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Connecting People 1419 Cornwall Ave., Downtown Bellingham Intel and Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States 734-3400 • www.nwcomputer.us and other countries. P.2 | 8/09/06 | #1.22 | Cascadia Weekly clip it post it plan it |do it wednesday09 friday11 saturday12 monday14 Black and Blue Burlesque will be part Theater. On Stage Words On Stage of the vaudevillian fun when the Yard Music Comedy of Er- Poetry Open Mic: A Strange and Ter- Dogs Road Show hits town Aug. 15 at Dance Festival Orchestra: rors: At 8pm at At 8pm at Stuart’s rible Evening: With the Nightlight Lounge Tango by the Bay: At 9pm at As part of the Festival Edgewater Park, at the Market, 1530 Evan Puckett at 8pm the Squalicum Yacht Club, 722 of Music at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon. Cornwall Ave. at the Pickford Dream Coho Way. the Performing Arts The Sound of Jana McBurney Space, 1318 Bay St. Center, WWU. Music: At 7:30pm Lin: Reads from Upfront Anniversary Music at the Performing My Half of the Sky Show: At 7:30pm and Subdued Stringband Jam- Words Poetry Night: All are Arts Center, WWU. at 7:30pm at Village 9:30pm at the Upfront boree: From noon-11pm at the welcome at a poetic Books, 1200 11th Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Deming Log Show Grounds. Open Mic at 8pm every Music Cody Rivers Show: Flowmotion Summer Melt- Monday at Fantasia Ruzivo Ma- Community Volume #10 at 8pm at down: At the Whitehorse Moun- Espresso, 1332 Corn- rimba: And Ruvara Wednesday iDiOM Theater, 1418 tain Amphitheater, Darrington. wall Ave. Marimba perform Market: Open Cornwall Ave. The Kooks: From 7-9pm at from 5:30-9pm in from 3-7pm on the The Sound of Music: At Boulevard Park. Community the alley between Village Green. 7:30pm at the Performing Northwest Wash- Mindport and Wild Skagit County Arts Center, WWU. Words ington Fair: Kicks off Buffalo. Fair: From Open House: At 8pm at Beyond the DaVinci today at the NW Wash- The Marriage of 10am-10pm at the Anacortes Community Code: Talk from 3- ington Fairgrounds, Figaro: At 7:30pm the Skagit County Theatre, 918 M Ave. 6pm at Canterbury Lynden. at the Mount Baker Fairgrounds, Mount Hamlet: At 8pm at Court Clubhouse, 3790 Bocce Ball: Weekly Theatre. Vernon Mount Vernon’s Edgewa- Canterbury Lane. tournament starts at ter Park. Community 5pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. Farmers Market: From 10am- 3pm at the Depot Market Square, Bellingham. Skagit County Fair: From 10am-10pm at the Skagit County Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon. tuesday Reefnet Festival: From noon- 15 9pm on Lummi Island. On Stage Porterhouse Brewfest: From Godspell: Summer 2-7pm in downtown Mount Stock offering at 6pm at Vernon. Resort Semiahmoo. Bellingham Flea Market: From Yard Dogs Road 10am-3pm at 1111 Cornwall Ave. Show: At 9pm at the Civil War Reenactment: From Nightlight Lounge, 211 9am-5pm at Hovander Home- E. Chestnut St. stead Park, Ferndale. Legendary musician Don McLean will be drivin’ his Chevy to the levee when he performs Music Aug. 10 at the Silver Reef Casino Visual Arts More Mozart: As part of the Festival of Music Cody Rivers Show: Volume #10 Pacific Northwest Printmak- On Stage at 7:30pm at McIntyre at 8pm at iDiOM Theater, 1418 ers in Florence: Exhibit opening Upfront Anniversary: At Hall, Mount Vernon. Cornwall Ave. from 5-7pm at Lucia Douglas Music 7:30pm and 9:30pm at the Up- thursday Hamlet: At 2pm and the Com- Gallery, 1415 13th St. Subdued Stringband front Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Words edy of Errors at 8pm at Mount Artwood Carving Demo: From 10 Jamboree: From 7-11pm A Strange and Terrible Eve- Philip Garrison: Night: At 9pm at at the Deming Log Show Vernon’s Edgewater Park. noon-4pm at Artwood Gallery, On Stage ning: With Evan Puckett at 8pm Reads from Because Wild Buffalo, 208 Grounds. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: At 1000 Harris Ave. Cody Rivers: at the Pickford Dream Space, I Don’t Have Wings: W. Holly St. Flowmotion Summer 7:30pm at WWU’s Underground Volume #10 shows 1318 Bay St. Stories of Immigrant Life Meltdown: At the White- at 7:30pm at Village at 8pm at iDiOM Music Theater, 1418 horse Mountain Amphithe- Books, 1200 11th St. Howlin’ Wood: ater, Darrington. Cornwall Ave. Perform from 6- Jazz Concert: With Greta Community Good, Bad & 8pm at Elizabeth Matassa at 7:30m at the Northwest Washing- Ugly: New works Park. Fairhaven Village Green. sunday ton Fair: Continues night at 8pm at the through Aug. 19 at the Upfront Theatre, Community 13 Words NW Washington Fair- 1208 Bay St. Skagit County Bill Lightfoot: Reads tain Amphitheater, Darrington. Corvette Show and Shine: grounds, Lynden. The Comedy of Fair: From from Beneath the Surface On Stage Burnaby Blues Festival: From 10am-2pm at the Sehome Errors: At 8pm 10am-10pm at at 7:30pm at Village The Sound of Music: At From 3-10pm at Deer Lake Park, Village Haggen, 210 36th St. at Mount Vernon’s the Skagit County Books, 1200 11th St. 7:30pm at the Performing Arts Burnaby, B.C. Firefighters Competition: Edgewater Park. Fairgrounds, Mount Center, WWU. Bent Grass: From 4-7pm at the From 9am-4pm at the Ferndale Godspell: At 6pm Vernon. Community Hamlet: At 8pm at Mount Fairhaven Village Green. Haggen, 1815 Main St. Send your at the Fairhaven Bellingham Bay Skagit County Fair: Vernon’s Edgewater Park. listings to Village Green. History Cruise: From 10am-10pm at the Community Visual Arts calendar@ Begins at 7pm from Skagit County Fairgrounds, Music Civil War Reenactment: From Artwood Carving Demo: From Dance cascadiaweekly.com Squalicum Harbor. Mount Vernon. Flowmotion Summer Melt- 9am-3pm at Hovander Home- noon-4pm at Artwood Gallery, Coco Loco Latin down: At the Whitehorse Moun- stead Park, Ferndale. 1000 Harris Ave. doDO It IT3 3 | letters 4 | views 5 | news 6-9 | words & community 10-13 | visual art 14 | on stage 15 | film 16-17 | music 18-19 | venues 20-21 | classifieds 22-27- Cascadia Weekly | 8/09/06 | #1.22 | P.3 to force and living the way someone tells The Gristle them they should want to. I am leaving on a business trip, so I won’t CONFESSIONS OF SAINT JOAN: Bellingham City see the promised follow-up editorials for a Council’s newest member, Joan Beardsley, is- couple of weeks, but I ask that when I’m sued an odd statement at this week’s regular back you entertain a column by myself on session. letters the issues you address. Aside from your letters the gristle Describing comments she had made at unwarranted and unfair slaps at Mr. Watts a July 20 Greenway Advisory Committee and Mr. Vega, you’ve avoided citing anyone (GWAC) meeting, Beardsley said, “I have dis- disagreeing with the position you seem to covered that I spoke as if I were representing have taken on growth management. It council and not as if I were giving my impres- would be good for your readers to hear sions that came from… open discussion. What “The Rest of the Story.” I said makes it sound as if some members of I would, however, ask two things of you this council had made a prior commitment to now. Before you prepare the next install- support a purchase of Chuckanut Ridge. This ment of your piece, take the time to actu- is absolutely untrue. Nothing of the sort would ally read Bellingham’s new Comprehensive ever take place.” Plan and the Growth Management Act. It Joan’s apology refutes earlier statements seems to me many of the loudest voices in she made to (GWAC) members at her first the discussion belong to those who have meeting with the group since she took office not bothered to do even the most rudimen- in January and the Greenways III levy passed tary research on the issues they proclaim by a wide margin last May. and disclaim about. As enacted by voters, approximately 60 per- Second, take a look at Birch Bay. Several cent (or $26 million) of Greenways funds are of the people you quote had a free hand intended for land acquisitions—with roughly there because Birch Bay is an unincorpo- half that amount slated for Bellingham’s woe- rated growth area completely under County fully park-free north side. Half again that—or control. There is no better location in the $6 million—is earmarked for the Southside.