4 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT qrreemmensscronrecemmscsccrsemers Wednesday, November 15, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page BS HOMEFINDERS... A GOOD PLACE FOR IDEAS [ENTERTAINMENT | -?- E = =. you — an entertaining event? Advertise your up-coming dance, exhibition, recital, play etc. in the Entertainment Guide Call Cathy at 365-5266 for more info. The Castigar Sun 3RD ANNUAL QUEEN CITY CHRISTMAS QA FAIRE “re Savoy Banquet Hall, Savoy Inn, Nelson Fri., Nov. 17 + 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sat., Nov. 18: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. * Bake Table + Craft Tables + Door Prizes Admission $1 (12 and under Free) For mare information phone 226-7343 or 226-7486. (Wheelchair Accessible) ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Branch 170 | Sundays 2-8 pm | Mon.-Thurs. 2 pm-10pm | Fri. & Sat. 11 am-11 pm Bingo every Thurs. Weekend Music GUESTS WITH MEMBERS WELCOME! 248 Columbia Ave., Castlegar * 365-7017 The Selkirk Weavers & Spinners Guild Presents A Fashion Show, Exhibit & Sale of Handwoven Works at the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre across from the Castlegar Airport Friday, Nov. 24 - Fashion Show & Sale -7:00 p-m. Saturday, Nov. 25 - Exhibit & Sale -noon-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 26-Exhibit & Sale - noon-4:30 p-m. Admission $5.00 at the door Handwoven shawl door prize draw Refreshments Served Plan to support these two Kootenay Cultural Institutions Paretsky's detective evokes feeling Sometimes you follow writers for awhile and think you simply have to read their latest. Then you read the book and wonder why you ever bothered. At least one of the following detective novels shouldn't be included in your reading list. Can you guess which one? J. A. Jance’s detective novels are of local interest as they are set in the Pacific Northwest, usually with Seattle as the locale. Jance is a female novelist who is writing about a male detective who is dif- ferent because he does his police detective work out of interest rather than necesssity. You see, a former lover of his left him con- siderable money when she died and he is independently wealthy. In Lying in Wait (1994), Jance’s most recent J. P. Beau- mont title, a brutal murder takes place on Seattle's waterfront amongst the Scandinavian com- munity. It's particularly horrific — not because the body was burned in a boat fire — but because the fingers were chopped off before the incineration. It turns out there is a Nazi con- nection. Deep in the past, a Nazi guard at the Sobitor, Poland death camp had smuggled out gold from melted-down prisoners’ teeth. This gold has been under- cover for years because it was converted into tools which were plated and hidden away. Eventually, these tools find their way into Seattle, leading to. the bizarre murder which opens the novel. J.P. Beaumont, our hero, must uncover the plot and find the persons responsible. The novel ends with a chase scene that seems to be written with a movie script in mind. The good guys in a helicopter pursue the bad guys in a boat through the Gulf Islands — and the pursuit stops just short of the Canadian border. The rescue is complete; the criminals are killed; the gold is recovered. And our hero-detec- tive lives to be inserted into the next novel. Best-selling detective novelist Robert Parker's Thin Air is the same flash-in-the-pan type of novel, Its locale is Boston and its milieux is the immigrant commu- nity far from the centre of better Boston life. But beyond that, the novel's quite thin. TURNER This is another Spenser novel, and once again our leading detec- tive makes references to literary works from the past as he follows leads and talks to people. He is tough, virile and hard-hitting as in every Spenser novel over the past 20 years. And yes, he defeats the bad guys in the end. Did we expect any less? But the plot is quite shallow. An aging police detective has married a young woman supposedly with no past. In the midst of this bliss- ful marriage, one day the lady simply disappears. The police detective begs Spenser to help and he does. Soon, he discovers she is being held hostage by her Latino ex-lover in a tenement fortress deep within a burned-out New Weavers' guild holds show DAR McDOWELL __ For The Sun The Selkirk Weavers and Spinners* Guild have been an important part of cultural life ” in the West Kootenays for over 23 years The non-profit guild’s stated objective is “to foster the art and craft of handweaving.” Through- out the years, the guild has pro- vided many educational opportunities for those wishing to Located Playmor Junction Ph: 359-7770 2s WED Tha 55 56 ‘oovimern Wi Wiki SGD HON TUE WED 9 20 21 22 23 compitre | SHOWINGS EACH EUEniN z) TeRRinic Famaty Fim!" “Base’ Is THe Rocky OF Pus. GET SHORTY + HOVEDBER | ~ 25-26) leam fibre arts skills. For the past five years, the guild has enjoyed whappy assock ation with thé Koolenay bor Historical museurft. From May to October, the guild’ main- tains a gift shop and members demonstrate their proficiency with wheel and loom. The guild maintains an exten- sive library, looms and related equipment, a spinning wheel and a co arn shop. A bi-month! See WEAVERS BS Uniforms & Jackets ‘OPEN SUNDAY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE SUNDAY HOURS ARE AS FOLLOWS: England mill town. Sections at the beginnings of chapters follow the lady's mind as she is held captive. For weeks, She is at the mercy of this hood- lum, but we are supposed to accept that he doesn't touch her. And by the time he decides enough is enough, along comes Spenser — good old white-knight Spenser — to the rescue Only Robert Parker knows how little time he spent writing this book. A writer who does a better job is Sara Paretsky in Tunnel Vision (1995). Her heroine, detective V. L Warshawski, is worth following the streets of Chicago in search of clues. The milieux of women's abuse clinics, immigrant problems and safe homes are not simply part of the backdrop. Here, they're integral to the plot. V. L Warshawski is helping families with difficulties at the same time she is pursuing her sleuthing activities. The under- current of crime in Chicago's construction industry, in its bank- ing establishment and in its poli- tics at the senator level is handled with ease. Paretsky has done her research. And she has spent time thinking through the tightly-woven com- plex plot. We follow V.I. War- shawski's every move in an aitempt to unravel the mystery of one lawyer-wife's death. The thread of intrigue we follow leads to a condemned rat-infested building where the lawyer's chil- dren are hiding and to the tunnels beneath the city’s streets. It takes us to the carefully- guarded (we wonder why) offices of a low-rental housing broker. And in the end, we are with War- shawski in the cornfields outside Chicago as a jet, carrying enor- mous quantities of money to be laundered, lands secretly on a private runway at a senator's son's farm. By the end of the novel, not all the crooks are miraculously done in—such is real life—but they are disabled and a few have been put out of business. In the process, Warshawski enables the abusive lawyer's children to move into a new life. Paretsky is so fine a writer of this type of fiction that I can't praise her enough. She's far bet- ter than Sue Grafton or the two writers mentioned above. Tunne/ Vision is worth reading. It is an indictment of a society where men, big business, money and politics are more powerful than the words and actions of women and children ‘Theatre group performs Friday night at the Bril group is touring in B.C. Russian Ham - A member of the Russian Bolshoi Back Alley Rhapsody last liant Cultural Centre. The SUN STAFF PHOTO /Jeff Gabert Fall is spectacular Fall, crisp and cool with red and yellow leaves covering our lawns. Winter jackets come out of hid- ing. My camera wants to join the act, At every turn I think, “Oh, I should take a picture!” Yes, fall is spectacular! I've always thought it a wonderful way for summer to end as it gloriously marches into winter. Bold and brash. It’s brief, lasting the shortest of all Seasons. It's my favorite, even though it signals the death of sum- mer. Yes, with all its beauty, it still is atime of dying. Death, It’s hard to write the word. It leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth to even speak the word. There is nothing pretty about death. It’s ugly, it's painful and it's final! Thankfully, we've come into the age of hospice where death is met with Courage and honesty. We no longer ignore it and pretend it isn’t I was at the funeral of a friend today. It marked the end of a long life. He was a great man with a beautiful smile, who met life head-on and came out BY DAY WILMA GAETZ accolades, my mind wandered ahead. What would be said at my funeral, Perhaps more importantly, what would I want written as my epitaph? I realize it is being written now. I am the author. I wonder if I could say what my friend Tom said two weeks before he died, knowing his life was over and there were no more tomorrows When asked if there was any- thing he wished he could have done that he hadn't been able to do, he replied, “I am so sat- isfied with life, I don't know if there is anything else I'd like to do.” He thought for a few minutes and said, “I would like to leave a trail of encourage- ment for others.” “I am so satisfied with life!” What powerful words, I can’t get them out of my head. How rich he was, how rich the family he left behind. If one sen- tence were to describe your life, what would it be? It’s being written everyday. The pen in hand is your attitude! 