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ON STAGE 07.27.08 FILM Barefoot in the Park: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio Theatre SUNDAY 20 20 The Tempest: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. ON STAGE MUSIC Beauty and the Beast: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount MUSIC Downtown Sounds: 6-9pm, Holly Street Vernon

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MUSIC STAGE VISUAL ARTS Mission Folk Music Festival: Fraser River Heritage Art at the Winery: 10am-6pm, Dakota Creek Park, Mission B.C. 16 Winery, Blaine Nexus: 2pm, Whatcom Museum Yambique: 3-6pm, Fairhaven Village Green Jazz Jam: 4pm, American Museum of Radio JUNO AWARD-WINNING GET OUT 07.24.08 WORDS THURSDAY .*)"./- ..&$-)#'02'$ J.A. Jance: 4pm, Village Books 14 BRINGS THE MUSIC OF INDIA TO THE STAGES OF COMMUNITY WORDS ON STAGE THE 21ST ANNUAL MISSION FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL Old Settlers Picnic: 11am-4pm, Pioneer Park, The Belle of Amherst: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio Ferndale

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4 very proud of the powerful He thought of himself as be- thers proud and demand: No Bellingham peace community ing like other Americans—a Iran War! NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre and its City Council’s unani- regular, everyday person who —Judith A. Laws, Bellingham The Technology Alliance Group’s THE ALGEBRA OF and possible equivocation regarding SURVEILLANCE removing troops from Iraq may have Annual Summer Fest The United States Senate recently caused a touch of true believer indi- Where: Squalicum Boathouse, Bellingham, WA voted to rewrite our country’s sur- gestion, but his reversal on the FISA

Date: August 6, 5:30PM – 9:00PM veillance laws, giving the govern- bill left many supporters choking. $ ment authority to eavesdrop on not As disconcerting as passage of Admission: 15 34 only foreign communications but the bill and Obama’s flip-flop are, RSVP: [email protected] or 647-4220 FOOD also domestic ones. the most disappointing part is what s Address by Jim Darling, s s s This means that any phone call, shoulda, coulda, woulda been. The Executive Director, Port of Bellingham 27 email, cable or fax can be inter- senator might have used this issue s Address by TAG Chairman Paul Grey s cepted and examined by government to galvanize his admirers and show s Bocce ball tournament s officials without even the flimsy the rest of America why they should s Hawaiian shirt and Muumuu dress contest s oversight of the FISA court, a secret get on the Obama bandwagon. It s Music by the Walrus s CLASSIFIEDS panel of judges that has refused the would have been simple for him to s Appetizers by Fools Onion s government’s requests for wiretap- say, “Telecom immunity is wrong. s Wine by Chuckanut Ridge s 24

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The passage of the bill is in direct be punished. We need to defeat this 20 conﬂict with the 4th amendment to bill.” Doing so would have publicized Black Rock Cable Boccemon US Bank the Constitution, which prohibits “un- the issue considerably more than it Innerconnect Systems Tek Systems MUSIC reasonable searches and seizures... had been and brought thousands WWU College of Vertical Telecommunications Sciences & Technology [without] probable cause.” Since the more Americans into the debate. Larson Gross American Revolution, thousands of Extensive pressure brought to bear 18

Americans have died defending our by voters contacting their represen- ART rights, which Congress and the Bush tatives in Congress shut down this Administration apparently believe same bill the ﬁrst time it surfaced. 17 they can simply discard whenever It might have done so this time,

they become inconvenient. too, but for a lack of leadership. And STAGE The bill provides the Administra- leadership is what Obama says he

tion with everything it wanted, in- will provide, if we will simply give 16 cluding immunity for the telecommu- him our money now and our votes in nication companies that helped the November. In addition, opposing the Bush Administration illegally wiretap FISA bill would have conﬁrmed that 3ATURDAY !UGUSTPM GET OUT Americans behind the back of the the oath Obama took to “protect and FISA court for several years. Repub- defend the Constitution,” the same 14 licans, joined by a number of Demo- oath he’ll swear if and when he is crats (including presidential candi- elected president, actually means WORDS date Barack Obama), called the bill a something to him.

“compromise,” but the only compro- There are those who will say that 8 mise involved was the one suffered even Obama’s backing would not have “Come“Come On Get Happy”Happy” - “I’ll Meet You Half WaWay”y” by the moral standards of support- prevented this tragedy. They may be “Doesn’t“Doesn’t SomeSomebodybody Want To Be WanteWanted”d” “I“ Think I Love You” - “I Woke Up In Love This Morning” ers: a recent study by maplight.org, a right, but now we’ll never know. Win CURRENTS nonprofit campaign finance watchdog or lose, had Obama shown leadership $4)#+%43/.3!,%./7 group, showed those who supported on this issue, the multitude of sup- 4ICKETSAVAILABLEAT$IAMOND$IVIDENDS 6 the legislation received, on average, porters he’s built over the past few twice as much in campaign contribu- months would have been confirmed Win yoyyouroouuurr sshareshhahaarrere ofof $1,000$$11 0 a day all summer long! VIEWS tions from telecommunications com- in their desire for the leader they 4 panies than those who opposed it. seek, the one they thought he might 4 MAIL MAIL As upset as many patriots, both be. Unfortunately, with his capitula- MAIL

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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: This week the City of Bellingham applied ointment to a blister— that junior taxing district known as Port of Bell-

ingham—by authorizing a public development 34 34 authority to help oversee the city’s portion of views redevelopment of Bellingham’s central water- FOOD OPINIONS THE GRISTLE front. While none at City Hall will admit so, this

27 independent team of ﬁnance, construction, real estate and law experts is clearly COB’s polite re- ply to the port’s ornery take on waterfront planning for the past 30 months or so. CLASSIFIEDS The previous week—in what is likely a vio- BY PETER GUNN lation of the state’s open meetings act, since 24 there was no notice that such a decision was

FILM FILM on the meeting agenda (on the contrary, the agenda assures “there will be no formal action Global Positioning taken” in executive session)—POB commission- 20 20 ers unilaterally and without consultation with WHEN IS A ROAD NOT A STREET? city ofﬁcials agreed to sue COB for failing to MUSIC timely supply utility services to the agency’s AFEWmonths ago a contestant Avenue, all the Ways and all the Plac-

Bellingham International Airport properties. from South Carolina in a Miss Teen es, be they Cul-de-Sac or Court, Trail, 18 While not directly related to the waterfront, USA Pageant gave an answer to a Lane or Place, a cry would rise up: “’T’

ART ART such aggression by one public agency against question regarding the dearth of at last, ‘T’ at last!” I live on The Iron. its ostensible development partner (without geographical knowledge amongst the How cool would that be? I’m on The whom said agency cannot carry forward its youth of our nation. Her response Bay. Oh yeah, well, I’m on The Beach. 17 plans) suggests things may be breaking down was meandering, torpid and reveal- I reside on The Queen. It’s good to be

STAGE STAGE in the Land o’ Smiles: Your tax dollars at work. ing. Her gaffe was caught on tape, (on The) King. We are The Champion, At issue in the suit is the pace by which city posted on YouTube and numerous my friend. I see a trend here.

16 government has considered a demand by the media outlets. She was pilloried and ticle “the” in front of some of the And so it flows—the traffic, I port for carte blanche, unconditional utility eventually became grist for the pun- highways once they enter the un- mean. The Axton Road, The Slater service to its airport properties. dits. They call the wind “Pariah.” incorporated areas. Guide Meridian Road, The Everson-Lake and Palmer GET OUT “The port must build a new, expanded Air- The question in question: Some- becomes The Guide. Hannegan Road Road (old school), and my favorite, port Rescue and Fire Fighting Station to meet thing along the lines of “Why can’t turns into The Hannegan and James The Yew Street Road. By the way why 14 Federal Aviation Administration requirements,” Americans find the U.S.A. on a map?” Street emerges as The James Street is it “Yew?” It’s not You(Tube), or the port notes in its press release. “The FAA The answer probably lies with the Road—both a street and a road. Ei- Hugh(Hefner) or even Hue(Beattie).

