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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

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30 30 have rights? Do citizens have rights? Two dozen states—including Washington—ap- FOOD pealed federal health care, arguing in part the new law raised the costs of state-provided health care. views Now, similar numbers—including Washington—have 24 OPINIONS THE GRISTLE joined with Montana to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to permit state-level restrictions on campaign ex-

B-BOARD penditures and disclosures. Justices ruled out such restrictions in their sweeping January 2010 decision on Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commis- 22 22 sion.

FILM FILM In Citizens United, the Supreme Court argued that money in elections equals a form of constitutionally protected free speech, which opened the ﬂoodgates BY ALAN RHODES 18 for unlimited, anonymous corporate campaign dona-

MUSIC tions. Unlimited dark money invites corruption, Mon- tana Attorney General Steve Bullock asserted in his

16 challenge to the decision. Rhodes for President Corporate corruption through political spending ART ART could and did happen in Montana, Bullock argues, RUSH LIMBAUGH AND ME prompting the state’s Corrupt Practices Act, passed 15 by referendum in 1912 by voters who’d lost trust in THE REPUBLICAN Party Rush: All right, skip it. Do you at a political system in thrall to the state’s mining in- has gotten itself into quite a fix. least have solid Christian values? STAGE STAGE terests. The state has an interest in protecting its Their candidate will most likely be Me: Well, I like Jesus a lot—he said elections for state offices, he maintains. Mitt Romney, an empty suit that terrific things about being nice 14 Washington voters had similar thoughts when they nobody seems excited about, in- to each other—but I’m a secular pressed for a referendum in 1970, believing the pub- cluding most Republicans. Tea Party humanist, which is good. I won’t

GET OUT lic had a right to know about the financing of politi- Republicans were pretty fired up by persecute gay people because I cal activity in this state. Initiative 276 became law Rick Santorum, a peppy cheerleader think God approves, and I won’t in 1973 after being approved by 72 percent of voters. for the Christian Taliban, but he’s with Ron Paul that drugs should start any wars because I think Je- 12 The state’s Public Disclosure Law establishes report- dropped out. Another dropout, Newt be legalized. That would have sus wants me to. ing requirements and sets limits on contributions to Gingrich, a morally rancid gasbag, been good for you, Rush, back Rush: You’re not conservative! You’re WORDS state and municipal elections. never had a chance, of course, nor when you were strung out on just exploiting conservatism for “The public’s right to know of the financing of did Ron Paul, who keeps hanging OxyContin and using your house- your own sick, perverted pleasure, 10 political campaigns and lobbying and the financial around like a clueless party guest keeper to score your dope. you... slut! (Hangs up) affairs of elected officials and candidates far out- who won’t go home. Rush: (unintelligible sputtering) Well, before long I’ll be off to weighs any right that these matters remain secret I’m not a Republican, but I feel Look, Republicans need to run a real the Republican convention to run CURRENTS CURRENTS and private,” the Act argues in its preamble. The law sorry for them since they’re get- conservative against Obama. Do you as a dark horse. I don’t actually 6

6 does not seek to (and indeed could not) govern fed- ting stuck with Romney, a fumbling have conservative credentials? know where the Republicans are eral elections. shapeshifter who looks like he wan- Me: Absolutely. I’m a lifelong mem- having their convention, so I’d VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS Writing on behalf of 21 states and the District of dered off the set of Mad Men. To help ber of the American Civil Liberties better Google that. Columbia, attorneys argue, “Although the states’ the GOP out, I recently announced Union, an organization passion- Oh, my god! They’re meeting in 4 laws governing corporate campaign expenditures on my blog that I’m going to the Re- ately dedicated to protecting the Tampa. In August! Have you ever

MAIL MAIL vary in important respects, they all seek to ensure publican convention this summer to First Amendment. How’s that for been to Florida in August? These

that such expenditures do not undermine principles offer myself as a dark horse presi- conservative? people really are crazy. Forget it. 2 of accountability and integrity in state and local dential candidate. Rush: (more sputtering) Maybe I should go to the Demo-

DO IT IT DO elections, while protecting residents’ rights to par- Apparently Rush Limbaugh reads Me: And I donate regularly to the cratic convention instead and run

ticipate in the electoral process.” my blog because he telephoned me. Planned Parenthood Action Fund. as a dark horse there. It wouldn’t Particularly vulnerable in this regard are Washing- Here’s a partial transcript of our What’s more conservative than keep- be an unreasonable thing to do, as .12

30 ton’s high court elections. The state Supreme Court conversation: ing big government out of women’s I’ve been frequently disappointed frequently rules on matters of profound interest to Rush: Are you even a Republican? personal health care decisions? by Obama. Let’s see where the corporations. Even before Citizens United, unions Me: Not really, although I like Abe Rush: (angrily) Let’s move on. Global Democrats are meeting. Charlotte! .07 05. and business interests in this state had aggressively Lincoln, and Eisenhower was a warming: a complete hoax, right? Have you ever been to Charlotte, 22 # stepped up their spending on those otherwise quiet nice guy. I guess I like dead Re- Me: Well, I realize you have to say North Carolina in the summer? races, in effect threatening to place justice itself on publicans. Most living Republicans that to run as a Republican, so These people are crazy, too. No the auction block. are batshit crazy. I guess I can ignore irrefutable wonder the country is a mess. The Yet while Citizens United has ﬂooded elections with Rush: So, you’re a Democrat? scientiﬁc evidence along with people making important deci- a sea of millions of dollars in unregulated special-in- Me: Nah, the Democrats have turned the best of ’em. In fact, I’ve had sions can’t think straight. terest money, drowning out the voices of individual into wimps. FDR must be rolling practice. My doctor keeps tell- Maybe I should scrap this idea

CASCADIA WEEKLYcitizens, perhaps the ruling’s most immediately of- over in his grave. ing me that eating three bowls and just stay in Bellingham where fensive aspect is its failure to distinguish between Rush: Well, what are you? A Liber- of Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby the summers are glorious. Unlike 6 the individual and the corporation. One can vote, tarian? ice cream every night is bad for the Republicans and Democrats, I after all; the other cannot. Me: Nope, most libertarian ideas me, and I’ve been ignoring him would be making a sane decision. In his dissent from the opinion of the majority, Jus- are nutty. I do, however, agree for years. I probably should be president. tice John Paul Stevens wrote, “Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE

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30 30 tion, again calling for revolt. Someone might think you’ve got something personal against Obama. FOOD currents Ted Rall: No, I think the system is the problem. NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX And if that’s the case, you have to get rid of the system. 24 We thought in 2008 that we had a choice between a Democrat and a Republican. But

B-BOARD what we really had was a choice between taking politics into the streets, where it belongs, or just sitting home on our asses and watching 22 22 TV. Oh, and vote.

FILM FILM We outsource our politics like we outsource our jobs. We vote, and then we think, “Well, we did our part. We’re done. Let’s watch sports.” 18 Voting, as an isolated exercise, just doesn’t

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16 BY TIM JOHNSON the Occupy movement or Tea Party or something else—takes to the streets and demands ART ART accountability. CW: Someone who cursorily read your book might 15 think it is an attack against Obama, the man. But, it strikes me as more of a critique against the Of- STAGE STAGE ﬁce of the President. TR: Make no mistake, I think Obama is a shitty 14 president. But the point is, he is the best shitty president we’re going to get.

GET OUT More of a concern to me, there has been a constant shift to the Right regardless of who is in ofﬁce. I don’t think that is representative of 12 (NO)BAMA any real shift in the attitudes of Americans, but

WORDS CHOICES WE MAKE IN But the Left has been gone for 50 years. The enerrgy of social change has 10

8 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ARE faded. In the vacuum, “the rich got There has been a constant richer, the poor got poorer, the planet

NEWS NEWS NOT ENOUGH got hotter and dirtier, the media got shift to the Right regardless CURRENTS CURRENTS more useless, and there was nothing we 6 CLIMATE CHANGE. Mass species extinction. could do about it,” he says. of who is in ofﬁce. I don’t Sstemic poverty and discrimination. Inequality of wealth. For a brief moment in 2007, the Left

VIEWS VIEWS think that is representative Atrocious health care costs. Wall Street run amok. Con- # - thought perhaps they’d found their gress paralyzed. WHO: Ted Rall “Hope and Change” agent in Barack 4 of any real shift in the “These are industrial-strength atrocities,” Ted Rall ar- WHAT: The Book Obama,. It's an illusion Rall’s book of O: From Hope, MAIL MAIL gues in the award-winning satirist’s newest book. “They takes pains to explore. The real Hope the Disgust, to attitudes of Americans, but

cannot be eliminated or signiﬁcantly mitigated by press- Revolt Under and Change resides within ourselves, he 2 ing those in charge for small-bore reforms.” Obama. argues. The challenge is reigniting that a shift in the systems that

DO IT IT DO Unfortunately, the powerful engine for social change, the WHEN: 2pm sense of collective outrage that can lit-

progressive Left, has been conked out for a human lifetime. Sun., June 3 erally change the world. elevate people to the Ofﬁce of WHERE: Village “There hasn’t been a Left in the United States since the “The rise of the Tea Party and Occupy .12 Books

