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cascadia FILM 34 ThisWeek Quickshot Film : 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater FOOD FOOD A glance at this MUSIC Trish, Hans, and Phil: 3pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn 27 week’s happenings BHS Alumni Band: 7pm, Shuksan Middle School Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine Caitlin Hill: 7:30pm, B-BOARD B-BOARD

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ART Paddles: A Race Beneath the Sun: 10am, Fairhaven Park Bark in the Park: 10am-2pm, Storvik Park, Ana- Paddling Film cortes 16 Urban Kickball League Finals: 11am-4pm, Maritime Festival Sat., Heritage Park STAGE June 13 at Blazing Paddles: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon

14 Mount Vernon’s FOOD Lincoln Theatre Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Water- front Plaza GET OUT Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center Community Meal: 12 10am-12pm, United Church of Ferndale Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot WORDS Market Square WEDNESDAY [06.10.15] Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery 8 DANCE Mistaken identities, dream VISUAL ARTS Escape Routes Reception: 12-2pm, Western Gallery, BAAY Dance Company: 7pm, Bellingham Arts sequences, song and dance WWU

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DO IT IT DO Party with the Provocateurs, even things out, everyone is cordial and in a propaganda tool. Same thing with the so-called 34: The C Shop P.16 CTHE good mood back at base camp and it seems the statistics. For every person treated unjustly by WORDS SHOP The sweet tastes good vibes generated by this collection of free- a police officer, hundreds are rescued and pro- of summer, OF P.34 WISDOM KIMYA dom enthusiasts permeate across the city. tected. Take a look at the number of people who David Suzuki looks

06.10.15 DAWSON to the future, P.08 Following her own path, P.20 We appreciate the support of those that line killed each other in Baltimore, Detroit, or Chicago the streets and it reassures us that choose to last week. Those numbers kinda dwarf the dubi- .10 COVER: by Brendon

23 ©2015 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by make our lives in Bellingham that we are priv- ous stats you quote. # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Purdy PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 eleged to be here and reminds us that we appre- When people in neighborhoods are terrified [email protected] Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia ciate the city we live in. they don’t turn to George next door. They call Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing —Michael Watkins, Bellingham the cops and pray for quick arrival—an arrival papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material that may not happen now as the police are vili- to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- POLICE FIGHT CRIME fied into non-function. Who wants to put his ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday I was dismayed by the statistics on police or her life on the line day in and day out while the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. shootings in the June 3 Weekly. What was miss- being told he or she is a pig to throw rocks at, LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. ing, of course, was the percentage of those shot and worse. 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does —Lawrence Quinlivan, Bellingham not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your by police who were committing violent crimes letters to fewer than 300 words. and/or actively resisting arrest. My guess is close to 100 percent. YES, WE NEED A JAIL Contrary to the media narrative, our country I have been rebuked for not being sufficient- is suffering from a crime wave approaching open ly attentive to the needs of the mentally ill. NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre Evidently, if I support the bonding to destrians to cross, blocks more view of build a much-needed jail, I am indiffer- the bay and it’s ugly to boot. I’m not sure ent to the plight of the mentally ill and who is to blame for this awful solution to drug addicted. the sewage problem. I hope it’s not BSNF

Not so. When I discuss the issue, those because the railroad is already on a lot of 34 who wish a counseling center for the people’s shit list. mentally ill insist it be separate from jail At a time when we need more and better FOOD construction. They also insist it be locat- parks in Bellingham, this is what we get? ed some distance away, and reduce the —Peggy Scott, Bellingham 27 jail by at least a third of the bond size. That would mean that the jail would go THERE’S ALWAYS HOPE from 521 beds down to about 347 beds— On reading the City/Port waterfront B-BOARD less than what our current illegally over- development plan, I noticed there is no

crowded jail holds. real assessment of how earthquakes may 24 In short, barring compromise on this affect the development, which is to be jail bond, the taxpayers of Whatcom built on contaminated fill in a corner of FILM County are going to get no safe jail, no Bellingham Bay. Yet fill like this is sus-

mental health facility concession, and ceptible to a process called liquefaction, 20 continue to house inmates in a facility resulting in increased damage during an ripe for heavy lawsuits by both inmates earthquake. Based on the plan’s state- MUSIC and administrative staff. Neither the citi- ments (or lack thereof), it appears that zens, the mentally ill, nor our enforce- the port’s plan for earthquakes is... just 18

ment and judicial branches are helped by hope they won’t happen. If the city and ART the current standoff. port bothered to check, however, the —Mark Nelson, Bellingham latest studies say there’s a 37 percent 16 chance that the nearby Cascade fault will

NOISE POLLUTION produce a magnitude 8 earthquake in the STAGE Bellingham does seem noisy. I think it next 50 years. That’s slightly bigger than effects our well-being and the market- the quake that hit Nepal recently. 14 value of our housing. Glad to see it is be- When the next big quake happens here, ing discussed. the tsunami to follow could also affect

Much of Bellingham is in a basin—a the waterfront site. Well... let’s just hope GET OUT bay surrounded by hills. Sound bounces that doesn’t happen as well.

off those hills and carries across the Then there’s the issue of rising sea 12 open water. What you hear depends on levels. The plan—now several years old– what is between you and the source. points to studies that indicate sea levels WORDS The freeway roar begins at about 5am could rise 15-50 inches over the next 100

and builds into the day. The York neigh- years, but they claim “most of” the site 8 borhood has benefited from the con- (i.e., at least 51 percent) is 60-84 inches crete sound insulating walls along the above the mean high-water mark (no ref-

freeway. There are none in Happy Valley erences in the plan to the study this is CURRENTS and other neighborhoods. Traffic noise based on). That still means up to 49 per- is a constant. cent of the site may be below the mean 6 Train whistles can be pleasant if heard high-water mark. The plan is on top of VIEWS at a distance and infrequently. When I this, however, suggesting that more fill 4

lived in Hawaii, I leaned into the phone may be added to the existing fill to raise 4 if there was the background of the train some of the low-lying areas. More fill, of MAIL MAIL whistle on the other end. With the in- course, will make the site even more un- MAIL creasing rail traffic, mostly oil and coal, stable in an earthquake. But remember, 2 it is more and more intolerable. we’re hoping an earthquake doesn’t hap- DO IT IT DO I have heard the slow-moving oil trains pen. Or if it does, that it’s not too big. make blasts every five seconds in the wee Cross your fingers. hours. This problem may increase mani- Since the plan was published, each new fold if related industries have their way. prediction regarding sea level rise indi- Whistles are a safety feature, but are the cates a faster and higher rise than what 06.10.15 consequences of broken sleep worth it? was predicted previously. Well... let’s just .10

This is a conflict with housing near the hope it doesn’t happen as fast or get as 23 # waterfront. People move to escape the high as some predict. noise, not to mention vibration. As far as I can tell, the city and port’s —Rowan Peterson, Bellingham plan for the waterfront, is to hope there’s no earthquake; hope it’s not too big; hope MORE TRAIN PAINS there’s no tsunami; hope it’s not too big; Help. Our park crossing is in trouble. hope the fill on the waterfront doesn’t

The Parks Dept. in Belingham is trying undergo liquefaction as predicted; and CASCADIA WEEKLY to fix a sewage problem. What they have hope sea levels don’t rise further than an 5 come up with is ruining our crossing over old unreferenced prediction. the railroad. The contractors said that But there’s always the standard backup they had do it that way because of some plan: let our children and grandchildren “permit problems” with BNSF. pay to clean up the mess. Onward! Well, it’s awful. Cuts the room for pe- —Tim Baker, Bellingham THE GRISTLE

A BLUE GREENWAYS?: Bellingham City Council took a

34 breather this week, retreating from the glare of City Hall for a relaxed special meeting to focus their own FOOD FOOD processes and procedures for dealing with social media views and each other, and to set their legislative priorities OPINIONS THE GRISTLE for the coming year. 27 First up was Greenways, one of the quiet little suc- cess stories of COB, a small property tax levy initiative

B-BOARD B-BOARD first established in 1990 to acquire green assets the public loves. BY ROBERT REICH

24 Historically, every Greenways, Beyond Greenways, Grandchild of Greenways has differed a bit from its FILM predecessors, learning and building from past efforts. Anticipatory Bribery In early years, the levy was able to acquire, tranquilly

20 and without much fanfare, vast tracts of open green THE WELL-OILED REVOLVING DOOR spaces from willing sellers with thoughts of endow-

MUSIC ments and legacies. This set the tone of how future Gre- ashington has been tion; Orszag became Citigroup’s vice enways would operate—cooperatively and quietly out of rocked by the scandal of chairman of corporate and invest- 18 the headlines. By the peculiarities of geography, these W J. Dennis Hastert, the ment banking.

ART acquisitions tended to cluster on the Southside. Seven longest-serving Republican speak- Another form of anticipatory years later, the levy was renewed by voters, the vastness er in the history of the U.S. House bribery occurs when the payment of acreage acquired for parks and open space was drawn of Representatives, indicted on comes in anticipation of a person 16 down only slightly as early opportunities for ripe fruit charges of violating banking laws holding office, and then delivering

STAGE receded and acquisitions became a bit more planned and by paying $1.7 million (as part of a For years, former Republican the favors. strategic. In 2006, voters again renewed the effort with $3.5 million agreement) to conceal House majority leader Eric Cantor According to the New York Times, approval for a ten-year levy. It passed by 59 percent in prior misconduct, which turns out was one of Wall Street’s strongest as Marco Rubio ascended the ranks 14 a robust election with good participation. The levy is to have been child molestation. advocates—fighting for the bailout of Republican politics, billionaire expected to have generated more than $44 million when That scandal contains another one of the Street, to retain the Street’s Norman Braman not only bankrolled

GET OUT it retires at the end of next year. that’s received less attention: Hast- tax advantages and subsidies, and his campaigns but subsidized Ru- Greenways III—as many programs grow in their ma- ert, who never made much money as to water down the Dodd-Frank fi- bio’s personal finances.

12 turity—has unfolded with a bit of turbulence, a little a teacher or a congressman, could nancial reform legislation. A case of anticipatory bribery? more sparring about where funds should be spent and manage such payments because af- Just two weeks after resigning Certainly looks like it. In the Florida how, more strategy than happenstance, more emphasis ter retiring from Congress he became from the House, Cantor joined the legislature, Rubio steered taxpayer WORDS on building parks and maintaining them than on snap- a high-paid lobbyist. Wall Street investment bank of Moelis funds to Braman’s favored causes,

8 ping up more raw land. Under the program guidelines, This second scandal is perfectly & Co., as vice chairman and manag- including an $80 million state grant 60 percent of levy funds was to be used for property legal, but it’s a growing menace. ing director, starting with a $400,000 to finance a genomics center at a acquisitions, 31 percent for development of parks and In the 1970s, only 3 percent of re- base salary, $400,000 initial cash bo- private university and $5 million

CURRENTS CURRENTS trails, and 9 percent for a preservation endowment that tiring members of Congress went on nus, and $1 million in stock. for cancer research at a Miami insti- would generate interest for continued park operations. to become lobbyists. As Cantor explained, “I have tute. “When Norman Braman brings 6 6 Sure, a Ridge or two popped up to upset things, and Now, half of all retiring senators known Ken [the bank’s CEO] for [a proposal] to you,” Rubio said, priorities got drawn as lines on a map, territories to and 42 percent of retiring represen- some time and… followed the “you take it seriously.” VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS defend and threaten war over. But, eventually, parks tatives become lobbyists. growth and success of his firm.” Hillary and Bill Clinton have

4 were created north and south stunning enough to tamp This isn’t because more recent Exactly. They had been doing made more than $25 million for down much of the quarrel. Like most things in maturity, retirees have had fewer qualms. business together so long that Can- 104 speeches since the start of last MAIL MAIL Greenways III at last gained a craggy sort of wisdom It’s because the financial rewards tor must have anticipated the bribe. year, according to disclosure forms

coming off a midlife crisis and ebullient, sexy youth. from lobbying have mushroomed, Anticipatory bribery undermines filed with the Federal Election Com- 2 The essence of Greenways is to link Bellingham’s as big corporations and giant Wall trust in government almost as much mission in mid May—of which she DO IT IT DO trails, ridgetops and shoreline corridors with a contin- Street banks have sunk fortunes as direct bribery. At a minimum, it delivered 51, earning more than uous series of parks, forests and greenbelts. Projects into rigging the game to their ad- can create the appearance of cor- $11 million of the total. using Greenway levy funds have been defined via voter- vantage. ruption, and raise questions in the We need some rules here. approved levy initiatives through a small tax of around In every election cycle since public’s mind about the motives of First, former government officials, 06.10.15 .57 per $1,000 of property tax valuation and approved 2008, more money has gone into public officials. including members of Congress, by the City Council, often based on opportunities and lobbying at the federal level than Was the Obama White House so shouldn’t be able to lobby or take .10

23 available resources. Both a Parks Board and Greenways into political campaigns. And an easy on big Wall Street banks— jobs in industries over which they # committee advise policymakers and the administration increasing portion of that lobbying never putting tough conditions on had some oversight, for at least on priorities for the funds. money has gone into the pockets of them for getting bailout money or three years after leaving office. City Council resolved, yes, there should be a new life former members of Congress. prosecuting a single top Wall Street Second, anyone who runs for for a fourth Greenways effort. But what should it look In viewing campaign contribu- executive—because Tim Geithner, office should bear the burden of like? What direction or counsel, if any, should they give tions as the major source of corrup- Barack Obama’s treasury secretary, showing that whatever personal to the nascent Greenways IV advisory committee that tion we overlook the more insidious and Peter Orszag, his director of the payments they received up to three

CASCADIA WEEKLYformed last month and meets again this week? flow of direct, personal payments— Office of Management and Budget, years before were based on their Certainly, there is broad agreement from all interest much of which might be called “an- anticipated lucrative jobs on the economic worth, not anticipated 6 groups that the formula of Greenways balance should ticipatory bribery” because they Street? Geithner became president political clout. continue to mature, with more resources devoted to enable office holders to cash in big of the private-equity firm Warburg Finally, once they declare, perhaps increasing the interconnectivity of lands already ac- after they’ve left office. Pincus when he left the administra- even their spouses should desist. quired—trails and easements to allow residents great- er access to these natural assets. And greater portions VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE of the fund maintaining and improving

those acquired assets. GO 34 In fact, as Council members ob- NORTHWOOD served, Greenways in maturity begins FOOD to look more and more like a park levy. Perhaps it should be. FOR CASINO ! 27 The State of Washington provides a special-purpose taxing instrument for

FUN B-BOARD the creation of a metropolitan parks district. Such an instrument was cre-

ated in 2012 for the Chuckanut Com- 24 munity Forest Park District, governed by an elected board and authorized to FILM levy a small tax of .28 per $1,000 of property tax valuation for 10 years. The Win Up To $500 Daily In June! 20 levy is designed to make the Greenways endowment whole after the purchase of MUSIC the famous parcel known as Hundred

Acre Wood and prepare the area for 18

eventual absorption into the city’s wid- ART er constellation of metropolitan parks. The City of Ferndale likewise plans to 16 place a MPD measure in front of voters

this fall to improve its green portfolio. STAGE Once formed, the district holds the capacity to endure in perpetuity, un- 14 like special purpose bonds like Gre- enways that sunset after ten years, Winners Club Members get a FREE daily scan ticket all making MPDs ideal to fund ongoing month long! Scan your ticket at the kiosk to see if you’ve GET OUT operations like parks. But Council con- won prizes or cash — up to $500 instantly! Non-winning

tinues to favor seeking periodic public 12 tickets can be entered into $500 Second Chance approval through Greenways measures, drawings on Tuesday, June 30, from 5:30pm to 10pm. and agrees Greenways is a comfortable WORDS brand in the minds of voters.

