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28 28 policy to ensure it goes there. OPINIONS THE GRISTLE Set the growth estimate too hot, be too generous in land supply allowances and lax in policy enforcement, and you reap consequenc- CLASSIFIEDS es similar to those seen in Whatcom County over the past 20 years—bloated, gaseous ur-

24 ban fringe areas surrounding the cities with BY GERRY CONDON an alarming loss in agricultural lands and ru- FILM FILM ral character—the very nadir of the intent of the state’s Growth Management Act. Of equal 20 concern, GMA requires a ﬁnancial commitment A ‘People’s Amnesty’ to the infrastructure and government services MUSIC that support those growth estimates, mean- WAR RESISTERS DESERVE COMPASSION FOR ACTS OF CONSCIENCE ing taxpayers pay the price for the sprawl and

18 18 loss of quality of life they overwhelmingly do WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, the Iraq War resister who was deported Presidents Ford and Carter granted

ART ART not want. Set growth estimates too cool, and Customs and Border Police in Blaine from Canada in July. Long was con- measures of pardon and leniency to you risk something perhaps worse—unplanned arrested a young American who was victed of desertion and is serving a Vietnam draft resisters and deserters. growth, in unanticipated areas and with unfac- returning home from Canada. Cliff 15-month prison sentence. President Obama can do the same. 16 tored costs. Cornell, 28, was arrested because The American people became disen- And the American people should not These are the concerns being wrestled with he is AWOL from the United States chanted with the war in Iraq a long be lulled into passivity by the change STAGE STAGE by elected leaders, planners and volunteers Army. He ﬂed to Canada four years time ago. Almost everyone knows at the White House. We must continue as they review and update the county’s Com- ago after realizing he had been lied the war was based on lies. Candidate to demand that our leaders end these 14 prehensive Plan in a process euphemized as to when he joined the military. The Obama called it a “dumb war” and horrible wars immediately. Not one “Whatcom 2031,” representing a spectrum of Army recruiter lied to him when he promised to end it promptly. But the more day of war will undo the damage

GET OUT thought about how much population growth said he would never be deployed dictates of empire may see U.S. troops we have already done. the area may receive through 2031. overseas. And President Bush lied to ﬁghting and dying in Iraq for years to There will be no amnesty until the By their numbers shall ye know them: him when he said Iraq was connected come. President Obama will attempt troops come home. In the meantime,

12 t — The population estimate of con- to the terror of 9-11. The next thing to manage a gradual draw-down of US we must provide sanctuary for war re- sultants and the planning staffs of the county Cornell knew, he had orders to deploy sisters in our own communities. The

WORDS and its cities, using growth forecasts from to Iraq and “shoot to kill anyone who people of Bellingham are providing a 2002 educated by state and federal population gets near your vehicle.” PRESIDENT OBAMA perfect example. Their proposed Sanc- and housing data. This is the technical advi- In 2002, Cliff Cornell raised his tuary City ordinance would not only 8 SHOULD ALSO DO sory group (TAG) to the GMCC. right hand and swore to uphold the welcome war resisters to Bellingham, t — The population estimate of the Constitution. He swore to defend the THE RIGHT THING BY it would bar the use of city resources Growth Management Coordinating Council US from all enemies, foreign and do- for the apprehension of GIs who re- CURRENTS CURRENTS THOSE TROOPS WHO (GMCC), elected ofﬁcials and policymakers rep- mestic. He did not swear to invade fuse to ﬁght. Similar efforts are taking place in several cities around the 6 resenting those same county and city jurisdic- other peoples’ countries on behalf of REFUSED TO BE PART 6 tions, a target that—as its central informing Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. “He signed OF THIS MADNESS. country, including Portland, Oregon. VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS principle—is lower than the TAG estimate. De- a contract,” some people declaim em- Ithaca, New York has already declared risively among critics, this is known as “Pike’s phatically. But it was President Bush itself a Sanctuary City for soldiers who

4 Number” to reﬂect both the source and science who broke that contract when he lied troops in Iraq, while simultaneously are speaking out against war. of an estimate pulled somewhat out of the air to the American people about why he escalating the war in Afghanistan. Veterans For Peace is one of several MAIL MAIL by the GMCC. was sending their sons and daughters Obama inherited these twin wars from organizations that are helping war re-

3 Both of these estimates are lower than the into harm’s way. And it is Cliff Cornell George Bush, but they could easily sisters ﬁnd housing, jobs, and treat- state’s baseline forecast of 264,400, as pro- who is being punished. drag down his own presidency. ment for PTSD. Many of these young DO IT IT DO vided by the Ofﬁce of Financial Management. After spending the night in the Uncle Sam has also failed on a mas- GIs are suffering from the wounds of Importantly, counties can select any growth Whatcom County Jail, Cornell was sive scale to care for his own soldiers war; they do not need to return to the 09 09 number they desire, so long as the number falls released on his own recognizance on who have been physically and psycho- scene of the crime. We owe them our .11. within the range provided by OFM. Recently, Thursday. He then hopped on a Grey- logically wounded, and are now caught understanding and our help. President 02 the GMCC has asked the state for a little more hound bus for a sleepless, three-day up in an epidemic of suicide, murder Obama may not be ready to act, but

.04 time to better consider that target number. ride across the US. On Tuesday, he and spousal abuse. President Obama We The People can show compassion 06

# There are other forecasts: surrendered himself to Army authori- must act to ensure adequate medical for our young soldiers of conscience. t — The lowest number permissible by ties at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Cornell care and beneﬁts for all veterans. OFM, and the target recommended by Future- hopes the Army will just discharge President Obama should also do Gerry Condon lived in Sweden and wise Whatcom, an advocacy group focused on him “for the good of the service,” as the right thing by those troops who Canada for six years after refusing protecting ag lands through policies that en- they do to many returning AWOLs. refused to be part of this madness. Army orders to deploy to the U.S. war courage tight, dense cities. But Cliff Cornell has been a vocal With the stroke of a pen, he can against the people of Vietnam. He now “Rather than over-commit ourselves, opponent of the Iraq War. The Army grant amnesty to Cliff Cornell and lives in Seattle and serves as director CASCADIA WEEKLY good planning and ﬁscal responsibility dic- will likely court-martial and imprison thousands of young men and wom- of Project Safe Haven, a war resister

6 tate that the county follow a more prudent him, as it did Robin Long, another en who are fugitives from injustice. advocacy group. course by selecting the lowest reasonable number, and then monitoring and adjust- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE ing as needed,” Futurewise noted in 34 34 their recommendations.

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IN BELLINGHAM we may be just far That’s what his new book, Pugetopolis, is all about. STAGE STAGE It’s a collection of his essays from recent years, and enough away from Seattle to not know for anyone who’s interested in learning more about 14 the big and small issues that have roiled Seattle, much about Knute Berger. This long- Berger’s writings will illuminate not only what the

GET OUT issues were (and are), but what’s at stake in the eyes time alternative journalist’s resume of a lifetime Seattleite. Berger, 55, writes with humor and sometimes pain about his beloved city that “no 12 editorships at the Seattle Weekly, East- longer feels like itself.” About the time the book came out, so did the news

WORDS side Week, and Washington magazine. of the possible impending demise of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, another essential element in what makes Seattle what it is. Since he has competed in the Seattle ing them the best chance at immediate success be- 8 8 Currently he writes for the website journalism arena for years, it’s become a major theme cause they have an established economic model. One Crosscut.com and Seattle magazine. For of his book-tour interviews. As you might expect, he’s thing Berger hopes is that there’s no end to “making not pleased with the potential loss of one of Seattle’s the other guys better,” both in the way the historical CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS more than 30 years, Berger—who au- two papers. competition between the two major dailies presented a challenge for both, but also for journalism’s watch- 6 “I’ve equated it with the Great thors the regular column, Mossback— Seattle Fire,” Berger says. “It’s a dog role.

VIEWS VIEWS tremendous loss, because daily “I think if you take 150 reporters off the streets of has been writing about, and express- newspapers are such a part of the Seattle, there are a lot of people here who are going 4 fabric of life and keeping people to breathe a sigh of relief because they’re not going ing outspoken opinions on, just about informed, and also the wonder- to be challenged or tested.” MAIL MAIL ful ways they build community.” Berger admits an affection for Bellingham, but like

3 anything and everything that has to do He thinks that if the P-I does go many Seattleites he admits he doesn’t know it well. away, or become a website, it He’s noticed that our town seems to be more on the DO IT IT DO

LISTEN with Washington state in general and will catalyze an intriguing and WHAT: Knute Seattle radar now because it is viewed as a livable inevitable shift into new media, Berger reads from city that’s done a lot of things right, with “a little 09 09 Seattle in particular. whose immediate future he likens Pugetopolis more history, a little more richness.” Many people he .11. to the days of the wild West. WHEN: 7pm, Fri., knows have second homes or have simply moved here 02 “There’s sort of a media territory Feb. 13 from Seattle. WHERE: Village

.04 that nobody’s going to be occupy- Books “What I fear is that we’re gonna wreck it—descend 06

# ing. We live in a kind of a bipolar COST: Free on it, and turn it into this kind of Seattle neighbor- world, and I think if you just have INFO: village- hood,” he says, by demanding big-city services and one newspaper there’s going to be books.com amenities. an automatic search for a ”second “People begin to preach a very urban-centric ver- newspaper’—I think a website is going to be that.” But sion of sustainability, which is a good excuse for there will be a period of adjustment as new websites developers to come in and put up ”green’ buildings start up and others increase their coverage. He predicts but tear down old buildings,” he says. “I think Bell- CASCADIA WEEKLY that Seattle may “go from a two-newspaper town to a ingham is one of those places that’s sort of on the

8 ﬁve-website town.” cusp—there’s probably something really worth de- He also sees it as an opportunity for nonproﬁt and fending there. It seems like a really great place but community entities to take a much bigger role, giv- you’d better defend it from people like me.” Lustick Law Firm Criminal Defense, Civil & Family Law Experienced, Effective Counsel 34 34 for Citizens in Whatcom, San Juan

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Q&A WITH KNUTE BERGER sionaries versus protectionists, I’m FILM CW: What effect do you think the rush probably more of a protectionist, to stimulate the economy will have you know, in the sense that I’m 20 on Pugetopolis? more worried about the stuff we’re KB: One of the things I’m kind of gonna screw up that already exists MUSIC nervous about in the current eco- than I am about new projects – most

nomic situation is the tendency of which are based on ﬂawed ideas 18

to throw any kind of innovative that are just going to perpetuate ART thinking out and to try and rely the damage that we’re doing. on the tried-and-true formulas CW: What do you think are the most that have got us here in the ﬁrst important things to do or not do 16 place. While I think things like the over the next 20 years? STAGE STAGE stimulus package are in some de- KB: That’s a really good question. gree necessary, I can see that Se- To me one of the most intrigu- attle is responding by dusting off ing issues—and the concept of 14 a bunch of lousy projects, calling Cascadia and the Salish Sea and

them shovel-ready, and then look Pugetopolis all kind of converge GET OUT to get funding for them. These on the subject—how do we live in are projects that I think are really the bioregion without destroying

designed to stimulate the wrong it? That just seems to be incred- 12 kind of growth. Big development, ibly central to everything. And it’s

the kind of growth that isn’t about not just an issue of not using plas- WORDS affordable housing, it isn’t about tic grocery bags. I think it’s much density that’s on a sort of intimate bigger and much more fundamen- 8 8 scale, but large-scale skinny tow- tal than that. I suspect it has a ers and that kind of thing. In a cri- lot of answers that people don’t sis there’s a lack of creativity in a want to hear, because they’re not CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS lot of the policy areas. politically palatable. One of the

CW: Thinking about some of the long- things I’m intrigued with are the 6 term visions for our area, are you conﬂicts within regional identity

philosophical about having spent that get at that. Douglas Todd’s VIEWS your whole life waiting for these new book *Cascadia: The Elu- things to come true, and some of sive Utopia,* about the spiritual 4 them you might see about the time life of this region – that’s a re- MAIL MAIL you’re in a nursing home? ally terriﬁc collection of thought-

KB: I think most of the visions are provoking articles on this topic. 3 kind of screwy so I’m kind of glad That’s something I really want to DO IT IT DO I won’t see them. But I think the see it become much more a part things that are more important are of the discussion and debate. I the things that aren’t being worked think there’s something in that 09 on diligently. You’re right, we’ll conception of regional identity .11. 02 probably be in walkers by the time that’s really important to how we

they replace the viaduct. But it ﬁgure out the future. Out of that .04 06

would be great if I was in a walker I’d hope would emerge a kind of # and they announced that Puget stewardship. After 150 years of Sound had been restored. But we’re settlement, we actually do live in not even working on that yet in any a place with a human-built envi- kind of meaningful way, in any way ronment that is worth knowing, that’s going to make a difference. it’s worth preserving, it’s worth I’m wistful about a lot of the things becoming aware of the traditions that won’t happen that ought to be, and institutions that we have, and WEEKLYCASCADIA but some of the big civic projects I not just think that we’re in a place 9 could care less about. Most of them where every brick building needs aren’t for the better. to be torn down so we can build a If you divided things into vi- new LEED-approved house. currents THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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28 28 BY TIM JOHNSON term infrastructure investors based in Canada and Australia, allowing the company to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Puget CLASSIFIEDS Energy for $30 a share.

24 Puget Sound Energy also ﬂips the switch on a new $4 million substa- FILM FILM tion for powers customers in the Cor- data area. The company says the Laurel

20 facility was needed because another substation on James Street was reach-

MUSIC ee THE THAT WAS ing capacity. 18 18 The Federal Emergency Management

ART ART Agency and the Washington Emergency Management Division say Whatcom and 02.04.09 Skagit counties are eligible for disas- 16 ter relief after all, along with Benton, WEDNESDAY Cowlitz, Clallam, Grays Harbor and Kit- STAGE STAGE President Barack Obama signs the S-CHIP bill, funding the State Children’s titas counties. Residents and business Health Insurance program for approximately 4 million children nationwide, owners in these counties recovering

14 Fresh from jury duty, Gov. Chris Gregoire announces including approximately 6,000 in Washington. More than 1,200 of those chil- from the effects of the recent severe reforms to state government. “It’s time to de-layer, re- dren are in Whatcom County. organize, speed up the embrace of technology, and take winter storm, landslides,mudslides, and

GET OUT the other steps we need to serve our customers in ways ﬂooding can now apply for aid. Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike, driving past an apartment along the South- that work for this century, not the last one,” she said. side’s Boulevard, observes a ﬁre smoldering and calls it in. Arriving crews The Building Industry Association

12 quickly extinguish a burning mattress and other items in a bedroom. No one of Whatcom County files a complaint was in the unit when firefighters arrived and no one was hurt from the blaze. against the county’s new Shoreline Man-

WORDS An untended candle next to the bed is determined to agement Plan, considered a model for be the cause of an estimated $30,000 in ﬁre damage such plans for the rest of the state. The to the apartment. BIA claims the county broke the law by 8 8 PASSAGES not allowing the public to review the An Iraq war veteran who resisted the war and ﬂed new rules, which the organization claims to British Columbia surrenders to US border police limit landowners’ property rights. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS after being ordered to leave Canada by its conserva-

6 tive government. Cliff Cornell, 28, is arrested for 02.08.09 being AWOL from the US Army, and is booked into As Western football boosters protest the loss of their team and former ballplayers contemplate their SUNDAY

VIEWS VIEWS Whatcom County Jail, where he is brieﬂy held. He Governor Christine next move, Bellingham gets a new professional is ordered to report to Fort Stewart in Georgia for A small plane departing from Belling- Gregoire appoints former football team. The Bellingham Blitz has grown from 4 disciplinary action. Bellingham Mayor Mark the Whatcom County Raiders (pictured) to join ham International Airport crashes near Asmundson to Belling- the Next Level Football League. The NLFL has teams Samish Flats. The lone pilot is brieﬂy MAIL MAIL 02.05.09 ham Technical College’s in Washington and Oregon. hospitalized.

Board of Trustees. His 3 THURSDAY term runs through Sep- animal cruelty in Whatcom County Su- 02.09.09

DO IT IT DO tember of 2010. KGMI News 790 reports an internal email they in- perior Court. Michael Wopat, originally tercepted from The Bellingham Herald indicates the charged with slashing the throats of MONDAY 09 09 newspaper will eliminate staff positions as a result of the ﬁnancial hardship critically abused dogs, is sentenced to After some ugly (and frankly bizarre .11. of their parent company, McClatchy. McClatchy reported a $21.7 million loss 90 days in jail, $1,600 in restitution and out-of-touch) partisan politics, US 02 for the 4th quarter of 2008. In a Sunday editorial, the Herald’s managing edi- and ﬁve years without owning animals. senators agree to support the Presi-

.04 tor admits, yup, some cuts are coming. His partner and her son were similarly dent’s economic stimulus plan, 61-36. 06

# sentenced on Jan. 29. Attorneys say a Obama takes his show on the road. The Bellingham Public Library Board of Trustees hear howls from friends of lack of witnesses made it unlikely to get the Fairhaven Library about escalating cost estimates to repair that historic a conviction for the more aggravated Bellingham City Council moves to building. Library ofﬁcials say they’re planning major structural repairs to the charges against Wopat. approve $765,000 to repair washouts library, which could close the facility for six months. Critics wonder how the from January’s ﬂoods that’ve blocked city can afford more than basic repairs at this time. Bellingham City Council 02.06.09 access to the Middle Fork diversion is expected to discuss the issue again on Feb. 23. of the Nooksack River that feeds Lake CASCADIA WEEKLY FRIDAY Whatcom. They’re told some of that

10 The third of a Ferndale trio accused of abusing 41 animals—including Puget Sound Energy announces the FEMA coin may arrive to offset the cost dogs, cats, ducks, chickens and other birds—pleads guilty to ﬁrst-degree completion of its $7.4 billion merger of repairs. currents POLICE BEAT :: INDEX

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On Nov. 24, an employee of the 28 FUZZ BUZZ Whatcom County Sheriffs Office alleg- INDEX edly brandished a knife at a woman SPECIAL REPORT: at a party in Lynden. The employee, BAD BOYS IN BLUE 57, has been on administrative leave CLASSIFIEDS On Jan. 30, a federal jury awarded with WCSO pending an investigation a Custer man $500,000 after finding of a mis demeanor weapon handling 24 two Whatcom County Sheriff’s depu- charge. FILM FILM ties violated the rights of the former Vietnam veteran. Brian Wiederspohn, DIPLOMA DIPLOMACY 57, was tased and arrested in Decem- On Feb. 2, Washington State Patrol 20 ber of 2004 when deputies came to his officials said criminal charges will home on suspicion the man harbored not be filed against nine troopers who MUSIC a runaway teen. A scuffle ensued af- were investigated over whether they ter the officers attempted to enter knowingly used phony college degrees 18

his home without a warrant and Wie- to obtain higher pay. A review by the ART derspohn was overpowered. Deputies chief deputy prosecutor for Thurston shot a taser into his genitals. The jury County found insufﬁcient evidence to awarded $200,000 in damages and show the troopers knew the diplo- 16 $300,000 in punitive damag- mas were from institutions STAGE STAGE es against deputies Jeremy that lacked accredita- Freeman and Trevor Vander tion. The troopers’ higher Veen. The settlement to incentive pay has been 14 will come partly from coun- discontinued and they’ve ty taxpayers, according to repaid the added money. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS lost by News Corp., the global media gi- GET OUT the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. ant controlled by Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Wall Street Journal IN SUNNIER NEWS... ¹}{ and the Fox broadcast network, in a massive write-down in the On Feb. 2, an inquiry opened On Jan. 16, the Interna- value of company assets. 12 in Vancouver, BC, to study an Oct. tional Association of Chiefs

27 police confrontation with a Pol- of Police announced a State Patrol WORDS ish immigrant that led to his death. trooper who helped capture a man MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in losses reported by McClatchy, parent According to testimony and a video accused of killing six people in Alger 8 company of The Bellingham Herald, in the 4th quarter of 2008. 8 of the event, Robert Dziekanski was last year is a nominee for the asso- ¹yx~ unable to speak English and be- ciation’s Trooper of the Year award came stranded at Vancouver Inter- for 2008. According to WSP, Trooper CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS national Airport for more than 10 Edward D. Collins was nominated for US JOBS LOST in January. The national unemployment rate is now hours. Responding police, irritated the award because of his actions on 7.6 percent. 6 that Dziekanski would not obey their Sept. 2 when he created a safety buf- |

commands to drop the desk stapler fer by placing himself between the VIEWS he was brandishing in frustration, gunman—later identified as Isaac allegedly tased him repeatedly with Zamora—and citizens driving along 4 50,000-volt shocks until he died. Interstate 5. Zamora allegedly had NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES in Washington's 13,000 restaurants who MAIL MAIL already opened fire on one driver on } might expect to be laid off in the first half of 2009.

