[ThisWeek] Ala Zingara, Acoustic Wave Machine in concert and Millions at the Kenworthy

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

U.S. Bank presents
Millions (PG)

Wednesday, July 13
1:00 PM

Thursday, July 14
7:00 PM

Saturday & Sunday, July 16 & 17
7:00 PM
Wednesday Matinee prices:$4/adult, $1/child under 13
Regular prices:  $5/adult, $1/child under 13
(see REVIEW below)
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Live at the Kenworthy . . .

Ala Zingara 
and Acoustic Wave Machine

Friday, July 15
7:30 PM
Tickets $8 in advance at Bookpeople, $10 at the door

Ala Zingara, that quirky gypsy roots rock band born at the Lionel Hampton
School of Music where they met in the late 90Œs, is coming home and will be
playing at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow on Friday, July
15th. Tickets are $8 in advance (at Bookpeople in Moscow) and $10 at the
door. Doors open at 7pm and the show begins at 7:30. This is an all ages
show. 

Bring your dancing shoes as these guys span a great variety of grooves,
rhythms, and music genres with a wide generational appeal. From seriously
hard hitting riff oriented grooves to gypsy boom bamm, alt-country, bossa
nova, and celtic stompsŠ these guys present a kaleidoscopically fresh sound.

Acoustic Wave Machine, also from Moscow, will start off the show with their
cool blues-folk acoustic groove. Beverages will be served by The Red Door.

For more information, contact:
Robert Parks
206-297-1377
robert at alazingara.com <mailto:robert at alazingara.com>
www.alazingara.com <http://www.alazingara.com/>   (band website)
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Reel in the Money Campaign
Challenge grant to benefit historic Kenworthy

The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre (KPAC) announces the receipt of a
$5,000 challenge grant from the Schreck Family Foundation to kick off the
Reel in the Money Campaign.  The KPAC¹s goal is to raise an additional
$10,000 for the historic downtown building, including electrical upgrades,
equipment, and maintenance needs.  On Friday July 22 at 10:00 AM, KPAC will
hold the first of several theater tours for the public.  Interested parties
should call 882-4127 to reserve a spot on the tour.

The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre is the home of Moscow Community Theatre
<http://www.kenworthy.org/MCT.htm> and is rented annually by various
organizations including Sirius Idaho Theatre
<http://www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com> and the University of Idaho
<http://www.uidaho.edu>.  The Kenworthy Film Society--an activity of
KPAC--shows documentary, foreign, and independent films on a weekly basis.
Revenues from films and events account for only 60% of KPAC¹s income.  The
balance (40%) must come in the form of donations and grants.

The Kenworthy is an historic theater that opened to the public in 1926.  A
Moscow landmark, the Kenworthy Theater¹s history spans over three-quarters
of a century and includes vaudeville, silent films, theatre, and dance
productions.  In December 1999, the Kenworthy Theater was donated to the
community and is now owned and operated by the KPAC Board of Directors. The
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre is a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 organization and
all contributions are tax deductible.  Those making contributions of $250 or
more will be invited to the campaign celebration party to be held in the
fall 2005.

For more information or to schedule a tour, call Julie Ketchum at
208-882-4127.

Julie Ketchum
Executive Director
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
P.O. Box 8126
Moscow, ID 83843
http://www.kenworthy.org
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Next week at the Kenworthy-

Napoleon Dynamite (PG)
July 20, 1:00 & 7:00 PM

Sin City (R)
July 22 ­ 24, 7:00 PM
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Also in July at the Kenworthy-

Two Brothers (PG)
Presented by Insty Prints & NIAC
July 27, 1:00 PM

My Town
July 28, 7:00 PM

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (PG)
July 29 ­ 31, 7:00 PM

Coming in August:  Because of Winn Dixie, Robots, Madagascar, Mad Hot
Ballroom, Howl¹s Moving Castle

Thanks to the following Wednesday matinee sponsors:
Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club, Tom & JoAnn Trail, U.S. Bank,
Wells Fargo Bank, Gritman Medical Center

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger.
Wednesday matinee prices:  $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!
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³MY TOWN²

On Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 PM, New West Magazine <http://www.newwest.net>
will sponsor an encore showing of the film, "My Town".  The 70 minute film
by Washington State University Associate Professor, Michael Hayes focuses on
the cultural clash in Moscow involving Christ Church Pastor Doug Wilson. The
screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

In the film Hayes includes interviews with Wilson, his brother Evan Wilson,
New St. Andrews College Dean Roy Atwood, as well as community
representatives including JoAnn Muneta, Bill London, and Rosemary Huskey.
Hayes also includes film of Wilson¹s history conference and the controversy
regarding Wilson¹s pamphlet, ³Southern Slavery As It Was.²

Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and students.  Proceeds from
the screening will benefit the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre.

For more information, call 208-882-4127.
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This week¹s review-

Millions

Directed by Danny Boyle
''Millions'' is rated PG (Parental guidance is suggested). The loss of a
mother may upset some children; the film also contains mild violence, adult
language and the discreet suggestion of adult sexuality.
Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes

As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times

Given the gaudy violence that frequently moves Mr. Boyle's stories
(³Trainspotting² and ³28 Days Later²) forward and keeps them jumping, and
the enjoyment he appears to derive when push leads to shove in those
stories, it may come as something of a surprise that the filmmaker has
handily cleared a new hurdle: he has directed a heartfelt, emotionally
delicate children's movie about life and death and all the parts in between.

