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Bellingham Pride, P.16 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA 07/11/07 :: 02.28 :: FREE The Gristle, p. 6 Chowder Charter, p. 17 Yogoman’s Band, p. 20 OF THE5 CLOSET /BELLINGHAM4 PRIDE, P.16 ELECTION DIRECTION: COUNCIL CANDIDATES STEP UP TO THE PLATE, P. 8 SUMMER STOCK: A RABBIT, A SHIPWRECK AND A KING, P. 18 HARRY POTTER: THE FINER POINTS OF WAND WORK, P. 24 35 | Food 28-34 Western Washington’s | Classifieds Best Kept Secret in Automotive 24-27 Parts & Service | Film 20-23 | Music 19 | Art 18 Striving to serve the community of | On Stage 17 Whatcom, Skagit, Island Counties and British Columbia | Get Out 16 8038 Guide Meridian, Lynden, WA, (360) 354-1000 . !. 66 " 66 !.*66 ! | Words & Community !!! ! ! 8-15 !!$!! $! | Currents 6-7 &(618 6 '6 (6 6- 6-/ | Views 4-5 | Mail 3 &(635 6) 6+ 6) 6 Do it '06( 6,- 62 616 (,6 #6 .07 % 6!) 11 07. ! !!"! 7 "# #) 6 '626)-$ )((6)766-66),(7 6-/ 6,)6,6 6) 626(696, )66696( 6,- )#6!)#(6 6966)$6 6.) ,6 696 ,)696),6 6 Cascadia Weekly #2.28 )4646) 6. ,46.)696*()6 ,,6) 6!696*()6 ( 66))6696,)6696 46)696 6#)6- 2 %6.696!6% 6!)696.) ,6) 6!696.) ,6)6 (696. %6 c . a . s . c . a . d . i . a THE ALWAYS-POPULAR CABER 35 TOSSING will be among the many events happening July 14-15 at Mount | Food Vernon’s Edgewater Park as part of the 28-34 13th annual Skagit Valley Highland EEKLY eds A glance at what’s happening this week Games and Celtic Festival | Classifi VISUAL ARTS 24-27 07.11.07 Hills to Mills Show: 9am-6pm, Deming Log Show Grounds WEDNESDAY | Film 20-23 ON STAGE 07.15.07 Same Time, Next Year: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio Theatre | Music Romeo and Juliet: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. SUNDAY 19 Timon of Athens: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. ON STAGE The Tempest: 2pm, Larrabee State Park | Art MUSIC The Shape of Things: 3pm, Mount Baker Studio Theatre 18 Maggie’s Fury: Noon, Performing Arts Center Plaza, A MUD RUN, Timon of Athens: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. WWU CRAB RACES, The Taming of the Shrew: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver Flowmotion: 7-9pm, Downtown Sounds Summer Alley B.C. Concert OYSTER SHUF- Great Matassa: 7:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal | On Stage FLEBOARD, live MUSIC 17 tunes and more Mockingbird: 3:30pm, Big Rock Garden Park WORDS Yambique: 4-7pm, Fairhaven Village Green Amanda Lumry: 7pm, Village Books will be part of the aptly named COMMUNITY | Get Out COMMUNITY Mt. Baker Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Kendall Elemen- 16 Wednesday Market: 3-7pm, Fairhaven Village Green Bivalve Bash hap- tary School pening June 14 Pride Parade: 11am, Bellingham High School Bellingham Pride: 12-5pm, Depot Market Square at Taylor Shell- 07.12.07 fi sh Farms VISUAL ARTS Hills to Mills Show: 10am-5pm, Deming Log Show Grounds THURSDAY | Words & Community ON STAGE The Tempest: 6pm, Semiahmoo Resort MUSIC Romeo and Juliet: 8pm, Vanier Park, 07.16.07 8-15 The Shape of Things: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio Student Showcase: 7:30pm, Blaine Perform- Vancouver B.C. Theatre ing Arts Center Julius Caesar: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Nonsequitur: 8pm, Good Shepherd Center B.C. MONDAY Upfront Unscripted: 9pm, Upfront Theatre The Taming of the Shrew: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancou- | Currents ver B.C. WORDS WORDS Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso 6-7 Nooksack Stories: 7pm, Lynden Pioneer DANCE MUSIC Museum Jane Austen Celebration Dance: 7:30pm, Amber Darland: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park J. Ruth Gendler: 7pm, Village Books Bellingham Senior Center COMMUNITY Bocce Ball: 5pm, Fairhaven Village Green | Views A String of Pearls: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing Arts Tango by the Bay: 8pm, Squalicum Yacht Club Center COMMUNITY 4-5 Raspberry Festival: 5-8pm, downtown Lynden COMMUNITY MUSIC Student Showcase: 1-4pm, Blaine Perform- | Mail History Cruise: 6:30pm, Squalicum Harbor 3 07.17.07 3 VISUAL ARTS ing Arts Center Hills to Mills Show: 10am-6pm, Deming Log Global Heat: 7-9pm, Boulevard Park IT Show Grounds TUESDAY DO COMMUNITY Do it 07.13.07 Raspberry Festival: 8am-5pm, downtown ON STAGE .07 Lynden The Tempest: 6pm, Fairhaven Park 11 07.14.07 Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Bellingham Same Time, Next Year: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio 07. FRIDAY Senior Center Theatre Highland Games: 9am-7pm, Edgewater Park, Timon of Athens: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. ON STAGE SATURDAY Mount Vernon Animal Tales: 12pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU Bivalve Bash: 9:30am-5pm, Taylor Shellfi sh The Tempest: 6pm, Maritime Heritage Park ON STAGE MUSIC Farms, Bow Jeremy