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FOOD FOOD ThisWeek VISUAL ARTS Solstice Art Walk: 5-8pm, throughout historic A glance at this week’s Fairhaven 27 happenings SATURDAY [06.18.16]

B-BOARD B-BOARD ONSTAGE Shakespeare’s Wonderland: 1pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon

24 Best of BAAY: 5pm, the Majestic Ryan Stiles & Friends: 7pm and 9pm, Upfront Theatre

FILM Hamlet: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Proof: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre 20 DANCE MUSIC If you’re questioning Cinderella: 1pm, Lynden Christian High School Narnian Excerpts: 1pm and 6:30pm, Mount Baker

18 whether to be or Theatre ART not to be in the MUSIC Music Moves Me: 11am-4pm, Boundary Bay Brewery

16 audience for showings COMMUNITY Berry Dairy Days: Through Sunday, Burlington STAGE of Shakespeare’s Rockhound Rendezvous: 10am-5:30pm, Bloedel masterwork, Donovan

14 Antique Fair: 9am-4pm, Christianson’s Nursery, Hamlet, showing Mount Vernon

GET OUT June 16-18 and 23- GET OUT Sofia Milstead Memorial Run: 9am, Lynden High 25 at iDiOM Theater, School 12 Run for Epilepsy: 9am, Lake Padden Park choose the first Boat Show: 9am-4pm, La Conner Marina Bark in the Park: 10am-2pm, Storvik Park, Anacortes WORDS option FOOD 8 Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, VFW Hall, Lynden PHOTO BY TAD BEAVERS TAD BY PHOTO Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Blaine Senior Center WEDNESDAY [06.15.16] Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts

CURRENTS CURRENTS Center ONSTAGE Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza 6 Blaine Market: 10am-2pm, Peace Portal Drive Anything Goes Benefit Show: 6:30pm, Bellingham Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Theatre Guild

VIEWS Market Square Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab

4 WORDS VISUAL ARTS Just Women Opening: 10am-5pm, Whatcom Mu- Terry Tempest Williams: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre MAIL MAIL seum’s Lightcatcher Building Brick and Toy Fair: 10am-5pm, Ferndale Events

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2 Center Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO Sedro-Woolley Market: 3-7pm, Hammer Heritage SUNDAY [06.19.16] Park ONSTAGE Brewers Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal Celebrate the men in your life Sun., June 19 by bringing Anything Goes: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 06.15.16 THURSDAY [06.16.16] them to a Father’s Day Car Show at BelleWood Acres DANCE Narnian Excerpts: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre .11 ONSTAGE or the Bellingham Fete—which will also include an antique

24 Bard on the Beach: Through Sept. 24, Vanier Park, # COMMUNITY Vancouver BC car show—at Wilson Motors Father’s Day Car Show: m-3pm, BelleWood Acres Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Berry Dairy Days: 10am-4pm, Burlington Hamlet: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Bellingham Fete: 12-8pm, Wilson Motors Proof: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre WORDS GET OUT The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre FRIDAY [06.17.16] Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library Boat Show: 9am-4pm, La Conner Marina ONSTAGE Poems of Motherhood: 7pm, Village Books CASCADIA WEEKLY MUSIC Hamlet: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Scot Ranney: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City MONDAY [06.20.16] Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild COMMUNITY 2 Hall Proof: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Berry Dairy Days: Through Sunday, Burlington ONSTAGE The Chris Eger Band: 6-9pm, Hotel Bellwether Ryan Stiles & Friends: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog WORDS GET OUT DANCE Relay for Life: 6pm today through 12pm Saturday, DANCE Julie Trimmingham: 7pm, Village Books Cinderella: 7pm, Lynden Christian High School NW Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden Narnian Excerpts: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre

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ing solar panels after President Carter nished with memories of Benghazi. But 24 challenged us in the 1970s. We didn’t, “What difference does it make?” and we are really paying the price with One point of that sparkly crown now FILM our inaction. broken and missing. Failed policies in

We are making headway as well as oth- Libya, Yemen, Russia, Iran, and the 20 er countries. Ukraine have taken their toll.

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Larsen out of office. IN BRIEF 12 Congressman Larsen was an early sup- If Hillary Clinton wins the trip to the porter of this project when the people White House her scandals won’t all fit in WORDS that elected him clearly did not want it. a carry-on. —Diana J Lowry, Bellingham He does not represent us. 8 —Walt Kochan, Bellingham THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT

RAILROAD QUESTIONS It is interesting that each generation CURRENTS DESERVE ANSWERS has priorities based on their formative Lance Fritz, Union Pacific chairman, years in history. When candidates of one 6 president and chief executive officer, generation talk about return to greatness VIEWS had a total compensation of $10 million or the good old days, consider their for- 4

in 2015. Perhaps he could use some of his mative benchmarks. 4 $2 million bonus to purchase some stron- When a candidate wants to return MAIL MAIL ger bolts that won’t crack as the heavy America to its greatness, does he realize MAIL bomb trains roll down the track. that in the ’50s the rich paid extremely 2 Questions: Why are the track inspec- high taxes, unions were strong, medical DO IT IT DO tions not detecting the bolt and rail doctors made house calls paid for by non- flaws that result in train derailments? profit insurance, people did not store Could better methods of track inspection their money offshore, America was loved be used? How long does it take between because it helped rebuild industry in Ja- detecting a flaw and the actual track re- pan while welcoming immigrants from 06.15.16 placement? around the world? .11

After 14 derailments in three years, the Millennials have never known a func- 24 # evidence keeps growing that there is no tioning Congress. It is no wonder they safe way to transport Bakken crude. In doubt that an election makes a difference. Washington the concern is not just for Grow up with booming wealth, abject personal safety, but also for threats to poverty, rampant racism, chaos of wars the environment, salmon fishing, tourism somewhere? It makes a huge difference and agricultural interests. in perspective.

Most freight railroad insurance poli- Can we be more gentle in our rheto- CASCADIA WEEKLY cies couldn’t begin to cover damage ric and consider the big picture? I hope 5 from a moderate oil train accident, much this great American Experiment is not less a major disaster. The damages from about to end for lack of vision and un- a Seattle wreck could stretch into the derstanding instead of today’s promoted billions of dollars, but the railroad re- fear and hate. sponsible for the derailment carries only —Donna Starr, Blaine For more information, go to GetBackUpBook.com THE GRISTLE MOVING FORWARD LOOKING BACKWARD: An as-

34 sociate of Harcourt Developments introduced himself at a meeting of the Port of Bellingham commissioners

FOOD FOOD last week. Louis Parr, a contractor for the Dublin-based developer’s Liberty Wharf dockside shopping center in views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE the UK’s Channel Islands, announced Harcourt would 27 be opening offices in Bellingham and hiring subcon- tractors with instructions from Harcourt principals in

B-BOARD B-BOARD Ireland to “get this thing going.” Hopeful news! But by “this thing” does Harcourt mean an actual BY AMY GOODMAN

24 development or development plan; or a continued opaque and behind-the-scenes rewrite with POB in-

FILM siders of the original master development agreement for Bellingham’s central waterfront? A Tale of Two Injustices 20 If the latter “thing,” that rewrite has never emerged for review and approval by our elected port ‘LYNCHING’ AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IN CALIFORNIA

MUSIC commission. Port commissioners—ostensibly the public agen- CASES OF rape and lynching were people in Pasadena,” Nana Gyam-

18 cy’s board of governors—reported shock and irrita- in the courts of California, and in the fi, Jasmine’s attorney, told us on

ART tion when they learned staff had already been long news around the world, last week. the “Democracy Now!” news hour. at work developing agreements that would permit In one case, a student convicted of “This is clearly a political persecu- the transfer of the Boardmill building on the former sexual assault was given a light sen- tion cooked up by the Pasadena 16 Georgia-Pacific mill site from Western Crossing De- tence, while the statement that his District Attorney’s Office... in what

STAGE velopment—the subsidiary entity created by West- victim read to the court went viral, we are referring to as the attempt- ern Washington University and the Port of Belling- read by millions of people around the homie named Big BA also killed ed lynching of Jasmine Richards.” ham in 2009 to develop a waterfront campus area globe. In another case, a young Af- by the Pasadena police. Our police Back in Santa Clara County Supe- 14 for WWU—into the hands of Harcourt for a proposed rican-American woman who founded have been notorious for bullying.” rior Court, Judge Aaron Persky pre- hotel and convention center concept. Frankly, West- a local branch of Black Lives Matter On Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, Jas- sided over the trial of Brock Turner,

GET OUT ern Crossing itself is a bit dodgy, an instrument that and had been charged with “felony mine had organized a peaceful who was convicted of intent to com- allows the university to remotely maintain a prefer- lynching” was found guilty and sent march to call attention to just that mit rape, sexual penetration with

12 ential and indefinite hold on the best existing struc- to jail. The two cases could not be type of police bullying. And sure a foreign object of an intoxicated ture on the waterfront while under the control of more starkly different, nor could enough, after the march, as video person and sexual penetration with POB Executive Director Rob Fix and former (skulking, they, together, better illustrate the documents, the police showed up a foreign object of an unconscious WORDS no longer representative) Port Commissioner Scott vast disparities across race and class and acted like bullies, overpow- person. Turner faced up to 14 years

8 Walker, who sit on the (mostly comatose) Western lines in our system of justice. ering a young African-American in prison. The victim read her deeply Crossing board of directors. Both cases stem from events that woman and dragging her off to be personal, 7,000-word statement in On May 4, the Western Crossing board approved re- occurred in 2015. On Jan. 17 of arrested. Jasmine was charged with court. But it seemed that Judge Per-

CURRENTS CURRENTS moving the Boardmill building from its acreage. Fix ex- that year, a young woman attend- “felony lynching” for intervening sky was moved more by an appeal plained to the other members Harcourt’s interest in turned a Stanford University fraternity and trying to “de-arrest” the young from Turner’s father, who wrote that 6 6 ing the Boardmill into a hotel. The shift preemptively party with her sister. She drank too woman. Central to the Black Lives he didn’t think Brock’s life should be upzones about three acres of planned industrial land much alcohol, and does not recall Matter movement is the premise ruined for “20 minutes of action.” VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS outlined in the waterfront master plan and delivers that what happened to her. Two gradu- that young people of color, at any Stating that “a prison sentence

4 value to Harcourt—without benefit of a public hearing, ate students saw her being sexually time but certainly while being ar- would have a severe impact on and without looping in the port’s governing board. assaulted while unconscious behind rested or in police custody, might him,” Persky sentenced Turner to MAIL MAIL “If Harcourt wants the Boardmill, they should a dumpster late that night. They be killed or seriously injured. just six months’ jail time with pro-

probably ask,” Port Commissioner Michael McAuley called campus police, then chased “Felony lynching” was a law from bation. Like Turner, Judge Persky 2 commented. “But the commission has seen nothing after Brock Turner, a star of the 1933, drafted immediately after a was himself a star Stanford athlete. DO IT IT DO about it.” Stanford swim team, tackling him. notorious public lynching of two The judge is now facing a recall In 2013, the port issued a Request for Proposals on Turner was arrested. African-American men in San Jose, campaign organized by Stanford law an initial development opportunity (IDO) on 10.8 de- The second case involves an or- Calif. It was adopted to deter mobs professor Michele Landis Dauber. velopable acres near the entrance to the former mill ganizer with Black Lives Matter, from breaking into police stations Jasmine Richards was sentenced 06.15.16 site. Two years later, the agency finally inked an agree- Jasmine Richards. She described and dragging prisoners out to lynch to 90 days and three years’ proba- ment with Ireland-based Harcourt Developments to her activism in her own words in a them. After another Black Lives tion. Brock Turner, despite his mul- .11

24 construct a new commercial and residential area on 19 video posted online last year: Matter organizer was threatened tiple felony convictions for sexual # acres of Bellingham’s downtown waterfront. Under the “I started Black Lives Matter with felony lynching in 2015, legis- assault, will likely get credit for terms of the agreement, Harcourt would complete two Pasadena in January of 2015. I felt lators, who found the word “lynch- good behavior and serve about the major building projects on Bellingham’s central water- like we didn’t have any community ing” offensive in this context, had same amount of time as Jasmine. front, with restoration of the historic Granary Building programs or anything happening in it stripped from the law. But Jas- As for Brock Turner’s victim, her completed by 2019 (with generous slippage dates for my community. And there’s been a mine was charged before the name sentence is ongoing. As she said to market uncertainties). Harcourt has not begun work lot of youth that have been killed change took effect. Turner in court, reading her victim’s

CASCADIA WEEKLY on the Granary and, at the start of the year, appeared by the Pasadena police. Kendrec “What you had were children on statement describing the impact of to prefer jettisoning their agreement on the second McDade is currently the youth that scooters and a couple of adults his attack, “It stays with me, it’s 6 building in preference to the Boardmill project. I am specifically doing all these ac- who were speaking up about state- part of my identity, it has forever The original IDO was an instrument to control the pace tions around. Leroy Barnes, he was sanctioned violence in Pasadena, changed the way I carry myself, the and quality of development, so that the entire 137-acre killed by the Pasadena police. Big about police murdering unarmed way I live the rest of my life.” site could not be tied up by a single developer absent measurable performance. VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE So the performance of Harcourt on

the property they’ve already been GO 34 granted through the pilot IDO is of NORTHWOOD keen interest to commissioners as they FOOD consider delivering more of the best buildable shoreline property to the FOR CASINO ! 27 Dublin developer. Granary work is key. The City of Bellingham is set to

FUN B-BOARD begin early construction on Granary Avenue this summer, but even that re-

veals a boondoggle. 24 At the outset of this year, Harcourt and port staff engineered a dramatic FILM change to the street alignments de- Mongolian

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“This alignment better supports the ART redevelopment of both the Granary Pick your own fresh ingredients, add a specialty sauce, and our grill building and the Boardmill building, chef will cook it up for you fast and fresh every time! Plus, Winners Club 16 two priority redevelopment projects Members can purchase one Mongolian Grill and Asian Buffet for $14.95 of Harcourt’s,” COB staff bluntly not- and their guest gets one FREE every Wednesday in June! Served from STAGE ed in their report to Council. 5pm to 9pm. But, wait—the Boardmill building 14 is not a project of Harcourt, and it would not be approved for transfer by the Western Crossing board until May. GET OUT And it still has not come before the

port commission for public discussion 12 and approval. EVERY This is what a fait accompli smells like. EVERYEVEVERERRYY WORDS Through a sly thimblerigging, the THURSDAY!TTTHURSDAYTHHURSDAYHUURRSDRRSRSDASSDADADAAYY!

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34 AMENDMENT

FOOD FOOD SUNDAY NIGHT, when my son asked currents me why we shoot each other dead almost NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX every day in America, I got to tell him that 27 it’s because we are “free.” We are free to get a .223 caliber AR-15–style semi-automatic

B-BOARD B-BOARD rifle and a 9mm handgun. And we are free to sell those weapons to someone who might

24 shoot and kill 49 people in a nightclub because of whom they choose to love. We are

FILM free to arm ourselves against any potential- ly tyrannical federal government and also

20 A free to watch our children bleed to death in our schools, and churches, and clubs.

MUSIC And we are free to do it all again tomor- row and the day after that. We are free to

18 feel paralyzed and trapped in a system that

ART is literally killing us. Freedom in America also means that we are free to wake up every morning hoping 16 it’s not our kid who gets shot with a weap-

STAGE on of war, and free to wake up hoping it’s not our kid who shoots someone, and free to wake up praying it’s not our kid, or our 14 CRUEL spouse, or our neighbor who shoots herself. In this freest country on earth, we also

GET OUT happen to be in a perpetual hostage situ- ation, in which one false move—or merely

12 the choice to go to class, or to dance with friends—means you may wind up dead. What does all this have to do with free- WORDS dom?

8 Well, the document that promises and protects our freedom has been interpreted to say we are all condemned to live out our CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 days in terror, hostage to powerful interests who urge us to become ever more free 6 by purchasing and stockpiling ever more lethal weapons of war. Perhaps nobody so VIEWS perfectly captured this twisted definition

4 of freedom as former Republican presi- dential candidate Ben Carson, who in the MAIL MAIL HOAX wake of yet another round of futile debates about gun rights last fall said this: “I never 2 saw a body with bullet holes that was more DO IT IT DO devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.” Indeed. This is where I tell you that the current interpretation of the Second Amendment— 06.15.16 the one held onto by Carson, and Donald Trump, and practically the entire Republican .11

24 Party—is a hoax. Outside of the GOP, this is # widely understood. But what we fail to com- prehend, as we bury more of our dead in the name of freedom, is that it is a triple-decker hoax: A lie wrapped in a fabrication, lac- quered over with a falsehood. That we chose to wrap it around our necks as a symbol of

CASCADIA WEEKLY our own liberty is our own fault and shame. The Second Amendment to the Consti- 8 tution says this: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” For most of U.S. history, that was understood to mean that the freedom guaranteed by the layer of the fraud. The larger fabrication Second Amendment was precisely what it is the idea that the Second Amendment— said: the right of the people of each state unlike other provisions of the Constitu- to maintain a well-regulated militia. tion—cannot be subject to any reasonable YOGA So clearly and unequivocally held restriction. We impose limits, caveats and NORTHWESTN TheThT b.k.s Iyengar yoga center of bellingham 34 was this worldview that no less a lib- conditions on many provisions of the Con- Come Try Our eral squish than Richard Nixon Supreme stitution without crying tyranny: FOOD FREEclasses YOGA 30 Court appointee Warren Burger said after We have the constitutionally protect- June 20-26 classes his retirement in 1991 that the Second ed right to peaceably assemble, but not weekly 27 Amendment “has been the subject of one to block traffic. We are protected from 10-Week of the greatest pieces of fraud—I repeat unreasonable and unwarranted search- Summer Super Flexible the word ‘fraud’—on the American pub- es, unless there is probable cause, exi- Session Summer B-BOARD lic by special interest groups that I have gent circumstances, or a hot pursuit. If Make-up Policy! 6/27 - 9/04 ever seen in my lifetime.” This reading charged with a crime, we have the right 24 was based on precedent. The Supreme to a speedy trial (but not if the prosecu- For Total Beginners new student to Advanced discount Court had clearly agreed with Burger’s tion is hunting down witnesses) and also $20 FILM interpretation and not that of the spe- a public one (but not if you want your off!

cial interest groups he chastised, per- trial televised). We also have the right to 20 hapsmost famously in a 1939 case called a trial by jury (unless the crime carries a

U.S. v. Miller. That ruling said that since sentences of six months or less). MUSIC Check our website for our Summer class schedules Voted the possession or use of a “shotgun hav- Constitutional rights are subject to Best Yoga yoganorthwest.com 9 Years in a Row! ing a barrel of less than 18 inches in every sort of condition and limitation, 360.647.0712 1440 10th Street Historic Fairhaven Bellingham 18 length” had no reasonable relationship and as Scalia himself noted in Heller, “the ART to the “preservation or efficiency of a right secured by the Second Amendment well-regulated militia,” the court simply is not unlimited.” He even went on to list 16 could not find that the Second Amend- some reasonable limits.

ment guaranteed “the right to keep and The second hoax—that the right to STAGE bear such an instrument.” Period, full bear arms is not merely an individual right stop. And that was the viewpoint adopt- but also that it is the only constitutional ed by the courts for years. right subject to zero regulation—makes 14 What changed? As Cass Sunstein and no sense on its face, until and unless you others have explained, what changed are willing to fall prey to the third fraud. GET OUT things was a decades-long effort by ex- Hoax number three: Obama, Clinton, ceptionally well-organized, well-funded Democrats, liberals, the media, whomever 12 interest groups that included the National are coming for your guns. They are Com- Rifle Association—all of whom “embarked ing. For your Guns!!! This is the crunchy WORDS on an extraordinary campaign to convince candy shell that makes the other two lies

the public, and eventually the courts, to seem almost reasonable. Of course you 8 8 understand the Second Amendment in should have an inviolate individual right their preferred way.” It’s rather miracu- to defend yourself against a tyrannical CURRENTS CURRENTS lous, if you stop to think about it: In a federal government if you have persuad- CURRENTS few short decades the NRA’s view of the ed yourself that the federal government is Second Amendment became the law of the indeed tyrannical. This is the big lie that 6 land. By 2008, writing the majority opin- continues to be broadcast and pushed out ion for the Supreme Court in District of ad nauseam, and no amount of fact-check- VIEWS

Columbia et al. v. Heller, Antonin Scalia en- ing or direct confrontation with accusers 4 shrined this view for first time that: “The makes a whit of difference. The NRA want- Second Amendment protects an individual ed us to feel that only our guns would MAIL

right to possess a firearm unconnected make us free, and they have prevailed. 2 with service in a militia, and to use that That is, of course the paradox. We are DO IT IT DO arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such in thrall to a fib of epic proportions that as self-defense within the home.” itself relies on two other lies. And because That the Heller court itself qualified we are captive to all these lies, we are also that right in multiple ways—and that captive to the notion that as much as we in the years since Heller, the court has wish someone would do something about 06.15.16 declined one important gun case after all the innocent dead people, our hands .11

another—doesn’t change the fact that are tied by the freedom-affording gift that 24 the hoax is now the law. On top of every- is the Second Amendment. It is a sick joke # thing, most Americans believe by rather of our democracy that after every mass huge margins that the concededly ambig- shooting we must tell our children that uous wording of the Second Amendment the Framers gave us this precious gift of means that individuals have the consti- liberty, more valuable than their lives, and tutional right to bear arms, even if they that we are stuck with it. don’t want it. According to a recent NRA This is the opposite of freedom. It is CASCADIA WEEKLY poll, when asked if “[e]very American has slavery by choice. a fundamental right to self-defense and a 9 right to choose the home defense firearm Dahlia Lithwick is an attorney and free- that is best for them,” 76 percent of re- lance author who writes “Supreme Court spondents said “yes.” Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence.” She But that is only the crunchy bottom hosts the Slate podcast Amicus.

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14 A large debris flow shows up as a gray streak on Mt. Baker’s eastern flank. Western Washington University geologists A woman reports she was raped by two men in a Bellingham park. The victim documented the debris flow that appears like a river, signaling continued thermal activity within the dormant volcano. tells police that she was walking in the area of Maritime Heritage Park in the early A debris flow is like an avalanche that spreads ice, rock and volcanic deposits down the mountain slope.

GET OUT morning. She spoke to and shared a cigarette with a man before she was pushed to the ground and assaulted by the man and an associate. After the alleged assault, The Washington Supreme Court upholds this month, BNSF reports. The railway

12 the victim left the area and was transported by family to the Emergency Room at a 2013 law designed to protect commu- company files a report Friday with the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center for a sexual assault exam, where she was nities from violent crimes. If a person Federal Railroad Administration citing contacted by patrol officers. Detectives continue to investigate the incident. is found incompetent to help with his one or more broken bolts as the cause WORDS defense due to mental illness and the of the June 3 crash. The company is now

8 Whatcom County prepares for a massive earthquake. Local leaders say every- charges are dropped, the state can ask a in the process of checking similar bolts thing went smoothly in a planned Cascadia Rising preparedness drill, but the ex- judge to civilly commit the person for a in curved sections of its 32,000 miles of ercise revealed issues responders can improve. A rupture of the Cascadia Subduc- period of time. But the new law lets the track in 23 states. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 tion Zone off the coast of Washington could cause a huge quake and devastating state hold the offenders for longer pe- tsunami. Drills took place this week in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. riods if they can show that the person Meanwhile, a public policy report re- 6 is likely to commit another violent act. leased this week estimates more than 06.08.16 Lawyers for two offenders challenged the 150,000 children in Washington go to VIEWS WEDNESDAY law, arguing it violated their due process school within the blast zone radius of an 4 rights. A trial court commissioner agreed oil train. The Bellingham-based environ- Shut down public schools until they’re properly funded: That’s the recommenda- and found the law unconstitutional. The mental group STAND used mapping soft- MAIL MAIL tion of the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, frustrated by the indiffer- high court reversed the ruling. ware to find nearly 500 schools within a

ence of the state Legislature to solve the funding problem. The state is already un- mile of tracks that carry volatile cargoes 2 der a court sanction to properly fund public education, but it’s not enough to compel 06.10.16 similar to those that derailed in the tiny DO IT IT DO lawmakers into action. Superintendent Randy Dorn outlines a number of additional, FRIDAY Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier. more severe sanctions and penalties in a brief to the Washington Supreme Court. Get a patient into a room—or go to jail. 06.14.16 A former Seattle firefighter is sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in prison That’s the harsh order handed out in court 06.15.16 TUESDAY for the repeated rapes of a Lynden teenager. Michael James “Suey” Sulak, 54, met against the CEO of Western State Hospital. the girl through a theater group. He convinced her they were in love, and she ran She was ordered to report to jail next week A federal appeals court upholds the .11

24 away from her home to be with him in late December 2013. The Bellingham Herald after being found in contempt of court net neutrality rules approved earlier this # reports Judge Charles Snyder rejected a plea deal based on the circumstances and for keeping a patient on the waiting list year by the Federal Communications Com- handed down a sentence about three times longer than suggested by attorneys. for admission to the psychiatric hospital. mission, with the White House calling the Hospital staff cite a long list of patients ruling a “victory for the open, fair and free 06.09.16 waiting to get into Western State, a facili- Internet as we know it today.” The White THURSDAY ty plagued by shortages of staff and beds. House said the ruling by the U.S. Court of Admitting the patient would mean skip- Appeals for the District of Columbia allows

CASCADIA WEEKLY The state Attorney General has had it with Tim Eyman. The AG announces that ping over others on a waitlist who could be the internet to remain open to innovation he filed petitions today in Snohomish and Thurston County Superior Courts asking more sick—and the new administrator says and economic growth without service pro- 10 each court to enforce subpoenas issued in the state’s investigation of Eyman, his she won’t do that. viders serving as paid gatekeepers. Gov. political committees, his for-profit company, and a for-profit signature-gathering Jay Inslee calls the decision “a significant company. The petitions assert that Eyman and the other parties withheld docu- A broken bolt caused the fiery derail- endorsement by the federal appeals court ments subpoenaed in the course of the Attorney General’s investigation of alleged ment of a Union Pacific oil train along of the value of an open and unfettered in- campaign-finance law violations. the Washington-Oregon border earlier ternet in the United States.” to a domestic dispute a between a moth- index FUZZ er and her daughter in Cordata neighborhood. “The investigation revealed that the

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HULK ON RAMPAGE FOOD PEOPLE IN THE On May 28, Blaine dispatch advised that NEIGHBORHOOD fire and rescue units were responding to a 27 On June 1, Bellingham Police told a man report of a parked vehicle leaking a black not to return to the downtown Starbucks fluid onto the street. Rainwater was carry- for one year “as a result of his unsettling ing it to the curbside gutter and the storm B-BOARD and volatile behavior towards customers drain system. A crew from North Whatcom and employees,” police reported. Fire and Rescue was already on the scene 24 when police arrived, and had mitigated

On June 12, a man was reported outside the groundwater pollution with absorbent FILM Woods Coffee on Railroad Avenue rant- material to protect the grated storm drain.

ing about “killing and putting bullets in “The liquid appeared to be a small amount 20 heads,” Bellingham Police reported. the of stale gasoline leaking from a older se-

51-year-old was found to have several out- dan coupe that was strapped to a tow dolly MUSIC standing warrants for his arrest. He was behind an unoccupied pickup truck parked

taken into custody and recommended for at the curb,” police reported. “Via license 18 a mental health evaluation. plate information officers located and con- ART tacted the owner of the truck and towed On June 12, a strange man showed up at a car at his residence nearby. He apologet-

133 16 Bellingham church. He toured the building ically explained he’d parked the prior eve- Number of mass shootings in the first 164 days of 2016.

and said he’d be back later. “He made several ning and had not noticed anything leaking. STAGE people feel uncomfortable,” police reported. He arranged to move the vehicles immediately, and agreed to collect and properly On June 11, the assistant manager of a dispose of the absorbent material.” 76 90 14 business in Sunnyland requested that a Number of days with a mass Number of days without a mass customer be banned from the business for On May 25, Blaine Police observed a shooting in 2016. shooting in 2016. GET OUT one year, due to ongoing problems with junked vehicle parked on city right of him. “Officers issued him the trespass, way adjacent to a commercial building on 12 which he was not happy about,” Belling- Peace Portal. Police contacted the busi- ham Police reported. “He left the business ness inside and “learned the business had 207 WORDS cursing and screaming.” given a customer permission to tempo- Number of people killed by a mass shooting in the United States in 2016, including 49 killed in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday. rarily store the hulk where it was sitting, 8 8 On June 11, police checked on a woman not realizing the city code violations this who was screaming profanities on Holly caused. The problem was explained to the CURRENTS CURRENTS Street in downtown Bellingham. business, and they promptly had the own- CURRENTS er of the wheeled assortment of vintage 33,636 6 On June 12, Bellingham Police spoke to a car parts removed,” police reported. Number of people killed by firearms in 2013, according to a study by the woman after she tipped over a Porta Potty Centers for Disease Control. That amounts to 92 people every day. in Maritime Heritage Park. “She was able to On May 26, staff at a Blaine motel com- VIEWS

put the Porta Potty upright and was coun- plained that a customer had abandoned a 4 seled about her disorderly behavior,” police rental vehicle on their property, “possibly reported. “She apologized and stated she in the process of illegally crossing north- 11 MAIL would try and act more appropriately.” bound in to Canada,” police commented. Rank of suicide as the leading Rank of homicide as the 2 “The vehicle is not yet reported overdue reason for death by a firearm. leading reason for a death by DO IT IT DO

On June 8, Bellingham Police spoke to a or stolen, and Blaine officers are working In 2013, 21,175 gun deaths firearm that is not a suicide. In woman who had taken up residence in the with the appropriate agencies.” were suicide. 2013, 11,208 gun deaths were smoking shelter near the Whatcom County homicides. Courthouse. She had reportedly been there SHORT RIDE ON A LONGBOARD for two days. “Officers spoke with the On May 6, Blaine Police were dispatched to 06.15.16 woman, who claimed that she was ‘taking a minor collision. “Two juveniles were long- .11

asylum’ in the shelter and she did not rec- boarding near the street when one of the 24

½ # ognize the authority of Bellingham Police. duo hit a rock or crack in the pavement. The Roughly half of mass shooting deaths are with high-capacity magazines, She became more agitated and eventually juvenile fell and his longboard went fly- assault rifles or both—all of which would have been outlawed by the left the shelter after officers backed away ing—straight into the freshly repaired side Assault Weapons ban of 2013, introduced one month after the Sandy Hook and gave her more space,” police reported. of a 2016 Mazda causing minor damage to Elementary School shooting. It was defeated in the U.S. Senate by a vote of the car,” police reported. “The information 40 to 60. More than three quarters of the weapons used in mass shootings are obtained legally. DOMINO EFFECT was documented for insurance purposes.”