30 President. late 1960s,” Rall argues. “We have liberals. But when elec- INFO: www. movement, the general disenchantment tions roll around, liberals invariably roll over and vote for villagebooks.com of the country with the mainstream po- Democrats. When elected, Democrats have always sold out litical system, the polarization of left .07 05. their nominal values.” and right, abandonment of the vital center—is something 22 # A functioning Left, Rall maintains, represents the in- that has resulted from Obama. He was the best that the sys- a shift in the systems that elevate people to the terests and desires of the common person, the ordinary tem had to offer, and he still wasn’t good enough. Because Office of President. working person whose labor is exploited for the benefit of of that, he exposed the fact that the system itself is the The systems that we use to elect our presi- capitalists and the ruling classes. problem. Not the man. dent are no longer responsive to us, the indi- “The Left fights for all that is good and right on the world,” “Under George W. Bush,” Rall notes, “it was possible to vidual voter. the nationally syndicated cartoonist and author writes. consider that if you had elected a smarter, better inten- In 2007, every step of the way, Obama told

CASCADIA WEEKLY “The Left represents the fundamental idea that everyone is tioned president with better advisors that you would end us about himself and what he was going to do in equal and thus entitled to a share to the earth’s bounty. The up with better results. But, really, if anything—at least in ofﬁce. And we chose to ignore that. 8 Left pushes for better working conditions, higher wages, a the area of war policy and civil liberties—Obama is worse In my lifetime, I confess I’ve not seen a pres- better justice system, a government that serves the people than Bush. So you have to ask yourself—this man is intel- idential candidate who has lied less than this rather than the other way around. The Left ﬁghts racists, ligent, he’s about as liberal as the system is going to give one. Obama lied, though. He said he would re- misogynists, homophobes, and bigots of all stripes. The you. And he is not liberal enough. visit NAFTA, that he would include a public Left,” Rall says, “defends the natural environment.” Cascadia Weekly: Your new books follows a thread intro- NOBAMA, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 EO P G P L E N ’ S I H C S I L

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30 30 the murder of 23-year-old Luis Verduzco in an appar-

FOOD 05.y|.12 k th ent attempt to steal his drugs. Verduzco was found FRIDAY e dead in the backyard of a vacant Everett house April a 24. Donnelly was arrested Wednesday night at Macy’s The Washington State Patrol arrests a 38-year- 24 e t in the Bellis Fair Mall for stealing clothes. He will be old Everett man accused of threatening to kill Gov. transferred to Everett custody. Chris Gregoire. The agency says the threats were

B-BOARD W sent via the governor's web page. W 05. .12 BY TIM JOHNSON y{ e 22 22 THURSDAY 05.y}.12

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h FILM FILM Five people are arrested in connection with the

NEWS a kidnapping of a one-year-old child in Maple Falls. The The U.S. Coast Guard rescues two divers caught in

T Whatcom County Sheriff's Ofﬁce reports Scott Vaughn, strong currents west of Whidbey Island. Then crews 18 MAY22-28 s 32, allegedly kicked in the locked door of a loft cabin also rescue the people who were operating their dive

MUSIC and attacked two men inside with a metal pry bar. boats. The dive boats had intentionally been ground- Vaughn took the child from her crib, and threatened ed on Smith Island, and couldn't be re-launched due to

16 both men, saying that if they reported the assault to rough weather. One diver is treated for hypothermia. the police he would return and kill them. Vaughn is ART ART believed to be the child’s father. He was just released 10.y~.12 from an Oregon prison the previous day. Deputies say 15 05.yy.12 SUNDAY Vaughn was assisted by his father, his sister and two TUESDAY other accomplices. The child is recovered unharmed. Running neck and neck throughout the day with STAGE STAGE Whatcom County Council agrees 5-2 to proceed with a plan team Astromech, the team from Barron Heating wins to acquire 14 square miles of forest preserve parkland around Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies arrest a ﬁrst place for the second consecutive year at Ski 14 Lake Whatcom, the largest acquisition of public land in county man wanted on multiple felony charges including to Sea. More than 500 teams competed in seven legs history. The cost of the land transfer—about a third of the a drive-by shooting involving the use of an assault over the 93.5 mile course.

GET OUT total watershed—is estimated at $33.45 per acre. weapon in Skagit County. After Visente Galvez-Cruz refused orders to surrender, deputies entered an 05.y.12 A coalition of Washington education groups files a citizen Everson home and found the 19-year-old hiding in a 12 initiative to ask voters to allow 40 public charter schools in clothes dryer. They recovered cocaine and an AR-15 MONDAY the state over the next five years. The coalition, including the assault rife. A crane barge arrives in Penn Cove to help raise a WORDS League of Education Voters and Stand for Children, has until sunken fishing vessel that's threatening Whidbey July 6 to collect nearly 250,000 valid voter signatures. A woman granted a medical release from What- Island's famous mussel beds. The state Dept. of 10

8 com County Jail dies from hepatitis. The Bellingham Ecology reports responders have already recovered 05.yz.12 Herald reports the 28-year-old resident of Lummi 1,400 gallons of oil that leaked from the derelict NEWS NEWS Island was last booked into jail April 2. A release boat after it caught ﬁre and sank two weeks ago. CURRENTS CURRENTS WEDNESDAY was granted to her Tuesday to receive treatment for The mussels' peak spawning season is now, and their

6 An Everett man suspected of murder is in Whatcom County a condition reportedly stemming from intravenous harvest has been closed until they are cleared by Jail, accused of shoplifting. Derec Donnelly, 31, is suspected in drug abuse. toxicity tests. VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL

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CASCADIA WEEKLY Jewelry, Hats, Decor 10 Enjoy Country Life 360-592-2297 www.everybodys.com Hiway 9 – Van Zandt CHEEKY BEHAVIOR index On May 21, a man was reported walk-

FUZZ ing near Sunset and James streets to the hospital. He was not wearing pants. 145 million tons of coal would cause as much carbon pollution 30 BUZZ Bellingham Police gave him a ride the as a year's worth of gasoline for the states shown in white. rest of the way. FOOD SKI TO SEA WEEKEND On May 26, Bellingham Police steadied On May 19, Bellingham Police received 24 a highly intoxicated person in the park- several reports of a man walking down ing lot at Sunset Square. the middle of Boulevard Street in the

late evening, creating a trafﬁc hazard. B-BOARD On May 26, Bellingham Police lectured The man also created a hazard for the a drunk in Birchwood neighborhood. efforts of police to solve the problem. He was booked into jail. 22

On May 26, Bellingham Police issued a FILM ticket to someone drinking in public on On March 24, Bellingham Police re- Holly Street. ported a woman had been aggressively 18 panhandling in the parking lots of a On May 26, police arrested a minor who’d shopping center on Meridian Street, MUSIC attempted to shoplift booze from a con- resulting in numerous complaints. venience store north of Bellingham. Four businesses requested that she be 16 trespassed from the area. Ofﬁcers lo- On May 26, police issued tickets to two cated her and told her not to return to ART drunks swilling liquor near Bellingham those businesses. She said she under- High School. stood. 15 STAGE STAGE On May 27, Bellingham Police spoke to MYSTERY MAIL a disorderly drunk in Fairhaven. On May 21, a Bellingham business reported they’d received a suspicious let- MILLIONS of tons of greenhousey}y gas carbon dioxide that will be released into the atmosphere 14 On May 27, Bellingham Police issued a ter at the post ofﬁce. each year if all of several proposed coal export facilities are built, as much carbon pollution as produced by all the automobiles in all of the Western states combined. Powder River Basin coal ticket at 7:30pm to someone drinking GET OUT generates 8,500 BTUs per pound, and that 1 million BTUs produces 212.7 pounds of CO . in public at Maritime Heritage Park. On May 22, the business complained 2 of another strange letter being left On May 27, Bellingham Police returned for them. 12 to Maritime Heritage Park at 10pm to issue another ticket for drinking in On May 23, another business reported { z WORDS public. receiving suspicious letters.

MILLIONS of tons per year of Peabody MILLIONS of tons per year of coal Kinder 10 Energy coal proposed to be shipped from Morgan plans to ship from a proposed 8 On May 27, Bellingham Police issued a On May 15, someone threw bricks the proposed Gateway Paciﬁc Terminal at terminal at the Port Westward Industrial ticket to someone drinking in public on through the windows of a business on Cherry Point. Park near Clatskanie, OR. NEWS Holly Street. West Magnolia Street in Bellingham. CURRENTS 6 On May 27, Bellingham Police broke up On April 23, an empty suitcase was a loud party of drunks on Garden Street found on the sidewalk of Potter Street VIEWS at 12:54am. in Bellingham. y| x MILLIONS of tons per year of Ambre MILLIONS of tons per year of coal 4 Energy coal proposed to be shipped from proposed to be shipped out of central On May 28, Bellingham Police issued a SLUMBER UNDER the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals in Oregon by “Project Mainstay” being MAIL ticket to someone drinking in public at LUMBER Longview in its ﬁrst phase of operation. considered by the Port of Coos Bay. 3:15pm on Holly Street. On May 5, an evening stroller in Blaine 2

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public on Holly Street at 9:30pm. a transient peacefully dozing in his 30 sleeping bag. ”The gentleman was of- | On May 28, Bellingham Police issued fered and politely refused assistance,” MILLIONS of tons of coal per year Ambre MILLIONS of tons per year of coal Rail another ticket to someone drinking in police noted, “and promised to call if Energey plans to ship from a facility on the America plans to ship from the Port of .07 05. Columbia River in eastern Oregon that will Grays Harbor’s Marine Terminal 3. 22 # public on Holly Street. he changed his mind. He was left to his transfer coal from rail to barges that will be slumbers for the time being.” towed downriver to Port Westward. MAKING THE POINT On May 20, Bellingham Police respond- SUSPICION OF BEING ed to a report of an argument in which BOMBED one man reportedly had a gun in his On May 21, a man threatened to bomb |x{|

hand. a bar on Bellingham’s East Holly Street CASCADIA WEEKLY FIVE million tons of coal releases as much COMBINED total, in millions of tons per in the late evening. climate-changing carbon pollution as all year of coal shipped from these proposed On May 15, a man was reported ﬁring the gasoline burned in a year by 2.6 million export terminals. 11 a BB gun in the plaza of the Perform- On May 22, Bellingham Police attempt- residents of Washington. ing Arts Center on Western Washington ed to calm a customer who was bombed University campus. University Police at a bar on West Holly Street in the SOURCES: Sightline Institute arrived. They took away his BB gun. early morning. doit currents Ted Rall ›› WORDS

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30 30 WESTERN CONNECTIONS: Wilson Library cataloguer Leslie Hall, the ﬁnal speaker for FOOD the spring Western Connections brown bag series, leads a “Who Do You Think You Are? NOBAMA, FROM PAGE 12 How My Book on Revolutionary Georgia Led Me

24 to Atlanta and Paula Deen” at noon at Village Books, 1200 11th St. option in health care, that he’d close WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

B-BOARD Guantanamo, that he’d rein in Wall DOUBLE READING: Buffy Cram reads from Street. Radio Belly and Anakana Schoﬁeld reads from But he has lied less than many. Malarky at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 22 22 He said he was going to expand the 671-2626

FILM FILM war in Afghanistan. He did. He said FRI., JUNE 1 he was going to continue the war in POETRY DUO: Ann Spiers and Susan J. Erick- Iraq. He did. He said he was going son read from their new poetry collections— 18 to continue many of the policies that What Rain Does and The Art of Departure, respectively—at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 began under Bush. And he has.

MUSIC 11th St. We chose to ignore him. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM I think we do need to demystify 16 JUNE 1-2 Obama. There’s an effort in the book BOOKFAIR BENEFIT: Fifteen to 25 percent ART ART to do that. I think people do need of purchases made by customers supporting a to see Obama for who he is, to un- Bookfair to beneﬁt Bellingham Public Schools 15 derstand that he is not awesome, but will be donated after purchases are tallied that he is the man in charge. He is a up this weekend. The event happens from STAGE STAGE right-wing Democrat. 9am-11pm both days at Barnes & Noble, 4099 Meridian St. But the answer is not to vote for 647-7018 14 Romney, or some other deeply ﬂawed The truth is, organized Democrats the default public opinion on gay character. The answer is to under- are just as blind in their obedience to marriage. SAT., JUNE 2 BOOK LAUNCH: Clete Barrett Smith launches

GET OUT stand at a deep level that the system their power structures as Republicans If anything, the gay marriage his new book, Alien on a Rampage: Intergalactic sucks. And this is what it produces. were blind to their own under Bush. issue is a perfect example of the Bed & Breakfast #2, from 2-4pm at the com- CW: For all the grievances the Right Back in the day, we used to ask dysfunction of the system. If you mons at Whatcom Middle School, 810 Halleck 12 12 gins up about Obama, they ignore the ourselves, “What would Bush have to have a president who is just follow- St. There will be a book signing and after- complaints against him expressed by do for Republicans to admit he was ing the polls, adjusting to their ad- party. Entry is free. WORDS WORDS the Left. The civil liberties abuses, less than awesome?” If he was caught justments, we don’t really need that WWW.CLETEBARRETTSMITH.COM the increasing military/surveillance having sex with dogs, would that do president at all. That is not leader- RECLAIMING THE DEAD: Bellingham author

10 James Brotherton reads from his debut novel, state—these are things it seems a it? I don’t think it would have. ship on an issue. Reclaiming the Dead, at 7pm at Village Books, united voice might roll back. What would Obama have to do CW: If people were sufﬁciently informed 1200 11th St. TR: There are a lot of things you sim- before Democrats would throw him and properly empowered, what should 671-2626 CURRENTS CURRENTS ply are not allowed to talk about in under a bus? be their next steps? Options seem lim- SUN., JUNE 3 6 a two party system; and the parties CW: Does the President’s “evolving po- ited. TEEN POETS: Talented young women from largely agree on matters like torture sition” on same-sex marriage suggest TR: I personally believe that the Oc- Shuksan Middle School will share their poetry

VIEWS VIEWS and surveillance. to you that he is able to be persuaded, cupy movement needs to be taken at a reading to beneﬁt the Brigid Collins Fam- Look at the trouble Obama has that sufﬁcient numbers might change to the next level, becoming a more ily Support Center at 5pm at Village Books, 4 had even mentioning problems in his mind on a topic? He was himself active force for positive change. 1200 11th St. Booklets of their poetry will be available for purchase.

MAIL MAIL the private equity markets. You can- a community organizer and must at It’s not an engine for change, it’s a 671-2626 not criticize that, you cannot even some level believe in that process. campground. Get out of the parks.

2 try to distinguish it from what we TR: He can certainly be reached Occupy the entire country. MON., JUNE 4 might call classic, functional capi- through public opinion. But realize, People need to stop thinking A WARDEN’S REFLECTIONS: Adria L. DO IT IT DO

Libolt shares stories and reﬂections from her talism. As president, you cannot say that is all that has happened. about the two-party system, and autobiographical book, A Deputy Warden’s Re- you are anti-war. You can’t say you Among the majority of likely Obama start thinking about what matters ﬂections on Prison Work, at 7pm at the Blaine .12 Library, 610 3rd St. 30 are anti-home invasion. voters, most favor gay marriage. and propose solutions outside the The parties have agreed upon The question really is, did he box. We’re in such a permanent state 332-8146 these issues. Both are expansionist, lead on this? No. If he hadn’t made a of crisis, and it is not like there is an POETRYNIGHT: Read your original verse at poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Proj- .07 05. militaristic, pro-violence. Both have statement, would it have made any alternative set of conditions.

22 ect, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start at 8pm. # agreed to expand domestic spying. difference? Did he speed up accep- The political class thinks it can WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG Both have agreed to do nothing re- tance of gay marriage by making the ignore the people it purports to rep- garding the aggregation of wealth in statement? I don’t think so. Would resent. And they’re right for now. But TUES., JUNE 5 fewer and fewer hands. the absence of his statement of sup- not forever. A reckoning is at hand. NEXT HUSBAND: Bellingham author Rae Ellen Lee reads from her new memoir, My Next Forget about solutions’ the sys- port slowed it down? I don’t think CW: We face a grim choice in November. Husband Will Be Normal, at 7pm at Village tem doesn’t even offer options. so, either. Because it is either this man, and what Books, 1200 11th St. The book focuses on what I imagine at least one party will Because the polls really haven’t we might agree have been his marginal happened after Lee’s husband realized he was

CASCADIA WEEKLY CW: circle their wagons around this presi- moved on this since he issued his advances, or a full rollback to the neo- really a she. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM 12 dent and denounce the views ex- statement, it suggests he took no cons. Not a breadth of options. pressed in your book. political risks whatsoever. He has TR: Voters are in a terrible place, yes. WED., JUNE 6 TR: The writings I’ve done against not advocated any change from They have to stop thinking about KINGDOM OF MEN: Idaho author Kim Barnes Obama have gotten me cancelled current law on the subject. He just themselves as voters and start think- reads from her book of ﬁction, In the King- from countless liberal publications. expressed support for what is now ing about themselves as citizens. doit

dom of Men, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 671-2626 30 30 THURS., JUNE 7

REAMDE: Bestselling author Neal Stephen- FOOD son reads from his new book of science ﬁction, Reamde, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 24 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

COMMUNITY B-BOARD JUNE 1-3 22 22 BLAST FROM THE PAST: Sidewalk sales, arts and crafts, food vendors, a quilt show, bike FILM FILM races and fun rides, a children’s costume parade, live music, a car show and much,

much more will be part of a “Blast from 18 the Past” happening Fri.-Sun. throughout Sedro-Woolley. Most events are free. MUSIC WWW.SEDRO-WOOLLEY.COM

SAT., JUNE 2 16 FARMERS DAY PARADE: Head to Lynden for ART ART today’s Farmers Day Parade. Activities kick off at 9:30am with an open-air market,

and the parade begins at 10:30am between 15 Third and 10th streets in the town’s

historic downtown district. The event STAGE honors the economic and social impact of the agricultural industry in Lynden and

its surrounding area. Trucks, tractors and 14 horse-drawn wagons will be interspersed with ﬂoats, bands and a variety of other

entries. GET OUT WWW.LYNDEN.ORG

ALOHA FESTIVAL: Northwest Hawai’i 12 12 ‘Ohana presents the inaugural “Bridge of Aloha” Festival from 10am-8pm at the WORDS

Ferndale Events Center, 5715 Barrett Rd. WORDS The event will feature Hawaiian music, hula and Polynesian performances, food vendor 10 booths, cultural workshops and more. Admission is $5-$7. WWW.NWHAWAIIOHANA.WEBS.COM

