Hicks, P.20 Show up Early to Watch 34 34 Cascadia Mayor Kelli Linville Toss FOOD the Ceremonial Cabbage at Opening Day of the 27 Bellingham Farmers

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Chippendales: Bow ties and beefcake, P.16 :: Musical Mission: Passing the hat for Lucas Hicks, P.20 Show up early to watch 34 34 cascadia Mayor Kelli Linville toss FOOD the ceremonial cabbage at opening day of the 27 Bellingham Farmers

B-BOARD Market April 7 at the Depot A glance at what’s happening this week Market Square 24 FILM FILM 2 ) . 4[04.{.12]

20 DANCE Ballroom Dancing: 6-8pm, Leopold Crystal

MUSIC Ballroom From now until April 30, head south to tiptoe WORDS through ﬁelds and soak up the seasonal beauty as 18 Joseph Green: 7pm, Village Books

ART ART part of the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival COMMUNITY Green Drinks: 5-7pm, the Redlight 16 GET OUT

STAGE STAGE Tulip Festival: Through April 30, throughout the Skagit Valley

14 Bike to Work Meeting: 6pm, Whatcom Council of Governments GET OUT /#0-. 4[04.|.12]

12 ONSTAGE Blast!: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre

WORDS Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 8 MUSIC Jeremy DesChane: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Logan Skelton: 8pm, Performing Arts Center CURRENTS CURRENTS Concert Hall, WWU 6 WORDS Oliver de la Paz, Stacey Lynn Brown: 7pm, Vil- VIEWS VIEWS lage Books

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MAIL MAIL Wine & Tulip Festival: Various dates through April 30, Carpenter Creek Winery, Mount Vernon

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04 Cabaret: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Theatre, Mount Vernon Out of Sight, Out of Mind: 8pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre

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# All’s Fair, Episode 3: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Snow bunnies can Theater Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham head to the hill for MUSIC Jeremy DesChane: 7:30pm, Lairmont Manor a chance at Easter ./0- 4[04.~.12] WORDS booty as part of the Used Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Everson Library ONSTAGE CASCADIA WEEKLY annual Golden Egg GET OUT Cabaret: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Theatre, Mount Vernon 2 Ladies Night Out: 7-9pm, Whatcom County Hunt happening Out of Sight, Out of Mind: 8pm, Anacortes VISUAL ARTS Community Theatre April 7 at the Mt. Dreams of Lascaux Opening: 5-7pm, Book Fare Café Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Baker Ski Area All’s Fair, Episode 3: 8pm, iDiOM Theater DANCE

Folk Dance Party: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven 34 34 Library MUSIC FOOD The Louisiana Joymakers: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Bellingham Ukulele Group: 3-5pm, St. James 27 Presbyterian Church Meat Haus Blues: 6-9pm, Carpenter Creek Win- ery, Mount Vernon B-BOARD WORDS

Used Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Everson Library 24 Kathleen Flenniken: 7pm, Village Books COMMUNITY FILM Historic Home Tour: 10am-4pm, Skagit Valley

Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Orca Pavilion, 20 WCC MUSIC GET OUT Golden Egg Hunt: 9am, Mt. Baker Ski Area 18 Skagit Valley Tulip Run: 9:30am, Skagit Re- gional Airport, Burlington ART

FOOD 16 Pancake Breakfast: 9am, United Church of

Ferndale STAGE Bellingham Farmers Market Opening: 10am- 3pm, Depot Market Square 14 Oyster Saturday: 11am, Temple Bar VISUAL ARTS GET OUT Cedar Carving Demo: 1-3pm, CedarWorks Gal- lery

In & Out of This World Opening: 3-5pm, Gallery 12 Cygnus The Art of Prints Opening: 5-8pm, Lucia WORDS Douglas Gallery

Kris Molesworth Opening: 5-8pm, Smith & 8 Vallee Gallery, Edison

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Strip Search: Supreme Court erodes the Fourth Amendment, P.8 Chippendales: Bow ties and beefcake, P.16 :: Musical Mission: Passing the hat for Lucas Hicks, P.20 healthcare. Then, after the baby is born, is it born a sinner? Is Today, in 2012, if a woman chooses to have a it no longer “innocent?” After unwanted babies are ©2012 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by COVER: “Guilty Until .07 04. Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly baby, that is her choice. The most progressive born, then who really cares about them? 14 Proven Innocent,” by # PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 thing we could be doing in America is sex educa- The issue at hand is a woman’s right to [email protected] Jon P. Landry Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia tion in schools—but we are not, and that is the choose—to have funding for sex education and Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution root of the problem. to have access to birth control so that abortion SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you If we educated our children about sex, they is not the only option. include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- would make more responsible choices. —NK Redﬁsh, Bellingham ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be Unfortunately, today while sex sells every- returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope.

CASCADIA WEEKLY LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and thing from toothpaste to fast cars, it is also ta- Behind all the politics, the rhetoric and the content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does boo and we are made to feel bad, dirty and guilty incessant use of words like “evil” and “immoral” 4 not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your about sex through the eyes of many religions and are millions upon millions of women whom soci- letters to fewer than 300 words. our puritanical society. As a result, we have way ety has turned their back on. too many teenage mothers giving birth who are Why is such an intimate, private and sensitive poor, without the skill or support to take care of issue met with so much hostility and anger? It is NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre these newborn babies. We also have overpopula- atrocious that so many people think they have the right to judge so harshly. Women do not get pregnant alone nor

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to have abortions. If we were such a 34 concerned society then we would be trying to solve the question of why so FOOD many women feel abortion is the right choice. As a culture, if we want to save 27 the lives of unborn children then we need to show respect and support for those who are carrying them. B-BOARD —LeeAnne Williams, Deming )NĘGUARANTEEDĘ#ASHĘ0R)ZES SLIDE MOUNTAIN 24

RESOURCE THREATENED FILM On April 2, the Washington State De- partment of Natural Resources plans to 20 close access to Slide Mountain and decom- mission user-built mountain bike trails. MUSIC DNR did this extremely quickly, and 'AMESĘ.OWĘ without public input. They also have no 18 scientiﬁc evidence showing impact that would seriously violate state environ- ART mental laws. 4HROUGH What this closure will do is seriously 16 impact businesses and recreation in De- STAGE STAGE ming and Bellingham that rely on moun- !PR)LĘ tain bike and other user groups. It will remove more than 20 miles of accessible 14 road for dispersed camping, and stun-

ning views of Whatcom County. GET OUT DNR claims they want to have a man- >mf_Ye]k`go_Ye]k]n]jq aged plan for recreation ﬁrst. However, with current funding it will take nearly 12 20 years to focus on Whatcom County o]]c]f\^jge/helg))he recreation. Therefore, user groups need WORDS to work with the Legislature and DNR to 8 ﬁgure out a proper process for user-built trails, of all recreation groups, to exist on public land. CURRENTS CURRENTS Please contact the Whatcom County Signature Easter Council, your legislature, and the North- 6 west region DNR to voice your opposition to closure! Champagne Brunch VIEWS —Jakob Perry, Bellingham 4 $SULO6HUYHGIURPDPWRSP 4 MAIL MAIL AIRPORT EXPANSION MAIL I went walking with a friend at Hov- :LWK&KDPSDJQH ander Park last week and a jet approach- 2

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farther north is also greatly impacted 04 by the jet noise. If we allow the airport Seafood Buffet trafﬁc to increase, you can expect to have many of your local favorite places 6HUYHGIURPSPWRSPHYHU\ .07 04. 14 ruined by the noise of jets roaring over- )ULGD\QLJKWZLWK:LQQHUV # head. The Port of Bellingham is asking &OXE&DUGZLWKRXW for input from the community as they update the airport master plan. Your time to be heard is now! 877.935.9300 Take the time to answer four quick 5048 MOUNT BAKER HWY, DEMING WA 2 for 1 Buffet! questions on the Port’s survey on their 9DOLG0RQRU7XH$SULORU CASCADIA WEEKLY website: www.portofbellingham.com/ FIND US ONLINE RQO\$YDLODEOHDP±SP 5 forms.aspx?FID=111 WWW.NOOKSACKCASINO.COM IRU RUSP±SP/LPLWRQHSHUSHUVRQ Inform yourself. Read about the Master 9DOLGRQO\DW1RRNVDFN5LYHU&DVLQR&DVLQR5HGHHPDW:LQQHU¶V&OXE%RRWK9DOLG0RQGD\RU7XHVGD\$SULO5HGHHPG DW :LQQHU¶V¶ &OXE%RRWK 9DOLG 0RQGD\RU7XH7 VGD\ $S$ ULORURU Plan Update on the Port’s website. At- TWITTER.COM/NOOKSACKRCASINO IURPDP±SPRUSP±SPRQO\8VHRIFRXSRQLPSOLHVDQXQGHUVWDQGLQJDQGDFFHSWDQFHRIDOOUXOHV0DFKLQH PDOIXQFWLRQYRLGVDQ\DVVRFLDWHGUHZDUGV/LPLWRQHFRXSRQSHUSHUVRQ0XVWEH:LQQHUV&OXE0HPEHUWRUHGHHP1RW tend the public meetings on April 19 at FACEBOOK.COM/NOOKSACKRCASINO YDOLGZLWKDQ\RWKHURIIHU0HPEHUDQG\HDUVRIDJHWRUHGHHP0DQDJHPHQWUHVHUYHVDOOULJKWV LETTERS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 THE GRISTLE

TITANIC’S DECK CHAIRS ON FIRE: The rancor between

34 34 Port of Bellingham Commission President Scott Walk- er and the agency’s Executive Director Charlie Shel- FOOD don ﬂared to a head this week, as Sheldon—only 18 views months at the helm of the port authority—tendered OPINIONS THE GRISTLE his resignation at the commission’s regular meeting. 27 Commissioners met in executive session on Friday to discuss Sheldon’s job performance. Commissioner Mike

B-BOARD McAuley said the meeting went well, with he and fellow Commissioner Jim Jorgensen continuing to express support for the agency’s head of daily operations. The 24 situation changed over the weekend, McAuley said, with

FILM FILM the agency head’s future in freefall by Monday. Commis- sioners met Monday afternoon to discuss a severance package for Sheldon. 20 Droves of civic and business leaders—ﬁshermen and BY ROBERT REICH

MUSIC industrialists alike—arrived Tuesday to praise Sheldon and remark on the many ﬁne relationships he’s built in a

18 brief time. They encouraged commissioners to redouble their efforts to retain him. Commissioners responded

ART ART Whose Recovery? instead to hidden machinations, murmuring vaguely about new directions without specifics. And a prince MANY AMERICANS REMAIN IN CRITICAL CONDITION 16 was slain in a palace coup by a cabal of furtive senior staff at the altar of a foolish priesthood, 2 votes to 1, LUXURY RETAILERS are stock. Your biggest asset is your home. STAGE STAGE Jorgensen thrusting the knife. smiling. So are the owners of high- Home prices are down over a third Rob Fix, deputy director and chief financial officer for end restaurants, sellers of upscale from their 2006 peak, and they’re still 14 the port authority, will take over as interim director. cars, vacation planners, financial ad- dropping. The median house price in The head-chopping comes just days before the Port visors and personal coaches. For them February was 6.2 percent lower than

GET OUT Commission and Bellingham City Council were sched- and their customers and clients the a year ago. uled to sit down and iron out remaining quarrels and recession is over. The recovery is now Ofﬁcial Washington doesn’t want to disagreements about Bellingham’s central waterfront, a full speed. talk about this lopsided recovery. The 12 meeting that would pave the way for the Bellingham But the rest of America isn’t enjoy- Obama administration is touting the Planning Commission to resume the public dialogue ing an economic recovery. It’s still recovery, period, without mentioning WORDS about the redevelopment of 85 acres of waterfront prop- sick. Many Americans remain in criti- how narrow it is. erty that comprise the former site of the Georgia-Paciﬁc cal condition. 93 percent of the gains in 2010. Thir- Republicans would rather not talk 8 West pulp and paper mill. The Commerce Department reported ty-seven percent of the gains went to about widening inequality to begin Walker went public in October with his grievances last week that the economy grew at the top one-tenth of one percent. No with. The reverse-Robin Hood budget about how Sheldon had reorganized port staff, and re- a 3 percent annual rate last quarter one below the richest 10 percent saw plan just announced by Paul Ryan and CURRENTS CURRENTS focused port energies on economic development in the (far better than the measly 1.8 per- any gain at all. House Republicans (and endorsed by 6

8 near term. Walker’s fellow commissioners—who’ve ex- cent third quarter growth). Personal In fact, most of the bottom 90 per- Mitt Romney) would make the lopsid- pressed conﬁdence in Sheldon, the talented manager income also jumped. Americans raked cent have lost ground. Their average edness far worse—dramatically cutting VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS of shipping for the Port of Seattle—appeared too weak in more than $13 trillion, $3.3 billion adjusted gross income was $29,840 taxes on the rich and slashing public to restrain Walker’s derisive, corrosive public comments more than previously thought. in 2010. That’s down $127 from 2009, services everyone else depends on. 4 about their employee, triggering a crisis. Yet it’s almost a certainly that all and down $4,843 from 2000 (all ad- Fed Chief Ben Bernanke—who

MAIL MAIL Last month, Walker took to media airwaves to criti- the gains went to the top 10 percent, justed for inﬂation). doesn’t have to face voters on Election

cize Sheldon for authorizing a $10,000 expenditure and the lion’s share to the top 1 per- Meanwhile, employer-provided ben- Day—says the U.S. economy needs to 2 to send Port Aviation Director Dan Zenk and a con- cent. Over a third of the gains went to eﬁts continue to decline among the grow faster if it’s to produce enough

DO IT IT DO sultant to the Bahamas for an airline industry con- 15,600 super-rich households in the bottom 90 percent, according to the jobs to bring down unemployment. But

ference without getting advance approval from the top one-tenth of one percent. Commerce Department. The share of he leaves out the critical point. commissioners. Sheldon apologized for the oversight, We don’t know this for sure because people with health insurance from We can’t possibly grow faster if .12

04 but the expense was still well within the port’s autho- all the data aren’t in for 2011. But this their employers dropped from 59.8 the vast majority of Americans, who rized budget as the agency attempts outreach with is what happened in 2010, the most percent in 2007 to 55.3 percent in are still losing ground, don’t have the airlines as part of a master planning effort around recent year for which we have reliable 2010. And the share of private-sec- the money to buy more of the things .07 04.Bellingham International Airport. Walker swaddled data, and there’s no reason to believe tor workers with retirement plans American workers produce. There’s no 14 # his fraud in a swindle: The commission’s most ardent the trajectory changed in 2011 or that dropped from 42 percent in 2007 to way spending by the richest 10 per- supporter of an expanded airport now criticizes an it will change this year. 39.5 percent in 2010. cent—the only ones gaining ground— unpopular airport expansion! In fact, recoveries are becoming If you’re among the richest 10 per- will be enough to get the economy Whatever Sheldon spent will be dwarfed by the scads more and more lopsided. cent, a big chunk of your savings are out of ﬁrst gear. of taxpayer money the port will pickpocket on the third The top 1 percent got 45 percent of in the stock market, where you’ve had director search in three years. Clinton-era economic growth, and 65 nice gains over the last two years. Robert Reich is Professor of Public

CASCADIA WEEKLY Frankly, if anyone deserved to be put over the side, percent of the economic growth dur- The value of ﬁnancial assets held by Policy at the University of California it was Rear Admiral Walker for ﬂagrantly prosecuting ing the Bush era. Americans surged by $1.46 trillion in at Berkeley. He has served in three na- 6 a dispute with an employee in public and against the According to an analysis of tax re- the fourth quarter of 2011. tional administrations, most recently wishes of the commission majority. Walker, granted no turns by Emmanuel Saez and Thomas But if you’re in the bottom 90 per- as secretary of labor under President special power or authority on the commission, exercised Pikkety, the top 1 percent pocketed cent, you own few if any shares of Bill Clinton. the tyranny of the minority. At the very least, McAuley and Jorgensen should insist he also tender his resigna- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY Representing Local Artists THE GRISTLE Since 1969 Take your fork

tion from the commission so they might in a new direction

appoint a less fussy and ill-tempered mar- 34 tinet for the next round of applications to April replace Sheldon. FOOD Hired after two attempts to lure talent Spain & Portugal to Bellingham, Director Sheldon showed Lunch Specials 27 uncanny abilities in his brief time as port 'EFVEPIW&YVKIV:IKKMI&SGEHMPPS April 2012 director, unilaterally ending the thug- *VERGIWMRLE4SVXYKYIWI7ERH[MGL gish hostage-taking of the previous port B-BOARD administration—a coercive calculation Dinner Specials that stalled forward activity on the wa- 7SPSQMPPS 4SVO8IRHIVPSMR 4IWGEHS7IXYFEPIRWI +VMPPIH2I[=SVO*VMIH)KK 6SQIWGS7EYGI 24 terfront until the port landed its luxury 7EJJVSR6MGI[MXL+VMPPIH:IKKMIW marina, development permits and tens Featured Artist FILM of millions in infrastructure ransom from PATSY THOLA CHAMBERLAIN Taking Reservations for Easter city taxpayers—and replaced it with bus- Birdshrines & Spirit Dwellings 20 tling activity and environmental cleanup, (ARRIS!VENUEs"ELLINGHAM 7! creating scores of jobs on the waterfront. -7 3AT 3UN MUSIC Sheldon also strongly advocated reduced Rhododendron Cafe marina fees for working commercial fish- WWWGOODEARTHPOTSCOM Chuckanut & Bow Hill Rd. 360-766-6667 www.rhodycafe.com 18 ing fleets as a means to bring that marine industry, long driven from our shores by ART the warped priorities of Walker’s commis- Celebrate National sion, and returned its economic multipli- Poetry Month! 16 ers back to Bellingham. He turned a real STAGE STAGE estate association for cronies and crooks back into a port authority. 20% OFF Walker made noises about Sheldon be- 14 ing insufficiently miserly, a “spendthrift”

with port finances, bragging about the POETRY GET OUT agency’s legendary tight-fistedness. ALL APRIL! Those remarks come mere days after a devastating fire in a boathouse in Squali- & Poetry Readings Galore! 12 cum Marina that destroyed several boats and left two people feared dead—the Wednesday, APRIL 4th, 7pm WORDS second fire on port property since the 8 start of this year. An earlier fire consumed JOSEPH GREEN a sailboat anchored in the marina in Feb- –That Thread Still Connecting Us ruary, damaging four other boats. CURRENTS CURRENTS Bellingham City Council decommis-

Thursday, APRIL 5th, 7pm 6 sioned the ﬁre department’s ﬁreboat, 8 Fire Belle, in their 2012 budget after the Stacey Lynn Brown, VIEWS VIEWS Port of Bellingham again declined to help Oliver De La Paz VIEWS sponsor the marine support craft. In No- & Friends 4 vember, council had debated extending the contract for the aging vessel for an –A Face to Meet the Faces: MAIL additional six months to give the port An Anthology of

Contemporary Persona Poetry 2 opportunity to support the asset. Port After Hours

commissioners showed no interest in that IT DO support and extension, despite the (obvi- Saturday, APRIL 7th, 7pm ous now) fact their properties are most in The 2012–2014 Social .12 need of waterside fire support. 04 The Belle’s last operation was extin- Washington State guishing a railroad trestle fire in Chucka- POET LAUREATE Wed, April 11 nut Bay in July; and while it is unclear .07 04. 14 the vessel would have proven useful in KATHLEEN 5:00 - 7:00 pm # battling the last two marina fires, the asset has been allowed to decay by indiffer- FLENNIKEN with Caleb Barber ent, penny-pinching port officials, with no plan for alternative. & Rachel Mehl –Plume: Poems Commissioners spoke of the need for new directions. None was in evidence Plus Many More FREE EVENTS at CASCADIA WEEKLY at their meeting—the same old rotted All FREE EVENTS at Thank you co-host machinations, the same diaservice and 7 disgrace to public initiatives, from a VILLAGE BOOKS bndwn 1200 11th St., Bellingham promising new start to a thudding re- kchn turn to business-as-usual at the Port of 360.671.2626 www.KulshanCLT.org | [email protected] | 671.5600 1317 Commercial St Bellingham. VILLAGEBOOKS.com OCCUPY AND political protesters beware. The U.S. Supreme Court on

Monday held that local police can strip-

34 34 search anyone who is arrested for minor offenses if they are to be held within FOOD currents the jail’s general population before being released. NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX The 5-4 decision, with the Court’s 27 conservative majority overruling its four moderates, is a further erosion of the

B-BOARD Fourth Amendment’s protection from unlawful search and seizure. It overturns laws in 10 states that place limits on 24 suspicionless strip-searches and upholds

FILM FILM a technique used by some local police forces against Occupy protesters last fall, prompting protesters to sue. 20 Among the jurisdictions seeking ex-

MUSIC panded authority to strip-search anyone arrested were the City of Chicago,

18 where the NATO summit will be held this May and where protests have been ART ART planned, as well as the state of North Carolina, where the Democratic Nation- 16 al Convention will be held in early Sep- tember in Charlotte. STAGE STAGE “The Supreme Court ruling today continues a dangerous trend expanding law 14 enforcement intrusion into our lives and our bodies, on the pretext of security,

GET OUT in a curtailment of fundamental Fourth Amendment rights,” said Mara Verhey- den-Hilliard, attorney and executive 12 director of the Partnership For Civil Jus- tice Fund, who is representing many of WORDS the Occupy protesters in police brutality suits ﬁled since last fall. 8 8 “The majority opinion's logic is that any person arrested even for a minor, nonviolent, infraction may be subject to CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS such an extreme search, because all hu-

6 man beings in the abstract are capable of criminal conduct,” she said. “The al-

VIEWS VIEWS PROTESTERS BEWARE: leged underlying offense need not ever ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE JAILED, EVEN MINOR OFFENDERS, correlate with the magnitude of all po- 4 MAY BE STRIP-SEARCHED tentially dangerous human conduct.” MAIL MAIL Verheyden-Hilliard said the Supreme BY STEVEN ROSENFELD

Court’s expansion of strip-searches could 2 be used to punish or humiliate anyone

DO IT IT DO arrested, but seemed destined to unfair-

ly target communities of color because of law enforcement racial proﬁling. .12

04 “While falsely arrested demonstra- tors who may be put into the general population now also face this possibil- .07 04. ity, the reality is that this humiliating, 14 # unnecessary and abusive tactic will be used against those disproportionately and wrongfully swept into the criminal justice system on the basis of race and income,” she said. “The justices who sup- ported such widespread strip-searches

CASCADIA WEEKLY are probably not concerned that they or their loved ones will be subject to this 8 degradation.” The Supreme Court’s conservative majority said the strip-searches were needed, however, to protect anyone arrested from other dangerous people, as well as ate Justice Samuel Alito agreed with the to protect law enforcement officials and majority, but said there might be some to maintain order in jails. circumstances where a person who was “Correctional officials have a legiti- arrested and not placed with the jail pop- mate interest, indeed a responsibility, to ulation did not have to be strip-searched. 34 ensure that jails are not made less secure But Roberts said the circumstances in by reason of what new detainees may this case were different, because the FOOD carry in on their bodies,” wrote Justice man who sued was not a newcomer to the Anthony Kennedy, for the majority, say- correctional system. 27 ing that jailers need to be able to search The history of this case starts in 1998, for anything from weapons and drugs to when a New Jersey man, Albert Florence, contraband, chewing gum and pens, and was arrested after fleeing from police in B-BOARD determine if anyone has an infectious Essex County, New Jersey. He was charged disease that needs medical treatment. with obstruction of justice and use of a th Not doing the strip-searches would deadly weapon, but pleaded guilty to two April 4 Indian Cuisine 24 April 9th Latin American Cooking lead to “the risk of increased danger to lesser charges and was fined. When he fell FILM th everyone in the facility, including the behind in monthly payments in 2003, he April 13 Quick & Easy Stir Fry th less serious offenders,” Kennedy wrote. never showed up at a court hearing and April 16 Comida Cuban 20 “Jail officials know little at the outset an arrest warrant was issued. He paid the April 23rd From A to Z about an arrestee, who may be carrying a fine a week later but the arrest warrant re- th April 24 Simple Pleasures MUSIC false ID or lie about his identity. The of- mained in a statewide criminal database— April 26th Wine Tasting ficers conducting an initial search often a mistake by court officials. When he was th April 27 Family-Approved Mexican 18 pulled over for a traffic stop, he was ar- ART ART rested, taken to jail, strip-searched, and then released the next day.

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Justice Steven Breyer, writing the dis- “Something as simple as an overlooked SHOP VIEWS sent that was agreed to by Elena Kagan, pen can pose a significant danger. In- LOWEST 4 Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Gins- mates commit more than 10,000 assaults PRICES at MAIL burg, strongly disagreed, said, “In my on correctional staff every year and many IN view, such a search of an individual ar- more among themselves… Jails can be THE A REA! 2 rested for a minor offense that does not even more dangerous than prisons be- Discounted Cigarettes on most brands involve drugs or violence—say a traffic cause officials there know so little about IT DO offense, a regulatory offense, an essen- the people they admit at the outset.” All Major Brands & Generics tially civil matter, or any other such mis- But Justice Breyer said this perspective * .12 demeanor—is an “unreasonable searc[h]” went too far. “I have found no convincing 04 forbidden by the Fourth Amendment, un- reason indicating that, in the absence of $ 75 $ 50 INCLUDES TAX! less prison authorities have reasonable reasonable suspicion, involuntary strip- 44 - 73 PER CARTON suspicion to believe that the individual searches of those arrested for minor of- .07 04. 14 possesses drugs or other contraband.” fenses are necessary in order to further EXPRESS DRIVETHRU # “A strip-search that involves a stranger the penal interests mentioned,” his dis- 7 am – 9 pm, peering without consent at a naked in- sent said. “And there are strong reasons dividual, and in particular at the most to believe they are not justified.” 7 days a week private portions of that person’s body, Breyer wrote that the Supreme Court is a serious invasion of privacy,” Breyer decision will affect laws limiting “suspi-

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BELLINGHAM FIRE DEPT. had been criticized by one ART ART Multiple boats were destroyed after a fire broke out Friday morning in a boathouse on the East G dock at Squali- commissioner, while he cum Harbor in Bellingham. Two people remain unaccounted for, with rescue teams unable to search the wreckage retained strong support 16 03.y.12 due to high winds. from the other two. STAGE STAGE WEDNESDAY rity Investigations and the Bureau of stocks. A second submerged barge was A Seattle-based organization files initiative petitions in Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explo- successfully removed March 19. 14 Bellingham and five other populous cities statewide that sives, results in an additional 23 ar- would change the way authorities enforce marijuana laws. rests today. Both drug organizations 03.z.12

GET OUT The petitions filed by “Sensible Washington” would ask voters were distributing substantial quanti- to make enforcement of marijuana laws the lowest in priority ties of methamphetamine, heroin and FRIDAY for local police officers. The measure would also prohibit local cocaine, federal prsecutors say. Two people are feared dead in an 12 officials from cooperating with federal authorities in the en- early morning boathouse fire at Squal- forcement of marijuana laws. The reprioritization of emphasis A student is assaulted and robbed icum Marina. Bellingham firefighters WORDS is similar to one Seattle passed in 2003, reducing the case load near Western Washington University found the boathouse well involved in a of possession charges in that city’s courts. campus. The woman reports she was fire that consumes and destroys several 8 8 walking alone at the intersection of vessels at Gate 3, next to the Belling- A man suffers life-threatening injuries in a fall from a Maple and Chestnut streets at about ham Yacht Club. Authorities continue third-story window at the Bellingham YWCA. Police were called 3am when two young men wearing dark their search for Jim Langei, 43, and Republican gubernatorial CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS to investigate what sounded like domestic violence in a room hoodies approached her from behind Sterling Taylor, 33, reported missing candidate Rob McKenna

6 where a 25-year-old woman had a man with her, in violation of and pushed her to the ground. They de- after the fire is extinguished. has challenged his Demo- cratic opponent Jay Inslee temporary housing rules. Police find the man outside, on the manded money and she gave them the to 15 debates. Inslee’s VIEWS VIEWS ground under an open window. Police say the man and woman $5 she had. They fled the scene. 04.y.12 campaign says they had had been drinking, also a violation of YWCA rules. already confirmed three 4 A sunken barge off Lummi Island MONDAY so far. Inslee’s campaign

MAIL MAIL will have to stay put until at least Members of the state’s House of says he won’t participate 03.y.12 in a June 12 debate in

June 15 to prevent potential oil spills Representatives return to Olympia as 2 THURSDAY Spokane, saying the As- that could harm migrating juvenile the latest special session draws near its sociation of Washington

DO IT IT DO More than 40 people are reported arrested in Western salmon. The state Dept. of Ecology sus- end. Legislative leaders met Saturday to Business conﬁrmed the

Washington in two drug trafﬁcking investigations. One inves- pends removal of the barge, which had try to hash out a state budget, and will debate before the Inslee tigation, led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, resulted periodic small leaks of heavy oil. Agen- meet again today. Lawmakers are trying campaign agreed to it. .12

04 in 22 arrests on Wednesday. A second investigation, led by cies determined that any additional to close a $500 million budget gap, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Secu- spills now would be harmful to salmon disagree on how to do it. .07 04. 14 # Aggressive. ǆƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞĚ͘īĞĐƟǀĞ͘ PEPPER CASCADIA WEEKLY ͻ&ĞůŽŶǇ͕DŝƐĚĞŵĞĂŶŽƌ͕/ŶĨƌĂĐƟŽŶ͕h/͕

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BUZZ FOOD and drove their wheels onto the edge of the planter at the roundabout's cen- SPECIAL REPORT: ter,” police reported. ”This day, how- 27 THE STREETS OF BLAINE ever, someone had driven their vehicle On March 26, “Someone dumped a blue, straight through the planter rather than queen-size mattress beside the road,” around it. The neighborhood resident B-BOARD Blaine Police reported. “There are no asked if a tree could be planted in the suspects in the littering, and the eyesore roundabout in a big heavy planter, or was removed by a good samaritan.” perhaps a big, aesthetically pleasing 24

boulder. The resident intends to pursue FILM On March 28, a Blaine Patrol officer spot- the idea” with planners, police noted. ted a tan-colored sofa that had been ille- 20 gally dumped on a sidewalk. “The cushion On March 25, Blaine Police admitted, imprints were insufficient to determine “On each of the several days of the week MUSIC the identity of the suspect couch potato,” officers provided many hours of traf- detectives noted. ”Public Works was noti- fic control at the intersections where 18 fied and will remove the eyesore.” D Street meets the truck route and the I-5 onramps, helping travelers who were ART SHOULDER PAINS caught in border backups related to the On March 16, Blaine Police learned a heavy traffic during British Columbia's 16 fully loaded semi truck/trailer had slid Spring Break. Police efforts were focused STAGE STAGE off Peace Portal Drive. ”Officers arrived on keeping order amongst the motor- || to find that not all of the truck had fit ists,” they confessed. into the ditch, so its back half was still PERCENT of Americans who say they worry a great deal or a fair amount about global 14 warming, up from 51 percent in 2011, but still significantly lower than the previous high of inconveniently blocking the highway,” SUPPLY-SIDE WIFI 72 percent in 2000.

police reported. ”The driver was lo- On March 31, roommates in Blaine dis- GET OUT cated and explained he had been trying covered that a neighbor was tapping into to make a U-turn when the ditch’s soft their wireless internet service. They put a shoulder gave way. It took several hours stop to it by changing and strengthening 12 and several attempts by multiple tow their wireless router's password. After a { z} companies to extract the truck, trailer while they noticed that the speed of their ABOUT half (49 percent) the public now VIEWS of the Republican Party remain WORDS and load,” police continued. ”The trucker wireless connection was degraded, so has a favorable opinion of the Democratic mostly negative, with just 36 percent 8 8 was cited for driving with his wheels off they contacted police for help, thinking Party; 43 percent have an unfavorable view. holding a positive impression of the GOP The number of people who regard the party and well over half (56 percent) expressing the pavement and for leaving an unat- their neighbor might have hacked their favorably increased six points since January, an unfavorable view. This ﬁgure is little tended vehicle in the road.” router again. “After talking with every- recovering from an all-time low favorability changed from earlier this year and from CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS one involved the most likely explanation rating of 38 percent in April 2010, just April 2010, when the party was viewed

On March 18, a citizen called police at for the current problem appears to be after the passage of the health care bill. faborably by just 37 percent of people. 6 7:30pm to complain about motorists an unintentional wireless connectivity using the gravel shoulder of the Blaine conﬂict,” police techies theorized. ”By VIEWS truck route to bypass other vehicles that locking the neighbor out of their router, 4 were waiting in the northbound lineup they forced him to get his own, and two | approaching the Canadian Customs cross- devices were likely unintentionally using PERCENT of Americans who confess they don’t understand enough about changes to federal MAIL ing. Police monitored the trafﬁc conges- the same wireless channel.” health care law to be for it or against it. Nearly 40 percent who reported an unfavorable tion but did not observe any further vio- view of the law admitted their view was based more on negative feelings about the direction 2 of the country than what they actually knew about the law. An additional 32 percent said

lations of law. THE WISDOM OF WINE IT DO their unfavorable view came roughly equally from what they knew about the law and their On March 28, a drunk called 911 repeat- anxiety at the direction of the country and the nation’s capital. On March 18, a passerby called 911 at edly because her mother was next door .12

7:30pm to report that northbound vehicles drinking. The caller was concerned that 04 waiting in the Canadian border lineup on her mother would drive after heavy the truck route were blocking the intersec- drinking. An officer noted the daughter |{ | tion. An officer monitored the intersection was herself heavily intoxicated and im- PERCENT of Americans who (erroneously) PERCENT of Americans who (erroneously) .07 04. 14 for about 20 minutes and did not observe pounded the car keys until her mother believe new health care mandates have believe new health care mandates has not # any intersection violations. sobered up. already increased the federal deficit. 49 already lowered prescription drug costs for percent believe the new law has increased seniors. the cost of medical insurance. On March 18, Blaine Police were again dis- On March 27, a U.S. Border Patrol agent patched to the truck crossing at 8:20pm to reported a man walking along a Blaine investigate a report that a disabled vehicle street, yelling at passing cars. Police was blocking the raodway. They confirmed spoke to the gent, who explained that ¹yx CASCADIA WEEKLY that the Ford Explorer was blocking the he had been cheering on the passing law ACCORDING to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, repealing the Affordable Care northbound lane with no lights on after enforcement vehicles, on his way home Act would increase the net federal budget deficit by $210 billion in the first decade, based 11 dark. An officer pushed the vehicle to the from wherever he'd had a fair amount of on the loss of cost containment provisions. shoulder of the roadway, and confirmed alcohol. Police waited with the man un- that a tow truck was in route to assist the til his mother arrived to pick him up and SOURCE: Gallup; Pew Research Center; Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll; Congressional Budget Office owner in getting back to Canada. give him a ride home. doit WORDS

34 34 THURS., APRIL 5 PERSONA POETRY: Oliver de la Paz and

FOOD Stacey Lynn Brown read poems from A words Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Contemporary Persona Poetry at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 27 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM FRI., APRIL 6 B-BOARD LIMINAL PROJECT: “Articulations: At the Intersection of Poetry and Music” will be the focus of a presentation by

24 Seattle’s Liminal Project at 7pm at Vil- lage Books, 1200 11th St. Entry is free.

FILM FILM 671-2626 ured Gaby would follow suit. It was practically a “tradi- tion” in her family. APRIL 6-7 20 But Gaby knew what happened when a girl got preg- USED BOOK SALE: Attend a Used Book Sale from 10am-6pm Fri.-Sat. in the nant while still in high school. For one, her education MUSIC room behind Peoples Bank across from suffered, and for Gaby, that was not going to happen. the Everson Library, 104 Kirsch Dr. In She was going to college, end of story. addition to books, there’ll be DVDs and 18 But then she began to think… what would people say CDs for adults, teens and children at ART ART if she did get pregnant? Would their attitudes toward her bargain prices. change? What would it be like to live the stereotype? 966-5100 16 Since her senior project—mandatory for gradua- SAT., APRIL 7 tion—was looming, she decided to get permission to POET LAUREATE: Washington State STAGE STAGE try a bold experiment. With the help of her mother, Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken reads from her new collection, Plume: Poems, boyfriend, best friend and a few trusted teachers, Gaby at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 14 12 let her classmates and her siblings believe that she was Local poets Caleb Barber and Rachel expecting a baby that April. Mehl will also read at the event.

WORDS WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

GET OUT Enduring stares and whispers, nasty comments and SUN., APRIL 8 PSYCHEDELIC GUIDE: Scott Teitsworth 12 Pure bravery. That’s what you’ll shares ideas from his book Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds: The Bhagavad Gita

WORDS ﬁnd in The Pregnancy Project, As Psychedelic Guide at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.

8 along with a dash of brilliance and 671-2626 some wide-eyed amazement MON., APRIL 9 POETRYNIGHT: Read your original

CURRENTS CURRENTS verse at poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. 6 disappointment, Gaby thought a Sign-ups start at 8pm. few times about quitting—but she WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG

VIEWS VIEWS didn’t, even making a “bump” out of REVIEWED BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER TUES., APRIL 10 clay and padding.

4 ADULT STORY TIME: “A Poetic Inter- She thought she’d learn a lot lude” will be the focus of Adult Story

MAIL MAIL about that which some girls think is Time at 1pm at the Bellingham Public “cute.” But there was nothing cute Library, 210 Central Ave. Selections will Pregnant Pause 2 GET IT about being pregnant—even when a be read from the works of famous poets at the free event. WHAT: The Preg- girl really wasn’t. DO IT IT DO A DIFFERENT KIND OF SENIOR PROJECT 778-7323 nancy Project, by Pure bravery. That’s what you’ll Gaby Rodriguez MIDNIGHT SUN: Mary Albanese shares YOU WEREN’T really sick at all. ﬁnd in The Pregnancy Project, along tales from her memoir, Midnight Sun, .12 with Jenna Glatzer

04 You felt ﬁne, in fact, but you said you had a headache, your stomach WHERE: Simon & with a dash of brilliance and some Arctic Moon: Mapping the Wild Heart of hurt and you weren’t up to going to school. The truth is that you re- Schuster wide-eyed amazement at what Ro- Alaska, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 ally weren’t up to the quiz in history, the test in physics, drama with COST: $17.99 driguez discovered before, during 11th St. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM .07 04. friends, a tiresome situation, homework undone or an embarrassment and after her senior project. 14 # that just wouldn’t go away. And yet, what Rodriguez learned isn’t nearly as im- WED., APRIL 11 So you faked sick. Whatever. It happens. portant as the guidance she offers girls in this book. WRITER’S THEATER: Read your written But how far would you fake? Would you be willing to live with decep- The authors are blunt in sharing Rodriguez’s experienc- words at the monthly Chuckanut Sand- stone Writer’s Theater Open Mic at 7pm tion for nearly your entire senior year? Author Gaby Rodriguez did it in es: the pain of disappointment; the hurtful comments at the café at the Firehouse Performing order to make a difference, and in her book The Pregnancy Project (with from supposed-friends; the smug, yet unwarranted, “I- Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Jenna Glatzer), she explains. told-you-so” remarks; and the anger that came as a 734-2775 INSPIRING GREATNESS: Howard

CASCADIA WEEKLY While most kids have some idea of what they want to be someday, surprise. Gaby Rodriguez knew what she did not want to be. She didn’t want to Wrapping it up, Rodriguez is firm and levelheaded in Glasser, author of Transforming Your 12 be a teen mom. her advice for sexually active teens and girls who are Difficult Child, will give a talk on “Inspir- ing Greatness” at 7:30pm at Whatcom It would be a hard legacy to avoid, though. Gaby’s mother was contemplating pregnancy anyhow. Community College’s Heiner Theater. pregnant at 15. All of Gaby’s older sisters were pregnant in high And if that’s you, stop what you’re doing right now and Suggested donation is $10. school, and some of her brothers were fathers before they were out go get The Pregnancy Project. It might change your mind— 671-2626 OR WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM of their teens. Everybody in their Toppenish, Wash. community fig- because this fake pregnancy was definitely for real. doit AA NNeeww SScchhooooll fffoorr ttthhee BBeelllllliiinngghhaamm CCoommmmuunniiitttyy

THURS., APRIL 12 At the Old Foundry Building, 100 E. Maple St.

POETRY FESTIVAL: “Poetry Runs Wild!” Newest Bellingham campus of will be the theme of the 7th annual 34 Poetry Festival from 4-8:30pm at the

Ferndale Public Library, 2007 Cherry St. The Alger Learning Center K-8 FOOD

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FILM WED., APRIL 4 “It’s just impossible for education and schooling GREEN DRINKS: The monthly envi- ever to be the same thing." John Taylor Gatto ronmentally friendly networking event 20

known as Green Drinks takes place from Unconditional, beyond-the-box, and free-range learning Earn your H. S. Diploma on your own terms 5-7pm at the Redlight, 1017 N. State St. MUSIC

Entry is free. Bring your own glass. In Whatcom County: 595-2630 Others: 1-800-595-2630 WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG [email protected] www.independent-learning.com 18

THURS., APRIL 5 ART SOLDERING WORKSHOP: Kids 12 and up can sign up for a “Make a Mini Flash- light or Flashing LED Kit” at a Soldering 16 Workshop from 1-3pm Thurs. and Fri. at

the Spark Museum of Electrical Inven- STAGE tion, 1312 Bay St. Cost is $18. 738-3886 OR WWW.SPARKMUSEUM.ORG 14 BALLOT MEETING: Discuss getting 12 money out of politics at an organizing

party to plan to pass a resolution/ballot WORDS GET OUT referral through Bellingham City Council calling for a constitutional amendment

to strip personhood from corporations at 12 6:30pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. 510-6491 WORDS

SAT., APRIL 7 8 EASTER FAIR: Indoor Easter egg hunts, games, prizes, photos with the Easter Bunny, treats and much more will be part of the inaugural Kid’s Easter Fair from CURRENTS 10am-1pm at St. Luke’s Community Health 6 Education Center, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy. Suggested donation is $5 per child. WWW.PHANDFRIENDSRELAY2012. VIEWS WORDPRESS.COM 4 HISTORIC HOME TOUR: La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum presents its 3rd MAIL MAIL annual Historic Home Tour from 10am- Andrew L. Subin 4pm at various locations in Skagit Valley. CRIMINAL DEFENSE 2 Tickets are $15-$20 and can be purchased

in advance at the museum, 501 S. 4th St. IT DO

(360) 466-3365 OR WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY. NET/MUSEUM

ROLLER BETTIES BOUT: Show up for .12 04 the third bout of the Bellingham Roller Betties roller derby season starting at 5pm at Whatcom Community College’s Orca Pavilion. Tickets are $6 for kids and .07 04. 14

$14 general. # WWW.BELLINGHAMROLLERBETTIES.COM TUES., APRIL 10 Great selection BROWN BAG: “Journey to the End of Drug, Alcohol & the Earth: Penguins, Plankton, and the of Ales & Lagers U.S. Ecological Research Program on the Driving Related Antarctic Peninsula” will the focus of a Offenses Full Lunch & Dinner Menu “Western Connection” Brown Bag Series CASCADIA WEEKLY at 12pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. FREE Families Welcome Dr. Suzanne Strom from the Shannon 13 Point Marine Center will lead the free CONSULTATION Open Daily @ 11AM Best Happy Hour in the County presentation. 404 S. 3rd. Mt. Vernon WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM (360) 734-6677 Upstairs Banquet Loft www.skagitbrew.com www.andrewsubin.com 360-336-2884 To Go Orders doit WED., APRIL 4 BIKE TO WORK MEETING: Help plan

Whatcom County’s upcoming Bike to Work 34 34 and School Day at a meeting from 6-8pm in the conference room of the Whatcom FOOD G Council of Governments, 314 E. Champion etout St. Bring your ideas. HIKING RUNNING CYCLING SKIING WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM 27 GARDEN CLUB: David Droppers from the Washington Butterﬂy Association presents “Gardening for Butterﬂies in the B-BOARD Puget Sound Region” at the Birchwood Garden Club’s monthly meeting at 7pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Rotunda Room, 24 121 Prospect St. All are welcome. WWW.BIRCHWOODGARDENCLUB.ORG FILM FILM APRIL 4-30 SKAGIT TULIP FESTIVAL: The 29th 20 annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival begins April 1 and continues through April 30

MUSIC throughout Skagit County. In addition to being able to stroll through tulip and

18 daffodil fields, there’ll be art shows, winery tours, salmon barbecues and much, ART ART much more. WWW.TULIPFESTIVAL.ORG 16 FRI., APRIL 6 LADIES NIGHT OUT: Join Wild Whatcom STAGE STAGE Walks for a “Ladies Night Out” excursion from 7-9pm in Whatcom County. Entry is $7, and registration is required as space 14 14 is limited. WWW.WILDWHATCOMWALKS.ORG GET OUT GET OUT SAT., APRIL 7 GOLDEN EGG HUNT: Those with valid lift tickets and season passes can take 12 part in today’s Golden Egg Hunt starting of Whatcom Creek, you’ll see more. Officially, at 9am at the Mt. Baker Ski Area. More WORDS STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO there are four waterfalls in the park, but I’m not than 4,000 eggs containing $10,000 in sure what makes a waterfall “official.” It looks to prizes will be hidden on the slopes, so 8 show up early for a chance at the booty. me like there’s a lot more than that, and some of WWW.MTBAKER.US the smaller ones are particularly elegant. TULIP RUN: The 27th annual Tulip Run Continue downstream and you’ll arrive at begins at 9:30am at Burlington’s Skagit CURRENTS CURRENTS Whatcom Falls Whirlpool Falls in its mossy basin. Hormone- Regional Airport, 12035 Higgins Airport

6 SAMSARA IN THE CITY crazed teenagers like to jump from the 60-foot Way. Day-of registration fees are $20- cliffs here in summer, seeking the thrill of risk- $30, and participants can choose from a 2- or 5-mile run. VIEWS VIEWS love a waterfall? ing life and limb for a reckless caress of gravity. WHO DOESN’T WWW.TULIPRUN.COM There’s something about tumbling water that quiets the mind and exhila- Boys will be boys.

4 DEER-PROOF GARDENING: Chuck Mc- rates the sensibilities. The sound—that eternal white noise—is soothing Upstream from the bridge, Clung will helm a “Deer-Proof Gardening”

MAIL MAIL and sensuous. If you sleep next to a waterfall, it is impossible to have the creek is ﬁligreed with workshop at 2pm at Bakerview Nursery, nightmares (it’s been scientiﬁcally proven). froth and foam as it tosses 945 E. Bakerview Rd. Register in advance

2 And moving water emits negative ions, those wonderful particles that and turns in its bed. Several for the free how-to. WWW.BAKERVIEWNURSERY.COM cause the body to boost serotonin levels. Higher serotonin levels mean more falls—including a real DO IT IT DO

more energy and less stress. I like that combination. And I like waterfalls. beauty immediately below MON., APRIL 9 It is my exceedingly good fortune to live within walking distance of Derby Pond—await your RUNNING, WALKING TALK: Chris .12 Lockwood, DC, gives a talk focusing

04 Whatcom Falls Park, and I visit often. To have a waterfall like this within contemplation. on “Running and Walking Injury-Free” the city limits is our good fortune indeed. It’s so Bellingham. Spend some time along from 6:30-8pm at the Community Food Located in a shadowy grotto, the picture-perfect falls are easily enjoyed SEE IT the creek. There’s no hurry. Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. You’ll learn

.07 04. from the arching stone bridge—a thing of beauty in its own right—that WHAT: Whatcom Suck up the ions. They’re simple exercises and stretches that help 14 # spans Whatcom Creek and affords a front row seat. The bridge, constructed Falls Park good for you. prime the body so movement can happen WHEN: 6am-10pm in 1939 out of Chuckanut sandstone, is a product of the Civilian Conserva- Of course, there’s more to naturally. Register in advance for the free daily workshop. tion Corps (CCC) and blends perfectly into the landscape. The CCC was a Whatcom Falls Park than wa- WHERE: 1401 734-8158 government-ﬁnanced work project in place from 1933-1942, one of this Electric Ave. terfalls. The aforementioned country’s best ideas. INFO: www.cob.org Derby Pond is a lovely little TUES., APRIL 10 Whatcom Falls has many different looks. In spring, the falls roar and the pool and a favorite of kids SOCIAL RIDE: Join the Mt. Baker Bike Club for a Social Ride every Tuesday

CASCADIA WEEKLY bridge seems to shake from the vibration. In summer, the dappled sunlight and ducks. Kids also love the ﬁsh hatchery, with starting at 10am at Ferndale’s Pioneer illuminates the white froth at the base of the falls in pleasing contrast to its tanks of juvenile salmon, the color of liquid Park. The 30- to 40-mile ride is chosen 14 the emerald green of the forest. In fall, it’s a Currier and Ives portrait of metal. The old trestle that spans the creek up- based on where the riders want to autumn color, a calendar shot. In winter, if it’s snowed, it’s an ice-draped stream from the pond is a weathered icon, lean- regroup for lunch. spectacle, crystalline and blue. ing like a history lesson in the wind. 671-6910 OR WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG Cross the bridge and turn left. Whatcom Falls is just one of many cas- Whatcom Falls Park is, simply put, a treasure. TRAIL RUNNING: Ultra-runner Daniel cades in 240-acre Whatcom Falls Park. Continuing downstream in the gorge You should go there at once. doit

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27 Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $20-$49. 734-6080 OR

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24 day at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. exhilarated or embarrassed. At 10pm, stick around for “The Project.”

FILM FILM I shouldn’t have worried. From start to ﬁnish, Entry is $7 for the early show, $4 for the the event brought the whole “ladies night out” late one. concept to new heights. 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM 20 Even before the muscled men of the world-fa- APRIL 6-7 mous dance troupe came onstage, the 300-plus CABARET: Head into the song-and-dance MUSIC women crowding the Silver Reef Pavilion were world of the Kit Kat Club when Cabaret at a fever pitch of excitement. When the lights shows for the ﬁnal weekend at 7:30pm 18 dimmed and the fellas made their debut, the Fri.-Sat. at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle

ART ART Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery. Tickets are screaming started in earnest. $30 and include a dessert buffet. I can’t recall each and every move the men of WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM 16 16 Chippendales made, but I do know that, despite ALL’S FAIR: Learn about a family dealing my intention to be a casual observer, I was soon with world wars—and battles of their STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE squealing and clapping with the rest of the es- own—at viewings of the third episode trogen-enhanced audience as the dancers—who of the ﬁve-week serial play, All’s Fair, at 8pm and 10pm Fri.-Sat. at the iDiOM 14 portrayed everyone from Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are cowboys to construction $10. Additional episodes can be viewed weekends through April 21 (recaps happen GET OUT workers—did their thing. I remember being im- each week, as well, if you’ve missed the pressed by the ease with episodes that came before).

12 201-5464 OR WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM which they shed their Vel- HODGEPODGE: Enjoy a mix of high-en- cro-enhanced clothing, and ergy improv games mixed with long-form WORDS hoped I’d be called onstage improv at “Hodgepodge” shows at 8pm for a play-acting stint that and 10pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 8 ATTEND would afford me an up- Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10. WHAT: Chippen- 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM dales: The Ultimate close-and-personal look at OUT OF SIGHT: Watch a mystery novel- Girls Night Out the entertainers. CURRENTS CURRENTS ist’s characters come to life when the WHEN: 8pm April I didn’t get that chance— comedic Out of Sight, Out of Murder opens

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MAIL MAIL circulated in the audience and the guy I’d had my eye on stopped directly TUES., APRIL 10

2 Chippendales in front of me. As I put my hands in the air and BARYNYA: As part of the Mount Baker Theatre’s Education Series, kids can watch whooped a couple times, he got closer and placed DO IT IT DO

the culture of Russia come to life with OF MEN AND MUSCLES his hands on my hips. dance, music, comedy and audience par- “Shake it, you sexy thing!” he yelled in my ear, ticipation at showings of Barynya at 10am .12 and 12:15pm at the MBT mainstage, 104 04 AT A going-away party for a friend of a friend a few years back, a male and I continued to do just that, long after he’d stripper was hired to entertain the masses. moved on. N. Commercial St. Tikets are $5-$6.50. 734-6080 OR When he arrived from Seattle (the hosts couldn’t ﬁnd any guys in Bell- Here’s the thing: Even though I knew he was WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM

.07 04. ingham who were willing to take off their clothes and dance for money) saying to me what he’d probably said to thou- 14 # he wasn’t exactly what we were expecting. It wasn’t that he was short and sands of women during the course of his ca- APRIL 10-11 balding that threw us off so much, but more that he was kind of surly and reer, I believed him when he informed me I was INTRO TO IMPROV: Learn how to awaken your spontaneity at introductory improv wasn’t a very good dancer. worth a second look. The ability to make every classes from 7-9pm Tues. and 11am- Still, that didn’t stop the 25-plus women who were gathered in my living woman in the room feel as if they an object of 12:30pm Wed. at Improv Playworks, 302 room from freaking out when he stripped down to his banana-yellow skiv- desire is one of the reasons the Chippendales W. Illinois St. Register in advance for the vies and gyrated his business in front of them. Before I knew it, his bikini are so damn good at what they do. free workshops. 756-0756 OR WWW.IMPROVPLAYWORKS.COM

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who decides to get pregnant, will show 6 Thursdays through Saturdays through April 28. Tickets are $10-$15. VIEWS VIEWS WWW.LITTLEBIRDTHEATER.COM www.wecu.com This credit union is federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration. 4

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play everything from Balkan dance music # to modern video hits at the First Saturday Folk Dance Party from 7:30-10:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Sug- gested donation is $10-$15. 380-0456 New Student 10-week RAINBOW SQUARES: Participants can Discount Spring Session Off! join the Rainbow Squares to take part Apr 9 - Jun 17 in mainstream square dancing on the $20 CASCADIA WEEKLY second and fourth Saturdays of the month 17 (through May) from 8-10pm at Lynden’s Ten Mile Grange, 6958 Hannegan Rd. Entry Check our website for our free and spring class schedules. Voted is $5 at the door. yoganorthwest.com Best Yoga 733-4487 OR WWW.SQDANCE.ORG 360.647.0712 1440 10th Street Historic Fairhaven Bellingham in Bellingham doit UPCOMING EVENTS

34 34 FRI., APRIL 6 BOOK FARE OPENING: Attend an open-

FOOD ing reception for Tom Ensign’s “Dreams of Lascaux: Interpreting Cave Art” exhibit visual from 5-7pm at the Book Fare Café (above Village Books).

27 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES 734-3434 GALLERY WALK: From 6-9pm, peruse galleries and spaces throughout downtown B-BOARD Anacortes as part of the First Friday Gallery Walk. Entry is free. submitted thus far. WWW.ANACORTESART.COM 24 While some of it has been dark and kind of scary— ART WALK: Put on your strolling shoes for the monthly Art Walk, which takes place at a FILM FILM think skeletons behind bars and specters of death— there have also been contributions that are quite posi- variety of galleries, eateries and businesses tive and reﬂect more on what the artists were interested from 6-10pm throughout downtown Belling-

20 ham. Peruse the listings below, or pick up a in before going to jail rather than on their incarceration map at participating locations. (ﬁshing boats, ﬂowers, etc.).

MUSIC WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM Sieh also realized that, in talking about the prison FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: “Here’s system, there’s a lot of uncertainty from the general Looking At You,” featuring paintings of 18 18 18 public as to who the show is representing. the majestic mountains of the Cascades ART ART ART ART “I found there’s confusion regarding what jail and pris- and unique custom-framed mirrors, will be featured from 6-10pm at Fourth Corner on mean,” Sieh says. “Lots of people in jail are awaiting Frames, 311 W. Holly St. The show runs 16 trial or have been sentenced to a year or less. Some are through May 31. offenders waiting to be transferred. In jail, you might be 734-1340 STAGE STAGE there for two days, two weeks or a year. It’s a different PICKFORD FILM CENTER: Help celebrate dynamic than if it’s coming from prison.” the ﬁrst anniversary of the Pickford Film

14 A quick perusal of some of the pieces that will be in- Center at the unveiling of a “Springtime Salon” revolving art show and sale from cluded in the show made it clear those who contributed to 7-10pm at the theater’s home base at 1318

GET OUT “Inside Out” did so without the use of easels, canvases, Bay St. Participating artists include Julia paintbrushes or any of the typical tools of the trade one Clifford, George Jarton, Jayme Curley, Vikki associates with ﬁne art. Jackson, and others. 12 With only pencils, colored pencils and whatever paper WWW.PICKFORDFILMCENTER.ORG could be sourced—one piece was submitted on the back FISHBOY: Head out of downtown proper

WORDS from 6-10pm to discover works by folk of an excerpted page from Suze Orman’s Financial Guide- artist R.R. Clark at FishBoy Gallery, 617 book, while others came in on en- Virginia St. 8 “GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT,” BY JON P. LANDRY velopes and various other recycled 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM miscellany—the inmates made do ALLIED ARTS: As part of the RE Store’s with what they had on hand. 11th annual Recycled Arts Show, check out CURRENTS CURRENTS BY AMY KEPFERLE On the whole, the 40-plus origi- creative collections from 6-9pm at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The show runs 6 nal drawings that will be on display through April. beginning April 6 during the down- WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG

VIEWS VIEWS . $/ WHAT: “Inside town Bellingham Art Walk are inter- HONEY SALON: “Live Through This: A Out: Art by What- esting both for the subject matter Retrospective,” featuring Seattle artist 4 Inside Out com County Jail as well as for the stories some of Leigh Riibe’s collection of photography spanning her teenage years, can be seen at MAIL MAIL ART FROM BEHIND BARS Inmates” the artists shared in the personal an opening reception from 6-9pm at Honey WHEN: Opening statements they were asked—but Salon, 310 W. Holly St. The art will hang

2 reception from NOT LONG after the Bellingham-based nonproﬁt Make. 6-10pm Fri., April not required—to provide. through May 2. Shift moved its big ideas into Jinx Art Space last year, director One of the artists who’s in jail due WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM DO IT IT DO 6 during the Art

Cat Sieh realized the 5,000-square-foot building they rent near the Walk. to having a revoked probation relat- AMADEUS PROJECT: Naomi Bunis’ Whatcom Museum had some interesting neighbors. WHERE: Jinx Art ed to his DUI notes he’s been clean abstract photographs on canvas can be .12 Space, 306 Flora viewed from 6-10pm at the Amadeus Proj-

04 While she could’ve been referring to anybody from bail bonds- and sober since 2009 and, upon his St. ect, 1209 Cornwall Ave. The works can be men to library patrons to well-dressed lawyers—all of whom can release, wants to be a good man for INFO: www.jinx seen through April. be found in close proximity to the all-ages art and music hub—in artspace.com his community. Another points out THE TABLE: Kelly Björk’s cribbage-inspired

.07 04. this instance Sieh was referring to the Whatcom County Jail. that he’s yet to be proven guilty, “Nibs & Nobs” exhibit can be viewed from 14 # “There are around 300 people there at any given time,” Sieh while another wrote a poem with vibrant imagery relat- 6-10pm tonight and through April at the says, pointing out that the nearness of the facility was one of the ing to his incarceration that is chill-inducing. Table, 100 N. Commercial St. 594-6000 reasons Make.Shift decided to put out a call for art to the prison- Another artist asked viewers to remember that “art is BRANDYWINE: View “Crossroads in the ers who populate the detention center. in the eye of the beholder.” Himalayas,” a selection of photos take in “It seemed like a good idea to give them the opportunity “We wanted to make sure it wasn’t just about dramatiz- Bhutan and Ladakh, India by Eric Vermeers, to contribute,” Sieh says, noting that if “Inside Out: Art by ing jail or saying they are ”only criminals’” Sieh says. “The from 7-10pm at Brandywine Kitchen, 1317 Commercial St.

CASCADIA WEEKLY Whatcom County Jail Inmates” is successful, Make.Shift would statements really personalize the pieces.” consider expanding the scope of the exhibit to include art from If the goal is to humanize those who are, for one reason WWW.BRANDYWINEKITCHEN.COM 18 prisoners throughout Washington. or another, currently behind bars, the concept worked. SAT., APRIL 7 In the meantime, she says she’s been pleasantly surprised by See for yourself, and meet some of your neighbors. CARVING DEMO: Master carver Gary Starr will how “Inside Out” has progressed. In addition to getting invalu- Bellingham Books to Prisoners will be tabling at the give a “Carving of Cedar” demo from 1-3pm able help from Whatcom County Jail Chief Wendy Jones and her event, offering information about how to send books or at CedarWorks Gallery, 217 W. Holly St. 647-6933 staff, Sieh says she’s been intrigued to see the art that has been become a pen pal to Whatcom County inmates. doit

CYGNUS OPENING: An opening reception Harris Ave. WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM for “In & Out of This World,” featuring Mary Randlett’s acclaimed landscape

GOOD EARTH: Patsy Thola Chamberlain’s 34 photography and the ﬁne art jewelry of hand-built ceramic bird shrines, boxes and

Jane Penman, happens from 3-5pm at La “dishlets” can be seen through April at Good FOOD Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. Ave. The show will be on display through WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM April 29.

HISTORICAL MUSEUM: The Skagit Valley 27 WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM Weavers Guild will display “Over ‘n Under” Friday « April 6th « 4pm LUCIA OPENING: Attend an opening through April 29 at La Conner’s Skagit County reception for “The Art of Prints” from 5-8pm Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St. B-BOARD at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET St. The exhibit, which features works from MINDPORT EXHIBITS: “Diversity in Our 23 contemporary printmakers, will be on

Town,” featuring works by artists “com- 24 display through May 26. mitted to mud and to their own histories,” WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM GRAND OPENING!!!

shows through April 15 at Mindport Exhib- FILM SMITH AND VALLEE OPENING: View a new its, 210 Holly St. series of Skagit-based monotypes at an WWW.MINDPORT.ORG cheese meat(s) beer opening reception for a solo show featur- 20 MONA: “Everett DuPen and His Legacy,” ing works by Kris Ektrand Molesworth from “Veruska Vagen: Somewhere in Time,”

5-8pm at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, MUSIC “Tulipieres: The Tulip Vase Revisited,” 250 Flora St. Bellingham, WA 98225 5742 Gilkey Ave. The works can also be and “Works on Paper from the Permanent www.cheesemeatsbeer.com viewed from 11am-5pm Wed.-Sat. through Collection” can be seen through June 10 at April 29. 18 La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121

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PICKLE BARN ART: Attend the Skagit 16 ART IN THE GARDEN: Sculptor Shirley 18 Erikson leads an Whatcom Museum Guild Valley Tulip Festival’s annual “Art in a Pickle ART ART

“Art in the Garden: A Focus on Recycled Art” Barn” exhibit through April 30 at 14904 STAGE program at 9:30am at the Whatcom Museum, State Route 20, Mount Vernon. 121 Prospect St. The event is free and open WWW.SKAGITART.ORG to the public. RE STORE: Check out the 11th annual Recy- 14 WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG cled Art Gallery show through April at the RE Store, 2309 Meridian St. Both the functional design pieces and art will be for sale. GET OUT ONGOING EXHIBITS WWW.RE-STORE.ORG QUILT MUSEUM: “Deep Spaces” and Carol ARTISANS NORTHWEST: View works from 12 as many as 100 Whatcom County artists on Taylor’s “Contemporary Art Quilts: Working a regular basis at Artisans Northwest Art in a Series” can be viewed through June 24 Crafts & Eats, 1215 Cornwall Ave. at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, WORDS 733-1805 OR 703 Second St. Entry is $5-$7.

WWW.ARTISANSBELLINGHAM.COM WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM 8 ARTWOOD: View “Things from the Wood Pile” SCOTT MILO GALLERY: Local mountain through April at Artwood, 1000 Harris Ave. scenes by oil painter Ramona Hammerly can be viewed from April 6-May 1 at Ana-

WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM CURRENTS cortes’ Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM:

Ave. 6 The museum is open to the public from WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 ST. JOSEPH: The latest Healing Through Commercial St. VIEWS 393-7540 Art exhibit, “Spring Reﬂections: A Group

Show,” will be up through May 19 at the 4 BLUE HORSE: Valerie Collymore’s French PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center. Riviera series, Dianna Shyne’s China series,

The works are by Shirley Erickson, Ruthie MAIL photographs by Lance Ekhart, and paintings V., Yvette Newman, Mary Froderberg, and by Troy Terpstra can currently be seen at the

Mary Jo Maute. 2 Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. WWW.PEACEHEALTH.ORG WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM DO IT IT DO WESTERN GALLERY: “Soaring Voices: BOUNDARY BAY: Whatcom and Skagit Recent Ceramics by Women from Japan” county-inspired photography by Todd Edison shows through May 12 at WWU’s Western can be viewed and purchased through April .12

Gallery. Entry is free and open to the 04 at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. public. WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU CEDARWORKS: Peruse and purchase a vari- WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am- ety of Native American art from 10am-6pm .07 04.

6pm every Friday through Sunday, stop 14 Wed.-Sat. at the CedarWorks Art Gallery, 217 # by the Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Holly St. Fairhaven’s Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. 647-6933 WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG DEMING LIBRARY: View two-dimensional WHATCOM MUSEUM: “From the Melting Pot works by area teens through April 28 at the into the Fire: Contemporary Israeli Ceram- Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. ics,” “Art of Recycling,” and “ARTIFACTual” 592-2422 can currently be viewed at the Whatcom FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the con- Museum’s Old City Hall and the Lightcatch- CASCADIA WEEKLY temporary folk art of RR Clark from 12-5pm er Building. every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 19 Virginia St. 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM FOG: View a variety of works by noted art- SEND YOUR LISTINGS TO *For complete Disneyland giveaway ists at the Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 [email protected] rules, restrictions and overview visit: Rumor Has It

34 34 THE 2012 INCARNATION of Yellingham is nearly upon us, and I, for one, am pretty excited. FOOD Given the debacle that was the result of some ill-advised press coverage (not via this publica- music tion) of last year's Yellingham, you'll ﬁnd little here 27 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT other than the dates of the festival and the roster of performers. (There's no need to rehash what

B-BOARD happened in 2011 except to say that, when all was said and done, the festival itself was compromised and I'd had my gender reassigned in print. Both 24 Yellingham and I are still recovering.) The rest, as is

FILM FILM in keeping with an event such as this one, is up to you to ferret out. BY CAREY ROSS Yellingham kicks off Fri., April 13 with a show 20 20 20 at Jinx Art Space, and runs through Sun., April

MUSIC 15. In no particular order (other than how it ap- MUSIC pears on the Yellingham poster) you can expect to see: Mount St. Helens Vietnam Band, TacocaT, 18 Giving the Cold Shoulder Darto, The Exquisites, ART ART A BENEFIT FOR LUCAS HICKS Cower, Divers, The Grizzled Mighty, Baltic 16 Along with being one of Bellingham’s most Cousins, Sloths, Dog popular and proliﬁc musicians—a distinction he’s Shredder, Mountainss, STAGE STAGE proudly held for more than a decade now—Hicks Kithkin, Box, The Sol- is also living with cancer, and while no type of vents, Swamp Meat,

14 cancer is especially desirable, the kind Hicks is Femme Uke, Rose afﬂicted with seems especially hard to bear for Windows, PRND, Me- BY CAREY ROSS

GET OUT someone so musically inclined. owtain, KMVP, Camp Hicks has what is called Desmoid sarcoma, a Wisdom, The Webs, Chung Antique, The Gloria rare kind of tumor that lurks and grows in the soft Darlings, H8R, Girl Guts, Theo Grizol, Generifus, 12 tissues of a person’s body. Because it is so rare, June Madrona, Fall of Electricity, Special Explo- and because it hides in those soft tissues, such sion, Dog Jaw, The Chain, Matador, WAMU, Pale WORDS tumors often go undetected, which means that Robin, A Locket, Lee Corey Oswald, Jonathan when Hicks ﬁnally sought a medical solution to Sherman, Monoplane, So Adult, The Creakies, 8 the persistent pain in his right shoulder, the tu- Slashed Tires, Sitka, Brevrkor, Power, 23, Slatwall, mor that had taken up residence there was nearly Livingston Seagull, and Briana Marela. the size of a softball. That, my friends, is a whole bunch of bands CURRENTS CURRENTS But all this is old news. As who all want to play for your listening pleasure.

6 is the two years of intensive Not only is Yellingham a great means of cram- treatment Hicks underwent ming a lot of music into one wee weekend, it's a

VIEWS VIEWS while living in California, and festival in which much of what we all like and like his subsequent decision to to support about our music scene converges and 4 ATTEND move back to Bellingham— commingles. Putting the event together is a huge WHAT: Beneﬁt for MAIL MAIL the place he’d ﬁrst established expenditure of time and effort on the part of its Lucas Hicks feat. himself as a musician, and the organizers, and even though many of the details

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04 Mon., April 9 play as much music as pos- Black Breath. Speciﬁcally, their newly released WHERE: The Green sible with the people he loved album Sentenced to Life. I must confess that my Frog, 1015 N. State before the tumor robbed him love of the band's previous effort, Heavy Breath-

.07 04. St. of the ability to do so. ing, was strong enough that I was sort of reluctant

14 COST: $5 donation # Since he came back some to suss out Sentenced to Life for fear I may not like MORE INFO: www.acoustic six years ago, Hicks has made it as much. But then enough people recommended tavern.com good on that pledge, helming it to me with enough enthusiasm that my will- ICAN always tell how Lucas Hicks is feeling by the way he a dizzying number of bands ful ignorance began to feel just plain stupid. So, hugs me. (these days, you’ll ﬁnd him playing with Rattletrap suss I did. And all I have to say is this: HOLYSHIT- You see, Hicks is, like many people around these parts, a per- Ruckus, the Gallus Brothers, the Shadies, and ofﬁci- BLACKBREATH. Because I am a critic (and kind of a jerk), I did have a (slight) issue or two with Heavy CASCADIA WEEKLY son who doles out hugs by way of saying hello. If he hugs me ating a monthly square dance with much expertise straight on, I know he’s having a good day. If he angles his body and aplomb), sitting in with his many friends and Breathing. But when it comes to Sentenced to Life, 20 away, only offering his left arm and left side of his body up to musical compatriots, and showing up wherever it's as though Black Breath's Jamie Byrum read my the embrace, I know he’s having a rough one. How rough can and whenever the sonic spirit moves him to do so. diary and set about producing the louder, harder, be determined by the sharpness of the angle. Indeed, he boasts the kind of busy musical nastier album of my dreams. I just have to ask: Are It’s been awhile since I’ve gotten a straight-on hug from schedule that could easily lull one into assuming you trying to seduce me, Black Breath? Because if Hicks. he’s got that pesky cancer licked. you are, it is working. musicevents HICKS, FROM PAGE 20 musicevents

Except he doesn’t. THURS., APRIL 5 To explain why, it’s worth knowing a thing or two about Des- SOLO PIANO: Award-winning pianist 34 and composer Jeremy DesChane performs moids and the insidious way in which they work. In short, while FOOD Hicks’ tumors (he’s got more than one these days) are technically at a Brown Bag concert at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. “benign” and potentially “operable,” they continue to grow and Suggested donation is $3. DesChane spread—despite the many therapeutic approaches Hicks has sub- will also perform at 7:30pm Fri. at the 27 jected himself to—and removing them would cost Hicks his right Lairmont Manor, 405 Fieldston Rd. arm, shoulder, a rib or two and possibly more. It’s a daunting, WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG B-BOARD unfair prognosis, but one the musician has always faced with both LOGAN SKELTON: Renowned pianist realism and real guts. and composer Logan Skelton will give a Ford Hill Piano Scholarship solo piano

Through it all, he’s never stopped playing music—and as a recital at 8pm at WWU’s Performing Arts 24 multi-instrumentalist and entertainer, whether he’s playing rag- Center Concert Hall, 516 High St. Tickets time, murder jazz or just making a bunch of noise with his friends, BY CAREY ROSS are $9-$16. FILM he’s second to none—and he’s also never stopped searching for a 650-6146 20 solution to his ever-pressing medical conundrum. SAT., APRIL 7 20 Which brings us to the present day. Hicks has recently come in TRADITIONAL JAZZ: The Louisiana

Oberhofer MUSIC contact with a Desmoid specialist in New York who has pioneered Joymakers will perform during the MUSIC a treatment strategy that may shrink some of the musician’s LO-FI USED to mean something. It was more than a Bellingham Traditional Jazz Society’s monthly dance from 2-5pm at the VFW more painful tumors. No, it is not a cure. Even if the treatment sound, it was a recording and musical ethos. Bands like Pave- 18 Hall, 625 N State St. Entry is $6-$10. is successful, Hicks and his Desmoids will still be one. But, if all ment and Sebadoh got that, and made something of it. As did 734-2973 OR WWW.BTJS.WEBS.COM ART goes as planned, it will alleviate some of the musician’s now- a whole host of other bands. UKULELE GROUP: The Bellingham

considerable pain—and I think I know him well enough to say But the advent of the digital age, and with it attendant ad- Ukulele Group meets from 3-5pm at St. 16 we will all reap the benefits of a healthier Hicks, as he is likely vances in technology and access to it, have led just about James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St. Beginners can show up for a workshop at to pour any additional energy and mobility he’ll glean right back anyone with a laptop, internet connection and an interest in STAGE into his plentiful musical endeavors. making music to become full-fledged musicians without ever 2pm. Suggested donation is $5. WWW.BELLINGHAMUKULELEGROUP.COM But treatment—especially the kind that goes hand in hand with leaving the comfort of their bedrooms. WINERY SERIES: Celebrate wine and tu- 14 a disease this rare and stubborn—is astronomically expensive. So, We can debate the overall effects of such a thing, but there lips at an April Concert Series featuring in order to give him both a proper sendoff and put some money in can be no doubt all this easy digitization has certainly made the the Meat Haus Blues band from 6-9pm at his pocket, Bellingham is doing what Bellingham does under such lines drawn around the definition of lo-fi a little blurry. Mount Vernon’s Carpenter Creek Winery, GET OUT circumstances: throwing Hicks a benefit show. This one will take Brad Oberhofer's music is such that it can aptly be described 20376 E. Hickox Rd. Gourmet meat and cheese trays will be available. place Mon., April 9 at the Green Frog, and will feature Reeb Willms as sounding lo-fi—in the true sense of the term. He recorded 12 WWW.CARPENTERCREEK.COM & Caleb Klauder, as well as the Yogoman Burning Band. And as much of it in a bedroom at his parents' house in Tacoma (be- WED., APRIL 11 Hicks is never one to turn down an opportunity to sing (and play) fore the house burned down and he hightailed it to New York) WORDS for his supper, the Gallus Brothers (comprised of Hicks and his while he was still just a teenager. His music is a one-man effort MUSICAL QUINTET: Vocalists and instrumentalists from the Puget Sound musical lifemate Devin Champlin) will dazzle the crowd with their (although he often plays live shows with a full band), and it has 8 Guitar Workshop community—Robin trademark trickery. a sort of big, layered, exuberant pop-music sound, but eschews McGillveray, Lance and Laurie Haslund, Hicks moved back to Bellingham to be surrounded by the peo- the polish and production of pop for a softer, more makeshift Julian Smedley, and Alison Odell— ple who love and support him the most. Come Mon., April 9, the approach that lends his music a less contrived and more or- perform at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, CURRENTS Green Frog will be full of such folks. If you count yourself among ganic quality. 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested donation is 6 them, drop in, drop a little cash and do a little dancing. If Hicks In short, Brad Oberhofer is a lo-fi kind of guy. $10-$15. WWW.FRIENDSOFTHEROEDERHOME.ORG happens to offer up a hug when you see him, be gentle. But, rest Oberhofer, Pond, Learning Team will play Sat., April 7 at Jinx Art VIEWS VIEWS assured, he’s still the best side-hugger in town. Space, 306 Flora St. Cost: $5. More info: www.whaam.org 4 MAIL MAIL

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even more beautiful this time around. I had a

34 34 sense that the skin tones looked better, but that may be the effect of brightening. Many FOOD ﬁlmmakers are now ratcheting up the expo- ﬁlm sure, to try to offset the darkening that occurs automatically with the 3D glasses.

27 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› MOVIE SHOWTIMES It’s been 14 years since Cameron launched what would become the most successful movie

B-BOARD ever, until that point. Titanic took in $1.8 billion and made the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, who were never more beauti- 24 24 ful than in this ﬁlm. FILM FILM

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04 hell, the bodies breaking, bouncing and tumbling down vertical decks in a horror show that was ghoulish then and remains so today.

.07 04. Titanic is about hubris, greed and a vengeful 14 # Titanic 3D deity, reasserting himself: Build a ship I can’t sink? I’ll show you how to get ”Nearer my God NEAR, FAR—YOU KNOW THE REST to Thee.” Cameron cast himself as both the supreme THE SHIP still sinks. Indeed, every shot of Titanic from 1997 real 3D instead of fake 3D, you have to do it at creator and destroyer. He recreated the ship in seems to be here, unaltered, except that it’s brighter, fuzzier and oc- the original shooting, with stereoscopic cameras lavish detail, so that he could sink it in even more lavish detail. He’s doing it again, to show CASCADIA WEEKLY casionally, debatably, possibly, a little better. James Cameron has prob- slightly offset to give real depth to the image. If ably given us the best 3D conversion yet, but was it worth doing? you do it retrospectively with computers, which is who’s the boss of 3D, except that he doesn’t 24 That depends on which end of the dollar you hold, the giver or cheaper, it’s never as good. Cameron proves him- quite do that. the taker. self right—it isn’t as good, even if it’s never been Near, far, wherever you are, the ﬁlm is still Naturally, Cameron couldn’t leave the 100th anniversary of the sink- done so well. Avatar kicks Titanic in her great big just a conversion from 2D to 3D. A compro- ing alone, even though he said a few years ago that doing 3D conver- steel butt, in terms of real 3D. mise. "Come back," she cried. Turns out hubris sions was pointless, and a grab for easy money. That is, if you want On the other hand, he didn’t ruin it, either. The and greed ﬂoat, like sorrow. letters ›› your views NOW SHOWING APRIL 6-12

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merits of conforming currently exist- LETTERS, FROM PAGE 5 BEER & WINE ALLOWED IN THEATRE 1: 21 & OVER ONLY ing laws, statutes and regulations. As T1 27 judges, they are forbidden to consider Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (PG-13) noon and 6:30pm at the Harbor Center the case on any basis other than its 35mm/107m “The British prime minister sees B-BOARD at 1801 Roeder Ave. in Bellingham. The conformity to law. We elected the the crazy idea of shipping 10,000 North Atlantic port will provide a presentation on the Council members to represent the in- salmon to Yemen as a ploy to distract from the 24 projected growth pattern of the airport terests of the citizens of the commu- nasty business in the Middle East...This is a 24 followed by questions and answers. nity; but their representative powers rich subject for satire and sticking it to political FILM FILM —Lisa Neulicht, Ferndale have been superseded by historical bureaucracy...Some might object to the Chocolat FILM rulings such as Dillon’s Ruling of 1911, sweetness Hallström brings to the unlikely romance between the married Dr. Jones and the engaged MORE DETAILS ON GATEWAY Over the coming months, I imagine 20 Ms. Chetwode-Talbot. But McGregor and Blunt have PACIFIC TERMINAL we will see a long string of meetings charm to spare and the no-bull instinct to cut to As a lifetime resident of Whatcom and protests that will likely result in the heart of a scene. In the Dead Sea of Hollywood MUSIC County, I want to express my sup- little of substance because the de- formula, their film is a distinct delight, brimming PLAYING IN THEATRE 1 THIS WEEK IN THEATRE PLAYING 18 port for the Gateway Paciﬁc Terminal. cision-making process has been pre- over with spirit and surprise.” Rolling Stone T1:

Without a doubt, this will be great for determined and will likely default to Fri: (3:55), 6:25, 8:55 ART employment and tax revenue in this those with the deepest legal pockets. Sat: (1:25), (3:55), 6:25, 8:55 Sun: (12:30), (3:00), 5:30, 8:00 county. The legal hurdles SSA must cross are 16 Mon - Thu: (3:55), 6:25, 8:55 No matter what the numbers end many. But tweaking this and mitigat- up being, we ought to take advantage ing that and citing these and those STAGE of any opportunity that will help our assorted precedents are what legal Rendez-Vous with French Cinema - 7 Films, exclusively distributed with this series, featuring the best talent in struggling local economy. teams do. contemporary French Cinema - See them all! 14 The opposition’s stance that this We have been told a person can 17 Girls (17 Filles) (NR) -- Tue: 3:45; Thu: 5:45 terminal will bring along coal dust enter any protest or opinion into the The Last Screening (NR) -- Fri & Sat: 9:00 PM and unbearable train trafﬁc does not public record; but extra-legal factors Moon Child (NR) -- Mon: 5:30; Tue: 9:00 GET OUT hold water. When pressed to explain ultimately count for little. Beauty, Pater (NR) -- Sun: 5:00; Mon: 8:00 The Screen Illusion (NR) -- Fri: 7:00; Sun: (3:00) or support their comments, none can peace, reverence for the natural world, 12 site relevant facts. quality of life, love of place—none of Smugglers’ Songs (NR) -- Wed: 5:40; Thu: 8:00 The Well Digger’s Daughter -- Sat: 6:30; Wed: 8:00

Regarding coal dust, it’s troubling these hold any weight in determining WORDS to see these “Whatcom Docs” use the outcome and are little more than Boy (NR) HD/87m. “...surprising rhythmic genius.” NYT their professional titles to support inconveniences for the developers’ Fri: (4:50); Sat: (2:10), 4:20; Sun: (12:50), 7:25 8 factless scare tactics to derail this lawyers to overcome. It is essential Mon: (3:20); Tue: (1:35); Wed & Thu: (3:30) much-needed project. The opposition to keep in mind that judges consider conveniently leaves out the fact that legal compliance alone when making Late Autumn (Akibiyori) (1960) (NR) Yasujirô Ozu CURRENTS all coal trains are required to use dust- their decisions. Corporate lawyers Tue: 6:00 Masters of Japanese Cinema 6 prevention technologies like polyvinyl; know the laws, play the game and a water based glue that prevents the know how to win. NEW PICKFORD FILM CENTER: 1318 Bay St. | 360.738.0735 | PickfordFilmCenter.org VIEWS VIEWS dust from blowing off. So, where is the people’s leverage in Open 30 Min Before First Showtime 7 Days a Week Uncovered coal trains have traveled the situation? 4 through our county for decades without We need to think newly about the Join us for a drink before your movie! Mary’s Happy Hour: 4-6pm, M-F $1 Off Beer/Wine these problems. One or two more sealed public’s role in the “public” process. MAIL

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of questions, questions which deserve re- 14 # The citizens and the Whatcom Coun- ﬂection and discussion, questions about ty Council have been reminded several the process itself. For example, how can The Salt of Life (NR) 90m. “Rueful, funny.” LAT times this month that the Council is we the people control the process by Fri: (4:25), 6:35; Sat: (1:55), 4:05 operating in a “quasi-judicial” role in which major decisions are made? Sun: (3:20), 5:30; Mon-Wed: (4:25), 6:35; deciding the outcome of SSA Marine’s What information do we need to Thu: (4:25) Sequel to hit Mid-August Lunch permit application. “Quasi” normally know about the current system that means “partly” or “somewhat.” In this will empower the people? Where are Rampart (R) 108m. “a terrific film: tense, CASCADIA WEEKLY case, however, it means that the CC is the leverage points for the people to shocking, complex...” EW Fri & Sat: 8:45; Sun: 7:40; Mon - Thu: 8:45 25 acting fully as a panel of judges. create processes which honor the com- My understanding of operating in munity’s values? How can shared values +All In: The Poker Movie (NR) 100m. a judicial function means that the guide the decisions and choices made Sat: 6:15; Sun: (1:00) members of the Council will consider for our community’s future? +Rural Route Tour Program (NR) 90m. SSA Marine’s application solely on the —Robert Bystrom, Bellingham Thu: 6:35 - Best of Rural Route Fest ﬁlm ›› showtimes

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along for your consideration. You may be pondering wait for success,” said rich and famous comedian WORDS the same riddle: feeling suspicious about why you Jonathan Winters, “so I went ahead without it.” I GOURMET TRINITY seem more relaxed and tolerant than usual in the love that approach, and I suggest you try it out. Is 8 face of plain old everyday chaos. I’m here to tell you there any area of your life that is held captive by cheese + wine + chocolate my opinion, which is that your recent equanimity is an image of perfection? Consider the possibility that not rooted in jaded numbness. Rather, it’s the result shiny concepts of victory and progress might be dis-

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): What excites you, of someday attaining the ideal mate, weight, job, 6 Cancerian? What mobilizes your self-discipline and pleasure and community, you may miss out on the imperfect but amazing opportunities that are avail- inspires you to see the big picture? I encourage you VIEWS to identify those sources of high-octane fuel, and able right now. QuelFromage.com | 671.0203 | 1200 OLD FAIRHAVEN PARKWAY, SUITE 101 | Open Seven Days then take extraordinary measures to make them a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On Reddit.com, 4 strong presence in your life. There has rarely been Kaushalp88 asked the question, “What is the most

a better time than now for you to do this. It could badass thing that you have ever done, but that other MAIL create effects that will last for years. (P.S. Here’s people weren’t impressed by?” Here’s his own story: a further nudge from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Every “I was at an ice-cream shop. At the exit, there was a 2 great and commanding movement in the annals of small raised step I didn’t see. I tripped over it with the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing my ice cream cone in my right hand. The ice cream IT DO great was ever achieved without it.”) ball sprung out of the cone. I instinctively lurched LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While browsing in a my left hand forward and grabbed it, but at the same bookstore, I came across a book and deck of cards time I was already falling toward the pavement. I .12 that were collectively called Tarot Secrets. The subtitle tucked my head into my chest and made a perfect 04 of the kit was “A Fast and Easy Way to Learn a Pow- somersault, rising to my feet and plopping the ice erful Ancient Art.” I snorted derisively to read that cream back in the cone.” I suspect you will soon have comparable experiences, Aquarius—unusual claim, since I myself have studied Tarot intensively .07 04. for years and am nowhere near mastery. Later, though, triumphs and unexpected accomplishments. But you 14 # when I was back home meditating on your horoscope, may have to be content with provoking awe in no I softened my attitude a bit. The astrological omens one else beside yourself. do indeed suggest that in the upcoming weeks and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Worry often gives months, you just might be able to learn a rather sub- a small thing a big shadow.” So says a Swedish prov- stantial skill in a relatively short time. erb. Can we talk about this, please, Pisces? Of course VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Writing in The New there are real hazards and difﬁculties in life, and Yorker, Joanna Ravenna paraphrased German philoso- they deserve your ingenious problem-solving. But why devote any of your precious energy to becom- pher Nietzsche: “The best way to enrage people is to CASCADIA WEEKLY force them to change their mind about you.” I’d like ing embroiled in merely hyped-up hazards and hy- pothetical difﬁculties? Based on my analysis of the to see you mutate this theory in the coming weeks, 31 Virgo. If possible, see if you can amuse and enter- astrological omens, now is a propitious time to cut tain people, not enrage them, by compelling them shadows down to their proper size. It’s also a perfect to change their minds about you. I realize that’s a moment to liberate yourself from needless anxiety. I tricky proposition, but given the current astrological think you’ll be amazed at how much more accurate omens, I have faith that you can pull it off. your perceptions will be as a result. rearEnd ›› comix

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FILM FILM es, this had a lightened, sweetened and subtle marinara ﬂavor. The beef, perfectly braised, tender and shredded while still maintaining 20 its texture, was lightly coated in the sauce and served on a French roll. MUSIC Since it didn’t come with onions, I snagged some that had fallen out of my boyfriend’s 18 sandwich to add a little crunch to mine. With ART ART or without onions, though, it was a treat you can’t ﬁnd anywhere else in Bellingham. To add 16 more punch to your sandwich you can request a number of traditional sauces, including an STAGE STAGE olive sauce, a tangy mayonnaise and a black mint sauce, among others.

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04 we did try. The puffy pastry was perfectly LIKE IT or not, a pork sandwich from Cafe Rumba is going to stay no problem chomping into some especially rich and ﬂaky, and coupled with the rich and creamy with you all day (unless you’re the type who carries three kinds of fatty pork. caramel of the dulce de leche, tasted wonder-

.07 04. breath mints on your person). I paired my lunch with an Inca Kola, a popular fully opulent. One bite was enough for me, and 14 # But for those of you flavor-loving folks who aren’t afraid of a little Peruvian canned drink that tastes like cream soda we took the rest home with us to be nibbled on onion, this is your type of place. Co-owners Marco Mellet and An- had a love affair with Coke. With each sandwich throughout the afternoon. tonio Diaz are native Peruvians who pursue their cooking with the they serve a boiled potato with a slightly spicy, Before we left, Antonio told me that in same gusto as the lively Latin music that cheerfully contributes to the creamy huancaina sauce, made from the yellow Peru, “to rumba” doesn’t just mean to dance, cafe’s sunny atmosphere. With a two-level open kitchen, green and red pepper so prominent in Peruvian cooking, the aji it means to party. When he and Marco dis- walls, plenty of hanging plants and checkered curtains, this is the sort amarillo. The potato side is a refreshing change cussed opening this restaurant, he says, they both wanted it to be fun, bright and homey. CASCADIA WEEKLY of space that immediately welcomes you like the confines of a close from a pickle or potato chips, and it serves the friend’s living room. same complementary purpose. It’s clear this cafe is more than just authentic 34 Below colorful paintings depicting Latin street scenes I enjoyed the I knew my similarly minded pork-lover boyfriend Peruvian cooking; it is filled with authentic basic satisfaction of a hearty sandwich: a fresh, fluffy warmed French needed to experience Cafe Rumba, so I brought people who want to bring the life of the par- roll with shredded marinated pork, cilantro, peppers and thick-cut red him along for round two. This time I ordered the ty straight from Peru to Bellingham. onion ($6.25). If you’re a bit squeamish about fat like I am, you’ll find braised beef sandwich with marinara ($6.25), Check out more of Sally’s writing at http://wolf- yourself pulling out fatty bits, but I also know most people would have which I wasn’t initially that excited about. Beef soup.com doit Art Talk Apr 11 w/ Monica O’Keefe New Spring Locavore Menu

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