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MUSIC ON STAGE 18 Concert Choir: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Wiz: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon A Christmas Carol: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, MUSIC WORDS Mount Vernon Clyde Ford: 7pm, Barkley Village Library Comedy Competition: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub 16 Keith Lee Morris: 7pm, Village Books

Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham MUSIC ART Public Market Ivan Rosenberg: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Perform- GET OUT ing Arts Center, WWU 15 John Scurlock Photo Show: 6pm, REI

VISUAL ARTS STAGE Artists’ Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Island Best of the Northwest: 10am-5pm, Seattle

11.13.08 Center 14 THURSDAY GET OUT ON STAGE 11.17.08 Talent Revue: 7pm, Ferndale High School

Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre MONDAY 12 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre COMMUNITY WORDS MUSIC Rock & Gem Club Meeting: 7pm, Bloedel Paddy O’Brien: 6-9pm, Skagit River Brewery, Donovan Mount Vernon INTREPID .&$ -.) .)*2*- -. 8 WORDS WHO GO WHEREVER THE WHITE STUFF FALLS CAN BE SEEN IN ABUN- Challenge and Change Release: 5:30-7:30pm, DANCE WHEN TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH’S UNDER THE INFLU- 11.18.08 YWCA ENCE FLICK SHOWS NOV. 13 AT WWU’S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TUESDAY CURRENTS

COMMUNITY 6 Candle Lighting for Alzheimers: 4pm, First COMMUNITY Congregational Church Luncheon Series Talk: 12pm, YWCA Ballroom Soldiers After War Talk: 7pm, Communications VISUAL ARTS MUSIC Beyond Petroleum Talk: 7pm, Bellingham City VIEWS Facility, WWU Best of the Northwest: 10am-8pm, Seattle Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 7:30pm, Perform- Council Chambers 4 Center ing Arts Center, WWU FILM PAPO 2008 Reception: 7-9:30pm, Blue Horse Harry Potter Yule Ball: Viking Union, WWU GET OUT MAIL MAIL Under the Inﬂuence: 8pm, Performing Arts Gallery Winter Tuning 101: 6pm, REI

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PETER J. GOLDMARK NO TO COB CHARTER 50.3% AMENDMENT 52.1% CLASSIFIEDS A measure that appeared to be

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gestions for amendment supporters in MUSIC the aftermath: 1. Redistrict to seven Starting November 14! As we went to press last week, representative wards and eliminate some close contests had yet to be the need for an At-Large tiebreaker. 2. PMsPMsPMsPM 16 confirmed—notably the race for Com- Open up the City Charter, awready, for ART ART missioner of Public Lands, the only po- a comprehensive citizens’ review. Final Drawing sition where an incumbent appears to have been flipped by a challenger in a 15 statewide position. Goldmark currently YES TO DISTRICT-WIDE iViLiÀÊ£ÈÌ ÊUÊn« leads Republican incumbent Doug VOTING Sutherland by about 1.5% of the total 53.5% Begin earning entries now STAGE ballots cast, and while nobody has Likewise, another race that continued officially called this race yet, a look at Grand Prize Valued At Over $57,000! to widen in late returns. We have a 14 county-by-county results suggests it’s hunch voters weren’t entirely clear on pretty much in the bag. what they were supporting when they

voted in favor of balknanized county GET OUT CHRIS GREGOIRE representation in 2005 (or, perhaps 53.2% more precisely, voters had a clearer idea

of what they were voting for in 2008 12 with improved ballot language). Under the approved system, we get two bites at the apple: District-only in the pri- WORDS mary, followed by a countywide choice between the top two in the general. 8 DAN PIKE ER, GUILTY CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 4 MAIL MAIL MAIL While not directly related to Elections

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s$IAMOND$IVIDENDS-EMBERS%ARN/.%&2%%%.429PERDAY 08 may run for office in a partisan election. It’s not that Mayor of Bellingham s0LAY7ITH9OUR$IAMOND$IVIDENDS#ARD4O%ARN%XTRA%NTRIES .12. 11 is a partisan office, per se, but it See Diamond Dividends for more details. Results continued to widen in the became so when the Whatcom County race for governor as late returns were Democratic Party endorsed candidates, .03 46 counted, resulting in a decisive vic- including Pike. Partisan, even though # tory for Gov. Gregoire. The reasons we the Dems endorsed and aided numerous suspect are that, contrary to the hype, candidates in the race. Even though this wasn’t really a do-over of 2004 the Republicans could also have jointly between two roughly qualified foes, assisted multiple candidates (assuming Open 24/7 but a clear decision by Washington any ‘hamster wanted a Whatcom GOP voters that they have a pretty compe- assist). It’s confusing. And not a par- 4OLL&REE tent executive (not perfect!) with a ticularly good law. The OSC declined any

) %XITs-INUTES7EST CASCADIA WEEKLY solid track record (not perfect!) that ﬁnes or disciplinary action, declaring did not warrant being thrown down they had insufﬁcient evidence to prove )NTERSECTIONOF3LATER2OAD(AXTON7AYY 5 a well. Rossi conceded the race on Pike knowingly or willfully violated the SilverReefCasino.com HOTEL CASINO SPA Thursday. Will he also concede that he law. Case closed(?) lost in 2004? ©2008 Silver Reef Casino THE GRISTLE

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: The trigger was pulled

on a soft revolution last December, when Puget 30 30 Sound Energy—the region’s largest supplier of

FOOD natural gas and electricity—announced they sought to be acquired by a foreign investment views

24 bank. The company plans to sell the utility to OPINIONS THE GRISTLE Australia’s Macquarie Bank Ltd. for $7.4 billion, a “merger” that the state’s Ofﬁce of Public Counsel afterward observed was not in the best interests CLASSIFIEDS of ratepayers. Threat of foreign takeover rankled ﬁercely

22 22 populist Cascadians, who like to chart their own waters, and heightened annoyance that, despite BY AMY GOODMAN FILM FILM climbing utility rates, PSE’s level of service lags. Those concerns fed citizen initiatives that crept

18 on to ballots across upper northwest Washington last week. Unchaining History MUSIC Alarmed, Puget responded by spending more than $1 million in campaigns against the various WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

16 measures, striking fears that piecemeal, socialist

ART ART utilities were simply not up to the professional YOU COULD almost hear the position that won him the nomina- polish of investor-owned utilities (IOUS). world’s collective sigh of relief. This tion, that ultimately led to his presi- Well... they’ve got a point. year’s U.S. presidential election was dential victory. 15 Of northern Puget Sound counties, only What- a global event in every sense. Barack Another son of Chicago, who died com and Snohomish public utility districts even Hussein Obama, the son of a black just days before the election, was STAGE STAGE have license to deliver electricity to customers. Kenyan father and a white Kansan oral historian and legendary broad- Skagit and Jefferson counties took tentative ﬁrst mother, who grew up in Indonesia caster Studs Terkel. I visited him last 14 steps in that direction with initiatives that au- and Hawaii, represents to so many a without a demand. It never did and year in their shared city. “The Ameri- thorized their respective PUDs to acquire electric living bridge—between continents it never will.” can public itself has no memory of

GET OUT facilities for the generation, transmission and and cultures. Perhaps the job that There are two key camps that feel the past,” he told me. “We forgot distribution of electric power. qualiﬁed him most for the presidency invested in the Obama presidency: what happened yesterday… why are Even authorized, these PUDs would still have to was not senator or lawyer, but the one the millions who each gave a little, we there in Iraq? And they say, when

12 decide if and what assets to buy from PSE, then most viliﬁed by his opponents: com- and the few who gave millions. The you attack our policy, you’re attack- try to negotiate a price—most likely followed by a munity organizer, on the South Side big-money interests have means to ing the boys. On the contrary… we

WORDS condemnation court case—and then sell revenue of Chicago. As Alaska Gov. Sarah Pa- gain access. They know how to get want them back home with their bonds to operate. In short, they’ve far to go. lin mocked: “This world of threats and meetings in the White House, and families, doing their work and not As votes continue to be counted, it appears dangers is not just a community, and they know what lobbyists to hire. But a war that we know is built upon an 8 Jefferson PUD has permission to crawl forward, it doesn’t just need an organizer.” the millions who donated, who vol- obscene lie… it’s this lack of history narrowly passing its power authorization initia- But perhaps that’s just what it unteered, who were inspired to vote that’s been denied us.” tive by 1,000 votes. Skagit PUD stumbled in its needs. Obama achieved his decisive for the first time, actually have more The Obama campaign benefited from CURRENTS CURRENTS toddling first steps, as its initiative saw defeat by electoral victory through mass com- power when organized. the participation of millions. They and a 3-point margin. Suffering most grievously was Before heading over to Grant Park millions more see that the current di- 6 munity organizing, on the ground and 6 an effort simply to form a PUD to service Whidbey online, and an unheard of amount of in Chicago, Sen. Obama sent a note rection of the country is not sustain- VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS Island, wrecked nearly 2-to-1 at the polls. Hardly money. It was an indisputably historic (texted and emailed) to millions able. From the global economic melt- a mandate. victory: the first African-American of supporters. It read, in part: “We down to war, we have to find a new

4 Whatcom’s call to arms was more nuanced. elected to the highest ofﬁce in the just made history. And I don’t want way. This is a rare moment when party Of two capable candidates for an open seat on United States. Yet community organiz- you to forget how we did it. ... We lines are breaking down. Yet if Obama MAIL MAIL the PUD’s three-member commission, one—Robin ing is inherently at crosscurrents with have a lot of work to do to get our buckles to the corporate lobbyists,

3 Dexter—said his interests mostly lie in what the the massive infusion of campaign cash, country back on track, and I’ll be in how will his passionate supporters district already does, which is serve water to Fern- despite the number of small donations touch soon about what comes next.” pressure him? They have built a his- DO IT IT DO dale and industrial centers at Cherry Point. The the Obama campaign received. But it isn’t enough for people now toric campaign operation—but they other candidate—Jeff McClure—declared his in- Sen. Obama rejected public cam- to sit back and wait for instructions don’t control it. People need strong, 08 08 terest in future possibilities, as the public power paign ﬁnancing (sealing that policy’s from on high. It was 40 years ago independent grassroots organizations .12. debate bloomed last spring and he sensed eco- fate) and was ﬂooded with cash, much in that very same place, Grant Park, to effect genuine, long-term change. 11 nomic opportunities for a publicly owned utility of it from corporate donors. Those where thousands of anti-war protest- This is how movements are built. As

.03 authorized to deliver cheap energy more broadly. powerful, moneyed interests will want ers gathered during the 1968 Demo- Obama heads to the White House, his 46

# McClure collected twice the votes of Dexter. a return on their investment. cratic National Convention, demand- campaign organization needs to be What are we to make of this? Might we conclude A century and a half earlier, anoth- ing an end to the Vietnam War. Many returned to the people who built it, Whatcom voters support an increased focus of its er renowned African-American orator, from that generation now celebrate to continue the community organiz- PUD to deliver electricity? Or is it simply that Jeff Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave the election of an African-American ing that made history. McClure, a prominent architect and business lead- and leading abolitionist, spoke these president as a victory for the civil- er, is more familiar than the humbly intelligent words that have become an essential rights movement that ﬁrst inspired Amy Goodman is the host of “Democ- ﬁsherman and water-wonk, Robin Dexter? precept of community organizing: them to action decades ago. And racy Now!,” a daily international TV/ CASCADIA WEEKLY Mixed messages are seldom a mandate; and un- “If there is no struggle, there is no they celebrate the man who, early radio news hour airing on more than

6 certain results do not favor what might be the progress. ... Power concedes nothing on, opposed the Iraq War, the pivotal 700 stations in North America. best response to PSE’s threatening takeover by foreign interests—a regional public power plan. VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE

As the Gristle discussed with PSE board 30 30 member Craig Cole recently, our cantan- kerous area is hardly Puget’s prime cus- FOOD tomer base, with low population densities

and scattered clusters of customers com- 24 pared to better groomed, populous urban service areas in the south Sound. Of equal challenge, as former Whatcom PUD director Tom Anderson relates, is the CLASSIFIEDS thirst of Bellingham and neighboring com- munities for PSE’s Green Power Program, 22 an exceptional program that allows cus- FILM FILM tomers to agree to pay extra for electricity generated from renewable resources. While all electricity is delivered from the same 18 sources along the Northwest power-supply grid, the green surcharge supposedly goes MUSIC for research and development of additional sustainable sources. Trouble is, Anderson 16

relates, PSE must launder our green urge ART through the utility’s general billing base throughout Puget Sound, meaning green power R&D seldom gets delivered locally 15 or efﬁciently. Puget’s ﬁnancial predica- STAGE STAGE ment—which a merger with Macquarrie is expected to improve—reportedly chal- lenges the company’s ability to develop 14 additional power generation facilities of change

any kind; indeed, concerns about future GET OUT generating capacity was a driver for PSE to seek new capital in the ﬁrst place. your Cole declares his PSE board fellows, on 12 general principle, would resist efforts to allow IOUs to cherry-pick their best commute WORDS customers; and that’s wise. But clearly a sliver of opportunity exists for a regional 8 bid to acquire PSE assets cooperatively (rather than through condemnation) and through that sale deliver to the company CURRENTS CURRENTS the capital it seeks by way of merger.

Alas, much exciting possibility drained 6 6 away last week, through lackluster public VIEWS VIEWS support in the face of aggressive lobbying VIEWS by PSE to slay the public power revolution before it organized. And while PSE appears 4 to have won that battle, the company MAIL MAIL hasn’t won the war.

Puget savior Macquarie fell to distressed 3 bond levels last month, one of many lend- DO IT IT DO ers trapped under the global credit slump. Macquarie shares lost 35 percent of their value in a single week “as the collapse of 08 U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers and .12. 11 the takeover of insurance giant American

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fears about holding stock in companies # that carry considerable debt,” investment analysts reported. Call 676-RIDE to ﬁnd out how to catch your bus. “The direction of Macquarie’s share price is telling us Macquarie is irrevoca- bly broken,” JPMorgan analysts wrote in a note to clients. The news hints at continued trouble CASCADIA WEEKLY for PSE and its customers, as an insolvent 7 lender may further endanger local control. Puget crushed the public power revolt. Perhaps we can begin peace talks. currents news commentary briefs

BY TIM JOHNSON

+.$5 AS AGREEMENTS BREAK DOWN, PORT SAYS ‘OUR WAY OR NO WAY’

“ARE WE going to move forward, and are we going Pike calmed council members, citing broad agreement to move forward together?” Port of Bellingham Commis- with the port about balancing economic, environmen- sioner Scott Walker challenged in an Oct. 28 speech to tal and social values, developing at least 33 acres of city officials. public parks and trails, adopting mixed-use zoning, and Phrased in two parts the question exposes a deepen- creating opportunities to host Western Washington Uni- ing rift between the port and City of Bellingham on versity and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- redevelopment of the city’s 220-acre central waterfront. ministration. For now, it appears the two may part ways. “The port wants carte blanche to master plan and permit “The port and city cannot go forward with the water- all six million square feet of development,” Pike noted in front redevelopment project as originally envisioned,” the comments afterward. “That is an area larger than down- port announced this week in response town, and they want it all permitted at once. Even if I was to complaints filed by the mayor’s of- personally inclined to agree to that—which I am not cer- fice last week. tain is allowable under growth management law—the city In a sharply worded complaint to represents a broader range of public interests. I continue the lead official responsible for over- to have confidence that we can still move forward.” seeing the environmental review re- Rancor between the port and city rose to the atten- quired under Washington law (SEPA), tion of Western Washington University President Bruce Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike rebuked Shepard, who last week urged the two to resolve their dif- what he saw as deficiencies in the ATTEND ferences before cooperation disintegrates. In remarks to port’s response to city concerns WHAT: Discussion The Bellingham Herald, Shepard characterized the “issues about transportation planning and of Waterfront Con- of trust and respect and control. The city and the port are Despite assurances of adaptive reuse of existing resources, every historic the staging of redevelopment of the nections not in a position right now where they have confidence in WHEN: 7pm structure will be leveled under the port’s preferred street grid. former Georgia-Pacific mill site. Thurs., Nov. 13 each others’ ability to lead this project.... What I’m see- The port favors one particular and 7pm, Mon. ing is a tit-for-tat being played between the city and the street layout; the city wishes a va- Nov. 17 The mayor’s remarks, port officials say, violate original port, and that’s not healthy.” riety of options to be considered. On WHERE: Depot agreements about the master planning process, due to Yet Shepard’s remarks—like the street alignment debate the surface such quarrels seem trivi- Market Square begin in December. itself—tend to trivialize what is a deep philosophical rift INFO: With agree- al, but they hint at more fundamen- ments breaking “Key among these agreements was an understanding on how to develop Bellingham’s most exciting public as- tal disagreements on future roles the down, this may be that this complex project would require a certain density set: One focused on economics and commerce, advanced port and city should play. the most importat of development and predictability in the long-range de- by the port; the other, advanced by the city, that consid- Declaring that transportation public meeting to velopment regulations and infrastructure,” port commis- ers an additional host of social and community concerns connections are the key to a suc- date on the future sioners wrote in a letter widely distributed to local, state that involve how neighborhoods function and link with of the waterfront. cessful waterfront redevelopment, A port commis- and federal officials, including the governor. one another. Pike characterized the port’s supple- sioner may attend “These significant changes by the city completely alter “Here you have two groups that should be getting along mental draft environmental impact the Nov. 13 meet- the project economics, the likelihood of long-term suc- on a very exciting project making their disagreements very statement (SDEIS) response as “un- ing. cess and the viability of the project itself,” commission- public,” a member of the Waterfront Advisory Group ob- acceptable” and “disingenuous” in ers complained. “Based on these comments, which go far served. “That causes everyone involved or looking at the his letter, and that in light of such disagreements that beyond issues that could be resolved—such as the angle project—including private money—to become concerned. port and city should instead settle for “early action of streets—the port must take a step back and reevaluate Just as important, sources of public funds could dry up.” projects”—smaller-scale plans that may be implemented how we move forward with the least possible risk toward “In 2004, commissioners and City Council unanimously sooner. taxpayers.” approved the first of a series of interlocal agreements for Lustick Law Firm Criminal Defense, Civil & Family Law

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velopment partnership,” Walker 24 related. “This was after a year 7 Jeffrey A. Lustick Mark A. Kaiman of due diligence, and before the ° [email protected] (360) 685-4221 [email protected] port committed to buy this prop- Fmr. Bellingham City Prosecutor Fmr. State & City Prosecutor erty. And I’ll tell you, without CLASSIFIEDS commitment by the city, I would - Eff!Xjmefsnvui!BSOQ!!XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Ovstf!Qsbdujujpofs!'!Dmbttjdbm!Ipnfpqbui not likely have agreed to the pur- 22 chase of the property.” FILM “I think the port and the city are in disagreement on the deﬁ- 3487!Nbjo!Tusffu-!Tvjuf!4 nitions of ‘commitment’ and ‘co- / Gfsoebmf-!XB!:9359 18 operation,’” Pike observed. “The Rethink city is committed to a coopera- )471*!495.3:11 MUSIC tive partnership with the port 1 Saturn xxx/cfuufsifbmuiczdipjdf/dpn!!!!!Dpwfsfe!cz!nptu!jotvsbodf!qmbot in which both play a role in de- 35!zfbst!pg!fyqfsjfodf 16 jo!dmjojdbm!qsbdujdf

veloping the site master plan. I XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Dbsf ART believe the port considers this a , commitment by the city to agree to agree with whatever the port 1611 15 proposes to do,” Pike said. STAGE STAGE The original interlocal agreement, the document that set S. Burlington

" 14 these deﬁnitions in motion, declares the port and city will work Blvd., cooperatively to “jointly develop GET OUT the master plan.” “The city is committed to Burlington, honoring the community vision 12 and working with the port and the community to come up with WA 98233 WORDS a mutually acceptable master 1 plan,” Pike said. “Unfortunately, 8 Located just 8 because the city has not agreed with the port on every aspect of , behind Costco its proposal, the port has chosen CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS to disregard the interlocal agree- off the George ment and go off on its own to de- 6 velop a master plan. So the ques- Hopper Rd. exit. tion is really whether the port VIEWS intends to work with the city and the community to come up with a 4 mutually agreeable master plan.” MAIL “We have a ﬁduciary respon-

