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P. 16 BELLINGHAM FOLK FESTIVAL Music and education at BUF, P.22 WEDNESDAY [12.17.14] Bob’s Your Elf: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre 38 ONSTAGE Home for the Holidays: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Shoe Me the Funny: 9pm, Horseshoe Cafe Theatre FOOD FOOD cascadia MUSIC DANCE MVHS Choirs: 4pm and 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Saving Christmas Town: 2pm and 7pm, Belling- 32 Mount Vernon ham High School John Hanson Trio: 7pm, the Majestic Dancing for Joy’s Nativity: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre B-BOARD B-BOARD VISUAL ARTS Winter Wonderland: 7pm, Blaine Performing Allied Arts Holiday Festival: 10am-6pm, 4145 Arts Center A glance at what’s happening this week Meridian St. The Nutcracker: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount 26 Vernon FILM THURSDAY [12.18.14] MUSIC Bellingham Folk Festival: 10am-9pm, Belling- ONSTAGE ham Unitarian Fellowship 22 Mary and Joseph: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Christmas Carols and Lunch: 12pm, Haynie Bob’s Your Elf: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Grange, Lynden MUSIC Theatre Celtic Christmas Celebration: 4:30pm and Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 7:30pm, Port of Anacortes Event Center The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Not So Silent Night: 7pm, downtown Bellingham 18 Christmas Concert: 7pm, Bethel Christian ART DANCE Reformed Church, Lynden Violinist Saving Christmas Town: 7pm, Bellingham High 16 School WORDS Geoffrey Castle Santa Claus Book Signing: 11am, Village Books MUSIC Used Book Sale: 2-5pm, Everson Library STAGE headlines the Holiday Jazz Concert: 12:30pm, Whatcom Mu- seum’s Old City Hall COMMUNITY 14 annual Celtic Cantabile Christmas Concert: 6pm, Mount Deck the Hall: 12-5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old Vernon City Library City Hall Christmas All That Holiday Jazz!: 7pm, Firehouse Perform- Solstice Celebration: 2-6pm, Boundary Bay GET OUT ing Arts Center Brewery Celebration at Winter Concert: 7pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship GET OUT 12 performances Lighted Boat Parade: 4:30pm, Guemes Channel, VISUAL ARTS Anacortes Allied Arts Holiday Festival: 10am-6pm, 4145 WORDS Sat., Dec. 20 Meridian St. FOOD at the Port of Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior 8 Center Anacortes Event FRIDAY [12.19.14] Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of Ferndale CURRENTS CURRENTS Center ONSTAGE Final Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Mary and Joseph: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Depot Market Square 6 Bob’s Your Elf: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre VISUAL ARTS VIEWS Home for the Holidays:: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Coast Salish Winter Festival: 10am-5pm, Lummi Theatre Gateway Center 4 Pacific Arts Market: 10am-6pm, Sunset Square DANCE Allied Arts Holiday Festival: 10am-6pm, 4145 MAIL MAIL Saving Christmas Town: 7pm, Bellingham High Meridian St. School 2 2 MUSIC SUNDAY [12.21.14] DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO Bellingham Folk Festival: 7-9pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship ONSTAGE View two floors of Noel Concert: 7:30pm, Third Christian Reformed Mary and Joseph: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater decorated trees Church, Lynden DANCE 12.17.14 as part of the COMMUNITY Saving Christmas Town: 2pm, Bellingham High Deck the [Old Deck the Hall: 12-5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old School .09 City Hall The Nutcracker: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount 51 # City] Hall events Vernon VISUAL ARTS Dancing for Joy’s Nativity: 6:30pm, Mount continuing Dec. Pacific Arts Market: 10am-6pm, Sunset Square Baker Theatre 18-21 and 26-28 at Allied Arts Holiday Festival: 10am-6pm, 4145 Meridian St. MUSIC Whatcom Museum’s Community Chorus Holiday Concert: 3-5pm, Old City Hall First Congregational Church SATURDAY 20 Stanley Greenthal Ensemble: 7pm, Firehouse CASCADIA WEEKLY [12. .14] Performing Arts Center ONSTAGE 2 The Innkeeper’s Christmas: 2pm, Lincoln The- COMMUNITY atre, Mount Vernon Deck the Hall: 12-5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old Midnight Mystery Players: 7pm, Mount Baker City Hall Theatre Winter Solstice Ritual: 7:30-10pm, Bloedel Mary and Joseph: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Donovan Community Building EXPLORE AT SWINOMISH CASINO &LODGE CASINO SWINOMISH AT DRAWINGS ALL DAY FROM 10AM-1AM ALL DAY DRAWINGS NEW YEARSEVE NEW Win your share of over of share your Win december 31 december $15,000 EXPLORE our EXPLORE Rewards! 