WORDS has committed over $2 million for this essential usual suspects—a dismal No Child ther a bloated ego or thoroughfare It can’t be U(Thant), because if it was public safety facility.” Left Behind educational system, identity confusion. There’s an old it would be in the Lettered Streets—

8 City Council facially supports water service to preoccupation with video games, that project and to a short list of other port ten- a fractured family unit, blah blah “IN THIS PROPOSAL ALL STREETS WOULD ants at the airport; indeed, they approved the blah. But another culprit has ap-

CURRENTS CURRENTS port’s requests this week, as port ofﬁcials un- peared on the map, Global Position- START WITH THE LETTER ‘T’ AND IN THE derstood they would. Why, then, the lawsuit? ing System. GPS has limited the joy 6 6 As the port hints in its suit, the agency may of map reading to an over-30 act of PROCESS ELEVATE THE SELF-ESTEEM OF THOSE wish to develop, without constraint or interfer- leisure. When you have to rely on RESIDING ON OUR HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS.” VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS ence, a lucrative suite of facilities for non-aero- a placid feminine voice emanating nautical purposes near and around its airport from the dashboard of your Lexus to Francophile adage that applies here: and their alphabet terminates at “J.” 4 properties. Currently, under FAA regulations, tell you how to get from the pet spa “I rue the day my tranquil street Our prospective Big Sister City, New

MAIL MAIL revenues derived from port leases must be ap- to the nail salon, maybe you should upbraids itself and turns but into a York, encounters the same problem plied to support airport operations—operations stay in South Carolina. mere road.” Well put, Franco. with a street on the lower east side

3 that bled $43,000 from POB last year. A cross-border scenario: You’re in Our COB elders might consider co- called Houston Street, but it’s not

DO IT IT DO The city, for its part, having been burned Vancouver, B.C., for an aromatherapy opting this naming practice. They pronounced Yewston, it’s pronounced

again and again over the years by extension of conference for the weekend and are could compartmentalize the entire Howston. Now stay with me on this,

08 services beyond city limits, has become more returning home, headed south. While cit y gr id under the let ter “T.” It would we’re almost home. The Oakland Ath-

.23. circumspect in that practice. busy text-messaging, you become dis- make ﬁling simpler, reduce budget letics baseball club has a ﬁne relief 7 As City Attorney Joan Hoisington explains in oriented and miss the Peace Arch bor- constraints and make map-reading pitcher coincidentally named Huston

.03 a response to POB Executive Director Jim Dar- der crossing. Now you’re headed east easier. Maybe it’s just a crapshoot Street, actually pronounced Yewston. 30

# ling this week, “City Council adopted a policy on Zero Avenue, running parallel with and would never gain any popularity; Huston’s father was an All-American stating the only method available to obtain the U.S. border. You’re lost. OMG! WTF! maybe it’s an attempt to curry favor quarterback at the University of Tex- city utility services” in areas outside the city Simply press your GPS button: “Ameri- and book passage on the HMS Lesser as back in the late ‘60s and his name “is to annex to the city. This policy is consis- ca. Turn. Right.” Thank you, OnStar! Bellingham—steerage, of course. ironically enough is James Street. Or tent with the state Growth Management Act, Maybe the ﬁne citizens in the City In this proposal, all streets would is it James Street Road? Damn it, now countywide planning policies, and the city and of Random Joy (not copyrighted) start with the letter “T” and, in the I’m lost. Anybody got a map? county Comprehensive Plans, which generally can help. In my short time here in process, elevate the self-esteem of CASCADIA WEEKLY support annexation either before or at the time Whatcom County, I’ve observed a those residing on our highways and Humorist Peter Gunn writes an occa-

6 that utilities are extended.” practice of randomly tossing the ar- byways. From every Street, Road or sional column for Cascadia Weekly. Over the years, Bellingham has extended utility service to communities outside the city VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE limits (a sure recipe for low-density, unplanned sprawl) only to ﬁnd to

COB’s horror that those communities later resist annexation, the means by 34 which those communities and their tax FOOD revenues are brought into and made

available to city operations. In other 27 words, giving away a free lunch is no way to run a diner. As if to punctuate this point, the port adamantly resists what it sees as coer- CLASSIFIEDS cive annexation efforts by the city. “The Port Commission has frequently 24

stated a preference for keeping all the FILM port’s airport properties in Whatcom

County” and not within Bellingham 20 city limits, Darling stated in a recent letter. “The port views the decision to MUSIC withhold water and sewer service as a violation of long-standing under- standings and agreements between 18 the governments.” ART Yet City Council this week agreed not to pursue annexation of the airport at 17 this time, favoring instead a plan that

would annex only lands adjacent and to STAGE the east of the airport—lands in some

cases undoubtedly being eyed by the 16 port for its schemes of creating new revenue sources. Annexing these lands puts city government in control over GET OUT their zoning and uses. As for the airport, COB’s hand remains ﬁrmly on the 14 spigot, with no policy to extend utility service other than on a case-by-case WORDS basis to POB requests—all of which helps explain why the lawsuit will pro- 8 ceed despite the city facially delivering to the port everything that agency has asked for on paper. CURRENTS By this roundabout path we circle 6 back to the central waterfront and the 6 uneasy and deteriorating partnership VIEWS VIEWS between the port and city. VIEWS There, the mayor asserts his interest 4 in developing a street plan and a redevelopment roadmap that makes sense MAIL

for the city as a whole, rather than as a showpiece for the port’s outsized park- 3

ing lot for luxury yachts, a stance that’s IT DO caused the port authority to stamp and

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#) .THIS WEEK a delegation from Tateyama, Japan is in Bellingham to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the two cities’ Sister City relationship. Actually, Bellingham has four Sister Cities, -*../# but Tateyama was the first. It all began in the late 1950s, a time when the Port of Bellingham hosted many cargo ships. As a goodwill gesture—and simply because “Johnny” was a smiling, friendly guy—Mayor John Westford often walked down to the port to say hello to the ship captains. He sometimes +$!$ invited them home for dinner. One evening Westford and a Tateyama-based captain agreed our two cities should have a AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF Sister City designation, and so the formalities began in 1958. Mayor Westford and his friend, Jack Pierce, son of the Leopold Hotel’s owner, soon visited Tateyama and, in turn, hosted a SISTER CITIES TATEYAMA Japanese group here. With his breezy manner Johnny (Westford) bestowed American names on his Japanese counterparts and kidded around—disregarding their formal culture. He melt- AND BELLINGHAM ed the Asian reserve with aplomb. BY JOANN ROE The Sister City relationships were initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II as a means to “heal the wounds of war.” The program was placed under the State De- partment associated with the People-to-People efforts. Governmental participation in the Sister Cities relationship is hands off, except for assistance in finding a suitable city or granting funds on rare occasions. The management of alliances is left almost entirely to the volunteers. Today, Sister Cities exist worldwide and not just between American cities and others. Bellingham was one of the very first to take on a sister, as was Seattle, which paired with Kobe—a port city, too. For more than two decades, Bellingham/Tateyama’s relationship was quite casual. Visi-

34 34 FOOD tors showed up in either city unannounced but were THE SISTERS, SIDE-BY-SIDE welcomed warmly. However, as the visits multiplied, Tateyama, Bellingham, 27 awkward situations arose. A Bellingham person would Chiba Province Washington State arrive in Tateyama during a vacation trip, whereupon—not knowing the intentions of that visitor—the Latitude: 35°0 N 48º45’N local authorities would schedule elaborate and expen- CLASSIFIEDS sive entertainment at city expense. Likewise, on one occasion, a group of teachers arrived at Bellingham Population: 51,119 74,700 24

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turn gifts, to their embarrassment. Frantic phone calls 20 Annual mean would go out to those locals known to be interested 57ºF 57º/41ºF in international understanding to round up hosts for temperature: MUSIC hastily assembled entertainment events. Annual

