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24 24 SIGN UP TO TAKE PART IN THE “COMPETE FOR A CAUSE” BACKGAMMON TOURNEY MAY 15 CLASSIFIEDS A glance at what’s happening this week AT BOUNDARY BAY BREWERY 22 22 2 ) . 4[05.xy.10] FILM FILM ON STAGE Intro to Improv: 7pm, 302 W. Illinois St.

18 Sin-n-Tonic: 7:30pm, Black Box Theater, WCC

MUSIC WORDS Boynton Poetry Ceremony: 7pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal 16

ART ART GET OUT Lady Washington Tours: Through Sunday, Squali- cum Harbor 15

STAGE STAGE /#0-. 4[05.xz.10] ON STAGE 14 The Wizard of Oz: 7pm, Nooksack Valley High School

GET OUT Keys to the School: 7pm, Sedro-Woolley High School The Miracle Worker: 7:30pm, Performing Arts

12 Center, WWU Sin-n-Tonic: 7:30pm, Black Box Theater, WCC What-A-Sho: 7:30pm, Bellingham High School WORDS Noises Off!: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden *) 4 -

8 Alice in Wonderland: 7:30pm, Squalicum High CASCADE CUTS OPENS UP ITS School WHOLESALE NURSERY TO THE Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Poison the Well: 8pm, iDiOM Theater PUBLIC. SO PUT THE SAT., MAY 15 CURRENTS CURRENTS The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre EVENT ON YOUR CALENDAR, BUY 6 MUSIC SOME COOL PLANTS AND HELP Linda Allen: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum

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DO IT 2 !-$ 4 x{ Endfair 2010: 6-11pm, Fairhaven Courtyard, WWU Alice in Wonderland: 7:30pm, Squalicum High Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Centennial ON STAGE Theories of Gabriela: 7pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre School Riverwalk Park Taffeta Memories: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner 10 Drag Show: 7pm, Syre Theater, WCC A Choral Tapestry: 7:30pm, Christ the Servant Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Theatre, Mount Vernon

.12. Popeye the Musical: 7pm, Bellingham Arts Acad- Lutheran Church Market Square Oklahoma!: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 05 emy for Youth The Roots of Radio: 7pm, American Museum of Keys to the School: 7pm, Sedro-Woolley High Director’s Cut: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Radio Poison the Well: 8pm, iDiOM Theater

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CASCADIA WEEKLY Taffeta Memories: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Keys to the School: 7pm, Sedro-Woolley High Endfair 2010: 2pm-midnight, Fairhaven Court- Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Pavilion Gym, Theatre, Mount Vernon School yard, WWU WCC 2 Oklahoma!: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon The Miracle Worker: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Sweatshop Union: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo Director’s Cut: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Center, WWU VISUAL ARTS Poison the Well: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Sin-n-Tonic: 7:30pm, Black Box Theater, WCC WORDS Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Camano Island Gladiator: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Noises Off!: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Sy Montgomery: 2pm, Village Books .0) 4[05.x}.10]

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Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub 22

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WHY DOES THE BELLINGHAM HERALD HATE BELLINGHAM?:

30 30 In our analysis last week of the failed WTA transit levy, we neglected to note The Bellingham Herald came out early FOOD on and strongly against the .2¢ sales tax increase. While acknowledging the opposition arguments were “misleading” views

24 in suggesting Whatcom Transportation Authority held sufﬁ- OPINIONS ›› THE GRISTLE cient fund reserves to stall immediate service cuts, the Her- ald’s editorial board nevertheless seemed to buy that mis-

CLASSIFIEDS leading argument, reasoning the economy might improve in the future to stall those cuts. Yet no one on the WTA board—whether they agreed with the decision to ask voters 22 22 to decide the matter, or thought the board should just cut BY AMY GOODMAN

FILM FILM service rather than ask (and there were a few board members in the second camp)—no one believed service cuts would not be immediate and profound should the levy fail. 18 Indeed, the 2011 projection outlining the severity of those BP: Billionaire Polluter

MUSIC cuts was already in print in November. Despite the Herald’s improbation, though, the levy passed overwhelmingly—by PETROLEUM GIANT HAS A HISTORY OF POLLUTION more than 64 percent—within Bellingham precincts, a sad 16 commentary on both the Herald’s decayed capacity to influ- LESS THAN a week after Brit- one of the first people to respond to ART ART ence public opinion and its ability to accurately reflect the ish Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster. values and beliefs of ’hamsters whom the daily newspaper drilling platform exploded in the Exxon deployed an army of lawyers 15 claims to serve and represent. Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers to delay and defeat the legal claims And while it’s clear Bellingham doesn’t give a rip what and unleashing what could be the of the people who were physically STAGE STAGE the Herald says or thinks, others from outside the com- worst industrial environmental di- and/or financially harmed by the munity still scan the diminished daily to glean our values saster in U.S. history, the company Valdez spill. “What we know is that 14 and beliefs, believing the daily speaks for the town. In announced more than $6 billion in the industry does everything it can this, they are mistaken. profits for the first quarter of 2010, sis and the political turmoil that to limit its liability,” she told me.

GET OUT That last point became amply clear two weeks ago after more than doubling profits from besets Iran to this day. The (Mobile, Ala.) Press-Register the governor read an especially churlish and myopic Her- the same period the year before. In 2000, British Petroleum re- reported that, apparently, BP was ald editorial grousing about the state budget that took an Oil industry analyst Antonia Juhasz branded itself as BP, adopting a requiring owners of fishing boats 12 incidental potshot—oh, for example—at a $250,000 grant notes: “BP is one of the most pow- flowery green-and-yellow logo, and seeking work mitigating the spill to approved by the state to help complete the new Pickford erful corporations operating in the began besieging the U.S. public with waive any and all rights to sue BP WORDS WORDS Film Center. The governor’s office saw the editorial and, United States. Its 2009 revenues an advertising campaign claiming in the future. Despite a BP spokes- according to officials close to the governor, made the very of $327 billion are enough to rank it was moving “beyond petroleum.” person’s pledge that the waivers 8 reasonable calculation that a community like Everett or BP as the third-largest corporation BP’s aggressive growth, outrageous would not be enforced, the news Bremerton wouldn’t repay her with a black eye for her in the country. It spends aggres- profit and track record of petroleum- report stated, “King said late Sun- support of a community improvement. The governor con- sively to influence U.S. policy and related disasters paint a much dif- day that he was still concerned that CURRENTS CURRENTS sidered withdrawing her support via a line-item veto of regulatory oversight.” The power ferent picture, however. In 2005, people would lose their right to sue

6 the grant; and only a very serious pubic opinion blitz by and wealth that BP and other oil BP’s Texas City reﬁnery exploded, by accepting settlements from BP 6 ardent PFC supporters paused her red pen. giants wield are almost without killing 15 people and injuring 170. In of up to $5,000.” VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS What the Herald’s teabaggerish tirade failed to recognize parallel in the world, and pose a 2006, a BP pipeline in Alaska leaked Even if BP doesn’t trick victims was not only the economic stimulus and multipliers that threat to the lives of workers, to 200,000 gallons of crude oil, causing into signing away the right to sue, 4 arrive from reviving a mature construction project down- the environment and to our pros- what the Environmental Protection the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, while re-

MAIL MAIL town, but one that also rescues the private investment of pects for democracy. Agency calls “the largest spill that quiring polluters to pay the actual many hundreds of thousands of dollars that have already Sixty years ago, BP was called ever occurred on the [Alaskan] North hard costs of the cleanup, caps the

2 been donated by hundreds of supporters of independent the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (AIOC). Slope.” BP was fined $60 million for additional financial liability of a cinema. Indeed, the Pickford’s private fundraising efforts A popular, progressive, elected the two disasters. Then, in 2009, the spill at just $75 million. Given that DO IT DO were well underway when the economy collapsed in 2008, Iranian government had asked the Occupational Safety and Health Ad- millions of people will be impacted trapping or eliminating thousands of pledges that might AIOC, a largely British-owned mo- ministration (OSHA) fined BP an ad- by the spill, by the loss of fisheries 10 have finished the project solely through private donation. nopoly, to share more of its profits ditional $87 million for the refinery and tourism, and by the cascade of .12.

05 Faced with waiting for the economy to recover to revive a from Iranian oil with the people blast. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis impacts on related industries, $75 pledge drive—in effect, doing the work twice—PFC direc- of Iran. The AIOC refused, so Iran said: “BP has allowed hundreds of million is small change.

.05 tors instead sought “bridge” capital from state and local nationalized its oil industry. That potential hazards to continue un- BP will surely continue its dirty 19

# sources in order to get economic metrics working on be- didn’t sit well with the United abated.... Workplace safety is more practices, ﬁghting accountability half of downtown. Canny local efforts, including those of States, so the CIA organized a than a slogan. It’s the law.” BP re- in the courts, in the press and on state senators Dale Brandland and Kevin Ranker, worked coup d’état against Prime Minister sponded by formally contesting all the oil-drenched beaches. BP: be loose $250,000 from the state. Another $70,000 arrives Mohammed Mossadegh. After he of OSHA’s charges. prepared. from a one-time grant from the city’s lodging tax fund— was deposed, the AIOC, renamed President Barack Obama said of which supports tourism, the museum and the Mount Baker British Petroleum, got a large part the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, “Let Amy Goodman is the host of “De- Theatre—a decision approved by some very forward think- me be clear: BP is responsible for CASCADIA WEEKLYCASCADIA of its monopoly back, and the Ira- mocracy Now!,” a daily internation- ers representing those institutions that the PFC would re- nians got the brutal Shah of Iran this leak; BP will be paying the al TV/radio news hour airing on 800 6 turn the investment many times over (that decision was imposed upon them, planting the bill.” Riki Ott is not so sure. She is stations in North America. Denis made nearly two months ago; the Herald only got around seeds of the 1979 Iranian revolu- a marine toxicologist and former Moynihan contributed research to to redlining it this week). Together, these grants will be tion, the subsequent hostage cri- “ﬁsherma’am” from Alaska, and was this column. paired with a contingent, matching community development grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE

This is an effort that merits scorn

from the community newspaper? 30 The Herald continued its deranged FOOD opining last week, choosing to side against the efforts of city leaders to secure a more thorough cleanup of a 24 public park from a federal agency. “Our editorial board watched a re-

cent public hearing on the issue via CLASSIFIEDS the city’s convenient rebroadcast on the city cable access channel,” Her- Dine In Take Out 22 22 ald Opinions Editor Scott Ayers wrote FEATURING

[the Gristle hasn’t seen Scott actually FILM attend a public meeting in more than Organic Grass Fed Buffalo Meat two years]. “Not surprisingly, most of Organic Cheeses & Organic Vegetables 18 the members of the public [also, pre- Located in the Public Market sumably, the majority of Herald read- MUSIC ers?] who spoke were for the most ex- 1530 Cornwall Avenue, Bellingham pensive option—digging up whatever 360-594-4019 16 problem soils exist and hauling them ART ART off to a landﬁll.” Bellingham City Council supported a 3DUWRI&+,/'5(1·V

ALL AGES! 15 recommendation to the Environmental %22.:((. Protection Agency in March that request- STAGE STAGE ed a more expansive (but by no means Illustrator NIKKI onerous) cleanup alternative for Little Squalicum Creek. The alternative would McCLURE 14 require removing the more hazardous byproducts of the shuttered Oeser Com- GET OUT pany’s wood-treatment processes and transporting them to a landﬁll for dispos- al—an operation with an estimated cost 12 of between $2 to $7.5 million dollars. Cognizant of costs, COB offered to WORDS accept the least expensive in this cat- egory of options. The EPA prefers to 8 cap the toxins in place, a plan only marginally cheaper than the alterna- Best known for her meticulous yet whimsical CURRENTS tive the city supports. cut-paper art, Olympia artist Nikki McClure has created a charming story about a little boy

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the cham- 6 who can’t wait for summer and keeps asking his 6 pions of public opinion, the Herald, mama, “Is it summer yet?” VIEWS VIEWS supported COB as an initial bargaining Thursday, May 13th, 7pm VIEWS position with the EPA? Y’know, rather than dickering against residents in fa- Bestselling Author of 4 The Good Good Pig vor of an inferior outcome? SY MAIL The city doesn’t have much legal

MONTGOMERY standing with the EPA in the decision, will introduce 2 period, only to have it further under- DO IT DO mined by opinion pieces from the local paper crowing to decision-makers in D.C. that we ought to happily settle 10

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for much, much less. We’ll admit, at Adventures with 05 least, the editorial is consistent with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, the Herald’s overall opinion of water- Cantankerous .05

Crows, Fierce 19 front redevelopment that—regardless # Falcons, Hip Hop of how costs are assigned or recov- Parrots, Baby ered— Bellingham ought to be satis- Hummingbirds, and One Murder- ﬁed with the most dismal of options. ously Large Living Perhaps all this helps explain in Dinosaur part why the Bellingham Herald’s aver- age daily circulation has plummeted Saturday, May 15th, 7pm CASCADIA WEEKLYCASCADIA from 27,000 in 1998 to 19,000 a decade later, according to ﬁgures pro- VILLAGE BOOKS 7 vided by the Audit Bureau of Circula- 1200 11th St., Bellingham tion: We’re not sure why the Herald hates Bellingham, but it’s pretty clear 360.671.2626 the feeling is mutual. VILLAGEBOOKS.com

30 30 FOOD currents 24 24 NEWS ›› COMMENTARY ›› BRIEFS CLASSIFIEDS 22 22 FILM FILM 18 MUSIC 16 ART ART BY WILLIAM DIETRICH 15 GULF DISASTER IS THE LATEST STAGE STAGE CASUALTY IN A LONG CHAIN

14 OF OIL DEPENDENCY GET OUT hat struck me most powerfully when covering the Exxon Valdez oil 12 spill for the Seattle Times in 1989 was not just how much oil we can WORDS spill,W but how much we drink. Smelling and seeing 11 million gallons dumped 8 8

BABY into largely undeveloped Prince William Sound was bad enough. Even more sobering was the swelling anchorage of waiting oil tankers when the oil port CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS of Valdez was closed for three days. 6 Spill One after another they stacked up, a small armada waiting for the spill to be blown onto the beaches

VIEWS VIEWS by spring winds, and for the ﬁrst time I had a visual representation of just how much oil comes out of a 4 SPILL major pipeline: 2 million barrels a day then (or 110

MAIL MAIL million gallons, 10 times the Exxon spill) and about 740,000 barrels now, as Alaska slowly runs dry.

2 When I visited the North Slope oilﬁelds while covering the calamity, I didn’t ﬁnd a few nodding DO IT IT DO

pumps. I toured a sprawling industrial complex as long as the megalopolis of the Puget Sound basin, 10 a massive investment in pipes, pump houses, bar- .12.

05 racks, roads and generators that stretched farther than the eye can see. All of it to keep you and me

.05 humming. 19 # So the April 20 rig explosion and resulting mile- deep gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is not just an CASCADIA WEEKLY

8 PHOTO BY JUSTIN BY PHOTO STUMBERG environmental disaster playing out in excruciating slow motion. It is yet another signal—after the Santa Barbara spill of 1969, the Exxon spill of 1989, the decline in American oil production since 30 the 1970s, the resulting growing reliance FOOD on foreign oil, two Gulf Wars, terrorist attacks traceable to our entanglement in the Middle East, petro-dictators, global 24 warming, glacial retreat, the acidiﬁca- tion of the oceans and stiﬂing air pol-

lution in developing economies like CLASSIFIEDS China—that maybe, just maybe, our civilization needs to fundamentally change 22 22 course.

Drill, baby, drill? Maybe the Easter Is- FILM landers chanted “chop, baby, chop” as the last trees were sacriﬁced to the pro- 18 duction of their stone idols.

It’s been 40 years since Huxley College, MUSIC where I teach, was

founded to ﬁnd 16 // ) new interdisciplin- ART ART WHAT: Reception for ary approaches Huxley College of the to the environ-

Environment 40th 15 Anniversary ment, and 37 years WHEN: 5:30pm, Fri, since Mary Kay STAGE STAGE May 14 Becker, now an ap- WHERE: xxx peals court judge,

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penned Superspill, JUSTIN BY PHOTO STUMBERG WHAT: Panel Discuss, an apocalyptic

