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PAINTER TAKES PART IN THE LUMMI ISLAND FOOD A glance at what’s happening this week ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR 31 CLASSIFIEDS 08.27.08 08.31.08 WEDNESDAY SUNDAY 24 FILM FILM ON STAGE ON STAGE Twelfth Night: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. Situation at Sullivan Slough: 2pm, Pioneer 22 22 Park, La Conner DANCE The Tempest: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. Scandinavian Dance Class: 6:45pm, Norway Hall MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Bumbershoot: 11am-11pm, Seattle Center 20 Flip’s Birthday Concert: 7pm, Fairhaven Library Asian Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch Park,

Blaine ART WORDS Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, American Museum of Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham Radio

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COMMUNITY Dog Days of Summer: 10am-3pm, Lake Padden STAGE Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Park Green VISUAL ARTS 18 Lummi Artists’ Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Island GET OUT 08.28.08 Lopez Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lopez Island

THURSDAY 16 ON STAGE 09.01.08 WORDS Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre King Lear: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. MONDAY

The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 8 MUSIC MUSIC Bumbershoot: 11am-11pm, Seattle Center Phil Emerson, Phil Sottile: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Julian MacDonough Trio: 7-9pm, Chuckanut Ridge GET OUT CURRENTS Wine Co. Soapbox Cart Race: 11am, downtown Lynden - )*2) *-")$./ DR. LONNIE SMITH— 6 ALSO KNOWN AS A “RIDDLE WRAPPED IN AN ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A VISUAL ARTS

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SATURDAY IT DO DO IT Situation at Sullivan Slough: 8pm, Pioneer Park, La Conner COMMUNITY ON STAGE Unscripted: Anacortes Farmers Market: Scrooge Auditions: 9pm, Upfront Theatre ON STAGE 9am-2pm, Depot 6pm, Bellingham Arts Acad- 08 Situation at Sullivan Slough: 2pm and 8pm, Arts Center emy for Youth .27. DANCE Pioneer Park, La Conner Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 8 Dance Party: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance King Lear: 3pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. Market Square WORDS

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MUSIC Unscripted: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Park # Anacortes Jazz Festival: Through Monday, Anacortes DANCE GET OUT FIND COMPLETE Live at Sycamore Square: 7-9pm, Sycamore Square Ballroom Dance: 9-11pm, Blue Moon Ballroom Lake Padden Relay: 10am, East Lake Padden Park Cheetah Speed, Octagon Control: 9:30pm, Cabin Regatta: Through Sunday, Bellingham Bay LISTINGS STARTING Tavern MUSIC Bumbershoot: 11am-11pm, Seattle Center VISUAL ARTS ON PAGE 16 COMMUNITY Katie Van Kooten: 4pm, Glen Echo Garden Lummi Artists’ Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Rummage Sale: 8am-4pm, Bellingham Senior Dock Dance: 6pm, Taylor Dock Island TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, SEND INFO CASCADIA WEEKLY Center Celtic Roots: 7pm, Birch Bay State Park Lopez Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lopez Island TO [email protected] Video Sale: 2-6pm, Bellingham Public Library Jazz Trio: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center 3 Contact THIS ISSUE Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 Editorial Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson 38 38 E ext 260 mail ô editor@ FOOD cascadiaweekly.com CONTENTS CREDITS LETTERS

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360.224.2387 8 31: Help Wanted, Services E THREATENS local farming. Otherwise tim- By any measure—attendance ô marisa@ BLANCHARD berlands are fated to become at public hearings, comments 32: Volunteer, Sodoku, Wellness cascadiaweekly.com I was disappointed by the either parks or subdivisions, to online blogs, letters in 33: Troubletown, Ogg’s World, Bulletin CURRENTS CURRENTS Frank Tabbita letter from Ken Wilcox regard- mostly the latter, and timber newspapers—NSC backers are Board E360.739.2388 ô frank@ ing his proposed Chuckanut demand pushes logging into more motivated and better 6 34: Free Will Astrology cascadiaweekly.com Mountain Park District. I have remote wild areas and the organized. 36: This Modern World, Tom The Dancing a lot of respect for Ken. But Third World. After the NSC vastly outnum- VIEWS VIEWS Distribution Bug it’s time for the community to When Ken’s CMPD group bered the CMPD at a meeting David Cloutier, Robert be aware that the CMPD cam- came along, I was a bit un- of the Skagit Boundary Review 4 4 38: Granola town Bell, JW Land & As- paign is going poorly. Ken’s clear about their goals and Board, I was alarmed to hear sociates MAIL MAIL MAIL CASCADIA letter covers up that reality somewhat skeptical of their Ken claim his group didn’t ô distro@ while casting blame in every strategy. Still, I have admired expect that process to be po- cascadiaweekly.com 3 ©2007 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by direction but his own. the audacity of their vision litical. As implausibly naïve Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly

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PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 Send letters to letters@ [email protected] with superlative ecological, how the effort would prog- obsolete when the ordeal was Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia cascadiaweekly.com. Keep

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.27. SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send These are threatened by a mix off well and had an impres- Boundary Review Board at a 8 material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be sive petitioning effort, but hearing in Bellingham, where returned of you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be of logging and urbanization. I considered for calendar listings, notice of events must be received in

.03 think the answer is to protect the campaign has since stum- CMPD supporters should have writing no later than noon Wednesday the week prior to publication. 35

# Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompa- key areas like the upper slopes bled badly. easily been mobilized. Both nied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and of Blanchard Mountain and the The effort catalyzed a commissions consequently content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. steep areas of the Lake What- counter movement: the North voted unanimously against 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 com watershed, while working Sound Conservancy arose to the CMPD. letters to fewer than 300 words. SUBSCRIPTIONS: One year $70, six months $35. Back issues $1 for walk-ins, with timber interests on the oppose the tax involved with The latest blow came when a $5 for mailed requests when available. Cascadia Weekly is mailed at third-class COVER: Photo of Clyde Ford by the CMPD. A key principle of judge ruled for NSC, invalidat- rates.Postmaster: Send all address changes to Cascadia Weekly, PO Box 2833, Chara Stuart remainder to both prevent de- Bellingham, WA 98227-2833 velopment and ﬁnd more ac- any campaign is to mobilize ing the CMPD’s petitions. Ken’s CASCADIA WEEKLY ceptable logging methods. support without inciting op- letter to the Weekly explains

4 A progressive community ponents to mobilize. We how that ruling is the fault of like Bellingham should support don’t need a panel of Olym- the press, county prosecutors, NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre production of wood products pic judges to score how NSC Karl Rove, and perhaps even underage Chinese gymnasts. When on performance, such that Michael Ken wrote that the CMPD was never Phelps is a better bet than, say, Ice- notiﬁed of this-and-that and was land’s beach volleyball team. And un- misled at turns, I had to agree with like Olympic medals, the forests with his characterization of all this as which Ken’s group is gambling are of

“strange.” I’ve been through a lot of great value to us all. court cases and know the system op- —Mitch Friedman, Bellingham 38 erates according to well-established FOOD rules. Some just play better than GOVERNOR’S POINT

others under those rules. ROADS TO RUIN 31 While CMPD advocates are admira- As an owner of Clark’s Point, lo- ble in their volunteerism, they don’t cated at the northern peninsula of qualify for the slack we often give to Chuckanut Bay opposite Governor’s young, idealistic activists. Ken has Point, I am writing to express my to- CLASSIFIEDS been involved in conservation for tal objection to the proposed devel- longer than me. In activist terms, opment of 141 homes on Governor’s 24

we’re old growth. In dog years, we’re Point. Every aspect of this proposal FILM as hoary as McCain. is against what I believe to be sen-

If the CMPD overreached in their sible and conservation-minded. 22 ambition or underachieved in their They are describing this develop- execution, the damage could go well ment as a “green” community with MUSIC beyond their own demise. Let’s hope the owners being land stewards, with the NSC isn’t a Frankenstein’s Monster the goal to preserve the point’s en- that will oppose conservation mea- vironmental and natural setting. It 20 sures long after it has killed the mas- seems incredibly dishonest to de- ART ter who summoned it. scribe themselves and their project CMPD leaders, including Ken, have this way once you see their plans. 19 been critical of, and even ﬁled a law- The only way they will be able to

suit against a balanced agreement show what habitats were once there STAGE that was negotiated for Blanchard is by naming their roadways after all

Mountain State Forest. That agree- they will have destroyed. How about 18 ment, which I was party to, protects names like Otter Den Way, Bald Eagle the roadless heart of Blanchard Moun- Nest Drive, Heron Heights, Peregrine

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SAFETY LESSONS FROM THE MASTERS OF DISASTER: As the scrawl of tropical depres- sions marching across the middle Atlantic in

what’s expected to be the worst hurricane 38 38 season in memory might serve to remind us, views there is little comfort in nearly 70 local gov- FOOD OPINIONS THE GRISTLE ernment ofﬁcials and employees attending an

31 emergency management seminar taught by FEMA—the agency responsible for the deadli- est federal response to a national emergency in United States history—other than self- CLASSIFIEDS reliance. The nadir of a peculiarly bankrupt approach toward governance (“gubmint don’t 24 work; elect us and we’ll prove it!”), in 2005 BY NORMAN SOLOMON

FILM FILM FEMA Fed-Ex’d the senseless deaths of nearly 1,000 Americans in the wake of Hurricane Ka- trina; heckuva job, Brownie! 22 22 As no one at FEMA has served prison time for Clash of Narratives that agency’s criminally negligent response, let MUSIC us express doubts that any lessons from that FALSE CHOICES PLACE POLITICAL DEBATE ON AUTO-PILOT

disaster have been deeply learned at the federal 20 level; nevertheless, FEMA, the clown prince of BY NOW, across the progressive we reject entirely or we’re complicit.