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As his family and friends gave their Friends surprisingly good a a | Blue Rodeo follows last year’s Five Days In July with a wildly varied exercise in log cabin rock and roll. Just when you think you have Blue Rodeo pegged, they toss a changeup with the elec- tric Nowhere. That's a big part of their popularity. I know that’s a big reason I like them. Keyboardist James Grey says “this album is more like what people hear at (our) concerts... a variety of styles and someimprovisation.” It’s the sort of thinking that keeps them fresh. Key tracks: “Blew It Again”, “Girl In Green” and “Side Of The Road”. One of Blue Rodeo’s most eclectic offerings, Nowhere To Here is pleasing the faithful and attracting new fans. F.A.1.E.N.D.S TV Soundtrack (Reprise) I didn’t want to review Friends. I pegged it as a K-Tel style compilation and ignored it. One night, curiosity got the better of me and be damned if I didn’t end up enjoying this quite a bit. Friends includes previously unreleased songs, show dialogue between tunes and it entertains. The result is an album that is sur- prisingly good company. Previously unreleased stuff includes tracks from Toad The Wet Sprocket, Barenaked Ladies and more. Also included; charming excerpts from Phoebe’s hopelessly weird folk songs. Key tracks: “Shoe Box” (B.N.L.) and “Sunshine” by Paul West- erberg. These are good “Friends” to have, pun fully intended. ALL YOU CAN EAT k.d. lang (Warner Bros.) ** + 472 Wacky country gal... torch singer... lesbian vegetarian... pop chanteuse. k.d.'s All You Can Eat is as elegant as it i: Spunky. “ “a wanted to) shake off expectations built up by Jngenue,” lang says. “I'd been listening to a lot of pop groups like Radiohead andOasis and really liked some of the directions they took.” ‘The sound track that came ROCK before Eat was already pointed this way. k.d.'s smooth voice melts me down easy like Parkay at room temperature. Her lyrics are personal again, but not torturously confes- sional as was Ingenue. This is close to pop, but the change isn't a neck-snapper as it was from country to torch. Key tracks: “If I Were -You”, “Sexuality” and “I Want It All.” lang makes warm, provocative, filling records... like this one. RAFFI RADIO Raffi (Troubadour) JOHN KEREIFF Here's the latest from an i. Raffi Radio isn't his best, but the kids’ “e+e This is a fake radio show ‘around Raffi music. He tets his affection for jazz show, which is cool, but he cold reads halfbaked dialogue off a page, and it sounds... well, dorky. The tunes are playful and they speak to the kids, not AT them. “Sunflower” reminds me of Sergio Mendez & Brazil ‘66 and “Sleido’s Song”, about Raffi's furry sidekick Sleido Jazz Dog. Key Tracks: “Sunflower” and “Ripple Of Love”. Bananaphone was better, but this was built for kids, not 37-year-old hermits. ALIVE IN AMERICA Steely Dan (Giant) Given the recent success of live albums by °70s icons The Eagles and Pink Floyd, Alive In America was inevitable. Yawn. It’s been 15 years since their last album, 20 since they toured... and to be honest, their brand of cocktail jazz would be more at home in a club than on a stadium or arena stage. Alive In America is almost sterile. The live treatment gives some tracks new shape, but not always for the better. The version of “Reelin’ In The Years” here blows compared to the original. Key tracks: “Bodhisattva” and “Peg”. Alive is a decent slumber party soundtrack... give me their Greatest Hits instead, HOT OFF THE HIT LIST bree ARRIVED PETE'S TV in. 278 Columbia St, Castegar, B.C. Ph: 365-0060 m= Weavers — Continued from B4 newsletter keeps everyone informed. Phone 365-5918 to inquire. A critical issue in the evolu- tion of the guild has been a con- Stant striving for the highest Possible standards of design and workmanship. Two members, June Bell and Ingeborg Thor- Larsen, distinguished themselves by earning top awards at a con- ference of Northwest weavers in Prince George last July. On Friday, Nov. 24, the SWG will have a fashion show of woven wearables at 7 p.m. at the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre. A handwoven and hand- spun shawl will be given as a door prize. An exhibit and sale follows in the small gallery. This continues through Saturday, Nov. 25 and Sunday, Nov. 26 noon-4:30p.m. both days. 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