50.7” 34.8” Thus, in 1985, Mayor Tim Douglas appointed me to precipitation: 18

form and head a Sister Cities Committee to deal with DRAKEGEORGE our valuable relationships. We appointed a board of Founded: November 3, 1939, November 4, 1903, ART directors of 10 people from various aspects of life in tras to Tateyama biannually and organized host fami- when several when several towns combined towns combined the community. The first task was to inform citizens lies to receive Tateyama’s high school orchestras. to form it. to form it. 17 about the existence of the Sister Cities, then organize A key figure for at least 20 years was Ushio Taka- Three days after the signing of the surrender papers to end educational displays and art shows in each country to hashi, operator of Shirayuri Academy, a private kin- STAGE World War II, American troops first set foot on Japanese soil at breathe life into our sisterhood. Douglas learned that dergarten and music school in Tateyama. Takahashi Tateyama. It marked the first time the nation had been success-

Tateyama had almost decided to relinquish our Sister and I became fast personal friends since our ﬁrst fully invaded by a foreign power. 16 City relationship, because— meeting in Tateyama during a Westford visit in 1971 due to the confusion about who and again in 1977; we both were very active in Japan- should be entertained, etc.—it America relationships. cil member Stan Snapp and his wife participated GET OUT was becoming too expensive Schlichting and Takahashi managed the respective ex- in Japan in a square dance exhibition. A group of for the city to host guests who changes of musical talent and also became close friends. Japanese craftspeople exhibited their skills at the 14 simply showed up there. Takahashi’s school had dormitories which housed Bell- Senior Center.

A Tateyama city ofﬁcial, Su- ingham students, and others were home hosted. Picnics at Lake Padden, excursions to Vancouver WORDS mio Ogura, and I set out writ- Tateyama Mayor Hanzawa and his wife visited Bell- or Seattle, dinners at the Bellingham Yacht Club, and

8 ten guidelines about visitors. DINNER ingham and installed a donation at Big Rock Garden. home hosting all were pleasures enjoyed by Tateyama 8 Categories of visitors were cre- WHAT: Reception Former City Council member and Big Rock Garden sup- guests and home town people. ated: official delegations, visi- and formal Wild porter, George Drake, hosted them and others in a Today, the board is still an arm of the city govern- Alaskan Salmon CURRENTS CURRENTS tors who wanted to learn how a reception. Hanzawa’s daughter gave a piano concert ment. The 40th anniversary of the Tateyama/Belling- CURRENTS dinner with local similar professional operated in elected officials in Bellingham a few years later. ham relationship was held at the Lakeway Inn in 1998, 6 Japan and to be introduced to and business Bellingham Mayors Tim Douglas and Mark Asmund- a posh dinner event, where a video about the first 40 a counterpart, and recreational leaders. son visited Tateyama as official guests. years, created by our local PBS station, was shown. visitors, who would be directed WHEN: 6pm, Mayor Shoji was active with the Sister City in Tat- New exchanges developed and continue. VIEWS to a local hotel and told what Thurs., July 24 eyama, hosting visitors. Tateyama’s Shigekazu Kumai Two or three city employees from Tateyama and Bell- WHERE: Saturna 4 attractions might be interest- Capital Banquet, and his wife are longtime Sister City supporters. Ex- ingham visit each other’s workplaces to exchange ideas ing. This relieved the cultural Hotel Bellwether, mayor Tim Douglas remains a constant help in all of on operating city governments. Teachers from Tateyama MAIL $50 per and monetary problems, since COST: the Sister City relationships. come to Whatcom Community College to survey their in Japan a visitor hardly ever person. From 1987 to 2002, Ushio Takahashi brought her methods of teaching kindergarten children, usually led 3 INFO: bcsa.org was allowed to spend a cent. Shirayuri Concert Orchestra, composed of children as by Senjuro Takahashi, Ushio’s husband, since his retire- IT DO

Ofﬁcially approved visitors were young as six years old, plus chaperones, on private ment from a Japanese government post.

expected to pay their own air fares but were hosted tours of the Northwest, even playing under the state Fifteen visitors from Tateyama, including current 08

at their destination by locals, mostly in one’s home. capitol dome. The orchestra was asked to perform Mayor Kawamura, are hosted this week in Bellingham. .23. 7 Guests were urged to follow Japanese social customs during Washington State’s Centennial and, a decade Among the activities planned is a visit to Safeco Field

(gifts, etc.) while there, and American customs here or so later, at Carnegie Hall. Later, the group changed in Seattle, where the Japanese hope to see hits by .03 30

(not so many gifts, but letters of thanks after return- its emphasis to traditional taiko with thrilling original Mariner Ichiro Suzuki. A banquet on Thursday is un- # ing home, etc.). compositions by Takahashi involving both orchestral derwritten in part by Saturna Capital. Officials and Fun and friendships developed rapidly. instruments and taiko! literally hundreds of ordinary citizens will be express- One of the earliest exchanges was the fielding of a I enjoyed managing those concert tours for Ushio. ing their joy and gratitude to our sisters and brothers Ski-to-Sea team from Tateyama and the return partici- Sadly, Ushio Takahashi died of cancer in 2003. A me- from Tateyama. The personal relationships that have pation of runners from Bellingham in Tateyama’s an- morial tree was planted in her memory at Big Rock developed are strong and culturally important. nual marathon. The Ski-to-Sea teams usually entered Garden. Dozens of Bellingham citizens continue to re- the Blossomtime Parade with a lively display or float, member her most warmly from when they were hosted JoAnn Roe chaired the first five years of the Bellingham CASCADIA WEEKLY and drivers furnished by locals. at her school dormitories at Tateyama. Sister Cities Committee formed in 1958. She writes pro- 9 Bellingham schools became deeply involved. Music Tateyama and Bellingham exchanged small dance fessionally for many national and regional magazines Director Mark Schlichting led (and still does) orches- groups, largely monitored by Wendy Setter. Coun- and is the author of 15 books, 10 still in print. currents THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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State ofﬁcials report one-third fewer herring this year at GET OUT Cherry Point than in 2007. Their estimate of 1,352 tons of her- Chihuahuas galore romped through the 10th annual Chihuahua Gathering at the Skagit County Fairground Saturday in Mount Vernon. The gathering was organized by Chihuahua Rescue & Referral, a network of Chihuahua owners that rescue and foster the critters. ring is down from more than 2,100 tons estimated last year. In 14 the 1970’s, herring numbers were more than 10 times greater. Haggen Food and Pharmacy at Barkley Village is

WORDS Road crews open the last stretch of the Mount Baker High- robbed by a lone suspect. A man loitering around way to Artist Point, closed since last September. the cash registers tells an employee he had a gun

8 and would shoot her if she did not give him the THURSDAY money from the register. The suspect then pushed 07.17.08 the clerk out of the way and grabbed cash from the CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS register. No weapon was observed and the clerk is Two Bellingham women, one of them a nursing student, res- not injured. 6 cue an 8-year-old Sumas girl from a near drowning in Lake Samish. MONDAY VIEWS VIEWS 07.21.08 A 3-year-old Sumas girl drowns in her family’s swimming pool. 4 The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce investigates the drowning Bellingham City Council agrees to put a measure

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council’s At-Large position from a two-year to 3 FRIDAY a four-year term. Jack Weiss, who sponsored the Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies continue their search for a DO IT IT DO proposal, says the change would mean that mem- 07.18.08 seven-foot python who escaped from her pen near Birch Bay last ber might spend less time campaigning for ofﬁce. week. Ofﬁicals caution that Rosie—a red-tailed boa—is capable