ART ART federal incompetence, presumes to teach com- spectrum, some familiar storylines Such analysis tends to see Obama munities how to fend for themselves in a dis- tell us the meaning of the Obama as just a little bit slower on the aster—the only response we might reasonably campaign. In a groove, each nar- march to the same disasters that 19 expect in an emergency from a federal govern- rative digs its truths. But whether John McCain would lead us to. That

STAGE STAGE ment commited to bankruptcy at every level; those particular truths are the most analysis takes a long view—but fails and now, let’s make them tax cuts permanent! important at this historical moment to see the profound importance of

18 Self-reliance was indeed the watchword last is another story. the crossroads right in front of us, week as ofﬁcials from a broad array of Belling- We can set aside the plotline corporate centrist core of his es- where either Obama or McCain will be ham and Whatcom County government agen- that touts Barack Obama as a vi- poused policies. propelled into the White House. GET OUT cies, nonproﬁt organizations and businesses sionary pragmatist who has earned No matter how much we might In an odd and ironic way, progres- practiced disaster response at FEMA’s Emer- the complete trust of progressives. like to think that people’s reasoning sives who are unequivocal Obama 16 gency Management Institute in Maryland. The The belief has diminished in recent and logic are the essence of political boosters and unequivocal Obama event was hosted by the City of Bellingham and months—in the wake of numerous judgments, actual experience tells bashers embrace similar concepts of

WORDS Washington State; airfare and housing were Obama pronouncements on foreign us different: The political stances of limited alternatives in electoral work. covered by a Federal Emergency Management policy, his FISA vote that damaged many people, including on the left, They seem to rule out candidly critical

8 Agency grant. the Fourth Amendment and the are contoured around their own in- support of a candidate—viewing such Offered to a handful of municipalities each like—but such belief was never re- ternal emotional terrain. And there an option as either a betrayal of the year, the “Integrated Emergency Management ally grounded in his record as a poli- may not be a lot of sorting through candidate or a betrayal of principles.

CURRENTS CURRENTS Course” is an intense, comprehensive training tician or his policy positions. contradictions or analysis of the cur- But supporting one candidate— regimen that places public ofﬁcials, community A more substantial narrative rent historical circumstances. clearly preferable to the Republican— 6 6 agency representatives and emergency response concedes that Obama has “compro- Yet we’re in great need of willing- should not require a lack of candor personnel in a simulated but realistic disaster, mised” on numerous fronts but as- ness to acknowledge contradictory about the preferred candidate’s de- VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS exposing them to an emergency setting under sumes he has done so in order to truths, to sort through them as a fects. And progressive interests are stress in order to teach basic crisis tecnhiques. get elected president, after which means of ﬁnding the best progres- not advanced by claiming, against 4 The 4½-day course stresses the integration of time his real self will emerge. This sive strategies for the here and now. the evidence, that it doesn’t really

MAIL MAIL key community resources in disaster response. kind of dubious projection is as old While some attacks on Obama from matter which candidate wins. The simulated emergency—established earli- as the political hills, and inevitably the left are overheated, overly ideo- We suffer from way too much po-

3 er this spring when FEMA ofﬁcials visited Bell- becomes a kind of murky exercise logical and mechanistic, there’s scant litical argumentation that seems to

DO IT IT DO ingham to gather speciﬁc information about the in armchair psychology. All in all, basis for denying the reality that be on automatic pilot, either pufﬁng

city in order to develop a realistic exercise— projection is not useful for assess- his campaign and his positions are up Obama as a paragon of progressive

08 08 was a major earthquake, a disturbingly likely ing where political leaders are and way too cozy with corporate power. virtues or denying the real differ-

.27. scenario on this limb of the so-called Ring of where they’re headed. Meanwhile, his embrace of escalat- ences between him and McCain. The 8 Fire, surrounded as we are by volcanoes stirred In contrast, quite a few on the ing the war in Afghanistan reﬂects pretending that follows from faith or

.03 as North America rubs against the Juan de Fuca left—some from the outset of his acceptance rather than rejection of dogma is no way to mobilize a pro- 35

# Plate. Participants were equally realistic. They presidential race, others beginning what Martin Luther King Jr. called gressive movement. included Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike and What- more recently—express appreciable “the madness of militarism.” com County Executive Pete Kremen and their disdain for the Obama campaign. The To some, who evidently see voting Norman Solomon is an elected Obama emergency response teams; personnel from St. critiques of Obama’s positions on is- as an act of moral witness rather than delegate to this week’s Democratic Na- Joseph Hospital, the Mount Baker Chapter of sues are often on the mark. Overall, pragmatic choice (even in a general tional Convention. His book War Made the American Red Cross, and the Community the fact that Obama brings civility election), forces such as corporate Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Emergency Response Team (CERT); as well as and intelligence to public discourse power or militarism are binary—like Keep Spinning Us to Death has been CASCADIA WEEKLY educators, officials from the refineries and nat- that would be a welcome change in a toggle switch—either totally on or adapted into a documentary film of

6 ural gas and power suppliers, among others. the White House does not alter the totally off. This outlook says: either the same name. “Many of the course instructors have actually gone through ‘The ‘Big One’ in their respective VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE 2ND ANNUAL communities,” Kremen said, praising the course. Skagit Valley B2C EXPO

The lessons were not lost on Bell- ingham ofﬁcials, the wounds of the 38 1999 Olympic Pipeline explosion and ~ ADMISSION: $2 PER PERSON $5 PER FAMILY FOOD ﬁre still raw on the landscape. Yet

ironically, COB has in the same decade TH TH 31 moved away from the recommended SEPTEMBER 19 & 20 integrated response, abandoning in Brunch AT THE SKAGIT COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS the waning days of Mark Asmundson’s Sat & Sun 10-2 F &SATURDAY 10 AM-8 PM administration the integrated emer- CLASSIFIEDS gency management program Whatcom Sleep in and ◆ Daily Drawings & Prizes ◆ 104 Indoor Exhibits County maintains in partnership with ◆ Indoor/Outdoor Demonstrations ◆ Fun Children’s Activities 24 still get breakfast! ◆ Sample Skagit Restaurants Food Tasting ◆ Meet Weatherman Andy Wappler its cities in preference to COB’s own FILM individualized brand of emergency ◆ Local Beer & Wine Tasting ◆ FREE PARKING! Late Risers Welcome ◆ Entertainment Featuring Hot Box on Friday night & Mid-Life Crisis on Saturday night

management (in pursuit of, one pre- 22 sumes, the Homeland Security fund- $4 Cajun Bloody Marys & Cajun Coffees ing trough that feeds this redundant Presented by: MUSIC splinter effort). and

Despite this chillier clime, Pike and Kremen praised last week’s EMI course 20 Grand Sponsor: work, for both the training it provided ART their response personnel and the op- Ready to Ride? portunities for neglected face time it Premier Sponsors: 19 offered the two chief administrators.

“I spent time with the mayor in a STAGE way I really hadn’t before, and I think Executive My Own Sponsors: Vintage we had an opportunity to see new 18 sides of one another,” Kremen re- Evening Reception Sponsors: lates. “I talked more with him over the GET OUT past ﬁve days than I have in the nine WE HAVE WHAT YOU NEED! For information, schedule & booth registration, visit www.skagitb2c.com or call the Chamber at 360-428-8547 months prior. I found the week very valuable in laying the groundwork for 16 closer collaboration.”

Might better relations return a more WORDS integrated city-county approach to emergency management? 8 “I spoke to the mayor and to [COB Fire Chief] Bill Boyd about that very brieﬂy,” Kremen reponds, “and I CURRENTS think the sense was ‘Not right now, 6 but maybe in the future this is some- 6 thing that we may wind up doing’— VIEWS VIEWS reunifying in the future. The door is VIEWS open to work toward that, perhaps. 4 We didn’t spend much time talking Real Estate about it, but partnering in this exer- for MAIL

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abilities that continue well beyond running. educational, historically oriented activities. They hope to help girls utilize these skills in “There’s something about getting together their everyday lives as they grow up. with girls that promotes a healthy attitude,” INFO: whatcomymca.org, 733-8630 she says. The camp provides a haven that doesn’t push girls into doing “adult things” THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND so early. Alford considers this “preserving RADIO recently offered its first summer the magic of childhood just a little longer.” camp exclusively for girls. According to INFO: bellinghamcooperativeschool.com, 733-1024 AMRE staffer David Swanson, the week-long day camp for 11-15 year olds was “absolute- BY MK RESK SHE MOST ENJOYS THE ly a success.” This year, the program was funded by a grant from ALCOA. Swanson 5K DAY AND FINDS IT’S said the museum hopes to hold the pro- EXCITING TO SEE HOW THE GROWING"- / gram again. AMRE Camp for Girls focused on radio and the science around radio. Stu- GIRLS ATTAIN A “SENSE dents had plenty of tactile projects to keep them busy. They built a radio, took radios OF ACCOMPLISHMENT” apart, visited radio stations around town AND OFTEN SURPRISE and even made their own show, which aired on AMRE’s station, KMRE 102.3 FM. Swanson THEMSELVES IN “WHAT "$-'.PROGRAMS HELP thinks “the friendship thing” is what the THEY CAN SET THEIR MIND girls gained most from the program. While YOUNG WOMEN COMPETE those friendships were made, the girls also AND BODIES TO DO.” learned a lot and had fun doing so. “They were exposed to a lot of science that girls FAIRHAVEN GIRLS’ SCHOOL is poised to aren’t necessarily encouraged to do,” as- begin its first school year Sept. 2. The RESEARCHERS AT the National Council for Research on serts Swanson. Combining new friendships school seeks “to celebrate and empower Women recently concluded that “girls can benefit from programs and with new concepts proved to be an effec- the authentic girl by providing a learning strategies that build on their strengths and encourage them to explore tive mix. environment that honors the unique learn- meaningful possibilities for their futures.” Similar research has shown INFO: amre.us 738-3886 ing styles of adolescent girls through in- that girls thrive in academic, social and athletic settings where they tegrated curriculum, mentoring programs can feel successful. Many people consider an all-girls’ setting to be the BELLINGHAM COOPERATIVE SCHOOL held and community connections.” The school’s best place for girls to gain confidence and competence. its 14th annual American Girls summer camp director, Amanda Werchan, is a firm be- A peek around Whatcom County reveals several local programs that this year. It was just as successful as ever, liever that “a student can be taught the follow this trend. Among them are: Girls On The Run, The American Mu- according to school director, Heidi Alford. many components of learning through the seum of Radio and Electricity’s Summer Camp for Girls, Bellingham Co- Girls ages 5-18 attend camp sessions. Be- lenses of a strong interest.” She hopes to operative School’s American Girls summer camp, and several programs sides the usual playing-with-dolls-type ac- give students at Fairhaven Girls’ School the at the new Fairhaven Girls’ School. tivities, the campers learn about American opportunity to discover and develop their history, arts and crafts, drama, and cooking. own interests in meaningful ways. One way GIRLS ON THE RUN is an international nonprofit organization founded Each historically themed doll is accompanied this will be accomplished is through the in North Carolina in 1996. Its mission is to educate and prepare girls by a series of six books. Alford considers the school’s afternoon workshop time. Electives for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. It combines the power books to be so well-researched that she has such as improv theater, strings instruction, of running with a prevention curriculum to develop the whole girl. The used them as part of her classroom curricu- and world languages will be rotated so all local council, an affiliate of Whatcom County YMCA, has existed since lum. United States history topics ranging students participate in each subject. Com- 2001. Programs for girls ages 8-13 operate three times a year. The next from Native American studies to pioneer life munity service will also be a part of the session begins Sept. 22. Each 10-week course meets once or twice a are explored in accessible, enjoyable ways. standard curriculum. The school is primarily week. The culminating event is a 5K in which each girl participates. 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8 mess. Republican bosses are unenthusiastic, both about his prospects If Barack Obama ends up beating John McCain, 8 and about the direction he would take his party should he win. He has he will have done so with the smallest August lead aligned himself with the most unpopular aspect of the wildly unpopular for a Democrat in memory—three points, within the CURRENTS CURRENTS outgoing administration, the Iraq War. At a time when economically in- statistical margin of error for tracking polls. A col- CURRENTS secure voters are staring down the barrel of a recession-cum-depression, umnist for the Chicago Sun-Times argues that’s good McCain promises more of the same—no help is on the way. And he’s old. news: “Out of the gate,” writes Carol Marin, “the 6 Sooo painfully I-don’t-use-the-Internet old. thoroughbred who leads too early and by too great What is it that has the politerati betting on a McCain Administration? a margin is more often than not the vulnerable one, VIEWS Historical precedent. During most presidential election years, Republi- the one in danger of losing it all to the horse who 4 cans tend to surge in the last few months of the campaign. For a Demo- strategically holds back, waits, and then thunders in crat to win in November, he must have a comfortable lead in the polls at the final furlongs to finish first.” Nice metaphor, but MAIL

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Americans want their presidents to be a National Dad- this stuff? 38 38 than expected. I think it’s that Obama is doing worse dy—an ornery cuss willing to err on the side of kicking If he is to make history by salvaging his campaign from than he would expect.” some innocent schlub’s ass to protect them. its current neck-and-neck status with McCain, Obama FOOD Vincent Hutchings of the University of Michigan won- Last time around, in 2004, John Kerry repeatedly will have to rally the Democrats’ liberal base by throwing

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THE THAT WAS ART actor, built to produce plutonium for an atomic bomb during World War II, a national historic landmark. The an- 19 nouncement by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray Ferndale resident Geoff Menzies received 08.19.08 doesn’t guarantee the B Reactor will STAGE never be torn down, but likely opens the the President’s Vol- unteer Service Award

TUESDAY 18 door for more public tours of a relic of Aug. 20. Menzies was Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Chuck Snyder handily the Atomic Age. recognized with the retains his seat against challenger Doug Shepherd in an election national honor for response slightly more robust than the average for the state. In- Puget Sound Energy proposes a 8.4 his many hours of GET OUT cumbent legislators Doug Ericksen, Kelli Linville, and Jeff Morris percent electric rate hike. the result of community service to cleaning up and pro- 16 tally large leads over their challengers, as does U.S. Congress- negotiations between PSE and ratepay- tecting Drayton Harbor man Rick Larsen. About 75 naked people on bicycles gathered at the Van- er representatives, the tentative deal and the greater Puget couver Police station Saturday after one naked rider who would raise the average home’s monthly Sound. WORDS Port of Bellingham commissioners approve an agreement that brought his 3-year-old son along was arrested under public bill about $7.65 and must be approved

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2am. When police arrived, the man ex- 31 DEATH RACE plained he was screaming at his pet cat On Aug. 20, police gave chase to an Ed- and showed the claw marks to prove his monds motorist across three counties point. “Whether the yelling preceded or and at speeds in excess of 100 miles followed the scratching” was unclear to CLASSIFIEDS per hour. The chase started when the investigating ofﬁcers. “In either case, 49-year-old driver was spotted by state the man agreed to be quiet, and no fur- 24

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When the race appeared to threaten oth- ‘PEACE PORTAL’ 22 er motorists and pedestrians, troopers On Aug. 15, Blaine Police arrived just in called off pursuit but resumed time to see one man catch a fist in MUSIC again when the man crossed his face outside a restaurant into Skagit and Whatcom on Peace Portal Drive. Police counties. Near Sunset Drive “broke up the lunch show and 20 in Bellingham, the driver contacted audience mem- ART lost control while attempt- bers.” The restaurant owners ing to pass another motorist. explained the fight had bro- 19 His car flipped several times ken out inside among multiple

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him and transported him to jail. primary aggressor who was arrested for 18 disorderly conduct. BILLIONS IN U.S. lobbying expenditures made by the COMPELLING ARGUMENTS $1.3 top 173 corporations over the past four years. On Aug. 23, the manager of a pawn shop On Aug. 13, two teenage girls tried to GET OUT on Bellingham’s Railroad Avenue refused shoplift soft drinks and caused a distur- for the second time to sell a gun to a cus- bance at a restaurant on Peace Portal 16 MILLIONS IN CAMPAIGN contributions collected by tomer. The man was very specific about Drive before fleeing on foot. Blaine Po- vice presidential pick, Sen. Joe Biden, since 1989. the kind of gun he wanted and became lice responded, but “could not find the $6.5 WORDS belligerent when she did not produce that hooligans,” officers reported.

8 gun and sell it to him. The enraged man 8 PRICE, IN MILLIONS, of a corporate VIP skybox and explained to the manager if he just had On Aug. 9, Anacortes Police responded exclusive candidate access in Denver's Pepsi Center, the gun, he would soon “take care” of her. to a ﬁght involving as many as 15 people $1 home to the Democratic National Convention in Colo- CURRENTS CURRENTS She was unpersuaded by his entreaty. outside a downtown hotel about 2am. rado this week. CURRENTS Ofﬁcers learned the brawl began inside a 6 On Aug. 3, a 25-year-old Anacortes cy- bar and spilled into the street. The brawl SIZE, IN SQUARE feet, of “freedom cage,” a chain- clist was arrested after becoming bel- involved a group from out of state that link “free speech zone” to hold protestors at Demo- ligerent when a late-night drive-through was in town for a wedding. 47,000 cratic National Convention. Size of Pepsi Center arena, VIEWS restaurant refused to serve him because 675,000 square feet. 4 he was intoxicated. The man became ‘CLEAN GETAWAY’ enraged and began yelling obscenities On Aug. 16, Blaine Police raced to a MAIL NUMBER OF DISTINCT federal, state, local and pri- at the staff and customers. The cyclist business on Peace Portal Drive, where vate security agencies agencies—including military— 3 ignored police commands to stop and a woman was reportedy using the busi- 62 hired to police DNC.

tried to pedal away before being hauled ness’ restroom to take a bath. Employees IT DO off his bike and arrested. Afterward, he there said the woman had been camped PERCENT OF BARACK Obama supporters who say they admitted his actions were “stupid.” in the restroom-turned-bathroom for 45 08 support their candidate “strongly." John McCain backers minutes and they wanted their facili- .27. 58 who declare similar strong support for their candidate, 8 On Aug. 11, an Anacortes ofﬁcer spoke ties back. “An ofﬁcer arrived about 10 39 percent.

to two young brothers after a witness minutes later,” police reported, “but the .03 35 said she saw the boys scribbling on the suspect had already made a clean get- # wood surfaces of playground equipment away.” PERCENT OF STRONG McCain supporters who say they at Storvik Park. The boys denied doing can find absolutely nothing to like or respect about anything. The officer showed them the DRUNK BUNK 53 Obama. pens at the scene that were consistent On Aug. 3, a Skagit Sheriff’s deputy dis- with fresh marks made on the equip- covered a man sleeping in a recycling PERCENT OF STRONG Hillary Clinton supporters who ment. The boys denied involvement. The bin. He explained he was so drunk he reportedly agree with above and say they'll support CASCADIA WEEKLY officer then showed one boy his name, couldn’t find his way home and crawled 27 Republican McCain for president, up from 16 percent in June. which had been scrawled on the play- into the bin for some shuteye. The depu- 15 ground equipment with a marker. Still in ty explained the hazards of sleeping in a denial, the boys were delivered to the recycling bin and the man was instruct- SOURCES: Center for Responsive Politics; Campaign Finance Institute; Associated custody of their father. ed to leave the property. Press; Pew Research Center; CNN Politico Report; Washington Post doit

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WED., AUG. 27 pening from 2-6pm Fri. and 38 38 words SPOKEN WORD: Spoken 10am-6pm Sat. at the Bell- COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Word Wednesdays happen ingham Public Library, 210 FOOD every week at 8pm at the Central Ave. Bellingham Public Market, 676-6890 31 1530 Cornwall Ave. The event is free. SAT., AUG. 30 714-0800 ANACORTES MARKET: The Anacortes Farmers Market is

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8 is taking place.” timate Connections to Trees at tors: Get Your Mojo On” will The book’s action happens 7pm at Village Books, 1200 be the topic of today’s Sci- in the lush settings of the 11th St. ence Saturday workshop at 671-2626 1:30pm at the American Mu- CURRENTS CURRENTS Precious Cargo Paciﬁc Northwest. Ford says seum of Radio and Electric- he was particularly excited ity, 1312 Bay St. Classes are 6 A VIRTUAL SMORGASBORD to include a new character, a COMMUNITY recommended for those ages Native American named Ra- 8-14. Cost is $16-$20. VIEWS VIEWS ATTEND ven, who embodies the rich WED., AUG. 27 AMRE.US READING A book can take you to magical places. But cultural history of the Native WEDNESDAY MARKET: The 4 WHAT: Clyde Ford Wednesday Market takes WED., SEPT. 3 what if you could actually take a virtual plane ride, experi- reads from people of the area. place from 12-5pm at the FINAL MARKET: The ﬁnal

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3 Sept. 2 the Fairhaven Village Green. That’s Bellingham writer Clyde Ford’s idea of a good time. experiences. In his books, his BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG WHERE: Leopold Don’t worry, though, the Sat-

DO IT IT DO Precious Cargo, Ford’s newest novel in his series of sea- characters seem to breathe Crystal Ballroom, FRI., AUG. 29 urday market will continue faring mysteries, not only draws readers into an exhila- 1224 Cornwall the same mountain’s air, feel RUMMAGE SALE: Stop by through December. 647-2060 OR 08 08 rating world of murder and intrigue set in the chilly blue Ave. the power of the Puget Sound a fundraising Rummage Sale COST: $10; from 8am-4pm at the Bell- BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG .27. waters of Puget Sound, but also offers a whole new dimen- and take in the outline of the 8 proceeds beneﬁt ingham Senior Activity Cen- sion to the literary experience. At 7pm Tues., Sept. 2, Ford San Juan Islands. GREEN DRINKS: Celebrate the Pickford Film ter, 315 Halleck St. one year of Green Drinks in

.03 will kick off the national book tour of Precious Cargo and Ford’s fans hunger for the Center 676-1450 Bellingham with a gather- 35

# premiere a 20-minute special features video narrated by INFO: 671-2626 or same experience. CLOTHING SWAP: A Back to ing happening from 5-8pm actor Morgan Freeman. clydeford.com From the Old Town Cafe to School Kid’s Clothing Swap at the RE Sources’ Sustain- The event will also feature Ford reading passages from Bellingham Bay, Ford’s fans happens from 2-6pm at Mount able Living Center, 2309 the book’s introduction, when a couple boating off the share in the experiences of Charlie, the main char- Vernon’s Skagit Valley Co-op, Meridian St. The monthly event gives environmentally shores of Cypress Island pulls up the body of a mysterious acter of Ford’s novel series. room #309. Bring a bag of clean clothes to contribute, minded folks a chance to young woman. “People want books not just to be a point of en- and be prepared to take home network. Tonight’s event is Ford describes the short ﬁlm as being akin to the special tertainment but a portal to a larger experience,” some fresh styles. free, and only open to those CASCADIA WEEKLY features section of a movie. In addition to the narration by he says. “[Technology] is a way to let people ex- SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM 21 and older. VIDEO SALE: More than 733-8307 OR GREENDRINKS. 16 Freeman, the video features cameos by Ruby Dee, Roscoe Or- perience the world of the book, beyond the page ORG man and others, interviews and live reenactments. of the book.” 5,000 used VHS videos will U U

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31 WED., AUG. 27 Bay State Park. The event MAP & COMPASS: Dis- is free. cover how to stay found 371-2800 at a free “Map & Compass PEONY DEMO: If you’re on Lummi Island for the semi-

CLASSIFIEDS Skills” class at 7pm at REI, BY AMY KEPFERLE 400 36th St. annual Artists Studio Tour, 647-8955 stop by for a Peony Sale 24 and root division demon- THURS., AUG. 28 strations from 10am-5pm FILM FILM SERVICE PROJECT: Sign at Full Bloom Farm, 2330 Dog Day Afternoon up for Skyline Divide Ser- Tuttle Lane.

22 22 vice Project, which hap- FULLBLOOMFARMPEONIES. PAWS AT THE PARK pens from 8:30am-3:30pm COM in the Mount Baker Wil- SEMIAHMOO SUNSET: MUSIC “DOG PEOPLE” are easy to derness. You’ll be working Learn more about the his- with members of the Wash- tory and nature of Semi- spot, typically because their canines ington Trails Association 20 ahmoo Park at a campﬁre go along with them wherever they and REI. program happening from ART ART venture. Need proof? If you’ve been 647-8955 OR WTA.ORG 7:30-8:30pm in Blaine. in downtown Bellingham lately, you FRI., AUG. 29 Register at the beginning may’ve noticed the guy who takes his of the program. 19 NORDIC TUGS: Register 733-2900 three tan pit bulls along with him on for today’s Boatbuilding

STAGE STAGE his bicycle. While two ride behind in Business Tour at Nordic AUG. 30-31 an attached trailer, the third travels Tugs, Inc. of Burlington. REGATTA: The Belling- T he tour b eg ins at 10:30am, ham Yacht Club will host a 18 18 18 piggyback (the spectacle has to be but you must have conﬁr- seen to be believed). PITCH regatta happening mation from the Whatcom through the weekend in This Sun., Aug. 31, dogs and peo- Museum to take part. The

GET OUT Bellingham Bay. GET OUT ple will be in abundance as part of outing is part of the “World BYC.ORG Whatcom Humane Society’s annual of the Shipwright” exhibit. 16 “Dog Days of Summer.” The morn- 778-8960 MON., SEPT. 1 SOAPBOX RACE: It’s not ing starts out with canines and their FARM TOUR: Take part in today’s “Cheese, Apples too late to sign up for the WORDS owners taking a Fun Run/Walk around & More” farm tour from International Lynde 500 the lovely lake before morphing into 8am-2pm leaving from the Soapbox Kart Race hap-

8 a full-on festival complete with in- Bellingham Public Market. pening today starting at teractive games such as Hound Hill, You’ll visit the Cooperative 11am in downtown Lyn- dog/owner musical chairs, an egg ticipants all dogs must be leashed lifestyle better? When you are ready Jacal farm, visit goats at den. Spectators are also Grace Harbor and top it off welcome to come cheer on

CURRENTS CURRENTS to make a lifetime commitment, race, “Paw”Casso Painting, and a throughout Dog Days. (Also, you with a tour of Bellewood the teams. dog agility area, as well as canine should leave female dogs that are in visit our shelters and ask our staff Acres and a potluck. Sug- 354-5995 OR LYNDEN.ORG 6 contests, a Parade of Paws, a four- heat at home.) and volunteers to tell you about the gested donation is $20. WED., SEPT. 3 legged fashion show and a bevy of Although the event animals we have available 647-7093 OR SCONNECT. FRAGRANCE HIKE: Meet VIEWS VIEWS ORG pet-themed vendors. is centered around fun, for adoption.” up with members of the “It’s a great opportunity for people there’s also an element of Part of the fun of Dog Mount Baker Club for a sun-

4 SAT., AUG. 30 to educate themselves on all things education to the festivi- Days, Clark says, is seeing PADDEN RELAY: Sign up set hike to Fragrance Lake. Meet at 5:10pm at Sun- MAIL MAIL dog and have a great time too,” says ties. While most dog own- former shelter dogs at the a four-person team or go Laura Clark, Whatcom Humane Soci- ers are loving and respon- event with their new fami- at it solo when the Lake nyland Elementary or at

3 Padden Relay kicks off at 5:30pm at the Chuckanut lies enjoying their new ety’s outreach coordinator. Clark says sible toward their furry 10am at East Lake Padden Drive trailhead.

DO IT IT DO this year there will be more than 40 counterparts, it doesn’t lives. Animal lovers are in 676-9843 Park. Teams of kids are also pet-themed vendors including wild- change the fact that last ATTEND abundance, which equals encouraged to sign up for EARTH AND SKY: Canopy the 10.35-mile run. Cost is 08 08 life rescue groups, dog breed rescue year the Humane Society WHAT: Dog Days happy dogs. biologist Nalini Nadkarni, $5-$8. author of In Between Earth .27. groups, animal artists, dog and cat provided care and com- of Summer But what makes “dog 8 384-1639 OR GBRC.NET product vendors, dog trainers and fort to more than 3,800 WHEN: 10am-3pm people” the kind of hu- and Sky: Our Intimate Con- Sun., Aug. 31 WET & WILD: Naturalist nections to Trees, will lead

.03 more. homeless, unwanted and mans that will take their WHERE: Lake Christine Austin will lead a slide show at 7pm at Vil- 35

# If seeing dogs dressed up like abused animals in What- Padden Park, four-legged friends along a “Wet ‘n’ Wild” beach walk lage Books, 1200 11th St. pirates, bees and peaceniks isn’t com County. Bellingham for the ride (including on at 10am at Blaine’s Birch 671-2626 COST: Entry is enough to keep you entertained, If you’re considering the back of a bike)? Clark Spectators free, fun run fee new this year is the Emerald City K-9 adopting an animal from thinks it’s unconditional can line up to is $25-$35 watch ﬁerce Dance Team. The ensemble brings WHS, Clark suggests do- INFO: what- love. “Your dog does not competition at the two- and four-legged dancers to the ing some research ﬁrst. comhumane.org care if you had a bad day stage for dog/owner synchronized “There is a big difference at work, isn’t interested in International Lynde

CASCADIA WEEKLY 500 Soapbox Kart dancing to music. Don’t miss it. between a border collie and a bea- politics, could care less about gas Race happening 18 Clark says most dogs behave “re- gle,” she notes. “Do you have the prices. All your dog wants to do is Sept. 1 markably well” during the excitement energy for a kitten or would a nice, love you and be your best friend, in downtown at the annual event, but reminds par- mellow adult lap cat ﬁt into your through thick and thin.” Lynden doit STAGE THURS., AUG. 28 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm

at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. stage At 10pm, stick around for “The Proj- 38 ect: Mad Comedy in the Making.” Cost

THEATER DANCE PROFILES FOOD is $5 for the early show, $3 for the late one. 31 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM AUG. 29-30 BY CHRISTOPHER KEY UNSCRIPTED: Be prepared for just

about anything when improvised CLASSIFIEDS “Upfront Unscripted” shows happen at 9pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 24 Bay St. Admission is $8-$10. A Roaring Good Time 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM FILM FILM BARD PRESENTS TWELFTH NIGHT AUG. 29-31

MELODRAMA: Cheer the hero and 22 boo the villain when Situation at Sul- is one of the most often performed of net upon being awakened late at livan Slough takes the stage at 8pm

TWELFTH NIGHT MUSIC Shakespeare’s works. As such, it’s been set in just about every night is a perfectly over-the-top Fri., 2pm and 8pm Sat., and 2pm Sun. at La Conner’s Pioneer Park. Tickets time period imaginable and can be a real challenge for a direc- touch.

are $5. 20 tor looking for an innovative approach. Director David Mackay at If anyone comes close to swiping (360) 466-3516 Bard on the Beach doesn’t break any new ground by setting his this production from Wheeler, it’s ART production in the Roaring Twenties, but the production is so well Ryan Beil as the gawky and giddy TUES., SEPT. 2 SCROOGE AUDITIONS: Young folks done that it might as well be a new look. Sir Andrew Aguecheek. One suspects 19 ages 9 to 14 can audition for an up- 19 Mackay gets what many directors seem to miss: the poignancy and the resemblance to silent movie star coming musical version of Scrooge STAGE pathos that help put the comedy in perspective. He admits to being Harold Lloyd isn’t accidental. Tiffa- from 6-8:30pm at the Bellingham STAGE influenced by laugh/cry comedies like Tootsie and Manhattan. SEE IT ny Lyndall-Knight as Olivia’s bawdy Arts Academy for Youth, 1059 N. WHAT: Twelfth Night State St. Performances will happen in Duke Orsino’s unrequited love for Olivia too often gets played gentlewoman Maria gives a delight- 18 plays in repertory with for laughs only. In this production, you feel his pain. The recon- fully flirtatious performance. late November. The Tempest, King Lear, 306-1543 OR BAAY.ORG ciliation scene between brother and sister Sebastian and Viola and Titus Andronicus Director Mackay neatly sets the GET OUT may have you reaching for the Kleenex®. WHEN: Through Sept. 26 stage for the Roaring Twenties That’s not to suggest the sidesplitting laughs aren’t there. WHERE: Vanier Park, theme by having shot the opening DANCE Bard on the Beach actors are playing on a level that requires Vancouver, B.C. scene as a grainy black-and-white 16 COST: $18-$33. every nuance to be milked for all it’s worth and they don’t miss film complete with subtitles. Cos- WED., AUG. 27 INFO: (877) 739-0559 or SCANDINAVIAN MOVES: If you’d WORDS a drop. bardonthebeach.org tuming is what makes period piec- like to learn more about Scandinavian Melissa Poll is wonderfully Betty Boop-ish as Olivia and the- es like this work, and Mara Gottler dancing, show up for an “easy” les- atergoers who have seen her as the rather stiff Cordelia in King has obviously had a lot of fun with son at 6:45pm at Norway Hall, 1419 8 Lear will be astonished at her range. Todd Talbot channels Clark flapper dresses and zoot suits. If music be the food of love, N. Forest St. At 8pm, instructors will Gable to a fare-thee-well as Duke Orsino. One nifty innovation is composer Murray Price sets forth a veritable banquet with teach “couple turning” dances. Sug- gested donation is $2, and partners casting Feste as a devil-may-care barnstormer and Scott Bellis his Tin Pan Alley-flavored dishes. are not required. CURRENTS fits the role like a leather flight helmet. Twelfth Night is one of the Bard’s most accessible works and 733-6618 OR TAYOLSON@ A top-notch actor playing Olivia’s servant Malvolio can pretty is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare. Those who have seen EARTHLINK.NET 6 much own this show. Andrew Wheeler plays the part with stiff- it a dozen times will find this production to be a shining ex-

FRI., AUG. 29 VIEWS spined and unassailable pomposity. Having him appear in a hair- ample of why Bard on the Beach is world class. DANCE PARTY #1: Attend a beginner lesson at 8pm, then stick around 4 for a Dance Party from 9-11pm at U & Me Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. Entry MAIL MAIL is $10-$12.

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from 9-11pm at the Blue Moon Ball- 8 room, 1213 Cornwall Ave. Cost is $8- $10. .03

647-9778 OR 35 # THEBLUEMOONBALLROOM.COM WED., SEPT. 3 AUDITIONS: Get ready for the upcoming auditions for the 2008/2009 season at the Mt. Baker Ballet. Au- ditions happen from 12:30-4pm Sat., Sept. 6 at the Nancy Whyte Studio, CASCADIA WEEKLY 1412 Cornwall Ave. 734-9141 OR NANCYWHYTEBALLET. 19 COM PHOTO BY DAVID BLUE doit

38 38 EVENTS FOOD visual WED., AUG. 27 CALL FOR ART: Skilled artists and artisan 31 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES vendors from Whatcom, Skagit, Island, and Snohomish counties can sign up now to take part in the Fall Harvest Festival happening Sept. 27 in Mount Vernon. CLASSIFIEDS (360) 336-5087

24 AUG. 30-31 LUMMI TOUR: The semiannual Lummi Island

FILM FILM BY AMY KEPFERLE Artists’ Studio Tour happens from 10am-6pm at more than 18 venues throughout the island. More than 20 artists will be represented at the 22 22 event, which allows viewers to get up close and personal with creative types. Pick up maps at

MUSIC Jinx the Islander store (to your left as you disem- bark from the Whatcom Chief).

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM 758-7121 OR LUMMI-ISLAND.COM 20 20 20 LOPEZ TOUR: Head farther out in the San ART ART

ART Juan islands for the 12th annual Lopez Island WHEN MICHELLE Schutte opened Hand to Mouth, her Studio Tour happening from 10am-5pm on, you guessed it, Lopez Island. The free, self-guided ﬁrst shared studio space and gallery in Bellingham, she crammed 19 tour will feature 25 studios and 32 artists. a lot of energy—and a rotating roster of exhibits and artists— LOPEZISLAND.COM/STUDIOTOUR

STAGE STAGE into a small space on Chestnut Street. When her lease ended in 2006 and the building owner decided not to renew it, she regret- MON., SEPT. 1 WAG EXHIBIT: The Whatcom Art Guild’s “Fall

18 fully packed up her supplies and left the building. Work by Richard Olmstead will be up for public perusal during the Art Exhibit” opens today from 10am-8pm at the Not long after receiving the bad news, Schutte, 35, found anoth- Sept. 5 Art Walk at Jinx Ferndale Public Library, 2222 Main St. The work er space in downtown Bellingham, this time in the Odd Fellows Hall of 25 artists will be on display through Oct. 2. GET OUT on Holly Street. The space—named the Clinic—was larger, suit- THEY’RE FILLING THE 384-3647 ably quirky, and housed a number of creative types in its basement TUES., SEPT. 2 16 dwelling. She was happy there, and after more than a year opened VOLUMINOUS ENTITY UP PHOTO SHOW: Traveler and photographer Jim the studio to its ﬁrst public event. It was a festive occasion made Hendrickson presents a “Journey to Timbuktu”

WORDS better by live music, a fascinating puppet show, high-class appetiz- WITH THOSE WHO ARE MORE slideshow at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, ers and, of course, plenty of eye-catching artwork. 121 Prospect St. The presentation is free. 778-8930 INTERESTED IN MAKING ART 8 Soon thereafter, when she got the missive PHOTO CLUB: The Bellingham Photography that the building owner had decided to rent AND MUSIC THAN SIMPLY Club meets at 7:15pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal the space to a telemarketing firm, Schutte TALKING ABOUT IT. Church, 2117 Walnut St. The event is free, and CURRENTS CURRENTS didn’t give up on downtown Bellingham or the public is invited. the art scene she’s so firmly entrenched in. area—currently a cement wonderland—and Django, 714-8110 6 Instead, she put out feelers out for a new Schutte, Katy Houseman, and Corey Urlacher will WED., SEPT. 3 place to sling her paintbrushes. also have private studios in the unfinished space. OFF THE EDGE: Sculptures, paintings, ce- VIEWS VIEWS This month, the public will have a SEE IT “What I realized with the last studio is that we ramics and more will be on display when the WHAT: Jinx Art chance to see what the new entity is all didn’t need private studios for everyone,” Schutte multi-artist “Off the Edge” exhibit opens from

4 Space Open House 10am-5pm at Mindport Exhibits, 219 W. Holly about when Jinx opens its doors for public WHEN: 6-9pm Fri., says. “It worked ﬁne. With the right group of people, St. The work will be on display through Sept.

MAIL MAIL Sept. 5 perusal. At more than 7,000 square feet, it was actually kind of better because everyone’s 28. Admission is $2. the Flora Street space boasts a corner view WHERE: 306 Flora more involved in each other’s work. Some people 647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG 3 of the iconic Whatcom Museum and a heck St. need more privacy or more security for their stuff, COST: Free

DO IT IT DO of a lot of room. but if they’re more comfortable with it, it’s really INFO: 920-4216 or In this case, bigger is better. With the handtomouthgal- cheap for the square footage.” ONGOING EXHIBITS ALLIED ARTS: “Seeing From Within, A Retro- 08 08 help of co-owner Django Bohren—he of [email protected] A lot remains to be done before the ﬁrst open spective and Celebration of Life, Tammy Zlot- .27. Seatthole Shirts and Merch Bot—she’s ﬁll- house Sept. 5, but Schutte has proven she can 8 nik, 1963-2007” shows through Sept. 6 at Allied ing the voluminous entity up with those who are more interested pull people and places together in the time allot- Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.

.03 in making art and music than simply talking about it. ted. Although her own studio is awash with pack- 676-8548 35

# On a quick tour of the still-raw space, Schutte points to the ing boxes, the wheelchair where she worked on ARTWOOD: Furniture maker Steve Hall will be five upstairs dwellings, which include a recording studio, practice the walls while her leg was in a cast and stacks of featured through August at Artwood Gallery, space, a DJ’s dwelling and two other visual arts spaces. A couple canvases, she’s relatively calm. 1000 Harris Ave. open rooms on the top floor also provide ample walls to hang art “As long as my artists are comfortable enough, 647-1628 for exhibits. that’s all I really care about,” she says. BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. As she made her way past the “Metal Downstairs” sign—music When a friend points out that perhaps Schutte and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. makers Black Breath and Book of Black Earth were making their is in fact jinxing the space by calling it Jinx, she 393-7540 CASCADIA WEEKLY Jinx debut that night—it became clear the basement was a place laughs, replying, “I thought I was counteracting BLUE HORSE: Erin Libby’s retrospective, “A Cre- 20 that will soon see a whole lot of action. Thirteen artists will the jinx, ‘cause I called it something nice first and ative Life: Visions of the Fantastic” shows through pay $125 a month to set up their studios in the wall-less main things kept happening.”

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38 38 Sept. 27 Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. 671-2305 8]]fi[XY`ckp FOOD COLOPHON: “Hidden Joy,” an exhibit featuring

watercolors by Julie Leuthold, can be perused 31 through August at the Colophon Café, 1208 11th St. 647-0092 GOOD EARTH: The work of ceramicist and art MXcl\% CLASSIFIEDS educator Lonnie Schang will be featured through August at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. 24 671-3998 OR GOODEARTHPOTS.COM KfpfkXXe[JZ`feZfdY`e\[_Xm\0df[\cj HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View “Lost Cities of FILM FILM Skagit: Rediscovering Places of Our Past” until ! Nov. 2 at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical n`k_Xefidfi\ Museum, 501 South 4th St. 22 (360) 466-3365 OR SKAGITCOUNTY.NET

INSIGHTS: Acrylic paintings by LeAnn Adams MUSIC can be viewed through Aug. 30 at Insights Gal-

lery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. 21 (360) 588-8044 OR INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM 20 ART ART

LUCKY DUMPSTER: “My Mythology,” a group ART exhibit featuring 28 regional artists, shows through Aug. 31 at Edison’s Lucky Dumpster and

Dear Edison Gallery, 14011 Mactaggart Ave. 19 (360) 907-4074 Camry Hybrid Prius Scion xB

MINDPORT: “Seeing from Within: A Celebration STAGE of the Work and Life of Tammy Zlotnik, 1963- 2007” hangs through Aug. 24 at Mindport, 210 18 W. Holly St. Admission is $2. 647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG

MONA: Glass artist Ginny Ruffner’s “Aesthetic GET OUT Engineering: The Imagination Cycle” can be seen through Oct. 5 at La Conner’s Museum of North- west Art, 121 S. First St. Corolla Matrix Scion tC 16 (360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG

MOUNT BAKERY: “Seeing From Within, A Retro- WORDS spective and Celebration of Life, Tammy Zlotnik, 1963-2007” shows through Aug. 31 at the Mount

Bakery, 308 W. Champion St. 8 715-2195 ONE OF ONE: “Untied,” featuring the paper art-

istry of Helen Hiebert, is currently on display CURRENTS Yaris Solara CCoupe Scion xD at Bison Bookbinding’s One of One gallery, 1420

N. State St. 6 BISONBOOKBINDING.COM PAPERDOLL: Libby Chenault’s “Fascination: Effk_\idXel]XZkli\ijf]]\iXjdXep]l\c\]ÔZ`\ekm\_`Zc\j% VIEWS Portraits in Thread” shows through Sept. 6 at the Paperdoll, 1200 10th St. 8e[k_XkËjefkfecp^ff[]fipflinXcc\k#`kËj^ff[]fik_\\em`ifed\ek#kff% 4 738-DOLL

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Oct. 1 at Blaine’s Peace Arch Park. XkN`cjfeDfkfijkf[Xp%@e[fnekfne9\cc`e^_Xd% 3 332-7165 OR PEACEARCHPARK.ORG DO IT IT DO QUILT MUSEUM: “Paths to Edo: Quilts from Ja- pan” and “Sashika Old & New: Works of Kazuko

Yoshiura” can be seen through Sept. 21 the La 08

Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 South 2nd .27. 8 St. (360) 466-4288 OR LACONNERQUILTS.COM .03 SMITH/VALLEE: Jack Gunter’s “Where Pigs Fly” 35 exhibit will be on display from 11am-5pm every # Fri.-Sun. through Sept. 28 at Edison’s Smith/ Vallee gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. The 25-year retrospective features Gunter’s championship ﬂying mammal. 800.634.1395 www.wilsonmotors.com (360) 305-4892 VILLAGE BOOKS: “Messages Home” shows

through September at Village Books, 1200 11th CASCADIA WEEKLY St. 671-2626 21 *City or highway; 2008 EPA City estimates: Camry Hybrid, Prius; 2008 Hwy estimates: Corolla w/manual transmission, Matrix 2WD w/manual transmission, Solara coupe 4cyl, Yaris w/manual transmission; Scion XD, XB, TC; actual mileage will vary. Rumor Has It I KNOW THE music at the Cabin Tavern most of

us are familiar with comes in the form Cabinoke 38 38 music but, as it turns out, it is possible to hear music there that doesn’t involve anyone singing to a FOOD PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT prerecorded soundtrack. Make.Shift, a ﬂedg-

31 ling local grassroots organization devoted to providing resources and a support network for struggling musicians (which is pretty much all the musicians you know), will take over the tav- CLASSIFIEDS ern Aug. 29 to stage a beneﬁt for their most wor- thy cause. Cheetah Speed and Octagon Control 24 will hold down full-band musical duties, Audra

FILM FILM Robson promises a piano recital that is, accord- musicPREVIEW ing to the Make.Shift folks, “like you never did

22 see,” and Kyle Roe will entertain the crowd with 22 22 his literary efforts in the form of short stories. The whole shebang kicks off at 9:30pm and the MUSIC MUSIC suggested donation is just $3. All proceeds, it

goes without saying, go to beneﬁt Make.Shift. 20 Another show that should be on your radar is

ART ART Richard Julian Sat., Aug. 30 at the Green Frog. Although he appears to fall in the vein of your standard singer/song- 19 writer with an acoustic

STAGE STAGE guitar and a pocketful of angst, it’s actually a

18 little tougher to pigeonhole him than that. Hailing from New York (by way of GET OUT Delaware via Las Vegas), Julian has made a career 16 for himself by crafting songs that show a keen

WORDS gift for sharp observa- tion and are chock full of BY CAREY ROSS

8 wry truth (think Lyle Lovett without the Texas twang). I mean, his latest album is called Sunday Morning in Saturday’s

CURRENTS CURRENTS Shoes, which sounds like some bit of clever songwriterly obscurity—until, that is, you con-

6 sider that the name was inspired by a woman he saw doing an obvious walk of shame down a VIEWS VIEWS DEATH CAB New York street. He’s also earned the endorse- FOR CUTIE ment of Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, and No- 4 rah Jones—not bad folks to have in your corner

MAIL MAIL by any stretch of the imagination. Last, but certainly not least, the Darkroom, BY CAREY ROSS 3 a gallery/darkroom space on Champion Street

DO IT IT DO that is owned and operated by local music pho-

tog Chris Fuller, is ofﬁcially open—for real this

08 08 Bumbershoot time. For those of you interested in developing

.27. and printing your own photos, you can rent the 8 SO MUCH MUSIC, SO LITTLE TIME Darkroom’s, er, darkroom for a mere $10 an hour

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# SURE, WHEN Bumbershoot got its start almost 40 years require a refresher course in said photography ago, it may have been a grassroots arts celebration, funded by development (or want to learn how from the the city of Seattle and created as a free showcase for all the ground up), Fuller will give you a lesson for $35 artists, musicians, ﬁlmmakers, dancers and literary artists the (reduced to $25 for the next two weeks). Only area had to offer. But since then, what was formerly the Seattle the black-and-white darkroom is fully function- Arts Festival has grown up just a bit. These days, Bumbershoot al at this point, but the color processor should draws more than 150,000 people, covers the 74 sprawling acres be up and running soon. I know we’re all dry- CASCADIA WEEKLY of the Seattle Center, and the event, which takes place during humping digital photography these days, but Labor Day weekend every year, has become the largest urban LUCINDA there’s something to be said for shooting real 22 WILLIAMS CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 photos on real ﬁlm. MUSICpreview

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arts festival in North America. 31 While Bumbershoot is dedicated to art in all its many forms—from comedy to ﬁlm to spoken word to performance art and beyond—the cor- CLASSIFIEDS nerstone upon which this mammoth festival is undoubtedly built is music. 24

Whether you want to see the huge FILM Mainstage acts, which in the past have 22 22 included R.E.M., Kanye West, the Ra- 22 mones, Ray Charles, and Roy Orbison (and this year was MUSIC MUSIC rumored to include

the purple midget himself, Prince), or 20

catch smaller bands ART on the festival’s many side stages, 19 Bumbershoot offers HEAR ample options for month’s Capitol Hill Block Party and STAGE all music fans. Un- BLACK KEYS fresh off their summer tour, this band WHAT:

doubtedly the best (broken bones and all) is set to kill it on 18 Bumbershoot WHEN: Sat., part of Bumber- a stage that may just be big enough to Aug. 30-Mon., shoot is that, for handle their larger-than-life antics. Sept. 1 the price of a $40 However, big names and Bellingham GET OUT WHERE: The one-day ticket (or bands aren’t all Bumbershoot has to

Seattle Center, 16 $100 for all three offer—far from it, in fact. Even if you Seattle COST: $40 for days), you can see only attend one day of the festival, one-day tickets, every act slated with the sheer amount of music taking WORDS $100 for a for that day’s en- place everywhere you turn, you’re sure

three-day pass tertainment roster. to come away from the event with at 8 (quantities are Which means that least one new favorite band and prob- limited) MORE INFO: bands that would ably several more that have piqued your

bumbershoot.org normally nab up- curiosity. The only fly in this ointment CURRENTS wards of $120 per being that, with so many shows tak- ticket can be seen for a third of that ing place at once, choosing one band or 6 price. Of course, all this financially musician you want to see means missing friendly musical access occurs on a several others you may be interested in VIEWS first-come, first-served basis, so some is typically about one degree of sepa- band has come a long way from play- as well. (A word to the wise: To plan 4 strategizing is required if Mainstage ration away from any musical occasion ing to 15 people at the 3B for a five- your show-going strategy, it is best to bands are on your musical menu. of note, it is only fitting that the erst- dollar cover, I’d say this is it. print out the festival schedule, as well MAIL

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Stone Temple Pilots, Band of Horses, formance at the Democratic National tival. Also closing out their venue—in Trust me.) Such a wealth of riches is, IT DO

Lucinda Williams, Paramore, the Black Convention—close the festival with a this case, the EMP Sky Church—Monday however, hardly a tragedy. In fact, it’s

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DO IT IT DO a background of blues, soul, gospel and Hatley, Kevin Mahogany, of arias and ensembles jazz to create his singular sound. Such HEAR and the Seattle Repertory at a free concert being Jazz Orchestra through

08 08 gifts are also why you’ll see the singer WHAT: Anacortes gets you into all of them for jazz both traditional put on by the Bellingham Jazz Festival Labor Day at the historic Music Club at 10:30am at .27. headlining Saturday’s mainstage at and modern. From longtime Anacortes faves like 8 Curtis Wharf and other lo- Faith Lutheran Church, Curtis Wharf. Other mainstage perform- WHEN: Fri., Aug. Frankly Moanin’ and Fidalgo Swing to Bellingham’s 29-Mon., Sept 1 cales in Anacortes. Ticket 2750 McLeod Rd. prices vary, and some .03 ers include Pearl Django, the Dr. Lonnie WHERE: Various Megatron and Blake Angelos to such Seattle acts BELLINGHAMMUSICCLUB.

35 events are free. # Smith Trio, Kellylee Evans, Jeanie Bry- locales, Anacortes as Ryan Burns and the Thomas Marriott Trio, these ORG ANACORTES.ORG son, and more. Stick around between COST: $5-$125 performers bring everything from swing to salsa to CHOIR AUDITIONS: Audi- acts, as performers will also be taking MORE INFO: the table, stretching the boundaries of what has SAT., AUG. 30 tions for the Bellingham anacortes.org the stage during the breaks, ensuring always been a fairly elastic genre of music. DOCK DANCE: Jon Parry Boys Choir, Dazzle, and Celestial Voices will hap- the jazz is plentiful and nonstop. With gas prices and a sluggish economy having and Joe Paquin—and pen from 3:30-5:30pm As with any festival, what takes place on the mainstage introduced the concept of the “staycation” into friends—will provide “honkytonkcanjunhip- at the Bellingham Arts is only part of the action. All three nights of the Anacortes our modern lexicon, Anacortes ﬁts the bill of the piebillyblues” at the free Academy for Youth, 1059 CASCADIA WEEKLY Jazz festival also feature the ever-popular Jazz Walk joint perfect nearby getaway. And the Anacortes Jazz “Dance on Taylor Dock” N. State St. 306-1543 OR BAAY.ORG 24 cover. No less than seven venues take place in the Jazz Festival offers the perfect excuse to pay this pret- from 6pm to sunset at Walk, and a mere $10 each night (just $5 for Sunday night) ty little town a visit. See below for venue addresses and 08.27.08 08.28.08 08.29.08 08.30.08 08.31.08 08.01.08 08.02.08 phone numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Happy Hour Music feat. The Joe Paquin and Friends High Wide & Handsome (early), Kate Tucker and Paul Klein (tap room), Gal- Jazz Jam w/Julian Mac- Boundary Bay Yogoman Band (early), Die Hard the Sons of Sweden, Jenni lus Brothers (beer garden) Donough

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38 38 ﬁlm REVIEWS FILM TIMES FOOD Traitor 31 WHO KNEW TERRORISM COULD BE SO DULL? CLASSIFIEDS IF YOU want to humanize the war on 26 24 terror, you’d better cast a more complicat- REVIEWED BY BILL GOODYKOONTZ FILM FILM FILM FILM ed actor than Don Cheadle. Writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s political drama Trai- tor puts its star and the audience through 22 22 stress positions—now so familiar—but Hamlet 2 rarely makes us feel more rattled than if MUSIC THE PLAY’S THE THING someone was pelting us with feathers. Cheadle plays Samir Horn, a Muslim Su- 20 danese American who lost his father to a

ART ART Hamlet 2 is enough of a hit-and-miss affair that car bomb before he was old enough to it requires the conﬁdence that another bizarre get behind the wheel. Now Samir’s left the moment—Amy Poehler as a profane ACLU lawyer, States after getting discriminatorily ﬁred 19 for instance—is right around the corner. from the U.S. Special Ops squad and pops

STAGE STAGE And happily, it always is. up on the government’s radar after he’s Marschz went into acting to work out issues with arrested selling detonators to terrorists.

18 his father, with little success (we see a sampling For half the movie, FBI agent Roy Clayton of his work at the beginning of the ﬁlm). He winds (Guy Pearce, with a syrupy drawl) tracks up in Tucson (“where dreams go to die”), teach- Samir and Samir’s new BFF Omar (Said GET OUT ing high-school drama. In a typical school year, Taghmaoui), an Al Qaeda-esque higher up, he has only two students, Epiphany and the clos- across the globe from prison breakouts to 16 eted Rand (Skylar Astin), who perform two-person embassy explosions. versions of such popular ﬁlms as Erin Brockovich. The big reveal is that Samir is a deep un-

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8 kids who have little interest in drama and even to mention it to Pearce at any of their brief- less in Marschz. ings is preordained. Then, the unkindest cut: The school princi- Still, what’s dull about the globetrotting

CURRENTS CURRENTS pal (Marshall Bell) tells Marschz that the school thriller isn’t solely Cheadle’s Oscar-seeking board has decided to cut drama. Panicked, trying stiffness. It’s hard to fault him for being ﬂat 6 to save the program and impress the ninth-grade when the script is determined to reduce drama critic who torments him, Marschz decides its people to platitude-spouting symbols VIEWS VIEWS to stage his own composition—Hamlet 2. who expound their philosophies in the FOR A ﬁlm like Hamlet 2 to work—even the title is hilariously Wait, Brie points out, didn’t just about every- near-identical repetitive poetry of south- 4 ridiculous—it has to sell the absurdity completely. one die in the end of the original? ern preachers. Proclaims one, “Terrorism

MAIL MAIL It does. In typical fashion, Marschz sees a solution: “I is theatre, and theatre is always performed Steve Coogan, who stars as Dana Marschz, a desperate failed have a device.” for an audience.”

3 actor turned drama teacher who writes a sequel to Shakespeare’s That device is a time machine, which Hamlet will Better developed are Cheadle’s vengeful

DO IT IT DO classic tragedy, never lets up, whether his character experiences use to prevent all those messy deaths that make co-conspirators, debonair and sympathetic

amped-up enthusiasm or despondency (he spends a lot of time the play so great (again: not concerned). And he Omar, who passingly mentions his Euro

08 08 bouncing between the two). will bring along his pal, Jesus. It’s a measure of boarding school, and more violent Fareed

.27. It’s a fantastic performance, but the supporting cast is equally Marschz’s ridiculously self-centered commitment (Aly Khan), who twists the Koran to reinter- 8 committed, which goes a long way toward making prickly charac- that he begins referring to Hamlet as Hamlet 1. pret an allowance about disguising their re-

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# The always-reliable Catherine Keener, for instance, plays Dana’s roar, of course, as well it might—one of the big bacon and quaff champagne. We might not wife, Brie, self-involved with a shrewish streak, yet you like her production numbers is “Rock Me Sexy Jesus,” know why they ﬁght, but we at least know anyway because she never loses focus on what’s important to her: which includes Jesus (with the “sexy swimmer their moral code. More questionable is a herself. Phoebe Strole’s Epiphany Sellars, a religious drama stu- bod”) moonwalking on water. The entire produc- scene in which Nachmanoff cuts between a dent, is casually racist by way of sheltered ignorance but hilarious tion is gleefully offensive yet somehow sort of half dozen American-based Muslims listen- as she learns to love the thug life. winning in spite of itself. ing to a news broadcast about dangerous And Elisabeth Shue shines while playing a somewhat lesser ver- Hamlet 2’s story is as old and cliched as any undercover operatives. Initially, we interpret CASCADIA WEEKLY sion of… Elisabeth Shue, never straying from the self-deprecation re- “let’s-put-on-a-show” movie. It’s the telling of the it as a dig against racial proﬁling. Later, when

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CURRENTS CURRENTS back a week earlier to war-rattled New the breathtaking views, let alone fully Serbia, where gun-for-hire Toorop (Die- grasp Toorop’s heroic abilities. 6 sel) sits out the ﬁghting in a boarded- When they ﬁnally reach New York, up apartment. Dressed like a frat boy they prepare to hand Aurora over to VIEWS VIEWS heading for an early morning class and the pale Neolite Priestess (Charlotte showing just as much conviction, he Rampling, convincing but short-lived), 4 barely reacts when a SWAT team busts who heads up the powerful sect/cor-

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