Friday, November 10, 2017 The Baylor Lariat Arts & Life 7 ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ strikes viewers What to do in Waco with action, laughs, new characters this weekend: BAILEY BRAMMER Editor-in-Chief As someone who enjoys >> Today a good superhero movie but doesn’t religiously follow the 11 a.m. — Austin Avenue opens up its streets, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s starting on 13th Street and ending at City Hall, phases and characters, I was a to thousands of parade-goers for Waco’s annual bit worried I wouldn’t be able Veterans Day Parade. Honor veterans with warm to follow the third installment in the Thor series,” Thor: smiles and giant waves. Ragnarok.” I was pleasantly surprised, however, to discover 7:30 p.m. — Americana artist Thomas Csorba that my basic understanding will bring life and music to Pinewood Coffee Bar’s of the Avengers was more than outdoor stage. The tickets for the event, “An enough to thoroughly enjoy evening with Thomas Csorba,” are $10. the storyline and humor of Marvel’s newest release. 8 p.m. —Folk artist Tow’rs will be performing The movie begins with live at Common Grounds under their twinkling Thor, the god of thunder (Chris outdoor lights. Tickets for the Friday night show Hemsworth), trapped by a fire start at $10. demon Surtur, who claims he is going to start “Ragnarok,” the prophesied death and >> Saturday, Nov. 11 destruction of Asgard and its people. Thor defeats the 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. — Waco Downtown Farmers monster in true, superhero- Market brings locally grown food for locals and style with his all-powerful students to stuff their kitchens with. The event is hammer, and returns home located at Fifth Street and Washington Avenue. to Asgard where he finds his supposed-to-be dead brother, 4 - 7 p.m. — Student-run fashion blog The Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Buttoned Bears will be hosting a pop-up shop with posing as his father, Odin. local vendors at LL Sams Poolhouse at 2000 S. The reluctantly reunited First Street. Vendors include Pokey-O’s, Pinewood brothers seek out their real father, but not before running Coffee and live music from Baylor students. into a familiar face on Earth — Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict 8:30 p.m. — Americana and country artist Parker Cumberbatch). Upon finding McCollum takes the stage at the Backyard Bar, Odin, their father reveals that Stage & Grill. Tickets begin at $15. they have an older sister, Hela (Cate Blanchett), who is not 9:30 p.m. — Brazos Theatre opens up their stage only the Goddess of Death, to their Open Mic Night and Talent Show. Cash but is also looking to claim prizes are available for those who use their talents the throne of Asgard as her to help create an interesting night. own and destroy anyone who stands in her way. The brothers’ firstdown Hela and restore peace this latest release, including to his humanity and relatable- encounter with their long- to the Nine Realms. a haircut and the loss of his ness. >> Sunday, Nov. 12 lost sibling lands them both Although Hela’s character precious hammer. These The music often mirrors on a planet of lost things and contains a certain dark and adjustments, however, lead the the action, with hardcore 7:30 p.m. — Truelove Bar welcomes professional powerful beauty, the villain God of Thunder to recognize rock-and-roll punctuating misfits known as Sakaar, which comedians for their Stand Up Comedy night. lacks any real connection to his true power in the face intense fight scenes and is run by the Grandmaster A few of the comedians who will be performing (Jeff Goldblum). Thor is the audience through her past of his murderous sister. The battles. Despite the film’s PG- — she has no reason for her transformations also give Thor 13 rating, there was hardly any include Diane Michelle and Mike Young. Entrance slated to compete against the is free. Grandmaster’s champion in bloodlust, other than that her a more human feel, which is blood or gore, so the movie a gladiator-like challenge in father banished her for being something previous Thor and would most likely be fine for order to escape the planet and too ambitious. Thompson’s Avenger movies have been mature pre-teens. >> Ongoing return to save Asgard. The portrayal of Valkyrie, however, slightly lacking in. Overall, the fast-paced champion, to Thor’s delight, offers a relatable, comedic and The actors offer a break development of the movie happens to be the Incredible dynamic female character that from the fighting withlends itself to be enjoyed by Nov. 4 - Nov. 22 — “Ekphrasis : An Exploration Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). The two easily replaces Thor’s previous witty remarks and banter, anyone, regardless of whether of the Mind Body Soul,” the month-long display Avengers, along with Loki and love interest, Jane Foster particularly between Thor and you’ve grown up reading of artwork from Sixth to Eighth Street, will a former Valkyrie also from (Natalie Portman). Valkyrie. Their exchanges are Marvel comics or just happen bring awareness to mental health challenges. Asgard (Tessa Thompson) Thor himself undergoes a awkward but adorable, and the to think that Hemsworth and The exhibit will be along Austin Avenue and team up to attempt to take few changes in both physical Norse god’s embarrassment Hiddleston are incredibly Washington Avenue. appearance and costume in with a new crush again adds dreamy. Nov. 7 - Nov. 12 — Baylor Theatre’s new play, “This Random World,” will be pulling open the Waco Veterans’ Day Parade curtains of Mabee Theater at Baylor until Nov. 12. Tickets start at $20. Time Date Place 11 a.m. Today Downtown Waco, Austin Avenue The Waco community will be celebrating veterans with floats, bands and large crowds. 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She said she was nervous to many nice people, including Early.” try landscaping because she had never done McWorther said her love for Baylor began anything with plants, and said she thought she at an early age, when her father would wake was “just a schoolteacher.” McWorther said with her and her sister up at 4 a.m. to drive from the help of God, her husband and three children, Houston to Waco to go to Baylor football games. she managed to pull it off, and ended up meeting McWorther’s father, Dusty Rhodes, also attended some of her closest friends through her new job. Baylor and graduated in 1929. Along with being “That was the hardest decision I ever made,” freshman class president, Rhodes was also a yell McWorther said. “I never planned to be a leader during the 1927 basketball season, when landscaper. And then I met miss Renae because the Immortal Ten bus crash happened in Round she called me to landscape her house, and then Rock and 10 Baylor students lost their lives. she referred me to her friend Candace, who “He told me the story in my teens about how lives not too far away on another ranch, and he over-partied the night before the basketball we became best friends through that wonderful team left on their trip, and he missed his alarm,” experience. They’ve been my friends ever since, McWorther said. “Because he missed his alarm, and prayer partners –– through life’s ups and he missed the bus, and because he missed the downs, I can count on them.” bus, nine of us were able to go to Baylor.” McWorther came across the Voss’s home McWorther’s family is full of Bears, on a trip to Austin to visit her sister, and said including her husband, her oldest daughter and she was more than willing to help the couple her son, as well as her sister, her sister’s husband cultivate their new house behind the Riverside and their three sons.