On June 12, Bellingham Police respond- CASCADIA WEEKLY ed to a domestic dispute between a boy- On May 31, a Blaine resident reported that friend and girlfriend in Cordata neighbor- someone was being being pulled up H Street 0 11 hood. “The investigation revealed that the hill on a long board by a rope attached to a dispute was verbal only,” police reported. car. A Blaine patrol officer searched the Estimated number of mass shootings that were prevented by another person area, “but was unable to locate the vehicle with a firearm. On June 12, Bellingham Police responded or the daredevil or the violating driver.” SOURCES: Gun Violence Archive (GVA); Centers for Disease Control; United Nations doit WORDS WED., JUNE 15 34 TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: Award-

FOOD FOOD winning author Terry Tempest Williams shares stories and images from The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks at 7pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 27 words COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS 104 N. Commercial St. The book honors the centennial of the National Park Service and

B-BOARD B-BOARD is intended to be a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them. Entry is free with the

24 their tissues, sometimes in such high con- pre-purchase of the book; $5 general. centrations that deceased orcas must be WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM OR WWW.

FILM disposed of in hazardous waste sites. Tox- VILLAGEBOOKS.COM ins reduce immune function, making them THURS., JUNE 16

20 vulnerable to disease, and can impair their AWAKENING HAIR: Author and holistic hair ability to reproduce. care expert Laura Sullivan will discuss and

MUSIC Underwater noise and harassment by ves- sign her new book, Awakening Hair: Caring for sels are other factors found to be stressing Your Cosmic Antenna, from 6:30-8pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. 18 native orcas; with summer boating sea- WWW.COMMUNITYFOOD.COOP

ART son underway, it is a timely reminder that Washington state law makes it unlawful to WAY ELSEWHERE: Local author and film- approach within 200 yards of a southern maker Julie Trimmingham reads from Way 16 resident whale. Elsewhere at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. In the fictional, experimental travelogue,

STAGE Why is it that this particular type of an unnamed narrator ricochets from volcanos whale has captured human interest and to bee hives, from sugarcane fields to gla- emotional connection? Orcas have inspired ciers, from friendship to chance encounters. 14 reverence and informed the myths and WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM stories of people native

GET OUT to the Pacific Northwest FRI., JUNE 17 FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Join pros from the for more than 1,000 Bellingham Storyteller’s Guild for a free

12 years. Consider the pop-

12 hour of coaching and an introduction to the ularity of killer whale craft at 6pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 exhibits and attractions 12th St. At 7pm, Family Story Night will WORDS WORDS at water theme parks commence. REVIEWED BY LISA GRESHAM WWW.BELLINGHAMSTORYTELLERSGUILD.ORG 8 GET IT like SeaWorld, and the HOW: To place a resulting interest in pro- POEMS OF MOTHERHOOD: Local and hold on a copy of tecting orcas from such regional poets Jessica Gigot, Kathryn Hunt, Gayle Kaune, Annalee Dunn, and Rachel Mehl CURRENTS CURRENTS Of Orcas and Men, a fate raised by popular Whale Tales visit www.wcls. films like Free Willy and will share their works at a group reading from

6 All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood at 7pm org (or www. Blackfish. OF ORCAS AND MEN bellingham at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Neiwert writes that or- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

VIEWS publiclibrary.org THE RECENT sighting of four orcas in Bellingham Bay raises the question if you live within cas “challenge the long-

4 “why don’t we see them more often?” the city limits standing belief that hu- SAT., JUNE 18 Imagine having southern resident orcas as regular visitors to Bellingham’s of Bellingham) mans are the planet’s only KAMISHIBAI MAN: Kids of all ages can

MAIL MAIL to search your view a high-energy show using traditional revitalized waterfront. What can we do to encourage that future? In Of Orcas intelligent occupants,” library catalog. Japanese storytelling tools when Kamishibai

and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, investigative journalist David Neiwert’s and that they share an 2 Man performs at 2pm at the Lynden Library, exploration of orcas provides just the right blend of cultural history, environ- emotional intelligence similar (and perhaps 216 4th St.

DO IT IT DO (360) 354-4883 mental reporting and scientific research to inform this vision. more refined) than that of humans. The Southern Resident orca pods tend to travel around the Which brings us to the subtitle—what MON., JUNE 20 inland waterways of Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, can killer whales teach us? Orcas are hard- POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their and southern Georgia Strait. They are the only killer whale wired for social life at a level that dwarfs creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign 06.15.16 population listed as endangered; as of April 2016, there were the comparatively loose social ties of hu- up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 83 residents in the J, K, and L pods that make up the south- mans. Orcas stay with their mothers for life. 210 Central Ave. Readings start at 8pm. .11 WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG

24 ern residents (or 84 if Lolita, the L pod orca confined at the Pods travel, eat and sleep together. # Miami Seaquarium, is included). Learn the names and his- Because of this close reliance, Neiwert TUES., JUNE 21 tories of individual whales at www.Orcanetwork.org, which points out that empathy becomes an “evo- READ WITH FIREFIGHTERS: North What- maintains information about pod structure, family histories lutionary advantage” for orcas. In the words com Fire & Rescue will read a story, then and births and deaths of southern residents. of Temple Grandin (bestselling author of demonstrate emergency vehicles and equip- Neiwert interviewed scientists, advocates, environmental- Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us ment to an audience of children and their adults at a “Read with Firefighters” event at ists and caretakers about the factors most impacting southern resident orcas Human), “Human beings need to learn from 10:30am at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St. CASCADIA WEEKLY health and well-being. Chief among them is the availability of Chinook salmon and understand the cooperative nature of (360) 305-3637 these whales focus on almost exclusively as a summer food source. Improving orca society. Everyone who is interested 12 onshore salmon habitats, dam reversals like the Elwha, and a commitment to sus- in both animal and human behavior should BOOKS ON TAP: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s Tor- tainable fishing are all actions that improve chances for our local orcas. read this remarkable book.” tilla Curtain will be the subject of discussion at a monthly Books on Tap gathering at 7pm Toxins represent another major threat; Northwest killer whales are among at the North Fork Brewery, 6186 Mt. Baker the most contaminated marine mammals in the world, with high levels of Lisa Gresham is the Collection Support Man- Hwy. Deming Library staff Erin Suda and the insecticide DDT, PBDEs (used in flame retardants), and PCBs found in ager for Whatcom County Library System. doit

34 FOOD FOOD In advance of the Chuckanut Writers Conference, author and

musician Garth Stein will be joined 27 by fellow writers and rockers Jennie Shortridge and Stephanie Kallos as

the featured Chuckanut Radio Hour B-BOARD guests Thurs., June 23 at Whatcom Community College 24 FILM

Katrina Carabba will lead the meeting. a full schedule of events.

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WED., JUNE 22 SAT., JUNE 18 MUSIC BEACH READ: Bestselling author Elin ROCKHOUND RENDEZVOUS: Club members and Hilderbrand—”the queen of the summer beach visitors are invited to buy, swap and sell a variety read”—will present her new novel, Here’s to Us, of handmade and fine jewelry, labeled fossils, 18

at 7pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front mineral specimens and rocks, lapidary equipment ART St. The book tells the story of three women who and more at the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club’s must try to put aside their differences to bury the annual Rockhound Recycling Rendezvous from 16 man who they were all, at one point or another, 10am-5:30pm at the Bloedel Donovan Community married to. Entry is free. Center, 2214 Electric Ave. Admission is free. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM WWW.MTBAKERROCKCLUB.ORG STAGE

THURS., JUNE 23 DUDESTOCK: Arrive early for Leisure Game com- 14 SKAGIT WRITERS LEAGUE: Author A.C. Fuller petitions and Wii Bowling on the big screen and leads a “Write Faster, Write Better” presentation celebrate all things Lebowski at DUDESTOCK 2016 at today’s Skagit Valley Writers League meeting starting at 7pm in Mount Vernon at the Lincoln GET OUT taking place from 6:30-8:30pm at the Burlington Theatre, 712 S. First St. Prizes will be awarded for Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. Please best costume in several categories, there will be

register in advance for the free workshop. White Russians, and, at 8pm, there will be a view- 12 12 WWW.SKAGITWRITERS.ORG ing of The Big Lebowski. Entry is $10-$15. WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG WORDS CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: In advance of this WORDS weekend’s Chuckanut Writers Conference, authors SUN., JUNE 19

and musicians Stephanie Kallos (Language Arts), FATHER’S DAY CAR SHOW: Bring pops along 8 Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain), and for today’s Father’s Day Car Show taking place Jennie Shortridge (When She Flew)—also known from 9am-3pm at BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide as the Rejections—will provide an evening of Meridian. In addition to the perusal of ,more than CURRENTS CURRENTS literature and rock & roll at tonight’s Chuckanut 150 classic cars, trucks and custom street rods,

Radio Hour at 7pm at Whatcom Community Col- there’ll be a barbecue, raffles, classic rock, tro- 6 lege, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. Tickets are $5. phies and more. Entry to register your car is $10. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM VIEWS

BELLINGHAM FETE: Sustainable Connections 4 COMMUNITY will co-host the fourth annual “Bellingham Fete” from 12-8pm at Wilson Motors, 1100 Iowa St. The MAIL MAIL THURS., JUNE 16 locally focused Father’s Day event will feature

TRIVIA NIGHT: Skagit Fisheries Enhancement live music, an antique car show, arts and crafts 2 Group will host a Trivia Night Fundraiser from vendors, food trucks, a beer garden, pony rides,

7-9pm at Mount Vernon’s North Sound Brewery, live entertainment and much more. Entry to the IT DO

17406 State Route 536. Entry is $5 per person. all-ages event is free. Funds go to support salmon restoration and WWW.SUSTAINABLECONNECTIONS.ORG education programs. WWW.SKAGITFISHERIES.ORG MON., JUNE 20 SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: Attend a “Proces- 06.15.16 JUNE 17-18 sion of Light: Solstice Celebration and Ceremony”

ANTIQUE FAIR: Attend a “Sips, Savories & starting at 6pm at Cafe Bouzingo, 1209 Cornwall .11 24

Sweets” preview party for the third annual An- Ave. The “Carry the Light” event will begin with # tique Fair from 5-8pm Friday in Mount Vernon at live music and featured speakers. Festivities will Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Rd. Tickets are continue with a Procession of Light to Glass Beach, $10 in advance or at the door. From 9am-4pm Sat- where there will be a ceremony blessing our Native urday, peruse the garden party featuring antiques waters and focusing on themes of transition and and vintage collectibles. Entry is free. transformation. Suggested donation is $5. WWW.CHRISTIANSONSNURSERY.COM WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CARRYTHELIGHTBELLINGHAM

JUNE 17-19 WED., JUNE 22 CASCADIA WEEKLY BERRY DAIRY DAYS: Barbecues, fireworks, a CITY CLUB MEETING: “What is the Future of road run, live music, activities for kids, a car Cherry Point?” will be the focus of a Bellingham 13 show, a grand parade, shortcake, a park festival City Club panel discussion and luncheon starting and more will be part of the annual “Berry Dairy at 11:30am at Northwood Hall, 3240 Northwest Days” taking place Friday through Sunday at a Ave. Entry is $5-$18. variety of venues in Burlington. Check online for WWW.BELLINGHAMCITYCLUB.ORG doit WED., JUNE 15 GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are welcome

at a weekly Group Run beginning at 6pm in Mount 34 Vernon at the Skagit Running Company, 702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is great for beginners or FOOD FOOD for others wanting an easy recovery. Entry is free outside and no registration is required. HIKING RUNNING GARDENING WWW.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG 27 FRI., JUNE 17 WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers B-BOARD B-BOARD can join Holly Roger of Wild Whatcom for a “Wild Things” Community Program from 9:30-11am every Friday in June at Fairhaven’s Marine Park. Sug-

24 verton—the exact opposite direction we needed to go. gested donation is $5. WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG FILM “What on earth just happened to us?” my assistant navigator asked as we slowed JUNE 17-18

20 to a crawl in bumper-to-bumper traffic. RELAY FOR LIFE: The American Cancer Society’s “It’s like an entire section of interstate annual “Relay for Life” of North Whatcom takes place from 6pm Friday to 12pm Saturday at MUSIC just vanished into thin air!” Lynden’s Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, “Don’t look now,” I winced as the gaping 1775 Front St. Sign up to run, or donate to the

18 mouth of Vista Ridge Tunnel inched impos- event that is dedicated to eliminating cancer and empowering people to fight the disease. ART ingly into view straight ahead, “but we’re about to be swallowed into the earth.” WWW.RELAYFORLIFEOFLYNDEN.ORG Mercifully, the underpass spit us out near 16 JUNE 17-19 the Oregon Zoo, where we managed to nego- PLOVER RIDES: The Plover ferry runs through the

STAGE tiate a corrective 180 back into downtown summer from 12-8pm Fridays and Saturdays and Portland and resume our white-knuckle 10am-6pm Sundays departing on the hour from search for Powell’s City of Books. the Blaine Visitor’s Dock, Gate II at Blaine Harbor. 14 14 How we ever managed to find the place Suggested donation for the excursions is $1 for kids and $5 for adults. amid such dizzying throngs of hectic con-

PHOTO BY CLYDE BANKS, COURTESY WHATCOM MUSEUM WHATCOM COURTESY BANKS, CLYDE BY PHOTO WWW.DRAYTONHARBORMARITIME.ORG GET OUT GET OUT fusion and tenuous, ill-fated directions is a testament to the irrepressible nature of SAT., JUNE 18 BERRY DAIRY RUNS: Choose from a marathon,

12 our inherent book lust. And once our two-hour session of in- a 10K or a 5K fun run as part of the “Berry Dairy Days Runs” starting at 7:30am in downtown store browsing was over, we promptly re- WORDS Burlington. All three runs are described as being paired to nearby Deschutes Ale House to “scenic, flat and fast.” Entry is $20-$40. WWW.BERRYDAIRYRUNS.COM

8 take some hard-earned sustenance before commencing the final, most harrowing leg of our journey: Lake Oswego. JAPANESE STRING: Kathy Hardy will demonstrate how to use moss as a medium and elevate

CURRENTS CURRENTS The chief navigator—relying exclu- your plants to art pieces at a “Make Your Own sively on memory—suggested we take Japanese String” class at 9am at the Garden Spot 6 one route. My assistant navigator advo- Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Entry is free; register cated another. Meanwhile, I steadfastly in advance. VIEWS employed my intuitive sense of relative 676-5480 OR WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM

4 guestimation to strike a course into the MEMORIAL RUN: Sign up for the “Sofia Milstead prescribed territory. Memorial Run” starting at 9am at Lynden High MAIL MAIL About 200 oblique turns through the School, 1201 Bradley Rd. Entry to the 10K run— STORY AND IMAGE BY TRAIL RAT forest later, we arrived at the chief navi- which was created in memory of a 2015 graduate 2 gator’s granddaughter’s high school gradu- of the school who died in a car accident last summer—is $35. Funds raised will go to help provide DO IT IT DO ation party with an hour to spare—just in yearly scholarships to a graduating LHS senior and Road Trip time to help set up lawn furniture, schlep Whatcom County Young Life students. ice into coolers and play a few rounds of WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/LIVEFORFIA BOOKSTORES, BASKETBALL AND BONSAI TREES perfunctory HORSE with a gaggle of neigh- 06.15.16 borhood moppets. RUN FOR EPILEPSY: Epilepsy Foundation North- west hosts its 13th annual “Run/Walk for Epilepsy” ALTHOUGH MY two passengers and I were savvy enough to anticipate Worn ragged from the road and feeling .11 from 9am-12pm at Lake Padden Park, 2244 Samish

24 that our first road trip from Bellingham to Portland, Ore. in more than 10 like a fish out of water, I jumped gleefully Way. The event raises money for programs and # years would necessitate an appreciable amount of adventure, we significantly into the suburban revelry to the best of services and increases public understanding about overestimated our intuitive ability to navigate the grinding gauntlet of geo- my abilities. Once the Hawaiian-style buf- the disease. Entry is $25. graphic phenomena that engulfed us on the far side of the Columbia River. fet was gone and the party was over I felt WWW.EPILEPSYNW.ORG so attuned with my surroundings that I de- “Which way to Powell’s?” I asked my chief navigator, attempting to hand BARK IN THE PARK: Vendors, demos and con- him the detailed set of handwritten directions I’d copied beforehand from the cided to camp outside on the bonsai ter- tests for your four-legged friends will be part of City of Books website. race overlooking the lake. the dog-friendly “Bark in the Park” from 10am-

CASCADIA WEEKLY But he had other plans. Snoozing contentedly away in the shotgun seat, the The cool Willamette air worked its re- 2pm in Anacortes at Storvik Park, 1110 32nd Ave. chief navigator was a million miles away. storative magic as I lay beneath the tower- Entry is free. 14 WWW.ANACORTES.ORG “Take the 405 to Everett Street,” announced my assistant navigator, ing tree tops, bedazzled by the blinkering quick to consult her newly acquired smart phone from her pillow-lined nest stars. As the waning noise of the distant PERSONAL POTS: Register in advance for a in the backseat. city dissipated into muffled darkness, all free “Pots with a Personal Touch: Hypertufa” However, it soon became apparent we’d already missed the Everett Street that remained were the droning cicadas to course from 1-3pm in Sudden Valley at the South exit and were currently bearing a westerly course on a dedicated lane to Bea- elucidate the encompassing night. Whatcom Library, 10 Barn View Ct. Hypertufa is a doit

34 FOOD FOOD 27

Attend a “Play

Safe and Stay B-BOARD Safe in Bear Country”

presentation with 24 Jenni Minier of

the Friends of the FILM North Cascades Grizzly Bear Coali-

tion June 21 at REI 20 MUSIC 18 ART HistoricFairhaven 16 The 32-mile route takes riders down Chuckanut Summer Solstice and back via Lake Samish. The group also holds STAGE weekly rides Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Art Walkabout 14 14 WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG Friday June 17th, 5-8 PM MON., JUNE 20 GET OUT FIND YOUR PARK: If you’re looking to explore 19 Local Businesses GET OUT the great outdoors in your own backyard, sign Open Late with Special features! up in advance for a free “Find Your Park: North Cascades National Recreation Area” presentation 12th Street Shoes - ”Stilettos on Parade” • Whatcom Art Market - “Meet the Artists” • 12 at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Three French Hens - Latico purses, Jewelry by Zendii, Eileen Fisher, Marjorie Baer • Skylarks’ Café - ”The Art of Jazz” with Telefon performing • Silvery Moon - Rare Sapphires. Celebrat- 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM WORDS ing 40 years in the jewelry Business! • The Garden Room - Summer Open House • Artwood SUNSET CRUISE: Whatcom Humane Society will - New Woodwork by Members • Morgan Block Studios - Nicki Lang - leather works; Nancy Canyon - painter; Marijo Martini - jewlery; Sunny Hill - potter • Good Earth Pottery - 8 host a Sunset Cruise Fundraiser on Bellingham Bay Reception for Clay artist, Debra Stern Celebrating 45 Years of Local Pottery! • Bay to Baker - Bring Fido along to the dog-friendly from 6:30-8:30pm on the Victoria Star departing Beth Roberson, “Chickens” watercolor demo with participation • Renaissance Celebration - “Bark in the Park” Sat., June 18 at Storvik from the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Davis Wight, “Waves” with video demonstration • Fairy Godmothers’ - Demo by watercolor Park in Anacortes Ave. Tickets are $55 and include appetizers and CURRENTS artist, Leah Schell 6-8pm • Whimsey - celebrating 12 years of local artists • A Lot of adult beverages.

Flowers - Ben Mann, live painting on canvas • Drizzle - “A Pinch of Love” custom blended 6 cement-based mixture that has the appearance WWW.WHATCOMHUMANE.ORG spices • Colophon Café - Artists Chris Shreve and Shannon Spears • Paper Dreams/ • of stone when dry. Village Books - Local Musical Artist • Fairhaven Toy Garden - featuring Felted Art; Live VIEWS (360) 305-3632 TUES., JUNE 21 Guitar playing from 6-7pm SUMMER RUN: Staff and volunteers are always on MOON WALK: Area women can join Wild What- hand to guide the way at the weekly All-Paces Run For maps and more information see Fairhaven.com 4 com for a “Ladies Night Out: Moon of the Salmon’s starting at 6pm every Tuesday at Fairhaven Run- Return” excursion from 7-9:30pm in Whatcom ners, 1209 11th St. The runs are 20 minutes out and MAIL County (locale will be divulged upon registra- back on two key routes—by the water or through tion). Suggested donation is $12. the woods. Entry is free. Tonight’s “Run to Welcome 2 WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG Back Summer!” will include Nathan demos, squirt DO IT IT DO guns, a raffle and post-run strawberry shortcake. JUNE 18-19 WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM BOAT SHOW: La Conner Yacht Sales will host BluesBlues inin thethe its 20th annual Boat Show & Swap Meet from BEAR SAFETY: Jenni Minier of the Friends of

9am-4pm Saturday and Sunday at the La Conner the North Cascades Grizzly Bear Coalition leads 06.15.16 Marina, 539 N. 3rd St. The boat show will be open a “Play Safe and Stay Safe in Bear Country”

both days, but the swap meet only happens on presentation at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Tips will .11

Saturday. Entry is free. include how to use bear spray effectively, how 24 # WWW.LACONNERYACHTSALES.COM and why to use food storage containers, keeping NightNight a clean campsite and more. Entry is free; register BOATING CENTER OPEN: The Community Boat- in advance. ing Center has resumed operations for the 2016 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM Commercial Free! season from 10am until sunset on Saturdays and Sundays at their headquarters at 555 Harris Ave. THURS., JUNE 23 Rentals include kayaks, sailboats, rowboats and ORCHID MYSTERIES: Thomas Mirenda will WeeknightsWeeknights 2-52-5 a.m.a.m. paddle boards. Registration for youth camps and speak on “The Mysteries of Orchid Pollination” CASCADIA WEEKLY adult classes are currently available online. at 7pm at the Padilla Bay Estuarine Research WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG Reserve, 10441 Bayview-Edison Rd. Mirenda is 15 the Orchid Collection Specialist at the Smithso- KSVR 91.7 FM KSVU 90.1 FM KSJU 91.9 FM SUN., JUNE 19 nian Institution and helps maintain the nearly Mount Vernon Hamilton Friday Harbor RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mount Baker 8,000 orchids in the Smithsonian collection. KSVR.org Bicycle Club for a “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8am Admission is free. Live Stream - Audio Archive every Sunday at Fairhaven Bicycle, 1108 11th St. WWW.ORCHID-SOCIETY.NET/MT-BAKER Find KSVR on Facebook doit STAGE

WED., JUNE 15 BENEFIT SHOW: The Bellingham Senior Activ- 34 ity Center will host a benefit performance of

FOOD FOOD the musical comedy Anything Goes at 6:30pm at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets stage to the show are $25 and include the perfor- THEATER DANCE PROFILES mance, a silent auction, appetizers, beverages, 27 wine and dessert. Proceeds benefit programs and activities at the center.

B-BOARD B-BOARD 733-4030 OR WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM

director (more on that in a minute). Not INTRO TO IMPROV: Sheila Goldsmith leads

24 long afterward, The Who’s Tommy will mark a “Learn to Think on Your Feet” introductory Post’s final directing stint at BAAY with improv class from 7-9pm at Improv Playworks,

FILM performances by BAAY Pro students June 1011 Girard St. Please register in advance for 23-26 at the State Street space. the free primer. 757-0756 OR WWW.IMPROVPLAYWORKS.COM

20 “It’s been an amazing run here and I feel extremely blessed to be a part of it all,” Post VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend the Bellingham

MUSIC says of his departure. “I can’t say enough Circus Guild’s monthly uncensored variety show, good things about the staff, students and “Vaudevillingham,” at 7pm and 9pm performances at the Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., suite #102. Ex- 18 parents involved in this organization. I will pect to see everything from aerial performances

ART miss being BAAY’s director, but I believe the to dance, comedy, magic, juggling, burlesque and organization is in very capable and steady more. Both novice and veteran performers are hands and that things are on an excellent welcome. Suggested donation is $5-$10. 16 16 trajectory.” WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM STAGE STAGE The list of accomplish- THURS., JUNE 16 ments of Post’s succes- GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad sor, Ian Bivins, show that and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the 14 BAAY’s board of directors Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick are committed to keep- around for “The Project.” Entry is $8 for the early show, $5 for the late one. GET OUT ing the nonprofit a vi- 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM able and vital part of

12 ATTEND Bellingham’s arts scene. JUNE 16-22 WHAT: Best of In addition to the work BARD ON THE BEACH: William Shakespeare’s BAAY he’s done as a guest di- Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor WORDS WHEN: 5pm rector and set designer are currently showing as part of the 27th “Bard Sat., June 18 on the Beach” season at Vancouver, BC’s Vanier

8 at BAAY, Bivins—a 2002 WHERE: The Park. This year’s productions—which will run Majestic, 1027 Western Washington through Sept. 24—will also feature Othello, and IAN BIVINS N. Forest St. University Theater Arts Pericles. Tickets are $20-$47. WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG PHOTO BY NOLAN MCNALLY NOLAN BY PHOTO CURRENTS CURRENTS COST: graduate—has collabo- Admission is by rated locally with iDiOM

6 JUNE 16-18 donation Theater, Northwest Pas------HAMLET: An abridged version of William Shake- sage Theater Lab, Kuntz speare’s Hamlet can be seen at performances VIEWS BY AMY KEPFERLE WHAT: The Who’s Tommy and Company, and Lummi at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The col- 4 WHEN: 7pm Youth Academy. June 23, 24 “I believe the arts are laboration between the iDiOM and Stone Town

MAIL MAIL and 26; 7pm Theatre Works retains Shakespeare’s language, Exits and Entrances not a luxury,” he says, but focuses more on Hamlet’s struggle “as a and 12am Sat., “but something that is 2 June 25 lost young man whose foundation has been THE VIEW FROM THE BAAY WHERE: BAAY simply fundamental to completely shattered” and reducing the play’s

DO IT IT DO focus on international political machinations. Theatre, 1059 the human experience.” ago, David Post met with eight choir students in a rented rehearsal N. State St. Among his goals at the Tickets to the final show at the Cornwall Avenue TEN YEARS locale are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. hall at Garden Street Methodist Church. A decade later, Bellingham Arts Academy COST: $10 helm of BAAY, Bivins says INFO: www. Additional performances happen June 23-25. for Youth (BAAY) has evolved to produce more than 100 musicals and educates as baay.org he’ll be committed to WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM 06.15.16 many as 1,000 students a year via the production of plays, the EduArts Enrichment sustainable growth and Program in local schools, and the entity’s Preschool of the Arts. broadening the reach of the organization’s PROOF: Attend the final weekend of the .11 Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play Proof at

24 Looking at the aforementioned numbers, it’s clear that under Post’s direction, BAAY programming to provide arts education and # 7:30pm shows Thursday through Saturday at has become a force to be reckoned with. That’s why it may come as a surprise to hear resources throughout Whatcom County. Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. The that, come mid-July, he’ll be leaving Bellingham—and the expansive organization “BAAY is not just about arts education, drama focuses on a woman who’s spent years he created with a mission to “bring out the best in young people through the arts.” but also building community and teaching caring for her brilliant but unstable father, and But before Post leaves town to embark on new adventures—which include travel- life skills in a safe and creative environ- is afraid of following in his footsteps, both ing the world for 10 months before settling near family in his home state of Cali- ment,” he says. mathematically and mentally. Tickets are $20. WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM fornia; sharpening his own performance skills; continuing to direct musical theater With Summer Arts Camps focusing on

CASCADIA WEEKLY and youth choral groups; and conducting research to support his hypothesis that theater, dance, music and visual art start- JUNE 16-19 having the arts as part of the school day in middle and high schools can increase ing June 27 and continuing through late ANYTHING GOES: Watch the age-old tale of 16 revenue for school districts—he’ll be on hand for couple more big events. August, returning students and those new boy-meets-girl—and the complications that en- At “Best of BAAY” Sat., June 18 at the Majestic, those in attendance can hear to the venue can get a taste of what to sue—when the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes continues this weekend at 7:30pm shows Thursday more about Post’s plans, take part in fundraising activities, purchase fare from expect from the new regime. It’s likely the through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at the Belling- local food trucks and view one-time-only encore performances of some of BAAY’s view from the BAAY will be a little differ- ham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets are $8-$14; best-loved numbers from the past 10 years. They can also meet the new executive ent, but it should still be a familiar one. doit

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Dancing for Joy FOOD brings characters from seven books

to life when they 27 present Narnian Excerpts: The 2016

Chronicles June B-BOARD 18-20 at the Mount Baker Theatre 24

FromF listing your home, first time home FILM bubuying,y to looking for that final destination... I am the Realtor 20 to assist you! MUSIC 18 ART 16 16 STAGE STAGE additional performances happen June 23-26. through Saturday at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas WWW.BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets to see the dramatic, 14 comedic and romantic plays are $5. JUNE 17-18 WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM RYAN STILES & FRIENDS: Mainstage perform- Jasmine Talsma REALTOR/SRES GET OUT ers will join world-renowned improviser Ryan Stiles for “Ryan & Friends” shows at 9pm Friday DANCE JasmineTalsma.com and 7pm and 9pm Saturday at the Upfront 12 Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets to the (sold out) THURS., JUNE 16 shows are $25. FOLK DANCE: Join the Fourth Corner Folk

WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM Dancers to learn lively folk dances from Eastern WORDS Europe, Greece, Turkey, and Israel from 7:15-10pm

SAT., JUNE 18 every Thursday at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th 8 IMPROV PRIMER: Kids ages 9 and up and adults St. Suggested donation is $5. can register in advance for a free “Learn to Think (360) 380-0456 on Your Feet” introductory improv class taking CURRENTS CURRENTS place from 10:30am -12pm at Improv Playworks, JUNE 17-18

1011 Girard St. CINDERELLA: Members of Infinity Dance Com- 6 756-0756 OR WWW.IMPROVPLAYWORKS.COM pany will perform The Story of Cinderella at 7pm FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY Friday and 1pm Saturday at the Lynden Christian VIEWS SHAKESPEARE’S WONDERLAND: Shakespeare High School Performing Arts Center, 515 Drayton Northwest present a free viewing of Shakespeare’s St. Tickets are $12. 4 Wonderland: An Elizabethan View through the Look- WWW.INFINITYDANCECOMPANY.ORG ing Glass as part of the Mount Vernon City Library’s A Circus of Color MAIL Summer Reading Program at 1pm at the Lincoln JUNE 18-20

Theatre, 712 S. First St. Additional viewings take NARNIAN EXCERPTS: Characters from seven 2 place June 25 in La Conner, June 26 in Burlington, books will be telling stories through the powerful Saturday, June 18

July 10 in Seattle, and July 30 at the Rexville- language of dance when Dancing for Joy presents IT DO

Blackrock Amphitheater. Narnian Excerpts: The 2016 Chronicles at 1pm and 10 AM - 4 PM WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG 6:30pm Saturday, and 6:30pm Sunday and Monday at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial Dr. MON., JUNE 20 Tickets are $15.

Participate in activities for all ages, including 06.15.16 GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open mic for come- WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM OR WWW. dians, “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 9:30pm DANCING4JOY.ORG color book-making, color mixing experiments, every Monday at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State St. and more. .11 24

Entry is free. SUN., JUNE 19 # WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM SUNDAY NIGHT FUSION: “Sunday Night Fusion” takes place from 7-9pm at Presence Studio, 1412 Learn to juggle and hula hoop with TUES., JUNE 21 Cornwall Ave. The event explores “co-creative professional Circus performers, Della and Wren TREASURE ISLAND: Last Leaf Productions brings partner dance inspired by a variety of beautiful pirates and treasure to Whatcom County when music.” Entry is $5. 12:30 – 3 PM they perform a live theater production of Treasure WWW.PRESENCE-STUDIO.COM Island at 10:30am at the Everson Library, 104 Kirsch Dr. Entry is free. TUES., JUNE 21 LIGHTCATCHER BUILDING, 250 Flora CASCADIA WEEKLY (360) 966-5100 SKAGIT FOLK DANCERS: Join the Skagit- Anacortes Folk Dancers for an International Folk 17 JUNE 23-25 Dancing event from 7-9:30pm at Bayview Civic CLEAR SPACE SHORT FESTIVAL: Eight one-acts Hall, 12615 C St. Entry is free for the first session, FREE for members! Admission $3 of varying genres can be seen at the inaugural $3 afterward. Clear Space Shot Festival at 7:30pm Thursday WWW.SKAGITFOLKDANCERS.ORG whatcommuseum.org doit UPCOMING EVENTS

WED., JUNE 15 34 PHOTO CHALLENGE: Through Aug. 31, share photos of your favorite books, libraries and FOOD FOOD reading activities on social media using the hashtag #bplsummer2016 as part of a “Take Another Look! Adult Summer Reading Photo

27 visual GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES Challenge.” WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG

B-BOARD B-BOARD FRI., JUNE 17 SOLSTICE ART WALK: The Whatcom Art Market, 12th Street Shoes, Artwood Gallery,

24 A dedication to finding the right spot for a composition took Jane Wallis into Colophon Cafe, Good Earth Pottery, Paper Dreams, Renaissance Celebration, Silvery FILM the middle of the Athabasca River, where Moon, Whimsey, and a Lot of Flowers will be she snapped a photo before retreating to among the galleries and businesses opening

20 a beach to paint. Her “Rigged for Fishing” their doors for the annual Summer Solstice (the exhibition’s postcard choice) is a won- Art Walk taking place from 5-8pm throughout historic Fairhaven. Expect demos, light MUSIC derful concatenation of lines and angles refreshments, art and more. Entry is free; and rectangles in shades of blue and white. look for bright yellow “sunshine flags” to see 18 18 18 Some of her oils are almost entirely accom- who’s participating. WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM

ART plished with a palette knife. ART The need to capture a moment before the light changes is a constant challenge. And SAT., JUNE 18 16 FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY: Kids can celebrate what to include or leave out is a difficult summer vacation by making colorific art in viv-

STAGE choice, Janice Wall says. Her solution, work- id hues as part of “Family Activity Day: A Circus ing quickly with soft pas- of Color” from 10am-4pm at Whatcom Museum’s tel, is often a highly im- Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora Ave. The event 14 pressionist composition, will also include the instruction of circus skills by Bellingham Circus Guild members Della and which “lets the viewer Wren, and more. Entry is $3. GET OUT participate.” She favors WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG bold color choices and an- SATURDAY MARKET: Peruse arts and crafts,

12 gular shapes in a charac- SEE IT teristic, strong style. partake of food and listen to music at the MORE: WHAT: weekly Lummi Island Saturday Market from The art of Patricia Clay- WORDS “Little Gems” 10am-4pm in the field next to the Islander WHEN: ton, a medical doctor who Grocery, 2106 S. Nugent Rd. 10:30am- (360) 758-2815

8 has become a full-time 4:30pm Mon.- artist, has evolved to the Sat., through point of boldly structured JUST WOMEN OPENING: View the new July 30 exhibit “Just Women” starting today from

CURRENTS CURRENTS WHERE: Scott palette knife composi- 10am-5pm at Whatcom Museum’s Light-

“RIGGED FOR FISHING,” BY JANE WALLIS JANE BY FOR FISHING,” “RIGGED Milo Gallery, tions in rich textures and catcher Building, 250 Flora St. In 2010, the 6 420 Commercial stunning color. Her small museum presented the pioneering exhibition Ave., Anacortes “Over the Hill” features “Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists, VIEWS INFO: www. BY STEPHEN HUNTER dark shades ascending 1800-2010,” which showcased the centennial scottmilo.com of woman’s suffrage in Washington State. Six 4 through red, orange into years later, with the possibility of a woman yellow, capturing an autumn aspen scene. becoming president, “Just Women” will once MAIL MAIL Although Brooke Borcherding has ex- again focus on women’s contributions to

Little Gems the arts. plored the open spaces, she’s distinguished 2 PLEIN AIR PAINTERS CHASE THE LIGHT for her urban scenes, such as “Morning WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG DO IT IT DO Downtown.” How she rendered such picto- BRICK AND TOY FAIR: Award-winning Lego® “PLEIN AIR” painting was conceived of in the 19th century out of the union rial magic on a portable easel set up on artist Alice Finch and animator Michel Gagne of great ideas and two inventions. Nature, previously considered to be a dreary streetcar tracks is a mystery. will be the featured artists at today’s “Brick inconvenience, was revealed by the Romantic movement to be divine. Winning Best of Show for “Winter Coat,” and Toy Fair” taking place from 10am-5pm at 06.15.16 Meanwhile, someone thought up the portable easel and made oil paint avail- Melanie Thompson fell in love with nature the Ferndale Events Center, 5715 Barrett Rd. Demos, exhibitors and more will take place able in convenient tubes. Artists pursuing natural beauty could now work out- when working as a forest firefighter. Her

.11 throughout the day. Entry is $8.

24 side and voila!—the French Barbizon painters and the Impressionists were born. renderings of the vast intermountain West WWW.BRICKANDTOYFAIR.COM # Here in Washington, we have the Plein Air Washington Artists (PAWA). These capture the “fierce beauty” of this desolate enthusiasts “chase the light” through wind and storm, suffering mosquito bites region. Had I been handing out the prizes, WATERWORKS OPENING: View oil paintings and wet feet to embed the direct experience of shimmering cliffs and cascading I would have crowned her “Winter Wheat,” by Debbie Daniels and Cathy Schoenberg at an opening reception for the artists from waterfalls into their masterpieces. for its serene evocation of sky and land. 4-7pm in Friday Harbor at Waterworks Gallery, PAWA puts on an annual show, which this year is at the Scott Milo Gallery in The first American group of plein air 315 Argyle Ave. Anacortes through July. Out of 200-plus submissions, juror Thomas Kitts se- painters was the Canadian “Group of WWW.WATERWORKSGALLERY.COM

CASCADIA WEEKLY lected 70 for the show. Some of these small works (with big subjects) have been Seven,” led and inspired by the legend- completed in the field; others, in the studio from outdoor sketches. Most are in ary Tom Thompson, who died in 1917. No SUN., JUNE 19 18 PORTRAITS OF FATHERHOOD: A reception oil, but Christine Troyer works beautifully in soft pastel, and Paula Ensign, in one wears their mantle better than Kath- for Kathy Bastow’s “Portraits of Fatherhood” ink and watercolor. ryn Townsend, with her broad, confident, takes place from 2-5pm at the Firehouse Per- It was Ned Mueller whose suggestion, one evening over pizza in a Skagit Valley brushstrokes and powerful blocks of color forming Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. roadhouse after a painting workshop, sparked formation of the group. And Muel- in “Beach at Salt Creek” and “Grand Can- (360) 752-1904 ler still leads the pack, winning first prize with “Oaxaca Oxcart.” yon Sketch.” doit

34 Attend an opening reception for June FOOD FOOD Stephens Martsolf’s “Pacific Northwest and California: Plein 27 Air Landscapes” Wed., June 22 at the Healing Through B-BOARD B-BOARD Art Gallery at Peace- Health St. Joseph Medical Center 24 FILM 20 MUSIC 18 18 18 ART ART “CALIFORNIA CREEK” 16 WED., JUNE 22 Lavelle can be viewed through June 26 at Edison’s

HEALING THROUGH ART: An opening reception i.e. gallery, 5800 Cains Court. STAGE for Blaine-based painter June Stephens Martsolf’s WWW.IEEDISON.COM LIGHTS, “Pacific Northwest and California: Plein Air

Landscapes” takes place from 5:30-7pm at the JANSEN ART CENTER: Peruse the fourth annual 14 Healing Through Art Gallery at the East Tower at, “Cup Show,” Lorna Libert’s “Down on the Farm,” the 2901 Squalicum Pkwy. The exhibit can be viewed group show “A Sense of Place: The Pacific North-

CAMERA... GET OUT at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center through west,” and Ria Harboe’s “Ethereal Flight” through Sept. 24. July 29 at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. (360) 383-7166 OR [email protected] WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG DEPOSIT! 12 LUMMI GALLERY: “Pride & Joy” is currently on

ONGOING EXHIBITS display at the new Lummi Island Gallery at the WORDS Village Point Marina, 4232 Lego Bay Rd. ALLIED ARTS: View pieces by the Whatcom Art- WWW.LUMMISLANDGALLERY.COM 8 ists of Clay and Kiln (WACK) through June at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. MAKE.SHIFT: “Chain Reaction” shows through WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG June 25 at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St.

WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM CURRENTS ARTWOOD: As part of its 30-year celebration, view a retrospective of former members’ work, as SCULPTURE NW: “Elemental: Sculpture of Earth, 6 well as pieces by current artists, through June at Water, Fire” shows through July 30 at Sculpture

Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. Northwest Gallery, 203 Prospect St. CHECK VIEWS WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG 4

CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Katie Johnson’s small SMITH & VALLEE: Peruse new works by print- mixed-media studies inspired by her muse—a maker and painter Lindsay Kohles and woodcarver MAIL cat named Hobbes—will show through July 16 at Marceil DeLacy through June 28 at Edison’s Smith

Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. 2 WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM DO IT IT DO

COLOPHON CAFE: Peruse Rosemary Delucco TILLIE LACE GALLERY: Peruse Cooper Lanza’s Alpert’s “What is Home?” photography exhibit “Caught in the Moment” exhibit through June at Mobile Check Deposit is now available through June at the Colophon Cafe, 1208 11th St. Fairhaven’s Tillie Lace Gallery and School of Fine through Industrial CU’s Mobile Banking App. WWW.RDALPTERTPHOTO.COM Art, 1415 13th St. 06.15.16 WWW.TILLIELACEGALLERY.COM Now you can deposit your checks 24 hours a DAKOTA GALLERY: See “By Degrees” through .11

June 25 at Dakota Gallery, 1324 Cornwall Ave. T RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related work- day, 7 days a week at your convenience. 24 # WWW.DAKOTAGALLERY.COM shops happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery, 1421 N. Forest St. See more details and register online. FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: View works by artists WWW.RAGFINERY.COM Call, click or come in today to see all the and calligraphers at the “The Word Is...” exhibit through June 29 at Fourth Corner Frames and Gal- WHATCOM ART MARKET: Works by Whatcom Art ways we are In Your Corner! lery, 311 W. Holly St. Guild members can be perused from 10am-6pm Wed.- WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM Sun. at the new Whatcom Art Market, 1103 11th St.

WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG CASCADIA WEEKLY GOOD EARTH: Clovy Tsuchiya and Jordan Jones’ “Flora and Fauna” exhibit shows through June at WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Colorfast: Vivid Installa- 19 Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. tions Make Their Mark,” “Romantically Modern,” WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM and “Back at the Park” can currently be viewed on the Whatcom Museum campus. I.E. GALLERY: Paintings and sculptures by Margy WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG (3360) 734-2043 InddustrialCU.org rumor has it

34 ALONG WITH PINA coladas and getting caught in the rain, I also have a real love for some

FOOD FOOD of Bellingham’s nonprofit organizations, which have been up to interesting things of late. Case in point: Late last week, and after I’d 27 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT pestered her with my terrifying curiosity way too many times, Downtown Bellingham Part-

B-BOARD B-BOARD nership’s events manager and maven of fun Lindsey Payne released the 2016 Downtown

24 they’re simply a fan rather than a booker, Sounds lineup. As I have mentioned every promoter or member of the band), I should year and will no doubt reiterate as Downtown

FILM give some attention to the musician at hand. Sounds approaches, Lindsey is a marvel when So when a notification for a Weds., June 15 it comes to cajoling and convincing bands to

20 20 show featuring Wayne “The Train” Hancock play the popular concert series. After gleaning

came my way, and I saw that I’d been in- years of insider intel from her, I still have no MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC vited by a friend and serious music fanatic idea how Lindsey pulls it off, but I do hope the rather than the Green Frog, I made more reign of Payne never comes to an end.

