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AFFAIR Music and More at NW Washington Fair, P.20 Blockadia, 3.Ɂɂ Film Shorts, 3.ɂɆ Fat Pie Pizza, 3.ɃɄ cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES {08.12.15}{#32}{V.10}{FREE} AFair AFFAIR Music and more at NW Washington Fair, P.20 CLIMATE URINETOWN CREEK JUSTICE WWU Summer Theatre ALERT Too much at stake, P.08 returns, P.16 Urban Stream Series, P.14 cascadia FILM 34 ThisWeek UP: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green FOOD FOOD COMMUNITY A glance at this Skagit County Fair: 10am-10pm, Skagit County Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon 27 week’s happenings Cascade Days: 12:30-5pm, Concrete Spirit Day: 12-5pm, Sudden Valley B-BOARD B-BOARD GET OUT WEDNESDAY [08.12.15] Hamster Endurance Runs: 8am Saturday through 8am Sunday, Lake Padden 24 ONSTAGE Holly Street History Tour: 1pm, downtown Bell- Urinetown: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Family fun can be ingham FILM COMMUNITY had via livestock FOOD Skagit County Fair: 10am-10pm, Skagit County Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Center 20 Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon exhibits, carnival Pancake Feed: 8-11am, Lynden VFW Hall Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Water- MUSIC FOOD games and rides, front Plaza Wednesday Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center 18 Village Green car shows, live Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot ART Heritage Park music and much Market Square 16 THURSDAY [08.13.15] more Aug. 12-15 VISUAL ARTS Issac Howard Reception: 3-6pm, Good Earth Pot- ONSTAGE tery STAGE at Mount Vernon’s Romeo & Juliet: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock Amphithe- Artists Reception: 3-6pm, Artwood Gallery ater, Mount Vernon Skagit County Fair 14 Urinetown: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU SUNDAY [08.16.15] Three Times a Bridesmaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- and Aug. 17-22 at munity Theatre ONSTAGE GET OUT Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Lynden’s Northwest Urinetown: 2pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Standup Comedy Showcase: 8:30pm, the Shake- Bard on the Beach: Though September, Vanier Park, Washington Fair down 12 Vancouver, BC MUSIC MUSIC Birch Bay Music Festival: 12-7pm, Birch-Bay Lynden WORDS The Atlantics: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether Rd. Dixieland All Stars: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park International Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch 8 The Chris Eger Band: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Park, Mount Park, Blaine Vernon Prozac Mt. Boys, Gallowglass: 2-5:30pm, Woodstock Farm CURRENTS CURRENTS COMMUNITY Skagit County Fair: 10am-10pm, Skagit County COMMUNITY 6 Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon Cascade Days: 10am-4pm, Concrete VIEWS GET OUT GET OUT History Cruise: 6pm, Squalicum Harbor The Color Run: 8am, Bellingham Public Library 4 FOOD FOOD MAIL MAIL Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street Ferndale Public Market: 2-7pm, Pioneer Park Southside Summer Barbecue: 3-7pm, Our Saviour’s 2 Lutheran Church 2 FRIDAY [08.14.15] DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO ONSTAGE MONDAY [08.17.15] The Noble Kinsmen: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock Am- phitheater, Mount Vernon ONSTAGE Urinetown: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog Three Times a Bridesmaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- 08.12.15 The trials, tribulations and farcical tragedies of weddings past can munity Theatre WORDS Ryan Stiles & Friends: 9pm, Upfront Theatre be seen at the final viewings of Three Times a Bridesmaid Aug. Toni Weschler: 7pm, Village Books .10 Poetrynight: 8pm, Bellingham Public Library 32 # DANCE 13-15 at the Anacortes Community Theatre Friday Night Dance Party: 7:30-10pm, Bellingham COMMUNITY Dance Company NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Burlington Summer Nights: 5-9pm, Burlington Urinetown: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Fairgrounds, Lynden MUSIC Visitors Center Three Times a Bridesmaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes Rabbit Wilde: 11:30am-1:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park Community Theatre TUESDAY: [08.18.15] Birch Bay Music Festival: 2:30-11pm, Birch-Bay GET OUT Ryan Stiles & Friends: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Lynden Rd. Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, historic Fairhaven MUSIC CASCADIA WEEKLY Farm Tunes: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres DANCE The Harmony People: 7:30pm, Bellingham Co- Jessica Lynne: 6:30-8pm, Seafarers’ Memorial Park, Salsa Night: 9:30pm, Cafe Rumba housing 2 SATURDAY [08.15.15] Anacortes ONSTAGE MUSIC COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Birch Bay Music Festival: 12-11pm, Birch-Bay NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Skagit County Fair: 10am-10pm, Skagit County Romeo & Juliet: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock Lynden Rd. Fairgrounds, Lynden Fairgrounds, Mount Vernon Amphitheater, Mount Vernon Stacy Jones Band: 6-8:30pm, Heart of Anacortes 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #32.10 08.12.15 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 27 FOOD 34 Contact Cascadia Weekly: THISWEEK ` 360.647.8200 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD FOOD Tim Johnson `ext 260 { editor@ mail 27 cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle B-BOARD B-BOARD ext 204 {calendar@ 24 cascadiaweekly.com The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added insult Music & Film Editor: FILM to injury this week when—while attempting to clean up Carey Ross a long-abandoned mine in Silverton, Colo.—they shook ext 203 loose a debris dam that had been holding back water laced {music@ 20 with arsenic, lead and other toxins. At last count, more cascadiaweekly.com than three million gallons of wastewater have spilled into MUSIC the Animas River, making it an immediate danger to both Production wildlife and humans. Thanks a lot, EPA. Art Director: 18 Jesse Kinsman ART {jesse@ VIEWS & NEWS kinsmancreative.com Graphic Artist: 16 4: Mailbag Roman Komarov 6: Gristle and Views {roman@ STAGE Climate justice cascadiaweekly.com 8: Send all advertising materials to 10: Last week’s news [email protected] 14 11: Police Blotter, Index Advertising Account Executive: GET OUT ARTS & LIFE Scott Pelton Blockadia 360-647-8200 x 202 12: { spelton@ 12 14: Creek alert! cascadiaweekly.com Stephanie Young WORDS 16: Summer stock returns 360-647-8200 x 205 18: Getting racy with ceramics { stephanie@ cascadiaweekly.com 8 20: Fun at the Fair 22: Clubs Distribution Distribution Manager: CURRENTS CURRENTS A music-world biopic ABORTING PARENTHOOD much effort into defending 3 percent of their 24: Scott Pelton My compliments to Reps. Vincent Buys and Lu- services? It is bad enough they butcher babies, 6 26: Film Shorts 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ anne VanWerven, both of the 42nd District, for it’s worse that they want to sell the remains to cascadiaweekly.com their necessary and courageous stand regard- make more money. VIEWS REAR END Whatcom: Erik Burge, ing Planned Parenthood. While many of us have Planned Parenthood performs about 30 percent Stephanie Simms 4 27: Bulletin Board 4 been aware of highly questionable practices by of the abortions in the United States—327,653— 28: Wellness Skagit: Linda Brown, Planned Parenthood (for example, the distri- plus 1.44 million morning-after pill abortions MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL Barb Murdoch 29: Crossword bution of birth control pills to minors without by their 2013 numbers. By comparison they only parental consent), we are appalled that selling provided 18,684 “prenatal services” and 1,880 2 Letters Free Will Astrology 30: Send letters to letters@ aborted fetal tissue was providing the organiza- adoption referrals. cascadiaweekly.com DO IT IT DO 31: Advice Goddess tion with “additional pocket change.” Such ac- Using Planned Parenthood’s math, if a woman Blockadia, 3.Ɂɂ Film Shorts, 3.ɂɆ Fat Pie Pizza, 3.ɃɄ tions are in violation of Washington State and comes in to get some contraceptives, a breast 32: Comix cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES {08.12.15}{#32}{V.10}{FREE} federal laws prohibiting trafficking in human exam, an STD test, a pregnancy test, and then 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku AFair organs and body parts. We thought that went an abortion she has received five “services,” and 08.12.15 34: Fat Pie Pizza AFFAIR Music and more at without saying. the abortion is only counted as 20 percent. 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