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BEST OF SKAGIT: Last chance to vote, P.17 MUSICAL MASHUP From Budd to Blake, P.18 america's Who's alliances at the wheel? P.08 The Little Mermaid: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre Men are from Mars: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount

c a s c a d i a Vernon 30  Putnam County Spelling Bee: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre FOOD  ThisWeek Against All Odds: 8pm, Upfront Theatre A glance at this week’s Face Off: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 24 happenings DANCE Thirst No More: 2pm and 7pm, Lynden Christian High School B-BOARD  Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library

22 MUSIC Fidalgo Youth Symphony: 1pm, Mount Baker Theatre FILM  Geoffrey Castle’s Celtic Celebration: 7:30- 10:30pm, Kennelly Keys, Anacortes 18 COMMUNITY 10am-3pm, Bellingham Sportsplex MUSIC  Bham Fam Fair: Fiddler Athena Rock & Gem Show: 10am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan My Brother’s Battle: 12-4pm, Boundary Bay Brewery

16 Tergis and Skagit Land Trust Auction: 5-9pm, Swinomish

ART  vocalist Casino & Lodge, Anacortes GET OUT

15 and multi- Native Plant Sale & Expo: 9am-2pm, Whatcom Com- instrumentalist munity College STAGE  Home & Garden Show: 10am-6pm, Skagit County Mick Moloney will Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon Fairhaven Plant and Tree Sale: 10am-3pm, Hill- 14 make memorable crest Chapel

music Tues., March FOOD GET OUT  Pancake Breakfast: 8-10:30am, Lynden Community 28 at Western Center Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, American Legion Hall, 12 Washington Ferndale

WORDS  University’s Old VISUAL Main Theater Lisa McShane Talk: 4pm, Smith & Vallee Gallery,

 8 Edison SUNDAY [03.26.17] CURRENTS [03. .17] ONSTAGE WEDNESDAY 22 Godspell: 2pm, BAAY Theatre 6 MUSIC Avenue Q: 2pm, Anacortes High School Putnam County Spelling Bee: 2pm, Anacortes Com-

VIEWS  Rock the Salish Sea: 6pm, Mount Baker Theatre munity Theatre Dave Gibson Quartet: 7pm, Unity Spiritual Center Check out the green scene Sat., The Little Mermaid: 3pm, Lincoln Theatre 4  THURSDAY [03.23.17] March 25 at the 29th annual MUSIC MAIL  ONSTAGE Fairhaven Plant and Tree Sale Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre 2 

2  Avenue Q: 7pm, Anacortes High School Sound/Counterpoint: 3pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal The Little Mermaid: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre at Hillcrest Chapel. A Native Church, Mount Vernon DO IT  DO IT  Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Plant Sale & Expo takes place Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, the Majestic The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre the same day at Whatcom Keola Beamer, Jeff Peterson: 7:30pm, Lincoln DANCE Theatre Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library Community College 03.22.17 COMMUNITY MUSIC Rock & Gem Show: 10am-5pm, Bloedel Donovan .12 Bands of Justice: 8pm, Wild Buffalo 12 GET OUT # Home & Garden Show: 10am-4pm, Skagit County WORDS Always...Patsy Cline: 7pm, Conway Muse GET OUT Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon Chuckanut Radio Hour: 6:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Avenue Q: 7pm, Anacortes High School Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Whatcom Falls Park Theatre, Lynden The Little Mermaid: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre Home & Garden Show: 12-7pm, Skagit County Debu Majumdar: 7pm, Lynden Library Men are from Mars: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon MONDAY [03.27.17] Vernon ONSTAGE COMMUNITY Putnam County Spelling Bee: 7:30pm, Anacortes VISUAL Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog Know Your Neighbor Forum: 7pm, Van Zandt Com- Community Theatre Studio Sale: 3-6pm, Cooper Lanza Gallery CASCADIA WEEKLY munity Hall Against All Odds: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Hops for Homes: 4-9pm, Elizabeth Station Face Off: 10pm, Upfront Theatre TUESDAY [03.28.17] 2 SATURDAY [03.25.17] MUSIC WORDS ONSTAGE FRIDAY [03.24.17] Moloney & Tergis: 7pm, Old Main Theater, WWU Not Just for Kids: 12pm, Bellingham Public Library Godspell: 2pm and 7pm, BAAY Theatre ONSTAGE Serge Alternes: 7pm, Village Books Always...Patsy Cline: 7pm, Conway Muse FOOD Godspell: 7pm, BAAY Theatre Avenue Q: 7pm, Anacortes High School Mondays in March From 6pm - 10pm one lucky guest each hour will step inside the CASH CUBE and grab their share of $5,000! Earn entries daily.

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4  Very funny how you rail against government— ally and spiritually to the Coast Salish people, 24: Bulletin Board, Free Will Barb Murdoch and yet you and your wife continue to reap your and we support the Lummi Nation’s interest in MAIL  MAIL  25: Wellness Letters income from the government. Very interesting. protecting that area. Our nation must honor the SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@

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nothing. Then, in 2015, the lab workers ing only those with incomes greater than 30  with others, but mostly women, fought $200,000 per year and disproportionally for a contract with a pay scale. Only two weighted to the ultra-wealthy. FOOD  years later PeaceHealth is selling the lab House Speaker Paul Ryan has been jobs out to Quest Diagnostics. That means surprisingly candid when he stated “the 24 75-100 living-wage ($15-$27/hour base), point here is we’re keeping our promises.” union jobs going away. He just didn’t elaborate that it was the This is bad for the local economy and promises he made to his billionaire donors B-BOARD  small business; and it negatively im- like the Koch Brothers.

pacts the families of these caregivers, The GOP keeps pulling off a great mag- 22 some of whom have dedicated decades ic trick, convincing enough people that to PeaceHealth. With their newly con- voting for the interests of billionaires is FILM  tracted secure incomes, they have at also to their benefit. The very voters who

last purchased local houses, new cars, or placed the GOP into power, especially the 18 believed they had the financial security age group 50-64, are about to get a rude to have kids. awakening since they are now the people MUSIC  The lab going will not only hurt workers, most likely to be harmed by the passage of but it will also degrade medical care for this greed-inspired “American (H)Wealth 16

patients. Currently, tests are done locally. Care Act.” ART  Under Quest, most testing of lab speci- If you truly care about health care,

mens would be done in Seattle or South- please check out a viable alternative, HR 15 ern California. 676, that would actually have the United

This hurts turnaround times for results States join the rest of the developed world STAGE  and can have serious implications for pa- in providing universal health care and save tient care when we have outbreaks, like money at the same time. 14 the 2015 E. coli outbreak in Lynden. If we Call your members of congress and let didn’t have our local lab professionals, them know you support universal health the secondhand transmissions in that out- care, not a billionaire handout. GET OUT  break could have been far higher. —Douglas L Madsen, MD, Bellingham

Finally, out-of-state for-profit health- 12 care is bad and this company is bad. The END MILITARY EXCESS company Quest Diagnostics is not ac- The Trump administration and some WORDS  countable to our local community. They members of Congress are developing

are for-profit and publicly traded, so their plans to increase defense spending by  8 interest is just to make money. Research $54 billion in the near term, on top of shows they have a court record of faulty the roughly $600 billion per year the De-

diagnostic test kits, data breaches, wage partment of Defense is already spend- CURRENTS theft, double-billing Medicare and over- ing. Recently, more than 120 retired charging their Medi-Cal Program and vio- three- and four-star generals wrote in a 6 lating the state of California’s False Claims letter to Congress, “We know from our VIEWS  Act for some 15 years. service in uniform that many of the cri- 4 

Saint Joseph, the patron saint of work- ses our nation faces do not have military 4  ers, would never give them an “in” here! solutions alone.” MAIL  —Rachael Weasley, Bellingham The United States spends roughly three MAIL 

times more on defense than China and 2  WEALTH CARE, about 10 times more than Russia. Waste- CLEANED NOT HEALTH CARE ful spending accounts for a huge chunk DO IT  The GOP’s Orwellian-inspired naming of those expenditures—in the DoD’s own TESTED of their Obamacare replacement as the study, they identified over $125 billion in GUARANTEED “American Health Care Act” is designed waste. But even with that internal study, to divert attention from their actual in- DoD is the only federal department that 03.22.17 tentions—rewarding their ultra-wealthy cannot audit its own books. .12

benefactors with a massive tax cut. By The Pentagon does not lack funds. It 12 cynically wrapping this plan in the flag lacks a culture of fiscal responsibility be- # with terms of “freedom” and “choice,” cause Congress does not hold it account- QUALITY USED APPLIANCES they are hoping you won’t notice that it able—nor have the taxpayers. means freedom from taxes for the well-off It’s time, as taxpayers, to contact Sena- Your purchases support our and choice that insurance companies can tors Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and raise their rates, making insurance even Representatives Rick Larsen and Suzan job training program, help (360) 527-2646 less affordable, giving you a “choice” to DelBene and let them know we expect protect the environment, CASCADIA WEEKLY not be able to afford to buy insurance. them to vote against all increases in mili- and strengthen the local 5 Even the American Medical Association tary spending. We need an impenetrable economy. (no bastion of liberalism) and AARP have firewall in Congress to prevent these ir- joined the opposition to this proposal, responsible increases to the bloated, un- 802 Marine Drive rightly focusing on the disastrous predic- audited Pentagon budget. appliancedepotbham.com tions for actual health care. —Micki Jackson, Bellingham THE GRISTLE HIGH BARRIERS FOR LOW BARRIERS: The mayor has

30  encountered headwinds in her long journey to site a homeless shelter near homeless services. FOOD  Earlier this month, the City of Bellingham—after years of searching—identified a potential location for views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE a new emergency night shelter to serve those experi- 24 encing homelessness. Mayor Kelli Linville had searched for more than four years to site this particular need, B-BOARD  and has been working with Lighthouse Mission Minis- tries (LMM), which has been operating an interim shel-

22 ter in Old Town since October, to identify a location for a long-term shelter that operates with services 24

FILM  hours a day. BY ERIC HIRST It’s not an easy task. These are the hardest of the

18 placements, the people—typically single adult men— who do not fit easily into other housing programs Supply and Demand MUSIC  based on need or social services funding. They’re not necessarily free from the ravages of drugs and alco- WHITHER WHATCOM WATER WOES?

16 hol abuse, where sobriety is  a requirement both of the

ART  Mission and of the interim shelter the ministry has WHATCOM COUNTY has plies in the future. Although the been operating. The city estimates there may be some plenty of water in winter, when year-to-year changes are small, the

15 200-300 chronically unsheltered and homeless indi- people need it least. But in sum- trends are clear. viduals in Bellingham, many scattered in doorways, mer, when demand for water is at Although these historical data

STAGE  foyers, unsecured public spaces and makeshift creek- its peak, it is in short supply. are interesting in their own right, side camps. Essentially they’re living on someone else’s In the summer, farmers need lots the key question is what they sug- property and—looking at the issue narrowly through of water for crops and cattle. City- gest for Whatcom County’s future 14 a purely pragmatic lens of enforcement—when they’re dwellers want water for yards, kiddie water supply/demand balance. told to move along, they need an alternative where pools and water-gun fights. Salmon sured at Ferndale fluctuate a lot To explore that issue, I created

GET OUT  they can freely and legally go. In larger scope, the need streams with enough cold, clear from year to year. The data also a scenario 20 years out. I assumed public goal is never to simply warehouse people, but water to spawn and survive for an- show a long-term decline of 10 cu- that indoor water use for the resi-

12 to connect them to the services they need to improve other generation. And the county’s bic feet per second (cfs) per year. dential, commercial and industrial their lives. These homeless individuals need a place; two Native American tribes, the This decline appears to be speed- sectors remains unchanged in spite and the place is not easy to find: You can’t site such a Lummi Nation and Nooksack Indian ing up. Looking at only the past 20 of population growth. This assump- WORDS  facility in a neighborhood, near a school, or in a com- Tribe, have treaty-guaranteed fish- years, the decline averages 23 cfs tion is based on the historical record

 8 mercial center; and it is useless to site one far from ing rights and are determined to see per year, about 1 percent per year. of continued improvements in wa- urban transportation (even sidewalks!) and social ser- that the fish don’t get shortchanged. In addition to lower streamflows, ter-use efficiency with only modest vices. An industrial zone such as that in Old Town near To make matters worse, climate water temperatures are increasing efforts from local water suppliers.