On Feb. 8, The Bellingham Herald re- I-5, killing the man. Collins, driving 3 ported a Whatcom County Sheriff’s an unmarked patrol vehicle, turned DO IT IT DO detective resigned last July follow- on only his rear ﬂashing lights and NUMBER OF IMPAIRED drivers arrested by the Washington State ing a three-month investigation into blocked trafﬁc behind him to create a Patrol on "Superbowl Sunday," a 60 percent increase over the previ- 09 09 his conduct at the birthday party of buffer zone without alerting the gun- xy| ous Sunday. the girlfriend of a fellow detective man to his actions. A fellow trooper .11. 02 at Poppe’s Lounge in Bellingham. The who was attempting to get close to

investigation found Detective An- Zamora’s stolen pickup was shot and .04 06 drew Koch was drunk and allegedly wounded. A Skagit County Sheriff’s PERCENT OF AMERICANS who think the primary national focus # made lewd comments to women at the deputy had earlier been killed in the ~x should be domestic policy. party and poked one of them in the rampage. The IACP will announce breast, sparking a confrontation with their Trooper of the Year March 13. her boyfriend. Koch was dismissed for violating the department’s code of CHEEKY FREAK CHANCE IN TEN an American thinks it is "not at all" acceptable to ethics and civil service rules by being On Jan. 28 at 3am, a man jumped cheat on paying income taxes. publicly intoxicated, carrying a ﬁre- into a woman’s car while she was CASCADIA WEEKLY arm while intoxicated and engaging stopped at a red light on Lakeway 11 in lewd behavior in public. Koch later Drive in Bellingham and demanded to SOURCES: Associated Press; US Dept. of Labor; Washington Restaurant Association; Wash- admitted to these allegations as part be taken to a hospital. She suspected ington State Patrol; Pew Research Center; Rasmussen Reports; Internal Revenue Service of a settlement with the county. he was high on drugs.

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ART ART as have many others. for newspapers, I don’t know anybody who “Many papers are hav- thinks it’s going to get better.” ing to cut pages to reﬂect Ogg perceives a more nuanced reason for 16 the drop in advertising the cuts: “The work of most syndicated car- revenue,” explains Doug toonists is political in nature, and reﬂective STAGE STAGE Ogg, a Bellingham car- of a progressive/liberal point of view. With toonist who pens Ogg’s the Bush administration the comics almost 14 World. “The core advertis- wrote themselves. But with Obama, most car- BUY ers for the alts tend to be toonists can’t see anything to criticize. These

GET OUT the types of businesses days they have no game. THEIR BOOKS! that feel the pinch ﬁrst as “What remains of the GOP in Congress is TROUBLETOWN spending drops, ie, small mostly a bunch of unknowns, whipped-down 12 12 TOLD YOU SO: independent businesses. moderate dogs who are not doing much to Comics that Could With the page cuts go attract interest. So, instead, the cartoonists Have Saved Us from WORDS WORDS this Mess content—especially that have remained obsessed with Bush/Cheney, BY LLOYD DANGLE of syndicated origin.” and/or windbags like Rush Limbaugh. INTRODUCTION BY DAN Blame, to a certain ex- “Now put these pieces together: Papers 8 SAVAGE, SELF-PUBLISHED 196 PAGES, $11.95 tent, the implosion of the need to make cuts, and most of the political THE FUTURE’S SO classiﬁeds section cour- cartoonists no longer have much to say. It’s BRIGHT I CAN’T tesy of Craigslist, a free an easy cut,” Ogg shrugs. CURRENTS CURRENTS BEAR TO LOOK online alternative that’s “The slow, steady, relentless drip of news- BY TOM TOMORROW papers canceling comic strips in recent 6 NATION BOOKS cored out almost half of 153 PAGES, $11.53 the average newspaper’s months has just become a dam burst,” agrees

VIEWS VIEWS traditional revenue, but— Reuben Bolling, creator of the eclectic Tom more importantly—also The Dancing Bug. “To say it’s alarming is an

4 sucked away the pages understatement.” where syndicated features typically dwell. “Here’s the apocalyptic part of the equa- MAIL MAIL “All of the crazed übercapitalists running tion,” Cannon relates. “The stark reality is

3 around during the days of Web 1.0, and my in- that, very soon, there won’t be any of your fa- dustry gets shivved by the lone idealist,” Dan vorite alternative comic strips for you to read DO IT IT DO Perkins (a.k.a. Tom Tomorrow) grumbles. at all—not even online. Here’s why: None of “The newspaper industry overall—both the us make a living from our websites. Our web- 09 09 daily and weekly ”alternative’ press—is in a sites are kind of like a free gift to the fans, .11. state of total panic right now,” agrees the who we love and cherish enough to keep post- 02 enigmatic urban chronicler, Derf. “Last year ing our stuff even though it probably hurts

.04 was the worst year I’ve ever had, with desper- the pathetic pocket change we make off our 06

# ate editors cutting cartoons right and left.” book sales. In a nutshell, we full time alt- “All of us self-syndicated cartoonists are cartoonists make our rent and feed and clothe WITH THE departure of President Bush went, apparently, the easy losing papers left and right,” laments San our families on the humble (I repeat, humble) laughs. Or so it seems, with the announcement last month that Village Francisco cartoonist Lloyd Dangle, whose strip amount we make from revenues we get from Voice Media (VVM) is dropping the comics from the pages of its big city also appears in Cascadia Weekly. “Even Tom To- subscriber publications. When that dries up, weeklies, including the Seattle Weekly. Other weeklies—wracked with morrow, the king of the weeklies, lost a big most—if not all—of us will no longer be able losses from a classiﬁed advertising model that’s gone the way of the chunk of his syndication when VVM instituted to ﬁnancially justify the continued produc- CASCADIA WEEKLY pygmy bunny—are following suit in a pogrom of comix cutbacks that cut its chain-wide suspension of cartoons. Some tion of our weekly comic strips. That means no

12 right to the (funny) bone. of the papers who dropped me [including The posting of new comics on websites, either.” “The alternative comics apocalypse has begun,” warns Max Cannon. Stranger in Seattle] said that they might bring “The more I think about this, the more it His strip, Red Meat, has appeared from time to time in this newspaper, Troubletown back when things get better, but feels like a pivotal moment, beyond the im- doit Milano’s

WORDS Tuesday (for men) and Wednesday (for restaurant & deli women) through March 11 at Viking WED., FEB. 11 Union 714.

WRITERS’ THEATER: Poetry, ﬁction (718) 755-7771 34 and memoir writers are invited to tonight’s Chuckanut Sandstone Writers’ THURS., FEB. 12 FOOD Theater at 7pm at the Firehouse Per- CAREER FAIR: Connect directly with employers at a Winter Career Fair from

forming Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. 28 676-5853 10am-3pm at WWU’s Mac Gym in the Wade King Student Recreation Center. THURS., FEB. 12 Admission is free and both students and CORNER HOTEL: Jamie Ford reads members of the public are welcome. from his lyrical novel, Hotel on the Cor- 650-3240 CLASSIFIEDS ner of Bitter and Sweet, at 7pm at Vil- HISTORICAL SOCIETY: “Finding Aunt lage Books, 1200 11th St. Phoebe: My Search for the True Life Fresh Pasta Dinners, 24 671-2626 of Phoebe Goodell Judson” will be the Deli Sandwiches & Grilled Panini ROSINA LIPPI: Bestselling author topic of tonight’s free Historical So- FILM Rosina Lippi reads from her bestselling ciety program at 7:30pm at the What- tomes at 7pm at the Burlington Public com Museum, 121 Prospect St. “Après Ski Happy Hour” Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. The WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 3pm – 5pm 20 event is free. SAT., FEB. 14 755-0760 OR BURLINGTON.LIB.WA.US MUSIC VALENTINE’S PARTY: Watch Audrey Beer & Wine 360.599.2863 FRI., FEB. 13 Hepburn teach George Peppard how to

PUGETOPOLIS: Knute “Skip” Berger be a Bohemian when Mount Vernon’s On the Mt. Baker Hwy. in Glacier 18 reads from and talks about his new Lincoln Theatre includes a screening book, Pugetopolis, at 7pm at Village of Breakfast at Tiffany’s as part of ART Books, 1200 11th St. The former colum- its Valentine’s Day Party. The night nist for the Seattle Weekly—who’s been starts at 7pm with chocolate, cham- 16 called a “crank with a conscience”— pagne and roses in the art bar. Cost promises to entertain. is $6-$9. STAGE STAGE 671-2626 LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG SAT., FEB. 14 FASHION & FUNDRAISING: Help out

the Ferndale High School girls’ swim 14 BELLINGHAM BETRAYAL: Local au- team with they host a “Fashion Show, thor Linda Allen reads from her second Gown and Decadent Dessert Sale” at Jozie Hunter mystery, Bellingham Be-

