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The Passion of Dracula: 7:30pm, Coast Capitol MUSIC 20 FILM Playhouse, White Rock, B.C. 10.26.08

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Ray Bierl: 7:30pm, Roeder Home ART ON STAGE WORDS Oklahoma: 2pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn Diane Wilson: 7pm, Village Books Dream Science Circus: 2pm and 7pm, 142 Ohio St. 17 Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham 36 Views: 2:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU

Public Market Amateur Standup Night: 8pm, Upfront Theatre STAGE DANCE Square Dance: 6-8pm, YWCA Ballroom 16 10.23.08 MUSIC THURSDAY Glacier Bay Quintet: 2pm, Whatcom Museum GET OUT Keyboard Friends: 3pm, Amadeus Project ON STAGE Art of Jazz: 4pm, American Museum of Radio 36 Views: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU LISTEN TO %( .#$''— 14 Oklahoma: 7:30pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn A CANNY PERFORMER WHO’S BEEN COMMUNITY A Funny Thing Happened: 7:30pm, Anacortes Howl-O-Ween: 2:30pm, Bloedel Donovan WORDS Community Theatre DUBBED “THE WAYNE GRETZKY OF THE The Passion of Dracula: 7:30pm, Coast Capitol UKULELE”—AT A “UKULELES FOR GET OUT Playhouse, White Rock, B.C. Race for the End: 9:30am, Bloedel Donovan 8 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre PEACE” BENEFIT CONCERT OCT. 25 AT Dracula Dash: 3:30pm, Bloedel Donovan The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre THE BELLINGHAM UNITARIAN CHURCH

WORDS CURRENTS Des Kennedy: 7pm, Village Books 10.27.08 FILM MONDAY 6 Mt. Baker Film Festival: 6:30pm, Bellingham WORDS MUSIC Sportsplex Rick Steves: 2:20pm and 8pm, Performing Arts Ukuleles for Peace: 7pm, Bellingham WORDS VIEWS Center, WWU Unitarian Church Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books 4 Chuckanut Radio Hour: 6:30pm, Leopold Ballroom Father Sean Duggan: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU FILM MAIL MAIL 10.24.08 Long Live Rock: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Beartrek: 8pm, Wild Buffalo

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for generations. Or we can let Rossi economy is exactly what we’re facing Huge assortment of 28 and his monied backers ravage our in the future with the environment. Gluten-Free Goodies! resources for their own short-term There’s never enough money for gain. Pocketing millions, or billions, early childhood and college educa- Now Open M-F at 6am

Open until 7:00PM CLASSIFIEDS that will never be circulated into tion for all or universal health care. on Monday – Saturday this state’s economy. And lose every- Yet we pull $700 billion out of a hat and 6:00PM on Sunday thing that makes Washington unique for the economy and an equal amount 24 and great. for an unnecessary war. We are los- The Best Just K eeps Rossi has already shown that he is ing our educational, technological, Getting Better! willing to lie and cheat. That he can and moral edge in the world. There We Feature Wi-Fi be bought. The man has no scruples. are limited resources. We need to afternoons/evenings He can be trusted only to mislead and encourage innovation but provide a misappropriate. He’ll accomodate the safety net. That is real compassion- Come enjoy our new pastries MUSIC 20 FILM (made daily) demands of the wealthy few, rather ate conservatism. with your espresso drinks! than address the needs of the aver- Barack Obama is a rare combina- 18

age citizen. He doesn’t care about the tion of brilliance, savvy, and equa- 1329 Railroad Ave 715-1005 ART people of Washington, he only cares nimity. Colin Powell has described about his political career. I beg of him as having the ability to be you, don’t let him into the state capi- a “transformational leader.” His 17 tol. Do not vote for Dino Rossi. toughness and clarity during this STAGE STAGE —Debbie Lowery, Lummi Island campaign and his priorities out- lined in his books make me com- RETHINKING AMERICA fortable that he is the right person 16 We are all standing at a crossroads to lead us through these difﬁcult

that recently has felt more like a times. Vote change. Vote Obama! GET OUT precipice. Now is a good time to look —Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham 14 WORDS

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at a crime scene—those old brick buildings 34 34 south of the Georgia-Paciﬁc tissue mill on Bell-

FOOD ingham’s central waterfront—the way their very existence prejudices the crime scene. The fact views

28 28 they’re there at the scene, those ﬁngerprints, OPINIONS THE GRISTLE arranged as they are, suggests one scenario or outcome or modus operandi over others. They’re evidence of something. And because they are CLASSIFIEDS evidence, crooks will go to lengths to return to the crime scene to wipe down those prints or get

24 them to point in other directions. By crooks, of course we mean the Port of BY AMY GOODMAN Bellingham and their prolonged hijacking and hostage-taking of the public’s vision for Belling- ham’s central waterfront. Last spring the port snarled when Bellingham ACORN in a Nutshell MUSIC 20Mayor FILM Dan Pike insisted that site plan alternatives include at least two options (hence the Mickey-Mouse voter registration is not vote fraud

18 18 word—ahem—“alternatives”) for the street lay-

ART ART out, one laid along the existing traditional grid THE 2008 presidential election which critics allege is a modern-day and another fancy-schmancy grid canted so as to may see the highest participation in Jim Crow law. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. look more lovingly upon the port’s Clean Ocean® U.S. history. Voter-registration orga- said recently: “One out of every 10 17 Marina™. The mayor believes the public should nizations and local election boards Americans don’t have a government- be given a wide range of options to consider have been overwhelmed by enthusi- issued ID, because they don’t travel STAGE STAGE (and there’s even an elegant third streetscape astic people eager to vote. But not abroad, so they don’t have pass- proposal by Dave Christensen and John Blethen everyone is happy about this blos- ports, and they don’t drive a car, 16 that blends elements of the other two Mayor Dan soming of democracy. so they don’t have driver’s licenses. thinks the public ought to consider). ACORN, the Association of Commu- The number rises to one in ﬁve when

GET OUT Now—anything originally constructed on the nity Organizations for Reform Now, probably ACORN, if they paid these you’re dealing with the African- waterfront was laid along the traditional street has become a lightning rod for the individuals and they actually didn’t American community.” The online grid, meaning that any structures we might con- right wing. ACORN’s Web site notes do registrations. But this isn’t a situ- Michigan Messenger revealed that

14 sider keeping for their historic or architectural that “the electorate does not reﬂect ation where there’s actually people Michigan Republicans were planning interest prejudice one site plan over the other by the citizenry of the United States of who are going to try to vote, because to use a list of people with fore-

WORDS their very existence. Port solution? Remove their America. It skews whiter, older, more these are phony names.” closed homes to purge voter rolls. existence; destroy the evidence. educated and more affluent than the ACORN has seen some clearly And a federal judge in Detroit has Port commissioners earlier this month empow- citizenry as a whole.” Bertha Lewis, fraudulent registrations submitted, just ordered that 1,500 people be 8 ered their Executive Director Jim Darling to ex- ACORN’s lead organizer, told me: “We with names like “Mickey Mouse” restored to the Michigan voter rolls, pand the scope of ongoing demolition of the GP organize low- and moderate-income turned in. ACORN says it reviews all based on “voter caging”—purging tissue mill to include those buildings south of people, usually folks who are mi- the registration forms; however, it people if mail to them is returned as CURRENTS CURRENTS the mill. They invoked the canards of efficiency norities—African-Americans, Lati- does not serve as the ultimate arbi- undeliverable. The scandal around the firing of U.S. attorneys, which 6 and cost-savings, reasoning that wrecking crews nos, Asians and working-class white ter of which registrations are fraud- 6 are already at work. If crews have to return to the people. And most of these folks have ulent. In fact, ACORN cannot legally ultimately led to the resignation of VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS site later, the port complains, costs could rise by always been disenfranchised out of throw away any voter-registration U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gon- $500,000 (this efficiency and cost-savings from the electoral process…. We’ve reg- cards. It flags suspicious cards and zales, was based largely on the re-

4 an agency that has already blown nearly $4 mil- istered 1.3 million new voters across submits them to the appropriate fusal of the Republican prosecutors lion of port and city funds in dueling consultant the country over an 18-month period state election authority to make to pursue unfounded voter-fraud MAIL MAIL efforts). Taking down the buildings brushes away of time. We had over 13,000 hard- the judgment. cases.

3 any trace that one plan (the modest one offered working voter-registration workers. Republicans are increasingly Citizen groups like Election Pro- by the city) might be favored over the other (the And we may have had a few bad ap- alarmed at the shifting demographics tection and Video the Vote are or- DO IT IT DO expensive one demanded by the port). ples, but I don’t know any organiza- of the United States. Minorities tend ganizing to document and report The preemptive haste of POB management— tion that didn’t.” to vote Democratic, and the United problems at the polls on Nov. 4. 08 08 who seem to’ve learned everything they know Barack Obama himself was ques- States is slowly becoming a majority It is more likely that they will see .22. about public process from repeated viewings of tioned about ACORN’s problematic minority country—by 2050, whites honest people denied the right to 10 The Sopranos—demanded a rapid response (if registrations. He said: “Having run will no longer represent a majority in vote, purged from the voter rolls,

.03 such response was to be meaningful) from COB. a voter-registration drive, I know the U.S. Immigration and mobiliza- than an attempt by Mickey Mouse to 43

# Last week, COB applied for an administrative law how problems arise. This is typically tion of the urban poor are shifting vote Obama. ruling that attempts to claw back the city’s sta- a situation where ACORN probably the electorate to the Democrats, es- tus as lead authority on the central waterfront. paid people to get registrations, and pecially in key swing states like New Amy Goodman is the host of “Democ- “The port’s alternative assumes all of the his- these folks, not wanting to actually Mexico, Colorado, Florida and Ohio. racy Now!” She has been awarded the torical buildings will be demolished; the city’s register people, because that’s actu- The federal Help America Vote 2008 Right Livelihood Award, dubbed alternative assumes all of the historical build- ally hard work, just went into a phone Act was passed in 2002 in response the “Alternative Nobel” prize, and ings will be retained,” Bellingham Planning Di- book or made up names and submit- to the electoral crisis of 2000. But will receive the award in the Swedish CASCADIA WEEKLY rector Tim Stewart summarizes in his declaration ted false registrations to get paid. it requires new voters to present Parliament in December.

6 to Whatcom County Superior Court. So there’s been fraud perpetrated on identiﬁcation at the polling place, The court will determine whether COB still owns what it surrendered rather cheaply and VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY Happy Hour Discounts THE GRISTLE Join us on Halloween

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The SEPA lead is granted scoping 28 and braking authority in site planning. Among its powers, the SEPA lead may determine what is and is not environmentally significant in a site plan, and it CLASSIFIEDS coordinates the public process required under SEPA. In short, the lead defines 24 “the public good.” For these reasons, lead status is seldom surrendered by Fall Menu the permitting authority; certainly it is never surrendered to the permit appli- Open for Lunch & Dinner cant, else it might create fox-guarding- Open 11:30 am Every Day! the-henhouse conflicts. 601 West Holly Street Lunch: Wednesday–Friday 11:30–2:00 MUSIC 20 FILM Yet this is exactly what myopic mis- 360-75-BEERS 752-3377 Dinner: Tuesday–Thursday 5:00–9:00 adventurers on Bellingham City Council www.chuckanutbreweryandkitchen.com Friday–Saturday 5:00–10:00 18 progressively did in a series of hasty www.tivoli-bellingham.com ART interlocal agreements with the port. Now the new mayor must claw back, at

360.594.4313 17 cost and risk in court, what rightfully Ready to Ride? belonged to the city and should never Reservations Accepted STAGE STAGE have been surrendered by the city. Saving those old buildings—the ~~Û:gee]j[aYdÛÝÛ8[jgkkÛ^jgeÛl`]ÛGYjcY\] 55,000-sq.-ft. pulp storage building, 16 the 16,000-sq.-ft. screen room and the Music Wednesdays by

10,000-sq.-ft. bleach plant—symboliz- Bar Tabac GET OUT es what can only be understood by panning back to a larger issue. WE HAVE WHAT YOU NEED! Are those brick buildings really his- 14 torical, and should they be saved? The question was made irrelevant long ago THE WHATCOM CHAPTER OF THE WORDS when Georgia-Paciﬁc performed its mid- night ﬂight out of Bellingham, tearing WASHINGTON CONSERVATION VOTERS 8 out and taking with them much of the ANNOUNCES THEIR ENDORSEMENTS FOR THE NOVEMBER 4, 2008 ELECTION! muscle-bound infrastructure that gave those set pieces context and charm. GOVERNOR CURRENTS The pipes, the boilers, the weird gaug-

es, gearboxes and gizmos—all gone, CHRISTINE GREGOIRE 6 6 leaving hollowed-out interiors. But SECRETARY OF STATE VIEWS VIEWS even the diminished presence of those VIEWS buildings still informs a street plan. SAM REED Panning back again, is one street plan Serving Cascadia since 1973 4 vastly superior to another? Perhaps not; COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS MAIL MAIL but the street plan debate itself merely

PETER GOLDMARK symbolizes and informs a more bedrock urth Corne 3 argument, which is the differing ap- Fo r STATE SENATE - DISTRICT 40 DO IT IT DO proaches to urban planning by POB and Frames Home of KEVIN RANKER COB, right down to the widths of streets FREQUENT FRAMER REWARDS and the types of activities one might STATE REP. - DISTRICT 42 08 reasonably expect along them. Those Archival Quality Custom Framing .22. 10 approaches in turn inform the devel- Needlework & Shadowbox Framing KELLI LINVILLE opment staging and buildout, and the Residential & Commercial Consulting .03

NO ON INITIATIVE 985 43 amount of public investment required # for that staging and buildout. “The port… seeks to sidestep these /FF PLEASE VOTE!! ongoing SEPA analyses and predeter- ST MAIL YOUR BALLOT BY mine the result of the Master Plan by #USTOM&RAMING THROUGH/CTOBER NOVEMBER 4 simply bulldozing historic structures WCV is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to protect both our jobs and our environment for generations to come by advocating for strong conservation policy, and electing that stand in the way of the port’s pro- candidates for public office who will fight to protect our land, air and water. www.wcvoters.org posed street grid,” Stewart continues in 10–5:30 Monday–Saturday CASCADIA WEEKLY Paid for by: Whatcom Conservation Voters his statement. 311 W. Holly Street Bellingham PO Box 5353 Bellingham, WA 98227 7 Precisely. “Bulldozing that which (360) 734-1340 Board of Directors: Bob Aegerter, Frances Badgett, Walt Burkett, Todd Donovan, stands in the way” aptly describes the Erika Malone, Rose Oliver, Alex Ramel, Tom Schreiber, Julia Spencer, Seth Vidana. port’s leadership to date. currents news commentary briefs

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e’re taking an editorial gamble (probably(probo ably mistaken)mistake representative democracy. We support a broad range of representa- ththatat anyone who’d return out theirtheiri ballot in the fifirst tion, and wish both political parties would get a lot saner, healthi- week theythey received it already had his or her mind firmlyfirm er and more influential (in positive ways) to their own bases. made up and nothing we mightmightt say about a candidatecandida We did not interview a number of state officeseekers, know- could matter. For the people who are only now beginning to ffum-u ing we wouldn’t have space to do them justice. We’ll let you ble through their choices, we offer our Voters Guide because—forbecause—f know in the instances where we have interviewed candidates. sosomeme reason—readersreason—n readers want to grok our politick. Otherwise, we studied their position papers, listened and read WeWell,ll, we’re not much different in outlook from most media.media. WeW transcripts of their speeches, checked their endorsements and score power and influence as plusses for our representatives in a analyzed their positions.

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Golly, we wishwish we had the space to explore BBaracka astoundingly awful, divisive and painful-to-watch campaign strat- Obama’sObama’s astounding, pitch-perfect run for the ofﬁceo egy. But one thing has become clear in recent weeks. One is ready of President of the United States. Or, failing that,tha to to lead as president; time or temperment has passed the other by. ststudyudy the way one might a cockroach John McCain’sMcC Are you as excited as we are?

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We cannocannott supportsupport Rick Larsen, thethe milque- some interesting ideas he has about retiring student loans—al- toasttoast apologist for Bush excesses whow sym- lowing graduates to pay off the loan principal in-full without in- bolizes everything deeply dydysfunctionalsf terest, which would be a tremendous economic stimulous package. within the Democratic Party.Pa This Of course, that was before the lender meltdown, but it shows the chump enabled Bush eveeveryr step of imaginative problem-solver Rick Bart is. In that, he reminds us of the way, even after he knew in another lawman-turned-lawmaker, state Sen. Dale Brandland. 20062006 how deeply thist region But Obama needs every Democrat in Congress he can get in order do doeses notnot ssupportupport tthe current to effect a sea-change in the Other Washington; and we cannot administration.adminiistration. War. Tor- therefore in good conscience recommend Bart over Larsen. ture. Wiretapping.Wiretap You- Bill Distler is a write-in candidate for the Democrats. A Vietnam name-it, LLarsena looked vet who has worked in the anti-war movement for decades, this Bell- the other way. ingham resident represents the kind of ﬁre and ice D.C. Dems need RickRick BartB told us infused through their veins. STATESTATESTATESTATE STATESTATESTATESTATE 34 34 FOOD GOVERNOR CHRIS GREGOIRE (D) 28

Governor Christine Gregoire took a big risk consummate campaigner. early on when she endorsed Obama, but despite Rossi epitomizes so much of the Republican CLASSIFIEDS that early support she has not been able to ride style—they know how to win ofﬁce, but do they his numbers back to an easy victory in Olympia. know how to lead? 24 And she should be able to mop the ﬂoor with chal- Rossi doesn’t just oppose abortion rights. He lenger Dino Rossi. opposes all reproductive rights—from students’ At a time where Sarah Palin’s executive gifts are right to learn the facts about pregnancy, STDs being loudly touted, Gregoire is the real deal—a and birth control, to women’s right to buy con- skilled and steely administrator who has champi- traceptives with a prescription. Rossi opposes oned climate-change legislation, added tens of requiring pharmacies to stock emergency con- MUSIC 20 FILM thousands of kids to the state’s children’s health- traception, which works by preventing fertiliza- insurance program, increased the state housing tion, because some pharmacists assert, falsely, 18

trust fund by $50 million, and has faithfully worked that it causes abortions. He has promised to ART with the Democratic majority to enact meaningful veto a gay-marriage bill. change in the Legislature. Perhaps most troubling, Rossi is heavily Unlike Alaska and the limitless oil subsidy Juneau backed, almost to an obsession, by the powerful 17 receives, Washington faces real budgetary challeng- Building Industry Association of Washington— STAGE STAGE es with the most regressive tax system in the Unit- a sleazy PAC dedicated to killing progressive ed States. Despite this, she’s produced responsible legislation while pushing an anti-tax, anti- ralysis as lawmakers overwhelem the executive with budgets that address the state’s challenges that, consumer, anti-environmental agenda. Having supermajorities while he cuts the logic from their 16 yes, ﬁnd themselves challenged by a looming world- hosed nearly $12 million into his campaign, BIA bills with line-item vetoes.

wide recession—the same one all governments face leadership could tumble in the event of a Rossi By contrast, as one of a handful of Democratic GET OUT and that few, evidently, foresaw. defeat—that’s a benefit worth considering. governors in the Western states, Gregoire will be an Gregoire is icy, and that perhaps explains much If he wins, Rossi will enter the governor’s mansion important asset in Obama’s administration. She was about why this woman struggles so in this election. with the largest Democratic majority in memory. and will be helpful to him; we only wish he’d swing 14 Dino Rossi is her opposite—warm, effusive, the That means, at best, four years of adversarial pa- by and rub some of his charm off on her. WORDS 8 STATESTATESTATESTATE STATESTATESTATESTATE 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ATTORNEY GENERAL CURRENTS MARCIA ROB 6

MCCRAW (R ) MCKENNA (R ) VIEWS 4 In short, “anybody but Brad Owen,” who has held this ofﬁce since Noah Perhaps you’ll begin to see a pattern here. Like Sam Reed, Republican Mc- sailed through. Give someone else a chance, we say. McCraw is progressive in Kenna has proven himself a balanced champion of the public good. A headline- MAIL outlook, pro-choice and she served on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum chasing grandstander, admittedly, McKenna showed his merit by initiating law-

Council. She represents that reasoned, rational approach to Republicanism suits against not only the Building Industry Association of Washington, which 3

we’d frankly like to see more of. skirted campaign ﬁnance laws in its effort to elect fellow Republican Dino IT DO

Rossi, but also the campaign ﬁnance irregularities of his own party. If Sarah Palin gets points for bucking the Old Guard, McKenna wins them in spades. 08 08

SECRETARY OF STATE .22. 10 SAM REED (R ) STATE AUDITOR .03

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Another mild Republican, Sam Reed has always impressed us with # his sense of balance and his ability to set aside partisanship for the SONNTAG (D ) larger goal of governance. He has handled the state’s elections with a steady hand and has been an ardent champion of a primary unfettered by Another straight-shooter in high ofﬁce, Brian Sonntag has pushed for party machinations. performance audits and open government. His handling of the Port of Seattle audit, which disclosed tens of millions of dollars wasted in contractor favor- itism, in particular merits praise. We’re looking forward to his audit of the Port of Bellingham and think he deserves a chance to complete it. CASCADIA WEEKLY 9 ≥YOUR GUIDE TO WHO WILL LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 40 HELP OBAMA SUCCEED STATE SENATOR 34 34

FOOD DOWN TICKET KEVIN RANKER(D ) 28 28 STATE TREASURER Without wanting to jinx outcomes, we observe par- JIM allels between the campaign of Barack Obama and Kevin Ranker. Both were relative newcomers who chal- CLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIEDS MCINTIRE (D ) lenged the status quo within their own parties and overthrew a frontrunner in their respective primaries. 24 Democratic state treasurer Mike Murphy is stepping down, and we see no reason Both represent a new generation of politician—wonk- to displace a D with a R. Both candidates are capable, and neither is extreme. ish in policy while gifted in speech and manners. Ranker did almost the impossible in August, and se- INSURANCE COMMISSIONER cured a lone party endorsement among a starfield of qualified Dems—and that speaks both to his ability to influence and to the level at which he is already known and known to be working MUSIC 20 FILM MIKE on issues of importance to the 40th Legislative District. KREIDLER (D ) Lake Whatcom. Puget Sound. Fish. Trees. Energy. Finance. Education. Health 18 18 care. Whatever topic, Kevin Ranker understands it enough to be thoughtful in his

ART ART Mike Kreidler has been an advocate for health-care reform, consumer protec- approach, and likely is already at work on it. tion and the rights of malpractice victims. “A focus of my campaign will be to He will make a ﬁne state senator. educate voters on my proposal for a guarantee of quality affordable health care We also see similarities in the sleazy campaigning of his challenger, Steve Van 17 for every Washington resident,” he says. That sounds good, and Obama will need Luven, formerly a lackluster representative for Bellevue seeking an encore perfor-

STAGE STAGE commissioners like him in office as he moves forward on insurance and health mance in the islands and deltas north. care reform. The not-so-youthful Van Luven (even his campaign photo is fraudulently mis- leading) or his operatives circulated various nasty hit pieces with claims we credit 16 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS Bellingham Herald political reporter Sam Taylor among others for investigating and debunking. Frankly, we’re charmed that Ranker was peaceably arrested in a civil GET OUT PETER J. protest; we need more of that, the stuff this nation was founded on, not less. And Van Luven has an assortment of ethical issues of his own, including being fined for GOLDMARK (D ) earlier campaign finance irregularities. 14 Like McCain, Van Luven’s negative campaign sheds heat but no light. His knowl- Honestly? We respect Doug edge of local policy and issues is either weak or troublingly evasive (we despise WORDS Sutherland. He’s a capable stealth candidates). When he represented the 48th District, Van Luven was ranked administrator who brought 143rd out of 146 legislators in overall effectiveness in a 1994 Seattle Times survey discipline to the Depart- 8 8 of legislative staffers and lawmakers. ment of Natural Resources and who—despite mighty pressures—has dealt with STATE REPRESENTATIVE POSITION 2 CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS environmental issues and en- JEFF

6 vironmentalists with a mea- sured hand. He brought real MORRIS (D )

VIEWS VIEWS reform to DNR’s sustainable forest practices and (ﬁght- “Give Green a chance!” rumbled around the Week- 4 ing all the way) launched ly ofﬁce as we considered this pick. a smart wood program in Howard Pellett, the lone Green candidate around MAIL MAIL Washington. Whenever we’ve these parts and the founder of Skagit’s Green party,

3 interviewed him, he’s been would make an interesting liaison to Olympia… but it direct and candid. is hard to favor him over Jeff Morris. DO IT IT DO But lately Doug’s been erratic; and a well-documented sexual harassment com- As you’ll see in other endorsements, the Weekly plaint against him—hard to forgive or excuse—perhaps indicates his best days are favors power and placement in our representatives, 08 08 behind him. their ability to connect the goals of their constitu- .22. We’re pretty thrilled by Peter Goldmark, who’s got the pedigree of a Okanogan ents with purveyors of inﬂuence in government to 10 cattle rancher with the book-studyin’ of a Ph.D. in molecular biology. He has a ensure those goals are achieved.

