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************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** EThe Gristle, P.6 * Fuzz Buzz, P.11 * Free Will, P.28 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {11.07.12}{#45}{V.07}{FREE} THE STAGES AND SCIENCE: DAY An Experiment with AFTER an Air Pump, p.16 Election BREWGRASS: results and Of bands and more, p.8 beer, p.20 BEARDINGHAM HAIR, THERE, EVERYWHERE, P.18 Iconic Pacific 34 34 cascadia Northwest wordsmith FOOD Tom Robbins drops 27 by Village Books Nov. 13 to read an B-BOARD A glance at what’s happening this week essay focused on his favorite bookstore 24 FILM FILM FILM Warren Miller’s Flow State: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre 20 MUSIC !-$4[11..12] 18 ONSTAGE Last Comic Standing: 7pm, Viking Union Multipur- ART ART pose Room, WWU Talent Revue: 7pm, Ferndale High School Audito- 16 rium Experiment with an Air Pump: 7:30pm, Performing STAGE STAGE Arts Center, WWU Inherit the Wind: 7:30pm, Sehome High School’s Little Theatre 14 Footloose: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Murder at Club Babalu: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon GET OUT Blender: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre DANCE 12 Bellingham Repertory Dance: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center WORDS MUSIC Peter Ali: 6:30pm, Deming Public Library 8 Sanford-Hill Piano Series: 7:30pm, Performing Arts PHOTO BY ALEX BY WITKOWICZPHOTO Center, WWU Dave Stringer: 8pm, Presence Studio CURRENTS Get revved up for winter at a viewing of 2 ) .4[11.~.12] WORDS 6 ONSTAGE Jack Nisbet: 7pm, Village Books Warren Miller Entertainment’s Flow State Experiment with an Air Pump: 7:30pm, Performing VIEWS VIEWS Arts Center, WWU COMMUNITY Nov. 8 at the Mount Baker Theatre Veteran’s Day Ceremony: 12-1:30pm, Viking Union 4 MUSIC Multipurpose Room, WWU Sergio Mendes: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre MAIL MAIL Latif Bolat: 7:30pm, Pickford Film Center FOOD Community Spaghetti Feed: 7pm, Blaine Senior 2 COMMUNITY Center Russian-born Green Drinks: 5-7pm, RE Sources Sustainable Living DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 musician Denis Center ./0-4[11.x.12] .12 Kozhukhin will 07 /#0-.4[11..12] ONSTAGE kick off the Community Talent Show: 7pm, Deming Library ONSTAGE Talent Revue: 7pm, Ferndale High School Auditorium Experiment with an Air Pump: 7:30pm, Performing Experiment with an Air Pump: 7:30pm, Performing .07 11. Sanford-Hill 45 Arts Center, WWU Arts Center, WWU # Piano Series Inherit the Wind: 7:30pm, Sehome High School’s Inherit the Wind: 7:30pm, Sehome High School’s Little Theatre Little Theatre Nov. 9 at WWU’s Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Footloose: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Murder at Club Babalu: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Performing Arts Theatre, Mount Vernon WORDS Serial Killers: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater Center Vince Welsh: 7pm, Village Books Blender: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre CASCADIA WEEKLY Rocky Horror Picture Show: 10pm, Lincoln Theatre, COMMUNITY Mount Vernon 2 Career Fair: 1-5pm, Wade King Student Rec Center, WWU DANCE Kulshan Land Trust Party: 6-9pm, Leopold Crystal Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Ballroom Bellingham Repertory Dance: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center MUSIC Matt Audette and Circle of Friends: 7pm, Stillaguamish Grange, Stanwood Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episco- 34 pal Church, Mount Vernon FOOD GET OUT Turkey Trot: 9:30am, Bender Fields, Lynden Fowl Fun Run: 10am, Mount Vernon Christian 27 School FOOD B-BOARD Community Breakfast: 8-11am, Bellingham Senior Activity Center Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church 24 of Ferndale Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot FILM Market Square Dishing Up Washington: 7pm, Village Books 20 VISUAL ARTS Art by the Lake: 9am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan MUSIC Community Building Holiday Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lummi Island 18 ART ART .0)4[11.xx.12] ONSTAGE 16 Experiment with an Air Pump: 2pm, Perform- ing Arts Center, WWU STAGE Inherit the Wind: 2pm, Sehome High School’s Little Theatre 14 Footloose: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Whatever’s Clever Variety Show: 8pm, the Shakedown GET OUT DANCE Bellingham Repertory Dance: 5pm, Firehouse 12 Performing Arts Center MUSIC WORDS Musical Salute to Veterans: 2pm, Mount Baker Theatre 8 Bayshore Symphony: 3pm, Central Lutheran Church Melanie Rieck: 3pm, Bellingham Unitarian CURRENTS Fellowship 6 WORDS Ish River Poets’ Circle: 3pm, La Conner Civic VIEWS VIEWS Garden Club Road Trip Poetry Reading: 7pm, Amadeus Project 4 GET OUT MAIL MAIL Bellingham Trail Marathon: 9am, Lake Padden Park 2 2 FOOD IT DO DO IT Pancake Breakfast: 8am-12pm, Haynie Grange Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery .12 VISUAL ARTS 07 Art by the Lake: 9am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan Community Building Holiday Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lummi Island .07 11. 45 # (*)4[11.xy.12] WORDS Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project VISUAL ARTS Dr. Sketchy’s: 6:30pm, Temple Bar CASCADIA WEEKLY 3 /0 .4[11.xz.12] WORDS Tom Robbins: 7pm, Village Books thisweek Contact Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 34 34 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 27 ô editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Is that a lobster in your pants, or are you just glad to Editor: Amy Kepferle see me? 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Not everyone I walk and bike Taylor dock regularly, and I ages well. 4 Frank Tabbita, Erik 4 30: Advice Goddess Burge clearly remember the first time I saw “Grace”— In my opinion, the only crime committed by MAIL MAIL MAIL 31: Wellness Letters her form glistening in the sun, perched so this very talented artist was her removal. 32: This Modern World, Tom the Send letters to letters@ proudly on a slag heap of rusting, discarded tin. —Mike Middleton, Bellingham 2 Dancing Bug cascadiaweekly.com. The mound itself is a relic of time when we all DO IT IT DO turned our back to the sea, and casually swept EThe Gristle, P.6 Fuzz Buzz, P.11 Free Will, P.28 PREDICTING THE AFTERMATH 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku * * cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. the effluence and waste of industry into mother I am writing 14 hours before the polls close, but 34: A peasant’s feast {11.07.12}{#45}{V.07}{FREE} ocean. With so much hidden in the depths, the I can make some predictions about the outcome. .12 THE STAGES AND SCIENCE: 07 DAY An Experiment With slag mound is a constant visual reminder of what Regardless of who “wins,” we will be no closer to AFTER an Air Pump, p.16 Election BREWGRASS: results and Of bands and more, p.8 beer, p.20 we’ve done. We have gotten better—but we have having a political system free of the overwhelming a long, long way to go. influence of money, or to a long overdue redirec- .07 11. ©2012 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Art being inherently subjective, I understand tion of our obscene “defense” budget to domestic 45 HAIR, THERE, EVERYWHERE, P.18 # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 the risk of allowing geurilla art to flourish. Had needs like education or infrastructure. 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