But a poll measure can’t be all nuts 8 and bolts, oil and grease. There must be those special purchases and proj-

ects that fire imaginations, thrill vol- CURRENTS unteers and inspire voters. 6 An intriguing possibility considered 6 by the Greenways committee would be VIEWS special emphasis on cleaning and re- Win Up To $1000 Fridays & Saturdays! VIEWS storing city tidelands and shorelines 4 and tying those into the connectivity of other parks and trails—a Blue Gre- MAIL enways. Many of these potential ac- Drawings hourly from 6pm to 11pm 2 quisitions and projects were identified every Friday and Saturday in June. Win-

ners get to play the Beachcomber Bucks IT DO along 11 miles of city shoreline by the Waterfront Futures Group in their 2004 Kiosk Game and win up to $1000! Win- waterfront vision and framework plan, ners Club Members get a free entry on the before that group’s work was hijacked day of each drawing. and slaved to the ’s 06.10.15 narrow vision for its 137 acres of the .10

central waterfront. The WFG guiding 23 # principles of design and function re- main the best comprehensive vision for the city’s blueways. Projects could include provid- MODERN COMFORTS AND JUST TWO TURNS OFF THE ing greater connectivity between the city’s two waterfronts—bay and OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY GUIDE MERIDIAN lake—as well as improved access to CASCADIA WEEKLY the shoreline north at Little Squalicum BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 7 Beach and south from Cornwall Beach. 877.777.9847 For many years Bellingham has 1RUWKZRRG5RDG‡/\QGHQ:$ N turned its back on its industrial water- E BADGER RD NORTHWOOD RD front. Perhaps the moment has arrived www.northwoodcasino.com to embrace it. GUIDE MERIDIAN RD LYNDEN undefined “dangerous” human interfer- ence with the climate system. Since that pledge, greenhouse gas emissions have reached record highs.

34 And proposed cuts in carbon emissions from 2020 and promises to deepen them FOOD FOOD currents in subsequent reviews—offered by gov- ernments wary of the economic cost of NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX shifting from fossil fuels—are unlikely 27 to be enough for the 2C goal. Indeed, the political will to achieve

B-BOARD B-BOARD that goal is also dismal—a recent poll found 17 percent of Americans “do not

24 agree to any international agreement that addresses climate change.” It’s a

FILM discouraging number, a faction policy- makers can cower behind.

20 “Overall, the science is in: the plan- et is in terrible shape. And we’re going

MUSIC backwards,” says David Suzuki. For nearly 35 years, Suzuki has brought science into

18 the homes of millions on the Canadian

ART television series, The Nature of Things. He has become a godfather of the envi- ronmental movement, and is considered 16 that country’s most admired figure. His

STAGE outspoken views on climate change and the government’s col- 14 lusion with the petro- chemical industry in

GET OUT developing Canada’s oil-rich tar sands have

12 made him the target of ATTEND relentless attacks from his nation’s prime min- WORDS WHO: David Suzuki ister, corporations and WHAT: Letters to

8 right-wing ideologues. My Grandchildren “Our politicians WHEN: 7pm should be thrown in Sun., June 14 CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 WHERE: Mount the slammer for will- Baker Theatre ful blindness,” Suzuki 6 COST: $7.50 stormed. “I think that INFO: www. we are being willfully VIEWS mountbaker blind to the conse- theatre.com 4 DAVID quences for our chil- dren and grandchildren. It’s an intergen- MAIL MAIL erational crime.”

With this in mind, the charismatic 2 thinker set out to write a series of let- DO IT IT DO ters to his grandchildren, expressing his hopes for their future against worsening odds. It’s a farewell, of sorts, as Suzuki prepares for a quiet twilight in Vancou- 06.10.15 ver, clear of public life. he governments of more than 190 The aim was to send a clear signal to “At my age, whatever politicians and .09

23 nations will gather in Paris later this push other nations taking part in the corporate executives do or do not do # SUZUKI A LIFETIME OF year to discuss a possible new global Paris meeting to commit to reducing dan- will have little effect on my life, I’m agreement on climate change, aimed gerous greenhouse gas emissions, which near the end,” the 79-year-old said. Tat reducing global greenhouse gas emis- threaten to melt ice caps and glaciers, “But the effects of those actions and WISDOM DESERVES sions and thus avoiding the threat of dan- raise sea levels and bring more violent inactions will reverberate through the gerous climate change. Meanwhile, ahead storms and floods. But it may be too lit- entire lives of my grandchildren with TO BE PASSED ALONG of the United Nations climate summit, tle, too late. Climate scientists say we’re enormous repercussions. CASCADIA WEEKLY leaders of the world’s seven largest econ- already pushed well past the UN’s defin- “If young people care about what lies BY TIM JOHNSON omies met in Germany this week. Leaders ing goal of reducing carbon emissions ahead, they have no choice but to get 8 stressed that “deep cuts in global green- sufficient to keep global temperatures involved in whatever way they feel they house gas emissions” were required with from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius can. I am encouraged by people who are “a decarbonization of the global economy above pre-industrial levels. ready to put their bodies on the line, to over the course of this century.” The 2C cap has its roots in an Earth risk physical harm and jail time. I believe Strong words, but are words enough? Summit in 1992, which pledged to avoid they should enlist the most important people on the planet—their parents—to times the passions of a younger man don’t come together and say, ‘Look, let’s become eco-warriors prepared to fight burst through: start with the agreement that we are bio- for the future of their children.” “You know, you can charge people who logical creatures, and if you don’t have air The most personal of his many books, are at a scene, where someone is being for more than three or four minutes, you’re

Letters to My Grandchildren brushes across murdered, and if you don’t do anything to dead; if you don’t have clean air, you’re 34 many topics and includes stories from try to help that, you can be charged with sick,’ so, surely, air, the atmosphere that

Suzuki’s own remarkable life, and his role criminal negligence. If something is go- provides us with the seasons, the weath- FOOD as a father and grandfather reflected in ing on that you should know about, and er, the climate, that has to be our highest his own upbringing. you ignore it deliberately, that’s called priority. Before anything economic or po- 27 “My father was the great influence of ‘willful blindness.’ That’s a legal category litical, that has to be the highest priority. my life when I was growing up. He in- for taking people to court,” he said in a “But what you’re getting is a huge gath- stilled in me a sense of responsibility to ering, as we saw in Copenhagen, a huge B-BOARD always try to make this country a better gathering of countries trying to negotiate place and warned me that if I spoke out something that doesn’t belong to anyone, 24 for what I believed, there would always , through the lenses of all of the political be people who would be angry and at- “We live in a world boundaries and the economic priorities, FILM tack me. He taught me the importance and we try to shoehorn nature into our

of speaking out,” he said. “My mother in which everything agenda. And it’s simply not going to work,” 20 was, to me, the kindest, most modest, is connected to he said. “A meeting like this is doomed to hard-working person I know. And yet, she fail, because we haven’t left our vested MUSIC will disappear from memory in two gen- everything else. So interests outside the door and come to- erations. Most of the people who have gether as a single species and agreed what 18 ever lived were like my mother, good, the fundamental needs are for all of hu- whatever we do, from ART hard-working people who didn’t demand manity. So we’re going to sacrifice the air, to be recognized and that has always the food we eat, to the the water, the biodiversity, all in the sake TWO DAYS ONLY! 16 had an immense effect on me—who do I products we buy, use of human political and economic interest. Don’t miss our think I am if I want to be more than what “Over and over, we are told that solu- 35th Anniversary STAGE my mother was?” he asks. and throw away, has tions to problems are ‘impossible,’ usually “I think one of the most obscene de- on the basis of economic cost, but seldom scriptions today is the word disposable,” repercussions. And so because of real scientific or engineering 14 Suzuki remarked. “Instead of bragging barriers, and almost always because the about durability, resistance to wear and the way we live carries blocks are in our minds,” he writes. “Bor- GET OUT tear, or lasting a lifetime, we boast of ders, governments, capitalism, the econo- disposability as a convenience, that can huge responsibilities. my, corporations, markets and currency— SALE 12 be discarded for more modern or osten- Freedom carries with it these are not forces of nature; they are tatious indicators of wealth, We should human constructs that can be modified 20% OFF WORDS cover our ears when someone uses the and regulated to conform to the bound- responsibility and we * word disposable,” he advised, “and ad- aries dictated by nature. But we react and 8 STOREWIDE 8 monish them for saying a bad word.” are not isolated from respond to those global factors by acting at both Suzuki believes we are living in a un- everything else. We are as if our creations somehow are inviola- VILLAGE BOOKS CURRENTS CURRENTS precedented moment in human history ble and must be maintained, so we try to CURRENTS where our actions are pivotal and have shoehorn nature into our priorities and & PAPER DREAMS exquisitely connected.” 6 profound global consequences. make her conform to our needs.” “The sudden confluence of explosive —DAVID SUZUKI His parting advice is to be thoughtful growth in human numbers, technological about the way you live. Saturday & Sunday VIEWS dexterity, and consumptive demand is “We live in a world in which everything June 13th - 14th 4 having a huge impact on the properties recent interview. “And I think that what is connected to everything else,” Suzuki of the planet itself,” he writes. “Some of we have to also find is a mechanism to said. “So whatever we do, from the food *Some exceptions apply - ask for details MAIL Can’t make it in? Phone payment accepted during sale. the consequences include an alteration of judge people and to make them account- we eat, to the products we buy, use and 2 the biological and chemical composition able for the implications of what they throw away, has repercussions. And so the

Sunday, June 14, 7pm IT DO of the atmosphere, water and soil, and do or do not do for future generations. way we live carries huge responsibilities. massive geophysical change in terrestrial That is, there should be a category of Freedom carries with it responsibility Join us for a Booked at the and aquatic ecosystems. It means you are intergenerational crime. You come here and we are not isolated from everything Baker Series event with renowned author and heading toward huge changes in weather 20 years later: how many of the polit- else. We are exquisitely connected.” environmentalist and climate as well as in the biological ical leaders that were here in 1992 are “People often come up to me and 06.10.15 productivity of forests, reefs, wetlands now here again? Very, very few, if any. say, ‘Thank you for the work you are do- .09

and prairies. The scientific warnings of So, these guys come, they make a lot of ing,’”he said. “But if I ask what they are 23

DAVID # our potential fate have been issued with nice words, and they say, ‘Oh, yeah, we doing, a typical response is, ‘You’re on increasing urgency over decades, but care about this. We’re going to do that.’ television, so you have a big influence. I’m a drop in the bucket.’ I’ve been lucky SUZUKI there has been reluctance to meet the Nobody holds them accountable, because at the Mount Baker Theatre challenge on the scale that’s needed.” they go out of office, they go on to be- to have a platform, The Nature of Things, 7LFNHWV The reasons are many, but he cites in- come billionaires or whatever they do. that has enabled me to present import- DYDLODEOHDW9LOODJH%RRNV7KH0RXQW%DNHU7KHDWUH ertia as a primary cause. “One must make But who’s accountable for the lack of any ant issues to the public. But I’m still just DWPRXQWEDNHUWKHDWUHFRP 5HFHLYH21()5((7,&.(7ZLWKHDFKSXUFKDVHRIKLV CASCADIA WEEKLY a commitment in confronting a crisis, but kind of profound activity?” one person, too, a drop in the bucket. If ERRN/HWWHUVWR0\*UDQGFKLOGUHQ that is the hardest thing to do because Raging at the futility of climate sum- we recruit a lot of drops, however, we can we all see the world through beliefs and mits, Suzuki observes, “Meetings like this fill any bucket there is. Read more at villagebooks.com 9 values that are powerfully influenced by are doomed to fail, because we see our- “This is what a grassroots movement politics and economics.” selves at the center of everything, and our is,” Suzuki observed. “We can all be part VILLAGE BOOKS Though he tries hard to speak as an political and our economic priorities have of something that can grow into a move- 1200 11th St., Bellingham elder, wisely retiring from the fray, at to dominate over everything else. If we ment. What matters is, we try. 360.671.2626 currents ›› last week’s news

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14 WEDNESDAY Bellingham’s fake Orca fools no one. The effort to scare off hundreds of sea lions in Oregon flops after the the fiberglass Orca went belly up, swamped by a passing boat. Earlier in the day, Port of Astoria officials had to find a replacement motor for the 32-foot replica, which is on loan Health officials conclude a dairy barn at the Northwest Washing- from Bellingham’s Island Mariner Cruises. Port of Astoria said the sea lions got “deathly silent” when the Orca sailed into view—until it started GET OUT ton Fairgrounds was indeed the source of an outbreak of Shiga tox- listing and tipped over. in-producing E. coli in April, but believe the contamination occurred

12 before the annual Milk Makers Fest. Infecting bacteria can survive the state constitution. Last month, the state De- mit to a home invasion robbery May 28. Both for several weeks. More than two dozen cases of E. coli exposure were partment of Natural Resources sent Shell a letter men have extensive criminal records for residen- confirmed, some requiring hospitalization. Most of the ill people saying the waterway where the rig is docked is tial burglary, harrassment and drug violations. WORDS were children, including older children who helped with the event. for navigation, not long-term moorage. DNR asked The pair broke down the door of a home looking

8 Shell to explain how long its equipment will be for cash and drugs but fled when the homeowners A man accused of murder in Whatcom County is guilty—but not there and whether it’s coming back. Shell’s re- called police. of murder. A jury convicts William Smith of manslaughter in the sponse said ships will be there through June and CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 killing of Jeremy McClellan in March. Smith stabbed McClellan to return in the fall. 06.08.15 death outside a south Whatcom County trailer. 6 MONDAY reports defense attorneys argued Smith acted in self-defense. Pros- Ten environmental groups are suing a feder- ecutors claim Smith continued to stab McClellan even as the victim al agency over its approval of drilling permits The Washington Supreme Court confirms it will VIEWS tried to run away. off Alaska’s northwest coast. The lawsuit seeks wait until after the Legislature adjourns from its

4 a review of permits granted to Royal Dutch Shell last 2015 special section to hear a progress report 06.05.15 PLC by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on how lawmakers have fixed the state education MAIL MAIL FRIDAY for exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea. The budget. As lawmakers headed into their second environmental groups that contend oil companies special session more than a week ago, the state 2 Governor Jay Inslee selects the City of Bellingham as the recipient are not equipped to deal with a major blowout or attorney general sent a note to the court to make DO IT IT DO of the 2015 Smart Vision Award for the comprehensive plan for down- spill in a region lacking deep-water ports, major sure the justices could wait for that report. The town. Now in its 10th year, the Governor’s Smart Community’s Award airports and other infrastructure routinely present report to the court is supposed to explain why program recognizes achievements by local leaders who promote com- in other drilling areas. sanctions are not needed in connection with a prehensive growth planning and projects that contribute to quality contempt order associated with the 2012 McCleary 06.10.15 of life in Washington State. Judges noted that the Downtown Bell- A high-risk sex offender gets extra years decision on school funding. ingham Plan was the broadest, most inclusive look at downtown tacked on to his sentence for having sex with .09

23 issues they had seen. a teenage girl. Whatcom County’s newest judge 06.09.15 # sentences John Wayne Lawrence to an exceptional TUESDAY The U.S. Coast Guard will seek civil penalties against four protes- 10 years in prison, two years more than what the tors who entered an established safety zone and climbed an anchor prosecution and defense attorneys recommend- Washington’s attorney general says he will open to the Shell-contracted Arctic Challenger in Bellingham over Me- ed. Lawrence pleaded guilty to several charges, a criminal investigation into state Auditor Troy morial Day weekend. On April 28, the Coast Guard established 100- including rape of a child in the third degree. Supe- Kelley, separate from the federal charges he al- yard safety zones around Arctic drilling and support vessels while rior Court Judge Montoya-Lewis finds his criminal ready faces. The state’s investigation is expected

CASCADIA WEEKLY moored or anchored, and a 500-yard safety zone while transiting to record egregious. to focus on the relationship between Kelley and a allow maximum use of the waterway consistent with safe navigation. former part-time worker at the auditor’s office who 10 Coast Guard officials can seek a maximum civil penalty of $40,000 No one is hurt in a head-on collision between a has longstanding ties to Kelley. Kelley, who is on for each entry into the zone or day the individuals violated the zone. Blaine School District bus and a car. There were no unpaid leave, was indicted in April on charges that students on board the bus at the time. he ducked taxes and kept more than $1 million in KING TV reports that Shell Oil is challenging the state’s opinion money that he should have refunded to clients of that docking the Polar Pioneer drilling rig in might violate Ferndale Police arrest two men they say ad- his former real-estate-services business. index ed. “A resident says it looks like this was FUZZ done against the will of participants. Cross-country group end-of-year shenani-

gans. Everyone is happy and healthy,” po- BUZZ 34 lice concluded. FOOD FOOD FLESH PEDDLERS On June 1, University Police took a report On June 5, police again monitored what they that bricks were being stolen from the me- 27 described as a “unique bicycling event,” the morial Yellow Brick Road between Arntzen 7th annual Naked Bike Ride through down- Hall and the Fine Arts building on campus. town Bellingham. “The police department B-BOARD will contact participants prior to the event On May 29, Bellingham Police respond- and inform them of the applicable law, ed to a report of a loud party in Sehome 62 24 which prohibits ‘indecent exposure,’” police neighborhood near reported. “Court rules require a citizen com- University campus. Four people were cited FILM plaint prior to enforcement action. If this is for violating the city’s noise ordinance. 25 25 the case, those who are in violation of the 22 20 law will be arrested and cited. According On May 29, Bellingham Police responded NUMBER of states projecting budget shortfalls for the coming fiscal year, including to the law, increased penalties occur if the to a report of a loud party in Happy Valley, MUSIC Washington. Stagnant or declining tax revenue, combined with rising pension and person exposes himself or herself to a per- south of WWU campus. health care costs, are among the chief reasons for the continuing budget turmoil, which son under 14 years of age, or if the violator experts say could mean deep cuts in state services if the overall economy turns sour. 18 has been previously convicted of indecent On May 29, Bellingham Police broke up a ART exposure or of a sex offense,” police noted. loud college party in York neighborhood. “The police presence is to ensure that par- 16 ticipants comply with applicable laws and On May 30, University Police struggled to $917 102

ordinances. The police presence and escort control a loud party at Nash Hall on WWU STAGE MILLIONS in new revenue in the MILLIONS moved out of the state is not intended to be an endorsement of this campus. revised House budget proposed by state budget that would bring health benefits event,” police cautioned. legislators. The House has removed for teachers in line with state employees. 14 On May 30, campus cops searched without requests for a 0.3 percentage point The budget also eliminates funding On June 5, Bellingham Police cited just success for a group of students smoking business and occupation (B&O) tax to provide breakfast for children with surcharge to service industry businesses, low incomes during the school day, one naked cyclist among dozens after dope near Edens Hall. GET OUT the closure of wasteful tax breaks, and a address the educational opportunity gap someone complained about how he was sales tax on some out-of-state internet faced by children of color, and improve carrying his gear. On May 30, Bellingham Police arrested

retailers. educational outcomes for foster children. 12 three disorderly people who were hosting a On June 6, a motorist complained that, loud party south of WWU campus. WORDS while he was stopped at a light down- $65 $114

town, a woman on a bike rode up to him On May 30, Bellingham Police responded to 8 8 and accused him of having yelled at her a report of a loud party near Laurel Park and MILLIONS of dollars stripped out of MILLIONS in lost revenue through tax on Chuckanut Drive a month ago. “The fe- WWU campus. Police issued three citations the Senate version of the state budget breaks contained in the Senate version intended to help families weather of the state budget, including extending CURRENTS CURRENTS male proceeded to hit his car and spat on for violating the city noise ordinance. CURRENTS difficult financial times. The proposed a costly tax break for agricultural him through the window,” Bellingham Po- budget neglects to restore a previous processors and re-enacting a tax break 6 lice reported. ”The female then rode away On May 30, Bellingham Police responded cut to food assistance, impacting more for high-tech research and development on her environmentally friendly mode of to reports of a loud party south of WWU. than 15,000 children and eliminates activities. A Joint Legislative Audit and transportation.” staffing positions that provide public Review Committee audit found these VIEWS assistance to struggling individuals and incentives to be a complete failure.

On May 30, Bellingham Police responded 4 families. TO SERVE AND PROTECT to reports of a loud party in York neighbor- On June 5, Bellingham Police joined their hood near WWU campus. MAIL

brethren to celebrate National Donut Day. 2 On May 30, Bellingham Police cited two 31 23 DO IT IT DO ANNALS OF people who were hosting a loud party in HIGHER EDUCATION Samish neighborhood. PERCENT of Washingtonians who do PERCENT of all income held by the not have enough income to meet their wealthiest 1 percent of state residents. On May 25, University Police received a basic needs. report of approximately 10 college-aged On May 30, Bellingham Police responded persons in the area of the Sehome Arbo- to reports of a loud party in Puget neigh- 06.10.15 retum tower, acting strangely. By the time borhood. 30

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police arrived, only two remained who were 23 # reportedly acting fine. “They haven’t seen On May 30, Bellingham Police responded PERCENT of installment debt for PERCENT of installment debt for anything unusual,” police reported. to reports of a loud party in Happy Valley. non-retired Americans represented by non-retired Americans represented by education loans in 1989 education loans in 2013. On May 23, a University Police officer On May 31, Bellingham Police responded came across a group of students smoking to a report of another loud party in Happy marijuana near Buchanan Towers. Campus Valley. cops impounded the contraband weed for 11.2 CASCADIA WEEKLY destruction. On May 31, Bellingham Police reponded to PERCENT pay raise for the Washington State Legislature approved by the Washington 11 a noise complaint near . Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials, which has sole authority to On June 8, University Police reported 10- set pay for lawmakers and statewide elected officials. Running the Legislature for an 12 college-aged men were playing Frisbee On June 1, Bellingham Police investigated extra month included more than $180,000 in daily expense payments to lawmakers. in Red Square. “Group threw two people a complaint about a loud party near Civic SOURCES: Associated Press; Washington State Budget & Policy Center; LIMRA Secure into the fountain,” campus cops report- Field. Retirement Institute; Seattle Times find common ground with people from other perspectives and—thinking back to the Spotted Owl issue in the North- west—other livelihoods, people who

34 wouldn’t necessarily identify themselves with environmentalists. Was there a way

FOOD FOOD we could sit down and talk about common words concerns?” she said. COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS “These were very much members of the 27 heartland, devout members of the LDS Church, a lot of folks who have been vot-

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24 tion or were closely involved in it—wheth- unwaveringly—despite their own personal er they had a parent with a ranch or had experiences—in a strong nuclear arsenal.

FILM a backyard garden—they were able to vis- Despite having different views from me ibly see contamination entering their food politically, we were able to have incredibly

20 supply, whether it was dust drifting down compelling conversations. They weren’t from a very visible mushroom cloud over advocating against nuclear technology be-

MUSIC Nevada, causing leaves to curl up or spots cause it was trendy, or because they’d read to appear on the backs of sheep or horses. about it in a flyer. This

18 Or liquid wastes coming off uranium mines is experiential activ-

ART and flowing into the water supply. ism—people engaging “People were able to put two and two this issue because they together when livestock started to suffer, had been through pretty 16 when people started to get sick, and they significant personal and

STAGE were able to rely upon their own experien- historical events, and tial knowledge of the food chain to combat they’d drawn their own these messages they were receiving from LISTEN conclusions,” Fox said. 14 WHO: Sarah authority figures that they were uneducated Alisabeth Fox “Incredible acts of bear- and wrong about their observations and did WHAT: Down- ing witness on the part

GET OUT not understand why they were getting sick.” wind: A People’s of these narrators.” It’s not an easy story to track down or History of the Are there broad lessons Nuclear West

12 tell. Decades separate events from conse- for other communities? 12 WHEN: 7pm quences, miles separate detonation from Thurs. June 11 “Absolutely,” Fox as- fallout, anecdotes and suspicion supplant serted. “Of the many

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8 of industries and regulators to sweep this emerged was, first, ‘We old atomic dust under the carpet. INFO: www. weren’t warned. We were villagebooks.com “I combined a folklore analysis of the told there was no dan-

CURRENTS CURRENTS stories, looking at them as community ger.’ And I think that is very common when SARAH ALISABETH FOX narratives that were simultaneously per- a new industrial technology, a new eco- 6 sonal and collective social material,” Fox nomic activity arrives that could poten- explained. “Analyzing the stories from tially cause emissions or harming an area’s VIEWS BY TIM JOHNSON that perspective, I was able to identify water table. There are always assurances

4 some key themes, patterns in the sto- up front, in communities across the United ries—the contamination of local food, the States, that ‘this is safe, there are smart, MAIL MAIL destruction of local agriculture, the patri- well-trained people running this, that you

Downwind of Here otism that defines the Cold War and disil- have nothing to worry about. And you ordi- 2 A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE NUCLEAR WEST lusionment that followed, the dismissal of nary folks, who live nearby, should just be DO IT IT DO women and people of color. happy for the economic development it is ay “downwinder” and most Pacific Northwesterners think of the people of the “Once I was able to hone in on those bringing to your area.’ and Columbia gorge living downwind and downstream of the decom- big themes, I was able to bring in other “What people have had to learn the hard missioned Hanford nuclear breeder complex. But stories disciplines such as medical research, de- way, often those people making those

06.10.15 S of people with eerily similar complaints of health problems, of classified documents related to nuclear promises up front may have the best of in- diminished lives, pepper the West. energy energy programs and class-action tentions, but it is difficult to know how .10

23 In chilling detail, Seattle author Sarah Alisabeth Fox brings to lawsuits underway. new technologies will play out over time, # light the experiences and concerns of Americans whose voices “Drawing all those things together I was the impacts they will have on the land- have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name able to get a good sense of how those stories scape, on people’s bodies, on the food sup- of patriotism and national security, tracing the evolution of a had played out historically and how they had ply. We need to think critically about the citizen activist movement that eventually challenged the federal emerged and developed over time,” she said. pro-development messages we get when government and powerful military and energy industries. Fox was determined to tell the stories of new industries come into our communities. “I’m a born and raised Skagitonian and former Bellingham these ranchers and homesteaders in a way “You can’t fence in nuclear technology,”

CASCADIA WEEKLY resident,” Fox said. The Evergreen State College grad was wait- that honored their lives. Coursing strongly she said. “Just like you can’t fence in other ing tables in Fairhaven and dreaming of tackling one of the most shrouded and elu- through her work is the activism of mothers forms of industrial production, such as an oil 12 sive topics of environmental journalism—the atomic West. as quiet caregivers and fierce healers tend- spill from an offshore drilling rig where—ul- “In the 1950s, people living in rural communities were often the hosts of nuclear ing their families, the sick and the dying. timately—contaminants can reach all of us. facilities, uranium mines, disposal sites, et cetera,” Fox said. “Those locations were “As a Pacific Northwesterner and very The reality is wind, water and food transport chosen because they had low population densities. But in low population areas you much a West Coast progressive going into toxins far from their sources.” often have a tremendous amount of agricultural production going on. And because Utah, I was very interested in trying to Suddenly, downwind looks like here. doit

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WED., JUNE 10 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM ANCIENT PLACES: Historian, teacher and 34 author Jack Nisbet reads from Ancient Places: WED., JUNE 17 People and Landscape in the Emerging North- NECKLACE OF STONES: Alice Lee retraces FOOD west at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. her life in Alaska, China, Italy, Washington WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM and elsewhere when she reads from her new book of poetry, Necklace of Stones, at 7pm at 27 WRITERS THEATER: Sign up to read your own Village Books, 1200 11th St. original writings of stories, poems or creative 671-2626 nonfiction at the monthly Chuckanut Sand- B-BOARD stone Writer’s Theater Open Mic at 6:30pm at THURS., JUNE 18 the Colophon Cafe, 1208 11th St. LITERARY PILGRIMAGE: Why would a les- 24 671-9961 bian and feminist writer identify with author Richard Brautigan, whose most famous work FILM READING DEMOS: Discover how reading, doesn’t even name its female characters? Find reviewing books, taking quizzes and partici- out when Seattle-based author Allison Green

pating at the library will earn you badges reads from The Ghosts Who Travel With Me: A 20 and chances to win prizes all summer long Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan’s America at “Online Summer Reading for Adults” Demo at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. MUSIC Days at noon today at the Bellingham Public WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Library, 210 Central Ave. Additional demos

take place at 5pm Wed., June 17 and 10am 18 Wed., June 24. COMMUNITY ART 778-7230 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG JUNE 11-14 STOMMISH WATER FESTIVAL: 16 THURS., JUNE 11 games, canoe races, bone games, cultural music

BOOK TALK: Librarian Katie Bray leads a and dance, a showing of Sonny Sixkiller Buys the STAGE bimonthly “Book Talk” at 5pm at the SkillShare Washington Redskins, contests, and much more Space at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 will be part of the 69th annual Stommish Water Central Ave. Participants can share their Festival taking place Thursday through Sunday 14 favorite titles, make selections, get reading at the Stommish Grounds on Lummi Nation ideas and hear more about great new books. (near Gooseberry Point) and beyond. GET OUT 778-7230 WWW.STOMMISH.COM FRI., JUNE 12 SAT., JUNE 13 12 12 TRANSFORMATIONS, TRANSLATIONS: ROCKHOUNDS RENDEZVOUS: All are Three poets, two artists and one musician welcome when the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem WORDS will take part in “Transformations & Transla- Club hosts its annual Rockhound Recycling WORDS tions: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Art” Rendezvous from 10am-5:30pm at the Bloedel at 7pm at Works Studio, 301 W. Holly St. The Donovan Community Center, 2214 Electric Ave. 8 free event is part of a pop-up gallery show at Sign up for space to buy, swap or sell rock- the space. related material (fees are $25 for a table) or (360) 398-7870 simply show up and shop. Entry is free.

WWW.MTBAKERROCKCLUB.ORG CURRENTS ONE BOOK AT A TIME: Chuck Robinson pres- 6 ents and reads from a new version of It Takes MON., JUNE 15 a Village Books: 35 Years of Building Com- ROCKS & GEMS: Join the Mt. Baker Rock &

munity, One Book at a Time at 7pm at Village Gem Club for its monthly meeting at 7pm at VIEWS Books, 1200 11th St. The book chronicles the Bloedel Donovan Community Building, 35 years of the publishing and book-selling 2214 Electric Ave. Entry is free. 4 business—both here and abroad—recounts WWW.MTBAKERROCKCLUB.ORG local and national censorship and privacy in- IS WALK-IN VISITS MAIL

cidents, and offers a glimpse into the future WED., JUNE 17 of the book and bookstore. DEATH CAFE: Bring your perspectives, 2 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM thoughts, insights and questions surrounding DO IT IT DO end of life issues and join an interesting dis- THAT FIT MY MON., JUNE 15 cussion circle at the monthly Death Cafe taking TIGER TAIL SOUP: As part of an “Escape place from 6:30-8:30pm at Moles Family Funeral the Ordinary” Monday night reading series, Home, 2465 Lakeway Dr. Entry is by donation.

Nicki Chen reads and shares stories from Tiger WWW.DEATHCAFE.COM BUSY SCHEDULE 06.10.15 Tail Soup at 6:30pm at the Mount Vernon City

Library, 315 Snoqualmie St. ONE GENERATION’S TIME: The Whatcom .10

WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV Peace & Justice Center and Community to Com- 23 # munity will host a free screening of the docu- POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their mentary One Generation’s Time: The Legacy of make Planned creative verse as part of Poetrynight can Silme Domingo & Gene Viernes at 7pm at Garden sign up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Street Methodist Church, 1326 N. Garden St. Parenthood Library, 210 Central Ave. Readings start at WWW.WHATCOMPJC.ORG 8pm. Entry is by donation. P.S. Please use the your health back fountain entry. JUNE 18-21

WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG BERRY DAIRY DAYS: Fireworks, live music, care provider CASCADIA WEEKLY a road run, a parade, magic shows, a salmon TUES., JUNE 16 barbecue, car and stunt shows, a carnival and 13 BOOK OF ARON: National Book Award finalist strawberry shortcake will be part of “Berry 1.800.230.PLAN Jim Shepard reads from The Book of Aron at Dairy Days” happening from Thursday through mbpp.org 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Aron, the Sunday throughout Burlington. narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy WWW.BURLINGTON-CHAMBER.COM Bellingham · Mount Vernon Friday Harbor doit

WED., JUNE 10 GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are

welcome at a weekly Group Run beginning at 34 6pm in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Running Company, 702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is FOOD FOOD great for beginners or for others wanting an outside easy recovery. Entry is free and no registra- HIKING RUNNING CYCLING tion is required. 27 WWW.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG THURS., JUNE 11 B-BOARD B-BOARD URBAN KICKBALL: Take part in Down- town Bellingham Partnership’s “Throwback Thursdays” Urban Kickball League by showing 24 up to support the teams from 5:30-7:30pm Thursdays at Maritime Heritage Park, 500 FILM W. Holly St. The spring league will conclude this week with a family-friendly Final League

20 Tournament from 11am-4pm Sat., June 13. A summer league is in the works.

MUSIC WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM ATTEND WHAT: Tours of FRI., JUNE 12 18 Bellingham Bay WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventur-

ART Cleanup Sites ers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild WHEN: 10am-12pm Things” excursions from 9:30-11am every Friday in June at Fairhaven’s Marine Park.

16 Sat., June 13, June 20, and June 27 Entry is by donation. WHERE: Each tour WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG STAGE has a different gath- ering location: CEMETERY TOUR: The City of Bellingham presents a “Bayview’s Continuing History” 14 14 JUNE 13: Bicycle tour of Little Squa- tour from 1-2:30pm at Bayview Cemetery, licum Park/Oeser, 1420 Woburn St. The tour will feature histori- cal notes from Whatcom City Council meetings GET OUT GET OUT and paper milling, solid waste landfills, Eldridge Municipal BY TIM JOHNSON Landfill, Weldcraft and biographies of people buried at Bayview. and boat building. At each of these sites, Marine, and I & J Entry is free. 778-7150 12 contamination levels were high enough Waterway cleanup to warrant their inclusion under Washing- sites. Meet at Toxic Tours ton’s toxics cleanup law, the Model Toxics Bellingham Techni- JUNE 12-14 WORDS PLOVER FERRY: The Plover ferry runs Control Act (MTCA). cal College Central BAYKEEPERS WALK, CYCLE, PADDLE Plaza on Lindbergh through the summer from 12-8pm Friday and

8 “By offering these tours, we hope that Avenue. Tour ends at Saturday and 10am-6pm Sunday departing on THROUGH INDUSTRIAL LEGACY citizens will become inspired to more Maritime Heritage the hour from the Blaine Visitor’s Dock, Gate closely follow the cleanup processes at Park. Total biking II at Blaine Harbor. Suggested donation for the excursions is $1 for kids and $5 for adults.

CURRENTS CURRENTS rofits are taken; pollutants are left behind as in- several of these sites,” said Wendy Stef- distance is 3.25 WWW.DRAYTONHARBORMARITIME.ORG dustries shutter and depart for fairer pastures—it’s fensen, North Sound Baykeeper at RE miles.

6 JUNE 20: Walk- a toxic legacy left behind in harbors and waterways Sources for Sustainable Communities. P ing tour of the SAT., JUNE 13 all across America, and Bellingham is no exception. “People have the opportunity to provide Central Waterfront, FISHING DERBY: Area youth should bring VIEWS Bellingham’s waterfront worked hard for many decades, public comment during the cleanup pro- Holly Street Landfill, their own fishing poles and tackle to the Loyal Order of Camels’ annual Kids’ Fishing 4 generating incomes but leaving waste. The Georgia Pacific cess, and their participation is essential Whatcom Waterway, and the Georgia Pa- Derby taking place from 8am-12pm at Fishtrap pulp and paper mill is perhaps the most prominent exam- to achieving a high-quality cleanup.” Creek at Lynden City Park, 8460 Depot Rd. MAIL MAIL cific cleanup sites. ple, but there are others strewn across the bay, littering For each tour, RE Sources staff will pro- Starts and ends at Entry is free; donations are welcome.

the bottom of the bay and poisoning its shorelines. The vide a brief history, and explain what the WWW.LYNDEN.ORG 2 Maritime Heritage cost of cleanup is borne largely by the public—after all, site is contaminated with, stage in the Park. The total ORCAS HIKE: Join members of the Mount DO IT IT DO in a literal sense our public agencies permitted the waste; cleanup process, and future site plans. walking distance is Baker Club for a hike to Mountain Lake at but the desire to live in a clean, safe community free of Numerous agencies are involved in the about 1.25 miles. JUNE 27: Bicycle Moran State Park on Orcas Island today. Meet contaminants is also ours. This duty and desire helped cleanup process (City of Bellingham, Port tour of the Cornwall at Sunnyland Elementary to carpool—cost is launch the Waterkeeper Alliance, a group of more than 200 of Bellingham, Department of Ecology, and Landfill, RG Haley, $10 for gas plus shared vehicle ferry tolls. 06.10.15 organization with “keeper” in their names, including our Environmental Protection Agency). Repre- South State Street WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG own North Sound Baykeepers Alliance. sentatives from these agencies have been Gasification Plant, .10 and the Harris Av- RACE FOR EDUCATION: Communities in

23 On three consecutive Saturdays in June, our Baykeepers invited to participate, and may or may not # enue Shipyard sites. Schools hosts its seventh annual “Race for will walk and cycle through a dozen of these former indus- be present for the tours. Starts at Marine Education” starting at 9am at Civic Field, trial sites along Bellingham Bay. Join them, and you will These tours are appropriate for adults Park, ends at the 1355 Civic Field Way. Entry to take part in the learn about the history of each site, the contaminants being and youth over the age of 14. No pre- Bellingham Farmers fundraising 5K is $15-$25. cleaned up, how cleanups will happen and future planned registration is needed. For biking tours, Market. The total WWW.WHATCOMRACEFOREDUCATION.ORG uses for each site. In addition to the tours, RE Sources will participants are required to wear helmets biking distance is 3.25 miles. GIRLS ON THE RUN: Sign up for the annual provide a map of the cleanup sites that will be available for and are encouraged to wear high-visibil- COST: Free and “Girls on the Run 5K,” which begins at 9am at CASCADIA WEEKLY interested people to embark on a self-guided tour any time. ity clothing for both biking and walking open to the public. the playground at Lake Padden, 4882 Samish The 12 toxic cleanup sites in Bellingham Bay were pri- tours. Participants must bring their own Registration is not Way. Entry is $15; funds raised support the 14 marily the result of a legacy of industrial practices at the bicycles. All events will happen rain or— required. Girls on the Run program. WWW.WHATCOMYMCA.ORG old Georgia Pacific Mill and in the Whatcom Waterway increasingly likely—shine. INFO: www. re-sources.org that preceded modern environmental laws. At most of TRAIL BUILDING DAY: Join Fairhaven Run- the 12 Bellingham Bay sites, soil, sediment or groundwa- Tours are funded through a grant from the ners and the WHIMPS Mountain Bike Coalition ter were contaminated by industrial processes like pulp Washington State Dept. of Ecology. doit

for a Galbraith Trail Building Day starting at 9am clinic at 11am in Mount Vernon at Christianson’s from the Galbraith Lane parking lot off Samish Nursery, 15806 Best Rd. Entry is $8. At 1pm, join

Way. Food, beverages and tools will be provided John Christianson for a free “June Bloom Walk” at at the kid-friendly event. the 11-acre English garden of La Conner Flats (ad- 34 WWW.WMBCMTB.ORG jacent to the nursery). Please register in advance FOOD FOOD for both events. SKAGIT RUN: Raise awareness of the support and WWW.CHRISTIANSONSNURSERY.COM services for people with disabilities in our commu- 27 nity at a “Skagit Run for Those Who Can’t” event BLAZING PADDLES: Celebrate the passion happening from 9:30am-12pm at Mount Vernon’s of paddle sports at the third annual “Blazing College track, 2405 E. College Way. Paddles: A Paddling Film Festival” at 7pm at B-BOARD B-BOARD Entry is $10 per person. Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. WWW.MOUNTVERNONCHAMBER.COM Films will cover action, documentary, humor, and environmental categories featuring sea 24 SUN RUN: Join the Greater Bellingham Running kayaking, whitewater kayaking, surf skiing, Club for its annual “Race Beneath the Sun” at canoeing, rafting, stand-up paddle boarding FILM 10am starting at Fairhaven Park, 107 Chuckanut and other paddling-related footage. Tickets Dr. The five-mile course is mostly trail. Race-day are $15; funds raised benefit Washington Water

registration is $5-$10. Trails Association. 20 WWW.GBRC.NET WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG MUSIC BARK IN THE PARK: Visit with various dog JUNE 13-14 vendors, watch demos and enter your dog in one DEMING LOGGING SHOW: Events and exhibi- of many silly dog contests at a “Bark in the Park” tions displaying the skills, tools and technol- 18

event from 10am-2pm at Storvik Park on 32nd ogy used in the logging industry will be part of ART Street in Anacortes. Admission is free. the 52nd annual Deming Logging Show starting WWW.CITYOFANACORTES.ORG at 9am Saturday and Sunday at the Deming Log- ging Show Grounds, 3295 Cedarville Rd. Entry 16 SUDDEN VALLEY GARDENING: Fleurishing is $4-$7.