Environmental Issues novel about the The Alaska tanker spilled when the to clean up the spill worked very well, in- dumped to “disperse” the oil or break it GET OUT in the 21st Century potential of a spill ruptured tanks—about a fifth of the cluding skimmers, oil booms, dispersant into smaller bits is adding to the toxic WHEN: 10am-5pm, in the San Juan Is- tanker’s cargo—emptied; the BP spill chemicals, hot water, biologic microbes load and spreading it like a fog into the Sat. May 15 12 continues until we shut it off, a process that eat oil, and even wiping rocks with ecosystem. Figuring out the biologic im- WHERE: xxx lands. MORE: National Since that time that is proving frustratingly difficult, rags. In the Gulf of Mexico, the first at- plications will no doubt take time and be WORDS experts examine 40 Puget Sound tanker could take 90 days and, under the worst tempts to shut off the spill have been a contentious legal process. years of environmen- size has been lim- scenarios, equal either nine times the thwarted by the difficulties of working Both spills threaten thriving fisher- 8 8 tal effort in areas ited and tug escort size of the Exxon Valdez or, (in the case of in such extreme depth and cold, and cor- ies, with the Gulf fishery much bigger such as water and air quality, wildlife to Cherry Point and land conserva- and Anacortes im- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS tion, energy policy, proved, but the DRILL, BABY, DRILL? MAYBE THE EASTER ISLANDERS CHANTED population, natural risk remains. Amer- 6 resources, toxic/ ica uses 10 percent hazardous waste “CHOP, BABY, CHOP” AS THE LAST TREES WERE SACRIFICED TO THE management, and more oil today VIEWS sustainability. than when the Exx- PRODUCTION OF THEIR STONE IDOLS. 4 COST: $20 on Valdez hit Bligh INFO: www.wwu.edu/ Reef, Bellingham’s MAIL huxley/ population has a “complete blowout” of the underwater raling it is an impossibility. than that of Prince William Sound. Both

doubled, and I can rig) 34 times the size of the Exxon spill. In war, the ﬁrst casualty is truth. Every are likely to turn legions of redneck 2 watch the tankers The Gulf of Mexico slick already exceeds, war is promised to be shorter, cheaper resource workers into instant envi- DO IT IT DO troop by from the deck of my home on at this writing, 2,000 square miles. and more bloodless than what turns out ronmentalists, once their livelihood is Fidalgo Island. But there are similarities as well. to be the case. In oil spills, the ﬁrst ca- wiped out. The compensation for both 10 The Exxon spill and that of BP and The Exxon Valdez spills was a simple sualty is realism: spill estimates tend to spills hinged, or will hinge, on esti- .12.

its subcontractors have important dif- accident caused by a chain of dumb mis- be low, and recovery and cleanup prom- mates of damage coming from platoons 05 ferences. The Exxon spill came virtually takes, from allowing the crew to drink to ises tend to be wildly optimistic. Cer- of scientists directed by regiments of all at once and on the surface, while the dismantling the escort and radar systems tainly that was the case in Alaska, where lawyers hired by all sides. BP has prom- .05 19 BP spill is estimated at anywhere from designed to prevent it and the cleanup attempts to clean the beaches with hot ised to cover the damages; the question # 250,000 gallons to 1 million a day from a systems designed to mop it up. water pressure hoses and solvents simi- is how you decide what the damage is mile below the surface. The BP spill appears to be a complex lar to paint thinner were a cure worse and what a species is worth. The Exxon spill was within a few miles accident again caused by a possible than the disease. In Alaska, the process was hampered from land in an enclosed, largely pristine chain of mistakes (the cause is still be- The BP oil, rising from near-freezing by a lack of baseline data on the Prince Sound of rocky shorelines. The BP spill is ing pieced together) as an illustration of depths where pressures equal a ton per William Sound ecosystem before the 50 miles from Louisiana in a much larger Murphy’s Law finally come to roost. The inch, will likely be more coagulated and spill occurred. It will be interesting to CASCADIA WEEKLY “bag,” the Gulf of Mexico, with sandy Gulf has 30,000 oil wells, according to less volatile when it hits shore than the learn what was known, and not known, shores and wetlands and a near-shore the Energy Department. Eleven people oil in Alaska. This “weathering” may about the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. 9 population in the millions. It is pouring died and 17 were injured when the law of make it less sticky and easier to scoop The eruption of Mount St. Helens and out just before hurricane season starts averages finally caught up. and burn. the Exxon Valdez spill contributed sig- in June and, with the right winds and The technology of rescue falls short. On the other hand, it may also be rub- nificantly to ecosystem science; currents, could round Florida. In Alaska, nothing the oil industry tried bery and resilient. The chemicals being SPILL, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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T MAY04-MAY11 18 s MUSIC 16 ART ART 15 05.{.10 STAGE STAGE TUESDAY Groundbreaking for Fairhaven College in 1970. Fairhaven and Huxley colleges turn 40 this week. Photo courtesy WWU Library Special Collections

14 The Port of Bellingham ends its protest of a decision to man suffered a cut to his hand while trying to break during an April 17 arrest. Officers were confident relocate a federal research fleet to Newport, Ore. Commission- up a fight in the 300 block of West Holly Street. Police they’d caught a robbery suspect. They were mis-

GET OUT ers unanimously accept a $113,000 payment from the National locate another man who suffered minor cuts from a taken. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to reimburse knife. The intoxicated men were reportedly observed the port for the cost of protesting the agency’s decision. The by a number of people watching them fight. 12 05..10 port filed a protest to NOAA’s decision in August 2009, citing that the agency did not adequately address floodplain issues at SATURDAY WORDS 05.~.10 the Newport site. In December, the Government Accountability Bellingham Police investigate another robbery Office upheld the port’s appeal, allowing the port to seek reim- FRIDAY involving a knife. According to reports a man en- 8 8 bursement for legal fees associated with the protest. The reim- Whatcom County Libraries will continue their tered a business on Meridian, asked for change for bursement covers all but roughly $55,000 of the port’s costs. current policies on the public use of computers. bus fare, then threatened an employee with the The state Supreme Court ruled this week that librar- weapon. The employee was not injured, and the sus- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 05.|.10 ies may use filters to block selected content from pect left with an undisclosed amount of cash. 6 WEDNESDAY the Internet, including pornography. A spokesper- son for the library system says only illegal content 05.x.10 VIEWS VIEWS A man hurls rocks through windows at several downtown is barred at local libraries, although library patrons Bellingham businesses, causing thousands of dollars in dam- can request optional filtering. MONDAY 4 age. Bellingham Police arrest Marwan Ahmad Hasan near the Bellingham City Council moves to renew the Trans

MAIL MAIL scene. Investigators say they don’t know why the 51-year-old Four ofﬁcers who were shot and killed by a gunman Mountain Pipeline franchise that allows the compa- smashed the windows. last November are given the state’s Law Enforcement ny to transport crude petroleum through the city.

2 Medal of Honor at a ceremony honoring more than a A Bellis Fair Mall business reports an armed robbery. Bell- dozen ofﬁcers. In all, 14 ofﬁcers receive the state’s DO IT IT DO

05.xx.10 ingham Police say a man threatened a store employee with a highest honor for law enforcement. knife and left with an undisclosed amount of cash. The em- TUESDAY 10 ployee is not injured. A Seattle Police ofﬁcer bursts into tears as he In a stunning reversal of earlier positions, the .12.

05 apologizes in court for swearing racial epithets at a United States Senates approves an audit of the Knives ﬂash again in downtown Bellingham. Police say one Hispanic man and savagely kicking him in the head Federal Reserve system, 96-0 .05 19 # CASCADIA WEEKLY R5.#)(5) 5 &)(35),5 #- ' (),5)(0#.#)(- R5 -.),.#)(5) 5).#(!5#!".- 10 R5 -.),.#)(5) 5/(5#!".- R5 &#(!5 /0 (#& 5)(0#.#)(5 ),- Daelyn R. Julius hhh5,(50 865. 85 #& &'%$""! Criminal Defense Attorney &&#(!"'655onhhk 1118 /-.#%8)' hamsterindex

FUZZ 30 BUZZ FOOD 24 24 ANIMAL LOVERS On May 7, a British gentle man pleaded not guilty in Whatcom

County Superior Court to charges that he had sodomized a dog CLASSIFIEDS at a bestiality resort in Sumas. Sheriff’s deputies arrested the 51-year-old and the owner of the Resse Hill Road compound in 22 22 April. FILM FILM On May 6, Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 27-year-old county man who had allegedly sexually abused a goat. 18

A PAIR OF COUNTERFEIT SWINGING DICKS MUSIC On April 30, a Richmond, B.C., man and his son were indicted by

a Seattle grand jury in a scheme to distribute counterfeit Viagra 16 and Cialis. According to charging documents, Customs and Border ART ART Protection (CBP) agents in Los Angeles intercepted a package that had been sent from China containing what appeared to be erectile 15 dysfunction drugs. The package was addressed to a mailbox in Blaine. On April 15, the older man, 59, was arrested outside the STAGE STAGE mailbox store after he had picked up the package. Officials allege the son, 28, distributed some of the drugs to various nightclubs in the Vancouver, B.C., area. z} 14 NUMBER of Americans enrolled for food stamps in February, nearly 1 family in 8. CATCH-&-RELEASE GET OUT On May 2, Bellingham Police encountered a familiar face, a man with 223 documented encounters with police, who was drunk and 12 yelling profanities outside the Aloha Motel on Samish Way. He had been arrested earlier in the day for breaking into a car on Holly Street. Police noted this was the 51st location in Bellingham from ¹x WORDS which this gentleman had been banned. “He was less than cordial BONUS to be paid to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankenfein one year after his company received billions in 8 8 with police,” officers observed, “and was somewhat reluctant to taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy and collapse. Blankfein took home $67.9 million in bonuses in 2007. leave the property; however he eventually went on his way when faced with the possibility of being arrested.” Less than an hour CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS after the report was filed, Bellingham Police were back at the

Aloha Motel, arresting the 52-year-old after he returned drunk 6 and continued to yell profanities. ¹x~{ MILLIONS in additional fees paid by payday loan PERCENT of payday loan fees ($155 million) that VIEWS VIEWS SLIGHT OF HAND recipients in Washington in 2005, often in the form of might have been eliminated through low-income

300 percent interest on payday loans. credit reform standards. 4 On May 3, Blaine Police spoke to a man reported to have been doing

drugs in the restroom of a downtown business. While ofﬁcers spoke MAIL to the gentleman they noticed he covertly dropped a syringe and a pill bottle from his hand. Police booked the errant prestidigitator ¹|y| ¹y~}| 2 into jail for possession of heroin and cocaine. DO IT IT DO USDA farm subsidies paid in Whatcom County, 1995- USDA farm subsidies paid in Skagit County, 1995- 2009. The federal government paid out nearly a quarter 2009. NO RESPECT FOR THE FEDERAL

of a trillion dollars in federal farm subsidies in this 10 GOVERNMENT period. .12.

