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CASCADIA WEEKLY COVER: Photo courtesy returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. people did bad things but most people were funda- entrusted our government to spend more time of Downtown Belling- mentally good. Right? filling their own pockets than in trying to make 4 ham Partnership After living through the Trump regime and the world a better place. the collapse of the old Republican Party, I am This is not an ideological argument. This is changing my mind. I’ve read all the history— good vs. evil. how the conservative think tanks, legislative Will evil prevail? Only if We the People let it. groups like ALEC and billionaires like the Koch —Jayne Freudenberger, Bellingham NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre KEEPING THE VIBE ALIVE law, and we now must hope that some Re- Bellingham is becoming a hot spot for publican senators and congressmen find a not being Seattle and still having a fun spine, some testicles and a conscience. community vibe, naturally attracting peo- I hold little hope.

ple to move here. Hence, all the new devel- —Jamie Selko, via email 30 opment in the downtown area and parts of Fairhaven are going up. My concern is that CANADA’S OIL FUTURE FOOD all these people are bringing a car or two In response to Clark Williams-Derry ex- each. Soon enough we will have a “rush cellent article re: “dirty” oil sands oil from 24 hour,” and Bellingham will lose its calm Canada. Lots of excellent statistics, but ambiance. perhaps he forgot to mention a few other My question is, what is the city planning important facts. B-BOARD to do with the increase of vehicles due to American oil companies own or control

an increase in density? more than 80 percent of all the oil (in- 23 Welcoming new people to this town is all cluding the oil sands) in Canada, including part of what Bellingham is about, how beau- known oil reserves. The Canadian Arctic FILM tiful it is to have people move to Bellingham estimates are up to an additional 25 per-

because they feel they can be part of this cent more of this oil supply. 18 community to make it more productive in Canada currently is close to being the culture and to be able to participate in the second-largest oil-producing country in MUSIC livelihood of all the Bellinghamsters. Live the world and, when the Arctic oil is on- music, local markets, yoga, ocean, moun- stream, might be the world’s largest prov- 16

tains and good beer. A magical place. en oil reserves. Right next door. A stable, ART I want to reach out to the transporta- democratic nation, and biggest trade part-

tion authority to reach out to these in- ner with the United States. 15 coming people that are going to be part of The most important point is Canada must

our community and encourage them to use sell its oil to the United States with up to STAGE the WTA and to ride their bikes, especially 25 percent discount from the world price to if they work and live between downtown honor previous trade agreements prior to 14 T VA Bellingham and Fairhaven. NAFTA. U.S. refineries have been upgraded SKAGI LLEY I ask the city and the community to rub to handle “dirty oil,” but the refineries don’t off the biking culture on the newcomers. have to buy dirty oil from Canada. GET OUT The Whatcom Transportation Authority is Canada has a large enough supply of so-

a beautiful way to get around downtown, called mixed oil (no oil sands oil) that could 12 and they give the most beautiful service. supply all the import needs of the refineries. How sweet would it be to walk down Holly A new pipeline throught Washington state WORDS Street and hear people’s laughter, footsteps could be replaced with train car transport.

and the cutlery dinging of people dining? Yes, there are dangers of moving crude 8 Let us keep Bellingham calm. oil by any means. —Brittany Portillo, Bellingham Tanker traffic along the British Columbia

coast from Alaska to Washington refiner- CURRENTS HEART OF ICE ies have never had a spill—ever. More and There are two reasons why ICE agents rip more new tankers are now double-hulled, 6 crying kids away from their parents, and for further protection. VIEWS “Orders are orders” is not one. The two rea- By further refining crude oil first into Lifeguard 4 sons are because it makes the rippers feel gasoline/diesel fuel and then transport is 4 powerful and because they like it. If they safer in case of a spill. Canada would pre- MAIL didn’t enjoy it, they could refuse or quit. fer to ship all its oil sands oil to Asia, es- MAIL

“Following orders” is neither excuse nor pecially China and other nations to obtain Training 2 explanation. Nazi perpetrators said “If an additional 25 percent world price. OPEN we didn’t they would have sent us to the That oil will be shipped out of many DO IT front.” Well, you were “soldiers,” and mil- BC ports, not just Vancouver. Two more lions of your countrymen fought the Rus- is northern BC ports are being readied to sians while you stayed behind safe, bul- ship oil to Asia.

SWIM! 07.04.18 lying, torturing and murdering. No one in The Salish Sea in the future may not have the German armed forces was ever punished Canadian oil tanker traffic headed across .13

for refusing to murder people. Soldiers who the Pacific. The other oil-producing na- 27 declined were given other duties (while ea- tions, like Venezuala are in chaos—ready # ger volunteers took their place). No one is to collapse and can’t supply present cus- forcing these agents to behave like mon- tomers. Trinidad is too small a producer. sters. If Nazis could decline, so can they. The Middle East will always be a tinder box The really scary thing about the Trump- of instability—and a long distance away. ists is that there are tens of thousands who What is the answer to concerns about would love to take part in savagery, love to Canadian oil? CASCADIA WEEKLY watch parents and children cry, love to be No one is forcing any U.S. refinery to 5 guards at camps set up to hold “undesir- buy Canadian oil at a 25 percent discount. ables” where they could act like gods. Refineries don’t have to buy “dirty oil We are now standing on a cusp. The presi- sands oil”—they can order conventional dent-who-would-be-king is taking the stand oil at the same discount. that he is totally and absolutely above the —H.M. Jay James, Vancouver BC THE GRISTLE SHARING THE PAIN: With Whatcom County facing legal

30 action for its glacial pace in developing a therapy protocol for jail inmates who suffer addiction issues from FOOD painkillers, the other housekeeping arrived last week as the county joined a class-action lawsuit against views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE the manufacturers of those prescription drugs. 24 In June, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wash- ington filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against B-BOARD Whatcom County and the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office for denying people with opioid use disorder

23 (OUD) in the County Jail medications necessary to treat their addiction and ease their withdrawal. Sher- BY AMY GOODMAN FILM iff Bill Elfo reported to Whatcom County Council that a medication-assisted treatment protocol for inmates

18 had been under development at the jail for some time, but had not been fully initiated. Muslim Ban MUSIC County Council, meanwhile, had been for some time considering their own initiative, joining the widen- THE SUPREME COURT AND TRUMP’S UGLY ABYSS OF RACISM

16 ing legal fight against makers and wholesalers of pre-

ART scription opioids, claiming they have contributed to a THE U.S. Supreme Court delivered discrimination that the president’s public health crisis. a tsunami of decisions last week, words have created.”

15 “There is a fairly strong record that certain phar- most of which left no doubt about its Trump’s Muslim Ban is now the maceutical companies engaged in deceptive practices fiercely right-wing orientation. By a law of the land. Sotomayor’s dissent

STAGE with doctors and patients about whether these prod- narrow 5-4 majority, the court upheld continued: “Trump justified his pro- ucts would be addictive, and aggressively over-en- Republican gerrymandering in Texas, posal during a television interview couraged physicians to overprescribe them,” Council overturned pro-choice legislation in by noting that President Franklin D. 14 member Todd Donovan explained. California, dealt a significant blow Finally, in September, the White Roosevelt ‘did the same thing’ with In April, County Council voted unanimously to re- to public sector unions and upheld House issued a proclamation, respect to the internment of Japa-

GET OUT tain legal counsel to join Everett, Tacoma, and other President Donald Trump’s latest Mus- “Muslim Ban 3.0,” with narrowly nese Americans during World War II.” communities around the state in lawsuits against the lim ban. Each decision sets back de- tailored legal language restrict- She was referencing the 1944

12 distributors of over-prescribed painkillers. cades of organizing and progressive ing, to varying degrees, entry to case, Korematsu v. United States. Fred The Whatcom County Prosecutors office confirmed legislative achievements, struggles the United States for people from Korematsu was a California-born U.S. last week that legal documents had been filed in a for which people fought, protested, Chad, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, citizen of Japanese heritage, who WORDS federal lawsuit against the largest manufacturers of went to jail and, in some cases, died. North Korea, Syria and Venezuela. was ordered to report to one of the

8 prescription opioids in the United States, as well as Each decision will be heralded as a The Supreme Court allowed it to go internment camps where 110,000 the three primary wholesale distributors of prescrip- signal achievement of Senate Major- into effect while the legal chal- Japanese Americans were imprisoned tion opioids in the country. ity Leader Mitch McConnell, who en- lenges progressed. This week, it after Pearl Harbor. He resisted the

CURRENTS The lawsuit seeks damages from these companies gineered the current makeup of the gave Trump the green light to make order, and took the government to for their role in creating the opioid crisis that has court by denying President Barack his racist ban permanent. court. The Supreme Court upheld the 6 6 seriously impacted Whatcom County and communities Obama a confirmation hearing for his Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a legality of the internment camps by nationwide, and alleges that they violated the Wash- nomination to replace the late Jus- blistering dissent that performed a a 6-3 majority. Justice Frank Murphy, VIEWS VIEWS ington Consumer Protection Act and federal corrupt tice Antonin Scalia. But of all these vital public service, by collecting all in his dissent, said the policy “falls

4 enterprise statutes (RICO). decisions, the most odious, the most of Donald Trump’s blatant anti-Mus- into the ugly abyss of racism.” Prescription opioids are a class of powerful pain reprehensible, was the case of Trump lim and Islamophobic statements, As if anticipating how reviled MAIL relievers, including oxycodone and hydrocodone. v. Hawaii, upholding the Muslim ban, tweets and press releases in one their decision would be held, the

2 The chemical make-up of these prescription drugs is endorsing and empowering Donald place, permanently inscribed in the majority specifically stated that the nearly identical to heroin. Opioid-related overdoses Trump’s vile, naked racism. public record for future generations Korematsu decision was in no way

DO IT are the leading cause of death in the United States, This case involves the three suc- to behold. In addition to the formal relevant to the matter before them, surpassing fatal car accidents. Since 2000, more than cessive attempts by Donald Trump campaign statement that he wanted but, nevertheless, they formally 300,000 people have died from fatal opioid overdoses. to deliver one of his many notori- to ban all Muslims, Sotomayor sum- overturned the Korematsu decision. The ultimate goal of this and similar actions from ous campaign promises, to imple- marized, “Trump told an apocryphal Despite the wave of negative 07.04.18 municipalities across the state is to bring these com- ment, as he said at one rally, “a story about United States Gen- decisions, there are signs of hope. panies that have profited greatly from the manufac- total and complete shutdown eral John J. Pershing killing a large “We are not waiting. We are resist- .13

27 ture and distribution of a heavily marketed addictive of Muslims entering the United group of Muslim insurgents in the ing,” Linda Sarsour, director of # product into the constellation of financial solutions States.” Trump issued the first Philippines with bullets dipped in MPower Change, the first Muslim to address a public health epidemic. Muslim ban on Jan. 27, 2017, pro- pigs’ blood in the early 1900s.” He online organizing platform, and “The goal for Whatcom County is to get some kind voking massive protests at airports later said—again, from Sotomayor’s co-chair of the Women’s March, of judgment that requires these companies to help from coast to coast. After legal dissent—“[w]e’re having problems said. “I will be joining hundreds mitigate [these issues] and help us support programs challenges blocked that ban, Trump with the Muslims, and we’re hav- of women engaging in the largest to combat opioid addiction,” Donovan said. issued “Muslim Ban 2.0” in March. ing problems with Muslims coming mass civil disobedience by women

CASCADIA WEEKLY In May 2007, Purdue Pharma, producer of oxycon- That one was also blocked by the into the country.” The list of blatant that this country has ever seen.” tin, pleaded guilty to misleading the public about courts, with one federal appeals statements is long and, as she wrote, While the Supreme Court adjourns 6 the drug’s risk of addiction and agreed to pay $600 court concluding Trump’s executive “harrowing.” Of Muslim Ban 3.0, she for the summer, networks of grass- million in one of the largest pharmaceutical settle- order “drips with religious intoler- concludes, “this repackaging does roots social justice organizations ments in U.S. history. The City of Everett successfully ance, animus, and discrimination.” little to cleanse ... the appearance of are just getting started. initiated a lawsuit against Purdue based on increased costs for the city from the use of oxycontin. VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE In Whatcom County, 30 percent of A BETTER WAY TO

residents surveyed reported experi- 30 encing a situation where they or someone they know personally had medi- PLAY FOOD cines taken from them for use or abuse EVERY by someone else. ! 24 “In Whatcom County, the opioid cri- DAY ATNORTHWOOD sis has become a public health emergency, and the costs to the county B-BOARD have been substantial,” Deputy Civil

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30 fected immigrants. Included in Ferguson’s request were the FOOD declarations of dozens of experts in devel- currents opmental psychology and public health, NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX discussing the dangers of separating 24 families and housing immigrant families together in barracks housing. Other dec- B-BOARD larations include those given directly by ered from their parents, many detained in parents separated from their children and

23 caged enclosures. Of that number 1,995 interviews with separated children. were separated over the last six weeks, A mother who fled Honduras after re-

FILM an average of 45 children taken from their ceiving death threats, currently held in parents each day. The policy drew wide- Washington, described the experience of

18 scale public outrage, and prompted a pol- being separated from her 6-year-old son icy revision by the administration. shortly after crossing the border.

MUSIC “The motion for expedited discovery is “My son Jelsin and I were separated,” necessary because hundreds of separat- she related. “I was not told where he was

16 ed parents are in federal custody and the being taken. They only told me he would be

ART administration can move them to other a ward of the state. To calm my son down, facilities at any time without notice,” I told him it would only be for three days,

15 Ferguson warned. “The motion asks the although I really did not know. We had nev- court to order the federal government to er been apart.”

STAGE cooperate in facilitating access to de- She was not able to speak to her son for al- tained parents and to report to the court most a month. When she did contact him, her on the progress of such efforts.” son was nearly mute from trauma and grief. 14 Flanked by immigrant-rights leaders and state lawmakers outside the Federal “The federal government has an obliga- Her story was common among the nar- Detention Center in SeaTac, Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson tion to reunite children with their parents ratives.

GET OUT announced that Washington will lead a coalition of nearly a dozen states that immediately, and an obligation to cease “Children have reported experiencing will sue the Trump administration over its “zero tolerance” policy of separating immigrant children from their parents during illegal border crossings. any and all policies that ignore the due distress and confusion at being separated

12 process rights of families seeking asylum from parents,” reported Jennifer Podkul, or refuge at any of our borders,” said Gov. policy director at Kids in Need of Defense Jay Inslee, who supported the Attorney (KIND), a national nonprofit organization WORDS General’s announcement. providing free legal services to unaccom-

8 The states joining Ferguson’s lawsuit in- panied immigrant children “For example, a IMMIGRATION clude Massachusetts, California, Delaware, 7-year-old girl reported crying throughout Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New two days spent in a Border Patrol holding CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Caroli- facility, and asking to be reunited with na, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Ver- her mother. Other children have report- 6 mont, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. ed worrying about their parents, because “This case, like all our cases against this they did not know what happened to them VIEWS ACTION administration, says something important after the separation.”

4 AG FERGUSON LEADS MULTISTATE LAWSUIT about who we are as a people,” Ferguson Many parents related the difficulty they said. “We will stand up for the Consti- had had in contacting their children, and

MAIL AGAINST BORDER POLICY tution, basic decency and fundamental not receiving information on how to find

2 American values.” their children from immigration officials. BY TIM JOHNSON In support of the motion, the states in- More than one parent relayed that after

DO IT cluded declarations from parents and in- asking for weeks, their home country’s em- terviews with children separated by immi- bassy was able to provide them with the FEARING IRREPARABLE harm to children, Washington’s leading officials gration officials as a result of the policy. location of their children. asked the courts to speed their review of the Trump Administration’s policy of in- The states also filed other declarations “Immigrant children seeking safe ha- 07.04.18 definite detention for migrant families. from immigration rights workers, elected ven in the United States should never be The lawsuit, announced in front of the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac last officials and medical experts. placed in detention facilities,” said Colleen .13

27 week, seeks to challenge the constitutionality of the family separation policy and “The Trump Administration’s family sep- Kraft, MD, president of the American Acad- # President Donald Trump’s new executive order meant to replace it. aration policy is not over—it continues to emy of Pediatrics. “Studies of detained Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson followed that announcement with an harm thousands of parents and children,” immigrants have shown that children and additional request this week, asking a U.S. district court judge to immediately order Ferguson said. “The gut-wrenching stories parents may suffer negative physical and the federal government to provide details about and access to victims of the Trump we have heard from families demonstrate emotional symptoms from detention, in- Administration’s family separation policy on an expedited schedule. Ferguson led a just how much it violates basic decency cluding anxiety, depression and posttrau- coalition of 18 attorneys general from other states seeking to end the policies of and fundamental American values. The matic stress disorder. Conditions in U.S.

CASCADIA WEEKLY family separation and prolonged detention. policy also violates the Constitution, and I detention facilities, which include forcing President Trump announced last week his administration would now keep fam- will continue to fight to put an end to it.” children to sleep on cement floors, open 8 ilies at the U.S. border in detention “during the pendency of” their immigration Ferguson’s request for expedited review, toilets, constant light exposure, insuffi- cases. That could easily mean months of detention (or longer) for some asy- filed in the U.S. District Court for the cient food and water, no bathing facilities, lum-seekers. The new order is intended to replace an earlier one that separated Western District of Washington, asks that and extremely cold temperatures, are trau- parents from their children. Judge Marsha Pechman order officials to matizing for children. No child should ever Between October 1, 2017, and May 31, 2018, at least 2,700 children were sev- cooperate with state requests to interview have to endure these conditions.” AT

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STAGE 06.27.18 WEDNESDAY 14 In a crippling blow to unions, the U.S. Supreme Court issues a 5-4 opin- ion that government employees who are not members of public-sector unions

GET OUT need not pay fees to cover collective-bargaining activities that benefit the whole. Now, teachers unions, police unions, and more will be forced to lobby

12 public employees to pay full union dues, even though those employees will get the same benefits from the union if they pay nothing at all. “The reality is that

all workers benefit from strong unions and their bargaining activities,” Gov. Jay GOTCHY THOMAS BY PHOTO WORDS Inslee said in a statement. “Washington has been and will remain a state that Scores braved cold rains in front of Bellingham City Hall on Saturday to join thousands of their counterparts across the country to rally in protest of the Trump administration’s separation policy for migrant families. Congressman Rick Larsen addressed the

8 believes in and supports the rights of all workers to organize, in both the public and private sector.” [Associated Press; Office of the Governor] crowd, pledging action to reunite these families, and to replace a culture of deterrence with compassion. CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 Seventeen states team up with Washington’s Attorney General and file a law- land on aircraft carriers decreased by 30 than a third higher than the minimum num- suit in federal court in Seattle against the Trump Administration to force offi- percent under the scenario, but it still ber required for a measure to be put to a 6 cials to reunite migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. A fed- means a four-fold increase over current vote. [Seattle Times] eral judge in California issued a ruling on a separate but similar lawsuit ordering activity at Outlying Field Coupeville. VIEWS border authorities to reunite children with their families within 30 days. [AGO] [Skagit Valley Herald] When the Big One hits, Bellingham

4 beachcombers will have about an hour and a The U.S. House approves a bill that makes it easier to kill sea lions that 07.02.18 half to get clear. New maps published by the MAIL threaten imperiled salmon and steelhead populations. The legislation was MONDAY Washington State Department of Natural

2 co-sponsored by Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), and Kurt Schrader Resources (DNR) show the likely impacts to (D-Ore). “What we currently have on the Columbia River is an ecosystem seri- Proponents of a Washington carbon-fee communities on the north Salish Sea main-

DO IT ously out of balance,” said Herrera Beutler, who believes the bill is necessary to initiative showed up at the Secretary of land from a tsunami generated by a magni- save fish runs on the brink of extinction. [NPR] State’s office in Olympia with more than tude 9 earthquake on the Cascadia subduc- 370,000 signatures to put their measure on tion zone. This modeling indicates the first The majority of EA-18G Growler field carrier landing practices on Whidbey the November ballot. The signatures tally tsunami waves will reach the Anacortes/ 07.04.18 Island will occur at an airfield in rural Coupeville surrounded by farmland for Initiative 1631—backed by a broad co- Bellingham areas about 1.5 hours after and homes under the preferred alternative identified by the Navy this week. alition that includes environmental, labor, the Cascadia earthquake, with inundation .13

27 The amount of practice necessary for Growler pilots to remain prepared to tribal and social-justice groups—is more depths as high as 18 feet. [DNR] #

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CASCADIA WEEKLY Professional, knowledgeable, 10 fun & friendly to work with. Cerise Noah (360) 393-5826 REALTOR® [email protected] was transported to the hospital by a woman FUZZ believed to be known to both men involved index in the fight. The injured man was treated for

a wound to his neck. “Based on the investi- BUZZ 30 gation it appears all parties involved know

each other,” police reported. FOOD NICOTINE FIT On June 25, a mother called 911 to report ADULT SUPERVISION 24 that her adult son had stabbed his 71-year- On June 26, Bellingham Police took a wom- old stepfather in the chest and left their res- an into custody who they say was involved idence on foot toward the Mt. Baker Highway in a gang-related shooting at Sunset Pond B-BOARD near the Y Road. The 39-year-old had report- on June 21. A 15-year-old boy was arrested

edly kept pestering his mother for cigarettes after he reportedly shot an 18-year-old ri- 23 until the father told him not to ask her any val gang member in the leg. Police said the more. The son then went to a kitchen drawer, 45-year-old woman knew there was going to FILM grabbed a knife and told his stepfather he be a fight, and she encouraged it and even

was going to kill him and stabbed him several took part in planning it. The gun used in the 18 times. The son then fled on foot. Whatcom shooting and other weapons were found at

County Sheriff’s deputies caught up with the her home. She was charged in connection MUSIC son who admitted, “I stabbed my dad in the with first-degree assault. The 18-year-old

chest.” Deputies said the son, who suffers who was shot was released from the hospital. 16 from mental illness, continued with his story ART and said he was talking to his mom about his PUT THESE GUNS IN THE 20+ cigarettes and his dad started “talking shit” Shift in public support of immigration and immigration reform among Democrats and

GROUND 15 so he stabbed him with a knife. The son was On June 18, the Bellingham Police De- Democratic-leaning independents. Support for legal immigration has doubled among that cohort since 2006, from 20 percent to 40 percent.

arrested for assault and attempted murder in partment’s Hazardous Devices Unit helped STAGE the second degree. The stepfather received dispose of old reloading supplies after the about seven somewhat superficial stab death of a family member. 32 24 14 wounds on his chest from the blunt-tipped knife and one on the back of his right hand On July 2, a Bellingham resident came to Percent of general poll respondents who Percent of general poll respondents believe legal immigration into the United who believe legal immigration into the that was bleeding. police headquarters to turn in old gun am- GET OUT States should be increased. About 38 United States decreased. The share of munition and parts. “These items were im- percent believe immigration should be Republicans and Republican leaners who pounded for destruction,” police reported. kept at its current levels. say legal immigration should be decreased B’HAM BEAR IS EVERYWHERE 12 On June 2, Bellingham Police logged sev- has fallen 10 percentage points since eral sightings of a black bear in the area of On July 2, Bellingham Police accepted more 2006, from 43 percent to 33 percent. WORDS Cornwall Park. firearms for destruction. 8 8 On June 3, Bellingham Police responded to On June 15, a citizen turned a firearm in to ¾ the sighting of a bear on Maplewood Avenue Bellingham Police for destruction. Lawful immigrants account for three-quarters of the foreign-born population in the CURRENTS south of Bellis Fair Mall. CURRENTS On June 12, a citizen turned in gun ammu- United States—33.8 million people out of 44.7 million in 2015, the most recent year for

which numbers were available. 6 LOOKING FOR A FIGHT nition to Bellingham Police for disposal. On June 27, a man caused a disturbance outside two homes in Anacortes. When the CALL OF THE WILD 45 69 VIEWS residents came out to see if he needed help, On June 30, Bellingham Police spoke to a 4 the man began to yell at them and asked 60-year-old man who was sitting naked on Percent of Americans who agree that the Percent of Americans (nearly seven in

majority immigrants living in the U.S. ten) who say they are sympathetic or very MAIL them if they wanted to fight. When Ana- his lawn in York neighborhood. are here legally; 35 percent say most sympathetic toward immigrants who are cortes Police arrived, the 36-year-old was immigrants are in the country illegally, in the United States illegally. That view 2 not cooperative with them, “but was ulti- On June 30, a woman at the same location while 6 percent believe that about half has changed little since 2014.