(888) 3 sibility to citizens,” council member Jack Weiss agreed. “To

IT DO impose, without the opportunity for negotiation or compromise, 707 conditions on the city or the / 08 community of a proposal that .12. 11 does not match the intent or vi- 0545 sion of the Waterfront Futures " .03 46

Group is at best disappointing.” # “We cannot go back and revisit every decision,” Walker warned, indicating that the port and city ° have already spent more than (360) $100 million so far in planning. “Delay is expensive.” “Errors are expensive,” Pike 707 CASCADIA WEEKLY countered, expressing his hopes " 9 cooler heads can prevail. “This may be just the end of the beginning. I hope we can continue.” 0545 currents POLICE BEAT :: INDEX

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FOOD ‘BONG GONE’ GONE WRONG INNDEXDEX fuzzbuzz On Nov. 7, an 18-year-old woman was

24 caught and booked into jail after she stole OBAMA NATION two glass marijuana bongs off the back of On Nov. 4, a large crowd of citizens— a Bellingham Police squad car, smashed police estimated approximately 1,000— them on the ground and ﬂed. The items CLASSIFIEDS conducted a spontaneous celebratory were being booked into evidence against march in response to Barack Obama being her and three friends, who were observed

22 22 elected president. “The crowd marched smoking marijuana in a parked car. Ofﬁ- from WWU campus through the streets of cers found scales, the bongs and 30 bags FILM FILM downtown and returned to campus,” Bell- of marijuana in the vehicle. Police were ingham Police noted. “A short time later preparing to cite the driver for posses-

18 the crowd, reduced to about 500, con- sion with intent to deliver when the high- ducted another prolonged march through schooler absconded with the bongs. MUSIC downtown streets stopping at rally points along the way. Several ofﬁcers were com- BORDER DISORDERS

16 mitted to the task of assuring that the On Oct. 30, U.S. Customs and Border patrol

ART ART crowd was able to safely conduct their cel- ofﬁcers removed a Mexican national from a ebration. This was an unscheduled event railroad car as he was attempting to travel that was conducted without proper to California from Canada to visit 15 permits, however, the crowd friends. Imaging equipment was cooperative. Several spied the 25-year-old hiding STAGE STAGE people involved in the march in a railcar ﬁlled with oats conveyed their appreciation bound for Oregon. He was 14 for law enforcement measures taken into custody pending to assure their safety as they his return to Mexico.

GET OUT expressed themselves.” On Oct. 30, Blaine Police of- On Nov. 6, while the campus was ﬁcers were dispatched to Peace

12 still alight with post-election jubi- Arch Customs, where border agents lation, University Police discovered 10 were searching for an elderly woman NUMBER OF PARKING spaces proposed by the Port of Bell- ingham's draft environmental impact statement (SDEIS) for WORDS vehicles with slashed tires and/or a “W” who had wandered away from the port of 12,892 the waterfront district by 2026. scratched into the vehicle. Most of the entry, leaving her ID and vehicle behind. vehicles had bumper stickers supporting The lady herself arrived on foot at the 8 8 President Elect Barack Obama. The extent police station moments later, wanting TOTAL PARKING SPACES at Bellingham's Bellis Fair of damaged vehicles ranged from just to report that Canada was under attack. 4,700 shopping mall. north of campus to Bill McDonald Parkway The U.S. President, she said, needed to CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS south and included many campus parking be alerted. Blaine ofﬁcers “escorted the TOTAL PARKING SPACES in all of downtown Bellingham.

6 lots between those points. lady back to Customs so that she could deliver her presidential intelligence to 3,800

VIEWS VIEWS PSYCHO CYCLIST federal agents.” On Nov. 4, a 79-year-old woman was in- TOTAL PARKING SPACES for Western Washington University 4 jured while she was walking with a friend On Oct. 31, a truck driver crossing the in- (population 11,000). near the Alabama Street footbridge in Bell- ternational boundary in Blaine reported a 3,400 MAIL MAIL ingham. An aggressive bicyclist clipped her terriﬁed man rushed up to him out of the

3 arm as he passed, knocking her down. The rain and the dark, pleading for help be- COMBINED TOTAL OF metered and unrestricted parking cyclist then stopped a short distance down cause he was being chased by men with spaces available for general parking in Lower Manhattan NYC, DO IT IT DO the trail and appeared to be glaring at the guns. The trucker tried to drive away and 1,976 New York. two women. As other walkers approached call police from a safe location, but the 08 08 the suspect rode away. As the women con- terriﬁed transient clung to the side of his ESTIMATED NUMBER OF parking metered spaces in Greater .12. tinued to walk, they encountered the sus- rig. Police contacted the wet and shivering 11 Vancouver, British Columbia. pect three times and reported they felt he man running in the roadway. “There were 6,000

.03 was stalking them. Once the women were no assailants,” police say, “and the man

46 COST, IN MILLIONS of dollars, to local taxpayers to provide

# alone on the trail the suspect rode up to was suffering a mental health emergency.” them and again punched the 79-year-old He was taken into protective cutody. the proposed supply of parking in the New Whatcom Redevel- opment project, assuming $3,000 per surface parking space. victim, knocking her to the ground. The $38.67 suspect then fled the area on his bicycle. On Oct. 29, Blaine officers assisted U.S. Customs agents with a traveler who had EXPECTED SHORTFALL, IN billions of dollars, in meeting the On Nov. 9, a woman called police to re- attempted to cross the international $38 state's identified $67 billion transportation needs through 2026. port that her son has mental health is- boundary with a collection of hand-rolled CASCADIA WEEKLY sues and may be a threat on his bicycle. cigarettes containing marijuana. “He was SOURCES: Port of Bellingham Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (chapter 3, section 12); New York City Dept. of Transportation Survey (March 10 When police arrived to interview him, he arrested,” police noted, “processed and had fled on foot. Police say there is an released from custody with a hand-rolled 2008); Greater Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau; Washington Transporta- tion Plan 2007-2026 Executive Summary, WSDOT order for his arrest on a previous assault. citation and mandatory court date.” THE WEEK IN REVIEW currents 30 30 FOOD

BY TIM JOHNSON

Vanderyacht, 53, who lived on a boat in 24 the harbor. Police speculate he may have fallen off a dock and drowned.

The American Civil Liberties Union CLASSIFIEDS considers a lawsuit against Border Pa-

trol’s terror checkpoints. State ACLU of- 22 ﬁcials say checkpoints and roadblocks at FILM FILM the Anacortes ferry terminal, on Highway 20 near Newhalem and on the Olympic ee Peninsula encroach on citizens’ privacy 18 and freedom of movement. Agents have THE THAT WAS checked nearly 25,000 vehicles carrying MUSIC almost 42,000 people since the program Ron Bally & Lydia Sherwood * Bob Riesenberg

began. Kim Reeves * Ruth Pyren * Jim & Judy Orvik 16 11.08.08 ART 11.04.08

SATURDAY 15 TUESDAY Cu The Bellingham Herald reports Peace- … pca mm ke STAGE Hundreds join a spontaneous march through Western Washington Health, owner of St. Joseph Hospital and M s University campus and downtown Bellingham, celebrating the elec- the largest medical group in Whatcom tion of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. County, will not prescribe lethal medi- 14 cation for terminally ill patients under

Whacom County Council decides to rescind a 22 percent sal- the physician-assisted suicide measure GET OUT ary increase for County Executive Pete Kremen. Kremen’s salary passed this week by Washington voters. increased automatically in July because it was tied to that of the The Catholic-based organization, the county prosecutor, who received a boost from the sate. largest healthcare provider in the county, 12 will also not direct patients to physicians

A Bellingham couple tells police they were robbed at gunpoint willing to follow the new law. WORDS while walking along Lakeway Drive Monday evening near the Interstate-5 overpass. A 21-year- 11.09.08 8 8 old man and a 19-year-old woman were walking PASSAGES SUNDAY home from downtown when a man came out of the La Vie bushes, stuck a gun in the chest of the male and Ferndale is nudged awake at 1am by a CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS demanded their wallets and cell phones. The sus- minor earth tremor. According to the U.S. En Rose

pect ﬂed on foot with the couple’s belongings. Geological Service, the 2.8 magnitude 6 quake was centered three miles northeast 11. 08 06. of the city at a depth of about 12-miles. VIEWS THURSDAY 111 W. Holly St. 360-715-1839 11.10.08 4 Western Washington University again ranks MONDAY MAIL among the top 100 public colleges and uni-

Western Washing- versities in the nation that offer the best ton University Pres- In a portentous evening session, Bell- 3 “combination of outstanding academic quality ident Bruce Shepard ingham City Council learns the city will DO IT IT DO and an affordable price tag,” according to Ki- hires an old col- not move forward with a merger with plinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Kiplinger league, Steve Swan, Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District af- ranks Western 56th on its list of the 100 Best as vice president ter all. The entities have been in discus- 08

for University Rela- .12. Values in Public Colleges in the United States sions since spring, but a recent ruling by tions. Swan was an 11 Open year-round! for 2009. assistant chancellor the state Dept. of Ecology that new water

at the University and sewer hookups can’t take place out- Locally grown flowers & bulbs .03

11. 08 of Wisconsin-Green 46 07. side of a city’s Urban Growth Area largely # Bay, where Shepard eliminated the city’s concerns. Gifts for your home & garden FRIDAY led. Swan starts work Jan. 5. Ship flowers anywhere Tons of rock break loose in seasonal rains Council splits four-to-three against in the USA overnight! and block Chuckanut Drive in both directions raising property taxes in Bellingham. Join us for our 21st Annual Holiday Festival! near Oyster Creek south of Bellingham. Depart- Mayor Dan Pike proposed no increase in his TH TH TH ment of Transportation officials say that section’s closed while budget; a minority on council believes fall- NOVEMBER 14 , 15 & 16 crews work to clear the roadway. ing revenues demand COB takes the one- Get an early start on Holiday Shopping with CASCADIA WEEKLY percent increase it is allowed each year by 20% off all merchandise* & 25% off all Bulbs*! *EXCLUDES 2009 TULIP FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE & PAPER WHITE BULBS 11 A man’s body is found floating in Squalicum Harbor by crew law. Instead, council agrees to “bank” the -ONTHROUGH3ATTOs3UNDAY(OLIDAYSTO members of a fishing vessel. He is later identified as Randy Leonard deferred increase for future use. "EAVER-ARSH2OADs-OUNT6ERNON 7! s6ISITUSONLINEWWWTULIPSCOM doit