.03 constellation of endorsements that testify to his balance and appeal. We think he’ll Jeff Morris—who hasn’t faced a challenger since 2002—is House speaker pro 43

# advance DNR’s progressive stewardship of state lands to a new level, promising to tempore and a senior member of the Technology, Energy and Communications open up Washington’s state-owned land to renewable-energy production and to Committee, where he is a whiz on energy and environmental issues. Team him closely regulate our state’s timber industry. He’ll work closely with the governor to with Doug Ericksen on transportation and Kelli Linville on appropriations, and clean up Puget Sound. And he will be a great friend of Whatcom County’s efforts to you have a powerhouse with potential to make this area a leader in clean, green clean and protect Bellingham’s municipal water supply. technologies. Already, the region is ahead of the curve on thise issues. Perhaps the best reason to endorse him? The timber industry has dumped more In recent sessions, Morris has authorized legislation for solar power and has than half a million dollars to keep Sutherland in ofﬁce. liad the groundwork to help incubate other renewable energy sources. He sup- CASCADIA WEEKLY Thanks for the hard work, Doug; time to go. ports revisions in state energy consumption that would help both the environ- 10 ment and the state’s bottom line. LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 42

STATE REPRESENTATIVE POSITION 1 34 DOUG FOOD ERICKSEN (R ) 28 Alas, Doug Ericksen is the laziest and least effective of our representatives in Olympia (see CLASSIFIEDS Kelli Linville). Our minds stretch to think of even a single piece of legislation he has introduced and followed through to adoption, even back 24 when Republicans held majorities in the Legis- lature. He plays partisan “gotcha” politics with sound bites and talking points. As a red-blooded $ 95 11 Adult Cuts! Regularly $13 Republican in a swing district awash with blue $ 95 politics, he is not particularly effective. $ 9 Kids Cuts! Regularly 11 MUSIC 20 FILM But Ericksen is also practically the “last el- Every Wednesday, 9–1 Senior Discount! 20% Off all Services & Products ephant standing” among panicked pachyderms

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Double alas, it doesn’t help that his challenger, Mark Flanders, is one of the STAGE least informed goofballs ever to seek high ofﬁce. Hey, he’s likeable and ear- nest; but an admitted Know Nothing on natural resources, ﬁnances, transpor-

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KELLI Lustick Law Firm WORDS LINVILLE (D ) Criminal Defense, Civil & Family Law 8 Experienced, Effective Counsel 8 Kelli Linville is quite simply the best, most for Citizens in Whatcom, San Juan energetic, most effective representative we have & Skagit Counties CURRENTS CURRENTS in Olympia. Her career is studded with legisla- CURRENTS tive victories—not all of which were without controversy or blowback (her municipal water Jeffrey A. Lustick Mark A. Kaiman 6 law, for example), but that’s how it is when you [email protected] [email protected] are innovative and reach across the aisle. Fmr. Bellingham City Prosecutor (360) 685-4221 Fmr. State & City Prosecutor VIEWS

She knows her role in a swing district, and 4 if a maverick is someone who breaks rank to work with the “other side,” she’s a maverick on MAIL

steroids. As chair and a ranking member of two 3 powerful appropriations committees, she is tre- DO IT IT DO

mendously inﬂuential statewide yet still rooted to the issues of Whatcom County. Kelli is simply the best thing we have going

in Olympia. 08

We’ve marveled as the campaign rhetoric of her challenger, Republican Jere .22.

Hawn, has drained away with the current financial meltdown. His aggressive 10 supply-side, unregulated-yet-moral-and-self-correcting free-market theories seemed stale and overworked when he first introduced himself last summer; .03 43 but that was before recent financial events tossed shovelfuls of dirt over their # moldering bones. Government is incompetent and corrupt; government needs to be crippled or killed! Elect me and I’ll prove the former while achieving the latter, goes the claim. “Let’s run government like a business!” Oh, yeah? Which one? Lehman Brothers, AIG, or General Motors?

We’ve heard enough of that nonsense to last the next thousand years or so. CASCADIA WEEKLY

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FOOD INNDEXDEX 28 28 fuzzbuzz MORTGAGE MELTDOWN On Oct. 8, a real estate agent com- plained to Bellingham Police that an CLASSIFIEDS SPECIAL REPORT: WHEN overzealous mortage lender had illegally STUDENTS COOK foreclosed on a home she is working to

24 On Oct. 16, University Police responded sell for a client. to a smoke alarm in the Mathes Hall dor- mitory. The alarm was triggered by food On Sept. 16, a Blaine resident reported burning in a toaster oven. she’d received a letter from her mortgage company, advising her that she and ap- On Oct. 19, campus cops visited Hig- proximately two million others had had MUSIC 20ginson FILM Hall after burning food set off a their identities stolen by a (now former) smoke alarm. employee. Police advised her to monitor

18 18 her accounts for possible theft.

ART ART On Oct. 14, a fire extinguisher was dis- charged in Ridgeway Omega dorm after IN THE EVENT OF A WATER a smoke alarm went off. Campus LANDING 17 cops made sure the mess was On Sept. 17, a man reported cleaned up and the alarm finding a hang-glider floating STAGE STAGE was reset. in Baker Lake. The property was impounded by a WCSO CHANCE IN 2 a registered voter told a Fox News poll in Au- 16 On Oct. 12, campus cops deputy and booked into evi- gust that an endorsement by former Bush Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell would helped staff return a refrig- dence until its pilot turns up 1 make them more likely to vote for Obama. In the same poll,

GET OUT erator to its normal operat- to retrieve it. 76 percent reported an overall favorable opinion of Powell. ing position after it had been tipped over in Arntzen Hall. SUV ATM FUBAR PERCENT OF REGISTERED voters who think “washed-up 14 On Oct. 20, thieves smashed their 60 terrorist” Bill Ayers is not a legitimate campaign issue. On Oct. 14, campus health center em- SUV through the doors of the Blaine

WORDS ployees reported they were made ill by Mini Mart. Two men and a woman got NUMBER OF SUBSTANTIATED cases in which voter reg- a stench wafting through the ventilation out and slipped into the store through istration fraud has resulted in fraudulent votes being cast. system. the broken doors, where they led a chain 0 8 8 around an automated teller machine in- NUMBER OF MORE than 600,000 new Ohio voter On Oct. 11, a Mathes Hall resident was side. They used the SUV to yank over the registrations Republicans want thrown out over charges transported to the hospital with abdomi- ATM but were foiled in their hijack hijinx 200,000 of voter fraud. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS nal pains. when they were spotted by an off-duty CHANCE IN 100 a subprime mortgage issued in 2006

6 U.S. Customs and Border Patrol ofﬁcer On Oct. 19, a Fairhaven resident com- passing nearby. The ATM was destroyed was issued by a private lending institution. Private ﬁrms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and

VIEWS VIEWS plained of stomach pains but was treated and a small amount of cash was taken. The 84 moderate-income borrowers that year. on the scene. thieves were collected later by police. 4 NUMBER OF 25 subprime lenders in 2006 directly subject On Oct. 3, a Ridgeway resident was trans- CAT FIGHT LEADS TO MAIL MAIL to a government housing law being blamed for the housing ported to the hospital after complaining KITTY LITTER 1 bubble meltdown.

3 of abdominal pains. On Oct. 21, a Sehome resident reported her cat has been taken from her front AMOUNT A $10,000 investment in the S&P stock market DO IT IT DO On Oct. 15, university administrators re- porch. She later found the critter in a index would have grown to if invested only during the terms turned to work to ﬁnd their lunch room dumpster. The woman suspects her neigh- $11,733 of Republican presidents (40 years of them) since 1929

08 08 (excluding Herbert Hoover, the amount would be $51,211). was a mess and that an unknown person bor, police reported, as they’ve been quar- .22. may be sleeping in their ofﬁces. reling lately over their respective cats. 10 AMOUNT A $10,000 investment in the S&P stock market index would have grown to if invested only during the

.03 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN PRE-COFFEE JITTERS $300,671 terms of Democatic presidents (40 years of them) since 43 1929 (compound rate of 8.9 percent over 40 years).

# On Oct. 15, a 76-year-old man was ar- On Oct. 13, Blaine dispatch received a call rested for shoplifting at Trader Joe’s in from a concerned parent. A man had rid- Bellingham. He had already been cited for den by her on a bicycle in the early morn- ANNUAL AVERAGE BY which Demoratic presidents have shoplifting there Oct. 2. ing dark as she was leaving for work. He 3.7 reduced the national debt since World War II. reportedly said “good morning” to her as On Oct. 18, a 75-year-old man was cited he passed. The more she thought about ANNUAL AVERAGE BY which Republican presidents have for shoplifting at Trader Joe’s. this incident on her way to work, the more 10.1 increased the national debt since World War II. CASCADIA WEEKLY upset she became. Police agreed to check On Oct. 1, an 82-year-old man was cited her home and called her back to “to ad- SOURCES: Fox News; ABC News/Washington Post poll; “The Truth About Voter 12 Fraud,” a 2007 report by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice; Mc- for shoplifting at Trader Joe’s. vise her everything was AOK.” Clatchy News Service; New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle THE WEEK IN REVIEW currents 34 34 FOOD

BY TIM JOHNSON 10.16.08 28 THURSDAY One of the top U.S. Border Patrol ofﬁcials in Washington state is arrested on charges of child CLASSIFIEDS rape. Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies arrest Jo-

seph W. Giuliano, 55, the deputy chief patrol agent 24 at the agency’s Blaine sector, on allegations he had sex at least 24 times with a 14-year-old girl who was

staying in his home. His bail is set at $50,000. If PHOTO COURTESY OF FAIRHAVEN.COM, ©1995-2008 JOHN SERVAIS convicted, he faces as many as 15 years in prison. Charles E. Larrabee, grandson of Charles X, shows his strong resem- ee blence. A bronze bust of Fairhaven co-founder CX Larrabee was unveiled 10.17.08 in Bellingham Saturday. The bust, on display at 11th Street and McKen- MUSIC 20 FILM THE THAT WAS zie Alley, is the work of Robert McDermott, who also designed the Dirty FRIDAY Dan Harris statue in Fairhaven. 18 18

Northwest Regional Drug Task Force agents ar- ART 10.15.08 rest three men on charges they brought meth- 10.18.08 amphetamine into Bellingham from the Seattle

WEDNESDAY SATURDAY 17 area. Detectives arrested Alfonso Hernandez- The City of Bellingham ﬁles suit in Whatcom County Supe- Ramirez, 39, Camilo Lopez-Lopez, 31, and Efren Thieves burglarize a Bellingham company that STAGE STAGE rior Court in an attempt to regain environmental oversight of Flores, 23, after observing the men, whom they’d sells guns to law enforcement agencies, but no waterfront redevelopment. The city alleges the Port of Bell- been investigating for more than a year, meet at weapons were taken. Bellingham Police say a watch ingham violated state rules governing the site’s environmental a Bellingham restaurant and then leave to go to and some company credit cards were stolen from 16 analysis because the agency took a narrow, “piecemeal” ap- a motel. One man was arrested at the motel, the Agency Firearms after thieves worked through a

proach to that analysis that “prematurely limits the choice of other two outside another restaurant. Police say crawl space to enter the business. GET OUT redevelopment alternatives” for the waterfront. they seized two pounds of the illegal drug, worth close to $160,000. 10.20.08 MONDAY 14 Puget Sound Energy receives a new, 50-year li-

cense to operate its two dams on the Baker River Lynden City Council ends a longtime ban on the WORDS in Skagit and Whatcom counties. The utility’s larg- sale of alcohol on Sundays. Residents and business est combined hydropower facility, the 190-mega- owners requested a change in the 41-year-old prohi- 8 8 watt dams produce enough electricity for 60,000 bition, saying it’s outdated and inconvenient. households. As part of the license, the Bellevue- based utility agrees to build a sockeye salmon Bellingham City Council animatedly debates, CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS hatchery and to improve systems for moving salmon but takes no immediate action on, three additional

around the dams. annexations. 6 10. 08 A state appeals court reverses a $10.5 mil- 21. VIEWS lion jury award won by the estate and widow of a TUESDAY man who died in an airplane crash during a 1999 4 air show. Donald Allen Corbitt, of Bellevue, died Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen submits MAIL MAIL in the wreckage of his RV-6A experimental plane a balanced, $190 million budget for next year. To

when it crashed after takeoff at Arlington Airport. achieve it, he proposes not replacing 36 jobs and cut- 3

AP PHOTO/JAE C. HONG The Washington Court of Appeals throws out the ting the Roeder Home arts program. Kremen also sug- DO IT IT DO award, ruling that the ﬂy-in sponsors could not gests putting more tax money into the General Fund While his running mate Joe Biden energized large crowds in Tacoma, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is greeted by more than 100,000 at a rally be held responsible in part because the crash did by collecting less for the dedicated Conservation Fu- 08 08 in St. Louis, Mo., on Saturday. not occur on land leased or owned by them. tures fund. .22. 10 .03 43 # :(67(51:$6+,1*72181,9(56,7<ƒ3UHVLGHQW·V'LVWLQJXLVKHG/HFWXUH 6HULHV

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28 28 Center. SPOKEN WORD: Read your 650-3240 own writings as part of Spo- ken Word Wednesdays at 8pm HEALTHCARE MEETING: every week at Stuart’s at the United for National Health- care will hold an open meet- CLASSIFIEDS Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. ing and program at 7pm at 714-0800 the Laborers Hall, 1700 N.

