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ESTHERVILLE — The Iowa Lakes Music Department will present a fall Coffeehouse Concert, featuring live music performed by Iowa Lakes students and community members. Vocal ensembles, hand-bells and the jazz band will be featured, as well as solos from Iowa Lakes students and others. Styles will include country, jazz, recent pop hits, show tunes and more. The Coffeehouse starts at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the Student Center, located at 300 S. 18th St. in Estherville. Everyone is invited to attend this free event. Coffee, cider and snacks will be served throughout the evening at no cost.

OKOBOJI — Join us for a series of music called “Music After Hours” at the Pearson Lakes Art Center. We will have music every second Thursday in Pomerantz Hall beginning Nov. 14. There will be a break in the scheduling in January and February but it will resume in March 2020. Our first “Music After Hours” will feature Charlie Leissler and his band from Cherokee. They will be performing a Beatles Tribute Review called Abbey Soul. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased by phone at 712-332-7029 or purchase online at www.lakesart.org

ARNOLDS PARK — The Nadas will be part of the fall/winter season of scheduled Roof Garden entertainment in Arnolds Park. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27.

ARNOLDS PARK — The Johnny Holm Band will be part of the fall/winter season of scheduled Roof Garden entertainment in Arnolds Park. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30.

ARNOLDS PARK — Jazzed Up Big Band Christmas Show will be part of the fall/winter season of scheduled Roof Garden entertainment in Arnolds Park. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14.

SIOUX CITY – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City will host Plain White T’s, The Mowglis and New Politics on Dec. 20 in Anthem. Tickets may be purchased at www.hardrockcasinosiouxcity.com or in-person at the Rock Shop. All events in Anthem are for guests 21 years and older.

ARNOLDS PARK — Tonic Sol-Fa will be part of the fall/winter season of scheduled Roof Garden entertainment in Arnolds Park. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22.

ARNOLDS PARK — The Pork Tornadoes will be part of the fall/winter season of scheduled Roof Garden entertainment in Arnolds Park. They will perform the New Year’s Eve show on Dec. 31.

SIOUX CITY — Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City will host legend-ary singer-songwriter Richard Marx will at Anthem. Marx, who has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide during his nearly three-decade-long career, will perform a special acoustic evening of love songs on Saturday, Feb. 1. Tickets for this event may be purchased at www.hardrockcasinosiouxcity.com or in-person at the hotel Rock Shop. All events in Anthem are for guests 21 and older.

ORANGE CITY — The Sioux County Oratorio Chorus begins this year’s season with a special, fall session of rehearsals to get ready for a collaborative performance of the Brahms Requiem, in English, with the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra on April 7.

‘Doctor Sleep’ is just a shadow of ‘The Shining’

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Arts on Grand and Carey’s Electronics present the fall edition of “Films for the Cinematically Disadvan-taged.” For more than 20 years interested folks have been able to enjoy a wide variety of foreign language films thanks to this collaboration. The viewing takes place upstairs at Carey’s on Mondays beginning at 7 p.m. A freewill offering is requested, and there is al-ways plenty of popcorn and coffee or tea.

NOV. 11 — “The Wages of Fear,” France 1953 An oil company enlists four destitute drifters — Mario (Yves Montand), Luigi (Folco Lulli), Bimba (Peter Van Eyck) and Jo (Charles Vanel) — for a dangerous mission transporting volatile explosives across Central America’s treacherous terrain. Packed with nerve-racking tension that never lets up, director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s gritty masterpiece took home the Grand Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. NOV. 18 — “Yesterday,” U.K. 2019While he’s still looking for his big break, musician Jack Malik gets hit by a bus during a global blackout. But when he wakes up to find he’s the lone person on Earth who knows of the Beatles and their songbook, Jack has a huge chance at stardom.

Fall edition of ‘Films For The Cinematically Disadvantaged’

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GUEST MOVIE REVIEW

BY JAKE COYLEAssociated Press

Here, again, is Johnny.Our glimpses of Jack To-

rrance are fleeting in Mi-chael Flanagan’s “The Shin-ing” sequel, “Doctor Sleep,” but Stanley Kubrick’s colos-sal 1980 horror film is sel-dom out of mind, or out of frame. Even that axe is ba-ck. Adapted from Stephen King’s 2013 book, “Doctor Sleep” shifts the story to the tricycle-riding tyke of “The Shining,” Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor), now gr-own and dealing, understa-ndably, with a few residual psychological issues from his childhood stay at the Overlook Hotel.

Yes, Hollywood’s insati-able search for new iter-ations for old intellectual property has wound its way, like the Torrances’ car me-andering up the mountain road, to the House of Ku-brick. It’s so overwhelming-ly a misguided mission that you want to shout, “Don’t go in there!” And yet “Doctor Sleep” careens right ahead, recreating Kubrick shots, casting lookalikes to replay his scenes, refilling the ele-vator with blood and vainly trying to recapture some of the eerie majesty.

Maybe I’m wrong but I suspect even those who do-n’t deeply appreciate Ku-

brick’s movies will feel a lit-tle icky about such a clas-sic being reengineered, its hallowed halls reanimated like a defunct amusement park. It’s one thing to get endless “Star Wars” mov-ies, but we might be ventur-ing into even more shame-less territory by leeching se-quels to masterworks like “The Shining.” Should we also brace for “2001: Return of the Monolith” and “Barry Lyndon: Back in Business?”

“Doctor Sleep” posits the question everyone has been nursing since “The Shin-ing” first greeted audienc-es: What if the story kept going, only we added psy-chic vampires in top hats?

The defense of “Doctor Sleep” is that it wasn’t co-njured out of thin air but adapted from King’s nov-el. To be clear: King, who never cared much for Ku-brick’s adaptation of his 1977 novel, can do whatev-er he pleases. These are his books. In “Doctor Sleep,” he delights in charting a very different post-“Shining” path. In his author’s note, King granted “nothing can live up to the memory of a good scare, especially if ad-ministered to one who is yo-ung and impressionable.”

The situation, though, is quite different for Flanagan et al who are working in Ku-brick’s medium, and doing everything they can to mim-

ic him, right down to the di-ssolves. Flanagan, who pre-viously adapted King’s “Ger-ald’s Game,” also wrote the script, which adds a return to the Overlook Hotel not in the book.

Yet when “Doctor Sleep” stakes out its own ground, it’s a far more palatable su-pernatural thriller. Dan-ny’s adult life is one of bar fights, cocaine and one-night stands; he has been working hard to submerge his “shine” with alcohol. He gets clean, though, and finds his place working as night attendant at a hospi-tal where patients, grateful for his ability to gently force slumber, give him the “Doc-tor Sleep” moniker.

Scenes early on establish the movie’s wider mythol-ogy — “The Shining-verse” — includes others who, like Danny, shine. It’s a small number of clairvoyant kids who shine brightest — few-er all the time because of cellphones and Netflix, we learn. Among them is 13- year-old Abra (the excep-tional newcomer Kyliegh Curran), whose great po-wers she, and her family, are only just beginning to realize.

But the downside to pos-sessing the Shining is — like the side effects of so many things — psychic vampires. A gypsy-like band of them, led by Rose the Hat (Rebec-

ca Ferguson), feast on their souls, sucking up their last breaths — their “steam” — like a drug. The Shining is like food to them, and as one of them says, “the world is a hungry place.” They can recruit new mem-bers, too, by turning those who shine into one of them with the promise of near immortality. “Live long. Eat well,” says Rose.

Geographically separat-ed from the start, “Doctor Sleep” draws these char-acters together, eventual-ly leading them all the way to Room 237. It’s patiently plotted (the movie runs a hefty 2 ½ hours) and Fergu-son — despite the inherent ridiculousness to her part — is creepily compelling.

But none of this is re-motely worthy of “The Sh-ining.” The most enterta-ining thing here is trying to imagine how Kubrick would have reacted to the entire notion of “fan ser-vice.” It’s a frightfully regu-lar approach to moviemak-ing today that should, at the very least, have the sense not to mess with Kubrick. All sequels and no originals make us all dull boys.

• “Doctor Sleep,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for disturbing and violent content, some bloody images, language, nudity and drug use. Running time: 152 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

ARNOLDS PARK — Ar-nolds Park Amusement Park representatives anno-unced it will host two con-certs in the new Roof Gar-den Ballroom during the 2020 University of Okoboji Winter Games.

The first concert will take place Friday, Jan. 24, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. The first performance will be AC/DC tribute band Thunderstruck. On the fol-lowing evening, Saturday night Hairball will bring the heat to the cold winter weather with doors open-ing at 6:30 p.m. in the Roof Garden Ballroom.

CEO Jeff Vierkant is excit-ed to see these two rock ‘n’ roll bands make their way back to the park once more, this time on the brand-new

stage in the Roof Garden Ballroom.

“Arnolds Park Amuse-ment Park is excited to be a part of Okoboji’s Winter Games again this year,” Vi-erkant said. “It is our first year in the new Roof Gar-den and we’re thrilled to not only bring high caliber entertainment, but also co-ntinue to enhance the activ-ities on Preservation Plaza for the 2020 Winter Games.”

Tickets for Thunderstru-ck are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Hairball tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. A com-bo ticket for both shows are available at $35. Tick-ets will be available to pur-chase starting Nov. 1 atroof-gardenballroom.com or ar-noldspark.com.

Arnolds Park Amusement Park announces Winter Games concerts

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Arnolds Park Amusement Park will host two concerts in its new Roof Garden Ballroom during the 2020 University of Okoboji Winter Games, Thunderstruck on Jan. 24 and Hairball (above) on Jan. 25.