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A DREAM DEFERRED in memory of MLK 01.15 1929 - 04.04 1968

LA CONNER: ART AND ADVENTURE, P. 19 | WHAT’S UP?: AWARDS, MUSIC AND NUDITY, P. 20 HEAVEN & EARTH: THE ALGEBRA OF RECONVEYANCE, P. 8 Sustainable Connections’ 6th annual

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WEDNESDAY SUNDAY 20 ON STAGE ON STAGE The King and I: 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett H.M.S. Pinafore Auditions: 6:30pm, Barn Theatre, MUSIC Sudden Valley MUSIC The King and I: 2pm and 8pm, Village Theatre, Music Circle: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Everett 19 ART WORDS MUSIC William Stafford Celebration: 7pm, Village Books Bill Evans, Megan Lynch: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Swing Connection Big Band: 2-4pm, the Leopold

Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham 18 Public Market Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre GET OUT Active Living Talk: 5:15pm, Communications Facil- WORDS ON STAGE ity, WWU Lana Ayers, Nancy Pagh: 4pm, Village Books Native Plant Society Meeting: 7pm, Fairhaven 17 Park Pavilion COMMUNITY Roe v. Wade Anniversary: 3pm and 5pm, Mt. Baker

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opening reception for an exhibit featuring TEEN HEAT STUDIO’S 8 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 01.21.08 The King and I: 8pm, Village Theatre, Everett SEAN O’CONNOR Jan. 19 at the Paperdoll MONDAY MUSIC Cabin Fever: 6-8pm, Community Food Co-op ON STAGE CURRENTS Jeff Bradetich: 7:30pm, Ferndale High School MUSIC DANCE H.M.S. Pinafore Auditions: 6:30pm, Barn Theatre, Fritz and the Freeloaders: 7pm, Bellingham Public Contra Dance: 9-11pm, Fairhaven Library Sudden Valley 6 Market Theater Lab: 7pm, Whatcom Family YMCA WORDS Owls in the Attic: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts MUSIC

MLK, Jr. Readings: 7pm, Lynden Library VIEWS Center Thelonious Monk Tribute: 7:30pm, Lairmont Manor Greta Gaard: 7pm, Village Books WORDS MLK Read-In: 11am-4pm, Village Books WORDS MLK Poetry Reading: 7-9pm, Swan Café, Com-

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6 Frank Tabbita 28: Troubletown, This Modern World, D 360.739.2388 Advice Goddess ô frank@ VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com 29: Bulletin Board Distribution HEIGHTS AND challenge you to provide real While some of the parks 34: Tangy treasures 4 HIGHLANDS evidence of intentional ex- district supporters are also 4 David Cloutier, Robert OK. Lets have a discussion clusion. Then, in the case of Chuckanut Ridge preserva- Bell, JW Land & As- MAIL MAIL MAIL sociates of the ethics of Mischaikov’s Southsiders against Chucka- tionists, you won’t ﬁ nd funds

CASCADIA ô distro@ tower and Chuckanut Ridge. nut Ridge development, you from the parks district in the

3 cascadiaweekly.com But ﬁ rst I have to disagree accuse them of “gerrymander- purchase funding plans being ©2007 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Letters with you on the facts of those ing” a park district and caus- proposed by those preserva-

DO IT Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Send letters to letters@cas- PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 matters. Your recent Gristle ing north side residents to suf- tionists. It is clear that any cadiaweekly.com. Keep letters [email protected] played a little loose with fer due to south side rejection money that might come from Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia shorter than 300 words. 08 Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing the facts in my estimation— of any growth. A look at the the parks district would be cascadia papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution REPORTING FROM THE

.16. HEART OF CASCADIA SKAGIT*WHATCOM*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. loose in a way that seemed boundaries of the proposed a very small part of the pur- SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send 01/16/08 :: 03.03 :: FREE 01 material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be JESSE JACKSON, P. 6 VIRGIN SNOW, P. 15 FREE WILL, P. 30 park district shows a border chase price of CR and would returned of you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be designed to incite prejudice considered for calendar listings, notice of events must be received in

.03 against Fairhaven Neighbors that includes the Chuckanuts be very far away in time if the writing no later than noon Wednesday the week prior to publication. 03

# Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompa- + - and Southsiders who are op- and the communities that im- elected commissioners were nied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. posed to Chuckanut Ridge de- mediately border them (from to even vote to seek funds for LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and A DREAM DEFERRED in memory of MLK content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. 01.15 1929 - 04.04 1968 velopment. south Bellingham to Edison). that purpose. In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does LA CONNER: ART AND ADVENTURE, P. 19 | WHAT’S UP?: AWARDS, MUSIC AND NUDITY, P. 20 HEAVEN & EARTH: THE ALGEBRA OF RECONVEYANCE, P. 8 not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your In the case of Fairhaven You also fail to mention that Then, in your worst preju- letters to fewer than 300 words. COVER: Illustration by Jesse SUBSCRIPTIONS: One year $70, six months $35. Back issues $1 for walk-ins, Neighbors, you implied that the parks district was being dicial statement (“residents Kinsman $5 for mailed requests when available. Cascadia Weekly is mailed at third-class discussed by Skagit residents in north suffer when south rates.Postmaster: Send all address changes to Cascadia Weekly, PO Box 2833, the group tilted consensus Bellingham, WA 98227-2833 by excluding participation well before Bellingham resi- rejects growth”), you trot out CASCADIA WEEKLY by all stakeholders by citing dents got involved. Addition- the tired and false argument

4 “planning commission com- ally, tying the parks district that reduced development in plaints” as evidence of that. to the Chuckanut Ridge issue one part of town forces devel- NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre This is hearsay at best and I doesn’t wash. opment to another area. Can Fairhaven Neighbors be fairly me and the pedestrian right of way as accused of rejecting growth in the they speed through. 34 34 face of all the new units that have While congestion at the intersec- sprung up in the last ﬁve years? Did tion, a problem for about one hour $IBOHFZPVSMJGF FOOD you read the South Neighborhood As- each weekday, has diminished, so has 29 sociation’s proposed neighborhood the walkability of the neighborhood. plan amendment in which they en- Wider roads are in opposition to the 5IFUB)FBMJOH 8PSLTIPQT couraged development of an urban vil- needs of pedestrians and residents. lage at 30th and the Parkway? And the loss of the corner store re- 5IFUB )FBMJOH JT CFTU EFTDSJCFE BT BO BUUBJOBCMFNJSBDMFGPS CLASSIFIEDS Despite these facts, appropriate quires more car trips by neighborhood ZPVSMJGF(PJOHCFZPOEUIFDPODFQUTPGJOUFOUBOENBOJGFTUB UJPOQVUGPSXBSEJO5IF4FDSFUw 5IFUB)FBMJOHJTUIFUPPMUIBU preservation of natural areas cannot residents who used to walk; this adds TIPXTZPV)08*UUFBDIFTZPVTJNQMFZFUQPXFSGVMUFDIOJRVFT 26 be linked to forcing development in to congestion throughout the city. UPGBDJMJUBUFJOTUBOUSFTVMUTBOEMBTUJOHDIBOHF other neighborhoods. I am a South- We cannot dig our way out of the FILM sider and I have worked for preser- hole, and trying to do so harms our 4$POOFDUUP$SFBUJWF4PVSDF&OFSHZ 4 &õFDUDIBOHFBUDFMMVMBSMFWFMXPSLJOH vation of natural areas in the York neighborhoods. The wise solution lies 4 3FMFBTFMJNJUJOHDPSFCFMJFGTBOEGFBST XJUI5IFUB(BNNBCSBJOXBWFT 20 Neighborhood, Whatcom Falls area, in understanding the link between 4 &YQFSJFODFJOTUBOUIPMJTUJDIFBMJOH 4 $SFBUFUIFMJGFZPVIBWFBMXBZTXBOUFE and the King and Queen Mountain ar- homes, land use and transportation. #&--*/()".#BTJD %/" 'FC &"3-:#*3% MUSIC eas as well as Chuckanut Ridge. Most people will drive to the grocery 3&(*453"5*0/ One ethical issue that we might store if it is three miles away; but few 7*$503*" #$#BTJD %/" +BO 41&$*"- discuss even if we don’t agree on the will drive if it is only three blocks 19 away. This common sense should be above issues is that of the environ- %FBOOB(-P5FS[P ART mental ethic of continuing to destroy incorporated when we plan for hous- UIFHSFFOSPPN XXXHSFFOSPPNIFBMJOHDPN

our natural environment in the face of ing and commercial centers (as in impending global catastrophe. The ar- urban villages) rather than when the 18 gument that we have to destroy some road to the store gets congested. habitat in order to save others is ee- I applaud the city’s general policy, R THE ATT FO RAC ON STAGE rily similar to the Vietnam-era phrase, and urge them to fully enact it with- OME TION “We had to destroy the village in or- out creating new exceptions. C der to save it.” That logic didn’t work —Alex Ramel, Bellingham 17 then, and it won’t work now.

