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FUZZ BUZZ, P.11 + STUDIO TOURS, P.16 + BIRCH DOOR CAFE, P.30 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 10-04-2017* • ISSUE:*40 • V.12 A TAXING ISSUE Subsidizing earth's demise, P.08 BEER METAL EVIL DEAD A date with demons, P.15 YOGA AROUND TOWN A new kind of serenity, P.14 Bellingham Irish Festival, P.18 c a s c a d i a 30 Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre FOOD ThisWeek Evil Dead, the Musical: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre A glance at this week’s Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 24 MUSIC happenings Bellingham Irish Festival: Through Sunday, throughout downtown B-BOARD Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Jazz Series Concert: 3-5pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn 22 THURSDAY [10.05.17] Trio Da Kali: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon FILM ONSTAGE COMMUNITY Breaking Bread: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Model Train Show: 9am-5pm, NW Washington Bellingham Burlesque of 1927: 7:30pm, Firehouse Fairgrounds, Lynden 18 Performing Arts Center The Mousetrap: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild GET OUT MUSIC Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Run Like a Girl: 9am, Fairhaven Park Vernon Stigma Stomp: 10am, Bloedel Donovan Park 16 The Addams Family: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, downtown Bellingham Theatre, Lynden ART Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- FOOD munity Theatre Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts 15 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Center The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street STAGE MUSIC Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot The Piano Guys: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Market Square 14 Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, throughout WORDS Skagit County Chuckanut Radio Hour: 6:30pm, Heiner Theater, Fall Fruit Festival: 10am-5pm, Cloud Mountain Farm GET OUT Whatcom Community College Center, Everson Cressida Cowell: 6:30pm, Bellingham Public Library Bier on the Pier: 12-6pm, Port of Anacortes Transit Event Center 12 FRIDAY [10.06.17] VISUAL Whatcom Artists Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- WORDS ONSTAGE Bellingham Burlesque of 1927: 7:30pm, Firehouse out Whatcom County Performing Arts Center Boneyard and Bloom Reception: 4-6pm, i.e. gal- 8 The Mousetrap: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild lery, Edison The Addams Family: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Art Walk: 4-7pm, throughout La Conner Theatre, Lynden New Exhibit Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee CURRENTS Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Gallery, Edison Vernon Cascadia Dreams: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, 6 Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- Lynden munity Theatre VIEWS Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre SUNDAY [10.08.17] Brass Monkey Theater Club: 9pm, Sylvia Center 4 Sample as many as 200 varieties of apples, pears and ONSTAGE MUSIC The Mousetrap: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild MAIL Bellingham Irish Festival: Through Sunday, much more at the annual Fall Fruit Festival taking The Addams Family: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas The- throughout downtown atre, Lynden 2 place Oct. 7-8 at Everson’s Cloud Mountain Farm Center 2 Stand and Deliver: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount GET OUT Vernon DO IT DO IT Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven Young Frankenstein: 2pm, Anacortes Community Theatre FOOD Ferndale Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Centennial MUSIC Riverwalk Park Bellingham Irish Festival: Through today, 10.04.17 Bier on the Pier: 5-9pm, Port of Anacortes Transit throughout downtown Event Center El Fin Del Mundo: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm .12 Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker 40 # VISUAL Theatre Art Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham GET OUT Buddy Walk: 12pm, Depot Market Square SATURDAY [10.07.17] FOOD ONSTAGE Flute master Gary Stroutsos will play along Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit The Addams Family: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas The- County CASCADIA WEEKLY during —a multimedia atre, Lynden ”Cascadia Dreams” Fall Fruit Festival: 11am-4pm, Cloud Mountain Farm Bellingham Burlesque of 1927: 3pm and 7:30pm, Center, Everson 2 presentation celebrating the landscapes of the Firehouse PAC 24-Hour Theater Festival: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Pacific Northwest—Sat., Oct. 7 at Lynden’s VISUAL Sylvia Center Jansen Art Center Whatcom Artists Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- The Mousetrap: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild out Whatcom County Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 22 editor@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM For a brief period of time Monday afternoon, fans of Rock Arts & Entertainment and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Petty hoped the longtime Editor: Amy Kepferle musician, 66, might survive a massive heart attack that ext 204 18 had felled him the night before at his Malibu home. And calendar@ although many news organizations erroneously reported cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC his death earlier in the day before changing their stories, the “American Girl” crooner did pass away later that night, Music & Film Editor: surrounded by his family. Carey Ross 16 ext 203 ART music@ Views & News cascadiaweekly.com 15 04: Mailbag Production Art Director: STAGE Gristle & Views 06: Jesse Kinsman 08: Subsidizing earth’s demise jesse@ 14 kinsmancreative.com 10: Last week’s news Design: 11: Police blotter, Index Bill Kamphausen GET OUT Advertising Design: Arts & Life Roman Komarov roman@ 12 12: Hillary’s story cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to 14: Beer, metal and yoga [email protected] WORDS 15: Demon dates Advertising 8 16: Studio stats Sales Manager: NO LEAVING LAS VEGAS Homes and land on Alabama Hill are pricier 18: Sounds like Ireland Stephanie Young 360-647-8200 Another mass shooting. This time in Las Vegas. than in Roosevelt neighborhood. 20: Clubs CURRENTS advertising@ Enough! So, how would increasing density in single- 22: Blade Runner, take two cascadiaweekly.com Australia banned assault weapons in 1996 and family-residence-zoned neighborhoods make 6 23: Film Shorts Distribution it sharply reduced gun homicides, including sui- more affordable housing if the housing costs are cides, and all but eliminated mass shootings. already higher in these neighborhoods? VIEWS Distribution Manager: There is no excuse for the U.S. Congress not to Seems to me that a granny unit in Silver Beach Erik Burge Rear End 4 4 360-647-8200 ban all assault weapons. Sen. Chris Murphy (D- or Sudden Valley will rent for what the market 24: Bulletin Board, Free Will distribution@ CT) said it best: “This must stop. It is positively allows and that will be a lot more than an apart- MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com 25: Wellness infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are ment or townhome in Roosevelt or on Northwest. Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend A detached accessory dwelling unit in Alabama 26: Crossword Stephanie Simms there aren’t public policy responses to this epi- Hill or South Hill is going to rent for as much as 27: Advice Goddess Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT Barb Murdoch demic. There are, and the thoughts and prayers the landlord can get and neither will qualify as 28: Comix of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired “affordable.” 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku Letters with continued legislative indifference. It’s time If Bashaw and Hammill want children to have SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ for Congress to get off its ass and do something.” better housing, why don’t they do something to CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 10.04.17 30: Birch Door Cafe —Brian Estes, Bellingham improve the quality of the affordable housing FUZZ BUZZ, P.11 + STUDIO TOURS, P.16 + BIRCH DOOR CAFE, P.30 c a s c a d i a that currently exists? Why don’t they legislate REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA .12 WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 10-04-2017* • ISSUE:*40 • V.12 40 ©2017 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by SCHOOL PLANNING AND GROWTH more access to Section 8 housing? Why don’t # EVIL DEAD A TAXING Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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Manuscripts will be returned if you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- dence-zoned neighborhoods is going to increase more affordable housing stock in neighborhoods ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday affordability? For example, my children attend that are already zoned multifamily residential? the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLY returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Roosevelt Elementary School. A two-bedroom I fail to see how increasing density and hav- LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content.