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RESERVOIR RECON: What’s the plan for Lake Whatcom? p.8

COMPANY: Music, marriage and makeouts, p.15 STUDIO TOURING: WHAT'SUP! P.18 The wonders of 15TURNS 15 Whidbey Island, p.16

30 30 cascadia “Longest ears” will be FOOD one of the many canine-

24 centered categories at the annual Kids’ Dog Show B-BOARD A glance at what’s happening this week taking place March 2 at Bloedel Donovan 22 22 FILM FILM Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Legacy: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,

18 Lynden A Rotten Demise: 7:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret, Mount

MUSIC Vernon Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Students and City of Lost Children: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 16 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre

ART ART community members WORDS Jim Lynch: 7pm, Lummi Island Library 15 will transform MUSIC

STAGE STAGE themselves for your Paul Klein: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Wind Symphony Concert: 8pm, Performing Arts entertainment—and Center, WWU 14 to raise funds for GET OUT the Evegreen AIDS !-$ 4[03.x.13] ONSTAGE

12 Foundation—at the Drag Show: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Wizard of Oz: 7pm, Judson Auditorium, Lynden Hairspray: 7pm, Ferndale High School

WORDS 21st annual Deadman Wonderland Circus: 7:30pm, Cirque Lab Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre

8 . March 1 at Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU But is it Art?: 7:30pm, Syre Theater, WCC WWU’s Performing The Legacy: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden City of Lost Children: 8pm, iDiOM Theater CURRENTS Arts Center Blender: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 6 MUSIC Firehouse Piano Series: 7:30pm, Firehouse Perform- VIEWS VIEWS ing Arts Center 4 WORDS

MAIL MAIL Book Sale: 10am-5pm, Lynden Public Library Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Bellingham Public Library

2 ) . 4[02.y~.13] 2 ONSTAGE VISUAL ARTS

DO IT IT DO Spring Art Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout DO IT 2 Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Whidbey Island Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes

13 MUSIC Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham

27. Marie Eaton: 7:30pm, Roeder Home

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09 FILM # ONSTAGE Human Rights Film Festival: Through March 2, The Wizard of Oz: 7pm, Judson Auditorium, Lynden throughout Bellingham Hairspray: 7pm, Ferndale High School WORDS Deadman Wonderland Circus: 7:30pm, Cirque Lab Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Jim Lynch: 7pm, Village Books Twelfth Night: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU But is it Art?: 7:30pm, Syre Theater, WCC The Legacy: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, CASCADIA WEEKLY /#0-. 4[02.y.13] Lynden Attend an opening reception for painter City of Lost Children: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 2 ONSTAGE Blender: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre The Wizard of Oz: 7pm, Judson Auditorium, ! solo show, “Waiting on the Light,” Lynden DANCE Hairspray: 7pm, Ferndale High School March 2 at the Smith & Vallee Gallery in Edison Folk Dance Party: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre MUSIC Halleck Street Ramblers: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Dr. Hook featuring Ray Sawyer: 8pm, Silver Reef

Pavilion 30 30 FilthFest 3.0: 8pm-4am, Chazzam Signs & Graph-

ics FOOD

WORDS Book Sale: 10am-5pm, Lynden Public Library Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Bellingham Public Library 24 Julia Pandl: 10:30am, Village Books

COMMUNITY B-BOARD Kids’ Dog Show: 10:30am-12pm, Bloedel Donovan

GET OUT 22 Winter Field Day: 8:30am-4pm, NW Washington Research and Extension Center, Mount Vernon FILM Honeywagon Runs: 9am, Nooksack Valley Middle School 18 VISUAL ARTS Spring Art Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout MUSIC Whidbey Island

WoodFish Live Painting: 11am-5pm, Lucia 16 Douglas Gallery Steamroller Print Show Opening: 4:30-9pm, ART Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island

Becky Fletcher Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & 15 Vallee Gallery, Edison STAGE STAGE

.0) 4[03.z.13] 14 ONSTAGE Twelfth Night: 2pm, Performing Arts Center,

WWU GET OUT The Legacy: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden

Deadman Wonderland Circus: 6:30pm, Cirque 12 Lab A Rotten Demise: 6:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret, WORDS Mount Vernon Company: 7:30pm, Walton Theatre Dynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 8

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Whatcom Symphony with Sarah Chang: 3pm, CURRENTS Mount Baker Theatre Ben Gibbard: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU 6

GET OUT VIEWS Stewart Mt. Run: 10am, North Lake Whatcom

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Spring Art Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout DO IT Whidbey Island

Mini-Con: 12-6pm, Bellingham Public Library 13 27. 02. (*) 4[03.{.13] .08

FOOD 09 Backyard Beans Class: 6:30pm, Community Food # Co-op Fresh from Mexico Class: 6:30pm, Gretchen’s Kitchen, Mount Vernon

/0 . 4[03.|.13] CASCADIA WEEKLY ONSTAGE Shrek the Musical: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre 3 WORDS Josie Iselin: 7pm, Village Books Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly:

E 360.647.8200 30 30 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 24 ô editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle Eext 204 ô calendar@ 22 22 The Bagelry is about to become the toast of the town. After cascadiaweekly.com 30 years, the popular Bellingham eatery has relented to

FILM FILM Music & Film Editor: public pressure, and, starting Feb. 28, will offer downtown Carey Ross diners the option of having their bagels toasted. Does this Eext 203

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8 20: Clubs ô stephanie@ cascadiaweekly.com DIRTY TRICKS were supplied in the project information docu- 22: Spoiler alert! The only reason it “appeared” that proponents ment along with the permit application in March 23: Film Shorts Distribution of Gateway Paciﬁc Terminal outnumbered oppo- or April 2012. Talk about blind support. CURRENTS Distribution Manager: nents at the Ferndale scoping hearing is because Because of their actions, many of their citizens

6 Scott Pelton SSA Marine’s hired PR ﬁrms paid day workers to are grossly uninformed about this huge, com- REAR END E360-647-8200 x 202 hold spots in line for GPT proponents such as the plex project. These mayors should be ashamed 24: Bulletin Board, Advice Goddess ô spelton@ VIEWS VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com mayors of Ferndale, Lynden, and Blaine so they of themselves for letting SSA and its consultant 25: Wellness were assured limited and coveted speaking slots, manipulate and use them in order to try and push 4 Frank Tabbita, Erik 4 26: Free Will Astrology Burge thereby subverting the public’s opportunity to this project through while keeping most of the MAIL MAIL MAIL 27: Crossword Letters voice real concerns to the scoping agencies. public in the dark. The mayors should be educat-

Send letters to letters@ These 70 or so hired so-called proponents had ing themselves and their citizens about all the 2 28: This Modern World, Tom the cascadiaweekly.com. no business being there except for wages paid ramiﬁcations and potential signiﬁcant adverse Dancing Bug

DO IT IT DO to them by SSA’s PR ﬁrms and the free food and impacts of this project and the EIS process and

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13 30: Get smoking at Jeckyl & Hyde T-shirts the GPT team was handing out to them. SSA has everything to gain... while we have RESERVOIR RECON: What’s the plan for Lake 27. Whatcom? p.8 So, if you take away the paid manufactured everything to lose.

02. fake supporters, then the proponents were not —Sandy Robson, Blaine

COMPANY: outnumbering the opponents. Music, marriage and makeouts, p.15

P.18 Our local Small (thinking) City Caucus Mayors Opposition to the proposed coal terminal proj- The wonders of

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# Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 all pledged their support to SSA and Gateway Pa- ect had been strong and the show of support [email protected] 1 COVER: No-Fi Soul Rebellion ciﬁc Terminal early on, after being asked to do so almost nonexistent, so at a Ferndale scoping Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia 5 Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing from the May 2009 issue of by the company wanting to build GPT, SSA, and hearing earlier this year the project sponsors ar- papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution What’s Up! Magazine. Photo by SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material its consultant, Craig Cole. Cole also asked those ranged a dirty trick. Unskilled workers were hired to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you Paul Israel. include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- mayors to go to their city councils and initiate at a local temp agency and instructed to pose as ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday resolutions in support of GPT not only before the citizens. They got in line early in order to take the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be

CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. EIS is completed, but also almost one year before the ﬁrst 60 (of 100 maximum) places for speakers LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. SSA/PIT’s 2012 permit application was submit- at the hearing. All but 40 of those citizens with 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your ted. These mayors gave their support and their concerns about the coal terminal were prevented letters to fewer than 300 words. approval of being used by SSA in advertisements from speaking. The dirty trick made it appear op- for GPT. Then they lobbied their city councils ponents of the project are neither numerous nor for their support by initiating resolutions before motivated enough to arrive early. any of them had details about this project, which The temps also acted as place-holders for local NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre mayors, who did an enthusiastic promo- Mayors at the Roundtable also tried to Vernon. The mayor there predicted that most the entire (huge) cost of new over- tion of the coal terminal. None mentioned pretend they had not promoted the coal increased train trafﬁc would decimate passes and underpasses, which dollar

that permanent jobs at the terminal will terminal before it has been proven either his town’s economy. amount will be many times larger than

be few and will come at a cost of exist- safe or beneficial. With their premature “What do we get out of this?” he asked. the benefit of new jobs and tax revenues. 30 ing jobs being lost. Meanwhile, citizens cheerleading, the mayors supported risks “Nothing!” Few citizens are aware there is likely to who opposed the project waited outside to the health, environment and economy Several months later, he saw a sample be a net loss of jobs, due to the destruc- FOOD for hours, only to be told that there was of every town and city along the coast of what could happen to his city. Auto- tive impacts of coal trains upon the ex- no longer time enough for but 40 of them of Washington. Such risks were not men- mobile traffic was brought to standstill isting economy. The prospect of such 24 to speak. tioned. by a train stalled in the center of town interference by increased coal train traf- At the recent roundtable, local mayors At the Roundtable, Mayor Robinson of during the middle of the day. For several fic has led Seattle to flat-out oppose the refused to acknowledge the Blaine complained that for 20 minutes hours, business in the downtown area proposed terminal. B-BOARD interference with the scoping hearing. slow trains near his home blocked an am- came to a halt. —David Hopkinson, Bellingham Scott Korthuis, of Lynden, asked for con- bulance that held his wife. The narrow focus of terminal promot- tinued support of the scoping process. The lethal potential of such a situation ers, including the local mayors, upon in- EDITOR’S NOTE:The Gristle was in error 22

Presumably, he meant support for the is clear to him. Less clear, apparently, is creased jobs that might become available in reporting potential revenue benefit to FILM process now that he and Gary Jensen of the increased risk of blocked emergency to local residents, conceals less-visible Blaine and Ferndale school districts. Tax Ferndale had finished subverting it. The vehicles that necessarily accompanies an costs, such as automobile re-routing that levies are fixed annual payments estab- 18 mayors may have colluded in what was increase in the number of coal trains. will be made necessary by an increase in lished by law, and additional valuation by not merely a dirty political trick, but a Robinson should have attended a scop- rail traffic. Few people understand that GPT will not increase revenues available for MUSIC violation of the law. ing meeting earlier this year in Mount state taxes will be required to pay for al- the school districts. We regret the error. 16 ART ART

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30 30 ington weighed in on the state of Lake Whatcom this week, and it appears the care and management of a FOOD drinking water resource for 100,000 people is largely the responsibility of local governments. views The state Dept. of Ecology ratcheted up expecta- 24 OPINIONS THE GRISTLE tions to reduce urban runoff in the watershed and established a clear timetable to do so. Stormwater

B-BOARD runoff from developed areas increases the amount of phosphorus entering the lake beyond natural, healthy levels, the environmental agency explained in releas- 22 22 ing its new cleanup plan. Excess phosphorus adds to BY BILL ELFO, SHERIFF

FILM FILM the lake’s algae bloom problems, requiring more treatment to make the water safe for drinking, DOE noted. It also decreases the lake’s overall health. 18 Ecology’s report nudges up an assessment that the Building Safer Communities

MUSIC watershed is substantially overbuilt. Approximately 12 percent of the watershed is developed. According VIOLENCE, MENTAL ILLNESS CHALLENGE COMMUNITY RESOURCES

16 to the report, two things need to happen for the lake to meet water quality standards: approximately 87 ur nation and community ing or possessing firearms. While the ART ART percent of the current development around the lake have focused on recent mass law provides stiff penalties for do- needs to be able to store and filter stormwater like a murders and the need for ing so, thousands of criminals fal- 15 O forest; and bacteria levels in the most contaminated effective prevention and response sify federal firearms purchase forms streams need to be reduced up to 96 percent. It will strategies. Meaningful steps to re- every year. Very few are federally STAGE STAGE be the city’s and county’s ongoing responsibility to duce mass killings require improving prosecuted. achieve these goals. measures to keep firearms out of the Last year a Bellingham felon with a 14 In a separate action, representatives from the hands of criminals and the danger- history of rendering death threats lied state Dept. of Natural Resources reduced expecta- ously mentally ill; plugging gaps in Law enforcement encounters vio- about his crimes to acquire a firearm

GET OUT tions they would move immediately to create rec- our mental health system that re- lent and dangerously mentally ill peo- and ammunition. Despite renewed reational opportunities within the watershed. Foes sult in repeat instances of violence ple every day. Unfortunately, limited threats, federal prosecutors declined of a plan to acquire nearly 9,000 acres of undevel- by those with serious mental health resources in the mental health system to prosecute him in part because of 12 oped forest canopy and manage it as a county park issues; and an effective law enforce- result in many either being released his “mental illness.” The recently an- have pointed to the potential that state resources ment and first-responder approach or winding up in the County Jail. nounced heightened priority federal WORDS might be directed through DNR to manage the area to instances of “active-shooters.” The Sheriff’s Office on average for recreational purposes. Whatcom County Council Although brave citizens are of- houses 50-65 violent mentally ill of- 8 learned of DNR’s positions and policies this week as ten the first to risk or sacrifice their fenders a day in jail. While best ef- they prepare to consider that plan again at a meet- lives to stop mass killings, instances forts are made to provide diagnosis , ing in March. of “active-shooters” require an im- and treatment, resource limitations

CURRENTS Thousands of Critics of the county park idea have argued the mediate law enforcement response. and legal constraints frequently do

6 criminals falsify 6 state would do a better job of creating recreational In recent years, the Sheriff’s Office not result in effective stabilization. opportunities on the flanks of Lake Whatcom while and many local police departments State funding cuts have limited federal firearms VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS maintaining commercial forestry. People on both trained and equipped officers to do the ability of the Sheriff’s Office to sides of the issue, and the DNR, agree there is not just that. Although it is imprudent move the violently mentally ill to purchase forms every 4 enough trail-based recreation in the county to to reveal specific tactics, the Sher- Western State Hospital. The mental year. MAIL MAIL meet demand. But the agency’s standard practice is iff’s Office response protocols are health system assigns a low prior-

to simply gate off commercial forests to both pro- constructed around nationally rec- ity on involuntarily committing 2 tect the asset and to avoid the costs of maintaining ognized best practices and involve those already housed in the County

DO IT IT DO trail systems. the ability of every deputy to imme- Jail. The result is many dangerously prosecutors will give these crimes

That policy is changing, slowly, DNR ofﬁcials told diately respond to active-shooters. mentally ill people are released is welcomenews. Last week the FBI

13 council, but it is also subject to state goals, which Highly trained special response and back into the community without adopted a Sheriff’s Ofﬁce case of a

27. favor a mix of facilities for a variety of recreational crisis negotiation teams are trained effective treatment and soon com- convicted violent felon with obvious

02. uses, including off-road vehicles. Lake Whatcom is to support this immediate response. mit new acts of violence. mental health issues who possessed likely not suited for ORVs due to a risk of erosion and As schoolchildren have frequently The case of former Bellingham resi- firearms and ammunition. .08 added pollutants in the watershed. been victims of mass killings, the dent Isaac Zamora is illustrative of While solutions may seem obvi- 09 # Of course, foes of the Lake Whatcom Reconveyance Sheriff’s Office has dedicated resourc- gaps that exist in the criminal justice ous, the reality is that we are liv- do not favor a park under any circumstances or condi- es to increase the presence of depu- and mental health systems. Despite ing in times when law enforcement, tions, full stop. Therefore, a gambit that shifts burden ties in and around school campuses a long history of criminal violence prosecutors, as well as the correc- to the state simply delays the decision for perhaps and have worked with nearby police and mental illness, Zamora was not in tions and mental health systems decades, possibly forever. departments to do the same. The custody when he acquired a firearm have faced huge budget reductions Council has meanwhile learned that a reciprocal Sheriff’s Office has also coordinated and randomly shot and killed six peo- that limit our ability to effectively

CASCADIA WEEKLYis also true: The county can acquire the lands and both tabletop and live exercises with ple, including a deputy sheriff, just implement more effective strate- still have DNR manage selected forested acres for fire and school officials that are de- feet south of the county line. gies. If we are serious about pre- 6 commercial cuts, subject to the landscape plan for signed to test capabilities and better Federal firearms laws strictly pro- venting mass murder, it is time to Lake Whatcom. The primary difference in the recip- prepare first-responders to respond to hibit dangerous criminals and those re-think priorities toward effective rocal is that the county is fully in charge of how and instances of active-shooters. adjudicated mentally ill from acquir- public safety. when cuts are planned and managed. The county also controls the recreational uses, which—unlike VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE

the state preference—need not carry

an ORV component. 30 The Reconveyance, and the intergrant EXPERIENCEHAWAII exchange of state forest trust lands that FOOD preceded it, is certainly the most cost- Win a 7-day trip for 2 with a effective means of achieving Ecology’s direct flight from Bellingham 24 goal of filtering stormwater in the man- to either Waikiki or Maui! ner of a natural forest. It is, in a sense, the cost of doing nothing. Retrofitting B-BOARD the built environment to achieve similar filtration goals is, on the other other EVERY FRIDAY AT 7PM

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“This is going to be a big cost,” Get 3 entries every Sunday by swiping FILM Ecology engineer Steve Hood admit- your card at Diamond Dividends ted. “They’ve spent several million 18 dollars redoing just a few miles of road on the north shore. I see that MUSIC as a really successful project that I hope to see repeated,” he said. “But 16 then imagine doing that over miles and miles over road over the entire ART watershed. We’re talking about a very large and costly effort.” 15 And that is just a single public infra- CHIPPENDALES STAGE structure cost, without factoring the TM costs of retroﬁts to existing homes on The Ultimate Girls Night Out! private property. FRI, APR 5 & SAT, APR 6 14 Hood said additional development 8pm might be be permitted if local manage- GET OUT ment achieves the target goal of 87 per- $30 Tickets cent rollback of the built environment to a naturally forested condition—a goal, 12 frankly, assisted by Reconveyance. The City of Bellingham whittled up WORDS a third leg of the story on Lake What- com this week, proposing new fees 8 for boat owners using the public boat launches. Proposed is a fee of $50 for CURRENTS an annual permit or a $20 day pass. The 6 fee is intended to recover an estimated 6 $225,000, the cost of inspections in- OPENING IN MAY VIEWS VIEWS tended to reduce invasive species en- New Carpet VIEWS tering the reservoir. New Ergonomic Slot Chairs 4 Closing the launches would be the New Table Games Stools cheaper option, again at the cost of do- MAIL ing nothing. Updated Employee Uniforms

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A fee could cut the number of boats on 27. the lake by two-thirds. But it sends a 02. terrible message that the city’s reservoir will continue to be the plaything .08 09 of gas-powered engines. # Fifty years ago, the costs of doing ALL TICKETS AVAILABLE AT nothing about the lake involved closing it off and pocketing the savings. Today, the costs of doing nothing involve spending many tens of millions EXPERIENCEEVERYTHING of dollars spent over the next 50 years CASCADIA WEEKLY to return the lake to a natural, un- 24/7 ACTION marked condition. And, if we’re very ,.7(3(()$4,01&1/< 7 lucky, we’ll return the lake to a cond- tion seen 50 years ago. 9,5 < ,0"(45<$9510"$:$5.$5(31$' Sometimes doing nothing gets ex- Events subject to change without notice. Management reserves all rights. Must be 21 or over to play. ©2013 Silver Reef Casino pensive. areas need to be converted back to a forest,” said Steve Hood, a water quality engineer with Ecology. “But we do need

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30 30 ters the lake in the same condition as if it were coming from the forest.” FOOD currents It will be the city’s and county’s on- NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX going responsibility to achieve these goals. 24 “We’ve broken out what’s the city responsibility and what is the county’s

B-BOARD responsibility,” Hood explained. “That leads to what I consider the bigger part of the story, which is how do we go about 22 22 getting there? The 87 percent reduction

FILM FILM in developed area is a big burden, both on public infrastructure and on private as well. 18 “We’re trying to juggle the need to not

MUSIC overspend but still be sufﬁciently protec- tive. The fact is, it is going to take a long

16 time and it will be very expensive.” The city and county will begin a ﬁve- ART ART year cycle of planning in which they’ll attempt to deﬁne what needs to be done 15 and assigning the costs to do so. “We’re setting some interim goals” STAGE STAGE in the agency’s plan, Hood said. “One of those is to make sure planning is on 14 track is to ask, ‘How much money is it going to take if you try to do it all in 50

GET OUT years? Coming at the question another way, we ask local governments, ‘Given the budgets you have and can reason- 12 ably foresee, how long would it take you to get done?’ Those questions need to be WORDS satisfactorily answered by the end of the ﬁve-year period.” 8 8 Failure to develop a long-range action plan, and failure to implement it once it is complete in 2018, could subject the CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS city and the county to enforcement ac-

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, tions that could mean hefty ﬁnes from the state. VIEWS VIEWS Hood said he doesn't expect things to get to that point, because city and 4 WHATCOM county ofﬁcials have made progress in PHOTO BY JON COLMAN MAIL MAIL identifying the problems and their threat

to Lake Whatcom. 2 STATE RELEASES NEW WATER CLEANUP PLAN “When you turn around and look back,

DO IT IT DO ten years ago we were arguing about if FOR CITY RESERVOIR BY TIM JOHNSON there was a problem with Lake What-

13 com,” Hood said. “Now, everyone is ar-

27. ocal governments must step up updated every ﬁve years and will be key Ecology sampling found high levels of guing not about if there’s a problem, but

02. the pace on progress to reduce tools in helping clean up the lake. fecal bacteria from human and animal how do we solve it? pollutants entering Lake What- Lake Whatcom, the main source of waste entering the lake from 11 tribu- “I think that’s pretty good progress,

.08 L com, the state Dept. of Ecology notes drinking water for the city of Belling- taries. The bacteria create a health risk given the complexity and resources. These 09 # in a new plan to restore this drinking ham and other communities around the for people who work, use or play in and things take time, which is why we want to water supply for 100,000 people. Urban lake, is suffering from low levels of around the water. look at this on a 50-year scale. It won’t be runoff associated with stormwater must oxygen. The root cause of the problem: According to the report, two things easy; it’s going to take tough decisions be substantially reduced, the state en- increased levels of phosphorous and fe- need to happen for the lake to meet and teamwork to make it happen.” vironmental agency said. cal bacteria entering the lake. water quality standards: approximately The ﬁrst draft of the Washington The state agency issued a new report Stormwater runoff from developed 87 percent of the current development Department of Ecology's latest report

CASCADIA WEEKLY on the lake's phosphorus pollution that areas increases the amount of phospho- around the lake needs to be able to store on Lake Whatcom pollution will get 90 calls for both the City of Bellingham and rus entering the lake beyond natural, and ﬁlter stormwater like a forest; and days of public review before it takes ef- 8 Whatcom County to take concrete steps healthy levels. The excess phosphorus bacteria levels in the most contaminat- fect. The plan is available for public re- to reduce it, as well as a plan to pay for adds to the lake’s algae bloom prob- ed streams need to be reduced up to 96 view, and Ecology welcomes comments it. The plan is tied to existing municipal lems, requiring more treatment to make percent. About 12 percent of the lake's through May 28 at the agency’s website, stormwater permits currently in place the water safe for drinking. It also de- 36,000-acre watershed is developed. fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/sum- for the city and county. The permits are creases the lake’s overall health. “This doesn’t mean all the developed marypages/1310012.html

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30 30 leaked in the past. An estimated 1 million gallons of

FOOD *'4(+$2/# radioactive liquid has already leaked there. Rep. Vincent Buys (R-Lynden) sponsored k t two bills of beneﬁt to Setting up what promises to be a contentious 24 h e farmers. One bill (HB reckoning in the Washington state Senate, the e a 1770) provides ﬂex- House passes a measure requiring that most ibility for agricultural B-BOARD t insurance carriers in the state cover abortions. commissions so they W House Bill 1044 is intended to ensure that insurers can utilize greater continue covering abortions once bureaucratic hur- marketing expertise 22 22 to promote their W LAST WEEK’S dles for doing so come into effect next year with DOUG ERICKSON products. The other bill

FILM FILM e the enactment of federal health care reforms. Law- (HB 1438) attempts makers in the House passed the measure by a vote to provide clarity for a

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MUSIC FEB20-26 to maintain their water BY TIM JOHNSON s 02.y|.13 rights. Both bills were passed out of the 16 MONDAY House Agriculture & ART ART A series of burglaries may be linked. Belling- Natural Resources Com- KEVIN RANKER mittee last week. ham Police report that 14 small businesses have

15 Ranting about the been burglarized in downtown and Fairhaven since tyranny of King George mid-December. Each involves suspects breaking III, Rep. Jason Over- STAGE STAGE windows to gain access to the businesses. Police street (R-Blaine) intro- advise precautions to prevent such crimes. duced legislation that 14 02.y.13 would limit the use of drones in Washington WEDNESDAY BNSF Railway is in trouble with the state for State.

GET OUT allegedly failing to ﬁx some defective railroad Sen. Doug Ericksen (R-Lynden) praised The Bellingham Herald reports a Blaine man won $280,000 in the crossings in Skagit and Whatcom counties, even VINCENT BUYS Washington State Lottery. The 72-year-old said he thought he’d just after being warned last year. The state Utilities and the bipartisan manner

12 in which he and his colleagues have created won $28 until the larger amount was confirmed by his cashier. He took Transportation Commission fines the railroad com- energy-sector jobs, lowering the cost of $210,000 home after taxes. pany more than $100,000. The UTC says a Jan. 29 energy and encouraging new energy tech- WORDS inspection showed no repairs had been made. BNSF nologies. ”One of the highlights for me was has 15 days to request a hearing, ask for a fine re- working with my neighbor to the south, Sen. 8 02. .13 8 yx duction or pay the fine. Kevin Ranker, on a package of bills to reform THURSDAY our state’s toxic clean-up account,” he said. Ranker (D-Orcas) said Ericksen killed “the New charges are lodged against the “Barefoot Bandit,“ 21-year- Lawmakers close a gap in the law that might CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS only bill in Washington State Legislature old Colton Harris-Moore, who's currently serving a seven-year sen- allow those under the age of 21 to buy alcohol to do anything about ocean acidification

6 tence for a two-year, cross-country crime spree in which he stole cars, at self-checkouts in supermarkets. The Washington in our marine environment. This bipartisan boats, and planes. Skagit County prosecutors add theft and burglary State House on Monday unanimously passes a mea- sponsored bill would have implemented the

VIEWS VIEWS recommendations of the Ocean Acidification charges against Harris-Moore in connection with the 2010 theft of an sure that would require such machines to freeze Blue Ribbon Panel—ensuring that we address airplane belonging to a couple in Anacortes. transactions involving liquor sales until a worker 4 ocean acidification and protect the thousands verifies the age of the buyer. The measure goes of jobs that depend upon a healthy marine MAIL MAIL 02. .13 next to the Senate in Olympia. environment,” Ranker said. yy Ericksen as committee chair also used an

2 FRIDAY improper procedure to kill a bill supported by 02.y}.12 Ranker (SB 5181) that would have banned

DO IT IT DO Only days after a tank is reported leaking radioactive waste at the Hanford toxic material in mattresses and children’s Nuclear Reservation, more leaking tanks are added to list. Federal and TUESDAY toys. Ericksen killed the bill purely out of spite, Ranker reported.

