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Alan Rhodes, P.06 * The Hammers, P.14 * Advice Goddess, P.28 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. {05.30.12}{#22}{V.07}{FREE} A STAR IN THE MAKING, P.18 Appliance Art Revival: Down the street and on the walls, P.16 Ted Rall’s Reality: The age of revolt, P.8 :: Coppelia and Copland: Northwest Ballet’s double-header, P.15 30 30 Scotland comes to Fern- cascadia FOOD dale in the guise of the Bellingham Highland 24 Games June 1-3 at Fern- B-BOARD dale’s Hovander A glance at what’s happening this week Homestead Park 22 22 FILM FILM 2 ) .4[05.z.12] Ferndale Sin and Gin Tour: 6:45pm, downtown Bellingham 18 MUSIC Sin and Gin Tour: 6:45pm, historic Fairhaven Band Pops Concert: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, MUSIC WWU VISUAL ARTS Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham 16 WORDS Buffy Cram, Anakana Schofield: 7pm, Village ART ART Books ./0-4[06.y.12] 15 /#0-.4[05.zx.12] ONSTAGE Shakespeare Northwest Fundraiser: 2-4pm, STAGE STAGE ONSTAGE Rexville Grange Bard on the Beach: Begins tonight, continues Upright Citizens Brigade: 6pm, Performing Arts 14 through Sept. 22 Center, WWU Briseis: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Triples: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Briseis: 8pm, iDiOM Theater GET OUT The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Thoroughly Modern Millie: 8pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre DANCE Hodgepodge: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 12 Spring Dance Showcase: 7pm, Firehouse Perform- A Ninja Must Be Silent: 11pm, iDiOM Theater ing Arts Center DANCE WORDS MUSIC Treasures of Aaron Copland: 2pm, Mount Baker Fidalgo Youth Symphony: 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Theatre 10 Mount Vernon Coppelia: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Capstone Concert: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Folk Dance Party: 7:30pm, Fairhaven Library CURRENTS CURRENTS !-$4[06.x.12] 6 ONSTAGE MUSIC Dead Parrots Society: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Fraser Ain’t No Heaven Seven Jazz Band: 2-5pm, VFW VIEWS VIEWS 4, WWU Hall Triples: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Bellingham Sings Benefit Concert: 7:30pm, 4 Briseis: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Amadeus Project Thoroughly Modern Millie: 8pm, Anacortes Com- MAIL MAIL munity Theatre WORDS Hodgepodge: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Clete Barrett Smith Book Launch: 2-4pm, What- 2 A Ninja Must Be Silent: 11pm, iDiOM Theater com Middle School James Brotherton: 7pm, Village Books DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 DANCE Spring Dance Showcase: 7pm, Firehouse Perform- COMMUNITY ing Arts Center Bridge of Aloha Festival: 10am-8pm, Ferndale .12 Coppelia: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Events Center 30 Capstone Concert: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Farmers Day Parade: 10:30am, historic downtown Center, WWU Lynden Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Orca Pavilion, .07 05. MUSIC WCC 22 # Festival of Music and Art: 3-10pm, Maple Hall, La Conner GET OUT Moon Mountain Music Festival: Today through Highland Games: 7am-8pm, Hovander Homestead Sunday, Moon Mountain Lodge, Sedro-Woolley Park, Ferndale Girls on the Run: 10am, Fairhaven Park The perennially popular Acorn Project will WORDS Doxie Walk: 10am, Fairhaven train station Ann Spiers, Susan Erickson: 7pm, Village Books Anacortes Waterfront Festival: 10am-6pm, Cap Sante Marina CASCADIA WEEKLY headline two days of music happening at the COMMUNITY Sin and Gin Tour: 6:45pm, downtown Bellingham Blast from the Past: Through Sunday, throughout 2 0( ! June 1-2 in every nook, Sedro-Woolley FOOD Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Com- GET OUT munity & Arts Center cranny and alley of the Wild Buffalo Highland Games: 6pm, Hovander Homestead Park, Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square VISUAL ARTS Summer Fine Art Exhibit Opening: 11am-4pm, 30 Jansen Art Center, Lynden Printmakers Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee FOOD Gallery, Edison 24 .0)4[06.z.12] DANCE B-BOARD Coppelia: 2pm, Mount Baker Theatre Silk Road Showcase: 6:30pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom 22 MUSIC FILM Whatcom Chorale: 3pm, First Congregational Church Piano Recital: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts 18 Center MUSIC WORDS Ted Rall: 2pm, Village Books 16 COMMUNITY ART Marquee Celebration: 6:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon 15 GET OUT Highland Games: 7am-8pm, Hovander Home- STAGE stead Park, Ferndale Muddy Mayhem: 9am, Hannegan Speedway 14 Anacortes Waterfront Festival: 10am-6pm, Cap Sante Marina FOOD GET OUT Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange 12 (*)4[06. .12] { WORDS MUSIC High School Choir Concert: 4pm and 7pm, 10 McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon WORDS Adria L. Libolt: 7pm, Blaine Library CURRENTS Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL 2 2 DO IT IT DO DO IT .12 30 .07 05. 22 # More than 30 established and emerging artists will show their works at an opening reception for “On to the Next One: NW CASCADIA WEEKLY Printmaker Open Call” June 3 2 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery thisweek Contact Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 30 30 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 24 ô editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle Eext 204 Seen in the skies above the Ski to Sea celebration in ô calendar@ 22 22 Fairhaven over the weekend. A friend of the pilot explained, cascadiaweekly.com “Never piss off a fisherman!” FILM FILM Music & Film Editor: Carey Ross Eext 203 18 VIEWS & NEWS ô music@ cascadiaweekly.com 4: Mailbag MUSIC 6: Gristle & Rhodes Production 16 8: Rall’s reality Art Director: Jesse Kinsman ART ART 10: Last week’s news ô jesse@ 11: Police blotter, Index kinsmancreative.com 15 Graphic Artists: Stefan Hansen STAGE STAGE ARTS & LIFE ô stefan@ 14: Fun on the field cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to 14 15: Ballet double-header [email protected] 16: Art and appliances Advertising GET OUT 18: Tuneful time travel Account Executive: 20: Clubs Scott Pelton 12 22: Aquatic abomination E360-647-8200 x 253 ô spelton@ 23: Film Shorts cascadiaweekly.com WORDS Distribution COLUMBIA’S BEST HILL Sam Crawford, Kathy Kershner, Pete Kremen, Ken 10 REAR END Frank Tabbita, JW I would like to support first grader Nathan Mann, and Carl Weimer for voting to complete 24: Bulletin Board, Sudoku Land & Associates ô distro@ Long’s plea to save the best sledding hill in Bell- this project. 25: Wellness cascadiaweekly.com ingham, above Squalicum Park and scheduled to —Eric Hirst, Bellingham CURRENTS CURRENTS 26: Crossword be leveled. 6 Letters 27: Free Will Astrology Send letters to letters@ Nathan’s hill is great for more reasons than just FIREWORKS ARE SYMBOLS cascadiaweekly.com. sledding. There’s a great view from the hill—on Criminalize fireworks on the Fourth of July?!? 28: Advice Goddess VIEWS VIEWS clear days the Twin Sisters are visible to the east, The notion is so fundamentally un-American that Alan Rhodes, P.06 * The Hammers, P.14 * Advice Goddess, P.28 29: This Modern World, Tom the cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA plus it’s a great spot to watch a sunset. It’s a it would be laughable if the backers of that pro- WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 4 4 {05.30.12}{#22}{V.07}{FREE} Dancing Bug great place to sit and watch a game in the exist- posal weren’t serious. MAIL MAIL MAIL 30: Time for Thai ing baseball diamond, or just have a picnic! Coal trains rumble through our town every But my number one reason for wanting to save hour of every day and night. Their 100-decibel 2 AKING, P.18 the hill is that when I ride my bike, it’s really fun horns disturb the peace, shatter sleep, and ir- A STAR IN THE M DO IT IT DO to ride up one side and down the other! To me ritate animals all year long. Amidst that reality, Appliance Art Revival: Down the street and on the walls, P.16 Ted Rall’s Reality: The age of revolt, P.8 :: Coppelia and Copland: Northwest Ballet’s double-header, P.15 and Nathan, it seems this hill is more valuable as the Weekly ran a multipage opinion in support of a hill, than as another baseball field that’ll only an effort to criminalize fireworks on the Fourth .12 30 be used a limited number of days each year. of July. Truth is stranger than fiction because Thanks for writing, Nathan, and inspiring me fiction has to be plausible. to write. —Brad Howard, Bellingham ©2012 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by .07 05. Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly —J. Shaw, old guy, Bellingham 22 # PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 [email protected] Fireworks aren’t toys, they are symbols. Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia RECONVEYING THANKS If the hazards and toxicity of fireworks are Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution I very much appreciate the Whatcom County sufficient to warrant giving them up, then we SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you Council’s work on and support for the transfer should give them up completely. The symbolism include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- of land from the state Dept. of Natural Resourc- of banning personal fireworks and giving them to ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be es, known as the reconveyance.