2pm at Cascadia Elementary, 6175 GET OUT trayal, at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 Church Rd. More than 70 gently used 11th St. bridal and prom gowns will be available 671-2626 for purchase. Entry is free, VIP tickets 12 12 MON., FEB. 16 are $10. 510-8590 DARK DOMAIN: Bestselling author Val 113 Grand Ave. WORDS WORDS McDermid reads from her new novel, A SUN., FEB. 15 Bellingham Darker Doman, at 7pm at Village Books, BENEFIT X: The 11th annual “Beneﬁt 1200 11th St. X” begins at 6:30pm at the Best West- 360.671.3080 8 671-2626 ern Lakeway Inn, 714 Lakeway Dr. This POETRY NIGHT: Sign up by 8pm to year’s theme is Moulin Rouge, and will read your words at the weekly Poetry include comedy, dancing, live and si- Doug Ogg Night at the future home of the Anker lent auctions, ﬂoor shows and more. CURRENTS Café, 1426 Cornwall Ave. Readings start Tickets are $25 and proceeds will

at 8:30pm, and all are welcome. beneﬁt Sean Humphrey House, DVSAS, 6 mediate concerns of my own career,” Perkins POETRYNIGHT.ORG Mother Baby Center, the Food Bank,

muses. “If the takeaway lesson here is that alt- and Kid’s Council Northwest. VIEWS TUES., FEB. 17 weekly cartoons can be wiped off the slate with- BENEFITX.COM BARKLEY SPOTLIGHT: Local authors + 4 out consequence, it may really be the beginning Sara Stamey and Richard Widekehr will MON., FEB. 16 of the end for this particular genre.” talk about the writing process from

BITE OF BLAINE: Local restaurants MAIL “There’s an old saying about ”he who kills 7-8:30pm at Bellingham’s Barkley Li- and food confectioners from Blaine and

brary on Newmarket St. Refreshments the monster becomes the monster,’” Ogg says. Birch Bay will serve up tasty samplings 3 “Well, that’s certainly true with many of the will be provided. of their wares at the “Bite of Blaine” BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG food festival. Tickets are $25 and must IT DO alts. They’ve cut into the dailies, but have slowly be purchased in advance. + morphed into them. Will they be the next to be WED., FEB. 18 332-6484 OR BLAINECHAMBER.COM

MEXICO UNCONQUERED: Learn more 09 picked off? It’s hard to say, but history does ROCKS & GEMS: The Mt. Baker Rock &

about the epic powers of violence .11. show certain patterns recurring. Gem Club will hold its monthly meeting and corruption in Mexico when John 02 at 7pm at the Bloedel Donovan Beach “Things will come around,” Ogg believes, “so Gibler talks about his book, Mexico Pavilion building, 2214 Electric Ave.

hopefully this will be a period when papers and Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and .04 The public is welcome to attend. Revolt, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 06 content generators give serious thought to where # 384-4209 they are, and where they need to go.” 11th St. “Dailies,” Derf concludes, “for all the suicidal 671-2626 TUES., FEB. 17 $ 00 ODD AND OBSCURE: “Paranormal Re- substitutes moves they have made, at least aren’t axing car- () extra search Around Bellingham” will be the toons. They run wretched ones, to be sure, but COMMUNITY topic of a free talk by Bellingham Ob- they recognize how vital comics are. I believe servers of the Odd and Obscure (BOOO) 5 weeklies should be adding features and content, WED., FEB. 11 at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum,

SEXPLORATION: Discuss everything CASCADIA WEEKLY especially cartoons, which are both popular and 121 Prospect St. 7PM–10pm7PM–10pm from orgasms to fetishes when WWU’s 778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG inexpensive. Instead the strategy seems to be Sexual Awareness Center hosts “Sex- 13 ”let’s give our readers less to read!’ Yeah. Wonder ploration” groups at 4:30pm every WednesDAY how that will work out?”

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MUSIC Presidential Patriotism 18 18 TREES, ROOTS, MUDDY BOOTS ART ART

16 and well over 100 people. Assuming 100 or so volunteers either already that such a melee must be overflow for hard at work planting trees or waiting STAGE STAGE some marquee sporting event at Civic in line at the registration tent. After a Stadium, I headed up the street looking 20-minute wait, I grabbed a shovel and 14 14 for a smaller group. made a beeline down the stream bank to However, before I could make 20 pac- the first unplanted tree I could find—a GET OUT GET OUT es, a spry elderly gentleman bundled up small, healthy looking Douglas fir. in a Whatcom Democrats windbreaker The top layer of bark mulch and soil came whisking down the sidewalk and was frozen solid and the short-handled

12 alerted me otherwise. shovel made the excavation difﬁcult, As a general rule, but once I started putting my weight

WORDS I avoid big, noisy into it, a hole took shape soon enough. crowds. But on this However, trying to extricate the particular morning, tree’s stubborn, hyper-fused root wad 8 mingling my way into a from a frozen plastic pot presented roiling mass of humanity proved no less than CURRENTS CURRENTS inspiring. ATTEND

6 WHAT: NSEA An- Soon, a mud- BUT ON THIS nual Community splattered NSEA work PARTICULAR MORNING,

VIEWS VIEWS Celebration truck came rumbling WHEN: 6-9pm into the lot. A bushy- MINGLING MY WAY 4 Thurs., Feb. 26 bearded young man in WHERE: The a Washington Conser- INTO A ROILING MAIL MAIL Majestic, 1027 N. Forest St. vation Corps ball cap

MASS OF HUMANITY 3 COST: Free stuck his head out the INFO: 715-0283 window and directed PROVED NO LESS THAN DO IT IT DO MY SPIRITS were soaring and my cheeks were tingling as I stepped out my front or n-sea.org us to the registration WORK PARTIES: INSPIRING. door on the morning of Jan. 19, 2009, and crunched my way through crisp, frost-coated Attend upcoming tent. 09 09 streets toward the Red Tail Reach restoration project on the Whatcom Creek Greenway. trail work parties “Cross the street .11. It had been a little more than eight years ago to the date, but it felt like decades had Feb. 28 at Lake and turn left down 02 passed since that fateful gloom-drenched night when I stood outside the front windows Padden, March 7 the trail,” he barked, at Boulevard Park

.04 of the Lakeway Radio Shack watching Fox News declare George W. Bush the winner of pointing northward another challenge entirely. I had to and Lake Padden, 06

# the 2000 election. March 14 at Frank- over Fraser Street. crunch it with my boot, whack it with A whole lot of brackish, nasty effluent had flowed under the bridge since then and lin Park, March 21 “The trees are laid out the shovel and, finally, drop down on now, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day—the morning before our first-ever African-American at Padden Creek along the stream bank my hands and knees before I managed president was to be inaugurated—I was looking forward to celebrating the occasion in Trail, and March ready for planting.” to wrestle that thing out. proper fashion. 28 at Maritime We promptly moved After scoring loose the bottom layer Heritage Park. Patriotism can be onerous, but volunteering a couple quality hours of my time with 778-7105. out en masse—a veri- of pot-compressed roots with a garden Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) seemed like the perfect opportunity table green-collar claw, I dropped that living, breath- CASCADIA WEEKLY to serve our great nation armed only with a shovel, gloves and a pair of insulated rub- army marching through the streets, ing Pacific Northwest native into the

14 ber boots. hogging up bike lanes, blocking inter- creek bank and sewed it carefully into I wasn’t the only person who felt as much. sections and stopping trafﬁc. the earth. When I ﬁnally reached the parking lot at Geri Fields it was packed with cars, bicycles To our surprise, there were another A new era had begun. doit

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FITNESS FORUM: “Strong Women and Strong 34 34 Bones” will be the topic of tonight’s free Fit- ness Forum at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, FOOD 1209 11th St. A trio of physical therapists will be on hand to lead the way.

FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM 28 NOOKSACK EAGLES: Learn about bald eagle ecology and life history by attending an “Eagles of the Nooksack” outing from 10am-12pm at De-

ming’s Homestead Eagle Park on Truck Rd. Cost CLASSIFIEDS is $2 per person, and you can register onsite. 733-2900 24 SAT., FEB. 14 STARTING FROM SEED: Grower Kim Swanson La Vie FILM will helm a free “Starting from Seeds: Sweet Peas and Vegetables” workshop at 9am at the En Rose 20 Garden Spot, 900 Alabama St. GARDEN-SPOT.COM TWO FOR THE ROAD: Hook up with your sweet- MUSIC heart—or someone else you love—for today’s 111 W. Holly St. 360-715-1839 “Two for the Road” run starting at 10am at 18 18 Whatcom Falls Park. (You can participate in the

5K by yourself, too.) Entry is $3-$5. SPECIALS EVERY DAY ART GBRC.NET Ohm^];^lm=^eb Live Music Saturdays starting at 8pm FAMILY BIRDING: Get your kids interested in the 16 great outdoors when the North Cascades Insti- MphR^ZklKnggbg` tute leads a “Family Birding Excursion” at Skagit CURED MEATS & ARTISAN CHEESES INTER EER INNER EB W B D - F . 23 STAGE Valley’s Port Susan Bay. Cost is $75. If you can’t * QUALITY FOODSTUFFS * make it today, another outing happens Feb. 21. MADE-TO-ORDER SANDWICHES Four-Course Set Beer & Food Menu Limited Seating - Call NOW for Tickets (360) 856-5700 OR NCASCADES.ORG 14 MON 11–3, TUES–FRI 11–6 & SAT 10–5 14 VALENTINE TRAIN: Hop aboard the Lake GGJFbDghUhYgh@XckbhckbV=\Ua Whatcom Railway Valentine Train at noon to- Open 11:30 am Every Day! GET OUT day through the woods of Wickersham. Cost 601 W. Holly St, Bellingham 360-75-BEERS (752-3377) GET OUT is $9-$18 and reservations must be made in www.chuckanutbreweryandkitchen.com advance. (360) 595-2218 OR LAKEWHATCOMRAILWAY.COM 12 STONE FRUITS: “Growing Stone Fruits: Cher- ries, Peaches and Plums” will be the topic of a free workshop starting at 1:30pm at Everson’s WORDS Cloud Mountain Farm, 6906 Goodwin Rd. CLOUDMOUNTAINFARM.COM 8 SUN., FEB. 15 SUNRISE SWANS: Bring binoculars for a “Swans at Sunrise” excursion happening from 6:30- CURRENTS CURRENTS 9:30am at Ferndale’s Tennant Lake Interpretive Center, 5236 Nielsen Ave. The event is free. ;>EEBG@A:F%P: 384-3064 6 d\ILFDMINDHFOFZlILFDMIIDIGLO TRAIL BUILDING: Improve your trail karma by helping Kulshan Cycles and the W.H.I.M.P.S. VIEWS build trails starting at 10:45am at the upper

Padden parking lot on Galbraith Mountain. 4 Free food will be provided. WHIMPSMTB.COM MAIL

MON., FEB. 16 3 PRESIDENTIAL RIDE: The Mt. Baker Bicycle DO IT IT DO Club will host a “Presidents’ Day Recreation Ride” starting at 10am at Cornwall Park (near the Guide Meridian entrance). Participants will ride from 09 09 there to Lake Whatcom. The event is free. .11. 671-BIKE OR EVERYBODYBIKE.COM n Private Vocal Coaching 02 TUES., FEB. 17 YACHT CLUB: The public is welcome to attend n .04 Adult Voice Classes 06 the monthly Corinthian Yacht Club meeting at BEST VALENTINE’S DAY EVER COUPON # 6pm at the Squalicum Harbor Boat House, gate n 6. Bring a potluck item. Drumming Therapy Bring in this coupon for CYCBELLINGHAM.ORG n WED., FEB. 18 Music Therapy $10 OFF Any purchase of $20 or More PERENNIAL TALK: Horticulturist Vernonica Because everybody deserves better sex more often! Wisniewsk will talk about “Gardening with Na- Limit One Coupon per Customer: Expires February 24, 2009 (CP99-0140) tive Perennials” at tonight’s Washington Na- 360-920-1582 CASCADIA WEEKLY tive Plant Society meeting at the RE Store, 2309 Meridian St. myspace.com/sarahjane 15 671-6851 lavidadancestudio.com

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20 Kill” in honor of the Valentine’s MUSIC weekend placement of round one.

18 18 But from there,

ART ART each team puts its own unique spin on it. That spin can 16 16 change from week to week as writ- STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE SEE IT WHAT: Serial Killers: ers and performers “Love to Kill” evolve with the 14 WHEN: 8pm and characters they’ve 10pm Sat., Feb. 14. created, and also Additional episodes GET OUT happen every as they learn what Saturday through works and what March 14 doesn’t. “It’s excit-

12 WHERE: iDiOM The- ing for the audi- ater, 1418 Cornwall ence, and it’s excit- Ave. WORDS COST: $10 per show ing for the teams, or $35 for a ﬁve- too,” Olmstead show pass says of the hectic, 8 INFO: 201-5464 or constantly evolv- idiomtheater.com ing nature of these serial dramas. CURRENTS CURRENTS And while Serial Killers may bor-

6 row the episodic structure, dazzling cliffhangers and “tune in next week”

VIEWS VIEWS mentality of your favorite TV shows, it steers clear of the cutthroat schem-

4 BY IAN CHANT another cruel trick of democracy, which ing and backstabbing so redolent in sees another team given a thumbs down reality TV (that’s right, Bromance, MAIL MAIL and sent packing. Things continue down I’m looking at you). The backstage

3 this path for ﬁve weeks, until only the environment instead stays “friendly Serial Killers two strongest plays survive, vying to and respectful,” Olsmstead says, with DO IT IT DO entertain you (and also win $1,000 while “everyone rooting everyone else on” CUTTHROAT COMPETITION THINS THE HERD they’re at it). in the name of good theater. The 09 09 While this may seem brutal, it serves knowledge that every show could be .11. fan understands the importance of the pre-season. It’s a time of a dual purpose, providing entertain- their last keeps teams on their toes

02 EVERY SPORTS anticipation and dread, worry and wonder. One gets to see which rookies look good and ment and sharpening the skills of the and renders participants canny in

.04 which draft picks look like busts. Players return to their drills and practices, striving to local writers and actors who make pro- what they choose to share about their 06

# get back to a fighting weight. So as the iDiOM Theater works to get its sea legs for its ductions at the iDiOM possible. “It’s a work—and in what they keep under return this summer, it only makes sense a healthy pre-season is in order for the venue. competition,” says Solomon Olmstead, their hats until show time. This weekend, the preseason traditions of healthy competition, friendly jockeying for the managing director of the retooled All this conspires to make Serial Kill- position and half-baked media opinions kicks off in full when Serial Killers returns to the iDiOM and himself a veteran of the first ers an unpredictable and hard-fought iDiOM stage. two iterations of Serial Killers. “But good time at the theater, one that Here’s how the sometimes harsh world of Serial Killers breaks down. In the first week it’s also a way for writers to extend combines the win or go home tension of production, seven teams produce 10-minute plays for the entertainment and edifica- their expertise as far as writing longer of a playoff game with the pre-season CASCADIA WEEKLY tion of the viewing public. Said viewing public watches all of the plays, and then does scripts and developing characters and sense of even bigger and better things

16 something immensely cruel—they vote one team off the roster. The next week, the six stories and things like that.” to come. But you only get the best of surviving teams return, creative juices ﬂowing afresh courtesy of their recent brush with Every story in Serial Killers takes an both worlds for so long, so don’t miss annihilation, and put on the next episode of their continuing plays. This is followed by yet initial theme—this year’s is “Love to out on where it all begins. doit Don’t Miss Our STAGE FEB. 17-20 VAGINA MEMOIRS: Thirteen local women Grab Bag Sale THURS., FEB. 12 34 who have spent the last few months ex- $5 per bag – Feb. 11 & 12 EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES: Last Leaf ploring their identities—as well as their Productions presents an adaptation of The power—will take part in performances of as many items as you can fit in a bag! FOOD Emperor’s New Clothes at 6:30pm at the Bell- The Vagina Memoirs Feb. 17-20 at various marked items only ingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. The venues around town, including Fairhaven Wanna change your look? Then here’s your chance! At 28 event is free. College Auditorium, the Connection, the Plato’s Closet, we buy and sell brand name gently 778-7200 PAC, and Bellingham Unitarian Church. Ad- PAJAMA GAME: Watch a “fast-paced, frisky mission is by donation; proceeds raised will used teen and twenty something clothing for guys and tale” when an all-new production of the go to Womencare Shelter and Lummi Victims girls. That means you can afford to rock abercrombie & CLASSIFIEDS Tony Award-winning comedic musical, The of Crime. fitch, american eagle, hollister and your other faves all year Pajama Game shows at 7:30pm at the Mount 650-6114 long for less than half the price of new. Change is good, so

Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets 24 are $20-$55. WED., FEB. 18 Change Your Clothes. COMEDY FEST NW: Inﬁnity Live Produc- 734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM FILM GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The Good, the tions brings “Comedy Fest NW”—formerly Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront known as “Sketchingham”—to town today Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around through Feb. 20 at the MBT’s Walton Theatre, 20 for “The Project: Mad Comedy in the Mak- 104 N. Commercial St. Tonight’s 8pm perfor- ing.” Cost is $5 for the early show, $3 for mance is “Locals Only,” and coming days will MUSIC the late one. bring acts from New York City, Tokyo, Se- attle, and beyond. Tickets are $14-$16. THEUPFRONT.COM

734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM 18 FEB. 12-15 SABRINA FAIR: View a 1950s love story of ART ART BAREFOOT: Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the the “romance trumps social status” variety Park shows at 7:30pm Thurs., 8pm Fri.- when Sabrina Fair opens tonight at 7:30pm 16 Sat., and 2pm Sun. at the Anacortes Com- at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 16 munity Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets are $16 Front St. Tickets are $11-$13 and additional and additional showings happen through showings happen through March 8. STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE Feb. 28. 354-4425 OR CLAIREVGTHEATRE.ORG ACTTHEATRE.COM

SHERLOCK HOLMES: Will a famous detec- Great 14 tive get offed? Find out when The Penulti- DANCE mate Problem of Sherlock Holmes shows for New Selection its ﬁnal weekend at 8pm Thurs.-Sat. and FRI., FEB. 13 GET OUT 2pm Sun. at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, VALENTINE’S BALL: Singles and begin- Just In! 1600 H St. Tickets are $7-$11. ners are welcome at tonight’s semi-formal

733-1811 OR “Valentine’s Ball” starting at 8pm at U & Me 12 BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. In addition to the open dancing, there’ll be a dessert bar and FEB. 13-14 rumba lessons. Entry is $10-$12. WORDS LOVE & HATE: Heartfelt hilarity can be 676-0292 OR UANDMEDANCE.COM yours when “Love & Hate: A Valentine’s Sto- ry” shows at 10pm Fri. and 8pm and 10pm SAT., FEB. 14 8 Sat. at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. BENEFIT DANCE: A “Just Fabulous” Valen- See Vancouver B.C.’s Hip Bang at the 8pm tine’s Day Beneﬁt Dance happens from 7pm show on Friday, and help spread the good to midnight at the Majestic, 1027 N. Forest CURRENTS CURRENTS vibes. Tickets are $8-$10. St. Admission is $5; proceeds will beneﬁt 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM the Just Us LGBTQ Teen Youth Group. 6 TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL: The Alger Lookout 927-2879 Thespian Association presents The Trip to VALENTINE HOEDOWN: Bring the kids along

Bountiful at 7pm at the Alger Community for a “Family Valentine Hoedown” from 7-9pm VIEWS Church, 1475 Silver Run Lane. Tickets are at the Bloedel Donovan Gym, 2214 Electric $10-$12. Ave. In addition to music, there’ll be a cake- 4 (360) 424-5144 OR ALTATHEATRE.COM walk and photographer. Entry is $7-$9. MAIL MAIL BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Find out what 778-7000

Belle’s been p to when students from Lyn- VALENTINE’S BALL #2: Move to the dance 3 den High School offer up performances of of love—otherwise known as the rumba— Beauty and the Beast at 7:30pm Fri. and 2pm at a Valentine’s Day Ball happening from DO IT IT DO and 7:30pm Sat. at the school’s digs at 1201 9-11pm at the Blue Moon Ballroom, 1213 Bradley Rd. Tickets are $5-$7 and additional Cornwall Ave. Entry is $10-$12 and semi- showings happen Feb. 20-21. formal attire is encouraged. 09

354-0991 THEBLUEMOONBALLROOM.COM .11. BROADCAST & DANCE: The Midnight Mys- 02 SUN., FEB. 15 tery Players will perform The Reformer and

COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly Comedy Night the Redhead as part of tonight’s Valentine’s .04 happens at 8pm every Sunday at the 06

Day Dance and live broadcast starting at # Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, 1114 Harris 7pm at the American Museum of Radio, 1312 Ave. Bay St. You can also dance along to the FAIRHAVENPUB.COM Scott Ranney Trio, send your sweetie a mes- TUES., FEB. 17 sage over the airwaves and eat nchocolate. Tickets are $10-$12. VARIETY SHOW: A “Get Lucky” variety 738-3886 OR AMRE.US show and open mic starts at 7pm every Tues- day at the Chuckanut Ridge Wine Company, TANGO BY BAY: The monthly Tango by the CASCADIA WEEKLY 1017 N. State St. Bay happens from 8-11pm at the Squalicum Yacht Club, 720 Coho Way. Entry is $5. 527-0900 17 734-5676

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28 28 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES CLASSIFIEDS 24 FILM FILM BY AMY KEPFERLE PHOTOS BY DAVID SCHERRER 20

MUSIC Wheel of Fortune 18 18 18 18 PRESIDENTIAL PRAYERS HEAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE ART ART ART ART

16 CM: I make prayer wheels using tradi- CW: You’ve sculpted more than 500 tionaltional ppotteryottery ttechniques.echniques. EEachach veves-s- prayer wheels since 1999. Do you have STAGE STAGE sel is shaped on the potter’s wheel. a favorite? The surface images are carved or CCM: My ﬁrst wheel is my favorite. 14 painted on when the clay is damp.damp. Made in response to the Whatcom The vessel is then ﬁred twicetwice in Creek pipeline tragedy, it explores a

GET OUT an electric or gas kiln.kiln. key event in the life of our commu- CW:CW: What are you hoping a projectproject nity and marks a turning point in my like this accomplishes?accomplishes? development as an artist.

12 CM:CM: My hope is that the CCW: You’ve described the Presidential prayer wheel helps peopeo-- Prayer Wheel story as a “journey of res-

WORDS ple who contribute toration.” Can you elaborate? messages to reﬂectreﬂect CCM: My sense of the ethos of President on their hopes or Obama is that he approaches life 8 expectations forfor with optimism thethe ObamaObama AAdmin-dmin- and an intention istration.istration. I hopehope to work for the CURRENTS CURRENTS that by articulaarticulat-t- common good. He understands

6 ing those hopes, they help deﬁndeﬁnee we are living in

VIEWS VIEWS the kind of societysociety a world damaged they want to be a SEE IT by human excess, Presidential

4 WHAT: part of, and byby negligence and Prayer Wheel expressing thathatt greed. He calls us MAIL MAIL WHEN: Through intention ththeyey Feb. 16 to bring forth our

3 “MAY EMPATHY, compassion, understanding, patience, cre-cre- embrace ththeireir WHERE: Leave a better selves. ativity and peace prevail,” reads one of the many desires that havehave personal resporespon-n- prayer in person The imagery

DO IT IT DO at the Bellingham sibility for bring-bring- on the prayer been written to place inside Bellingham artist Chris Moench’s “Presi-resi- Public Library, 210 dential Prayer Wheel.” The project—which Moench created with ththee ing that vision Central Ave., or wheel reﬂects the 09 09 help of the Martin Luther King Committee and State Representativetive closer to reality. online majestic, beauti- .11. Rick Larsen—will be delivered to the White House, ﬁttingly enough,ugh, I want people toto INFO: mlkcob.org ful and vulner- 02 shortly after President’s Day. understaunderstandnd theirtheir able treasures of

.04 Cascadia Weekly: What in the heck is a prayer wheel? relationship with oour Paciﬁc Northwest homeland. 06

# Chris Moench: A prayer wheel is an ancient concept. Many peoplee areare leadership is recirecip-p- TTo protect and nurture the vitality familiar with the traditional Buddhist form found in the mountaintain rocal. By placinplacingg oof our ecosystems will nurture our villages of Tibet and Nepal. Made of metal, leather, or wood and their writtenwritten vivi-- oown health as individuals and as a ranging in size from a soup can to a 500-gallon drum, each prayerrayer sion into ththee whwheeleel ssociety. Learning how to do that wheel is inscribed and packed with written prayers. With a pushsh of they are sending a is a process we have only just be- one’s hand, the prayer wheel cylinder whirls. Each revolution countsunts message that theythey ggun. It is a journey that will take as an uttered prayer. will be watching ggenerations to complete. It is my CASCADIA WEEKLY The surface of the vessel is decorated with narrative imagesages and participat-participat- hhope that the election of Barack

18 evoking the beauty and fragility of our natural world, our interde-erde- ing in the work of OObama marks the beginning of our pendence as individuals with our community and nature. healing this ddam-am- nnational commitment to undertake CW: What is involved in the making of a prayer wheel? aged world. thatth journey. www.futondreams.comwww.futondreams.com

Sweet Screen Sale 34 34 doit February 8-28 FOOD ALL SCREENS strip, Harmless Free Radicals, through

EVENTS 28 Feb. 28 at the Black Drop Coffee House, WED., FEB. 11 300 W. Champion St. 20%Off HYBRID CONCERT: Ken Butler will HARMLESSFREERADICALS.COM use the eclectic instruments created as BLUE HORSE: A number of gallery Hide a messy desk with a CLASSIFIEDS part of his “Hybrid Visions” exhibit at a artists will have their work on display 48" or 55" concert and talk at 7pm at WWU’s West- through February at the Blue Horse Gal- ern Gallery. Tickets are free, but must lery, 301 W. Holly St. Low Screen 24 be reserved in advance. 671-2305 48" Reg $159 650-6146 DIGS: “Loophole,” an exhibit of dy- $ FILM NEW SCREENS SALE 127 SAT., FEB. 14 namic compositions by Adriana Phillips, is on display through Feb. 28 at Digs,

RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS: Miguel Mirror Screen, Tall Fabric Screen, Bamboo Screens 20 200 W. Holly St. Guillen, an Artist Trust information 306-8301 manager, will discuss the essentials of MUSIC presenting your work—including how FERNDALE LIBRARY: A “Civil Rights” to get funding and the essentials of display featuring works by middle 119 W. CHESTNUT S S SUN school students will be on display 18 18 presenting your work—at a free meet- 18 ing from 1-3pm at Allied Arts, 1418 through February at the Ferndale Public ART ART Cornwall Ave. Library, 2222 Main St. ART 676-8548 OR ALLIEDARTS.ORG 384-3647 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th LUCIA DOUGLAS: Northwest land- Literature A FREE Event! 16 SUN., FEB. 15 scape paintings by Jim Orvik and 7pm Join us in Welcoming Author ARTIST WALK-THROUGH: Artists ﬁgurative bronze sculptures by Robert LIVE!

Roxanne Chinook, John Feodorov, Ra- Gigliotti can be seen through Feb. 28 STAGE mon Murillo, and Tanis S’eiltin will take at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th EVENTS part in an “Artist Walk-Through and St. Discussion” as part of the “Trespass- JAMIE FORD 14 733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM ing” exhibit at 2pm at the Whatcom MONA: “Graceful Exuberance,” a retro- Museum, 121 Prospect St. spective of works by artist Manfred Lin- GET OUT 778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG denberger, can be seen through March HOTEL TUES., FEB. 17 8 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest on the Art, 121 S. First St. Glass artist Kait

DRAWING JAM: In an effort to bring 12 Rhoads’ “As Below, So Above” is also the community together through ar- An CORNER on display. Indie Bound tistic expression, attend a “Drawing (360) 466-4446 OR Next List of BITTER WORDS Jam” from 5-9pm at WWU’s Viking MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG Pick! Union Gallery. Until Feb. 27, the walls & SWEET “A beautifully will be covered in blank white paper, MINDPORT: “Escape Routes: Mapping

written book that 8 Many Worlds” is on display until March and anyone is welcome to come ﬁll in will make you 29 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly the blanks. think. And, more 650-3450 St. Admission is $2. importantly, it will MINDPORT.ORG make you feel.” CURRENTS PAPERDOLL: “Sweet Nothings,” a new – “Garth Stein, New York collection from screen print artist Jen Times bestselling author ONGOING VILLAGE BOOKS 6 Dranttel, can be seen until March 5 at EXHIBITS the Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St. ALLIED ARTS: “Elements of Dimen- THEPAPERDOLL.NET VIEWS sion,” featuring pieces by Jim Agnello, QUILT MUSEUM: “Ralli Quilts: Textiles 4 Ann Chaikin, Vikki Jackson, and Greg from Pakistan and India” and the multi- Klassen can be seen through Feb. 27 at artist exhibit, “All Things Not Quilted,” MAIL MAIL Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. can be seen through March 29 at the La ALLIEDARTS.ORG Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 3 ARTWOOD: Jewelry boxes by a variety Second St. of artists will be featured through Feb- (360) 466-4288 OR IT DO ruary at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris LACONNERQUILTS.COM Ave. SEASIDE GALLERY: “Winter Into 647-1628 Spring,” featuring art by Mark Bistra- 09 BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: nin, Jack Dorsey, Shelly Saville, Mark .11. 02 The museum is open to the public from Conley, and others shows through noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 March 9 at La Conner’s Seaside Gallery,

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393-7540 LACONNERSEASIDEGALLERY.COM # BIG FAT FISH: “Food, Food, Food,” an WESTERN GALLERY: “Ken Butler: Hy- exhibit featuring works by R.R. Clark, brid Visions” is up through March 14 at Rebecca Meloy, Rachel Foreman, Maren WWU’s Western Gallery. Larson, and Cathy Field can be seen 650-6146 through April at the Big Fat Fish Com- WHATCOM MUSEUM: “World of the pany, 1304 12th St. Shipwright” and “Trespassing” are cur- 201-9038

rently on display at the Whatcom Mu- CASCADIA WEEKLY BLACK DROP: Jonathon Sodt—oth- seum, 121 Prospect St. erwise known as Fenmere, the Worm— 778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 19 will show selected works from his comic Rumor Has It

WELL, I’M PRETTY sure I lost a whole handful 34 34 of bets, have to eat a lot of my words (as well

FOOD as a mouthful of crow) and look to the heavens for signs of the apocalypse because it seems

28 28 music the impossible has happened: Death Cab for PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT Cutie has actually gone and booked a Belling- ham show. I know, I know. Take all the time you need. I actually had to sit down and gather my CLASSIFIEDS wits when I heard the news. Unlike all the rumors that have circulated

24 about the erstwhile Bellingham band making a return trip here (spreading such gossip has FILM FILM been my favorite April Fool’s joke for years), MUSICpreview this time it seems the conjecture actually has 20 20 roots in the truth. Gibbard, Walla and Co. are, in fact, scheduled to play an April 23 show at the MUSIC MUSIC Mount Baker Theatre. Ofﬁcially, we have West- ern’s ASP Pop Music to thank for this good for-

18 18 tune, although I have it on good authority that

ART ART the ever-tenacious Hunter Motto is the man who has wrought this near-miracle. If that’s the case, I’m not certain what he promised Death 16 Cab—other than what is reportedly a pretty hefty guarantee—as I’m guessing he coughed STAGE STAGE up his soul about ﬁve big shows ago. Why is a Death Cab for Cutie show in Belling- 14 ham such a big deal? Well, if you happen

GET OUT to be one of the few people left in town who still remember

12 Death Cab from when they were a Belling-

WORDS ham band, you probably also remember

GUNTHER JOSE FRANK how, once they high- 8 tailed it out of town BY CAREY ROSS a pop/soul vocalist, a glam rock band and and their music start- BY KALEB GUBERNICK a salsa group, as well as hip-hop acts and ed appearing on every tween show on the WB, CURRENTS CURRENTS alterna-rock collectives. they seemed to suffer from a bit of geographic

6 “We take the ”House amnesia with regard to their roots. In interview Musical Chairs of Music’ part our name after interview, they referred to themselves as VIEWS VIEWS very, very seriously,” being a “Seattle” band, until it was taken for THE STATE OF THE SOUND, PART 1 Mills, a nine-year cus- granted that the Emerald City was actually the 4 tomer of the Wild Buf- one that spawned them. falo turned co-manag- This could have something to do with the MAIL MAIL BELLINGHAM’S NIGHTLIFE scene is a constantly shift- er, says. fact that, back when they were a Bellingham

3 ing landscape. One bar gets closed down. Another opens up. Another The staff at the Wild band, Death Cab didn’t have much in the way of bar gets remodeled. Another club changes managers. It’s a vicious cy- HEAR Buffalo has also done local draw—a phenomenon I still don’t under- DO IT IT DO cle and these past few months have been a testament to that cycle. WHAT: Back Porch an incredible favor for stand. I mean, they were unequivocally a very One of the more notable changes around town has been the chang- Alley a casualty of the lo- good band, even way back then. But whether 09 09 ing of the managerial guard at the Wild Buffalo. In the ﬁrst days of WHERE: 1212 N. cal nightlife cycle: Bellingham fully appreciated the lure of Death .11. October last year, current managers Craig Jewell, Edward Eversoll, State St. the Blessed Coast DJs. Cab back in the day is a moot point, as every- 02 MORE INFO: and Roger Mills took over the reins of the establishment. Since then, backporchalley. When their former one, from record-store snobs to the musically

.04 the trio has made efforts to expand the diversity of the musical acts com home, the Callaloo Ca- ignorant, gets it now.

06 # the Wild Buffalo has been known to book in the past (mostly blues ribbean Kitchen, sud- Which brings me to my next point regarding and jazz-related performances) in order to shake the stigma of what WHAT: Wild denly closed its doors, the Death Cab show: tickets for this are likely to Jewell says many called “the old person bar.” Buffalo House of the management team sell out with a quickness never before seen in Music “Lots of people have come in and said ”we want our blues back,’” WHERE: 208 W. at the Buffalo was this laid-back town. And they won’t be offered Jewell says. “But once we explain what we’re trying to do and show Holly St. quick to pick up where to everyone. In fact, if the advance word is to them our show schedule, they usually understand. We want to retain MORE INFO: the Callaloo had left be believed, this show is student-only. And, the old customer base, but instead of just catering to one demo- wildbuffalo.net off and offered the when they go on sale, tickets are one ticket per CASCADIA WEEKLY graphic, we’re catering to everybody.” Blessed Coast boys a student ID, meaning you actually have to show

20 And cater to everybody is what they seem to be doing—during a regular spot to spin reggae and dancehall up to get yours. As for the rest of us who can four-day stretch, the venue will host a swing band, an acoustic open on Wednesday nights, now called Wild Out remember Death Cab from when they actually mic, a funk band and a group of reggae DJs. Further down the list, Wednesdays. lived here, well, I guess we’re out of luck. MUSIC preview MUSIC preview miscMUSIC

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MUSICAL CHAIRS, de facto Halloween horror band, LINDA WATERFALL: Guitarist and singer 34 34 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE looks to lay claim to yet another holi- Linda Waterfall perform at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Sug- day, celebrating both Friday the 13th FOOD gested donation is $8-$12. With the Callaloo left in the dust, and reviling Valentine’s Day all at the FOR MORE INFO: 756-5260

Layne Southcott decided to rebuild same time. Joining them will be the 28 the rubble into the Back Porch Al- red-hot Russians, THURS., FEB. 12 ley, his new blues and jazz bar tak- and the latest COLLEGIUM: Both contemporary and ancient music can be heard when Col- ing over the building, conveniently project by mem- legium gives a free concert at 8pm at CLASSIFIEDS picking up the slack left by the bers of the ﬁerce- WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert Buffalo and their expanded music ly skilled McIn- Hall. roster. One of the space’s former tyre clan, Moons FOR MORE INFO: 650-3130 24 incarnations was a bar named Fast & Goochers. While

FRI., FEB. 13 FILM Eddie’s, where Southcott says he BLACK EYES AND this is, no doubt, CELLO & PIANO: Pianist David Brooks ﬁrst performed with his friends as NECKTIES HEAR a great lineup, and cellist Christopher Gillgren will 20

perform 20th century music as well as 20 a musician. HOLLIE HUTHMAN WHAT: Valentine’s it is made that “It’s really come full circle for Day Protest Show much better by selections by Bach and Debussy at an

8:15pm concert at the Firehouse Per- MUSIC feat. BENt, the MUSIC me,” Southcott says. the fact that the forming Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. BY CAREY ROSS Russians, Moons & Southcott says the Back Porch Al- Goochers show is free. So Suggested donation is $10. ley is supposed to cater to an older WHEN: Fri., Feb. 13 you can save your FOR MORE INFO: [email protected] 18 crowd, starting shows early with all- WHERE: Wild dollars for drown- SAT., FEB. 14 ART Buffalo, 208 W. ages access for families at 6pm with ing your sorrows, ENCHANTED EVENING: Spend Val- Love is in the air Holly St. a second show beginning at 10pm if need be. entine’s Day with the Skagit Opera COST: Free 16 when the perform “Some Enchanted when the restaurant turns into a KISS IT, CUPID MORE INFO: Second on the 21-and-older venue. And just as the anti-V-Day roster Evening”—featuring “lovely” arias

wildbuffalo.net STAGE Buffalo reached a helping hand to to say Valentine’s Day is not my favor- is the Valentine’s from great operas—at 7:30pm at IT’S SAFE Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. the Blessed Coast DJs, Southcott is ite holiday. It has nothing to do with the oft-decried WHAT: Valentine’s Day Massacre on Day Massacre feat. College Way. Tickets are $25-$56. 14 reaching out to local musicians with commercialization of this so-called “Hallmark” holi- Muppet Fetish, Feb. 14 at the FOR MORE INFO: MCINTREYHALL.ORG no performance experience to lean day—let’s face it: in our day and age, this is the fate WhAAM space at D.H., Umbilical SUN., FEB. 15 on and letting them have a go at of all well-known holidays. Nor is it some sort of bit- Parricide, Farewell the Old Foundry. GET OUT IN THE MOOD: A big band orchestra, Austerity playing at the bar. terness at my lack of Valentine—this is not the sort On the lineup are singers and swing dancers will bring WHEN: Sat., Feb. “With that, I’m taking a bit of a of thing with the power to keep me awake nights. four bands with back a 1940’s sound and mood at an 14 “In the Mood” revue at 4pm at Ana- 12 roll of the dice,” Southcott says. I guess, more accurately stated, the truth is, I WHERE: Old a decidedly unro- cortes High School, 1600 20th St. Tick- “But that’s all right.” don’t quite “get” Valentine’s Day. I’m not sure I un- Foundry, 100 E. mantic sound and ets are $25-$40. NEXT WEEK, Weekly staffer Kaleb derstand how the sentiment of the thing works: Is Maple St. slant: Muppet Fe- WORDS FOR MORE INFO: ARTBEATSHOWS.ORG Gubernick will offer up the lowdown Valentine’s Day the only sanctioned day of the year COST: $5 tish, D.H., Umbili- on the other local venues currently for you to prove that when you say you love your sig- MORE INFO: cal Parricide, and TUES., FEB. 17 whaam.org 8 in a state of some sort of flux—in- nificant other, you really, really mean it? What about Farewell Auster- SANFORD SERIES: British pianist Paul cluding the expansion of the Rogue the other days of the year? ity. If you like your love songs loud Roberts will helm the final Sanford Pi- ano Concert of the season at 7:30pm at Hero, reopening of the Nightlight The Valentine’s Day Protest show Fri., Feb. 13 at and your sentiment nonexistent, this WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert CURRENTS Lounge and a glimpse of Belling- the Wild Buffalo, features the talents of Black Eyes may be the perfect show to make your Hall. Tickets are $9-$16. FOR MORE INFO: 650-6146

