THE GRISTLE P.06 + FUZZ BUZZ P.11 + BUSINESS BRIEFS P.22 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 02-19-2020 • ISSUE: 08 • V.15 DIRT TO INDULGENCE Wild Womxn Week P.13 COLLECTION CONVERSATIONS Go global at OPENING A Whatcom Museum P.15 GONE WEST SHUTTERBellingham Human Rights A musical conspiracy Film Festival P.08 P.16 Typhoon of Tenderness: 8pm, Sylvia Center Fifty Shades of Velvet: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre A brief overview of this 23 DANCE week’s happenings Contra Dance: 7pm-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library FOOD THISWEEK MUSIC One Trick Pony: 6pm, Culture Cafe at Kombucha 20 Town Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon B-BOARD WORDS Spanish Open Mic Night: 6pm, Village Books 19 GET OUT FILM Swan Watch: 7am-10am, Tennant Lake, Ferndale Work Party: 9am-12pm, Bay to Baker Trail Deep Forest Experience: 11am-2pm, Rockport 16 State Park MUSIC FOOD Pancake Breakfast: 8am-10am, American Legion Post #154, Ferndale 15 Wine Tasting: 2pm-4pm, Seifert & Jones Wine ART Merchants 14 VISUAL Red Barn Spring Market: 10am-4pm, NW Wash- ington Fairgrounds, Lynden STAGE SUNDAY [02.23.20] 13 ONSTAGE Bellingham’s Got Talent: 1pm, Mount Baker GET OUT Wrangle your poultry—or dress like them—for the Theatre Something in the Stars: 2pm, BAAY Theatre annual World Famous Chicken Parade starting at The Curious Savage: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas 12 Theatre high noon on Sun., Feb. 23 in Edison. Fame: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon WORDS MUSIC Bayshore Symphony: 3pm, Central Lutheran Church 8 WEDNESDAY [02.19.20] Sunday @ 3: 3pm, Jansen Art Center Interfaith Coalition Music Festival: 3pm, First MUSIC Congregational Church CURRENTS Liederabend: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Bellingham Arts Art of Jazz: 5pm, VFW Hall 6 THURSDAY [02.20.20] Academy for GET OUT Deep Forest Experience: 11am-2pm, Rockport Youth’s Creation VIEWS ONSTAGE State Park My Fair Lady: 7pm, Ferndale High School World Famous Chicken Parade: 12pm, downtown Lab presents 4 Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Edison The Curious Savage: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas performances of MAIL Theatre, Lynden the original musical FOOD Murder on the Orient Express: 7:30pm, Anacortes Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, 2 Lynden 2 Community Theatre Something in the Randy’s Cheeseburger Picnic: 8pm, the Shakedown DO IT DO IT Typhoon of Tenderness: 8pm, Sylvia Center Stars Feb. 21-23 at MONDAY [02.24.20] Say What? 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