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Viking Union, WWU pretive Center 25-28 at WWU’s Performing Arts Center VISUAL ARTS | Get Out Gendered Reception: 6-8pm, Viking Union 8-11 8-11 Gallery 01.29.07 MONDAY 01.26.07 | Currents WORDS 6-7 6-7 FRIDAY Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso COMMUNITY ON STAGE | Views A Winter’s Blank: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Travelogue Talk: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library The Changelings: 7:30pm and Theatresports 4-5 at 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre 01.27.07 01.30.07 DANCE | Letters 3 Dance Works: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, SATURDAY 3 WWU TUESDAY Dance Party: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance ON STAGE MUSIC ITDO A Winter’s Blank: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Rocky Votolato: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WORDS WWU Do it MUSIC The Changelings: 7:30pm and Theatresports Admiral Stuart Franklin Platt: 7:30pm, Village at 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre .07 KUGS Party: 7pm, Viking Union, WWU Books WORDS 24 Becky Kemery: 7:30pm, Village Books WORDS DANCE COMMUNITY 01. Dance Works: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Bente Hansen: 7:30pm, Village Books The Power of Clearing: 7-9pm, Unitarian Fellowship Center, WWU COMMUNITY Church Human Jazz: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Winter Photography: 6pm, REI COMMUNITY Arts Center Hall Mountaineers Banquet w/Helen Thayer: 7pm, Let It Be A Dance We Do: 7:30pm, Leopold Squalicum Boathouse Crystal Ballroom VISUAL ARTS Dr. Kristen Larson: 7pm, Blaine Library Native American Carvings Slideshow: 12:30pm, Food Bank Benefi t: 10am-6pm, Life Chiro- Whatcom Museum practic Viking Hockey: 10:15pm, Sportsplex Arena For music-related events, see page 19 Cascadia Weekly | #2.4 More event information can be found starting on page 12 3 27 INSIDE Contact | Food Cascadia Weekly: D 360.647.8200 23-26 letters Editorial table of contents credits letters eds Editor & Publisher: After decades of providing Bellingham with a quality Tim Johnson newscast, KVOS-TV12 announced they have suspended D ext 260 | Classifi | their NewsView morning programming. Clear Channel { editor@ Regional Vice President Cambra Ward said, “The expense cascadiaweekly.com for Washingtonians. Her bud- 20-22 of producing a full length, weekday newscast far exceeds the advertising revenue we receive. We will be creating Arts & Entertainment get proposal is an example. a Sunday-morning public affairs program that will focus Editor: Amy Kepferle More than 150,000 jobs have | Film on community issues. We will continue to post news and Dext 203 been created in Washington {calendar@ weather updates on our station Web site” (www.kvos. since Governor Gregoire took com). We’ll certainly miss morning anchor Ty Ray (left) cascadiaweekly.com 16-19 offi ce. But, even with such a and weatherman Greg Otterholt, a Broadcast Commu- Music & Film Editor: strong economy, her fi rst pro- nication grad from WWU. 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