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Fuzz Buzz, P.10 * Escaping Death, P.16 * Advice Goddess, P.33 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {06.04.14}{#23}{V.09}{FREE} RISING UP Amy Goodman remembers Maya Angelou, P.6 BLACK INCOME JUSTICE Making history with & BLUE minimum wage, P.8 PHOTOGRAPHING RENAISSANCE THE BELLINGHAM MAN Kicking back ROLLER BETTIES, P.18 with Coolio, P.20 WEDNESDAY [06.04.14] Baker Theatre Folk Dance Party: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven 34 MUSIC Library Mike Allen Quartet: 7:30pm, BAAY Theatre Bailadores de Bronce: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, FOOD FOOD cascadia Mount Vernon FOOD Wednesday Market Opening: 12-5pm, Fairhaven MUSIC 28 Village Green Ain’t No Heaven Seven: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Dan Brubeck Quartet: 3-5:30pm, Sudden Valley Dance Band B-BOARD B-BOARD THURSDAY [06.05.14] Bellingham Chamber Chorale: 4pm, First Con- gregational Church of Bellingham A glance at what’s happening this week ONSTAGE Jovino Santos Neto: 7pm, East Whatcom Re- 24 You Can’t Take It With You: 7:30pm, Anacortes gional Resource Center Community Theatre Catapult Music Series: 7pm, Port of Anacortes FILM FILM The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Warehouse Theatre FAME Benefit Concert: 7:30pm, Bellingham The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Unitarian Fellowship 20 MUSIC COMMUNITY MUSIC In My Life: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Scottish Highland Games: 8am-10pm, Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale Farmer’s Day Parade: 10:30am, downtown 18 COMMUNITY Handbags for Housing: 5:30-8:30pm, Depot Lynden ART Market Square Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Orca Pavilion 16 VISUAL ARTS GET OUT First Thursday Art Walk: 5-8pm, downtown Girls on the Run 5K: 9am, Barkley Village STAGE Mount Vernon Doxie Walk: 10am, Amtrak Station Anacortes Waterfront Festival: 10am-6pm, throughout Anacortes 14 FRIDAY [06.06.14] FOOD ONSTAGE Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot GET OUT Voices of the Children: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Arts Center Mount Vernon Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot The Climate Monologues: 7pm, Anchor Art Market Square 12 Space, Anacortes Ferndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, Centennial Pinocchio: 7:30pm, Lynden Christian High Riverwalk Park School WORDS You Can’t Take It With You: 7:30pm, Anacortes VISUAL ARTS Community Theatre Sky Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee Gallery, 8 Genre Legends: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Edison The Acheron, Final Episode: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater CURRENTS CURRENTS COPS 911: 10pm, Upfront Theatre SUNDAY [06.08.14] 6 DANCE ONSTAGE A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 7:30pm, Mount You Can’t Take It With You: 2pm, ACT VIEWS Watch dancers and actors tell one of Shakespeare’s most Baker Theatre Greg Proops: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 4 enduring stories when the Northwest Ballet Theatre presents GET OUT DANCE World Naked Bike Ride: 6pm, starts at the HUB From Bach to Rock: 6:30pm, Mount Baker MAIL MAIL showings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream June 6-7 at the Community Bike Shop Theatre Mount Baker Theatre 2 VISUAL ARTS MUSIC 2 The Art of Sumi-e: 10am-5:30pm, Lucia Douglas Crumac: 6pm, East Whatcom Regional Resource DO IT DO IT DO Gallery Center Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, throughout downtown Plays Well With Others: 7pm, VFW Post 1585 Redefine your Anacortes Art Walk: 6-10pm, throughout downtown COMMUNITY relationship Bellingham Scottish Highland Games: 8am-4pm, Hovander 06.04.14 with entrenched Homestead Park Skagit Wedding Tour: 10am-5pm, Skagit County .09 social norms— 23 SATURDAY [06.07.14] # GET OUT and demonstrate ONSTAGE Anacortes Waterfront Festival: 10am-5pm, the fragility of Pinocchio: 2pm and 7:30pm, Lynden Christian Anacortes High School bicyclists among Circus Variety Show Fundraiser: 6:30pm, Cirque VISUAL ARTS motor vehicles— Lab The Art of Sumi-e: 10am-5:30pm, Lucia Douglas You Can’t Take It With You: 7:30pm, Anacortes Gallery CASCADIA WEEKLY CASCADIA at the World Community Theatre Genre Legends: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Naked Bike Ride The Acheron Final Episode: 8pm and 10pm, 2 MONDAY [06.09.14] happening June iDiOM Theater COPS 911: 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC 6 in downtown Spivey Hall Children’s Choir: 7pm, First Congre- Bellingham DANCE gational Church PHOTO BY AMY KEPFERLE BY PHOTO A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 7:30pm, Mount EXPLORE AT SWINOMISH CASINO &LODGE CASINO SWINOMISH AT Game shows June 6 & 7 at 6PM,8PM,10PM,12AM June6&7at Game shows EXPLORE our EXPLORE Win up to $43,000 in cash and prizes plusentry incashandprizes $43,000 upto Win Rewards! * Visit the Player’s Club for complete for allrights rules Club &details. reserves Management thePlayer’s * Visit AMERICA’S GREATEST AMERICA’S into America’s Greatest Game Show*, GameShow*, Greatest America’s into SwinomishCasinoandLod june 274pm,8pm hosted by BobEubanks. by hosted GAME SHOW GAME ge.com 1.888.288.8883 it all PORTERHOUSE &APINT PORTERHOUSE win a portable BBQ, lawn tractor tractor win aportable BBQ,lawn Treat dad to a porterhouse anda aporterhouse dadto Treat Nightly drawings for a chance to to achance for drawings Nightly pint at 13moons on Father’s Day. Day. pint at13moonson Father’s Reservations recommended. Reservations FATHER’S DAY FATHER’S GIVEAWAY and other prizes. * prizes. and other june 15-21 june 15 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #23.09 06.04.14 DODO ITIT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 28 FOOD 34 Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly: ` 360.647.8200 34 Editorial FOOD FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson `ext 260 28 { editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle ext 204 24 {calendar@ From 1969-74, Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis spent cascadiaweekly.com FILM a lot of time with a group of kids and teens on the set of Music & Film Editor: ABC’s hit sitcom The Brady Bunch as Alice, the devoted Carey Ross housekeeper for the combined family. “All of us wish we had ext 203 20 an Alice,” Davis—who died this week at the age of 88—said {music@ in a 2005 interview. “I wish I had an Alice.” cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC Production 18 Art Director: ART VIEWS & NEWS Jesse Kinsman {jesse@ 4: Mailbag kinsmancreative.com 16 6: Gristle & Goodman Graphic Artists: Stefan Hansen STAGE 8: Income justice {stefan@ 10: Police blotter, Index cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to 14 12: Last week’s news [email protected] Advertising GET OUT ARTS & LIFE Account Executive: 12: A whale of a read Scott Pelton 360-647-8200 x 202 12 14: Getting loopy in Ferndale { spelton@ 16: For the Jewel of Magic cascadiaweekly.com WORDS 18: Derby divas Stephanie Young 360-647-8200 x 205 20: Coolio! { stephanie@ 8 cascadiaweekly.com 22: Clubs 24: Feeling the fat Distribution CURRENTS CURRENTS HOLD ELECTED LEADERS River water daily for spraying on 2½ miles coal stor- 26: Film Shorts Distribution Manager: ACCOUNTABLE age piles 60 feet high; 974 Capesize and Panamax 6 Scott Pelton 360-647-8200 x 202 Ferndale Mayor Gary Jensen continues to ap- vessel transits into Cherry Point waterways yearly, REAR END { spelton@ pear in Pacific International Terminals’ (PIT) pro- and nine loaded and nine empty 1½-mile coal trains VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com 28: Bulletin Board Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) advertising. daily traveling through our communities. Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 4 Mayor Jensen is currently featured on the front Why does Mayor Jensen continue to let PIT and 29: Crossword Stephanie Simms, Robin Corsberg page of PIT’s PR-created website for GPT, the its PR firms use the City of Ferndale and him- MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL 30: Comix Alliance for Northwest Jobs & Exports. In that self, as mayor, in GPT advertising? I wish Jensen Skagit: Linda Brown, 31: Slowpoke, Sudoku ad, Jensen is shown in a video promoting the would contact PIT or its consultant Craig Cole, 2 Barb Murdoch 32: Free Will Astrology Canada: Kristi Alvaran proposed coal terminals; GPT and Millennium and request he not be used in their ads promot- DO IT IT DO Bulk Terminals Longview (MBTL). In the ad Jen- ing GPT. So far, Jensen seems content to let that 33: Advice Goddess Letters sen says, “I want you to know that we welcome practice continue. 34: Scape suggestions Send letters to letters@ them because they’ve proven themselves year af- We need to hold our local elected officials ac- cascadiaweekly.com ter year after year.” I’m not sure how Jensen can countable for their actions of treating the health 06.04.14 Fuzz Buzz, P.10 * Escaping Death, P.16 * Advice Goddess, P.33 cascadia even make that claim since SSA/PIT has no coal and safety of our communities in a cavalier manner. REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {06.04.14}{#23}{V.09}{FREE} terminals in our county. —Sandy Robson, Birch Bay .09 23 ©2014 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Mayor Jensen was also featured in a Facebook # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 RISING UP post made on May 14, 2014, by Alliance for NW Jobs ELECT, NOT ALEC Amy Goodman remembers Maya Angelou, P.6 [email protected] BLACK INCOME JUSTICE on its Facebook page promoting that same video My “outside big money group” antenna got Making history with Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia & BLUE minimum wage, P.8 PHOTOGRAPHING RENAISSANCE Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing THE BELLINGHAM MAN Kicking back in which Mayor Jensen voiced his support for the perked up regarding a recent meeting about ROLLER BETTIES, P.18 papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution with Coolio, P.20 SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions.