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—Matteo Tamburini, Bellingham Paul/Dennis Kucinich syndrome. Like Prix fixe 4 course 40 40 it or not, bipartisan politics is for Pumpkin Tasting MISREPRESENTING I-1000 our national and state leaders. Local FOOD Russel Sapienza’s letter misrepre- elections, however, were set up to

sented the issues surrounding I-1000 allow for different dynamics. 31 (whether or not it was Sapienza’s in- I had the opportunity to serve tent). Here are some helpful errata: on the Whatcom County Charter 1. I-1000 speciﬁcally protects health Review Commission, a body speciﬁ- care professionals who refuse to par- cally sworn to nonpartisan politics CLASSIFIEDS ticipate in an assisted suicide from and committed to public input. Of

professional censure or legal reper- this body, there were seven can- 27 cussions. It does not endanger the didates elected by virtue of their FILM FILM integrity of health-care profession- Republican endorsement and eight Gift Certificate Special als who construe assisted suicide to elected thanks to their endorse- be in conﬂict with the Hippocratic ment from the Democratic party. I 9mqÛÛÝÛ>]lÛ~ 22 Oath as Sapienza claims. was honored with the latter asso- 2. Sapienza claims that I-1000 “com- ciation. When the issue of county- Openings MUSIC midiﬁes human life, based on that wide vs. district-only voting came Cmf[`ÛN]\f]k\Yq¦=ja\YqÛ~~¦ person’s ‘usefulness’ to society.” up, we had on-hand an equal num- Dinner:ÛKm]k\Yq¦K`mjk\YqÛ¦Û=ja\Yq¦JYlmj\YqÛ¦~ 20

This statement is wildly incorrect. ber of pubic testaments supporting ART At every step of the proposed pro- the change to district-only voting www.tivoli-bellingham.com cess the patient must take the ini- as we had those opposing it. The

360.594.4313 18 tiative. The patient must request fundamentals of democracy would life-ending medication twice, the dictate that this issue should have Reservations Accepted STAGE STAGE patient must consult with two doc- indeed been forwarded to the bal- ~~Û:gee]j[aYdÛÝÛ8[jgkkÛ^jgeÛl`]ÛGYjcY\] tors who must inform the patient lot for voters to decide… so on this of all their options, and ultimately issue I broke with the will of the Music Wednesdays by 17 it is up to the patient to admin- Democratic party and became the Bar Tabac ister the medication. Society’s swing vote that allowed Whatcom GET OUT evaluation of how “useful” the in- County to vote this into law with a dividual is plays no role in the pro- signiﬁcant 10 percent majority. cess whatsoever, nor is the life of I should not have been surprised 16 the patient “commoditized” in any to see this issue resurface from

way. For gosh sakes, the patient the County Council. After all, most WORDS has to submit to two consultations candidates on the current council wherein the doctor tries to talk the have received their current posi- 8 patient out of it! tions courtesy of Democratic party 3. Sapienza says that “there are... endorsements. In fact, when Demo- new... pain medications that the crats on and off the Charter Review CURRENTS CURRENTS terminally ill need but are not get- Commission strategized on where

ting because of the expense, espe- to vote as a bloc, the issue of ce- 6 cially if they are uninsured.” This is menting a “progressive” majority (if

completely irrelevant. The purpose not entirety) on the County Council VIEWS of the bill is to put control over rested on assuring Bellingham’s 4 the patient’s fate back in their own electoral power in council races. 4 hands. I’m all for new and better District-only voting was a direct MAIL MAIL MAIL pain medication—more avenues a threat to this notion.

patient might be able to take in- Personally, I tend toward a “pro- 3 stead of the assisted suicide option gressive” mentality, and because of DO IT IT DO is certainly good—but ultimately this there are council members who this is not a question the state can just don’t speak to my truths. Mar- answer for the patient or answer ginalizing these opinions, however, 08 with calls for more painkillers. just seems like bad politics and a .29. 10 There are good concerns to be direct route to the perversions that

raised about I-1000 but these are traditionally lead to an unhealthy .03 44

not among them. pendulum effect. Furthermore, dis- # —Ian Alexander, via email trict-only voting allows independent candidates to afford campaigns that DISTRICT-ONLY SAUSAGE- might have a chance competing with MAKING either party’s endorsements. Bipartisan politics has merits and This letter in itself is not an en- detriments. On one hand, it elimi- dorsement for district-only voting. It nates the toothpaste syndrome— is merely a representation of under- CASCADIA WEEKLY that is, it reduces a myriad of pos- reported sausage-making and an en- 5 sible choices down to two opposing couragement to look beyond biparti- candidates. The other side, however, san politics in nonpartisan races. is it effectively denies voters the op- —Jeffery M. Utter, Welcome THE GRISTLE

‘HOODWINKED!’ Whatcom County Executive

Pete Kremen has feathered for himself a pretty 40 40 little nest, courtesy of county taxpayers.

FOOD Last week, a council harried by other issues approved modest salary increases for those gov- views

31 ernment employees who are not represented by OPINIONS THE GRISTLE union bargaining. The increases did not receive a lot of discussion in their evening session, but that’s understandable—those earnings had al- CLASSIFIEDS ready been informed by union negotiations, had been discussed in earlier council committees

27 and executive sessions, and in any event, were included as part of a consent agenda—a proce- BY JON BRIDGE, JEFF BROTMAN, CRAIG COLE, RICK DUBROW, KEN HERTZ, CHUCK ROBINSON, HERB SIMON FILM FILM dural fast-track that concludes matters already discussed that do not generally require addi-

22 tional discussion. Within their groaning budget, council believed they’d also approved a modest Building Dissent MUSIC pay increase for the executive. In the past, the executive received salary in- BIAW OBJECTIVES NOT IN LINE WITH STATE GOALS

20 20 creases in tandem with the county prosecutor.

ART ART Formerly, the executive earned 101 percent of WASHINGTON’S political en- Washington’s quality of life, both ton voters against Western Washing- the prosecutor’s salary, an easy assurance the vironment is being poisoned by deceit- in environmental and economic as- ton voters and small-business owners CEO was the county’s highest paid ofﬁcial. ful and inaccurate attack ads paid for pects. The extremist views of the against large-business owners. 18 That changed—or should have—July 1 when a by the Building Industry Association of current BIAW leadership are in no The BIAW’s leadership regularly ac- new state law pegged the salaries of prosecutors Washington (BIAW). The leadership of way a reﬂection of the attitudes of knowledges that they occupy the ex- STAGE STAGE to equivalents paid to judges. When the new law the BIAW has a well-known reputation the broader business community. treme end of the political spectrum, took effect, County Prosecutor Dave McEachran for running false and misleading ad- The quality of life in our state is es- recently stating they were the only 17 began receiving an elevated salary paid for in vertisements and disparaging their op- sential to maintain a strong economy organization to oppose the creation part by the state. ponents in the process. They regularly and attract and retaining top talent. of the Puget Sound Partnership and

GET OUT But council did not want Kremen—paid entire- attack Governor Chris Gregoire, busi- Through close collaboration with envi- regularly mocking efforts to combat ly through county revenues—to also receive a ness, environmental and labor leaders ronmental leaders, we have proved that climate change. whopping increase simply because the state had with little regard for the truth. Their the old divisions between business and We remain committed to improving

16 smiled upon prosecutors. Council was unambigu- rhetoric and tactics have no place in ous and unanimous on this point, and instructed Washington state politics. WORDS staff to create an amendment that decoupled A few weeks ago, the BIAW was THROUGH CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH the executive’s salary from the prosecutor’s. handed a ruling by the Public Dis- But the measure did not come back to coun- closure Commission that they had ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS, WE HAVE PROVED 8 cil for approval until July 8, after the new law committed campaign ﬁnance viola- THAT THE OLD DIVISIONS BETWEEN BUSINESS AND took effect. Equally troubling, they did not learn tions by not registering as a politi- Pete was already receiving this elevated pay—a cal action committee and failing to ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES ARE ARTIFICIAL CURRENTS CURRENTS 17 percent increase in one year from $119,000 report more than $500,000 in con- AND HARM OUR COLLECTIVE INTEREST.

6 to $141,000—until salary details were disclosed tributions. The case is now with 6 following last week’s consent decision. the Attorney General for a ruling on VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS Annoyed council members called the matter possible punitive action. environmental objectives are artiﬁcial Washington’s quality of life and cre- back this week to discuss where the breakdown That ruling has not slowed them and harm our collective interest. We all ating a strong and vibrant business

4 occurred. Council members recalled they’d raised down. Their involvement in the cur- want to create jobs, protect our natu- climate. We enthusiastically applaud the concern as early as April, yet somehow their rent gubernatorial race has reached ral resources and keep our state a won- Gov. Gregoire for her efforts to break MAIL MAIL concerns were not transmitted into corrective epic proportions. The BIAW’s Political derful place to live and work. down old battle lines, grow our econo-

3 action by the county legal and human resources Action Committee has now contrib- Following the leadership of Gov. my, protect our environment and make departments, or the executive’s ofﬁce—despite uted a total of $7.2 million dollars, all Gregoire, we have supported invest- Washington state the best place in the DO IT IT DO the fact that all these departments were aware being used for attack ads against Gov. ments in better roads, bridges and world to live, work and play. of council’s desire to make this change. Gregoire. No longer is this race about transit across Washington state. We 08 08 In trying to trace where the breakdown oc- the candidates and their issues; it’s have embarked on an historic effort Jon Bridge, Co-CEO, Ben Bridge Jew- .29. curred, McEachran told council members that become about special interests, their to clean up the Puget Sound and pro- eler, Seattle; Jeff Brotman, Entrepre- 10 Kremen had expressed reluctance to take the unprecedented coffers and doing ev- tect it for future generations. And we neur and Retailer, Seattle; Craig Cole,

.03 pay increase because Kremen thought it would erything they can to elect a candidate are taking on climate change while President, Brown & Cole, Inc., Belling- 44

# be “controversial.” Yet… Pete took it anyway, who aligns with their agenda. creating new green-collar jobs and ham; Rick Dubrow and Cindi Landreth, evidently aware of council’s directive that he As business leaders in Washing- reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Co-Owners, A-1 Builders and Adapta- should not take it. When, exactly, did he plan to ton state, our values and principles The BIAW’s objective is to divide tions, BIAW Member, Bellingham; Ken tell them? couldn’t be further from the anti- us and reverse the signiﬁcant prog- Hertz, CEO, Blossom Management, Real “I think we really just want to know,” council environmental and anti-consumer ress we have made in protecting our Estate Development and Property Man- chair Carl Weimer observed in a room full of ﬂar- agenda of the BIAW’s leadership. Like environment and creating a strong agement, Bellingham; Chuck Robinson, ing tempers, “when we thought we were being many of our colleagues in the busi- business climate. The BIAW wants to Co-Owner, Village Books, Bellingham; CASCADIA WEEKLY pretty clear, how we ended up with something ness community, we are committed pit environmental interests against Herb Simon, Real Estate Investor and

6 else and didn’t ﬁnd out for six months.” to maintaining—and improving— business interests, Eastern Washing- Developer, Tacoma Less delicately, council member Sam Crawford asked, “Was there any intent by the administra- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE tion to delay adoption of the resolution 40 40 until after July 1, in order to manipulate the far more substantial increase in the FOOD executive’s salary?”

Kremen (who rose to express his 31 heartfelt concerns about council an- noyance over the issue of his salary, which he then blamed on them for delaying their correction throughout CLASSIFIEDS the spring) ended up exchanging barbs with council members. 27 “I’m not concerned with your heart- FILM FILM felt feelings,” Crawford retorted. “I’m concerned with the process that allowed this to happen. You knew the council had 22 recommended decoupling the executive’s salary from the prosecutor’s, and yet you MUSIC received the salary increase anyway.

“You have about one inch of credibility 20

with this group,” Crawford observed. ART “I feel like the full truth was not disclosed to us,” Laurie Caskey-Schreiber agreed. “I feel we were hoodwinked; we 18 were betrayed.” STAGE STAGE After the dust settled, council attempted to reverse the damage and re- store the executive’s salary to its level 17 in June. They learned, unhappily, that it change

cannot be withdrawn, according to a read GET OUT of the state constitution, which states, “The salary of any county, city, town, your or municipal officers shall not be… Di- 16 minished after his election, or during his term of office.” commute WORDS Kremen urged them to move on and attempted to deflect the damage by of- 8 fering to donate his salary portion that council members deemed too high to the Humane Society. But Kremen’s offer con- CURRENTS CURRENTS ceals a more lasting concern:

Most observers understood Kremen 6 6 sought another term in part to boost his VIEWS VIEWS pension, with 16 years on the county VIEWS clock. Like most ofﬁceholders, Kremen’s pension is apparently tied to his salary 4 in ofﬁce, with the last three years of MAIL MAIL that salary determining the level of his

beneﬁts. Whether Pete donates a (tax 3 deductible) portion of his new $22,000 DO IT IT DO raise or not, his carpet bag just got 17 percent heavier. “We can correct the executive’s sal- 08 ary in a future administration,” Craw- .29. 10 ford admitted, “but the pension likely

represents the longest term cost to the .03 44

county.” # Pete knew the council did not want him to receive that level of salary increase. Call 676-RIDE to ﬁnd out how to catch your bus. He knew (because McEachran informed him) when the new law took effect, and his ofﬁce then submitted a change order for a boosted salary. Did he also know that once raised his salary could not lat- CASCADIA WEEKLY er be reduced? It’s a question taxpayers 7 should ask. When a windfall sounds too good to be believed, it frequently is. currents news commentary briefs

BY TIM JOHNSON

“Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of ‘thirty-three, For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me, He said, “Roll along, Columbia, you can ramble to the sea, But river, while you’re rambling, you can do some work for me.” —Woody Guthrie, 1941 IT’S PECULIAR, in this period of political upheaval and economic downturn, crisis and response, the cry goes out from the farthest, meanest corners of scorched earth that we’re entering some new socialist era, as if such an animal had never before crept on to the American continent. Of course all taxes (which have been around for many thousands of years longer than socialism) are a form of wealth redistribution—private money collected and applied to public purpose. The real issue is whether the public and private sectors get their money’s worth, yes? At the turn of the last century, with the plains and ranges settled, a powerful shout went out to bring power to the farms and industries of the West. The cities, where populations collected, had already been electrified by private investment, but there was little profit motive to lead that power out into the country; rural electrification was an investment that benefited everyone in & WATER small ways but profited no one greatly—a perfect candidate for wealth redistribution into the public sector. In Washington, a fiercely populist roar went out from the state granges, the FIRE era’s great rural organizers, and an initiative was forced on a young state Legis- Bringing power to the people lature. The initiative laid out the legal framework for public utility districts— districts, managed by elected commissioners, where the people might own and operate their own electric systems. Socialism, you say? On Nov. 4, 1930, in the midst of the greatest collapse of economic systems and failure of private wealth in U.S. history, Washington voters approved Ini- tiative No. 1, the state’s first, and PUDs were born. Today, 27 of Washington’s 39 counties are served by a PUD. Inspired by that public effort, and in an effort to get the West working again, presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt swung through the area and delivered what’s become known as the “The Portland Speech.” ILLUSTRATION BY JESSE KINSMAN “I do not hold with those who advocate government ownership or government operation of all utilities,” FDR noted. “I state to you categorically that as a broad general rule the development of utilities should remain, with certain exceptions, a function for private initiative and private capital.” But, FDR stressed, “where a community—a city or county or a district—is not satisfied with the service rendered or the rates charged by the private utility, it has the undeniable basic right, as one of its functions of government, one of its functions of home rule, to set up, after a fair referen- dum to its voters has been had, its own governmentally owned and operated service.” Roosevelt sketched his plans for the Colum- Cherry Point industries, the City of Ferndale, left as the ultimate guarantor to absorb the bia River Valley project, one of four in each and 21 irrigation customers. It is the only increased costs of the sale of PSE. The pro- 40 40 corner of the United States and, when he was district north of Snohomish that is currently posed transaction is not in the public interest elected, his Army Corps of Engineers quickly licensed to supply power. and should be rejected.” FOOD began work to modify the locks at Cascade The three members of the UTC—appointees

Falls and install the power house at what CRISIS OF THE IOUS of Gov. Chris Gregoire—will decide whether to 31 would one day be Bonneville Dam. That same While the state’s public utility districts allow the takeover. year, work began on Grand Coulee Dam, the hummed quietly in the background, over the largest concrete structure on earth. decades the state’s growing population and REACTION FROM THE PUBLIC Bonneville Dam was completed in 1937—the energy demands have inexorably outstripped Worried activists want greater assurance. CLASSIFIEDS same year Whatcom PUD was voted into exis- the capacity of the region’s hydroelectric The notion of our region’s energy supplier tence—long after this region’s federal power system, requiring new capital investment for being held in the hands of foreign banks and PUBLIC POWER 27 administration had already taken Bonneville power generation and delivery. investors rankles deeply populist sentiments INIATIVES FILM FILM for its name. Grand Coulee was ﬁnished in Puget Sound Energy currently provides elec- already annoyed with what critics say is a SKAGIT COUNTY 1941; when folk singer Woody Guthrie saw it tricity to about 1 million customers and natu- noticeable decline in PSE’s level of service. PUBLIC UTILITY he was thunderstruck. ral gas to some 735,000 customers. By 2030, The proposed merger met with ﬁerce resis- DISTRICT NO. 1: 22 analysts say there will be about 1.4 million tance, spawning a number of initiatives in PROPOSITION NO. 1

Prompted by news of a MUSIC RISE OF THE PUDS more people in the 11 Puget Sound counties other counties to do as Whatcom has—create potential takeover of Puget Mighty rivers roll on, but the public didn’t served by PSE, the equivalent of adding more public utility districts capable of generating Sound Energy by Australian do much with the utility districts they’d cre- than two more Seattles, threatening an enor- and supplying public power, which also have investors, this proposition 20 asks, “Shall Public Utility Dis- ated—perhaps because, like FDR, the public mous hit to the investor-owner utility. the power as government entities to acquire ART shared an innate sense that, if private indus- Company managers say the necessary electric- PSE assets. Equally important, federal law trict No. 1 of Skagit County construct or acquire electric try was willing to responsibly do something, ity and natural gas to fuel the growth and meet gives public agencies favored access to cheap

facilities for the generation, 18 private industry should be allowed to do it. customer needs will require a lot of capital—a Bonneville hydropower. A block of this power transmission or distribution Other than a few isolated pockets—like Blaine billion dollars a year—almost indeﬁnitely. is reserved for new PUDs, allowing local com- of electric power?” STAGE STAGE ISLAND COUNTY: FORMATION OF PUBLIC “WHERE A COMMUNITY—A CITY OR COUNTY OR A DISTRICT—IS NOT SATISFIED WITH UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 17 1 THE SERVICE RENDERED OR THE RATES CHARGED BY THE PRIVATE UTILITY, IT HAS Prompted by service out- age and line repair, later GET OUT THE UNDENIABLE BASIC RIGHT, AS ONE OF ITS FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT TO SET compounded by news of a UP ITS OWN GOVERNMENTALLY OWNED AND OPERATED SERVICE.” PSE takeover, this proposition would create Public 16 —FDR Utility District No. 1 of Island County. The district would WORDS have the powers provided in and Sumas—farms and communities did not Faced with a looming cash crisis, PSE manag- munities to claim it for themselves. Title 54 RCW and would be draw on the cheap, public hydroelectric to ers and board members last year reached out Skagit and Jefferson counties haven’t far to initially governed by a three 8 8 which they were entitled, but power from to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, a consor- go in their initiatives. A PUD already exists in member board of commis- competitive investor-owned utilities (IOUs). tium of Australian bank and Canadian pension each county, but—unlike Whatcom—they’re sioners elected by qualiﬁed voters. Except for notable exceptions in the eastern funds that would absorb PSE in a merger. not authorized to distribute power. Whidbey CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS part of the state, Washington’s PUDs busied “Macquarie is committed to providing more Island has further to go—they need to create JEFFERSON COUNTY: LOCAL POWER

themselves for the most part with irrigation capital up front and willing to invest more a public utility district of their own. 6 AUTHORIZATION for agriculture. Yet there remained a sense over the long term to support PSE as we work Although the PUDs have the authority to Similar to Island County,

these PUDs were tools by which the public to meet the growing energy needs of the re- buy or condemn the assets of privately owned this initiative would au- VIEWS might claim energy independence. gion,” said Eric Markell, PSE executive vice utilities, it hasn’t happened in decades. As- thorize Jefferson County to In 1952, when General Petroleum, precur- president and chief cinancial officer. Markell suming the voters approve the venture in construct or acquire electric 4 sor of Mobil Oil Corporation, was looking for a was at a forum in Bellingham last week, dis- Skagit or Jefferson counties, or formation of facilities for the generation, transmission or distribution MAIL refinery site and Puget Sound Power & Light, cussing the proposed merger. The utility, he the new PUD on Whidbey Island, their com- of electric power. precursor to Puget Sound Energy, was unable noted, will still have debt, but Macquarie missioners and those of the Whatcom PUD may Whatcom County PUD is al- 3 to supply power at a competitive rate, locals will provide deeper pockets to rely on. still conclude the acquisitions are beyond their ready authorized to construct DO IT IT DO understood their public utility district might The proposed merger, which must be ap- abilities. If approved elected commissioners or acquire such facilities. play a role in job creation. proved by the Washington Utilities and Trans- decide to press on, they’ll have to fight PSE in PUD #1 of Whatcom County, through an ar- portation Commission (UTC), was met with court and accept the sale price of those assets 08 rangement with other districts, was able to almost universal disdain and was sharply criti- the court sets. .29. 10 purchase cheap energy from Bonneville and cized by the state’s Office of Public Counsel, For its part, Puget is figting back hard, re-

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The following decade, another customer ness customers in utility rate cases. fight the three ballot measures, outspend- # arrived—Intalco Aluminum Corporation—who “The preponderance of evidence shows that ing public-power activists more than 10 to 1. did not need power, which they were already PSE is able to raise the capital necessary to Puget’s ads raise concerns about the purchase entitled to purchase from BPA, but water ser- meet its projected expenditure requirements, price, the amount electric rates will go up at vice. The PUD built a facility to supply water and that the Macquarie group does not offer first and the competence of the PUD commis- to Intalco. a superior or more cost-effective alternative,” sioners. Yet other PUDs have tackled similar That capacity was expanded in 1971, when an the state’s Public Counsel noted in remarks to risks in the 1930s and 1940s and have offered additional facility was built to service to a re- the UTC. “Approval of this acquisition will in- rates lower than Puget’s for decades. CASCADIA WEEKLY finery ARCO proposed to build at Cherry Point. crease the business and financial risk of PSE to Seven days hence, there may be several 9 Today, Whatcom PUD serves electricity to the detriment of its customers and the com- new power brokers in our region. Roll on, the Tosco refinery, and untreated water to six pany’s own financial health. Ratepayers are Columbia!

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18 .+$-$/ GROWING UP in North Vancouver, Douglas Todd there are lots of atheists who are also profoundly into STAGE STAGE took for granted the spectacular backdrop for his boy- nature as a source of meaning and well being,” he says. 0/*+$) hood adventures—the coastal mountains we can see Todd’s inspiration for the book was research into 17 from Bellingham on a clear day. contemporary Paciﬁc Northwest spirituality by Patri- - (.: Raised in a non-religious house- cia O’Connell Killen, provost and professor of religion

GET OUT hold, he didn’t realize he was at Tacoma’s Paciﬁc Lutheran University, and Mark Silk developing a unique brand of of Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.), who has written spirituality that typiﬁes our part extensively about religion in the United States. Todd

16 NATUREINSPIRESASPIRITUAL of the world, the least churchgo- sensed that their ﬁndings about the Northwest mirrored STREAK IN US THAT USUALLY ing part of North America. trends in British Columbia. WORDS “You can’t ignore nature here; “I wanted Mark and Patricia and DOESN’T INVOLVE CHURCH it’s kind of in your face,” says Todd, who for the last other American thinkers to work 15 years has held down the “religion and ethics beat” with British Columbian scholars 8 8 at the Vancouver Sun. This Saturday he’ll be at Village and essayists who also have a Books to talk about his new book, Cascadia: The Elu- deep understanding of the region’s sive Utopia (Ronsdale Press). qualities,” he says. “I wanted this CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS For the book, Todd has assembled an array of think- to be a strongly interdisciplinary work, including everything from 6 ers and writers to contribute chapters about their own HEAR particular take on Cascadia, the region we live in that WHO: Douglas economists to literary specialists,

VIEWS VIEWS spans the international border, with little else strictly Todd and Peter because that is the only way to deﬁned about it. It’s “a place of the heart as much Drury discuss Cas- capture the complexity of the val-

4 as a speciﬁc landscape,” according to contributor An- cadia: The Elusive ues held by people in the region.” drew Greenville. “Nobody really agrees what its physi- Utopia The myriad regional institutions MAIL MAIL WHEN: 7pm, Sat. cal borders are.” But though the book mostly restricts Nov. 1 devoted to coordinating efforts on

3 its view to Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, WHERE: Village both sides of the border testify to Todd’s vision is really concerned with another dimen- Books the multifaceted nature of Casca- DO IT IT DO sion, the spiritual one. COST: Free dian awareness. But spirituality is “Statistics show that people [here] are the least INFO: village- not usually on the list of scruti-

08 08 books.com inclined on the continent to go to a religious institu- nized border trends, which encom- .29. tion,” he says. “We have the lowest attendance rates. pass transportation, business, the environment and na- 10 But you scratch the surface and everybody thinks tive rights. Many groups focus on ways to make working

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# plores the nature of that feeling, “tying in spirituality the face of the drumbeat for security that comes from to place and bioregionalism.” In British Columbia, 36 Washington, D.C. It’s not an easy time to be an advocate percent say they have no religion, and 25 percent in for relaxing restrictions, but cross-border efforts are Washington state, about twice the respective nation- still ﬁnding success. It’s part of that Cascadian spirit. al averages. But across the region, about 60 percent “I think there’s still a bit of a last-frontier mental- rarely or never attend church. ity here,” Todd says. “People think this is where you Todd thinks our magniﬁcent surroundings in this re- come to try something new, so that means making up CASCADIA WEEKLY gion affect everyone, giving us “a civil religion of na- your own rules as you go along. It ends up being this

10 ture.” Even organized churches recognize stewardship real freedom-loving mentality: Nobody’s going to tell of the environment as respecting God’s creation. “But me what to do, so I’m gonna make it up on my own.”

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DRINK LOCAL! 08 This translates into a resistance to or- all” in organized religion, compared to 33 .29. CIDER, BERRIES, HONEY 10 ganized religion—in fact, for many people percent in the rest of North America. Yet

who relocate here to “get away,” one of we still have faith: 73 percent of people .03 44 the things they’re getting away from is re- in this region “trust people to do what TUES-SUN 5-11PM # ligion. So for many Cascadians, a passion is right” as opposed to 58 percent across for nature has ﬁlled the religious gap. But North America. LIVE MUSIC with it comes what Andrew Greenville calls Todd enumerates the unique set of “a sense of personal responsibility and values that characterize Cascadia: “Rev- TUES-THUR-SAT 8PM willingness to embrace the different.” Sta- erence for nature, a ﬁerce individualism, tistical surveys bear this out, with some a wariness about institutions, a limited 1053 N. STATE ST. -ALLEY CASCADIA WEEKLY intriguing numbers providing a jumping- sense of history, a tolerance for diver- DOWNTOWN BELLINGHAM off point for several contributors to Todd’s sity, an openness to experimentation 11 book. For example, 50 percent of Cascadi- and a strong sense that we can create a 1SPEVDUJPO8JOFSZt8JOF#BS ans have “not very much” trust or “none at CASCADE, CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Light Appetizers & Desserts “IT’S A VOLATILE BUSINESS AND THERE ARE ALWAYS CHANGES.” —JOE TEEHAN 40 40 FOOD 31 CLASSIFIEDS 27 FILM FILM 22 MUSIC BY MATTHEW THUNEY 20 20 ART ART 18 STAGE STAGE

17 …TRICK OR TREAT? GET OUT 16 IT ALL began one dark and stormy night, or so has arisen a proud, new set of voices: KBAI-AM, Teehan is well aware that everything isn’t all as

WORDS where the angelic choir of “Progressive Talk” can be it seems in the shape-shifting world of the air- the legend goes, when chilling changes blew omi- clearly heard amidst the demonic din of ogre kings waves. “It’s a volatile business,” he warily warns, Limbaugh and O’Reilly. “and there are always changes.” He tried teaching, 8 8 nously through Whatcom County’s radio transmit- Comments Cascade Radio but still felt bizarrely drawn to the power of the Group’s Jacqueline Cartier, transmitter. Teehan himself has undergone many ters and television satellite dishes, toppling revered “KBAI is like the little sis- strange transformations in the haunted hallways of CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS COMMENTS Scary or scintillat- ter KGMI has been longing the Cascade Radio Group, from host of KGMI’s “Lib- eral Outpost” to the drive-time “PM Bellingham” 6 icons of voice and screen, and lashing the regional ing, most media wel- to have, but didn’t up until come your comments now. The more choices we to the current pairing with conservative morning and suggestions. In

VIEWS VIEWS broadcast and newsprint landscape into a frenzy of can offer listeners, the bet- co-host Patti Brooks. Though the two constantly fact, that’s how most ter.” (Although, be it noted, cross swords, “we have a lot of fun together,” says changes mysteriously 4 eerie new sights and sounds. materialize. Here’s that some might reckon KGMI Teehan, “you gotta have chemistry, camaraderie. First came the bafﬂing disappearances: the KVOS- how to contact spirits to be KBAI’s evil stepbroth- We have the same goal—to be entertaining and MAIL MAIL TV morning news suddenly vanished; KGMI-AM like Rush/Babe, How- er). Of the turmoil at KGMI, likeable—just different opinions.”

ard and the UnPalin: 3 mysteriously lost longtime talk-show hosts Debbie Cartier remarks that, “We’ve KVOS-TV’s new ever-present wonder woman, Deb KGMI-AM: kgmi.com Chavez and Brett Bonner; The Bellingham Herald’s endured the unanticipated Slater, has taken the drastic step of crossing over

DO IT IT DO KBAI-AM: 930kbai.

daily content began to wither away; the weekly com. Both stations transitions from earlier this from the ethereal realm of disembodied radio voices Whatcom Independent ﬂickered, then winked out of are located at 2219 year quite well, consider- to the physical world of television. In recent years, 08 08 existence. Yew Street Road, ing,” noting the recent ad- Slater spent time materializing intermittently be- .29. Then the new apparitions began to take physi- Bellingham, WA dition of new folks like Joe tween eastern and western Washington, even brieﬂy 10 cal form: beloved former KISM-FM DJ Deb Slater re- 98229; 360-734-9790 Teehan and Patti Brooks to voyaging south to the badlands of Seattle. It was KVOS-TV 12: kvos.

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# careening KVOS carriage; Jacqueline Cartier cleaved Bellingham, WA Teehan, who cut his broad- felled by illness. And it was during that fateful foray through the carnage at KGMI to hew out a fresh 98225; 360-671-1212. casting canines during the that Slater was lured away by KVOS for a position in morning show; only a grinning shade remains of the 1980s in the distant moun- production and as an on-air host. “I decided that to Herald, pointing a ghostly gnarled ﬁnger toward its tain kingdom known as Den- be offered to produce and host my own show on TV growing online presence; while the Cascadia Week- ver, lives for radio, observing sanguinely, “It gets with virtually no experience was too good to pass ly, grimly festooned in valiant cape with gleaming in your blood…knowing that you’re being heard by up. I moved back to Bellingham in June and started sword and snazzy hat, continues to sally forth into a lot of people is kind of a thrill.” Indeed, his wife, my job at KVOS. Every time I leave and come back, I CASCADIA WEEKLY battle, bearing bundles of garlic, wooden stakes and Laurie Michaels, currently recovering from a myste- appreciate this community a little bit more.”

12 a bandolier of silver bullets. And, horror of horrors rious aneurysm, is also a radio host who hopes soon Switching from the live microphone to the record- to stalwart KGMI listeners, out of the swirling mists to make a comeback. It must be in the blood! ed world of television has, however, presented its own set of frightful trials. “Two minutes in TV is a way bigger CASCADIA, challenge to ﬁll than two minutes on radio,” she cautions. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

Speaking of temporal anomalies, what does the future hold 40 40 for local media? future that has never before been seen on the planet.

“Change is good,” Slater says, applauding efforts by local A possible utopia.” FOOD media to delve into the mysterious realms of the Worldwide That lack of history and tradition may give some of

Web, on-demand programming and other weird new technolo- our creations a shaky foundation. 31 gies that promote instant interaction between the swirling “There’s this obsession with newness—we in Cascadia worlds of media producer and consumer. The trick, she adds, is are an exaggerated version of it, because our institu- that “all of us in traditional media are going to have to wake tions are weak here,” says Todd. “That’s why it’s called up and ﬁgure out how we can embrace these new tools.” Both the ‘elusive utopia’—there’s a real future-orientedness CLASSIFIEDS Slater and Cartier do, however, hearken back to the day when here, that we’re creating something new. We don’t really local news ruled as king, and long for the return of, respec- know what it is, but it’s gonna be great!” 27 tively, the morning news show to KVOS, and increased local A strong Cascadian regional identity might seem para- FILM FILM programming for KGMI. doxical in this era of globalization, telecommuting and And what of the ghostly past? Regarding the aforementioned easy communication across the planet. While there’s a dearly departed, recent séances hosted by this reporter failed danger of being homogenized by our mass culture, book 22 to bring forth responses from either ex-KGMI talk-meister Brett contributor Peter Drury of Seattle-based Sightline Insti- Bonner or former Independent editor Sheri Ward, although both tute says that’s not likely. (Drury will be a part of Todd’s MUSIC did wish to reassure their faithful former minions that they are book tour stop in Bellingham.) Ron Bally & Lydia Sherwood * Bob Riesenberg Kim Reeves * Ruth Pyren * Jim & Judy Orvik wildly enjoying the anonymity of private life, far from the mad- “I think this is a generation-upon-generation endur- 20

dening media melee. ing question, the local and the global,” he says. “There ART Now there’s a treat they both can live with. is a substantial increase in the notion there is no such thing as ‘advancing global sustainability’ separate from ‘advancing local sustainability.’ Many local solu- 18 tions —and community, identity and local inspiration STAGE STAGE play a profound role in this—together can comprise )# global solutions.” without costumes. So, who would these broadcast celebs dis- The subtitle of Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia is Explor- 17 guise themselves as? ing the Spirit of the Paciﬁc Northwest. That reﬂects the

vision of its editor and contributors, a hope that those GET OUT Open year-round! JOE TEEHAN: with an amorphous spirituality will make the effort to look a little more deeply into what makes them say

“RUSH Locally grown flowers & bulbs 16 LIMBAUGH “I’m not religious, but I’m spiritual.” (TRULY “I think it’s mostly subconscious for people. They go Gifts for your home & garden for a walk and it’s very spiritual,” says Todd, but that’s WORDS GHOULISH!) OR Ship flowers anywhere (EXHUMING A about as far as it goes. “It’s in our bones and we don’t even know it. This book is an attempt to get people to do in the USA overnight! 8 BLAST FROM 8 THE PAST) “THE some deeper thinking.” Flowers just don’t get any fresher! FABULOUS Todd’s evolution from his upbringing in a house where “religious people were considered kooks” was driven by BULBS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! CURRENTS CURRENTS SPORTS BABE.” Choose from a wide selection of tulips, daffodils, CURRENTS a curiosity about religion and spirituality. He studied iris & specialty bulbs while supplies last

world religions at the University of British Columbia and 6 -ONTHROUGH3ATTOs3UNDAY(OLIDAYSTO eventually became a reporter at the Sun. In the early "EAVER-ARSH2OADs-OUNT6ERNON 7!

DEB SLATER: nineties he put his interests to work and became the s6ISITUSONLINEWWWTULIPSCOM VIEWS (DONNING “WIG, faith and religion reporter at the paper. SUNGLASSES AND “I thought I was taking a demotion in journalism. It 4 was kind of a low-status thing to do,” he says. “But it’s HEADPHONES MAIL OUTSIDE THE turned out the opposite. About 10 years ago the word

HAIR”), HOWARD ‘spirituality’ became popular. People can talk about re- 3 STERN “BECAUSE ligion again and you’re not shunned for it.” Todd has DO IT IT DO I LOVE WHAT HE’S twice won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year DONE FOR THE Award, which goes to the top spirituality writer in RADIO INDUSTRY.” North America’s secular media. 08 Todd’s book has something for everyone, offering .29. 10 many different perspectives, and illuminating our

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JACQUELINE the region a bit more functional by bringing together # CARTIER: “NOT thinkers, visionaries, and scholars. “This border has SURE…I’M kept good people apart. There should be way more OPEN TO cross-fertilization,” he says. SUGGESTIONS… Todd admits that his writing about spirituality cov- JUST AS LONG ers almost everything, mirroring how intertwined the AS IT DOESN’T natural world is with our everyday lives around here. HAVE ANYTHING He feels that spiritual undercurrent is what gives our CASCADIA WEEKLY TO DO WITH way of life its promise for positive change. 13 SARAH PALIN.” “My gut is that something exciting is coming out of YIKES! this region.” currents POLICE BEAT :: INDEX

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31 automobile at the Peace Arch Port of Entry fuzzbuzz and were surprised to ﬁnd a 20-year-old woman hiding inside. The occupants— OBAMA/MCCAIN POPULARITY United States citizens—were immedi- CLASSIFIEDS HALLOWEEN HIJINKS ately removed from the car and placed in 52% On Oct. 25, kids threw about 200 pump- handcuffs. When questioned by ofﬁcers, 49% 50% 27 kins into the public pool at Arne Hanna the driver and the smuggled woman said % 47 % 46% Aquatic Center as part of a planned event. they took this unusual action because 46 FILM FILM Afterward, they swam around the pump- they were under the erroneous notion kins, bobbed for apples and enjoyed other that because she lacked a passport, the

22 % Halloween hijinks. passenger would not be permitted back 42% 43% 44 42% into the United States. % MUSIC 40 On Oct. 22, in an unplanned event, some- 38% one threw a pumpkin a vehicle window on LET’S TALK! Obama McCain

20 20 McGrath Road. On Oct. 22, a campus forum for students JUNE JULY AUG SEP SEP OCT OCT

ART ART to meet their residential neighbors was 29 27 10 14 29 12 19 On Oct. 22, mischief-makers stole a Hal- canceled. The ﬁrst of three “Let’s Talk” loween display on Crestline Drive. open discussions was organized 18 to ease the lack of connec- MOON + BAT tion between students and STAGE STAGE On Oct. 25, three men left their neighbors. Forum fa- NUMBER OF AFRICAN Americans a pair of armed skinheads planned to behead (in top hats and swastikas) the Village Inn Pub in Bell- cilitators and three police as part of a proposed "killing spree" that would include 88 17 14 ingham in high spirits and ofﬁcers went home after no people, including Barack Obama. were quickly ejected from a one showed up.

GET OUT nearby comics store for their disorderly behavior. Outside, CAR MEETS HOUSE CHANCE IN 10 an American polled disapproves of the the three men “mooned” the own- On Oct. 23, Bellingham Police in- job President Bush is doing, the highest disapproval rating 16 er and customers inside the store terrupted early morning car prowlers 7 ever recorded in this poll. by pressing their buttocks against the near Whatcom Falls Park. Suspects ﬂed

WORDS front window, causing the glass to break. the scene in a vehicle, but were followed The men sped off. They were followed by by police a short distance down Electric two customers in the comics store, who Avenue to Alabama Street, where prowlers CHANCE IN 10 an American polled believes Obama will 8 8 paused long enough to get a bat from lost control of their vehicle and smashed 7 win the election. the trunk of one of their cars. The pair into a house. The suspects ﬂed. caught the men and reportedly beat them CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS savagely. Two victims received skull and DETECTIVE SCIENCE PERCENT OF REGISTERED voters in Washington's four

6 facial fractures and were transported to On Oct. 20, Blaine Police received a re- the hospital, one in serious condition. port of a woman screaming about an un- most populous counties estimated on Oct. 28 to have 22.3 already voted.

VIEWS VIEWS The two assailants were arrested and will known problem. Police arrived to find an be charged with first degree assault. oven fire had been extinguished by the

4 residents of an apartment complex. They DOUBLE SHOT helped evacuate the unit until ﬁre person- MAIL MAIL NUMBER OF VOTERS found guilty of vote fraud from 2002 On Oct. 21, a man suspected of robbing a nel arrived. “Her apartment was easy to to 2005, out of hundreds of millions of votes cast.

3 Sedro-Woolley bank died after a shootout locate,” police observed. “It was the one 24 with a Skagit County sheriff’s deputy. The with smoke rolling out the windows.” DO IT IT DO ofﬁcer pursued William Allen Chapman, 51, of Mount Vernon, after observing him DANCING TO A DIFFERENT MILLIONS OF VOTERS scrubbed from voter rolls between

08 08 2004 and 2006 in a national effort to curb vote fraud. exit his Jeep and flee on foot near the DRUMMER 10 .29. Riverside Bridge near Burlington. The pair On Oct. 18, Blaine Police received a report 10 exchanged gunfire—the officer firing his of a man standing outside a closed res- AMOUNT PAID TO Sarah Palin's make-up stylist for two

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# ing his .22-caliber pistol. A witness to unheard music and possibly needing help. $22,800 half of October. the shooting described seeing Chapman An officer responded, but the gent was holding a pistol near his own head just gone. He was described as wearing gray before he fell to the ground. Medical ex- clothing and carrying a couple of bags. aminers report he apparently died from MILLIONS OF DOLLARS raised by Barack Obama self-inflicted rounds to the head—two of FREEDOM, THE ABRIDGED $36 during the first two weeks in October. them—with his .22 pistol. VERSION CASCADIA WEEKLY On Oct. 21, a horse gained its freedom TRUNK SHOW from its enclosure and trotted into East SOURCES: Pollster.com; Barnard College Department of Political Science; New York 14 Times; Federal Election Commission; Associated Press; Pew Research Center; Gallup; On Oct. 19, U.S. Customs and Border Pro- Pole Road, where it was killed in a colli- Washington Secretary of State tection inspectors opened the trunk of an sion with a pickup truck. THE WEEK IN REVIEW currents 40 40 FOOD

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week, a Skagit County judge may 31 decide whether Zamora should be sent to Western State Hospital for a mental evaluation. CLASSIFIEDS

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to a 44-year-old woman in Ari- 27 zona last month is arrested at the FILM FILM Blaine crossing, according to U.S. Customs ofﬁcials. ee The state Department of Transportation 22 Anthony Lewis, 51, was denied estimates a cost of more than $1.1 million to PASSAGES THE THAT WAS entry into Canada. A warrant for his rebuild part of an Interstate 5 overpass that was MUSIC arrest was discovered when he tried damaged when heavy equipment slammed into it July 10. Crews will install new girders that

10. 08 20 21. to return to the United States. will increase the bridge height by six inches, to

TUESDAY about 15 feet, 9 inches. Construction is set to ART 10.25.08 begin in January. In a lengthy evening session, Whatcom County Council approves a

SATURDAY 18 memorandum of agreement with the state Dept. of Natural Resources as the ﬁrst ofﬁcial step in a process that could transfer as many as 8,100 Republican gubernatorial City Council. The proposed 2009 U.S. Sen. Ted Ste- STAGE STAGE acres of public land to county management. The purpose of the land challenger Dino Rossi swings budget includes no property tax in- vens of Alaska was transfer is to help reduce risk of landslides in Lake Whatcom watershed through Bellingham as part of creases and seeks to absorb cost in- found guilty on Mon-

day on corruption 17 by reducing logging activity there. The memorandum authorizes up to his statewide “Victory Tour.” creases in part by delaying the hire charges, a verdict $300,000 to pay for an audit of the value of these forest lands by DNR. Latest polls show Rossi and in- of up to 13 city employees. Council that could endanger

cumbent Governor Chris Gregoire is scheduled to adopt the $214 mil- the powerful Re- GET OUT An exhausted County Council approves pay increases for managers in a statistical dead-heat, at 48 lion city budget Dec. 15. publican’s political and department heads as a consent item without much public discus- percent each with a two-point future. Stevens, 84, was found guilty 16 sion, although—admittedly—council had been discussing increases margin of error. Dino Rossi must give a depo- on all seven counts for months as part of labor negotiations. sition before Election Day as of lying on Senate 10.26.08 part of a lawsuit alleging illegal disclosure forms WORDS 10.22.08 SUNDAY campaign spending by his biggest by failing to report backer. The lawsuit alleges Rossi more than $250,000 8 WEDNESDAY in home renova- 8 The United States Coast Guard coordinated campaign spending tions and other gifts Four crew members of a ﬁshing boat are found alive, hours after suspends its search for two re- with the Building Industry Asso- from an oil-industry their vessel was reported in distress in chilly waters off Alaska’s Aleutian maining crewmembers—Robert ciation of Washington in viola- executive. He faces CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS Islands. The four, who were able to get into survival suits as their 93- Davis, 49, of Deming and Carlos tion of state campaign spending up to ﬁve years in prison on each of the

foot fish processor, Katmai, sank, are flown in a Coast Guard helicopter to Zabala, 30, of Helena, Mont.—pre- limits. 6 seven counts, but Adak Island, about 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage. The bodies of sumed lost in the deadly sinking under federal sen- two other crew members are also found. Search continues for five other of the fishing vessel Katmai, which A King County Superior Court tencing guidelines he VIEWS crew members—including Robert Davis of Deming—as an investigation took on water in stormy seas last judge throws out a lawsuit chal- would likely receive focuses on the cause of the sinking. week near the Aleutian Islands. lenging Barack Obama’s qualifi- probation. 4 cations to be president. The suit MAIL MAIL 10.23.08 10.27.08 claimed Obama’s U.S. citizenship

THURSDAY MONDAY was in question. Obama was born in 3 Hawaii to an American mother and a DO IT IT DO Isaac Zamora continues his outbursts in court, this time swearing at Reacting to a foundering econ- Kenyan father. A similar lawsuit was the prosecutor during a hearing in Mount Vernon. Zamora is accused of omy, Mayor Dan Pike presents a thrown out of U.S. District Court in killing six people during a rampage in the Alger area last month. Next mean, lean, budget to Bellingham Philadelphia on Friday. 08 .29. 10 .03 44 #

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27 Ave. BY CHRISTIAN MARTIN Library, 610 E. Third St. 778-7250 714-8999 FILM FILM FRI., OCT. 31 FAIR TRADING: Explore SCARY STORIES: Members domestic fair trade and po- 22 The Owl and the Woodpecker of the Bellingham Story- tential beneﬁts at today’s tellers Guild will tell tales Fair Trade Conference from 3-6pm at Faith Lutheran MUSIC LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHER IS FOR THE BIRDS suitable for young kids from 4-6pm at Village Books, Church, 2750 McLeod Rd. The 1200 11th St. At 7pm, lis- event is free, but if you stay

20 20 ments, we can see the most important ten to “Ghoulish Tales for for dinner and entertain- Adults” at the Fairhaven Li- ment afterwards, donations

ART ART factors delineated in many of North are appreciated. America’s ecosystems. brary, 1117 12th St. 714-9631 734-8158 Adding weight to this great diversity AUCTION & DINNER: An 18 is the fact that members of these two TUES., NOV. 4 “Auction and Dinner” starts families are often indicator species— REVIVAL TOUR: Slam po- at 5pm at the Bellingham STAGE STAGE both owls and woodpeckers are species ets Buddy Wakefield, Der- Senior Center, 315 Halleck rick Brown, Anis Mojgani, whose presence attests to the health St. The benefit raises funds and Robbie Q will take part to educations programs at 17 of a particular habitat. in tonight’s “Junkyard Ghost the center. Finally, these species are iconic Revival Tour” at 7pm at the 676-1450 WWU’s Viking Union. Entry GET OUT and charismatic. Their songs, calls RAISE THE ROOF: Habi- is $5-$7. and drummings add to the spirit of tat for Humanity will hold 650-3738 wild places and tug at our heart and a “Raise the Roof” benefit 16 16 imaginations. auction starting at 5pm at Blaine’s Semiahmoo Resort, CW: How did you get such rare, personal COMMUNITY 9565 Semiahmoo Pkwy. Tick- WORDS WORDS photographs like woodpeckers stuffing OCT. 30-NOV. 1 ets are $50. acorns in to a granary tree or an owl 715-9170 GLUTEN AWARENESS:

PHOTO BY PAUL BANNICK PAUL BY PHOTO feeding her young? BEAUTY BAR: Enjoy mar- 8 A Community Awareness tinis, makeovers and mu- PB: My number one rule in the field is to Event hosted by the Gluten sic—not to mention a little IN THE Owl and the Woodpecker, the first book from Seattle-based not change the behavior of wildlife. Intolerance Group happens retail therapy via a trunk wildlife photographer Paul Bannick, detailed natural history, firsthand When I come across species of interest through the weekend at St. CURRENTS CURRENTS show—at tonight’s Beauty Luke’s Health Education Cen- observations, a field guide, map and CD of bird calls combine to create in natural behaviors, I stop and be- Bar happening from 8-12pm ter, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy. at the Wild Buffalo, 208 W. 6 a thorough portrait of two of North America’s most iconic birds. But it come part of the scene… wait, watch Admission is free. Holly St. Entry is $10 and the is his plethora of eye-popping photographs that elevate this volume and photograph. I want to capture be- GLUTENFREEWAY.INFO first 150 patrons will receive

VIEWS VIEWS toward majestic. Spanning the continent from the old-growth forests haviors that best tell how these birds goodie bags. of the Paciﬁc Northwest to the arctic tundra to the pine forests of the interact with each other and with FRI., OCT. 31 HAUNTED HALLOWEEN: PROJECTBHAM.COM 4 southeast, Bannick’s wide-ranging travels—not to mention his patience their environment in the hopes that From 3-6pm, kids in costume and fortitude—allowed him to ﬁnd and photo- folks will feel empathy and protect SUN., NOV. 2

MAIL MAIL can wander the streets of COMMUNITY BREAK- graph all 41 North American species of owls and these places. historic Fairhaven as part of FAST: The monthly Com-

3 the neighborhood’s Haunted woodpeckers in their natural habitats. CW: If you were going to try to photo- munity Breakfast happens Halloween. I asked Bannick a few questions in anticipation graph, or even just observe, bird life in from 9am-1pm at the Rome

DO IT IT DO 650-1059 OR FAIRHAVEN. Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker Hwy. of his forthcoming slideshow and reception. Whatcom County, where would you go COM Entry is $2-$5. Cascadia Weekly: How did you ﬁrst get interested and what time of day? DOWNTOWN ACTION: From 08 08 671-7862 in birds? PB: Folks in Whatcom County are blessed 3-6pm, kids in costumes

.29. LAUGHTER CLUB: Join the Paul Bannick: I have always been fascinated to live in an ecologically rich area. From can drop by downtown Bell- 10 Bellingham Laughter Club at ingham businesses to trick with nature. My earliest memories are of frogs, saltwater beaches to estuaries to rivers 4pm the Community Food or treat their little hearts

.03 salamanders and birds, and I have always been to dense forests to subalpine zones, Co-op’s Connection Build- ATTEND out. 44 ing, 1220 N. Forest St. # concerned about the health of wildlife popu- many of the habitats of the Northwest WHAT: The Photogra- DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM. 920-3617 lations. It was clear to me early on that the phy of Paul Bannick: are within easy reach. COM A book release and demise of habitat was leading to a loss of bio- The best photographic advice I can BOO! AT BLOEDEL: Kids in slideshow WED., NOV. 5 diversity—this was brought home by the loss give is to get up early, get out in the second grade and younger WHEN: 7pm Thurs., GREEN DRINKS: Envi- are invited to take part of wetland creatures near my childhood home. Nov. 6 field as the sun is rising and be out ronmentally minded folks in “BOO! at Bloedel” from CW: Why photograph “owls and woodpeckers?” WHERE: Whatcom Mu- when it sets. These hours of low light can meet and greet at the 4-6:30pm at the Bloedel seum, 121 Prospect St. monthly Green Drinks gath- Why not “warblers and swans?” are the most productive times to find, Donovan Gym, 2214 Electric CASCADIA WEEKLY COST: Free ering from 5-7pm at Uisce, PB: The most obvious reason is that there are 19 photograph and observe birds. Ave. INFO: whatcommu- 1319 Commercial St. Entry is species of owl and 22 species of woodpeckers Finally, slow down, wait, watch and 778-7000 16 seum.org or ncascades. free, but drinks are not. in North America and each has specific habi- org don’t disturb the behavior that is often GREENDRINKS.ORG tat needs. By looking at their habitat require- unfolding as we hurry by. doit

WED., OCT. 29 beds, makes your own ALPINE AWARENESS: oyster mushroom kit and

Members of the Alpine Safe- practice something called 40 ty Awareness Program will “fungal bioremediation.” lead a clinic on the chal- Cost is $10 for students, FOOD getout lenges, dangers and reali- $20 general. OUTBACK.AS.WWU.EDU/ HIKING RUNNING CYCLING ties of alpine activities at 31 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. SHIPWRIGHT PROGRAM: 647-8955 As part of the “World of the Shipwright” exhibit, Mike THURS., OCT. 30 Baker of Home Port Learn- HORTICULTURAL TALK: ing Center will talk about CLASSIFIEDS As part of the Whatcom “Boats and Troubled Kids” Horticultural Society’s fall

at 2pm at the Whatcom Mu- 27 lecture series, nurseryman seum, 121 Prospect St. and author Thomas Hobbs BY DEXTER BURKE 778-8930 FILM will talk about “Garden Cu- rating or Creating? Knowing TUES., NOV. 4

When it’s Time for a Change” EVENING RUN: A weekly 22 at 7:30pm at the Whatcom evening run happens at 6pm Museum, 121 Prospect St. every Tuesday leaving from Winter’s Coming MUSIC Entry is $7-$12. Fairhaven Runners, 1209 AND HER CHILDREN ARE READY TO PLAY WHATCOMHORTSOCIETY. 11th St. Participants will

ORG run for 3-5 miles on rela- 20 tively ﬂat southside paths SAT., NOV. 1 and trails. ART snowboard culture WORK PARTY #1: Join the FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM

writ large. Nooksack Salmon Enhance- 17 18 I could have done ment Association for a WED., NOV. 5 without the seg- work party from 9am-12pm BIKE 101: Learn how to STAGE STAGE

keep your two-wheeled con- GET OUT ment on Yukon Kor- at Whatcom Creek. Meet at Maritime Heritage Park to veyance in tip-top shape at nelius (a jam band remove non-native vegeta- a free “Bike Maintenance 17 of musicians from tion and clean up surround- 101” clinic at 6pm at REI, Barenaked Ladies to ing areas. 400 36th St. ATTEND 715-0283 OR N-SEA.ORG 647-8955 the Dave Matthews GET OUT WHAT: Hand Cut: Band who were ac- WALK OR RUN: Join GARDEN CLUB: The Birch- A Ski Film About wood Garden Club will fea- companied by actor Fairhaven Runners staff Mountain Culture, at 9am at Lake Padden for ture John York discussing 16 Not Helicopters Jason Biggs) and a 5- to 6-mile run or walk “Hydroponic Gardening” at WHEN: 7pm Thurs., their intermediate- through the Padden Horse 7pm at the Whatcom Mu-

Oct. 30 level snowboarding Trails. The event is also an seum, 121 Prospect St. WORDS WHERE: MBT’s Wal- PHOTO BY OSKAR ENANDER in Vermont, and a informal preview of next TSPARKS.COM/BGC Skier Daron Rahlves at Sport Gestein ton Theatre, 104 N. mountain biking weekend’s Padden Mudfest. NORDIC CLUB: If you’re

Commercial St. 8 FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM interested in becoming a COST: $8 segment seemed a BIKE RIDE: Hook up with member of the Nooksack INFO: 734-6080 or THE DAYS are getting shorter, frost is appearing on your car’s little out of place. members of the Mount Baker Nordic Ski Club, come to mountbakertheatre. windshield and fall quarter midterms have come and gone. Indeed, win- But these were just Club for a 25-mile bike ride an orientation at 6:30pm com CURRENTS ter’s in the air, and for many of us that means one thing: it’s almost two parts of an oth- in Anacortes. If you want at Brigid Collins House, to carpool, meet at 9am 1231 N. Garden St. Tonight’s time to start the pilgrimage to the mountains. WHAT: Warren erwise fast-paced 6 at Sunnyland Elementary, theme is “Ski Destinations” If you’re anything like me you’ve been waiting out the long summer Miller’s Children of production replete 2800 James St. and will feature a media Winter months and preseason jitters are starting to kick in. Luckily, with the with some of the 734-6602 presentation by Scottish VIEWS WHEN: 4pm and 7pm snow ﬁlm premier season in full swing—with ﬁlms like Sweetgrass Pro- biggest names in Lakes High Camp. Sun., Nov. 9 WORK PARTY #2: Hook up 856-5622 4 ductions’ Hand Cut playing Oct. 30 at the Mount Baker Theatre, among WHERE: Performing freeskiing—from with Bellingham Parks and others—there is a venue for snow lovers to unite and share our stoke Julian Carr, Lynsey Rec for a work party from

Arts Center, WWU MAIL for the upcoming season. And there is no bigger icon in the ski ﬁlm COST: $20 Dyer, and Rachael 10am-12pm at Boulevard

Park. You’ll be helping re- business than Warren Miller, whose 59th movie will be showing Nov. 9 INFO: 650-6146 or Burks, to Andy 3 skinet.com/warren- move invasive plants, so at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center. Mahre and Pep Fu- dress accordingly.

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I admit, when I was handed an advance copy of Miller’s Children of jas, who walks away 778-7105 Winter it had been a few years since I’d seen one of his movies, opting from a head-over- BAT CAVES: Take part in a instead for the 30-minute music videos by core production companies heels tumble down a few hundred feet of naturalist-led, post-Hallow- 08 like Teton Gravity Research. So I expected an updated version of what rock in Silverton, Colo. One athlete, how- een exploration of the Bat .29. 10 I had seen as a kid—three-minute clips of beginners bailing at the ever, did not. Billy Poole, a big moun- Caves in Anacortes. Meet at 10am at the Little Cranberry top of a chair and “extreme” references aplenty. While there was a tain skier from Utah, is remembered at Lake parking lot. The event .03 44

certain element of “extreme” (like it or not), Children undoubtedly the end of the film, a warning that the is free. # exceeded my expectations. mountains are a dangerous place and a FRIENDSOFTHEACFL.ORG Narrated by Nagano Olympic poster boy Jonny Moseley, the film is tasteful tribute to one of the best liked SUN., NOV. 2 made to appeal to a wide audience. It opens with Olympic athletes individuals in the ski industry. MUSHROOM WORKSHOP: Seth Wescott and Daron Rahlves out of their traditional element riding Children of Winter offers insight into Alex Winstead of Casca- a helicopter into big lines in Alaska then meanders from Europe to Ja- the lives of a cast of characters that live dia Mushrooms will lead a pan and back to North America, chronicling a wide variety of locations, and breathe mountain culture in a for- “Grow Your Own Mushrooms: Learn how to grow your athletes and styles. From skijouring in Leadville, Colo., where skiers mat that is accessible to the whole fam- Mycology in the Garden” own oyster mushrooms at CASCADIA WEEKLY workshop at 1pm at WWU’s a “Mycology in the Garden” are pulled behind horses through an obstacle course—and warned to ily. It is a film worth seeing as the snow Outback Farm. You’ll learn workshop Nov. 2 at WWU’s 17 keep their mouths closed to avoid flying excrement—to ski touring begins to fall and we prepare for another how to create mushroom Outback Farm. from a sailboat in Iceland, it is a feature-length chronicle of ski and winter in the Pacific Northwest. doit

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FOOD “The Good, the Bad and the SCOUT IDOL: Skit compe- stage Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront titions and a performance Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At by Sterling Dietz, Whatcom 31 THEATER DANCE PROFILES 10pm, stick around for “The County’s own teen magician, Project: Mad Comedy in the will be part of “Scout Idol” Making.” Cost is $5 for the at 1pm and again at 7pm at early show, $3 for the late Assumption Catholic Church,

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FILM FILM SECOND CITY: The touring 36 VIEWS: Contemporary re- arm of the Second City per- alism meets traditional Japa- formance troupe brings its nese theater when 36 Views 22 “One Nation, Under Blog” Rocky Horror shows at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat. show to Mount Vernon at and again at 2:30pm on Sat.

MUSIC 7:30pm at McIntyre Hall, CULT CLASSIC STORMS TOWN at WWU’s Performing Arts 2501 E. College Way. Expect Center. Tickets are $9-$12. high-caliber sketch comedy 18 18 650-6146 20 20 and improv as the ensemble spoof current headlines from

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STAGE STAGE FRI., OCT. 31 the world stage. Tickets are horror and sci-fi flicks of WOLFMAN: The Midnight $27-$40. Mystery Players will present the era, there’s a corpse MCINTYREHALL.ORG 18 brought to life, UFO in- a live studio broadcast of The Wolfman at 7pm at the vestigations, cannibalism SUN., NOV. 2 STAGE STAGE American Museum of Radio, AMATEUR NIGHT: Commu- and something called a 1312 Bay St. If you go, you nity members are invited to Medusa Transducer that can also see bizarre artifacts try their comedy chops on- 17 forces those nearby to from 18th century asylums stage when “Amateur Stand- perform in a cabaret-style for the insane, take part in up Night” takes the stage at ATTEND a costume contest and listen 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, GET OUT floor show. WHAT: The Rocky to sci-fi classics on the Ther- 1208 Bay St. General admis- Horror Picture Show Part of the freaky fun emin. Entry is $9 for kids and sion is $8. WHEN: Midnight, involved in taking part of $12 for adults. 733-8855 16 Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 a live version of The Rocky 738-3886 OR AMRE.US WHERE: MBT’s Wal- Horror Picture Show is let- WED., NOV. 5 OCT. 31-NOV. 1 BILL BOWERS: Lauded mime WORDS ton Theatre, 104 N. ting go of your inhibitions. Commercial St. HELLINGHAM.: View spooky and storyteller Bill Bowers COST: $6-$8 On the night of my inaugu- showings of the improvised presents “It Goes Without ral viewing, I soon found murder mystery, “Helling- Saying” performances at 8pm 8 INFO: 734-6080 or mountbakertheatre. myself yelling and singing ham,” at 8pm and 10pm on Nov. 5-8 at the MBT’s Walton at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 com along with the rest of the Theater, 104 N. Commercial Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10. St. Bower studied with mime I WAS once a Rocky Horror Picture Show virgin. I was a teen- cast and the viewers. When CURRENTS CURRENTS 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT. master Marcel Marceau, so WHEN: 6pm and 9pm ager away from home for a few weeks at drama camp, and a posse Brad appeared, I’d bellow COM chances are good his auto- Thurs., Oct. 30 VAMPIRE DREAMS: Find out biographical performance—

6 of fellow thespians cajoled me into sneaking out of the dorm we “asshole!” and when Ja- WHERE: WWU’s Arn- what happens when a delu- which actually includes talk- were staying in and heading to a late-night showing of the cult tzen Hall, room 10 net had screen time we’d sional professor who believes ing—will entertain. Tickets

VIEWS VIEWS classic. We came prepared with water guns, dry toast, rice and COST: $1 with cos- all yell “slut!” I chucked he’s a bloodsucker goes to are $25 general, $12.50 for newspapers. One of the guys donned ﬁshnet stockings and bright tume, $3 without my toast when Frank pro- visit a therapist when Vam- students with ID. 4 INFO: 650-6130 red lipstick. I was very afraid. posed “a toast” and tossed pire Dreams shows at 7:30pm 734-6080 OR Although I’d heard of the campy 1975 ﬁlm and its legions of confetti when Rocky and Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM MAIL MAIL interactive fans, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Before the lights WHEN: 8pm Fri., Frank N. Furter headed to Firehouse Performing Arts

Oct. 31 Center, 1314 Harris Av. Tick- 3 dimmed, it became clear this wasn’t a typical night at the movies. the bridal suite. WHERE: Mount ets are $8-$10. DANCE Attendees in corsets, maid costumes, gobs of glitter and fancy This Halloween week- Vernon’s Lincoln The- BLAINECOMMUNITYTHEATER.

DO IT IT DO FRI., OCT. 31 shoes milled around before taking their seats. When they asked if atre, 712 S. First St. end, I plan to revisit my ORG “virgins” were present, I kept my painted lips shut. (You’ll have to COST: $5-$8 drama camp days by catch- HALLOWEEN DANCE: Learn the “Jeepers Creepers” jit- 08 08 INFO: lincolnthe- OCT. 31-NOV. 2 ﬁnd out for yourself about the obligatory sacriﬁces.) ing a showing of The Rocky terbug and the “Thriller” line

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CASCADIA WEEKLY mances, classes, a silent auc- they ﬁnd they’ve stumbled across a Transylvanian Convention. Be- 10 games night—it’s possible I could Dance from 6-8pm at the tion and much more will be INFO: evergreenaids. Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave. 18 fore long, they’ve both been seduced by Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim do the “Time Warp” a few part of the festivities. Entry org Entry is free. Curry), a self-proclaimed “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, times this weekend. I am is $10-$20 for the weekend. 733-3500 Transylvania,” and introduced to a crazy, creepy cast of charac- not afraid.

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40 40 EVENTS FOOD SAT., NOV. 1 FALL BAZAAR: Handmade arts and 31 visual crafts will be on display at today’s Fall Bazaar from 9:30am-2pm at Central Lu- GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES theran Church, 925 N. Forest St. A white elephant sale and Scandinavian baked

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27 ARTS & CRAFTS: The 4th annual Holi- day Arts and Crafts Fair takes place

FILM FILM from 9am-4pm at Hillcrest Chapel, 140 Larrabee Ave. 733-8400

22 YULE BOUTIQUE: The Assistance League Yule Boutique happens from 10am-4pm at

MUSIC Broadway Hall, 1300 Broadway. BY AMY KEPFERLE 738-2803 RESALE SHOW: A reception for the 20 20 20 20 “Resale Exhibition” happens from 5-7pm ART ART ART ART at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. The annual show features ﬁne art by Insects local and regional artists and will be on 18 display through Nov. 29. ART THAT CREEPS, CRAWLS AND FLIES LUCIADOUGLAS.COM STAGE STAGE LAST CHANCE: Museum members can attend the “Art Today/Gone Tomorrow” soiree from 7-9pm at the Whatcom Mu- 17 seum, 121 Prospect St. Live music and food and drink will be part of the fund- raiser, which is part of the “Art + All GET OUT “Untitled,” by Sheana Sisselman That Jazz” exhibit currently on display. 778-8938.

16 NOV. 1-2 WHEN IS a narcissus fly maggot beautiful? The answer, decided to get this place involved,” POTPOURRI OF ART: More than 40 jur- ied fine arts and crafts vendors will have WORDS of course, is when it’s made of soft white felt, hand-sewn at Schutte explains, pointing out that the their wares up for sale at the 39th annual about 100 times its normal size, and piled on a pedestal with a 4,000-plus-square-feet of space will allow Potpourri of Art happening from 10am- bunch of its brothers and sisters in all their squirming glory. for a full-blown Halloween gathering to 7pm Sat. and 9:30am-3pm Sun. at Sacred 8 “They’re amazing,” says Michelle Schutte, who’s organizing fill the night. In addition to the art, zom- Heart Catholic Church, 1110 14th St. the “Insects” exhibit at Jinx Art Space. The maggots, along bies can dance to tunes by Sugar Sugar 739-8263 with approximately 40 other pieces of creepy and crawly works SEE IT Sugar, Frozen Cloak, and DJ Moonboots,

CURRENTS CURRENTS MON., NOV. 3 of art, will be available for perusal and purchase beginning sip on hard cider and, quite possibly, bob MONSTERS, INC.: “They’re More Afraid WHAT: “Insects” of You: The Art of Mike Capp and Justin 6 Halloween night. Schutte and three other jurors picked the Group Show for apples. Costumes are encouraged, and pieces for the show, and she says the fright night event is if kids drop by, they’ll leave with plastic Hillgrove” opens today from 11am-5pm at WHEN: 8pm-12pm WWU’s Viking Union Gallery, room #507.

VIEWS VIEWS the best chance to see the art and meet the folks behind the Fri., Oct. 31 ﬂies and spiders courtesy of Merch Bot. The exhibit, which runs through Nov. 21, arachnids and larvae. WHERE: Jinx Art Dung beetles, ticks, yucca moths on features paintings of monsters and imps.

4 Space, 306 Flora St. Although the impetus for doing an exhibit with many-legged ﬂowers, a record-collecting ant, lady- An opening reception happens Nov. 6. COST: Entry is free creatures was the coming of Halloween, Schutte says a few of bugs, sexy creatures with lots of make- 650-6534 MAIL MAIL INFO: jinxartspace. CALL FOR ART: If you’re interested in the other artists who have studios at Jinx and Sabbath Tat- com up on, scorpions with real crab legs, a

submitting art with some element of 3 too’s Brian Tichelaar helped push the idea along to fruition. nine-foot-tall piece made partially with recycled material in it for the upcom- “It was a show they kind of wanted to do at Sabbath, but hairnets, a dragonﬂy collage super- ing “Shop Where Your Heart Is” exhibit DO IT IT DO

imposed over Michelangelo’s “Pieta,” a giant moth made of at Boundary Bay, do so now. The show springs and various other cogs and wheels, and a man caught begins Nov. 28. 08 08 in a spider’s web are just a few of the arresting images you’ll [email protected] .29. see at “Insects.” Schutte is working on a “wasp nest/chan- 10 delier/cocoon thing” made out of pig intestines, which she ONGOING

.03 ordered online. She discovered this peculiar form of sculpture

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# while she was in art school, and is hoping to have the piece finished by the time “Insects” takes flight. ALLIED ARTS: “Three Ways of Seeing,” an exhibit featuring local contempo- “It dries really pretty, like parchment paper,” Schutte says, rary photographers Kenneth Osthimer, showing off a sample of the odorous offal. “They’re cured in John Sloan, and Dennis Walton, shows salt. You soak the salt out of them, take one of the tubes, and through Nov. 1 at Allied Arts, 1418 it kind of stretches out. Then you roll it up like a sock on your Cornwall Ave. fingers, and cut it. It sticks to itself, so if you put it on a mold ALLIEDARTS.ORG CASCADIA WEEKLY and dry it, it just pops off. BLUE HORSE: “Reaching for the Light,” the annual breast cancer awareness art “It’s not the strongest stuff in the world, and if you get it 20 “BOREALIS,” BY JEFFEREY MEYER exhibit, shows through Oct. 31 at the wet, it’ll turn back into pig intestines. Also, dogs bark at it. Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. It’s gross, but it’s also kind of gorgeous.” Happy Hour Discounts -C).492%(!,,02%3%.43 doit Live Music / Organic Beer 4HE Growler Fills & Kegs 40 671-2305 &LYING+ARAMAZOV DARKROOM: “Deja Revue,” an exhibit FOOD featuring photographer Tore Ofteness’ "ROTHERS

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THE#AVEMAN FILM INSIGHTS: New paintings by Larry /NE .ATION 5NDER "LOG Heald can be viewed through Oct. 31 !PRIL at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial (ILARIOUS 3PONTANEOUS 22 Ave., Anacortes. Open 11:30 am Every Day! (360) 588-8044 OR INSIGHTSGALLERY. 4OPICAL)NSIGHTFUL 3AMITE COM 601 West Holly Street 3ATURDAY .OVEMBER !PRIL MUSIC MCCOOL GALLERY: “Fall Color,” fea- 360-75-BEERS 752-3377 turing paintings by Anne Martin Mc- 21 www.chuckanutbreweryandkitchen.com 20 Cool, can be seen through November (OLIDAY0ROGRAMS)NCLUDE ART ART at the McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial ART Ave., Anacortes. !#HRISTMAS#AROL MCCOOLART.COM 4HE.UTCRACKER 18 MINDPORT: “All I’ve Got to Say,” a +ELLY*OE0HELPS solo show by Steve Cunningham, shows through Nov. 9 at Mindport Exhibits, 3ATURDAY .OVEMBER 3KAGIT3YMPHONY STAGE 210 W. Holly St. 647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG h3OMEOFTHEMOST 3KAGIT6ALLEY#HORALE 17 MONA: Shelley Muzylowski Allen’s EMOTIONALLYTHRILLING “Modern Menagerie” and Sonja Blom- BLUESMUSICEVERv 3KAGIT6ALLEY#OLLEGE-USIC$EPARTMENT dahl’s “Incalmo/Glass” will be on dis- $IRTY,INEN GET OUT play until Jan. 4 at La Conner’s Museum 3EATTLE7OMENS#HORUS of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. (360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART. "RONN*OURNEY 16 ORG NEWSTAND: View sculptures and AND-ORE paintings by Francis X Donovan from WORDS 11am-6pm Mon.-Fri. and 12-4pm 'IFT#ERTIFICATESAREAVAILABLE Sat. through Oct. 31 at the former Newstand space, 111 E. Magnolia St. 8 927-8780 PAPERDOLL: Rifka MacDonald’s

“Wooden Forest” will show through WWWMCINTYREHALLORG CURRENTS November at the Paperdoll, 1200 10th %#OLLEGE7AY -OUNT6ERNON St. 6 THEPAPERDOLL.NET SMITH VALLEE: View the “Northwest VIEWS VIEWS Mountain Invitational”—featuring 17 artists with works based on Northwest 4 mountain landscapes—through Nov.

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view/Preview” exhibit, shows through 44 LIVE UNITEDtm # Nov. 22 at the Western Gallery. 650-3963 OR WESTERNGALLERY.WWU. EDU WHATCOM MUSEUM: “World of the Shipwright” and “Art + All That Jazz” are currently on display at the What- com Museum, 121 Prospect St. CASCADIA WEEKLY 778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG United Way of Whatcom County (360)733-8670 21 www.unitedwaywhatcom.org Rumor Has It

I know we’ve been talking a lot of Hallow- 40 40 een lately, but I just have one last thing to

FOOD say about this haunted holiday: If you’re planning to go as Joe the Plumber, and are patting

31 music yourself on the back for your highly original PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT costume idea, well, you’ll be in good company, as it seems like half of Bellingham is picking up the pipe wrench, breaking out the plumb- CLASSIFIEDS er’s crack and dressing as everyone’s favorite political lightning rod. Which is great. I’ve

27 so often thought to myself when conversing with many of you, “I really think this person FILM FILM is neat. You know what would make me really musicPREVIEW respect them? Catching a glimpse of a good 22 22 couple of inches of butt crack when they turn around and walk away.” So, thanks for making MUSIC MUSIC BY IAN CHANT that dream a reality, all you burgeoning Joe the Plumbers out there.

20 20 Enough of that. If you prefer to stay in on

ART ART Bellingham’s most strangely outﬁtted amateur Method Man and Redman night, you should consider a little pre- or post- holiday hangout at the Wild Buffalo. 18 A BIG F’INF’IN DEAL The Friday night prior to Halloween, Collie STAGE STAGE Scrabble multiplier for coolness. Buddz will be making Redman was one of the most talented his way to town, and 17 and popular rappers on Def Jam through- I’m told that’s a big out the ’90s, which is a lot like being one damn reggae deal. Yes,

GET OUT of the most talented and popular artists on I know I’ve claimed to Motown Records during the ’60s, but with not be a reggae fan in better drugs. He also worked as a producer the past (something

16 on Shaquille O’Neal’s about it making me second album, Shaq Fu, want to plug my ears

WORDS Da Return, which went with barbed wire), and gold—which may speak that hasn’t changed, BYBY CAREYCAREY ROSSROOSSS more to the social cache but the show came 8 once enjoyed by Shaq about through the ef- than anything else. forts of BuildStrong, a tireless crew of folks Friends since child- that I can really get behind. BuildStrong is CURRENTS CURRENTS HEAR hood, Method Man and ostensibly a local clothing company—they’ve WHO: Method

6 Redman released Black- been rocking some pretty sweet Obama tees Man and Redman out! in 1999, an album lately—but they’re not content to just crank WHEN: 8:30

VIEWS VIEWS that’s as whip smart out some stylie shirts and call it a day. The Sun., Nov. 2 WHERE: Viking and expertly produced organization has been supporting the arts, 4 Union Multipur- as it is funny—not music in particular, since day one. So, see the pose Room, WWU something that can be show. Support BuildStrong. After all, they sup- MAIL MAIL COST: $28 said about too many port you.

MORE INFO: 3 albums, even really The night after Halloween—after you’ve 650-2846 good ones. scraped off all the greasepaint and fake

DO IT IT DO METHODMETHOD MAN So what are these blood—you can take your newly scrubbed and two doing on the campus of Western Wash- ready-to-be-styled self off to the Wild Buffalo 08 08 ington University later this week? If you for another installment of the Beauty Bar. If .29. suggested they’re ﬁlming How High 2, you you’ve never been, manis, pedis, updos and 10 WHEN TWO marquee names in hip hop like Method Man would be awesome, but ultimately incor- general making over of folks are the items on

.03 and Redman see ﬁt to grace Bellingham with their presence, it rect. They will, however, be blowing away this decidedly good-looking menu. Add to that 44

# would probably be in bad taste to spend the entire show calling everyone in the Viking Union Multipurpose fashion and trunk shows, music and all manner for the dynamic duo of acclaimed musical collaborators to reen- Room with dual rhymesmanship that is sec- of delicious libations, and it’s just like a giant act scenes from their abortive Fox sitcom, Method & Red. So do ond to none. adult slumber party—except without the frozen not DO THIS. IT WOULD not BE HILARIOUS. And if that’s not enough, Method Man and bras, prank calling cute boys and topless pil- Where to start? Method Man was in the Wu Tang Clan, which Redman will be joined by the excellent Ter- low ﬁghts. Although I suppose you could easily you may have heard of if you grew up anywhere with radio recep- manology and another terriﬁc twosome in make all those things happen for yourself after tion. And even if you lived some Kaspar Hauser-esque deprived Evidence and Alchemist of Dilated Peoples. the Beauty Bar if you must. A word of warning: CASCADIA WEEKLY childhood, you have probably managed to hear a Wu Tang song This is as good a chance as you’re going to the Beauty Bar tends to be a jam-packed affair.

22 at some point. Method Man is a Grammy-winning, multi-platinum get to have your mind opened with a crow- Get there early. Your reward will be a more styl- artist who also occasionally acted on The Wire, which is like a bar of beat and rhyme. ish self upon departure. musicPREVIEW

7 40 40 CW: Tell me more about that.

JH: I bought a lottery ticket that said “Rock ’n’ roll, you 7 FOOD win.” I was a married square, and I went through an ugly divorce, and it broke my heart. And, being wor- 7 31 ried for me, my mother called my best friend, Joshua. He came to check on me. He heard “I Only Want You” ° and “Whore Hoppin’” that I’d written, like, honestly, as a shameless joke. And Joshua heard the songs and he CLASSIFIEDS took me to Hollywood in my mother’s car, and here I am -

talking to you. 27 CW: In the beginning, was it kind of hard to be living FILM under the shadow of Josh’s [other band] Queens of the Stone Age? 22 22 JH: Hell no, man. It was the shade, honey, it wasn’t a / 22 shadow. Believe me, I knew exactly what was going Rethink MUSIC on. I had no problem riding on the coattails of the MUSIC greatest rock band in the world. You’d have to be a big 1 Saturn

dick to think that sucks. 20

CW: What made you pick up the guitar? Was this after ART the divorce? , JH: It was during the divorce. And I was constantly being told in court that I couldn’t do stuff. You know what I 1611 18 mean? I was looking at my guitar, and I couldn’t play it, STAGE STAGE and I remember having this moment where it was like, BY LANE KOIVU “Fuck you, I can too!” S. Burlington

" 17 CW: And you don’t have a day job anymore? JH: My day job is called rock; my night is roll. Just kid- Blvd., Eagles of din’, dude. GET OUT CW: In an interview just before the release of Death by Sexy, you were quoted as saying “Josh Homme saved Burlington, Death Metal my life.” This was around the time you were taken to 16 rehab.

WA 98233 WORDS THIS AIN’T NO BIBLE STUDY JH: Yeah. Joshua’s done that for me a million, million times. But I’m a great believer in doing things for 1 real, you know? This ain’t no fuckin’ bible study; this Located just 8 IT’S NOT everyday that you get to converse with a rock god, is rock ’n’ roll, so I know what my job is. but that’s exactly what I did when I chatted with Eagles of Death I was loving drugs very much and, in fact, they were , behind Costco Metal frontman, Jesse “the Devil” Hughes about their upcoming loving me too much. And, it led to my best friend—he CURRENTS CURRENTS tour for their new album, Heart-On. We talked about everything basically came to pick me up. We drove to Promises off the George from getting thrown into rehab by his best friend, getting kicked [rehab center]. He’s like, “Boots, I love you. You’re not 6 off the Guns ’N’ Roses tour to his unending love for rock ’n’ roll and coming outta here.” And he visited me every day. Hopper Rd. exit. what it’s like to be on the Denny’s menu. CW: Let’s talk about your tour with Guns ’N’ Roses. Axl VIEWS CW: Tell me about your new album, Heart On. Where was it record- Rose referred to you as “The Pigeons of Shit Metal?” ed? 4 JH: All over the world. Uh, ﬁnalizing with the last month being MAIL in Holland and Amsterdam and ﬁnishing shit up in Joshua’s new

studio, a fucking amazing and beautiful thing done. “MY DAY JOB IS CALLED ROCK; (888) 3 CW: How long did it take to record?

IT DO JH: A year and a half. MY NIGHT IS ROLL. JUST CW: Your ﬁrst album took somewhere around eight days. 707 KIDDIN’, DUDE.” 08 JH: Three days to record, and a week and a half to mix. / CW: Why’d it take so long this time around? .29. 10 JH: Well, the best reasons in the world, I guess. Joshua and I, 0545

we were both full-tilt boogying with touring, you know. And we JH: Anytime I’m at somebody, I think it’s important " .03 44

really were kind of having this moment of like, “We want to do to demonstrate respect first. Guns ’N’ Roses is a # it our way.” We wanted to live the dream. And Eagles to us has band that lives forever in a moment where they always been about two best friends having the shits-and-giggles were the greatest fucking rock band in the world. good times. Appetite for Destruction and the era that it spawned ° CW: It seems like it’s the same thing you tried to do on your first is undeniable, man. (360) two albums, as far as pumping them out quickly and getting a live So we get hired on this tour, and it was this huge feeling. honor. The first night of this tour it’s a 25,000-seat JH: Those first two albums were really Joshua, being the best arena, there’s only 5,000 kids there and not a single 707 CASCADIA WEEKLY friend a guy could possibly ask for and providing a situation one was born when Appetite for Destruction came out. " 23 with his fame that I could become what I am now, you know. The first act that went on got booed. We did OK. I Because I’d only been playing guitar for three months when I mean, the crowd didn’t love us at first, but they didn’t wrote the first record. CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 0545 See below for venue addresses and 10.29.08 10.30.08 10.31.08 11.01.08 11.02.08 11.03.08 11.04.08 phone numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Black Eyes & Neckties, Jill James Higgins and the Boundary Bay Jazz Jam Jazz Jam Brazil, Axes of Evil Muddy Boots Band 40 40 Commodore A Nightmare on Granville

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The Crying Shame, Drunken 22 22 Green Frog Café Deer Seeking Headlights, Jasmine Riley, Kat Bula Prayer, Sweetheart of the Rachel Harrington Piano Mover, Samothrace Danny Hue and The Colors Acoustic Tavern Aleah Springsnow Rodeo MUSIC MUSIC Honeymoon The Naked Hearts Sabrina Y Los Reyes The Shadies 20 20 Main St. Bar and Open Mic w/Chuck D feat. Country Karaoke Death by Radio Death by Radio Karaoke ART ART Grill Sons of the Widow James

Horror Business, Meat-Bird, Slowly We Survive, Sirens

18 Old Foundry Dead Hookers Sister, Brier Rose

STAGE STAGE Quarterback Pub Riverbend, The Jake Marsh and Eatery Trio Jason Collette, Rock Plaza 17 Richard's on Diplo, Abe Vigoda, Boy Serge Devant Central, Zeus (early); Sin Monkey Majik Richards 8-Bit, Telepathe City Fetish Halloween (late) GET OUT Rockﬁsh Grill Jack Hamilton Gertrude's Hearse Mark Dufresne

Horror Business, Order The All Nighters, The Boris Budd & The Water- 16 Rogue Hero of the Crimson Wizard, Whiskey Wailers, Ladies of boarders, The Contra, Police Haf-Sac! the Night Teeth WORDS Royal Industry Night College Night Ladies Night Party Night Karaoke

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Acclaimed acoustic bluesman Eric 31 Bibb will take the stage with roots mu- sician Ruthie Foster at a special show at 7:30pm Wed., Nov. 5 at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre. Foster will open the CLASSIFIEDS show for Bibb, then, after playing their

individual sets, the two musicians will 27 join forces to create a musical mashup FILM FILM not to be missed—or forgotten. Tickets for the show are $25-$29, and further 22 22 info can be had at (360) 336-8955 or 22 lincolntheatre.org. MUSIC MUSIC 20 20 ART ART METAL, FROM PAGE 23 Rockstar menu? JH: That’s one of the great mysteries hate us when we walked off. And Axl of my life. I still have no fucking 18 ﬁred us three songs into his set, call- clue. STAGE STAGE ing us “The Pigeons of Shit Metal.” CW: Heart-On pancakes?! Axl had to pay us in advance for the JH: The “Heart-On-A-Plate” pancakes, www.nwskyferry.com tour and, after the ﬁrst night, I got to baby. With chocolate raspberry sauce. 360-676-9999 17 4165 Mitchell Way, Bellingham keep all the money. That dude made CW: Does the band get money from that?

my career. JH: We get great joy. GET OUT CW: What do you say to the crowd that CW: You get free pancakes for life, don’t pegs you as some sort of novelty you? group? JH: Yes. The international pancake cor- 16 JH: I say, “I can’t hear you, because I’m nucopia.

too busy having fun.” CW: No matter where you are in the WORDS CW: On a different note, how’d the Eagles world… of Death Metal get a dish on the Denny’s JH: If there’s a Denny’s, I’m there. 8

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Changeling 20 a meticulously realist period piece, interrupt-

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old Tory like Eastwood could still offer us as a storyteller, there is no escaping his WORDS with a straight face, Jolie liberates her with undiminished fondness for raunchy, ju- a wonderfully contained simmer. Her irrita- venile humor, which he indulges as liber- 8 tion at being forced to take a strange child ally as one might expect in Zack and Miri into her home hovers beautifully between Make a Porno. Whether he’s splattering his touching and laugh-out-loud, and blooms characters with bodily waste or poking CURRENTS CURRENTS into quiet rage as the city mouse turns ti- gentle fun at their tentative exhibition-

gress in the ﬁght to rescue not just her lost ism, he pushes the envelope so often it’s 6 cub but other women similarly deprived of as though he’s daring us to take offense.

their civil rights. It’s mostly a front, though. Zack and Miri VIEWS Here and there, a sly supporting turn adds is Smith’s most tenderly romantic venture a touch of vitality: John Malkovich lends a since 1997’s Chasing Amy and not quite the 4 veneer of creepy austerity to the stiff-backed hardcore romp its title suggests. MAIL MAIL pastor who makes over the shy Collins into a The story unfolds simply, with few sur-

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mother, came home from work to ﬁnd her 9-year-old son, Walter, had Gordon Northcott, the serial killer who may industry, Zack and Miri decide to make a .03 44

vanished. Reporting his disappearance, Collins quickly found herself or may not have murdered Collins’ son. movie of their own. They begin with an # first a pawn and then a target of one of the most corrupt metropolitan It takes two and a half hours to bring the eroticized reinvention of Star Wars, which police administrations in the city’s history, which in hindsight is say- story to a close, with two trials in the same remains one of Smith’s most exhaustively ing a good deal. courthouse, and it’s worth noting that the fi- referenced obsessions. As written by former journalist J. Michael Straczynski, who rescued nale’s dramatic balance casts Northcott as, if Smith loads the movie with visual gags the story from City Hall papers headed for the junk heap, Changeling not a bit player, then a lesser evil than the and cringe-worthy physical comedy to match mines events so bizarre they all but sit up and beg to be stuffed into a speechifying paper-pushers who fail to pro- his gleefully vulgar dialogue, and his aim horror picture. After a tepid search, a police department sorely in need tect and serve. Which makes Changeling less is often true. But what distinguishes Zack CASCADIA WEEKLY of good press publicly delivered to Collins a boy who was not her son. a courtroom drama than a Western, whose and Miri from his more pedestrian outings 27 When she protested, they first impugned her mothering, then shoved heroes say little and do much for honor and is a cast that gives his adolescent silliness her into a mental hospital, from which she was delivered by crowds of social justice, while the villains do nothing a warm-hearted glow, and thus, make Zack angry demonstrators led by a crusading Presbyterian pastor. and never shut up. and Miri a couple worth knowing. film SHOWTIMES

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WORDS —Not Happy I LOVE LOOSELY Somebody’s got the order all wrong. I’m 27. Last year, my boyfriend of six First you’re supposed to live, and then years dumped me. After walking around for 8 you’re supposed to retire. What are you months like a kid lost at the mall, I ﬁnally two going to do, sit in your rocking chairs feel like myself again. I’m dating multiple reminiscing about the life you were too men (some know, some don’t), started a CURRENTS CURRENTS tired and angry to have? Maybe while friends-with-beneﬁts thing, and still talk thumbing through cute couple shots?

6 to my ex. Most days it’s fun, and certainly “Oh, look! There we are on our second an- interesting. Other days, I long to go back

VIEWS VIEWS niversary, passing each other in the hall- to the ex. Sometimes, I just feel reckless way as you were going to bed and I was as I watch men I’m dating develop feelings 4 going to work!” for me that I’m unable to return. What the You two might love each other, but you hell’s going on? MAIL MAIL have a major scheduling conﬂict: happily —So Many Men

3 ever after versus happily ever now. If you ever talk to somebody who’s had a near- When you come upon a warning DO IT IT DO death experience, they’ll probably go on sign a custodian has set out—perhaps about living in the now, not how they ﬁ- “Slippery When Wet”—do you stash 08 08 nally learned to live in the later. You can it in a planter and watch what hap- .29. scrimp, save and plan all you want, but pens? That’s kind of what you’re doing 10 there’s really no guarantee you’ll get to in your dating life. It’s OK that you’re the later. (He could make his ﬁrst mil- confused. In fact, after six years of .03

44 lion at 37 and trade you in for his sec- playing Mrs. Wifely, it’s about time # ond 24-year-old.) In other words, “Are we you freed yourself up to not know what having fun yet?” is actually a very valid you want. That’s what your 20s are for: question. Sure, it’s important to save dating around, making mistakes, being for the future, but it’s also important to obsessed with one guy from 9 to 11:30, realize that life isn’t supposed to be the and another by lunchtime. There’s one thing that passes you by while you’re on catch: You have to tell guys that’s CASCADIA WEEKLY the way to work. where you’re at—and clue them in on your current dating M.O., which, on an 34 What did he say to charm you into being with him, “Misery loves company?” exclusivity scale, is best described as Maybe he’s not miserable. Maybe he’s ex- “I love a parade!” rear end COMIX CROSSWORD

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BY ROB BREZSNY information people entrusted you with. You would be FOOD alert without being overwrought, and discerning without getting distracted by inefﬁcient rage. In that dire 31 31 setting, Virgo, I bet you’d be indispensable. I challenge FREE WILL you to bring those same skills to bear in the relatively benign circumstances you’re now in the midst of. Hal- loween costume suggestion: French Resistance leader. CLASSIFIEDS ASTROLOGY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If you don’t make CLASSIFIEDS mistakes,” says Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank ARIES (March 21-April 19): What perplexing Wilczek, “you’re not working on hard enough problems.

defeat was inﬂicted on you once upon a time—a 27 And that’s a big mistake.” Take that to heart, Libra. defeat that you still can’t ﬁgure out how to rise above? Here are some of the questions you might want to ask What painful memory continues to lurk at the edges of yourself in the coming days: 1. “Am I dallying with FILM your awareness, taunting you with its implication that minor challenges that are beneath me?” 2. “Are my cur- you’ll never be whole? This is the time and this is the rent dilemmas truly worthy of my soulful intelligence?”

place, Aries, to solve a riddle like that so that you can 22 3. “Should I go in search of more interesting prob- move on to the next chapter of your life. You will get lems?” 4. “Is it time to upgrade the level of mistakes unexpected help and inspiration if you make it your in-

that I’m risking?” Halloween costume suggestions: a MUSIC tention to heal what has been hard to heal. Halloween magniﬁcent klutz, a daring clown, or a pioneer wearing costume suggestion: a doctor or nurse wearing a sign a big band-aid on your booboo. that says, “Physician, heal thyself.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming week, 20 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You don’t have to be you can generate a lot of good karma for yourself by anything you don’t want to be, Taurus. Please read that ART being an initiator. That’s why I advise you to never last sentence again, drinking it in as if it were an elixir sit back passively and merely watch what’s unfolding, you’ve been longing for since you were 13 years old.

but rather formulate a vision of what you’d like to see NURSERY, LANDSCAPING & ORCHARDS 18 Here are some corollaries: You don’t have to live up to happen, set your intention to make it happen, and anyone’s expectations. There’s no need to strive for a then plunge into action with brisk aplomb. Halloween kind of perfection that’s not very interesting to you. STAGE costume suggestions: fire-starter, seed-planter, fertility You don’t have to believe in ideas that make you sad god or goddess. UNIQUE PLANTS or tormented, and you don’t have to feel emotions that others try to manipulate you into feeling. In short, you SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Medical 17 are free to be exactly who you want to be. Celebrate insurance is out of reach for 46 million Americans. FOR NORTHWEST that this Halloween season. Costume yourself as the Our country is at war in Afghanistan and Iraq as well person you’ve been hiding. as with an omnipresent foe known as terrorism. Our GET OUT national debt is stupendous, our stock market has GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On some occasions GARDENS plunged, and many companies have failed. Meanwhile, in the coming week, you’ll be wise to act loyal, play- right next door, Canada has universal healthcare and a ornamentals, natives, fruit ful, and unironically enthusiastic. At those times, 16 budget surplus. Its banks are solvent and it’s embroiled you will attract the influences you need if you adopt in zero wars. Am I jealous? Of course. Am I planning to the mindset of a dog that loves to play Frisbee. On emigrate? No. I’m going to stay here and keep agitat- other occasions, Gemini, I advise you to be cannily APPLES, PEARS, WORDS ing for goodness and justice and beauty. After evaluat- self-possessed, fiercely attuned to your own needs, ing your astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you and determined to move at your own pace. Cat-like CIDER & PUMPKINS do the equivalent in your own life: Stand your ground behavior will be rewarded at those times. Halloween 8 as you work to fix the flawed situation you’ve been costume suggestion: half-dog and half-cat. AVAILABLE NOW given; don’t flee to where the grass seems greener. Hal- CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like the dreams loween costume suggestions: an elder statesman, wise of the future better than the history of the past,” Wed-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4

crone, or charismatic teacher. CURRENTS said Thomas Jefferson. It might feel a bit unnatural CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have the + Goodwin Road, Everson to live as if that were your motto, Cancerian, but I potential to throw the best party ever, and also to hope you’ll try it for a while. Here’s the experiment I 6 elevate the radiance of other people’s parties through propose: Whenever you have a spare moment, visual- www.cloudmountainfarm.com the force of your personality. Your social instincts are

ize a pleasurable scene you would like to create for VIEWS superb, by which I mean they’re brilliant when it comes yourself in the future. If a fearful image pops into to mixing business and pleasure and knowing how to

your mind as you do that, imagine yourself rolling that 4 strengthen alliances while invoking maximum fun. Your image up into a ball and throwing it into a roaring ﬁre. knack for getting people to work together in a noble

Meanwhile, any time your attention begins to wander MAIL purpose is at a peak. Halloween costume suggestion: off in the direction of the old days, pounce on it and a cross between a party animal and a community redirect it into a vision of a fulﬁllment to come. Hal- organizer. Or you and your friends could re-enact the 3 loween costume suggestion: the person you’ll be ﬁve Boston Tea Party. years from now. DO IT IT DO AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If I were dressing LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to San Fran- you for Halloween, I would be inclined to draw on the cisco’s Famous Wayne, the shoeshine king of the world,

inspiration of those old fairy tales that feature the 08 very few women get their shoes shined. Meanwhile, theme of restoration: like the prince who, because of a Ngo Thi Lam, the proprietress of the nail salon near my .29. curse, has lived for years as a frog, only to be returned house, says that only a tiny percentage of her pedicure 10 to his rightful body and role through the kiss of a merci- customers are men. I hope that you Leos buck these Kelli is working for you ful soul; or like a princess who is stolen as a baby from

trends in the coming days. It’s high time for you to try .03 the royal family by an old bear and raised by the beast new approaches to the lowest part of you. You need and getting things done. 44 in a forest cave, but is ﬁnally tracked down and rescued # to become more grounded, and an excellent way to by the queen on one of her endless searches. I bet your expedite the shift will be to pay close, creative atten- actual life will feature a storyline similar to those. tion to your feet. Halloween costume suggestion: Find or create gorgeous, extravagant shoes that don’t make PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you knew how per- “As Chair of the House Sub Appropriations Committee your feet hurt. fect a time it is for you to dance the forbidden dance, you would begin immediately. You would unleash the on General Government and Audit Review, I am committed VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you and I were words that have never been spoken, crack the codes members of the French Resistance during the German to hold government accountable and to ensure that that have never been broken, and give the love that

occupation of our country in World War II, I’d want you CASCADIA WEEKLY has previously been verboten. Please, dear Pisces, have Washington State invests in environmental services that to serve as the communication hub for our community. faith in your ability to thrive in the wild frontier where With understated ferocity, you would gather data produce results.”— State Representative Kelli Linville many of the rules are negotiable and every fantasy is 37 about what’s going on behind the scenes. You’d be ripe to be mutated. Halloween costume suggestion: the Paid for by People for Linville (D) P.O. Box 5782 Bellingham, WA 98227 precise and economical in relaying messages between dancer who dances the forbidden dance. (360)739-9194 [email protected] www.kellilinville.com

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VIEWS VIEWS DRESSING UP is fun, but one of the great pleasures of Halloween—some might and cooling it creates caramel Line an 8-inch square baking pan or say it’s the whole point—is leftover candy. Adults who might never normally buy (or admit candy. Cooking it even longer roasting dish with oiled foil or parchment. 4 to buying) themselves a bag of mini candy bars will happily pick up a few extra bags in makes toffee, in case you’re Cut the butter into pieces and combine it hopes of a low trick-or-treater turnout. I generally don’t eat a lot of candy, but I admit more into hard candies. It can with the cream and salt in a small sauce- MAIL MAIL Halloween is usually my downfall. My main weakness is for mini peanut butter cups, and be a ﬁne line between the differ- pan. Bring to a boil, then turn off the heat

and set the pan aside. 3 my husband’s is for Butterfinger bars, so those are what we usually stock up on. But if I ent products, but as long as you Combine the sugar, corn syrup and water was just going for nostalgia, the flavor I really associate with Halloween is caramel. don’t completely burn it, you’ll in a large, heavy saucepan (nonstick not DO IT IT DO Where I grew up, in a rural area in Eastern Washington, we only had a few neighbors to have something tasty! And this recommended). Bring to a boil, stirring hit up for trick-or-treating. But although the houses were few and far between, the haul way, you can flavor the candy to just until the sugar is dissolved. Continue 08 08 was excellent (and being an only child, I didn’t have to share). One house frequently had suit your own taste. to boil, swirling the pan occasionally, until .29. freshly made caramel apples, guaranteed to get me, and my costume, thoroughly sticky. Keep in mind that these are the mixture takes on a light golden color. 10 Pour in the cream and butter mixture (it Those always had to be eaten immediately. And there were plenty of those little squares probably not going to replace will foam up impressively) and continue

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# candy, so my Halloween haul had to last me as long as possible, and those caramels would dy. Kids don’t always go for the thermometer on the side of the pot. When last a good long time. saltiness, and unless you’re per- the caramel has reached 248 degrees, pour Since I was a kid, commercial caramels have since been replaced in my heart by sonally familiar with all the kids the mixture into the prepared pan. Don’t scrape the sides, it can lead to lumps. If sea-salt butter caramels. The salt brings out the butter, which tempers the sweetness. (and parents) who come to your you want some salty crunch, sprinkle fleur The flavor has a lot more depth than a simple sweet candy, which makes it much more door on Halloween, you might de sel (or other coarse salt) on top of the compelling for the adult palate. But good salted caramels aren’t always that easy to not want to hand out home- caramel and lightly press it in. find, and may be prohibitively expensive, so why not make your own? It’s not hard, as made candies. But they’d make Let cool for two hours, then cut into CASCADIA WEEKLY long as you have some of the right equipment: a deep pot, a candy thermometer, and great Halloween party favors— whatever shapes you want. Wrap each piece of candy separately in cellophane, perhaps an apron. unless, of course, you end up 38 parchment or wax paper. Potential varia- Caramel, at its most basic, is simply sugar, melted and cooked until golden. Adding cream eating them all yourself. But we tions could include chocolate, espresso, and butter softens it and makes it into sauce (perfect for ice cream!), and cooking it further don’t admit to that, do we? honey, maple or plain vanilla. Literature SATURDAY, NOV. 1st, 7:00pm

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