WORDS war will take part in a “Sol- diers After War” forum at WED., NOV. 12 7pm at WWU’s Communica- 30 30 CLYDE FORD: Local author tions Facility, room 115. The Clyde Ford will give a talk at event is free and open to the FOOD words 7pm at the Bellingham Pub- public. COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS lic Library’s new branch in (510) 295-8862

24 Barkley Village. HISTORY PROGRAM: Sur- 778-7206 veyor Denny DeMeyer will DART KING: Keith Lee talks about “History of the Morris reads from The Dart International Boundary: League King at 7pm at Vil- Gulf of Georgia to the Sum- CLASSIFIEDS lage Books, 1200 11th St. mit of the Rocky Mountains” 671-2626 at 7:30pm at the Whatcom

22 22 BY TRAIL RAT SPOKEN WORD: Read your Museum, 121 Prospect St. own prose as part of Spoken 778-8930 FILM FILM Word Wednesdays at 8pm SAT., NOV. 15 every week at Stuart’s at the BELLINGHAM MARKET: Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. 18 A Scandinavian Celebration The Bellingham Farmers Mar- 714-0800 ket is open from 10am-3pm

MUSIC OLE AND LENA GET THEIR GROOVE ON THURS., NOV. 13 at the Depot Market Square, CHALLENGE & CHANGE: located at the corner of Read about the history of Railroad Avenue and Chest- 16 dinavian pioneers Whatcom women at a book nut Street. You can also take part in “Toward Zero Waste”

ART ART who immigrated release for Lynne Masland’s to the United 100 Years of Challenge and day, a national event pro- moting recycling. States starting Change: Whatcom Women and

15 647-2060 OR in the early 19th the Bellingham YWCA from 5:30-7:30pm at the YWCA, BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG century brought

STAGE STAGE 1026 N. Forest St. AUCTION & DANCE: The with them a par- 676-8648 Whatcom Hills Waldorf cel of Scandina- School will hold its annual

14 FRI., NOV. 14 ATTEND vian customs and Fundraising Auction and NO POLO: Traveler writer Dance starting at 5:30pm at WHAT: Swedish Pan- culture that were cake Breakfast Rolf Potts shares true-life the Bellingham Golf & Coun- GET OUT WHEN: 8-11am Sat., a little more re- tales from his new book, try Club, 3729 Meridian St. Nov. 15 ﬁned and peace- Marco Polo Didn’t Go There, at 733-3164 OR WHWS.ORG WHERE: Norway Hall, loving. 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 12

12 MON., NOV. 17 1419 N. Forest St. With a plenti- VILLAGEBOOKS.COM ROCKS & GEMS: The Mt. COST: $3-$6 tude of forests, INFO: 592-4065 Baker Rock & Gem Club will WORDS WORDS mountains, snow SAT., NOV. 15 hold its monthly meeting at PROTECTION: Gregg Sha- WHETHER I’M skiing the snowy slopes, plying the icy waters of WHAT: 9th Annual and saltwater, 7pm at the Bloedel Donovan piro reads from Protection, some distant stormy sea, knocking back riotous quantities of akvavit or Scandinavian Fair Whatcom County Pavilion, 2214 Electric Ave. 8 his debut book of poetry, at WHEN: 10am-4pm Visitors are welcome. piously polishing the church pew at my neighborhood Lutheran church, makes a good 7pm at Village Books, 1200 Sat., Nov. 15 384-3187 being Scandinavian is a nonstop adventure through sights, sounds, fla- home for Scan- 11th St. WHERE: Hampton Inn’s vors and motion. dinavians. And 671-2626 TUES., NOV. 18 CURRENTS CURRENTS Fox Hall, 3985 Bennett YWCA TALK: Attorney Lisa Sometimes it’s sunny. Sometimes it’s gloomy. And, every once a Dr. the bounty of SUN., NOV. 16 Stone will preview issues in COST: $1 6 while—like when I’m forced to chug down a gallon of Jack Daniels and traditional food, THIN THREADS: Gaylinda the 2009 state legislative go midnight midwinter moose hunting with my tipsy, shotgun-toting, crafts, music and Carter reads from her novel, session that affect women WHAT: Scandinavian Thin Threads, at 4pm at Vil- VIEWS VIEWS third cousins fifth-removed deep in the forest above Gubransdalen, Nor- dancing that will and families at noon at the Dance way in the pitch frickin’ dark—it gets downright dangerous. be offered by lo- lage Books, 1200 11th St. YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. WHEN: 2-5pm Sat., 671-2626 4 Forest St. Seating for the We Scandinavians take our name from the rugged island-jeweled Nov. 15 cal Scandinavian- final luncheon series talk is coastal region in northernmost Europe from whence we originally hail: WHERE: Norway Hall, American orga- MAIL MAIL WED., NOV. 19 limited and reservations are 1419 N. Forest St. RUSSIAN MYSTERIES: Ice- Scandinavia. Roughly situated between the North Sea to the west and nizations during advised.

COST: $8 landic mystery writer Yrsa 3 Baltic Sea to the east, this mountainous, adventure-inducing corner of a trio of family- 734-4820 Sigurdardottir will discuss Old Europe consists of the Scandinavian Peninsula (currently occupied friendly events BEYOND PETROLEUM:

DO IT IT DO her writing at 7:30pm at Professor Eric Leonhardt by Norway and Sweden), Jutland Peninsula (currently occupied by Den- Sat., Nov. 15 will prove it. Blaine’s Free Church Unitar- of WWU’s Vehicle Research mark), Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. The day kicks off with a Sons of Norway ian, 1218 Harrison Ave.

08 08 Institute will present a Huddled so far north—nearly one-third of the region lies above the Swedish Pancake Breakfast at Norway BLAINEICELANDERS.ORG “Beyond Petroleum: Local .12. Arctic Circle—against seasonal extremes of temperature and topogra- Hall. Then, the Daughters of Norway host 11 Transportation Solutions phy, the customs and culture of the Scandinavian people are, by and their 9th annual Scandinavian Fair at Fox for a Global Problem” talk at COMMUNITY 7pm at the Bellingham City

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# To roust themselves out of winter solstice glooms, my pagan fore- goods like sandbakkles (buttery tarts) THURS., NOV. 13 tie St. The event is free. bears burned yule logs, decorated evergreen trees with ornaments and and goro (chocolate-dipped waffle-like RAYS OF HOPE: The Al- 650-7266 candles, sacrificed people and pigs, sang songs, feasted and generally cookies), handcrafted gifts and crafts, a zheimer Society of Wash- engaged in an extended fit of communal merriment as the Norse god cafe serving pea soup and lefse, sundry ington will hold a “Candle WED., NOV. 19 Lighting/Rays of Hope” Odin rode high across the sky on an eight-legged horse. entertainment and prize drawings. LITERACY PRIMER: If gathering at 4pm at the First you’re interested in becom- To mark the long-awaited coming of spring, they gathered together Finally, zip on back to Norway Hall to Congregational Church, 2401 ing a tutor for the Whatcom throughout the countryside to celebrate by igniting immense bonfires strut your stuff at a Scandinavian Dance Cornwall Ave. Literacy Council, attend an CASCADIA WEEKLY around which they sang traditional songs that hurried along the return featuring “fun and easy” waltzes and ALZSOCIETY.ORG Volunteer Primer at 6pm at SOLDIERS AFTER WAR: the Bellingham Public Li- 12 of sun and scared off the winter witches, all while drinking and dancing polkas, live music, food and beverages. themselves into a frenzy. A partner—or Scandinavian heritage—is Local veterans and those brary, 210 Central Ave. directly affected by the Iraq WHATCOMLITERACY.ORG Fortunately, for the sake of their descendants, those millions of Scan- not required. Caring Bellingham Family Health Clinic Convenient Comprehensive

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30 30 lead a walk through the woods to see winter waterfowl at 10am FOOD at Little Beaver Pond in Ana- getout cortes. Meet at the end of 29th

24 HIKING RUNNING CYCLING Street. The event is free, and you don’t need to register. FRIENDSOFTHEACFL.ORG PHOTO SHOW: View aerial shots from Washington’s Cas- CLASSIFIEDS cade Range to British Colum- bia’s Coast Mountains at a photo

22 22 BY AMY KEPFERLE show put on by John Scurlock at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St.

FILM FILM 647-8955 THURS., NOV. 13 18 Sweat 24 UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Fol- low the energetic exploits of to-

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16 8pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. You’ll see ART ART the athletes doing their thing everywhere from Switzerland to

15 Utah, Montana, Romania, Grand Targhee, and beyond. Cost is $5-$7. STAGE STAGE 650-6146 OR TETONGRAVITY. COM 14 14 FITNESS FORUM: “Build Strength for Powerful Running and Walking” will be the topic of GET OUT GET OUT a free Fitness Forum led by Mike Locke at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St.

12 FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM FRI., NOV. 14 WORDS SNOW CAMPING: Learn more about “Winter Snow Camping” at a free clinic at 6pm at REI, 8 400 36th St. You’ll glean the basics of what sort of equipment LAST NOVEMBER, a fella named Josh Henry spent 17 hours go to the food bank, and personal items—things you’ll require, where to go and at the Bellingham Tennis Club and Fairhaven Fitness pedaling his like toothbrushes, hygiene products and tissues— how to prepare. CURRENTS CURRENTS way through the night and into the day on a stationary bicycle. will make their way to the shelters. 647-8955 OWL PROWL: Kids and their

6 He wasn’t showing off for a girl or trying to beat a Guinness World Last year’s event brought in Record. As part of the inaugural “Sweat 24”—a fundraiser designed more than $7,000 and two tons of keepers can take part in tonight’s “Owl Prowl” family pro-

VIEWS VIEWS to raise money and provisions for the Agape Home, the Bellingham food and supplies, and the Robert- gram at 7pm at Ferndale’s Ten- Food Bank, and the Lighthouse Mission—he was simply showing his sons hope to raise at least $10,000 nant Lake Interpretive Center, 4 brethren that he cared. this year. Those who are willing to 5236 Nielsen Rd. You’ll learn the “I wanted a creative way to use our club to contribute to our commu- play tennis in the middle of the secrets of the owl’s silent flight MAIL MAIL nity and give specifically to local charities,” explains Robin Robertson, night or ride a recumbent bike at while exploring fields and for-

ests for local owls. Cost is $7. 3 who runs and owns the club with her husband Doug. “’Sweat 24’ is about dawn are encouraged to sign up as 733-2900 raising money for those who need the basics in life—food and shelter— soon as possible to reserve a spot

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in order to begin a healthy transition. I came up with the 24 hours be- WHAT: Sweat 24: on the roster. SAT., NOV. 15 WORK PARTY: Join folks from cause it sounded crazy and fun, and no one else had done anything like Helping Whatcom Even those who don’t consider

08 08 the Nooksack Salmon Enhance- it—that I know of—in the nation.” County’s Hungry & themselves star athletes are en- ment Association for a work .12. Robertson says participants can choose to take part for one hour or Homeless couraged to take part. Robertson 11 party from 9am-12pm along WHEN: 6pm Fri., the entire 24, and they can sign up as an individual or as part of a team. says the event is also meant to be Squalicum Creek. You’ll be Nov. 21 to 6pm Sat., planting new native plants, so .03 How they choose to sweat—whether they’re wielding rackets and going Nov. 22 entertaining, and encourages ev-

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# for a win on the indoor tennis courts, spinning on a bike, taking a yoga WHERE: Bellingham erybody to take part. class, trotting on treadmills or lifting weights—is up to them. To liven Tennis Club, 800 “Last year when I expected about 715-0283 OR N-SEA.ORG things up, participants can win prizes as part of an hourly “Sweat Point McKenzie Ave. six people here on bikes at 3am we TUES., NOV. 18 COST: $25 per hour Challenge.” (Last year’s contests included cadence drills on the bikes, had 12 because people were hav- WINTER TUNING 101: Learn plus 10 food items how to keep your winter gear in tennis ball mower races, hitting cones on the courts and answering Tour INFO: 733-5050 or ing so much fun they didn’t want de France trivia.) to go home,” she says. “Plus, it shape at a free “Ski and Snow- bellinghamtennis. board Tuning 101” clinic at 6pm For every hour they exercise, participants are asked to come up com helps the people who need it most at REI, 400 36th St. CASCADIA WEEKLY with $25, and additional pledges raised go toward the ﬁnal fund- in our community right now, and it 647-8955 14 raising tally. If you and your friends sign up as a team, the group is is good for you! I think everyone can do at least one responsible for ﬁlling the entire 24 hours. Whoever shows up is also thing every year to help our community and this is a asked to bring along 10 food or personal items for donation. Edibles really fun way to volunteer.” doit

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“The Good, the Bad and the COMEDY COMPETITION: FOOD stage Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront See a variety of competitors Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At who are taking part in the THEATER DANCE PROFILES 24 10pm, stick around for “The Seattle International Com- Project: Mad Comedy in the edy Competition at 8pm at Making.” Cost is $5 for the the Fairhaven Pub & Martini early show, $3 for the late Bar, 1114 Harris Ave. Entry

one. is $10. CLASSIFIEDS FAIRHAVENPUB.COM 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT. BY AMY KEPFERLE COM WED., NOV. 19 22 NOV. 13-15 HANSEL & GRETEL: The TALENT REVUE: A variety of Lynden Performing Arts Guild FILM “family acts” and much more presents The Story of Hansel can be seen at the 2008 Tal- and Gretel starting tonight Under Pressure 18 ent Revue at 7pm Thurs. and at 7:30pm at Lynden’s Claire OUT OF THE NEST, INTO THE WORLD Sat. at the Ferndale High vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front MUSIC School Auditorium, 5830 St. Additional showings of Golden Eagle Dr. Tickets will the musical happen through be $6 at the door. Dec. 7. Tickets are $11-$13. WHAT DOES funny look like? This Although they’ve already got a number of 16 383-9261 354-4425 OR weekend at the Upfront Theatre, those in the spots lined up to perform everything from CLAIREVGTHEATRE.ORG ART audience can find out for themselves when improv to standup and sketch comedy—and NOV. 14-15 local thespians Robin Corsberg and Matt a handful of places to stay—during the six THEATRESPORTS: This 15 Slater present “Under Pressure! And Ready months they’ve slated for their tour, with no weekend, see competitive DANCE 15 Theatresports matches at for Anything,” action-packed performances car, limited funds and no idea of where they’re STAGE STAGE 8pm and stick around for FRI., NOV. 14 STAGE that kick off a six-month, cross-country tour each going to end up, they’re going to have to “Under Pressure and Ready HARVEST BALL: Get dolled for the duo. improvise more than just their stage time. for Anything” (read the story up to take part in a Harvest For fans of Slater and Corsberg—adroit “We’ll be clowns at a six-year-old’s birthday on this page for more details) Ball happening from 8-11pm 14 actors and improvisers who manage to find ATTEND party and call that a gig if we’re getting paid at 10pm at the Upfront The- at U & Me Dance, 1027 N. For- WHAT: Under Pres- atre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are est St. Entry is $8-$12. the funny in just about anything—this may for it,” Slater says. GET OUT sure! And Ready for $8-$10. UANDMEDANCE.COM come as both good and bad news. The posi- “We are also totally willing and able-bodied 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT. Anything NOV. 14-15 tive tidings are that the two are confident WHEN: 10pm Fri.- enough to do Craigslist work if need be,” Cors- COM

CABARET: Cutting-edge 12 and talented enough to take the plunge and Sat., Nov. 14-15 berg notes. “Otherwise, doing work for people NOV. 14-16 performances created by leave the womb-like nest of the Upfront, WHERE: Upfront that we know is an option. I’ll paint a base- THE WIZ: A version of The WWU dance students and fac-

Theatre, 1208 Bay WORDS where they’re both members of the main- ment floor for 200 bucks, and that $200 can Wiz—a soul music adaptation ulty can be seen at “Cabaret St. stage ensemble. The downside, of course, is get us a bus ticket to the next city.” of The Wizard of Oz—will be Ving!” performances at 8pm COST: $8-$10 that once they’ve flown the coop, they prob- Wherever they go, though, the two won’t for- presented by META Perform- at Ving! Dance Studio, 311 INFO: 733-8855 or 8 ing Arts at 7pm Fri.-Sat. and E. Holly St. Admission is by ably won’t return to it. theupfront.com get where they came from. Support from What- 2pm Sun. at Mount Vernon’s donation. “The tour is the next step to get us into com County audiences has helped nurture their Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First 650-7293 new cities and in front of different audienc- considerable talents, and although they’re fired

St. Additional shows happen CURRENTS es,” Corsberg says. “I really would like to get calluses and learn up to find out what comes next, the thought of through Nov. 23, including a SAT., NOV. 15 leaving their comfort zone is a little scary. pay-what-you-can gig Nov. CONTRA DANCE: The lauded how to perform anywhere. Absolutely anywhere.” 6 east coast band Nightingale “We’re getting serious about being funny,” Slater adds, point- “I’m pretty much horrified, but excited,” 20. Tickets are $14-$18. LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG will provide live tunes at ing out that he’s looking forward to being creative on a full- Slater says of the big move. tonight’s Contra Dance from VIEWS time basis. “It’s like when you really want to rip off the NOV. 14-19 8-11pm at the Fairhaven Li- Corsberg and Slater say the tour was born from late-night con- Band-Aid, but you’re afraid to,” Corsberg theo- A CHRISTMAS CAROL: brary, 1117 12th St. Suggest- 4 versations they had about the theatrical life and longtime ca- rizes. “You know it’s going to be O.K. as soon as Charles Dickens’ tale of one ed donation is $8-$10. man’s journey from humbug 676-1554 MAIL reer aspirations. Once they realized they were both interested in you rip it off, but first you have to do it.” to benefactor can be seen BALLROOM DANCE: Attend making a living through comedy and would likely have to leave when the Theatre Arts Guild’s a monthly Ballroom Dance 3 Bellingham to do it, ththeyey gogott ououtt a hhugeuge map ooff version of A Christmas Carol from 8:45-10:45pm at Melody DO IT IT DO the United States, satat down with SharSharpies,pies, shows at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat., Hall, 4071 Home Rd. Show up circled cities where theyhey knew anyone—anyone— 2pm Sun., and 7:30pm Wed. at 8pm if you want to take a

at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre 08 relatives, friends, someome ddudeude tthey’dhey’d lesson. Entry is $5-$10. Hall, 2501 E. College Way. 734-5676 .12. met at a bar—and tthenhen startestartedd Tickets are $16-$30 and addi- 11 calling those peoplee to see if tional shows happen through Nov. 30. they’d house them orr had sug-sug- .03

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gestions about performancerformance # MCINTYREHALL.ORG venues. SAT., NOV. 15 AUDITIONS: Drue Robinson of Viewpoints Theatre En- PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KARMA STEPHENS semble will hold auditions for two ensemble produc- The Wiz—the soul music tions, The Key: Re-Visioning adaptation of the classic CASCADIA WEEKLY Bluebeard and Unlocked! Blue- Wizard of Oz—opens Nov. 14 beard Revisited, from 11am- at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln 15 4pm today. Performances Theatre. Long live the yellow happen in April. Call for loca- brick road!

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22 22 FRI., NOV. 14 PAPO 2008: A reception for the 3rd FILM FILM annual downtown Bellingham “Plein BY AMY KEPFERLE Air Paint Out & Exhibit” happens from 7-9:30pm at the Blue Horse Gallery, 18 301 W. Holly St. The show runs through Nov. 29. MUSIC Make It and Take It 671-2305 NOV. 14-15 16 16 12 DAYS OF CRAFTS BAZAAR: Attend an annual Bazaar fea- ART ART ART ART turing handcrafted items from 10am- 7pm Fri.-Sat. at Hope in Christ Church, made cards, ornaments, felted purses and a variety of de- 710 E. Sunset Dr. 15 coupaged items. Not everything came out perfectly, but by 733-6177 the end of the night I had a number of unique presents for

STAGE STAGE NOV. 14-16 those on my list. BEST OF NORTHWEST: Emerging and If the economy is to believed, that wide-open space under established artisans will have their work 14 the Christmas tree that is usually ﬁlled by gifts of every up for sale and on display at the “Best of the Northwest” holiday festival from shape and size might be a little emptier this year. Those 10am-8pm Fri. and 10am-6pm Sat.-Sun.

GET OUT who typically spend the frenzied month before the big day at the Seattle Center. Entry is free. maxing out their credit cards may want to reconsider that BESTNWCRAFTS.COM particular vein of giving. SAT., NOV. 15 12 Although it’s easy enough to throw your own gathering, CRAFT FAIR #1: Attend a “Homemade those clever folks at the Paperdoll are making it even simpler Memories” craft fair from 8:30am-4pm

WORDS to ﬁnd ways to ﬁll in for Santa with a series of gatherings at Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave. they’ve dubbed “12 Days of Crafts.” 778-7000 Starting Nov. 17, local crafters will CRAFT FAIR #2: Local artisans will 8 lead a variety of “make it and take it” have their wares on display at a Craft Fair from 9am-3pm at Ferndale’s Moun- classes. They say it’s for “relief from tain View Elementary, 5780 Hendrick- all of the worries and hassles of poten- son Rd. CURRENTS CURRENTS tial holiday treachery,” but it’s also a 383-9650 CRAFT FAIR #3: Jewelry, tree decora-

6 way for people to gain new talents and ATTEND ﬁnd their artistic inner children. tions, handmade items and more will be WHAT: 12 Days of available at an Arts & Crafts Fair from

VIEWS VIEWS Whether you’re interested in mak- Crafts 9am-7pm at Lynden High School, 1201 WHEN: 6pm Nov. ing felted sweater mini cupcake orna- Bradley Rd. 4 17-21, 24, 25 and ments, glass magnets with personal- 354-4401 Dec. 1-5 ized images, chandeliers for cars out CRAFT FAIR #4: Buy original works MAIL MAIL WHERE: The Paper- and treats made by area youth at to- doll, 1200 10th St. of scratched CDs, rubber stamp prints day’s “Teen Craft Fair” from 3-5pm at 3 COST: $10 per class or for handmade cards, fancy bowls made the Ferndale Library, 2222 Main St. $100 for all 12 from doilies, decoupaged light-switch

DO IT IT DO 384-3647 INFO: 738-3655 or covers or ﬁnger-puppet mittens, thepaperdoll.net KEY INGREDIENTS: A Smithsonian In- chances are good your efforts will stitution exhibition, “Key Ingredients: 08 08 AFEWyears ago, please even the pickiest folks on your America by Food” opens today at La .12. when the recession list. And at $10 per class—which includes all materials as Conner’s Skagit County Historical Muse- 11 hadn’t yet conquered the well as refreshments and “crafty camaraderie”—you can’t um, 504 S. Fourth St. From 11am-5pm, attend a variety of events in conjunc-

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# reserved especially for Because do-it-yourselfers who craft as a hobby or for a SKAGITCOUNTY.NET me, I was lucky enough living are leading the workshops, you’ll learn how to make to glean an invite to a the items right the ﬁrst time. Plus, you’ll be helping save NOV. 15-16 holiday craft party. Ev- the world as all of the materials used will be created from LUMMI STUDIO TOUR: Hop aboard the Whatcom Chief to take part in the sea- eryone was expected to sustainable or recycled products. sonal Lummi Island Artists’ Studio Tour. bring something to contribute, as the afternoon was all about The season I gave gifts primarily made at the holiday More than 20 artists and craftspeople sharing—and I don’t just mean materials. craft party I attended was a happy one. I didn’t break the will be showing off their wares from CASCADIA WEEKLY Throughout a dreary and chilly late fall afternoon, a bank, and the recipients who received my offerings ap- 10am-5pm at 14 locations throughout gaggle of women both familiar and unfamiliar to me kept preciated the thought that had gone into each gift. It the island. 16 758-7121 OR LUMMI-ISLAND.COM warm by sipping on wine, nibbling on potluck offerings was a way to show people that I cared without having to go and making gift items such as refrigerator magnets, home- into debt to do it. Crafty, huh? Holiday Gifts & Gift Certificates Growler Fills & Kegs

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Great Prices! 22 ARTWOOD: Works by Andy Webster will be highlighted through November at Artwood FILM FILM Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. 647-1628

BAGELRY: Watercolors by Maureen Braun Open 11:30 am Every Day! 18 can be seen through December at the Men’s and Woman’s Bagelry, 1319 Railroad Ave. 601 West Holly Street MUSIC 734-8663 360-75-BEERS 752-3377 Styles BOUNDARY BAY: View the “Don’t Quit www.chuckanutbreweryandkitchen.com 17 Your Day Job!” employee art show through Starting at 16 Nov. 28 at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 ART ART ART ART Railroad Ave. BBAYBREWERY.COM $ 99 CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Jeanne McGee’s 39 Huge 15 “photography art” can currently be seen at 39 Selection!

the Chuckanut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St. STAGE 752-3377 LUCIA DOUGLAS: The “Resale Exhibition” is on display through Nov. 29 at the Lucia Located at the corner of Roeder & Coho Way. 14 Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. The an- Squalicum Harbor, Bellingham. Store Hours: nual show features ﬁne art by local and Weekdays 8 - 5 regional artists. GET OUT LUCIADOUGLAS.COM LFSMARINEOUTDOOR.COM Saturdays 9 - 4 MINDPORT: Prints by photographer Kevin

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ALL I’VE GOTTA say is, thank god we elect- 30 30 ed Barack Obama president. For the ﬁrst time

FOOD in years, I, like so many of you, feel this strange emotion—I believe they refer to it as

24 music “optimism”—when I think about the future of PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT the United States. But mostly, I’m just glad this country will stay in Oprah’s good graces for the next four years. I feel like we really dodged CLASSIFIEDS a bullet there. And, since I have cable, I was able to enjoy all the televised election-night

22 22 madness (seriously, watching the seething FOX News anchors grudgingly admit Obama’s victory FILM FILM was well worth the price of my exorbitant cable musicPREVIEW bill). Much has been made of CNN’s holograms— 18 18 and they were indeed the latest in high-tech bells and whistles—but I now live in fear that MUSIC MUSIC BY IAN CHANT I will wake up one morning and Will.i.am will have been errantly beamed into my bedroom.

16 Better him than Wolf Blitzer, I guess.

ART ART But I digress. Enough with the politics, al- Make.Shift ready. It’s time to talk about some music. Alll 15 A VAN, SOME BANDS, BIG PLANS kinds of whatdoings are brewing this week— STAGE STAGE a Wailin’ Jenny at the Green Frog, Guinness 14 and the Reparations at Boundary Bay, Serious

GET OUT Black at the Quarter- back, Kaylee Cole at the Underground Cof-

12 feehouse, etc. But I would be remiss not to

WORDS at least mention Boo- gie Universal’s latest BY CAREY ROSS offering, Bassnectar 8 Sun., Nov. 16 at the Wild Buffalo. Now, while Bassnectar is not my musical cup of tea (I’ve tried, Boogie Universal. Really, I have), I have CURRENTS CURRENTS been ﬁrsthand witness to the sizey crowd the

6 freeform beat master can draw and the dancing hysteria he can provoke. Also appearing with

VIEWS VIEWS him is Beats Antique, a group that features members of the Yard Dogs Road Show, which

4 is a collective of folks I can really get behind, striped socks and all. MAIL MAIL IT’S NO big secret that things are tough all over right now. erwise might not get live music is equally While I know it’s still early to be thinking

3 Jobs are hard to come by, wages are stagnating and it seems important to Make.Shift’s organizers. Once about the holidays (that is, everywhere but the like pretty much everyone can use a helping hand. And for the van share is up and running, the ideal retail sector, which started decking the halls DO IT IT DO Bellingham musicians, those hands are closer than they know. plan is to have the service help defray the seemingly the day after Labor Day), but with an That’s where the volunteers at Make.Shift come in. too-often insurmountable costs of taking a eye toward our troubled economic times and the 08 08 A fairly new community organization dedicated to building band on the road and “making music avail- strain it places on our local food bank—particu- .12. connections between bands in need and people who want to able in small towns and underserved com- larly during the holiday season—Haggen is gear- 11 support the music community but don’t know how, Make.Shift munities,” Sieh says. ing up for its annual Sing From the Heart event,

.03 is still working on getting the ofﬁcial nonproﬁt status it needs Both Sieh and Coulter make the point which takes place Dec. 12-14 at all area Haggen 46

# to start making its big dreams come true. But with a wealth that touring bands not playing in the rural stores. The deal is this: for each hour of time a of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds already on board, towns that dot Washington doesn’t amount group spends entertaining crowds with holiday talking to board members Cat Sieh and Meg Coulter feels like to a lack of will on the part of musicians. tunes at various Haggen locations, the grocery watching something big starting. It speaks more to the fact that, especially chain will donate $50 to the food bank. Anyone Make.Shift’s ﬁrst big goal, and the idea that birthed the or- during trying economic times, a tour roster can sign up for a time slot merely by calling the ganization, is getting a biodiesel-powered van and establish- that includes small towns and even smaller store or stopping by the guest services counter. ing a van share that would make it easier for interested local shows (and the attendant tiny monetary I know of a few groups in town with a reper- CASCADIA WEEKLY bands and musicians to take their acts on the road. While get- haul at the end of the night) just isn’t fea- toire of Christmas songs already well in hand (I’m

18 ting local acts exposure outside of Bellingham is a motivator sible for many bands for whom even a short looking at you, Love Lights and Go Slowpoke), so for bands, giving bands the chance to play venues that oth- CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE what are you waiting for? musicPREVIEW Local Harvest!

Staple Ingredients 30 MAKE.SHIFT, throughout Washington. & Evolutionary Ideas The only thing standing in the FOOD FROM PAGE 18 way of an up and running van share

right now? Money, and lots of it. 24 While Sieh and Coulter have been tour represents a significant outlay busy finding sympathetic mechanics of money, not to mention the unpaid and biodiesel firms willing to donate time off they’re required to take from to a good cause, actually acquiring CLASSIFIEDS their day jobs, and the bills that pile the van requires an initial outlay of up back home. thousands of dollars. So while the 22 “People want to play these paperwork for Make.Shift to become our little FILM towns,” Sieh says. a full-fledged nonprofit works its “There are kids in these communi- way through the system, Make.Shift 18 18 ties who are making music and want volunteers are striving to put on at Your Community Natural Market world 18 to support music,” Coulter adds. least one fundraiser every month. Since 1973 MUSIC is now online: MUSIC “And these kids are totally stoked to In the meantime, volunteers are see live music because it never hap- hard at work on a variety of other 360-336-9777 pens there.” projects, such as a network of book- www.skagitfoodcoop.com cascadiaweekly.com 16

Having a cheap, environmentally ing agents and housing contacts ART friendly ride would certainly make in Washington, as well as helping incorporating these underserved but bands put together environmentally deserving locales into a band’s tour friendly ﬂyers, posters and album 15 schedule suddenly look a lot more packaging with help from local art- STAGE STAGE feasible. And with a Make.Shift ists, designers and printers, and volunteer riding along during each simply putting people who want to tour (another goal of the soon-to-be help in touch with people who could 14 nonproﬁt) to represent the organi- use it. And if you’re one of those in-

zation in towns around the region, terested in helping, visit makeshift- GET OUT the touring musicians may not be project.com to ﬁnd out more about the only ones developing a fan base how to put in your helping hand. 12 WORDS

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VIEWS VIEWS Bellingham Farmers Market 4 Literature SLIDE SHOW! FRIDAY, SSC is providing an opportunity to MAIL MAIL NOVEMBER 14th recycle irregular plastic items

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Commodore In Flames, All That Re- John Hiatt, The Ageless Medeski Martin & Wood Ham Wailin', Girls N' Roses Ballroom mains, Gojira, 36 Crazyﬁsts Beauties

Common Ground Twiddy and the Argonauts, CLASSIFIEDS Coffeehouse New Faces, Fred Roth Revue 22 22 Edison Inn Folichon FILM FILM

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BASSNECTAR/Nov. 16/Wild Buffalo Quarterback Pub Our Fallen Heroes, Serious Judas Wake STAGE and Eatery Black

Richard's on The Manvils, Rich Hope, 14 Mish-Mash Essentials Players Club Richards Three Hills, The Heck GET OUT Rockﬁsh Grill The Stilly River Band The Colonel And Doubleshot

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and Greene is no different. Amalric has a won- 15 derfully wormy arrogance. Cold rage threatens to derail Bond’s mis- STAGE STAGE sion to crack Greene’s dastardly organization BRUCE WILLIS just won’t shave known as Quantum, and I doubt that there’s his beard, and there will be no movie un- 14 a better actor at bottling rage than Daniel less he relents. Craig. All muscles, he has deﬁned himself as a The crisis is one of many chirping from

GET OUT darker and more bare-knuckle Bond than any a cell-phone headset that’s always clipped of his elegant predecessors. to the ear of Ben, the Hollywood producer Even the famous Bond babes seem to be played by Robert De Niro in the insider

12 getting tougher. Olga Kurylenko’s stunning, dramedy What Just Happened. hard-as-nails beauty, Camille, has her own With sweaty hands on the steering

WORDS private vendetta that she wants to bring to wheel in rush-hour trafﬁc, Ben darts be- a bloody conclusion, with or without Bond’s tween meetings with ornery actors, slip- help. And Gemma Arterton’s effortlessly foxy pery agents and his two ex-wives. 8 Agent Field appeals to the better side of the He’s worked his way to the top of the wounded anti-romantic. Hollywood heap, only to ﬁnd himself mired The familiar faces returning from Casino in a mudslide that could carry him into CURRENTS CURRENTS Royale pose a far more subtle, acidic test oblivion. His latest movie, a piece of Oscar

6 for Bond, who has to tread carefully around bait starring Sean Penn, appears from a treacherous old friends: Jeffrey Wright’s lu- test screening to be dead on arrival.

VIEWS VIEWS gubrious CIA agent Felix Leiter; Giancarlo He can’t even go to the bathroom with- Giannini’s silky string-puller, Rene Mathis; out money guys and desperate screen-

4 Jesper Christensen’s duplicitous Mr. White; writers tugging at his coattails. And then and Judi Dench, of course, as his witheringly there’s Willis and his Chia Pet beard, refus- MAIL MAIL unimpressed boss, M. ing to kowtow to studio demands that he

3 “When you can’t tell your friends from your shave, lest they pull the plug on his new JAMES BOND is back, and this time it’s mighty personal. Daniel enemies, it’s time to go,” Dench growls. action flick. DO IT IT DO Craig’s craggy agent picks up exactly where he left off in another bruis- Of course, Bond is having none of it. There What Just Happened is based on the ing thriller that leaves you feeling both drained and exhilarated. are new necks to break and toys to play with book by Hollywood power player Art Lin- 08 08 There are hand-to-hand fights that make your eyes water and old- as the action rips across Austria, Italy, and son, who produced The Untouchables, Into .12. school stunts involving motorbikes, speedboats, jet fighters and ex- South America. the Wild and, not surprisingly, this movie. 11 pensive cars that give you whiplash just looking at them. Really, no- The director, Marc Forster, has absorbed the Watching the film is like a visit to the sau-

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# What makes Marc Forster’s film such an intriguing watch is that this bell’s Casino Royale. If anything, the crunch- tegrity and human decency are secondary is the first of the 22 Bond movies where the plot flows organically ing chase sequences in Quantum of Solace are concerns to the financial bottom line and from the last installment, and Quantum of Solace looks a far stronger even more magnificently dangerous. And the all-powerful ego. picture for this rare continuity. daredevil leaps and tumbles through glass De Niro is phenomenal in the film, show- Needless to say the plot is as forbidding as the title. After the death roofs are just as sensational as the splinter- ing a convincing vulnerability as a man of his girlfriend, Vesper Lynd, at the end of Casino Royale, Bond mixes ing high-speed pyrotechnics. who’s insanely wealthy but incapable of revenge and duty dangerously as he hunts down the shadowy group But it’s the amount of heartache and pun- enjoying the fruits of his labors. CASCADIA WEEKLY that blackmailed Lynd to betray him. ishment that Craig’s new Bond absorbs that If you want to get a peek under the

22 A link to a bank account in Haiti puts Bond on the scent of Mathieu makes him look so right for our times. hood of Hollywood or just want to see Amalric’s chief creep and ruthless businessman, Dominic Greene. All Bond is no longer a work in progress. He is Bruce Willis in a big, scruffy beard, What great Bond adversaries are generously blessed with kinks and quirks now the cruel, ﬁnished article. Just Happened certainly delivers. ﬁlm SHOWTIMES

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★★★★ 3tISNJO 1JDLGPSE/PW!]/PW! WORDS Park animals are back for another animated adven- What Just Happened?: See review previous page. 4FIPNFBN]BN]BN]]] ture. Inadvertently marooned in Africa, will they dis- Role Models: Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott ★★★★ 3tISNJO ]]]]]]]] cover they love their native land more than the cozy get into a little bit of legal trouble and are forced to 1JDLGPSE ]] 8 confines of Central Park? And what will those crazy TQFOEIPVSTNFOUPSJOHBDPVQMFPGEFDJEFEMZVO- Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Seth Rogan, on loan penguins do next? ★★★ 1(tISNJO Rachel Getting Married: When Kym (Anne Hath- ruly children in this surprisingly funny movie. ★★★ from Judd Apatow, stars in this surprisingly sweet flick #FMMJT'BJS$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT BXBZ SFUVSOT UP UIF #VDINBO GBNJMZ IPNF GPS UIF 3tISNJO helmed by Kevin Smith, who was perfecting raunchy XFEEJOHPGIFSTJTUFS3BDIFM 3PTFNBSJF%FXJUU TIF 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]] CURRENTS Mamma Mia—Sing Along: A soundtrack comprised comedy when 40 Year Old Virgin was just a gleam in brings a long history of personal crisis and family con- solely of ABBA songs sung by Meryl Streep, Pierce Bro- Saw V: Blah, blah, Jigsaw Killer, blah. Blah, blah, Apatow’s eye. ★★★★ 3tISNJO flict along with her. ★★★ 3tISNJO snan, and others; a gorgeous Greek isle setting and a blah, torture porn. Oh yes, there will be blood, blah, 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]] 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 NOW SHOWING @ The Pickford Cinema MAIL

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BY ROB BREZSNY ones or allies. Consider the possibility that you have FOOD unconsciously bought in to their beliefs about you; that you are at least partially trapped in the habit of acting 24 24 like the person they think you are. Now visualize what FREE WILL it would be like to free yourself from the images and expectations they have of you. Imagine the exhilaration you’d feel if you answered only to the still, small voice

of your own lucid intuition. The coming weeks will be a CLASSIFIEDS ASTROLOGY CLASSIFIEDS good time for you to practice this high art. ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You can’t know fire SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The New York unless you play with it,” says Mark Finney, a math whiz 22 who develops computer models for fighting forest fires. Times ran a story about philosopher Nick Bostrom. I offer that as a motto for you in the coming week, He believes there’s a significant chance our world is FILM FILM Aries. I’m not saying you should purposely ignite a actually a computer simulation. In his scenario, you conflagration for the sake of impulsive experimenta- and I are living in a version of The Matrix. Our “brains” are merely webs of computer circuits created by our tion. I’m not saying you should kick smoldering embers 18 around like soccer balls or light a cigarette while you’re post-human descendants, who are studying “ancestor pumping gasoline or buy yourself a flame-thrower. simulations” of their past. I bring this to your atten- MUSIC What I am saying is that it will be in your interest to tion, Scorpio, because it’s an excellent time for you to learn more about how to play safely with intriguing, find out, one way or another, whether Bostrom is cor- useful fires. (Finney’s quote comes from the July 2008 rect. Right now you have a special talent for knowing 16 issue of National Geographic.) what’s real and what’s not. You’ve also got a knack for escaping what’s illusory and gravitating toward what’s TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The time for keeping ART authentic. So even if you do find out that we’re living the doors closed is passing. But it is not yet the right in The Matrix, you could become a kind of messiah moment to fling them wide open. According to my with resemblances to the character that Keanu Reaves reading of the omens, your best strategy is to keep 15 played in the film trilogy. doors ajar—open just a crack, letting some air in and SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book allowing a hint of your light to trickle out. This will STAGE discourage unfocused wanderers from barging in, while Signs of Success, astrologer Steven Weiss says “The at the same time it encourages worthy candidates with question ‘Do you believe in astrology?’ is like asking someone if they believe in art.” I agree. Picture a a healthy curiosity to sneak peeks inside. 14 no-nonsense physicist gazing at a Kandinsky painting, GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There is a rose in with its teeming blobs of mad color and exuberant Spanish Harlem,” sings Ben E. King in his old pop shapes, and declaring it to be a superstitious eruption ballad. “It is a special one/ It’s never seen the sun/ It GET OUT of delusion that’s not based on a logical understanding only comes out when the moon is on the run.” King is of the world. Like Kandinsky’s perspective, astrol- fantasizing with longing about an alluring woman from ogy at its best roots us in the poetic language of the a hardscrabble neighborhood. The rose is “growing in 12 soul, and isn’t blindly submissive to the values of the the street/ right up through the concrete”—a delicate rational ego. It’s here to liberate our imaginations and beauty blooming amidst tough conditions. Your assign- encourage us to think less literally and to visualize our 113 Grand Ave. ment, Gemini, is to cultivate a connection with your WORDS lives as mythic quests. I bring this to your attention, equivalent of that rose. BBellinghamellingham Sagittarius, because right now it’s crucial that you CANCER (June 21-July 22): Every second of your spend some quality time in modes of awareness akin to 360360.671.3080.671.3080 8 life, your bone marrow produces 100 trillion molecules Kandinsky’s and astrology’s. of hemoglobin, the stuff that carries oxygen from your CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Check out this lungs to the rest of you. Meanwhile, every minute, your excerpt from “Those Who Do Not Dance,” by Chilean immune system begets 10 million lymphocytes, which are poet Gabriel Mistral: “God asked from on high, / ‘How CURRENTS key players in your body’s defenses. These are just two do I come down from this blueness?’ / We told Him: / examples of the endless marvels you produce, Cancerian. $ 00 come dance with us in the light.” I love this passage You are a creator of the first order. You’re a supreme 6 because it reminds me that nothing is ever set in stone: maker and a generative genius. Remember that in the Everything is always up for grabs. Even God needs to be PBR

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For decades the U.S. teacher and helper. Likewise, we can never be sure about 4 government has handed out far more welfare beneﬁts what lowly or unexpected sources may bring us the inﬂu- to big corporations than to poor people. Companies ences we require. What do Mistral’s words mean to you, MAIL like IBM, General Electric, Boeing, and others rake in Capricorn? Imagine you’re the “God” referenced in the

over 100 billion dollars of subsidies each year. In other poem. What blueness are you ready to come down from, 3 words, socialism has been a prominent feature of our and who might invite you to dance in their light?

so-called capitalist system for a long time. Recently, IT DO AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): All of the good Karl Marx’s inﬂuence has made even deeper inroads into works you do in the coming week will send ripples far GIVE. ADVOCATE. the American way, with the government becoming part- and wide, but not all of them will be recognized and owner of many banks in order to keep them solvent. Will 08 appreciated. I hope that’s O.K. with you; I hope you any of this fantastic largesse be extended to us regular .12. won’t get obsessed with trying to get all the credit citizens, like maybe in the form of nationalized health VOLUNTEER. 11 you deserve. The fact is, your inﬂuences will be more care? I can’t answer that. But I do know this, Leo: In effective and enduring if they are at least partially

the coming months, you will get help from powers that .03 anonymous. Ironically, your power will be greater if it’s you regard as above and beyond you. tm 46 LIVE UNITED # not fully noticed. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For many people, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Describing his writing 10:30am is the single best time of day to come up with class at Sarah Lawrence College, Jeffrey McDaniel says: fresh insights and new ideas. But that won’t exactly be “There are two kinds of humor: ha-ha humor that is light true for you in the coming week. I mean, 10:30 will be and airy and ﬂoats into the sky like a balloon, vanishing a time when you’re likely to be really smart, but then so as the giggling subsides; and then there is a darker, will 11:30, 1:05, 2:37, 3:46, and 4:20. For that matter, heavier humor that is still there when the laughter 6:35 may also bring a gush of high intelligence, as well stops, a humor that must be reckoned with, a humor 9PM–Midnight

as 7:27, 8:19, and the last 10 minutes before bedtime. CASCADIA WEEKLY with teeth.” I suggest, Pisces, that you make the latter What I’m trying to tell you, Virgo, is that you’re in a your specialty, your passion, and your medicine. Consort United Way of Whatcom County phase when being brilliant should come pretty naturally. with belly laughs and sublime guffaws that rouse the (360)733-8670 29 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ruminate a minute ferocity you need in order to penetrate deeper into the about the people who don’t see you for who you really TUESDAY heart of the Great Mystery. www.unitedwaywhatcom.org

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tion list. Many Sehome students stated tions. There was one Chrome Dome from STAGE STAGE they order from Pizza Time on 32nd street, Fairhaven Pizza, based on nominations. because it’s “good pizza, close to school Each pie was cut into extra-thin slices 14 and doesn’t cost a lot.” Many younger and placed on unmarked box tops, with voters also prefer chains like Little Cae- only a number to identify them. All tast-

GET OUT sars and Pizza Hut. ers were encouraged to try as many nomi- However, families nees as possible, then rank them for: best voted along party sauce, best crust and best toppings. The

12 lines, with the ﬁve “Joe 6-pack” spirit was high and much main nominees all beer was tasted as well. (One voter noted

WORDS earning respectable beer might affect taste, so in the name of votes. Rudy’s fans science, that point is disclosed.) noted that they I’ve gotta hand it to these brave voters, 8 love the “comfort- they pushed themselves. They ate a lot of EAT IT able atmosphere,” pizza. They tasted and re-tasted the nomi- WHAT: La Fiamma with games, nice nees. These voters were discerning and very CURRENTS CURRENTS Wood Fire Pizza WHERE: 200 E. staff and dough for scientiﬁc. These hardy souls did it for the Chestnut St. rest of you, so that you and your families 6 kiddies, all mak- INFO: 647-0060 ing it a great fam- can be informed pizza eaters. Hats off to

VIEWS VIEWS ily night out. Some you brave voters! You know who you are. WHAT: Fairhaven Pizza Co. families found divi- The ballots were tabulated late on Nov. 4 WHERE: 1217 sions among mem- 4, after other elections had been decided. Harris Ave. bers when voting. Every vote was counted. In the “Best Sauce” MAIL MAIL INFO: 756-7561 “Scout” Mora, 13, category, Fairhaven Pizza was a landslide

3 IT WAS election day and the tension had been building for weeks. notes of his favorite victor. La Fiamma won in the “Best Crust” WHAT: Rudy’s Every voter eyed the candidates, wondering if their vote would count and Pizzeria Pizzaza pizza: the category, with numerous comments that it DO IT IT DO the “right one” would win. The anticipation and lobbying all came down to WHERE: 1232 N. “feta cheese gives was “chewy,” “fresh” or had a wonderful this final vote. By late night, the winner was clear: Fairhaven Pizza and La State St. it a soothing tex- “wood flavor.” The final race, for Best Top- 08 08 Fiamma were tied, while Obama made history. INFO: 647-7447 ture and the olives pings, was hotly contested and ended in a .12. Few people don’t eat pizza, and one can only wonder about that minority. Of and sausage give it tie. Fairhaven Pizza and La Fiamma split a 11 WHAT: Pizzaza those who do enjoy a good “pie,” most swear their pizza place is “the best in WHERE: 1501 a piercing flavor,” majority of the votes. The Chrome Dome

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# wage a pizza election as well. So, over the past six weeks, I polled about 100 INFO: 756-9322 10, likes Fairhaven Rudy’s or Pizzaza. (There’s always a maver- people, from all over town, for Best Pizza in Bellingham. Pizza, noting “it’s ick in the crowd.) Based on these findings, I collected every nominee or feedback offered, and kept a running tally WHAT:Cicchittis not too greasy and Bellingham is faced with a two-pizza vic- Pizza (this was all very scientific). By Nov. 2, I had tallied all of the nominees and WHERE: 1427 is very flavorful.” tory: Fairhaven Pizza and La Fiamma. come up with a list of the five most-recommended pizza joints. I decided Railroad Ave. On election night, The bottom-line election results were on five eateries, because the final competitors all had a significant number INFO: 671-5404 we ordered a total clear: Bellingham loves its pizza and alle- of nominations, and I knew an election party would be much more fun if of nine pizzas from giances run deep. I’m not sure if this con- CASCADIA WEEKLY there were more options. The final contestants were: La Fiamma (with a the five contenders. None were told they test will change anyone’s mind, but if you

30 huge percentage of nominations), Fairhaven Pizza (a solid second), Pizzaza, were in a “contest.” There were 22 tast- haven’t already tried La Fiamma or Fairhaven Rudy’s, and Cicchitti’s. ers. The pizzas were divided between all Pizza, they stood alongside Obama as the I found that the youth vote came up with an entirely different nomina- cheese—a purist choice—and meat op- big winners in Election 2008. Serving Cascadia since 1973 Ready to Ride? THE PRESENTS urth Corne o r 30 F Frames Home of FOOD FREQUENT FRAMER REWARDS

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