CURRENTS the marine trades center makes sense, but then you change will likely reduce our sum- by an average of 0.37 oF per year. Outdoor water use will almost are chewing into the scarce industrial land base and mer water supply in the years Water temperatures in many parts surely be greater because of higher 6 6 you are foreclosing on some of the city’s most precious ahead, at the same time that popu- of the Nooksack River system are air temperatures and lower rain- high-paying industrial jobs. lation and demand increase. already too high for healthy salm- fall. I calculated the effects of VIEWS  VIEWS  The proposed center would serve a maximum of 200 Historical data illustrates likely on. The combination of lower flows lower summer rainfall on irrigation,

4  people, and provide meals, bathroom and shower ac- future changes in supply and demand and higher water temperatures will which led to a 3 percent increase in commodations, hygiene supplies, social space, storage that are already making this season- make it even more difficult for water use in 20 years. I arbitrarily MAIL  space for belongings, and access to various clinics and al imbalance worse. In summer (July, salmon and other wildlife to thrive. increased that effect by 50 percent

2  service providers. Importantly, no one will be turned August, September) when water de- Summer rainfall has been de- to account for the effects of higher away based on religious preference, sexual orientation mand is highest and supply is low- creasing slowly and erratically air temperature on irrigation water

DO IT  or gender identity, and there will be no religious re- est, we see declines in streamflow, over the past several decades. The use. I then calculated the reduction quirements or prerequisites to any services provided. increases in water temperatures, de- historical decline averages 0.028 in streamflows and compared today Drug or alcohol testing will not be required to stay clines in rainfall, and loss of glacier inches of rain per year at Clear- with the future for July, August, at the low-barrier shelter, but all guests will be ex- mass. On the demand side, the key brook, about 0.5 percent per year. and September streamflows and hu- 03.22.17 pected to maintain respectful behavior and no alcohol factors are population growth plus Results are similar for Bellingham man uses. or drugs will be permitted in the facility or grounds. increases in air temperature and and Blaine. Under current conditions, out-of- .12

12 Under the agreement Lighthouse Mission Ministries decreases in rainfall (both of which Finally, glaciers throughout the stream summer water uses are equiv- # will provide the day-to-day service in a lease and an increase demand for irrigation wa- North Cascades are shrinking. Be- alent to 14 percent of Nooksack Riv- operating contract with the City of Bellingham. ter—golf courses, lawns, gardens, tween 1985 and 2016, glacier mass er flows. The percentage is highest Linville outlined the challenges in a presentation to and agriculture). These factors fore- declined by more than 25 precent. in August (20 percent) and lower in Port of Bellingham commissioners this week, as the tell harder times ahead for salmon, Because glaciers act as giant reser- July and September (11 precent). agency considers the impacts on its marine trades in- other wildlife, recreation and scenic voirs, their loss means less snowmelt Under the future scenario, dustrial zone and their clients there. Last week, city values. Supplies for human uses will and streamflow during the summer. streamflows are lower by 15 per-

CASCADIA WEEKLY staff met with business leaders at a well-attended as- also be reduced. The long-term trends in all four cent and water use is higher by 3 sembly of the Downtown Bellingham Partnership on The U.S. Geological Survey main- of these factors (summer stream- percent. The combined effect of 6 safety and security issues in the urban core. tains river gauges that provide flow, summer water temperature, these two factors is a 17 percent Both meetings can be characterized by a high de- years of data on the flow of water summer rainfall and glacier mass) increase in the effects of water use gree of public sympathy and support for the goal of in the Nooksack River. Flows mea- will almost surely limit water sup- on streamflows. finding solutions for this last, hardest group in the housing equation, but also great concern for the con- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE sequences of siting this facility in the A BETTER WAY TO

nascent waterfront district adjacent 30  to downtown. “Out of 240 acres in the waterfront PLAY FOOD  district, a little over one acre of city EVERY property has been identified for use as 24 an emergency shelter,” Linville noted, DAY ATNORTHWOOD! adding that the city is working with the port to find alternative places to B-BOARD  retain the current businesses and re-

locate them. 22 The acre is part of the city-owned

Colony Wharf, with generous access FILM  to Whatcom Waterway, and if built the

shelter would displace Northwest Die- 18 sel Power, Pacific Marine Electric, and three other marine trades businesses. MUSIC  Perhaps more critically, the placement of shelter services could tip a delicate 16

balance and critical mass of a much ART  more extensive fledgling marine trades

industry that has begun to flourish 15 west of the Waterway in the years since

the closure of the Georgia-Pacific mill. STAGE  “The businesses located on this property currently are water-dependent 14 businesses that have to be sited on the More Cash And More waterfront,” the Working Waterfront

Coalition noted in remarks to the port GET OUT  commission. The coalition represents more than 100 maritime businesses in Points Every Friday! 12 Whatcom County. “Preserving proper- Winners Club Members get 5x Points on all their play from 6pm ties which provide access to our navi- to close every Friday night in March! Plus, they get a free entry for WORDS  gable waterways for water-dependent $500 drawings every 30 minutes from 6pm to 10pm!

businesses is essential to maintaining  8 a working waterfront in Bellingham. Displacing the current businesses cre-

ates an immediate loss of family-wage CURRENTS marine trades jobs, which may or may 6 not chose to relocate in Bellingham. 6 The location of the proposed shelter VIEWS  VIEWS  also breaks up the core marine trades SUPER SATURDAYS area, segmenting this industrial activ- 4  ity. In addition, Bellingham is in the very beginning stages of a waterfront MAIL 

redevelopment project. Siting this RETURN FOR 2  project at the Roeder Ave. location has

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BELLINGHAM by the Russian government to see how far they can push things because they do object to the participation of the Baltic states and other Eastern

30  members in the alliance. I think it’s more than posturing. Six or seven FOOD  currents years ago there was a very serious NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX cyber attack on Estonia. Russian military activity has been stepped up 24 and Russia has put missiles in Kalin- ingrad. The Russians under Putin have B-BOARD  election and the resistance to trans- been callous and open about manip- parent investigation of this matter. ulating minorities in neighboring

22 With regard to our foreign policy I feel states; that was part of the story of that we are losing friends and per- what happened in Ukraine. So I think

FILM  haps courting disaster. There are real the fears are well grounded. threats and challenges in the world AR: Defense Secretary James Mattis and

18 and we are not taking the steps to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster deal with them and are at the mercy of are known for being scholarly, informed,

MUSIC  events that could create a crisis. reasonable men. Is there any chance AR: You spent much of your career working Trump will actually listen to them?

16 with NATO. What’s NATO’s role in the JK: I hope so, but it’s been very hard

ART  post-Cold War world? to line up the positive things that JK: In a way it’s the same as during the Secretary Mattis said during his visit

15 Cold War: to defend the member states to Europe—or Secretary of State Til- of the alliance. It has also been an im- lerson or even Vice President Pence—

STAGE  portant transformational organization with what the president and White that has worked with, for example, the House spokesman have been saying. countries of the former Warsaw Pact There’s an inconsistency there, but 14 to adjust to the principles that guide clearly it’s beneficial that this other representative democracy based upon message is being sent and I hope

GET OUT  civilian control of the military. that they have influence. AR: Trump charges that NATO members are AR: What are your observations on the

12 not paying their fair share for defense. current refugee crisis? Is that a valid charge? JK: We have the capacity to receive JK: It is, but I’m not sure the way he a lot more refugees from Syria. We WORDS  John M. Koenig phrases it is useful or productive. One are shamed by the large number of (right) with

 8 German Chancellor, bit of advice that I occasionally gave to refugees that Canada is willing to take. Angela Merkel a new administration coming in was to The refugees are not a threat. The press investment by our European allies instability created by the situation is CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 earlier, harder and higher. They have indeed a threat that we have to try to been good partners, but failure to make address in a humanitarian way. 6 BY ALAN RHODES the necessary investment over time AR: You've stated that if you were still could have a corrosive effect on the working as an American diplomat you VIEWS  alliance. What we don’t need is to make would resign “and join the resistance

4  the commitment to mutual defense on the outside.” Do you now consider conditional on some kind of pay up or yourself part of that resistance? MAIL  AMERICAFIRST languish. That is unhelpful. I also worry JK: I do, and the avenues I have taken

2  A FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR SPEAKS OUT that President Trump, quite apart from include showing up for marches and NATO, has an even more corrosive view demonstrations. They are important.

DO IT  JOHN M. KOENIG is a former U.S. ambassador to Cyprus who also held positions in on the European Union and European I really enjoyed the Women’s March. Germany, Greece, and with NATO, an organization that has in recent weeks come under integration. Peace in Europe is not My wife and I went down to Seattle criticism by the new administration. After a 31-year career, Koenig retired in 2015, re- something we should take for granted. for it and the atmosphere was heart- turning to his native Northwest and settling in Bellingham. I sat down with him recent- We need to support the institutions ening and bright. In addition I have 03.22.17 ly to get his perspective on foreign relations in these days of President Donald Trump. that have brought us peace. NATO is been giving talks on what I call the Alan Rhodes: Donald Trump had been in office for only one week when you wrote one of those, but the European Union is New Cold War. And I will be teaching .12

12 in The Seattle Times, “I have never been so ashamed of American foreign policy.” also one. If we allow or encourage the more in the near future where I hope # Please elaborate on that. European Union to deteriorate or con- to introduce ideas that people will be John Koenig: That first week came against the background of the transition ceivably collapse, we will be confronted able to use to form their own views on which also did not make me very proud of what was coming. The way Trump with security problems in a place that the Trump administration. articulates foreign policy is not based on enlightened self-interest, but upon we had always regarded as one of the AR: Finally, what should concerned citi- this “America First” notion that in a zero-sum game we should shovel up all the most secure, most reliable partners for zens be doing? benefits from our relations in the world. That is disastrous as a way of doing the United States. JK: Keep in touch with your congres-

CASCADIA WEEKLY business and it also reflects a meanness of spirit that I’ve personally never AR: I was in the Baltic countries not sional representatives and senators. seen in American leaders before. too long ago and people in Lithuania, Keep up with the issues. Pay for 8 AR: What else have you observed now into a few weeks into the administration? Latvia, and particularly Estonia are very subscriptions to good newspapers and JK: There’s a scattershot enunciation of principles and goals without any consis- worried about Putin’s possible designs on magazines that are doing investiga- tency across the administration and within President Trump himself. them. Is there a real threat there, or is tive reporting. Stay engaged, vote, AR: What things keep you up at night? it Putin posturing? volunteer, show up. These things make JK: The indications that Russia has wielded inappropriate influences over the JK: I think there will be a lot of testing a difference. FICIA F L O SPONSOR OF

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GET OUT  finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on of possible criminal activity, and not for businessman who made money selling a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Trump’s proposal seeks to upend Washington with questions relating only to immigration sta- cars and then restored much of the historic Fairhaven business district,

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 8 local governments. [Associated Press] al vehicle fuel-economy and emissions rotting in the fields because of a lack of standards. “As the governors of Washing- workers to harvest them. Cracking down The governor calls on the state’s congressional delegation to fiercely resist ton and Oregon, the mayors of Seattle, on undocumented workers has the poten- CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 the Republican replacement of the Affordable Care Act, based on its poor scoring Portland, San Francisco, and Oakland, and tial for disaster for agribusiness, growers by budget analysts. “It would actually leave our nation worse off than before the representing a West Coast region of over tell media. [KGMI] 6 ACA was implemented. Republican leaders use words like ‘freedom’ and ‘choice’ to 50 million people with a combined GDP hide what they’re really doing, which is ripping away one of our most important of $2.8 trillion, we speak today in unified 02.20.17 VIEWS  safety nets and rewinding the clock to a time before cancer patients could get opposition to the federal withdrawal from MONDAY 4  coverage, all women could get preventative care and thousands could get help for the vehicle fuel efficiency standards that opioid addiction,” Inslee said. [Governor’s Office] have worked for years to lower consumers’ Cascade Natural Gas has agreed to pay MAIL  fuel costs while making our air healthier $1 million to settle allegations it broke

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one of the bedrooms where the woman was FOOD  SPECIAL REPORT: asleep. She was awakened when he walked ALTERNATIVE HOUSING in and laid down on her bed. She yelled at 24 On March 3, Blaine Police were asked by the man and he fled. A police K9 attempted management of a storage unit to contact a to the track the suspect without success.

couple who might be living inside it. “The “Later in the morning the woman called B-BOARD  manager wanted to advise the occupants back when she discovered a ground floor

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there. Officers followed up with the man- years old, 6 feet tall and 200 pounds with 18 ager who decided to hold off on taking any shorter light brown hair and was wearing a

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and cologne. 16 On March 9, the Port of Bellingham called ART  police for a assistance with a man who was JUMBO AND DUMBO sleeping in a vehicle near Gate 1 of the On March 14, Blaine Police were dis- 15 Blaine Marina. Officers spoke with the man, patched to a local motel for a noise com-

who had a valid driver’s license and no out- plaint. “The caller said it sounded like two STAGE  standing warrants. He was asked to leave large elephants were banging around in the property by port officials. the upstairs room,” police reported. “Of- 14 ficers arrived and found two very intoxi- On March 11, Blaine Police checked on a cated brothers who decided to have a late

woman sleeping in her car. “The woman was night WWE Championship-style match in- GET OUT  hard asleep but was eventually awakened side the motel room. Even after bionic el- from her slumber,” police reported. “The bows, cactus clotheslines and flying fore- 12 woman explained that she had been up all arm smashes, no injuries were obtained day and ran out to get snacks when she was by either participant. Both were actually WORDS  overcome with exhaustion. The woman was quite proud of their time in the ring. The 37 alert and embarrassed about the incident. room however had both beds pulled away 8 Percent of Americans who approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing.  8 Alcohol was not a factor.” from the walls and clothes strewn about, Nearly 60 percent disapprove. His approval rating stood at 45 percent just evidence that the noise complaint had nine days ago. CURRENTS  CURRENTS On March 14, Bellingham Police spoke to been valid,” police observed. “No arrests CURRENTS a man who was sleeping in his car north were made on this contact as both broth- of the city. ers were very adamant the wrestling had 6 been all in fun. However, one of the broth- 72 60 On March 12, Bellingham Police checked ers had an outstanding warrant through Trump’s approval rating is lower Percent approval of Barack VIEWS  than any other president at this Obama at this same point in his

on a person sleeping in Roosevelt Park. Seattle Police Department. The coopera- point in his first term since Gallup presidency. 4  tive 29-year-old wanted warrior traded the started tracking the numbers 72 On March 12, Bellingham Police spoke to a WWE for the WCJ,” police concluded. years ago in 1945. MAIL 

man having a nap on a sidewalk downtown. 2  He declined an offer of assistance from offi- On March 14, Bellingham Police responded

cers and was issued a citation for violating to a report of two men fighting near the DO IT  a city ordinance. Sunset Car Wash. Both men began fighting 57 with police officers. They were transported Percent of young adults aged 18-30 who see Trump’s presidency as On March 13, a Blaine patrol officer ob- to Whacom County Jail. illegitimate, including about three-quarters of blacks and large majorities of served a person slumped on a park bench. Latinos and Asians. 03.22.17 “The officer stopped to check on the man TOO MUCH MUTT .12

and was able to identify him as a local On March 12, a man called Blaine Police 12 transient. The man did not want any assis- to report an aggressive dog in his neigh- 50 # tance,” police reported. borhood. “The man said the dog frequently Percent of poll respondents who do not believe President Trump’s claim he was wanders the streets,” police reported. “To- unlawfully wiretapped by the previous administration. Only one in five believe he On March 14, a bank in Blaine complained day the dog barked and charged at an el- has evidence such an act occurred. Republicans, however, generally support the about discarded furniture from a neighbor- derly woman. Fearing for the woman’s safe- President’s claim by 60 percent to 24 percent. ing apartment building deposited in their ty, the man called police. Police contacted

parking area. “No one from the bank want- the owner of the dog who said she is trying CASCADIA WEEKLY ed the furniture, either, and requested po- to find a new home for the energetic escap- 70 11 lice to help contact the responsible party,” ee, who has proven to be too much for their Percent of President Trump’s public statements judged as false or mostly false police reported. family and for its small yard,” police noted. by Politifact. More than 17 percent of his statements drew a “pants on fire” “The owner will be cited for allowing a dog rating. Only 4 percent of his statements are determined true by the fact- checking organization. NIGHT FRIGHT at large, and the case will be forwarded to On March 18, a young woman was awak- the Humane Society.” SOURCES: Gallup; GenForward/ Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research; You.Gov poll; Politifact doit WORDS MARCH 22-31 30  POETRY CONTEST: The annual Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest is accepting sub- FOOD  missions through March 31. See submission guidelines online. WWW.OTHERMINDPRESS.WORDPRESS.COM 24 words COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS THURS., MARCH 23 CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Janie Chang B-BOARD  will discuss her newest novel, Dragon Springs Road, as the featured author at the Chuckanut Radio Hour starting at 6:30pm 22 its and unfinished business. Here Willie encounters numerous ghosts, all of whom at Lynden’s Claire VG Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. The monthly live radio taping will FILM  speak with the authority of the long-dead also include performance poet Kevin Murphy, about Lincoln’s grief and the pettiness and Weekly columnist Alan Rhodes, and more.

18 sorrow of their own histories. Tickets are $5. Interspersed with the voices of the WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

MUSIC  ghosts are actual historical accounts from this period in history. Some chap- SACRED RIVER: Join Debu Majumdar for a tour of north India when he shares stories 16 ters are simply a string of sewn-together and images from his book Sacred River: A Hi-

ART  quotes from various malayan Journey from 7-8:30pm at the Lynden Lincoln biographies, Library, 216 4th St. Entry is free. (360) 354-4883

15 most real, some made up, a blending of fact FRI., MARCH 24 STAGE  and fiction that feels NOT JUST FOR KIDS: Humanities Washing- eerily familiar in to- ton speaker and University of Washington day’s “post-fact” po- senior lecturer Anu Taranath will lead a 14 litical climate. This is “Not Just for Kids: How Children’s Literature groundbreaking writ- Inspires Bold Conversations” presentation at 12pm at the Lecture Room at the Bellingham

GET OUT  GET IT HOW: Visit your ing that feels alter- Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Entry is free. library catalog nately like the rav- (360) 778-7236

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12 ings of a madman and GEORGE SAUNDERS on Lincoln in the a haunting, mesmer- LIVE SOULS: Serge Alternes shares stories Bardo, available izing story of grief and images from Live Souls: Citizens & Vol- WORDS  WORDS  in regular and unteers of Civil War Spain at 7pm at Village large print, book and love. Books, 1200 11th St. The memoir is focused

 8 on CD, eBook and Lincoln is por- on his father Alan Wainman’s humanitar- eAudiobook. trayed as needing ian work as a volunteer during the Spanish REVIEWED BY LISA GRESHAM MORE: While you to move through his Civil War. wait, consider WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

CURRENTS grief in order to unite reading The Tenth a deeply divided pop-

6 of December if SUN., MARCH 26 Saunders’ Story you missed it the ulace who adhere to NEVER LET YOU GO: Chevy Stevens reads first time around. two versions of real- from Never Let You Go at 4pm at Village VIEWS  INSIDE LINCOLN’S WHITE HOUSE The audiobook ity without a lot of Books, 1200 11th St. The book focuses on a promises to be a woman who has left an abusive relationship 4  hope for reconcilia- unique listening and started a new life with her teenage GEORGE SAUNDERS is known as a short story genius; experience; with tion. Because of the daughter only to find out someone is track- MAIL  his 2013 collection, The Tenth of December, was a National a 166-person full similarity to our cur- ing her every move.

cast that includes WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM 2  Book Award finalist and named one of the 10 best books of rent political divide, the year by The New York Times Book Review. Saunders is also David Sedaris, The Stranger heralded Carrie Brownstein, MON., MARCH 27 DO IT  an accomplished essayist of darkly humorous pieces explor- the story as “the first Ben Stiller, LIBRARY TOUR: View a hidden fourth floor, ing consumerism and the role of mass media in modern life, Julianne Moore, essential novel of the a “book hospital” and much more at a free taking an often satirical look at corporate capitalism. Susan Sarandon, Donald Trump era.” “Behind the Scenes” tour taking place from Now comes his first novel, and to hear Saunders dis- and the author Political commen- 6-7:30pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 03.22.17 cuss it, he might have preferred that Lincoln in the Bardo himself (as well tary aside, Lincoln in Central Ave. Meet at the upper mezzanine at remain a short story. Or even a play—he confesses to as a number of his the Bardo also asks the library; entry is free. .12 family, friends and (360) 778-7217 12 spending years trying to wrangle it into play form. How- members of his spiritual questions # ever, the image that he carried for many years of Abra- publishing team). about what happens OPEN MIC: Published and unpublished ham Lincoln visiting his son Willie’s crypt to hold his to us after we die. One writers are encouraged to attend and enjoy small body one last time wouldn’t be dissuaded from becoming a full-blown novel. of the central questions of the novel, ac- a welcoming audience when they share their The story begins on the evening of a White House party. Willie, suffering from typhoid cording to Saunders, is essentially this: stories, poems and essays at a monthly Open Mic at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. fever, lies upstairs, still very ill, but expected to recover. Mary Todd Lincoln even saves “We’re here, it seems pretty wonderful, Sign up at the main counter on the first floor him some sweets from the party to enjoy when he feels better. Before the night is over, it’s gonna end, how should we behave?” or call the number listed here to do so.

CASCADIA WEEKLY however, Willie is dead and Lincoln—of all our Presidents, the one most steeped in sad- In the end, Saunders succeeds in re- (360) 671-2626 ness—is despairing. Looming before him is the threat of civil war. He mourns this single minding us of our resilience, humanity 12 life lost against the backdrop of an imminent war where many lives will be lost. and ability to persevere through ter- POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign Saunders is known as a “slipstream” writer who weaves fantastical elements into oth- rible suffering. up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, erwise realistic stories. This singular evening is the historical anchor for Lincoln in the 210 Central Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Bardo. Young Willie is interred and Saunders imagines him entering into a state known Lisa Gresham is the Collection Support Man- WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy as the “bardo,” an in-between place full of unquiet spir- ager for Whatcom County Library System. Cascadia Weekly doit come learn with us ! TUES., MARCH 28 GATHER ROUND: All are welcome at a new monthly forum for people who love a good story, “Gather Round: True Stories Told Live,” 30  taking place from 7-8:30pm at Honey Moon, FOOD  1053 N. State St. (in the alley). The theme EBT for this edition is “Felix Culpa, or Blessings in Disguise.”