18 than a mental note to put this one on my This year’s roster is a mix of local and re-

ART radar. Hancock has, of course, been here be- gional acts and kicks off fore, and his brand of straight-up, old-school on Weds., July 6. That show rockabilly will make you believe the Green will feature the Dip and 16 Frog has perfected the art of time travel and the Austerman File, while

STAGE you’re actually watching a man who would following Wednesdays will be right at home sharing a stage with Hank see the likes of Lyrics Born, Williams—the original, not Junior or Hank Rabbit Wilde, Fruition, Snug 14 3. And Hancock makes no apologies for his Harbor, and more take the throwback style, instead he has nothing but stage at the end of Bay

GET OUT skepticism (some might even say scorn) for Street. Payne is currently BY CAREY ROSS what qualifies as country music these days. looking for volunteers to handle a number of

12 He’s pure country and a pure performer, and duties, so if you’d like to go from being a spec- if you’ve ever had the urge to hit up an old- tator to getting in on the action, look her up time honky-tonk bar, the Green Frog is the at the Downtown Bellingham Partnership. WORDS place and this is the show. I have a sneaking suspicion the Partner-

8 Given the frequency with which they play ship released the Downtown Sounds sched- (and their snappy name), I’d guess most of ule to distract me from the news that they us have heard of—and probably seen—Hot are discontinuing the Bite of Bellingham in

CURRENTS CURRENTS Damn Scandal. Yet they are another band favor of a restaurant week in early 2017. On WAYNE “THE TRAIN” HANCOCK I first took serious note of after a close the one hand, I am saddened by the loss 6 friend—and known music skeptic—saw them of the Bite of Bellingham. On the other, I perform one summer night in the Boundary nearly ate myself to death at last year’s Bite, VIEWS BY CAREY ROSS Bay beer garden. They describe themselves as so the sunsetting of the event is probably

4 “tipsy American gypsy blues,” and I’m gen- positive for any number of different reasons. erally one to give such super-specific, self- In other nonprofit news, Make.Shift, a place MAIL MAIL coined musical genres a hard side-eye, but that has become dear to so many of us—and

The Green Frog even I am forced to admit they’ve summed vital to the musicians who rehearse there and 2 ANOTHER WEEK (OR SO) IN THE LIFE themselves up perfectly. All the local per- the all-ages scene that now calls the Flora DO IT IT DO forming they do means you can stick them Street space home—is in the midst of a spring IT WAS not long ago that I took a look at the upcoming week’s worth on any stage in town—including that of the fundraiser. Their goal is $10,000 and they’ve of shows at the Green Frog and realized the calendar was rife with top- Green Frog on Thurs., June 16—and they’re fired up the GoFundMe machine to help make drawer musical entertainment. That roundup included everyone from more than willing to show up and show out. it happen. The funds they raise will go toward 06.15.16 Ruth Moody to Tim Easton, with stops at Jeffrey Foucault and Richard They’re even selling Hot Damn Scandal shot general operations, and give the organization Smith in between. glasses these days, which, let’s face it, is the some much-needed breathing room as they fo- .11

24 That was a pretty good week in the life of the State Street staple, and direct route right to my heart. cus on hiring a new executive director and con- # in keeping with the venue’s habit of stacking up great shows with little Whiskey Fever is another band that is a fre- tinue moving forward. I think we’d all like to fanfare, the upcoming week (in both cases, “week” being defined as “a pe- quent player around these parts. But instead see what Make.Shift has in store in the future, riod traditionally considered to be seven days, but that can be stretched of being recommended to me by a friend or so let’s help make it happen for them. to suit my purpose at hand”) is proving to be no slouch as well. acquaintance, they were vouched for by all The Wild Buffalo finally announced the big Last time, the musicians in question were those I had firsthand famil- of you who voted for them in the Best Band show I’ve been hinting at for what seems like iarity with. In this case, the list is full of bands and artists that have category of our annual Best of Skagit awards. years—the only catch being that by the time

CASCADIA WEEKLY been recommended to me by others. It is one of the great benefits of my It was a category they won handily, which you read this, it will likely have sold out. Just current occupation that people are quick to let me know of this band or forced me into a late-night rabbit hole of fig- in case it hasn’t, Charles Bradley will play a 20 that songwriter they consider to be among their favorites. By doing so, uring out just who this band was and what Sept. 16 show at the venue, a booking that they keep my curiosity piqued and give some welcome direction to my they had to offer. What I discovered were only happened after more than 300 emails musical wanderings. songs surprisingly catchy for a band led by a were exchanged between Buffalo owner Craig I always know that when I receive a Facebook invitation to a show guy from the Concrete area (Birdsview, to be Jewell and Bradley’s people. Feel free to buy from someone who is affiliated with neither the venue nor the artist (i.e. exact, although I had to look it up and then Jewell 300 drinks by way of thanking him. GREEN FROG, FROM PAGE 20 zoom the Google map way out to figure 34 out exactly where it was)—although my feelings about what a Concrete upbringing FOOD might be like are admittedly influenced by repeated viewings of This Boy’s Life and 27 may therefore not be totally accurate. At any rate, Whiskey Fever will play Fri., June

17, and you can see for yourselves what B-BOARD makes them bona fide award-winners. I must confess that I cannot remember 24 the first person to urge me to check out

Seattle songwriter Sera Cahoone, but I FILM owe them a thank you. That music mecca HOT DAMN SCANDAL 20 to the south of us is certainly home to 20 more than its fair share of singer/song- MUSIC writers, but even among all that bustle like they were raised June 23 featuring Western Centuries. I MUSIC and noise, Cahoone stands out. In her in a honky-tonk, which have a friend named Winnie who, along

songs, you can hear all the time spent should give you some with being one of the more delightful hu- 18 alone, just her and her acoustic guitar, sense that she’s not mans I regularly interact with, is a serious ART working out what she wants to say and your average Americana lover of country music. And when I say how she wants to say it. In her voice, you artist. She’s touring in serious, I mean she lives for it. But she’s The perfect gift for 16 can hear the miles traveled and the dis- support of her newly not indiscriminate in her ardor—Winnie’s DAD! tance covered, both geographically and released album, Bright musical affections are not won easily, and STAGE emotionally. In her lyrics, you can hear ATTEND Lights and the Fame, she is the very definition of a discerning something to identify with, a universal- WHAT: Many which has garnered the listener. She’s also a fierce advocate for A FREE EVENT at Village Books in Fairhaven ity of experience. In other words, and for days of music attention of everyone the bands she loves, and for a while now, Julie 14 lack of more elegant phrasing, Cahoone WHERE: The from Rolling Stone to she’s been extolling the virtues of Caha- Green Frog, Trimingham can write the shit out of a song. In my 1015 N. State the New York Times. With len Morrison. For a time, Morrison led a GET OUT opinion, the best way to see her is solo, St. titles like “Everything I band called Country Hammer—how I first WAY and that’s how she’ll perform Sat., June COST: Varies Couldn’t Be” and “Wor- heard of him—that has transitioned into ELSEWHERE 12 18 at the Green Frog. INFO: www. rying Mind,” Michaela Western Centuries. A little bit country Thursday, June 16, 7pm Usually, it’s a pretty good sign that acoustictavern. Anne’s songs tread fa- and a little bit rock ’n’ roll with some R&B com WORDS something worthwhile is afoot when miliar territory with a thrown in, the band is tough to pin down The QUEEN OF THE SUMMER BEACH READ Green Frog owner and booker James Hard- familiar sound, but the songwriter pos- stylistically but very easy to listen to. As 8 esty schedules a Sunday-night show, so I sesses wit and wisdom beyond her years. a bonus, Western Centuries also counts ELIN have to imagine Michaela Anne, who will Excellent musical sensibilities and a love erstwhile local Dan Lowinger among its HILDERBRAND

play Sun., June 19, has more than a few of performing live make her one to watch. talented personnel, and he makes being CURRENTS will join us in LYNDEN tricks up her sleeve. It’s not every day Which brings us to the wrap-up of this a ridiculously good guitar player look ri- at the JANSEN ART CENTER 6 that someone born in Brooklyn sounds roundup, a show that takes place Thurs., diculously easy. to present her latest novel,

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doit A FREE EVENT - Open to all! 4 Wednesday, June 22, 7pm THURS., JUNE 16 EVENING OF A CAPPELLA: A variety of a cappella MAIL Join us for the LIVE TAPING of

BROWN BAG JAZZ: Bring lunch along to a Brown groups from the United States and Canada will 2 Bag jazz piano concert with Scot Ranney at 12:30pm perform at “An Evening of A Cappella” at 7pm at the The at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th St. Songs will

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Ranney will feature some of his new originals, along range from barbershop harmony to doo-wop to gospel An evening of great music with well-known favorites, and he will share interest- (and everything in between). Entry is free. and conversation featuring ing stories from his recent adventures in Hong Kong. (360) 384-4432 Suggested donation is $3.

WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG WED., JUNE 22 06.15.16 UKULELE FOR ALL: Cynthia Rogers of the Belling- THE

BLUES & BREWS: The Chris Eger Band will kick ham Ukulele Group leads a “Ukulele for Everyone” .11

off the annual “Blues, Brews & BBQ” summer music gathering at 4:15pm at the Everson Library, 104 2%*%#4)/.3 24 # series from 5-9pm on the Waterfront Terrace at Hotel Kirsch Dr. Ukuleles will be available for use, and Thursday, June 23, 6:30pm Bellwether, One Bellwether Way. The series continues Rogers will host a demo, beginning lessons and a SWEET INVICTA at Whatcom Community College PHOTO BY TOMMY CALDERON TOMMY BY PHOTO Thursdays through Sept. 1. Entry is free. song circle. Entry to the all-ages event is free. Join us in welcoming The Rejections—a Seattle-based WWW.HOTELBELLWETHER.COM (360) 966-5100 MUSIC MOVES ME: Bellingham Public Schools band whose members include authors Stephanie Foundation will host its annual community-wide Kallos (Broken For You), SAT., JUNE 18 THURS., JUNE 23 musical instrument drive and fundraiser “Music Moves Garth Stein (The Art of Racing Tickets $5 available in the Rain), and Jennie at Village Books & MUSIC MOVES ME: See photo caption to the right PARK MUSIC: The rock sounds of Midnight Legend Me: All Day, All Night” from 11am-4pm Sat., June 18 at Shortridge (Love Water brownpapertickets.com

can be heard from 6-8pm to kick off the Concerts the beer garden at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Memory). A fun time! CASCADIA WEEKLY TUES., JUNE 21 in the Parks summer concert series at the Columbia Ave. A variety of musical performances, face painting MAKE MUSIC DAY: A guitar summit, local music and neighborhood’s Elizabeth Park. The free, family- and more will be part of the family-friendly event. Ad- 21 food and more will be part of an International Make friendly concerts will continue every Thursday mission is free if you bring an instrument, $5 otherwise. VILLAGE BOOKS Music Day event from 3-7pm at Mojo School of Music, through Aug. 26. Food will be available to purchase, A 21-plus event will also take place from 8:30pm- 1200 11th St, Bellingham 2626 Meridian St. Entry is free. or bring a picnic. 1:30am the same night at the Wild Buffalo. More Info: & 430 Front St, Lynden www.bellinghamschoolsfoundation.org WWW.MOJOMUSICDISCOUNT.COM WWW.THEELDRIDGESOCIETY.ORG /PEN$AILYs 6),,!'%"//+3#/- musicvenues 34 See below for venue FOOD FOOD addresses and phone 06.15.16 06.16.16 06.17.16 06.18.16 06.19.16 06.20.16 06.21.16 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

27 Anelia's Kitchen & Mike Bucy Gertrude's Hearse Chris Stewart Stage School's Out for Happy Hour w/Robert B-BOARD B-BOARD Friday Fish Fry w/ Music Moves Me Irish & Folk Night Out of the Ashes Summer w/Sweet Blake, Twilight Music Boundary Bay Norman Baker & the w/Sweet Invicta, w/James Higgins (afternoon), BIFT Invicta, Heroes, The w/The Hoe and the Brewery Backroads Deadly D, Invictus Band (evening) Soul Bandits Harrow 24

Acoustic Night w/Mitchell Brown Lantern Ale House Open Mic Caitlin Jemma & The Goodness Old Town Tonic FILM James

Intuitive Compass, Matney Cook, Conway Muse Soyaya Nick Vigarino 20 20 Strangely

SERA CAHOONE/ MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Corner Pub Knut Bell and the 360s June 18/Green Frog

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Glow Nightclub Gray Matter DJ J-Will DJ J-Will DJ Boombox Kid STAGE

Hot Damn Scandal, Slow Jam (early), Open Mic (early), Wayne "The Train" Sera Cahoone, Ghosts Soul Explosion w/ 14 OddJob Ensemble, Whiskey Fever Michaela Anne Guffawingham Green Frog Hancock I've Met DJ Willdabeast Intuitive Compass (late) (late) GET OUT Anelias Kitchen & Stage 511 Morris St., La Conner • (360) 466-4778 | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Bobby Lee’s Pub & Eatery 108 W. Main St., Everson • 966-8838 | Boundary Bay Brewery 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Brown Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-9788 | Chuckanut Brewery 601 W. Holly St. • 752-3377 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) 739-4550 | Conway Muse 18444 Spruce/Main St., Conway (360) 445-3000 | Corner Pub 14565 Allen West Road, Burlington | Eat 12 Restaurant & Bar 1200 Cornwall Ave • www.4u2eat.com WORDS Produced by Epic Events in conjunction with the Historic Fairhaven Association SKAGIT VALLEY CASINO 8 U.S.I.T. CURRENTS CURRENTS 6

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New Music Tuesday w/Intui- Open Mic w/Scot Casey Write Riot Poetry Slam Scrub Marcel’s Bluegrass Night Strangely w/Friends

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Kulshan Brewing Co. Marcel & Nakos The Devilly Brothers FILM 20 20 Loco Billy's Wild Moon Cowgirls Gone Wild w/Dakota Jam/Open Mic The Lowdown Drifters Saloon Poorman MUSIC MUSIC Main St. Bar and Grill JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase Marlin James Band Troy Fair Band 18

Make.Shift Art Space Ramona, Angries, more ART

Old World Deli Bilongo Quintet 16

Summer Kickoff Luau w/ STAGE Poppe's 360 Yogoman 14 Rockfish Grill Wayne Hayton Bread and Gravy GET OUT Royal Karaoke Karaoke Country Night DJ Jester

MARCEL & NAKOS/June 12 Rumors Cabaret Panty Hoes Drag Queen Show Throwback Thursday DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave DJ Robby Clark Karaoke w/Zach 15/Kulshan Brewery

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Music Moves Me w/Deadly D, Wild Buffalo ’90s Night w/DJ Boombox Kid 100 w/Altesse, DJ Little, more Free Funk Friday Lip Sync Battle Invictus, more

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102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood • www.locobillys.com | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • www.makeshiftproject.com | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s Taphouse CASCADIA WEEKLY 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | Poppe’s 714 Lakeway Dr. • 671-1011 | Paso Del Norte 758 Peace Portal Dr. Blaine • (360) 332-4045 | The Redlight 1017 N. State St. • www.redlightwineandcoffee. com | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret 1119 Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | The Shakedown 1212 N. State St. • www. 23 shakedownbellingham.com | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • (360) 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 | Swillery Whiskey Bar 118 W. Holly St. | Swinomish Casino 12885 Casino Dr., Anacortes • (888) 288-8883 | Temple Bar 306 W. Champion St. • 676-8660 | The Underground 211 E. Chestnut St. • 738-3701 | Underground Coffeehouse Viking Union 3rd Floor, WWU | Via Cafe 7829 Birch Bay Dr., Blaine • (360) 778-2570 | Village Inn Pub 3020 Northwest Ave. • 734-2490 | Vinostrology 120 W. Holly St. • 656-6817 | The Waterfront 521 W. Holly St. • www.waterfrontseafoodandbar.com | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your live music listings included, send info to clubs@ cascadiaweekly.com. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. which is why these movies are submersive daydreams for children. But it’s when the picture arrives at the Marine Life Institute, a theme-park conservatory ruled over with

34 hilarious goddess-like force by the re- corded voice of Sigourney Weaver on the

FOOD FOOD loudspeaker, that the movie takes off as film a swim-for-your-life slapstick adventure. Stanton and MacLane use the ocean as a 27 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS mystic setting, but they use the Marine Life Institute the way Stanton used the

B-BOARD B-BOARD spaceship in WALL-E: as a fantastical play- ground. In a laboratory, Dory meets Hank

24 24 (Ed O’Neill), a scaly-slimy curmudgeon of an octopus who is also a chameleon (he FILM FILM blends into everything from a tiled wall to a metal stair banister to a “Hang in

20 There, Baby!” kitty poster). Hank, for all his quick-change artistry, is a casualty of

MUSIC captivity—he just wants to curl up in a boxy aquarium somewhere. But bonding

18 and redemption ensue, as does a voyage to

ART the park’s ominous inner sanctum, a place where fish are placed into containers and shipped off to deepest, darkest Cleveland, 16 where they will live forever as joyless spec-

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GET OUT in a summer of tepid and disappointing sequels, 12 audiences will be WORDS grateful to encounter

8 a sequel that more than In Finding Dory, our heroine, sparked by REVIEWED BY OWEN GLEIBERMAN a split-second brain flash, remembers— lives up to the first

CURRENTS CURRENTS before she forgets again—that she has parents, and that single momentary dislo- film’s casually magical 6 Finding Dory cation is enough to retrigger the feeling charms that her family is out there. It’s enough VIEWS MOVE OVER, NEMO to tell her that she’s lost. So she decides

4 to find them, with Albert Brooks’ Marlin— come down on the fish like bombs. The FINDING DORY, the ingeniously pleasing sequel to Finding Nemo, opens with a scene and Nemo (Hayden Rolence)—in tow. If fight against the crushing of the spirit is MAIL MAIL that merges our affection for a beloved character with a bit of a jolt. We see Dory, the the movie were just one more extended built right into the Pixar aesthetic, and it’s

friendly blue tang fish from the first film, back when she was a big-eyed toddler with a underwater search, it might have played part of what animates Dory. She’s looking 2 babyish gurgle, getting trained by her parents, Charlie (Eugene Levy) and Jenny (Diane like glorified leftovers. And Dory, for a to rejoin her parents, but she’s also look- DO IT IT DO Keaton), to tell a stranger (any stranger), “I suffer from short-term memory loss.” The while, does seem the unlikeliest candidate ing to rescue and liberate them. thing is, poor Dory really does—she can’t even remember the phrase! It’s no wonder on earth to be a sidekick suddenly placed At a certain point, it will probably strike that her parents are aghast with anxiety. In a flash, a character with a singular and center stage. Her epic personality tic you that the title of Finding Dory seems beguilingly funny trait—the inability to remember almost anything for more than 10 threatens to become annoying. But Stan- like a misnomer, since the story is all about 06.15.16 seconds—comes at us in a whole new way. She’s no longer a daffy amnesiac. She’s a ton and MacLane execute a minor marvel: Dory trying to find Charlie and Jenny. But, child fish with a serious disability. Dory’s memory starts firing—not in a of course, it’s really about Dory discovering .11

24 Dory soon drifts away from her parents, and not just because she doesn’t know how false, un-Dory way, but one jaggedly sub- who she is after she gains the ballast of # to get back to them. She can barely remember that she has parents. As surely as the liminal mind shard at a time, like a series having a little bit of memory. But only a death of Bambi’s mother, this primal setup rips a small emotional hole in the audience, of acid flashbacks. She’s still a fish who little bit. Dory’s glory is that her amnesia one we’re desperate to see filled. Finding Dory then leaps forward to one year after the can really only see what’s right in front of makes her totally responsive to life. She’s first film, when Dory is an innocent grownup with no idea of what she’s looking for. To her, and that, as before, is the beauty of living in a pure existential state, unencum- figure that out, she must learn to stop forgetting. Ellen DeGeneres’ vocal performance—her bered by the past, and that’s why she gets Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane, the co-directors of Finding Dory, have made a high-spirited myopic exuberance. Yet each things done. Her way of solving problems

CASCADIA WEEKLY beautiful, rambunctious and fully felt sequel—a movie totally worth its saltwater. It’s a new drop of memory triggers something in becomes a credo (“What would Dory do?”), film that spills over with laughs and tears (all of them earned), supporting characters who Dory, not so much a change in identity as a and it’s almost poetically funny when she 24 are meant to slay us with their irascible sharp tongues, and dizzyingly extended flights of gain in dimension. She still knows very lit- herself adopts the credo. The movie, in the physical comedy. The images never stop dazzling us with their awesome, tactile sheen— tle, but she becomes someone who knows end, is about finding Dory. It’s about how their oceanic incandescence. In a summer of tepid and disappointing sequels, audiences what she doesn’t know. the past, for her, isn’t really so past. It’s from around the world will be grateful to encounter a sequel to a movie as beloved as Finding Dory, like Finding Nemo before just the ability to remember life as we’re Finding Nemo that more than lives up to the first film’s casually magical charms. it, invites you to dive in with your eyes, living it, one moment at a time.

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REVIEWED BY MICK LASALLE sion—but also anger and judgment. He 18 speaks, as he writes, in a torrent of words, ART and his sensitivity is appealing, even though it extends only to himself. He is Genius The Bellingham Theatre Guild presents 16 the type of person who makes friends eas- Directed by ODE TO AN EDITOR ily and loses them, inevitably. STAGE Firth’s Perkins is practically his opposite. BOOK by Teri Grimes OF ALL the creative gifts, the ability He strikes no artist poses. He looks more to edit—that is, to edit text—is the least like an old-time newspaperman and sits at Timothy Crouse & John Weidman 14 heralded and the least understood. Most his desk, in a dim room, with his hat on. He people have never been edited, and those listens a lot more than he talks, possibly June 10–26, 2016 GET OUT who benefit from it most tend to forget because he has a slight speech impediment, that the editing ever happened. But the and he seems genuinely modest about his 12 ability to see a shape within a mess, to own abilities, even though he’s sure of his ANYTHING recognize a structure before it’s in place, opinions. You would trust your book with WORDS to understand on a first read what is there this man, which is not quite the same as that doesn’t belong and what belongs that saying that you would trust him with your Music & Lyrics by 8 isn’t there—this is no casual talent. life, but it’s something along that line. GOES Yet just as no one ever finds and compli- Genius follows the quasi-father/son re- Cole Porter

ments your hairstylist when you happen to lationship that develops between the two “[A] willfully silly tale of love, deception and celebrity-chasing CURRENTS look good, no one thinks about editing, men. (Perkins, who had five daughters on the high seas… a deluxe candy box of songs by Cole Porter.” and so it’s a particular pleasure to see Ge- had always wanted a son.) It shows also, The New York Times 6 nius make it onto the screen. and this is interesting, the nuts and bolts Tickets:

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Perkins and his relationship with the ec- months to get Look Homeward, Angel into 4 centric novelist Thomas Wolfe, and about shape for publication, and even longer to MAIL MAIL midway through we figure out which one get Of Time and the River ready, because June 23, 2016, the filmmakers consider to be the genius. after the success of the first book, Wolfe 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 2 This is confirmed when we find out that the was harder to deal with. Bellingham Technical DO IT IT DO film is based on the biography Max Perkins: At the same time, Perkins must also College, Settlemyer Hall Editor of Genius, by A. Scott Berg, though deal with Wolfe’s personal life, which has a even that title hints at a double meaning. vaguely sordid edge, and with an older mys- More than any other editor, Max Perkins tery woman (Nicole Kidman) involved with THANKS TO 06.15.16 (1884-1947) changed American literature. Wolfe who decides Perkins is her enemy. CAZ Energy Services Working at Scribners, he took a chance on Genius took a long time to make it to Heritage Bank

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Alice Through the Looking Glass: Dear Johnny Depp, I say this with the utmost respect for you: It’s B-BOARD B-BOARD time for you to break up with Tim Burton. I fear the two of you are stuck in a self-limiting cycle of code-

pendence, and you both need to start seeing other 24 24 people. + (PG • 1 hr. 53 min.) FILM FILM The Angry Birds Movie: Maybe now we will learn what made those darn birds so mad. Finally. +++ (PG • 1 hr. 37 min.) 20

Captain America: Civil War: Chris Evans as Captain MUSIC America has always seemed to me to be the most boring hero of all the Avengers, but he evidently

18 makes the best movies. Although this one is no doubt given a huge assist by Robert Downey Jr.’s effortlessly ART charismatic Tony Stark/Iron Man. ++++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 26 min.) 16 Central Intelligence: This movie about a bullied

STAGE geek who grows up to become a CIA agent attending his 20th high school reunion and saving the world from evil looks to possess anything other than the

14 “intelligence” teased in the title, but since it stars do- no-wrong Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart, I’m sure it’s way more appealing than it has any right GET OUT to be. ++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 54 min.) Giant Floatation Devices Clown: Since clowns are the stuff of all of our CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 12 Giant Ice Cream Cones nightmares, it’s good to see someone finally cut to Giant Custom Sandwiches the chase and tried to make the most terrifying movie

WORDS of all time. Did they succeed? I will never know. at the center of this Rebecca Miller-helmed quirky Fox a movie career, a feat on par with saving the world Giant Beverage Selection Circumstances do not exist under which I could ever be comedy—that is until Julianne Moore shows up with from villainy. + (PG-13 • 1 hr. 37 min.) compelled to see this movie. Because clowns. +++ (R the broadest Danish accent you’ve ever heard and 8 Giant “NOW” Vitamin Deals • 1 hr. 39 min.) steals every scene. As she always does. +++++ (R • Warcraft: Once upon a time, director Duncan Jones 1 hr. 38 min.) made a low-budget, near-future sci-fi movie called Giant Cheeses & Sausages The Conjuring 2: The rare case of a sequel that man- Moon that was one of the best low-budget, near- CURRENTS CURRENTS Giant Organic Garden ages to be just as creepy as the original, brought to Me Before You: The latest entry in that genre of future sci-fi movies I’ve ever seen. Among other you by the man responsible for the Saw series. ++++ movies that see attractive young people in an impos- things, that film opened the door for Jones to direct 6 (R • 2 hrs. 13 min.) sibly romantic love triangle with physical disability/ bigger-budget mainstream movies, such as this utter Giant Sense of Humor death. Probably fine, if you’re into that kind of thing. tragedy based on the popular video game. Back to VIEWS 360-592-2297 Finding Dory: See review previous page. +++++ (PG ++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 50 min.) work on that long-gestating Moon sequel, I guess. + www.everybodys.com • 1 hr. 37 min.) (PG-13 • 1 hr. 40 min.) 4 Highway 9 – Van Zandt The Nice Guys: After he became famous for writing Genius: See review previous page. +++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. the Lethal Weapon movies and then became even X-Men: Apocalypse: Aka, the Marvel franchise we MAIL MAIL 44 min.) more famous for flaming out, but before he made the fill our time with while we wait for the next Avengers mother of all Hollywood comebacks by writing and movie to drop. (Apologies to Michael Fassbender,

2 The Jungle Book: I want to grumble about this directing Iron Man 3, Shane Black wrote and directed Oscar Isaac, and Jennifer Lawrence.) ++ (PG-13 • 2 live-action adaptation of the animated adaptation a largely unseen, near-perfect gem of a movie called hrs. 16 min.) DO IT IT DO of the Rudyard Kipling classic and how nothing from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This looks to be a spiritual sibling childhood is sacred anymore, but I am mollified by the of that earlier film, but set in the 1970s and starring fact that not only is this version apparently fantastic, Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Take my goddamn but also that director Jon Favreau had the good sense money, Hollywood. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 56 min)

06.15.16 to cast Bill Murray (Baloo), Ben Kingsley (Bagheera), and Christopher Walken (King Louie) to give voice to Now You See Me 2: Now You See Me was kind of a the book’s beloved characters. +++++ (PG • 1 hr. mess, held together by magic and the sheer star power .11

24 51 min.) of a cast that included Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Jesse # Eisenberg, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and more. The Lobster: Colin Farrell is looking for love in the The cast is (mostly) back for the sequel, but whether near future—only trouble is, if he doesn’t find it in they can summon the magic remains to be seen. +++ 45 days, he will be turned into a lobster. And that’s (PG-13 • 1 hr. 55 min.) just the beginning of the weirdness to be found in this unlikely but superb story of the search for human con- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: I’m a cynic nection. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 58 min.) with no sense of humor, and even I cannot resist the

CASCADIA WEEKLY comedic charms of Andy Samberg and his joke-rap trio Love & Friendship: This movie is based on a lesser- Lonely Island. They’ve teamed up with Judd Apatow for Showtimes 26 known story by Jane Austen, is written and directed this mockumentary, in which Samberg plays clueless by Whit Stillman, stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloe pop star Conner4Real, and I have high hopes it will Regal and AMC theaters, please see Sevingy and is at 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. What make me LOL. +++ (R • 1 hr. 26 min.) www.fandango.com. on earth are you waiting for? Hie thyself to the movie Pickford Film Center and theater already. +++++ (PG • 1 hr. 34 min.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: The heroes in a half shell are back to fight PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see Maggie’s Plan: Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke are Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady, and to give Megan www.pickfordfilmcenter.com bulletinboard

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29 BY ROB BREZSNY wealth. And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity -- such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like Ace or Vixen 34 FREE WILL or Sharpie, as well as off-putting ironic monikers like Poker Face and Stonewall. Instead, gravitate toward FOOD FOOD lively choices like Dazzler, FluxLuster, Hoochie-Cooch- ASTROLOGY ie, or FreeBorn. 27 27 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming months LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): During the next 15 will be a favorable time to boost your skills as a months, you will have an unprecedented chance to cagey warrior. I don’t mean you should push people materialize a fantasy you’ve harbored for years. Essen- B-BOARD B-BOARD B-BOARD around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is tial to your efforts will be a capacity to summon more for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively ambition than you ever have before. I’m not talking and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In about the grubby self-promotion that typically passes

24 the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave for ambition, however. Arrogant self-importance and and crafty. You’ll refrain from forcing storylines to selfish posturing will not be part of your winning for-

FILM FILM unfold before they’re ready, and you’ll rely on strategy mula. Rather, the kind of ambition I’m referring to is a and good timing instead of brute strength and the soaring aspiration that seeks the best and highest not decree “Because I said so.” Now study this counsel just for yourself but for everyone whose life you touch.

