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The auto reporterDeanna Isaacs celebrates Back to the Future Day at DMC Northwest. PG 3

Village’s Fair ladyVillage Theatre stages the clas-sic Pygmalion adaptation, ex-pects transformative results. PG 4

standup RoundupLachlan Patterson and God-frey: Our picks for comics to check out in November. PG 6

Portland-based brewery, restaurant and hospitality chain McMenamins repurpose historic junior high school as a food and drink wonderland for visitors

On a recent October afternoon, Judy Edmonds examined a set of antique

light fi xtures and a sturdy wooden door bearing her father, Charles Ashbury’s name. These items sat inside the old Anderson Junior High School in Bothell where Ash-bury had been music teacher and marching band director. In the school’s new life as the McMenamins Anderson School, he’s one of many Bothellites whose names have been immortalized in converted hotel rooms.

“Its like history has come alive,” Edmonds said, lingering on the gold paint lettering.

The second such venture by the Portland-based McMenamin brothers, the complex and new Bothell hot spot has transformed the community’s former high school, gym-nasium and old Northshore pool — built at the height of the art deco period of archi-tecture, in 1931 — into a 72-room hotel with multiple restaurants, bars, a single-screen movie theater and entertainment space.

Patrons can grab one of the 10 to 12 McMenamins branded brews on tap nearly anywhere on the property, whether they’re inside Anderson Junior High’s old principal’s offi ce or the single new building – the Shed – built in the center of the courtyard.

The resulting hotel is nearly unrecogniz-able, although there are small touches of familiarity, said Edmonds,

A taste of Bothell’s past

by Allison DeAngelis

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WATCH | Handel’s Messiah First featured on the cover of the Sept. 2014 issue of The Eastside Scene, Ballet Bel-

levue’s City Opera Ballet is now in the thick of its second season of dance-backed opera performances.

For Thanksgiving weekend, the Ballet is bringing in Sayoko Knode as guest artistic director and choreographer to stage her ballet oratorio of George Handel’s Messiah. Inarguably Handel’s most recognized work, Messiah actually premiered to a lukewarm reception. It was only with time that his interpretation of Psalms and the life of Jesus Christ gained popularity and larger, more ambitious stagings. Knode’s take added dance to accompany the chorus and was well received by audiences of its fi rst staging in 2012.When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28; 2 p.m. Nov. 29Where: Theatre at Meydenbauer, 11100 N.E. Sixth St., Bellevue

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American singer, songwriter and actress who helped build Capitol Records into a powerhouse during the 1950s. Over a career spanning half a century, she would earn 12 Grammy nominations and a Lifetime Achievement Award.

In November, Seattle actor and singer Lindsey Larson, backed by the Purple Phoenix Orchestra, will give a one-night ‘60s night club performance of Peggy Lee’s work in It’s A Good Day: The Miss Peggy Lee Songbook. The Purple Phoenix Orcestra, led by local musical director and arranger David Duvall, has been organizing songbook performances of artists-past at Unity of Bellevue’s UPAC auditorium since late 2013. With lifetime Lee fan Larson’s assistance, the night promises to recapture a bygone era’s jazzy magic.When: 2:30 p.m. Nov. 8Where: Unity Performing Arts Center, 16330 N.E. Fourth Street, Bellevue

run | Issaquah turkey trotWhat better way to earn your Thanksgiving dinner than with a

brisk morning run? Since 2010, Issaquah resident Heather Mat-thews and her family have put on the Issaquah Turkey Trot 5K to raise money for the local food and clothing bank. The 5K has only gained in popularity over time, raising more than $115,000 for the bank’s operations.WHEN: 9 a.m. Nov. 26 Where: 1775 12th Ave. N.W., Issaquah

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The Don’t Miss List

Cinephiles, geeks and anyone else with an Internet connec-

tion knows Oct. 21, 2015 was Back to the Future Day, the “future” date Marty McFly and Doc Brown trav-eled to in Back to the Future Part II. I bandwagoned the hype by stopping by the DeLorean Motor Company Bellevue (Northwest) location. I was expecting, of course, to fi nd a few DeLoreans. What I wasn’t expecting was a replica of the second movie’s time-traveling variant. Win!

