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THE GRISTLE, P.6 .+-2'-2'+ LAST DANCE, P.16 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 12.y.10 :: #52, v.05 :: !- Bashes, balls and midnight revelry, P.20 POLAR PARTIES: PLUNGING INTO A NEW YEAR, P.14 }} FREE WILL: YOUR FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT, P.31 DUBIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS 2010: DOLTISH DEEDS AND BAD BEHAVIOR, P.6 34 34 cascadia FOOD Even if you have to brave snow 27 27 or rain, join the Mt. Baker Bike Club for a + '$)/# ) 24 - outing Jan. 1 CLASSIFIEDS A glance at what’s happening this week starting at Fairhaven Park 24 [12. .10] FILM FILM 2 ) .4 y COMMUNITY 20 20th Annual Note of Thanks: 10:30am-12pm, Bellingham Public Library MUSIC /#0-.4[12.z.10] 18 ON STAGE ART ART Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 16 MUSIC Jim Brickman’s Holiday Concert: 7:30pm, Mount STAGE STAGE Baker Theatre COMMUNITY 14 Family New Years Fun: 9am-8pm, Bellingham Sportsplex, Arne Hanna Aquatic Center GET OUT VISUAL ARTS Caryn Friedlander: 4-7pm, Willows Inn, Lummi Island 12 !-$4[12.zx.10] WORDS ON STAGE 8 New Year’s Eve Shows: 7pm, 9pm and 11pm, Upfront Theatre DANCE CURRENTS CURRENTS U&Me Dance’s Speak Easy: 7pm, Fairhaven Library 6 Contra Dance Gala: 8pm-1am, Norway Hall VIEWS VIEWS MUSIC New Year’s Eve by the Sea: 6:30pm, Resort 4 Semiahmoo The Timebenders: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino MAIL MAIL Resort Rivertalk: 8pm, the Conway Muse 2 The Paperboys: 8pm-2am, Lairmont Manor Salvadore Dali Llama: 9pm, Mount Baker The- DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 atre’s Encore Room A Hip-Hop Odyssey: 9pm, Casa Que Pasa 10 Yogoman Burning Band: 9pm, Wild Buffalo .29. Spaceband: 9:30pm, Fairhaven Pub 12 Vaughn Kreestoe, Polecat: 10pm, Boundary Bay Brewery .05 52 # COMMUNITY Family New Years Fun: 9am-9pm, Bellingham Sportsplex, Arne Hanna Aquatic Center Vigil for Peace: 4pm, corners of Cornwall Avenue and Magnolia Street Performers will find the funny GET OUT Last Chance Marathon: 9am, Fairhaven Park CASCADIA WEEKLY in the ./*!yx at New ./0-4[01.x.11] 2 Year’s Eve shows happening thrice ON STAGE Serial Killers: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater on Dec. 31 at the Upfront Theatre MUSIC Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams Sr. Memo- rial Jam: 8pm, Green Frog Acoustic Café 34 34 GET OUT New Year Pedal: 10am, Fairhaven Park FOOD Resolution Run, Polar Dip: 11am, Lake Padden Penguin Dip: 11am, Clear Lake Polar Bear Plunge: 12pm, Birch Bay waterfront 27 Eagle Tour: 1:30pm, with Whatcom Land Trust .0)4[01.y.11] CLASSIFIEDS ON STAGE Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub 24 DANCE FILM FILM Swing Night: 5:30pm, Wild Buffalo COMMUNITY 20 Laughter Club: 4pm, Co-op Connection Build- ing MUSIC FOOD Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange 18 ART ART (*)4[01.z.11] ON STAGE 16 Cemetery Club Auditions: 7pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden STAGE MUSIC Phantom of the Opera Auditions: 7-9pm, 14 Squalicum High School The Kortet: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo GET OUT WORDS Ideas Worth Discussing: 1pm, Lynden Public 12 Library Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project WORDS GET OUT Snowshoe Basics: 6pm, REI 8 /0 .4[01.{.11] ON STAGE CURRENTS Cemetery Club Auditions: 7pm, Claire vg 6 Thomas Theatre, Lynden MUSIC VIEWS American Idol’s Tim Urban: 7pm, Blaine High School 4 GET OUT MAIL Nature Babies: 9:30am, Connelly Creek Nature 2 2 Area Alpine Awareness: 6pm, REI DO IT IT DO DO IT 10 .29. 12 .05 52 # CASCADIA WEEKLY Former American Idol contestant Tim Urban brings his boyish charms to the area for a Jan. 4 fund- 3 raiser at the Blaine Performing Arts Center SEND EVENTS TO CALENDAR@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM Contact THIS ISSUE Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 34 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD Tim Johnson E ext 260 mail ô editor@ 27 27 cascadiaweekly.com CONTENTS ›› LETTERS ›› STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle CLASSIFIEDS Eext 204 ô calendar@ As of Tuesday, New York City and its airports, trains, cascadiaweekly.com 24 streets, businesses and residents were still dealing with a backlog of snow-related issues from the Christmas-weekend Music & Film Editor: FILM FILM blizzard that brought the metropolis to its knees. “This storm Carey Ross is not like any other we’ve had to deal with,” Mayor Michael Eext 203 R. Bloomberg said at a press conference. “We are doing every- ô music@ 20 thing we possibly can.” cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC Production VIEWS & NEWS Art Director: Jesse Kinsman 18 4: Mailbag ô graphics@ ART ART 6: Gristle & Rhodes cascadiaweekly.com 8: Slamming sprawl Graphic Artists: 16 10: Last week’s news Kimberly Baldridge ô kim@ 11: Police blotter STAGE STAGE kinsmancreative.com Stefan Hansen ARTS & LIFE ô stefan@ 14 cascadiaweekly.com 12: Snow day Send All Advertising Materials To [email protected] 14: A New Year’s plunge GET OUT 16: Last dance Advertising Advertising Director: 12 18: Winter wonderlands Nicki Oldham 20: Countdown to fun E360-647-8200 x 202 ô nicki@ WORDS 22: Clubs cascadiaweekly.com 8 24: Game on Account Executives: REGAL EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES did city planners allow this monstrous stealth 26: Film shorts Holley Gardoski I live near Barkley Village and am one of the alien landing in our neighborhood?! E360-421-2513 ô holley@ people who have been hit in crosswalks next to —Mel Taylor, Bellingham CURRENTS CURRENTS REAR END cascadiaweekly.com the “urban village” and lived. As far as I know It’s about time we all stop pretending that the 6 27: Employment, rentals Scott Herning at least one has died. I was hit on the suppos- Barkley Company’s planned development resembles 28: Wellness E360-647-8200 x 252 edly pedestrian friendly Railroad Trail crossing an “urban” village, characterized by walkability, VIEWS VIEWS ô scott@ at Woburn. Barkley Village is not a village and vibrancy and human-scale development, and in- 29: Advice Goddess cascadiaweekly.com is not pedestrian or bicycle friendly. It is an stead admit that they have successfully created an 4 4 30: Crossword Distribution auto-oriented, retro-looking shopping center “auto” village, characterized by traffic, anonymity MAIL MAIL MAIL 31: Free Will Astrology JW Land & Associates surrounded by some light industry! I have lived and extended parking infrastructure. And while I’m ô distro@ in big cities and know what urban villages (real sure someday I’ll enjoy a summer blockbuster in the 32: This Modern World,Tom the Dancing 2 cascadiaweekly.com Bug Letters neighborhoods) are, and this is not it. swanky new theater over there, I certainly won’t The new proposed megatheater finally removes hang out before or after walking around spending DO IT IT DO Send letters to letters@ 33: Sudoku, Troubletown cascadiaweekly.com. the emperor’s new clothes. It will destroy the sur- my money at a local restaurant or boutique or ser- 34: The year in food rounding affordable housing neighborhood. Also, vice provider. Even more importantly for the future 10 once it is built, it will probably eventually be the of this great place (and the whole point of urban .29. 12 only for-profit film theater in Whatcom County. villages!), I definitely will never, ever, live there. ©2010 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Regal will certainly close their theater at Sunset, Where I will do all these things is in downtown THE GRISTLE, P.6 .+-2'-2'+ LAST DANCE, P.16 .05 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly cascadia REPORTING FROM THE finally sounding the death knell for that strug- Bellingham, because—while not perfect—it is an HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 52 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 12.y.10 :: #52, v.05 :: !- # [email protected] gling mall. And what about the sleazy, rundown actual “urban village.” Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing Sehome Theater? These megatheaters usually —Cathy Lehman, Bellingham papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution allow large cinema companies to close all their Regardless of your opinion on land-use issues SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you other theaters in small communities like Whatcom in and around the Barkley area, claiming the include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday County. You can imagine what the traffic coming planned multiplex will bring an “acne seared Bashes, balls and midnight revelry, P.20 the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be POLAR PARTIES: PLUNGING INTO A NEW YEAR, P.14 }} FREE WILL: YOUR FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT, P.31 DUBIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS 2010: DOLTISH DEEDS AND BAD BEHAVIOR, P.6 returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. from all over the county will eventually be like in teen” to rip your tickets, a “wall-eyed twit LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and CASCADIA WEEKLY the evenings and on weekends at Barkley. serving up the popcorn” or “another pierced content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. Cover: See the Paperboys at the In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does Lairmont Manor on New Year’s With the area east of Bellis Fair becoming a limpus lardering on the butter,” with “a couple not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers.