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THE GRISTLE, P.6-0(*-#.$/+yFREE WILL, P.29 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 11.x~.10 :: #46, v.05 :: !- ALL THEY NEED TO BE, P.20 STAGED MIRACLES: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, P.16 }} TALKING TURKEY: THANKSGIVING SURVIVAL 101, P.34 TRIPPING UP? WWU INVESTIGATION FOLLOWS THE MONEY, P.8 34 34 FOOD cascadia 27 27 Gypsy jazz purveyors + -'%)"*make memorable music Nov. 20 at CLASSIFIEDS A glance at what’s happening this week the Amadeus Project 24 FILM FILM 20 MUSIC 18 ART ART 16 STAGE STAGE 14 GET OUT 13 WORDS 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 Tickets may well be sold out by the time the VIEWS VIEWS (*.*2'' / comes to town Nov. 20 to 4 perform the acclaimed Swan Lake, but, if not, get MAIL MAIL moving to get a seat 2 2 ) .4[11.x~.10] Thomas Theatre, Lynden Pippi Longstocking: 7:30pm, BAAY Jewelry Trunk Show: 5:30-8:30pm, Leopold Big: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon The Christmas Schooner: 7:30pm, Claire vg Crystal Ballroom DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 ON STAGE Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Thomas Theatre, Lynden Star Trek Live: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre The Pajama Game: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing 10 The Outsiders: 7pm, Squalicum High School Arts Center .17. The Christmas Schooner: 7:30pm, Claire vg COMMUNITY Big: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon ./0-4[11.y.10] 11 Thomas Theatre, Lynden Home for the Holidays: Through Saturday, Bell- Sherlock Holmes: 7:30pm, Burlington-Edison ingham Cruise Terminal High School ON STAGE .05 MUSIC Director’s Cut: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Pippi Longstocking: 2pm and 7:30pm, BAAY 46 # Jeff Warner: 7:30pm, Roeder Home FILM Games Galore: 10pm, Upfront Theatre The Outsiders: 7pm, Squalicum High School Fixing the Future: 5pm, Mount Baker Theatre It’s A Wonderful Life: 7:30pm, Sehome Little WORDS Reel Rock Film Festival: 7pm, WWU MUSIC Theatre Night Kite Revival Poetry Slam: 7pm, Viking Teton Gravity Research: 8pm, Mount Baker Protea Trio: 7pm, Loomis Hall Gallery, Blaine Everyone Who Looks Like You: 7:30pm, Old Union Multipurpose Room, WWU Theatre Noel Ensemble: 7pm, Maple Hall, La Conner Main Theatre, WWU Elizabeth Austen: 7pm, Village Books Composers of Western: 8pm, Performing Arts The Christmas Schooner: 7:30pm, Claire vg Center, WWU Thomas Theatre, Lynden !-$4[11.x.10] The Pajama Game: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing CASCADIA WEEKLY /#0-.4[11.x.10] VISUAL ARTS Arts Center ON STAGE Art Show and Sale: 10am-4pm, Kale House, Big: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 2 ON STAGE The Outsiders: 7pm, Squalicum High School Everson Sherlock Holmes: 7:30pm, Burlington-Edison The Outsiders: 7pm, Squalicum High School It’s A Wonderful Life: 7:30pm, Sehome Little Allied Arts Festival: 10am-6pm, 3548 Meridian High School It’s A Wonderful Life: 7:30pm, Sehome Little Theatre St. Director’s Cut: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Theatre Everyone Who Looks Like You: 7:30pm, Old Ann Fleming Talk: 5-8pm, Fairhaven Originals Games Galore: 10pm, Upfront Theatre The Christmas Schooner: 7:30pm, Claire vg Main Theatre, WWU Gallery DANCE Contra Dance: 7:30-10:30pm, Norway Hall Moscow Ballet’s Swan Lake: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre 34 MUSIC FOOD LeRoy Bell: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Bertram Levy: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC 27 Pearl Django: 8pm, the Amadeus Project James Hall: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU CLASSIFIEDS COMMUNITY Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, 24 Depot Market Square Fly Day: 12-4pm, Heritage Flight Museum FILM FILM Pickford Anniversary Party: 1pm, Allied Arts Gallery Wonders of Whatcom: 2pm, Bellingham Public 20 Library GET OUT MUSIC Turkey Trot: 9am, Whatcom Falls Park 18 VISUAL ARTS ART Art Show and Sale: 10am-4pm, Kale House, Everson Allied Arts Festival: 10am-6pm, 3548 Meridian 16 St. Fishboy Holiday Show: 2-9pm, 617 Virginia St. STAGE .0)4[11.yx.10] 14 ON STAGE GET OUT Pippi Longstocking: 2pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth The Outsiders: 2pm, Squalicum High School 13 It’s A Wonderful Life: 2pm, Sehome Little Theatre Big: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon WORDS A Night of Improv: 6:30pm, Upfront Theatre Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub 8 MUSIC Organ Society Concert: 2pm, Mount Baker Theatre CURRENTS Zephyr Winds: 3pm, Garden Street United 6 Methodist Church Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, Central Lu- theran Church VIEWS Raise the Woof Benefit Show: 8:30pm, Wild Buffalo 4 COMMUNITY MAIL Winter Bridal Expo: 11am-6pm, Lairmont 2 2 Manor DO IT IT DO DO IT VISUAL ARTS Allied Arts Festival: 