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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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U.S. Bank presents<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Millions (PG)<BR>
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<B>Wednesday, July 13<BR>
1:00 PM<BR>
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Thursday, July 14<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
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Saturday & Sunday, July 16 & 17<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
</B>Wednesday Matinee prices:$4/adult, $1/child under 13<BR>
Regular prices: $5/adult, $1/child under 13<BR>
<B>(see REVIEW below)<BR>
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</B><FONT SIZE="5">Live at the Kenworthy . . .<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Ala Zingara <BR>
</H2></FONT><B>and Acoustic Wave Machine<BR>
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<B>Friday, July 15<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets $8 in advance at Bookpeople, $10 at the door<BR>
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</FONT><I>Ala Zingara</I>, that quirky gypsy roots rock band born at the Lionel Hampton School of Music where they met in the late 90‘s, is coming home and will be playing at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow on <B>Friday, July 15th</B>. 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. <U>This is an all ages show.</U> <BR>
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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 stomps… these guys present a kaleidoscopically fresh sound. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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For more information, contact:<BR>
Robert Parks<BR>
206-297-1377<BR>
robert@alazingara.com <mailto:robert@alazingara.com><BR>
www.alazingara.com <http://www.alazingara.com/> (band website)<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#008000"><H2>Reel in the Money Campaign<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Challenge grant to benefit historic Kenworthy<BR>
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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 KPAC’s goal is to raise an additional $10,000 for the historic downtown building, including electrical upgrades, equipment, and maintenance needs<B>. On Friday July 22 at 10:00 AM, KPAC will hold the first of several theater tours for the public.</B> Interested parties should call 882-4127 to reserve a spot on the tour.<BR>
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The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre is the home of <I>Moscow Community Theatre </I><http://www.kenworthy.org/MCT.htm> and is rented annually by various organizations including <I>Sirius Idaho Theatre</I> <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 KPAC’s income. The balance (40%) must come in the form of donations and grants.<BR>
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The Kenworthy is an historic theater that opened to the public in 1926. A Moscow landmark, the Kenworthy Theater’s 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.<BR>
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For more information or to schedule a tour, call Julie Ketchum at 208-882-4127.<BR>
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Julie Ketchum<BR>
Executive Director<BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
P.O. Box 8126<BR>
Moscow, ID 83843<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>Napoleon Dynamite (PG)<BR>
</B>July 20, 1:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Sin City (R)<BR>
</B>July 22 – 24, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Also in July at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<B>Two Brothers (PG)<BR>
</B>Presented by Insty Prints & NIAC<BR>
July 27, 1:00 PM<BR>
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<B>My Town<BR>
</B>July 28, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (PG)<BR>
</B>July 29 – 31, 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Coming in August: </B>Because of Winn Dixie, Robots, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, Howl’s Moving Castle<BR>
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<U>Thanks to the following Wednesday matinee sponsors:<BR>
</U>Insty Prints & North Idaho Athletic Club, Tom & JoAnn Trail, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Gritman Medical Center<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger. <BR>
<B>Wednesday matinee prices</B>: $4/adult, $1/child 12 or younger <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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<H2>“MY TOWN”<BR>
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On <B>Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 PM</B>, <I>New West Magazine</I> <http://www.newwest.net></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier"><TT> </TT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">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.<BR>
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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 Wilson’s history conference and the controversy regarding Wilson’s pamphlet, “Southern Slavery As It Was.”<BR>
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Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and students. Proceeds from the screening will benefit the <I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre</I>.<BR>
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For more information, call 208-882-4127.<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Millions<BR>
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Directed by Danny Boyle<BR>
''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. <BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Manohla Dargis writing for the New York Times<BR>
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Given the gaudy violence that frequently moves Mr. Boyle's stories (“Trainspotting” and “28 Days Later”) 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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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''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'': <U>choose life</U>. <BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Ruthe Stein writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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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. <BR>
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"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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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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. <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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<B><I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I></B>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
</B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
</U></FONT>Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT>To speak with a KPAC staff member, <BR>
call (208) 882-4127<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>Mailto:kpac@moscow.com<BR>
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