24 BY TRAIL RAT THURS., OCT. 23 State St. ECOLOGY OF ENCHANT- 714-8999 MENT: Author and gardener Des Kennedy shares tales OCT. 23-27 from his book, The Ecology of HAUNTED HOUSE: Head to Windows Into Time Enchantment, at 7pm at Vil- Mother Frightmare’s Asylum lage Books, 1200 11th St. and Haunted House from

MUSIC 20 FILM 3-11pm Tues. and Thurs. and THE LIFE AND WORKS OF IVAN DOIG 671-2626 3-12pm Fri.-Sat. at Pandora’s SAT., OCT. 25 Box, 314 W. Champion St. 18 18 so heavily throughout his works that not BOOK SALE: Find deals at Admission is $6. today’s Harvest Used Book 483-3650 ART ART placing him on the same westward-lean- ing branch of the American literary tree Sale happening from 10am- 5pm at the Lynden Library, FRI., OCT. 24 as Wallace Stegner and Norman Maclean RICK STEVES: Travel guru 17 216 4th St. seems tantamount to a self-inflicted Rick Steves will talk about 398-2252 spurn. “Challenging the Prohibi- STAGE STAGE GREASY RIDER: Greg Mel- tion of our Age: Bringing Doig, who has resided in the Seattle ville reads from Greasy Rider a European Perspective to area for the past few decades, was born at 7pm at Village Books, America’s Drug Policy” at 16 1200 11th St. The tome fol- in 1939 in the tiny poverty-bitten com- 2:20pm and “Traveling as lows Melville’s cross-country munity of White Sulfur Springs, Mont., a Political Act” at 8pm at trek in a vegetable oil-fueled WWU’s Performing Arts Cen- GET OUT and it was there among the expansive Mercedes. ter. The first event is free, terrain, eternal beauty and ethereal 671-2626 the second is $5-$10. bleakness of the Rocky Mountain front, POET AS ART: Poets Dan 650-6146 14 14 while towing along with his hard-luck Raphael and Nance Van ranch hand father between the hard-luck Winckel will helm “The Poet SAT., OCT. 25 as Art” at 7:30pm at the WORDS WORDS cattle ranches and even harder-luck sa- BELLINGHAM MARKET: The Lucia Douglas Gallery; 1415 loons where he first began focusing his Bellingham Farmers Market 13th St. Entry is free. is open from 10am-3pm at eyes and sharpening his ears. 8 WHATCOMPOETRYSERIES. the Depot Market Square, “To me, language—the substance on ORG located at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Chest- the page, that poetry under the prose—is SUN., OCT. 26 the ultimate ‘region,’ the true home, for a nut Street. CURRENTS CURRENTS MISS ZUKAS: Jo Dereske, “AS SQUARELY as I can look at myself and the kind of writing writer,” Doig says. “Specific geographies, 647-2060 OR author of the Miss Zukas BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG mysteries, will give a read-

6 I’ve produced—which on the one hand relies on but galaxies of imaginative expression. FERNDALE MARKET: The ﬁnal ing at 3pm at the Everson dogged research and on the other, fancy ﬂights of Writers of caliber can ground their work Ferndale Farmers Market of Macbeth Community Library,

VIEWS VIEWS words—I seem to be something like a poet yearn- in speciﬁc land and lingo and yet be the season takes place from 104 Kirsch Dr. ing to be a clerk, or a clerk fumbling around with writing of that larger country: life.” 10am-3pm at Riverwalk Park. 966-5100 4 FERNDALEFARMERSMARKET. poetry,” author Ivan Doig once said. “In the diary Doig’s latest offering, The Eleventh TWO BOBBIES: Kirby Lar- I kept while working on This House of Sky, I vowed Man: A Novel, is set during World War ORG

MAIL MAIL son reads from Two Bobbies: to try to have a ‘trap’ of poetry in the book’s every II in Montana and various theaters of A True Story of Hurricane Ka- SUN., OCT. 26

3 sentence. I suppose that inclination is visible in combat all over the globe. After get- trina, Friendship, and Surviv- HOWL-O-WEEN: Awards for all my books.” ting yanked from his duties as a com- al at 4pm at Village Books, “Freakiest Fido,” “Matching

DO IT IT DO 1200 11th St. Mutt and Master” and more Throughout the last four decades, Doig has been bat pilot, the novel’s main character, ATTEND 671-2626 will be part of the 3rd an- plying his way through the “ocean of language” WHAT: Ivan Doig reads Ben Reinking, gets pressed into ser- nual “Howl-O-Ween” hap- 08 08 to evoke the gritty characters, resonate emotions from The Eleventh Man vice as a journalist/propagandist for a MON., OCT. 27 pening from 2:30-3:30pm at .22. and far-ﬂung Western settings that populate his during the Chuckanut government-backed news service that OPEN MIC: Read your per- Bloedel Donovan Park, 2214 10 Radio Hour sonal prose at Open Mic Electric Ave. epic cache of rock-strewn, dust-scoured tales. feeds heroic war stories to small-town Night at 7pm at Village WHEN: 6:30pm Fri., 778-7000

.03 Beginning with his breakout autobiographical newspapers. Oct. 24 Books, 1200 11th St. 43 671-2626 # novel, This House of Sky: Landscapes of the West- WHERE: The Leopold, Reinking’s assignment is to track TUES., OCT. 28 FEAR, POLITICS: James ern Mind (1978), and in every one of his 11 other 1224 Cornwall Ave. down his teammates from Treasure State TUES., OCT. 28 COST: $7.50 Yee will talk about “Being published offerings since, Doig has stitched University’s legendary “Supreme Team,” DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: INFO: 671-2626 or vil- a Muslim-American and the together a sturdy literary saddle blanket that a venerated football squad which fought Journalist Robin Wright starts lagebooks.com Politics of Fear” at 7pm at straddles the rough-and-tumble geo-historical through extreme adversity to an unde- off WWU’s Distinguished Lec- WWU’s Arntzen Hall, room realities of the American West and some of feated season just two years before. ture Series with a talk on “The 100. Future of the Middle East” at the most remote and otherwise inaccessible terrain inside the human Now, with every one of his fellow players 650-7736

CASCADIA WEEKLY 6:30pm at the Performing heart. serving in the military, Reinking must Arts Center. Entry is free, but 14 Although Doig has steadily and stubbornly shrugged off the label of track them down one by one, wherever tickets are required. “Western writer” throughout his career, the distinctively hardscrabble they happen to be ﬁghting, to share their 650-7545 people and places he grew up with in his home state of Montana ﬁgure stories with the folks back home.

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34 34 winter by purchasing tickets GARDEN TOUR: Get a load for the 9th annual Mt. Baker of fall colors when John FOOD Film Festival, which hap- Christianson of Mount Ver- getout pens at 6:30pm at the Bell- non’s Christianson Nursery leads a Fall Garden Tour at 28 28 HIKING RUNNING CYCLING ingham Sportsplex, 1225 Civic Field Way. The event 1pm at the La Conner Flats. highlights indie ﬁlmmakers Cost is $12. and features a vendor expo, (360) 466-3190 music, food and much more. ALPINE AUCTION: Alpine CLASSIFIEDS Tickets are $7-$9. Safety Awareness will hold MTBAKER.US its 10th annual Auction

24 and FUNraiser from 5-10pm FRI., OCT. 24 at Boundary Bay Brewery’s STORY AND PHOTO BY AMY KEPFERLE FREAKY FRIDAY: Pump- beer garden, 1107 Railroad kin carving, scary stories Ave. Cost is $10 and in- and a “chilling” nighttime cludes all-you-can-eat ﬁsh exploration will be part of tacos, an auction of out- the “Freaky Friday” fam- door equipment and live ily program from 7-9pm at MUSIC 20 FILM Stoney Ridge Farm music from Bent Grass. Ferndale’s Tennant Lake 319-2421 OR HARVESTING FUN, NOT FRIGHT Interpretive Center, 5236 BBAYBREWERY.COM

18 18 Nielsen Ave. Cost is $7. 733-2900 SUN., OCT. 26 ART ART moments before ﬁll their stomachs. In- RACE FOR THE END: The SAT., OCT. 25 inaugural “Race for the End ternally fortiﬁed, they make their way MAKE A DIFFERENCE: (of Domestic Violence)” 17 back into the elements. Volunteers are needed at a starts at 9:30am at Bloedel Everywhere the women look, there’s variety of events that will Donovan Park, 2214 Electric STAGE STAGE something to draw the eye, whether be part of Make a Differ- St. Choose from a 5K fun ence Day from 7:30am-1pm it’s a selection of antique cast-iron run/walk or a 10K run. Par- throughout Whatcom Coun- ticipants are encouraged to 16 16 pots hanging on a barn wall, an an- ty. If you’d like to take part raise pledges for domestic noyed donkey casting baleful glances in a day of service to your violence services. community, choose from GET OUT GET OUT at those who draw near him, or a buzz- 671-5714 OR DVSAS.ORG helping out organizations ing hive of bees encased in a glass DRACULA DASH: Cos- such as the Nooksack Salm- tumes are welcome at the honeycomb. on Enhancement Associa-

14 annual 1- to 2-mile Dracula While two of the women seek perfect tion, Sean Humphrey House, Dash starting at 3:30pm and many, many more. gourds amid covered stalls, the others at Bloedel Donovan Park,

WORDS WHATCOMVOLUNTEER.ORG choose to hop aboard a hay chariot 2214 Electric Ave. Children pulled by a mighty tractor. As the MAKE & TAKE: Ed Keller are welcome, but must be carriage wends will lead a “Make It and Take accompanied by an adult. 8 It” workshop focusing on its way into the Entry is $3. conifer garden containers at 778-7000 ﬁelds, the pas- 9am at the Garden Spot, 900 sengers are trans- Alabama St. No class fee MON., OCT. 27 CURRENTS CURRENTS ported to a world will be charged, and partici- BEARTREK: Bear biolo- pants will receive discounts gist Chris Morgan will pre-

6 of wonder. Here on plantings and pots. miere his new documentary, they ﬁnd ﬁelds 676-5480 Beartrek, at 8pm at the Wild

VIEWS VIEWS of pumpkins of STIMPSON WALK: Natu- Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St. every shape and ralist David Bean will lead The ﬁlm follows his motor-

4 ATTEND size. In the dark a native plant walk from cycle journey across four WHAT: Harvest Time afternoon, the 10am-2pm at the Stimpson continents in an effort to MAIL MAIL WHEN: 10am-5pm Family Nature Reserve. Cost draw attention to bear con- every Thurs.-Sat. gourds stand out is $2, and you can register servation. Lucky Brown will

3 through October like lighthouse at the beginning of the perform following the ﬂick. WHERE: Stoney OUR TALE begins on a damp fall afternoon as four intrepid city beacons. Fruit walk. WILDBUFFALO.NET DO IT IT DO

Ridge Farm, 2092 girls make their way through the maze of roads leading to Stoney Ridge has never been so 733-2900 Van Dyk Rd., Everson TUES., OCT. 28 SUGARLOAF HIKE: A nat- Farm. To get to the heart of the Everson acreage, they must be patient. COST: Entry is $2-$3 beautiful. SKI TUNING 101: Learn 08 08 uralist guide will lead a hike They must believe it exists. Talk of horror movies with beginnings such per person or $5-$10 As kids gather to save money and bond

.22. to Anacortes’s Sugarloaf as this are shared, but fear is kept at bay. per family these miraculous with your gear at a free “Ski 10 Mountain at 10am leaving INFO: 966-3919 or & Snowboard Tuning 101” Through the torrents of rain pelting their windshield, they ﬁnally orbs into wheel- from the trailhead on Ray stoneyridgefarm.com clinic at 6pm at REI, 400

.03 spot their destination. An array of bright orange pumpkins at the gates barrows, others Auld Drive at the bottom 36th St. 43 of Mt. Erie. The event is # lets them know they’ve arrived. run wild through 647-8955 The women have no umbrellas to protect them, but everyone is wear- a vast corn maze or pick apples. Har- free and no registration is ing layers, so they make their way inside. It only takes a few seconds for vest time has come to Stoney Ridge required. WED., OCT. 29 FRIENDSOFTHEACFL.ORG them to realize they’ve stumbled across an autumnal wonderland. Here, Farm, and those who wish to pick their ALPINE AWARENESS: POULTRY 101: Paul Far- Members of the Alpine Safe- pumpkins grow on trees, scarecrows with silver buckets as heads appear prizes can do so before hopping back ley will helm a “Backyard ty Awareness Program will to have walked off the ﬁelds and into the main thoroughfares, peacocks on the wagon. Poultry 101” workshop from lead a clinic on the chal- strut, and there’s even something called a “goat walk.” Night is coming, so the women gather 1-4pm at the Community lenges, dangers and reali- CASCADIA WEEKLY Because the women have tender constitutions, they choose to seek together at the front gate with their Food Co-op’s Connection ties of alpine activities at Building, 1220 N. Forest. 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. 16 temporary shelter from the rain in a warm building where they’re served harvested goods. Mounds of pumpkins Chicken physiology, health, 647-8955 treats from the fertile Nooksack River Valley. Pumpkin pie, apple pie and are stuffed into the trunk, soon to be- nutrition and housing will hot cider with a ﬂavor so fresh it’s like the fruit just dropped from the tree come Jack-o-Lanterns and pie. doit STAGE

WED., OCT. 22 34 IMPROV PLAYWORKS:

Sheila Goldsmith of Improv FOOD stage Playworks will lead a free introductory improv class at THEATER DANCE PROFILES 28 7pm at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. 756-0756

OCT. 22-25 CLASSIFIEDS PASSION OF DRACULA: See The Passion of Dracula at

It’s not too late to join the 24 BY AMY KEPFERLE 7:30pm at White Rock B.C.’s Dream Science Circus. The Coast Capital Playhouse, nimble folks will be putting 1532 Johnston Rd. on performances Oct. 24-26 at WHITEROCKPLAYERS.CA their Ohio Street digs, so come 36 Views THURS., OCT. 23 along for the ride. GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The NOTHING SAFE ABOUT IT Good, the Bad and the Ugly” MUSIC 20 FILM at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, OCT. 24-26 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick DREAM SCIENCE: Acrobat- will be able to experience modern realism, but 18 around for “The Project: Mad ics, juggling and much more

they’ll also be introduced to Kabuki, a form of Comedy in the Making.” Cost is will be part of the Dream Sci- ART traditional Japanese theatre. $5 for the early show, $3 for ence Circus performances at “What Iizuka does is allow two realities to oc- the late one. 7pm Fri. and 2pm and 7pm 17 Sat. and Sun. at 142 Ohio St. 17 cupy the same space at the same time,” Dizney 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT. COM Suggested donation is $15. explains. “Although we have an interesting STAGE STAGE DREAMSCIENCECIRCUS.COM STAGE build through the big dramatic moments, we’re OCT. 23-25 kind of left with the pieces of it to deal with. FUNNY FORUM: Watch A SUN., OCT. 26

AMATEUR NIGHT: Commu- 16 There’s no moment of the rock hitting the wa- Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at 7:30pm nity members are invited to ter and making a splash. We’re left with the Thurs. and 8pm Fri.-Sat., at try their comedy chops on-

ripples, and to put it together in our minds. It the Anacortes Community stage when “Amateur Stand- GET OUT requires some work on the viewer’s behalf.” Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets up Night” takes the stage at Dizney was first attracted to the play be- for the musical are $16. 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. General admis- cause he saw how adept Iizuka was at bending ACTTHEATRE.COM 14 sion is $8. the rules in terms of theat- OCT. 23-26 733-8855 rical convention while still OKLAHOMA: The Barn The- WORDS managing to keep the dia- atre presents the Rodgers & logue flowing and make the Hammerstein musical, Okla- DANCE homa, at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat., 8 play interesting to watch. and 2pm Sun. at the Sudden OCT. 24-26 “It’s not your standard Valley Dance Barn, gate 2. EPHEMERA: The Bellingham ‘we’re going to have an actor Tickets are $8-$11. Repertory Dance Company CURRENTS CURRENTS introduce conflict, and then 671-5970 performs “Ephemera,” the first performance of its sea-

the conﬂict is solved in the 6 FRI., OCT. 24 son, at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat., and ﬁnal act,’” Dizney says. “It’s ATTEND AUDITIONS: Open auditions 5pm Sun., at the Firehouse

very smart, and I feel it’s very for upcoming performances VIEWS WHAT: 36 Views Performing Arts Center, 1314 of the Vagina Memoirs hap- WHEN: 7:30pm relevant to our times. And it’s Harris Ave. Tickets are $12-

pen at 6pm at WWU’s Viking 4 Oct. 23-25 and kind of hot.” $15. Union, room 565. Oct. 30-Nov. 1; Because he travels to other BHAMREP.ORG 650-6254 MAIL 2:30pm Oct. 26 colleges throughout the area SAT., OCT. 25

and Nov. 1 as part of a regional selec- OCT. 24-25 PETER & WOLF: Children 3 WHERE: Perform- HELLINGHAM: View show- can bring along their paren- “Only a part of what is perceived comes through the senses from the ing Arts Center, tion committee, Dizney gets

ings of the wholly improvised IT DO tal units to check out a free object; the remainder always comes from within.” WWU a chance to see what other murder mystery, “Helling- dance performance of Peter —MATTHEW LUCKIESH COST: $9-$12 universities are up to. And, ham,” at 8pm and 10pm at and the Wolf at 4:30pm at the INFO: 650-6146 08 although he ﬁnds much to be the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Nancy Whyte Studio, 1412 PATRICK DIZNEY is having a busy week. In a few days, impressed about, he’s con- Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10. Cornwall Ave. The narrated .22. 10 Western Washington University’s theater season will kick into vinced WWU has one of the strongest theater 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT. ballet will be about 25 min- COM utes long.

gear, and he’s in charge of making sure everything goes smoothly programs in the region. By working on 36 Views, .03 VAMPIRE DREAMS: Find out 734-9141 43

when 36 Views, the ambitious play he’s directing at the Performing he says student actors and designers have had # what happens when a delu- HIGHLAND DANCE: The Arts Center, makes its debut. a chance to stretch their talents. sional professor who believes Clan Heather Dancers will The play, which was written by Naomi Iizuka and takes its “This show is not a typical college produc- he’s a bloodsucker goes to hold their annual Scottish name from a series of woodblock prints by 19th century artist tion,” he notes. “It’s not a familiar dramatic visit a therapist when Vam- Highland Dance Competition Hokusai, combines a whole lot of artistic elements in its 36 structure, and I think it’s a piece of theater pire Dreams shows at 7:30pm from 9:30am-4pm at Ana- at the Blaine Middle School interlocking scenes. that opens itself up to all kinds of people who cortes’s Brodniak Hall, 1600 Cafeteria, 975 H St. Addi- 20th St. While 36 Views opens at a party in an Asian art dealer’s loft, the have preconceived notions about what college tional shows happen through NAS.COM/CLANHEATHER

CASCADIA WEEKLY terrain it travels in its quest for authenticity goes far beyond that theater can do. Nov. 1. Tickets are $8-$10. BLAINECOMMUNITYTHEATER. space. Focusing on the discovery of a one-of-a-kind pillow book— “Our production is nothing like others I’ve 17 a form of Japanese erotica—the play traverses both the ancient seen. We’re not making any safe choices in this, ORG and the contemporary before its conclusion is reached. Viewers and I think that’s for the better.” doit

34 34 EVENTS FOOD SAT., OCT. 25 SPIN IN: The Spin Drifters will hold 28 28 visual their annual “Spin In” from 10am-4pm at Bellingham High School, 2020 Corn- GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES wall Ave. Demos, guest artists and more will be part of the day’s events. Entry

CLASSIFIEDS is $10. 734-5171

24 BUY OR BREAK: Bid on fabulous art at the “Buy It or Break It” auction from 5:30-7:30pm at Morrison Glass Art, 122 “Go 25” by Ohio St., suite 104. If nobody buys the Anne Hirondelle works, they’ll be smashed to smither- eens. Show up at 4:30pm if you want to see glass blowing demos. Entry is free.

MUSIC 20 FILM 714-8732 18 18 18 18 ONGOING ART ART ART ART EXHIBITS ALLIED ARTS: “Three Ways of Seeing,” an exhibit featuring local contempo- 17 rary photographers Kenneth Osthimer, BY AMY KEPFERLE John Sloan, and Dennis Walton, shows STAGE STAGE through Nov. 1 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. ALLIEDARTS.ORG 16 ARTWOOD: The woodwork of David Gray All That Jazz will be highlighted through October at

GET OUT Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE 647-1628 BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM:

14 The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 ART, ABOVE all else, is subjective. The lush landscape teed to find something that makes you stop and pause. Commercial St. WORDS painting that draws a particular viewer to it may bore another If you’re a true patron of the arts, you may choose to take 393-7540 patron, or vice versa. But when works by 100 artists are gath- home something you find within the doors of the museum. Dur- BLUE HORSE: “Reaching for the Light,” ered together in the same place, it’s a good chance everyone ing the fundraiser, prices are marked down 10 percent from typi- the annual breast cancer awareness art 8 will find something that inspires them. cal gallery fare, and those who purchase exhibit, shows through Oct. 31 at the Every other year, the Whatcom Museum does just that by an original work can rest assured they’re Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. 671-2305 bringing together a “who’s who” list of artists from through- helping out both the artists and the CURRENTS CURRENTS DARKROOM: “Deja Revue,” an exhibit out the Pacific Northwest iconic museum. featuring photographer Tore Ofteness’

6 and inviting them to take “Not only will you be ﬁlling your work from the late ’60s and early ’70s, part in “Art + All That Jazz.” home with beautiful pieces of art, you shows until Nov. 1 at the Darkroom, 310 W. Champion St.

