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AFTER FIVET H E N O R T H S T A T E M A G A Z I N EDECEMBER 2018 / 32nd Year / No. 2 THE NEWS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT MONTHLY

AN EVENING WITH PHISH FOUNDER TREY ANASTASIO - PAGE 5

CONCERT & PARTYYou can celebrate a ‘North State New Year’s Eve’ pops concert and party on Dec. 31 at Redding’s historic Cascade Theatre. Maestro Scott Seaton will lead the orchestra in a concert of hits with pianist Alpin Hong and mezzo-soprano Molly Mahoney (pictured). See page 12

PETULA CLARKKnown primarily for the mid-1960’s mega-hit

‘Downtown,’ Petula Clark, who turned 86 on Nov. 15, was actually a big name in Europe long before that song reached the top of the charts. The two-time Grammy winner is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m., Dec. 5, at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. See page 7

RIVERFRONT IN 2019As the Riverfront Playhouse closes out its 2018 season with Miracle on 34th Street (page 5), the production team prepares for the 2019 season that will focus on literary classics (page 2)

TOMMY & JERRYGrammy-nominated guitarist, composer and performer Tommy Emmanuel and special guest Jerry Douglas are sure to bring their acclaimed

Dec. 12 at the Cascade Theatre. See page 11

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Josh GracinAn American Idol fan favorite, and

proud military serviceman, Josh Gracin brings his boot-stompin’

country hits to the State!

Friday, January 11th

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Petula ClarkEmbracing every aspect of show business, Petula’s worldwide career has virtually defined the term

“international superstar.” With multiple Grammys and hits including “My Love”, and “Downtown”, this show is one not to miss!

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A retelling of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” a laugh-fi lled take on “Robin Hood” and John Steinbeck’s tragic “Of Mice and Men” are some of the featured works that will grace the Riverfront Playhouse stage in 2019.

A stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a delightful mashup of the Bard, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” and a seasonal nod to the holidays, “A Christmas Carol,” round out Riverfront’s lineup.

Jenn Gomez, chair of the theater company’s artistic committee, said her group had been thinking of ways to generate more interest in the theater and decided that selecting a theme for the season might help. Thus, 2019’s theme is “literary classics” and 2020’s lineup will be plays based on popular fi lms.

“This way the season is more of a full experience, rather than one show at a time,” Gomez said.

Focusing on literary classics also promises a season of productions that appeal to a wider span of people, she said. For example, older people who have worked their way through much of Steinbeck’s work may be interested in seeing “Of Mice and Men” on the stage, as will junior high school students who read the novel as an assignment.

The season opens Jan. 19 with “The

Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood,” a comedy by Mary Lynn Dobson, the same playwright who wrote the well-received “Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van.” Samantha Fork, who directed the fi rst Dobson play, returns to direct “Robin Hood.”

“We all really liked her writing style,” Gomez said of Dobson. “’Robin Hood’ has a ‘Monty Python’ type feel. When Samantha heard we were doing it, she got really excited. And Robin Hood is a well-known literary fi gure.”

John Welsh has been tapped to direct “Of Mice and Men,” which opens March 22.

“We had to get our hard-hitting drama in there,” Gomez said. “It’s one that we haven’t done in quite a while. It’s about time for a resurgence.”

Gomez will make her directorial debut on May 17 when “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” opens. She said she’s looking forward to it.

“This play has been really close to my heart for years,” she said. “I didn’t

really know it was available. It covers all of them (Shakespeare’s plays) in a really fun way.”

Darryll Alvey, president of Riverfront’s board of directors, said it was a challenge to acquire the rights to the play, “but it’s part of our effort to the raise the quality of our productions—and not just the props and costuming but the subject matter of our material.”

Riverfront tries to include a comedy or two each season, Alvey said. “It’s community theater and we want to entertain. We’re not trying to deliver a social message with every play we put out.”

Riverfront’s summer production will be “Little Women,” which opens July 19 under the direction of Annie Bakaleinikoff.

“This year we did the ‘Outsiders,’ which is more of a male-driven storyline, so we decided to fl ip it the other way and go with a more female-driven storyline,” Gomez said.