ROLLER BETTIES: The Bellingham Roller CURRENTS Betties will host a double-header starting at 6 5pm at Whatcom Community College’s Orca Pavilion. Tickets are $6 for kids and $14 for adults. VIEWS WWW.BELLINGHAMROLLERBETTIES.COM 4 COTTAGE SCHOOL BENEFIT: A silent auc-

tion, live entertainment, food and more will MAIL be part of an annual beneﬁt for the Cottage

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SUN., JUNE 3 .12 SIGN CELEBRATION: Attend a celebra- 30 tion and lighting ceremony at 6:30pm for the new marquee at Mount Vernon’s

Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. The event .07 05. 22

is the culmination of more than a year of # fundraising for “Project 85,” the effort to commission and install the sign on the front façade in honor of the Lincoln’s 85th birthday. WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG WED., JUNE 6

GREEN DRINKS: Network with likeminded CASCADIA WEEKLY environmentally aware folks at the monthly Green Drinks happening from 5-7pm at 13 Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly St. Entry is free. WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG doit JUNE 1-2

GOOD TIME GIRLS: Remember the “Sin &

30 30 Gin” tours from last summer? Well, the original Good Time Girls are back—along with a few new

FOOD G faces—for more lively historical walking tours. etout Things kick off this weekend with the original “Sin & Gin” tours happening at 6:45pm Fri.-Sat. HIKING RUNNING CYCLING SKIING in downtown Bellingham, a new “Sin & Gin” 24 tour starting at 6:45pm Fridays at Fairhaven’s Sycamore Building, and an afternoon “Historical Walking Tour” beginning at 2pm every Saturday in B-BOARD Fairhaven. All tours will be offered through Aug. 25. Tickets are $10-$20. WWW.GOODTIMEGIRLSBHAM.COM 22 22 JUNE 1-3

FILM FILM ful soccer, which can be magical to watch. HIGHLAND GAMES: The annual Bellingham This local football club is the essence of Highland Games take place Friday through Sunday Bellingham because they celebrate the val- at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead Park, 5299 18 ues of community, courage and athleticism Nielsen Ave. In addition to Scottish athletic and through the sport of soccer. According to dance competitions, there’ll be plenty of live MUSIC head coach Lance Calloway, 16 players from Celtic music, a pipe band competition, games for kids, caber salutes, parades and much more. a pool of 36 are from Bellingham or grew up

16 Entry is $10-$13. in Whatcom County. WWW.BHGA.ORG ART ART Calloway said it took a lot of time to recruit SAT., JUNE 2 TRAILS DAY PROJECT: Join REI and the Wash- 15 players, create the ington Trails Association for a National Trails framework of a strong Day project from 8:30am-2:30pm on the Excelsior STAGE STAGE team and do it the Pass Trail. right way. He, along WWW.WTA.ORG

14 with Bellingham United GIRLS ON THE RUN: All can participate in the club president and co- “Girls on the Run 5K” starting at 9am at Belling- ham’s Barkley Village. Cost is $15.

GET OUT founder Jeff McIntyre, WWW.WHATCOMYMCA.ORG ATTEND hoped to create a fun SUN RACE: The Greater Bellingham Running Club WHAT: Bellingham

14 environment where hosts the annual “Race Beneath the Sun” starting 12 United Football young kids can watch at 10am at the upper pavilion at Fairhaven Park. Club takes on Cost is $3-$8. Khalsa Sporting very talented players GET OUT WORDS WWW.GBRC.NET Club and respect what they DOXIE WALK: Bring your dachshunds along to WHEN: 3pm Sun., are doing on the ﬁeld.

10 take part in the 8th annual Doxie Walk begin- June 3 It’s a great opportunity ning at 10am at the Fairhaven train station, 401 WHERE: Civic for families to come Harris Ave. Stadium 303-9202 COST: $4-$8 out, see the team work- CURRENTS CURRENTS INFO: www.belling ing hard and committed JUNE 2-3 6 hamunited.com to the team goal of ex- BIG BIRD FLY-IN: The Bell Air RC Flyers hosts cellence in soccer. its 23rd annual Big Bird Fly-In from 9am-4pm

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DAVID WILLOUGHBY Bellingham has a tremendous soccer legacy and culture. Starting at a young age, WWW.BELLAIRRCFLYERS.COM 4 with the Whatcom Development League and WATERFRONT FESTIVAL: Celebrate marine heritage at the annual Anacortes Waterfront Festival MAIL MAIL BY GRACE JACKSON then the Whatcom Football Club (the Rang- happen from 10am-6pm Sat. and 10am-5pm Sun. ers program), our kids have every opportu-

at the Cap Sante Marina and beyond. 2 nity to excel in soccer. My daughter plays WWW.ANACORTES.ORG for a Rangers team and it’s an impressive DO IT IT DO

organization. She’s learned a lot, not only SUN., JUNE 3 The Hammers MUDDY MAYHEM: Sign up for a three-mile race in terms of soccer, but also how to excel by over dirt hills and mud pits at 9am at Hannegan .12

30 HOMEGROWN FUN ON THE FIELD setting goals and becoming the best pos- Speedway, 4212 Hannegan Rd. Cost is $60-$75. sible person she can be. WWW.MUDDY-MAYHEM.COM A FEW weeks ago, I was part of a monumental event that rocked I went to that ﬁrst game out of sheer curi- GARDEN TOUR: As part of Everybody Bikes

.07 05. Bellingham’s foundation to the core. No, it wasn’t an earthquake; it was osity, but I left as a converted and obsessive Summer Rides series, take part in a School Garden 22 Tour beginning at 1pm at the Youth Grown Gar- # something far more substantial and beautiful than that. This unforget- Hammers fan, having experienced the most den, 1020 N. State St. table milestone was the ﬁrst home game of the Bellingham United fun I’ve had in a long time. We plan on going WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM Football Club’s—also known as the “Hammers”—inaugural season. to every home game and possibly some away I, along with a crowd of about 1,400 other fans, witnessed the games as well. TUES., JUNE 5 birth of our very own semi-professional, homegrown soccer team. The Hammers are back in town this weekend KAYAK BASICS: Sharmon Hill of Moondance Kayak Tours will lead a “Kayak Basics” clinic at Bellingham United is all about local people, local pride and local at Civic Stadium. Tickets are cheaper than a 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.

CASCADIA WEEKLY passion. Those of us in the stands were proud to see the Hammers movie and inherently more exciting. Attend- 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM embody the spirit of the world’s most popular game. It was a historic, ing a home game is the ultimate in “buying WED., JUNE 6 14 tectonic-plate-shifting event. If you missed that inaugural game, or local.” Come see why Bellingham United is BIKE BASICS: A “Bike Maintenance Basics” the two home games that followed, don’t miss the home game Sun., the highest-scoring team in the Paciﬁc Coast workshop begins at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. June 3. Soccer league. Bring a date or bring your par- Register in advance for the free workshop. I’ve never been a big fan of sports, so I was surprised at how much ents; just come out, rally the team and join 647-8955 I enjoyed this. The games are fast, furious, full of passion and beauti- the homegrown fun. doit STAGE SAT., JUNE 2

FEAST OF FOOLS: Shake-

THURS., MAY 31 speare Northwest will host 30 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “Feast of Fools,” a fundrais- G “The Good, the Bad and the ing kickoff event for this FOOD Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday summer’s season, from 2-4pm sta e at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 in Skagit County at the Rex- Bay St. At 10pm, stick around THEATER DANCE PROFILES ville Grange, 19299 Rexville 24 for “TheThe Project.”Proje Entry is Grange Rd. $4-$7.$4-$7. WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG 733-8855733-8855 ORO WWW. OPEN MIC: Comedians, B-BOARD THEUPFRONT.COMTHEUPFRONT.C dancers, thespians and other MAYMAY 31-JUNE31-J 2 performers are invited to an BRISEIS:BRISEIS: GetGe a behind-the- all-ages Masquerade Open 22 BY AMY KEPFERLE scenes peek aat the Trojan War Mice starting at 5:30pm whenwhen GlennGlenn Hergenhahn’sH at the Old Foundry, 100 E. FILM fabulousfabulous tragicomedytrag Briseis Maple St. Tickets are $7-$10 showsshows forfor thethe ﬁnal weekend and proceeds will beneﬁt 18 atat 8pm Thurs.-Sat.Thurs at the Rooted Emerging programs. iDiOMiDiOM Theater,Theate 1418 Cornwall WWW.ROOTEDEMERGING.ORG

Coppelia and Copland MUSIC Ave.Ave. Tickets aare $10. NORTHWEST BALLET THEATRE’S BUSY WEEKENDEEKEND 201-5464201-5464 ORO WWW. IDIOMTHEATER.COMIDIOMTHEATER DANCE 16

WHEN THE Northwest Ballet Theatre brings classics MAYMAY 31-JUNE31-J 7 MAY 31-JUNE 1 ART SPRING DANCE SHOW- to the stage, they do so in a big way. Elaborate sets, live BARDBARD ONON THETH BEACH: The TamingTaming ofof thethe Shrew kicks CASE: Bellingham Dance 16 15 music and contributions from a plethora of dancers and com- offoff Bard on theth Beach’s new Company presents its Spring munity members are par for the course. We caught up with season with ana 8pm showing Dance Showcase with shows STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE artistic director John Bishop to see Thurs.Thurs. at VanVancouver, B.C.’s at 7pm Thurs.-Fri. at the what’s happening with the dance com- VanierVanier Park.Park. TheT Shake- Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. pany this weekend. Trust us, it’s a lot. spearianspearian oofferingffe shows in 14 repertory withwit Macbeth, The Tickets are $12-$15. Cascadia Weekly: Have you performed MerryMerry Wives of Windsor, and WWW.