Deschane: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Brigadoon: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Animal Tales: 11am, Old Main Theatre, WWU Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market The Three D’vas: 6pm, Fairhaven Village Green 48 Hour Theater Festival: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Robinson Crusoe: 3pm and 7pm, Mount Square Theater Baker Theatre Bayfest: 10am-5pm, Zuanich Point Park Brilliant Traces: 8pm, Mount Baker Studio Theatre The Tempest: 6pm, Whatcom Falls Park Queer Family Potluck: 2-5pm, Whatcom COMMUNITY Ice Cream Social: 7-9pm, St. Luke’s Health Education The Taming of the Shrew: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancou- Brigadoon: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Falls Park Center Cascadia Weekly #2.28 ver B.C. Vernon Rainbow Pride: 8pm, Rumors Cabaret Timon of Athens: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C. 48 Hour Theater Festival: 8pm and 10pm, Makeovers and Martinis: 8pm, Depot Upfront Unscripted: 9pm, Upfront Theatre iDiOM Theater Market Square TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, SEND INFO Same Time, Next Year: 8pm, Mount Baker TO [email protected] Studio Theatre 3 THIS ISSUE Contact 35 Cascadia Weekly: D 360.647.8200 | Food Editorial 28-34 28-34 Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson mail eds D ext 260 CONTENTS CREDITS LETTERS { editor@ cascadiaweekly.com | Classifi WITH TEMPERATURES in Whatcom and Skagit coun- Arts & Entertainment ties expected to hit record highs this week—think Editor: Amy Kepferle 24-27 upper 80s and lower 90s—don’t forget about keep- Dext 203 ing all the members of your family cool and collect- {calendar@ ed as the temperatures soar (and be glad you’re not cascadiaweekly.com | Film in Las Vegas, where July 10 temperatures reached a steamy 106 degrees). Music & Film Editor: 20-23 Carey Ross D ext 204 Views & News {music@ | Music cascadiaweekly.com 4: Dancing: better than sex 19 6: What’s in a name? Interns: Kimberly Champley, | Art 8: Entering the election John C. Davies 18 12: Debris, dating, drinking Production 15: Weather woes, White House foes Art Director: Jesse Kinsman | On Stage 17 Art & Culture {graphics@ 16: The Pride of Bellingham cascadiaweekly.com 17: A three-hour tour Graphic Artist: Stefan Hansen | Get Out 18: Stocking up on stage time {stefan@ 16 19: Art that gives pause cascadiaweekly.com 20: Yogoman starts the fi re Send All Advertising Materials To [email protected] 23: All live, all the time 24: Playtime with Potter Advertising 25: An anime adventure Advertising Director: Marc McCoy D360.201.9760 | Words & Community Rear End {marc@ 8-15 8-15 cascadiaweekly.com 28: Help Wanted, Buy/Sell/Trade & BUFFALO LOVE None. I just can’t understand continues to book great acts, Rentals, This Modern World, Marisa Papetti This letter has been a long why the place isn’t packed ev- stay out of trouble (sorry, Mannkind, Perry Bible Fellowship D360.224.2387 time coming: I don’t know ery weekend night. James: you are innocent and { marisa@ why I haven’t written it be- John has always been de- totally undeserving of yours), | Currents 29: Real Astrology, Rentals, Rentals cascadiaweekly.com fore; why it hasn’t occurred to termined to support local mu- and pay their taxes. Often 6-7 6-7 Wanted Frank Tabbita me. I love to dance. Dancing sicians, even when that has clubs suffer from unfounded 33: Crossword, Troubletown, D360.739.2388 is the next-best thing to sex.. maybe made booking larger- reputations based on rumor, Real Estate, Bulletin Board { frank@ | Views cascadiaweekly.com well, sometimes, it’s even the name acts more diffi cult for hearsay, falsehoods and gen- 4-5 35: Biting Bellingham other way around, depending. him. Not that there aren’t eral misinformation. I can only 4-5 4-5 Distribution And the place I get my groove plenty of really fi ne regional surmise this has happened to CASCADIA LETTERS on is the Wild Buffalo What a and national acts... I happen the Wild Buffalo. I implore | Mail David Cloutier, Robert 3 Bell, JW Land & As- great club. to love the blues and funk, those of you who still want ©2007 Cascadia Weekly (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Cas- sociates I have to congratulate John and those are my personal to venture out into the night, cadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 {distro@ Goodman on what a very fi ne favs, but he is sensitive to all instead of plugging into what- [email protected] Do it cascadiaweekly.com Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia venue he has put together for musical tastes, and supports ever secondhand experiential Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing .07 live music lovers like myself a broad spectrum of musi- techno device is available to papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Letters 11 Submissions: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions.
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