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THE OPENING ACT
MARCH 16�23, 2022
STAFF
RAISING THE CURTAIN
ON THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
What we’re into New releases
ORIGAMI LUCKY STARS
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’m not a particularly crafty
person but after exploring the
far corners of Pinterest at two in
the morning, I found a fun project
I love doing: origami paper stars.
Paper stars are also called
lucky stars and come from a
Japanese story about a girl
named Hoshi.
Hoshi loved the stars and was
sad one night when the stars
were falling from the sky. She
made paper stars and put them in
a jar, one for every star that fell.
She went to the village and
told the other children what was
happening and all of them made
paper stars together. When
they’d made 2,000 stars, the stars
in the sky began appearing again.
Hoshi told them, “Whenever a
lucky star is made, a falling star
is saved.”
It is an adorable story and if
you want to read it, just look up
“origami paper stars story” online.
Lucky stars are often folded
with wishes for luck and good for-
tune. They can be given as gifts
for good luck and love.
I didn’t know this story when
I fi rst started folding them. I
had been on Pinterest and saw
a comic about a lonely girl who
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was visited in a dream by a man
dressed in white. He told her
how to fold paper stars and if
she made 1,000 her wish would
be granted.
She folded a paper star every
time she was lonely or felt lost
and when she made 1,000, the
star visited her again. Her wish
was to have a friend and the star
became her friend.
Again, a cute story that made
me curious and I learned how
to fold lucky stars. There are
so many diff erent papers with
designs and colors. They have
holographic, glitter, galaxy and
more on Amazon.
They are fun and easy to
make and there are a million dif-
ferent tutorials on how to make
them online.
And who couldn’t use a little
more good luck in their lives?
— SAMANTHA O’CONNER,
REPORTER, BAKER CITY HERALD
uitarist Rick Holm-
strom’s new album
is an all-instrumental
collection of toe-
tappers, thigh-slappers
and fi nger-snappers.
There’s an irresist-
ible backbeat, and the
mood is upbeat. Grin
and hear it.
The Associated Press
Holmstrom, who
has worked with Mavis
Staples for the past 15 years,
ful interplay and the rhythm
draws on antecedents reach-
always jumps, whether Holm-
ing back much further than
strom’s band of joy is evoking
that, to the days when the
a prayer meeting, sock hop,
electric guitar was ubiquitous
beach party or juke joint.
on the pop charts. His play-
Holmstrom plays a distinc-
ing is a stylish swirl of hipster
tive mix of lead and rhythm
funk, twang, the blues and
guitar, as he does with
garage rock — in fact, most of
Staples. His neck excursions
“Get It!” was recorded in a Los
combine dips and scoops,
Angeles garage.
lyrical runs, toggles between
Accompanied by drummer
registers and shimmering
Steve Mugalian and bassist
chord clusters. Notes cas-
cade, collide, argue and agree.
Gregory Boaz, Holmstrom
It’s all in good fun, and words
tears through 14 tunes, all
would just get in the way.
original, in less than 40 min-
— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
utes. There’s plenty of play-