Coppelia—one of the world’s most King John throughthr Sept. 22. BELLINGHAMDANCECOMPANY. GET OUT produced ballets around—before? Tickets are $2$21-$40. COM John Bishop: This is the second time WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORGWWW.BARD JUNE 1-2 12 we are performing Coppelia. We per- ATTEND JUNEJUNE 11-2-2 CAPSTONE CONCERT: formed it in 2000 and are excited MIXEDMIXED BABAG:G: Through June, Western Washington Uni- WHAT: Coppelia viewview showingsshowing of Triples at versity’s theatre and dance WORDS about bringing it back. WHEN: 7:30pm June 8pm at the UpfrontU Theatre, departments present their CW: What was the motivation for stag- 1-2 and 2pm Sun.,

1208 BayBay St. At 10pm, stick annual “Capstone Concert” 10 ing it again? June 3 aroundaround forfor “Hodgepodge”“H at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. at the WHERE: Mount JB: I think it is a good ﬁt for the shows. TickeTicketst are $8-$10. school’s Performing Arts Baker Theatre, 104 Northwest Ballet Theatre because 733-8855733-8855 ORO WWW. Center (room 16). Tickets

N. Commercial St. CURRENTS are $8. it is a ballet that blends well with COST: $15-$24 THEUPFRONT.COMTHEUPFRONT.C 650-6146 dancers we have, giving even INFO: 734-6080 or IMPROVAGANZA:IMPROVAGA The Dead 6 younger dancers the opportunity to www.mountbaker ParrotsParrots SocietySocie performs FOLK DANCE PARTY: “Behind the Improv,”I at Kafana Republic will perform dance quite a bit in the production. theatre.com VIEWS WHAT: Treasures of 7:30pm7:30pm andand 9:30pm9 Fri. at at the Fourth Corner Folk And the story and choreography is Dancer’s monthly dance Aaron Copland WWU’sWWU’s FFraserraser 4. At 4:30pm 4 extremely enjoyable for both danc- WHEN: 2pm Sat., StSat., watcht h theth Dead Parrots party from 7:30-10:30pm at

ers and audience. June 2 this weekend. How did that come about? perform with members of the Fairhaven Library, 1117 MAIL CW: What’s it about? WHERE: Mount JB: The collaboration ﬁrst came about when I the Upfront Theatre. At 12th St.

380-0456 2 JB: A young man sees a beautiful girl Baker Theatre was asked by another ballet company in Bel- 6pm, New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade will perform reading a book on balcony and blows COST: $15-$24 levue to work with their dancers on a produc- SUN., JUNE 3 IT DO

at the Performing Arts Center her a kiss as his ﬁance watches from tion this spring. It was a very diverse program, Mainstage. Ticket prices AFRO-BRASILIAN FESTI- behind. The girl turns out be a lifelike doll created by an which included “Treasures,” which I choreo- vary. VAL: Western Washington

University’s Capoeria Club .12 650-6146

eccentric inventor. There are lots of crazy and comical 30 graphed. The three-part medley to Billy the hosts an Afro-Brasilian Fes- THOROUGHLY MODERN MIL- twists and beautiful dances throughout the whole ballet. Kid, Rodeo, and The Red Pony was set to West- tival from 10am-4pm at the LIE: The musical known as CW: How many people are involved with putting this on? ern themes from the American vernacular. school’s Carver Gym. Thoroughly Modern Millie opens WWW.BELLINGHAMCAPOEIRA. .07 05. JB: Counting artistic staff, cast, crew, volunteers and con- CW: Isn’t it kind of crazy to produce two separate this weekend with showings 22

BLOGSPOT.COM # tributors, I count about 150 on this weekend’s produc- performances in one weekend? at 8pm Fri.-Sat. at the Ana- tion. It also requires an incredible amount of time and JB: It is a little stressful, but that is why I just cortes Community Theatre, SILK ROAD SHOWCASE: Maggie Rose, Banat Sahar, energy over the course of six months to bring the produc- 918 M Ave. Tickets are $20. love my dancers and my crew. They are always Katy Houseman, Mahala WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM tion to the stage. having a lot of fun, so the atmosphere is inde- Dancers, Alyssa Springs, NINJA MUSICAL: View CW: The Starry Night Orchestra is back for this show. Is it scribably wonderful. Everyone realizes that to Blonde Ambition, Portico a tale of “love among the Dance Company, and other important to have live music for a ballet? perform on a high level for the audience you shadows” when Colossus! special guests will perform

JB: The orchestra really makes such a difference. In the have to being enjoying every minute of what Theatre Productions presents CASCADIA WEEKLY at a “Silk Road Showcase” at overall ballet design of things, it provides the soul for the you are doing or the audience won’t enjoy it. A Ninja Must Be Silent: An 6:30pm at the Leopold Crys- Original One-Act Musical at production. This is now the second time for Bellingham to CW: Why should people come to your shows? tal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall 15 11pm Fri.-Sat. at the iDiOM have a full-length classical ballet with orchestra. In this JB: People always enjoy NBT performances. Ave. Admission is $5. Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. WWW. way, NBT wants to serve this community by celebrating They can see the work that goes into every Tickets are $5. BELLINGHAMBELLYDANCE.COM the marriage of ballet and live music. aspect of each production and the inspira- WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM CW: You’re also presenting “The Treasures of Aaron Copland” tion they feel from our dancers. doit UPCOMING EVENTS

FRI., JUNE 1

30 30 GALLERY WALK: From 6-9pm, attend the monthly Gallery Walk throughout

FOOD downtown Anacortes. Entry is free and visual open to all. GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES WWW.ANACORTESNOW.COM

24 ART WALK: Peruse a variety of galleries, businesses and restaurants from 6-10pm as part of the Art Walk happening

B-BOARD throughout downtown Bellingham. Check out the listings below, get the roster online or pick up maps at participating people know that recycling doesn’t have to just locations. 22 22 mean putting cans and bottles in one bin and WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM

FILM FILM plastics and newspapers in others. In other ALLIED ARTS: View “Contrast & Harmo- words, it can be fun. ny,” featuring works from Deb Steinkamp, Those who want to get a closer look at the Richard Nevels, Chris Murphy, and John 18 unique derby cars that will be careening down D’Onofrio, from 6-9pm at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The colorful multimedia Maple Street before coming to a rest at Cornwall MUSIC exhibit can be viewed through June 30. Avenue can do so from 10am-3pm Sat., June 2 WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG during the Bellingham Farmers Market at the De- HONEY SALON: Abstract artist Christo- 16 16 pot Market Square. Then, after heading home to pher Murphy will be on hand to show off ART ART ART ART put their fresh produce away, they can come back his reverse glass oil paintings from 6-9pm downtown and line up to watch the action. at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St. The

15 works will be on display through July 3. But, as per the event’s art-related moniker, WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM that’s not all that’s on the roster. AMADEUS PROJECT: Emerging artists STAGE STAGE For the past month, a variety of quirky and from WWU— Laurel Kam, Christopher fabulous art pieces fash- Popek, Joe, Rudko, Jake Reller, Sam Case

14 ioned mostly out of used and Tyna Ontko—will show their works appliance parts—some of from 6-10pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. The art will be up

GET OUT which are quite difﬁcult to through June, and there’ll be an artists’ recognize once they’ve been talk June 15. repurposed—has been pep- WWW.THEAMADEUSPROJECT.ORG 12 pered throughout Boundary BUETHORN STUDIO: Candace N. Buetho- Bay Brewery. After the race, rn will unveil her new collage work, “Dawn WORDS attendees are encouraged to of the Hot-N-Ready,” from 5-9pm at // ) Buethorn Watercolor Studio, 301 W. Holly WHAT: 4th make their way to Boundary’s St. The celebration is a culmination of her 10 annual Appliance beer garden for an auction ﬁfteenth year in business and six months Art Revival in her new downtown location. WHEN: Derby of the pieces, which features WWW.CANDACEBUETHORN.COM starts at 5pm Sat., works by a variety of area art- CURRENTS CURRENTS June 2. From 6:30- ists including Karin K. Muel- WATERFRONT ARTISTS: See the works of 17 of Bellingham’s most versatile art- 6 8:30pm, there’ll ler, Shirley Erickson, Graham ists exhibiting a variety of genres from be an art auction. Schodda, and others. BY AMY KEPFERLE At 7pm, listen to 6-10pm at the Waterfront Artists’ Studios, VIEWS VIEWS live music from the Whether you go home with 1220 Central Ave. (across from Jalapenos). Yogoman Burning one of the pieces, there’s no WWW.WATERFRONTARTIST 4 Band and special doubt that—after watching STUDIOCOLLECTIVE.BLOGSPOT.COM FISHBOY: Head out of downtown proper MAIL MAIL Appliance Art Revival guests the thrills of the race and WHERE: Maple checking out and bidding to view the works of R.R. Clark from 6-10pm at the Fishboy Gallery, 617 Vir- 2 and State streets, CREATIVITY IN ACTION Boundary Bay on the crazily creative con- ginia St. (near Trader Joe’s). coctions—you’ll ever look at DO IT IT DO Brewery WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM

IN THE moments before the big race was to get underway, a gaggle COST: Entry is $6 your toaster, refrigerator or of competitors checked their safety gear. Helmets were fastened, cov- for the art auction blender the same way again. SAT., JUNE 2 .12 and music JANSEN ART OPENING: Attend opening

30 eralls were zipped, knee and elbow pads were secured and goggles were But that’s kind of the INFO: http://reuse day of a Summer Fine Art Gallery exhibit afﬁxed just so. works.org point. By keeping what could from 11am-4pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Then, without further ado, the racers climbed into their washing ma- be refuse out of the dump, Center, 321 Front St.