It’s a whole new ball game in terms RAINING ON CYCLISTS’ WORDS of our ability to survive on this plan- PARADE

et, and we have to take a whole new In answer to Bo Richardson’s an- 15 approach. The old politics of control swer to Bill McKibbon regarding less by the landed elite will have to end. car use, more bike riding, to save the The process is tilted in their favor. environment, it just ain’t that easy. GET OUT

Truly democratic control of land use For 2½ years I drove a company 8 decisions and housing needs to be truck, which I took home from work, &hoh tel! our goal. too. I couldn’t perform my job with- cludes airfare Win a week-long trip for two in The Weekly called for an ethical de- out a vehicle. Try carrying your tools 6 ninight/7dayght/77day trip for two includes airfare &hotel!

winter getaway CURRENTS bate where all parties can participate. and supplies in the mini-rickshaw at- I agree with that, as long as all par- tached to a bike from Bellingham to to Hawaii every Friday at 6pm! ties are equal. It’s not that way now. Anacortes, or worse, to Point Rob- 6 >$.22*5645*6*27&7)5&:.2,65*(*.9*&2&)).7.32&0= *>$Wiinnnererserrs preseesent aatt ddrara:.:.2,6s receceive veae anan addiddd titioioi nalnnaa ==1,01 0000 *#-*T#-*5*3286?-eree 32 86?us6?? Until it is, I don’t see how there can erts. >>.&132).9.)*2)6*1'*56&52 2*!#!%4*5)& lay0&<:.7-<385.&132).9.)*2)6(&5)73*&52*;75&*275.*6ay::.:.7-7-- yyoouo r Diamammond DDividi endennds card to earn *;7*;e ra eenentntriees —Michael Chiavario, Bellingham for 2½ years until I recently became >>&52135**275.*6:-*2<3840&<67&<).2*355*0&;&77-* Earn mmoree enentntrrierie6:6::-*2 yoy upu plalaylay,s, stayttaay, diniinenen oro rere0&;la att7-7--e

a card-carrying member of the unem- SilverSilverve ReReefR eff HHoHotHoteloteell CasCCasinoinono SSpSpaa 4 4 DIGGING OUT OF A HOLE ployed. Try showing up to an inter- $! $$$i ! ! "!"i! MAIL The transportation element of Bell- view on a bike still freshly dressed. MAIL ingham’s Comprehensive Plan rec- Try doing that in the rain. Sound

THEHE BESTEST ININ LIVE ENTERTAINMENTNMENT ognizes, in principle, that widening crazy? I’ve done it. And don’t forget 3 our way out of the trafﬁc problems your helmet! DO IT IT DO caused by the old pattern of land use I now own a used vehicle due di- is neither practical nor desirable. The rectly to the rain. While biking down decision to allow some road segments the alley behind State Street Depot 08 to become congested at rush hour on the way to pay my late PSE bill, .16. “Groovin’”“GGror oovinn’”” - ““PeoplePee Got To Be Free” - “Goodod LLovin’”ovvini ’” 01 (LOS-F) was loudly criticized, but I I hit the old railroad channel and “It’s“IIt’s A BeautifulBeB autii Morning” - “Lonely Too Long”Lonngg””

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SilverReefCasino.comSSiilvlvererReReefefCCaasisinoo.ccomom CASCADIA WEEKLY to make way for a right turn lane, al- the weather’s the worst, bafﬂes me. %" ' #"!!"I-I-5 ExExiitt 26060'' i#"t!!! t lowing cars traveling south to turn Biking to work in this damn town "((I"t !" "!!"t i %" & 5 east more quickly. Three times in the between October and April we should past month I have had vehicles us- just not do. STAY FOR THEHE ACTION!ACTION ! ( $ ! ing the new lane dangerously ignore —David A. Czuba, Bellingham The Gristle 34 ONE-TWO PUNCH : Bellingham’s new mayor is gifted with

FOOD FOOD skills that deserve comment and praise.

First is the knack to read or listen cursorily and not 29 29 only get the gist, but tie that to other diverse snippets he’s gleaned—a facile mind. In other words, he needn’t views read the last line to surmise how the story must end. OPINIONS THE GRISTLE That this skill is not yet fully tied into Bellingham’s CLASSIFIEDS Byzantine politics may be both blessing and curse. Re- lated to the ﬁ rst, he has experience unlike that of any 26 other candidate who ran for the ofﬁ ce in 2007, that of BY JESSE JACKSON

FILM a technocrat at the state level, where one must—to succeed—view the landscape from 40,000 feet… and see the handwriting on the wall: 20 20 1. The mayor counterpunched adroitly at a recent Eyes On The Prize Northwest Business Club forum, where he presented ar- MUSIC guments against urban growth area expansion he would Civil Rights deserves civil response later lay in front of Bellingham City Council this week.

19 That Mayor Dan Pike had to counterpunch rather than WHEN I think back on the To turn it into anything else is lead in with a TKO is perhaps a symptom of Pike’s inex- Rev. Martin Luther King on his simply silly. When Hillary said ART perience in the political arena (a “shortcoming” voters birthday, I know he would have Lyndon Johnson was necessary to

found refreshing in their candidate)—NWBC paleocons been both pleased and troubled get the Voting Rights Act passed,

18 18 are a tough-to-please crowd, and they ﬁ ght rough; but by our current state. He would of course she’s right. It took years Pike jabbed and weaved appropriately. surely have been pleased at a of demonstrations, litigation and Pike laid out to pro-development forces, as he did picture of the Democratic debate legislation to challenge segre- ON STAGE with council this week, his essential argument against in New Hampshire—an African gation. King appreciated what UGA expansion at this time: Once done, it cannot be American, a woman, a white male Johnson helped achieve, even as

17 undone. populist and a Hispanic compet- he continued to challenge him. “I don’t know of,” he observed, “and I challenge any- ing for the Democratic nomina- Hillary’s statement is not a racial

WORDS one to ﬁ nd for me, one instance of a UGA expansion that tion to be president. When King insult. When surrogates start de- was approved and later withdrawn.” Things irrevocable had his dream, he knew a day like HE SURELY WOULD meaning Obama’s experience as an

15 need to be approached with caution, Pike reasoned. this might come. organizer or insinuating garbage To that end, Pike proposed a resolution this week that He surely would have been trou- HAVE BEEN about his past, that degrades all the city would not quarrel with Whatcom County’s ﬁ nal bled by the state of our country. of us, not just him.

GET OUT analysis of Bellingham’s land supply, but might agree to Poverty is up; hunger spreading. TROUBLED BY The problem with this stuff is

agree. In proposing that, he leaped farther than most Millions of children go without that it can easily get out of hand,

8 THE STATE OF OUR on City Council were willing to follow in a bound. adequate health care. Affordable embittering supporters on both At issue is COB’s land supply analysis, which found housing is lacking, and now in the COUNTRY. POVERTY sides. We’re having a vital compe- that the physical size of Bellingham must increase by subprime mortgage crisis, millions tition inside the team about who

CURRENTS IS UP; HUNGER 13 percent in order to accommodate a growth in popu- face losing their homes. Wages are should be the ﬁ rst-string quar- lation projected over the next 20 years. more unequal than ever; parents SPREADING. terback. And it’s great that the 6 6 We’ve written before of the threads upon which this are working harder and longer competition is stiff and the com- imperative rests: an expected average for future growth and not keeping up. For much of MILLIONS OF petitors all highly skilled. But the VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS based on historic highs; a plan for future park acreage America, the recession has been CHILDREN GO battle for position shouldn’t be so more generous than current; and—most troubling—an going on long before the econo- bitter that it divides the team and

4 expected average density for new home construction mists woke up to it. WITHOUT ADEQUATE makes it impossible for the winner in added greenﬁ elds at the lowest allowable density. King had a dream, but he was HEALTH CARE. to bring us together to meet the MAIL These threads mesh to create a land catastrophe that not a dreamer. He kept challeng- real competition. suits the aims of greenﬁ eld developers oh-so-well. Pluck ing this country. He understood Show us your stuff; let the vot-

3 at these threads, and the garment of land supply crisis that equal protection under the able housing: These issues were ers make the choice. Who can best begins to unravel. law was a necessary but not sufﬁ - the next stage in his struggle. bring about the change we need? DO IT Equally important, as demonstrated by ﬂ edgling cient step toward a good society. That’s why the current press fo- Who has the best plan to make council member Jack Weiss in council committee, these He spent his last birthday orga- cus on the sniping between the this economy work for working

08 dire assumptions ﬂ y apart in the face of modest re- nizing a poor people’s campaign, campaigns is a dangerous distrac- people? Who will stand up for the

.16. development and inﬁ ll proposals, already in existence meeting with whites from Appala- tion. Candidates are tired; the poor and stand up to the power- 01 and supported by neighborhood plans, that could close chia, Latinos, leaders from many campaign is close. Advisors argue ful? Who will best lead us out of

.03 the gap in projected housing shortfalls. different religions. He wanted to for going negative; surrogates this misbegotten war, so we can 03

# Pike understands a rubbery urban edge removes the build a march—across lines of take cheap shots. Little things get begin to rebuild America? urgency from a robust discussion of inﬁ ll. He asked race, religion and region—that magniﬁ ed out of proportion, and Let’s appeal to people’s hopes, policymakers to yield more time before admitting ad- would call on this wealthy nation start rubbing the raw wounds of not their fears, and give them ditional UGAs; instead, council gave itself more time to to deal with entrenched poverty. race and gender. someone to vote *for*, not sandbag its woeful original decision, stalling to hear He was looking for justice, not When Obama said that Hillary against. more developer comments that Whatcom County Coun- for alms. The right to a job and was “likeable enough,” it was not a cil will likely shrug off. What purpose does it serve? a living wage, the right to orga- gender insult; it was a gentle com- ©2008 TMS, Inc. Contact the Rev. CASCADIA WEEKLY Whatcom County Council acknowledges what City nize and bargain collectively, the pliment. These two were friends; Jesse Jackson at jjackson@rain-

6 Council does not—that the state’s Growth Management right to health care and afford- they have campaigned together. bowpush.org. Act, while providing a framework for slow sprawl, also embodies a hope that communities may choose a dif- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY

The Gristle 34 ferent future, given political will and FOOD

the conviction of elected offi cials. GMA encourages policymakers to 29 settle their differences before a county makes its fi nal determination, a decision counties alone are empowered to CLASSIFIEDS make. One purpose in this reconcilia- tion is to unite municipalities against 26 inevitable lawsuits from the very people who gamed the land supply debate FILM in the fi rst place. Pike’s resolution must be understood in that light. 20 20 City Council dithers. Watching from the gallery above, County Council MUSIC members slowly shake their heads in bemused wonderment: Their train has already left the station. It’s chugging 19

slowly only to give COB fellow travelers ART a chance to scramble aboard.

2. Pike this week landed a second blow with similar rapidity, proposing 18 a (long-overdue) public development authority for the waterfront. Under the laws of Washington, spe- ON STAGE cial purpose PDAs can be established Now by cities or counties. They are typi- Re-Open 17 cally formed for specialized projects for Retail best managed outside the bureaucracy Business! WORDS of general purpose government, such

as fostering real estate or marketplace 15 development. To this end, PDAs tend Organic Health and Bodycare to be more entrepreneurial than their Infused Herbal & Essential Oils GET OUT sponsoring municipality, involving pri- 4BMWFT4LJODBSFt5FBT4VQQMFNFOUT

vate sector participants as board mem- Books & Herbs 8 bers or partners. PDAs allow municipalities to boldly participate in projects 360-734-3207 they may be otherwise disinclined to 1230 Bay Street commit to due to project risks and Downtown Bellingham CURRENTS competing priorities. next to Eagle’s Games & Hobbies 6 That deﬁ nition aptly describes COB in www.LivingEarthHerbs.com 6 its uneasy relationship with the loom- VIEWS Tues - Fri 11am-4pm, VIEWS ing liability of the Port of Bellingham’s watershed redevelopment schemes. Sat 12pm-5pm

Council has—time and again—re- 4 vealed itself, swamped with diverse and distracting priorities, incapable MAIL of keeping pace with the port’s dogged

ﬁ xation on a waterfront plan that, 3 while certain to shovel public sector DO IT loot into the overstuffed wallets of the agency and its private sector pals, probably makes for a poor city plan 08 in the long run. Why should that be a .16. 01 surprise, when COB— not POB—has the

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20 20 Should the land ever cease to be churn for DNR—ordered on the a county park, it reverts back to one hand by the Supreme Court MUSIC state management. to promote forestry practices The 1992 reconveyance creat- with undivided attention to

19 ed Pine and Cedar Lakes Trail, a maximize revenue to the trust steep and primitive path up the beneﬁ ciaries; ordered, on the ART forested slopes of the Chuckanuts other, by the Legislature to ease

from Old Samish Road to remote up on intensive forestry around

18 18 ponds teeming with trout—a Lake Whatcom. forest cruiser’s dream. The DNR headache worsened in 2001, when more than 400 ON STAGE THE ALGEBRA OF citizens and lake denizens com- RECONVEYANCE mented on DNR preliminary plans

17 The management of state trust for forestry around Lake What- lands by the Department of Nat- com, supporting an alternative

WORDS ural Resources is tricky business, that included no logging at all in according to Public Lands Com- the watershed—far more strin-

15 missioner Doug Sutherland, who gent than alternatives supported heads DNR. by the Lake Whatcom Watershed The law requires that these DNR Advisory Committee.

GET OUT lands be managed for the beneﬁ - By June 2004, in a meeting

ciaries of the trust, which means with County Executive Pete Kre- 8 PART TWO: HOW A LOGGING PLAN GAVE SHAPE TO A PARK they’re harvested for revenues. men and council representatives Indeed, in 1984, the Washington made curious by a very unhappy, Supreme Court ruled revenue col- very uncomfortable lands com- CURRENTS lection was the only criteria of missioner, Sutherland asked for

8 BY TIM JOHNSON concern to the manager of these solutions. 6 trust lands. The so-called Skama- THE YEAR is 1990, and Trillium Corporation has proposed logging 210 acres on nia decision found that the state VIEWS property the company owns above Dellesta Park, an affl uent neighborhood on the north must act “with undivided loyalty IMAGINE CURRENTS shore of Lake Whatcom. Lake dwellers howl. to the trust benefi ciaries to the IT—AN AREA 4 Scarcely seven years previously, torrential rains and meltwater tore open a seam on an exclusion of all other interests.” old Georgia-Pacifi c clear-cut on Stewart Mountain, hurling nearly 80 acres of rock, soil, Yet, scarcely a decade after THE SIZE OF MAIL timber and slash into Smith and Olsen creeks, blowing homes, cars—even a woman— this decision, Sudden Valley into Lake Whatcom. Now, seven years later, the scar is still bloody in residents’ minds. residents Jamie Berg and Linda BELLINGHAM

3 Homes and population had mushroomed in the watershed in previous decades, and Marrom successfully halted a the economics of intensive logging on the steep, unstable slopes above them began to proposed 212-acre timber har- EAST OF DO IT collapse. Muttering softly in the background, like a kettle beginning to warm over ﬁ re, is vest on Austin Flat authorized a whisper that neither logging nor homes ﬁ t well with the role Lake Whatcom also served by DNR on behalf of trust land INTERSTATE-5

08 as a municipal drinking water supply for half the county’s population—but that debate beneﬁ ciaries. They did so by ap-

.16. was still years from full boil. No, the issue now is private property rights. pealing to the state Legislature, AS A FOREST 01 Trillium had come to a reckoning that the ease of logging steep hillsides in Whatcom which agreed, unanimously, that RESERVE

.03 County were fading along with revenues; and had, at any rate, diversiﬁ ed the company’s there were matters of concern 03 # interests. in the Lake Whatcom watershed PARK. Trillium sought a solution and approached the State of Washington with a proposal just as important as revenue col- to swap some 20,000 acres around Lake Whatcom and the Chuckanut Mountains for lection—namely, human health more productive forest lands elsewhere. The swap would help consolidate certain state and safety. “The department,” Sutherland trust lands and would remove one more private interest from the watershed. The state In 1999, the Legislature passed said, “would be willing to con- recognized beneﬁ t in this proposal and agreed. For its benevolent silence, Whatcom SSSB 5536, Lake Whatcom Bill, sider options that we may not County received a certain portion of state lands through an act of legislation called which sought to protect the lake have discovered yet.” CASCADIA WEEKLY reconveyance. against potential impacts from At a follow-up meeting beteen

8 Under the laws of the State of Washington, land acquired or designated as state forest proposed DNR timber harvest Sutherland and his Board of land cannot be sold to county governments. Upon proper application, forest land the practices. state no longer wishes to harvest can be reconveyed to local management as parkland. The bill set up an unhappy CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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FROM PAGE 8 La ke Wh CLASSIFIEDS atc Natural Resources, board member Bruce om Bare—dean of University of Washing- 26 ton’s College of Forest Resources—sug-

FILM gested DNR look into transferring these lands to the county. Sudden

Valley 20 20 RECONVEYING A SOLUTION For Sutherland and BNR policymakers

MUSIC ) (360 the directive that these trust lands return logging revenue rubs against the

19 756.0504t political certainty that they will never successfully be logged. The crisis boiled KEY: ART 025 James Stree Gray areas 2 when, in September 2004, Whatcom Bellingham,WA represent

County initiated a lawsuit to force the L a lands that

18 18 k department to sit in one of those un- e S could a Ohm^] comfortable chairs, to formally adopt a m become i Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan. s old growth =`no?`gd h ON STAGE CURED MEATS & ARTISAN CHEESES County and DNR staff had already inde- forest * QUALITY FOODSTUFFS * pendently investigated a solution where

17 MADE-TO-ORDER SANDWICHES certain trust beneﬁ ciaries might volun- TUES–FRI 11–6 & SAT 10–5 tarily surrender revenues from the logging plan,” warns Tom Pratum, co-chair of the “The two are really different,” agrees

WORDS GGJFbDghUhYgh@XckbhckbV=\Ua of these lands—primarily Whatcom Coun- North Cascades Audubon Society section Michael McFarlane, director of Whatcom ty and a sliver of Skagit on forest board on Lake Whatcom forestry and watershed County Parks and Recreation. “We’re

15 lands; primarily Mount Baker School Dis- issues. “If all 8,500 acres were trans- looking at it from, really, a watershed trict on common school lands. The state ferred, a least some of this area would be protection standpoint and old growth might then transfer management of these available for harvest by this, or a future forest as being the end product; DNR, on

GET OUT lands to another public agency; indeed, county administration, if desired.” the other hand, is looking at timber pro-

the only way the state might successfully State Senator Harriet Spanel—who duction in order to generate revenue.” 8 dump these pesky lands is by reconveying sponsored the Lake Whatcom Bill in the McFarlane explains that any cutting them as a forest reserve park. Legislature—disagrees. “The Lake What- the county envisions would be selec- A forest reserve is a protected area com Landscape Plan applies, no matter tive, with an eye toward sustainable CURRENTS for wildlife and other special inter- who manages the land,” she notes. “The forestry practices.

8 ests, which is reserved and managed Legislature will enforce the plan, which “We envision those practices would

6 for conservation. prohibits uses incompatible with steep, be toward getting those forests into a ;>EEBG@A:F%P: Skepticism simmers among some unstable slopes within the watershed.” more diverse, old-growth forest eco- VIEWS d\PILFDMINDHFOFZlPILFDMIIDIGLO naturalists and water quality advocates “The argument the county would al- system, not harvest or production,” CURRENTS concerned that DNR lands are already low more extensive logging in the wa- McFarlane explains.McFarlane encour-

4 under protected status and that a recon- tershed than DNR is just not credible,” ages the long view. veyance to county management reduces argues Lisa McShane, project manager “If you were to look 200 to 300 years

MAIL that protection. The county has no cred- for Whatcom Legacy, an advocacy group down the road at what the two types of ible record of responsible management for long-range planning of county re- management would look like,” he explains,

3 within the watershed, they argue. sources. “The county has a mandate for “the county would have a much older, “There are no statutory restrictions watershed protection; DNR recognizes mature forest, with no logging or forestry DO IT on timber harvest once the land is re- the goal of watershed protection but going on there. If the state continued, I conveyed as long as whatever harvest has a management plan focused on tim- imagine it would look pretty much like it

08 is done is in accordance with the parks ber sales for trust beneﬁ ciaries.” does today.” .16.