20 from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also I mean the holy hunger that drives you to express known as Crouching Dragon: “The wise win before impeccable integrity as you seek to master the tasks they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” you came to Earth to accomplish. Get started! MUSIC MUSIC

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Everything you do SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next 15

18 in the coming days should be imbued with the inten- months, composting should be a primary practice, tion of enhancing the Flow. It’s high time to identify as well as a main metaphor. If you have been lazy ART where the energy is stuck, and then get it unstuck. about saving leftover scraps from your kitchen and You have a sacred mandate to relieve the conges- turning them into fertilizer, now is an excellent time

16 tion...to relax the tweaks...to unravel the snarls if to intensify your efforts. The same is true if you have you can, or simply cut through them if necessary. You been lax about transforming your pain into useful don’t need to tell anyone about your secret agenda. lessons that invigorate your lust for life. Be ever-alert STAGE Just go about your business with zealous diligence for opportunities to capitalize on junk, muck, and and unflagging purpose. If it takes more effort than slop. Find secret joy in creating unexpected treasure you wished, so be it. If your progress seems madden- out of old failures and wrong turns. 14 ingly gradual, keep the faith. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you ever GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My long-term predic- made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your GET OUT tions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven’t, your optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astro- yearnings probably aren’t deep enough. Most of us, logical omens. Here we go: 1. You will have an excellent on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for 12 chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your connection with such unruly intensity that we have romantic karma. 2. You will outgrow any addiction you made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable

WORDS might have to frustrating connections. 3. Unrequited behavior. That’s the weird news. The good news is love will either be requited, or else you’ll become that now and then, the impulse to leave our safety bored with the futile chase and move on. 4. You’ll be zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can 8 challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past this is one of those times for you. mistakes in a new intimacy. 5. You will have an abun-

CURRENTS CURRENTS dance of good ideas about how to install the theme of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): During the smart fun at the heart of your strongest alliances. next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your 6 ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Courttia can you engage in on a daily basis that will build

VIEWS Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: your potency and authority and clout? How can you “How will you go about finding the thing the nature gain access to more of the helpers and resources you

4 of which is totally unknown to you?” In response need to carry out your life’s master plan? These are to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to excellent questions to ask yourself every day between

MAIL MAIL him: “Even more important than the journey itself, now and July 2017. It’s time to find or create your is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to ultimate power spot.

2 living gifts for dad’s delight ! find comfort moving forwards without quite knowing where you are going.” I nominate these to be your AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The prison

DO IT IT DO words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian. Have population in the U.S. is over two million, more than

open-hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps and impossible secrets! I’m confident you will track about 41,000 people in jail, Italy 52,000, and France them down—especially if you’re willing to be lost. 66,000. That’s the bad news. The good news, at least for you and your tribe, is that a relatively small per-

06.15.16 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your homework is to centage of you will be incarcerated during the next 15 write a story about the life you’re going to live be- months. According to my analysis of the astrological tween now and next April. The length of this predic- omens, Aquarians all over the world will specialize in .11

24 tive tale should be at least three pages, although it’s liberation. Not only will you be extra ethical; not only # fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations will you be skillful at evading traps; you will also be to lubricate the flow of your imagination. 1. What adept at emancipating yourself from your own delu- workshop three questions would you love to have answered sions and limitations. Congratulations in advance! It’s $5 suggested donation during the next 42 weeks? 2. Of the numerous adven- time to start singing some new freedom songs. tures that might be fun to explore, which are the two plant your winter that would be most consistently energizing? 3. What PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The English word garden now is the one thing you’d most like to change about your “catharsis” is derived from the ancient Greek kathar- attitude or revamp about your life? 4. What new privi- sis, which was a technical medical term that meant CASCADIA WEEKLY june 18 lege will you have earned by April 2017? “purgation” or “purification,” as in flushing out the bowels. Aristotle converted katharsis into a metaphor 30 fruit trees & berry VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to an old that described how a drama performed in the theater bushes make great Chinese proverb, if you want to get rich, you must could “clean out” the emotions of spectators. These hours: monday-saturday 10-5, sunday 11-4 have a nickname. My meditations on your future sug- days, catharsis may refer to any event that precipi- 6906 goodwin road, everson | (360) 966-5859 father’s day gifts gest that this curious formula may have some validity. tates a psycho-spiritual renewal by building up and www.cloudmountainfarmcenter.org The next 15 months will be a favorable time to attend then releasing tension. I foresee at least one of these see website for more info :KDWFRP&RXQW\ VQRQSURÀWFRPPXQLW\IDUP HGXFDWLRQFHQWHU to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your strenuous blessings in your immediate future. BY AMY ALKON Even if the behaviors that make up hardiness don’t come naturally to you,

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diness is a shovel you can use to dig FOOD GODDESS yourself out. What you don’t get to do is make the bratty demand, “I want 27 27 SOMEDAY, HER love without hurt or disappointment!” PRINCE WILL RUN You can fill up your life so it won’t be B-BOARD I’m a single woman in my 40s. It’s been so empty if somebody leaves you and B-BOARD ages since I’ve seriously dated anyone. get comfy with the hard truth: Having People tell me that I seem “closed off.” I love is no guarantee that you won’t “die 24 don’t want to be, but I worry that I’ll get alone”—choking on a chicken bone just into another relationship that ends badly. as your beloved’s gone out the door all, FILM I don’t want to die alone, but I just don’t “Wow, double coupon day at the Quik

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misery hole and get on with things. No, obviously, you can’t have it all, 24 What helps in this, Bonanno explains, but you have to have enough of it all— # is “hardiness.” Research by clinical psy- enough of the hots for a woman, along chologist Salvatore Maddi finds that with the hots for who she is as a human hardiness involves three interrelated being. This isn’t to say there won’t be attitudes: a desire to engage with issues in bed, but you’re more likely to people and life (rather than detach and solve them if the licensed professional isolate yourself), a belief in taking ac- best suited to help you is not the corner CASCADIA WEEKLY tion to make things better (rather than taxidermist. sinking into “passivity and powerless- 31 ness”), and a willingness to face stress- ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. ful stuff and use it as a learning experi- Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier ence—transforming personal disasters Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or into personal growth. e-mail [email protected] rearEnd comix

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Call 778-7157 33 to schedule and chocolate. Prices range from $2 for a half-scoop up to $5.90 for a triple scoop. Where: 1323 Railroad Ave. Info: www.mal- lardicecream.com

34 Edaleen Dairy is another local favorite, a 34 family farm with more than 2,500 milking FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD Holstein cows whose milk is used to make the Brandsma family’s amazing ice cream. Edaleen is a combo of the names Ed and Ai- 27 chow RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES leen Brandsma, who started the small family business in Lynden in 1975.

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STAGE tice the cost is light on the pocketbook. Edaleen’s is the most reasonably priced ice cream in the county, and one of the few 14 places where a kid can get a scoop for 95 cents. A regular scoop will set you back

GET OUT $2.10 and a large sells for just $2.65. Eda- leen has ice cream stores in Lynden, Blaine,

12 Sumas, and Ferndale and some are open as late as 10pm. Just don’t visit on Sundays, as all the stores are shuttered. Where: 9563 WORDS Guide Meridian; 1011 E. Grover St., Lynden;

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4 marsala wine)? Then you need to visit one of the two scooping locations for Acme MAIL MAIL Ice Cream in Bellingham. The ice cream is

made in Acme, a small dairy town along the 2 Nooksack River in the shadow of Mt. Baker. DO IT IT DO BY LAUREN KRAMER The company uses local, hormone-free milk from Whatcom County cows for its ice cream, which, it says, is made with “lots more cream” and “never any air,” resulting 06.15.16 Ice Cream 101 in “a much more pure ice cream.” Flavors like fudge brownie contain fudge brownies .11 THE SCOOPS OF SUMMER

24 baked from scratch, chocolate chip con- # As the weather warms up and we swap coats and umbrellas for tank tops, Ben Scholtz, Mallard’s owner, made his tains melted dark chocolate swirls, and the summer dresses and shorts, there’s no better way to celebrate summer than name in the business with homemade ice nuts for butter pecan are freshly roasted. with a great cone of ice cream. Somehow, nothing says “Summer!” like ice cream and a selection of creative, innova- For as many of its ingredients as possible, cream, a treat we love watching our kids enjoy and one that never gets boring tive flavors you won’t see in most ice cream Acme partners with local farmers and cof- or old. Whatcom County is home to three expert ice cream makers, so there’s shops, such as turmeric, Earl Grey, coconut fee roasters. no shortage of innovative flavors coupled with all-time favorites. If you need a chocolate chunk with almonds, avocado, al- Scoops cost $3.68 for a single and $4.77

CASCADIA WEEKLY feel-good treat for your day, something cool, sweet, colorful and unique, here’s mond butter and vanilla black sesame. Feel for a double (no kids’ sizing available). The where to get it! like a cardamom scoop? You’ll find it here. store is open from 7am, so if your penchant 34 Mallard Ice Cream is a much-loved downtown Bellingham institution where the And vegans or lactose-free seekers will love for a sweet treat kicks in early, be assured ice cream is so good, patrons will almost always find a line when ordering (even the choice of nondairy flavors—coconut ice, you have a place to go at Acme Ice Cream. in the winter). Flavor tags are handwritten on a chalkboard above the counter, lime ice, black currant and fresh rhubarb ice. Where: 1021 Harris Ave. or 306 W. Holly St. walls are brightly painted and a shelf is kept stocked with board games, crayons There’s also all the typical flavors you’ll find (inside the Rocket Donuts stores) Info: www. and activities to keep kids busy while their parents are ordering. in any ice cream shop—vanilla, strawberry acmeicecream.com doit GRISTLE, FROM PAGE 7

WED., JUNE 15 9am-3pm in Deming at Nugent’s Corner, and 3-6pm parks and public space that were includ- WEDNESDAY MARKET: Attend the Wednesday in Maple Falls at Kendall Elementary School every ed in the master development alignment

Market from 12-5pm at the Fairhaven Village Saturday through October. Green, 1207 10th St. Approximately 25 vendors WWW.TWINSISTERMARKET.WORDPRESS.COM are stripped out of the new alignment— 34 34 will offer fresh local produce, crafts, tasty treats there is no guarantee of quid pro quo for FOOD FOOD and more every Wednesday through Sept. 28. BLAINE MARKET: Procure produce, crafts, food the public at all in this realignment. FOOD WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG from vendors and more at the Blaine Gardeners The other notable contribution of the Market from 10am-2pm Saturdays through Oct. 29 Pike administration was the 2008 cre-

SEDRO MARKET: The Sedro-Woolley Farmers at 685 Peace Portal Dr. 27 Market takes place from 3-7pm every Wednesday WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM ation of a Bellingham public development through Oct. 12 at the town’s Hammer Heritage authority (BPDA) as a hedge against any BANKING

Square, 640 Metcalf St. BELLINGHAM MARKET: Attend the Bellingham B-BOARD inability to find a more global, deep- PO BOX PICK-UP WWW.SEDROWOOLLEYFARMERSMARKET.COM Farmers Market from 10am-3pm every Saturday pockets private master developer for the through Dec. 17 at the Depot Market Square, 1100 site, and as an instrument that might INTEROFFICE ROUTING BREWERS CRUISE: Tonight’s “Bellingham Bay Railroad Ave. In addition to perusing and purchas- 24 permit smaller scale local development BREWers Cruise” will feature liquid fare from ing locally grown produce, crafts and ready-to-eat OUTGOING MAIL PICK-UP Boundary Bay Brewery, North Fork Brewery, and foods, attendees can experience monthly Demo of properties adjacent to the site. Mayor FILM Kulshan Brewery starting at 6:30pm at San Juan Days, live music and more. Today’s events also Kelli Linville advocated for the dissolu- REAL ESTATE FLYERS Cruises’ dock at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, include “Chef in the Market,” which will feature

tion of the BPDA in 2014. 20 355 Harris Ave. Entry is $39; additional cruises Chef Andy from ACME Farms and Chef Charlie from happen Wednesdays through Sept. 14. Goat Mountain Pizza. The evidence used to kill the BPDA “Let Mad Dash

WWW.WHALES.COM WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG was a 2014 report by Leland Consulting MUSIC Group that found the capacity to con- Do Your Legwork” FRI., JUNE 17 WINE & SUPPER CLUB: Register in advance for struct an anchor hotel and convention (360) 961-0820 18 FERNDALE MARKET: Local vendors and farmers tonight’s “Viva Italia Wine & Supper Club” taking center downtown was essentially nil, will sell their wares at the Ferndale Farmers Market place from 6-9pm at Artifacts Wine Bar, 205 Flora ART from 1-6pm every Friday through Oct. 28 at 2007 St. (inside Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Build- destroyed in part by Port of Bellingham Cherry St. ing). Enjoy fresh Alaskan salmon done several ways expansions of the airport: TWO DAYS ONLY! 16 WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG and Italian favorites paired with several Italian “Downtown Bellingham has no such fa- wines. There will also be live music by Adrian cility and a hotel would serve to anchor Don’t miss our STAGE SALMON DINNER SAIL: Combine your tastes for Clarke. Entry is $50-$60. downtown as a business destination and adventure and delicious food when the three-hour WWW.ARTIFACTSWINEBAR.COM it would help support nearby retailers and “Bellingham Bay Salmon Dinner Sail” returns this Annual 14 week aboard the Schooner Zodiac leaving at 6pm DINNER SAIL: A four-course dinner will be serve existing downtown office employ- from the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris paired with Boundary Bay beers specially select- ers and help recruit new ones,” consul- Anniversary

Ave. Tickets are $59 for kids and $79 for adults. ed by Certified Cicerone brewer Bryan Krueger tants found. “Up until the fall of 2013, GET OUT Additional sails happen July 1, 8 and 29, Aug. 5 at a “Ales n’ Sails” dinner cruise happening from Bellingham had dramatically high hotel and 19, and Sept. 2. 6-9pm aboard the Schooner Zodiac, which is occupancy rates, which would indicate WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM docked at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 12 Harris Ave. Tickets are $85. pent-up demand for a new hotel. Howev- SAT., JUNE 18 WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM er, between 2013 and 2015, several new WORDS VFW BREAKFAST: Pancakes, French toast, hotels will be opened in Bellingham that eggs, sausage and beverages can be had at a VFW SUN., JUNE 19 will dramatically oversupply the market SALE 8 Breakfast happening from 8-11am at Lynden’s VFW SEDRO BREAKFAST: Omelets, eggs to order, with hotel rooms. While none of these ho- Hall, 7011 Hannegan Rd. Entry is $6 (free for kids hash browns, pancakes and more can be enjoyed 5 and under). at a monthly breakfast happening from 8-11am in tels are located downtown, they will have 20% WWW.LYNDEN.ORG Sedro-Woolley at American Legion Post #43, 701 an overall impact on room rates through- CURRENTS Murdock St. Entry is $5 for kids, $7 for adults. out the city and will make it impossible BLAINE BREAKFAST: Enjoy pancakes, waffles or WWW.SEDRO-WOOLLEY.COM for rates at a downtown hotel to be high 6 French toast—plus scrambled eggs and sausage— at a fundraising Pancake Breakfast from 8-11am at enough to support new construction.” TUES., JUNE 21 OFF VIEWS the Blaine Senior Center, 763 G St. Admission is $4 COOKING CLUB: Students in grades 6-12 can It’s curious, then, that the port * for kids, $6 for adults. show up for “Cooking Club: Cool Creations” from staff—wrong about so much for so long 4 WWW.BLAINESENIORCENTER.COM 3:30-5pm at the Ferndale Library, 2125 Main St. At- on the waterfront—would favor a plan STOREWIDE tendees will be mastering the art of the milk shake, to develop the Boardmill into the very MAIL FERNDALE BREAKFAST: Diners will have plenty ice cream float and Italian soda. Entry is free. in both FAIRHAVEN

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