Grab some pie, “Twin Peaks” box set comes out tomorrow

Beginning tomorrow, fans of quirky Yakima born-and-bred actor KYLE MACLACHLAN, can pick up “TWIN PEAKS: The Definitive Gold Box Edition.”

The 10-disc set ($108.99) includes all 29 episodes of the series, which ran from 1990 to 1991, plus the original and European versions of the show’s pilot. Extras include a documentary on the pop-cultural impact of the show, a look back with creator David Lynch, MacLachlan and fellow actor Mädchen Amick, and MacLachlan’s monologue and the hilarious “Twin Peaks” comedy sketch from “Saturday Night Live,” among other fun tidbits.

MacLachlan’s career was launched with off-kilter roles in films by the dark and dreamy Lynch — Rolling Stone magazine once described MacLachlan as the “boy next door, if that boy spent lots of time alone in the basement.” MacLachlan’s “Twin Peaks” character, Special Agent Dale Cooper, earned him two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe win.

A 1977 graduate of Eisenhower High School, MacLachlan attended the University of Washington where he was classically trained in the repertory theater tradition. He graduated early from UW in 1982 and went to work in Ashland, Ore., at the Oregon Shakespeare Company. He was all ready to pack up and head to New York to pursue a theater career when he got the call for Lynch’s adaptation of the sci-fi classic novel “Dune.”

“Movies came a long and I took kind of a detour,” MacLachlan said this past March during an interview with the Yakima Herald-Republic for a story about his performance with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra.

MacLachlan’s also appeared in such films as “Touch of Pink,” “Showgirls,” “The Flintstones” and “Blue Velvet,” and in the television shows “Sex and the City,” “In Justice” and he’s currently part of the ensemble cast on “Desperate Housewives.”

And folks who were around in the late 1970s may also remember him from Eisenhower High School productions of “My Fair Lady” and “Oklahoma!”

DAVID SEDARIS PACKS OUT CAPITOL THEATRE

After Saturday, there shouldn’t be any doubt that Yakima (and the surrounding areas) love literary darling DAVID SEDARIS.

The Capitol Theatre was packed with folks — this reporter spotted movers and shakers and arty types from Pullman, Thorp, Ellensburg and Yakima — eager and excited to hear Sedaris read in his trademark dry and dead-pan style.

Dressed in a blue shirt with a brown and white polka-dot tie, Sedaris’ stories about pretentious foreign language speakers, his dirty dog poetry and even a short tale about swimming at the Yakima YMCA, had the Capitol repeatedly erupting in laughter.

It was a great performance capped off with a question and answer session, which we all know can sometimes be terribly awkward and boring. But the Yakima audience had thoughtful and intimate questions for Sedaris, asking about his brother Paul, his reluctance to be on television and his family’s creative spirit.

The Central Washington stop was part of Sedaris’ fall tour and was presented by NORTHWEST PUBLIC RADIO, which is in the midst of a pledge drive. So, before Sedaris took the stage, Northwest Public Radio hosts Gillian Coldsnow and Sueann Ramella made some straight-forward pitches for pledges. (Sedaris wrote out a check for $500 for the station, quipping that he’s the only person to get rich from public radio.)

And hopefully folks stepped up, showing NWPR that if they bring us great speakers and performers, we’ll not only show up, but also dig a little deeper into our pockets.

— Kim Nowacki

BLUE MAN GROUP RETURNS TO YAKIMA

Special pre-sale tickets are now available for the BLUE MAN GROUP: HOW TO BE A MEGASTAR TOUR 2.1 concert which will be at the Yakima Valley SunDome on Jan. 23.

Tickets cost $51.50 or $77 and are available through TicketsWest, 800-325-7328, or the State Fair Park ticket office, 248-7160. Through both outlets you’ll need to use the password code “PVC.”
The date for regular ticket sales hasn’t been announced.

THE NEW BOSSA NOVA

Here is three-time Grammy nominee LUCIANA SOUZA, talking about the making of “The New Bossa Nova,” her most recent album which features an eclectic group of covers ranging from Joni Mitchell to James Taylor (who she sings a duet with), the Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen and even indie-rock favorite Elliott Smith.

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Souza, a sweet and melancholy singer who grew up in a family of Bossa Nova composers in São Paulo, Brazil, was also recently featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition.”

She will perform at 7:30 tomorrow night at THE SEASONS, 101 N. Naches Ave. Tickets cost $30 and $50. Call 453-1888 or visit www.seasonsmusicfestival.com.

