[ThisWeek] Candidate forum and Ladies in Lavender at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Moscow¹s candidates debate at the Kenworthy!
Moscow-Pullman Daily News Election Forum
Thursday, October 20th
Free

6:00 PM ­ Two candidates for Two-Year Moscow City Council seat

7:00 PM ­ Moscow¹s three Mayoral Candidates

9:00 PM - Nine Candidates for (3) Four-Year Moscow City Council seats

QUESTIONS FOR THE DEBATES CAN STILL BE SENT TO
smcclure at dnews.com 

Election day - Tuesday, November 8th
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Ladies in Lavender (PG-13)
Friday, October 21
7:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 22 & 23
4:15 & 7:00 pm
$5/adults, $2/children under 13
(see Review below)

Check KPAC¹s web site for dates & times. http://www.kenworthy.org

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child under 13
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

March of the Penguins (G)

Friday, October 28
7:00 PM
A fundraiser for the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
Tickets $8 advance/$10 door
(see full press release below)

March of the Penguins also showing-
Saturday & Sunday, October 29 & 30
5:00 & 7:00 PM
$5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger
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Tickets now on sale for-

Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert
Thursday, October 27
7:30 PM
Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student

The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre is pleased to announce that Darol
Anger's Republic of Strings featuring Scott Nygaard will appear in concert
on Thursday, October 27, at 7:30 PM.

"Darol Anger is the quintessential improvising violinist," says Dr. Billy
Tayler of CBS Sunday Morning.  Eric Fidler of the Associated Press says,
"Darol Anger has been obliterating musical borders for years, but never to
better effect.  ... the Darol Anger Fiddle Ensemble creates rich, lusciously
textured, complex and quite beautiful music."

Renowned for his versatility and depth, Darol Anger has helped mastermind
the evolution of the American string band with his groundbreaking groups The
Turtle Island String Quartet, Fiddlers 4, Psychograss, Newgrange, Montreux,
and the David Grisman Quintet.  Michael John Simmons of Amazon.com says,
"Harmonically complex, rhythmically rich arrangements.  You might call this
improvised Afro-Scandivanian Irish old-time string band music, but it would
be equally true, and much simpler, to just say they play great music."

The concert is sponsored by local businesses Advantage America Mortgage and
Hayden, Ross & Co. and is funded in part by the Idaho Commission on the Arts
and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tickets for the concert are on sale at BookPeople of Moscow.  Tickets are
$16 for adults and $12 for seniors, children, or students with ID and can
also be charged by phone to 208-882-4127.  There is a $.50 per ticket fee on
all charge card orders.
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November at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Moscow Community Theatre presents
Noodlehead!
Original musical by Lisa Kliger
November 3 - 5, 10 - 12
7:30 PM
November 6 & 12
2:00 PM
$11/adult, $9/senior, $6 student or child

Moscow Civic Association presents
The End of Suburbia (not rated)
November 7 at 7:00 PM
$5 donation

The Constant Gardner (R)
November 13 at 4:00 & 7:00 PM

University of Idaho Dept of Physics presents
Einstein¹s Miracle Year
November 17 at 7:00 PM
Free

Everything is Illuminated (PG-13)
November 18 at 7:00 PM
November 19 & 20 at 4:30 & 7:00 PM

Wallace & Gromit
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G)
November 25-27 at 4:45 & 7:00 PM

Coming in December: 2046, Junebug
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Tom Lamar
Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
(208) 882-1444
http://www.pcei.org

Penguins March on Moscow

MOSCOW, IDAHO, OCTOBER 28‹Join the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental
Institute Friday, October 28, for ³March of the Penguins.²

PCEI is hosting a fun and fashionable evening for the whole family featuring
food and the flick, "March of the Penguins" on the Friday before Halloween.
The movie will show at the Kenworthy Performing Art Centre, 508 S. Main, in
downtown Moscow. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. For food and drink, with the movie
at 7 p.m. Tickets are available in advance for $8 at BookPeople of Moscow,
PCEI 1040 Rodeo Drive, and from PCEI Board members, or at the door for $10.
All proceeds will support PCEI¹s development of its Urban Nature Center on
Rodeo Drive in Moscow. To learn about the Nature Center, visit
<http://www.pcei.org/rodeo.htm>.

Look for Penguins and Tuxedos gracing the front of the Kenworthy Performing
Arts Centre that evening.  In the spirit of Halloween, we encourage everyone
to dress as a Penguin (or in other related garb: Polar Bears, Puffins,
Batman, Robin, etc).  Pizza from the Moscow Food Co-op's new location will
be served hot that evening, and wine, beer and other beverages will be
catered by Mikey's!  Additional sponsors for the evening include: Resource
Planning Unlimited, Rdesign, Machine Language, D8, Moscow Realty, Cutting
Edge Signs, Red Door, Paulucci Tailor & Men's Ware, and Creighton's.

This film, narrated by Morgan Freeman, takes the audience on a truly
remarkable journey through the Antarctic. Every March since the beginning
of time, the Penguins have made their quest to find the perfect mate and
start a family. This courtship begins with a journey across the continent
by foot, in freezing temperatures, icy winds and through deep, treacherous
waters. On this journey Penguins risk starvation and attack by predators,
all in the harshest conditions on earth to find true love.

For more information on the film visit, <http://www.marchofthepenguins.com>.

PCEI is a nonprofit organization actively participating in the restoration
and conservation of the Palouse-Clearwater region, and increasing citizen
awareness and involvement in decisions that promote the future of the
local environment. With the support of volunteers and more than 1,000
members and donors, PCEI is able to find creative solutions to local
issues concerning transportation, water quality, energy sources and the
community food system. Learn more about PCEI at <http://www.pcei.org/>.
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Moscow Civic Association Sponsors ³End Of Suburbia² Documentary

The Moscow Civic Association is sponsoring a public showing of the
documentary film ³End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the
American Dream² at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 South Main in
downtown Moscow, at 7pm on Monday, November 7. Donations will be accepted at
the door to cover the costs.

The film explores the growing global demand for fossil fuels, the inevitable
decline of that fuel supply, and the impact on the American way of life.
The 78-minute film has been honored at numerous film festivals, and has
sparked discussion groups and citizen activism nationwide.

The MCA sponsored a showing of the film in September, and due to the
enthusiastic response of the audience, agreed to show it again at the
Kenworthy.  In an effort to encourage voter participation in the Moscow city
election, the film is being shown the evening before election day.

For more information about the film, see the websites:
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/index.htm
<http://www.endofsuburbia.com/index.htm>  and
http://eos.postcarbon.org/index.php <http://eos.postcarbon.org/index.php> .
The Moscow Civic Association is a non-profit citizen¹s organization that
strives to improve the quality of life for Moscow residents.  The mission of
Moscow Civic Association is to inform community members about important
local issues and encourage civic participation.  More information is
available on the MCA website, www.moscowcivic.org
<http://www.moscowcivic.org/>
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This week¹s review-

Ladies in Lavender

Directed by Charles Dance; written by Mr. Dance, based on the short story by
William J. Locke

Running time: 104 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
"Ladies in Lavender" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has
some strong language and mild innuendo.

As reviewed by Stephen Holden writing for the New York Times

"Ladies in Lavender" offers the opportunity to watch two beloved dames of
the British Empire rattle around a house in Cornwall, exchanging snippets of
subtext-heavy dialogue in the breaks between picking flowers, knitting and
listening to the radio. The year is 1936, and through the static we discern
that across the English Channel, world war is a-brewing.

Those facts should stir the hearts of diehard Anglophiles of a certain
generation into a frothy pitter-patter. What bliss that these purple
personages should be played by none other than Dames Judi Dench and Maggie
Smith! 

But don't set your expectations too high. As Ursula and Janet Widdington,
twittering sisters of late middle age who share a house on a bluff with
their fussy housekeeper, Dorcas (Miriam Margolyes), these two great
actresses sink into their roles as comfortably as house cats burrowing into
a down quilt on a windswept, rainy night. (And since this is Cornwall, such
nights are plentiful.)

But those hoping to see two pedigreed felines arch their backs and claw at
the scenery will be disappointed. The most high drama unleashed by either
sister is the discreet, disapproving little hiss that Janet (Dame Maggie)
releases in reaction to the romantic disorientation of her emotionally
vulnerable younger sister, Ursula (Dame Judi). Otherwise, Dame Maggie keeps
her withering hauteur firmly in check.