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She was the first baby born at this sequential Carey Ross moment, and first among the last infants born on a sequen- ext 203 tial date for the remainder of this century. {music@ 22 cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC VIEWS & NEWS Production Art Director: 18 4: Mailbag Jesse Kinsman ART 6: Gristle & Rhodes {jesse@ kinsmancreative.com 8: Rental ruling Graphic Artist: 16 10: Last week’s news Roman Komarov {roman@ STAGE 11: Police blotter, Index cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to [email protected] 14 ARTS & LIFE 12: Round House reading Advertising Account Executive: GET OUT 14: Feel the burn Scott Pelton 16: Getting biblical at iDiOM 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ 12 18: Picture perfect cascadiaweekly.com 22: Fun with folk Stephanie Young WORDS 24: Clubs 360-647-8200 x 205 { stephanie@ 26: cascadiaweekly.com 8 Hobbits for the holidays 28: Where’s the sun? Distribution 30: Film Shorts Distribution Manager: CURRENTS CURRENTS CULTIVATE AUTHENTICITY BEING LOCAL STARTS LOCAL Scott Pelton Having recently moved to this area it has With all the fabulous talent in our community, 6 360-647-8200 x 202 REAR END { spelton@ been delightful to enjoy the incredible amount why does the Port of Bellingham feel the need to 32: Bulletin Board, Free Will cascadiaweekly.com of creative expression flourishing at local holi- spend copious amounts of money to hire an over- VIEWS 33: Advice Goddess Whatcom: Erik Burge, day fairs and festivals. Back home, once com- seas company for redevelopment of the central Stephanie Simms, 4 4 mercial enterprises and franchises were intro- waterfront? Have they never heard: Shop Local, 34: Wellness Robin Corsberg duced, fairs and festivals that flourish here, all Support Local Businesses, Buy American? MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL 35: Crossword Skagit: Linda Brown, Barb Murdoch but vanished there. It was sad to see. I appreci- Of course, they wouldn’t feel like international 36: ate the local festivals being so well-supported business fat cats flying to foreign countries to 2 Comix Canada: Kristi Alvaran 37: Slowpoke, Sudoku and enjoyed by so many. check the finances and reputation of a design DO IT IT DO Letters Stopping in at the Pacific Arts Holiday Market company (as an afterthought). I suppose using 38: Wassail for winter Send letters to letters@ recently, though, I was rather disappointed. It the Internet (at least as a starting point) just cascadiaweekly.com seems this show, made up of a group of “coop- wouldn’t let them feel important enough. Alan Rhodes, P.ɀɆ * Fuzz Buzz, P.ɂɆ * Free Will Astrology, P.ɃɄ erative artisans,” allows commercially processed A lot of people complain about waste in gov- cascadia 12.17.14 REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {12.17.14}{#51}{V.09}{FREE} products at their venue. I am disappointed. Once ernment, the Port Authority is an example of vendors of commercially processed products (the what they’re talking about. DOWN THE .09 CHIMNEY Rental inspections 51 ©2014 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by sort naughty from likes of which you can purchase at any chain —Mike Mroczkiewicz Bellingham # nice, P.08 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 store) are allowed to sell their products under MARY AND [email protected] JOSEPH Baby on board! P. 18 the guise of being artisans and crafters, the JOY TO THE WORLD Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia BELLINGHAM FOLK FESTIVAL Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing Music and education at BUF, P.22 quality of these festivals is greatly diminished. We thoroughly enjoyed our attendance at a few papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material Shoppers become disillusioned. of the community gatherings through this holi- to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- Please, Pacific Arts Holiday Market, step up. day season. ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday There are many great local artisans and craft- While the food, service and, in the case of the the week prior to publication.