mately detained without incident despite called Bellingham Police to report her ongoing are here legally and half illegally. The DO IT displaying evidence of a desire to fight or mental issues and give an update of her status. remaining 13 percent say they don’t know. run,” police reported. POOP PATROL On June 16, Anacortes Police checked on a On June 13, an Anacortes woman com- 40 07.04.18 fight in a city park. “The fight had stopped plained to police that someone had placed Millions of people living in the United States who were born in another country, .13 by the time officers arrived,” police report- dog feces on the top of her car. “She had 27 ed. “According to witnesses, the suspect washed it off and there was no damage to accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants in 2015. The United States has # more immigrants than any other country in the world. arrived at the park and began hitting and the vehicle, however, she wanted to report kicking another juvenile several times be- it since it has been an ongoing problem with fore leaving the area.” Later in the evening, someone placing things atop her vehicle,” 61.8 47 an officer contacted the 17-year-old at his police reported. home and took him into custody for assault. Estimated millions of U.S. residents who Percent of Americans who say they speak a language other than English at often or sometimes (27 percent) come He was later released to a family member. On July 1, Bellingham Police asked a man CASCADIA WEEKLY home. The number of foreign-language into contact with immigrants who to leave a downtown property after he was speakers increased 2.2 million between speak little or no English. Among those 11 On June 23, Mount Vernon Police responded discovered defecating nearby. 2010 and 2013. It has grown by nearly 15 who report this, just 26 percent say it to a reported fight at the AM/PM on East million (32 percent) since 2000 and by bothers them, while 73 percent say it College Way. One man was observed by wit- On June 16, a property manager reported almost 30 million since 1990 (94 percent). does not bother them. nesses punching a man who on the ground. that someone had defecated on the side of Prior to police arriving on scene, the victim the building in downtown Bellingham. SOURCES: Pew Research Center; U.S. Census Bureau doit WORDS

JULY 4-7 30 OLD-FASHIONED BOOK SALE: Find fantastic summer reads for all ages while FOOD supporting library improvements at an Old words Fashioned 4th of July Book Sale happen- COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS ing from 10am-4pm Wednesday, 10am-8pm 24 Thursday, 10am-6pm Friday, and 10am-5pm Saturday at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St. (360) 305-3637 B-BOARD FRI., JULY 6 POETRY FROM TAIWAN: Susan Chase-

23 One controversial sign they found was a reliance on public-private partner- Foster shares poetry from her Xie Xie Taipei collection at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 FILM ships to attract new businesses, rebuild 11th St. The tome is inspired by a series of old downtowns and educate students visits she made to her son, Moshe Foster,

18 who might otherwise be ignored. James who moved to Taiwan in 2005. Fallows admits he was unfamiliar with WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

MUSIC the concept, thinking it was a euphe- MON., JULY 9 mism for sweetheart deals between big BOOKS ON TAP: South Whatcom Library

16 government and big business. manager, Brian Hulsey, will lead a “Books on Tap” discussion from 6:30-8pm in Sudden ART He is mute on that relationship in the examples he cites, the one excep- Valley at El Agave 2, 4 Clubhouse Circle. The book to read for tonight’s meeting is Finding

15 tion being the experience of Allentown, Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris. Pennsylvania, which didn’t end well (360) 305-3632

STAGE for the half-dozen public officials who pleaded guilty, or their mayor, who was RAINBOW READS: All teen readers 8th indicted for taking payoffs in exchange grade and up are welcome to attend 14 for construction contracts. and engage in fun, respectful dialogue facilitated by WCLS and Northwest Youth Apparently, the voters didn’t mind Services staff at Rainbow Reads Book Club GET OUT some corruption if they experienced meetings happening most Mondays through economic growth. More than $1 billion Aug. 6 from 12-1pm at the Lynden Library (216 4th St.), and 1-2pm at the Ferndale

12 had been committed to their downtown 12 over five years, after adopting a unique Library (2125 Main St.). The LGBTQ-plus groups will explore Stonewall Book Award new tax scheme designating a multi- WORDS WORDS Winners and Honor books. JAMES & DEBORAH FALLOWS block downtown area, in which all state WWW.WCLS.ORG

8 and city taxes generated by the new private development would go to retire TUES., JULY 10 bonds to cover construction costs. FERNDALE BOOK GROUP: Meet to discuss REVIEWED BY NICK LICATA Jessica Shattuck’s The Women in the Castle CURRENTS An unexpected sign, one with a lib- at a Ferndale Book Group gathering from eral approach, is having an open and 2:30-4pm at the Ferndale Library, 2125 6 welcoming culture to all ethnic groups, Main St. Our Towns particularly for immigrants and refu- (360) 384-3647 VIEWS gees. Cities as diverse as Sioux Falls, DISCOVERING THE HEART OF AMERICA WED., JULY 11 4 South Dakota, and Burlington, Vermont, CAMPING IN THE LIBRARY: Kids in grades THE TITLE of James and Deborah Fallows’ new book, have been resettlement cities for refu- K-5 can listen to scary stories, sing camp MAIL Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey into the Heart of Amer- gees for decades. The civic leaders in songs and eat s’mores in a cup at a “Camping

in the Library’ meeting from 1-2pm at the

2 ica, recalls Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town. But where those two cities believed they benefit- Wilder displays a feeling of despair lingering in America’s ed from the refugees. Blaine Library, 610 3rd St. WWW.WCLS.ORG

DO IT small towns, the Fallows find a spirit of satisfaction, if Overall, the Fallowses discovered that not outright pride, by their residents. while national politics are divisive, suc- THURS., JULY 12 The Fallowses do not pretend to update Alexis de Toc- cessful communities ignore those divi- CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Author and queville’s Democracy in America. There is no search for how sions and focus on getting things done. conservation biologist Thor Hanson will 07.04.18 a community’s ethos sustains our democracy—rather they They point to Michael Coleman in Co- share his book Buzz: The Nature & Neces- sity of Bees as the featured author at this talk about the rebirth of towns in the face of declining lumbus, Ohio, and Ashley Swerengin in

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27 jobs, vanishing businesses and shrinking populations. Fresno, California—where a Democrat Hour at 6:30pm at Whatcom Community # Over the span of five years, they fly their single-engine and Republican were elected, despite College’s Heiner Theater, 237 W. Kellogg prop airplane to dozens of cities. Although the towns their respective communities being Rd. Entry to the radio variety show is $5, range in size, they mainly visit smaller and middle-sized strongholds of the opposite party. They and includes music, performance poetry, a serial radio comedy and more. cities that are not satellites of larger metropolitan areas. remained popular because they avoided WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Soon after their arrival, they would ask, “Who makes this town go?” As one might rhetoric and focused on concrete solu- expect, often they end up talking to the civic leaders, most of whom are business- tions. It’s not a bad message to hear CASCADIA WEEKLY men, wealthy benefactors and politicians. On occasion they speak to a worker, al- these days. COMMUNITY though never a union leader. In fact, the few times that unions are mentioned they 12 WED., JULY 4 are seen as obstructing efforts to improve their town. Nick Licata is a former Seattle City Coun- BLAINE FOURTH: A pancake breakfast, a The Fallowses list a number of signs for civic success. Some are obvious, such as cil member and author of Becoming a Show & Shine Car Show, a book sale, an Arts being next to a research facility, which attracts high-income-earning workers and a Citizen Activist (www.becomingacitizen- and Crafts Street Fair with more than 100 ven- steady flow of government funding. The other standout indication is developing an activist.org). A version of this article ap- dors, loads of live music, a community picnic, attractive downtown that sustains small businesses and draws in regional shoppers. peared in the Seattle Times. Representing Local Artists Since 1969 doit WHATCOM MUSEUM Plover ferry rides, a parade, a barbecue, fireworks and much more will be part of Blaine’s

HISTORY CRUISE annual Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration taking place from 8am-dusk at various locales 30 throughout Blaine. Most events are free. SAIL AWAY WITH US! FOOD WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM Take a memorable sunset LOGGERODEO: The longest-running 4th of July celebration in the state, “Loggero- tour of Bellingham Bay 24 deo,” will conclude today with activities with local historians as happening from 8am-11pm throughout town. July 2018

your guides. You’ll learn B-BOARD Chainsaw carving, a footrace, a barbecue, a grand parade, arts and crafts, an auction, a city history from a water- rodeo, a log exhibition and fireworks will be side perspective. Pack a Woven 23 part of the festivities. picnic & your sunscreen. WWW.LOGGERODEO.ORG Wine & beer sold onboard. Pots FILM ANACORTES FOURTH: As part of a 4th of Featuring

July celebration, Anacortes residents can Larry Richmond & Peggy Kondo 18 show up for a town photo at 10am at 5th TUESDAYS, JULY 10 - SEPTEMBER 11 Street and Commercial Avenue. At 11am, 1000 Harris Avenue • Bellingham, WA The cruises take place on Tuesday evenings, boarding MUSIC a parade starts at 3rd Street and Commer- Mon.-Sat. 11-6, Sun. 12-5 cial, and a patriotic program will follow at at 6:15 PM at the Bellingham Ferry Terminal, 355 Harris

www.goodearthpots.com 16 Causland Park. Fireworks will light up Fidalgo Ave., sailing at 6:30 PM, and returning at 8:30 PM. (360) 671-3998 Bay at dusk. ART WWW.ANACORTES.ORG TICKETS Join us in welcoming LOCAL POET BELLINGHAM FOURTH: The annual Haggen $35 General/$30 Museum members (group rate available) 15 Family 4th of July Celebration takes place Purchase tickets online at BrownPaperTickets.com, event

Susan Chase-Foster STAGE from 2-11pm alongside Bellingham’s harbor #3380820 or by phone 1.800.838.3006 ext. 1. at Zuanich Point Park, 2600 Harbor Loop. Poems & Images Before fireworks begin at dusk, there’ll be a XIE XIE

from Taipei 14 family-friendly assortment of old-fashioned fun and games, live music, vendor booths, a TAIPEI beer garden and more. Entry is free and open to all. Limited parking will be available, so GET OUT celebrants are encouraged to walk, bike or use the free passenger shuttles that will 12 whatcommuseum.org/history-sunset-cruise/ 12 pick up and drop off passengers at Belling- ham High School. Friday, July 6, 7pm WORDS WWW.PORTOFBELLINGHAM.COM a FREE EVENT at WORDS VILLAGE BOOKS LA CONNER FOURTH: Fireworks will

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Fourth of July 2018 the old-fashioned way. Join us for the LIVE TAPING of CURRENTS A noontime children’s parade, hot dogs, The 6 three-legged races, and a watermelon contest start the day’s festivities at Pioneer Chuckanut Radio Hour

Park, 1200 South 4th St. From 5-9pm, a free featuring the award winning author of VIEWS concert featuring Jr. Cadillac and the Walrus FEATHERS and THE TRIUMPH OF SEEDS will include a beer garden and local food 4 vendors. Stick around for a fireworks display over the Swinomish Channel. THOR MAIL WWW.LOVELACONNER.COM

HANSON 2 JULY 6-8 at Whatcom Community College WESNIP RESALE: Find decor, kitchen Thursday, July 12 DO IT items, lines, clothing, stuff for kids, furni- doors at 6:30pm ture, garden goods, jewelry, books and much more at the WeSnip ReSale taking place from Enjoy live music by The Scarlet Locomotive, 9am-5pm Friday through Sunday at Cordata 07.04.18 fun skits, humor, and biologist Plaza, 4151 Meridian St. All profits will Thor Hanson introducing his benefit accessible and affordable spay and latest book... .13 neuter for cats and dogs in our community— 27 WeSNiP has “fixed” more than 18,000 cats –BUZZ # and dogs in Whatcom County in the past 10 The Nature and Tickets $5 years. Necessity of Bees available at Village Books & brownpapertickets.com WWW.WESNIP.ORG Don’t miss these FREE EVENTS in Fairhaven Pre-order your copy today! Go to VILLAGEBOOKS.COM SAT., JULY 7 for more information about these SKOOKUM KIDS CELEBRATION: Help and other upcoming events!