One morning after the latest piece of major weather has blown by Cornwall,
what should the sisters discover on the rocky beach below their home but an
unconscious young man washed up by the angry sea? The rest of the movie
explores the identity of this mystery guest, as the doting duo revive and
nurse him back to health with the assistance of a local doctor (David
Warner). While recovering his health, the stranger is revealed to be - what
else? - a violin virtuoso!

Only in bittersweet dramas about lonely older women do shipwrecked young men
with princely airs emerge from the sea to stir the dying embers in the
hearth. For this amiably far-fetched film, the direction of Charles Dance,
who adapted the screenplay from a short story by William J. Locke, heralds
the return of the Comfy Movie (increasingly rare nowadays), the cinematic
equivalent of a visit from a cherished but increasingly dithery maiden aunt.

In this fading, sentimental genre peopled with grandes dames (usually
English) making "grande" pronouncements, the world revolves around tea,
gardening and misty watercolor memories. Terence Rattigan and Noël Coward
perfected the Comfy Movie's tone of stiff-upper-lip sadness and nobility
leavened with enlightenment.

The handsome stranger on the shore, Andrea Marowski (Daniel Brühl), is
eventually revealed to be a Polish émigré fleeing to the United States.
Exactly how he was pitched into the sea is left to our imaginations. All
we're given is a fleeting, clumsily inserted flashback of the young man
flailing around underwater.

Janet, who lost her husband in World War I, has known true love and accepted
its loss, but Ursula, whose maternal doting on Andrea mutates into a
romantic fixation, hasn't. The delicate kernel of the story follows Ursula's
increasingly besotted state and her embarrassment as Andrea recovers and
casts his eyes elsewhere.

A nearby cottage is occupied by an attractive young painter, Olga Danilof
(Natascha McElhone, looking alarmingly cadaverous, with sunken cheeks and
zombie eyes), a summer visitor who spends her days perched in front of an
easel overlooking the sea. Olga, drawn by the sound of Andrea playing a
borrowed fiddle, strays onto the Widdington property and is immediately
perceived as a threat. That doesn't prevent her from asking Andrea if she
can paint his portrait.

As its romantic score (composed by Nigel Hess and played by Joshua Bell)
billows and swells, "Ladies in Lavender" suggests a more level-headed
variation of "Humoresque." Here, at least, nobody ends up walking into the
sea in an alcoholic funk to the strains of the "Liebestod" wafting over the
radio. Joan Crawford had to die for our sins. These staunch English ladies
wouldn't dream of making such a stupid sacrifice.

As reviewed by Ann Hornaday writing for the Washington Post

How does Maggie Smith do it? How does she turn the slightest of dialogue,
something as inconsequential as "Just as well," and make it fall-down,
side-splittingly, laugh-out-loud funny? It's her delivery, of course, her
deadpan, skeptical gaze combined with that signature glottal trill, but it's
something more. It's Maggie and, at the risk of waxing maudlin for a moment,
when she goes, that ineffable Maggie way with a line will lamentably go with
her.

So make haste for the closest theater showing "Ladies in Lavender," a funny,
civilized little romantic drama in which Smith co-stars with the equally
estimable Judi Dench. They play, respectively, Janet and Ursula Widdington,
maiden sisters who live in a cozy, well-appointed cottage in Cornwall. After
a storm, the two discover something entirely unexpected washed up on their
beach: a half-drowned young man (Daniel Bruhl) who speaks no English and
only a little German. (It's the fact that he isn't German, by the way, that
prompts Smith's character's aforementioned mordant response.)

While the handsome stranger recovers in the sisters' spare room, it emerges
that his name is Andrea, he's Polish and he has hidden talents that, as he
regains mobility, will inspire passion, jealousy and even suspicion in the
sisters' tightly knit little town. A mysterious beauty (played by the
impossibly gorgeous Natascha McElhone) keeps turning up, her ease and
evident attraction to Andrea unsettling the two proper Widdingtons.
Meanwhile, he's put Ursula in something of a swivet, as she ever so
discreetly succumbs to long-latent sexual desires and dreams of romance.
"Ladies in Lavender" derives its humor from the almost fish-out-of-water
story of an outsider at large in a tiny, parochial town, but it's just as
effective as a poignant portrait of one woman who has loved and lost, and
another who never had a love to lose.
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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
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Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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