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COMING DEBATE Timeline: 25 Year ‘Secret Plan’ AT WESTERNNEWS WASHINGTON AND PUBLIC UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS Understandably, school dis- DEMOCRACY NOW 29 Jan. 1983: Logging roads, clearcuts and a rain-on-snow tricts and similar benefi ciaries FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS event trigger large landslides and debris fl ows SPECIALTY SHOWS throughout the watershed. do not want to surrender rev- 40 HOURS/WEEK OF NEW MUSIC enues from forestry on common CLASSIFIEDS 1985- DNR, Georgia-Pacifi c, and Scott Paper pay out-of- school lands; and DNR will brook WWW.KUGS.ORG 89.3FM 1988: court settlements on property damage caused by landslide. Cost to DNR is estimated at $5 million. no net loss to common school trsut lands, according to Suther- 26 1989: Trillium and GP propose logging a 210-acre

parcel in the watershed. Bellingham Mayor land. That effectively removes FILM Tim Douglas starts a forum to discuss logging nearly half of the 15,700 total impacts in the watershed. DNR acres in the watershed from 20 20 1990: Trillium proposes a large land swap involving reconveyance. properties in the Chuckanuts, the South Fork Yet, DNR might shift the sta-

Valley, and the Lake Whatcom watershed. MUSIC tus of selected common school 1991: Whatcom County Natural Heritage Plan directs lands and forest board lands, the county to seek public ownership of the Chuckanuts and Lake Whatcom watershed lands. consolidating parcels. Common 19 school lands in less-sensitive 1992: County and DNR sign an Interagency Agreement ART to initiate the Trillium land exchange. harvest areas would keep working to produce revenues, while

1993: Trillium swaps 20,000 acres, including 7,500 forest board lands—approxi- 18 acres added to public ownership in the watershed. mately 8,400 acres—might be reconveyed to Whatcom County. BTC DNR begins logging above Sudden Valley. Jamie 1998: ON STAGE Berg and Linda Marrom begin protests. “Arguably,” McShane says, “beneﬁ ciaries of the common SSSB 5536 passes unanimously to authorize a 1999: school trusts might receive bet- 17 pilot project to study management of state trust lands in Bellingham’s municipal watershed. ter revenues than they’re re- INFO ceiving currently on lands that for High School WORDS 2000: ESSB 6731 (Lake Whatcom Bill) passes really can’t be logged in the wa- unanimously to create and put in place new rules NIGHT Students & Parents for logging on state trust lands around Lake tershed.” 15 Whatcom. For the larger public debate, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Reps. Doug Ericksen and Kelli Linville introduce “the county needs to put to- 2001: z HB 1060, “Allowing for the conveyance of certain gether a timeline for that that 4:00 PM BTC Campus, G Building GET OUT forest board transfer lands to protect municipal will include—I would imag-

drinking water supplies.” The bill dies. 8 ine—a lot of public meetings,” LEARN about challenging and rewarding careers! 8 2001– Lake Whatcom Landscape Committee works on a McFarlane explains, “including, TOUR our campus, classrooms, and labs. 2004: landscape plan. Hundreds of citizens ask for little to no logging in the watershed. BNR declines to ﬁ rst, whether we should explore CURRENTS adopt this plan. this at all.” MEET faculty, students, and staff. CURRENTS 2003: Reconveyance actively debated on Lake Whatcom The process will not be quick. online public discussion list. “We’re looking at perhaps a 6 year and a half to get all of the z June Public Lands Commissioner Sutherland meets BTC Admissions 360.752.8345 www.btc.ctc.edu VIEWS 2004: with local ofﬁ cials and asks them to “consider appraisals done once it gets past options that we may not have discovered yet” as the county’s public process,” Mc- an alternative to passing the landscape plan.

Farlane explains. “So there is the 4 Sept. Whatcom County and Bellingham ﬁ le suit, public process for the council, insisting BNR pass the landscape plan under 2004: MAIL E2SSB 6731. obviously, to move this forward; and then there is an additional

Nov. 2004: BNR agrees to the landscape plan.

public process for the reconvey- 3 ance itself, which is a state re- Feb. 2005: Skagit County ﬁ les suit against DNR to overturn DO IT the landscape plan, complaining of lost revenues. quirement.” Now imagine it—an area the Sept. Whatcom County Council discusses reconveyance size of Bellingham east of Inter- 08 2006: as a 2007 planning item. state-5 as a forest reserve park. .16. 01 Spring More public debate on reconveyance occurs on Lake McShane reasons, “We should 2007: Whatcom online discussion list. really be talking and thinking .03

about what an old growth for- 03 Sept. DNR issues a press release hinting at # est 15 minutes from Bellingham 2007: reconveyance. Opponents theorize reconveyance is a plan crafted in secret by candidates, an might look like in 100 years— “October Surprise” designed to steal the coming election. in terms of wildlife habitat, in terms of whether fallen trees Sept. Whatcom County Council authorizes $300,000 in should be removed—not wheth- 2008 budget to study reconveyance. 2007: er we should want 8,500 acres of CASCADIA WEEKLY Nov. 2007: DNR proposes a tentative reconveyance 100-year-old forest within cy- agreement that would otherwise suspend the cling distance of Bellingham. landscape plan; the county rejects it. 11 “That’s been the tragedy of the public debate so far.” NJURED Auto Accident •Fall •Defective Product I ?

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Bellingham Public Library is burglarized 20 20 again. For the second time since the Christ- mas holiday. Library employees ﬁ nd that un- THE MUSIC known suspects have broken into the library and attempted to steal cash from one of the

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01.14.08 18 MONDAY 01.08.08 Washington lawmakers return with a big budget surplus but lots to burn it on as they head into their election-year session. Bellingham City Council postpones a re- ON STAGE TUESDAY quest by Mayor Dan Pike to adopt a resolu-

A Korean foreign exchange student, thrilled by his ﬁ rst day in the tion in support of Whatcom County’s stance 17 United States, is struck by a van on Bill McDonald Parkway near West- in his dorm room. Toxicology tests suggest he on expansion of the city’s urban growth ar- ern Washington University. The driver ﬂ ees the scene. Un Kyu Choi, 25, died of an overdose of heroin, cocaine and oxy- eas. The county favors a smaller UGA than WORDS later dies of his injuries. Police arrest Ashley E. Wick, 20, on charges of codone. The death is ruled an accident. originally proposed by the city. Stalling the felony hit-and-run and vehicular homicide. Investigators allege she was mayor, the council agrees to hear more public 15 intoxicated at the time of her arrest. Bellingham investment broker Carl Zarem- comments Jan. 28. ba, 34, is sentenced to more than two years

Police capture a Ferndale man they say robbed a bank in Mount in prison after being convicted of bilking as City Council tosses out the bids for the GET OUT Vernon earlier in the day. Police were tipped after a surveillance much as $800,000 from his clients. Prosecu- second phase of work on the Mount Baker

8 video of the robbery aired on television. Ryan Byers, 23, is booked tors say Zaremba spent much of the money he Theatre after Dawson Construction complains 8 into Skagit County Jail. held for clients on wine, jewelry and other that Ebenal General did not fully complete the personal items. proper paperwork. Ebenal had earlier made a CURRENTS Citizens express outrage over climbing fuel prices in Whatcom similar complaint against Dawson’s bid to re- CURRENTS County at special hearing by state Attorney General Rob McKenna and The trial of a 24-year-old Bellingham man model the city’s WTA transit station. The city

economist Keith Lefﬂ er. The two speculate that Canadian demand could accused of killing his father is postponed will seek a new round of bids for the project. 6 be pushing prices higher here, reﬂ ecting what the market will bear. while lawyers gather information on his men-

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tering bald eagle popula- 15 My virginal journey to the Mt. Baker Ski Area, for pavilion at Fairhaven Park, 17 tion in the Lower 48 when instance, proved such an epic/nerve-shattering expe- 107 Chuckanut Dr. “Climate Disturbance and Vegetation the North Cascades Insti- rience that even now, a full decade later, the memory tute offers up its annual WORDS Change in the Paciﬁ c North- GET OUT of it simultaneously elicits laughter and sends chills west” will be the topic of Eagle Watchers program, which happens from 10am- up my spine. discussion. For more info: 15 It was a dark and stormy night. Rain poured down 714-8629. 4pm weekends through Feb. 3 at Howard Miller Steel- in sheets. The highway was shrouded in mist. Our win- THURS., head Park, Milepost 100, dows kept fogging up. The CD player didn’t work. The JAN. 17 and Marblemount Hatchery. GET OUT For more info: (360) 856- only thing we could tune in on the radio was an an- ARROYO HIKE: Hook up 8 noying, badly garbled French-Canadian station. ﬁ nally started creaking our the trees or being sucked with the Sandy Point Hiking 5700 or ncascades.org. Blasting winds heaved us sideways. Logging trucks way up the hairpin switch- down one gnarly, sick-ass Club for a hike from Arroyo SUN., roared menacingly out of the night. Our tiny little Suba- backs, it was snowing chute after the other. Park to Hemlock Trail start- JAN. 20

ing at 9am at the Sandy CURRENTS ru kept shuddering and hydroplaning all over the place. again. Queasy, disoriented By noon my legs were Points Heights Clubhouse, HIDDEN SKAGIT: Find out The forest grew thicker. The night grew colder. It started and increasingly lost in the jelly and I wanted to go 4460 Decatur Dr., Ferndale. more about the Port Susan to snow. Only it wasn’t like any snow I had ever known; deluge, we somehow man- home. But fi rst, I had to For more info: 312-9189. Bay Preserve when a North 6 rather than falling, it seemed to leap from below. aged to park, purchase our honor my promise and fol- SPOKE DOPE: Gain confi - Cascades Institute naturalist leads a four-hour “Hid- The whirling soda-cracker-sized fl akes made our tickets and reconnoiter our low my buddy out to some dence in your two-wheeled VIEWS conveyance at a free “Bike den Skagit” tour today. Cost eyes hurt. We took refuge at the nearest roadhouse, way to a chairlift. remote backcountry prom- Maintenance 101” clinic at is $50. For more info: (360) where locals strongly advised us to save the remain- Although the balmy ontory where he could erect 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. For 856-5700 or ncascades.org. 4 der of our journey for the morning. But, as usual, we coastal-induced temperature (and scenically photograph more info: 647-8955. LAVAS AND ASH: Dave Tucker will talk about “Cal- didn’t listen. TRAVEL TALK: Richard MAIL deras, Lavas, Ash and Mud- The snow pack got deeper and denser. The high- Barnes will give a slide presentation on his “Vagabond fl ows” at a free gathering way curved sharper, narrowing into a frozen tree- THE POWDER WAS EXCESSIVELY Journey to Paris, Egypt, at 2pm at the Whatcom Mu- 3 lined tunnel. It felt like we were driving on a hiking Turkey, Amsterdam, and Be- seum, 121 Prospect St. For DO IT trail. With the blinding blizzard howling all around, DEEP AND HEAVY AND OUR yond…” at 7pm at the Bell- more info: 676-6981. we crept cautiously but enthusiastically up the dark, BOARDS WERE MUCH TOO SMALL ingham Public Library, 210 TUES., lonesome thoroughfare. Central Ave. Entry is $2. For 08 more info: 676-6985. JAN. 22 The fi rst fallen tree across the road proved small FOR THE BIRDS: The .16.

FITNESS FORUM: Triath- 01 enough to drive over, but the second one was thicker proved tolerable, visibility for his family) a giant Wis- lete Maureen “Mo” Trainor North Cascades Audubon Society will feature a talk

(and about three feet taller) than our car. After an was subzero. All around us on consin State fl ag in memo- will talk about the ben- .03 by Mark VanderVen titled efi ts of triathlon training 03 hour of fruitless sawing and chopping with prepos- every horizon, sky and slope rial of his recently deceased # “In Search of the Ivory-bill” terously undersized hand tools, we were relieved by merged together as one. We younger brother. at a free Fitness Forum at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Run- at a meeting at 7pm at the a trio of chainsaw-wielding locals who proceeded to didn’t know where the hell “Up there,” he said, point- ners, 1209 11th St. For Bellingham Public Library, power-winch their way through the obstacle in an we were and we couldn’t see ing wistfully at Mt. Shuksan. more info: 676-4955 or 210 Central Ave. The public awe-inspiring blur. where we should be going. But we only got as far as fairhavenrunners.com. is welcome. For more info: We gratefully followed their tracks as far as we could The powder was exces- the cat road below White 380-3356. SAT., JAN. 19 SNOWED IN: Learn more and pulled into a turnout. After a brief, toe/fi nger/ sively deep and heavy Salmon before the constant TRACKING AND TRAIL- about the basics at a free CASCADIA WEEKLY face-numbing snooze, we were jarred rudely awake and our boards were much rumble of cleaving ice and ING: From 9am-2pm, Brian “Winter/Snow Camping” clin- McConnell and Cody Beebe ic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th by the thunderous tsunami of about 5,000 pounds of too small. We kept get- avalanches fi nally spooked 15 projectile-like snow being plowed atop our already ting stuck. If we weren’t us to a halt, postponing our of Earthways Nature Educa- St. Attendees will receive tion will lead “Tracking and half-buried vehicle. digging ourselves out, we pilgrimage for another winter a free snowshoe rental. For Trailing Animals in their more info: 647-8955. It took two hours to shovel out. By the time we were either getting lost in afternoon.

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WORDS WED., JAN. 23 29 MYSTERIOUS BUSINESS: Local au- WED., JAN. 16 thor Jo Dereske leads a workshop on STAFFORD CELEBRATION: Celebrate words “Mysteries: Concept and Conclusion” the memory of Oregon poet William at 6pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. CLASSIFIEDS COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Stafford at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 Cost is $40. For more info: 671-2626. 11th St. Bring your favorite poem by

Stafford, or come listen to others read 26 theirs. For more info: 671-2626. COMMUNITY SPOKEN WORD: Poets of all ages and THURS., JAN. 17 FILM abilities are welcome to drop by Spo- SUSTAINABLE CELEBRATION: Sustain- ken Word Wednesdays every week at able Connections will celebrate six 20 20 of his life. Harding submits that this part of 8pm at the Bellingham Public Market, years of operations with a party and BY MARIE MARCHAND 1530 Cornwall Ave. The event is free. the hero is rarely recalled or publicly lauded meeting at 6pm at the Bellingham For more info: 714-0800. Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. The MUSIC on MLK Day. He writes, “Sometimes we wish event is free. For more info: 647-7093. to forget that by April 1967, King was a belea- THURS., JAN. 17 REMEMBER, ACT: Honor Martin Lu-

FRI., JAN. 18 19 ‘Creative guered public ﬁ gure.” ther King, Jr. at a “Remember, Cel- PRAYERS FOR PEACE: All denomina-

Toward the end of his life, King called for ebrate and Act” reading at 7pm at tions are welcome to attend a Prayer ART “radical reconstruction” of our society’s triple the Lynden Library, 216 Fourth St. Vigil for Peace in the Middle East at All ages are welcome. For more info: 5:30pm at the Sacred Heart Catholic evils of racism, ma-

Insecurity’ 354-4883. 18 terialism and mili- Church, 1110 14th St. For more info: ON GAARD: Former WWU prof Greta tarism. “We’ve got 734-2850. King friend and colleague con- Gaard talks about her book, The Na- ONE SHABBAT: Light candles, attend to ﬁ nd a method ture of Home: Taking Root in a Place, prayer services and share a meal at ON STAGE tinues his beautiful struggle that will disrupt at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. the “One Shabbat, One World” event our cities,” he For more info: 671-2626. at 6:30pm at the Chabad Jewish Cen-

cried out. “We’ve FRI., JAN. 18 ter, 717 High St. Cost is $4-$9 and res- 17 “BREAKING THE silence is a career of agony,” got to camp in— FAMILY TALES: The Bellingham Sto- ervations are required. For more info: rytellers Guild offers up Family Story 933-4818 or jewishbellingham.com. he proclaimed on April 4, 1967, exactly one year be- put our tents in HEAR WORDS fore his assassination four front of the White Night at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, SAT., JAN. 19 FIVE ENGAGEMENTS 1117 12th St. Maya Norton, a 12-year- PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Attend the decades ago. “ Beyond Viet- House.” old, will be the featured teller. For 15

WHO: Dr. Vincent Swedish Pancake Breakfast—fea- 17 nam,” delivered at The Riv- King said, “The Harding more info: 676-6877. turing “Swedish pancakes made by erside Baptist Church in New nation and the WHEN: 10 am, Sat., HARRIS, MOREHEAD: Joanne Har- Norwegians”—from 8-11am at Norway WORDS York City, was a turning point world are in dire Jan. 19; ris—author of Chocolat—reads from Hall, 1419 N. Forest St. Cost is $3 for GET OUT WHERE: Whatcom Hu- her ﬁ rst children’s book, Runemarks, kids and $6 for adults. For more info: for Martin Luther King, Jr.: need of creative man Rights Task Force’s at 1pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 8 it redeﬁ ned for him his true extremists.” Of 733-6618. Martin Luther King, Jr. At 7pm, Pennie Morehead talks about CANDIDATE FORUM: The League of friends and challengers, and course he was com- Conference: Breaking her book, Green River Serial Killer: Bi- Women Voters will hold a public fo- put in jeopardy his relation- mitted to nonvio- the Silence, co-spon- ography of an Unsuspecting Wife . For rum on “Immigration Reform” at 9am ships with President Lyndon lence as a lifestyle sored by Whatcom Peace more info: 671-2626. at the Whatcom Educational Credit CURRENTS Johnson, the media, and and political strat- & Justice Center, What- SAT., JAN. 19 Union, 511 Holly St. For more info:

com Community College 6 even colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership egy to the end. LONG WALK: Vashon Island’s Will 756-0730. Syre Center Conference. This historic speech was drafted by King’s King called his North reads from The Long Walk Home SUN., JAN. 20

WHEN: 1-4pm, Sun., at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. VIEWS friend and colleague, Dr. Vincent Harding. ministry “the long REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: Cel- Jan. 20 For more info: 671-2626. During the 1960s, Harding was chair of the history de- and bitter—but ebrate 35 years of reproductive free- WHERE: Youth of Faith SUN., JAN. 20 dom and the anniversary of Roe v. partment at Spelman College in Atlanta. He and his wife beautiful struggle Peace & Justice Retreat Wade at 3pm and again at 5pm at Mt. 4 OLD AND NEW: Lana Hechtman Ay- Rosemarie and their children lived just blocks from King’s for a new world.” hosted, Faith Lutheran Baker Planned Parenthood, 1530 Ellis ers and Nancy Pagh will share poems Church, 2750 Mcleod Rd, St. Clinic tours, a documentary, guest MAIL family. Following King’s assassination, Coretta Scott King Harding invites from their various collections—both Bellingham speakers and more are on the lineup. invited Harding to be the ﬁ rst director of the King Center us to partner with old and new—at 4pm at Village

WHEN: Noon, Mon. The event is free, but reservations are in Atlanta. King in what he Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 3 Jan 21 required. For more info: 603-7705 or Harding was a professor of mine at the Iliff School of calls “creative in- 671-2626. WHERE: Keynote ad- [email protected]. DO IT

Theology in Denver, where he served as Professor of Re- security;” he chal- dress at MLK Celebration MON., JAN. 21 MON., JAN. 21 ligion and Social Transformation. He was a mentor to me lenges us to take up at Bellingham City Hall, MLK READING #1: Kids can drop by ROCKS AND GEMS: Attend the emceed by Clyde Ford the “MLK Read-In” from 11am-4pm 08 as I prepared for an action of civil disobedience at the King’s “unﬁ nished monthly meeting of the Mt. Baker at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The with The Kulshan Chorus .16. Raytheon Corporation in April 2003. It is a serious oc- business.” Rock & Gem Club at 7pm at the Bloedel event features WWU students reading 01 WHEN: 9:20am, Tues., Donovan Beach Pavilion, 2214 Electric cupation having Dr. Harding as a mentor. Harding lived When we meet a stories containing messages of social Jan. 22 Ave. Visitors are welcome. For more the tradition of civil disobedience during the civil rights person as remark- justice and equality. For more info: .03 WHERE: Bellingham info: 384-3187. 671-2626. 03 movement, and had me consider the possibility of facing able, gentle, and # High School Assembly the ultimate consequence: death. I suggested that times powerful as Vincent MLK READING #2: Bob Paltrow will TUES., JAN. 22 WHEN: 12-1:30pm, host the annual MLK, Jr. Poetry Reading had drastically changed; he suggested that, in many Harding, a whole OFF-SEASON EATING: The North Weds., Jan. 23, and Open Mic from 7-9pm at the Co-op’s ways, they hadn’t. new world of pos- Cascade Institute’s Charles Classen WHERE: Western Swan Café, 1220 N. Forest St. All are in- will explore “Eating Locally in the “Love and compassion are not shields against the instru- sibility and struggle Washington University’s vited to share a poem or song focusing Off-Season” at 6:30pm at the Co-op ments of physical destruction,” he writes. “Rather, they opens up. We see World Issues Forum, on diversity, human rights or related Connection Building, 1220 N. Forest provide us with the power to stand and face the enemies of that the spirit of Fairhaven Auditorium. issues. For more info: 734-8158. St. Cost is $20-$24. For more info:

INFO: WHRTF.org POETRY NIGHT: Sign up to read your CASCADIA WEEKLY light; they generate energy to create perpetual starbursts MLK is alive, and we 734-8158. creations at Poetry Night at 8:30pm of brilliant hope, even as we take our last breath.” ﬁ nally understand that we have a role in making every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, 17 In his book, Martin Luther King, Jr: The Inconvenient all parts of King’s dream a reality. 1322 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 715- Hero, Harding writes about the transformation of King’s Marie Marchand is executive director of What- 1634 or poetrynight.org. thought processes and actions during the last four years com Peace & Justice Center in Bellingham. PERFORMING ARTS 34 stage FOOD FOOD

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FILM Pink Impressions Pink Impressions I shows at 8pm Jan. 16-19, and 2pm and 7pm Jan. 20 at Everett’s Village Theatre, 2710 Wetmore Ave. Silver 14k Rose, Tickets are $12-$14. For more info: (425) 257-8600 or $ 00 20 20 39 Green & villagetheatre.org. White Gold THURS., JAN. 17 Kermet Apio, a MUSIC $29900 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch seasoned improvisers Honolulu-born try new things and newer performers spread their comedian who now wings when you visit “The Good, the Bad and the makes his home in

19 Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront The- Seattle, will bring 3"URLINGTON"LVDs"URLINGTON – in the purple building across from the Cascade Mall s atre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are only $5. For more his funny business ART TH!VE.%s+IRKLANDs sTOLLFREE info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com. to town Jan. 17 COMEDY FEST: Seattle comedian Kermet Apio will at the Viking

perform as part of the Viking Comedy Fest at 7pm Comedy Fest at 18 18 Garden · Bakery at WWU’s Viking Union Multipurpose Room. Tickets Western Washington brate Countr University Cele y at are $5 for students and $7 general. For more info: Gift & Wine Shop 650-3738. ON STAGE JAN. 18 - 19 5-lb Apple Pie 48 HOUR FEST: Watch original plays created from

17 “page to stage” in 24 hours as part of the semi- Fabulous Lunches annual 48 Hour Theater Festival at 8pm and 10pm at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Morgan to hone their skills. Cost is $99 for eight weeks. For WORDS Grobe, Glenn Hergenhahn, Eva Suter, Sol Olmstead, & Pastries more info: 671-7854 or [email protected]. and Bryan Willis will pen the plays, which will be

15 Apple Cider Donuts performed by local thespians. Tickets are $10 for the 8pm show and $8 for the 10pm show. For more DANCE info: 201-5464 or idiomtheater.com. Fresh Cider / Hard Cider MIXED BAG: Bellingham improvisers will com- GET OUT FRI., JAN. 18 pete for glory as part of Theatresports matches DANCE PARTY: All are welcome at tonight’s weekly

at 7:30pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 8 Dance Party from 9-11pm at U & Me Dance, 1027 Open Mon. – Sat. 9:30m, stop by the space for “Upfront Unscripted.” N. Forest St. Show up at 8pm if you want to take a 8 – 6 Tickets are $8 for students with identiﬁ cation and lesson. Entry is $7-$12. For more info: 676-0292 or $10 general. For more info: 733-8855 or theup- uandmedance.com.

CURRENTS front.com. [email protected] SAT., JAN. 19 JAN. 20 - 21 CONTRA DANCE: Vancouver, B.C’s Giblitz Fancy will

6 AUDITIONS: Adults, teens and children can audi- provide live tunes at the ﬁ rst Contra Dance of 2008 360.766.6360 tion for roles in upcoming performances of Gilbert from 8-11pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. 3 miles south of Edison & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore at 6:30pm at the Barn

VIEWS Gordy Euler will do the calling. Suggested donation Theatre at the Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Gate 2. is $8-$10. For more info: 676-1554 or bellingham- 8933 Farm to Market Rd. s Bow, WA For more info: 756-9916. countrydance.org. 4 MON., JAN. 21 MON., JAN. 21 THEATER LAB: A new series of Theater Labs with MODERN MOVEMENT: Drop-ins are welcome at the MAIL Bellingham Plays! and instructor Gene Schankel weekly Beginning Modern Dance class at 6pm every kicks off tonight at 7pm at the Whatcom Fam- Wednesday at the Firehouse Performing Arts Cen-

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3 ter, 1314 Harris Ave. The class is open to all ages. both beginners and experienced actors who want For more info: 676-4113. DO IT

Great Writers, directors and a bevy of 08 actors will go up against the clock

.16. New Selection this weekend as part of the semi- 01 Just In! annual 48 Hour Theater Festival at the iDiOM Theater. This is the 21st .03 incarnation of the festival, which 03 # gives the creators 24 hours to create plays from “page to stage”— and gives audiences a chance to see 10 brand-spanking-new plays over the course of the weekend (because as soon as they’ve ﬁ nished Friday’s shows, they set out to create a new incarnation CASCADIA WEEKLY for Saturday). Make reservations before the 48 hours begin Jan. 18, 18 ‘cause these shows sell out.

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WED., JAN. 16 tern, Laurie Potter, and Brian 29 CALL FOR ART: If you’re inter- Simpson can be seen at the visual ested in showing your works in “Modern Landscapes” exhibit GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES the small gallery of the historic through Jan. 29 at Allied Arts,

Roeder Home, there are still 1418 Cornwall Ave. For more CLASSIFIEDS openings for 2008. The Roeder info: 676-8548. Home displays new exhibits on BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MU- a monthly basis. For more info: SEUM: The museum is open 26 676-9255. to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 FILM that works of art in a witty vein can enter- THURS., Commercial St. For more info: tain, uplift and challenge as much as the 393-7540. RANDY WALKER’S, JAN. 17 20 “ORANGE MAPLE,” 2006 most serious pieces.” FIGURE STUDY: An open CHUCKANUT RIDGE: Photos When you’re done contemplating comedy and studio and nude ﬁ gure study by Joe Cosby, and landscape happens from 7-9:30pm every paintings by Nancy Leshinsky, MUSIC culture, check out Randy Walker’s “Heartwood” Thursday at BellinghamART, are currently on display at the collection at MoNA’s Benaroya Glass Gallery. 1701 Ellis St. Cost is $10 per Chuckanut Ridge Wine Co., 19 Inspired by the many colors and textures of session. For more info: 738- 1017 N. State St. For more info: 19 8379 or BellinghamART.com. 527-0900. ART the Northwest, Walker’s blown and hot-sculpt- ART ed glass breathes rich color and unmistakable COLOPHON CAFÉ: Paintings FRI., JAN. 18 by watercolor artist Michael

PUBLIC HANGING: A recep- energy into the delicate art form (see the Heath, and pencil and oil tion for “A Public Hanging” 18 piece to the left for an painter Paul Temperio can be happens from 5-9pm at the example of his work). seen through January at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Those who’ve never Colophon Café, 1208 11th St. Holly St. The exhibit—which For more info: 647-0092. ON STAGE thought of ﬁ ber as features works from more than GOOD EARTH: Works by Sehome 80 professional and amateur ﬁ ne art should prepare High School art students will be

artists—will hang through Jan. 17 to have their minds featured through the month at 31. For more info: 671-2305. changed with a visit to Good Earth Pottery, 100 Harris St. For more info: 671-3998 or the La Conner Quilt & SAT., JAN. 19 WORDS Textile Museum, located BOYS AND GIRLS: As part of goodearthpots.com. a national ﬁ ne arts exhibit pro- LINCOLN THEATRE: Pho-

in the town’s historic SEE IT 15 gram, see a Boys & Girls Club tographs By Eddie McHugh Gaches Mansion. WHAT: “No Joke: focusing on “extraordinary” Selections from exhibit from 10am-5pm at the As one of only 12 in the “ordinary” can be seen the Pruzan Collec- Center for Expressive Arts and through February at the gallery GET OUT quilt museums in the tion” and “Randy Experiential Education, 1317 Commercial St., suite 202. The at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln The- United States—and the Walker: Heart- atre, 712 S. First St. For more 8 only one in Washington wood” event is free. For more info: 671-5355. info: lincolntheatre.org. state—the space is cur- WHEN: Open daily LUCIA DOUGLAS: Works by a from 10am-5pm FAMILY ART DAY: Artist and BY AMY KEPFERLE rently featuring the tal- educator Stephany Vogel will variety of local and regional through March 9 CURRENTS artists can be perused at the ents of three Northwest Museum lead Family Art Day workshops WHERE: “Nocturne” exhibit through Jan. ﬁ ber artists. “Our Prog- of Northwest Art, from 10am-12pm and 1-3pm 26 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, ress as Quilters: Works La Conner at La Conner’s Museum of 6 Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. 1415 13th St. For more info: by Roxanne Carter and COST: $2-$5 “Quirky Self Portraits” will fea- 733-5361 or luciadouglas.com Skagit in Sight VIEWS INFO: (360) 466- Linda Tellesbo” show- MINDPORT: Recent works can be 4446 or museu- ture cloth, drawing and acrylic seen when a “Staff Show” shows cases the breadth of mofnwart.org. paint. Cost is $2-$5. For more Loving La Conner through the end of the month at two quilters who, over “Then & info: (360) 466-4446 or museu- 4 WHAT: Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly the past 20 years, have Now” and “Our mofnwart.org. TEEN HEAT: Attend an open- St. Entry is $2. For more info: Progress as Quil- MAIL IN WHAT diminutive town in the Skagit Valley can you ﬁ nd managed to solidify 647-5614 or mindport.org. ters” ing reception for Teen Heat the following: wild turkeys, brilliantly eccentric author Tom Rob- both their talents and Studio’s Sean O’Connor from ROEDER HOME: An “Instruc-

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tors’ Exhibit” shows through 3 bins, and a plethora of both contemporary and classic art? friendship through in- Wed.-Sat. and 12- 6-8pm at the Paperdoll, 1200 Jan. 31 at the Roeder Home, If you guessed La Conner, you’re on the right track. Those tricate stitching. 4pm Sun., through 10th St. The works are culled

2600 Sunset Dr. For more info: DO IT familiar with the riverside town’s charms will nod their heads “Then & Now: Tex- March 16 from the “Instructions for a Better Tomorrow” collection 733-6897. in agreement, while those who’ve never ventured into the val- tile Artistry of Larkin WHERE: La and merge ﬁ ne arts, graphic WESTERN GALLERY: Fifteen

Conner Quilt and 08 ley’s back roads may puzzle over how a town barely a half-mile Van Horn” is also new artists will be represented at Textile Museum, design and art history. The ex- long can contain such wonders. to the space. Van Horn hibit will be on display through “Leaded: The Materiality and .16.

703 S. Second St. 01 Metamorphosis of Graphite” Daytrippers don’t have to wait until the spring tulips nudge utilizes materials from COST: $5 Feb. 8. For more info: 738-DOLL or thepaperdoll.net. through March 8 at the Western

(360) 466- .03 their way toward the light to explore La Conner. New exhibits Guatemala to Japan to INFO: Gallery on the WWU campus.

4288 or laconner- 03 at the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) and the La Conner Quilt create her mixed-media SUN., JAN. 20 For more info: 650-3963. # quilts.com Museum provide a perfect opportunity for those with cabin fever works. In addition to YEAR OF THE RAT: Kids can WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Love, to break free from the winter doldrums for a few hours. dying and painting silk celebrate the Year of the Rat Murder, Magic,” “Let Children by creating paper fi sh, lanterns Proving that art doesn’t have to be approached with a tight- and cotton, Van Horn may fuse glass beads Be Children,” “The Bellingham and other decorative items from YWCA: 100 Years of Challenge lipped severity, MoNA is currently featuring “No Joke: Selec- to twigs, wood or buttons to created her tex- 1-3pm at the Whatcom Children’s and Change,” and “Photogra- tions from the Pruzan Collection.” Guest curator Vicki Halper tured pieces. Pieces from the Whidbey Island Museum, 227 Prospect St. For phy Biennial: Nine to Watch culled more than 40 sculptures and paintings from the col- artist—who purportedly has seven sewing more info: 738-2101. from the Pacifi c Northwest” lection of Lucy and Herb Pruzan for a varied exhibit she says machines—range from garments and quilts to are currently on display at the CASCADIA WEEKLY provokes responses from amusement to discomfort. paraments. Whatcom Museum, 121 Pros- ONGOING pect St. For more info: 676- 19 “In almost 50 years of collecting, we’ve come to learn To fi nd out what more La Conner has to offer, EXHIBITS 6981 or whatcommuseum.org. that humor can be just as valid artistically as realism, sheer you’ll have to explore on your own. Have fun, ALLIED ARTS: The talents of beauty and gravity,” the Pruzans explain. “We now believe and look out for the wild turkeys. Rumor Has It 34

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ing loss of the Nightlight Lounge, last week 29 29 the music community suffered another loss music that served to bring things into perspective a bit. Michael Griffen, he of Noggin, Behead PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT the Prophet, Artie Smudges Trio, Bright Shiny CLASSIFIEDS Object, and other musical projects too vast and numerous to name, died Mon., Jan. 7. In 26 his 71 years, Michael lived an undoubtedly full

FILM and rich life, but that does not mean his loss will be any less deeply felt by the legions of

folks who had the great good fortune to know 20 20 20 showPREVIEW and make music with him. My connection to Griffen was slight—I’d MUSIC MUSIC arguably the most fun you can have in public, spoken with him only a few times, seen him year after year. play several times and always thought of

19 This year’s event promises to offer all the him, as many of you likely did, as that rad delights of past shows—a dizzying variety of old guy who loved to make music. But to ART bands, hilariously terrible presenters (hey, I’ve many he was an example and an inspiration

been one too), lots of liquor and general good- and so much more.

18 18 will toward all—plus one welcome addition: the By what others have night also happens to mark the release of Music said upon hearing of from the Center of the Universe , an all-local com- his death, it seems ON STAGE pilation dreamed up and put together by some Griffen was a shining of the most dedicated minds in Bellingham’s example of what we

17 music community. all should be: a person Judging by the attendance at last year’s who loves music for

WORDS awards show, very few of the sake of music. If he you need to be reminded was aware of the poli- BY CAREY ROSS

15 to mark your calendars for tics and the posturing this one. But just in case and the pettiness that you’re unconvinced, here’s are sometimes part of this tight-knit music

GET OUT ﬁ ve reasons why I think you scene, he never let on. He just wanted to make

should get a little awards music. Lots of it. With as many people as pos- 8 show action. sible. In fact, an entire room in his house was devoted solely to music-making, and he wasn’t LISTEN 1. THE AFOREMENTIONED one to utilize it alone. Local musicians and CURRENTS WHAT: What’s Up! COMPILATION. Dubbed Mu- traveling bands alike found themselves in his Awards/CD Release NO-FI SOUL sic from the Center of the music room, the recipient of his ever-gracious REBELLION feat. Black Eyes 6 and Neckties, No- Universe , the release con- hospitality, playing his instruments and jam- ﬁ Soul Rebellion, tains 20 tracks from some ming into the wee hours. He would have it no VIEWS The Love Lights, of Bellingham’s ﬁ nest pur- other way. BY CAREY ROSS The Braille Tapes, veyors of sonic bliss. Bands As a musician, I can attest to the fact that Go Slowpoke, 4 Robert Blake such as Black Eyes and Griffen was fearless. People often talk about WHEN: 8pm Sat., Neckties, the Braille Tapes, music having no boundaries, but he actu- MAIL Jan. 19 the Mission Orange, Cicadas, ally lived and created as though he believed Music from the WHERE: Night- and the Wastelanders have it, and, in doing so, inspired countless other

light Lounge, 211 3 all contributed songs, as people to be just a little braver with their own E. Chestnut St. COST: Free have such singer/songwrit- art. I remember the ﬁ rst time I saw Noggin, DO IT Center of the MORE INFO: 527- ers as Jenni Potts, Robert which, to my untrained ears, sounded like 1531 or night- Blake, and Thea Rosenberg. little more than a cacophony of noise. But it

08 lightlounge.com While the idea for the comp was noise that stuck with me long afterward,

.16. originated some years ago and drew me back when I would’ve written off 01 Universe with What’s Up! editor Brent Cole, it took a col- most other bands. Over time, I realized what I

.03 laboration between him and the powers that be was really hearing was music that was as inno-

03 And some awards too

# at both Clickpop and Murder Mountain records to vative as the people who were making it—and bring the album into being. Speaking of collab- that the “rad old guy” who seemed to be at the PERHAPS THE liquor I drank that night has dulled my oration, the album also features a song that is center of it was onto something new and real. memory a bit, but it seems like it’s been about a million years a hip-hop mashup of Mark Heimer of No-Fi Soul I don’t know if Griffen knew how many peo- since the ﬁ rst What’s Up! Awards show. I can’t really remem- Rebellion, the Educataz, and the boys from Idiot ple he inspired through both his music and his ber who won what or even who played (although I do seem to Pilot. Wrap your mind that, if you can. Now the outlook regarding it. I do know he was beloved recall then-Amy Roeder shrieking, “It should’ve been Leather comp, complete with original artwork by Scott and lucky enough to be surrounded by the CASCADIA WEEKLY Pants!” when she was gifted with the Person Most Likely to Rickey, has been polished and ﬁ nished, and it kind of people who nurtured him the way he

20 Wreck Your House award), but I do recall that a good time will be unleashed upon the general public at the nurtured everyone else. Although he never in- was had by the many in attendance. Since then, the awards awards show. tended it to be, his life was a lesson we could show has only gotten bigger and crazier, and continues to be CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 all stand to do a bit of learning from.

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29 4. IT’S FREE. Sure, most people in the We Just Keep Gettin’ 2. THE DIVERSITY OF THE BILL. music community would be more than Better & Better… Maybe in some alternate universe, willing to spend a few bucks to at- you’d see Robert Blake on the same tend the show, but thanks to a deci- CLASSIFIEDS New Hours stage as Black Eyes and Neckties sion made by Cole a couple of years Open until 7:00PM on the same night and it wouldn’t ago, no one has to. I can’t think of a 26 on Monday – Saturday single other event in Bellingham that and 6:00PM on Sunday cause you to bat an eye, but in this

FILM FILM one, it’s only likely to happen at the affords you the opportunity to see so Check Out Our What’s Up! Awards. This year, along much crackerjack local talent in one with Blake and Black Eyes, No-ﬁ night and doesn’t expect you to kick 20 20 Daily Specials! Soul Rebellion, the Braille Tapes, down any cash for the privilege. We Feature Wi-Fi the Love Lights, and Go Slowpoke MUSIC MUSIC afternoons/evenings will provide a wealth of top-notch 5. BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE SAID, Come enjoy our new pastries local music from which to choose. THERE WILL BE NUDITY. Nope, it’s (made daily) 19 not on the program and no one re- with your espresso drinks! 3. LOVE IS IN THE AIR. In our un- ally asks for it, but since the in- ART 1329 Railroad Ave 715-1005 deniably close knit but admittedly ception of the show ﬁve years ago,

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18 like the What’s Up! Awards remind us onstage. Usually that person is all why we do what we do. It’s one Scott K. Seitz, which once prompt- of the few times that musicians come ed Cole to say he was making a ON STAGE “A beautifully nuanced tragicomedy together solely to appreciate other documentary of the phenomenon about two ﬂoundering souls” musicians, and the fans show up en called Scott, Put Your Pants Back

17 — Manohla Dargis, New York Times masse to show their gratitude as well. On, but the chance always exists While the awards are clearly the rea- that someone else will get in on

WORDS son for the gathering, they are hardly the nakedness as well. the point. Goodwill ﬂows as freely as 15 GET OUT misc MUSIC

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CURRENTS CURRENTS SUN., JAN. 20 LI SEYMOUR OFFMAN meeting at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 EVANS AND LYNCH: Banjo man Bill Evans and S Sunset Dr. For more info: 671-4511 or 671-3480. ﬁddler Megan Lynch will perform at 2pm at Nan- 6 Fri-Thr, Jan 18-24 @ 4, 6:30, 9 PM THURS., JAN. 17 cy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested donation Plus Sat-Sun, Jan 19-20 @ 1:30 PM is $10. For more info: 966-4640. DOUBLE BASS: Jeff Bradetich, a double bass player

VIEWS VIEWS # ## # SWING CONNECTION: The 18-piece Swing Con- from the University of North Texas, will perform at nection Big Band performs from 2-4pm at the 7:30pm at Ferndale High School, 5380 Golden Eagle Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave. Suggested donation Dr. Tickets are $4-$7. For more info: 383-9312. 4 is $5. For more info: 733-3500. CABIN FEVER: Hear original and traditional Ameri- ROMANTIC MASTERS: Violinist and Grammy cana songs when Cabin Fever performs songs from

MAIL MAIL nominee Corey Cerovsek will be the featured per- their CD, The Door is Always Open, at a free concert former when the Whatcom Symphony Chamber from 6-8pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Orchestra performs a “Romantic Masters” concert

3 Forest St. For more info: 734-8158. at 3pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Com- FRI., JAN. 18 mercial St. Tickets are $19-$23, and student rush DO IT IT DO OWLS, ATTIC: An all-ages show from Owls in the tix will be available for $5-$10. For more info: Attic happens at 8pm at the Firehouse Perform- 734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com.

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01 FREELOADERS: Hear originals and cover songs “Piano Interlude” at 12:30pm the Whatcom Mu- when Fritz and the Freeloaders give a free show seum, 121 Prospect St. For more info: 676-6981.

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20 20 ﬁ lm REVIEW MUSIC there, where they learn the distinctions between assisted-living facilities and nursing

19 homes. Suddenly, they have to ﬁ gure out where the old man should live. ART Movies about adult siblings are rare,

and even when we see them, they’re usu- 18 18 ally about same-sex siblings working out, WHEN IT was pitched to the studio, I’m sure in adulthood, the competitive stresses of Mad Money was sold as some sort of feminized their childhood. The Savages deals with a version of Ocean’s 11 . Truth be told, most of the ON STAGE brother-and-sister relationship, and it gets Ocean’s audience is probably women anyway, so the details right—the ease of that interac- why not give them an all-girl edition of another

17 tion, the unspoken bond and the complete big heist tale? willingness of both parties to be rude to Since this is a heist ﬂ ick, its success or fail-

WORDS the other because they know the sibling ure centers entirely on the crime. The theft in can’t be fooled anyway. Hoffman and Lin- question involves three women (Diane Keaton,

15 ney suggest a complete history in their Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes) knocking over conversation and even in their body lan- the United States government. Keaton plays a guage. They don’t look alike, but they seem wealthy suburbanite whose husband loses his job,

GET OUT like brother and sister. forcing her to abandon her nail appointments and

Both siblings are involved in theater, but work for the ﬁ rst time in her life. Having no ac- 8 from different angles. Wendy is an unpro- tual qualiﬁ cations, she’s forced to take a position duced playwright who keeps applying for as the janitor at a federal facility where money REVIEWED BY MICK LASALLE Guggenheim Fellowships, and Jon has a doc- is shredded. CURRENTS torate in theater studies, teaches in a univer- That’s right: While you’re struggling to make sity and is writing a book on Bertolt Brecht. your tax payments, somewhere in America money

6 These are not the arbitrary career designa- is being shredded by the bushel. When a bill gets The Savages tions sometimes found in movies, in which old and worn out, it’s sent by your bank to Uncle VIEWS every nice guy is an architect. The protago- Sam for recycling. After a few weeks watching The ties that strangle nists in The Savages had unwelcome drama in millions end up in the dumpster, Keaton’s char-

4 their childhood, thanks to an angry and dif- acter decides it’s time for a little robbery. She ﬁ cult father, and each has chosen a different comes up with a cunning plan that takes ad-

MAIL TAMARA JENKINS has made a movie about some- way of dealing with it. Wendy has chosen to vantage of the government’s inept—to say the thing that lots of people are going through but nobody wants dive into the drama by writing about it, and least—security.

3 to deal with, not even in life, much less in entertainment. And Jon has chosen to analyze the phenomenon In order to steal the stash, Keaton’s character she’s done it fearlessly, with the right mix of humor and horror of drama itself and to study an artist whose needs more than a good pair of bolt cutters. So she DO IT and with not even a shred of sentimentality. whole career was founded on the deconstruc- enlists the help of two cohorts: A ditzy 20-some- The Savages is about young middle-aged adults dealing with tion of dramatic techniques. thing who’s seen one too many iPod commercials

08 an elderly parent who is losing his mind and can no longer take Hoffman and Linney are superb, but as (Holmes), and a single, sassy black mother who’d

.16. care of himself. It is, in a sense, a comedy about having a father the ﬁ lm mainly follows Wendy, it’s Linney like to get her kids out of the ghetto and into a 01 who is smearing his feces on the wall, but to say that doesn’t who has the opportunity to give the stand- private school (Latifah). Together, they put their

.03 quite convey the tone that Jenkins ﬁ nds here. The movie is not out performance, and she does. She’s full plan into action, and run off with a lot of cash. 03

# a farce. Farce would be easy—the audience would be invited throttle and energetic, knows exactly what Then they decide to do it again. to turn off its emotions and view the situation as spectacle. she’s doing at every moment, and she’s fun- The specifi cs of the big robbery centerpiece are Rather, Jenkins grounds The Savages in reality, a brutal, abso- ny—very funny. pretty stupid, and most of the cast spends the lute reality that’s funny-awful enough to make farce look like It’s a mildly comic motif in The Savages movie sleepwalking. Mad Money is almost deliber- an evasion and straight drama look like compromise. that whenever someone has a television on, ately banal, but not particularly harmful. It’s not The characters’ situation refl ects the fragmented nature of the scene onscreen is frantic and emphatic, an offensively bad fi lm, just a blissfully mediocre families today. A brother (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a sister while the scene in the room is quiet and one. In January, considering what the big studios CASCADIA WEEKLY (Laura Linney) live far away from each other on the East Coast, ambiguous. Jenkins is telling us that, in typically churn out, it’s always a good idea to

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