LAST STOP FOR TRAIN GO SORRY

Fans of the band TRAIN GO SORRY should turn out tomorrow night for what’s been said will be the trio’s last show together. (Although, you can catch Train Go Sorry singer-songwriter-guitar-strummer Chad Bault, every Thursday at the Yakima Sports Center.)

Here’s a note from Chad posted to MySpace:

For those of you that don’t know, I have been in a band with two of my best friends and greatest musical collaborators for the last few years. It’s become a side project for all of us, but it is the most fun I’ve ever had in a band.

Adam Mack, Wayne Miller and myself will be playing what could be our last set together as Train Go Sorry this Saturday night at the Yakima Sports Center.

It’s been a lot of fun with these guys and I will miss our times together cramped in a subaru or the Element. I will miss getting Mexican food to go and then sitting in the car and watching them eat while I’m missing the Seahawks game.

We are also nearly sold out of our debut record SOUVENIR. This show may be your last chance to pick it up. So, come on out and show us love as we say farewell!

Train Go Sorry opens for experi-pop band Tartufi at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Sports Center. Cover is $5.

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR TIMOTHY EGAN IN HIS OWN WORDS

A couple weeks ago, Yakima Herald-Republic reporter Adriana Janovich and photo/videographer Andy Sawyer visited Pulitzer Prize-winning author TIMOTHY EGAN at his home in Seattle. There, he discussed his book “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl,” which won the 2006 National Book Award in the nonfiction category.

Take a listen:

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Egan will visit Yakima next week to share information and insights from this book. Presented as part of The Big Read, the talk is at 7 p.m. on Thursday at The Seasons, 101 N. Naches Ave.
Admission is free but seating is limited.

JIM GAFFIGAN TO HEADLINE CWU HOMECOMING

The comedians Central Washington University has brought in as the capstone to its homecoming celebration have been hit-or-miss. (Seriously, Jay Leno was still telling Menendez brothers jokes when he came to CWU in 2003. Get some new material Leno.)

But next week’s headliner, stand-up comic/actor JIM GAFFIGAN, should not disappoint.
Don’t believe me?
Then check out this hilarious bit on Hot Pockets:

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And here he is talking to Conan O’Brien about the latest “PALE FORCE” sketch:
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Gaffigan takes the mike at 8 p.m. on Oct. 26 in CWU’s Student Union and Recreation Center Ballroom, off Chestnut Street in Ellensburg.
Tickets cost $43 for reserved seats, $33 for general admission and $20 for CWU students. Tickets are available through the Student Union and Recreation Center ticket office, 963-1301.

CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS:

TONIGHT
Check out BEN JOHNSON AND THE OVERTONES.
Johnson, who I’m told is only in his early 20s, is a smokin’ blues guitarist in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan. The last time I heard the band play, they blew everyone away and had my friend’s 2-year-old on her feet the entire time. Definitely worth checking out.
The Overtones play at 7:30 tonight at the Sports Center, 214 E. Yakima Ave. No cover. (And if you can’t make it tonight, they’ll be back again on Oct. 26.)

TOMORROW
The young, award-winning pianist STEPHEN BEUS, a native of Othello, Wash., will play a recital at 7:30 tomorrow night at The Seasons, 101 N. Naches Ave. Tickets cost $20.

Here is his program:

Prelude and Fugue in A Minor / Bach – Liszt

Sonata in E Major, Op. 6 / Mendelssohn
Allegretto con espressione
Tempo di Menuetto
Adagio e senza tempo
Molto Allegro e vivace

Intermission

Two Mediterranean Sketches / Marguerite Canal
Les Jardins de la Villa Cypris
Jeux de Soleil sur les Vagues

Prelude and Fugue in D Major / Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in D Minor

Prelude in G Major, Op. 32 #5 / Rachmaninov
Etude-tableau in D Major, Op. 39 #9

This is a warm-up for his performance Saturday night with the YAKIMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. That concert is at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre, 19 S. Third St.
For seat availability and ticket prices, call the Capitol box office at 853-2787.

— Kim Nowacki 

THE BLAKES ON “HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER”

Hopefully you all turned out for THE BLAKES on Saturday night. It was an AMAZING show — some have said the best that’s ever been at the Sports Center.

And now … I was just watching “How I Met Your Mother” and the show featured a clip of The Blakes’ “Commit.”

One of my favorite bands + one of my favorite shows = Awesome.

SOUP’S ON: WHERE I LOVE TO LUNCH LATELY

It isn’t super-frigid yet, but fall is definitely in the air and that’s been causing me to have daily cravings for a bowl of hot soup. (I’m kind of known as a soup connoisseur and tend to bypass green salads or french fries if there’s a tasty soup on the menu.)

And for the past two days, I’ve had lunch at one of my favorite soup spots: 5TH AVENUE DELI.

Here’s what I wrote for On the Menu back in December 2006:

These days, the real-feel temperature seems to be hovering right around ridiculously cold, which means it’s time to fill yourself with food that fights the frostbite.
And that means it’s time to make a visit to the 5th Avenue Deli, a place that rekindles memories of those chilly afternoons when your mom would greet you at the door with a steamy bowl of soup. (Even if this never happened to you, just imagine how warm and fuzzy it’d make you feel.)
A simple shop with a straightforward menu — not to mention decor that blends wooden lattice, watercolor paintings and vintage vinyl records — the 5th Avenue Deli is the perfect place to sit down and thaw out over one of the best lunch combos ever invented: soup and sandwich.
Here, you grab a tray and move cafeteria-style through the sandwich station — choices include turkey, roast beef, a Reuben, French dip, club, bacon with avocado and cream cheese, and even peanut butter — then on to the self-serve salad and soup bar.
Every day there are potato, macaroni and Italian pasta salads plus a specialty salad of the day. Daily soup selections vary, but during a recent trip the offerings included chicken gumbo, cheddar and broccoli, and beef stew.
Once you’ve got your food, take a seat by the window, select a book from the adjacent lending library — make sure to ask about the policies regarding borrowing or exchanging books — and settle in as the rest of the world goes by.

RECOMMENDED MEAL: The $5 lunch special. It gets you half a sandwich of the day and an eight-ounce bowl of soup or salad.
However, if beef stew or clam chowder are on the menu, you might want to consider getting a big bowl ($2.90 for 12-ounce and $3.50 for 16-ounce) and pairing it with some cornbread (95 cents).

• The 5th Avenue Deli is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays at 415 W. Walnut Ave. Call 452-2332. (For those in a hurry, phone orders are welcome.)

— Kim Nowacki

THE BLAKES: SAY YOU SAW THEM BEFORE THEY WERE BIG

It was a quiet summer night in 2006 when THE BLAKES first played the Yakima Sports Center. At the time, they were an unknown Seattle band and the bar was virtually empty. But the trio — brothers Garnet (vocals, guitar) and Snow Keim (bass, vocals), and drummer Bob Husak — played as if the place were packed. For the few folks who were there, it shouldn’t have come as any surprise that in the months following that show, The Blakes emerged as Seattle’s newest rock darlings.

And deservedly so.

They’re loud and gritty with a retro ’60s pop flair (insert Kinks and Strokes comparisons here). They represent all that is good and right about garage rock: greasy good looks, catchy hooks and killer songs about sex and drugs and, well, everything that goes along with sex and drugs.

Spurred by raucous live shows, the success of the so-good-you-pump-your-fist-and-put-it-on-repeat single “Don’t Bother Me,” and some serious gushing by music critics and popular Seattle indie radio station KEXP, The Blakes recently signed to Seattle label Light in the Attic Records (despite the courting of some bigger labels).

The Blakes first met in 1999, but, says Husak, didn’t become a “real band” until he officially went behind the drum kit a couple of years later. At the time, though, he and Snow were under age, and Seattle is notorious for its difficult all-ages scene. So the trio moved to Los Angeles, lived in a motel, scraped by on grilled cheese sandwiches made with a clothes iron and rehearsed in truck stops to keep tight while on the road.

In 2004, they relocated back in Seattle and holed up in a rehearsal space before emerging in 2006 with a self-released album of great guitar-driven garage-rock and seemingly out-of-place retro pop tunes.

“We spent a lot of time picking those songs,” says Husak. “We thought about trying to make a cohesive sound, but some songs were too good to let go.”

Now with Light in the Attic, The Blakes — the name comes from a dream Garnet had about William Blake — have remixed and remastered that breakthrough album, plus added some news songs. It hit stores in Seattle last week and will be available nationally Tuesday.

— Kim Nowacki

• The Blakes play tomorrow at the Yakima Sports Center, 214 E. Yakima Ave. Also on the bill are The Village Green (British Invasion-inspired psychedelic-pop) and Mon Marie (indie-pop). The show begins at 9 p.m. Cover is $5.

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Opps

Our bad: the entertainment listed in today’s On Magazine Night life calendar for the Depot Restaurant and Lounge was incorrect.