Skookum Kids celebrate its third birthday CASCADIA WEEKLY from 4-7pm on the portion of Franklin Street behind Perch & Play, 1707 N. State St. The 13 party will feature food trucks, carnival VILLAGE BOOKS games, a bouncy house, local vendors and live music from Kuinka. Entry is free. Advertising supports the Cascadia Weekly &PAPER DREAMS WWW.SKOOKUMKIDS.ORG 1200 11th St, Bellingham newspaper and creates valued content. & 430 Front St, Lynden • Open Daily

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Community Boating Center will Local Master Gardeners will be on 30 be open through the summer from hand for Plant Diagnostic Clinics 12pm until sunset on weekdays from 5-7:30pm Mondays through FOOD and 10am sunset on Saturdays and July at the SkillShare Space at the Sundays at their headquarters at Bellingham Public Library, 210 outside 555 Harris Ave. Registration for Central Ave.

24 HIKING RUNNING GARDENING youth camps and adult classes are (360) 778-7210 available online. WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG HIKING BASICS: A free “Hiking B-BOARD Basics” presentation starts at 6pm JULY 5-9 at REI, 400 36th St. SKAGIT TOURS: As part of the 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM 23 annual “Skagit Tours,” Seattle City Light, the North Cascades Institute, FILM TUES., JULY 10 and the National Park Service offer FREE PADDLES: Through Aug. 14, Diablo Lake boat tours, Gorge power- enjoy Tuesday Evening Free Paddles

18 house tours, and Ladder Creek Falls from 4:30-9pm at the Community by Night events Thursdays through Boating Center, 555 Harris Ave. In

MUSIC Mondays through the summer in and addition to offering free one-hour around the three dams near Highway rentals of sit-on-top kayaks, paddle 20. Prices range from $5-$42. boards, rowboats, and sea kayaks, 16 WWW.SKAGITTOURS.COM there will be family-friendly activi-

ART ties and games, a beer garden and a FRI., JULY 6 rotating food selection. WILD THINGS: Kids, adults WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG 15 and adventurers can join Holly Roger of Wild Whatcom for a “Wild BARK STEWARDS: Join Belling-

STAGE Things” Community Program from ham Parks for a “Bark Steward” 9:30-11am every Friday in July at Work Party from 6-8pm at Lake Boulevard Park. Suggested dona- Padden Park, 4882 S. Samish Way. 14 14 tion is $5. In addition to picking it up, learn WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG how dog poop affects parklands, streams and bay, play Toss the GET OUT GET OUT SAT., JULY 7 (plastic) Turd, and flag poop that CHUCKANUT FOOT RACE: Join hasn’t been picked up to illustrate the Greater Bellingham Running Club the problem. 12 BY AMY KEPFERLE “That could be anything from describ- for its 52nd annual Chuckanut Foot WWW.COB.ORG ing what it would have been like to live Race at 9am at Marine Park, 200 WORDS Harris Ave. The scenic seven-mile FLOAT RUN: A weekly All-Paces above the swirling cesspool in Old Town, trail race finishes at Larrabee State Run starts at 6pm Fairhaven Run-

8 to simply using the occasional well-placed Park, where there will be a post-race ners, 1209 11th St. Entry is free. Making History curse word,” she says. “These stories are after-party and live music. Entry is Tonight’s “Float Run” will feature incredible, but they can be pretty hard to $35-$40. Saucony demos, post-run root beer THE GOOD TIME GIRLS WWW.GBRC.NET or Coke floats, a putting game, a CURRENTS suss out for the average person. I see it as raffle and more. SEVEN YEARS ago, Sara Holodnick and Marissa McGrath our job to make them come to life.” RIVER WALK: Learn about local WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM 6 first tightened their corsets and took to the streets of down- Urbigkit points out that their prede- salmon species, discover native town Bellingham as the Good Time Girls. From uncovering tales cessors began the tours to talk about the plants and find aquatic insects at HISTORY CRUISE KICKOFF: VIEWS about everything from prostitution to Prohibition, their cos- city’s “working girls,” and points out that the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Whatcom Museum hosts its first Association’s Nooksack River Walk “Sunset History Cruise” of the 4 tumed “Sin & Gin” tours aimed to provide citizens of the city telling the stories of marginalized facets starting at 3pm in Glacier at the season tonight starting at 6:30pm they lived in with an unvarnished history of its past. of the population is always going to be Horseshoe Bend Trailhead. Entry at San Juan Cruises’ slip at the MAIL They did just that, and along the way, they met Kolby LaBree an important part of that they do. is free. Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355

WWW.N-SEA.ORG Harris Ave. Historians Brian

2 and Wren Urbigkit, who were officially handed the corset strings The more family-friendly “Bellinghis- this spring, and have been hard at work continuing McGrath and tory” tours in locales like the Columbia Griffin and Doug Starcher will JULY 7-8 take turns leading the popular DO IT Holodnick’s legacy of bringing Bellingham’s lesser-known his- neighborhood have also provided in- GARDEN TOUR: Whatcom Horticul- Bellingham Bay excursions aboard tory to light. sights into the city’s past. tural Society hosts its 32nd annual the Victoria Star. In addition to Changes the duo have made include more all-ages tours on “Earlier this year I learned a lot about “Tour of Private Gardens” from offering stunning scenery, the weekend afternoons through the summer at locales such as the Bellingham coal mines and the hun- 11am-5pm Saturday and Sunday event includes stories about the 07.04.18 Whatcom Creek, the Columbia-Eldridge neighborhood, State dreds of miles of tunnels beneath the Co- at five fabulous city and country region’s fascinating history and Street, and the South Side, but the “Sin & Gin” tours are still lumbia and Birchwood neighborhoods,” gardens. Tickets are $15-$18. how they relate to contemporary

.13 WWW.WHATCOMHORTSOCIETY.ORG issues. Tickets are $30-$35.

27 on track weekends through September, and the Good Time Girls’ Urbigkit says. “It’s an especially fun WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG # trademark brand of “feminism, sass and entertaining history” topic to talk about with kids.” SUN., JULY 8 remains intact. LaBree says she’s aware the Good STREET SCRAMBLE: Runners, WED., JULY 11 “I find this statement is important because it is part of the Time Girls are also making history in walkers, cyclists and families can FLATS AND HUNTS: Join Shifting Good Time Girls ‘brand,’ and how we approach history,” LaBree Bellingham. sign up for the urban adventure Gears for a “Womxn’s Fix a Flat” known as “Street Scramble” start- workshop from 6-8pm at Kona Bike says. “The Good Time Girls was started by women, with a fo- “I just want people to look around ing at 10:30am at the Whatcom Shop, 1622 N. State St. Also at cus on women. I think our approach is part of a larger trend their environment and ask questions,” Family YMCA, 1256 N. State St. 6pm, a Scavenger Hunt tour of bike-

CASCADIA WEEKLY of looking at history from other perspectives rather than the she says. “Why is this (town, building, Go solo, or sign up for teams of friendly places in Bellingham will ones who did the writing down of it all—which was largely person, law) here? Why is this like this? 2-5. Dozens of checkpoints will begin at Cafe Velo, 120 Prospect St. 14 white men for a long time.” Has it always been like this? What do we be marked on a special map, and Entry is $10. your goal is to find as many as you WWW.LETSSHIFTGEARS.COM LaBree likens researching and developing tours to being a want this to be like going forward?” can within the time limit. Entry “history detective,” and Urbigkit says her favorite thing to do is $5-$30. SEND EVENT INFO TO: when presenting a tour is to find the ways an anecdote can be For more details about the Good Time WWW.STREETSCRAMBLE.COM [email protected] made more approachable. Girls tours, go to www.goodtimegirls.com doit STAGE JULY 9-13 SKAGIT THEATRE CAMP: Expe-

THURS., JULY 5 rienced theater professionals will GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The lead a Skagit Theatre Camp for stu- 30 Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at dents entering first through eighth FOOD 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront grade from 10am-3pm July 9-13 at stage Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, stick around for “The Project.” 712 S. First St. During the weeklong

THEATER DANCE PROFILES 24 Entry is $5-$8. session to produce Disney Winnie 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM the Pooh Kids, student groups will study a broad range of stagecraft— B-BOARD JULY 5-8 including acting, singing, dancing, OPEN AIR SUMMER REP: As costume, sets, props, lighting and part of an Open Air Summer Rep sound. Entry is $250. 23 series, iDiOM Theater will present WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG performances of Anton Chekhov’s FILM The Seagull at 7:30pm Thursday and JULY 9-14 Friday at the amphitheater at Mari- MISSOULA CHILDREN’S THE-

time Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly ATRE: Spaces are still available 18 St. At 7:30pm Saturday and Sunday, for the 16th annual visit by the Anne Washburn’s 2012 masterpiece, Missoula Children’s Theatre to MUSIC Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play work with area youth to present will take the stage. Entry to the Gulliver’s Travels (July 9-14), “Secret

outdoor performances is free. Ad- Garden (July 16-21), and Pied 16

ditional performances of Mr Burns Piper (July 30-Aug. 4) at the Mount ART can be seen July 12, 13 and 15. Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM St. Each summer, the MCT tour 15 team arrives at the storied theater 15 JULY 6-7 with a set, lights, costumes, props STAGE 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL: and makeup, then adds 50-60 local STAGE Enjoy a collection of comedic and students who rehearse through the dramatic works written by local play- week and then present two public wrights at a 10-Minute Play Festival performances on the MBT stage. 14 at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday at the Tuition is $195 per camp, or $175 Anacortes Community Theatre Annex, for multiple students or camps. GET OUT 1020 11th St. Tickets are $10. WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM

PHOTO BY JEFF LEFFERTS BY PHOTO WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM TUES., JULY 10 12 BY AMY KEPFERLE us all with a class on JULY 6-7 BIFT: Upfront Theatre improvisors Sexy Magic. You’ll see a LOL-APALOOZA: Come witness will present two sets of short-form stories and comedy made up on the improv comedy games at Beer + WORDS few familiar faces, such spot when “LOL-apalooza” shows Improv + Food Truck (BIFT) shows at as Luna Lovegood. at 9pm Friday and Saturday at the 6pm every Tuesday through Aug. 28 8 Frisky Fandoms There will also be a Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. The at the beer garden at Boundary Bay Sorting Ceremony, but short-form comedy improv spotlight Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Tickets WHEN NERDS ARE NAUGHTY might feature a battle royale, a team to the interactive, family-friendly

it will be a good deal CURRENTS competition, a collage of different performances are $5 (free for those IN THE past couple of months, Frisky Fandoms has given Star more scandalous than games, or whatever other forms the 12 and under). Fare from Cicchitti’s 6 Wars and Game of Thrones the burlesque treatment. On Thurs., July ATTEND the one in the books. players decide on. Entry is $10-$12. Pizza will also be available. 5, they’ll do it again with Harry Potter. We caught up with founder WHAT: Harry CW: “Nerds. Sex. May- WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM Charlie Fun-Facts to find out more about how she’s planning on Potter Burlesque hem” is your tagline. VIEWS WHEN: 8pm Thu., SUN., JULY 8

putting the audience under her spell. Given that premise, 4 Jul. 5 THE GATEWAY SHOW: Attend “The DANCE Cascadia Weekly: Is Charlie Fun-Facts your real name? WHERE: Firefly what can audiences ex- Gateway Show” at 8pm at the Upfront MAIL Charlie Fun-Facts: It’s my stage name/nickname. A drunk Austra- Lounge, 1015 N. pect from a Frisky Fan- Theatre, 1208 Bay St. The night’s THURS., JULY 5

lian called me that on a road trip once, and the name stuck. State St. doms show? entertainment will feature five FOLK DANCE: The Balkan Folk 2 CW: What does nerdy burlesque look like compared to “regular” COST: $10-$15 CFF: Well, the Nerds comics who will do a sober set, get Dancers meet from 7-9:30pm Thurs- INFO: www. extremely high at an undisclosed lo- days at the Fairhaven Library, 1117

burlesque? are on the stage and DO IT facebook.com/ cation, and then return for a second 12th St. Dances are taught, and CFF: To create nerdy burlesque we make routines that honor char- friskyfandoms in the audience. The (stoned) set. Tickets are $12. mentoring is available. Suggested acters or play with themes from our favorite shows, books and Sex is mostly on the WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM donation is $5. movies. It’s a little more referential than your average burlesque, stage. And the Mayhem is imbued in ev- (360) 380-0456 since we get to make a lot of inside jokes about the characters ery element of our show. We bring audi- JULY 8-9 07.04.18 and stories. ence members onstage for our “Birthday LA CAGE AUDITIONS: Every FRI., JULY 6

ethnicity, gender and body type is DANCING ON THE GREEN: Learn .13

CW: In what ways are you a nerd? Burlesque” segment, serve drink specials encouraged to take part in auditions new dances while the sun sets at 27 # CFF: I’m from a family of nerds, so I grew up playing tabletop like shots of Felix Felicis, and our lovely for La Cage Aux Folles at 7pm Sunday the first “Dancing on the Green” games like Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering. As Fireflies are constantly bustling through and Monday at the Bellingham event of the summer from 7-9:30pm an adult, I love great stories, as you can see with our choice of the audience stirring up trouble. Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. at the Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 themes. And also, I love trivia about history and science. CW: What do you love about producing WWW.BELLINGHAM 10th St. Take a lesson in two-step THEATREGUILD.COM country dancing with Glenn Clark CW: How do you choose your themes? these shows? tonight, then practice to DJ tunes. CFF: I work closely with Erin Gill, the owner of the Firefly Lounge, CFF: I love the community. Our local nerdy MON., JULY 9 The free events put on by Belling-

to pick themes that will create visually stunning shows. The first businesses have really come out in spades GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open ham Parks and Rec will continue CASCADIA WEEKLY couple have been very specific. But soon we’ll be moving into to help make these shows happen. mic for comedians, “Guffawingham!,” Fridays through Aug. 10. No partner more general themes like Monster Hunters and Time Travel—that CW: What else do you want people to know? takes place at 9pm every Monday at or experience is necessary. 15 the Firefly Lounge, 1015 N. State St. (360) 778-7000 way we can incorporate more fandoms per show. CFF: Our performers will be Uncle Kunkel, Entry is free. CW: Can you give us some sneak peeks regarding content for the Harry Bellow Wing, Chayla Coolitah Carraha, WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ SEND EVENT INFO TO: Potter Burlesque show? Shine DeLonge, Emerald Fire, Kalamity GUFFAWINGHAM [email protected] CFF: Our house dance troupe, the Fireflies, will be there to school Jean, and myself. doit UPCOMING EVENTS

FRI., JULY 6 ANACORTES ART WALK: Burton Jewelers, 30 the Good Stuff Arts, the Johnson Manor, Red

FOOD Salon Aveda, Scott Milo Gallery, and the Ma- jestic Inn and Spa will be among the venues opening their spaces for the First Friday Art

24 visual Walk from 6-9pm in downtown Anacortes. GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES WWW.ANACORTESART.COM

B-BOARD BELLINGHAM ART WALK: Allied Arts, 3 OMS Yoga, Bank of the Pacific, Bayou on Bay, Cafe Velo, the Community Food Co-op,

23 Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, Goat Moun- tain Pizza, Make.Shift Art Space, Max Higbee

FILM the crawl will gain a new appreciation for Center, the Racket, the Redlight, Wandering the amazing creative community we have Oaks, Gallery Pegasus, and more will take part in the monthly Art Walk from 6-10pm 18 right here, drink some lemonade, get throughout downtown Bellingham. Pick up a a tarot reading, and maybe score some map at participating locales, or peruse the

MUSIC sweet, hardly worn Birkenstocks.” lineup online. Hathaway was in- WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM 16 16 spired by the nearby ALLIED ARTS: As part of a collaboration ART ART Sunnyland Stomp, with the artists of Old School Tattoo, attend which will be celebrat- an opening reception for a “Star Wars Tribute” from 6-9pm at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall

15 ing its 10th anniversary the following Ave. The exhibit showcases what happens when tattoo artists deviate from their typical

STAGE weekend—Sat., July medium. 14—with a noontime WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG chicken race and more 14 ATTEND WHAT: York Yard than 40 hosts who BANK OF THE PACIFIC: Enjoy appetizers, Crawl will open their doors music by DJ Jimmy C, and art by Kendra Cas-

GET OUT WHEN: 12-6pm and fences to show- tillo and Jackson Faulkner from 6-9pm at the Sat., July 7 Bank of the Pacific, 100 Grand Ave. case everything from WHERE: WWW.BANKOFTHEPACIFIC.COM

12 Throughout the paintings to Bocce ball York neighborhood lessons to live-action CAFE VELO: Check out “Life on Two Wheels” COST: Entry is free screen printing, pup- from 6-10pm at Cafe Velo, 120 Prospect St., WORDS MORE: Print maps pet shows, a Bastille #2. The retrospective featuring bike-related will be available images taken by photographer John Pratt

8 Day-themed celebra- at Aslan Brewing, from 1986-1998 coincides with the Tour de McKay’s Taphouse, tion and far beyond. France, will be showing on screens at the cafe Trove Coffee, and “I’m thrilled to for the duration. WWW.CAFE-VELO.CC

CURRENTS Nelson’s Market SUNNYLAND STOMP see the community INFO: www. come together for 6 yorkyardcrawl.fun FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: Attend an open- this unique, creative ------ing reception for “Chirp!” from 6-9pm at Fourth event,” co-organizer Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. The VIEWS BY AMY KEPFERLE WHAT: Sunnyland Stomp and participant Erin exhibit features 25 area artists offering their

4 WHEN: 3-8pm Boyd says. “It’s such a stylish representations of our feathered friends Sat., July 14 good reflection of the in various mediums—from paint to pencil,

MAIL (a chicken race collage to clay. best of Bellingham. Crawl and Stomp begins at 12pm at WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM

2 Memorial Park) We’re looking forward A NEIGHBORLY APPROACH TO ART WHERE: to sharing art, com- GALLERY PEGASUS: Peruse “Natura” at an

DO IT Throughout munity and fun times opening reception from 6-10pm at Gallery WHAT ARE you doing Saturday afternoon? the Sunnyland with all of the visitors Pegasus, 301 W. Holly St. The group art ex- neighborhood hibit features Pacific Northwest artists whose If you’re not busy, I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to my backyard, to our neighborhood.” COST: Entry is free works provoke a sense of nature. which for one day only will be transformed into an art gallery, multi-neighbor yard sale MORE: Maps will Boyd says anoth- WWW.GALLERYPEGASUS.COM 07.04.18 and chicken-viewing station. be available at er highlight of this I won’t be alone. Thanks to organizer and resident June Hathaway, the inaugural York each Stomp Stop year’s Stomp is the MAKE.SHIFT: An opening reception for .13 INFO: www.sunny “Prospective Parts” from 6-10pm at Make.Shift 27 Yard Crawl taking place from 12-6pm Sat., July 7 will see as many as 30 of our neighbors increased support

# landstomp.com Art Space, 306 Flora St. The four-person exhibit also opening up their private spaces to the public. and participation focuses on complex representations of the Among the artistic offerings those can be perused by dropping by our historic and of neighborhood businesses. Kulshan human body. diverse hood near downtown Bellingham are one-of-a-kind modern quilts stitched by Brewing is creating a beer just for the WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM Jess Flegel, stained glass art at Crosby Glass Studio, photography by Cate Reed and event, and HomeSkillet will host a Pride Andrew Molitor, and abstract paintings by Melissa Helzer (who’ll also be painting faces celebration. A new brewery, Twin Sis- SAT., JULY 7 MONA OPENINGS: Attend an opening at her post near our plum tree). ters, will also be hosting a pig roast. reception for Patty Detzer’s “Proceed with CASCADIA WEEKLY But viewing and purchasing art isn’t the only reason to attend. Tarot and palm read- At both events, bike and pedestrian Abandon” at 1pm at La Conner’s Museum of ings, yard games, music by R House Zydeco and East Coast Dave the Midwest Swingers, travel is encouraged, as is a neighborly Northwest Art, 121 First St. At 2pm, a recep- 16 tours of the York Farm, scads of yard sales, lemonade stands and much more are planned approach to art. tion for “In Red Ink” will commence. The for the Saturday soiree. I think every neighborhood should exhibit features recent works by more than 20 contemporary Native American artists, and is “I’m hoping that people who are hosting in their yards will have fun showing off have an event like this,” Hathaway says. meant to form a corrective lens on stereotypi- their art, mingling with friends old and new, and for the yard-salers, maybe unloading “But on different weekends, so I can go cal and historicized depictions of identity. those Birkenstocks that never quite fit right,” Hathaway says. “I hope folks attending to them all.” doit

See both through Sept. 23. Peggy Kondo’s “Woven Pots” is featured through WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG July at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. Their WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM

MV ART WALK: The Mount Vernon Downtown 30 Association hosts its First Saturday Art Walk from JANSEN ART CENTER: View a “Summer Juried 2-5pm throughout the urban core. The highlighted Exhibit,” the sixth annual “Cup Show,” and exhibits FOOD exhibit will feature works from La Conner’s Pacific featuring artwork by Ria Harboe, Nancy Canyon, Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum at the Front Norman E. Riley, and Peggy Woods through Aug. 31 Long Live Farms Gallery, 420 Myrtle St. Other venues include the at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. 24 Skagit Valley Food Co-op, Ristretto Coffee Lounge WWW.JANSEARTCENTER.ORG Feast & Frolic in the Field & Wine Bar, Perry and Carlson Gallery, Empire Ale A farm-to-table dinner and evening celebrating the next generation of family farms House, Forte Chocolates, Lincoln Theatre, Skagit LUMMI GALLERY: Peruse seasonal exhibits at the B-BOARD Running Company, PAVE Jewelry & Design, and Lummi Island Gallery at the Village Point Marina, st ByWater Consultation. 4232 Legoe Bay Rd. July 21 , 2018

WWW.MOUNTVERNONDOWNTOWN.ORG WWW.LUMMIISLANDGALLERY.COM $90 before July 6th $110 after July 6th 23

I.E. OPENING: An opening reception for “Indra’s MINDPORT: Kevin G. Jones’ photography exhibit Last chance to get FILM Net” happens from 4-6pm at Edison’s i.e. gallery, of flowers, “Silent Beauty,” can be viewed through 5800 Cains Court. The exhibit features the soft, July at Mindport Exhibit, 210 W. Holly St. early bird tickets! evocative watercolor paintings of Deborah Walker WWW.MINDPORT.ORG Viva Farms 18 alongside the organic, rich recycled-textile 16470 State Route 20 sculpture works of Clarissa Callesen. Addition- PERRY AND CARLSON: Painter Cara Tomlinson’s MUSIC Mount Vernon ally, Callesen will teach an “Ecodying in Edison” “Within Without” will be featured through July vivafarms.com/longlivefarms from 9am-4:30pm Sunday at the Edison Granary. at Mount Vernon’s Perry and Carlson Gallery, 504 16 16 Entry is $90. S. First St. This event is 21+ ART WWW.IEEDISON.COM OR WWW.PERRYANDCARLSON.COM ART WWW.CLARISSACALLESEN.COM QUILT MUSEUM: “How I Felt: A Woolistic Ap- 15 SMITH & VALLEE OPENING: An opening recep- proach by Flora Carlile-Kovacs,” “Making It My Own tion for “PLANTbased” takes place from 5-7pm II: Creative Knitting,” “Fabric Poems,” and “A Study at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5472 Gilkey of Civil War Quilts: 1850-1865” are currently on STAGE Ave. The paintings feature Patty Haller’s unique display at La Conner’s Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts perspective of the forest. Works by sculptors Brian Museum, 703 S. Second St. 14 O’Neill and Marceil DeLacy will also be part of the WWW.QFAMUSEUM.ORG exhibit. Show up at 3:30pm for an Artist Talk. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related work- GET OUT shops happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery, 1421 N. Forest St. See more details and register online. WWW.RAGFINERY.COM ONGOING EXHIBITS 12 ARTWOOD: Dozens of bowls of many woods and in SCOTT MILO: See mixed-media acrylic paintings all sizes for uses from tableware to display pieces by Anne Martin McCool when “A Meditation Series” WORDS will be featured through July at Artwood Gallery, is featured through July 31 at the Scott Milo Gal-

1000 Harris Ave. Watercolors by HuiYing LeSage lery, 420 Commercial Ave. 8 can also be perused. Meet the artist Fri., July 27. WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM SOCIAL FABRIC: Sign up for a variety of sewing CURRENTS BELLEWOOD ACRES: View photographs by Rich and art workshops through July at Social Fabric,

Cavnar and paintings by Laurel Baldwin through 1302 Commercial St. 6 August at the gallery at BelleWood Acres, 6140 WWW.SOCIALFABRICART.COM Guide Meridian. VIEWS WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM SKAGIT MUSEUM: View “50 Years of History at the Top of the Hill” through March 3 at La Conner’s 4 COOPER LANZA GALLERY: Group classes, private Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St. lessons, life drawing, long-pose sessions, exhibits WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM MAIL and more happen on a regular basis at Cooper

Lanza Gallery and School of Fine Art, 1415 13th St. ST. JOSEPH: As part of the “Healing Through 2 WWW.COOPERLANZAGALLERY.COM Art” series, painter Sandra Lepper’s “As Above, So Below” and photographer Chuck Bankuti’s “Journey DO IT DAKOTA GALLERY: “ARTphemisms,” an exhibit Into Native Lands” will be on display and for sale featuring works by WWU Art History 490 students, through July 21 at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical can be viewed through July 21 at Dakota Gallery, Center, 2901 Squalicum Pkwy. 1322 Cornwall Ave. The multimedia show explores (360) 383-7166 the highs and lows of contemporary art. 07.04.18 WWW.DAKOTAARTSTORES.COM WHATCOM ART MARKET: Works by Whatcom Art

Guild members can be perused Wed.-Sun. at the .13 27

FISHBOY GALLERY: Peruse the contemporary folk Whatcom Art Market, 1103 11th St. # art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm Fridays or by ap- WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG pointment at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St. 319-2913 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM WHATCOM MUSEUM: “The Intimate Dieben- korn: Works on Paper 1949-1992,” “Crow’s Shadow CASCADIA WEEKLY REACHES READERS FORUM ARTS: “William Cumming, Small Works, Institute of the Arts at 25,” “People of the Sea 1943-2009” will feature sketches by the Northwest and Cedar: A Journey Through the Tribal Cultures School artist on display and for sale through July and History of the Northwest Coast,” “From Tin to

8 at La Conner’s Forum Arts, 721 S. First St. The Table: The Art of the Salmon Label,” and “John M. CASCADIA WEEKLY unique exhibition will highlight nearly six decades Edson Hall of Birds” can currently be viewed on the of the preserved collection of sketches. Whatcom Museum campus. 17 WWW.721FORUMARTS.COM WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 50,000 READERS EVERY WEEK GOOD EARTH: See an astounding combination of SEND YOUR EVENT INFO TO: ceramics and basketry when Larry Richmond and [email protected] Ask for our Media Kit, contact [email protected] rumor has it

30 BY NOW, it’s no secret that my musical tastes and viewpoint are heavily influenced by FOOD growing up 20 minutes away from Seattle during the early 1990s. I’m an unashamed child of the grunge era and, as such, you can probably 24 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT pretty well figure out what my favorite bands were—and what my wardrobe looked like. B-BOARD But when I wasn’t swaddling myself in flannel, listening to Pearl Jam and perse-

23 cuting my parents with all of the pretend angst one teenage girl from the suburbs

FILM could muster, I was trafficking in lighter

18 18 musical fare. Mixed in with the MUSIC MUSIC Madonna and the Motown—the latter

16 thanks to my mom’s

ART record collection— was a healthy helping

15 of power pop courtesy of the Posies. BY CAREY ROSS

STAGE In the days before the internet, it was more the Posies’ incredible story than their music that first landed them on my radar. I kept 14 hearing about this Bellingham band that had nabbed a major-label record deal while they

GET OUT were still teenagers—unusual, but in an era when record deals seemed to rain down from

12 the heavens, not unheard of—but they’d done it by playing power pop, not grunge. Add to that lore a debut album, 1988’s Fail- WORDS ure, that was reputed to be as excellent as

8 it was hard to come by, and I was officially intrigued. I got my hands on their first major- MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND label release, Dear 23, and by the time Frosting

CURRENTS On the Beater came out in 1993, I was all in. I have a clear memory of cruising through Bell- 6 a block-by-block takeover ingham playing “Flavor of the Month” at full of the entire downtown volume on the stereo of my 1983 Toyota Ter-

VIEWS BY CAREY ROSS core before its all said and cel. In my teenaged mind, I was dead certain

4 done, and if that’s the long the Posies were the next big thing. game she’s playing, she’s I wasn’t the only one. I can think of no oth- MAIL Downtown Sounds got my full support. er band that can crank out impeccable power

2 But back to the weath- pop songs quite like the dynamic duo of Jon YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE er. According to avail- Auer and Ken Stringfellow. That they would

DO IT AS OUR much-anticipated and much-needed sun dissolved into gray skies ATTEND able info, when the 2018 break big seemed a foregone conclusion. And and showers last weekend, I had a conversation with someone who insisted WHAT: Downtown Downtown Sounds makes while the Posies certainly enjoyed a measure that June 21 marks the first day of summer. Given that this person has lived Sounds its debut on Wed., July 11, of success—not to mention a string of criti- in Western Washington for most of his life, I was surprised to hear this as- WHEN: 5:30pm the skies will be clear, the cally acclaimed albums—their story has al-

07.04.18 Wednesdays, July sertion. Which is why I sounded more incredulous than I should’ve when I 11-Aug. 8 sun will shine bright and it ways been that of a band ahead of its time. informed him that “everyone knows” summer in this region doesn’t really WHERE: Bay and will be a perfect summer Now they’re 30 years in, and to celebrate .13

27 begin until July 5. Prospect streets day to attend a free, fam- they’re getting the near-original band back # I don’t know if Lindsey Payne Johnstone, Downtown Bellingham Partner- COST: Free ily-friendly concert in the together (Auer and Stringfellow, as well as ship events coordinator, adheres to the same calendar I do when she sched- INFO: heart of the Arts District. bassist Dave Fox and drummer Mike Musburg- www.downtown ules Downtown Sounds, but I’m pretty sure that when she picks the dates, bellingham.com One of the best parts er) and going on tour to support the re-release she does whatever she can to ensure a worthy weather window. of each Downtown Sounds of their ’90s catalog. They’ll be in Bellingham Every outdoor entertainment endeavor in this area deals with the same concert is leaving the car behind and joining to perform a whole bunch of those songs— worries with regard to summer’s capricious nature, but there’s an economy of the tide of humanity all walking toward the which, surprising no one, have held up ex-

CASCADIA WEEKLY scale involved with Downtown Sounds that ups the ante quite a bit. After all, same sonic destination. If you, like me, tend ceedingly well—for a hometown crowd at a it’s no small matter to shut down two entire city blocks in Bellingham’s core. to wander over after the music has already Fri., July 6 show at the Wild Buffalo. Tickets 18 If the stakes are high, then so is the payoff. Year after year, Downtown begun, you’ll hear the show long before you are growing limited, so get yours or risk hav- Sounds draws thousands of people, first to the block of Bay Street book- see it, and so the July 11 opening band, Hot ing to stand outside listening to them sing ended by Bayou on Bay and the Pickford Film Center, and then, beginning House Jazz Band will play you into the con- “Dream All Day” like I did when I was under- last year, to that block and the one adjacent to it on Prospect Street. cert venue. The crush of people can be a age, uncool and broke from buying concert It’s entirely possible that Payne Johnstone and Downtown Sounds will stage bit daunting, but as you look around, you’ll bootlegs and Doc Martens. Downtown Sounds Stage. The Dirty Ferns SOUNDS, FROM PAGE 18 will open. After that, Colorado-bassed reggae-tinged band Tatanka will be joined see the pieces of the puzzle that form by Mr. Feelgood and the Firm Believers on the whole of Downtown Sounds, from July 25, and with Aug. 1 comes the return 30 the stage (now at the Bayou end of Bay of the much-beloved MarchFourth March- Street) where the action is happening, ing Band with Robt Sarazin Blake and st Annual FOOD to the beer garden to the expanded fam- the Letters opening. The 2018 edition of 41 ily area to the food vendors and more. Downtown Sounds will close out on Aug. 8 24 Right about the time you’ve slaked your with Klozd Sirkut and Motus playing us all thirst and had a snack, Acorn Project off into the sunset. will appear onstage, and the Downtown If this year is anything like years past, vancouver B-BOARD Sounds veterans know exactly how to Payne Johnstone will begin planning

wow this particular crowd. When they’ve and plotting 2019’s Downtown Sounds 23 finished, the audience, by now smiling before the stage is even packed away and sweaty from dancing, will disperse from the 2018 series. She’ll debrief with FILM slowly and the all-hands-on-deck crew the rest of Downtown Bellingham Part-

of Downtown Bellingham Partnership nership’s staff and volunteers and af- 18 folk music 18 and its volunteers will emerge to break firm what went well and what could be MUSIC it all down, store it away and then tweaked. Her nimble brain will begin the MUSIC sleep for six days until it’s time to do it work of compiling a wish list of bands festival

again—four more times over. and artists she’d like to book, and she’ll 16 The next concert on July 18 will feature identify potential sponsors to which - Jericho Beach Park ART a band that came together to honor a leg- she can spread the gospel of Downtown 15 end and somehow wound up on the Down- Sounds. And somewhere in all that mix July 13 Vancouver, BC, Canada 15 town Sounds roster, Petty or Not. The art- of details and stew of future tasks, she NEKO CASE | RY COODER FEATURING THE HAMILTONES

ist in question is Tom Petty (in case the will also think about the weather. I just STAGE name didn’t give it away) and the band is hope she knows summer doesn’t official- RODNEY CROWELL | THREE WOMEN AND THE TRUTH | JAMES MCMURTRY full of folks who are no strangers to the ly (unofficially) begin until July 5. THE DEAD SOUTH | RANKY TANKY | JAYME STONE’S FOLKLIFE | DARLINGSIDE 14 doit

DAKHABRAKHA | WAZIMBO & BANDA KAKANA | KACY & CLAYTON GET OUT THURS., JULY 5 Center Concert Hall. At 4pm Sun., July 8, attend | | | | BFM COMMUNITY CONCERT: Enjoy a free “Chamber by the Bay” at the Bellingham Cruise ART BERGMANN WALLIS BIRD MARIEL BUCKLEY STEPH CAMERON JOACHIM COODER Bellingham Festival of Music chamber music concert Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Tickets are $12-$49; free CAROLE POPE | ALEX CUBA | DÁLAVA | LAS ESTRELLAS DE VANCOUVER | MICK FLANNERY 12 at 12pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 community concerts are also scheduled.

Prospect St. Another free concert takes place at WWW.BELLINGHAMFESTIVAL.ORG DORI FREEMAN | GAMELAN BIKE BIKE | ILARIA GRAZIANO & FRANCESCO FORNI WORDS 12pm Wed. July 18. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG SUN., JULY 8 GORDON GRDINA’S HARAM | JIMMY “DUCK” HOLMES | ISKWÉ | MARTIN KERR 8 LA CONNER LIVE: Stick Shift Annie with Kimball | | | BLUES AND BREWS: “Blues, Brews and Barbecue” and the Fugitives will perform a “La Conner Live!” EZRA KWIZERA GRANT LAWRENCE & FRIENDS LITTLE MISS HIGGINS GUY DAVIS hosts a country night with tunes by Miller Campbell concert taking place from 1-4pm Sunday at the JOHN LOWELL BAND | MIKE MUNSON | MURFITT & MAIN | DAWN PEMBERTON from 5-9pm on the outdoor terrace at Hotel Bell- town’s Gilkey Square. Entry is free and open to all. CURRENTS wether, 1 Bellwether Way. Admission is $7-$10. WWW.LOVELACONNER.COM PETUNIA & THE VIPERS | A FAMILIA MACHADO | LES POULES À COLIN | QUANTUM TANGLE WWW.HOTELBELLWETHER.COM 6 FIDDLIN’ FOX: Live music and dance instruction PROFESSOR BANJO & ESTRO-JENNIES | STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS JAZZ JAM: The Jazz Project’s Jud Sherwood hosts will be part of the annual “Fiddlin’ Fox” summer | | | VIEWS a Jazz Jam happening from 5:30-8:30pm Thursdays music series continuing today with gypsy Balkan ARCHIE ROACH THE SMALL GLORIES SON DE MADERA LEONARD SUMNER at Illuminati Brewing, 3950 Hammer Dr., Suite 101. tunes by TW from 2-5pm at the Fairhaven Village VIPER CENTRAL | SKYE WALLACE | DONOVAN WOODS 4 Entry is free. Green, 1207 10th St. The free, all-ages shows

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WWW.PORTOFANACORTES.COM # MON., JULY 9 SAT., JULY 7 GRETA MATASSA TRIO: In collaboration with SKY COLONY: “Dream folk” can be heard when the Drayton Harbor Jazz Festival, Greta Matassa Skagit County’s Sky Colony kicks off a free Sum- will perform a 7:30pm concert at Lynden’s Jansen mer Concert Series from 6-8pm at the Heart of Art Center, 321 Front St. Tickets are $20. Anacortes, 1014 Fourth St. WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG WWW.HEARTOFANACORTES.COM CASCADIA WEEKLY WED., JULY 11 JULY 7-8 SKAGIT SWINGS: As part of a free Summer 19 FESTIVAL OF MUSIC: The 25th annual Bellingham Concert Series by the Port of Anacortes, Skagit Festival of Music continues this week with a concert Swings All Stars will perform from 6-8pm at Sea- featuring pianist Inon Barnatan at 7:30pm Saturday farers’ Park, 601 Seafarer Way. THEFESTIVAL.BC.CA at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts WWW.PORTOFANACORTES.COM musicvenues 30

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Open Mic and Poetry w/ FILM Greene's Corner Skookum Kids Event JP Falcon 18 Guemes Island 18 7:20 String Band General Store MUSIC MUSIC H2O DJ S.A. Little Bill and the Bluenotes 16

Honey Moon RSS Trio Jazz Jam Tanya Hladik & Coty Hogue Sarah Goodin Strangely & Friends Mockingbird ART

Hotel Bellwether Atlantics Miller Campbell Anissa Snyder Quartet 15 STAGE Kulshan Brewing Co. Heron and Crow

Orb Jazz Trio (early), John 14 Lovitt Restaurant DJ Night Yesterday's Playboys Stowell (late) GET OUT Main St. Bar and Grill JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase Lipstick Metal North By Northwest

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Royal Dance Party Karaoke DJ Jester DJ Jester Karaoke CURRENTS 6 Talent Show w/Vivienne Take Me to Church w/Betty Karaoke w/Seamus Rumors Cabaret Duchanne and DJ Total Request Live Flashback Friday Partylicious Saturday Trashy Tuesday Desire O'Carey

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Alternative Library 519 E. Maple St | Anelias Kitchen & Stage 513 S. 1st St., La Conner • (360) 466-4778 | Beach Store Cafe 2200 N. Nurgent Road, Lummi Island • www.beachstorecafe.com | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Big Lake Bar & Grill 18247 WA-9, Mt Vernon • (360) 422-6411 | Boundary Bay Brewery 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Boscoe’s 118 W. Holly St. | Brown Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business CASCADIA WEEKLY 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 | Culture Cafe at Kombucha Town 2010 E. Chestnut St. • www.kombuchatown.com | Eat Restaurant & Bar 1200 Cornwall Ave • www.4u2eat.com | Edison Inn 5829 Cains Ct., Edison • (360) 766-6266 | Firefly Lounge 21 1015 N. State St. | H20, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N. State St. • 734-0728 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Lovett Restaurant 1114 Harris Ave, • (360) 671-7143 | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • www.makeshiftproject.com | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s Taphouse 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | 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.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 | Stones Throw Brewery 1009 Larrabee Ave. | 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 | 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 [email protected]. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. aka the Wasp, confronts a pack of goons in a restaurant kitchen by popping in and out of micro size, sliding along the edges of a tossed carving knife only to

30 burst into her full ninja self to deliver the knockout blows. FOOD Yet part of the fun of Ant-Man and film the Wasp is that you don’t have to pretend there’s anything cosmic at stake. 24 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS How could you? The plot is an elaborate throwaway. Rudd’s Scott Lang is doing all B-BOARD he can to be a good divorced daddy to his

daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Forston). 23 23 As he lip-syncs and digital drums his way through his last few days of house arrest, FILM FILM he is lifted out of his predicament by Dr. Hank Pym, the physicist and former

18 S.H.I.E.L.D member played, once again, by a triumphantly disgruntled Michael

MUSIC Douglas, in a silver coif and goatee, who bites down into the role of this cuttingly

16 tormented science geek.

ART Hank won’t rest until he extracts his wife, Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfei-

15 ffer), from the Quantum Realm, where she’s been miniaturized and living for

STAGE 30 years, ever since she sacrificed herself by going subatomic to defuse a bomb. Hank and their daughter, Hope, 14 have built a tunnel that will theoreti- cally transport them to the Quantum

GET OUT Realm. But the lab on which the project depends is also coveted by two forces of

12 People We Don’t Want To Root For. The first of them is Sonny Burch, a trafficker of black-market tech, played WORDS by Walton Goggins as the most unc-

8 tuously literate of oily Dixie sleaze- hounds. Then there’s Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), a quivering and alienated

CURRENTS desperado who, after being damaged as a young girl in a lab accident presided 6 over by her scientist father (a colleague of Hank’s), acquired the ability to phase VIEWS through objects. Her powers are visually

4 vivid yet a tad vague, and so is her goal: to use the lab to set herself free. MAIL Hank and Hope’s desire to reunite with

2 Janet is certainly understandable, and Mi- chelle Pfeiffer has a lovely, wistful pres-

DO IT ence, yet the plot of Ant-Man and the Wasp is just a MacGuffin, a frame on which to REVIEWED BY OWEN GLEIBERMAN he’d never helmed a special-effects hang the hijinks. The movie is all jokes blockbuster before, and his inexperi- and movement, fused by the spirit of 07.04.18 ence showed. He jammed comedy, ac- transmogrification. Scott, who went down tion and origin-story mythology into a to the Quantum Realm before, has a bit of .13 Ant-Man and the Wasp 27 film that had more amiable spirit than a mind-meld with Janet, which means that # THE BIGGEST LITTLE SUPERHERO craft. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Reed in one scene Paul Rudd literally channels keeps the entire movie—one-liners, Michelle Pfeiffer, and hilariously. ANT-MAN AND the Wasp has a pleasingly breakneck, now-you-see-it-now-you- Macy’s parade effects, hand-to-insect- Ant-Man and the Wasp is a full two don’t surreal glee. It’s a cunningly swift and delightful comedy of scale, in which wing combat—spinningly aloft. Always hours, yet even when it’s pulling out all Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), that quipster mensch of a convict-turned-superhero (has an inspired director of comedy (Down the stops, the movie never gives you that there ever been a movie criminal this nice?), shoots around in his miniaturizing with Love, Bring It On), Reed has learned sinking sensation you can get when a

CASCADIA WEEKLY metal suit like the world’s tiniest gadfly, only to loom up as large as Godzilla. Either how to operate the heavy machinery of comic-book film’s extended climax kicks way, he always has time to deliver a line like “Do you really just put the word quan- a Marvel superhero movie yet keep it all in, and you feel the visual effects army 22 tum ahead of everything?” The answer is: Yes. Ant-Man and the Wasp is a fantasy of light and fast and dizzying. His combat taking over. That’s because Peyton Reed mutating matter in which buildings collapse into Monopoly toys, a Hello Kitty Pez scenes don’t overpower. They’re well invests every moment of the movie with dispenser is inflated into a freeway battering ram, and the most fearless of the char- spaced out and actually make visual personality. That’s not quite the same acters is injected into an ocean of psychedelic subatomic protoplasm. sense, like a hypnotic one early on in thing as humanity. But it’s enough to The director, Peyton Reed, also made the first Ant-Man (2015), but at the time which Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), qualify as the miniature version. film ›› showing this week

30 BY CAREY ROSS who may have gone to see it based on what I said before. Mea culpa, people. Mea culpa. HH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 15 min.) FOOD

Tag: This star-stuffed (Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm,

FILM SHORTS 24 Ed Helms, etc.) comedy about an overly competitive group of friends who have kept the same game of tag American Animals: This is part heist film about going for 20 years is based on a true story, and now I B-BOARD the dumbest crime caper ever conceived of and part wish I were friends with those people because I feel documentary—which means as actors play out the like my life could really use a running tag gag. HH (R

plot, those who were involved in real life narrate in a • 1 hr. 40 min.) 23 23 movie that is as entertaining as it is wholly original. HHHHH (R • 2 hrs.) Uncle Drew: This is a group of actors in old-man FILM FILM makeup trying to win a basketball tournament, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: See review previous page. normally it would earn all of my scorn, but since it

HHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 58 min.) stars Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O’Neal, Reggie Miller, 18 Nate Robinson, Chris Webber, and more as the afore- Avengers: Infinity War: By the time you read mentioned made-up old men, I’m thinking it’s gotta MUSIC this, this movie will have surpassed $2 billion in be a slam dunk, right? HH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 43 min.) worldwide box office. Marvel Cinematic Universe, I

am officially afraid of you. HHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Spoiler alert: There 16 36 min.) are no spoilers here. Mister Rogers really was a ART smart, kind, insightful, deeply empathetic man. We Boundaries: See review next page. HHH (R • 1 hr. should all aspire to be so neighborly. HHHHH (PG- 44 min.) 13 • 1 hr. 34 min.) 15 THE FIRST PURGE

Deadpool 2: Wise-cracking anti-superhero Ryan STAGE Reynolds is back with an even bigger budget, more ridiculous plot and a well-earned R rating in tow. Incredibles 2: No surprise here, Pixar continues to off. I’m very sorry, but that joke was begging to be Marvel’s bad boy is badder than ever. HHHH (R • 1 knock it out of the park, bringing the long-gestating made. HHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 50 min.) 14 hr. 43 min.) family superhero sequel to the big screen at a time when we need our superheroes—especially the ones RBG: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Amer- Ferdinand: See what kind of crazy antics the bull with with big hearts and subversive spirits—the most. ican hero, groundbreaker, protector of people and author GET OUT a big heart gets up to when he takes over the Fairhaven HHHHH (PG • 1 hr. 58 min.) of sizzling judicial opinions, finally gets the documenta- Village Green on Sat., July 7. The Sweet Goodbyes will ry treatment a notorious woman such as herself so richly 12 open the show. HHH (PG • 1 hr. 48 min.) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: With all apolo- deserves. HHHHH (PG • 1 hr. 37 min.) gies to the original Jurassic Park movie, which was