owner Diane Champaigne focuses on “Garden- WWW.DEMINGLOGGINGSHOW.COM STAGE ing in Sudden Valley” at a free presentation at 10:30am at the Sudden Valley’s South Whatcom BOATING CENTER OPEN: The Community 14 Library, 10 Barn View Court. Champaigne will Boating Center has resumed operations for the 14 discuss deer-resistant landscaping, smart solu- 2015 from 10am until sunset on Satur- tions for shady locations, container gardening, days and Sundays at their headquarters at 555 GET OUT GET OUT what to do with wet and dry areas, and native Harris Ave. Rentals include kayaks, sailboats, plant options. rowboats and paddle boards. Registration for WWW.WCLS.ORG youth camps and adult classes are currently 12 available online. Starting June 22, the center SUMMER PROPAGATION: A free “Summer Propa- will operate through the week.

gation: Softwood Cuttings” workshop takes place WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG WORDS from 10:30am-12pm at Everson’s Cloud Mountain

Farm Center, 6906 Goodwin Rd. Participants will MON., JUNE 15 8 learn how to clonally propagate plants during the NW CAMPING BASICS: Learn more about growing season. No registration is necessary. diverse camping opportunities in Washington, WWW.CLOUDMOUNTAINFARMCENTER.ORG Oregon, and Idaho at a “Pacific Northwest Camp- ing Basics” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. CURRENTS SUDDEN VALLEY GARDENING: Fleurishing The presentation will also cover essentials, gear 6 owner Diane Champaigne focuses on “Gardening in and equipment, local activities, great regional Sudden Valley” at a free presentation at 10:30am resources and areas to camp. at the Sudden Valley’s South Whatcom Library, 10 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM VIEWS Barn View Court. Champaigne will discuss deer resistant landscaping, smart solutions for shady TUES., JUNE 16 4 locations, container gardening, what to do with SUP BASICS: Learn about “SUP (Stand Up MAIL MAIL wet and dry areas, and native plant options. Paddleboarding) Basics” at a free clinic on the

WWW.WCLS.ORG topic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. The program 2 will offer an overview of Stand-up Paddleboards KICKBALL LEAGUE FINALS: The Throwback and the necessary equipment. DO IT IT DO

Thursday Urban Kickball League concludes its 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM spring league with a round-robin style tourna- ment from 11am-4pm at Maritime Heritage ALL-PACES RUN: Staffers and volunteers are Park, 500 W. Holly St. The free, family-friendly always on hand to guide the way at the weekly

tournament will include a beer garden with local All-Paces Run starting at 6pm every Tuesday at 06.10.15 breweries, an appearance by Mayor Kelli Linville, Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The runs are 20

food trucks, sports commentators, music from minutes out and back on two key routes—by the .10

PhDJ, and a trophy ceremony. water or through the woods. Entry is free. 23 # WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM

BONSAI & BLUEBERRIES: Expert George THURS., JUNE 18 Berkompas leads a “Bonsai Seminar” at 11am CREEK HISTORY: “A Creek With a Past: History at My Garden Nursery, 929 E. Bakerview Rd. of Whatcom Creek” will be the focus of a Brown (formerly Bakerview Nursery). At 12:30pm, Bag presentation with WWU history professor there’ll be an “Indoor Gardening” course, and, Chris Friday at 12:30pm at ’s Old

at 1:30pm, a how to about how to grow the City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Friday tracks the creek CASCADIA WEEKLY “Best Blueberries.” Entry is free; please RSVP through sandstone beds, evergreen forests and for all seminars. urban settings, sharing the creek’s varied history 15 WWW.MYGARDENNURSERY.COM as a natural resource for Native Americans and white settlers to its current role in recreation and CLEMATIS TALK & BLOOM WALK: “Clemaniac” economic development. Suggested donation is $3. Laura Watson leads a “Clematis Made Easy” WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG doit STAGE THURS., JUNE 11 34 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday FOOD FOOD stage at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for the “Project.” Entry is $4-$7. 27 THEATER DANCE PROFILES 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM

B-BOARD B-BOARD JUNE 11-13 QUICKSHOT FILM FEST: See what seven teams of actors and filmmakers came up

24 campy enough to provide plenty of laughs, with relating to the theme “Love is Not but also interjecting it with hearty doses the Answer” at the Quickshot Film Festival

FILM of female solidarity, erotic empowerment happening at 7:30pm Thursday through Sat- urday at iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. and true emotion. The short films were created in under two

20 Those who’ve seen past Provocateurs weeks, and showcase a broad cross-section shows probably already know that dance of the local film scene. Tickets are $10-$12.

MUSIC is one of the primary ways they tell their WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM titillating tales, and The Bustle Hustle is JUNE 11-14 18 no different. Songs such as “It’s a Man’s, SHREK, THE MUSICAL: The Lynden

ART Man’s, Man’s World,” “Can-Can,” and “Trip- Performing Arts Guild presents Shrek, the lets of Belleville” are brought to vivid life Musical starting this week with perfor- by the myriad dancing and choreographic mances at 7:30pm Thursday and Friday, and 16 16 talents of the performers comprising both 2pm Saturday and Sunday at the Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. The play is STAGE STAGE the real and the fictional cabaret troupe, based on the movie of the same name, and and as they try to save features a large cast dancing and singing the theater, the numbers their way through the adventures of the 14 become even more com- big green ogre and an array of characters. plex—and also more con- Tickets are $8-$12; additional showings happen through June 28. GET OUT temporary. WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM The production also TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Veteran

12 makes good use of the expansive, high-ceilinged director Billy Hendrix helms a version of space at the Cirque Lab, the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird WORDS SEE IT with performances at 7:30pm Thursday WHAT: The especially during a solo through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday, at the Provocateurs

8 selection that sees one Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. present The

PHOTO BY ANGELA MILLS WATSO BY PHOTO of the more acrobatic The story is narrated by an adult “Scout” Bustle Hustle as she looks back on the summer when WHEN: 9pm performers suspended in she faced the good and evil of her world. CURRENTS CURRENTS Fri.-Sat., June the air with only a rope BY AMY KEPFERLE Tickets are $18 and additional showings 12-13 to keep her company (in-

6 happen through June 20. WHERE: Bell- explicably, the beauty of WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM ingham Circus that particular piece made VIEWS Guild’s Cirque The Bustle Hustle PIRATES OF PENZANCE: Gilbert & Sul- Lab, 1401 6th me tear up just a little). livan’s Pirates of Penzance continues this 4 St. While there were a few weekend with showings at 7:30pm Thursday SHAKE IT ‘TIL YOU MAKE IT COST: $10 at louts in the audience on through Saturday, and 2:30pm Sunday, at MAIL MAIL the door f you’re the type to get flustered by the sight of women’s underthings, tread opening night—a trio of Oak Harbor’s Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE INFO: www. carefully when you make your way from the front door of the Bellingham fellas who didn’t seem to Midway Blvd. Tickets are $20; the comedic 2 bellingham Circus Guild’s Cirque Lab to your seat for a viewing of the Provocateurs’ per- be paying much atten- operetta shows through June 21. I circusguild.com

DO IT IT DO WWW.WHIDBEYPLAYHOUSE.COM formances of The Bustle Hustle. tion and whose whispers If you get past the clotheslines festooned with colorful slips, bras, belts grew into audible dialogue throughout JUNE 11-SEPT. 26 and a variety of other ladylike accoutrements, you’ll almost be home free—that the course of the night, despite being BARD ON THE BEACH: Shakespeare’s The is, until the show gets underway, and you realize the “laundry” you narrowly repeatedly hushed—everybody else (in- Comedy of Errors kicks off the award-winning 06.10.15 eluded was just the beginning. cluding me) seemed to be having a really 26th “Bard on the Beach” this month at Soon enough, however, I predict even the shyest audience members will be good time. Vancouver BC’s Vanier Park, 1695 Whyte Ave. .10 The comedy plays in repertory with King

23 comfortable with the sight of fishnet stockings, billowing petticoats and frilly We laughed when two of the dancers

# Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Shakespeare’s underwear. That’s because the women wearing the girlish garments make it clear used a suitcase full of props to highlight Rebel. Tickets are $26-$45. Early booking is from the get-go that they’re perfectly fine with dancing, singing and moving the a Whatcom County-based version of “Let’s recommended for best seat selection; many story forward while wearing bustiers and bustles. Do It,” gasped when the theater’s owner performances sell out in advance. That’s apropos, especially considering the title of the show. The Bustle Hustle took on the aforementioned villain with a WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG takes place at the dawn of the 20th century, and focuses its lens on a place called very sharp object, and “booed” when the FRI., JUNE 12 the Westmore Theater and the resident cabaret troupe—also called the Provo- bad guy used his nefarious ways to fur- SONNY SIXKILLER: A repeat performance

CASCADIA WEEKLY cateurs—who are forced to up their performance game when they find out the ther his own agenda. of Darrell Hillaire’s Sonny Sixkiller Buys the longtime venue is on the verge of shutting its doors. When it was over, we clapped long and Washington Redskins begins at 8pm at the 16 But that’s not the whole story. In between the opening scene and the final cur- hard before getting to our feet and mak- Silver Reef Casino Event Center, 4876 Hax- ton Way. The production asks what would tain, those in attendance will see the women of the troupe deal with everything ing our way back to the front door, where happen if an Indian owned the Washington from a greedy, villainous usurper to heartache, treachery, soul-searching, domes- it seemed even the most shy among us Redskins, and raises the very real issue of tic violence and decades-old revelations. were unfazed by the clotheslines full of racism against Native Americans in a new It’s clear writer and director Rebecca Temple had fun with the script, making it women’s underwear. doit

and creative way. Tickets are $10. TUES., JUNE 16 WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM GLOW SCHTICK: Brett Emerson, Joel O’ Connor,

Matt Benoit, Ben Menard, Sue Mattson, Ben Cra- JUNE 12-13 bill, Eric Schiller, Katie Chandler, and other co- 34 TRUTH AND PULP: Improvised scenes, medians will take to the stage for “Glow Schtick: FOOD FOOD characters and relationships will be inspired by A Stand Up Comedy Showcase” at 9:30pm at Glow true monologues from the mainstage cast at Nightclub, 202 E. Holly St. Entry is free. performances of “Truth Be Told” at 8pm Friday WWW.GLOWBELLINGHAM.COM 27 and Saturday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, the Tarantino-inspired “Pulp WED., JUNE 17 Improv” returns to the stage. FYI: This show is NEW OLD TIME CHAUTAUQUA: The Flying B-BOARD B-BOARD not suitable for all ages. Tickets are $10-$12 and Karamazov Brothers, poet Kevin Murphy, come- additional showings of both the formats can be dian hula-hooper Ty Vennewitz, magician Joey seen through June 20. Pipia, aerialist Carey Cramer, and many more will 24 WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM be part of a New Old Time Chautauqua benefit show at 7:30pm at the Bellingham Circus Guild’s FILM JUNE 12-14 Cirque Lab, 1401 Sixth St. Suggested donation to MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN: Students from the variety show is $5-$20.

the Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth present WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM OR 20 a lively rendition of The Muppets Take Manhattan WWW.CHAUTAUQUA.ORG starting this week with performances at 7pm MUSIC Friday, 2pm and 7pm Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at the BAAY Theatre, 1059 N. State St. Tickets are

DANCE 18 $10 (kids 5 and under are free). Additional show-

ings happen June 12-14. WED., JUNE 10 ART WWW.BAAY.ORG BAAY DANCE COMPANY: Lisa Markowitz’ BAAY Dance Company performs at 7pm at the BAAY 16 THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: A “loving and Theatre, 1059 N. State St. Suggested donation is 16 hilarious” sendup of 1920s Broadway musical $5 at the door. STAGE comedies can be seen when performances of The WWW.BAAY.ORG STAGE Drowsy Chaperone begin this week at showings at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at THURS., JUNE 11 the Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets FOLK DANCE: Join the Fourth Corner Folk 14 are $8-$14 and additional showings take place Dancers to learn lively folk dances from Eastern through June 28. Europe, Greece, Turkey, and Israel from 7:15- GET OUT WWW.BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM 10pm every Thursday at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested donation is $5; students SAT., JUNE 13 and first-timers are free. 12 COMEDY NITE ALL STARS: Shang, Kiana (360) 380-0456 Dancie, and Richie Redding will be the featured

headliners at the Comedy Nite All Stars Summer FRI., JUNE 12 WORDS Comedy Jam starting at 7:30pm at the Grand : A mix of swing, Latin and -

Ballroom at the Lakeway Inn, 714 Lakeway Dr. room will be highlighted and danced to with an in- 8 Guest host Toby Roberts will also join the show. troductory lesson at the weekly Friday Night Dance FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Party from 7:30-10pm at the Bellingham Dance WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/COMEDYNITE Company, 1705 N. State St. Admission is $5-$7. CURRENTS CURRENTS WWW.BELLINGHAMDANCECOMPANY.COM CELEBRATE THE MAGIC OF

SUN., JUNE 14 6 IDIOM AUDITIONS: Actors interested in JUNE 12-13 auditioning for fall performances of Death, the WIZARD OF OZ: Infinity Dance Company pres- SUMMER! Final Irony and Clown Bar can set up an appoint- ents The Story of the Wizard of Oz! at 7pm Friday VIEWS ment between 6-9pm at the iDIOM Theater, 1418 and Saturday at Lynden Christian High School, 4 Cornwall Ave. 417 Lyncs Dr. The spring production features [email protected] OR dancers from ages 3 to adult. Tickets are $9-$12. MAIL MAIL WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM WWW.INFINITYDANCECOMPANYCOM

2 LAUGHING AT THE STARS: Comedians from SAT., JUNE 13 Bellingham and beyond entertain audiences at BALLROOM DANCING: All ages and levels DO IT IT DO

the weekly “Laughing at the Stars” Stand-Up of experience can attend “Ballroom Dancing” Comedy Show at 8:30pm at the Star Club, 311 E. events from 6:30-9pm on the second and fourth Holly St. Joel O’Connor hosts the entertaining Saturdays of the month at the Bellingham Senior event. Entry is free. Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. The social dances

WWW.STARCLUBBELLINGHAM.COM feature traditional ballroom and swing music 06.10.15 Start the summer off right at the Light- for foxtrot, east coast swing, waltz, nightclub JUNE 20, 10am-4pm MON., JUNE 15 two-step, cha cha, rumba, salsa, samba and more. catcher. We’ll have activities, inside and .10 23 VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend the Bellingham Entry is $5. out, live music, magic shows & more. # Circus Guild’s monthly uncensored variety show, (360) 671-7764 “Vaudevillingham,” at 7pm and 9pm performances Fun for the whole family! at the Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., suite #102. Ex- PETER PAN: Original choreography can be seen pect to see everything from aerial performances when Ballet Bellingham presents a one-night- 11 AM Bilingual music w/ Nathalia to dance, comedy, magic, juggling, burlesque and only performance of Peter Pan at 7pm at the more. Both novice and veteran performers are Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. 1, 2 & 3 PM Magic shows w/ Native welcome. Suggested donation is $5-$10. Tickets are $10.

WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM American magician Frank Dunn CASCADIA WEEKLY

GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open mic for come- THE SLEEPING BEAUTY: Northwest Ballet The- $3 Admission / free for members 17 dians, “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 9:30pm atre’s final performance of The Sleeping Beauty Lightcatcher Building | 250 Flora Street every Monday at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State St. takes place at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Entry is free. Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $24-$35. www.whatcommuseum.org WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG doit

UPCOMING EVENTS

34 JUNE 12-15 PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: “Compose Like FOOD FOOD a Pro” will be the focus of a photography workshop taking place from Friday through visual Sunday at Art of Photography Studio and Gal- 27 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES lery, 4493 Aldrich Rd. Entry is $89. WWW.ARTOFPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

B-BOARD B-BOARD SAT., JUNE 13 ESCAPE ROUTES: A closing reception for “Escape Routes” takes place from 12-2pm

24 returned to their owners, it’s unlikely they’ll be regrouped. at Western Washington University’s Western Gallery. The exhibit showcases graduating FILM While it’s entirely possible people could Bachelor of Fine Arts studio majors, and purchase the short book about Sherwood includes a variety of mediums. The exhibit is up through June 15. 20 that’s available at the museum and get a pretty good idea about the scope of the WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU

MUSIC Renaissance man’s talent, copied images ROGER SMALL RECEPTION: A reception for on paper pale in comparison to the way the Burlington-based acrylic landscape painter 18 18 18 artist, poet and philosopher’s egg tempera Roger Small’s “Through the Eyes of a Dreamer” exhibit takes place from 5-8pm in Conway at

ART and gold leaf on wood panel paintings shine ART under the gallery lights, revealing secret the Shop, 18623 Main St. messages and making one wonder how long WWW.THESHOPCONWAY.COM OR WWW. 16 ARTBYROGERSMALL.COM it took to bring each of the masterful and

STAGE mythological creations to life. WED., JUNE 17 The answer, accord- ARTISTS RECEPTION: Meet and talk to local ing to Whatcom Museum artists exhibiting paintings, photographs 14 Executive Director Patri- and sculpture at a “Meet the Artists” recep- tion from 6-8pm at the Lynden Library, 216 cia Leach, is often more 4th St. The works will be on display through GET OUT than a year, but less than June 20. a lifetime. WWW.WCLS.ORG

12 “I first met Tom and SEE IT his wife, Dorothy, in WHAT: “Tom Sher- their home several years ONGOING EXHIBITS WORDS wood: A Golden ago,” Leach says. “We Perspective” ALLIED ARTS: View “Bold Abstracts” through June at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The 8 WHEN: Through spent the better part Sun., June 14 of an afternoon looking Juried Artist Series exhibit includes works by WHERE: Whatcom at Tom’s paintings and Robert Marki, Courtney Odell, Geoffrey Wilce, Yvette Nuemann, Kellie Becker, and Kay Little. “APOLLO DISCONSOLATE,” BY TOM SHERWOOD (2004) Museum’s Light-

CURRENTS CURRENTS drawings. It was fasci- catcher Building, WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG nating to hear Tom speak

6 250 Flora St. about their development ART IN THE CITY: Works by Sarah Denby, BY AMY KEPFERLE COST: Entry is $4.50-$10; admis- and the thought process Francis X Donovan, Peter Rand, Samuel VIEWS sion is $5 every behind them; I found it Eisen-Meyers, Jeremy and Ron McManmon Thursday and more can be seen at Art in the City 4 remarkable that a single INFO: www. through June 14 at 1213 Cornwall Ave. The painting could take sev- whatcom pop-up gallery is intended to bring energy MAIL MAIL Golden museum.org eral years to complete.” and diversity to the Cornwall block and sur- rounding areas. The numerous compo- 2 sitional studies and sketches that were pre- (503) 415-1642 OR [email protected]

DO IT IT DO Perspectives cursors to the main paintings in the exhibit, ARTWOOD: New pieces by members can be TOM SHERWOOD’S MASTERFUL MYTHOLOGY such as “Projection”—featuring a tall man, viewed through June at Artwood Gallery, 1000 seen from behind, who seems to be lurch- Harris Ave. A reception happens from 5-8pm ’ve got a couple of apologies to make. ing through a trail of otherworldly butterflies Fri., June 19 as part of the Summer Solstice 06.10.15 To begin with, I’d like to beg forgiveness from Bellingham-based art- and greenery into the direct path of his own Gallery Walk. WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM ist Tom Sherwood for not writing about “A Golden Perspective” when myth—bring this fact home. He didn’t just .10 I

23 the exhibit first opened last March at Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher sit down one day and create this piece; he CITY HALL: Photographs by winners of the # Building—instead of five days before the show’s closure. sketched it from every angle, changed it, “Essence of Bellingham” contest can be seen The second mea culpa is pretty much the same as the first, except this added notes, thought about it and, eventu- through June 30 at Bellingham City Hall, 210 time I’m directing it to members of the general public, who really should’ve ally, completed it. Lottie St. Winning entries were selected based on photographic quality, subject matter and gotten the heads-up about the exhibit a little sooner. Whether the painting is of a Greek god be- how well the “essence of Bellingham” was Regardless of my editorial transgressions, all is not lost. Those who are ing shaded by a nymph with leaves for hair captured. interested in seeing the engaging collection of paintings, prints and com- and hands that morph into branches, a hu- WWW.COB.ORG

CASCADIA WEEKLY positional studies before they come off the walls next week should know man figure both embracing and being flayed you have until 5pm Sun., June 14 to do so. alive by the sun, rabbits with wrinkles and DEMING LIBRARY: Enjoy art created by stu- 18 dents from the Acme, Kendall, and Harmony Besides being objects of great beauty representing countless hours of claws, or a naked woman sitting at a table Elementary schools at a “Kids’ Spring Art creative toiling—more on that in a minute—this is probably the last time with a skull and a giant bird, there are sto- Show” through June 11 at the Deming Library, viewers will be able to see the assemblage together in one place. The nine ries to be found in the world Sherwood oc- 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. pieces at the heart of “A Golden Perspective” are mostly comprised of works cupies. I’m just sorry I didn’t tell you about 305-3600 that have already been sold to private collectors, and once they’ve been them sooner. doit BELLINGHAM THEATRE GUILD PRESENTS

FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contempo- at Positive Negative, 929 N. State St., #1. The The rary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every exhibit features works by photographers who

Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St. converted everyday objects into image-record- 34 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM ing devices to yield prints. “This revved-up

WWW.POSITIVE-NEGATIVE.ORG spoof of a 1920s FOOD HONEY SALON: “Unbreakable Girls”, a new col- song-and-dance frolic… seems lection of gouache paintings, embroideries and QUILT MUSUEM: View “Revealing the Hidden” poised to become quilts by Jennifer Dranttel that showcase the (Contemporary QuiltArt Association), “Impres- the sleeper of the 27 overlooked stories of brave and fearless women sions in Fabric” (Denise Miller and Nancy Broadway season.” of myth and history, can be seen through July Ryan), “Pastels and More: Selections from our New York Times at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St. Permanent Collection” and Andi Shannon’s B-BOARD WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM “Shades of the Northwest” through June 28 at Music & Lyrics by the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Lisa Lambert

and Greg Morrison 24 GALLERY CYGNUS: A new show of paintings Second St. by Maggie Wilder exploring landscape and the WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.ORG Book by possibilities of local mythology can be viewed Bob Martin FILM through June 28 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related work- and Don McKellar 109 Commercial St. shops happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery, Directed by A Musical Within a Comedy 20 WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM 1421 N. Forest St. See details online. Teri Grimes A Musical Within a Comedymmedyedy WWW.RAGFINERY.COM FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: “Hidden MUSIC Tiets: 733-1811 Treasures” shows through June 30 at Fourth SCOTT MILO GALLERY: The Women Painters 18 18 Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. The of Washington will be featured through Aug. More Info: bellinghamtheatreguild.com 18 exhibit features the work of Robert Finnigan 4 in Anacortes at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 ART ART (1927-1997), a New York artist with a strong Commercial Ave. mid-century style of what he called “Modified WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM

Realism.” 16 WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM SCULPTURE NW GALLERY: “Regional Stone/

Regional Sculptors: New Work of the Northwest STAGE GOOD EARTH POTTERY: Debra Stern’s “From Stone Sculptors Association” can be seen from Graphite to Clay” will be featured through June 12-5pm every Fri.-Sun. at Sculpture Northwest

at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. A recep- Gallery, 203 Prospect St. 14 tion happens from 5-8pm Fri., June 19 as part WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG of the Summer Solstice Gallery Walk.

WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM SKAGIT MUSEUM: “Salt of the Earth,” GET OUT featuring more than 500 salt cellars from the JANSEN ART CENTER: See the Early Summer permanent collection, shows through July 12 at Juried Exhibit through July 31 at Lynden’s La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 12 Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Viewers can 501 S. Fourth St.

also check out the third annual Juried Cup Show WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM WORDS and exhibits by the Whatcom Artist Guild and painter Amanda Houston. SMITH & VALLEE: View prints and oil paint- 8 WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG ings by Kris Ekstrand Molesworth, prints by Elizabeth Tapper, and sculptures by Brian O’Neill LUMMI LIBRARY: A “Flo Konecke Retrospec- until June 28 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery,

tive” can be viewed through August at the 5742 Gilkey Ave. CURRENTS Lummi Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM Konecke, a profile artist, was “a true island 6 renaissance woman and local superhero.” WATERWORKS: Melinda Hannigan’s “Boxing the

305-3600 Compass” is on display until June 27 at Friday VIEWS Harbor’s WaterWorks Gallery, 315 Argyle St. In

MATZKE GALLERY: “The Celebration of Spring” the exhibit, the working side of the maritime 4 shows through June 14 at Camano Island’s world is presented as abstracted ideas painted Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, on canvas. MAIL 2345 Blanche Way. WWW.WATERWORKSGALLERY.COM

WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM 2 WESTERN GALLERY: View the “Senior Show”— DO IT IT DO MAKE.SHIFT: Artworks by Aaron Brick, Ciara featuring works by art studio majors and BFA Sana, Gigi Daven, Karie Jane, Pandora Sweet, graduates—through June 15 at Western Wash- Rihannon Rosenbaum, and Steeb Russell can be ington University’s Western Gallery. The exhibit seen at a “Hair” exhibit through June at Make. brings together an exciting variety of work

Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. in photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, 06.10.15 WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM fibers, and mixed media. Entry is free. WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU .10

MINDPORT: “Stones & Bones,” featuring 23 # found object photography by Kevin Jones, WHATCOM ART MARKET: From 10am-6pm shows through July at Mindport Exhibits, 210 every Thursday through Monday, stop by the W. Holly St. Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s WWW.MINDPORT.ORG Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG MONA: “Neo-Naturalists,” “Etsuko Ichiwaka, Hakoniwa Project: To Touch & Be Touched,” and WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Tom Sherwood: A

“Study in Green” can be seen through June 14 Golden Perspective,” “Bellingham’s National CASCADIA WEEKLY at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. Art Exhibition and Awards,” “The Owl and the First St. Entry is free. Woodpecker: Photographs by Paul Bannick,” 19 WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG and “A Curator’s Perspective: Selections from the Collection” can currently be viewed on the POSITIVE NEGATIVE: View a “Camera Obscura Whatcom Museum campus. and Pinhole Camera” exhibition through June WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Rumor Has It

34 AS IS SOMETIMES the case, I am full of secrets concerning shows that are both confirmed and

FOOD FOOD nearly so, and it is no exaggeration to say such information is keeping me awake at night (that music and the train horns—what’s a girl gotta do to 27 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT get a few quiet zones in this town?). Some of those secrets will be revealed when

B-BOARD B-BOARD the Mount Baker Theatre announces what it’s got in store for its 2015/2016 season at its

24 June 25 preview event, which is open to the public for the first time. But you won’t have

FILM to wait until then to get word of its latest big concert announcement, which just happens

20 20 to be a Lucinda Williams show happening on

Weds., July 22, thanks to the fine folks at Se- MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC attle Theater Group who are bringing Williams to town. Since I once devoted an entire summer

18 to listening to almost nothing but the singer/

ART songwriter’s album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, this news excites me greatly. Tickets go on 16 sale Fri., June 12, and

STAGE you should probably in- vest in some before you do something foolish 14 with your money like pay bills or buy food.

