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*************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** The Gristle, P.8 * Alley Arts, P.20 * BoB Ballot, P.31 cascadia PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {09.26.12}{#39}{V.07}{FREE} docTOBER A festival of truth-telling, p.26 My Fair Lady: A loverly night at the theater, p.18 Rumor Has It: Musical+ reunions and baby goats, p.22 SCOPE DOPE: Add your voice to the coal port discussion, p.10 Make your feet count for 38 38 cascadia something this weekend by FOOD participating in the “Walk 31 31 to Defeat ALS” Sept. 29 or the “CROP Hunger B-BOARD A glance at what’s happening this week Walk” happening Sun., Sept. 30 26 FILM FILM COMMUNITY Tech Stomp: 5:30-9:30pm, Academic Instruction 22 Center, WWU MUSIC Get in the !-$4[09.y.12] 20 mood for ONSTAGE ART ART Body Talk: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts winter by Center Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 18 Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre viewing Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater STAGE STAGE My Fair Lady: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre Teton Gravity One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre 16 Research’s Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT MUSIC snowboarding Harvest Fest: 3:30pm-12am, Bow Pretty Little Feet: 6-9pm, Bellewood Farms 14 flicks Further Pagliacci: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon WORDS WORDS and The Dream Poetrynight Anthology Release: 7pm, Make.Shift Art Space 10 Factory Oct. 3 Ivan Doig: 7pm, Village Books at the Mount COMMUNITY Bingo in the Barn: 7-9pm, Sudden Valley Dance CURRENTS Baker Theatre Barn 8 GET OUT Nature Babies: 9:30-11am, Whatcom Falls Park VIEWS VIEWS Playwrights, interfering 4 psychics, meddling lawyers ./0-4[09.y.12] MAIL MAIL ONSTAGE 2 and frantic wives all make The Importance of Being Ernest: 1pm and 5pm, Mount Vernon Christian High School DO IT IT DO My Fair Lady: 3pm and 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre DO IT 2 appearances during the After Midnight Cabaret: 7pm, RiverBelle Dinner comedic thriller Deathtrap, Theatre, Mount Vernon .12 Body Talk: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts 26 Center which plays through Oct. 7 Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre .07 09. at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 39 # One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 8pm, Anacortes Theatre Community Theatre Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre DANCE 2 ) .4[09.y}.12] Beer Week: Through Sept. 30, throughout Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Bellingham Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre ONSTAGE Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC CASCADIA WEEKLY The Importance of Being Ernest: 7pm, Mount Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Harvest Fest: 12pm-1am, Bow Vernon Christian High School /#0-.4[09.y~.12] The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 2 My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre WORDS ONSTAGE WORDS Cheryl Strayed: 1-3pm, Conway Muse FOOD The Importance of Being Ernest: 7pm, Mount Tim Schlattmann: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, Peter Ludwin, Jane Alynn: 7pm, Village Books Final Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Vil- Vernon Christian High School WWU lage Green My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre COMMUNITY Ballot Issues Forum: 10am-12pm, Bellingham City Council Chambers Wonders of Whatcom: 2:30pm, Fairhaven 38 38 Library FOOD GET OUT Walk to Defeat ALS: 10am, Squalicum Boat- house 31 31 Killer Cross: 10am-2pm, Squalicum Creek Park Arbor Day Celebration: 10am-3pm, Elizabeth Park B-BOARD FOOD Pancake Breakfast: 8-10:30am, Lynden Com- munity Center 26 Pumpkin Festival: 9am-6pm, Christianson’s Nursery, Mount Vernon FILM Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Community & Arts Center 22 Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square Ferndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, Centen- MUSIC nial Riverwalk Park Harvest Dinner: 5:30pm, St. Joseph Center, 20 Mount Vernon ART ART VISUAL ARTS Really, Really Big Show Opening: 4-9pm, 18 Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island STAGE STAGE .0)4[09.z.12] 16 ONSTAGE Glorious: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre GET OUT My Fair Lady: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre MUSIC 14 Pagliacci: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, Amadeus Project WORDS WORDS Banned Books Read-Out: 2-4pm, Village Books 10 COMMUNITY Fall Bridal Show: 11:30am-4:30pm, Ferndale CURRENTS Events Center Chinese Moon Festival: 2:30-4:30pm, Bloedel 8 Donovan VIEWS VIEWS GET OUT Bellingham Bay Marathon: 7:30am, Lummi 4 Nation School CROP Hunger Walk: 2pm, Fairhaven Village MAIL Green 2 2 VISUAL ARTS DO IT IT DO DO IT Wild East Meet Wild West Opening: 12-5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building .12 26 (*)4[10.x.12] WORDS .07 09. Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project 39 # /0 .4[10.y.12] DANCE Rainbow Squares: 7-9pm, Ten Mile Grange, Lynden CASCADIA WEEKLY WORDS Bridget Boland: 7pm, Village Books 3 To get your events listed, send details to [email protected] thisweek Contact Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 38 38 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 31 31 ô editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle Anyone familiar with the Shangri-La on Bellingham’s Holly Eext 204 Street knows that, unlike its namesake, it was no earthly ô calendar@ 26 paradise. Bringing an end to its sketchy, seedy era, the cascadiaweekly.com motel was demolished Monday to make room for a WECU FILM FILM parking lot. As a Facebook commenter noted, “Please resist Music & Film Editor: the urge to make a ‘they paved paradise and put up a park- Carey Ross ing lot joke.’” Indeed. 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