.07 05. chines—and a host of other derby cars fashioned out of old appliances and those at the Appliance De- WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG 22 # assorted parts—and proceeded to make their way down a semi-steep hill in pot are making sure people are aware of all that PRINTMAKERS OPENING: Attend an a manner that wasn’t so much Indy 500 as it was pure vaudeville. they do. Adding on to their aforementioned mis- opening reception for “On to the Next One: NW Printmakers Open Call” from Those lining the street howled and clapped as the racers haphazardly sion of culling items from the waste stream, they 5-8pm at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, made their way to the ﬁnish line. After all, it’s not every day it’s pos- put this credo in motion by providing job-training 5742 Gilkey Ave. The works will be up sible (or legal) to see sane humans making their way down city streets programs through the salvage, repair and sale of through June 30. in conveyances typically found only in utility rooms, kitchens, garages reconditioned appliances. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM

CASCADIA WEEKLY and basements. In the moments before the derby cart race gets The spectacle was only one part of the Appliance Depot’s annual Ap- underway, onlookers probably won’t be thinking ONGOING EXHIBITS 16 pliance Art Revival, but it’s the one that, every June, puts the action in about the do-good aspects of the Appliance De- ARTISANS NORTHWEST: View works art and draws attention to the company’s mission, which is to keep our pot—but that’s as it should be. But if you see a from as many as 100 Whatcom County art- community healthy and to model environmental sustainability by reduc- dented washing machine coming to rest at the ists on a regular basis at Artisans North- ing the number of appliances entering the waste stream. bottom of the hill, rest assured, it’ll be put to west Art Crafts & Eats, 1215 Cornwall Ave. WWW.ARTISANSBELLINGHAM.COM With creative reuse at its forefront, the event is meant to make sure good use. doit Andrew L. Subin ARTWOOD: View a “New Work Show” CRIMINAL DEFENSE through June at Artwood, 1000 Harris Ave.

WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Works by LET THERE BE ROCK. 30 photographer Jeanie McGee are currently

on display at the Chuckanut Brewery & FOOD Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM

CONCRETE HERITAGE: In conjunction 24 with the Skagit County Historical Museum, view “The Stump Ranch” through the sum-

mer at the Concrete Heritage Museum, 7380 B-BOARD Thompson Ave. (360) 853-7041 Drug, Alcohol & FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the con- Driving Related 22 temporary folk art of RR Clark from 12-5pm

every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Offenses FILM Virginia St. 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM FREE 18 FOG: View a variety of works by noted art- CONSULTATION ists at the Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Harris Ave. MUSIC WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM (360) 734-6677 16 FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: “Here’s Look- www.andrewsubin.com 16 ing At You” will be up through May 31 at ART ART ART ART Fourth Corner Frames, 311 W. Holly St. 734-1340 Buy Dad a Beer on Dad’s Day GALLERY CYGNUS: View an exhibit Vienna Lager is Back! 15 featuring works by Becky Fletcher and Patty

Detzer through June 24 at La Conner’s Gal- HoPPY Hour (Bar/Patio) Su-Th 4-6 STAGE lery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave. WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM Friday $8 Liter Stein Night 14 GOOD EARTH: Irene Lawson’s “Pattern Play” can be viewed through June at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. @;@=3E;4D7I;@9 5A?7G97@7AD79A@ GET OUT WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM JANSEN ART CENTER: Sign up for classes

and workshops at Lynden’s new Jansen Art 12 Center, 321 Front St. WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG WORDS MONA: “Everett DuPen and His Legacy,” “Veruska Vagen: Somewhere in Time,” “Tulip- ieres: The Tulip Vase Revisited,” and “Works 10 on Paper from the Permanent Collection” can be seen through June 10 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. CURRENTS CURRENTS WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG QUILT MUSEUM: “Deep Spaces” and Carol 6 Taylor’s “Contemporary Art Quilts: Working

in a Series” can be viewed through June 24 VIEWS at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum,

703 Second St. Entry is $5-$7. 4 WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM MAIL MAIL SCOTT MILO GALLERY: The Women Paint-

ers of Washington’s “Summer Daze” can be 2 viewed through June 28 at Anacortes’ Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave. DO IT IT DO

WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM SKAGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Monday Nights Murrow Brothers: Peak of Their Professions” Open House .12 shows through Dec. 21 at La Conner’s Skagit Meditation and Talk 30 County Historical Museum, 501 4th St. The Free Meditation exhibit celebrates the lives of the sons of Instruction at 6:30pm.

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30 30 IF YOU’VE BEEN following the Last Band Standing competition at the Underground FOOD (early rounds took place at the bar every music Thursday night during May), you are probably already well aware that the ﬁnal is upon 24 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT us—it takes place Thurs., May 31 at the bar—and four local bands remain. Those

B-BOARD bands are, in no particular order, the Bad Tenants, My Dad Bruce, Kowalski, and Black Beast Revival. In order to reach the ﬁnals, 22 22 those four bands took down very many

FILM FILM other bands, some you know and love, and some you’ve barely ever heard of. But if you’d like to swear allegiance to one of the 18 18 18 remaining bands, I’m sure they’d love you

MUSIC forever (even if they don’t share their win- MUSIC nings with you) if you made your way 16 to the ﬁnal show ART ART and cast your vote accordingly. Be- 15 cause competi- tive democracy is STAGE STAGE the principle upon which this country 14 was founded and it is the thing that BY CAREY ROSS

GET OUT makes us great. Or something. Also on the roster of worthy upcoming 12 events is the Urban Music Festival, which will happen all weekend long (June 1-2) at WORDS the Wild Buffalo. The festival is in its eighth incarnation, so the mixture of music, art, 10 circus performers and more is clearly one that fans ﬁnd to be appealing. If nothing else, it’s an inexpensive, easy way to catch CURRENTS CURRENTS back-to-back sets by Acorn Project, who

6 BY CAREY ROSS headline both nights of the festival. And to Jones or Charles Bradley, you’ve found those who say (and I know you’re out there

VIEWS VIEWS yourself lost in the wrong musical era. as some of you have said this very thing To meet up with the musical tradi- to me), “Really? Both nights? Come on,” to

4 JD McPherson tion from which McPherson draws and you I reply thusly: When you plan and ex-

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Ledford WHEN THREE separate people, unrelated to and WHEN: 8pm the music that speaks to McPherson is too. And, when that day comes, if you’re independent of each other, reach out to me to tell me Thurs., May 31 also the stuff that made the 1950s so anything like Acorn Project, fans will show .12 WHERE: The Green

30 about an upcoming show, it’s a pretty clear sign I should great—and if you think a person raised up in droves to watch you do it. Probably Frog, 1015 N. State listen to what they’ve got to say and who they’re saying on punk rock and cattle ranching in the I would add a "so there” onto the end of St. it about. COST: $10 modern era can’t do Carl Perkins and that statement, but that part is negotiable .07 05. This is exactly what happened when JD McPherson de- MORE INFO: Jerry Lee Lewis justice, you obviously depending upon how childish I may or may 22 # cided to come to town. www.acoustic haven’t heard McPherson blow through not be feeling in the moment. To be clear, the three people who passed on the recom- tavern.com tracks like “North Side Gal” and “Scan- But Acorn Project isn’t the only source mendation were not Tom Waits, Nick Lowe, or John Prine— dalous” like a time traveler from a music scene past. of entertainment to be found at the Urban although it easily could’ve been (provided I was acquainted The truth is, Bellingham has frequently embraced such Music Festival. Also on hand (on stages with any of those legendary songwriters, that is), as all nostalgia-inducing modern acts—and often long before both inside and out) will be Polecat, Snug three are reportedly big fans of this Oklahoma crooner. the rest of the world catches on. In that sense, McPherson Harbor, Dream Science Circus, Yogoman

CASCADIA WEEKLY That’s pretty heady stuff for a guy who used earn his living can be classed right alongside Jones and Bradley, which Burning Band, Medium Troy, My Dad Bruce, in front of a classroom rather than behind a microphone. means all signs point to his upcoming Green Frog show and many others, along with buskers, food 18 McPherson, however, seems to be taking it all in his Bryl- presenting a prime get-in-on-the-ground-ﬂoor musical vendors, a silent auction, family activi- creemed, analog-loving stride. opportunity. What I’m trying to say is, see McPherson now ties and more. Some of it is free, some of To call McPherson a throwback artist would be an apt before the whole world catches on, lest you have to buy it isn’t, but all of it is pretty cheap at the description, but if that description brings to mind another a pass to next year’s incarnation of Bumbershoot or Sas- price—especially the free stuff. And you slammin’ soul singer from the Daptone roster a la Sharon quatch to see what you so regrettably missed. can’t beat free stuff. musicevents Great selection of Ales & Lagers