On April 29, a Skagit mail carrier was bitten in the calf by a 05 three-legged dog. The bite did not break the skin. An hour later, the same mail carrier was bitten in the pant leg by another dog. .05 19 ¹|| ¹xy~ # GOING POSTAL, CTD. BILLIONS spent on human welfare in the United States BILLIONS spent on corporate welfare in the in 2008, including food stamps and school lunches. United States in 2008, including agribusiness On May 6, a Bellingham man pleaded guilty in Whatcom County subsidies. Superior Court to felony harassment after he had threatened to kill employees at the Orleans Street branch of the U.S. Postal Service. The 63-year-old was sentenced to 45 days in jail and a mental health examination for a call he’d made to 911 dispatch {z {z CASCADIA WEEKLY on March 19, complaining the post office had deprived him of his CHANCE in 100 someone under the age of 30 expresses CHANCE in 100 someone under the age of 30 constitutional rights. He said postal carriers had stopped deliver- no negative attitude about “socialism.” expresses no negative attitude about “capitalism.” 11 ing mail to his home following several heated altercations he’d had with them over their delivery service. He allegedly told 911 dispatch that a few rounds from his rifle would help the Post Of- SOURCES: Reuters; Washington Budget & Policy Center; Brookings Institution; U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; fice understand the error of their ways. Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database; Cato Institute; Pew Research Center currents ›› news words ›› events

30 30 FOOD SPILL, FROM PAGE 9 doit 24 24 WORDS TUES., MAY 18 and Family Weekend. The pubic is in- MEDIA LITERACY: Copyright laws, cul- vited. Many events are free. this disaster may do the same. i WED., MAY 12 tural heritage and much more will be WWW.WWUALUMNI.COM/B2B BOYNTON POETRY AWARDS: The

CLASSIFIEDS However the BP spill plays out—and this is a case where one up for discussion at today’s free Media SAT., MAY 15 prays ever-dire environmental prediction is wrong—the broader public is invited to hear the 25 win- Literacy Conference on the Western FERNDALE FARMERS MARKET: At- question remains; How do we remain a comfortable world power ners of the 2010 Sue C. Boynton Po- Washington University campus.

22 22 tend the Ferndale Farmers Market etry Contest read their works at 7pm i WWW.WWU.EDU while weaning ourselves from fossil fuels and the pollution prob- at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, from 10am-1pm at Centennial River- AN EAGLE NAMED FREEDOM: Jeff FILM FILM lems that go with them? 355 Harris Ave. Entry is free. walk Park. The market continues ev- Guidry shares stories from his auto- One answer, suggested by some of the more idealistic environ- i WWW.WHATCOMPOETRYSERIES.ORG ery Saturday through Oct. 9. biographical book, An Eagle Named i mentalists, including some in Whatcom County, is that we get less 384-3042 18 Freedom: My True Story of a Remarkable FRI., MAY 14 BELLINGHAM FARMERS MARKET: comfortable and less powerful and cut our carbon footprint by sim- Friendship, at 7pm at Village Books, FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Members of the Purchase and peruse local fruit and 1200 11th St. MUSIC ply doing without. Bellingham Storyteller’s Guild will tell veggies and artistic offerings at i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Politically, however, this still seems light years from winning tales at Family Story Night at 7pm at the Bellingham Farmers Market from the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square 16 support from a majority of oil-hooked Americans, including a ma- WED., MAY 19 i 778-7188 jority even in liberal Whatcom County. We’re still organized around ROEDER WRITERS: Network with at the corner of Railroad Avenue and ART ART CAN MAN: As part of Children’s Book other writers and share your work Chestnut Street. the car, the airplane and the grid. i Week, local illustrator and author at the monthly Roeder Home Writers 647-2060 OR WWW. President Obama has been trying to forge a new consensus by of- BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG 15 Craig Orback will share his book, The fering the conservatives offshore drilling and a renewal of nuclear gathering from 1-4pm at the Roeder Can Man, at 7pm at Village Books, Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. GLUTEN-FREE FAIR: The third an- power in return for their support of carbon-credit systems, wind, 1200 11th St. i nual Gluten-Free Food Fair happens STAGE STAGE 647-0724 i 671-2626 geothermal, solar and other pioneering technologies. Agreement DREAMLESS, POSSIBLE: Chris How- from 11am-3pm at the Bellingham seems elusive here, as well, with green Cape Cod residents howling SAT., MAY 15 ell read from his collection, Dreamless Public Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. 14 i 510-6555 about a new windfarm off their coast and the idea of widening off- HUMBLEBEE HUNTER: Author Debo- and Possible: Poems New and Selected, COMPETE FOR A CAUSE: The What- shore drilling in ﬂames after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. rah Hopkinson will tell tales from her at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th com Dispute Resolution Center will tome, The Humblebee Hunter, at 2pm St. GET OUT But the BP explosion and leak is not just about one tragic oil i host the “Compete for a Cause” back- at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 671-2626 spill. It’s about the course of the 21st Century. gammon tournament from 10am-4pm i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Do we indenture ourselves for foreign oil, drill in ever-more inac- THURS., MAY 20 in the beer garden at Boundary Bay 12 12 PACK OF HENS: Bestselling author Sy RADIO HOUR: The Circumference of Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Entry to cessible and catastrophic places, change the composition of our Montgomery reads from Birdology: Ad- Home author Kurt Hoelting will be the fundraiser is $25-$32. atmosphere and oceans, and invite national collapse—just so long ventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of i WORDS WORDS the featured author at the monthly 676-0122 OR WWW.WHATCOMDRC.ORG as the next quarterly report shows a handsome proﬁt? Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Fal- Chuckanut Radio Hour gathering at RADIO ROOTS: “The Roots of Radio: Or do we get serious about conservation, and using sunlight to cons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Humming- 7pm at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom,

8 Exploring the Real Process of Inven- birds, and One Murderously Big Living generate electricity at a local level to power new generations of 1224 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $5. tion” will be the topic of a multimedia Dinosaur at 7pm at Village Books. i vehicles and establish local sustainability that is more resilient to WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM presentation John Jenkins at 7pm at i 671-2626 the kind of international shocks and gamesmanship that recently the American Museum of Radio and CURRENTS CURRENTS rattled the stock market? MAY 15-16 Electricity, 1312 Bay St. Entry is $3 CIRCUMFERENCE OF HOME: Kurt COMMUNITY for students, $7 general. 6 In conjunction with Huxley’s 40th birthday, at 3pm Sat., May 15, i 738-3886 OR WWW.AMRE.US Hoelting, author of The Circumference THURS., MAY 13 award-winning writer Timothy Egan will speak at WWU’s Performing of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest SOUL AND EDUCATION: Whatcom VIEWS VIEWS MON., MAY 17 Arts Center on our environmental future, with an introduction by for a Radically Local Life, will be the Hills Waldorf School’s Joseph Douc- JOHN DE GRAAF: The ﬁlmmaker and Congressman Jay Inslee, a leader on alternative energy. featured speaker at the Sourdough

4 ette will talk about “The Four Soul national coordinator of Take Back Speakers series talk this weekend at Meanwhile, my guess is that every day’s Gulf leakage of up to a Temperaments in Education” at 7pm Your Time will be on hand to answer the North Cascades Institute’s Learn-

MAIL MAIL million gallons of oil is a message from God or Mother Nature about at the Firehouse PAC, 1314 Harris questions following a screening of his ing Center at Diablo Lake. Cost is $95 Ave. ﬁlm, What’s the Economy for, Anyway?, which way we’d better go. and food and accommodations. i 2 [email protected] at 7pm at the RE Store, 2309 Meridian i WWW.NCASCADES.ORG William Dietrich is a novelist, nonﬁction au- St. Entry is free.

