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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert<BR>
</FONT></FONT>Thursday, October 27<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student<BR>
<B>(see below for full press release)<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Join the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute<BR>
</H2></FONT><H2>Friday, October 28<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#800000">for “March of the Penguins”<BR>
</FONT></H2><B>Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for food and drink, with the movie at 7 p.m.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">PCEI is hosting a <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>fun and fashionable</B></FONT> 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 PCEI’s development of its Urban Nature Center on Rodeo Drive in Moscow. To learn about the Nature Center, visit <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.pcei.org/rodeo.htm</U></FONT>>.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>Look for Penguins and Tuxedos gracing the front of the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre Friday night.</B></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"><B> </B></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Arial"> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">In the spirit of Halloween, <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>we encourage everyone to dress as a Penguin</B></FONT> (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 Patti’s Kitchen! Additional sponsors for the evening include: Resource Planning Unlimited, Rdesign, Machine Language, D8, Moscow Realty, Cutting Edge Signs, Red Door, Paulucci Tailor & Men's Wear, and Creighton's.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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For more information on the film visit, <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.marchofthepenguins.com</U></FONT>>.<BR>
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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 <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.pcei.org/</U></FONT>>.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5"><B><I>March of the Penguins</I></B></FONT></FONT> also showing-<BR>
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<H2>Saturday & Sunday, October 29 & 30<BR>
5:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</H2>$5 adult, $2 child 12 or younger<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><FONT SIZE="5">Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert<BR>
</FONT></FONT>Thursday, October 27<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student<BR>
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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.<BR>
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"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."<BR>
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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."<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
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</U></FONT>Moscow Community Theatre presents<BR>
<FONT SIZE="5"><B>Noodlehead!<BR>
</B></FONT>Original musical by Lisa Kliger<BR>
<B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, November 3, 4 & 5<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
Sunday, November 6<BR>
2:00 PM<BR>
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</B>Also showing-<BR>
<B>Thursday, Friday & Saturday, November 10, 11 & 12<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
Saturday, November 12<BR>
2:00 PM<BR>
</B>$11/adult, $9/senior, $6 student or child<BR>
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November at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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Moscow Civic Association presents<BR>
<B>The End of Suburbia</B> (not rated)<BR>
November 7 at 7:00 PM<BR>
$5 donation<BR>
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<B>The Constant Gardner (R)<BR>
</B>November 13 at 4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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University of Idaho Dept of Physics presents<BR>
<B>Einstein’s Miracle Year<BR>
</B>November 17 at 7:00 PM<BR>
Free<BR>
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<B>Everything is Illuminated (PG-13)<BR>
</B>November 18 at 7:00 PM<BR>
November 19 & 20 at 4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Wallace & Gromit<BR>
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (G)<BR>
</B>November 25-27 at 4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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Coming in December: 2046, Junebug<BR>
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Check KPAC’s web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT><B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child under 13 <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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<B>Moscow Civic Association Sponsors “End Of Suburbia” Documentary<BR>
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The Moscow Civic Association is sponsoring a public showing of the documentary film “End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream” at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 South Main in downtown Moscow, at <B>7pm on Monday, November 7</B>. Donations will be accepted at the door to cover the costs.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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For more information about the film, see the websites: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.endofsuburbia.com/index.htm</U></FONT> <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.endofsuburbia.com/index.htm</U></FONT>> and <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://eos.postcarbon.org/index.php</U></FONT> <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://eos.postcarbon.org/index.php</U></FONT>> .<BR>
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The Moscow Civic Association is a non-profit citizen’s 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 <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.moscowcivic.org/</U></FONT>> <BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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Directed by Luc Jacquet, Narrated by Morgan Freeman<BR>
Running time: 84 minutes. This film is rated G.<BR>
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<B>As reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek writing for Salon.Com</B> <BR>
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Think you've got it bad? This emotionally wrenching documentary about the difficult life of the emperor penguin will put things in perspective. It may even renew your faith in love.<BR>
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Luc Jacquet's luminous, moving documentary "March of the Penguins" is enough to make you hope there's no such thing as reincarnation: Human beings have it hard enough, but the life of the emperor penguin, one of strife, deprivation and against-all-odds adaptability in one of the most unforgiving corners of the earth, is far rougher. <BR>
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Emperor penguins, who make their home in Antarctica, may not be able to fly, but they're fabulous swimmers. In the summer months, they enjoy their ocean habitat fattening up on small fish, squid and crustaceans. But when it's time for them to breed, being so close to the water won't do: They need to reach their breeding ground, far inland, a place where the ice is reassuringly solid and where, in winter, few predators will bother them. In March, as winter approaches in Antarctica, throngs of emperor penguins belly-flop onto the ice after their summer of blissful swimming and trek dozens of miles across a heartless frozen landscape (their short legs make them woefully slow walkers), through blizzards and biting winds, to reach the spot where they can mate and, with luck, raise their young. And that's when the hard work of procreating really begins for the emperor penguin. <BR>
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There's more drama, and more heartbreak, in "March of the Penguins" than in most movies that are actually scripted to tug at our feelings. More than once the picture's narrator, Morgan Freeman, notes that the emperor penguin's saga of mating and child rearing is a love story, and while that's an admittedly handy anthropomorphic device, when it comes to understanding why the emperor penguin would go to such great lengths to mate and have babies, the inexplicability of human love may be the only comparison we have. <BR>
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Of course, in the more rational corners of our brains, we know that like all living creatures, the emperor penguin is driven by an instinctual desire to propagate the species. Even so, rationality is useless in the face of the choked-back cooing sound a penguin mother makes when she realizes her chick has died -- she nudges its body with her beak, perhaps not so much out of sorrow as disbelief, as if her faith in its survival had become programmed into her very being. And in a moment not even Douglas Sirk would have attempted to dramatize, she tries to steal another mother's chick as a replacement: The other moms in the flock intercede, shooing her off -- nature's way of dealing with sociopathic behavior. <BR>
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Saying too much about what the emperor penguin has to do just to survive the mating and child-rearing process would be a little like giving away too much of the plot of a thriller. But Jacquet captures some key details so artfully it's hard not to give a few of them away: He shows us how the parents keep their one precious egg warm by balancing it on their feet and tucking it under a pouch of skin. (If the egg should roll away for even a second, the chick inside will freeze to death. In austral winter, inland temperatures can reach as low as -85 degrees Fahrenheit.) <BR>
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The parents trade off baby-sitting (or egg-sitting) duties: The males stay with the eggs while the females trek back to the ocean for food -- they bring some back for the babies in pouchlike compartments in their throats -- meaning the dads go without food for two months. They stand around, unable to move too much owing to the precious orbs balanced on their feet -- it's probably something like being an extra on an eternal movie set, only under the most extreme weather conditions. Jacquet's cameras (his cinematographers are Laurent Chalet and Jerôme Maison) capture the penguin males huddled in a giant swirl against devastating winter storms, protecting the eggs at all costs: The group rotates slowly, so that all the penguins will have a turn at the warmest part of the pinwheel, the very center. <BR>
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You have to wonder why any living creature would put up with all this. But that's part of the emperor penguin's mysterious allure: They seem to be stubborn, sturdy creatures who take pride in triumphing over adversity, like grandparents who brag about having made it through the Depression. Jacquet captures the cold beauty of their landscape in a way that makes us understand why, for better or worse, it represents home to them: The appeal of all that white-sugar ice, glistening in the summer sun, is easy enough to understand. But even the icy blue-grays of the dusky winter have their own mystical pull. <BR>
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The emperor penguin itself is a natural movie star: Jacquet captures a group of them in long shot during their arduous walk -- moving in long lines and clusters, they look like shimmery black jelly-beans against the snow. When the chicks are finally born, we see that they were worth the wait: Fuzzy and winsome, they look just like Steiff toys. <BR>
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And the adults are beautiful beyond words: Their glossy feathers are so densely packed they resemble fur; the orange markings on their heads are so softly colored they look as if they've been airbrushed on. Their elegance goes far beyond the fact that they look as if they're decked out in evening wear. Each penguin seeks out his or her mate for the season (these couples will stay together, but only for the year), looking for those unnameable qualities, that je ne sais quoi, that even humans seek in a mate. When a "he" has found the right "she," or vice versa, the two celebrate by gracefully arching their necks; their heads lowered, they nudge each other conspiratorially, and communicate with each other in a language of distinctive clicks. <BR>
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They could be performing a number from a '30s musical: You and me and baby makes three. Maybe "March of the Penguins" is a love story, one that recognizes nature as the foundation of even the most refined feelings of human beings: Hard times are coming, but together we'll see them through. If birds can do it, maybe people can too. <BR>
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<B>As reviewed by G. Allen Johnson writing for the San Francisco Chronicle</B> <BR>
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Life in Antarctica can get pretty grim. But don't tell that to these driven birds.<BR>
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After watching the sometimes astonishing new documentary "March of the Penguins," I couldn't help but think that the emperor penguins got an unfair shake in the way things went down in Antarctica. <BR>
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Apparently, the ice continent that is larger than Europe was once a tropical paradise teeming with life before it went south, literally, drifting into its present position. All the other species made their way out, except for these flightless birds who eat fish and other undersea life to survive. <BR>
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They couldn't get away. So now, to keep the species going, they must trek 70 miles inland, walking and sliding on their bellies all the way, to find a solid patch of ice to mate and raise their chicks. <BR>
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But the food is still in the sea, so the fathers and mothers must alternate, after months of starving themselves in sub-zero temperatures, trekking back to the sea to eat again while the other stays behind to protect their egg and subsequently their child. <BR>
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Poor penguins! <BR>
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Director Luc Jacquet and his team have done an incredible job gaining the trust of these penguins and recording their tortuous migration. Some of the shots -- such as a mother tenderly passing her unhatched egg to her mate to keep it warm before she goes for food, and the undersea shots of feeding taken from a small submersible -- are jaw-dropping. <BR>
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Just as poetic are the sweeping vistas of ice, with long lines of penguins in the distance inching forward, looking like ants. "March of the Penguins" is in a way an epic adventure film with a cast of thousands -- and narrated, as if he were the voice of God, by Morgan Freeman (and let me be the first to lobby for legislation that Freeman narrate all documentaries from now on; I'm phoning my congressman today). <BR>
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Most striking are the scenes of group activity. The mate-selection process, wherein thousands of penguins waddle around as if it were a singles mixer, features jealous squabbles and sweet talk. Later, when the fathers are guarding the eggs as the mothers are away feeding, they huddle in a group of about a thousand, shielding the eggs from snowstorms and winds of up to 125 mph, even taking turns being the ones on the front lines. <BR>
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"March of the Penguins," in its original French form, apparently had the penguins talking about their hopes and dreams; foreplay sounds were even dubbed in, and the music was silly and comedic. <BR>
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Peculiar sense of humor these French have. <BR>
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Luckily, sanity has been restored stateside. Warner Independent Pictures rescored the music, wrote new narration and hired Freeman. They have honored Jacquet's stunning achievement by turning a work that should never have been farcical in the first place into something majestic and moving along the lines of another French documentary, "Winged Migration." <BR>
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"March of the Penguins," which is suitable for the entire family despite its adult sensibility, is devoid of some facts about the emperor penguins -- for example, what is their lifespan? But that's OK. By emphasizing its visuals, it instills a deep reverence for the unforgiving power of nature and the stubborn resilience of life. <BR>
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