08 One of the ﬁve disembodied human feet found over the of suffocating pets and small children. If you spot her, you’re

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# miles of each other along island shorelines in the Strait of SUNDAY Included in the proposed annexation, which could Georgia near Vancouver. The grisly findings continue to baffle 07.20.08 take years to complete, is 175 acres at the I-5 and Canadian officials. Bakerview exchange; port-owned industrial areas A 16-year-old boy is rushed to the hospital on the east side of the airport; Alderwood and Secretary of State Sam Reed reports that Initiative 985, spon- with serious head injuries after a fight erupts Bennett Drive neighborhoods, and Little Squali- sored by initiative activist Tim Eyman, collected enough valid among 10 to 15 people in north Bellingham. Police cum Park and Beach. voter signatures to win a spot on the Nov. 4 general election say the fight may have started when someone was CASCADIA WEEKLY ballot. If passed, the measure would force more than $290 accused of stealing a pair of shoes, but are unclear City Council also agrees to extend water service

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34 34 FOOD 27 INDEX rested by U.S. Customs agents who fuzzbuzz discovered she possessed 125 grams of marijuana (about the size of two BANK ROBBERIES BY DAY OF WEEK CLASSIFIEDS THE WEEK ON DRUGS tennis balls) during a routine search On July 12, Blaine Police, checking on at the Washington State Ferry termi- 24 350

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themselves. After licking his last, ing his arrival with great vigor. 50 16 he then explained he had crushed Police escorted the pickled pedes- and snorted his prescription pills so he trian to his apartment and made sure 0 GET OUT could go to sleep faster. It turned out he got inside safely.” the pills were prescription,” ofﬁcers noted, “they just weren’t his.” On July 11, a man entered a bar in 14 Friday Sunday Monday Tuesday Saturday downtown Blaine intoxicated and re- Thursday Wednesday On July 15, Whatcom County Sheriff’s fused to leave when asked to do so WORDS deputies uprooted 23 marijuana plants by employees. “An ofﬁcer contacted

8 in what they term was a “grow op.” A the inebriate and convinced him that 8 CASH TAKEN FROM bank robberies nationally in Oct.-Dec. 2007, neighbor had reported hearing grunt- he and his drunken comments should in millions. ing and yelling coming from the house. depart,” police noted. “A friend was $23.1 CURRENTS CURRENTS When responding ofﬁcers arrived, they called to come down and pour him from CURRENTS observed through a screen door a man the scene.” choking and spitting up white liquid. NUMBER OF ROBBERY demand notes received, same period. 6 Medics took the 49-year-old man to St. On July 5, a young driver nearly struck 870 Joseph Hospital. Near the man, depu- two pedestrians while trying to exit a VIEWS ties found diabetic materials, two riﬂes parking lot in Sedro-Woolley. She then 4 and a handgun. A pit bull also was on backed up and smashed into a line of RANK OF WASHINGTON among states with most banks robbed, same period (50 banks robbed). standby. When the man recovers, he shopping carts being pushed by a store 11 MAIL

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again tried to leave, but by this point IT DO CHANCE IN 100 the robbers were white males. On July 16, Blaine Police received a onlookers had had enough of her driv- 42 report of a suspicious man who possi- ing skills and pulled her from her ve- 08

bly had a weapon in his possession and hicle, whereupon she attacked them. .23. 7 was known to be a drug dealer. Officers This is the point at which police ar- CHANCE IN 100 a robbery was at a main banking office as spoke to all parties and confirmed the rived. She was taken into custody for opposed to a branch office. .03

3 30 suspect was not armed and not a drug DUI, being a minor in possession of # dealer. “It was all a case of mistaken alcohol and driving with license sus- identity,” police said. pended in the second degree. CHANCE IN 100 a weapon was actually shown versus one On July 16, a Mount Vernon woman re- On July 4, a late-night prowler en- 37 being threatened. ceived a call from a woman offering to tered a home in Burlington and be- sell her some Vicodin. After talking for came fatigued, so he lay down on the CASCADIA WEEKLY a short time, the telemarketing drug sofa and took a li’l nap. This is where NUMBER OF ROBBERS who got a tear gas/dye packet in the face pusher realized she had called a wrong police awoke him, disoriented and 194 for their troubles. 13 number and hung up. highly intoxicated. He was arrested on outstanding warrants and settled into On July 2, a Canadian woman was ar- a cozy bunk at Skagit County Jail. SOURCESS: Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bureau of Crime Statistics doit

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FILM FILM out—at a free “Backpacking off at 9:30am at Lake Padden 101” clinic July 29 at REI Crab Grab Park. Cost is $15-$20. 20 20 WED., JULY 23 TRITHECOOKIE.COM WHAT’S THE CATCH? CHOWDER CHARTER: Tour OLD SETTLERS: As part of the annual Old Settlers Picnic, MUSIC Bellingham Bay aboard the for a long time to come. If I see a female Shawmanee from 6-9pm every take part in a 5K run or two- mile walk starting at 10am at crab struggling to get to the water before Wednesday on the Chowder

18 Ferndale’s Pioneer Park, 2004 the tide comes to her, I’ll give her a lift to Charter. The sailboat leaves from Squalicum Harbor. Cost is Cherry St. Registration begins ART ART colder waters. If a male’s too small to keep, $45 and includes dinner. at 8:30am and is $14-$20. I put him back from whence he came. 734-9849 OR 384-4891 Another threat to the crabby creatures BELLINGHAMSAILING.COM ALS RIDE: The DoubleDay Bike 17 that I wasn’t aware of involves the cords WORK PARTY: From 6:30- Ride, a two-day, 85-mile tour 8:30pm, join folks from Village through Skagit Valley, starts STAGE STAGE that tether the pots to the buoys. Accord- today. The event is meant to ing to Cheryl Lovato-Niles, the program Books to weed and maintain the South Bay Trail. Meet at the raise awareness—and funds—

16 coordinator for the WWU Beach Watchers trailhead at the corner of 10th to ﬁght Lou Gehrig’s Disease. program, Washington State law requires Street and Douglas Avenue. WEBWA.ALSA.ORG that crab pots be equipped with untreated, 671-2626 BOAT DEMO: “Fiberglass Boat GET OUT biodegradable cotton cord, also referred to Repair” will be the topic of a THURS., JULY 24 as “escape” or “rot” cord. If a pot without free demonstration by Keith Ol-

16 HISTORY CRUISING: The

14 sen of B & J Fiberglass from 12- escape cord is lost to the current, it could Whatcom Museum continues its 4pm at the Whatcom Museum, potentially catch 22nd season of Bellingham Bay 121 Prospect St. WORDS GET OUT and kill as many as History Cruises at 6:30pm every 778-8930 Thursday at Squalicum Harbor’s 70 crabs per year. WILD EDIBLES: Marlee Oster-

Island Mariner dock. Tickets are 8 “A pot properly bauer will lead a “Wild Edibles” $20-$25. plant class from 2-4pm at the equipped with es- 778-8963 OR Padilla Bay National Estuarine cape cord will re- WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Research Reserve.

CURRENTS CURRENTS I AM a hunter, but I’m not out to harm Bambi or take down an tain crabs for just SAT., JULY 26 (360) 428-1558 elk with a single gunshot. My weapons are simple: they typically nine to 16 weeks TOUR DE FRANCE: Celebrate KULSHAN TALK: Interpreter 6 include a long stick and a bucket. My quarry is only about six or GET IT before the cord the last morning of the Tour David Bean will lead an “At seven inches wide, but he can harm me if my ﬁngers get in the WHAT: Crabbing rots and the crab de France from 4:30-9am at the the Feet of Koma Kulshan” in- VIEWS VIEWS way of his mighty claws. Season are able to escape, Mount Bakery, 308 W. Champion terpretive program at 8pm at Silver Lake Park in Maple Falls. Every summer, I make my way down a harrowing trail to the WHEN: Some parts of killing just a few St. Watch the action on a big- 4 Marine Area 7 are al- Cost is $2. beach at my family’s cabin on Lummi Island to search for Dunge- crabs per pot,” screen TV, then head out for a ready open; Bellingham bike ride. 733-2900 MAIL MAIL ness crabs. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid, when my family to Pt. Roberts opens Lovato-Niles says. NORKARECREATION.COM Aug. 13 “It’s a simple, low- SUN., JULY 27 would escape the sweltering summers of Idaho for the coastal TRAINING PROGRAM: An 3 BUTTE HIKE: Join Whatcom breezes of the small San Juan island. INFO: beachwatch tech method of eight-week program prepar- County Parks and Rec for a 9am ers.wsu.edu or wdfw. ing walkers for the upcoming DO IT IT DO From a young age, I was able to ﬁnd crabs on the beach dur- keeping lost crab hike to Yellow Aster Butte. Be wa.gov Waterfront 15K begins today ing low tide when others could not. We’d set the pot when the pots from becom- prepared for a 2,100-foot eleva- at 8am at Fairhaven Runners,

08 tide wasn’t low enough to uncover the crustaceans beneath the ing ghost pots that continue to catch and tion gain. Cost is $15. 1209 11th St., and continues 733-2900 .23. eelgrass, and I impressed more than one spud state visitor by kill crabs indeﬁnitely.”