Keyboardist Roger Springer (not LaLoni Lee Brown) will be playing from 6:30-9:30 tomorrow night.

BEST OF BROADWAY SERIES OPENS TONIGHT

The Capitol Theatre opens its 2007-08 Best of Broadway Series tonight with “STREB VS. GRAVITY,” a spellbinding display of dance and extreme sports created by longtime choreographer, Elizabeth Streb.

The show features Streb’s captivating choreography which pushes the boundaries of dance, athletics and art.

“You are literally on the edge of the seat,” says Nela Sheppard, director of communications for the Capitol Theatre. “You’re almost afraid to clap because you don’t want to take your eyes off what’s going on. You actually find yourself holding your breath.”

Here’s a preview:

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Performances are at 7:30 tonight and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Capitol Theatre, 19 S. Third St.

Tickets are available through the Capitol Theatre box office, 853-2787, or TicketsWest.

C-WOO-HOO: Upcoming events at Central Washington University

Back when I went to Central Washington University, the biggest celebrity that ever came to campus was Dr. Drew from “Loveline.”

But now there’s stuff going on all the time in that new FANCY STUDENT UNION BUILDING they’ve got there. Here’s what’s coming to the C-Woo campus in just the next few weeks:

FILMS THAT ROCK
• Some of the most jaw-dropping rock-wall ascents of Chris Sharma, who at just 26 years of age is already a legend among rock climbers, will be showcased at 7 p.m. next Thursday in the CWU Student Union Theatre, where the CWU Outdoor Pursuits and Rentals (OPR) is hosting the traveling 2007 Reel Rock Film Tour.

The tour’s centerpiece film is “KING LINES: CHRIS SHARMA’S SEARCH FOR THE PLANET’S GREATEST CLIMBS,” and OPR coordinator Ryan Hopkins anticipates a sellout since this is one of only four Washington stops for the Reel Rock tour and it has already sold out in several cities around the country.

Admission is $5 general admission and $2 for CWU students, available at the Student Union box office or by calling 963-1301.

MASTER DEBATERS
• Also next Thursday, RON JEREMY and MICHAEL LEAHY will discuss and debate the thing they know best: pornography.

The CWU Center for Student Empowerment will host two of the most well-known men involved in the discussion of adult entertainment at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.

Jeremy has received credit for performing in more than 1,900 adult films, has appeared in at least 14 music videos and has performed cameo roles in several feature length films.

On the other side of the debate is Leahy, the founder of a non-profit organization called Bravehearts which aims to help people break free from addiction to sex and pornography. He has been featured on ABC’s “20/20” and “The View,” and presents a multimedia-based lecture called “Porn Nation: The Naked Truth” to audiences world-wide.

“We feel like pornography is an elephant in the room for our society, everyone knows about it and knows it’s happening,” Mal Stewman, program supervisor for CWU’s Empowerment Center, said in a news release. “We feel it’s important to have an educational discussion on the subject.”

The debate is expected to draw both community and campus attention. The Center for Student Empowerment, which is sponsoring the event, has taken into account the controversial nature of the subject by inviting a moderator to the event.

FUNNY MAN
• And on Oct. 26 comedian JIM GAFFIGAN will headline Central’s homecoming week. Gaffigan takes the stage at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.

Tickets cost $43 for reserved seats, $33 for general admission and $20 for CWU students and are available through the Student Union and Recreation Center ticket office, 963-1301.

— Kim Nowacki

WANNA SEE SOMETHING REALLY SCARY?

Do you already have your Halloween decorations up?

If the answer is, “Yes, I never take them down,” then you’re just the kind of person we’re looking for to contribute to this year’s “HOWL OF FAME,” On magazine’s annual COMPILATION OF BELOVED HORROR MOVIES.

Slasher flicks, vampire tales, nature run amok, your favorite serials, the best of the worst, underground cult classics … yes, we want to hear all about — well, in 200 words or less — what movies make you sleep with the lights on.

However, this is the fifth year — yeah, I can’t believe it either — we’ve been doing this, so no more “Evil Dead” and “Friday the 13th” submissions. (I know we all love the classics, but there have been some fun flicks produced in the past few years — “Saw,” “Hostel,” “Grindhouse.”)

E-mail your picks, along with your name and a contact phone number, to on@yakimaherald.com. You can send as many as you like between now and Oct. 19, but the sooner the better. We’ll run your (and our) selections throughout October.

– Kim Nowacki

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