Pegged to a lonesome little boy, a motherless child named Damian (Alex Etel,
making a sensational film debut), ''Millions'' is about the secret world of
children, in particular that miraculous, tragically brief interlude when the
young imagination -- not yet captive to crippling adult conventions like
time, space and rational thought -- takes boundless flight.

Principally set in and around a new ticky-tacky housing development in an
anonymous suburban wasteland, the story hinges on what happens -- the good,
the bad and the scary -- after a sack stuffed with money literally lands on
its 7-year-old hero.

Mr. Boyle is a master of gimmicks, narrative and visual; like a good pop
musician, he believes in the power of the hook, a catchy bit to reel you in.
With ''Millions,'' that catchy bit isn't the errant bag of cash or the
stranger who, shades of ''Great Expectations,'' ominously emerges from the
wilds to haunt the boys and kick-start the plot. The hook is that Damian
believes he is on speaking (and seeing) terms with saints whose tribulations
he knows the way most children know the stats of their favorite football
players. 

A gravely beautiful child, with a face splashed with freckles and pooling
eyes, the young actor brings to the role the strange ethereality of those
children who never fit in to the here and the now but curl into their own
private worlds, giggling at jokes no one else hears.

Much of the movie's other pleasures are visual. Mr. Boyle uses all manner of
enjoyable tricks to show us what his characters see; more poignantly, he
also shows why Damian takes such delight in being alive, despite his
crushing loss. 

''Millions'' has plenty of story and characters to chew over, including a
sweetheart for Ronnie, Latter-day Saints and train robbers, a boogeyman and
all those peripatetic martyrs. But more enjoyable still is a dream house
that goes up lickety-split and clouds that scud overhead like bunnies. At
the core of this unexpectedly moving film is a serious child (and just maybe
a reformed cynic) who with heart and eyes open embraces a credo once spat
out by an older, rather less wise soul in ''Trainspotting'': choose life.


As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

Unlike the trains that whiz by in practically every other scene, "Millions"
doesn't stray far from an isolated housing development in the north of
England. Still, this utterly enchanting British import manages to transport
us to other worlds, some of them heavenly.

"Millions" earns its description as a family picture. Parents may find they
enjoy it more than their children do -- you have to sit through a lot of
movies to recognize the one in a million. It's the best film aimed at
audiences of all ages since "Finding Nemo," and it doesn't have to rely on
animation to create magic. The voices come out of the mouths of actual
actors. 

First and foremost is Alex Etel, a freckle-faced, impossibly adorable
newcomer who aces the starring role. He's so believable as 7-year-old
Damian, still smarting from the loss of his beloved mother, that you want to
reach through the screen and give him a hug. Seeking a retreat, Damian
constructs a tent out of cardboard near the railway tracks. He encases
himself in it so he can feel the reverberations, the next best thing to
hopping aboard. 

One train offers an unexpected bounty -- a bag of stolen money, tossed from
the platform, which lands in Damian's home away from home. Fervently
religious, he assumes it is manna from heaven.

Children often have imaginary friends, but none quite like his. Damian is
visited frequently by saints whose date of birth, death and miracle he
rattles off with the total recall boys his age usually reserve for baseball
statistics. Not always able to distinguish between the imaginary and
reality, he's relieved when his older brother Anthony (Lewis McGibbon)
arrives and sees the loot plain as day. It's nowhere close to millions but
might as well be to these two.

The theme of unearned money and the disastrous complications it often brings
has cropped up in other movies. But "Millions" is more about loss for which
there is no compensation.

The first question Damian asks his celestial visitors is if they've run into
a St. Maureen, for surely his dearly departed mum deserves the ultimate
accolade. Alex makes the youngster's disappointment palpable when her name
doesn't register. 

Anthony conceals his feelings by becoming obsessed with how to spend their
sudden fortune, checking out real estate for starters. Usually greedy
brokers, however, are reluctant to sell to a 9-year-old. Lewis elicits
laughs by playing the role totally straight-faced. Meanwhile, Damian, egged
on by St. Nicholas, wants to give the money to the poor. The brothers have a
hard time accepting that their father (James Nesbitt, poignant as a single
dad doing the best he can) would bring home another woman, even one with as
much spunk as Daisy Donovan brings to the role.

Danny Boyle handles all this with a gentleness that might not be expected
from the director of "Trainspotting," "Shallow Grave," and "28 Days Later,"
each creepy in its own unique way. Just as David Lynch, another master of
the macabre, did when he made the G-rated "The Straight Story," Boyle brings
his pumped-up imagination and visual eloquence to this sweet story. The
subdivision is shown going up in fast motion, starting with laying out the
streets and building sites. Trains speed past in record time and slow down
to segue between scenes.

The piece de resistance takes place at a cosmetics counter where Maureen
used to work. As Damian wanders by, imagining his mother pointing out the
wonders of various lotions, his reflection is captured in the bottles. He
sparkles just like this luminous movie.

Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org
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PAMELA PALMER, Volunteer
Mailto:ppalmer at moscow.com
Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

http://www.kenworthy.org

To speak with a KPAC staff member,
call (208) 882-4127
Mailto:kpac at moscow.com
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