7 Saturdays through Sept. 13. sticking my hand directly into the fray to peel the eight-legged Crabbing season doesn’t begin on Lummi Cost is $50. TUES., JULY 29 676-4955

.03 fellas from the wire pots. Island until mid-August this year, but most BACKPACK 101: Glean back-

30 PLANT TALK: “Container De- country tips about gear, loca- # Last summer, during a particularly idyllic excursion on a sections of Marine Area 7—from Blaine to sunny August morning, I realized how important crabbing has Edmonds and beyond—opened for crabbing sign for Summer Heat” will be tions and more at a free “Back- been in my life. Some of the joy of “hunting” for crabs is the earlier this month. If you’re hoping to snag the topic of a workshop with packing 101” clinic at 7pm at Nancy Elvebak at 9am at the REI, 400 36th St. payoff of eating freshly caught seafood, but a big part of what I your limit, check in with the Beach Watchers Garden Spot, 900 Alabama St. 647-8955 love about it is the meditative effect of wandering through tide for free samples of escape cord. The event is free, but reserva- pools, my feet adjusting to the cold saltwater as I take note of If need be, I’ll put a pot with rot cord tions are requested. WED., JULY 30 the squirting clams, the glimmering visage of Mt. Baker, the in the water to snare my precious prey. 676-5480 WHAT’S COOKING: Learn how

CASCADIA WEEKLY to eat well on the trail at a free ART DASH: The Anacortes Art purple starﬁsh, the barnacle-clad rocks. But I’d rather wander the beach to search “Backcountry Cooking” clinic at Dash Half Marathon starts at These days, with a shortened season and many more rules out my supper. Even if I don’t discover any 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. 16 9am in downtown Anacortes. At 647-8955 in place to protect the animals that live their lives mostly un- crabs, the hunt isn’t really about coming the ﬁnish line, there’ll be art on derwater, I’m also aware of making sure the crabs are around home with a full bucket. doit STAGE Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. JULY 23-30 Tickets are $15-$32. SUMMER REP: The Sum- 866.624.6897 OR mer Repertory Theatre fea- MCINTYREHALL.ORG

tures showings of Barefoot in the Park, The Belle of Am- SUN., JULY 27 34 34 stage BIG TENT REVIVAL: Dot- herst, and Driving Miss Dai- tie Partridge—a.k.a. Kris-

THEATER DANCE PROFILES sy at various times through FOOD Aug. 1 at the Mount Baker sa Woiwod—presents “The Studio Theatre, 104 N. Answer” at 8pm at the beer 27 Commercial St. Tickets are garden stage at Boundary $10-$15. Bay Brewery, 1107 Rail- 734-6080 OR road Ave. The weekly event MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM mixes theater, music and

a “big tent revival atmo- CLASSIFIEDS BARD ON THE BEACH: sphere.” Entry is $3. King Lear, Twelfth Night,

BY DANIELLE KOAGEL 647-5593 OR 24 The Tempest, and Titus BBAYBREWERY.COM Andronicus show in repertory as part of Bard on the JULY 28-31 FILM Beach through Sept. 26 at IMPROV CAMP: Sheila Chautauqua! Vanier Park in Vancouver, Goldsmith of Improv Play- 20 B.C. Tickets are $18-$33. works will lead a Children’s (877) 739-0559 OR

RUN AWAY WITH THE CIRCUS Improv Camp from 10am- MUSIC BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG. 12pm daily through July 31 for kids ages 9 to 13. THURS., JULY 24 756-0756 18 Organizer and performer Stefan Freelan says GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch

the tour also tries to include several beneﬁt “The Good, the Bad and ART shows in visiting communities. This year’s the Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay DANCE

lineup will include a free performance at the 17 St. At 10pm, stick around THURS., JULY 24 17 juvenile detention center. for “The Project: Mad Com- SWING DANCING: At- STAGE The show this year also includes workshops edy in the Making.” Cost is STAGE tend a beginning West $5 for the early show, $3 on juggling, hula-hooping, acrobatics and Coast Swing Dance Party for the late one. trash fashion with more educational offerings from 8-9:30pm at U & Me 16 733-8855 OR on nautical history, knot tying and sea chan- Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. THEUPFRONT.COM teys. The company tours every summer for two From 9-11pm on Fri., at- to three weeks; this year’s tour will start in FRI., JULY 25 tend another Swing Dance GET OUT PICKETT PERFORMANCE: Party. Entry is $3-$5 for Port Townsend and end in Port Gamble. Thursday’s gig, $10-$12 for

Historian Mike Vouri chan- 14 Freelan says ultimately the production nels a Gettysburg soldier Friday’s. focuses on encouraging people to be them- when he presents The Life 676-0292 OR selves and just have fun. and Times of George Pickett UANDMEDANCE.COM WORDS “What we lack in smooth polish we make up at 7:30pm at Friday Har- FRI., JULY 25 bor’s San Juan Community for in funny costumes and energy,” he says. “I DANCING QUEENS: Bring 8 Theatre, 100 Second St. hope people can come away from our perfor- costumes and wigs to ex- Entry is $6-$12. press your inner celebrity mance with a huge smile and be inspired to (360) 378-3210 at Ham @ Heart’s “You As learn to juggle or take up poetry or do what- CURRENTS a Star” event, which hap- THE FLYING KARAMOZOV ever makes them happy.” JULY 25-26 BROTHERS UNSCRIPTED: Be pre- pens from 7-8:30pm at the Bellingham resident and poet Kevin Murphy 6 pared for just about any- Firehouse Performing Arts notes the show is an eclectic mix of perform- thing when “Upfront Un- Center, 1314 Harris Ave. ers and performing styles. He says the oldest scripted” shows at 9pm at Ariel Libre will lead the VIEWS CLOWNS, TRAPEZE artists, poets, jugglers and musicians performer, Faith Petric, is in her 90s. The show the Upfront Theatre, 1208 way. The event is free. 319-9963 4 are preparing to ascend the shores of Boulevard Park this Sunday. encompasses a 25-person band, the juggling of Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10. 733-8855 OR JAZZ BAND: The Belling- This colorful ensemble of traveling circus the Flying Karamazov Brothers, as well as mu- MAIL THEUPFRONT.COM ham Youth Jazz Band pres- sicians, comedians and aerialists. folk is better known as the New Old Time ents a concert and Swing 3 Chautauqua. “Somehow, this mix of performers is just JULY 25-27 Dance at 7pm at the Bell- BEAUTY, BEAST: Lyric ingham Senior Center, 315

Chautauqua is a collection of approxi- kooky enough to work,” Murphy says. IT DO Light Opera presents a mately 65 volunteer performers traveling This year’s show is what Freelan describes Halleck St. Admission is by musical version of Beauty donation. by boat around the Puget Sound region to as a “social experiment.” Chautauqua has 08 and the Beast at 7:30pm JAZZPROJECT.ORG

bring education and entertainment by way partnered with the Northwest Maritime Cen- Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at .23. 7 of the circus, tour organizer Joannie Mu- ter Wooden Boat Foundation to bring the tour SAT., JULY 26 SWINGING: National

rayama says. by boat around the San Juan Islands and sur- .03 swing champions Kyle 30

The ensemble was formed in 1981 to com- rounding areas. He says the company is oc- # SEE Redd and Sara Vann Drake bine fun and education through vaudeville WHAT: Salish Sea Chau- cupying about 10 boats, which will pull into will teach a “Successful shows and workshops. “We really wanted to tauqua Tour Bellingham Bay Sat., July 26. Social Swing” class from show people that education can be fun,” WHEN: 1-6:30pm Sun., “This is a great tour—Chautauquans are ex- 8-9pm at the Blue Moon she says. July 27 cited about being on the water and the boat Ballroom, 1213 Cornwall Ave. The lesson will be The company operates as a nonproﬁt WHERE: Boulevard folks are excited about running away with the Park, Bellingham Erika Godwin channels followed by a Swing Dance organization and concentrates on giving COST: Free circus,” Murayama says. She recommends the poet Emily Dickinson dur- from 9-12pm. Cost is $35 CASCADIA WEEKLY back to the community, Murayama says. INFO: 778-7000 free gig for families and anyone else interested ing showings of The Belle for the lesson and dance, $12 for the dance only. One of this year’s events includes a quilt- in a fun way to pass a summer afternoon. “The of Amherst July 24 and 27 17 making workshop; the quilts are donated to hospitals and women’s show is really geared toward everyone. It ap- at the Mount Baker Studio THEBLUEMOONBALLROOM. COM shelters for at-risk infants. peals to the child in every age.” Theatre doit

EVENTS by Kim Friberg, can be perused through July at the Colophon WED., JULY 23 Café, 1208 11th St.

ART & WINE: Local artists and 647-0092 34 34 visual artisans from Whatcom County GOOD EARTH: The work of GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES will be represented at “Art at

FOOD Linda Hughes will be featured the Winery” from 10am-6pm at through July at Good Earth Blaine’s Dakota Creek Winery, Pottery, 100 Harris St. 27 3575 Haynie Rd. Entry is free. 671-3998 OR 820-4752 OR GOODEARTHPOTS.COM DAKOTAWINERY.COM INSIGHTS: Gallery artists are CALL FOR ART #1: Those in- on display through July at In- CLASSIFIEDS terested in taking part in the sights Gallery, 516 Commercial 36th annual Holiday Arts & Ave., Anacortes. 24 Crafts Show at the Roeder (360) 588-8044 OR Home should know Aug. 4 is the INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM

FILM FILM BY AMY KEPFERLE deadline for submitting photos LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Northwest of their art for consideration. Essence” shows through Aug. 9

20 20 733-6897 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, CALL FOR ART #2: Regis- 1415 13th St. tration forms for October’s 733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS. MUSIC Getting Crafty “Reaching for the Light” breast COM cancer awareness art exhibit MINDPORT: “Feets,” an exhibit KIDDING AROUND PAYS OFF 18 18 18 are now available at the Blue featuring a collection of whim- Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. sical wooden sculptures by Mark ART ART ART 671-2305 Scherer, will be on display until July 31 at Mindport Exhibits, SAT., JULY 26 210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2. 17 SAMISH FEST: The 12th an- 647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG nual Samish Island Summer MONA: Glass artist Ginny Ruff- STAGE STAGE Arts Festival takes place from ner’s “Aesthetic Engineering: 10am-5pm at the Samish Is- The Imagination Cycle” can land Community Hall, 11292 16 be seen through Oct. 5 at La Blue Heron Rd. Conner’s Museum of Northwest SAMISHISLAND.NET Art, 121 S. First St. GET OUT JULY 26-27 (360) 466-4446 OR LOGANBERRY FEST: Cel- MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG

14 ebrate art, music, food and PAPERDOLL: Liliana Franz’s wine as part of the Logan- “Internal Landscapes” can be berry Festival happening from viewed through Aug. 9 at the WORDS 10am-5pm at Whidbey Island’s Paperdoll, 1200 10th St. Greenbank Farm, 765 Wonn Rd. 738-DOLL

8 Entry is free. SEASIDE: View the “Celebrate GREENBANKFARM.COM Skagit Art Show” through July 27 at La Conner’s Seaside Gal- lery, 112 Morris St. Art sold CURRENTS CURRENTS ONGOING beneﬁts Skagitonians to Pre- EXHIBITS serve Farmland. 6 LACONNERSEASIDEGALLERY. ALLIED ARTS: View Mike COM Bathum’s “Woodscape” acrylic VIEWS VIEWS SMITH/VALLEE: Peruse Todd paintings and Robert Gigliotti’s Horton’s “Present Tense” ex- ﬁgurative bronze sculptures 4 hibit from 11am-5pm every through July 26 at Allied Arts, Fri.-Sun. through July 27 at 1418 Cornwall Ave. MAIL MAIL Edison’s Smith/Vallee Gallery, 676-8548 OR 5742 Gilkey Ave.

3 ALLIEDARTS.ORG (360) 305-4892 ARTWOOD: Wood works by TODD GALLERY: “Chucka- DO IT IT DO teacher and artist Ray deVr- nut Wanderings” can be seen ies can be seen through the through Aug. 4 at the Todd

08 ALIEN-MAKING KITS are one of the many unique selves and go from there. month at Artwood Gallery, Gallery, 690 Chuckanut Dr. 1000 Harris Ave. .23. items that will be up for sale when the 40th annual Children’s “This is a venue for them to use their 676-5606 7 647-1628 Craft Fair highlights the creativity of local kids July 25 on the creativity,” Scholtz says. “A lot of it is VILLAGE BOOKS: View photo- BLUE HORSE: Gallery artists graphs from Whatcom Places II .03 lawn of the Bellingham Public Library. just being really clear that it’s an event are currently on display at the

30 through July at Village Books, # If ﬁguring out how to create an extraterrestrial isn’t up your for the children and to let it take shape by Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. 1200 11th St. alley, don’t fret. Other items that will be available for $4 and their creativity. The crafts are not judged Holly St. 671-2626 less include jewelry, cards of all kinds, fairy wands, cat toys, in any way. The only stipulation is that 671-2305 WHATCOM MUSEUM: “John BOUNDARY BAY: The “Salm- bracelets, treasure boxes, hats, plastic bottle piggy banks, photo the items have to be handmade.” Franklin Koenig,” “Logging on at the Bay” art show can be cards, origami, beaded creatures, bookmarks, doll capes and doll Scholtz says kids do their work inde- Days,” “The Melville Jacobs seen and bid on through Aug. “things,” magnets, pet rocks, cell phone holders, T-shirt bags, pendently, and get to keep the funds they Legacy,” and “World of the 24 at Boundary Bay Brewery, Shipwright” are currently on nature crafts and more. generate the day of the event. The library 1107 Railroad Ave. CASCADIA WEEKLY Children’s Library specialist Helen Scholtz, who’s been involved provides the space, organizational com- display at the Whatcom Mu- 647-5593 OR N-SEA.ORG seum, 121 Prospect St. 18 with the event for the past 20 years, says kids 13 and younger ponents and publicity, but the young- COLOPHON: “Nature’s Can- 676-6981 OR start making their crafts around the beginning of the summer sters are encouraged to put their all into vas,” a photography exhibit WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG reading program in mid-June. They come up with the ideas them- CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 Bellingham Family Health Clinic

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FROM PREVIOUS PAGE 18 ART ART creating the crafts, setting up their own booths and selling what 17 they’ve spent time making.

“It’s really fun to see children STAGE develop that side of themselves,”

Scholtz says. “There’s the whole 16 element of not just making the items, but also showing and selling them to people and talking GET OUT about how they did it.” And lest you think the items you 14 decide on will just be purchased to make the kids happy, think WORDS again. Scholtz has earrings she wears at least once a week that 8 she got at one of the craft fairs. The cards she purchases every July are sent to folks around the coun- CURRENTS try throughout the year. Other happy customers report picking 6 up early Christmas presents at the annual event. VIEWS “There are things that I pur- 4 chase and then treasure,” Scholtz notes. “I love the wonderful ideas MAIL that children come up with and their enthusiasm for what they’ve 3

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July 29. Whether you come to the # event in Bellingham or the one in Ferndale—or both—know that you’re supporting the next generation of artists. “Even if you don’t have kids, come on over,” Scholtz says. “Usu- ally it’s a glorious afternoon. Peo- CASCADIA WEEKLY ple have a great time wandering 19 the booths, visiting with people. It’s really a special day.” Rumor Has It IN THIS ECO-FRIENDLY town, I’ve come to realize that old music venues never die—they just lie dormant and wait to be recycled. Case in point,

as many have by now been duly informed, the 34 34 music Nightlight Lounge is back open for business— sort of. The venue—sans bar—will play host to FOOD PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT a series of all-ages shows throughout the summer

27 until it opens on a more regular basis (or so the rumors go) in September. Currently, Conquest has ﬁve shows booked at the space between now and the end of August, including Portland’s Menom- CLASSIFIEDS ena (for more about them, just glance to your left) this Thurs., July 24 and our very own Lucky 24 BY CAREY ROSS Brown Fri., July 25. At this point, the venue will

FILM FILM only open its doors on a show-by-show basis, but that could change in 20 20 20 Menomena the coming months. All I know is, in a town of MUSIC MUSIC MAKING NOISE AT THE NIGHTLIGHT generously donated base-

ments and make-do ven- 18 ues, the Nightlight is by

ART ART far the swankiest all-ages spot this town has ever seen. 17 But the Nightlight isn’t

STAGE STAGE the only venue in town determined to use up ev- BY CAREY ROSS 16 ery last one of its nine lives. Word on the street is to expect the reopen- GET OUT ing of Fantasia any day now. Except it is report- 14 edly not going to be called Fantasia anymore, nor will the as-yet-unnamed coffeehouse play host

WORDS to all-ages shows anymore. I’m told the owner- ship remains the same, and while generally sup-

8 portive of the all-ages music community in the past, has come to the realization that the loud rock shows may actually have driven customers

CURRENTS CURRENTS away and ultimately cost them some business. I’m going to guess the gaggle of street riffraff

6 constantly congregated outside the front door didn’t do wonders for Fantasia’s bottom line ei- VIEWS VIEWS MENOMENA ther, but that may be a problem they’re looking to address as well. And, if music does factor in 4 to the plans for the space, it will likely take the

MAIL MAIL form of that which is more traditionally heard in coffee shops—i.e. jazz and acoustic music AS A BAND, Portland’s Menomena is the indiest indie of all overstyled hair. For the band’s debut 3 the indies. Sure, I’ve said this before about other bands, but my release, 2003’s I Am the Fun Blame Mon- rather than post punk or black metal.

DO IT IT DO doing so has always been a little tongue in cheek. Menomena, on ster!, Seim designed and individually And last, but certainly not least, in this roundup

the other hand, embodies the indie spirit in a way that does music hand-assembled an 80-page ﬂipbook to of recycled spaces is the Clinic, sort of the red-

08 proud—they’re clever and creative and clearly in control of their own house each CD. Friend and Foe was given headed stepchild of Michelle Schutte’s Hand to

.23. musical destiny. similar treatment, this time with a de- Mouth Gallery. The Clinic had its cut-short ﬁrst life 7 What makes the trio of Brent Knopf, Justin Harris, and Danny Seim sign rife with hidden messages and lay- in the basement of the Odd Fellows building, but

.03 so darn special? Although they’ve had label backing almost from the ered cutouts that earned Portland artist these days can be found at the corner of Grand 30

# get-go, first through Portland’s Filmguerrero and now with Seattle’s Craig Thompson a Grammy nod for “Best Avenue and Flora Street. The space will feature Barsuk Records, they’ve still chosen to produce, record and mix each Recording Package.” art studios, both community and private (some of their three full-length albums themselves. To properly celebrate the Lest you think this band is all about of which I believe are still available for rent), along release of their latest album, Friend and Foe, the band taught a 25-per- style over substance, with their dense with a whole slew of other features and services son choir comprised of members of such bands as the Helio Sequence, instrumentation and layered vocals, for the creative set. As well, it wouldn’t be a trade- Boy Eats Drum Machine, and 31Knots the various vocal intricacies of Menomena creates music that is as smart mark Schutte endeavor without figuring out a their songs for their CD release at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom. And as it is sonically appealing. Using a com- way to incorporate live music, so the Clinic plays CASCADIA WEEKLY they’ve spent time on the road with the likes of Gang of Four, the puter program they designed themselves host to the first of what will be occasional shows

20 National, and the Long Winters. (natch), the band is able to loop instru- Aug. 21, and Black Breath, Book of Black Earth, Menomena is also a band that understands fancy packaging can ment upon instrument—and each band and Murderous will all be on hand for the musical be a big draw—and it means more than tight jeans and carelessly CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE christening. musicPREVIEW musicPREVIEW non-clubMUSIC WED., JULY 23 as Natural Therapy. JENNI POTTS: Listen to lo- 671-3509 OR MENOMENA, BY CAREY ROSS cal crooner Jenni Potts at a ANIMALSASNATURALTHERAPY. free noontime concert fea- ORG

FROM PREVIOUS PAGE turing songs from Take This INCENDIO: A fusion of 34 34 and Go, her ﬁrst full-length world music can be listened recording, at WWU’s Per- and danced to when Incen- FOOD Mission Folk forming Arts Center Plaza. dio gives a free concert 650-2489 from 7-9pm at Bellingham’s 27 DOWNTOWN SOUNDS: Boulevard Park. Tiller’s Folly and Round 778-7000 Music Festival Mountain will perform as HAYNIE OPRY: Listen to part of the free “Downtown hits like “Statue of a Fool” FLESHING OUT FOLK Sounds” concert series hap- and “There Goes My Every- CLASSIFIEDS pening from 6-9pm in the thing” when the Grand Ole IN THIS part of the world, we alley between Mindport Opry’s Jack Greene performs 24 and Wild Buffalo on Holly at 3pm and 7pm as part of

have a pretty narrow deﬁnition of FILM EAT IT Street. the “Haynie Opry” at the WHO: Menomena, 10 Killing folk music. Ask just about any North 527-8710 OR Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Hands, the Mission Orange DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM Rd., Custer. Tickets are $15. 20 20 American to name some artists that 20 WHEN: 8pm Thurs., June 24 exemplify the genre, and I’m guessing 366-3321 OR WHERE: The Nightlight Lounge, THURS., JULY 24 Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob HAYNIEOPRY.COM MUSIC 211 E. Chestnut St. WHAT THE CHELM: Hear MUSIC COST: $10 Dylan would probably be pretty high Klezmer music and Eastern SUN., JULY 27

MORE INFO: myspace.com/ on the list. Ask them if they’re famil- European folk tunes when NEXUS: Works by Ravel,

themightyconquest 18 iar with such folksters as Wil Campa What the Chelm gives a free Turina, and Piazzolla can be

con la Gran Union, Black Umfolosi, or concert from 6-8pm at Bell- heard when the Nexus Trio ART ingham’s Elizabeth Park. member is adept at playing Alamaailman Vasarat and most music gives a free concert at 2pm 676-5016 at the Whatcom Museum, multiple instruments as well fans will likely treat you to a blank SUMMER POPS: The Fern- 121 Prospect St. 17 as taking on an equal share of stare followed RANY ARBO & dale Summer Pops Orchestra 778-8930 DAISY MAYHEM vocal duties—to arrive at their by a shake of performs at 7:30pm as part FIDDLIN’ FOX: Fiddlin’ Fox STAGE unique sound. Their music is the head. But of the Old Settlers Celebra- brings Yambique to town for tion at 7:30pm at Ferndale’s a free show featuring Latin such that, not only did noto- in their native 16 Pioneer Park. riously snarky arbiter of indie countries of and salsa tunes from 3-6pm 920-7820 at the Fairhaven Village cred Pitchfork.com fall all over Cuba, Zimbabwe, Green. GET OUT itself to praise I Am the Fun and Finland, re- FRI., JULY 25 JAZZ JAM: The Jazz Proj- Blame Monster, but they did it spectively, these VIOLINS & FIDDLERS: ect presents its 6th annual