DO IT IT DO MAY 13-16 i MON., MAY 17 WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG thor, and assistant professor of environmen- FAMILY WEEKEND: More than 100 POETRYNIGHT: Sign up to read your ROCKS & GEMS: The public is in- activities—including student perfor- tal journalism at Huxley College who shared vited to the monthly meeting of the 10 verse at the weekly poetrynight at mances, planetarium shows, a music a Pulitzer Prize for The Seattle Times cover- 8pm at the Anker Café, 1424 Cornwall Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club at 7pm at .12. festival, food, lectures and more—

05 age of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Ave. Readings begin at 8:30pm. Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave. are on the lineup for WWU’s Alumni i WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG i 739-0769 .05 19 #

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WIN CASH PRIZES by bicycling in May STAGE 14 It’s easy. Team up with a few friends and log your bike trips for

errands, to work or to school. GET OUT 12 Anyone can win! Register your team early and win extra prizes. 12 WORDS The Kick-Off Reception is Friday, April 30th, at The Copper WORDS Hog, sponsored by New Belgium Brewery. Find out more at everybodyBIKE.com, or 671-BIKE. 8

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LADY WASHINGTON: The ofﬁcial ship of the State of Washington, the Lady Washington, 30 30 will be docked at the Squalicum Harbor Boat

FOOD House through May 16. Tickets prices vary. getout i WWW.HISTORICALSEAPORT.ORG HIKING ›› RUNNING ›› CYCLING 24 24 THURS., MAY 13 PLANTING PARTY: Help out the new Whatcom Hospice House at a Planting Par- ty happening from 8am-7pm at the Happy Valley site at 2806 Douglas Ave. CLASSIFIEDS i 739-9625 PNW KAYAKING: “Preparing to Kayak in 22 22 the Paciﬁc Northwest” will be the topic of a free WAKE presentation at 6pm at REI, FILM FILM 400 36th St. i 647-8955 wrench set or just a Y Hex wrench is also 18 handy, as is a ﬂoor pump with a pressure SAT., MAY 15 MILES FOR MEMORIES: Sign up for the

MUSIC gauge on it (this is key to understanding annual “Miles for Memories” walk and run how much air should be in your tires). Fi- starting at 8:30am at the Fairhaven Village

16 nally, a tire patch kit that includes tire Green. Entry is $25. levers, and chain lube. i 224-0097 OR WWW.ALZSOCIETY.ORG ART ART CW: What’s are ﬁxes that sound hard, but are CASCADE CUTS SALE: Raise funds for actually easy? Sustainable Connection’s Food & Farming 15 Program by attending the annual Cascade AN: Small tension adjustments to your Cuts Plant Sale from 9am-4pm at the nurs- brakes and shifter cables using the ad-

STAGE STAGE ery at 632 Montgomery Rd. justment dials on the cables. Tire pressure i WWW.SCONNECT.ORG is also one of the most important things BIKE SWAP: The first annual TBS Bike Swap 14 14 for daily riding. takes place from 10am-4pm at the Belling- CW: What do you do when you get a flat on ham Sportsplex, 1225 Civic Field Way. i WWW.THEBIKESHOP1.ORG GET OUT GET OUT the trail? PEDAL WITH A POLITICIAN: Meet at AN: Pull out all your crap including new noon at the Bellingham Farmers Market for tube, patch kit and CO2 cartridge. The a free “Pedal With Your Politician” outing. 12 biggest thing women can do to make tire- i WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM changing go smoother is to use more force. ADAPTIVE CYCLE EXPO: The annual WORDS It can take some muscle to pull the tire Adaptive Cycle Expo happens from 11am- 2pm at Bellingham’s Civic Field track. off the wheel. I prefer the CO2 cartridge 8 i 778-7000 over the pump when fix- FLY DAY: Vintage military aircraft will ing a flat—they are fast BY AMY KEPFERLE take to the skies as part of the monthly and easy. For any kind Fly Day open house from 12-4pm at Bell- CURRENTS CURRENTS of off-the-beaten-track ingham’s Heritage Flight Museum, 4165 Mitchell Way. 6 biking you should have i a tire patch kit, multi WWW.HERITAGEFLIGHT.ORG WORK PARTY: Help remove invasive VIEWS VIEWS Bike Basics tool, pump, golden plants at a work party from 1-3pm at Bou- chain link, map, plenty levard Park. 4 IN SEARCH OF A SMOOTH RIDE of water and a treat. i ATTEND 778-7105 MAIL MAIL WHAT: Women’s CW: Why should people ROLLER BETTIES: The Bellingham Roller WHAT’S A gal to do when she’s stranded on her bike in Eastern Wash- Bike Maintenance learn to tune/fix their Betties present “2010: A Skates Odyssey”

2 ington in a lightning storm with an outdated map and no cell reception? If Class with Melanie own bikes? at 5pm at Whatcom Community College’s her name is Angie Nelson, she learns a valuable lesson: bring food, water Swanson AN: Regular mainte- Pavilion Gym. Tickets are $6-$12. DO IT IT DO i WWW.BELLINGHAMROLLERBETTIES.COM and a variety of tools along next time. WHEN: 6-9pm May nance of your bike helps 18 and June 1 and In honor of National Bike Month and Bike to Work Day (May 21), it’s time the parts last longer. If MAY 15-16

10 15 to get your two-wheeler in working order. But you don’t have to spend a WHERE: The Hub, you can lube your chain WATERFRONT FESTIVAL: The annual .12. Anacortes Waterfront Festival happens

05 mint doing so. Following are some tips from Nelson, a self-described “crazy 903 N. State St. and cables every week from 10am-6pm Sat. and 10am-5pm Sun. in bike person.” COST: Free with it will keep all your prior registration downtown Anacortes. .05 Cascadia Weekly: How long have you been riding a bike? shifting smooth and i WWW.ANACORTES.ORG

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# Angie Nelson: I have ridden my bike a lot since high school. My high school the chain will last a lot SUN., MAY 16 graduation present was a mountain bike. I started doing more long-dis- WHAT: Bike Mainte- longer. Also, it makes BLANCHARD GEOGRAPHY: Learn more tance riding in 2003. My friends and I ride Galbraith, the Chuckanuts, nance Basics the riding experience a about the geography of Blanchard Moun- WHEN: 6pm Tues., Anacortes (Heart and Whistle lakes), Winthrop (Sun Mountain, Buck Lake, lot more enjoyable. tain during a moderately strenuous hike May 18 Lightning Creek), Capital Forest, Tiger Mountain, Glacier, Squamish, and If you are just bike starting at 9am with members of the WHERE: REI, 400 Chuckanut Conservancy. Whistler (Comfortably Numb). 36th St. commuting it’s pretty i WWW.CHUCKANUTCONSERVANCY.ORG CW: How many bikes do you have? COST: Free with easy to do the simple CASCADIA WEEKLY AN: Right now I have three bikes: a commuter bike, a cross-country moun- prior registration stuff like lube the chain, MASTER WORKSHOPS: The Whatcom County Master Gardeners will host free 14 tain bike and a road bike. That is pretty typical. INFO: 647-8955 tighten the brakes, public workshops at 2pm every Sunday CW: What are the essential tools anyone owning a bunch of bikes should pump up the tires and through Oct. 17 at Ferndale’s Hovander have? lube the cables. But, honestly, I like hav- Homestead Park. AN: Crank Brothers Multi-17 tool. This is a must-have tool that will help you ing a reliable bike mechanic look over my i 676-6736 ﬁx most minor things on your bike when you are out and about. A Hex bikes every three or four months. doit STAGE

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SIN-N-TONIC: Sean Walbeck’s Sin-n-Tonic 30 shows at 7:30pm Wed.-Sat. and 2pm Sat. at Whatcom Community College’s Syre FOOD stage Black Box Theater. Tickets are $5-$10. i WWW.WHATCOM.CTC.EDU/ THEATER ›› DANCE ›› PROFILES 24 THURS., MAY 13 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm at the

Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, CLASSIFIEDS stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $3-$5. 22 22 i WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM

BY GRACE JACKSON MAY 13-15 FILM POISON THE WELL: Andrew Connor’s dramatic play, Poison the Well, shows at 18 8pm at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $10; Thursdays are two- The Miracle Worker for-one. MUSIC i WWW.IDIOMTHEATRE.COM

OF HUMAN CONNECTIONS 16 MAY 13-16 NOISES OFF: Noises Off! shows at 7:30pm ART “The essential message of the play,” Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Lynden’s Claire 15 vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets 15 Dizney says, is about “human potential. are $8-$12. The characters are trying to overcome ob- i WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.ORG STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE stacles in their own lives, and cannot do ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Students will so alone. Each must ﬁnd the ‘key’ in oth- present Alice in Wonderland at 7:30pm ers. With the act of reaching out to oth- Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Squalicum 14 ers’ worlds, we can unlock the potential in High School, 3773 E. McLeod Rd. Tickets are $5-$7.