VIEWS VIEWS The biennial event is one of will also be supporting local artists the main fundraisers for the SEE IT who add to the quality of life here in 961-3860

4 museum, and the proceeds WHAT: Art + All That Bellingham,” says Executive Director DEPOT ARTS CENTER: Works by Mar- Jazz guerite Goff, Patricia Resseguie, and help support the institu- Patricia Leach. “You will also have the MAIL MAIL WHEN: “Art Today, Renate Trapkowski can be seen as part tion’s day-to-day opera- Gone Tomorrow” gratifying experience of knowing that of the “Cascadia: Born From Nature” ex-

3 tions, exhibitions and edu- reception from 7-9pm your purchase has made a positive ﬁ- hibit happening through Oct. 24 at De- cational programs. Sat., Nov. 1; art is nancial contribution to the Museum’s pot Arts Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. DO IT IT DO While the exhibit is on display through goal of turning out quality art exhibits DEPOTARTSCENTER.ORG Nov. 16 named for the jazz music and educational programs for the resi- GOOD EARTH: Functional stoneware WHERE: Whatcom

08 08 by Michael McDowell can be perused that typically accompanies Museum, 121 Prospect dents and visitors of our community.” through October at Good Earth Pottery, .22. the opening soiree—which St. Many of the hundreds of pieces of 10 “Pan,” by John Keppelman 1000 Harris Ave. happened in September— COST: $15 for recep- art on display as part of “Art + All That 671-3998 OR GOODEARTHPOTS.COM tion, free otherwise HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View “Lost .03 it’s also an appropriate way to explain the vast array of art Jazz” have a small red sticker on them INFO: 778-8939 or 43 Cities of Skagit: Rediscovering Places # that can be found in every nook and cranny of the Whatcom whatcommuseum.org that indicates they’ve already been sold, Museum’s main exhibit space. There is, literally, something but there’s still a lot to choose from. of Our Past” until Nov. 2 at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 for everyone. Attendees can peruse the display South 4th St. Whether you’re interested in the modern copper screen and through Nov. 16, or buy tickets for “Art Today, Gone Tomor- (360) 466-3365 OR SKAGITCOUNTY.NET silicone sculptures created by Lanny Bergner, Susan Benner- row.” For those who like to view art in a party atmosphere, the INSIGHTS: New paintings by Larry strom’s spare oil pastels, the mixed-media miracles of Mary Nov. 1 event will include beer and wine, live jazz guitar tunes Heald can be viewed through Oct. 31 at Ennes Davis, Fishboy’s salvaged wood pieces, Dale Gottleib’s and tasty hors d’oeuvres (if you’re not a museum member, call Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., CASCADIA WEEKLY woven rugs, Steve Jensen’s otherworldly oil paintings on re- to make sure tickets are still available for the general public). Anacortes. (360) 588-8044 OR INSIGHTSGALLERY. cycled wood, Carolyn Krieg’s archival prints on plexiglass or It promises to be a ﬁtting ﬁnale for the smorgasbord of artis- 18 COM Lummi Island sculptor Ann Morris’s intricate bronze offerings— tic intricacies on display, and you just might end the night and that’s just the tip of the creative iceberg—you’re guaran- with a piece of Northwest art to call your own. doit

34 34 MCCOOL GALLERY: “Fall Color,” fea-

turing paintings by Anne Martin Mc- FOOD Cool, can be seen through November at the McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 28 MCCOOLART.COM MINDPORT: “All I’ve Got to Say,” a =@IJKK@D< solo show by Steve Cunningham, shows through Nov. 9 at Mindport Exhibits, CLASSIFIEDS 210 W. Holly St. 647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG

24 MONA: Shelley Muzylowski Allen’s “Modern Menagerie” and Sonja Blom- dahl’s “Incalmo/Glass” will be on dis-

ONE OF ONE: “Untied,” featuring the 17 paper artistry of Helen Hiebert, is currently on display at Bison Bookbinding’s STAGE One of One gallery, 1420 N. State St. fe(([`]]\i\ek BISONBOOKBINDING.COM 16 PAPERDOLL: Rifka MacDonald’s “Wooden Forest” will show through November at the Paperdoll, 1200 10th

KfpfkXj GET OUT St. THEPAPERDOLL.NET QUILT MUSEUM: View “Traditional 14 Piecing with Ethnic and Hand-De- N`k_cfkjf]dfe\pkfc\e[# signed Fabrics” and “Six Stories” through Dec. 28 at the La Conner Quilt WORDS & Textile Museum, 703 South 2nd St. EFN@JK?<K@D<kfYlpXKfpfkX Entry is $5.

(360) 466-4288 OR LACONNERQUILTS. 8 COM PUBLIC MARKET: An exhibit featuring photos from the demolition of CURRENTS CURRENTS Georgia-Paciﬁc buildings by Tore Of- )''0:fifccX )''/I8M+ )''/J\hlf`X teness will show through October at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 6 Cornwall Ave. )''0DXki`o )''/?`^_cXe[\i )''/KXZfdX

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VIKING GALLERY: “Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art,” is on display through Oct. 31 at WWU’s Viking Union 08

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I REALIZE WE’RE all whipping ourselves into a 34 34 Halloween frenzy right now, but I gotta say, I’m

FOOD not one who typically climbs aboard this fright- night train. In other words, I don’t dress up, and

28 28 music I’m the girl who puts the bowl of candy on the PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT front porch with the “Take one. I’m watching” sign so I don’t actually have to encounter trick or treaters. But I sure like how excited everyone CLASSIFIEDS else gets about Halloween. To be speciﬁc, I love all the musical events that take place around this

24 particular holiday, in this particular town. Kicking things off early is the lovely ladies of the Roller Betties, who are throwing a little musicPREVIEW holiday soiree Sat., Oct. 25 at Rumors. The event 20 ﬁgures to be your standard-issue Halloween party, with a costume contest, rafﬂe prizes, music MUSIC MUSIC 20 FILM BY CAREY ROSS courtesy of DJ Velveteen and a photo booth. Standard issue, that is, except for the “Thriller”

18 18 dance off. If you, like me, learned to do the en-

ART ART tire “Thriller” dance as a youngster, this is your )T´S3POOKTACULAR chance to show off your sweet zombie moves. The Roller Betties are also responsiblep for 17 FROM HORROR PUNK TO HORROR BUSINESS some sort of haunted house on Halloween STAGE STAGE proper at Boundary BLACK EYES Bay, so maybe if you 16 AND NECKTIES wow them with your “Thriller” prowess,

GET OUT they’ll let you play a bit part in their Halloween production.

14 In the realm of non- Halloween-related

WORDS events is an upcoming ﬁlm at the Pickford BYBY CAREYCAREYY ROSSROSS called Life. Support. Mu- 8 sic. Part of the theater’s month-long “Doctober” event, the documentary chronicles the story of Jason Crigler, a New York CURRENTS CURRENTS guitarist who has played with the likes of No-

6 rah Jones and Teddy Thompson, and, in August 2004, when this story begins, was expecting

VIEWS VIEWS his ﬁrst child and had just recorded his debut BY HOLLIEBY HUTHMAN album. However, all that was jeopardized when

4 Crigler suffered a massive brain hemorrhage dur- IN THE past week or so, I’ve spent more time talking to BOUNDARY BAY: Well, we might as well get ing a concert. The brain damage was purport- MAIL MAIL people about their Halloween plans—costumes, parties, haunt- this one out of the way right off the bat. edly massive, the diagnosis bleak, Crigler’s odds

3 ed houses, etc.—than I have about the upcoming presiden- While it may pain other bands and bars to of recovery next to nothing. However, Crigler’s tial election. Is this a sign that Bellingham’s dyed-in-the-wool admit it, when it comes to Halloween shows family and friends made a decision not to ac- DO IT IT DO political awareness is waning? Hardly. Rather, the constant in Bellingham, there’s the one Black Eyes cept that diagnosis and offered up one of their holiday hubbub is more a reﬂection of how seriously this town and Neckties are playing… and then there’s own: they would bring Crigler back—and noth- takes this spooktacular special occasion. all the rest of them. Halloween birthed this ing less than a full recovery would do. Filmmaker While I haven’t donned a costume in close to a decade, I band more than half a decade ago—and Eric Daniel Metzgar, an acquaintance of Crigler’s, 10.22.08 know that many of you are gathering together the elements they’ve owned the holiday ever since. Join- said that when he started ﬁlming what would be-

.03 needed to transform yourself into the walking undead or a sexy ing them onstage at Boundary Bay will be come Life. Support. Music., what he expected to 43

# pirate wench, if only for an evening. Methinks the same amount the also much-beloved Jill Brazil, as well do was chronicle this family’s incredible strength of planning that goes into elaborately outﬁtting oneself should as Axes of Evil, who are coming out of self- and optimism. However, what actually happened also be invested in sussing out worthy entertainment options. imposed hibernation for the show. As if was he and his camera became witnesses to a In other words, what good is the perfect costume if you’ve that wasn’t enough, the Roller Betties have miracle—one brought about by the unwavering got nowhere to show it off? Lucky for you, along with being promised some sort of “haunted lounge” to faith and efforts of Crigler’s friends and family, a Halloween-lovin’ little town, Bellingham is also a burg that put the fright in your night. I cannot say and spurred on by Crigler’s need to play music likes to mix its festive occasions with a whole lotta music—and this emphatically enough: this show will again. The ﬁlm screens at 6pm Oct. 24-25 at the CASCADIA WEEKLY that is never more clear than on All Hallows Eve. So, here’s the be packed. Get there early and don’t plan Pickford Cinema, and Metzgar will be on hand to

20 rundown of just some of the music on tap so you can plan your talk about the three-year journey that eventually costumed assault accordingly. SPOOKTACULAR, became this documentary. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE musicPREVIEW non-clubMUSIC FRI., OCT. 24

DAVID LANZ: Grammy- SPOOKTACULAR, FROM PREVIOUS PAGE nominated pianist David 34 Lanz will perform at 7pm FOOD at the Heiner Center at Whatcom Community Col-

lege. Tickets are $35. 28 647-3277 OR ACORN PROJECT DAVIDLANZ.COM LIGHT CLASSICS: The

Skagit Symphony per- CLASSIFIEDS forms “Light Classics” at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. 24 College Way. Tickets are $22-$35. (866) 624-6897 SAT., OCT. 25 20 UKES FOR PEACE: Uke MUSIC master James Hill will MUSIC 20 FILM helm a beneﬁt concert for “Ukuleles for Peace” at 7pm at the Bellingham 18

Unitarian Church, 1701 I ART St. Tickets are $20. 366-5660

SANFORD SERIES: Ac- 17 claimed pianist Father

Sean Duggan will kick off STAGE the Sanford Piano Series on going anywhere until BENt has collapsed nut Drive, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo are with a one-man show at in a sweat- and blood-stained heap on the teaming up for a Halloween happening at the 7:30pm at WWU’s Perform- 16 ﬂoor at the end of the night. Green Frog. If you’ve got a thing for local ing Arts Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $9-$16.

WHERE: 1107 Railroad Ave. Cost: $5. More info: alt-country—which you should, as we have GET OUT 650-6146 bbaybrewery.com. many fine practitioners of it around these ROCK SHOW: Leap Pro- parts—you’d be hard pressed to find a lineup ductions presents “Long DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY: Those resource- as worthy as this one. While it’s unlikely that Live Rock: A Tribute to an 14 ful kids at Anacortes’ Department of Safety any of these bands will be busting out Mis- Era” at 7:30pm at Mount hardly need an excuse to throw a party, but fits covers, there’s a decent chance you could Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, WORDS 712 S. First St. Tickets are Halloween gives them a pretty good one. hear a murder ballad or two. $22-$28. They’re hosting a Halloween Blood Feast WHERE: 902 N. State St. More info: acoustictavern. LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG 8 featuring the likes of Diane Cluck, Knot Pine com. Box, Motorbikes, and more. Of course, if OCT. 25-26 SKAGIT BAND: The Sk- you get bored with all that, you can always JINX: Granted, it’s not really a music venue. agit Community Band will CURRENTS bob for apples, or see if your costume can Or a bar. Rather, Jinx is an art gallery/all- present a variety of music

withstand a workout at the Zombie Jambo- purpose creative space. But when the lineup at a concert at 7:30pm 6 ree Dance Party. I’m told “assorted sorcery” includes Sugar Sugar Sugar and Frozen Cloak Sat. at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. and “general necromancy” will also be part VIEWS of the ghoulish gathering. And, since the College Way. (866) 624-6897 Department of Safety building used to be 4 BRASS QUINTET: The part jailhouse, the built-in creep factor is Glacier Bay Brass Quintet MAIL already high. gives a free concert at

WHERE: 1011 12th St., Anacortes. More info: depart- 2pm at the Whatcom Mu- 3 mentofsafety.com. seum, 121 Prospect St.

778-8930 IT DO

KEYBOARD FRIENDS: FAIRHAVEN PUB: I’ve said it before, but Keyboard Friends will per- it bears repeating: It isn’t a celebration at form a variety of classical the Fairhaven unless it somehow involves piano tunes at 3pm at the 10.22.08 Spaceband. If any bar in town has an unofﬁ- Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are cial house band, it’s this bar and this band. .03 $10-$15. 43

With their ever-increasing array of popular, # THEAMADEUS feel-good cover songs and uncanny ability PROJECT.ORG to whip crowds into a frenzy, Spaceband is a ART OF JAZZ: Randy Por- natural choice for a holiday where provoca- ter and John Stowell will tive wardrobing and lowered inhibitions go take part in today’s “Art hand in hand. of Jazz” concert at 4pm at the American Museum WHERE: 1114 Harris Ave. More info: fairhavenpub.