13 state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive School is out at Sehome High School in Belling- “It’s offensive that the Senate Republicans 27. and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear ham while electrical crews repair a transformer would be so tone-deaf as to hold up the 02. site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emp- that exploded just before midnight, starting a fire actions of this committee over the past few tying the aging tanks. Hanford's tanks hold some 53 million gallons of in the boiler room. Firefighters quickly extinguished days as an example of bipartisan coopera- .08 highly radioactive waste and many of those tanks are known to have the electrical fire. tion,” Ranker said. 09 #

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119 North Commercial Street, #920, Bellingham, WA 98225 stopdebtcollectorproblems.com index On Feb. 20, University Police received FUZZ a phone call from a Ridgeway beta dorm

room. Police heard what sounded like a

ﬁght in progress, then the feud switched 30 BUZZ to a normal conversation. Police called the student later, who told campus cops noth- FOOD BAD BOYFRIEND ing strange was going on. On Feb. 22, a Bellingham accountant was 24 sentenced to 20 days in jail and 80 hours of On Feb. 23, a woman broke a man’s nose community service after he’d stalked and outside of a Holly Street bar at 1am. The harrassed his ex-girlfriend for more than man was taken to the hospital for his in- B-BOARD a year and a half. Charles Lysander Storrs juries. Bystanders also reported minor in- IV, 54, reportedly glued the woman’s doors juries from the fracas. Bellingham Police shut, turned off the gas to her home, cut arrested the 28-year-old woman, who was 22

her phone and cable lines, and dumped reportedly also armed with a switchblade. FILM paint solvent on to her car. The victim testiﬁed that she could not return home GRAB-N-GO 18 without checking to see if the man had On Feb. 20, Everett Police arrested three vandalized or destroyed something. Storrs baristas at two Grab-N-Go coffee stands af- MUSIC told the judge he agreed to plead guilty to ter they were accused of illegal “exhibition the gross misdemeanor because he works and exposure.” Police say the arrests were 16 as a private tax preparer and couldn't do a result of a two-month investigation that that with a felony on his record. was launched after citizens complained the ¹xx}} ART baristas were putting on adult-oriented On Feb. 16, a man threw a cup at a woman shows for customers for money, in viola- UNLESS Congress acts by March 1, a series of automatic cuts—called the sequester— 15 on North Garden Street in Bellingham. She tion of the city's adult cabaret law. Police will take effect. Washington will lose approximately $11.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 160 teacher and aide jobs at risk. STAGE suffered a black eye and a cut lip. say it's not clear whether the coffee-stand owners were involved. On Feb. 8, a woman complained to Bell- 14 ingham Police she’d received numerous On Feb. 21, Bellingham Police scolded a ¹y~x ¹zz unwanted text messages from an ex-boy- woman trolling in an area known for pros- AMOUNT the state is scheduled to AMOUNT, in millions, the state will GET OUT friend at far too early in the morning. titution on Samish Way. lose in Justice Assistance Grants due lose in environmental funding to to the sequester. Grants support law ensure clean water and air quality, TAG TEAM SAFETY FIRST enforcement, prosecution and courts, as well as prevent pollution from 12 On Feb. 16, a Bellingham Police ofﬁcer was On Feb. 17, a Blaine homeowner answered crime prevention and education, pesticides and hazardous waste. In

corrections and community corrections, addition, Washington could lose WORDS ﬁghting with someone in the late evening. a loud knock on his front door a bit after drug treatment and enforcement, and another $924,000 in grants for ﬁsh University Police arrived to assist. midnight. He found two strangers stand-

crime victim and witness initiatives. and wildlife protection. 8 ing on his front porch. “One man was very 8 On Feb. 20, Bellingham Police stopped a large and very intoxicated, and the other motorist on Paciﬁc Street for failing to was more weight and alcohol content pro- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS wear his safety belt. A warrant check re- portionate,” police explained. “The larger

¹}{y 6 vealed the man’s driver’s license had been man profanely and repeatedly ordered the revoked and two outstanding warrants had resident to stop speeding in the nearby al- AMOUNT the state is scheduled to lose in funds to help upgrade its ability to been issued for his arrest. The 22-year-old leyway or face deadly consequences, and respond to public health threats including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and VIEWS biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological events. reportedly resisted arrest and swung his handed the resident a handwritten note 4 ﬁsts and kicked at two ofﬁcers until he was bearing a similar message.” The homeowner taken into custody. He was booked into jail replied that he does not speed in the alley MAIL on two counts of assault, resisting arrest, or elsewhere, and had not driven anywhere ¹x~{ driving while his license was revoked, as at all in the past 24 hours. Police searched 2 WASHINGTON will lose about $1.7 million in grants to help prevent and treat

well as the two outstanding Bellingham for the man who made the threats. IT DO

substance abuse, resulting in around 3,800 fewer admissions to substance abuse Municipal Court warrants charging him programs. And the Washington State Department of Health will lose about $174,000, with previous a DUI and assault charge. resulting in around 4,300 fewer HIV tests. INTERNATIONAL 13

He was also issued trafﬁc infractions for COMSPIRACY 27. failing to wear a safety belt and related On Feb. 20, Blaine Police spoke to a 02. charges. The ofﬁcers were not seriously in- woman behind the wheel of a parked car y ¹}}x jured in the attack. after she’d phoned 911 to report she was of civilian Department of Washington will lose for .08 NUMBER AMOUNT 09 going to die. “The lady living in the car Defense employees in Washington job search assistance, referral, and # On Feb. 18, two motorists suffered a near said the government had already taken ev- expected to be furloughed as a result placement for approximately 24,510 collision on Magnolia Street in Bellingham. erything from her and was now conspiring of the sequester, reducing gross pay by underskilled and underemployed around $173.4 million in total. people. Both stopped in the lane of travel to scream with Canadian authorities to prevent her at each other about it. Police arrived and from seeking refugee status there,” po- delivered a lecture about road rage and the lice reported. “Apparently she had repeat-

crimes and risks associated with it. edly tried to leave the United States but CASCADIA WEEKLY was having trouble ﬁnding a country that ¹ On Feb. 15, a man was reported beating a would harbor her, and felt that the police SMALL Business Administration (SBA) loan guarantees would be cut by up to 11 dog near the Whatcom County Courthouse. were among those responsible. She was not approximately $900 million, constraining ﬁnancing needed by small businesses to Other dog owners intervened, which be- an immediate threat to herself or others, maintain and expand their operations and create jobs. gan a quarrel. Bellingham Police arrived to and refused all offers of aid and sugges- SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau; USCB Foreign Trade Statistics; AllTwitter; Pew calm the situation. tions for assistance.” Research Center doit

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B-BOARD Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM THURS., FEB. 28 COMMUNITY 22 22 REVIEWED BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER WRITERS LEAGUE: Terry Persun will focus on character develop- WED., FEB. 27 FILM FILM ment at a free Skagit Valley Writers DOWNTOWN MEETING: The League workshop from 6:30-8:30pm Downtown Bellingham Partnership

18 Sinister Storytelling at the Mount Vernon Senior/Com- hosts a Neighborhood Association munity Center, 1410 Cleveland. Meeting from 6-7:30pm at the Please register in advance. Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave. MUSIC JODI PICOULT GETS SCARY WWW.SKAGITWRITERS.ORG WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM accident that killed her mother, Sage didn’t 16 want to be noticed anyhow. MARCH 1-31 FEB. 27-MARCH 2

ART ART BOYNTON POETRY CONTEST: All HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FEST: The But because Mary, her boss, said she residents of Whatcom County are 13th annual Human Rights Film needed to talk with customers, Sage be- invited to submit poems to the an- Festival continues throughout Bell- 15 friended Josef, who seemed to be harmless nual Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest ingham through March 2. The event and lonely. from March 1-31. Winning poems features 10 days of 20 powerful, STAGE STAGE But then he told Sage a story, asked her are displayed for a year in front inspirational and educational ﬁlms of the library and on WTA buses, focusing on human rights issues. for a favor, and hor- and will be read at a public awards All events are free. 14 riﬁed her. She didn’t ceremony May 16. WWW.BHRFF.WEBS.COM want anything to do WWW.BOYNTONPOETRYCONTEST. WORDPRESS.COM THURS., FEB. 28

GET OUT with the things Josef had said or requested. ADDRESSING AGING: The What- MARCH 1-2 com Council on Aging will host a She ﬂed to her grand-

12 LYNDEN BOOK SALE: Lynden Friends “What’s Next? Housing Options 12 mother’s side, for com- will host a Book Sale from 10am- as We Age” panel discussion from fort and for wisdom. 5pm Friday and Saturday at the 3-7pm at the Bellingham Senior WORDS WORDS " /$/ Once upon a time, Lynden Public Library, 216 Fourth St. Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. WHAT: The Miska had been a pam- WWW.WCLS.ORG 733-4030 OR WWW.WCCOA.ORG Storyteller 8 WHO: By Jodi pered girl with a happy BELLINGHAM BOOK SALE: A SCHMOOZEFEST: Make connec- Picoult life, a keen intelligence “March Madness” Book Sale hap- tions with other nonproﬁts at the WHERE: Emily and a dream of moving pens from 10am-6pm Friday and Whatcom Council of Nonproﬁts CURRENTS Bestler Books/Atria to London to become a Saturday at the Bellingham Public “SchmoozeFest!” networking gath- Library, 210 Central Ave. ering from 5-7pm at the Blue Horse 6 famous writer. She’d al- [email protected] Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. ready started a book, in fact; a horror story WWW.WHATCOMCF.ORG VIEWS VIEWS based on an upiór story her grandmother had SAT., MARCH 2

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02. nights’ sleep. characters and a crisis that involves decisions Norman Fisher, Senior Dharma longest ears, loosest skin and more You almost wish somebody could read to you like that and changes lives. In this case, some of the Teacher at the San Francisco Zen will be among the categories at

.08 again. It might banish a lot of grown-up woes—unless it’s decisions were made in a different world and Center, shares ideas from his the 31st annual Kids’ Dog Show 09 book Training in Compassion: Zen from 10:30am-12pm at Bloedel # a story like the one told in Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller. a different time, which resonates through the Teachings on the Practice of Lojong Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave. Space Everybody in town thought Josef Weber was a kindly years with brutality, horror and hate. at 3pm at Bellingham’s Red Cedar is limited, so please pre-register to old man. I squirmed, I got teary-eyed, and I have Dharma Hall, 1021 N. Forest St. participate. Entry is free. He’d been a ﬁxture in so many lives: the high school to admit that I had to switch to a different Entry is free 778-7000 OR WWW.COB.ORG German teacher, a baseball coach, the guy who walked his tome before I went to bed. I know better WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM little dog around town and doted on her with shared treats than to snuggle under the covers with some- MARCH 4-7 WHATCOM WRITES READINGS: EXPLORATIONS OUTREACH: Teen

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WALKING CLUB: Whether AVALANCHE AWARENESS: you’re looking to improve or Find out where and why 30 30 compete, all are welcome at avalanches occur and get a

FOOD the weekly Fairhaven Walk- basic approach to managing getout ing Club led by Cindy Paffumi risk in the backcountry at an HIKING RUNNING CYCLING starting at 8am at various “Avalanche Awareness” clinic locations in Fairhaven. at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. 24 676-4955 OR 319-3350 Register in advance for the free course. WINTER FIELD DAY: Pruning 647-8955 B-BOARD and grafting talks and dem- onstrations, as well as sales ALL-PACES RUN: Meet up Wright will include details from more re- of rootstock and scionwood for an “All-Paces” run start- 22 22 cent travels to the picturesque landmark, (apples, pears, cherries and ing at 6pm every Tuesday plums) will be part of a Winter at Fairhaven Runners, 1209

FILM FILM as well as discuss the importance of the Princess Louisa International Society, a Field Day event from 8:30am- 11th St. The free event 4pm in Mount Vernon at the features runs 20 minutes nonproﬁt working to protect the world- WSU Northwest Washington out and back on two key 18 famous inlet. Attendees, even those with Research and Extension routes—by the water or less boating experience, will also glean Center, 16650 State Rout 536. through the woods. Par- MUSIC valuable cruising information and ﬁnd This year’s theme is “Local ticipants are divided into out how they can make the journey them- and Organic.” Entry is $15 per groups ranging from run/ 16 person or $30 per family. walk to seven-minute pace. selves—even if they don’t have a boat of WWW.NWFRUIT.ORG WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS. ART ART their own to do it in. When: 4pm Sat., COM March 2. Where: Village Books, 1200 11th HONEYWAGON RUN: The 15 St. Info: www.villagebooks.com Greater Bellingham Run- WED., MARCH 6 After years spent operating, maintain- ning Club hosts its annual SNOWSHOE BASICS: Learn

STAGE STAGE “Run for the Honeywagon” more about what you need ing and supervising the construction of starting at 9am at Everson’s and where to get started at a yachts for other people, Bruce Taylor and Nooksack Valley Middle “Snowshoeing Basics” clinic 14 14 Yerda Yearsley decided they wanted to em- School, 404 W. Columbia. at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. bark on a long-overdue aquatic adventure Entry fees are $10-$20. Please register in advance WWW.GBRC.NET for the free class. GET OUT GET OUT of their own. In 2008, after taking volun- 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM tary part-time retirement, they headed to MARCH 2-3 France, purchased a 1925 Dutch canal barge WINTER FESTIVAL: The 7th FALCON TALK: Research 12 named Rival (pronounced ree-val), and set annual “Winter Festival” wildlife biologist and out to cruise the canals of Europe in their happens from 9am-5pm Sat- educator David Drummond PHOTO BY JOSIE ISELIN JOSIE BY PHOTO WORDS very own vessel. Since then, they’ve spent urday and Sunday in Mount schools attendees with fresh Vernon at Christianson’s information about the Merlin summers cruising throughout Burgundy, Nursery, 15806 Best Rd. “A falcon at a “Merlin Movin’ in 8 BY AMY KEPFERLE Alsace-Lorraine, the valleys of the Marne Fascination for Hellebores” the ‘Hood” presentation at and the Loire rivers, and the historic Ca- will be the focus, and there 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, nal du Nivernais. In addition to the guests will be plenty to check out 1117 12th St. Entry is free CURRENTS they bring along to share their love of in the 1946 greenhouse. and open to both adults and Current Events At 1pm Sat., guest speaker school-age children. 6 rural France, they’ve made new friends— Marianne Binetti will present 778-7188 TALES OF THE TIDE and discovered many new things—along “Hot Hellebores and Other

VIEWS VIEWS the way. If the idea of joining them on Cool Plants for Early Color.” GARDEN CLUB MEETING: hen people ask why I left Idaho and moved to their next European excursion sounds like Please register in advance Krista Rome of the Backyard 4 Beans and Grains Project the northernmost corner of the United States, my something you’d like to do, show up for for her free talk. WWW.CHRISTIANSON will cover growing beans and

MAIL MAIL answer invariably has something to do with how an information session this week focusing W SNURSERY.COM grains in Whatcom County at much I love being near—and on—the water. Whether I’m on “Luxemotor Rival: Cruise the Canals of the Birchwood Garden Club’s

2 looking for starﬁsh on Clayton Beach, sailing with friends, France.” Slides and stories can be expect- SUN., MARCH 3 monthly meeting at 7pm at RABBIT RIDE: Join members Whatcom Museum’s Old City

DO IT IT DO trolling for crabs in a rickety rowboat off Lummi Island, or ed, so even if you can’t swing the trip, you

simply watching the sun set on Bellingham Bay from my of- can still get a pretty good idea of what of the Mt. Baker Bike Club Hall, 121 Prospect St. All are for the weekly “Rabbit welcome. ﬁce window, having immediate access to large bodies of liq- you’ll be missing. When: 4:30-6:30pm Mon., 13 Ride” starting at 8:30am at WWW.BIRCHWOOD

27. uid beauty makes me feel as if the world is full of possibili- March 4. Where: Village Books Fairhaven Bike & Ski, 1108 GARDENCLUB.ORG OR

02. ties. And judging by the following events, I’m not the only The weathered stones and pieces of 11th St. The 32-mile route WWW.BACKYARDBEAN one who feels this way. glass Josie Iselin ﬁnds on the beach aren’t sees riders heading down SANDGRAINS.COM Chuckanut and back via Lake .08 In 1957, Betty Jo Wright and her husband Jim left Ana- rare or worth a lot of money. But that’s

09 Samish. THURS., MARCH 7 # cortes in a 16-foot outboard boat that would take them on a not really the point. The San Francisco- 733-4433 OR WWW. PERUVIAN PASSAGES: 438-mile journey through the San Juan Islands into British based photographer and author’s books— MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG Students from Explorations Columbia and then propel them through the Gulf Islands, Sea Glass Hearts, Heart Stones, and Beach Academy will share images Georgia Straight, Pender Harbour, Skookumchuck Narrows, Stones among them—often focus on vari- STEWART MOUNTAIN RUN: and stories from their in- Malibu, Beyond Malibu, and ﬁnally to Princess Louisa In- ous forms of nature found at the beach. As part of the Bellingham ternational service-learning Trail Running Series, take program in Peru at a “Peru- let, a ﬁve-mile-long stretch of land accessible only by boat When she’s joined by fellow beachcomber part in today’s Stewart Mt. vian Passages” Travelogue