each other.” i 676-6471 GET OUT Dizney says the production presented more demands beyond the usual design and sched- FRI., MAY 14 uling conﬂicts. “We have signers to translate DRAG SHOW: A fundraising “Drag Show” 12 starts at 7pm at the WCC’s Syre Theater. the show, child actors and actresses and a Entry is $5-$8. WORDS dog as cast members; we’ve incorporated i 383-3518 ﬁght choreography, we’ve had lessons on the MAY 14-15 8 challenges that face a blind and deaf person DIRECTORS & GLADIATORS: Show up and we’ve found prob- for “Director’s Cut” at 8pm at the Upfront lems of staging a script Theatre, 1208 I St. Stick around for 10pm CURRENTS CURRENTS written from biographi- showings of a new format dubbed “Gladi- PHOTO BY ANNA WHITE ANNA BY PHOTO ators”. Tickets are $8-$10. cal materials. 6 i “Through all this, my WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM

IT’S BEEN said the best teachers teach from the heart, not from a hope is that the audi- MAY 14-16 VIEWS book. In the case of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller was blessed with a teacher ence walks away with a OKLAHOMA!: Skagit Valley College whose heart brimmed with tenacious inspiration. greater appreciation for presents Oklahoma! at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. 4 and 2pm Sun. at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre

Helen and Annie’s story was popularized in the production of William those with vision and/or MAIL Hall. Tickets are $10-$20. Gibson’s play, The Miracle Worker, a story that tells, in simplest terms, how hearing loss; that they i WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG

ATTEND 2 one person can enter the lives of others and change them forever. WHAT: The Miracle might make changes in DANCE In the play, Gibson explores the volatile student/teacher relationship Worker their lives and that jobs DO IT IT DO SAT., MAY 15 against the backdrop of a fascinating family dynamic. Like a pebble dropped WHEN: 7:30pm would become available May 13-15 and FUNDRAISER: Members of Bellingham in a pond and the resulting ripples, Annie’s impact reaches far beyond her to a greater inclusion Repertory Dance will perform at a fund- 19-22; 2pm May 16 10 immediate charge of teaching Helen how to read and write. of these populations. raiser for the Botswana Orphan Program

and 23 .12. at 7pm at the Firehouse PAC, 1314 Harris The Keller family included Captain Keller, who served proudly for the WHERE: Perform- Awareness is the start.” 05 Confederate Army during the Civil War; James, Keller’s son by a ﬁrst mar- ing Arts Center William Gibson wrote Ave. Entry is $10 Mainstage, WWU i WWW.BOTSWANAORPHANPROGRAM.COM riage; Kate, Keller’s second wife and Helen’s mother; and the servants and The Miracle Worker after .05

COST: $9-$12 19 extended relations who supported the prosperous family during the 1880s reading Annie Sulli- # INFO: 650-6146 MAY 15-16 at their home—Ivy Green in Tescumbia, Ala., post-Civil War. Annie Sullivan van’s letters and Helen THE LITTLE MERMAID: Northwest Bal- was from the north. Keller’s autobiography. let continues its run of The Little Mer- During the course of the play, Annie enters the Keller household, and, Gibson constructed a drama around the maid at 7:30pm Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial through physically and emotionally grueling work with Helen, ends up chang- events that took place when Helen Keller St. Tickets are $10-$24. ing each of the family’s views of the world, as well as changing her own. and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, first met i WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM In the WWU Theatre Department’s current production of The Miracle Work- in the 1880s. SUN., MAY 16 CASCADIA WEEKLY er, the play is about much more than Helen (nine-year-old Marina Purdy) The exchanges that take place in The FLAMENCO: Carmona Flamenco will per- and Annie’s (Noel Wamsley) relationship. “Each character transforms,” di- Miracle Worker are all derived from factual form at 7:30pm at the American Museum of 15 rector Patrick Dizney says. events Gibson has woven together to con- Radio, 1312 Bay St. Tickets are $15-$25. The play opens with a short scene when Helen is 18 months old and suf- struct a fluid, emotionally real, depiction i WWW.FLAMENCOBELLINGHAM.NET fering from “acute congestion.” Helen’s mother discovers the fever has left of the “miracle” Anne Sullivan was able to Helen deaf and blind. The story immediately flashes forward five years. work: teaching Helen Keller language. doit MAY 13-14 SUMMER’S COMING: As part of Children’s Book

Week, Olympia artist and author Nikki McClure 30 30 will read from her book, Mama, is it Summer Yet?, and talk about her art at 7pm Thurs., May FOOD 13 at Village Books, 1200 11th St. She’ll also visual make an appearance at 11am Fri., May 14 at

24 24 GALLERIES ›› OPENINGS ›› PROFILES the Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St. i 671-2626 OR 224-2387 FRI., MAY 14 ABUNDANCE: A reception for “Abundance: CLASSIFIEDS Celebrating Spring with NW Artists” happens from 6-9pm at Blaine’s Loomis Hall Gallery,

22 22 288 Martin St. i WWW.LOOMISHALLGALLERY.COM FILM FILM MAY 15-16 CAMANO STUDIO TOUR: The 12th annual

18 Camano Studio Tour continues from 10am- 5pm Sat.-Sun. More than 60 artists will take part in the free event, which will encompass MUSIC a variety of venues. i WWW.CAMANOARTS.ORG 16 16 SAT., MAY 15 ART ART ART ART FAMILY ART DAY: Artist Barbara Silverman Summers will lead a Family Art Day event

15 dubbed “Spring Garden Flowers” from 11am- 1pm and again from 2-4pm at La Conner’s

STAGE STAGE Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. i WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG

14 SUN., MAY 16 POSTER AWARDS: Royce Buckingham, author of Goblins! An Adventure Underneath, will

GET OUT present awards to kids who participated in the recent poster contest and read from his book at 2pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.

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“EAGLE DANCE” BY LOUISE CROW, 1919 LANDSCAPE PAINTING: Mitchell Albala

WORDS will share ideas from his book, Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Pracice, at 4pm at 8 contributed to the heritage of the region, Village Books, 1200 11th St. BY AMY KEPFERLE but aren’t represented in “Show of Hands.” i 671-2626 Still, the number they gathered together for CURRENTS CURRENTS the exhibit is not only ONGOING EXHIBITS

6 admirable—it’s fasci- Show of Hands ALLIED ARTS: “Lighting Up Education with nating. To be able, in Art” will be on display through May at Allied VIEWS VIEWS RAISE THEM, CLAP THEM one room, to compare Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. and contrast a work i WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG 4 created in 1939 to one ANCHOR ART: Works by a diverse group of Northwest artists can be seen at “A Long MAIL MAIL EVEN AFTER a stroke left her unable to speak or read, Margaret Tom- ﬁnished in 2009 is no kins continued to paint the abstract works that ﬁrst drew attention to her SEE IT easy task, yet the ex- Drawn Out Process” through June 26 at An-

chor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Ana- 2 talent. Rumor has it the reclusive Lopez Island artist’s ﬁnal painting was com- WHAT: “Show of hibit draws them all Hands: Northwest cortes. pleted just a month before her death at the age of 85. together seamlessly. i WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG DO IT IT DO

Women Artists 1880- While Tomkins’ story is an interesting one, it’s just a sampling of the facts 2010” “We hope that the ARTWOOD: Patio and solarium art will be you can expect to glean via a visit to the “Show of Hands” exhibit currently on WHEN: 12-5pm creativity of this featured through May at the Artwood Gal- 10 display at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building. Tues.-Sun., through gathering of women lery, 1000 Harris Ave. .12. Aug. 8 i WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM

05 While the works of art currently ﬁlling the space provide a wealth of amazing will stimulate insights WHERE: Whatcom things to look at, the fact that the display highlights the work of 63 Northwest and observations that BLUE HORSE: The Northwest Pastel So- Museum’s Light- ciety’s annual “Members Show” will be up .05 women artists over a span of 130 years is what makes it truly unique. catcher Building, 250 will inform future through May 28 at the Blue Horse Gallery, 19 # “Having arrived recently from the East Coast, I was unaware of the talented mix Flora St. studies on the sub- 301 W. Holly St. of artists working in the region,” Curator of Art Barbara Matilsky says of the show, COST: $4.50-$8 (next ject,” Matilsky says. i WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM free day is Wed., which ties in with other suffrage centennial celebrations happening this year. “I That theory seemed CASA QUE PASA: Four area designers will June 2) be highlighted at the “What is it You Don’t became conscious of the many ‘unseen artists,’ women who, exhibiting nationally INFO: www. to be in effect on a and highly regarded during their lifetime, have since been forgotten.” recent visit as I wit- Know Show” through May at Casa Que Pasa, whatcommuseum.org 1415 Railroad Ave. Consider Virna Haffer, a painter, printmaker and photographer who was raised nessed a young girl i 870-8739 in the Utopian Society of Home or Mary Henry, whose large-scale abstract tug on her mother’s arm while pointing to

