rabbit who tries to
sneak into a farmer’s field.
A nonprofit organization,
The Arc advocates for
individuals with intellectual
and developmental
disabilities. They offer
activities to help in
connecting the community
and expanding opportunities
for people with disabilities.
For more information,
call 541-567-7615 or visit
www.facebook.com.
Tickets go on sale
for ‘Annie’
PENDLETON —
Endearing music, wonderful
dancing, characters that
you’ll love and even a dog
are featured during upcoming
performances of “Annie.”
The popular Broadway
musical will be staged by
the College Community
Theatre at Blue Mountain
Community College.
The show opens with a
pay-what-you-can preview
night Thursday, Feb. 22
at Bob Clapp Theatre at
BMCC, 2411 N.W. Carden
Ave., Pendleton. Regular
performances are Feb.
23-24 and March 1-3 at
7:30 p.m. and Feb. 25 and
March 4 at 2 p.m.
Tickets, which are $20 for
adults and $10 for students,
go on sale Monday, Feb.
12. Craig McIntosh, CCT
artistic director and BMCC
theatre arts instructor,
anticipates brisk ticket sales
and encourages people to
make early reservations.
The Pioneer Hall box office
is open Monday through
Fridays from noon to 2 p.m.
In addition, people can call
541-278-5953.
Watch for a story with
photos in an upcoming
edition of the East
Oregonian.
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Want to get your event
listed in our calendar? Send
information to community@
eastoregonian.com, or c/o
Tammy Malgesini, 333 E.
Main Street, Hermiston,
OR, 97838.
Contributed photo
Kim Russo: The Happy
Medium brings her psy-
chic show to the Rivers
Event Center June 16.
8 p.m. Also taking the stage
are Sir Mix-A-Lot, a Seattle
rap artist known for “Baby
Got Back,” and Tone Loc,
whose deep and gravelly
voice has belted out such
hits as “Wild Thing” and
“Funky Cold Medina.”
Under the stars seats are
$99 and include an express
entry line, reservations in
a prime location, a special
drink ticket line and access
to a party tent with food
and a no-host bar. General
admission lawn seats are
$49. People can bring their
own low-profile chair or
blanket to sit on.
By popular demand,
Ramon Ayala is returning to
Wildhorse Saturday, July 28
at 8 p.m. The outdoor concert
includes estrellas club seats
for $129, which includes
reserved seats, dinner before
the show, a dedicated drink
ticket line and access to a
party tent with a no-host
bar. General admission lawn
seats are $49.
One of the most recog-
nized artists in the Mexican
music scene, Ayala has
recorded more than 100
albums and received four
Grammy Awards. His
group is known for standard
Norteño music, but they
also offer fresh new styles
that appeal to younger
audience members.
Active
military
personnel and veterans
can receive a 20 percent
discount on up to four
tickets (Hunks and Russo
shows) if purchased at the
Wildhorse Gift Shop. For
more information or to buy
tickets online, visit www.
wildhorseresort.com.
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Contact
Community
Editor Tammy Malgesini at
tmalgesini@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4539
WHAT TO DO
Festivals
of four. Runs through March 17.
A Wee Bit O’Ireland
•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. Features work of Pho-
tography Club members. Runs
through Feb. 28.
•March 16-18
•Heppner
No cover. The celebra-
tion includes lots of food, fun
events, great entertainment and
a chance to win a pot o’gold.
Red to Red XC MTB Race
•Saturday, March 17; noon-
3 p.m.
•Sno Road Winery, 111 W.
Main St., Echo
No cover. Downtown ven-
dors, food and fun for the whole
family. Race information to be
announced.
Prestige Wrestling 4: Do
or Die
•Friday, March 30; 7-11 p.m.
www.ticketfly.com
•Eastern Oregon Trade
and Event Center, 1705 Airport
Road, Hermiston
$20-$50. Features the best
independent talent in the Pacif-
ic Northwest as well as former
WWE superstars. Matches in-
clude Filthy Tom Lawlor vs MV
Young, Mike Santiago vs Julian
Whyt, Sonico vs Kaine Jaiden,
Guerrero De Neón vs León Ne-
gro and more matches to be
announced.
Art, Museums
& Authors
Wilderness & Sublimity:
Photography and the Con-
servation of Hells Canyon
•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 Ken-
drick Moholt organized two
collections of photos (late
1960s-early 1970s and 2016)
for a the exhibit that showcas-
es the beauty of Hells Canyon.
Runs through Feb. 24.
2018 ArtWORKz Junior
Art Show & Competition
•Monday-Saturdays;
10
a.m.-5 p.m.
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 1 p.m.,
artists’ reception
•Tamástslikt Cultural Insti-
tute, near Wildhorse Resort &
Casino.
www.tamastslikt.org
Free/reception. View exhib-
it and celebrate as prizes are
awarded to youth artists fea-
tured in the show. Regular ad-
mission is $10/adults, $9/senior
citizens, $6/youths or $25/family
Photography Club Exhibit
Sweet Exhibit
•Tuesday-Sundays, 10 a.m.-
6 p.m.
•Peterson’s Gallery and
Chocolatier, 1925 Main St.,
Baker City
www.petersonsgallery.net
Free. Features regional art-
ists. Also, check out the artisan
chocolates just in time for Val-
entine’s Day. Runs through Feb.
28.
Watercolor Society of
Oregon
•Monday-Thursdays, 9:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m.
•Betty Feves Memorial Gal-
lery, Blue Mountain Communi-
ty College, 2411 N.W. Carden
Ave., Pendleton.
Free. Traveling show fea-
tures 20 award-winning paint-
ings from bi-annual juried
exhibition by artist/juror Paul
Jackson. Gallery also open by
appointment by calling 541-
278-5952. Runs through Feb.
15.
Kids + Art = Fun!
•Saturday, Feb. 24; 1-4 p.m.
•Tamástslikt Cultural Insti-
tute, near Wildhorse Resort &
Casino.
www.tamastslikt.org
Free. Pepsi Primetime @
the Museum offers a family
art project. Held in conjunction
with 2018 ArtWORKz Junior Art
Show & Competition.
Music
Winter Chamber Music
Festival
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 6:30
p.m.
•Vert Clubroom, 345 S.W.
Fourth St., Pendleton
www.oregoneastsymphony.
org
$20/adults,
$15/students,
seniors, $45/family. Event is
sold out, but seats may be re-
leased at the door.
Misty Mouth CD Release
Party
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 8-10
p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Coffee
Co., 403 S. Main St., Pendleton
No cover. All ages. Classi-
cally and garage band trained,
the Pendleton-based group
features Adam Lange, Addison
Schulberg, Greg Schulberg and
Rian Beach. Band merch and
CDs available for purchase
Time Machine Radio
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 8 p.m.
No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
Ben Walden
•Tuesday, Feb. 13; 7-9 p.m.
•Great Pacific Wine & Coffee
Co., 403 S. Main St., Pendleton
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.
Wasteland Kings
•Thursday, Feb. 15; 7 p.m.
•40 Taps, 337 S.W. Emigrant
Ave., Pendleton
No cover during Live Music
Thursday.
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.
Cory Peterson Band
•Saturday, Feb. 17; 9 p.m.
•The Pheasant Blue Collar
Bar & Grill, 149 E. Main St.,
Hermiston
No cover. The CPB returns
to party away the post-Valen-
tine’s Day blues with country
and rock tunes.
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 & Coffee
Co., 403 S. Main St., Pendleton
No cover. All ages. Former
Helix resident Tylor Bushman
Ketchum is bringing his Boi-
se-based band to town to per-
form a unique blend of outlaw
honky tonk.
Tylor Brooks
•Thursday, Feb. 22; 7 p.m.
•40 Taps, 337 S.W. Emigrant
Ave., Pendleton
No cover during Live Music
Thursday.
24/7
•Friday, Feb. 23; Saturday,
Feb. 24; 8 p.m. No cover
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
“Carnival of the Animals’”
•Saturday, Feb. 24; 4 p.m.
•Columbia Basin College,
2600 N. 20th Ave., Pasco
www.inlandnorthwestmusi-
cians.com
Free, donations accepted.
The Inland Northwest Orches-
tra, an ensemble of the Inland
Northwest Musicians, performs
Camille Saint-Saens’ “Carni-
val of the Animals” and “Grand
Canyon Suite” by Ferde Grofe.
Night life
Love Keeps Us Warm
•Saturday, Feb. 10; 7-11
p.m.
•Hamley Slickfork Saloon, 8
S.E. Court Ave., Pendleton
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$25. Features dancing to
the Blue Wave Band from Se-
attle. Includes desserts, door
prizes and no-host bar. Benefits
Altrusa International of Pendle-
ton’s KARE Project, which helps
homeless students in Pendle-
ton. Tickets at the Pendleton
chamber and Dave’s Chevron.
