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THE GRISTLE, P.8 * RUMOR HAS IT, P.20 * ADVICE GODDESS, P.30 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. 11.y.11 :: #44, v.06 :: !- SMAILBAG: VETTING VOTES ONE LETTER AT A TIME, P.6 }} LANGUAGE ARTS: LESLEY DILL’S WORDY, WONDERFUL VISIONS, P.18 FAMOUS FOOTSTEPS: SOUTHERN-FRIED SOUNDS AT THE BUFF, P.20 34 34 cascadia FOOD 27 Enjoy all things apple at the annual $ -! ./ happening B-BOARD A glance at what’s happening this week Nov. 5-6 at the plentiful orchards of Lynden’s BelleWood Acres 24 FILM FILM 2 ) .4[11.y.11] 20 MUSIC MUSIC Bob Milne: 7pm, Spark Museum of Electrical Invention 18 COMMUNITY ART ART Green Drinks: 5-7pm, Backcountry Essentials 16 /#0-.4[11.z.11] STAGE STAGE ON STAGE Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 14 MUSIC Seattle Opera Program: 7:30pm, Performing GET OUT Arts Center, WWU 12 COMMUNITY Business Career Fair: 11am3-pm, Wade King Student Rec Center, WWU WORDS GET OUT 10 Safari Experience Travel Talk: 7pm, Whatcom Museum The modern movers of Bellingham Repertory Dance present their annual show, “Construct,” Nov. 4-16 and 11- CURRENTS CURRENTS !-$4[11.{.11] 8 13 at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center ON STAGE Adamms Family Mystery: 7:30pm, RiverBelle VIEWS VIEWS Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon Doubles: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 4 Vaudeville Exposed: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, MAIL MAIL Mount Vernon Uncommon Threads: 11am-7pm, Greenbank Farm, MUSIC lowship Triples:10pm, Upfront Theatre Whidbey Island Uptown Lowdown: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Homemade Memories Craft Fair: 9:30am-4:30pm, 2 Jack Gunter, Guy Anderson Opening: 6-8pm, Bellingham Ukulele Group: 3-5pm, Squalicum Bloedel Donovan DANCE Lucia Douglas Gallery Yacht Club Ann Morris Open House: 10am-5pm, Sculpture DO IT IT DO Bellingham Repertory Dance: 7:30pm, Fire- Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Valley Voices: 7pm, United Methodist Church, Woods, Lummi Island DO IT 2 house Performing Arts Center Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham Lynden John Feodorov Talk: 4pm, Anchor Art Space, Dance Cabaret: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, The Daily Flash: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Anacortes .11 WWU Vernon Gregg Laananen, David Eisenhour Reception: 02 ./0-4[11.|.11] 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison MUSIC COMMUNITY Pat Spark Presentation: 7pm, Whatcom Museum Led Zeppelin II: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre ON STAGE Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Chestnut Anne Schreivogl Reception: 5-9pm, Gallery Cyg- .06 11. The Music Man: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Street and Railroad Avenue nus, La Conner 44 # COMMUNITY Vernon Scandinavian Fair: 10am-4pm, Hampton Inn’s Fox Uncommon Threads: 10am-5pm, Greenbank Farm, Kulshan Land Trust Celebration: 6-9pm, Adamms Family Mystery: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Din- Hall Whidbey Island Leopold Crystal Ballroom ner Theatre, Mount Vernon Wonders of Whatcom: 1:30pm, Bellingham Public Doubles: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Library GET OUT Serial Killers: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater .0)4[11.}.11] Gore and Lore Tour: 7pm, downtown Bell- Triples: 10pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT ingham Turkey Trot: 9:30am, Bender Fields, Lynden ON STAGE DANCE Gore and Lore Tour: 7pm, downtown Bellingham The Music Man: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon CASCADIA WEEKLY FOOD Bellingham Repertory Dance: 7:30pm, Firehouse Popovich Comedy Pet Theatre: 3pm and 7pm, Prep Your Palate: 11:30am-2:30pm, Fairhaven Performing Arts Center FOOD Mount Baker Theatre 2 Originals Gallery Folk Dance Party: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library CiderFest: 10am-6pm, BelleWood Acres, Lynden Spaghetti Feed: 5:30pm, Blaine Senior Center Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Barrel Tasting: 12-6pm, Vartanyan Estate Winery DANCE Church, Mount Vernon Bellingham Repertory Dance: 2pm, Firehouse VISUAL ARTS Dance Cabaret: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU VISUAL ARTS Performing Arts Center Art’s Alive: Through Sunday, La Conner Winter Fest: 9am-3pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fel- MUSIC Bob Nelson: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Bayshore Symphony: 3pm, Central Lutheran 34 Church FOOD GET OUT Padden Mudfest: 10am, Lake Padden Park 27 FOOD Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange CiderFest: 10am-6pm, BelleWood Acres, Lynden B-BOARD Autumn Beer Dinner: 5:30pm, Chuckanut Brewery Grape and Gourmet: 5:30-8:30pm, Lakeway 24 Inn FILM FILM VISUAL ARTS Make your way 20 to La Conner (*)4[11.~.11] MUSIC for a three-day WORDS Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project celebration of all 18 things creative COMMUNITY ART as part of the Peace Corps Talk: 7pm, Village Books 27th annual “Art’s 16 [11. .11] Alive” festival /0 .4 STAGE taking place Nov. MUSIC WWU Concert Choir: 8pm, Performing Arts 14 4-6 at a plethora Center of locales in the GET OUT GET OUT Skagit town Snowshoe Basics: 6pm, REI 12 WORDS 10 CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL 2 2 DO IT IT DO DO IT .11 02 .06 11. 44 # CASCADIA WEEKLY 3 THIS ISSUE Contact Cascadia Weekly: Proving once again that E 360.647.8200 34 34 truth is way stranger than fiction, a homeless man Editorial FOOD who had severed his arm Editor & Publisher: with a homemade guillotine Tim Johnson was rushed to the hospital ext 260 last week after walking into E 27 ô editor@ mail a Bellingham medical clinic. cascadiaweekly.com Police scoured a nearby TOC LETTERS STAFF wooded area and discovered Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD the man’s leftover limb Editor: Amy Kepferle near the guillotine (pic- Eext 204 tured here). The medieval ô calendar@ 24 machine was dismantled cascadiaweekly.com and the arm was returned FILM FILM Music & Film Editor: to its owner. The man has Carey Ross not been identified, and Eext 203 20 his condition was, at press ô music@ time, “satisfactory.” cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC VIEWS & NEWS Production 18 Art Director: 4: Massive mailbag Jesse Kinsman ART ART ô jesse@ 8: Gristle & Views kinsmancreative.com 16 10: Last week’s news Graphic Artists: 12: Police blotter, Index Stefan Hansen STAGE STAGE ô stefan@ cascadiaweekly.com ARTS & LIFE Send all advertising materials to 14 ads@cascadiaweekly.com 12: Occupy the world 14: Fear factor Advertising GET OUT 16: Animal attractions Account Executives: Scott Herning 18: Art, language, history E360-647-8200 x 252 12 ô scott@ 20: Southern-fried fun cascadiaweekly.com WORDS 22: Clubs Scott Pelton E360-647-8200 x 253 25: Depardieu delights ô spelton@ 10 26: Film Shorts cascadiaweekly.com Distribution CURRENTS CURRENTS REAR END Frank Tabbita, JW Land & Associates THE ONLY POWER WE HAVE KREMEN FOR WATER QUALITY 8 27: Bulletin Board ô distro@ In a time of fiscal crisis, the Whatcom County I urge voters to select Pete Kremen for coun- 28: Wellness cascadiaweekly.com Council majority intends to waste a quarter mil- ty council. Pete has a long and exceptional re- VIEWS VIEWS 29: Free Will Astrology Letters lion dollars of our tax money. After three years cord of public service that we are all familiar of good faith work toward protecting Lake What- enough with already. But you might not be 4 Send letters to letters@ 4 30: Advice Goddess cascadiaweekly.com. com, the only source of drinking water for 90,000 aware of the disturbing positions of Pete’s ad- MAIL MAIL MAIL 31: Crossword people, four members of council are pulling the versary, Tony Larson. THE GRISTLE, P.8 * RUMOR HAS IT, P.20 * ADVICE GODDESS, P.30 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA 32: This Modern World, WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. * * * plug. Trouble is, DNR spent the money, and we Larson strongly opposes a Lake Whatcom For- 11.y.11 :: #44, v.06 :: !- 2 Tom the Dancing Bug promised to pay them back. est Preserve Park. This means wants the state DO IT IT DO Fact: Despite modest efforts to contain and to build more gravel roads and clearcut forest 33: Sudoku, Slowpoke treat stormwater and reduce development around on the steepest mountain slopes in our drinking 34: A Diamond dinner the lake, tests show a steady decline in the qual- watershed. Such reckless management greatly .11 02 ity of Lake Whatcom water. Treatment costs con- increases the risk of erosion and landslides SMAILBAG: VETTING VOTES ONE LETTER AT A TIME, P.6 }} LANGUAGE ARTS: LESLEY DILL’S WORDY, WONDERFUL VISIONS, P.18 FAMOUS FOOTSTEPS: SOUTHERN-FRIED SOUNDS AT THE BUFF, P.20 tinue to rise, eventually requiring millions of dol- that not only do great damage to the quality of lars in new facilities, paid for by you and me. our drinking water, but are a clear and present ©2011 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by .06 11. Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Myth: “A new park is too expensive to man- danger to neighborhoods at the base of those 44 # PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 info@cascadiaweekly.com age.” Too expensive at a one time cost of $57 per slopes. On a cold, rainy night in 1983, such a Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia acre? The reality is they could lock the logging landslide swept homes with sleeping families Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution road gates and spend virtually nothing on man- into the lake. SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you agement, and our drinking water would be safer A recent poll shows that three out of four include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 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