The new comedy “THE ROCKER” opens here tomorrow.

It stars the very funny Rainn Wilson (best known as Dwight Schrute on the TV series “The Office”), who I interviewed back in May at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.

That’s when I also found out Rainn has family ties to the Yakima Valley: His cousin lives here, and for a long time his mom called Wapato home.

“So I used to come over as a teenager to scenic Wapato, Washington,” said Wilson, who was born in Seattle.
“Oh yeah, there’s definitely a Rainn Wilson-Wapato connection.”