Karaoke w/DJ David
•Fridays & Saturdays; 8 p.m.
•Riverside Sports Bar, 1501
Sixth St., Umatilla
DJ & Trivia
•Saturdays; 9 p.m.
•Midway Tavern, 1750 N.
First St., Hermiston
Zwickelmania
•Saturday, Feb. 24.; 11 a.m.-
4 p.m.
•Ordnance Brewing, 405 N.
Olson Road, Boardman
No cover. Beer tours, tast-
ings and meet brewer and team.
Trivia 80s
•Wednesday, Feb. 21 8 p.m.
No cover
•40 Taps, 337 S.W. Emigrant
Ave., Pendleton
No cover. Don your neon
clothes and brush up on ’80s
trivia for a chance to win drinks
and bragging rights. (541-612-
8559).
Thirsty Thursdays
•Third Thursday; 6 p.m.
•Midway Bar & Grill, 1750 N.
First St., Hermiston
No cover. Hosts a local
brewery offering tastings. Feb.
15: Iron House Brewery.
LOL Comedy Jam
•Thursdays; 8 p.m.
•Wildhorse Sports Bar, Wild-
horse Resort & Casino, off I-84
Exit 216, Mission.
No cover. Feb. 15: Jeremiah
Coughlin, Amanda Arnold; Feb.
22: Bill Scott
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
“Seussical the Musical”
•Feb. 9-10 & 16-17, 7 p.m.
•Sunday, Feb. 18, 2 p.m.
•Hermiston High School au-
ditorium, 600 S. First St.
$10/adults, $8/senior citi-
zens, $5/students. Hermiston
High School drama and music
students present the Dr. Seuss
musical.
“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.
“Peter Rabbit”
•Saturday, Feb. 17; 10:30
a.m.
•Hermiston Stadium 8 Cine-
ma, 355 W. Theater Lane
www.www.facebook.com/
arcofumatillacounty
$5. In conjunction with The
Arc Umatilla County, senso-
ry-friendly screenings with lights
up a little and volume down.
Doors open at 10 a.m.
“Annie”
•Feb. 22-24 & March 1-3;
7:30 p.m.
•Feb. 25 & March 4; 2 p.m.
•BMCC Bob Clapp Theatre,
2411 N.W. Carden Ave., Pend-
leton
Feb. 22 is pay-what-you-
can preview night; other per-
formances, $20/adults, $10/
students. College Community
Theatre presents the popular
musical. Early reservations are
encouraged as ticket sales are
expected to be high. (541-278-
5953).
MOVIE REVIEW
‘Black Panther’ is dazzling grand-scale filmmaking
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK — The
supposedly cosmically
vast Marvel Cinematic
Universe, as it’s called,
spans planets peppered
throughout the galaxy, but
Ryan Coogler’s Earth-
bound “Black Panther,”
glittering and galvanizing,
stands worlds apart.
For those of us who
have sometimes felt
pummeled by the parade
of previous Marvel
movies, the sheer richness
of Coogler’s film is
almost disorienting. Can
superhero films, so often
a dull mash of effects, be
“Black Panther”
★★★★
PG-13, 134 minutes
Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP
This image released by Disney shows a scene from
Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther.”
this dazzlingly colorful?
Are genuine cultural
connections allowed in
modern-day comic book
blockbuster-making? Is a
$20 billion refund in order?
Unlike many of its
more hollow predecessors,
“Black Panther” has real,
honest-to-goodness stakes.
As the most earnest and
big-budget attempt yet of
a black superhero film,
“Black Panther” is assured
of being an overdue
cinematic landmark. But
it’s also simply ravishing,
grand-scale filmmaking.
There are familiar
Marvel beats here. Just as
he did in the surprisingly
sensational Rocky reboot
“Creed,” Coogler hasn’t
reinvented the genre so
much as electrified it with a
new perspective and a rare
talent for marrying natural-
istic character development
with spectacle muscle.
“Tell them who you
are” is the encouragement
shouted at the title char-
acter, T’Challa (Chadwick
Boseman), prince of the
African nation Wakanda.
But it could just as well
serve as the overarching
rally cry of a film that
for many symbolizes a
big-screen affirmation of
African-American identity.
“Black Panther” stands
for everything that’s been
missing from Marvel’s
— and Hollywood’s —
universe.
It’s easy to lament how
long it took to bring “Black
Panther” to the big screen.
But at least the wait was
worth it.