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SAT., MARCH 25 ART  BHAM FAM FAIR: Live music by Baby Cakes, performances by members of the Bellingham Join us for the LIVE TAPING of the Radio Show Circus Guild, ice skating, bouncy castles, The 15 a climbing wall, crafts and 35 businesses sharing information on products, services Chuckanut Radio Hour STAGE  and activities will be part of the third an- featuring the author of THREE SOULS nual “Bham Fam Fair” from 10am-3pm at the Bellingham Sportsplex, 1225 Civic Field Way. JANIE CHANG 14 Entry is $5. Join us for a fun evening of WWW.BHAMFAMFAIR.COM

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adventurers can join Holly Roger of and Tree Sale happening from 30  Wild Whatcom for a “Wild Things” 10am-3pm at the parking lot at the Community Program from 9:30-11am Hillcrest Chapel, 1400 Larrabee FOOD  at Whatcom Falls Park. Suggested Ave. The event also features expert outside donation is $5. advice from participating vendors, HIKING RUNNING GARDENING WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG who donate a portion of sales to 24 Fairhaven Neighbors—which in MARCH 24-26 turn uses proceeds for neighbor- HOME & GARDEN SHOW: hood projects and to help support B-BOARD  Seminars, vendors, a Lego Build other local nonprofits. Contest, activities for kids, live WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ music and much, much more will be FAIRHAVENPLANTANDTREESALE 22 part of the SICBA Home & Garden Show happening from 12-7pm NIGHT PROWL: Join Wild What- FILM  Friday, 10am-6pm Saturday, and com for a Spring Equinox Night 10am-4pm Sunday in Mount Vernon Prowl from 6:30-8:30pm at Squires

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ART  Native Plant Society for a “Flowers GOOSE ROCK HIKE: Join members at Deception Pass” excursion to view of the Mount Baker Club for a hike early season wildflowers from 8am- to Deception Pass State Park’s Goose 15 5pm at Deception Pass State Park. Rock today. To carpool, meet at 9am To carpool, meet at the Fairhaven at Sunnyland Elementary.

STAGE  park-and-ride at 32nd Street. WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG MARK@TURNERPHOTO GRAPHICS.COM TUES., MARCH 28 14 14 ALL-PACES RUN: Staff and volun- WORK PARTY #1: Join the What- teers are always on hand to guide com Land Trust for a “Make a Dif- the way at the weekly All-Paces GET OUT  GET OUT  ference” work party from 9am-12pm Run starting at 6pm every Tuesday at the nonprofit’s Fenton Nature at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Reserve. Volunteers will focus on Entry is free. 12 tree planting and invasive plant WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM control at the call to action. WORDS  BY AMY KEPFERLE WWW.WHATCOMLANDTRUST.ORG/ PORPOISE PARTICULARS: Pacific across the country are doing in increas- STEWARDSHIP Mammal Research’s Cindy Elliser

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CURRENTS a photo-oxidation effect that destroys Expo from 9am-2pm at Roe Studio being done by the center will help IN SEARCH OF SAFER SWIMMING chloramines and other toxic byproducts on the campus of Whatcom Com- attendees learn more about this 6 of chlorine without adding any further munity College, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. poorly understood marine mam- FULL DISCLOSURE: I’ve seen Molly Monahan in a bathing chemicals to the water. Because less chlo- More than 40 tree and shrub species, mal—an important species in the VIEWS  suit and swim fins. rine needs to be used to provide bacterial potted perennials and more will be Salish Sea ecosystem. Entry is free. available. Experienced conservation- WWW.BURLINGTONWA.GOV/LIBRARY 4  On a recent visit to Hawaii, Monahan, 64, was among a posse of control, water quality and atmospheric ists will be available to answer your vacationers sharing living space at a remote property on the Big conditions are considerably approved. native plant questions. SEMIAHMOO STEWARDSHIP: The MAIL  Island. I joined her for a couple of snorkeling sojourns to nearby With the Y’s blessing and support WWW.WHATCOMCD.ORG North Cascades Audubon Society

will host the Friends of Semiahmoo

2  tidal pools, and can attest to the fact that, if humans had gills, from Mayor Kelli Linville, Monahan has Monahan would probably choose to live in the water. been leading a Pool Conversion Task TRAIL RUN: The fifth and final Bay Society’s Matt Christensen and Winter Trail Run Series of the sea- Sarah Brookes for a “Stewardship DO IT  Back on the mainland, Monahan reached out to me about her Force since January to raise the $34,000 son begins at 10am at Bellingham’s North of the 49th Parallel” presen- efforts to work with the Whatcom Family YMCA in downtown Bell- necessary to make the improvements. BBMX Park, 5022 Guide Meridian. tation from 7-9pm at Whatcom Mu- ingham to make their indoor swimming pool less dependent on If you’re somebody with chemical sen- Entry to the 5K cross-country trail seum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect harsh chemicals. The only saline pools in town, she says, are in sitivities, or simply want to swim in a run is $5 for those under 18 and St. Suggested donation is $5. 03.22.17 hotels and aren’t accessible to the general public. pool with less chlorine in it, it might be GBRC members, and $10 general. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG “I have always enjoyed swimming,” Monahan says. “The older time to consider making a tax-deduct- WWW.BELLINGHAMBMX.COM .12 THURS., MARCH 30 12 I get, the more it has become the only pain-free way for me to ible donation to the cause. WORK PARTY #2: Sign up for a WORDS WITH WHITTAKER: # get some exercise. Unfortunately, I have also developed chemical “The project includes both the instal- trail building work party with Rec- Mountain climber, photographer, sensitivities and chlorine is at the top of my list of triggers— lation of the UV system and an upgrade reation Northwest starting at 10am My Old Man and the Mountain more specifically the chloramines, the resulting compound freed of the air-filtration system,” Monahan at Stones Throw Brewery, 1009 author and Western Washington up when chlorine is used.” says. “The work could be completed in Larrabee Ave. Volunteers can build University alum Leif Whittaker will and improve the trail system in shed light on growing up in the “Molly came to me with a proposition,” YMCA Executive Director just days once we have the funds.” the Fairhaven Forest and, at noon, shadow of a famous father and how Bill Ziels says. “‘Can the Y please look at the latest technologies in When that happens, Monahan says, she return to the brewery for a pint. that journey helped shape a unique

CASCADIA WEEKLY pool sanitation so that I can again swim for exercise without the can see herself swimming at the Y pool at WWW.STONESTHROWBREWCO.COM view of his own relationship with side effects from chlorine?’ I decided to take on her challenge.” least three times a week—possibly more. a mountain and a dad at a 7pm 14 After studying multiple new treatment systems to retrofit the “Fingers crossed,” she adds. FAIRHAVEN PLANT SALE: Local presentation and book signing at and regional plant nurseries will Western’s Performing Arts Center pool and ventilation system, the Y determined the best way to sell perennials, ornamentals, trees, Concert Hall. Entry is $5. improve the water and air quality, reduce chemical usage and To make a donation, go to www.whatcom native plants, herbs, vegetable 650-6146 OR the smell of chlorine, and render 99.99 percent of bacteria harm- ymca.org/donate. Be sure and select the starts, berries, bamboo, metal WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU less would be to transition to UV treatment—something YMCAs Bellingham YMCA Pool Retrofit Project. doit

STAGE medic quality. Tickets are $10-$12; additional showings of the formats

THURS., MARCH 23 takes place through April 1. GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM 30  Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at FOOD  8pm every Thursday at the Upfront MARCH 24-26 stage Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, GODSPELL: Dana Crediford makes THEATER DANCE PROFILES stick around for “The Project.” her directorial debut when Belling- Entry is $8 for the early show, $5 ham Arts Academy for Youth students 24 for the late one. present showings of the award-win- 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM ning musical Godspell at 7pm Friday, B-BOARD  2pm and 7pm Saturday, and 2pm MARCH 23-25 Sunday at the BAAY Theatre, 1059 N. THE LITTLE MERMAID: META State St. Tickets to see the parables 22 Performing Arts presents its final paired with contemporary songs are week of showings of Disney’s The $10 at the door or online. FILM  Little Mermaid at 7:30pm Thursday WWW.BAAY.ORG through Saturday at Mount Vernon’s

Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. SPELLING BEE: “Tweenagers” 18 Tickets to see the tale of a 16-year- played by adults will disclose hilari- old mermaid who is fascinated with ous and touching stories from their MUSIC  life on land—and with a human home lives as they spell their way prince—are $12-$25. through a series of words hoping

WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG never to hear the “ding” of the bell 16

that signals a spelling mistake when ART  MARCH 23-26 The 25th annual Putnam County AVENUE Q: Show up to see a fast- Spelling Bee opens this week with 15 moving adult take on Sesame Street showings at 7:30pm Friday and 15 when the school edition of Avenue Q Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at the STAGE  shows at 7pm Thursday through Sat- Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 STAGE  urday, and 2pm Sunday at Anacortes M Ave. Tickets are $20. High School’s Brodniak Hall, 1600 WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM 20th St. Tickets to see the story of 14 the slightly naughty puppets and people who live on the eponymous DANCE GET OUT  avenue are $6-$12. (360) 293-2166 THURS., MARCH 23 FOLK DANCE: The Balkan Folk 12 BY AMY KEPFERLE “A society that values art and arts MARCH 24-25 Dancers meet from 7-9:30pm most education, that offers resources to ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE: The The- Thursdays at the Fairhaven Library, ater Arts Guild presents a musical 1117 12th St. Dances are taught, WORDS  create and perform work is sending tribute to a beloved country west- and mentoring is available. Sug- a message that the arts are a vital ern star when Always...Patsy Cline gested donation is $5.  8 Support System part of society, that they shape who continues this weekend with 7pm (360) 380-0456 we are and how we think,” he added. performances Friday and Saturday ARTS UNDER ATTACK IN TRUMP’S BUDGET at the Conway Muse, 1844 Spruce SAT., MARCH 25

“That the city, the county, the CURRENTS St. Ria Peth Vanderpool plays the THIRST NO MORE: Dancing for MARY POPPINS is pissed, and a Muppet named Elmo was just state, the country has a role in title role and co-star Kelly Visten Joy’s Jubilee Dance Co. presents 6 given his walking papers. this—just as they do in making plays Cline’s longtime fan and “Thirst No More” at 2pm and 7pm While this may seem like the beginning of a weird joke, it’s not a sure there that people are fed and friend, Louis Seger. A seven-piece at the Performing Arts Center at laughing matter. When Donald Trump announced his first federal bud- tended to, that they know how to country band will play along during Lynden Christian High School, 515 VIEWS  the musical, which weaves 27 songs Drayton St. The performances will get plan late last week, his presidential proposal featured a bloated read, that they have roads to drive 4  into the storyline. Tickets are $28. showcase dancer choreography, and military fund and the elimination of the National Endowment for the on—changes how the public relates Additional performances happen all proceeds will go to Evangeline MAIL  Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Cor- to art. It makes them more invest- March 31 and April 1. International’s Sweet Water Wells

poration for Public Broadcasting—a key source of revenue for PBS and ed, and more a part of the ongoing WWW.THEATERARTSGUILD.ORG Project. Suggested donation is $15. 2  National Public Radio stations. inquiry into human existence. One- WWW.DANCING4JOY.ORG MARS AND VENUS: Theater and

When looked at through a bigger-picture lens, the endowments tenth of one percent of national DO IT  standup combine at showings of CONTRA DANCE: Plum Foolery will Trump is hoping to dump amount to just a tiny fraction (one tenth of funding is too little. It should be the Off-Broadway hit comedy Men provide the music at Bellingham 1 percent) of the $1.1 trillion total annual discretionary spending in about 10 times that. Likewise at are from Mars—Women are from Country Dance Society’s Contra the federal budget. the city level, we should be invest- Venus in Mount Vernon at 7:30pm Dance happening from 7-10:30pm The endowments first created by President Lyndon B. Johnson in ing directly in local venues and lo- Friday and Saturday at McIntyre at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th 03.22.17 1965 are able to provide seed money for arts programming in every cal artists much more than we are. Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets St. Suggested donation is $6 for

to see the one-man show based on students, and $8-$10 general. .12

Congressional district in the country—including ours—and, as has Aside from it making the commu- the bestselling book by John Gray WWW.BELLINGHAM 12 # been pointed out on countless social media posts in the past week, nity richer and people think in more are $50-$60. (P.S. The “sexy and COUNTRYDANCE.ORG cost less to maintain each year than the amount taxpayers will be interesting ways, it is good for fast-paced” show is meant to be forking over to provide security at Trump Tower per annum. tourism, it is good for the economy, viewed by adults only.) THURS., MARCH 30 Artists and patrons across the spectrum—from actress Julie An- and good for making a populace of WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG PARKINSON’S DANCE CLASS: Pam Kuntz leads a dance class for drews, to playwright Tony Kushner, to the cast of PBS’ Sesame Street creative critical-thinkers that are AGAINST ALL ODDS: View a fully people with Parkinson’s disease and beyond—are making their voices heard before congress writes more compassionate and less in- improvised journey of underdogs and other movement or neuro- the federal budget, and you should, too. Locally, supporting the clined to support fascists.” working their way to victory when logical disorders starting today at CASCADIA WEEKLY arts—whether it’s theater, dance, film, visual artists or music—has “Against All Odds” shows at 8pm 10am at Ballet Bellingham, 1405 rarely been as important. Contact your senators and repre- Friday and Saturday at the Upfront Fraser St., suite #103. Entry is 15 Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, free. No registration is necessary. When I talked to iDiOM Theater founder Glenn Hergenhahn-Zhao in sentatiaves to get your voice heard stick around for “Face Off,” a com- The class continues Thursdays January about the chance of the Trump administration laying waste to and sign the petition to keep the petitive show where the audience through June 1. the NEA, he said he thinks how our country subsidizes the arts says National Endowment for the Arts at serves as the judge and jury of co- (360) 510-4711 something about who we are. www.change.org broader range, I think, comprised of paintings and photographs, sculp- ture, puppets, signs and found object art, even three graphic novels, all of

30  which have been part of the inspired activism or love of place that we’ve FOOD  seen generated by the fossil fuel threats to the region. Most of the visual exhibit is from the Northwest, 24 visual GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES but a number of pieces—the graphic novels, some painting, some photog- B-BOARD  raphy—are from activists in other parts of the country who are dealing

22 with the same oil train, pipeline and tanker threats that we are.

FILM  CW: It seems like tough times can lead to explosive creativity.

18 MK: It’s pretty im- pressive the number

MUSIC  of ways that artists figure out how to get 16 16 their message out ART 

ART  there, whatever it is. One of the installa-

15 ATTEND tions we’re pulling WHAT: Stand & together includes the

STAGE  Resist signs, projection and WHEN: 7pm Wed., resulting visuals from Mar. 29 a couple of events in 14 WHERE: Whatcom Seattle where folks Museum Rotunda Room, 121 were speaking out GET OUT  Prospect St. about their concerns MORE: An exhibit about oil trains and of visual arts

12 oil train safety. That continues through combination created Fri., April 7 at a fascinating visual WORDS  the Sylvia Center for the Arts, 205 we’re hoping to rep- Prospect St.

 8 licate in the exhibit. COST: Free tickets Another piece we available at tinyurl. plan to display is a com/zhprbkp

CURRENTS INFO: www.stand. seven-foot-tall great

ARTISTS’ RAPID RESPONSE TEAM BOMB TRAIN BANNER ARTISTS’ earth blue heron puppet 6 who was pulled into BY TIM JOHNSON understanding, the narrative, to help public testimony before the Skagit VIEWS  society contemplate difficult issues. Hearing Examiner on the Shell oil

4  Where people like me often rely on train proposal. It’s still unclear if the working with agencies or regulatory great blue heron gave prior and in- MAIL  Stand & Resist systems, artists are the folks who can formed consent.

2  ARTISTS PROTECT THE SALISH SEA actually communicate the essence of CW: A lot of folks these days are asking the problem, and inspire people to care what they can do to make a difference,

DO IT  FOR YEARS, Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples have been fighting back about the solutions. It’s become clear with thousands turning out for the Wom- against an onslaught of fossil fuel projects trying to push coal, tar sands, oil and gas both how vital artists are and, to a cer- en’s March, and many more looking for to the shores of the Salish Sea, almost exclusively for export. tain extent, overlooked by many of the avenues to take action. What do you an- Among the leaders of that resistance movement have been artists of all styles and folks organizing around regulatory pro- ticipate coming out of these two events? 03.22.17 stripes, but their work is rarely seen by the public except as a banner in the back- cesses and politics. MK: Part of “Stand & Resist” will certainly ground of a group shot in the newspaper. CW: So, there are both an evening of per- include next steps and actions that peo- .12

12 With so many concerns about how the current presidential administration can im- formance art and also a 10-day exhibit? ple can take on the fossil fuel front, from # pact the destinies of these projects, and with this incredible resource of inspiration MK: The evening of performance art is re- supporting Whatcom County’s effort at a and creativity in fighting back, event organizers believe this is an important moment ally bringing forward the diverse voic- moratorium on permitting new unrefined to center those artists’ voices. es, literally and figuratively, of artists fossil fuel export projects to signing up Matt Krogh is the director of Stand’s extreme oil campaign. Building on its name, who are working at the intersection of with groups like Stand.earth and others the organization took a stand to feature these artists. social change, this beautiful Salish Sea who provide information at the exhibit. Cascadia Weekly: A lot of different groups have stepped forward over the years, from RE place we live in, and the personal and In reaching out to artists more

CASCADIA WEEKLY Sources for Sustainable Communities to Communitywise Bellingham, from the Lummi environmental threats we’re experienc- broadly, though, I’ve come across groups and Swinomish Indian nations to Coal Train Facts. Why is Stand focusing on celebrating ing today. It will be an evening of expe- like the Artists Rapid Response Team, 16 artists specifically? rience. Artists performing include Tracy a group of professional artists in the Matt Krogh: About four years ago, we learned about how First Nations were working Rector as emcee, Imani Sims, Robert Northeast who come together to pro- with artists in Alberta to organize against the expansion of the tar sands. I’m not an Lashley, Rena Priest, Nahaan, Dana Ly- vide art support for progressive causes. artist myself and hadn’t really noticed what they were talking about, but at a din- ons, and Julie Trimingham. It would be super-cool to see something ner meeting up in BC it became clear that they relied on artists to create the deep The visual art exhibition is a like that result from this project. doit

UPCOMING EVENTS COLOPHON CAFE: Selected works by Studio UFO artists and outdoor photos by Gary Reynolds are

THURS., MARCH 23 on display through March at the Colophon Cafe, DESIGN DRINKS: Attend “Design Drinks & Talks” 1208 11th St. 30  at 7pm at Localgroup Studio, 221 Prospect St. WWW.COLOPHONCAFE.COM

The event offers a series of short presentations BEST FOOD  by artists, architects, cartographers, design- FISHBOY GALLERY: Peruse the contemporary folk ers, programmers and others engaged with art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm Fridays or by ap- KAGIT 20 design questions and problems. Tonight’s event pointment at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St. OFS 17 24 features cartographer Alan McConchie, artist and 319-2913 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM publisher Kristina Lee Podesva, and architect and

artist Jay Atherton. GOOD EARTH: Pieces by Dyana Fiediga will be B-BOARD  WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/EVENTS highlighted through March at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.

FRI., MARCH 24 WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM 22 ART PARTY: Celebrate spring at a Studio Sale

taking place from 3-6pm at the Cooper Lanza I.E. GALLERY: Juliana Heyne’s “Driving in Ice- FILM  Gallery (formerly Tillie Lace Gallery), 1415 13th St. land” and Louise Kikuchi’s “Horizon Line” can be Name ______City ______Cooper’s paintings and drawings will be available viewed through March 26 at Edison’s i.e. gallery, 18 for sale at affordable prices, including demos, 5800 Cains Court. Email or Phone ______portraits, landscapes, figure drawings, pieces on WWW.IEEDISON.COM raw canvas and more. From 7:30-9:30pm, Morgan ______MUSIC  Lanza will host a birthday party and concert for FOURTH CORNER: Peruse and purchase art as part Cooper featuring performances by jazz and R&B of the “Make Me An Offer” exhibit and sale hap- 16 16 artist Cheryl Hodge and others. Suggested dona- pening through March at Fourth Corner Frames and Take-Out ______

PEOPLE & PLACES, BEST... ART  tion for the show is $5-$40; funds go to the space’s Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. ART  fine art school. WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM Tulip Farm ______Dessert ______WWW.COOPERLANZAGALLERY.COM Asian ______15 JANSEN ART CENTER: View solo exhibits Mike Beach ______SAT., MARCH 25 Bathum and Lynn Zimmerman, as well as a multi- Farm ______BBQ ______UPCYCLING: Get a brief history of “upcycling” artist “Spring Juried Exhibit,” and a “Student STAGE  Pizza ______and learn about the many possibilities for turning Show” through May 26 at Lynden’s Jansen Art Trail ______unused or worn clothing into something new and Center, 321 Front St. Stop on the N. Cascades Hwy ______Vegetarian ______14 fabulous with Brigitte Parra leads an “Upcycling WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG with Ragfinery” workshop from 1-3pm at the ______Deli ______

Lynden Library, 216 4th St. Entry is free, and MAKE.SHIFT: View sculptor Amber Barney-Nivon’s GET OUT  Artist ______Bakery ______materials will be provided. “One and the Same Over Time” and photographer (360) 354-4883 Juan Franco’s “Aren’t You Glad?” through March at Gallery ______Mexican ______

Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. Breakfast ______12 MCSHANE TALK: Oil painter Lisa McShane will WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM Band ______discuss her work at an Artist Talk at 4pm at News Story ______Steak ______Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. MINDPORT: Photographs by Kevin G. Jones can cur- WORDS  Grocery ______The exhibit featuring her paintings of the Salish rently be seen at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Nursery ______

Sea, the Palouse region of Eastern Washington, and WWW.MINDPORT.ORG  8 Mechanic ______Bow-Edison will be up through tomorrow. COMMERCE, BEST... WWW.SMITHANDVALLEEGALLERY.COM MONA: “Paul Havas: A Life of Painting,” “Con- Server/Bartender ______Music Store ______tinuum: Glass from the Permanent Collection,” ______CURRENTS WED., MARCH 29 and “Indigenous Influences” show through March Place to Buy Pot ______

KIMURA RECEPTION: As part of a 20th an- 26 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 6 Tattoo Shop ______niversary celebration, attend an opening reception S. First St. ENTERTAINMENT, BEST... for Japanese fiber artist Miwako Kimura’s “For the WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG Bike Store ______VIEWS  Love of Children” from 4-6pm at La Conner’s Pacific Place to Meet Men/Women ______Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, 703 S. Second OLD TOWN CAFE: View woodworks and paintings Hunting/Fishing Supply Store ______Place for a Date ______4  St. The exhibit also feature the work of 10 of Kimu- by Lucas Walker at a “Duplexes, Effigies and Adora- ______

ra’s students, and will focus on traditional Japanese tions” exhibit showing through March at the Old Place to Dance ______MAIL  childhood themes. See it through June 25. Town Cafe, 316 W. Holly St. Bed and Breakfast ______Place to See Live Music ______

