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Galleries

Galleries with new exhibits and receptions are indicated with a . For complete listings, see www.spokane7.com. Please send information about upcoming exhibits to features@spokesman.com. Eastern Washington
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Redwoods give sense of future world

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – When producers of the science-fiction movie “After Earth” wanted to create an image of what the planet might look like 1,000-plus years in the future, location manager Dow Griffith knew just the place. He immediately thought of the mystical redwood forests in Northern California where his parents had taken him on a camping trip as a child.
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What’s happening

Spokane Shock Arena Football Hosting the San Jose Sabercats at 7 p.m. Saturday. Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. $14-$35. (509) 242-SHOCK. Reardan Mule Days Mule Chase 5K and 10K Fun Run begins at 8 a.m. Saturday. The parade starts at 10:15 a.m., led off by the kiddie parade. The grand marshal is Leslie Lowe from KHQ-TV. After the parade, there will be a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in front of the high school; along with a kids carnival with a bouncy castle, dunk tank, fast-pitch baseball, bean bag games, pony rides and more. There will be a craft fair with more than 50 artists at the town park and a barbecue lunch at the Community Hall. Visit www.reardanmuledays.net. (509) 796-2102.
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10 under $10

1Dads & Dudes: 6-9 p.m. today, HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave., Liberty Lake. A night when fathers and sons can spend time together playing basketball, volleyball and pickleball, and participating in relay races, skill competitions and games. Meet Spokane Shock players, hit the inflatable slide and build a small project. Open for all ages. (509) 927-0602. Admission: $10 for father and son, plus $3 for additional son 2 Maxie Ray Mills, Union Street and Paul Grove: 5:30-7:30 p.m. today, Manito Park Bench, 1928 S. Tekoa St., Spokane. Weekly live music series kicks off tonight with a performance by singer-songwriter Mills, guitarist Grove and the duo Union Street. Coming up: Matt Russell, June 7. (509) 456-8066. Admission: FREE
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Fans, family motivate this musical multitasker

It’s been 18 years since Jewel released her debut album, “Pieces of You,” which would spawn three hit singles and go platinum 15 times. In the ensuing years, Jewel has continued to tour and record, releasing hit pop and country records, three CDs of children’s music, and now, a greatest hits collection.
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nights out

1 Jewel What: Multiplatinum-selling singer-songwriter brings her mix of folksy coffee house soprano and country vocal strength to town as part of her “Greatest Hits” tour.
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On sale

• Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today through Ticketweb for the following shows at the Knitting Factory: Carbon Leaf, Oct 16, $16;
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Topped trees near Indian Canyon Golf Course frustrate city

Neighbors along the east side of Indian Canyon Golf Course got a surprise when they heard chainsaws at 5:40 a.m. on May 20. A subcontractor was topping trees to clear a path alignment – or line of sight – for a microwave dish that’s part of a new county emergency communication system. The work was done without the necessary permits, city officials said.
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‘Aladdin Jr.’ brings magic to a younger audience

Welcome to Agrabah, city of enchantment, where every beggar has a story … and all 76 young performers in the Christian Youth Theater’s production of “Aladdin Jr.” have parts to play. Adapted from Disney’s “Aladdin” for younger actors and viewers, the musical – starting tonight at the Bing Crosby Theater – takes a flying-carpet ride through the fictional Arabian world populated by Princess Jasmine, street urchin Aladdin, villainous Jafar, a couple of genies, and slews of narrators, townspeople, street rats and others.
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A rough but satisfying tale of redemption

A barrel of whisky would usually spell doom for the working-class blokes who always find their way into Ken Loach films. But it is redemption the director and his longtime creative collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, have in mind in the unexpectedly warm, hopeful and humorous brew of “The Angels’ Share.” Comedy has been increasingly leavening the darkness in the filmmaker’s more recent work. Mind you, Loach never completely walks away from gritty themes. But the edgy humor comes in offering slight detours from the more serious social and human difficulties that remain.
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Barbecue best

Barbecue is serious business, and by barbecue, we are not talking burgers or flank steak over gas on the deck this holiday weekend. We are talking “real” barbecue: hunks of pork and brisket, chicken and ribs, smoked low and slow for hours. The woods used are chosen specifically for the flavors they impart to the meat: hickory, oak, apple, cherry, alder, birch or mesquite. Such carnivorous gravitas might have started in the Deep South, but it has certainly spread. Here in the Inland Northwest, nine different pit masters – all with passionate fans – will each tell you their barbecue is barbecue the way God intended.
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Douglas, Damon dazzle in ‘Candelabra’

NEW YORK – The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself. Liberace, Mr. Showmanship, was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and offstage extravagance were legendary and who wowed audiences in Las Vegas and worldwide to become the best-paid entertainer on the planet during his heyday from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Film doesn’t live up to name

Derivative as all get out and plainly concocted by a committee, “Epic” is a children’s animated film that is more entertaining and emotional than it has any right to be. Characters make sacrifices and die, miss their parents and mourn. And we’re touched. At least a little. Hard (if over-familiar) lessons are learned and laughs land on queue. Throw in some truly gorgeous animation and Blue Sky, the studio that made it, delivers more proof that it’s moved on from the junky cash-machine “Ice Age” movies, even if this one doesn’t rise to the charms and wit of “Rio.”
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‘Furious 6’ delivers what fans expect

Bad movies are rarely as much fun as these “Fast and the Furious” pictures. And make no mistake about it – they’re bad. They stick to a rigid formula of hot cars, street races where skinny supermodels make up the audience, and impossible (and impossibly expensive) road heists.
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Grey’s Southern roots stay front and center

Fans of JJ Grey’s smoky swamp-funk blues don’t have to make the trek to the Gorge this Memorial Day weekend to see it live. While Grey, along with his band, Mofro, is a part of the sprawling lineup at the annual beastival, you can get a little slice of Sasquatch as they’ll be passing through Sandpoint tonight for a show at the Panida Theater.
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‘Iceman’ offers chilling portrait

The phrase “banality of evil” popped up when historians sought to explain the bland men and women who carried out the Holocaust, when critics looked for ways to describe the often dull villains that Alfred Hitchcock astutely observed were not all that interesting, outside of their crimes. Richard Kuklinski could be banality of evil’s poster-child. A poker-faced family man, from New Jersey no less, this real-life monster carried out cold-blooded killings for the mob for over a decade. Nothing glamorous about it, no sexual-sadistic glee evident on his part. Just a job of work, a cold calculation on who had to die, and how that death could be achieved without Kuklinski getting caught.
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