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WED., MAY 30 FAME CONCERT: Bellingham Sings will host Wills Done Completely Free of Charge. GET OUT BAND POPS: The Whatcom Wind Ensemble, Sym- a FAME (Female Artists for Music Education) phonic Band, and WWU band alumni will perform beneﬁt concert featuring local female musi- VISIT WWW.DANIELSOBEL.COM TO LEARN MORE at a “Band Pops!” concert at 8pm at Western’s cians and a silent auction featuring the work Daniel Sobel OR CONTACT DANIEL SOBEL AT (360) 510-7816 12 Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. The perfor- of Whatcom County women artists from 7:30- mance is free and open to the public. 9:30pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall WORDS 650-3130 Ave. Tickets are $20-$25. 393-1687 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMSINGS.ORG THURS., MAY 31 10 YOUTH SYMPHONY: Performers from the SUN., JUNE 3 Fidalgo Youth Symphony will perform at the WHATCOM CHORALE: “Comforting Words” will be ﬁnal concert of the season at 7pm at Mount the theme of a sacred music concert featuring the CURRENTS CURRENTS Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Whatcom Chorale and Whatcom Chorale Sinfonia

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MUSIC AND ART: The La Conner Festival of PIANO RECITAL: David Brooks, Annie Brooks, 4 Music and Art presents music by the Swinomish and Karissa Zadinsky will perform at a Piano

Blues Review and others from 3-10pm at the Recital beginning at 7pm at the Firehouse MAIL town’s Maple Hall, 104 Commercial Ave. Tickets Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets

are $20 and include music, jazz, food, wine are $5 for students and $15 general. 2 and art. 734-2776 DO IT IT DO (360) 387-0374 OR WWW.LOVELACONNER.COM MON., JUNE 4 JUNE 1-3 CHOIR CONCERT: Mount Vernon High School .12 MOON MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL: Snug Harbor, choirs will present a celebration of music from 30 Staxx Brothers, Polecat, SpaceBand, and around the world for their school year ﬁnale at Learn the Transcendental Meditation Technique Pickle Toss will be among the many musicians 4pm and 7pm at the town’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 taking part in the inaugural Moon Mountain E. College Way. Tickets are $6-$8. June 1-4 .07 05. Music Festival Fri.-Sun. in Sedro-Woolley at WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG For registration, times and directions, call 800 595-3186 22 # the Moon Mountain Lodge, 3980 Camp 2 Rd. www.tm.org/seattle Instructor: Annie Skipper There’ll also be entertainment by the likes of WED., JUNE 6 Director, Seattle TM Program the DK and Morgan Show, local art exhibits, MUSIC CLUB: Pianist Alexandra “Sasha” Tsirkel food and drink, a beer garden and much more. performs a variety of works at the Bellingham Cost is $45 for a weekend pass and $20-$50 Music Club’s free monthly concert at 10:30am at for camping. Trinity Lutheran Church, 119 Texas St. 0Z`V\Y WWW.PARADOX-NATION.COM 671-0252 SAT., JUNE 2 THURS., JUNE 7 =63=6 CASCADIA WEEKLY TRADITIONAL JAZZ: The Ain’t No Heaven SEKSTI ENSEMBLE: Show up for an evening of :PUJL PU)LSSPUNOHT 19 Seven Jazz Band will perform during the Finnish music when two groups from Finland— Diagnosis U Repair U Service U We Buy and Sell Volvos Bellingham Traditional Jazz Society’s monthly the Seksti Ensemble and Jepokryddona—per- [OL),:; New & used parts in stock U Visa, MasterCard and Discover dance from 2-5pm at the VFW Hall, 625 N State form at 7pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 St. Entry is $6-$10. Front St. Suggested donation is $10. 360.734.6117 734-2973 OR WWW.BTJS.WEBS.COM WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG P[JHUIL& rainbowautoservice.com Open Monday to Thursday, 8-6 musicvenues 30 30 See below for venue FOOD addresses and phone 05.30.12 05.31.12 06.01.12 06.02.12 06.03.12 06.04.12 06.05.12 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

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2010 predecessor Piranha 3D supplied a good

30 30 dose of enjoyable escapism that toyed with its lowbrow status and unleashed enough FOOD clever pop culture references to stay aﬂoat. Piranha 3DD is merely stupid, as opposed to ﬁlm trashy—and no fun at all. 24 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› MOVIE SHOWTIMES You’d think that lines like “Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my

B-BOARD vagina” would provide some melodramatic impact or camp humor, but the execution is so abysmally poor that such moments are 22 22 22 botched. The direction and editing is so poor FILM FILM

FILM FILM and incoherent that there is no visceral or dramatic impact when a piranha swims out of a young woman’s vagina while she is in the 18 process of losing her virginity. There are also frequent moments of in- MUSIC congruity when there are cuts between long shots and close-ups that simply do not match 16 up. The 3D is similarly a waste of space with ART ART no effort made to create any shots that create 15

STAGE STAGE The plot exposition and characterization is so 14 botched and inadequate,

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10 various disjointed scenes around a water park until

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6 after barely 70 minutes VIEWS VIEWS the requisite immersive effect. Simply having 4 a ﬁsh swim towards the camera and bear its

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2 counterparts, this is unforgiveable. The only glimmer of hope surfaces when DO IT IT DO

REVIEWED BY BEN RAWSON-JONES David Hasselhoff walks into shot midway through the movie, clutching a large glass of .12

30 whisky in the morning and crooning a love song to two ladies in his hotel room bed. Fair Piranha 3DD play for sending himself up, but before long .07 05. he is festooned on a lifeguard’s chair observ- 22 # DON’T HASSLE THE HOFF ing the piranha-produced bloodshed and doing little else apart from mocking his own AMAN stands in a swimming pool with his pants pulled down while ing off piranha attacks in various disjointed existence. Even that video footage of him gaining sexual pleasure from the pumps spraying water over his geni- scenes around a water park until the credits drunkenly scooping up a burger from the floor tals, only for a flesh-eating piranha to leap up and lodge itself inside start to roll after barely 70 minutes. That’s a and scoffing it provides a more respectable the man’s rectum. That sounds like a fairly embarrassing situation to be merciful running time, with the credits fleshed outlet for his persona.

CASCADIA WEEKLY caught in. Yet it pales in comparison to the humiliation that will be felt out to unbearable length by behind the scenes No thought has gone into making this movie by any cinemagoer who pays good money to see Piranha 3DD. Double footage of the making of this dud. It would have and contriving involving situations for the 22 dire, deflated and desperate, it is so far beyond redemption on every been wiser to let Vincent Price’s iconic cackle viewer. Sympathies go out to both the Hoff level that not even a gamely self-mocking supporting turn by David Has- from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video play on and Christopher Lloyd, who returns as the fear- selhoff can make a difference. a loop while the credits roll, an admission that ful fish expert, for their participation. Who’d The plot exposition and characterization is so botched and inadequate, the audience have been swindled. have thought that a movie entitled Piranha consisting of either good or evil characters (with no middle ground) fend- Don’t be fooled into thinking that these are 3DD could be so bereft of titillation? film ›› showtimes

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kundalini. Your insight into money matters should won’t be bored by this week’s revelations, Scorpio. T1: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) 35mm be increasing, as well as your ability to attract the People’s camouflage may be exposed, hidden agen- Thu: (3:30), 6:15, 9:00 ART information and influences you need to refine your das could be revealed, and not-quite-innocent de- *Note: Thursday Screenings are 21 and Over relationship with prosperity. It may even be the ceits might be uncovered. So that’s the weird news. case that higher levels of economic luck are operat- Here’s the good news: If you maintain a high level 15 ing in your vicinity. I’m not saying you will strike it of integrity and treat the brouhaha as good enter- rich, but you could definitely strike it richer. tainment, you’re likely to capitalize on the uproar. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) 35mm/124m STAGE GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your core medita- And that’s your specialty, right? Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith tion this week is Oscar Wilde’s belief that disobedi- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you go to “...what a charming, funny and heartwarming movie this 14 ence is a primal virtue. Be ingeniously, pragmati- a psychotherapist, she may coax you to tell stories is, a smoothly crafted entertainment that makes good cally, and cheerfully disobedient, Gemini! Harness about what went wrong in your childhood. Seek use of seven superb veterans.” Roger Ebert your disobedience so that it generates outbreaks a chiropractor’s opinion and he might inform you of creative transformation that improve your life. that most of your problems have to do with your Fri: (3:30), 6:15, 9:00; Sat: (2:45), 5:30, 8:15 GET OUT For inspiration, read this passage by Robert Anton spine. Consult a psychic and chances are she will Sun: (12:00), (2:45), 5:30, 8:15 Wilson: “Every fact of science was once damned. tell you that you messed up in your past lives and Mon - Wed: (3:30), 6:15, 9:00