As a timely foreword to Halloween, Riverfront will stage Nick Dear’s adaption of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Mat McDonald, who teaches theatrical makeup at Shasta College, directs the thriller. It opens Sept. 20.

“We’re very excited Mat is coming on board for that,” Gomez said. “It’s been a while since we did a real costume and makeup-heavy show. I can’t wait to see what he does with it.”

“It should come off as a very credible depiction of Frankenstein at his worst, or best, depending upon your perspective,” Alvey said with a chuckle.

The season wraps up, in true Riverfront tradition, with a holiday-themed show.

“You can’t go wrong with ‘A Christmas Carol,’” Gomez said. “We’ve done it recently but this is a different production with a different director (Jennifer Levens). It’s not going to be the same show at all.”

The redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge opens Nov. 22.

Riverfront’s new season will truly end on a cheery note if the nonprofi t group is able to fi nalize plans to relocate to its recently purchased building at 1950 California St. and stage plays in a new 153-seat theater.

“We’re hoping that part of the 2019 season will be at the new location,” Alvey said.

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Is Kris Kringle (David Cutler), a popular Macy’s department store Santa, actually the real-deal jolly old St. Nick? His elves and young Susan Walker (played by Makena Pohrman) believe so, but it’s up to a judge to decide in the Riverfront Playhouse production of “Miracle on 34th Street.” The holiday classic continues at 7:30 p.m. weekends through Dec. 15 with 2 p.m. matinees on Dec. 2 and Dec. 9. Tickets are $20 evenings; $15 matinees; and $25, closing night. Visit www.riverfrontplayhouse.net for more information.

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Founding member of the band Phish and an accomplished solo artist in his own right, Trey Anastasio has forged a multi-faceted career, winning acclaim in rock, classical and theatrical circles. An Acoustic Evening with Trey Anastasio is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Dec. 11, at the Cascade Theatre in Redding. Tickets are priced from $62 to $82 and are available online at www.cascadetheatre.org, by phone at 243-8877, or at the Cascade box offi ce, 1733 Market St.

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You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares, (and) go downtown…well, downtown Red Bluff, that is.

Two-time Grammy winner Petula Clark is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m., Dec. 5, at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. Tickets are priced from $39 to $49 and are available online at www.statetheatreredbluff.com and at the Tehama Country Visitor Center, 250 Antelope Blvd. Call 529-2787 for more information.

Known primarily for the mid-1960’s mega-hit “Downtown,” Clark, who turned 86 on Nov. 15, was actually a big name in Europe long before that song reached the top of the charts. Her love of music began at a very early age in her mother’s land of Wales. She was already a star in the U.K. by the age of 9, where she was dubbed “Britain’s Shirley Temple” and was singing for the troops stationed in England during World War II.

Many years later, after marrying French publicist Claude Wolff and living in France, she soon became a star in that country and across Europe, while also recording songs and albums in French, Italian, German and Spanish. During that time the couple had two daughters and a son.

It was while living in Paris that English songwriter Tony Hatch presented her with his new composition: “Downtown.”

The recording was made in London and became a worldwide hit. It rose to No. 2 in the UK in December 1964, remaining there for three weeks behind the Beatles’ single “I Feel Fine.”

But the song really went to town in the U.S. where it reached No. 1 in January of 1965. It would mark the beginning of 15 consecutive hits Clark would have in the U.S. Top 40, including several top 10 records such as “I Know A Place,” “My Love,” “A Sign Of The Times” and “Don’t Sleep In The Subway.”

Clark, however, told USA Today last month that you shouldn’t go to her concert expecting her to skip out on stage like a 1960s dolly bird who has just fl own in from Carnaby Street. Her most recent English speaking album, which was released in 2017, is appropriately

titled, Living For Today.“The idea of going onstage and

having it be about nostalgia? I just couldn’t do it,” she said in the interview “It’s where I am now. I have these fantastic songs, and I still enjoy singing them, just as much or even more than I did then. Perhaps I don’t sing them the way I did, but you wouldn’t expect that. I’m not stuck in an era. The idea of going onstage and having it be about nostalgia? I just couldn’t do it.”

Still, she said she usually includes most of her American hits, plus other songs from her wide-ranging career.

In addition to her music (she even sang backup - sort of by accident - on John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Give Peace a Chance”), Clark has performed in her own TV shows and starred in movies, including “Finian’s Rainbow” with Fred Astaire, where she was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress, and in “Goodbye Mr. Chips” with Peter O’Toole.

She also has performed extensively in the theater, including on London’s West End where she portrayed Maria von Trapp in “The Sound of Music.” Other performances on stage include her Broadway debut in 1993 in “Blood Brothers,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” and “Someone Like You,” for which she composed the score.

Two-time Grammy winner Petula Clarkto perform Dec. 5 at the State Theatre

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In Devon, England, a cou-ple who had just exchanged vows at the Furrough Cross Church gathered their wed-ding party at Tessier Gardens next door to take pictures.

But a sunbathing woman who was squarely in the frame of the wedding photos refused to move from her towel. So the party just posed around her.

The groom’s son ap-proached the woman and asked her to move, but she “pretended to be asleep,” he told Metro News. Later she did move but left her belongings in the same spot.

“It was bloody rude and dis-respectful,” claimed Natalie Ming, a relative of the groom.

At the Royal College of Art’s annual London fashion show, one graduate unveiled a unique approach to acces-sorizing garments: crystallized

Alice Potts displayed a pair of ballet shoes decorated with crystals formed from sweat, along with a fake fur adorned with urine crystals. Potts told Reuters the “more natural materials” could offer environ-

with traditional plastics.

A man named Tang from Si-chuan Province, China, prom-ised his girlfriend, Yang, that he would buy an expensive luxury car for her.

The only problem was that he didn’t have the money.

So he cooked up a scheme, inviting Yang and her brothers to the Chengdu car dealer-ship, where he had allegedly put down a 10,000 yuan pay-ment.

Tang asked the group to wait there while he went to get the cash, but instead, accord-ing to Shanghaiist, he went to a supermarket and bought a fruit knife.

Outside, he found a seclud-ed spot and cut up his own arms, then called Yang and said he had been robbed at knifepoint of the 750,000 yuan he had supposedly withdrawn for the car.

While her brothers took Tang to the hospital, Yang waited for police, who even-tually excised the story from Tang. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and a 500 yuan

James J. Rynerson, 38, was being held in the Mesa County (Colorado) Jail after

being charged with menacing, disorderly conduct and tres-pass.

But, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported, sher-iff’s deputies at the jail re-leased him, having mistaken him for Marvin March, 35, a different inmate.

Jail staff gave Rynerson March’s belongings, and he wore March’s leather jacket as he signed March’s name to the release papers and left the facility.

Rynerson’s wife was star-tled to see her husband in the garage at their home, and after he explained what hap-pened, she convinced him to go back.

She “personally drove him back to the Mesa County De-tention Facility,” the report noted, and he was back in custody by 11 p.m., with new charges, including escape and forgery, added to his list.

A woman in Wenling, Chi-na, was so thrilled to be driv-ing the Ferrari 458 she rented that she recorded herself while waiting at a stoplight: “First time driving a Ferrari. This truly is the most amazing feeling.”

But within minutes, report-ed the Daily Mail, she swerved out of control, striking a metal

destroying the front end of the $660,000 Ferrari and deploy-ing its airbags.

Neither the driver nor her passenger was injured in the accident.

In this week’s installment of foreign objects stuck in body cavities: Mr. Li of China’s Guangdong Province went to the doctor at Pingshan Hospi-tal in Shenzhen after feeling discomfort and pain in his ear.

Using an otoscope scan, the doctor discovered a live cockroach burrowing into the 52-year-old man’s ear canal.

“It’s still alive, still moving,” the doctor can be heard on video saying, according to The Daily Mail.

She cut the roach into piec-es to remove it and disinfected Li’s ear with alcohol in case it had laid eggs.

Visitors crowding into a Vancouver, Canada, street festival were invited – at $38 a pop – to try a new health craze: Hot Dog Water.

The drink is marketed as a gluten-free, Keto diet-com-

patible, post-workout source of sodium and electrolytes, and every sleek bottle, which promises to help with weight loss, also contains a hot dog.

It’s also a prank. Hot Dog Water CEO Douglas Bevans told Global News the prod-uct was dreamed up as a re-sponse to the “snake oil sales-men” of health marketing.

In small print at the bot-tom of the sales sheet is this disclaimer: “Hot Dog Water in its absurdity hopes to encour-age critical thinking related to product marketing and the sig-

purchasing choices.” Touche.

Thailand’s Scorpion Queen, who holds the Guinness World Record for holding a scorpion in her mouth (3 minutes and 28 seconds), shocked onlook-ers as she let scorpions crawl all over her body and in and out of her mouth as part of a show in Pat-taya, a city on the Gulf of Thailand.

Kanchana Kaetkaew also holds the record for co-habit-ing with 5,000 scorpions in a 12-meter-square glass enclo-sure for 33 days.

The Zoological Wild-life Conserva-tion Center in Rainier, Oregon, is of-fering sleepovers in its sloth sanctu-ary.

The visit includes a tent with a cot and satellite TV (in case the animals are being too sloth-like). Visitors, who pay $600 (double oc-cupancy) for the 12-hour experience, are asked to whisper so as not to stress out the sloths.

French performance artist Abra-ham Poincheval man-aged to hatch nine chicken eggs by incubating them him-self for three weeks inside a glass vivarium at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo contemporary art museum.

Poincheval’s past projects have in-cluded sitting inside a block of stone for a week and living in a hollowed-out bear sculpture for two weeks.

Baggy blue jeans were the ill-fated getaway vehicle for 15 quart-size bot-tles of Penn-zoil motor oil and 30 DVDs of “Treasure Hunt” in a badly planned theft in Lakeland, Florida.

William Jason Hall, 38, stuffed the loot into his pants inside a 7-Eleven store with-out realizing that a detective

in an unmarked police car out-side was watching him.

Because it was his third arrest on petty theft, he was charged with a felony.

North Carolina State Uni-versity scientists, in a “proof of concept” study, claim they have found a promising alter-native for eliminating certain infections – even when no known antibiotic will work.

The solution, the research-ers write, is to genetically modify maggots (which are well-known to feed naturally off of infected tissue) to gobble up the infections and release, as “waste,” human growth hor-mone (as they showed in the study could be done with a

-gots).

Felicia Burl, 33, who crashed her car (killing her passenger) after running a red

to foil DNA evidence against her to avoid charges.

While in lockup, Burl, with a 29-conviction rap sheet, knew a mouth swab was upcoming and tried to contaminate it by – as police later learned – hav-ing two other women spit into her mouth just before the test.

She was convicted anyway, and a court in Stamford, Con-necticut, is expected to order a 10-year sentence at Burl’s next hearing.

Convicted triple-murder in-mate Kon Georgiou, housed in Australia’s Goulburn Jail, was charged with hiding a cell-phone in his rectum, but man-aged to hold out for 12 days

-nally “releasing” the evidence.

Guards, certain it was a

the residue from recent sur-gery that Georgiou claimed),

-ing in” after it.

Three teenagers from Rah-way, New Jersey, who call themselves the Rahway Bush-men, have been discouraged from their signature prank: dressing up as bushes and popping up in Rahway River Park to say “Hi!” to unsuspect-ing passersby.

NJ.com reported that the Union County Police Depart-ment warned the Bushmen that they would be arrested if caught in action.

The high school students started by jumping out to scare people, but decided to soften their approach with a gentler greeting.

“We were trying to be harm-less,” one of the Bushmen

said. “It’s more or less an idea to try to make people smile.”

But Union County Pub-

fun sucker) Sebastian D’Elia deadpanned: “It’s great until

the county.” Or puts an eye out.

Some people can get pretty territorial about their food. So it appeared in Colleton Coun-ty, South Carolina when Ryan Dean Langdale, 19, warned his 17-year-old cousin not to eat his salt and vinegar potato chips.

“Do not touch my chips, or

his cousin, according to a

The Charleston Post and Courier reported Langdale then went into another room,

Langdale summoned help but told police his cousin had accidentally shot himself while

story held up: The pathway of

-man.

Sure enough, when the vic-tim was questioned after un-dergoing surgery, he told of-

at the center of the dispute. Langdale surrendered on

Oct. 10 and was charged with, among other crimes, attempt-ed murder.

During the 2014 World Cup, -

co, made a pact to travel to the 2018 tournament in Russia.

They saved their money, bought a bus, painted it in Mexico’s colors and booked passage for themselves and the bus on a ship going to Spain, where The Daily Mail reported, the friends planned to drive the bus to Russia.

But just before they board-ed the ship in April, one of the

wife had put the kibosh on his trip.

So the remaining four did the next best thing: They made a cardboard life-size cutout of Javier, looking grumpy and wearing a shirt that says, “My wife didn’t let me go,” and set off for Russia.

The cardboard Javier has been very popular at the soc-cer venues, attracting female admirers, appearing on the big

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With millions of worldwide fans, Postmodern Jukebox is swinging their way onto the Cascade Theatre stage in Redding at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5. The multitalented collective reimagines today’s pop, rock and R&B hits in the style of various yesteryears, from swing to doo-wop, ragtime to Motown – or, as creator Scott Bradlee himself puts it, “pop music in a time machine.” It’s a Roaring ‘20s party that would make the Great Gatsby proud, mixed with a swinging ‘60s night with the Rat Pack, spiced up with a little Motor City soul and some classic sock hop rockin’ that gets the audience twist-ing the night away. Tickets are priced from $29 to $54 with special VIP Packages available for $154, and are available online at www.cascade-theatre.org, by phone at 243-8877 or at the Cascade Theatre box offi ce, 1733 Market St.

Postmodern Jukebox toswing into Redding Dec. 5

Soul blues in DunsmuirJohnny Rawls will be bring his soul blues sounds to Pops Performing Arts & Cultural Center, 5819 Sacramento Ave., Dunsmuir, at 7 p.m., Dec. 13. With a career spanning more than 50 years, Rawls is an internationally recognized recording artist, music producer, and songwriter who tours extensively throughout North America and overseas. The Blues Music Awards, Blues Blast Awards, Living Blues Critics Poll Awards, and the W. C. Handy Awards have all acknowledged him with multiple awards and nominations, including Soul Blues Album of the Year and Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year. Rawls has released more than 15 albums since his debut solo album, Here We Go, in 1996. His latest CD, Waiting for the Train, was released in September 2017 and was nominated for Soul Blues Album of the Year, while Rawls himself was nominated for Soul Blues Male Artist. Tickets for the Dec. 13 show will be available at the door, or online. For more info., go to popsdunsmuir.com or johnnyrawlsblues.com.


Grammy-nominated guitarist, composer and performer Tommy Emmanuel and special guest Jerry Douglas are sure to bring their acclaimed fretboard fi re and charm to Redding for a 7:30 p.m. show, Dec. 12, at the Cascade Theatre.

Both artists have released new studio albums within the last year or two.

Early in 2018, Emmanuel released Accomplice One (via CGP Sounds and distributed by Thirty Tigers), which features duets with artists such as Jason Isbell, Mark Knopfl er, Rodney Crowell, Amanda Shires, and others including Jerry Douglas on “Purple Haze.”

Rolling Stone‘s Luke Levenson noted the album, “unites the talents of Emmanuel with those dream guests…for an engaging set of originals and innovative covers.”

Douglas, the 14-time Grammy Award-winner, released his What If album in 2017 via Rounder Records. He earned accolades from Rolling Stone, which said, “even after 14 Grammys, Jerry Douglas is still exploring unlikely musical pairings, as evidenced by the soul-and bluegrass-melding rendition of ‘Hey Joe’…”

American Songwriter backed up the sentiment with Hal Horowitz boasting, “What If is...a freewheeling, musically sprawling set, perhaps more jazz and rock oriented than most would expect...The album’s centerpiece is its title track, a pensive progressive jazz/bluegrass fusion instrumental that allows the members to stretch out and shows both their creativity and talent.”

Tickets for the Dec. 12 show are priced from $34 to $39 and are available online at www.cascadetheatre.org, by phone at 243-8877 or at the Cascade Theatre box offi ce, 1733 Market St.

Tommy EmmanuelGive a listen to “Old Photographs,”

the closing track on Tommy Emmanuel’s It’s Never Too Late (2015), and you’ll hear the distinctive squeak of fi nger noise as he runs his hands across the frets of his Maton Signature TE guitar. It’s an imperfection in the performance that players typically try to eliminate in practice, and in the hands of a less-secure musician, that sound could easily be edited from the recording with Pro Tools recording technology.

But for all of the masterful technique and fl ashy ability that’s brought Emmanuel recognition among the world’s greatest guitarists, that fi nger noise lets the audience know he is one of them.

The same approach was taken with Emmanuel’s latest offering, the 15-track LIVE! At The Ryman, a “genuine ‘had to be there,’ no fi x ups, no frills recording,” says Emmanuel. “Each of my guitars has pickups and microphones included when you buy them, so the sound you hear from this recording is exactly as it sounds in the hall.”

Tommy Emmanuel

LIVE! At The Ryman—recorded in front of a sold-out audience at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in February 2016—highlights Emmanuel’s fervor as a master guitarist and also encapsulates a landmark moment for the musician as he is joined on stage by Steve Wariner and John Knowles, the only other two living CGPs for a performance of “San Antonio Stroll.” (CGP: Certifi ed Guitar Players. The moniker Chet Atkins assigned not only to himself but four other guitarists he admired and felt contributed to the legacy of guitar playing). Emmanuel and Atkins teamed up on a 1997 project, The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World, which proved to be Atkins’ fi nal project.

An accomplished fi ngerstyle player, Emmanuel frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once.

Given his fi rst guitar at age four, Emmanuel never learned to read and write music, but he and his brother Phil were dedicated students of the instrument, creating games that helped them identify chords and patterns.

Eventually he ventured out on his own and began to treat his shows like a jazz musician would, eschewing set lists, improvising his way through many of his songs to capture and shape the mood of the room.

Jerry Douglas

Tommy Emmanuel and Jerry Douglas in ReddingDec. 12 at the Cascade


You can celebrate a “North State New Year’s Eve” pops concert and party from 6 to 9 p.m., Dec. 31 at Redding’s historic Cascade Theatre.

This special North State Symphony event features a symphonic pops concert with champagne, hors d’oeuvres, dancing, and dinner and drinking options at downtown area restaurants and bars. Doors open at 6 p.m. when they’ll roll out the red carpet in front of the marquee. Concert-goers who are in a dancing mood can enjoy two custom-made dance fl oors in front of the stage while a jazz combo provides warm-up music.

At 7 p.m., North State Symphony conductor Scott Seaton will lead the orchestra in a concert of hits from famous Broadway shows, big band favorites, and other danceable musical classics. Internationally-renowned pianist Alpin Hong will perform Gershwin’s iconic “Rhapsody in Blue” and mezzo-soprano Molly Mahoney adds iridescent vocals to crowd-pleasing dance numbers.

At 9 p.m., they’ll celebrate an early turn of the year with an audience sing-a-long to “Auld Lang Syne.”

Area restaurants and bars will provide ample options for pre- and post-concert food and libations for those wishing to extend their evening celebrations. Hotel partner Oxford Suites will have discounted room rates

and shuttles to and from the Cascade Theatre.

“After a diffi cult summer and fall for our extended North State family of symphony lovers and friends, we’re really looking forward to a celebratory and hopeful turning of the page into the new year,” said Elizabeth Quivey,

North State Symphony executive director. “We wanted to do something this year that included as much of the community as possible, so are very excited to be in the heart of downtown Redding’s cultural district, partnering with Dignity Health, the Cascade Theatre, restaurants, and other

businesses to create an enjoyable evening of good food and cheer.”

Tickets are $30 (economy), $50 (general) and $70 (premium) and include the concert, catered hors d’oeuvres and a complimentary glass of champagne, along with dancing, photo booth and more. No-host bars in the lobby and mezzanine are available throughout the evening.

Tickets are available at www.cascadetheatre.org or by calling the Cascade Theatre box offi ce at 243-8877. Additional information is available at www.northstatesymphony.org.

Molly Mahoney

Alpin Hong will perform Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” during the New Year’s Eve concert at the Cascade Theatre in Redding.

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football fans from all over the world.

Yury Zhokhov, 41, a factory worker in Donetsk, Russia, was found kneel-

-ing out of the top of his head.

Zhokhov was conscious, and when questioned by police, he revealed he had stuck the 8-inch blade in himself.

He was having trouble breathing through his nose, he explained, and hoped to make another hole he could breathe through. But the knife became

Odditycentral.com reports doctors at the local hospital were afraid to touch the knife for fear of killing Zhok-hov or causing brain damage.

-person told local media. X-rays showed the blade “exactly between

Specialists were called and Zhok-hov survived the surgery without ap-parent brain damage, although sur-geons are concerned about infection.

An alert (or nosy) passerby called police after seeing staff through the window of a Natwest bank in Birming-ham, England, hiding and cowering under their desks.

of catching a robber red-handed, but instead were told the workers were participating in a team-building game of hide-and-seek.

West Midlands Police Chief Inspec-tor Dave Keen tweeted that, although the incident was a misunderstanding,

-ed Metro News.

In Olympic National Park in Wash-ington, the mountain goat population has baaa-llooned to an unnatural 700 or more animals.

The park is also becoming more popular with humans, which has led to an unsavory consequence: In their constant quest for salt and other miner-als, the goats have developed a strong taste for human urine and sweat left behind by hikers and campers.

Goats will lick clothing and paw at the ground where people have urinat-ed or disposed of cooking water, mak-ing them a nuisance, according to the National Park Service.

Popular Mechanics also reports that the increased likelihood of human-goat

especially since a goat gored a hiker to death in 2010.

-ging, blindfolding and airlifting moun-tain goats to nearby Mount Baker-Sno-qualmie National Forest, which should be more hospitable to their needs.

On Oct. 12, an Air India Express pi-lot guided a Boeing 737 up and away from Tiruchirappalli International Air-port in Tamil Nadu, India – but not ENOUGH up and away.

As the plane took off shortly after midnight, it hit the top of a 5-foot-tall perimeter wall and destroyed a small landing guide tower.

The Washington Post reported that, despite the audible collision, the pilot

-tems were functioning normally and he was continuing toward Dubai, across the Indian Ocean.

“But we found some parts of the

the director said. Finally, about two hours into the

-lot to return to India, where the plane landed in Mumbai.

Indeed, there was a huge gash in -

ing was wrapped around the landing gear.

All 130 passengers arrived un-harmed and were booked on other

been grounded pending a review.

Hatam Hamad, 56, a Palestinian and American dual citizen, made a

Orleans to Heathrow Airport in Lon-don, reported Fox News.

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proached New Orleans TV executive Joel Vilmenay, who was sitting with his wife and two children.

“This man had his penis out and

Vilmenay said in his statement to the Uxbridge Magistrates Court prosecu-tor, Wendy Barrett.

Vilmenay said he stood up and asked Hamad what he was doing, whereupon Hamad “responded by

-other passenger.

At that moment, Hamad “slapped (Vilmenay) in the chest with some

The cabin crew were alerted, and Hamad was removed to the back of the plane, where he was guarded for

Hamad, who has no previous con--

ed anyone, but later admitted his guilt, saying he had not drunk alcohol for

His prison sentence was suspend-ed, but he was ordered to pay Vil-menay $789.

In an apparent attempt to destroy what little brainpower he had left, 26-year-old Brandon McVay of Council Bluffs, Iowa, ate a Tide Pod, prompting a trip to the hospital.

But while he was being treated in the critical care unit, McVay went on a rampage, causing thousands of dol-lars of damage to medical equipment, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

A nurse told the responding police

as he broke objects in his room before proceeding to the hallway.

Keyboards, computer monitors and glass valued at more than $7,500 were found littering the hallway, where Mc-Vay was subdued by security before police arrived.

McVay was arrested and held at the hospital on charges of second-degree criminal mischief and disorderly con-duct in a place of business.

West Virginia MetroNews reported that, for Jackie Fullmer, 37, of Fair-mont, West Virginia, the day started with trying to steal car keys from a woman at knife point.

When police caught up to her, she ran toward their car with a hatchet and knife, prompting a deputy to shoot her with a stun gun.

Fullmer turned to verbal attacks while being transported to the Fair-mont Police Department, warning of-

the neck and watch their “blood drain

she could have done, because she had a knife hidden between her buttocks.

That weapon was found during booking, and Fullmer admitted she had slashed the seat belt in the police cruiser with it before threatening to slit

with threats of terrorist acts and at-tempted robbery.

mother cooked his dinner in Braden-ton, Florida, she accidentally bumped into her 22-year-old son.

Post reported, pelting her with the sau-sages she was frying and putting his hands on her neck.

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he just wanted his mom to apologize, but he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.

A husband and wife have been ex-posed as murderers and cannibals in Krasnodar in southern Russia, report-ed the Express. Natalia Baksheeva, 43, has confessed to killing and eating dozens of victims with her husband, Dmitry, 35, over 18 years.

Investigators were tipped off to the

after a 35-year-old waitress, Elena Vashrusheva, and Natalia fought over accusations that Vashrusheva was

Natalia ordered her husband to kill Vashrusheva: “Following this demand, the man took out the knife that he al-ways kept in his bag and stabbed the woman twice in her chest.

The victim died from her injuries on -

lice charged Natalia with one count of goading her husband into killing the

pickled and frozen human remains be-

kitchen. A photo found in their apartment

from 1999 showed a human head served as dinner, garnished with man-darin oranges. Dmitry, who has tuber-culosis, will be charged at a later date.

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Anderson Library Storytime

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Theatre, 586 Main St., Weaverville. Bring a non-perishable item to receive a free ticket to the movie.

Jefferson Justice & Scott Joss, 9pm to midnight, Watson’s Vet’s Club, 406 N. Mt Shasta Blvd, Mt. Shasta. No cover. Call 926-3565.

A North State New Year’s Eve, 7pm, Cascade Theatre, Redding. Presented by the North State

Showcase “Merry & Bright,” 6pm, Redding Civic Auditorium. Tickets $10 to $18. Call 229-0022.

Rockin’ Around with CDC, performances at noon, 3pm and 6pm, Cascade Theatre, Redding. A dance show presented by the California Dance Company. Tickets are $10 to $25 and available at the Cascade Theatre

A Celtic Christmas, 7:30pm, Cascade Theatre, Redding. Tickets are $26 to $36 and available at the Cascade

243-8877.

Anderson Library Storytime, 3:30pm, Anderson Library. The Grinch will visit and return presents. Call 365-7685.

Redding Toastmasters, 6pm, see Dec. 6.

Dance Depot’s Holiday

Redding Toastmasters, 6pm, see Dec. 6.

Trinity Theatre Canned Food Drive and Movie, 11am, Trinity

Symphony. Tickets are $30 to $70 and available at the Cascade Theatre

Sound Advice Dance Extravaganza, 9pm, featuring blues and funk music at Pops Performing Arts & Cultural Center, 5819 Sacramento Ave., Dunsmuir. $15 donation. Visit their website for more info.

Monthly Dance, 8pm, Moose Lodge, 1597 South St., Anderson. Out of the Blue Band will perform. Admission is $15. Call 510-1918.

New Year’s Eve Dance, 8pm, North Fork Grange, 131 Dutch Creek Rd., Junction City.

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Fiddle, Bluegrass, and Americana Concert, 2pm, Palo Cedro Community Hall, 22037 Old Forty Four Dr., Palo Cedro. Presented by California State Old Time Fiddlers, Dist. 6. A Christmas potluck will be followed by a festive concert by the Alldrin family. Held the third Sunday of each month.

Red Bluff Masterworks Chorale & Orchestra, 3pm, State Theatre, 333 Oak St., Red Bluff. Call 529-2787.

Winter Holidays with Beethoven, 3pm, Kenneth Ford Theater at College of the Siskiyous, Weed. A $15 donation is suggested. Call 938-5315.

Leann Rimes with Barry Zito, 7:30pm, Laxson Auditorium at CSU Chico. Tickets are $15 to $62 and available at the

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