GET OUT If I were so moved to BY CAREY ROSS sing one of Williams’ songs in public (it is safe

12 to say I will never be so moved, having not sung anything in public ever except for that rare occasion when I karaoked early Madonna WORDS songs at the now-defunct Viking in Stanwood

8 for an audience of heckling bikers), I could sign up to do so at the Honey Moon’s annual minded music that has characterized so Awkward Covers Party, which is happening Sat., BY CAREY ROSS

CURRENTS CURRENTS much of modern folk for so long. Given June 13. I love this event, which promises, that folk isn’t exactly known for its sense even by its very name, to be a low-judgment, 6 of humor or whimsy, it can be easy to see high-fun outing for participants and audiences how Dawson’s musical approach could be alike. Besides, any happening that encourag-

VIEWS misconstrued. es us to embrace our inner awkwardness (we

4 A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH But it takes a amount of courage all have some of that, to be sure) instead of and a solid sense of self to follow a musi- pretending it doesn’t exist is sure to result in MAIL MAIL ecause she has a tendency to be a bit unassuming, almost shy even, cal path of one’s own making, and that is magic. I have no idea who has signed up to

it can be all too easy to misjudge Kimya Dawson. exactly what Dawson has done. After the sing what songs (even the night’s organizer, 2 B Indeed, it is a thing that has happened to her from time to time Moldy Peaches “went on hiatus” (since it community treasure Kat Bula, does not know DO IT IT DO during the course of her long and varied music career. happened a decade ago, I think it’s safe what’s in store), because preserving mystery is Because her songs tend to focus less on deep angst and extreme emotions to say “hiatus” equals “breakup” in this as important to Awkward Covers Party as it is and more on conveying the day-to-day details that make up an existence case—despite the smattering of reunion to romantic relationships. Is that comparison (angst and emotion included), she has occasionally been accused of being shows the band played in 2007), Dawson awkward enough for everyone? 06.10.15 too precious. Dawson’s turns of phrase are distinctive, unique to her and her relocated from the East Coast to Wash- Also happening the same night is the grand songwriting style, but have sometimes led critics to use words like “twee” ington, where she began to forge a solo opening party for K2, the much-anticipated sec- .10

23 to describe her. career in the welcoming musical environs ond location of Kulshan Brewery at 1538 Ken- # However, you don’t have to possess some kind of extraordinary insight of the Pacific Northwest. It wasn’t long tucky St. The Kulshan crew has been hard at into Dawson, music or Dawson’s music to see that those who underestimate before she released her first album, the work for what seems like decades now, bringing the singer/songwriter do so at their peril. Because despite her unpreten- memorably named I’m Sorry That Some- K2 to life, and now they want to sully it with a tious demeanor, Dawson is an artist and musician to be reckoned with. times I’m Mean (a sentiment to which big ol’ party, which is, after all, the Bellingham Lest we forget, this is a woman who has won a Grammy, played Carnegie we can all relate, I’m sure), and her out- way. They’ll be tapping brand-new kegs of their Hall, and has collaborated with the likes of , Regina put for the next 10 years or so was both brand-new beer, Hop Howdy Belgian Blonde Ale,

CASCADIA WEEKLY Spektor, , , and many more. She’s shared a steady (she recorded seven albums in nine and music will be happening, courtesy of Baby stage with Lil Bub, counts WWE champion among her friends, years) and varied (one of her full-lengths, Cakes and Sanoma. Because it’s a Kulshan party, 20 and once accidentally made a whole lot of people believe she was a cousin 2008’s Alphabutt, is a children’s album) food trucks will be on hand to feed the masses of , drummer for . and continued to build a reputation as a and prizes can be won by lucky attendees of the Before she accomplished all of that, as one-half of , skilled songwriter with a sensibility that all-day shindig. I think we all know that Belling- Dawson also helped found and was a proponent of the anti-folk scene, a is unique to her and her worldview. ham’s chief loves are beer and , so a beer lo-fi movement that acts as a reaction to the overly serious, politically It was that reputation that likely led party is right up our collective alley. came an astonishingly DAWSON, FROM PAGE 20 prolific artistic multi- disciplinarian. Peters- Hollywood to come calling in 2007, when en, a 2015 Stranger

several of Dawson’s songs were used as Genius Award nomi- 34 part of the soundtrack to , a movie nee, is a filmmaker,

that endured its own share of criticism animator, visual and FOOD concerning its preciousness before it installation artist, went on to be nominated for four Oscars ATTEND videographer, and 27 and launched the careers of Ellen Page WHO: Kimya Daw- progenitor of many and Diablo Cody. As for the soundtrack son, Your Heart other artistic endeav- Delicious Home Style Breaks, more that prominently featured Dawson’s mu- WHEN: 7pm ors that defy easy B-BOARD sic (including “,” Thurs., June 18 description. Through which is memorably performed by Page WHERE: Make. it all, he’s kept Your Asian Cooking 24 and at the end of the film), Shift Art Space, Heart Breaks close to 306 Flora St. BUBBLE TEA » NO MSG » VEGETERIAN DISHES AVAILABLE it hit number one on the Billboard chart his, well, heart, and FILM COST: $10 and has since gone platinum. INFO: www. the Make.Shift show 20 Not bad for an artist who generally makeshiftproject. will count as an album P TO 20 U prefers to fly under the radar. com release of sorts for

2 ENTREES 10%OFF MUSIC When Dawson returns to Belling- the band’s latest ef- WITH THIS COUPON MUSIC ham for the first time in years to play a fort, America, which is as brand spanking

Thurs., June 18 show at Make.Shift, she’ll new as these things get. 1255 Barkley Blvd. | 360-746-8815 18 be bringing friends and familiar faces Tickets for the show, which also fea- ART along with her, chief among them Your tures Ghost Mice, Pretty Okay, and Baltic Heart Breaks, the band fronted by Clyde Cousins, are available online (unusual 16 Petersen, much-beloved erstwhile local. for a Make.Shift show) and it is expected

Petersen founded Your Heart Breaks dur- to sell out. Because while others may STAGE ing the late ’90s while he lived in Belling- underestimate Dawson, Bellingham au- ham, before he moved to Seattle and be- diences know better. 14 GET OUT musicevents 12

WED., JUNE 10 JAZZ CONCERT SERIES: Trish, Hans, & Phil

GRAND FINALE CONCERT: Enjoy a diverse headline a Sudden Valley Jazz Concert Series WORDS program of musical styles and genres by students performance at 3pm at the Sudden Valley Dance of Skagit Valley College’s choral and instrumental Barn, Gate 2. In addition to their unique and 8 music program at a “Grand Finale Concert” at superb musicianship, the trio brings a joyous and 7:30pm at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. exhilarating sense of showmanship to the stage Tickets are $7-$10. with their novel approach to the classics, from

WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG Cole Porter and the Gershwins to Lennon and Mc- CURRENTS Cartney. Tickets are $20. 6 THURS., JUNE 11 WWW.SUDDENVALLEYLIBRARY.ORG JAZZY SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC: Finnish musi-

cians Olli Hirvonen (guitar) and Saku Mattila BHS ALUMNI BAND: Join conductor Frank VIEWS (oboe) will join up with local musicians Sharyn Kuhl and the BHS Alumni Band for their annual Peterson and Matthe Rehfeldt to play the jazzy spring fundraising concert at 7pm at Shuk- 4 music of Jean Sibelius and other Scandinavian san Middle School, 2717 Alderwood Ave. The composers at 7:30pm at Bellingham Unitarian Fel- program will include classical, big band music, MAIL lowship, 1207 Ellsworth St. Entry is $15. movie themes and more, with proceeds ben-

2 (360) 421-2527 OR WWW.BUF.ORG efiting the Bellingham school system’s music programs as well as a scholarship fund. Tickets DO IT IT DO JUNE 12-13 are $10. HAYNIE OPRY: The 10th season of Haynie Opry 734-8446 concerts continues with “Country Gospel and Ameri- cana Music Extravaganza” concerts at 7pm Friday CAITLIN HILL: Singer and actress Caitlin Hill

and Saturday at Blaine’s Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie returns to Bellingham from her opera studies at 06.10.15 Rd. Musicians taking part include the Andreasons, UBC to present “Broken Hearts (and other Medical the McNeelys, and the Honey Bees. Tickets are $10 Emergencies) at 7:30pm at the Encore Room at .10

at the door. Additionally, a country gospel matinee the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. 23 # begins at 3pm Saturday. Entry is $5. John Evens French accompanies on the piano and (360) 366-3321 Christopher Key emcees. Tickets are $15; funds raised will help Whatcom County Medical Society SAT., JUNE 13 raise money for their pre-med scholarship endow- WELCOME HOME: Women with Wings will host ment at WWU. a community open house for local musician WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM Linda Allen and her husband Scott Salba—who

have recently returned to Bellingham after three WED., JUNE 17 CASCADIA WEEKLY years—from 2-4pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. CHILDREN’S CHOIR: Traditional and fun choral Forest St. The informal gathering will include mu- music by students from the Bellingham Arts Acad- 21 sic circles, snacks and information about Women emy for Youth can be heard at a Children’s Choir with Wings, a nonprofit organization bringing the performance at 7pm at Our Saviour’s Lutheran healing gift of music to those in need. Church, 1720 Harris Ave. Admission is $5. WWW.BELLINGHAMWOMENWITHWINGS.ORG WWW.BAAY.ORG musicvenues 34 See below for venue

FOOD FOOD addresses and phone 06.10.15 06.11.15 06.12.15 06.13.15 06.14.15 06.15.15 06.16.15 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Happy Hour BBQ w/Robert 27 Boundary Bay Blake (early), Twilight Con- Irish & Folk Night, Out of the Ashes, Paul Aaron Guest Fish Fry w/Joy Ride Busking in the Beer Garden Brewery cert w/Hot Damn Scandal Piano Night Klein (late) B-BOARD B-BOARD Brown Lantern Ale Open Mic Marcel and Nakos House 24

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musicvenues 34 See below for venue addresses and phone 06.10.15 06.11.15 06.12.15 06.13.15 06.14.15 06.15.15 06.16.15 FOOD numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

Hilary Scott (early), Jim Page (early), McDougall Lost Highway Band (early), Open Mic (early), Guf- 27 Green Frog Viper Central Slow Jam (early) Terrible Tuesday Soul (late) Joy Mills Band, more (late) fawingham (late) Explosion (late) B-BOARD B-BOARD H2O Fanny Alger Karaoke 24 Sarah Goodin, Elizabeth Honey Moon Open Mic Quickdraw Stringband Awkward Covers Party The Shadies Vignali FILM

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Main St. Bar and Grill Karaoke Unlisted Reality The Blackouts ART 16 Old World Deli Vertical Stringband STAGE

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Royal Karaoke Karaoke Country Night DJ Jester GET OUT

Rumors Cabaret Leveled Throwback Thursday DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave Foam Party DJ Enz Karaoke w/Zach Treble Tuesday 12

Bob Log III, Gravelroad, Tin Foil Cat, Mobina Galore,

The Shakedown Girl Guts, Ol Doors, more Tom Waits Night Aireeoke WORDS more The Medix

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34 joined-at-the-hip partnership. Primarily, the runtime is still devoted

FOOD FOOD to various actions, however, nearly all of Film which (with one flop exception involv- ing a polar bear disguise) underline the 27 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› SHOWTIMES amazing gullibility with which—at least to a point—high-ranking media, business

B-BOARD B-BOARD and government personnel can be taken in by a well-staged prank. Andy poses as

24 24 the spokesperson for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (that glorified industry lobbying FILM FILM organization) to announce a “carbon tax” recommendation on polluters; the actual

20 agency responses by suing the Yes Men for “commercial identity theft masquerading

MUSIC as social activism.” They travel to Uganda 18

ART ,

16 The prankster activists here turn their imaginative STAGE shaming schemes toward 14 those corporations and

GET OUT governments doing little to address (when they’re 12 not actively enabling) the WORDS escalating global-warming 8 crisis. CURRENTS CURRENTS to meet with local activist Chandia Kodili, 6 and then join her at a another U.N. climate change summit (this time in Copenhagen). VIEWS There, they pull another hoax to raise the

4 issue of paying “climate debts” to the low- consuming Third World countries who’ve MAIL MAIL suffered the worst consequences of First

World nations’ environmental impacts. 2 REVIEWED BY DENNIS HARVEY The dismaying results of that summit, DO IT IT DO which saw precious little meaningful regu- latory progress, make Bonanno and Bichl- The Yes Men are Revolting baum wonder if what they’re doing has val- ue at all. Bonanno moves with his family 06.10.15 YOU’VE BEEN PUNKED—AGAIN to Scotland, while Bichlbaum gets involved with Greenpeace in a very Yes Men-style .10

23 he further adventures of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno—not that both have university teaching posts to prank, calling out Shell Oil’s oil drilling # those are necessarily their real names—are chronicled in The Yes Men Are maintain, and have reached various levels plans in fragile Arctic regions. T Revolting. The prankster activists here turn their imaginative shaming of domestic stability: Mike now has a wife But they can’t quit each other for long, schemes toward those corporations and governments doing little to address (when and two kids, while Andy has finally found of course, particularly once Occupy Wall they’re not actively enabling) the escalating global-warming crisis. Co-directed a boyfriend he wants to “spend the rest of Street reawakens their faith in popular with Laura Nix, the duo’s follow-up to The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Fix the my life with.” protest. The documentary ends with their World (2009) is another entertaining mix of agitpop, pranksterism and autobiogra- Their relationships have traditionally infiltration of a Homeland Security con-

CASCADIA WEEKLY phy that should expand on the prior entries’ success. suffered, however, from the platonic-soul- ference, where they succeed in getting The opening sequence brings back The Yes Men Fix the World, specifically its lu- mate bond (“We’re each other’s perfect en- attendees stand in a circle singing and 24 dicrous, inflatable human “survivaballs” (think of Woody Allen’s inflatable in ablers”) between them, and the high time dancing an ersatz Native American song— Sleeper), as the protagonists hope to float a flotilla across the Hudson to get the demands (with little financial reward) suggesting even a roomful of defense con- attention of a U.N. climate-change summit. (Alas, the Coast Guard and NYPD are that being Yes Men have made on them. tractors might think the time is ripe for us unamused.) After briefly recapping the twosome’s past protests and media cover- Mike once lost a girlfriend over this issue; to downsize fossil-fuel dependence and up age, the focus grows a little more personal this time around. No longer in their 20s, she’s seen but not heard here, Andy’s beau use of renewable energies. HistoricFairhaven Summer Solstice

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over and over again. This movie might have some

34 BY CAREY ROSS things going for it—namely that it, much like its predecessor, was produced by Steven Spielberg—but FOOD FOOD it can never match the glory of what came before. + FILM SHORTS (PG-13 • 1 hr. 33 min.) 27 5 Flights Up: A longtime married couple who’ve San Andreas: I love a cheesy natural disaster movie. spent their lives together in the same New York And this one just happens to be based on a script by apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real Bellingham native and all-around nice guy, Jeremy B-BOARD B-BOARD estate-related issues when they plan to move away. Passmore. It also stars the Rock, and if anyone can

+++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 32 min.) wrestle a giant earthquake to the ground, it’s him. 24 24 ++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 3 min.) Aloha: The movie that will forever be remembered FILM FILM as having chosen obviously not-Asian Emma Stone to Spy: Even in terrible movies (Tammy, Identity Thief), play a character that is half Asian. + (PG-13) Melissa McCarthy’s comedic skills cannot be denied. This, by all accounts, is the exact opposite of a

20 Avengers: Age of Ultron: Summer blockbusters, terrible movie—instead, it’s the breakout starring meet your new God. ++++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 21 min.) role McCarthy’s been destined for since Bridesmaids.