Back in 1985, Back to the Future (BTTF) inspired a new generation to new geeky heights and spawned a cult following. It also propelled the DeLo-rean, created by John DeLorean, to new heights. This ultimate in car reno-vations drove its way into our hearts.

Now that we’ve passed Oct. 21, 2015, we’re now offi cially in “the future” — if not the one envisioned in the fi lms.

Of course, my future was at the DMC Northwest store, located at 12766 Bel-Red Rd. in Bellevue.

The fi rst time I dropped by was on assignment for work (taking pictures of a DeLorean with a #DrivePink plate from AutoNation on it, check), the second time was a thank you, but it was me who got the treat.

I brought one #DrivePink plate for the owner of DMC Northwest, Toby Peter-son, whom I’ve met on a few occasions.

I also wanted to thank the owners of the Flux Capacitor-ed DeLorean for allowing me to use their car for the impromptu photo opportunity by giving them a pink plate.

Little did I know, the owner was a survivor of breast cancer. When Ju-dith saw the new pink plate, she was delighted. Positively beaming with joy. And it made me happy to be able to provide her with that.

Judith had a DCIS, a ductal carcino-ma, and had undergone chemotherapy. Though, she was free and clear now.

I told her then and I’ll say it again: “Congrats!”

Of course, they had dropped by DMC Northwest to take their De-Lorean on a BTTF Day drive. So, we parted ways and they drove off toward Redmond.

As for the car… This particular DeLorean is up for sale, on consign-ment at DMC Northwest.

So, if you – on this most futuristic of days – really need to own a replica DeLorean complete with Mr. Fusion ‘energy reactor’ that (I’m told) spits out smoke upon command, it can be yours. Just visit www.dmcnorthwest.com for more information.

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The Auto Reporter

By Deanna Isaacs

Village’s fair ladyBy Megan Campbell


Eliza Doolittle’s a good girl, she is.The cockney fl ower girl, a lower class, 20th

century city dweller, co-stars in the classic mu-sical, My Fair Lady, which opens in Issaquah’s Village Theatre Nov. 5.

Doolittle’s life and wants are simple: “Wouldn’t It Be Lovely” to have a warm place to call home with someone at her side?

“Just You Wait” and see what she accomplishes.The musical is based off George Bernard

Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion. The musical pre-miered on Broadway in 1956, went on to win six Tony Awards, including best musical, and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning fi lm in 1964.

It’s “hands down one of the best musicals to ever be written,” actress Allison Standley said. Standley will play Doolittle in Village Theatre’s production.

The London-based story traverses societal prejudices of class and gender that still hold true for today’s viewers, Standley said.

“The audience will be rooting for Eliza even more, just for her and her own growth,” Stand-ley said. “They’ll want to see her blossom into her own self, as she was meant to be.”

After a chance encounter with linguistics pro-fessor Henry Higgins (played by Mark Anders), Doolittle wants to hire him to teach her how to speak like a lady, so she can become an assis-tant in a fl orist’s shop.

Higgins, doing one better, bets he can transform Doolittle and pass her off at the Embassy Ball.

She’s to stay with Higgins while she practices the proper pronunciation of the English lan-guage leading up to the ball.

Doolittle, unsure about the deal, won’t let the arrangement tarnish her reputation: “I’m a good girl, I am,” she says.

“She makes a point to let everyone know: I’m a respectable girl. I’m in charge of myself,”

Standley said. Standley previously played Doolittle during

the Idaho Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre’s 2014 production of the musical.

“It’s been really interesting getting to explore this woman again,” Standley said. “This time around I’ve realized how little she wants at the beginning of the show … (and) I began to feel the weight of what she’s been given.”

As Doolittle’s speech, manners and dress transform, she continually struggles against Higgins’ misogynistic attitude.

Doolittle, repressed by men who tell her what to do and who to be, is frustrated, Standley said.

But the strong headed woman is determined to make it through.

“One day I’ll be famous, I’ll be proper and prim,” Doolittle sings in “Just You Wait.”