CASCADIA WEEKLY CHUCKANUT BREWERY: View “Appliance paintings didn’t garner attention in the art world until she was ofﬁcially a Elizabeth Jameson’s “Forecasting Queen”— Art” through May at the Chuckanut Brewery, 16 senior citizen. an apocalyptic rendering that featured a 601 W. Holly St. An “Appliance Art Revival” Then there’s Helmi Dagmar Juvonen, who, while recognized for her cultural queen with a gas mask on horseback. happens June 4. explorations focusing on Northwest Native American tribes, was also manic- “What’s it mean?” she asked. i WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM depressive, and spent the last 26 years of her life in an asylum. “That’s what’s cool about art,” her mother DEPOT ARTS CENTER: Skagit Artists To- gether presents “New Directions,” a juried Museum organizers acknowledge there are likely many female artists who answered, “You get to decide.” doit & ,*$5(77(6 602.(/(6672%$&&2 show featuring work from 29 members, through May 29 at Anacortes’ Depot Arts

Center, 611 R Ave. 86,7

Road Safe? 30 i 293-3663 FIREHOUSE: View the “Through Our Eyes” Independent Service & Repair photo project—which features photos taken FOOD by kids at an orphanage in Botswana— through May at the Firehouse PAC, 1314 Har- 24 24 ris Ave. All proceeds will go to the Botswana 6+23 Orphan Program. i WWW.BOTSWANAORPHANPROGRAM.COM Mini at GALLERY CYGNUS: “On the Edge of Seeing:

BMW CLASSIFIEDS Stirrings of the Mind’s Eye,” featuring new Subaru LOWEST paintings by Kathleen McCarty, can be pe- VW Discounted Cigarettes IN 22 rused through May 30 at La Conner’s Gallery Audi PRICES Cygnus, 109 Commercial St. All Major Brands & Generics

! FILM i (360) 420-9568 THE AREA GOOD EARTH: Jayme Curley’s hand-built on most brands and low-ﬁred white clay pieces will be FDUWRQ 18 shown through May at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. i WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM EXPRESS DRIVETHRU MUSIC LOOMIS HALL: “Made in the Paciﬁc NW,” (!)'#& 16 featuring multimedia works, large sculp- 360 671.2420 16 tures and more, is currently on display at ART ART ART ART Blaine’s Loomis Hall Gallery, 288 Martin St. i WWW.LOOMISHALLGALLERY.COM LUCIA DOUGLAS: A group exhibit featur- Weekly Specials 15 ing humor, art and a contemporary point of view shows until May 29 at the Lucia Doug- Tuesday = Flatiron Steaks STAGE las Gallery, 1415 13th St. i WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM w/2 sides & a Pint! $16 CW 14 MONA: View “Resonances: Contemporary $ " Echoes Modern,” “Resonances in Glass,” and Wednesday = Rib Night ! ! $ #

“Poses from the Permanent Collection” until GET OUT June 13 La Conner’s Museum of Northwest *Price at time of printing. U.S.I.T. Tobacco Shop owned and operated by Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. Limit five cartons/rolls per customer per day. *People’s Choice Award* Must have valid ID. Cigarettes are not legal for resale. Prices subject to change. No Returns. Skagit Valley Casino Resort is owned by Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. Art, 121 S. First St. SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health. i WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG w/2 sides and a Pint! $16 12 SKAGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Way We Played: Early Skagit Recreation” can be Thursday = Buffalo Brisket $14 WORDS seen through July, 2011, at La Conner’s Sk- agit County Historical Museum, 501 4th St. i (360) 466-3365 8 SMITH & VALLEE: “Don’t Call it Student Hours: Art” shows every Wed.-Sun. through May Tues.- Thurs. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

30 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Fri. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. CURRENTS Gilkey Ave. Sat. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. i WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM Sun. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 6 TIVOLI: Bellingham painter Michael Cos-

telloe’s exhibit, “Dylan Suite,” will be up VIEWS through June at Tivoli, 1317 Commercial St.

The show is inspired by images of musician 4 Bob Dylan’s hands in the 1960s. i 594-4313 MAIL VIKING UNION GALLERY: “Beyond Bor- ders,” the 15th annual international art 2 competition, opens May 17 at WWU’s Viking DO IT IT DO Union Gallery. A reception featuring winners of the competition happens June 3. Entry

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WESTERN GALLERY: The 26-artist exhibit, 05 “Critical Messages: Northwest Artists on the

Environment,” can be perused through May .05

29 at WWU’s Western Gallery. 19 # i 650-3900 WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am-6pm For a complete listing of our every Friday through Sunday, stop by the Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s summer swim lessons or to register, Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. i WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Expanded Horizons: Panoramic Photographs by J.W. Sandison,” visit www.cob.org/ahac CASCADIA WEEKLY “Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 17 1880-2010” and “Outside the Home: Photo- graphs of Women in the Workplace” can cur- 1300 Bay St. rently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum. 360.778.POOL (7665) i WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 360.752.2968 (75.BAYOU) www.bayouonbay.com 1114 Potter St, Bellingham 98229 Rumor Has It

30 30 ON THE ENTERTAINMENT ROSTER THIS WEEK: Bell- ingham ex-pats, soon-to-be ex-pats and one hel- FOOD luva house show. First up: the house show. Or, haus show, as in,

24 24 music Toy Haus. And if you only go to one house show SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT this year (but why would you?), you should make it this one. Why? I can give you four very good

CLASSIFIEDS reasons: So Adult, Baltic Cousins, Ravenna Woods, and What What Now. Say what you will about anything you want, but you’d be hard-pressed to ﬁnd 22 22 a better show lineup within about a million or so

FILM FILM miles that night (that might be a slight exagger- BY CAREY ROSS ation—slight—but I think you get my point). It

18 takes place Fri., May 14. As for the location of the 18 house in question, well, ﬁgure it out for yourself. MUSIC

MUSIC Now, for my standard rant about house shows: Idiot Pilot, The Globes, should you plan to attend, please keep in mind

16 that people actually live in said house hosting said ART ART show. So, be respectful off The Mission Orange them and their domicile. 15 A TALENTED TRIO OF BANDS Also, I think I speak forr everyone when I say we’d STAGE STAGE When it comes to the dynamic duo of all like the ﬁne folks there Daniel Anderson and Michael Harris—the to keep putting on shows 14 artists otherwise known as Idiot Pilot— into perpetuity and, as the primary question surrounding this such, it is up to us—theirr

GET OUT band seems to be, “Just what, exactly, guests—to act in such a are they doing these days?” In order to fashion so as to not draw properly answer that question, it’s proba- the ire of the neighbors 12 bly worth giving a quick-and-dirty primer or the unwanted atten- BY CAREYCAREY ROSSROSS about this band’s history. Unless you’re a tions of law enforcement. WORDS relative newcomer to Bellingham, you’re In other words, behave yourselves. probably well aware that Idiot Pilot spent Should you require more all-ages action, I’d sug- 8 what can only be termed as an inordi- gest hitting up the Jinx basement on Sat., May 15 nate amount of time recording its ﬁrst for the aforementioned ex-pats, this time coming album, Strange We in the form of the Narrows, who, in the interest CURRENTS CURRENTS Should Meet Here in of accuracy, I guess are really only two-thirds ex-

6 2005—an invest- pat, as one Narrow still resides in Bellingham. ment in time and At one point in time, the Narrows claimed to

VIEWS VIEWS effort that more be Bellingham’s longest continuously operating than paid off when band, or some such thing, and, as they’ve been 4 HEAR the band, after a around for longer than a decade now—and have

MAIL MAIL WHO: Idiot Pilot, The reputed bidding never stopped playing shows, no matter how in- Globes, The Mission war, signed a ma- termittent those shows might be—I’m inclined

2 Orange jor-label deal with to believe their claim. Whether it’s true or not, a WHEN: 8pm Thurs., Reprise Records. visit by them is always a welcome one, and they’ll DO IT IT DO May 13 WHERE: Wild Buffalo, They then hit the bring Lozen and Worm Ouroboros along with them 208 W. Holly St. road, touring in- for this particular musical jaunt. 10 COST: $6-$8 cessantly, includ- Also taking place Saturday is a show at Plan .12. MORE INFO: www. 05 ing a stint on the B featuring the mathy loveliness of Rooftops. If wildbuffalo.net Taste of Chaos Tour you think you may skip it in favor of seeing the IDIOT PILOT PHOTO BY HOLLIE HUTHMAN .05 and a gig opening band when next they play, well, I wouldn’t if I 19

# for the Smashing Pumpkins. were you. Two reasons: First, the show serves SOMETIMES A show is special for any number of In 2008, the band released its second as a vinyl release party for the band’s excellent reasons—a long-awaited band ﬁnally comes to town, a album, Wolves, the creation of which in- album, A Forest of Polarity. Second, and more long-defunct band reunites, a not-long-for-this-world volved a whole roster of big-name tal- important, the show will be the last for a while, band makes its ﬁrst appearance, a CD is released, a tour is ent—Ross Robinson and Mark Hoppus as wunderkind (yeah, I said that) drummer Wen- kicked off, etc. shared production duties, while Dillinger delin Wohlgemuth will hightail it out of town And sometimes a show is just a show. Not that there’s any- Escape Plan’s Chris Pennie and Blink 182’s shortly after the last note fades, to take up CASCADIA WEEKLY thing wrong with that—particularly if the lineup includes Travis Barker split the drum work. By all residency in Chicago. Does this, then, signal the 18 the likes of Idiot Pilot, the Globes, and the Mission Orange. accounts, Wolves should’ve propelled end of the Rooftops? Not necessarily. However, Such is the case Thurs., May 13 when that particular trio Idiot Pilot, if not into the stratosphere, it does mean there’s likely to be a sizey gap be- of bands will take the stage at the Wild Buffalo for what at least into a fairly advantageous posi- tween this show and the next time you’ll see the is sure to be a night of exemplary music played by folks tion, musically speaking. However, a lack band on a stage in this town. So get them while highly practiced in showing audiences a good time. of label support made that mountain a the gettin’s good, as they say. musicEvents TRIO, FROM PAGE 18 THURS., MAY 13

LINDA ALLEN: Attend Linda Allen’s multimedia presenta-

tion, “Here’s to the Women!,” at 12:30pm at the Whatcom 30 Museum, 121 Prospect St. Songs, stories and images cel-

AND SOMETIMES A SHOW ebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage will be the focus. FOOD Entry is $3. IS JUST A SHOW. NOT THAT i WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 24 24 THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG FRI., MAY 14 THEORIES OF GABRIELA: A CD release concert for Theo- WITH THAT—PARTICULARLY ries of Gabriela happens from 7-9pm at the MBT’s Walton

Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $10. CLASSIFIEDS IF THE LINEUP INCLUDES THE i 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM CHORAL TAPESTRY: The four Bellingham Sings ensem- 22 22 LIKES OF IDIOT PILOT, THE bles—Allegra, Sarabande, Norwesters, and Whatcom Sound Jazz Singers—will perform “A Choral Tapestry” at GLOBES, AND THE MISSION FILM 7:30pm at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 2600 Lake- way Dr. Tickets will be $10-$12 at the door.

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MAY 14-15 MUSIC MUSIC (with the help of a well-timed tweet from Death Cab’s ENDFAIR: The Nextdoor Neighbors, Cauﬁeld and His Magic Chris Walla), and all the gossip surrounding the band Violin, Naomi Punk, LAKE, and many other musical entities

THE GLOBES will take part in Endfair 2010 from 6-11pm Fri. and 2pm- 16

PHOTO BY ABBY WILLIAMSON ABBY BY PHOTO revolved around their supposedly imminent deal with midnight Sat. at WWU’s Fairhaven Courtyard. The annual Barsuk Records. Well, that deal has yet to be inked, ART music gathering is free and open to the public. tough one to climb, and Idiot Pilot decided to part but in the meantime, the band has released a de- i WWW.WWU.EDU ways with Reprise a little more than a year ago. cidedly excellent EP, Sinter Songs, produced by John 15 Since then, Anderson has kept himself busy with Goodmanson, a man who is no stranger to working SUN., MAY 16 the Ghost and the Grace, and Harris has spent a good with Barsuk talent, chief among them, Death Cab for ZEN COWBOY: Chuck Pyle—also known as the “Zen STAGE cowboy”—plays his guitar and humor-infused songs at portion of his time on the road, this time touring as Cutie. They’ll also spend most of July on tour, open- 2pm at Nancy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested dona- a second guitarist with Cold. But, as they have as- ing for Maps and Atlases, which, in case you haven’t tion is $15. 14 sured me time and again, Idiot Pilot has not been been paying attention, just happens to be a Barsuk i WWW.NANCYSFARM.COM far from their thoughts. As proof of that, they turned band. In other words, if it sounds like a Barsuk band, YOUTH SHOWCASE: Bellingham House Concerts present in a rafter-climbing, audience-frenzy-inducing per- tours with a Barsuk band, but isn’t (yet) on Barsuk, a “Talented Youth Showcase” at 3pm at the house of Ford GET OUT formance in January at WWU’s Viking Union, and, a well, it pretty much has to be the Globes. Hill. Tickets are $15 and include light refreshments. For location information, check out the links below. couple of months ago, they released the track “The Opening this show will be the Mission Orange, a 12 i 671-6104 OR [email protected] Tail of a Jet Black Swan,” their ﬁrst new material since band that hails from the environs of the Skagit Val-

Wolves. They’ve since rounded out their band with ley. This is a band that consists of just two people— MON., MAY 17 WORDS drummer Chris Newton and bassist Dimiter Yordanov, Sam Hutchens and Marcus Nevitt—although listening YOUTH SYMPHONY: The Mt. Baker Youth Symphony will perform at 7pm at the Squalicum High School Theatre, all of which would indicate we haven’t seen the last to their music, you’d never believe it. I’m still not 3773 E. McLeod Rd. Admission is by donation. 8 of this band. sure how they manage to make all that noise—and i 421-2527 OR WWW.MBYS.ORG Also part of the night’s entertainment is the highly technical noise, at that—with just a guitar WED., MAY 19 Globes, which, if ever there was a band poised on and a drum kit, but, rest assured, these kids know CURRENTS PETRONEL ON PIANO: Renowned South African pianist the brink of something big, it’s this one. When last what they’re doing. Petronel Malan will perform at 8pm at WWU’s Performing 6 I mentioned this Seattle band, they’d just stolen a So, maybe a show is just a show. But with a lineup Arts Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $9-$16. sold-out show right out from under the Lonely Forest like this one, I’m more than O.K. with that. i 650-6146 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL

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Anker Café Open Mic poetrynight Open Mic

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Back 2 Bellingham feat. 22 22 Boundary Bay Scary Monster & the Super Jazz Jam feat. Blues Aaron Guest (taproom) Robert S. Blake, Jan Peters Stephen Ray Leslie and the Paul Klein Brewery Creeps Union Crooked Mile FILM FILM Brown Lantern Ale Open Mic SWEATSHOP UNION/May 15/Wild Buffalo

18 House 18 Biagio Biondolillo, The Fallies, Frozen Cloak,

MUSIC Cabin Tavern Caulﬁeld and his Magical MUSIC The Pathogens Violin, The Cat From Hue

16 Chuckanut Brewery Doc & Noc Live Karaoke Band ART ART Chuckanut Ridge Wine Blake Angelos Jazz Trio Stirred Not Shaken Marion Weston Trio

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STAGE STAGE Commodore Ballroom Martin Sexton Shout Out Louds Evelyn Evelyn

Hustle City, Zebra Dance,

14 Common Ground Bikini Clad Baristas, Salt Coffeehouse Marsh Caterpillar

Becki Sue and Her Big GET OUT Conway Muse Museful Nights Open Mic The Hamer Brothers The Nakano Connection Rockin' Daddies

12 Edison Inn Bob Caloca and Friends The Walrus Folichon

WORDS Open Mic w/Chuck D feat. Fairhaven Pub Karaoke Dryer Live Spaceband Comedy Night Marc and Britt 8

Glow DJ Intermix DJ Triple Crown DJ Booger Open DJ Tables

CURRENTS CURRENTS Green Frog Café Ali Marcus, Olivia De La Johansson och det starka Equaleyes Haiku-chi Open Mic Forest Sun Acoustic Tavern Cruz bandet 6

James Higgins & the Muddy Honeymoon Open Mic The Naked Hearts Brother Dalton Widow's Embrace

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Jinx Art Space 2 Cordyceps, Rhombus Ouroboros DO IT IT DO Main St. Bar and Grill Country Karaoke Jack Benson Band Sovereign Karaoke 10 Rooftops, Keaton Collec- Cherry Blossom Family

.12. Plan B Saloon Open Mic ’90s Night tive, Hosannas Delivery 05

DJ Ryan I and DJ Triple DJ Clint Snug Harbor .05 Poppe's Crown 19 # Little Blue and the Rockﬁsh Grill Stilly River Band Holmes Shea Band Bluenotes

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VIEWS VIEWS REVIEWED BY STEVEN REA way, and the moment when the two of them— The ﬁlm, too, offers a view of Los Angeles Greenberg and Florence—go back to her place that’s not the typical East Coast ﬁlmic jeer (think 4 for a late-night drink has to be one of the most Woody’s So-Cal sortie in Annie Hall). From the

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