MUSIC +++++ (R • 1 hr. 57 min.) Entourage: This movie, which has been in the mak- ing for half a decade, has no reason to exist. But if Tomorrowland: All I know about Tomorrowland is 18 it had a reason to exist, that reason would surely be it’s the place at Disneyland where Michael Jackson

ART the chance to see Jeremy Piven reprise his role as Ari (disguised as Captain EO) lives and it is also home to Gold. And then we can all mourn the Ari Gold spinoff Space Mountain, which is good enough for me. All I that almost was. + (R • 1 hr. 45 min.) know about its cinematic namesake is that it bombed 16 at the box office, probably because people have no Ex Machina: Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine) clue what to do with a film that’s not a remake or a STAGE crafts for us a prescient story about a future in which sequel. +++ (PG • 2 hrs. 10 min.)

machines become sentient and robots are our sexy WIZARD OF OZ new rulers. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 48 min.) The Wizard of Oz: As far as I’m concerned this 1939 14 classic is easily one of the best movies of all time, and Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy gets is right up there with The Big Sleep and Children of the the adaptation his classic novel so richly deserves, Corn in my personal cinematic pantheon. Take that for GET OUT with his incomparable heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, what it’s worth. +++++ (G • 1 hr. 42 min.) embodied with great skill and spirit by the equally incomparable Carey Mulligan. +++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. The Yes Men are Revolting: See review previous 12 59 min.) page. And then keep an eye out for former Bellingham- ster Mike Mathieu’s appearance in this doc. ++++

WORDS The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of (Unrated • 1 hr. 31 min.) the Window and Disappeared: I think the title of

8 this Swedish film pretty well sums up the plot conceit in play here—but not the movie’s offbeat humor, time-hopping protagonist or other surprising charms. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 24 min.) CURRENTS CURRENTS

6 Insidious: Chapter 3: I dunno, I think the action won’t really begin to heat up until Insidious: Chapter 10. Can’t wait. + (PG-13 • 1 hr. 37 min.) VIEWS

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dinosaurs back to life is a very bad idea? Has Chris Mad Max: Fury Road: In 1981, George Miller un- its jokes are infantile at best, but it’s a movie about 2 Pratt not seen Jurassic Park? The mind reels. +++ leashed his futuristic, post-apocalyptic fantasy The competitive a cappella singers, not Citizen Kane.

DO IT IT DO (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 3 min.) Road Warrior on the moviegoing public, and the Mad The girl-power vibe, killer soundtrack and increased

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STAGE that are really interesting and useful to you, not just are in the hunt for love, Scorpio, I think her testi- everything and anything that’s usually hidden. mony is an apt metaphor for your current dilemma. Should you go with the choice that makes your spirit

14 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My astrological burn with pungent excitement, or should you opt for charts suggest that your immediate future is wide what feeds your soul with rich relaxation? I would open—so much so that it’s difficult to predict which like to suggest that there’s at least a 30 percent pos-

GET OUT scenarios are more likely than all the others. This sibility you could have both. might mean that your free will is especially free right now. But in the interest of giving you something spe- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of the 190 cific to grab on to, I’ll name a few of the myriad pos- short films the Three Stooges made for Columbia 12 sible scenarios. 1) A self-styled anarchist scholar, heir Pictures, only five actually had pie fights. However, to the fortune of a famed Japanese anime artist, will those classic scenes sum up all there is to know

WORDS invite you to a sushi feast at a speakeasy club called about the mythic meaning of pie fights, as well as “Planet Mars” to discuss the Theory of Everything. 2) the needs they address and the techniques involved.

8 A clownish saint with a tattoo of a cobra swallowing I urge you to study up on the Stooges’ teachings the Earth will get you high by sniffing the pimple concerning these matters—and put them to immedi- medication Clearasil, and then tell you a secret about ate use. Nothing could be more effective in dealing who you were in one of your past lives. 3) A familiar with stalled negotiations, convoluted mind games, CURRENTS CURRENTS stranger will hand you a Cracker Jack toy and whisper, superficial exchanges, excessive gravity, and bureau-

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34 Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th St. (be- hind Village Books). The market continues FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD Wednesdays through Sept. 30. chow WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES 27 SEDRO MARKET: Suss out spring offerings at the weekly Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market from 3-7pm every Wednesday through

B-BOARD B-BOARD September at Hammer Heritage Park (on the watering. My favorites are the Mediter- corner of Ferry and Metcalf streets). WWW.SEDROWOOLLEYFARMERSMARKET.COM

24 ranean, with sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts, spinach and feta, and the White BREWERS CRUISE: Sample liquid goods

FILM Rock, with white garlic sauce, artichoke from Boundary Bay Brewery, Wander Brew- hearts and gorgonzola. ing, and Aslan Brewing at San Juan Cruises’ first “Bellingham Bay Brewers Cruise” of the

20 The newest pizza addition for this season starting at 6:30pm at the Belling- season is the Kickerville Rooster, whose ham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Entry MUSIC toppings include Sriracha sauce, pine- is $35 and includes various snacks and apple, bacon, kalamata olives, pepper- beer-brined wings. The cruises take place

18 oncini and roasted garlic. “It’s sweet, weekly through Sept. 26. WWW.WHALES.COM

ART hot and trendy,” Keith says, describing how it was made purely by chance. A THURS., JUNE 11 last-minute food request had come in 16 AYURVEDIC REJUVINATION: Learn to from a friend, prompting he and Saa- create cleansing foods and beverages using Ayurvedic principles that have been STAGE ra to assemble a pizza based purely on what practiced for more than 5,000 years when Juliet Jivanti and Katrina Svoboda John- they had left over. It 14 son lead an “Ayurvedic Summer Rejuvena- was such a hit it became tion” class from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata an immediate addition Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd.

GET OUT to the menu. Entry is $35. Pizzas range in price 383-3200

12 from $11.75 up to $28.75, FRI., JUNE 12 EAT with gluten-free crust op- WHAT: The C WINE SALE: Team Yorky’s Market will host tions available. This year its 5th annual Wine Sale and Tasting from WORDS Shop WHEN: 3pm- there’s also a gluten-free 5-9pm at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 10pm Fridays, 355 Harris Ave. More than 20 wineries

8 ice cream cone on the will be represented, and all wines will be STORY AND PHOTO BY LAUREN 11am-10pm menu, one Keith swears Saturdays, available at a discounted price. Tickets is even better than the 11am-8pm are $30-$35. All proceeds benefit the

CURRENTS CURRENTS Sundays; regular cones. American Cancer Society Whatcom County open daily Other food options Relay for Life.

6 The C Shop beginning available in the restau- WWW.TEAMYORKYSMARKET.ORG TIME FOR A SWEET SUMMER Fri., June 19 rant include cold deli VIEWS WHERE: 4825 SAT., JUNE 13 sandwiches, grilled sand- Alderson Rd., BASIL 101: A “Basil for Culinary Creations” 4 t’s been 44 years since Patricia and Patrick Alesse first opened the C Shop in Birch Bay wiches, fresh loaves of presentation begins at 9am at Garden Spot Birch Bay, and the candy, ice cream and pizza store remains a favorite summer INFO: www. bread, cinnamon buns Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Find out more MAIL MAIL destination among Birch Bay locals and visitors. thecshop.com and a selection of sun- about basils and companion herbs, and get I garden-grown recipes for the summertime. Arrive on a hot summer evening and you’ll see bikes parked haphazardly outside, daes, milkshakes and 2 Entry is free; register in advance. families trooping in after their barbecue dinner and young couples out on their first floats. Come in on your birthday and WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM DO IT IT DO dates, hand-in-hand. you’ll get free jelly beans totaling your If Birch Bay has a center, this is it: the bright yellow, cheerful structure on the age. Newlyweds and wedding anniver- MOUNT VERNON MARKET: The Mount corner of Alderson Road and Birch Bay Drive, its insides packed full of tasty treats sary celebrants also get a free peanut Vernon Farmers Market takes place from 9am-2pm at the city’s Waterfront Plaza. and warm smiles. The C Shop is just a feel-good, happy place to hang out. butter yumm bar to share. WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG 06.10.15 In recent years the couple’s son Keith and his wife, Saara Kuure, have joined “Pat and The day I met Keith in late May, he’d Pat” as co-owners and the four partners are happily working side by side, serving cus- worked the entire night before making ANACORTES FARMERS MARKET: Veg- .10 etables, fruit, baked goods, fresh meat and 23 tomers and creating new chocolate fantasies—like a milk chocolate peanut butter cup. chocolate. Nevertheless, he was still # “My parents don’t want to leave, and we couldn’t do this without them,” Keith says. very much in love with the business and dairy, cut flowers, wine, eggs, art and much more can be found at the Anacortes Farmers Inside the ice cream bar patrons crowd in, patiently waiting their turn to pick from everything it represents. Market, which takes place from 9am-2pm at one of the 20 ice cream flavors. Nobody minds waiting, because watching the C Shop “We often hear customers say how the Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave. in action is part of the experience. Directly outside, there’s a large window into the they came to the C Shop when they were WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG kitchen so customers can watch carmel corn being stirred in a massive vat and pea- a kid, and now they’re bringing their nut brittle being rolled onto the countertop and cut. own kids,” he says. “Our candy shop has COMMUNITY MEAL: Burgers, potato salad, corn and cookies will be on the menu at the CASCADIA WEEKLY The array of candy is incredible. The first items to disappear are the salt and pepper been a positive experience in their lives, bimonthly Community Meal taking place caramels, the almond butter toffee, the peanut butter yumms, the carmel corn and something they’ve looked forward to and from 10am-12pm at the United Church of 34 Keith’s C-foam. There are chocolates molded into a wide variety of shapes, fudge sam- a connecting point for people of all Ferndale, 2034 Washington St. Entry is free. ples on the counter and snow cones to take the edge off those muggy, burning-hot days. ages. Ours is a business that people feel 714-9029 But don’t get too distracted by the candy. Just beyond the kitchen there’s another define the area, and we’re proud that BELLINGHAM FARMERS MARKET: side to the C Shop, and you’d be remiss not to try it. Here the Alesse’s offer 12- and part of what summer in Birch Bay means Peruse and purchase a plethora of locally 16-inch pizzas, baked in a 1916 Edison Electric deck oven, that will get your mouth is a visit to the C Shop.” doit

grown produce, ready-to-eat foods, crafts and more at the Bellingham Farmers Market

from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square,

1100 Railroad Ave. 34 34 WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD BREWERY TOUR: Unearth the mysteries behind the making of some of the world’s

finest brews at a Brewery Tour beginning at 27 12pm at Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. Tickets are $5.

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Chef Matt Hansen will be onboard an 24 “Ales n’ Sails” beer pairing dinner from

6-9:30pm on the Schooner Zodiac tall ship FILM from leaving from the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Entry is $85 and includes a four-course dinner paired with 20 Boundary Bay beer.

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SUN., JUNE 14 18 KVWV BENEFIT BRUNCH: Support Bellingham’s newest community radio ART station, KVWV, at a Benefit Brunch from

10am-1pm at the beer garden at Boundary DELUXE 16 Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Tickets are $10 at the door. STAGE WWW.KVWV.ORG BEER & WINE TASTING CRUISES

FERNDALE PUBLIC MARKET: Attend the 14 Ferndale Public Market from 2-7pm every GUARANTEED WHALES! Sunday through Oct. 11 near the town’s Old Free Northwest salmon

Settler’s Village, 2007 Cherry St. GET OUT and chicken lunch WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG 2 hoursh to explore Friday Harbor

MON., JUNE 15 LACONNER & 12 DECEPTION PASS ELIMINATION DIET: The Elimination Diet Cruises depart from the CRUISE co-authors Alissa Segersten and Tom Mal- Bellingham Cruise Terminal WORDS terre lead an “Elimination Diet 101” class from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata Community FREE Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Entry is $39. 8 383-3200 Mezzanine CRACKED CRAB DINDINNERNEER CRUISECRUISE FERMENTED VEGETABLES: Kirsten Large Party CURRENTS Shockey shares tips from Fermented Veg-

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CHUCKANUT BREWERY 2 TUES., JUNE 16 DO IT IT DO FROM HER GARDEN: Chef Robert Fong & KITCHEN fATHER’s Day teams up with Loganita Garden’s Mary von Krusenstiern for a “From Her Garden” course from 6:30-9pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Mary will 06.10.15 also provide planting and cultivating tips. CAR SHOW Entry is $39. .10 383-3200 23 # WED., JUNE 17 SUNDAY JUNE 21 9am - 3pm Dad's Day Specials RAW FEAST: Andy Walton leads a “Raw Brewery Tour Feast” class from 6:30-9pm at the Com- BBQ Ribs June 13 @ Noon Pint Special for Dads munity Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry $5 includes tastes 21+ is $39. Bring Your Hero (DAD) To The Car Show 383-3200

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