The First Purge: Is this some kind of throwback really good and scary as shit, and Chris Pratt, who Sicario: Day of the Soldado: Sicario was directed WORDS origin story that explains how all hell broke loose and I once tried on as my movie star boyfriend, and by Denis Villeneuve and was nominated for three a contagion of murderous, government-sanctioned director J.A. Bayona, who helmed the excellent and Oscars. This one was not and I suspect Oscar will not 8 violence spread across the United States or a chilling creepy The Orphanage, but I need the dinosaurs in this come calling anytime soon. But both were written by Showtimes vision of our future? HH (R • 1 hr. 37 min.) movie to experience an extinction-level event so this Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water, Wind River) and franchise will die. HH (2 hrs. 9 min.) star my onetime movie star boyfriend Benicio del Toro Regal and AMC theaters, please see Hereditary: This horror movie starring Toni Collette and the always excellent Josh Brolin, so I’m not mad www.fandango.com. CURRENTS (excellent in everything) was referred to by one reviewer Oceans 8: In a world where women make 78 cents on about it. HHH (R • 2 hrs. 2 min.) 6 as a “batshit-crazy collision of the supernatural and the the male dollar, I guess it should come as no surprise Pickford Film Center and classically mythological,” which I think is a fancy way of that they only get eight women to do a job that has Solo: A Star Wars Story: I finally saw this movie PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see saying “scary as hell.” HHHHH (R • 2 hrs. 7 min.) historically taken anywhere from 11 to 13 men to pull and would now like to offer my apologies to anyone www.pickfordfilmcenter.com VIEWS 4 MAIL

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STAGE Boundaries DADDY DEAREST 14 THE ROAD-TRIPPING Boundar- teen son, Henry (Lewis MacDougall), a NATURAL BURIAL: “Planning Ahead for Natural Buri- from 7-8:30pm Fridays in Mount Vernon at the First ies is packed with familiar rhythms and sweet-natured loner with a fondness for al” will be the focus of a discussion with Jodie Buller Lutheran Church, 2015 Blackburn Rd. Entry is free. GET OUT situations. Once you hear the setup and drawing nude pictures of everyone he at 6:30pm Mon., July 9 in Mount Vernon at the Skagit WWW.GAM-ANON.ORG Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. The presentation will meet the characters, you can safely meets. So she arranges for him to move offer pre-planning ideas and demystify natural burial CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS: Most Mondays,

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CURRENTS something she picked up from Indie he stashes $200,000 worth of weed in tive Isolated Stretching. Each class will last one hour. 12pm Fridays at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, Screenwriting Tropes 101, and you feel the trunk and plans to unload it to his Entry is $35-$37. 2600 Lakeway Dr. The weekly events are free for people 6 (360) 738-9800 with MS, and no registration is required. Please bring a yourself being drawn into the story. clientele along the way. Jack, it seems, blanket or yoga mat. You’ve also got the two stars who is not merely some small-time dealer. VIEWS NUTRITION WALK: Sign up in advance for a free [email protected] OR WWW.YOGABELLINGHAM.COM headline the project. Do Vera Farmiga You can sit in the movie theater and “Co-op Walk, Nutrition Talk” taking place from 6:30-8pm

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STAGE cluded classic rock musicians Wicked Timing, Chuck Din- 14 gee, Sher Vadinska EAT and Patsy Thompson, WHAT: Peace Arch GET OUT City Cafe and Bar and classical guitar- WHERE: 658 ists David Feingold Peace Portal Dr., 12 and Jacob Seyer. Blaine Our meals arrived WHEN: 7:30am- quickly and our server WORDS 3pm Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30pm was welcoming and

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DO IT and closed its doors in October 2017. cream. And the construction of a new John and Kylie quickly got to work mak- 2,650-square-foot Starbucks location Bigger in Blaine ing the space their own. a few steps away, which will feature a “It was obvious that the brick work drive-thru and seating indoors and out, 07.04.18 PEACE ARCH CITY CAFE was the main aesthetic and characteris- is concerning for some. It’s a Wednesday night in Blaine and from the sidewalk I can hear the melodic voice tic of the space, so we removed all the “Many say that Starbucks is here to .13

27 of a vocalist filling the Peace Arch City Café & Bar with music. The 5,000-square-foot oak paneling on the walls, which had attract the Canadian customer,” Quimod # building on Peace Portal Drive is full of appreciative diners who’ve come for the combi- covered the wonderful brick work un- says. “It’s very much a David versus Go- nation of food, atmosphere and entertainment and as we wait to be seated I overhear der it for many decades,” Bestul says. liath story. It’s an interesting position one of them declare, “This is my favorite place!” “We upgraded the bar area with modern to find a small, very conservative city so Owners John Quimod and Kylie Bestul started out their business at the Little Red treatments, removed all references to excited about the arrival of a business Caboose in 2009, and then moved to a 1,500-square-foot space on H street to broaden the building’s past as a casino and pull- centered in the liberal stronghold of Se- their menu. When Rodney and Christy Longquist ended the tenure of the Pastime Bar tab operation, and removed walls that attle. Its obvious affect is potentially

CASCADIA WEEKLY & Eatery, the two entrepreneurs jumped at the opportunity to expand to their location separated the main dining space from to force the closure of small, communi- on Peace Portal drive. the bar area, creating a more open and ty-driven businesses whose owners are 30 “A larger space allowed us to upgrade our concept to include burgers and fries, fish inviting space.” everyday people invested into Blaine’s and chips, and a full-service bar, as well as dinner,” Quimod says. “All those opportuni- The menu runs from breakfast through very identity and core. My own business ties were out of reach in our much smaller previous location.” dinner and the wine list features a broad was built on espressos and sandwiches Built in 1905, the building has had many incarnations over the years, including a selection of martinis, cocktails, wine, ci- back in 2009, and I know other business horse stable, a retail space and a cafe. The Hill family had ownership from the 1970s, der and beer. Burgers, sandwiches, ribs, owners are certainly concerned.” doit WED., JULY 4 at the Lynden Farmers Market from 10am-2pm SEASIDE SIZZLE: Enjoy the ultimate beach every Saturday through Sept. 29 at Centennial barbecue experience at a special “Seaside Sizzle” Park, 319 Grover St. from 5:30-8:30pm at Blaine’s Semiahmoo Resort, WWW.LYNDENFARMERSMARKET.COM 30 9565 Semiahmoo Pkwy. Entry is $10-$26. From 30

11am-3pm, there will also be family-friendly BLAINE MARKET: Homegrown and handmade FOOD FOOD beachside activities including lawn games, arts farm products, baked goods, arts and crafts and and crafts, face painting, live music and more. At more can be found at the Blaine Gardeners Mar- nightfall, turn your eyes across the way and enjoy ket from 10am-2pm Saturdays through October at 24 the fireworks put on by the City of Blaine. the city’s H Street Plaza. WWW.SEMIAHMOO.COM (360) 332-6484 B-BOARD THURS., JULY 5 BELLINGHAM MARKET: The 26th season of BOW MARKET: Attend the volunteer-run, the Bellingham Farmers Market continues from

open-air Bow Farmers Market from 1-6pm every 10am-3pm Saturdays through Dec. 22 at the Depot 23 Thursday through Sept. 13 at Samish Bay Cheese, Market Square, 1100 Railroad Ave. In addition to

15115 Bow Hill Rd. offering locally grown produce, crafts and ready- FILM WWW.BOWLITTLEMARKET.COM to-eat foods, upcoming events include Demo Days, Chef in the Market, and a Wednesday Market.

ALES & SAILS: Local microbreweries will share WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG 18 their liquid libations at an “Ales & Sails” excursion

aboard the Schooner Zodiac leaving at 6pm from STREET FOOD SATURDAYS: Sage Against the MUSIC the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Machine and Jalapenos Taco Trailer will be on site Entry is $69 and includes beer tastings and dinner. for the Port of Bellingham’s “Street Food Saturdays” 16 WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM event from 11am-2pm at Zuanich Point Park, 2600 N.

Harbor Loop Dr. The locale will host as many as three ART FRI., JULY 6 food truck vendors Saturdays through August. FERNDALE MARKET: Vendors will sell a selection WWW.WAFOODTRUCKS.ORG/PORT-OF-BELLINGHAM 15 of locally grown produce and handmade crafts at the Ferndale Farmers Market from 3-7pm at the CONCRETE MARKET: A Concrete Saturday Market city’s Centennial Riverwalk Park, 1931 Main St. can be visited from 1-3pm Saturdays through Labor STAGE WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG Day weekend at the Concrete Community Center, 45821 Railroad Ave. 14 FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY: As part of Ferndale’s (360) 770-5914 “Summer of Fun,” pick up dinner at a monthly Food Truck Friday from 5:30-8pm at the city’s Star SEAFOOD BOIL: Sockeye salmon, Caesar salad, GET OUT Park, 5465 Ferndale Rd. Additional events featur- and a traditional seafood boil with prawns, fish, ing offerings from local food trucks happen Aug. andouille sausage, corn and clams can be had at

3 and Sept. 7. a Saturday Seafood Boil from 5:30-8:30pm by the 12 WWW.CITYOFFERNDALE.ORG shore at Blaine’s Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiah- moo Pkwy. Entry is $10-$28. SALMON DINNER SAIL: Combine your tastes WWW.SEMIAHMOO.COM WORDS for adventure and delicious food at a three-hour

“Bellingham Bay Salmon Dinner Sail” aboard the SUN., JULY 8 8 Schooner Zodiac leaving at 6pm from the Belling- LANGAR: All are welcome at a Langar event from ham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Tickets are 11am-2pm in Lynden at Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurd- $59 for kids and $79 for adults. wara, 176 E. Pole Rd. Langar is the sacred com- CURRENTS WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM munity free kitchen of the Sikh people and every

temple serves delicious vegetarian food—which 6 SAT., JULY 7 they invite the general public to come eat. ANACORTES MARKET: Find fresh produce and (360) 398-1184 VIEWS much more when the Anacortes Farmers Market continues its 29th season from 9am-2pm at the WED., JULY 11 4 Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave. COOKING LIT: Bellingham Farmers Market director WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG Caprice Teske and Farmers Market board president MAIL Mary Vermillion lead a new “Regional Cookbook &

MOUNT VERNON MARKET: The Mount Vernon Cooking Lit” book group at 4pm at Village Books, 2 Farmers Market will feature more than 55 vendors 1200 11th St. At each gathering, book group from throughout the Skagit Valley from 9am-2pm members will discuss the assigned cookbook or DO IT every Saturday through Oct. 13 at the city’s cooking literature. Today’s focus will be on Joshua Riverwalk Park. McFadden’s Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables. WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG Each chapter begins with recipes featuring raw vegetables at the start of their season. TWIN SISTERS MARKET: Affordable, Whatcom WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM 07.04.18 County-grown produce can be procured at the

Twin Sisters Farmers Market from 9am-3pm at the THURS., JULY 12 .13 IGA parking lot on Nugent’s Corner, and 10am- PESTO PERFECTO: Join Cindy McKinney as she 27 # 2pm in Maple Falls at the North Fork Library, demonstrates how to make a variety of pestos 7506 Kendall Rd. you can sample at a “Pesto Perfecto” class from WWW.TWINSISTERSMARKET.COM 4-5:30pm at the Ferndale Library, 2125 Main St. Register in advance for the free event. ISLAND MARKET: Vendors will offer fresh produce, (360) 384-3647 local honey, gorgeous flowers, landscape paintings and more at the Lummi Island Saturday Market BASTILLE DAY: Karina Davidson leads a “Bastille happening from 10am-1pm Saturdays through the Day Celebration” course from 6:30-9pm at the CASCADIA WEEKLY summer in the field next to the Islander Grocery, Cordata Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. 2106 S. Nugent Rd. Class fees are $49. 31 (360) 758-2815 WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM

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