Students of local performer 14 again when Friend and Foe was artists are folk “Jazz Jam” at 4pm at the GO Anna Schaad will play violin released. As anyone familiar musicians, fol- American Museum of Radio WHAT: Mission and ﬁddle tunes at a free and Electricity, 1312 Bay WORDS with uber-critical Pitchfork lowing a musical Folk Music concert at noon on the lawn St. Entry is $12. Festival of the Bellingham Public Li- knows, for them to praise two tradition simi- MARY GAUTHIER 650-1066 OR

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18 When Did You Last See Your Father? BRATTY BOY gross-out comedies

ART ART may have been done to death, but, with THE SINS OF THE SON Step Brothers, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly bring something new and different to the 17 tive and impressionable son, who just wanted mix by adding hairy chests and whiskers

STAGE STAGE to be left alone to read and listen to pop music. into the suburban preteen angst mix. Toss- Too, their relationship was fatally affected by a ing together perpetual coming-of-age is-

16 secret the son discovered as a boy, which caused sues with radically stunted mental matu- him to regard his father’s every word and action rity, this Adam McKay-directed (Talladega as insincere. Nights) fare grabs attention through ballsy GET OUT “Best not to tell mummy about this,” the father kid impersonation by these pseudo-sibling jovially cautioned when caught doing something geeks and maladjusted mini-morons. 14 the son didn’t quite understand. “You’ll get me Ferrell is Brennan, a blissfully unem- into trouble.” ployed 39-year-old still living at home with

WORDS But “mummy,” played by a thin-lipped Juliet his overly indulgent divorced mom, Nancy Stevenson, knew everything. She was the long- (Mary Steenburgen). When Nancy gets it on

8 suffering wife he didn’t deserve whose migraine with Robert (Richard Jenkins), a widowed headaches were her unspoken resistance. doctor, the two aging, lonely lovebirds It is said you don’t become an adult until your decide to get married. Robert also has a

CURRENTS CURRENTS parents die. And here, the father’s cancer of- permanent live-in kid at home, 40ish Dale fers the son a chance to confront the past while (John C. Reilly), and when Nancy moves in 6 helping his mother change the soiled sheets and with Robert, the two brand-new siblings wipe the drool off the chin of a man who is just are acutely distressed and ready to engage VIEWS VIEWS as difﬁcult in death as he was in life. in anything but brotherly love. Broadbent, who won an Oscar for Iris, has the Mutual silent sulking soon turns into out- 4 WE ALL have excuses for not seeing family members—dis- bluff facade of a man who wears infallibility like right territorial warfare for these spoiled

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DO IT IT DO it’s too late. the story of someone who wished his father dead While whining Brennan blames his maternal

In this delicate and understated portrait of selective remi- and is guilt-stricken 40 years later when he dies. neediness on the perpetual post-traumatic

08 niscence by Shopgirl director Anand Tucker, the now-grown son, Only in forgiving the older man can the son for- stress of a grade-school play in which he

.23. played by Colin Firth, returns to the scene of the crime that was give himself for how he feels about him. performed in drag and was accused of pos- 7 his childhood. If all this sounds mortally serious, When Did sessing a “mangina,” spoiled Dale has no

.03 It was there that his overbearing and buffoonish father, played by You Last See Your Father? is also a vibrant, bawdy patience for this intruder—especially when 30

# a ruddy-cheeked Jim Broadbent, sucked the oxygen out of every room and touching portrait of a middle-aged man’s Brennan does a get-even by wiping his and deprived the bookish and introverted boy, in his mind, of the coming of age, whose cathartic resolution is one naughty bits all over his super-hated step- chance to develop “normally.” His father was “all-seeing—like God.” of the most emotionally poignant moments of brother’s beloved drum set. And although the son grew up to be a successful writer, he be- male bonding I’ve seen on ﬁlm. While Step Brothers, produced by Judd lieves his achievements came despite his father rather than because In a nuanced and reﬂective screenplay by Da- Apatow—who else?—tends toward repeti- of him, when, in fact, the reverse was at least proportionally true. vid Nicholls, the past and the present are layered tious and over-the-top crude antics, there’s This is not a psychologically abusive father-son horror story but in ways that suggest that, although you remem- enough inventive, pretend-kid malice to CASCADIA WEEKLY rather a subtle and poignant portrait—based on the memoir by ber everything, you may understand nothing. It sustain the laughs for the duration. Think

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MUSIC zation and get the girl at the same time—brought to the latter category. As for what it’s all about—well, you in singular, distinctive Pixar-perfect style. Kung you’ll just have to see for yourself. ★★★ 3tIS

Fu Panda, you have met your match. ★★★★★ (t 57 min.) 18 hr. 37 min.) Pickford 9:00 | Sat. & Sun. @ 1:45 Bellis Fair 12:10 | 3:25 | 6:40 | 9:10 ART ART Hancock: Will Smith anchors this dubious effort at a Wanted: Angelina Jolie stars as the appropriately summer blockbuster as Hancock, a not-so-super super- named Fox, a red-hot and totally lethal member of

17 hero in the middle of an existential and public rela- a group of elite assassins known as the Fraternity. tions crisis. ★★ 1(tISNJO James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman also star, because, Sehome 1:45 | 4:25 | 7:25 | 10:10 STAGE STAGE well, Jolie needs onscreen playthings, after all. ★★★ Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Guillermo del Toro’s 3tISNJO big red guy returns, and brings a bunch of rejects Sunset Square 9:00 16 straight out of Pan’s Labyrinth with him, with fantas- their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the Bellis Fair 12:35 | 3:55 When Did You Last See Your Father?: See review tical results. ★★★★ 1(tISNJO depths of the Earth. ★★★ (PG 1 hr. 32 min.) previous page. ★★★★ 1(tISNJO

GET OUT Sunset Square 2:20 | 4:55 | 7:30 | 10:05 Mamma Mia: I wouldn’t care if this former Broadway Sunset Square 12:00 | 2:15 | 4:30 | 7:00 | 9:30 Pickford 4:30 | 6:45 hit starred Carrot Top and Britney Spears instead of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crys- Juno: If you can manage to see this quirky, touching Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep, the fact that it fea- The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Dear Chris Carter, tal Skull: After years of rumors and secrecy, Stephen 14 comedy without falling just a little in love with the tures most of ABBA’s back catalog is good enough for For nine seasons of the X-Files I followed every in- Spielberg and Harrison Ford team back up to remind us thoroughly adorable Ellen Page, you are a hardhearted me. ★★★ 1(tISNJO explicable plot twist—from Scully’s abduction and that archaeology is still cool and even a 64-year-old person indeed. Pre-show musical entertainment: Matt Sehome 1:20 | 4:05 | 7:05 | 9:50 cancer to the aliens that bled black to the replace- WORDS makes for a pretty rockin’ action hero. ★★★★ (PG-13 Novak. ★★★★★ 1(tISNJO ment of Mulder and Scully by the lackluster Dogget tISTNJO Office Space: If you’ve ever had a job where being Fairhaven Village Green Sat. @ 8:00 and Reyes. Now, 10 years after the series went off

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VIEWS VIEWS decide whether to employ it for destruction or creation. over a surcharge. Don’t let something like that happen to you in the coming week, Cancerian. Always have a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Why, I don’t even

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DO IT IT DO about yourself—so deeply that you want to transcend more than he understands,” said philosopher Marshall your customary reactions and expand your identity. Do it McLuhan. “Yet it is experience, rather than understand- because you dare to awaken to previously unknown pos-

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