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AMY GOODMAN, P.6-0(*-#.$/+yADVICE GODDESS, P.31 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 11.x.10 :: #45, v.05 :: !- WHATCOM GULAG the politics of prisons, P.8 WILD FLAG: FILTHY WITH INDIE CRED, P.20 }} HIGH FIVE: BELLINGHAM REP MAKES ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, P.16 THE GRISTLE: THE URBAN/RURAL DIVIDE, P.6 34 34 FOOD cascadia Watch a triumph over adversity—along with some song and dance—when 27 27 /# *'*-+0-+' /# (0.$'*0/'*1 comes to Bellingham Nov. 11 at the Mount CLASSIFIEDS A glance at what’s happening this week Baker Theatre 24 FILM FILM 2 ) .4[11.x.10] MUSIC Salute to Veterans: 8pm, Mount Baker 20 ON STAGE Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire: 7pm, Nook- MUSIC sack Valley High School COMMUNITY Inspecting Carol: 7:30pm, Performing Peace Builders Gala: 7pm, the Majestic Arts Center, WWU 18 ART ART WORDS ./0-4[11.xz.10] Writers Theater: 7pm, Firehouse Café Peter Stekel: 7pm, Village Books ON STAGE 16 A Streetcar Named Desire: 7pm, Nook- sack Valley High School STAGE STAGE /#0-.4[11.xx.10] Talent Revue: 7pm, Ferndale High School Inspecting Carol: 7:30pm, Performing ON STAGE Arts Center, WWU 14 A Streetcar Named Desire: 7pm, Nook- The Pajama Game: 7:30pm, Blaine Per- sack Valley High School forming Arts Center The Color Purple: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Big: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon GET OUT Theatre Clue: 7:30pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden Valley Inspecting Carol: 7:30pm, Performing Doubles: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Arts Center, WWU Teatro de Sol: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 12 Clue: 7:30pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden Triples: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Valley WORDS Big: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon DANCE Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Scandinavian Dance: 2-5pm, Norway Hall 8 Teatro de Sol: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Bellingham Rep: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Contra Dance: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library MUSIC CURRENTS CURRENTS Keller Williams: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo MUSIC Harmony Northwest: 2pm and 7pm, Em- 6 COMMUNITY manuel Baptist Church, Mount Vernon Veterans Day Commemoration: 11am, Ralph Shaw: 2pm, Amadeus Project VIEWS VIEWS Mt. 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A Streetcar Named Desire: 7pm, Nook- 11 sack Valley High School GET OUT Talent Revue: 7pm, Ferndale High School Fowl Fun Run: 10am, Mount Vernon .05 Inspecting Carol: 7:30pm, Performing Christian School 45 # Arts Center, WWU Alpine Safety Awareness Fundraiser: Clue: 7:30pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden 6-10pm, Boundary Bay Valley The Pajama Game: 7:30pm, Blaine Per- VISUAL ARTS forming Arts Center 2$'42*-.($/# Art by the Lake: 9am-6pm, Bloedel Big: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Donovan Doubles: 8pm, Upfront Theatre --$&-*2) will join Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lummi Island Teatro de Sol: 8pm, iDiOM Theater fellow slam poets Anis Mjgani and Photography Club Exhibit: 10am-5pm, CASCADIA WEEKLY Triples: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Roeder Home Buddy Wakefield for a “Night Kite Open House: 10am-6pm, Chuckanut Bay 2 DANCE Gallery Bellingham Rep: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC Revival” performance Nov. 17 at Brian Major Reception: 6-9pm, Loomis Brewgrass: Tonight and tomorrow, Hall Gallery, Blaine Anacortes WWU’s Viking Union Adornment Reception: 6-9pm, Gallery Cygnus, La Conner .0)4[11.x{.10] ON STAGE Clue: 2pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden Valley Big: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 34 Macbeth Auditions: 7pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild FOOD International Comedy Competition: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub 27 27 DANCE Bellingham Rep: 5pm, Firehouse PAC MUSIC CLASSIFIEDS Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre 24 VISUAL ARTS FILM FILM Art by the Lake: 9am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lummi Island Photography Club Exhibit: 10am-5pm, Roeder 20 Home MUSIC (*)4[11. .10] x| 18 ON STAGE ART Macbeth Auditions: 7pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 16 MUSIC Built to Spill: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo STAGE WORDS Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project 14 GET OUT /0 .4[11..10] ON STAGE 12 Vagina Memoirs Auditions: 7pm, AIC 203, WWU MUSIC WORDS Collie Buddz: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo 8 FOOD Pacific Feast Presentation: 7pm, RE Store CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL 2 2 DO IT IT DO DO IT 10 .10. 11 .05 45 Attend a ribbon-cutting # ceremony Nov. 15 at the Chuckanut Brewery to celebrate the new bike rack created out of recycled brewery parts by artist CASCADIA WEEKLY /#*-(#4- 3 SEND EVENTS TO CALENDAR@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM Contact THIS ISSUE Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 34 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD Tim Johnson E ext 260 mail ô editor@ 27 27 cascadiaweekly.com CONTENTS ›› LETTERS ›› STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle CLASSIFIEDS Eext 204 ô calendar@ After battling chronic leukemia for the past 21 years, cascadiaweekly.com 24 consummate actress Jill Clayburgh, 66, died Fri., Nov. 6 at her home in Lakeville, Conn. 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County Council majorities here 12 months ago became 10 point victories on candidacies across Jean Baudrillard, the French philosopher, says 10 34: Feast foraging the ballot last week. that, by the silent indifference of the masses, .10. 11 Incumbent and veteran Democrats lost to desperate acts of terrorism are born. If we re- ©2010 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by rookies. GOP people now look out their Bak- ally want to fight terrorism, we must first fight AMY GOODMAN, P.6-0(*-#.$/+yADVICE GODDESS, P.31 .05 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly cascadia REPORTING FROM THE erview office window to a landscape they mobi- our own silence and our reluctance to speak out HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 45 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 11.x.10 :: #45, v.05 :: !- # [email protected] lized and financed north of Whatcom Wall better about what is right. 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