CASCADIA WEEKLY or ﬂoatplane. The saltwater sojourn took two weeks and Deacon Ritterbush for a slideshow presen- 5k/15k starting at 10am at from 7-9pm at Whatcom gave the couple a lifelong passion not only for travel, but tation this week, she’ll share more about North Lake Whatcom Park. Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 14 also for the preservation of wild places. The duo made the her mission to produce books that not only Entry is $30-$40 (plus an Prospect St. Suggested dona- journey again in the same boat in 1958 and ’59, and Betty combine art and science, but also leave extra $10 if you sign up on tion is $3. the day of the race). WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Jo’s book, Adventuring to Princess Louisa Inlet, details their the reader with a deeper appreciation for WWW.BELLINGHAMTRAIL. journey through pictures and prose. When she gives a talk the natural world. When: 7pm Tues., March COM and slideshow March 2 featuring highlights from the tome, 5. Where: Village Books doit

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community members, there’ll be

THURS., FEB. 28 a drag auction hosted by Betty 30 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Desire and a rafﬂe. Tickets are G Good, the Bad and the Ugly” $10-$12. FOOD at 8pm every Thursday at the 650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS. sta e Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. WWU.EDU At 10pm, stick around for “The THEATER DANCE PROFILES 24 Project.” Entry is $4-$7. MARCH 1-2 WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM IS IT ART?: Whatcom Com- munity College’s drama, music B-BOARD FEB. 28-MARCH 2 and dance departments will join THE WIZARD OF OZ: Hang out up to present “But is it Art?” ages to stay relevant. The fact that the main with Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Man performances at 7:30pm Friday 22 22 character, Bobby, can’t break up with the women and a variety of other memorable and Saturday at the school’s Syre characters at showings of The Theater. Entry is $5 at the door.

he loves and leaves via text is a plus, and the FILM themes of wanting to ﬁnd someone to spend Wizard of Oz at 7pm Thurs.-Sat. 383-3532 at Lynden High School’s Judson your life with resonate no matter what era it is.

Auditorium, 516 Main St. Tickets BLENDER: Local improvisers will 18 Although Bobby—played with casual, ele- are $6-$8. be joined by performers from gant composure by Zachary Harrison, a former 354-4401 points both north and south MUSIC Bellinghamster who now lives and acts in the at “Blender” shows at 8pm and Big Apple—is the focal character of Company, HAIRSPRAY: Racial barriers, 10pm Friday and Saturday at the humor and pop music will all Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. 16 his story couldn’t be told without the help of make appearances when the Tickets are $8-$10. ART ART his friends. 1960s-based musical Hairspray 733-8855 OR Sarah (Rachel Wachtveitl) and Harry (Paul shows at 7pm Thursday through WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM 14 Henderson) are a long-married couple with is- Saturday at Ferndale High School, 15 sues, Susan (Jesii Arp) and Peter (TJ Ander- 5830 Golden Eagle Dr. Tickets are MARCH 1-3 STAGE STAGE $7-$10 at the door. DEADMAN WONDERLAND CIR- STAGE son) are on the verge of divorce, but still plan 383-9261 CUS: An all-star cast of six local on living together, Jenny (Beth Wallace) and performers will present “Deadman David (Patrick Newell) just want the best for CITY OF LOST CHILDREN: The Wonderland Circus” performances 14 their old friend, Amy (Emily Milburn) and Paul music, theater and visual arts at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat., and 6:30pm ensemble known as City of Lost Sunday at the Bellingham Circus

(Tristian Carruthers) are newly married and GET OUT Children present “Crushing” for Guild’s Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., kind of freaking out about it, and the caustic the ﬁnal weekend at 8pm Thurs.- Suite #101. Juggling, acrobat- Joanne (Sonia Alexis) is on her third marriage Sat. at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 ics, puppetry, dance, magic and with Larry (Noel Barbuto). Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $10. more will help tell the story of a 12 The vignettes that com- 201-5464 OR WWW. young man trapped in the world prise the play also include IDIOMTHEATER.COM of demons. Tickets to the all-ages WORDS show are $5-$12. the three women Bobby is FEB. 28-MARCH 3 WWW.DEADMANWONDERLAND BY AMY KEPFERLE 8 dating as his 35th birth- DINNER THEATER: Enjoy a four- CIRCUS.COM day approaches. Scenes course meal while trying to solve a with the aforementioned deadly case when A Rotten Demise SUN., MARCH 3 Company stewardess, April (a win- shows at 7:30pm Thursday and DYNAMO: Discover a new way to CURRENTS 6:30pm Sunday at Mount Vernon’s spend your Sunday nights when ningly vacuous Chelsea 6 1st Street Cabaret, 612 S. First St. “Dynamo” shows at 8pm at the SEX AND THE SINGLE MAN . $/ LeValley), show that Bobby Tickets are $30-$45. Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. The WHAT: Company may not be quite ready for WWW.RIVERBELLE performances feature 12 improvis- VIEWS he opinionated reviewer who was sitting behind WHEN: Through a commitment, but he’s DINNERTHEATRE.COM ers vying for the “Dynamo” title March 17 4 me during a recent showing of the Mount Baker sure ready for home base. through a series of games and WHERE: Mount TWELFTH NIGHT: Western elimination rounds. Entry is $2. Theatre’s (MBT) Winter Repertory offering, Com- Baker Theatre’s He also interacts with MAIL T Washington University’s Theatre 733-8855 OR pany, was succinct in his estimation of what he’d seen Walton Theatre, Kathy (Taylor Sundstrom),

and Dance Departments presents WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM onstage thus far. 104 N. Commercial a woman he once consid- showings of William Shakespeare’s 2 St. Twelfth Night at performances at MARCH 4-5

“These guys are really good singers,” he said to the ered marrying who is now IT DO COST: $10-$20 woman sitting next to him when the lights came up for set to marry someone else, 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm Sun- LITTLE SHOP AUDITIONS: The INFO: 734-6080 or day at the Performing Arts Center Lynden Performing Arts Guild intermission in the MBT’s intimate Walton Theatre. “This is and Marta (Lauren Newell), www.mountbaker Mainstage. Tickets are $8-$12. will hold auditions for upcoming 13 an awesome play.” theatre.com a free spirit who says what 650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS. performances of Little Shop of 27.

When I turned around to see who the small voice she thinks and doesn’t care WWU.EDU Horrors at 7pm Monday and Tues- 02. belonged to, I laughed when I realized the theater pa- who gets offended. day at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas tron was about seven years old and more than a few My only complaint with the play stems from THE LEGACY: Tradition, faith Theatre, 655 Front St. .08 and family will be the focus of WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM 09 years away from fully understanding the intricacies of the subject matter itself. Although everybody’s # Mark Harelik’s The Legacy when the subject matter Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy pressuring Bobby to unearth his soulmate and the show opens this week with MARCH 5-6 was highlighting. But despite his age, he was right: get married, already, the relationships of his performances at 7:30pm Thurs.- SHREK THE MUSICAL: DreamWorks The singers were doing a great job, and the play, thus friends are far from perfect, and don’t neces- Sat., and 2pm Sunday at Lynden’s Theatricals and NETworks Presen- far, was lots of fun to watch. sarily point to happily ever after. Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 tations bring Shrek the Musical Front St. Tickets are $8-$12. to Bellingham for 7:30pm perfor- Since its Broadway debut in the spring of 1970, the When Bobby does ﬁnally start to see how WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM mances Tuesday and Wednesday

New York City-based song-and-dance spectacular about hooking up for life might be a good thing, at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 CASCADIA WEEKLY a single man in his mid-30s and the ﬁve married couples he’s asked why he thinks he should get mar- FRI., MARCH 1 N. Commercial St. Tickets to see who are constantly trying to get him to commit to some- ried. There’s a pause, and then he says, with DRAG SHOW: The 21st annual the story of the swamp-dwelling 15 thing more than affairs with stewardesses and other in- sincerity, “Why, for company, I guess.” It was “Drag Show” begins at 7pm at ogre who goes on a life-changing Western Washington University’s adventure are $20-$69. appropriate women, has resonated with audiences. a good, honest answer, and made me want to Performing Arts Center Concert 734-6080 OR WWW. And, although it’s a number of decades removed from know if Bobby ever did ﬁnd true love. My guess Hall. In addition to the drag MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM its original production, the Tony Award-winning play man- is it will for you, too. doit UPCOMING EVENTS

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30 30 TODDLER ART: Young artists will create their own masterpieces as they experiment FOOD with materials and acquire skills at “Toddler Art” sessions at 10am every Friday in Marc visual at the Whatcom Museum’s Family Interac- 24 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES tive Gallery (FIG), 250 Flora St. There’s a suggested donation of $2 for materials. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG B-BOARD GALLERY WALK: Peruse a variety of gal- what it takes for her to feel satisﬁed that it’s what leries and businesses at the monthly Gallery

22 22 Walk from 6-9pm throughout downtown she wants it to be. Anacortes. Entry is free.

FILM FILM “At times during my lengthy process, especially WWW.ANACORTESART.COM when carving a multiple-block woodcut design, I wonder if it is going to turn out how I envision ART WALK: Galleries and businesses 18 it,” Armstrong says. “I spend well over 100 hours throughout downtown Bellingham will open their doors from 6-10pm as part of the carving the blocks for a piece, and I don’t know MUSIC Downtown Art Walk. Check out the listings for sure until the first printing that it is going below or head to the website listed here for to work out. That moment is both intimidating a full roster of participants. 16 16 and exciting, when I print a set of blocks to- WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM ART ART ART ART gether for the first time. Nothing compares with WATERFRONT ARTISTS’ STUDIO: View the satisfaction of seeing all of the hours of work the works of 17 of Bellingham’s most ver- 15 coming together when a design is finally printed satile artists exhibiting a variety of genres as a whole.” during a Spring Quarter Exhibition from STAGE STAGE When Armstrong takes part in the annual Spring 6-10pm at the Waterfront Artists’ Studios, Studio Tour put on by Whidbey Working Artists 1220 Central Ave. 201-0710 14 March 1-3, she’ll be one of the many artists throughout ALLIED ARTS: “Go Figure!,” an exhibit featuring works from the ceramics group GET OUT Whidbey Island who are not only exhibiting their finished Cascade Clay, can be seen at an opening pieces, but also demonstrat- reception from 6-9pm at Allied Arts, 1418

12 Cornwall Ave. Both contemporary and tra- ing their various crafts. Arm- ditional clay work can be seen at the show, strong will be sharing space which will be on display through March 30. WORDS . $/ with two other artists at the WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG OR WWW. WHAT: Whidbey Paciﬁc Northwest Art School CASCADECLAYARTISTS.COM 8 Working Artists’ in Coupeville, and will show MAKE.SHIFT: “What’s Up! 15 Years of Local “Spring Studio off both her printmaking pro- Tour” Music” will feature every What’s Up! cover WHEN: 10am-5pm cess and carving skills. ever published at an opening reception CURRENTS “RISING WITH THE SUN” Fri.-Sun., March 1-3 Although it’s the ﬁrst studio from 6-10pm at Make.Shift Art Space, 306

6 WHERE: tour she’s taken part in as an Flora St. The exhibit—which shows through Throughout artist, Armstrong says she’s March 23—also features iconic live music Whidbey Island photos and articles from the entire lifespan VIEWS VIEWS BY AMY KEPFERLE attended the event before, COST: Entry is free of the music magazine. and is looking forward to be- WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM 4 INFO: www. whidbey ing one of the many creative

MAIL MAIL Studio Smarts workingartists.com types who will be highlighted ALFORD’S SALON: “hARTbeats@Alford’s,” a ------at the 21 working studios on beneﬁt for the NW Therapeutic Riding Cen-

2 ter, happens from 6-10pm at Alford’s Salon, TOUR HIGHLIGHTS WITH WHAT: Penn Cove the roster. MusselFest 1208 Bay St. In addition to the art, there’ll

DO IT IT DO There was a time, Armstrong be refreshments, harp music, and a rafﬂe. LINNANE ARMSTRONG WHEN: 10am-9pm Sat., March 2 and says, when she couldn’t imag- WWW.NWTRC.ORG 10am-5pm Sun., ine she’d be part of this tour. 13 March 3 FISHBOY: Head out of downtown proper 27. n order to make successful woodcuts and linocuts, one must be in- After graduating from Coupe- WHERE: to check out the works of folk artists R.R. 02. credibly patient. Whidbey Island artist Linnane Armstrong knows ville High School in 2000, she Coupeville, Clark from 6-10pm at FishBoy Gallery, 617 I this, but doesn’t let it stop her from doing what she loves. Whidbey Island thought she’d leave the small Virginia St. .08 To get a clearer picture of what sort of timeline we’re talking about, INFO: www. town she grew up in and never WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM 09 # consider “Rising With the Sun,” the woodcut highlighted on this page. thepenncove come back—at least not to Armstrong says she guesstimates the design time for the intricate im- musselsfestival. live. But when she returned SAT., MARCH 2 com PAINT SLINGERS LIVE: Watch Tom Wood age of herons at rest and in ﬂight—including phases of sketching and after college, she realized and R.R. Clark (FishBoy) in action at a doing a full-color watercolor painting of the design—was about 15 what she’d been missing. “Paint Slingers Live Paint” from 11am-5pm hours. Making the key block—the outline block that prints in black— “The art that I made when I lived in a city was at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. took a jaw-dropping 90 hours. The second block she carved—the one different, and after college I had kind of an art- The artists and friends will work together on paintings throughout the day as part of

CASCADIA WEEKLY featuring the dark blue areas—took another 15 hours. Finally, the last block where I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be mak- their “Alien Alphabet” exhibit. two blocks of color added another 10 hours to the tally. ing,” she says. “Then I moved back to Whidbey, WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM 16 “Altogether, design and carving for this piece was about 130 hours,” and was re-inspired by the nature here. I love that Armstrong says. “Printing six prints takes about three hours, including even on my short drive to work everyday I have to PRINT SHOW: An opening party and potluck setup, and this is how many I print in a sitting.” pull over sometimes to take a picture of the way for “The Steamroller Print Show” happens Considering that so many hours go into just one piece, one has to the light is over Oak Harbor, or a particular tree from 4:30-9pm at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 wonder how Armstrong knows when she’s done with an image, and that has excellent shape and character.” doit Updated Menu Release Mar 1

Blanche Way. The event will afford attendees Mar 6 Art Talk w/Anna Halpin a rare opportunity to purchase prints created by some of the best Northwest artists who Celebrate St Patty's All Weekend

participated in the Anacortes Arts Festival’s 30 “Steamroller Block Print Project.” Mar 16 music 7pm/Mar 17 music 4 & 7pm FOOD WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM

BECKY FLETCHER RECEPTION: An open-

ing reception for Becky Fletcher’s “Waiting 24 on the Light” solo exhibit happens from 5-8pm at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery,

5742 Gilkey Ave. The oil paintings will be B-BOARD on display through March 31. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM 22 22 SUN., MARCH 3

MINI-CON: Celebrate your love for FILM Japanese comics and animation at “Ba-Con 2013: Bellingham Mini-Con” from 12-6pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central ? 18 Ave. Events include a timed and themed art

contest, a ramen speed-eating competition, PLANS THURSDAY? MUSIC meet-ups, panels and more. Tickets are available at the library. $5 admission. Lightcatcher open until 8 pm. 16 16 WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG ART ART ART ART FEATURING Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin ONGOING EXHIBITS -,0 Collection {Size Doesn’t Matter} 15 ARTWOOD: “Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall”

At The Park: Vintage Views From The Photo Archives STAGE will be featured through March at Artwood /<1&+ Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. 7UXWK/LNH WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM WKH6XQ Opens March 10th! 14 FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the con- The cat-and-mouse story of urban Jim Olson: Art in Architecture temporary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30- intrigue both in 1962, when GET OUT 5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, Seattle hosted the World’s Fair, and in 2001, after its transforma- www.whatcommuseum.org 617 Virginia St. tion in the Microsoft gold rush. A

714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM classic and hugely entertaining 12 Wednesday, political novel. GOOD EARTH: AnnMarie DeCollibus’ “Sea-

Co-sponsored by WORDS sons” can be viewed through March at Good Feb. 27th, 7pm at Village Books Whatcom Community College Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.

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HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “Skagit Sets Sail: -8/,$3$1'/ A Maritime History of Skagit County” shows CURRENTS through April 28 at the Skagit County 0HPRLURIWKH

Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St. 6XQGD\%UXQFK 6 WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM The smartest, An honest and lively memoir wittiest, most incisive media

that appeals to both the food- analysis show in the universe. VIEWS LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Alien Art,” featuring lover and the devoted family collaborative art by Tom Wood and Randy member in all of us. 4 Clark (FishBoy) shows through March 23 $)UHH(YHQWDWWKH at Fairhaven’s Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 %RRN)DUH&DIp MAIL 13th St. LQ9LOODJH%RRNV

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March 2, 10:30am the Permanent Collection” and “Eduardo Calderon: Portraits of 20 Northwest Artists” The Join us for the live taping of are on display through March 13 at La Con- 13 Chuckanut Radio Hour hosted by 27. ner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. Admission is $3-$8. Brooke Gladstone 02. You’ll enjoy live music, fun skits, poetry, & Bob Garfield WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG and an interview with author... .08

RUTH OZEKI KSVU 90.1 FM 09 WESTERN GALLERY: View a selection of # works from the faculty of the Departments A Tale for the Time Being of Art and Design through March 9 at the Tickets $5 available at Village Books Western Gallery on the Western Washington & BrownPaperTickets.com. University campus.. Entry is free and open to the public. Tuesday, March 19th, 6:30pm WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU in the WCC Heiner Theater KSJU 91.9 FM 237 W. Kellogg St., Bellingham WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Chicanitas: Small CASCADIA WEEKLY Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collec- Read More at VillageBooks.com Streaming Live! tion,” and “Wild East Meets Wild West: Pho- KSVR.org 17 tos from Nakhodka, Russia” can currently be Find us on Facebook. viewed at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City VILLAGE BOOKS Hall and the Lightcatcher Building. 1200 11th St., Bellingham WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 360.671.2626 Rumor Has It

30 30 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, a dude named Brent Cole got the idea to start a magazine devoted to FOOD documenting what he felt to be underserved music bands, musicians and elements of the local music community. It’s the kind of idea you only 24 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT have on a whim, and attempt to execute simply because you don’t know any better.

B-BOARD And, in 1998, What’s Up! Magazine was born. A few years after that, fresh from my own foray into local publishing, I joined the What’s 22 22 Up! staff after a hasty, beer-fueled meeting BY CAREY ROSS

FILM FILM with Cole at the 3B Tavern. Going to work for Cole was a decision I made on a whim, simply because I didn’t know any better. 18 18 18 What’s Up! Turns 15 And, at that meeting, a professional relation-

MUSIC ship and steadfast friendship were born. MUSIC PARTY LIKE IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY I’ve often said, jokingly, that I owe Brent Cole my life. To a very real extent, that statement is 16 true. After all, it’s un- ART ART likely I would be working in my current position 15 for the Cascadia Weekly were it not for the years STAGE STAGE I spent at What’s Up!. Further, it was Cole who,

14 while as then-manager of the Pickford Cinema, BY CAREY ROSS

GET OUT hired me to ﬁll a projec- tionist position at the movie theater, a place I still work today. 12 But much of what I owe Cole isn’t as tangible, yet has has considerable value, nonetheless. WORDS From him, I learned there is real responsibility in being the keeper of the record for this music 8 community. That although bands and musicians might get all the glory, you don’t ever have to step onto a stage to use your voice. That not everyone CURRENTS is going to like what you have to say, but as long

6 as you own your words, you’ll come out OK in the end. But if you do say something ﬂat-out wrong

VIEWS VIEWS or unintentionally hurtful for which you owe an apology, offer one up, and make it sincere. Then 4 get on with your life. That doing right is more im- BLACK EYES AND NECKTIES

MAIL MAIL portant than being right, but if you can do right PHOTO BY HOLLIE BY HUTHMANPHOTO and be right, that’s pretty good too.

2 ’d like to say I remember what I did for my 15th birthday. the exceeding hard-working While Cole and I work in similar capacities for

DO IT IT DO But I don’t. As birthdays go, whether it was good, bad or Make.Shift crew have put publications that could be seen as competitors,

I somewhere in between, turning 15 was a lot of things, but their considerable energies it’s always been imperative for us to work togeth- memorable, it apparently wasn’t. to work at creating a visual er and to remind one another that we do this be- 13

27. What’s Up! Magazine is about to turn 15, and its founder and representation of not just of cause it’s important that Bellingham continue

02. publisher Brent Cole is aiming to make certain this is one birthday the history of What’s Up!, but to be a place where bands can live, thrive and, none of us ever forgets. also the Bellingham music as happens with some regularity around these

.08 As a former What’s Up! employee myself and a longtime friend // ) community itself during the parts, a place that acts as a springboard for the 09 # of Cole’s, I can imagine his thought process with regard to plan- WHERE: past decade and a half. All kind of opportunities that shouldn’t, by all rights, Everywhere, ning his magazine’s birthday celebration went something like this: downtown of the magazine’s covers— be afforded to bands from a town this small. “Yeah, I could throw one birthday show. But why do that when I Bellingham nearly 200 of them—will While both the man and his magazine have could throw 15 shows? And if 15 shows are good, 23 shows are way COST: Free-$12 share space on Make.Shift’s grown and changed during the past decade and better! And if one night’s worth of celebration is ﬁne, two would MORE INFO: www. walls with excerpts and sto- a half, one thing remains as true as it ever was: be just great! And why not get a bunch of bands back together for facebook.com/ ries from What’s Up!, as well Cole started What’s Up! because he loved local whatsupmagazine

CASCADIA WEEKLY it? And have an art show to boot?” bham as iconic music photos by the music and thought it was a thing to be cel- As I was privy to some of Cole’s brainstorming, I can tell you the likes of Chris Fuller, Gunther ebrated and documented. That love remains as 18 process wasn’t quite that streamlined, but when the dust settled, Frank, Hollie Huthman, Jacob Covey, Chris How- strong and as true as it did the day he came up the bands booked and the venues nailed down, the result was a cel- ard, Paul Israel, and more. While some of these with his harebrained publishing scheme. ebration the likes of which this music-loving town has never seen. photos will be familiar to those of us who have Congratulations, Brent. You’ve done the Belling- The whole thing kicks off on Fri., March 1 during Bellingham’s followed the magazine and its photographers ham music community a world of good in 15 years. monthly Downtown Art Walk. Cat Sieh, Jess Flegel, and the rest of during the past 15 years, others are being shown Can’t wait to see what the next 15 bring. in a gallery for the ﬁrst time ever. musicevents But it wouldn’t be a What’s Up! celebration The Mindful Couple Workshop without a musical element, and for that, we’re

WED., FEB. 27 all going to have to head to the Shakedown, SPEND A DAY ENRICHING YOUR RELATIONSHIP MARIE EATON: Local singer and where Cole has arranged for the trip down our 30 songwriter Marie Eton performs at Oﬀered in Bellingham, Seattle, and Victoria

collective musical memory lane to continue FOOD 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sun- Next workshop March 9th, 2013 with a show that will be a reunion for most set Dr. Suggested donation is $8-$12. of the bands playing it. One of Bellingham’s 961-7861 This course qualifies for 6 CEs for Mental Health Professionals all-time most-popular bands, Black Eyes and 24 PIANO RECITAL: Award-winning pia- Neckties, will come back from the dead at nist and student Madeline Slettedahl www.TheMindfulCoupleWorkshops.com Cole’s request, and they’ll bring the Waste- will hold her junior collaborative re- B-BOARD landers, the Narrows, and Sugar Sugar Sugar cital at 8pm at WWU’s Performing Arts with them. Tickets for this show are on sale Center Concert Hall. Entry is free. 650-3130 now, and I suggest you buy them early, as this 22 show is as certain a sellout as a musical en- THURS., FEB. 28 deavor gets in this town. WIND SYMPHONY CONCERT: The PEPPER FILM But all this is just a prelude to the giant mu- WWU Wind Symphony will present its annual Winter Concert at 8pm at the 18 sical explosion that will take place all day, all 18 over downtown Bellingham on Sat., March 2. university’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. The performance is free. MUSIC SISTERS MUSIC Cole’s original plan was to book 15 shows at 15 650-3130 different venues, one show and one venue for COOKING OUTSIDE THE BOX SINCE 1988 each year of his music magazine’s existence. FRI., MARCH 1 16 FIREHOUSE PIANO SERIES: WWU’s off- Open Nightly Except Monday 1055 N State St B’ham 671-3414

Because that task apparently proved easier to ART pull off than he’d anticipated (or because Cole campus series, the Firehouse Piano Se- ries, continues with a concert featuring is just plain crazy), he expanded his roster of students Amelia Nye and Jeanette Ojala 15 shows, and when the ﬁnal numbers were tal- at 7:30pm at the Firehouse Performing lied, the big birthday confab had spread to Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets are STAGE include 23 venues and 62 bands. $5 for students and $10 general. While space constraints do not allow me 650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU 14 to list every band and every venue, it should SAT., MARCH 2 be noted that this daylong musical spree will TRADITIONAL JAZZ: The Halleck Street start at 1pm Saturday with Hot Damn Scan- Ramblers will perform during the GET OUT dal at Aladdin’s Antiques, and won’t wrap Bellingham Traditional Jazz Society’s monthly dance from 2-5pm at the VFW

up until last call at nearly every downtown 12 Hall, 625 N State St. Entry is $6-$10. locale that also doubles as a music venue. In 734-2973 OR WWW.BTJS.WEBS.COM

between, you can expect to hear the likes of WORDS X X Snug Harbor, Keaton Collective, and more at BUG JAM: The Bellingham Ukulele RESTAURANT RETAIL CATERING Miss eating pasta? Group (BUG) hosts a jam from 3-5pm We’ve perfected our the Wild Buffalo; Eagle Teeth at the Under- 8 ground; Dog Shredder, Rookery, and more at at St. James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St. A beginner’s workshop begins Gluten-Free the Shakedown; Specters, the Palisades, and at 2pm. Suggested donation is $5. Pasta others at Make.Shift; Falling Up Stairs at the 510-4386 OR WWW. CURRENTS Redlight; Leatherhorn at the Cabin Tavern; BELLINGHAMUKULELEGROUP.COM Lunch Served 6 Cara Alboucq, Thimble vs. Needle, and more at Tuesday–Friday Boundary Bay Brewery; Wishbone, IG88, and FILTHFEST 3.0: Liquid Stranger, Megalodon, Sub Antix, and more will Lots of items VIEWS others at Glow; and many, many more bands perform at FilthFest 3.0 from 8pm-4am $10 & Under at many other venues. Odds are, if there’s a lo- at Chazzam Signs & Graphics, 420 Ohio 4 100 N. Commercial St. next to Mount Baker Theatre X 360-594-6000 X bellinghampasta.com cal band you love, they’re playing. If there’s a St. Tickets are $15-$35. local band you’re curious about, they’re play- (425) 344-6622 OR WWW. MAIL BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM

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