Every invention was considered impossible. Every need a karmic cleansing. And if you ask me about 12 discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. what you most need to know, I might slip you some Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (NR) HD/100m. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud advice about how to access your untapped reserves Fri: (1:00); Sat: (12:15) - A moving Japanese film WORDS and folly. The entire web of culture and progress, of beauty and intelligence. Here’s the moral of the everything on earth that is man-made and not story, Sagittarius: Be discerning as you ask for feed- Sprout Film Festival (G) DVD/90m. given to us by nature, is the concrete manifesta- back and mirroring. The information you receive will Thu: 11AM, 6:00 Presented by ARC of Whatcom County 10 tion of someone’s refusal to bow to Authority. We always be skewed. would be no more than the ﬁrst apelike hominids if CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The state of Bernie (PG-13) 35mm/104m. ALL AGES SCREENINGS it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and Kansas has a law that seems more confusing than Wed: (11:00 AM) - Mommy Matinee; Thu: (3:30), 8:15 CURRENTS the intransigent.” helpful. It says the following: “When two trains ap-

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Some people tell proach each other at a crossing, both shall come 6 me I’d invented the sounds they called soul,” said to a full stop and neither shall start up again until NEW PICKFORD FILM CENTER: 1318 Bay St. | 360.738.0735 | PickfordFilmCenter.org musician Ray Charles, “but I can’t take any credit. the other has gone.” From what I can tell, Cap- VIEWS VIEWS Soul is just the way black folk sing when they leave ricorn, a similar situation has cropped up in your Box Office Open 30 Min Before First Showtime - Mary’sHappy Hour: 4-6pm, M-F $1 Off Beer/Wine themselves alone.” I urge you to experiment with life. Two parties are in a stalemate, each waiting 4 this idea, Cancerian. In my astrological opinion, you for the other to make the ﬁrst move. At this rate, NEW PRICING FOR STUDENTS: Students with Valid ID: $7.50 PFC/$6.50 Limelight need to whip up a fresh, hot delivery of raw soul. nothing will ever happen. May I suggest that you MAIL MAIL One of the best ways to do that might be to leave take the initiative?

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24 any addiction is avoidance of suffering. Instead of feeling uncomfortable feel- WEDDING HER WHISTLE ings and dealing with them, you hold B-BOARD B-BOARD B-BOARD I just turned 26, and I’m ready to be mar- their little heads down and drown them ried. My previous two boyfriends dragged in a pond of cheap gin. And instead of

22 22 their feet and then said the blood-boiling doing the grown-up thing and working line: “I will marry you…someday.” I met to overcome your addiction, you decide FILM FILM a guy online, and we initiated a relation- that the “power greater than yourself” ship on the basis that he was ready for will be the groom. But, only when you

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14 engagement now would help me transcend detox the bride!” my conditions. He wants me to do it alone and wants to see improvement before he YOUTH IS FLEEING GET OUT commits. I want to make him realize how My friend is constantly dragging me to cruel he was in insisting in his proﬁle that parties to be her wing woman. She’s in

12 he was ready for marriage and not follow- her late 40s but hits on hot young guys in ing through. —Unwed their early 20s who never reciprocate inter-

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10 advertising—except when you’re the depressing evenings and of accompany- one engaging in the sins of omission: ing her to the mall so she can get “hipper “I’m ready to be married. Oh, also, clothes.” Is there a kind way to tell her

CURRENTS CURRENTS once a month, I’ll try to rip out your she needs to rethink who she’s pursuing? internal organs with a shrimp fork. —Frustrated 6 Any takers?” Typically, when a man is ready for How uplifting, spending your week- VIEWS VIEWS marriage, he’s looking to settle down ends watching Generation Y getting

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FILM FILM of basil, noodles, vegetables and either prawns Bellingham Bay, Chuckanut Bay, and be- or tofu. yond. Cost is $59 and includes Dungeness I love Thai salads, and Rachawadee makes a crab, baked chicken, salads, bread and 18 very nice Larb Gai ($8.95), ground chicken tossed dessert. Outings happen weekend nights with shredded carrot and onion and fresh cilantro, through Sept. 15. MUSIC WWW.WHALES.COM served with chopped lettuce and a spicy dressing of fish sauce and lime juice. We recently ordered SAT., JUNE 2 16 this with three star heat and my lips burned for ANACORTES MARKET: The Anacortes Farm- ART ART hours afterward in a very gratifying way. ers Market takes place from 9am-2pm every Saturday through Oct. 27 at the town’s Our very favorite dish here is one that we first Depot Community & Arts Center, 611 R Ave. 15 ordered accidentally and now cannot do with- WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG out. Phad Ba Mee ($9.25) is a dish of plump egg BELLINGHAM MARKET: Get the freshest STAGE STAGE noodles stir-fried with egg, vegetables and meat, produce—and much more—at the Belling- with a compellingly deep smoky flavor. We usually ham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm every

14 get it with pork, and if we could only order one Saturday through December at the Depot Market Square on the corner of Chestnut dish forever this would be it. Street and Railroad Avenue.

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12 SUN., JUNE 3 peppers and basil. COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: Dine on pan- JESSAMYN TUTTLE JESSAMYN The soups here ($5.95 for cakes, French toast, sausage, eggs and more WORDS a bowl, $9.50 for a pot) are at the monthly Community Breakfast from fabulous. Hot and sour Tom 8am-1pm at the Rome Grange, 2821 Mt.

10 STORY AND PHOTO BY JESSAMYN TUTTLE Yum is the best cure for a Baker Hwy. Cost is $2 for kids and $5 for adults. FYI: This is the final breakfast of the / cold ever: a quart of it, taken WHAT: Racha- season. The event will return in September. wadee Cafe home and eaten by the fire, 739-9605 CURRENTS CURRENTS WHEN: 11am-8pm will fix what ails you. I re- TUES., JUNE 5 6 Thai One On Mon.-Sat. (closed cently tried their Num Sai, PASTRY DEMYSTIFIED: Chef Anne Dubert Sundays) which was a simple bowl of RACHAWADEE CAFÈ FILLS A NICHE WHERE: 410 W helms a “Puff Pastry Demystified” course VIEWS VIEWS broth with a few bean thread Gates St., Mount at 6:30pm in Mount Vernon at Gretchen’s noodles, tofu, cabbage and a Kitchen, 509 S. First St. Cost is $40.

4 Vernon IT WOULD be easy to miss Rachawadee Cafè, which is located in a tiny INFO: few rough meatballs of pork. WWW.GRETCHENSKITCHEN.COM

MAIL MAIL storefront next to an alley on a side street in downtown Mount Vernon. (360) 336-6699 or Eaten plain, it’s comforting JUNE 5-6 www.rachawadee When someone describes a place as a hole in the wall, this is the sort and simple, but it’s also a ALASKAN HALIBUT: Learn how to cook

2 cafe.com of spot you might envision. A narrow room with a brick wall and a check- great canvas for the various Alaska’s famous fish three innovative ways erboard floor, a long counter running down the middle fills the space. It condiments on offer. at “Alaskan Halibut” courses with Chef DO IT IT DO

looks like a diner, which is exactly what it was just a few years ago. Curries ($9.25) are offered in a variety of types: Robert Fong from 6:30-9pm Tues. at the downtown Community Food Co-op and Now, however, the prep counter is covered with fresh vegetables and a red, green, panang, mussamun and pineapple. I

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23 huge rice pot, the shelves above the kitchen are full of containers of fish find them pleasant enough, but not all that ex- Food Co-op. Cost is $45. sauce and curry paste, and the old fry-up station at the front features citing, as they’re made with a prepackaged curry 383-3200 two huge woks. Young women move efficiently past each other in the nar- paste. They always seem to be popular though, WED., JUNE 6 .07 05. row space with plates of noodles, cups of tea and bowls of rice. especially at lunchtime. SWEETENER ALTERNATIVES: Former nutri- 21 # Given the limited seating, it’s not surprising that much of Rachawadee’s I much prefer the various stir-fries to the cur- tional consultant Janis Walworth leads a business is takeout, but given the opportunity I love to sit on one of the ries; these are always flavorful and full of mixed “Xyli-What? A Guide to Alternative Sweeten- eight red stools and watch wokfuls of food being expertly flipped about, vegetables. Our usual order is the eggplant with ers” from 6:30-8:30pm at the Community surrounded by the occasional burst of flame from the burners. beef, which we get very spicy, but I also like the Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Cost is $25. 383-3200 Rachawadee offers all the usual Thai dishes, from spring rolls to Phad ginger or basil stir-fries. Like most other dishes Thai, but everything is made fresh right in front of you, and flavors are on the menu, all of these are available with chick- THURS., JUNE 7 en, pork, beef or tofu ($9.25), prawns or squid MEXICAN GRILL: Pulled pork tacos and CASCADIA WEEKLY consistently bright and clean with lots of vegetables. Spicy, too, if you ask for it—unlike many Thai places, Rachawadee means it when they give ($11.95) or scallops or “seafood” ($14.95). You grilled mussels with tomatillo sauce will be on the menu when Ana Jackson teaches 30 out heat stars. My husband and I occasionally order five-star meals here, also have a choice of white or brown rice, which is a “Mexican Grill” course from 6-9pm at but only if we have something milder to go with it, like a quart of rice. always a nice option. the Cordata Community Food Co-op, 315 Fried tofu (Tao Hoo Tod, $4.95) is a typical appetizer in Thai restaurants In an area where good, reliable Thai food can be Westerly Rd. Cost is $39. and they do it well here: hot out of the wok and not too greasy. Served hard to find, we’re delighted to have a place like 383-3200 with a sweet chile peanut sauce, it’s a soothing start to a spicy meal. Rachawadee. 30 30 VANCOUVER 30 FOOD FOOD Lucinda Williams K’NAAN 24 B-BOARD

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