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THE GRISTLE, P.06 + WHIDBEY WANDER, P.20 + MCCAULEY AT MONA, P.24 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 04-11-2018* • ISSUE:15* • V.13 Best OFSKAGIT2018 P.10 DAY-TRIPPING MUSICAL MEMORIES FAN FAVORITES Guemes Island General Store, P.26 Patsy Cline visits the Conway Muse, P.22 A Skagit tasting tour, P.38 38 Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine FOOD Nuages and Friends: 7:30pm, Unity Spiritual Center A brief overview of this Black Umfolosi: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 32 week’s happenings THISWEEK FILM Classic Chaplin: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre B-BOARD WORDS Claire Swedberg: 4pm, Village Books 31 COMMUNITY FILM Spring Garage Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit County Fairgrounds 26 Antiques and Collectibles: 11am-3pm, Bellingham Senior Activity Center MUSIC GET OUT Native Plant Sale: 9am-1pm, WACD Materials Center, 24 Aerial acts, acrobatics, ow ART Do the Bloom Color Run: 10am, Depot Arts Center, juggling and much more Anacortes Garden Day: 11am-1pm, Community Food Co-op 22 can be experienced Tulip Festival: Through April, throughout the Skagit Valley STAGE at Bellingham FOOD Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 20 Circus Guild 10 Year Market Square Anniversary shows VISUAL GET OUT Woodfest: 9am-4pm, Sedro-Woolley High School April 13-14 at the Curator’s Talk: 1pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall 18 Cirque Lab Flora and Fauna: 7pm, Village Books WORDS SUNDAY [04.15.18] 10 ONSTAGE PHOTO OF DREAM FROHE BY GOLDIE JONES OF DREAM FROHE BY PHOTO Scapino: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 9 to 5: 2pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab WEDNESDAY [04.11.18] Take Me to Church: 8pm, Rumors Cabaret BEST OF SKAGIT MUSIC DANCE Dixieland All Stars: 7pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Runners will become 8 Projections: 2pm, Western Gallery, WWU living canvases at the WORDS MUSIC Chuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Heiner Theater, WCC Anacortes Arts Festival’s ”Do Young Artist Concert Series: 3pm, Jansen Art CURRENTS Center, Lynden GET OUT the Bloom” Color Run Sat., 6 Turnandot: 3pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Tulip Festival: Through April, throughout the Skagit April 14 at the city’s Depot Valley FOOD VIEWS Arts Center Community Breakfast: 8-11am, American Legion [04. .18] Post #43, Sedro-Woolley 4 THURSDAY 12 ONSTAGE MAIL GET OUT Hir: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Tulip Festival: Through April, throughout the Skagit Scapino: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 9 to 5: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Valley 2 2 SATURDAY [04.14.18] 9 to 5: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Genre Legends: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre DO IT DO IT Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre ONSTAGE VISUAL The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Circus Guild Anniversary Celebration: 6pm and Woodfest: 10am-3pm, Sedro-Woolley High School DANCE 9pm, Cirque Lab MUSIC Projections: 7:30pm, Western Gallery, WWU Always...Patsy Cline: 7pm, Conway Muse MONDAY [04.16.18] Jazz Jam: 5:30-8:30pm, Illuminati Brewing Hir: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU 04.11.18 Ukulele Orchestra: 6:30pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom MUSIC Scapino: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild ONSTAGE Six Gun Sal: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Turandot: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Jet City Improv: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Comedy at the Buff: 8pm, Wild Buffalo .13 Vernon A System of Strings: 8pm, Lookout Arts Quarry 15 # WORDS 9 to 5: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre WORDS Patrick Dixon: 7pm, Village Books Mary Lou Sanelli: 7pm, Village Books Genre Legends: 8pm, Upfront Theatre TUESDAY [04.17.18] Comedy Night: 8pm, Cosmic Games FRIDAY [04.13.18] COMMUNITY Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre ONSTAGE Spring Garage Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit County Comedy Open Mic: 7:30pm, the Shakedown ONSTAGE Fairgrounds DANCE Circus Guild Anniversary Celebration: 6pm and Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library DANCE 9pm, Cirque Lab GET OUT Projections: 7:30pm, Western Gallery, WWU Skagit Folk Dancers: 7-9:30pm, Bayview Civic Hall CASCADIA WEEKLY Always...Patsy Cline: 7pm, Conway Muse Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Stimpson Family Nature Hir: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Reserve MUSIC MUSIC 2 Scapino: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Tulip Festival: Through April, throughout the The Brothers Arntzen: 3-5pm, Sudden Valley Sanford-Hill Piano Series: 7:30pm, Performing Us and Them: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC Skagit Valley Dance Barn Arts Center, WWU 38 THISWEEK FOOD 32 Contact Cascadia Weekly: B-BOARD 360.647.8200 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial 31 Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson FILM ext 260 editor@ Civil rights pioneer and community leader Revered Dr. Sam- cascadiaweekly.com 26 uel McKinney, the longest-serving pastor of Seattle’s Mount Arts & Entertainment Zion Baptist Church from 1958 to 1998, passed away last Amy Kepferle MUSIC Editor: week at the age of 91. At the forefront of the civil rights ext 204 movement, McKinney was a classmate and associate of Rev. calendar@ 24 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 1960s, McKinney took part cascadiaweekly.com in demonstrations in Seattle, Alabama and Washington, DC, ART and he was instrumental in arranging Dr. King’s only visit to Music & Film Editor: Seattle in 1961. Carey Ross 22 ext 203 music@ cascadiaweekly.com STAGE Views & News Production 04: Mailbag 20 Art Director: 06: Gristle & Views Jesse Kinsman 08: Last week’s news jesse@ GET OUT kinsmancreative.com 09: Police blotter, Index Design: Bill Kamphausen 18 Arts & Life Advertising Design: Roman Komarov WORDS 10: Best of Skagit! roman@ 18: Loud and proud cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to 10 20: Whidbey via Skagit [email protected] 22: Cline does Conway CALLING THE LORAX Unfortunately, improving spawning habitat in Advertising 24: Art and conservation I live just outside the Fairhaven core and I’m set- lowland streams like Fisher Creek is such a low pri- Sales Manager: ting off the alarm that we need the Lorax right ority for meeting the state and federal ESA-listed Stephanie Young BEST OF SKAGIT 26: Guemes goals 360-647-8200 away. The rapid infill in the neighborhood has been salmon recovery goals that it is not even included 8 28: Clubs advertising@ preceded by the destruction of 17 large, mature in the Skagit Watershed’s salmon recovery plan. cascadiaweekly.com 30: Satisfying suspense trees within a two-block radius of my home. Seven Meanwhile, in the Skagit Delta a few miles west more are on the chopping block, including those of the I-5 Fisher Creek project, high priority op- 31: Film Shorts Distribution CURRENTS last remaining Douglas Fir trees where the five- portunities for restoring juvenile Chinook rearing Distribution Manager: story apartment building will go in. habitat languish for lack of funding. The hundreds 6 Erik Burge Rear End 360-647-8200 Why can’t those two trees remain as part of the of millions in public funds that WSDOT is required 32: Wellness distribution@ greenery that’s supposed to be part of that proj- to spend improving fish passage through road cul- VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com Crossword ect? At this rate, Fairhaven will have a “Silent verts could clearly be put to more strategic use. 33: 4 Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 Spring” as the mature trees that provide nesting This is not to say that the Culvert Case ruling 34: Free Will Astrology Stephanie Simms habitat for urban birds are no more. was not effective in other ways. MAIL MAIL 35: Advice Goddess Skagit: Linda Brown, Barb Murdoch —Jamie K. Donaldson, Fairhaven The case was a natural successor to the Boldt 2 36: Comix decision, and it further strengthened the lever- 37: Sudoku, Slowpoke Letters CONVOLUTED CULVERTS age of Western Washington tribes to advocate for DO IT SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ Cascadia Weekly’s “The Culvert Case” highlights a their treaty rights. It likewise provides further op- 38: Savoring Skagit CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM good example of why litigation is a haphazard way portunity for politicians like Brian Cladoosby to THE GRISTLE, P.06 + WHIDBEY WANDER, P.20 + MCCAULEY AT MONA, P.24 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA to make public policy. Attorney General Ferguson’s push their own agendas. But because the ruling is WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 04-11-2018* • ISSUE:15* • V.13 ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by arguments over the federal government’s share of not coordinated with state and federal salmon re- 04.11.18 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 responsibilities aside, the 2013 Culvert Case ruling covery priorities, it has resulted in non-strategic [email protected] diverted a lot of public resources towards replac- diversion of resources. .13 Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia 15 Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing Best # OFSKAGIT2018 ing hundreds of road culverts that will contribute The legislature and government agencies are papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material only marginal benefit for meeting state and fed- better suited for making policy than the courts. to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you P.10 DAY-TRIPPING MUSICAL MEMORIES FAN FAVORITES include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- Guemes Island General Store, P.26 Patsy Cline visits the Conway Muse, P.22 A Skagit tasting tour, P.38 eral salmon recovery goals. —Tom Slocum, Bellingham ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday Last fall the Washington State Dept.