“It’s really invigorating to realize, ‘OK, I’m go-ing to make my own decisions,” Standley said.

This is Standley’s third production at the Vil-lage Theatre. She said she’s wanted to perform on the Village Theatre stage since she studied at the University of Washington.

Standley has lived in the Seattle area for the past decade.

She met My Fair Lady director Brian Yorkey of Issaquah during the 2013 production of Les Miserables.

“My Fair Lady is my favorite musical of all time,” Yorkey said in an announcement for the show. “It’s always been a dream of mine to direct it.”

Yorkey is a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author for his musicals If/Then, Next to Normal and The Last Ship.

Directly a large cast, Yorkey will will bring tunes like “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On the Street Where You Live” and “Wouldn’t It Be Lovely” to the Issaquah stage.

The musical runs in Issaquah Nov. 5 through Jan. 3, 2016.

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herself an Anderson Junior High alumna. Pieces of old Bothell are scattered through-

out the property, such as a fi replace in the Shed built out of the bricks that paved the original Bothell Way road.

McMenamins Inc. has a storage space at the old county jail in Edgefi eld, Ore. that is fi lled with odds and ends collected over the decades, including the many light fi xtures and signs from across the country and Europe that fi ll the McMenamins Anderson School. Pieces are generally bought or picked up via donations without a specifi c purpose in mind.

“You can’t go out and just fi nd these items for a project when you start it,” said Mike McMe-namin, co-founder of McMenamins. “We’re lucky enough to be able to buy what we like and get this kind of eclectic mix of pieces.”

Of the more than 50 McMenamins proper-ties, no two are alike, he added.

The Anderson School project took more than six years to accomplish and is the biggest project McMenamins Inc. has undertaken. The company was approached by Bothell City Manager Bob Stowe to purchase and revamp the property — which the city itself had pur-chased in 2009 — as part of a larger down-town revitalization effort.

First founded by brothers Mike and Brian as a single Portland pub in 1983, McMenamins now operates 54 pubs, restaurants and historic hotels in the Pacifi c Northwest.

The brothers have long worked to incorpo-rate eclectic antique and handcrafted touches into their properties. Eighteen of their proper-ties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

“It’s all about rescuing, repurposing and restoring,” Mike McMenamin said.

The company is in the process of developing their third hotel and brewery in Tacoma at the former Elks Lodge.

As opposed to the Anderson School site, the Tacoma location will be a single, six- to seven-story tower. It will feature 45 hotel rooms, three restaurants, a McMenamins brewery, a rooftop garden that will provide the ingredients for the garden and a ballroom that will feature a tiny indoor city with “cabins,” skylights, gar-dens, terraces and more.

It is tentatively scheduled to open in 2017.

Lachlan Patterson

Hailing from the Great White North (or, at least, Vancouver, British Columbia), Lachlan Patterson began his journey into the world of standup at an amateur night revue, at the age of 19, just to prove to himself he could. After a few years working odd jobs, he began taking comedy seriously enough to begin touring Canada.

Patterson migrated to the U.S. in the ‘00s, appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. He wowed judges as runner up on the 2014 season of Last Comic Standing and now he’s in talks to develop his own television series.

Patterson will perform at Laughs Comedy Spot in Kirkland Nov. 5-7, with the Nov. 5 late show benefi tting Sammamish High School.

GodfreyIf you’re not a fan, you certainly recognize

Godfrey from his early ‘00s stint as the 7UP guy, or his appearances in fi lm and television shows like Zoolander, Black Dynamite or Louie (though this writer remembers him best as the fi rst host of HBO’s DIY fi lmmaking series 30x30: Kid Flicks).

But don’t let Godfrey’s talent for moving carbonated sugar beverages fool you: He be-gan his career warming up audiences for The Cosby Show and he’s a regular at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City. He has two hour specials, Godspeed and Black by Accident, that have been released by Comedy Central.

Godfrey will perform at Parlor Live in Bel-levue for fi ve performances Nov. 12-14.

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A bar in the former wood shop of Anderson Junior High School.Photo by Allison DeAngelis

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