ALL-NIGHTERS of Radio and Electricity, CASCADIA WEEKLY com. 1312 Bay St. Tickets are

BY HOLLIEBY HUTHMAN $12. 21 GREEN FROG: There’s more to Halloween en- JAZZPROJECT.ORG tertainment in Bellingham than horror punk. SPOOKTACULAR, Case in point: the Crying Shame, Chucka- CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE See below for venue addresses and 10.22.08 10.23.08 10.24.08 10.25.08 10.26.08 10.27.08 10.28.08 phone numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Head Like A Kite, No-Fi Soul ASAP beneﬁt feat. Bent James Higgins and the Jazz Jam feat. Boundary Bay Rebellion Grass Muddy Boots Band Brian Cunningham Trio 34 34

FOOD Commodore Bedouin Soundclash, Hey Matt Mays & El Torpedo, The Notwist Yelle Ballroom Ocean!, Mishka Arkells 28 28

Edison Inn Ron Bailey, Al Kaatz Bow Diddlers

CLASSIFIEDS Open Mic w/Chuck D feat. Fairhaven Pub Karaoke DJ Bam Bam Live Music One Eyed Jack Comedy College Night Ashley Douglas 24 Green Frog Café Amber Darland and The Waybacks, Danny Doug Allen and Reid Kerr Chuckanut Drive Open Mic Ron Hardesty Acoustic Tavern Adrianne Barnes 20 Honeymoon The Naked Hearts Laura Overstreet The Shadies MUSIC MUSIC 20 FILM Main St. Bar and Open Mic w/Chuck D feat. Country Karaoke Jack Benson Band Jack Benson Band Karaoke Grill Hannah 18 18

ART ART Yes, Oh Yes; Meteorites Old Foundry Attack!; 10 Killing Hands; Fuck You Safari 17 Quarterback Pub Hot Roddin Romeos, The

STAGE STAGE and Eatery Salamanders

Richard's on 16 UMPHREY'S MCGEE Ladyhawk, Attack In Black Players Club LYKKE LI Richards

GET OUT Becki Sue and her Big Rockﬁsh Grill Fidalgo Swing Rockin Daddies HEAD LIKE A KITE/Oct. 24/Boundary Bay

14 Desillusion, Threshold Dose, The Vincent Black Shadow, Within Negatives, Disciple Rogue Hero Vaughn Kreestoe Dark Dance Floor, Yin. 5, Nim Vind, Amish Warfare of Disarray, Detrivores Randi Leigh WORDS

Royal Industry Night College Night Ladies Night Party Night Karaoke 8

Betty Desire Show, DJ Monster Bash feat. DJ Rumors DJ Buckshot, DJ Deerhead DJ QBNZA Karaoke w/Poops DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave Velveteen Velveteen CURRENTS CURRENTS

Silver Reef Hotel 6 The Jimmy Wright Band The Jimmy Wright Band The Jimmy Wright Band Casino & Spa VIEWS VIEWS Skagit Valley Karaoke Freddy Pink Freddy Pink

4 Casino MAIL MAIL Skylark's The Otters Tim Matheis & Ray Downey The Spencetet Irish Session

DO IT IT DO Girls and Their Guitars feat. Open Mic feat. Justin Three Trees Luke Stanage Coffeehouse Christine Bron Verburg

Tivoli Bar Tabac 10.22.08 THE WAYBACKS/Oct. 25/Green Frog

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43 Motorbikes, Saint Merman Lamplighter Open Mic # feehouse (WWU)

Acoustic Oasis Open Mic Happy Hour Jazz Project Lucky Lounge feat. Lucky Mt. Baker Ski Area Film Acoustic Open Mic feat. Wild Buffalo (early), Reggae Night (early), Glitch Mob, Flash- Hoss Brown and the Funk Festival After Party BIMA/Songsalive Afterparty (late) bulb (late) Revolution

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SUGAR3 28 28 CLASSIFIEDS 24 20 20 BY HOLLIEBY HUTHMAN MUSIC MUSIC 20 FILM and is paired up with the opening of an Halloween would be Rumors. First of all, exhibit featuring insect-themed art from it can win prizes in Rumors annual cos- 18

folks all across the artistic spectrum, the tume contest. Secondly, nowhere is the ART reception at Jinx makes the list of worthy transformative effects of self-disguise locales to get a little Halloween action. more encouraged and appreciated than And Jinx overseer Michelle Schutte plans at Rumors. Not to mention the fact that 17 to get things rolling early enough to al- even the most understated of Halloween STAGE STAGE low for folks to get a little art in before costumes likes to get down from time to going on with the rest of the evening. time, and Rumors is as ﬁne a place as Now all she needs is for you to show up in any to twist the night away. 16 a timely fashion. WHERE: 1119 Railroad Ave. More info: 671-1849.

WHERE: 306 Flora St. More info: jinxartspace.com. GET OUT UNDERGROUND COFFEEHOUSE: As it OLD FOUNDRY: Although Black Eyes and turns out, trick or treating and loiter- Neckties makes a worthy case for being ing outside the Super Store waiting for 14 Bellingham’s Halloweeniest band, Hor- someone to buy you beer are not the ror Business is certainly willing to give only Halloween options available to WORDS them a run for their money. Emerging those who are not yet of age. Journey just once (or, as the case may be, twice) on up to the 3rd floor of WWU’s Viking 8 a year, devilocks on proud display, the Union, where the fine folks at the Un- band whips out a furious frenzy of Mis- derground Coffeehouse have dreamed up fits covers before descending back into a little dance party for you. While I’m CURRENTS CURRENTS the hell from whence they came. While not sure what kind of music is on the

you may think you recognize some local docket for the evening, don’t hesitate to 6 musical luminaries in the band’s lineup, bust out the Monster Mash. I hear it’s a

any resemblance is purely coincidental. graveyard smash, after all. VIEWS At this show, the misﬁt Misﬁts will be WHERE: 3rd Floor, Viking Union, WWU. More joined by Meat Bird and Dead Hookers. info: 650-3000 4 WHERE: 100 E. Maple St. More info: whaam.org. MAIL MAIL WILD BUFFALO: At t h e W i l d B u f f a l o, t h e i r

ROGUE HERO: First of all, it should be Halloween festivities are sandwiched be- 3 noted that, at the Rogue, Halloween ac- tween the sweet reggae sounds of Collie DO IT IT DO tually begins Thurs., Oct. 30, when the Buddz on Thursday night, and the manis, www.nwskyferry.com aforementioned Horror Business, along pedis and other ever-so-stylish offerings 360-676-9999 with Order of the Crimson Wizard and of the Beauty Bar, which inﬁltrates the 4165 Mitchell Way, Bellingham Half-Sac, will take the stage to get this bar Saturday. But Halloween at the Buff 10.22.08 party started. On Halloween proper, the belongs to the multi-genre mèlange that

devilocks depart and the All-Nighters, is the Acorn Project. Given this band’s .03 43

the Whiskey Wailers, and Ladies of the incredible draw—which may have some- # Night show up to take this two-day af- thing to do with their high-energy, funk- fair late into the night. No telling what infused sound—this is another show for the boys of the All-Nighters will wear, which an early arrival is a necessity. As but I’m sure I’m not the only one who such, the Growers are slated to open the would be stoked if they came dressed as show, and they’re not exactly slouches Full Frontal Assault. when it comes to showing audiences a CASCADIA WEEKLY WHERE: 1313 N. State St. More info: 756-0069. good time. Whatever your costume, if you plan to attend this show, you should 23 RUMORS CABARET: If the decision were bring your dancing shoes. Daily ﬂights serving the Northwest & Canada left strictly to your costume, I’m sure WHERE: 208 W. Holly St. More info: wildbuffalo. the place it would want to spend its net. The San Juan Islands - Seattle - Mt. Baker

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28 28 REVIEWS FILM TIMES CLASSIFIEDS 24 24 FILM FILM REVIEWED BY RUTHE STEIN

MUSIC 20 FILM Trouble the Water

18 18 KATRINA, ONE FRAME AT A TIME ART ART

photograph of a young woman off the wall 17 and begins kissing it. Her husband holds the camera as she explains that the picture is of STAGE STAGE her mother, who died of AIDS when Kimberly was 13. 16 The couple is surrounded by death. They smell a body decomposing in a nearby house,

GET OUT but are unable to get the authorities to remove it. On the sidewalk is a drowned dog 14

WORDS SCENES OF THEM

8 TRAPPED IN THEIR ATTIC ARE JUXTAPOSED CURRENTS CURRENTS WITH THOSE OF 6 PRESIDENT BUSH VIEWS VIEWS SAYING HE WAS “VERY 4

MAIL MAIL IMPRESSED” WITH

3 BY NOW almost everyone knows that the U.S. government Lacking transportation out of the city, WHAT MICHAEL BROWN, monumentally failed the citizens of New Orleans during and after she and her husband, Scott Roberts, hunker DO IT IT DO Hurricane Katrina. Is there more to be said about this national down in their house as long as they can. THE BELEAGUERED catastrophe? Yes, deﬁnitely, as the engrossing documentary Trouble Scenes of them trapped in their attic are the Water shows in just about every frame. juxtaposed with those of President Bush FEMA DIRECTOR, WAS Trouble, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film saying he was “very impressed” with what 10.22.08 Festival, takes a very personal look at the chaos in New Orleans dur- Michael Brown, the beleaguered FEMA direc- DOING.

.03 ing the fall of 2005. Kimberly Roberts, a 24-year-old wannabe rap tor, was doing. 43

# singer living in the badly hit Ninth Ward, had just bought a second- News clips of the president and Brown hand video camera when news broke of the impending hurricane. sounding clueless are awfully familiar. Spike With the instincts of a reporter, she roamed her neighborhood in Lee definitively roasted them in his docu- that appears to be petrified in the water. the eerie stillness right before the streets flooded and people were mentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem Trouble the Water takes on a Wizard of Oz forced out of their homes, shooting video along the way. in Four Acts. feel as the Roberts secure a van and pick up Carl Deal, a producer on Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowl- But every time you feel as if Trouble the a friend from the neighborhood, and they all ing for Columbine, and his filmmaking partner, Tia Lessin, met Rob- Water is going over too-familiar ground, head for Memphis, where Kimberly’s cousin has CASCADIA WEEKLY erts when the two came to Louisiana to work on a different docu- there comes Kimberly Roberts to jar you opened his house to them. They are all hop-

24 mentary. They wisely switched gears when Roberts, who isn’t shy, with her candidness. Ultimately made to ing for a new beginning—for Kimberly that showed them some of her raw footage. Deal and Lessin are credited leave her home, she is allowed back in to means landing a recording contract—and by as directors, but the movie is really Roberts’ show. grab a few personal items. She takes a faded this time you want that for them, too. ﬁlmPREVIEW

34 34 REVIEWED BY TODD MCCARTHY FOOD

Pride and Glory 28 CROOKS, COPS AND CROOKED COPS CLASSIFIEDS 24 24 FILM FILM MUSIC 20 FILM 18 18 ART ART 17 STAGE STAGE 16

WITH ITS focus on corruption pulled back in by his dad to join the GET OUT and family angst among Irish-American taskforce after having left street work New York cops, Pride and Glory feels like in the wake of a previous tragedy, Ray a ﬁlm that should have been made at makes progress with his own investi- 14 least 25 years ago. Or made as a period gation. But Jimmy has two of his own piece. Heavy, doom-laden and, unfor- guys dealing with the situation as well, WORDS tunately, entirely predictable, director and it isn’t long before Ray realizes the Gavin O’Connor’s murky drama applies team is compromised by renegades. 8 epic aspirations to a story all too famil- Soon thereafter, Jimmy puts Ray in iar from any number of ﬁlms and televi- a position where he’s forced to choose sion shows. between family loyalty and proper jus- CURRENTS CURRENTS Gavin O’Connor and his twin brother, tice, and the only thing vaguely sur-

producer Gregory, grew up as the sons prising about the way it all turns out 6 of a New York City cop and developed is that the boys take time out to try Ryan & Jenny Anderson • Jeff Klausman Liz Dean • Dan O’Neill & Sarah Campbell this story together, along with Robert to settle it the old-fashioned way, in a VIEWS Hopes and co-scenarist Joe Carnahan. bare-knuckles Irish brawl. The sincerity and earnestness of their Otherwise, it’s all sturm und drang, as 4 approach are as obvious as the plot O’Connor devotes considerable time to Ohm^] MAIL mechanics, which hinge on the long- detailing the Tierney family woes: Fran-

understood tendency of cops to close cis Jr.’s wife, Abby (Jennifer Ehle, with =`no?`gd 3 ranks and protect their own against head shaved), is in the ﬁnal stages of CURED MEATS & ARTISAN CHEESES

* QUALITY FOODSTUFFS * IT DO outsiders, as well as on loyalty within terminal cancer; Ray’s about-to-be ex- MADE-TO-ORDER SANDWICHES a clan. wife doesn’t want him back; and holiday Mortal conﬂict among brothers is of- family time is constantly interrupted by TUES–FRI 11–6 & SAT 10–5 ﬁcially the oldest story in the book, so emergencies and lowlifes dropping by GGJFbDghUhYgh@XckbhckbV=\Ua 10.22.08 it’s a disappointment that some new to bug Jimmy, leaving wives and kids

spin isn’t put on the inevitable face-off high and dry. .03 43

between smart but dour Det. Ray Tier- The action is regularly peppered # ney (Edward Norton) and his dedicated with quite violent scenes in which but bad-boy brother-in-law, Jimmy Egan the cops beat on or blow away mostly (Colin Farrell). The family also includes Hispanic bad guys to get information straight-arrow first son Francis Tierney or to avenge other cops. It’s a miser- Jr. (Noah Emmerich) and its patriarch, able world all around, without so much boozing Chief of Manhattan Detectives as a trace of satisfaction, much less Francis Tierney Sr. (Jon Voight). happiness. The deterministic tragedy CASCADIA WEEKLY Unspooling through the Christmas is guaranteed to make you more de- 25 season, the tale is triggered by a drug pressed going out than you were going ;>EEBG@A:F%P: bust gone bad, in which four of Fran- in, even if you were depressed in the cis Jr.’s men are killed. Reluctantly first place. d\PILFDMINDHFOFZlPILFDMIIDIGLO film SHOWTIMES

34 34 FOOD BY CAREY ROSS ghost. ★★★★★ 1(tISNJO Quarantine: I remember a time before Blair Witch 1JDLGPSE0DU! Project when “reality” in a horror flick was conveyed 28 28 using means other than motion-sickness-inducing The Greening of Southie: From wheatboard cabin- handheld camera work. If the vastly superior Clover- etry to recycled steel, South Boston’s Macallen Build- FILM SHORTS field and 28 Days Later had a less stylish, totally disap- ing is something different—a leader in the emerging pointing baby, it might look a lot like this film. ★ (R Beverly Hills Chihuahua: When I first learned of field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston’s CLASSIFIEDS tISNJO this film, I thought it was a documentary about Paris steel-toed construction workers, charged with making 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]] Hilton’s canine accessory. However, it’s really an ani- the project a reality, aren’t sure they like it—that is, 24 24 mated adventure about a pampered pooch who loses until they rise to the occasion to become the unlike- Saw V: Blah, blah, Jigsaw Killer, blah. Blah, blah, her way in Mexico, requires rescue and finds love. ★★ liest of environmentalists. ★★★★ 6OSBUFEt IS blah, torture porn. Oh yes, there will be blood, blah,

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BY ROB BREZSNY of Saturn is different. It invites you to creatively limit FOOD and discipline yourself so that fate isn’t forced to limit and discipline you. It so happens, Virgo, that Uranus 28 28 28 and Saturn are now poised in opposition to each FREE WILL other. Will they work at cross-purposes? Or is there a way for you to get them to work together? More than you imagine, you have the power to affect how they

interact in your personal sphere. CLASSIFIEDS ASTROLOGY CLASSIFIEDS LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I cannot tell if the ARIES (March 21-April 19): Our government day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets

spends a fortune on its armed forces—almost as much 24 is inside me again.” So wrote Jane Kenyon, translat- as do all the other nations of the world combined. In ing Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. At this juncture fact, we are by far the most weaponized empire in the in history, that’s a feeling many of us have. Part of history of the world, with 761 military bases in over the time we’re on the verge of freaking out, half- 100 countries. If our military costs were cut down to a expecting some new calamity to befall the world. more reasonable size, we’d have a trillion-dollar bonus Other times we’re awash in awe, catching glimpses of to deal with the ﬁnancial infection that erupted here the miraculous ﬂow that’s hidden just below the sur- and sent toxic ripples throughout the world. Keeping

face of everyday chaos; we’re tantalizingly close to MUSIC 20 FILM that in mind as a metaphor, Aries, make this your hy- understanding that everything is proceeding exactly pothesis: By reducing the hostility, combativeness, and as it should. In the coming weeks, this excruciating judgmental ire that you personally generate, you’ll be poignancy will peak, especially for you. Regard it as 18 far more likely to navigate your way toward prosperity. a gift—as a difﬁcult blessing that has the potential TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The days leading to free you of your illusions. ART up to the national election feature a rare opposition SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What do you do between Saturn and Uranus. Since Saturn symbolizes

when you’re squeezed between the demands of 17 the past and Uranus the future, we might expect there authority and the healthy need to rebel? How do you to be a showdown between what has been and what respond when the past and future are at odds? What will be, not only on a collective level but also in our STAGE resources do you draw on when the person you have personal realms. In what areas of your life do you think always been starts to evolve into a new form that you that will materialize, Taurus? Identify those hotspots, I’M VERY, VERY WILD… don’t recognize? You’ve come to a fork in the road, then get to work coordinating synergistic interactions 16 Scorpio, when you will be asked to deal with these between the seemingly contrary forces. AND OH SO POPULAR questions on a larger scale than before. My advice? Catch Me GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Write the number Study your past so thoroughly that you’ll be able to 10 followed by 11 zeroes. Our Milky Way Galaxy has keep it from repeating itself, and open your mind to GET OUT that many stars. Write a 10 followed by 12 zeroes. possibilities you’ve rarely considered. That’s the size of America’s national debt in dollars. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The world is

Now promise me that for the next month, you will 14 poised at the threshold of a great choice: Should we avoid absorbing any scary, overwhelming data like stick with what has worked for us, even though it’s the kind I just threw at you. Worrying about the big not working any more? Or should we experiment with financial picture would not only be fruitless, it would WORDS possibilities that may work for us in the future? You, also distract you from your main tasks, which are as Sagittarius, can and should be a leader in this epic follows: Regard the crisis as an excellent opportunity adventure. The best way to do that is to summon to shed materialistic obsessions and live more humbly 8 your dormant courage as you apply the big questions and creatively. Sublimate your buy-ological urges into I just posed to the specific circumstances of your biological urges. Stretch yourself to get into closer Try a made-from-scratch sockeye salmon burger– personal life. touch with your spiritual core. you’ll be hooked! Our new menu also includes CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The planet CURRENTS CANCER (June 21-July 22): As the stock markets Saturn symbolizes the preservative and conservative came crashing down, a different kind of global devasta- bison and turkey burgers (if you’re game). tendencies of evolution. It teaches us to learn from tion received scant notice. The World Conservation 6 the past and keeps us from rushing into the frontier Congress revealed that 25 percent of the planet’s www.fiammaburger.com 1309 RAILROAD AVE. before we’re ready. Uranus, on the other hand, rep-

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yourself in the wake of the ﬁnancial chaos, Cancerian, MAIL one of them prevail over the other in a great battle? please hold a vigil in your heart for the endangered 20% Off Or will they coordinate their efforts artfully in a Lamp creatures. The two crises are related, after all. The gorgeous dance? Amazingly enough, the outcome 3 greed to turn everything into a means of generating All Lamps depends in part on you. money has led humans to both despoil nature and risk DO IT IT DO the crazy gambles that have savaged the economy. The AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): No faking allowed, more you understand that, the better your intuition Aquarius. You must do no pretending, tell no dirty lies, Sale will be as you make personal decisions affecting your and never act as if you know things you don’t truly October 15-31 08 know. Instead, say exactly what you mean; be more

future relationship with money. .22. real than you have ever dared to be; be nothing more LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): TV’s The Daily Show did 10 and nothing less than who you actually are. Why is this a mock biography of your fellow Leo, Barack Obama, authenticity crusade so important right now? Because

poking fun at the adoration he inspires in millions of .03 in the coming weeks, you’ll be setting your life’s tone people around the world. Every time he speaks, said 43 for months to come. Y # the narrator, “an angel has an orgasm.” According to my analysis, you now have a scaled-down version of PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Uranus symbolizes that power. You may not incite the same intensity of your instinct for freedom, your drive to express your pleasure in the heavenly hosts, but you could deﬁnitely dormant genius, and your attunement with your intu- unleash eruptions of raw enthusiasm in numerous ition. Saturn represents structure and responsibility. So humans. I suggest that like Obama, you channel it in what should you do when these two planets are in ex- service to a cause beyond your own selﬁsh interests. act opposition, as they are now? Here’s one hint: We’re all being squeezed between a mandate to head toward

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When the planet CASCADIA WEEKLY the frontier and the pressure to play it safe. To keep Uranus comes into play, as it is now, it’s a good time from being paralyzed, some of us may have to choose to initiate experiments that will expedite the arrival one way over the other. In my opinion, you Pisceans 33 of future blessings. Pushing beyond comforting habits, are likely to proﬁt by choosing the Uranian path. you thrive by going in quest of bracing truths, unfash- 119 W. CHESTNUT S S SUN

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ART ART to waste. In the fall, the big orange pumpkins she grew weren’t just for the growing legions of 17 grandchildren and great-grandchildren to carve into Hallow- STAGE STAGE een jack-o-lanterns, they were cooked into tasty pies and com- 16 forting soups. Pumpkins, and gourds in GRAM’S

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14 zen without losing their es- 6 oz. onion, ﬁnely diced sential ﬂavor. Gram harvested 2 tbsp. butter

WORDS her pumpkins, cut, cooked and 6 oz. pumpkin (or one large can) froze them, and used them all 32 oz. chicken or vegetable stock (low through the winter. While most sodium) 8 of my friends could not imag- 2 bay leaves ine eating pumpkin in any form ½ tsp nutmeg besides a store-bought pie con- 2 cups water CURRENTS CURRENTS sumed at Thanksgiving with an 1 can evaporated milk BY AMY STRUPPA-LOHSE

6 enormous dollop of Cool Whip, pumpkins were a staple for Cut the pumpkin into chunks. Remove the guts and seeds (save the seeds for roast-

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my Grandma says, “You don’t want to have 3 taurant’s fall menu—daringly Pumpkin Soup to chew this soup with your teeth.” You paired with black beans, cur- need about 6 oz. of pumpkin, or you can DO IT IT DO OUT OF THIS WORLD ries or even coconut. cheat and use 1 large can of plain, organic Maybe I’m a traditionalist, but pumpkin. (Be warned, I have been scolded 08 08 I ﬁnd that Gram’s simple recipe for taking this shortcut, as the canned .22. really highlights the sweet, pumpkin does not have the same integrity 10 as the real deal.) WHEN I think of my great grandmother—or “Gram,” as she was lovingly called—I earthy ﬂavor of the pumpkin Start the soup by sauteing the diced

.03 think of her on the Los Angeles evening news swimming marathons at the age of 90. I and is by far my favorite. onions in the butter, stirring occasionally. 43

# think of her squeezing our fingers until we cried uncle, of her lifelong marriage to my I always serve this soup at In Gram’s words, cook on low flame! until great grandfather, and of the mouthwatering dishes she made in the kitchen, which Thanksgiving, but it is a wel- onions are clear, not brown, about five to was, above all else, her domain. come addition to any autumnal 10 minutes. Add pumpkin, chicken stock, water, bay leaves and nutmeg. Simmer for Before she died, Gram transcribed instructions for future generations to keep the family feast, or is great just as a 15 to 20 minutes. Next, add the evapo- dishes going. Today I have a box of handwritten recipe cards full of emphatic instructions on quick dinner served with a rated milk (it sounds weird, but don’t mess how to recreate things like her stuffed mushrooms, persimmon cookies and pastina soup. hunk of crusty bread and but- with tradition) and heat thoroughly. Do While most of her ingredients are simple and inexpensive, the most important detail, al- ter and a simple mixed-greens not boil. CASCADIA WEEKLY ways written at the bottom of the card is, “Enjoy it!” Meals were more than life sustenance salad. As my Gram wrote, on Last but certainly not least, put on a little Dean Martin for Gram and “Enjoy it!” 34 to Gram, they were the lifeblood that defined our family, as unshakable as our DNA. the 5”x7” card kept safely in This recipe serves six. One recipe I’m reminded of every fall is her easy yet delicious pumpkin soup. Gram had my recipe box, “It’s out of this a large garden at her home in Burbank. The garden was full of figs, citrus fruit trees, to- world.” Literature SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25th 7pm You’ll be amazed at what is happening around the country to help Mother Nature!

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