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FUZZ BUZZ, P.11 + THE ROOST, P.14 + FILM SHORTS, P.23 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 06-14-2017* • ISSUE:*24 • V.12 ART AND ACTIVISM Standing with Planned CLIMATE Parenthood, P.16 ALLIANCES Charting our own SUMMER course, P.08 SOUNDS Elizabeth Park Concert Series, P.18 MANIFESTO An oceanic exploration, P.15 c a s c a d i a Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham 30 FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Ferndale Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Centennial A glance at this week’s Riverwalk Park 24 VISUAL happenings Summer Solstice Art Walk: 5-8pm, historic Fairhaven B-BOARD Night Market: 6-10pm, Commercial Street SATURDAY [06.17.17] 22 ONSTAGE FILM The Emperor of the Moon: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park Noises Off: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 18 Fatal Attraction: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre MUSIC Inclusivity will Tarnation: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Ryan Stiles & Friends: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 16 be the name DANCE ART Out of the Box: 1pm and 6:30pm, Mount Baker of the game Theatre 15 Manifesto: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts at Whatcom Center STAGE County’s first COMMUNITY Berry Dairy Days: 7am-9pm, Burlington 14 Queer Prom Salute to Joe Moser: 10:30am-3:30pm, Ferndale Library Sat., June 17 Queer Prom: 7-11pm, Whatcom Museum’s Light- GET OUT catcher Building at Whatcom GET OUT 12 Sofia Milstead Memorial Run: 9am, Lynden High Museum’s School Run for Epilepsy: 9:30am, Lake Padden Park WORDS Lightcatcher Stommish Water Festival: 12-8:30pm, Lummi Nation 8 Building Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham FOOD CURRENTS Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Center Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, River- 6 front Plaza Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts VIEWS WEDNESDAY [06.14.17] Center Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street 4 ONSTAGE Plaza A Night at the Theatre: 6:30pm, Bellingham Twin Sisters Market: 10am-12pm, North Fork MAIL Theatre Guild Library Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 2 MUSIC 2 Market Square Matt Weiner Trio: 7pm, Unity Spiritual Center DO IT DO IT VISUAL FOOD Planned Parenthood Benefit: 10am-4pm, Morrison Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Glass Art Green MoNA Art Auction: 5-10pm, Swinomish Casino and Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer 06.14.17 Lodge, Anacortes Heritage Square Brewers Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal Peruse “Stilettos on Parade” at 12th Street Shoes on .12 SUNDAY [06.18.17] 24 # Fri., June 16 as part of the annual Summer Solstice THURSDAY [06.15.17] ONSTAGE Art Walk in the historic Fairhaven district Noises Off: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild ONSTAGE Fatal Attraction: 2pm, Anacortes Community Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Theatre The Emperor of the Moon: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park FRIDAY [06.16.17] DANCE DANCE Noises Off: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild USA Dance: 7:15-10pm, the Majestic Out of the Box: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Fatal Attraction: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community ONSTAGE Manifesto: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts CASCADIA WEEKLY Theatre The Emperor of the Moon: 7:30pm, Maritime Heri- Center MUSIC Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre tage Park 1-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner 2 Chris Eger Band: The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Noises Off: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild COMMUNITY Swing Connection: 2-4pm, Whatcom Museum’s Fatal Attraction: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Berry Dairy Days: 11am-10:30pm, Burlington Lightcatcher Courtyard FOOD Theatre Lynden Farmers Market: 12-6pm, 324 Front St. Tarnation: 8pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT COMMUNITY Bow Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Ryan Stiles & Friends: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Stommish Water Festival: 12-8:30pm, Lummi Nation Father’s Day Car Show: 9am-3pm, BelleWood Acres Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 30 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD Tim Johnson ext 260 editor@ 24 mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle B-BOARD ext 204 calendar@ cascadiaweekly.com 22 Music & Film Editor: FILM Carey Ross ext 203 The world has lost another superhero. Although he only music@ 18 played the titular role in the 1960s-era Batman televi- cascadiaweekly.com sion show for three years, Adam West was forever known MUSIC as the crime-fighting Caped Crusader. The Washington- Production born actor, 88, died last week in Los Angeles after a Art Director: 16 short battle with leukemia. Jesse Kinsman jesse@ ART kinsmancreative.com Design: 15 Views & News Bill Kamphausen 04: Mailbag Advertising Design: STAGE 06: Gristle & Rhodes Roman Komarov roman@ 08: Climate alliances cascadiaweekly.com 14 Send all advertising materials to 10: Last week’s news [email protected] 11: Police blotter, Index GET OUT Advertising Arts & Life Account Executive: 12 Scott Pelton 12: Radium read 360-647-8200 x 202 spelton@ WORDS The green scene 14: cascadiaweekly.com 15: Intertidal exploration 8 Distribution 16: Artists stand with PP Distribution Manager: 18: Summer sounds, take one Scott Pelton HOUSING AND CLIMATE CHANGE a program, the military would have to be used 360-647-8200 x 202 CURRENTS 20: Clubs I agree we should urge our local governments once in a while. spelton@ to provide “dense, walkable, mixed-income Another approach would be to tax the very rich 6 22: Revved up cascadiaweekly.com neighborhoods with transit access” to reduce to create jobs. The downside of this would be, Whatcom: Erik Burge, 23: Film Shorts housing shortages and climate change. say, if you taxed a big company, the workers there VIEWS Stephanie Simms However, a primary driver of climate change, of- would have to take a cut in pay or even be laid off. Skagit: Linda Brown, 4 4 Rear End Barb Murdoch ten overlooked, is overpopulation. People pollute, I believe we’re living in a corporate state. 24: Bulletin Board, Free Will and excessive populations pollute far too much. Trump is looking for scapegoats. The future is MAIL MAIL Letters Along with fostering municipal planning solu- frightening. 25: Wellness SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ —Joe Randell, Bellingham 2 CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM tions, we must strongly encourage our citizenry to 26: Crossword do its part by limiting family size. Fact is in 2017 DO IT 27: Advice Goddess having a large family is an environmental crime. A MINISTRY OF FAITH 28: Comix —Warren Sheay, Bellingham Christians, like adherents of all religions, are not necessarily a monolithic bloc. Being that 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku LOOKING PAST TO A each individual is unique, the same goes for each 06.14.17 30: An esteemed companion FRIGHTENING FUTURE individual in the religion of his or her choice. I remember I was with my dad at Sears when it Some people were brought up to help others; .12 24 ©2017 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by was downtown. He was looking at some automo- others were brought up to “do unto others as # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 tive stuff and I was looking at bicycles. I said to others would do to you, but make sure you have COVER: Photo by Tim [email protected] him, “Look, dad! A bicycle made in China.” the most toys come Judgement Day.” Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Summers Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing I remember reading Fortune magazine around Helping those who cannot help themselves is papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material 1980. An article featured the CEO of a luggage a critical element of the Christian faith, whether to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- company. The stockholders were so pleased that he it is with time, talent or treasure. Yet sadly, far ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday shipped a lot of jobs to China that they nicknamed too many have such a narrow view of the world the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLY returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. him “Chainsaw Al.” I wonder if they’re still pleased? that they do not see anything outside of a smart- LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. Would people rather buy a suitcase made with phone screen. 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your $1.50-an-hour labor or $9-an-hour labor? Maybe to Jesus’ ministry was not meant for some to be letters to fewer than 300 words. remain competitive, they must export jobs? an exclusive Sunday social club, but a life and I wonder if military expenditures have become lifestyle dedicated to helping all of his people a sort of “make work” program? The real down- in our world. side of this would be that in order to justify such —Russell S. Sapienza, Bellingham NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre Made From Scratch 30 Every Day FOOD Milling Our 24 Own Fresh WHOLE GRAIN B-BOARD Flour! 22 FILM 305 E Magnolia St 18 Bellingham, WA 360.671.0873 bellinghambread.com MUSIC 16 Local • F resh • Handcrafted • De licious ART 15 STAGE 14 GET OUT 12 WORDS 8 CURRENTS Element 6 VIEWS Music Festival 4 RAISE 4 Three Nights, Six Sets MAIL MAIL 2 DO IT THE ROOF No matter what project is on your list this year, get the job done with a Home Equity loan or line of credit from Industrial CU.