10am-6pm, 3548 Meridian St. 10 Alternative Holiday Market: 1-4pm, Bloedel .17. Donovan 11 .05 46 (*)4[11.yy.10] # WORDS Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project /0 .4[11.yz.10] MUSIC CASCADIA WEEKLY Blonde Redhead, Olaf Arnalds: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo 3 SEND EVENTS TO CALENDAR@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM Contact THIS ISSUE Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 34 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD Tim Johnson E ext 260 mail ô editor@ 27 27 cascadiaweekly.com CONTENTS ›› LETTERS ›› STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle CLASSIFIEDS Eext 204 ô calendar@ cascadiaweekly.com 24 Music & Film Editor: FILM FILM Carey Ross Dave Niehaus, the iconic announcer who has broadcast Eext 203 Seattle Mariners baseball games since the team’s first days ô music@ 20 in 1977, died last week. He was 75. cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC Production VIEWS & NEWS Art Director: Jesse Kinsman 18 4: Mailbag ô graphics@ ART ART 6: Gristle & Views cascadiaweekly.com 8: Traveling man Graphic Artists: 16 Kimberly Baldridge 10: Last week’s news ô kim@ STAGE STAGE 11: Police blotter kinsmancreative.com Stefan Hansen ô stefan@ 14 ARTS & LIFE cascadiaweekly.com 14: Autumn’s last gasp Send All Advertising Materials To [email protected] GET OUT 16: High school miracles Advertising 18: Artsy and crafty Advertising Director: 13 20: Blonde in Bellingham Nicki Oldham A COLOSSAL MISTAKE TAX QUESTIONS E360-647-8200 x 202 22: Clubs ô nicki@ It would be obvious to any rational person once While paying my taxes, these questions for WORDS 24: The long goodbye cascadiaweekly.com one takes a look at the proposal for a new jail that Whatcom County Council occur me : this has every potential to be the biggest mistake 1. Why are programs to reduce crime and pre- 8 26: Film shorts Account Executives: Whatcom County has ever made. vent the need for a bigger jail being cut now? Holley Gardoski Nothing about this proposal adds up. First of They include mental health programs and REAR END E360-421-2513 ô holley@ all, it is not based on the current reality of the prescriptions for chemically dependent indi- CURRENTS CURRENTS 27: Employment, rentals cascadiaweekly.com world we are living in. The number of offenders is, gents; and county and civil court services, 6 28: Wellness Scott Herning and has been, in steady decline for years. We are, including domestic violence, Boys and Girls E360-647-8200 x 252 as a nation and a society, moving towards enroll- Club, after school programs, and even the 29: Free Will Astrology VIEWS VIEWS ô scott@ ing offenders in treatment programs and alterna- jail work program, WIC, which serves women cascadiaweekly.com 30: Crossword tives to jail for low level offenders. This is human- and children most in need. 4 4 31: Advice Goddess Distribution itarian, yes, but it is also necessary because in 2. Why is the county still planning its 2010 Pur- MAIL MAIL MAIL 32: Sudoku, Troubletown JW Land & Associates this era of fewer resources now and in the future chase of 60 acres of rural land to build a new ô distro@ we cannot afford to build and maintain lavish, $40-$140 million prison between Ferndale and 2 33: This Modern World, cascadiaweekly.com sprawling and unneeded facilities. The present the airport? Tom the Dancing Bug Letters proposal would locate the jail in a rural, residen- 3. Why is there no public hearing or information DO IT IT DO Send letters to letters@ 34: Talking turkey cascadiaweekly.com. tial area without services. The size is based on a being given to us about these proposals? whopping 400 percent increase in offenders in an Why are we now spending more than $3 mil- 10 engorged structure and facility four times as big lion to remodel our current jail and planning .17. 11 as Bellis Fair! This amounts to the construction of to purchase 60 acres in 2010 to build a huge ©2010 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by a “prison city” for a population at historic lows complex while prison populations are falling THE GRISTLE, P.6-0(*-#.$/+yFREE WILL, P.29 .05 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly cascadia REPORTING FROM THE even with the current drug laws in place. all over Washington and the country and suc- HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 46 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 11.x~.10 :: #46, v.05 :: !- # [email protected] Wake up, Whatcom County, to this slippery cessful prevention and rehabilitation services Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing slope before you! Start asking the questions are thriving? Take a look the October 2010 papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution that need to be asked: Who and what are the KOMO TV report on the empty Thurston County SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor.