MAY 6-12, 2011 CURRENTSURRENTS CThe News-Review’s guide to arts, entertainment and television PPROMROM NIGHTNIGHT fforor momsmoms andand ccatsats MomMom PromProm boastsboasts nightnight ofof fun,fun, tackytacky dressesdresses forfor animalanimal societysociety MICHAEL SULLIVAN/The News-Review INSIDE: What’s Happening/3 Calendar/5 Book Review/10 Galleries/11 TV/15 Page 2, The News-Review Roseburg, Oregon, Currents—Thursday, May 5, 2011 * &YJUt$BOZPOWJMMF 03t*OGPt3FTtTFWFOGFBUIFSTDPN Roseburg, Oregon, Currents—Thursday, May 5, 2011 The News-Review, Page 3 what’s HAPPENING ROSEBURG Information: learntolive_productions@hot- 2011-12 concert THE PERFECT PAIR mail.com. lineup released The Roseburg Community WINCHESTER Concerts 2011-12 season has Open auditions for been announced. The lineup is as follows: Umpqua Singers Sept. 22 — The Water Cool- Open auditions fro the ers, musical comedy troupe. Umpqua Singers, Umpqua Oct. 6 — Edgar Cruz, gui- Community College’s vocal tarist. jazz student ensemble, are Nov. 17 — The Poulenc from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday in Trio, Oboe, basson and piano. the Whipple Fine Arts Center, Feb. 24, 2012 — Aion room 12, 1140 Umpqua Col- Clarke, lege Road, Winchester. singer/songwriter/pianist. Students must come pre- March 12, 2012 — Evan pared with a solo selection. Marshall, mandolin virtuoso. Group performs 45 to 50 April 29 — Chris Jácome concerts a year. Flamenco Ensemble, acoustic Information: 541-440-4693. flamenco. Most concerts are 7 p.m. ROSEBURG Thursdays at Umpqua Com- munity College’s Jacoby Audi- Band hosts grange torium. There is no reserved seating and dates and perform- contra dance ers are subject to change. Irish Creme is leading the Membership and ticket price charge for an old-time country information is available online. MICHAEL SULLIVAN/The News-Review contra dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Website: roseburgcommuni- Art will accompany wine at a wine walk in downtown Roseburg tonight. See details Saturday at the Melrose tyconcerts.org. this page. Grange Hall, 3811 Melrose Road., Roseburg. No partners or experience is MYRTLE CREEK necessary. All dances will be Studio seeks instrumentation to bring alive dents will make their mark by Night Grill. taught by caller Stacy Rose the works of Beethoven, Back, making sidewalk chalk art Reservations required. Cost from Coos Bay. artists to feature Mozart and Ginastera. downtown earlier in the day. is $25 per person. A community band made up The Ye Olde Art Shoppe is Seating is limited and reser- Information: 541-673-3352. Information: 541-672-2532. of members of Irish Creme looking for artists to feature vations required. and other local musicians will through 2011 and 2012. Tickets are $25 and include ROSEBURG ROSEBURG provide the live music. Artwork is displayed at the appetizers. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. downtown Myrtle Creek stu- Information: 541-459-7998. Jam, art come Auditions for film Suggested donation is $4. dio for a four-week period. together for benefit are this weekend Information: 541-672-4621. Information: 541-863-6843. ROSEBURG Jam and art go together for Roseburg filmmaker Chase Downtown walk one night only for this month’s Gilley will hold auditions for ROSEBURG OAKLAND Music for the Arts dinner con- his original film from 4 to 7 Club hosts party Flautist, friends pairs wine and art cert from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday p.m. Saturday and Sunday at The Downtown Roseburg at the Umpqua Valley Arts the Betty Long Unruh Theatre, with the stars play at winery Association will host another Center, 1624 W. Harvard Ave., 1614 W. Harvard Ave., Rose- The Umpqua Astronomers, a Esther Fredrickson and wine walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Roseburg. burg. local group of astronomy Friends perform classical today in the city’s core. Homemade Jam, a quartet Gilley’s film, “Act One,” enthusiasts, is celebrating chamber music at 7 p.m. Sat- Walkers can enjoy wine, that plays traditional, contem- includes parts for 12 men and National Astronomy Day with urday at MarshAnne Landing appetizers, music by Irish porary folk, bluegrass, swing, eight women between the ages a community star gazing event Winery, 175 Hogan Road, Creme and art at various busi- jazz and Irish songs, will per- of 16 and 50. at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the Oakland. nesses downtown after regular form. Auditions include an inter- Redeemer Fellowship church Fredrickson, a flautist, com- hours. The dinner is catered by view, script reading and musi- parking lot, 3031 W. Harvard bines violin, viola and cello Roseburg High School stu- Brix 527 Cafe and Friday cal audition. Ave. Astronomers will show ■ Mail: Currents, The News-Review, P.O. Box 1248, Roseburg, 97470. Currents reporter: DD Bixby views of the moon and Saturn. ■ Phone: 541-957-4218 Everyone is welcome, but the Drop-off: The News-Review office at 345 N.E. Winchester St., Roseburg. Currents editor: Tricia Jones event may not be appropriate CURRENTS Phone: 541-957-4216 ■ Email: [email protected] TV Guide questions: for very young children. To submit local arts and ■ Fax: (541) 957-4270 Vicki Menard Warm clothing and a red- entertainment information, Phone: 541-957-4203 covered flashlight is recom- mended. send printed or Information must be received by noon Friday to be Published every Thursday by typewritten information to: published in the following Thursday’s Currents. Please see BRIEFS, page 4 Page 4, The News-Review BRIEFS Roseburg, Oregon, Currents—Thursday, May 5, 2011 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 missions for its Second Annual Website: www.uvarts.com. struction. Donations are appre- day in downtown Historic Stargazing is free. Best Photo and the Fifth Annu- Information: 541-672-4621. ciated. Oakland. Website: www.umpquaas- al Hundred Valleys Northwest Artwork will be shown at a Six classes of vehicles span- tronomers.org. juried shows and competitions. ELKTON later date in the fall. ning manufacture dates from Information: 541-673-1081. The association also is seek- Call to make a reservation. the 1920s to 1979 and trucks ing painters to register for the Artists welcomed Information: 541-584-2272 will vie for prizes. Motorcy- ROSEBURG first Umpqua Plein Air Event or 541-584-2692. cles are welcome. and competition dubbed to park it at ECEC Registration starts at 8 a.m. The Elkton Community Cost is $10 per vehicle. Seeking artists “Location, Location, Loca- OAKLAND tion.” Painters will test their Education Center will host a There will be live entertain- for three shows skills on July 14 and 15. painting in the park day at 9 Car show, shine ment by local classic rock The Umpqua Valley Arts Deadline for submissions a.m. July 30 at the center, band Flashbak. Association will soon close its and registration for all three 15850 Highway 38 West, Elk- hits the streets Proceeds benefit the Oak- call to artists for two upcom- shows is June 8. ton. Oakland will host its Eighth land Community Theater sum- ing shows. For more show requirements Artists can paint or take Annual Car Show and Shine mer production. The UVAA is seeking sub- and details contact the UVAA. photos of the gardens, river- from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satur- Website: www.oakland- front or Fort Umpqua recon- carshow.org. Mercy Medical Center ‘Hurt Locker’ team plans For Your Good Health film on bin Laden hunt LOS ANGELES (AP) — son, who spoke on condition The filmmakers behind the of anonymity because the per- war-on-terror drama “The Hurt son was not authorized to talk Locker” are moving forward about the project’s status. with an U.S. forces have hunted bin action Laden since the Sept. 11 ter- thriller rorist attacks nearly 10 years about the ago. A team of Navy SEALs hunt for shot and killed bin Laden early Osama bin Monday at a compound in Laden. Pakistan. Director Bigelow declined to com- Kathryn ment about the project, accord- Bigelow and ing to Susan Ciccone, a screenwriter Bigelow spokeswoman for the director. Mark Boal “The Hurt Locker,” which What you have had the bin Laden project centered on a U.S. bomb-dis- in the works, and now that the posal unit in Iraq, won best al-Qaida leader has been picture at the Academy Awards should know about killed, a person close to the last year and earned the best- filmmakers said Monday that directing Oscar for Bigelow, pre-diabetes: the film is more relevant than the first woman to receive that ever. honor. Untreated pre-diabetes can lead to diabetes. However, studies have shown that The as-yet-untitled film will The film won a total of six many people with pre-diabetes can delay or even prevent diabetes by making and center on the Black Ops pur- Oscars, including the prize for maintaining lifestyle changes. Join us on May 16, to learn how to find out if you suit of bin Laden, said the per- original screenplay for Boal. have pre-diabetes, and what you can do about it. 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