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ART ART With its skittery keyboard score and ca- The International bal of moneyed string-pullers, The Interna- tional is a mega-corporate takedown thrill- 16 RUN, OWEN, RUN er, a modern-day The Parallax View by way of Syriana and Michael Clayton. Yet if the STAGE STAGE ﬁlm, as conceived, is at its core a rendered judgment on the nature of man—with 14 Louis having to grapple with the essential question of whether he should abandon his

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# brought in Daniel Craig after Die Another Day, and OK’d a grittier franchise tried in court, until both Louis’ partner and crisp. There’s a fun “New York City reboot that returned to the secret agent’s roots. and a potential witness separately turn moment” that fuels one close escape, It’s in this murkier, tough reality that The Intern ational unfolds, directed up dead. Louis and Eleanor have their when Eleanor and Louis honk their way by German-born Tom Tykwer, who in 1999 set film-school imaginations afire suspicions, but can’t prove anything. out of a traffic jam, and Tykwer turns with the adrenalized import Run, Lola, Run. A moderately tough sell be- Spurned for direct information at their an incidental clandestine meeting into cause of its ambition, complexity and the fact that almost all of its action imposing Luxembourg headquarters—a a fantastically over-the-top shootout at is contained in a single mid-film burst, The International is a globe-trotting perfect metaphorical stand-in for the the Guggenheim’s main rotunda, amidst CASCADIA WEEKLY law-and-action hybrid that melds investigatory procedural maneuvering evil machinations of this huge corporate a massive video installation. If the mo-

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SHE’S NOT there. with having Juliette read their daugh- The title of that ’60s song by the ter a bedtime story. And even when 14 Zombies comes to mind while watch- the crime is revealed, Juliette refuses

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such screen presence in English-lan- This isn’t a movie about big emotion- 6 guage ﬁlms as The English Patient and al breakthroughs, but about the slow

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Gertrude Stein 18 wheels belong to roads, as grapes belong to the blos- deﬁned love as “the skillful audacity required to share soming of taste, as corn belongs to crows, as shadows an inner life.” That’s the perfect seed idea for you ART belong to the ache of heat, as happiness belongs to to meditate on this Valentine season. It suggests the capricious pangs of the soul.” Here’s the second: that expressing the truth about who you are is not

“May the color blue behold your body while sun washes 16 something that amateurs do very well: Practice and your shoulders near the window. May your lips refuse ingenuity are required. It also implies that courage the kiss unless your heart is home. May euphoria ﬁnd is an essential element of successful intimacy. You’ve STAGE you in the place where you are lonely. May you light a got to be adventurous if you want to weave your life billion candles with your mind.” together with another’s.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Greet one 14 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A mischievous voice in another with a holy kiss,” says the Bible’s ﬁrst book of my head rose up as I was contemplating your astrological Corinthians. I think that’s great advice for you. What I omens. It said I should tell you to make love in a bed take it to mean is that when you come together with covered with ten-dollar bills. I asked the voice if this was GET OUT someone you care about, bestow a kiss that’s more a cracked metaphor for a more practical piece of advice. than merely affectionate or polite. Use it to invoke a The voice just cackled. So I’ll have to surmise what it was sense of sacred space, surrounding the two of you with driving at. First, it could mean that you should make a 12 a mood of deep gratitude for the privilege of being business proposition to your lover or spouse, or somehow alive. Even further, make your holy kiss be a prayer for collaborate with each other to increase your prosperity. the well-being of your ally, an afﬁrmation of your de- Second, maybe you should spend money on enhanc- WORDS sire that he or she will thrive and prosper and become ing romance, either by taking a workshop to upgrade the gorgeous genius he or she was born to be. your intimacy skills or getting creative about fostering togetherness. Another possibility is that you should add CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Would you like to 8 imaginative and humorous touches to your love-making, stir up deeper and smarter intimacy? Are you interested like by doing it in a bed full of money. in attracting good surprises that would air out your romantic dogmas? Do you think it might be fun to CANCER (June 21-July 22): Over the course of discover a new love secret? To encourage these happy CURRENTS your lifetime, if you’re average, you will spend about developments, Capricorn, carry out the following as- 336 hours kissing. But why be average? Especially now, signments. First, practice loving something or someone when the cosmos is begging you to use your mouth 6 you don’t understand. Second, any time you start to incite ingenious bliss and explore the frontiers of longing to be loved more than you are, make it a point

closeness? To be in maximum alignment with the great VIEWS to go out and love someone more than you have in cycles of nature and make God happy, I suggest you the past. Third, visualize your heart growing softer and

experiment with Guinness-Book-of-World-Records-levels 4 warmer and more receptive. of smooching and licking and sucking. If you can’t ﬁnd Pass Gas… guzzlers AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “When we ﬁnd

a human partner to collaborate with, then kiss the sky, MAIL the trees, the rivers, and even the mist. (P.S. For extra someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours,” wrote credit, use your mouth to murmur lyrical praises and author Robert Fulghum, “we join up with them and fall 3 whisper poetic temptations.) into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love.” I mention this, Aquarius, because the Valentine season will

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s a perfect time to cast IT DO offer you ample opportunity to bask in the wonders of a love spell on yourself. You don’t necessarily need to mutually compatible weirdness. It could come in the form consult any pagan books about how to proceed. It may

of friendship or romance or some other collaboration, but 09 even be better if you improvise your own homemade one way or another it will help you feel less alone in the conjurations and incantations. I can think of two main .11. world, suggesting that maybe you’re not an extraterres- goals for you to accomplish with your spell. (But feel free 02 trial time-traveler from the 29th century after all. to add others.) First, rouse your imagination into visual- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): We’re faced with izing romantic possibilities you’ve been closed to before. .04 an economic downturn as well as the need to take Second, make sure you banish the curse that you yourself 06 # cast on your love life once upon a time. P.S. For best strenuous measures to heal the environment. Does that results, stand naked in front of an altar crammed with mean we have to dial down our pursuit of happiness? magical objects that symbolize both lust and compassion. Are we obligated to have less fun and deny ourselves 960 Harris Ave., Suite 103 pleasure? I say no, as do the editors at TreeHugger. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The person one loves com. One of their articles, for example, gives extensive Fairhaven never really exists,” said Arthur C. Clarke, “but is a advice on how to have great sex in small, fuel-efficient, projection focused through the lens of the mind onto 360-647-1196 low-emissions cars. With this as your inspiration, Pisces, whatever screen it fits with least distortion.” Your identify five other ways to enjoy yourself without having www.greenpeoplemovers.com

assignment, Virgo, is to prove Clarke at least partially CASCADIA WEEKLY to spend a fortune or hurt the earth. It’s an excellent wrong. See if you can ﬁgure out a way to dissolve or time, astrologically speaking, to experiment with the elude your own projections long enough so that you hypothesis that cutting down on consumerism can help 33 can see the raw truth about a certain person you crave you discover new approaches to feeling really good. (For or adore or care about. Not a reﬂection of the dream SALES SERVICE RENTALS other ideas, check out tinyurl.com/6ofzvt.)

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GET OUT This intoxicating brew is 70 percent) simple to make and as rich as 1 cup whole milk those who ﬁrst consumed it. 1-½ cup heavy whip-

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4 For a complete dessert, quickly. Add the milk and cream to the serve with a variety of fruit MAIL MAIL chocolate. Let sit for THE SOLID state of chocolate we are all intimately familiar with is ish managed to keep the healthy (pears, apples, strawber- 1-2 minutes. Add the

3 quite new in its long, rich history. Today, we primarily associate chocolate drug a secret for nearly 100 ries, candied citrus, etc.) cinnamon (or other with the waxy bars found at candy counters and checkout lines. (Don’t get years before making its way to and those fancy cookies that ﬂavorings). Whisk the DO IT IT DO my wrong, come Halloween I ﬁll my cupboards with bags of those bars to the rest of the continent, and look like slender cigars. I chocolate mixture until completely feed the hoards of trick-or-treaters that never come, yet I have no problem then across to the English. drink chocolate out of the combined. The result- 09 09 consuming the remnants.) As the chocolatl craze caught fanciest cup I have with a ing liquid should be .11. Up until the early 19th century, chocolate was consumed in liquid form. on, people started to adapt the heaping dollop of unsweet- smooth, creamy and 02 In my opinion, based on years of chocolate instruction and consumption, ingredients to better suit their ened whipped cream. Drink, about the thickness of full fat cream

.04 there is no better way to consume chocolate than to drink it. tastes. The Spaniards began dip, sip, lick and enjoy. The (or house paint—a 06 # The Olmecs ﬁrst uncovered the beauty of this “food of the gods” (theo- heating the mixture and sweet- original love potion is the less than appetizing broma cacao, the Latin term for the cacao tree). The Mayans liked it so ening it with sugar. In England, perfect answer to this year’s comparison, however much they quickly adopted the beverage, calling it chocolatl. Originally, milk was added and consumed Valentine’s menu. accurate). If for some the recipe was made from roasted cocoa beans, water and a little spice. after a hearty dinner. Now, Now that this recipe has reason the mixture Some say wine and peppers were also included. It is believed the Spanish thousands of years later, I too reached you, feel free to doesn’t come together, pour into a blender Conquistador Hernando Cortes was the ﬁrst European to see how the people have a variation that would adapt it to meet your needs. or food processor and of the New World consumed chocolate. Cortes, thrilled with this new dis- probably make both the Mayans My recommendations include blend until completely CASCADIA WEEKLY covery, introduced drinking chocolate to his fellow Spaniards. and Cortes reach for a cup. cayenne and cinnamon, but I smooth. Serve with lightly whipped cream. 34 Once introduced to the court in Spain, the new drink was a hit among Chocolate makes its way into also encourage you to try the royals and the rich as a health food—even prescribed as a drug by nearly all dessert recipes this peppermint, vanilla, orange Serves six (if you are willing to share). Spanish physicians of the time to cure a long list of ailments. The Span- time of year. Romantic menus liquor or coffee. SAS=JPUKQ 34 34 PK>A=IAI>ANKBOQOP=EJ=>HA?KJJA?PEKJO 34 FOOD FOOD

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