WWW.QFAMUSEUM.ORG WWW.THEOLDTOWNCAFE.COM ______2  ______PERRY AND CARLSON: View “Skagit Women Massage ______DO IT  Print” through March in Mount Vernon at Perry and Music Festival ______ONGOING EXHIBITS Salon ______Carlson Gallery, 504 S. First St. ______ACME: Cut paper artist Ann Reid’s works can be WWW.PERRYANDCARLSON.COM Place to Buy Chicken Feed ______viewed through March in Anacortes at A.C.M.E. Theater ______03.22.17 Creative Spaces, 705 Commercial Ave. SCULPTURE NW: Peruse “Art Beyond Conflict: Card Tables ______WWW.ACMECREATIVE.COM Crossing Borders” through April 22 at Sculpture Hardware Store ______Northwest Gallery, 203 Prospect St. Slots ______.12 12

ALLERY FINE ART: The multi-artist “Divination” WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG ______# Watering Hole ______exhibit is currently on display at Allery Fine Art, Shoe Store ______1319 Cornwall Ae., suite 104 (in the alley behind Kids WHATCOM ART MARKET: Works by Whatcom Art Coffeehouse ______Northwest). Guild members can be viewed at the Whatcom Art Place to Buy Clothes ______WWW.THEALLERYFINEART.COM Market, 1103 11th St. Brewery ______WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG Winery ______ARTWOOD: Gary Giovane’s “wall art” and screens Yoga ______will be featured through March at Artwood Gallery, WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Images of Resilience: Happy Hour ______1000 Harris Ave. Chicana/o Art and its Mexican Roots,” “The Ka- CASCADIA WEEKLY WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM trina Decade: Images of an Altered City,” “Back at FOOD & DRINK, BEST... DIRECTIONS: Include at least 10 categories the Park: Vintage Views from the Photo Archives,” 17 CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Paintings by John Hoyte “John M. Edson Hall of Birds,” and “Focus on 50: Burger ______Ballots due: Friday, March 24, 2017. Mail to can be viewed through April 29 at Chuckanut Brew- Whatcom Community College” can currently be Cascadia Weekly, PO Box 2833, Bellingham WA Italian ______ery and Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. viewed on the Whatcom Museum campus. 98227-2833 or vote online at WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Seafood ______www.cascadiaweekly.com/bos rumor has it

30  I WAS REALLY, truly planning to take a week off from talking about politics. Turns out,

FOOD  politics had other plans for me. President Donald Trump promised us a budget proposal like none we’ve ever seen— 24 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT and that’s exactly what we got last week. Among the items on the chopping block: B-BOARD  Sesame Street, Meals on Wheels, and after- school lunch programs for poor children.

22 Right after he annouced the budget, entertainment will be a reunited-for-one- Trump knocked Tiny Tim’s crutch out from

FILM  night-only Moonhat, as well as Momo Grace, under him and deported him back to 1843. the Katie Gray, and Morgan Paris Lanza. Also on the hit list: the National Endow-

18 18 Suggested donation is $5, but no one would ment for the Arts. mind if you were feeling To a lot of us, the MUSIC  MUSIC  particularly generous, NEA’s budget of $148 seeing as all proceeds million seems like a lot

16 will go toward the Seat- of cash. In the grand

ART  tle ACLU’s fight against scheme of the federal the current travel ban. budget, it’s less than a

15 You’re cordially in- pittance. It’s more like a vited back to the Wild speck of dust on a pit-

STAGE  ATTEND Buffalo the following tance. However, because WHAT: Bands of night, Fri., March 24, for of NEA partnerships, Justice BY CAREY ROSS a “cathartic evening” that $148 million federal

14 WHEN: 7:30pm Thurs., March 23 of “releasing your inner budget allotment triggers some $500 million COST: $5 angst” with the boys of in matching funds. That’s a bit more money.

GET OUT  WHAT: Rage the Acorn Project. Except And the NEA manages to spread a little of it Ween WHEN: 9pm Fri., that they won’t be play- just about everywhere.

12 March 24 ing just Acorn Project Including in Bellingham, where both the COST: $10 music. In a fit of either Bellingham Festival of Music and the Pick- WHERE: Wild Buffa- genius or madness, like- ford Film Center receive NEA funding. WORDS  lo, 208 W. Holly St. ly brought about by too In the case of the Pickford, owing to my INFO: www.wild

 8 buffalo.net much legal weed and too employment there (perhaps I’ve mentioned it ROBERT SARAZIN BLAKE ------few musical boundaries, before), I’ve seen those NEA dollars at work.

PHOTO BY JON WITSELL BY PHOTO WHO: Robert Sara- the band decided to in- Grant money from the NEA helps fund festi- zin Blake CURRENTS tersperse their songs vals (like the recently concluded Children’s WHEN: 7pm and with those of Ween and Film Festival) and series programming, such

6 9:30pm Sat., BY CAREY ROSS March 25 Rage Against the Ma- as the Masters of Asian Cinema and the Sci- WHERE: Green Frog, chine for two full sets Fi Matinees. An NEA grant also helps defray VIEWS  1015 N. State St. of what they’ve dubbed costs associated with Doctober, the ground-

4  COST: $10-$30 “Rage the Ween.” On breaking month-long documentary film fes- From Budd to Blake INFO: the one hand, the part tival that has become a cornerstone of the

MAIL  www.acoustic of me that spent at Pickford’s programming as well as an event A MUSICAL MASHUP tavern.com

2  least one or two years embraced by the community at large. THE MAJORITY of time that I sit down to write, I am able to focus on one of my nearly 20s cruising around Everett in Although not direct funding, the likeli-

DO IT  thing—one band or musician, one venue, one festival, etc. my 1983 Toyota Tercel with “Killing in the hood is high that the grant that offsets But sometimes I just want to write about everything. And this happens to Name” blasting from my blown speakers is the costs of the Pickford’s media literacy be one of those weeks. If the following events could be arranged according to stoked. On the other hand, the part of me program also originates with the NEA. a similar theme, I suppose it would be that they are hyperlocal. Each, whether that hates Ween (I know, I know, feel free to We all now know that the proliferation of 03.22.17 it be a benefit, an album release or a wingnut idea brought to life, speaks to run me out of town) is decidedly skeptical. fake news during the presidential election is something uniquely Bellingham. If you’d like to celebrate the city, its music, However, both parts of me are pretty happy one of the things that led to our current po- .12

12 its values, its sense of community and its vast and unknowable weirdness, Acorn Project is playing its first hometown litical predicament. Media literacy courses, # these three shows are for you. show in almost a year. Tickets are $10, and such as those offered by the Pickford, give On Fri., Jan. 27, President Trump signed an executive order banning travel- in the words of Acorn Project’s Facebook in- people the tools and skills to tell fact from ers from seven Muslin-majority countries. A day later, reports began emerg- vite, “buy in advance bitchezzz.” fiction. Thus, they are critical to ensuring a ing of people being detained at major airports. What followed next was a The next stop on our musical mystery tour well-informed, not-easily misled society. manmade miracle: Lawyers, many of them from the American Civil Liberties takes us to Sat., March 25 and the Green The foundation of American democracy is Union, thronged airports, plugged in their laptops and refused to leave until Frog, where longtime local musical main- a belief in the importance of speaking truth

CASCADIA WEEKLY every detainee was released. And it worked. On Sat., Jan. 28, I joined the stay Robert Sarazin Blake will be having not to power. But people cannot do that if they ACLU, along with thousands of other Americans. Boris Budd, on the other one, but two parties celebrating the release are unable to discern what the truth is. 18 hand, probably emerged from the womb waving his ACLU membership card. of his latest album, Recitative. Blake spent Because the NEA is a federal agency sub- He’s just one of the musicians participating in the “Bands of Justice” fun- two years working on Recitative, which he ject to federal regulations, it is prohibited draiser happening Thurs., March 23 at the Wild Buffalo. However, instead recorded in New York’s Hudson Valley in or- from fighting for its own survival. There- of playing a set of his politically charged music, he’ll be playing the part der to harness that area’s distinctive sound. fore, we must advocate for it. We must speak of emcee, along with show organizer Heather Bates. Providing the musical In talking about how the double album came truth to power. FROM PAGE 18 work he’s ever done. I’ve been writing MUSIC, about Blake about as long as he’s been making music in Bellingham, and that’s to be, Blake mentions walking into a bar a claim I’ve not heard him make until and hearing a group of musicians play now. Even better, Recitative won’t see 30  who had a sound that shook him to his an official release until April 7, but core, how once he’d heard it, he couldn’t Bellingham will get first crack at it. FOOD  get it out of his mind, how he enlisted You’ll have your choice of shows—the them to play with him, how from there, first happens at 7pm, and the second 24 all of the pieces that went into making at 9:30pm—and this is another instance the album seemed to snap into place. in which buying your tickets early is an

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WED., MARCH 22 Dance Episodes” from the musical of the same 18 ROCK THE SALISH SEA: Holly Arntzen and Kevin name. Tickets are $15-$39.  18 Wright of the band the Wilds will perform with 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM MUSIC

280 students from Alderwood Elementary School MUSIC  as part of a “Rock the Salish Sea” tour at 6pm SOUND/COUNTERPOINT: Baroque violinist Linda at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial Melsted and harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie will St. The concert will focus on “eco-rock” songs play a duo recital of works by Johann Sebastian 16

about oceans, watersheds, salmon and climate and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Duphly, Mondon- ART  change and celebrate our inland ocean and its ville, and local composer Adam Haws at a “Sound/ ecosystems and wildlife. Tickets are free at the Counterpoint” concert at 3pm in Mount Vernon at 15 MBT box office. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St. Sug- 734-6080 OR WWW.ARTISTRESPONSETEAM.COM gested donation is $20, or pay as you’re able (free for those 12 and under). STAGE  DAVE GIBSON QUARTET: New York City-based WWW.SOUNDCOUNTERPOINT.ORG trombonist will perform with pianist Miles Black, 14 bassist Michael Glynn, and drummer Julian ART OF JAZZ: The Seattle-based band Duendre Li- MacDonough at a Whatcom Jazz Music Arts Center bre will be the featured group at the Jazz Project’s concert at 7pm at Unity Spiritual Center, 1095 monthly “Art of Jazz” concert from 4-6:30pm at the GET OUT  Telegraph Rd. Entry is $5-$15. Majestic, 1027 N. Forest St. Entry is $10 for stu- WWW.WJMAC.ORG dents, $16 general (free for Jazz Project members). WWW.JAZZPROJECT.ORG THURS., MARCH 23 12 BANDS OF JUSTICE: Boris Budd and Heather BEAMER AND PETERSEN: Virtuoso slack key

Yates will host a fundraiser for the ACLU, “Bands guitar players Keola Beamer and Jeff Peterson will WORDS  of Justice,” at 8pm at the Wild Buffalo, 208 W. present an evening of superb guitar that explores

Holly St. In addition to live music by Morgan the beauty of Hawaiian music as it reflects its  8 Paris Lanza, the Katie Gary, Momo Grace, and native land, the range of Hawaii’s many cultural COMING Moonhat, the event is also a way for community influences, and the complexity of technique that members to participate and stay engaged. Entry is has shaped the distinctively resonant sounds of CURRENTS by donation; all proceeds go to the Seattle ACLU the state at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln SOON!

for their ongoing legal battle against the recent Theatre, 712 S. First St. The duo will be joined by 6 immigration ban. dancer Moanalani Beamer. Tickets are $20-$35. WWW.WILDBUFFALO.NET WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG AVAILABLE ST VIEWS  SAT., MARCH 25 TUES., MARCH 28 APRIL 1 4  YOUTH SYMPHONIES: Young musicians from MOLONEY & TERGIS: Fiddler Athena Tergis and Whatcom, Skagit, and Island counties will present vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mick Moloney MAIL  a “Majestic Music” concert when the Mount Baker- will present their award-winning mix of Irish and Pick up your FREE copy of

Fidalgo Youth Symphony performs at 1pm at the Scottish traditional songs, folk tunes and world the Whatcom Food & Farm 2  Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Pieces music at a 7pm concert at Western Washington Finder at opening day of the by Sibelius, Gould, Holesovsky and more are on the University’s Old Main Theater. Tickets are $20-$25.

