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4A Daily News – Thursday, July 5, 2012 Pastimes Art Association show opens Friday about favorite painting times – when shadows are strong, or in the early morning, or spring and fall," Burke said.."For many artists, painting events or actions may be their personal art time." Sixty paintings in vari- ous media and genres including oil, acrylics, pastel, watercolor, mixed media, color pencil, col- lage, depicting both repre- sentational and non-repre- sentational subjects will Bluff will host an artists' reception for the Red Bluff Art Association, 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 13, at 857 Washington Street. The evening will fea- ture an opportunity to meet the artists, door prize drawings, and light refreshments. The show theme was chosen earlier this year when Roxie Willett donated an original oil painting for Sue Holmes, Art Seen coordinator, to use as a contest prize. Karen Burke won with the title: "Art Time and Timeless Art." "For me, art time is The Big Picture in Red Courtesy photo Roxie Willett, left, presents a painting to Karen Burke, winner of the title contest for RBAA exhibit. be displayed. Forty-five of these will be new and never before shown in public. The newer works will be on display through Aug. 22. "To me, art is such an important part of the com- munity," said store owner coming to McCloud McCloud Heritage Days, will be held Aug.18 with some activities on Aug. 17 and 19. The day includes: a Quilt show, Firemen's Association Breakfast, arts/crafts/antique street faire, barbeque and dance, family games and activities, Cal Fire/Forest Service/etc. demon- strations and displays, vintage car show, Garden Club pie sale, Rec Council axe throw, alumni golf tournament, community worship service, lots of good food etc. Heritage Days event follows: •11: a.m.- noon Edelweiss German folk singers and dancers - Heart of Earth Porch, Main Street, McCloud There will also be musical entertainment as August 18 • 1-2 p.m. Homespun Duet - traditional and folk music - Heart of the Earth Porch • 3-4 p.m. Evelyn Horner and the Berryvale String Band - bluegrass fiddlers - Museum Porch • 5 - 7 p.m. Gerry Smida - traditional and international music - Heart of the Earth Porch August 17- 7 p.m., Aug. 18- 2, 4 and 6 p.m., Aug. 19, 2 p.m. Original, historically based melodrama "Look What You Started, Albert Stout!" or "The Harrowing Tale of Hattie Brim" , fundraiser for McCloud Heritage Junction Museum, upstairs theater. • Law Dawgs and Pistoleros, old west reen- actors, Saturday, Aug. 18, noon -1p.m. and 2:30- 3 p.m. north Main Street park, McCloud. For more information call 964-2604. Dianne Rabalais. "I just want to support and pro- mote the work of Red Bluff Art Association. I love showing the great diversity of our local tal- ent." The association meets 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thurs- days at the Snug Harbor Mobile Home Park Recre- ation Room, 600 Rio Vista Ave. in Red Bluff. For information, call 527- 4810 or write to RBAA, P.O. Box 944, Red Bluff, CA 96080. Visit redbluf- fartists.com. Arts & entertainment Oregon Cabaret Theater review By PATRICIA FELDHAUS Special from Ashland, Ore. "Life Could Be a Dream" written and created by Roger Bean and currently playing at the Oregon Cabaret Theater is a sure cure remedy for chasing away the blues with its toe rapping 1960's "doo-wop" melodies. A basement recreation room is the setting where Wally, Eugene and Denny "The Crooning Crabcakes" gather to practice their singing for the Big Whopper radio contest. Wally's mother keeps sending messages downstairs via an intercom – the main one is "Get a Job" which leads to "Mama Don't Allow (No Rock and Rolling Here)." The boys rename themselves as "Denny and the Dreamers" and hold an audition before Lois, the daugh- ter of a hoped for sponsor and good-looking Skip, a mechanic for Lois' father and the object of Lois' affec- tion. Other familiar songs in the first act are "Run Around Sue," Earth Angel." "I Only Have Eyes for You," and "Unchained Melody"(All My Love). Act II of this winner of the Los Angeles Drama Crit- ics Circle Award and directed and choreographed by Christopher George Patterson resolves the boy – girl love problem with "The Glory of Love" and the boys gain self confidence from Lois who has "The Magic Touch." We all know that the group will win the contest. How could they lose with their excellent voices, high energy and great choreography. The show ends with a celebra- tory "Rama Lama Ding Dong." "Life Could Be a Dream" plays until August 26 with performances Wednesday through Monday. Tickets run from $18.00 - $36.00. Dinner and Brunch reservations are required. For further information phone (541)488- 2902, fax (541) 488-8795 or write Oregon Cabaret The- atre, P.O.Box 1149, Ashland, OR 97520. Friends of the Herbarium at California State University, Chico will display a group of pressed wildflower specimens as well as herbarium collection illustrations by Susan Bazell in the Avenue 9 Gallery exhibit "It's Our Nature!" The exhibit runs June 29-July 28, with a reception on Friday, June 29, 5-8 p.m. On Saturday, July 21 from 2- p.m. to 4 p.m. also at Avenue 9, there will be a talk by Friends of Friends of the Herbarium at Avenue 9 Gallery Bills co-authored "The Wild- Herbarium member Albin Bills, a field botanist and writer and pho- tographer for the book "Wild- flowers of Table Mountain." Susan Bazell is a botanical illustrator who lives and works in Paradise. Bazell's work can be seen in several books, including "Cacti, Agaves and Yuccas of California and Nevada" (Stephen Ingram, Cachuma Press, 2008), "Conifers of California" (Ronald M. Lanner, Cachuma Press, 2002) and "The Life of an Oak" (Glenn Keator, Heyday Books, 1998), among others. flowers of Table Mountain, a Naturalist's Guide," second edi- tion with Samantha Mackey. It is illustrated by Larry Jansen and published by Studies from the Herbarium at CSU, Chico. Avenue 9 Gallery is located at 180 East 9th Avenue. For more information, phone 530-879- 1821 or visit the website at www.avenue9gallery.com. Netflix's monthly video streaming tops 1B hours SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix sub- scribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month as the advent of high-speed Internet connections and high-powered mobile devices change people's viewing habits. The milestone announced Tuesday by Netflix CEO Reed Hast- ings came a day after Citi- group analyst Mark Mahaney issued an upbeat report about the compa- ny's future. Those factors helped lift Netflix's stock by more than 6 percent in Tuesday's abbreviated trading session. The stock is still strug- gling to recover from last fall's sharp increase in U.S. prices, which trig- gered a backlash among customers and investors alike. Netflix shares gained $4.19 Tuesday to close at $72.04, well off their peak of nearly $305 last July. Netflix's Internet video service may turn out to be a mixed blessing as the company phases out its DVD-by-mail rental ser- vice to focus on its goal of building a lucrative fran- chise in Internet-streamed video. The rising usage of Netflix is trying to wean people off DVDs to save on mailing costs and reduce its investment on a format that it expects to become obsolete. Deliver- ing Internet video is quick- er and less expensive than discs, but the streaming selection isn't as extensive as what's available on DVDs. To compensate, Netflix has been spending tens of millions of dollars during the past two years to add more compelling titles. validate a strategy that called for Netflix Inc. to invest heavily in video- licensing fees, even though the spending is expected to saddle the company with an annual loss this year — the first time that has happened in a decade. But Netflix's licensing bill could climb even high- er, if TV and movie stu- dios interpret the growing streaming viewership as a threat to the revenue they reap from advertising-sup- ported entertainment bun- dled in cable-television packages. net streaming cuts down the amount of time people spend watching traditional TV, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said. One of the biggest rea- sons that Netflix's stream- ing service is catching on is because it costs just $8 per month to watch an unlimited amount of video without commercial inter- ruptions. The average cable-TV subscription costs about 10 times more, with advertising inter- spersed with the program- ming on most channels. Netflix now has 26.5 mil- lion worldwide sub- scribers to its streaming service, more than the 22.3 million TV subscribers at the leading cable provider, Comcast Corp. Netflix's increasing popularity indicates that those efforts are resonating with subscribers. That's important because it helps The Back Packs ARE HERE! The Back Packs ARE HERE! Look for them at local businesses Hastings has tried to position Netflix as a sup- plement to cable-TV sub- scriptions, but that argu- ment will become more difficult to make as Inter- Sierra Sound Car Audio 35th $ 226 So. 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That's up from an estimat- ed monthly average of 28 hours in December, based on the 2 billion hours of combined streaming activ- ity that occurred during the final three months of last year. That was the most recent time that Net- flix had quantified its streaming usage.