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CLASSIFIEDS 22 22 FILM FILM 01.28.09 MUSIC Shemekia Copeland: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon 18 WEDNESDAY ON STAGE VISUAL ARTS MUSIC Annie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre War Experience Project: 6-10pm, iGallery MUSIC 16 Community Chorus: 7pm, Moles Funeral ART ART Home 01.31.09 Three Wise Guys: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Gravitas Quartet: 8pm, Performing Arts SATURDAY 15 Center, WWU ON STAGE STAGE STAGE Greater Tuna: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon 01.29.09 The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Com- 14 munity Church THURSDAY Cheat: 7:30pm and 10:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU GET OUT STAGE Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Com- Theatresports: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront munity Church Theatre 12 Cheat: 7:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU Annie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre DANCE WORDS Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Stage Match: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Center 8 DANCE WORDS Folk Dance: 7:30-10pm, Fairhaven Library Student Sampler: 7pm, Whatcom Museum WORDS COMMUNITY CURRENTS CURRENTS Leslie Walker Williams: 7pm, Village Chili for Children: 12-4pm, Chuckanut Books Brewery 6 Family Festival: 1-9pm, Old Foundry VISUAL ARTS Trespassing Talk: 5:30pm, Fairhaven Presen- GET OUT VIEWS VIEWS tation Hall, WWU Chuckanut Run: 9am, North Chuckanut Mt. Trailhead 4 Work Party: 9am-12pm, Whatcom Falls Park MAIL MAIL 01.30.09 VISUAL ARTS 3 Jim Orvik, Robert Gigliotti: 5-7pm, Lucia FRIDAY Douglas Gallery DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 ON STAGE Greater Tuna: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner 09 09 Theatre, Mount Vernon 02.01.09 .28. The Trip to Bountiful: 7pm, Alger Com- 01 munity Church SUNDAY Cheat: 7:30pm, Underground Theater, WWU .04 The Flying Karamozov Brothers: 7:30pm, ON STAGE 04 # McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Sherlock Holmes: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Upfront Unleashed: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub Theatre Sherlock Holmes: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre WHITMAN ROBERT BY PHOTO DANCE Guild Scandinavian Dance: 2-5pm, Norway Hall Stage Match: 3pm, Firehouse Performing Arts DANCE $)1 )/$1 /#' /$$.(CREATIVE Center Stage Match: 8pm, Firehouse Performing CASCADIA WEEKLY COSTUMES AND A DASH OF HUMOR CAN BE SEEN WHEN THE Arts Center MUSIC Cancer Bash: 9-12pm, Elks Lodge #194 MODERN DANCE COLLECTIVE KNOWN AS PILOBOLUS GETS PHYSICAL Dueling Duos: 3pm, Amadeus Project 2 FEB. 3 AT THE MOUNT BAKER THEATRE Anne Feeney: 7pm, Whatcom Peace & Justice Center NOOKSACK RIVER CASINO 30 FOOD 25 25 nooksack river casino promotions CLASSIFIEDS 22 22 THE PARTY’S AT FILM NOOKSACK RIVER CASINO 18 MUSIC FOR THIS SUNDAY’S 16 !$"0-/$1 -*)5 SUPER BOWL! 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