Bellingham Farmers Market! DO IT  lineup. Tickets are $5-$10. 650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM WED., MARCH 29 Also available at CELTIC CELEBRATION: Go green by attending POPS CONCERT: Vocalist Star Anna will share the Commmunity Food Co-op Geoffrey Castle’s Celtic Celebration and Fundraiser stage with Toronto-based singer Laila Biali and and many other local 03.22.17 from 7:30-10:30pm in Anacortes at the Music Hall instrumentalists Miles Black, Adam Thomas, and businesses near you!

at Kennelly Keys, 1904 Commercial Ave. Castle Julian MacDonough for a 7pm Whatcom Jazz Music .12 will be joined by the Seattle Irish Dance Company, Art Center Pops Concert at 7pm at Unity Spiritual 12 # the Castle All-Star Band, MC Richard Riddell, and Center, 1095 Telegraph Rd. Both women know how bagpipers. Tickets are $25; all proceeds go to the to put a song together and aren’t limited by musi- the Local Fire Fighters Community Fund. cal boundaries and labels. Entry is $5-$15. (360) 708-7770 OR WWW.GEOFFREYCASTLE.COM WWW.WJMAC.ORG SUN., MARCH 26 THURS., MARCH 30 WHATCOM SYMPHONY: Noted pianist Christo- KATHY KALLICK BAND: Original and classic

pher Guzman will join the Whatcom Symphony bluegrass tunes can be heard when the Kathy Kal- CASCADIA WEEKLY Orchestra for the ensemble’s “All-American Salute lick Band performs at 7pm at the YWCA Ballroom, to Spring” at 3pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 1026 N. Forest St. The band will feature material 19 104 N. Commercial St. The concert is a celebra- from a new album, Foxhounds, and will debut ma- tion of American composers, including Gershwin’s terial learned from the Carter Family, Bill Monroe, “Rhapsody in Blue,” Copland’s “Appalachian and Kallick herself. Entry will be $15 at the door. Spring” and Bernstein’s “On the Town: Three WWW.KATHYKALLICK.COM Choose local businesses taking action for a healthy community. musicvenues 30 

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GET OUT  Anelias Kitchen & Stage 511 Morris St., La Conner • (360) 466-4778 | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Bobby Lee’s Pub & Eatery 108 W. Main St., Everson • 966-8838 | Boundary Bay Brewery 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Brown Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-9788 | Chuckanut Brewery 601 W. Holly St. • 752-3377 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) 739-4550 | Conway Muse 18444 Spruce/Main St., Conway (360) 445-3000 | Corner Pub 14565 Allen West Road, Burlington | Culture Cafe at

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Dave McGraw and Mandy B-BOARD  Robert Sarazin Blake (early Slow Jam (early), Grant Open Mic (early), Guf- Soul Night w/DJ Willda- Green Frog Fer (early), Soulless Night Marcel's Bluegrass Night Trout Steak Revival and late) Farm (late) fawingham (late) beast (late) 22 H2O DJ Z Rafael Tranquilino Band Karaoke FILM 

Irish and Folk Night w/ The Honey Moon Story Honey Moon Open Mic w/Scot Casey The Henry Smartt Trio Quickdraw String Band Bilongo Quintet Puirt na Gael Hour: Gather Round 18  18 MUSIC Kulshan Brewing Co. Forest Beutel The Devilly Brothers MUSIC 

Loco Billy's Wild Moon 16 Jam Night/Open Mic Cowgirls Gone Wild Deception Past Saloon ART 

The Iron Maidens, Alien JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase Still Kick'n Main St. Bar and Grill 15 Probe STAGE  Old World Deli D'vas and Dudes 14 Rockfish Grill Fidalgo Swing Lizzie Weber GET OUT  Royal Karaoke Karaoke Country Night DJ Jester DAVE MCGRAW AND MANDY FER/March 22/Green Frog 12

Rumors Cabaret Panty Hoes Drag Show Southlander DJ Graymatter, DJ Party Rock DJ Graymatter, DJ Party Rock The Betty Desire Show Aireeoke DJ James Gatz WORDS 

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The Green Frog 1015 N. State St. • www.acoustictavern.com | Edison Inn 5829 Cains Ct., Edison • (360) 766-6266 | Glow 202 E. Holly St. • 734-3305 | H20, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N. State St. • 734-0728 | KC’s Bar and Grill 108 W. Main St., Everson • (360) 966-8838 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood • www.locobillys. CASCADIA WEEKLY com | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • www.makeshiftproject.com | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s Taphouse 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | The Redlight 1017 N. State St. • www.redlightwineandcoffee.com | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret 1119 Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | The Shakedown 21 1212 N. State St. • www.shakedownbellingham.com | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • (360) 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 | Swillery Whiskey Bar 118 W. Holly St. | Stones Throw Brewery 1009 Larrabee Ave. | Swinomish Casino 12885 Casino Dr., Anacortes • (888) 288-8883 | Temple Bar 306 W. Champion St. • 676-8660 | The Underground 211 E. Chestnut St. • 738-3701 | Underground Coffeehouse Viking Union 3rd Floor, WWU | Via Cafe 7829 Birch Bay Dr., Blaine • (360) 778-2570 | Village Inn Pub 3020 Northwest Ave. • 734-2490 | Vinostrology 120 W. Holly St. • 656-6817 | The Waterfront 521 W. Holly St. • www.waterfrontseafoodandbar.com | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your live music listings included, send info to [email protected]. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. er insights: technology is bad, hanging out is good, corporate homogenization is bad, saying whatever comes into your head with no filter is good. The hook of

30  Wilson’s personality is that he’s an odd- ball outsider who cuts through the bull. FOOD  In truth, though, he sounds like an aging film cranky white male whose arbitrary com- plaints boil down to the world no longer 24 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS being the one that he grew up in. (If this were 100 years ago, he’s be griping about B-BOARD  cars and telephones.)

Movies based on graphic novels don’t 22 22  need to be superficial; just look at Ameri- can Splendor, in which Harvey Pekar was a FILM  FILM  bohemian grouch with attitudes a lot like Wilson’s, but Paul Giamatti endowed him

18 with a streak of vulnerability. Watching Wilson, you have to accept that the movie

MUSIC  is a kind of a cartoon character study. Once you do, though, it strings you along

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ART  the movie’s stylized goofy lightness that we never hear even two words about how

15 Wilson survives (he has no job, but seems to feed himself and his dog and pay his

STAGE  rent with no problem). When Wilson’s father dies, and his one and only friend moves away, the isola- 14 tion begins to close in on him, so he hunts down his ex-wife, Pippi (Laura

GET OUT  Dern), a former drug addict and prosti- tute who left him 17 years ago. She now

12 works as a waitress in a steak house and is trying to walk the straight and nar- row, and as they rekindle their bond, WORDS  Wilson learns that the child he thought

 8 she’d aborted was, in fact, given up for adoption. Just like that, he looks the kid up! And she’s living right there in town!

CURRENTS And she’s an alienated heavy-set teen- age loser (Isabella Amara) who dresses in 6 black and drops bitter pensees, just like the heroines of Ghost World! The three VIEWS  form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turn-

4  ing Wilson, for a while, into a flaky ver- sion of a dysfunctional-family comedy, MAIL  complete with glib scenes that mock the

2  “normalcy” of the girl’s adoptive parents ers). Wilson lives with his dog in a cruddy (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne). But that REVIEWED BY OWEN GLEIBERMAN DO IT  apartment stacked with old paperbacks, doesn’t last long. and when he’s out on the street, he’ll go Harrelson brings his wide-awake edge up to a stranger and commence an eager- to this performance, yet Wilson is a soft- beaver “conversation,” paying no heed to headed comedy. Even when our hero 03.22.17 Wilson how little his company is desired. He’ll lands in a maximum-security prison, he A ONE-NAME CURMUDGEON subject them to one of his critiques of winds up turning the violent psycho- .12

12 everything that’s wrong with society, paths around him into puppies. And the # GRAPHIC NOVELS, and the movies based on them, work better with certain which he spins out with a kind of brash always-charming Judy Greer is on hand topics than others. Sixteen years ago, Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, based on the autodidactic literacy. If his observations as the perfect mate for him: endlessly graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, centered on a pair of more-blase-than-thou teenage were actually interesting, then maybe the pliant and forgiving, the kind of woman girls who walked, and talked, outside the loop of everything they deemed boring people he was talking to wouldn’t look whose very presence seals Wilson as a and conventional; it was the perfect movie about the perfect hipsters at the perfect like they were being assaulted. But Wilson fairy tale. Yet how much better it would “whatever” moment. Wilson, directed by Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins), is also tends to say things like “Aren’t you a little have been if the director, Craig Johnson,

CASCADIA WEEKLY based on a graphic novel by Clowes, who wrote the film’s screenplay, and it’s driven old to be doing all that computer stuff?” had grounded the laughs the way he did by the same spirit of reflexive adolescent alienation—only this movie isn’t about or “Why the hell do people move to the in his breakthrough movie, The Skeleton 22 kids. It’s about a lonely middle-aged bachelor curmudgeon misanthrope, named suburbs? It’s like a living death.” Twins, which was both funnier and more Wilson (we never learn if it’s his first or last name), who has let the entire culture If suburb-bashing sounds a little, I realistic. Watching Wilson, I wondered pass him by, like a train he decided to jump off, only in his mind it’s the train’s fault. don’t know, 1985 to you, then welcome what Wilson himself would make of a The character is played, with a jaunty lack of self-pity, by Woody Harrelson, who to Wilson’s world. He’s not dim, but he’s cookie-cutter graphic-novel adaptation wears horn-rims, a graying beard and a nerd’s practical wardrobe (plaid shirt, Dock- stuck in a soggy bubble of fraying boom- like this one. film ›› showing this week

English-language version features voice work by Nick 30  BY CAREY ROSS Offerman, Will Forte, Amy Sedaris, and more) stop-

motion animated adventure that was so good it was FOOD  nominated for a Best Animated Film Oscar, beating FILM SHORTS out all Pixar’s offerings. HHHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 6 min.) 24 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: This is the movie that caused people to lose their shit over its openly gay POWER RANGERS: So, this is about a group of kids

character while they simultaneously glossed over the in shiny suits who fight evil and can cobble them- B-BOARD  fact that it is also a love story between a teenaged selves together into a single huge metal superhero

girl and the giant water buffalo who kidnaps her. Tale named Voltron? Sounds cool, I guess. HH (PG-13 • 2 22 as old as time, indeed. HHH (PG • 2 hrs. 9 min.) hrs. 4 min.) 22  FILM  THE BELKO EXPERIMENT: This is like Saw, except THE SENSE OF AN ENDING: Jim Broadbent tries FILM  it takes place among white-collar folks in an office to come to terms with his past and a relationship building because no one taught these filmmakers that with Charlotte Rampling that might not have been horror works best when it is relatable and its charac- at all what he remembers in this movie that is worth 18 ters sympathetic. But for a movie that comes out this watching precisely because it stars Jim Broadbent

time of year, it could be much, much worse. HH (R • and Charlotte Rampling. HHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 48 MUSIC  1 hr. 22 min.) min.) 16 CHIPS: When I was a child and therefore allowed only THE SHACK: Sam Worthington takes a spiritual to watch the few television programs my folks ap- journey deep in the heart of the Oregon wilderness in ART  proved of, what I most wanted to watch but couldn’t this adaptation of the bestselling novel that I only were reruns of CHiPs. Now I am old and can watch managed to read about two chapters of. H (PG-13 • 2 15 whatever I want—and I have no desire to see this hrs. 12 min.) shiny Hollywood remake. Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox forever. HH (R • 1 hr. 41 min.) WILSON: See review previous page. HHHH (R • 1 hr. STAGE  34 min.) GET OUT: A socially conscious horror movie/race- 14 savvy satire written and directed by Jordan Peele is exactly the kind of thing Hollywood should do more of while they do less of just about everything else. LIFE GET OUT  HHHHH (R • 1 hr. 44 min.)

HIDDEN FIGURES: Start 2017 off right with a heady should be real bad, but manages instead to be a mon- LIFE: Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, the two 12 dose of girl power by seeing this inspiring true story ster of a good time, which you might assume is due to hottest astronauts ever to inhabit the International of the three heretofore-unknown African-American the presence of both Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson, Space Station, make themselves a Martian friend and women who helped put astronaut John Glenn into but really has far more to do with the show-stopping all hell breaks loose (who saw that coming?) in this WORDS  space. HHHHH (PG • 2 hrs. 7 min.) giant gorilla created by the genius nerds at Industrial sci-fi movie that is way better than it should be for

Light and Magic. HHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 58 min) the time of year in which it is being released. HHHH  8 KEDI: The wild and wonderful street cats of Istan- (R • 1 hr. 43 min.) Showtimes bul—and the city dwellers who love them—get their THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE: After taking the whole due in this charming documentary that proves we do world by storm—and spawning the infectious song LOGAN: James Mangold does for Wolverine what Regal and AMC theaters, please see CURRENTS not, in fact, deserve cats. HHHHH (Unrated • 1 hr. “Everything is Awesome,” which itself spawned the Christopher Nolan did for Batman in this dark, gritty, www.fandango.com.

20 min.) single trippiest live performance ever witnessed at R-rated finale to Marvel’s longest-running superhero 6 the Oscars—the Minifigs are back, this time to save franchise. HHHHH (R • 2 hrs. 15 min.) Pickford Film Center and KONG: SKULL ISLAND: King Kong gets the origin Gotham from the Joker and his evil plans. HHHHH PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see VIEWS  story he didn’t know he needed in this movie that (PG • 1 hr. 30 min.) MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI: See the French (this www.pickfordfilmcenter.com 4  MAIL 

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200 200 200 200 dance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on 30  MIND & BODY MIND & BODY MIND & BODY MIND & BODY FREE WILL control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we coop- FOOD  erate. I figure that's your choice right now. Which will Tim Burnett, Executive Library, 210 Central Ave. This Co-Dependents Anony- Sex Addicts Anonymous ASTROLOGY it be? The latter, I hope. P.S.: The reversals that you Director of Mindfulness gentle and relaxing workout mous meets from 7-8:30pm (SAA) meets at 7pm Tuesdays Northwest, leads a free combines traditional Tai Ji most Mondays at PeaceHealth and Thursdays and 9am Satur- consciously co-create may not be perfect. But even if 24 24 "Mindfulness Workshop" Quan forms with physical St. Joseph's Community days at the Bellingham Unitar- ARIES (March 21-April 19): Of course you want they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and from 12-1pm Thurs., March therapy movements to help Health Education Center, 3333 ian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth to get the best of everything. But that doesn't mean magnificent. 23 at Village Books, 1200 11th strengthen your body and Squalicum Pkwy, conference St. More info: (360) 420-8311 you should disdain cheap thrills that are more inter- St. He'll discuss the origins of improve your balance. Entry room B. Entry is by donation. or www.pugetsoundsaa.org B-BOARD  B-BOARD  esting and gratifying than the expensive kind. And of SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I was 24, I mindfulness, touch on stress is free. For more info: (360) More info: (360) 676-8588 physiology, and explore how 354-3883 A Grief Support Group meets course you enjoy taking risks. But there's a big differ- lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing mindfulness practices can Abby Staten leads "Yoga at 7pm Tuesdays at the St. ence between gambling that's spurred by superstitious dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to

22 help us engage in our rela- Attend a Healing Hour from for Multiple Sclerosis" classes Luke's Community Health Edu- hunches and gambling rooted in smart research. And own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had tionship to experience, re- 5:30-6:30pm every Wednes- from 10-11am Tuesdays and cation Center, 3333 Squalicum of course you're galvanized by competition. But why to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and ducing stress and enhancing day at Simply Spirit Reading & 11am-12pm Fridays at Christ Pkwy. The support group is for

FILM  fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely. Luckily, well-being. More info: www. Healing Center, 1304 Meador the Servant Lutheran Church, those experiencing the recent villagebooks.com Ave. Drop in anytime during 2600 Lakeway Dr. The weekly death of a friend or loved one. people? A better use of that fire is to use it to hone I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I the hour to receive an aura/ events are free for people with More info: 733-5877 your talents and integrity. simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me.

18 "Body Freedom as a Path chakra healing. Entry is $5. MS, and no registration is re- Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to to Consciousness" will be the More info: www.simplyspirit- quired. Please bring a blanket TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own an accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering CALENDAR@ topic of an Energenesis Insti- center.com or yoga mat. More info: ab- untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the MUSIC  tute workshop with John Walk- [email protected] CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept er Davis from 6:30-9pm Fri., "Yoga for Limited Mobil- March 24 and 10am-6:30pm ity" is the focus of a weekly can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu me safe. You're welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or

16 Sat., March 25 at Birch Bay's yoga session happening from Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You're Eagle Power Retreat House. 10-11:30am Thursdays at the deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra ART  Students will learn a specific Lummi Island Library, 2144 S. excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I'd hate to layer of protection against other people's bad moods, bodywork pattern designed to Nugent Rd. All adults are wel- see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. manipulative ploys, and unconscious agendas. free the blocks of physical ar- come at the free event. More 15 mor and provide peace within info: (360) 758-7145 You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if their body. Cost is $166. More you can both keep it happy and make it work for you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I'm not sug- info: (360) 713-1559 or www. Attend Gam-Anon meet- gesting you should listen to your heart with rapt STAGE  energenesis.wix.com/artwork ings (for family and friends of GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I were to provide attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. individuals with a gambling a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I'd I don't expect you to neglect the insights your mind Learn about qigong and disorder) from 7-8:30pm Fri-

14 how it can improve your health days in Mount Vernon at the advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your at a "Tao Fawu Qigong" class First Lutheran Church, 2015 AND OFTEN! I'd suggest that you attend a raging bash attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of with Michelle Guske and Erin Blackburn Rd. Entry is free. or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were your chest. You're going to need its specific type of Kidulson at 6:30pm Tues., More info: www.gam-anon.org logistically impossible, I'd advise you to stage your guidance more than ever in the coming months. And GET OUT  March 28 at the Community own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. with wisdom that's so rich and raw that it could St. The practice is only taught But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme unleash a series of spiritual orgasms. 12 at Kulshan College of Intui- tive Medicine and is a gentle, for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to PARTY hands-off form of evolved tra- HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The empty space

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4  the victim role. ride. Register in advance for FREE Homebuyer the free talk. More info: www. Education AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you won't MAIL  skagitfoodcoop.com classes. Held LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo journal entry, Thurs- feel the need to say any of these things: 1. "I'm sorry day: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling I gave you everything I had without making sure

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2  urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if you wanted it." 2. "Will you please just stop asking how to "Take Control of Your to the public. I slept a little longer and arrived late? Who cares if me to be so real." 3. "I long for the part of you that Hormonal Health" from 6:30- Register at the dishes are piling up in the sink? I hereby refuse you'll never give me." Now here are things I hope you DO IT  8:30pm Wed., March 29 at the Cordata Community Food http://www.kulshan- law and order. Saturday: I'm fantasizing about doing will say sometime soon: 1. "I thrived because the Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. He'll clt.org/homebuyer-ed- dirty deeds. I'm thinking about breaking the taboos. fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around discuss all the major glands of ucation/ Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I me." (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua the endocrine system and how didn't expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and Graham.) 2. "I'm having fun, even though it's not the hormones interact, as well as 03.22.17 friendly. Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster same kind of fun everyone else is having." (Borrowed hormonal therapies, fertility 360-671-5600, x2 options, and PMS. Entry is $5. [email protected] in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring! from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. "I'm not searching for who .12 More info: www.community- www.KulshanCLT.org I am. I'm searching for the person I aspire to be." 12 food.coop VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): William Boyd writes (Stolen from author Robert Brault.) # novels, which require him to do copious research about Attend an "Intro to Reiki" the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters Are you fantasizing at 6:30pm Wed., March 29 in PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Mount Vernon at the Skagit to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity more about what you don't have and can't do than Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the St. The workshop will focus on was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his "do have" and "can do" up to at least 51 percent. the many ways Reiki can treat process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding (Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been the whole person—including habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been body, emotions, mind and spirit with beneficial effects seawater to strain out the plankton that are good gently taking care of yourself? If so, get your self-care CASCADIA WEEKLY like relaxation and feelings of to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades level up to at least 51 percent. (Eight-five percent peace. Register in advance; through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourish- is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of 24 entry is free. More info: www. ing. I suspect you'll thrive on a similar approach in courage that makes you nervous about what everyone skagitfoodcoop.com the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for thinks of you and expects from you? If so, I invite

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understand, as evolutionary psycholo- don’t do this by accusing her of fail- CURRENTS gists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides ing to appreciate you (which will lead 6 explain, that the emotions driving our to defensiveness, not inspiration to behavior today motivate us to behave change). Instead, lead by example: Ex- VIEWS  in ways that would have given our plain the ways you show your love for ancestors the best shot at surviving, her (helping her connect the clean liv- 4  mating, and passing on their genes. ing room to the loving motivation be- Unfortunately, solutions for recurring hind it), and then tell her what would MAIL 

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pushing us into a motivated state, a you once felt. 12 state of tension. That’s an uncomfort- Getting back to your coworker, it # able state to be in, so we look for the doesn’t take much to lose yourself in fan- quickest, easiest way out—like “To hell tasies about how great it would be with with my job and my marriage!”—which somebody new. However, marriage— conflates a powerful evolved urge with to any person—is hard. Still, it has its a wise modern course of action. perks, such as that wonderful ease that

Understanding this need to reduce comes out of being with your spouse CASCADIA WEEKLY emotional tension should help you re- for a while—allowing you to finally feel 27 alize that what’s driving your obses- comfortable talking about what you real- sion is more mechanical than magical. ly need in bed: “Are you there yet? Hurry! But there’s another problem. Our moti- I gotta wake up early!” vational system comes up a little short in the brakes department. We have a ©2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. rearEnd comix

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THURS., MARCH 23 ing Vegetables in Small Spaces" HOPS FOR HOMES: Help raise at 6pm at the Mount Vernon

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30  nity Land Trust at a "Hops St. Entry is free. 30 for Homes" fundraiser from WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV FOOD  FOOD  4-9pm at Elizabeth Station, 1400 W. Holly St. For every TUES., MARCH 28 pint sold during this time FUN WITH CHEESE: Watch

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