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BoB Ballot, p.15 + STUDIO TOUR, p.18 + BELLINGHAM SEAFEAST, p.34 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES 09-28-2016 • ISSUE:39 • V.11 DOctoberYOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH, P.24 FUNNY BUSINESS Broadway Takes on Politics, P.16 HILARY CUT FRANZ FOOTLOOSE Surveying Lynden Music Washington's Festival, P.20 landscapes, P.08 George Winston: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 34 cascadia FILM FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Anniversary Party: 10am-10pm, Film is Truth A glance at this week’s COMMUNITY Model Train Show: 9am-5pm, NW Washington 27 happenings Fairgrounds, Lynden Blessing of the Animals: 3:30pm, Cornwall Park B-BOARD B-BOARD GET OUT Run Like a Girl: 8am, Fairhaven Park 24 Buddy Walk: 11am, Fairhaven Village Green Attend harvest FILM FOOD happenings Oct. Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center 20 1-2 at the Fall Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza Twin Sisters Market: 9am-3pm, Nugent’s Corner, MUSIC Fruit Festival at Deming Blaine Market: 10am-2pm, Peace Portal Drive Everson’s Cloud Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 18 Market Square ART Mountain Farm Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, throughout Skagit County Center and the Fall Fruit Festival: 10am-5pm, Cloud Mountain Farm 16 Center, Everson Skagit Valley Bellingham SeaFeast: 10am-8pm, Zuanich Point STAGE Festival of Family Park VISUAL 14 Farms Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- out Whatcom County Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival: GET OUT 10am-5pm, throughout La Conner Matched Makers Reception: 2-5pm, Museum of 12 Northwest Art, La Conner Art Auction: 5pm, Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island WORDS Artists Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee Gallery, La Conner 8 WEDNESDAY [09.28.16] SUNDAY [10.02.16] MUSIC ONSTAGE CURRENTS CURRENTS Bebel Gilberto: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Love, Loss & What I Wore: 2pm, Heiner Auditorium, 6 WCC FILM The Miracle Worker: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden VIEWS Teton Gravity Research: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre DANCE 4 FOOD Sunday Night Fusion: 7-9pm, Presence Studio MAIL MAIL Eat Local Month: Through Friday, Whatcom County Sedro-Woolley Market: 3-7pm, Hammer Heritage MUSIC 2 Grammy-nominated fiddler Bruce Molsky: 7pm, YWCA Ballroom 2 Park Bruce Molsky performs Sun., DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO COMMUNITY THURSDAY [09.29.16] Oct. 2 at the YWCA Ballroom Model Train Show: 10am-4pm, NW Washington ONSTAGE Fairgrounds, Lynden The Miracle Worker: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden GET OUT 09.28.16 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Rabbit Ride: 8am, Fairhaven Bicycle The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre FOOD The Music Man: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Fueling Education Fun Run: 9:30am, Washington .11 Ferndale Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Cherry Street Theatre Park, Anacortes 39 # FOOD Autumn Celebration Dinner: 5:30pm, Bellingham Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Walk the Wall: 1:30pm, Lake Padden Park Final After Hours Market: 4-8pm, Depot Market Senior Activity Center Square DANCE FOOD VISUAL USA Dance: 7:15-10pm, Presence Studio Community Breakfast: 8am-12pm, Rome Grange FRIDAY [09.30.16] Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival: 10am-5pm, through- Folk Dance Party: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, throughout out La Conner Skagit County ONSTAGE MUSIC Fall Fruit Festival: 11am-4pm, Cloud Mountain Farm Love, Loss & What I Wore: 7:30pm, Heiner Audito- Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Center, Everson CASCADIA WEEKLY SATURDAY [10.01.16] rium, WCC The Aimees: 7pm, BAAY Theatre Sunday Market: 1-5pm, Alger Community Hall The Miracle Worker: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Fred Morrison: 7pm, Littlefield Celtic Center, 2 ONSTAGE Theatre, Lynden The Miracle Worker: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Mount Vernon VISUAL The Music Man: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre, Lynden Tannahill Weavers: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- Theatre Love, Loss & What I Wore: 7:30pm, Heiner Audito- Chamber Music Society: 7:30pm, Whatcom Mu- out Whatcom County Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre rium, WCC seum’s Old City Hall Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival: 10am-5pm, La Conner 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #39.11 09.28.16 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 27 FOOD 34 Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly: ` 360.647.8200 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD FOOD Tim Johnson `ext 260 { editor@ 27 mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle B-BOARD B-BOARD ext 204 {calendar@ cascadiaweekly.com 24 Music & Film Editor: “I would like to be remembered for bringing golf to a FILM Carey Ross worldwide audience. Players today have no boundaries,” ext 203 Arnold “the King” Palmer told CNN in 2012. The 87-year-old {music@ 20 athlete—who was the first person to make $1 million play- cascadiaweekly.com ing golf and helped make the sport accessible to more than country club members—died this week with his goal intact. MUSIC Production Art Director: 18 Jesse Kinsman Views & News {jesse@ ART 04: Mailbag kinsmancreative.com Design: 16 06: Gristle & Rhodes Bill Kamphausen 08: Surveying the landscape Advertising Design: STAGE 10: Last week’s news Roman Komarov {roman@ 11: Police blotter, Index cascadiaweekly.com 14 Send all advertising materials to Arts & Life [email protected] GET OUT Advertising 12: A pint-sized protagonist Account Executive: 14: Peak experience 12 Scott Pelton 16: The funny side of politics 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ WORDS 18: Studio spotlight cascadiaweekly.com 20: Listening in Lynden 8 Distribution 22: Clubs Distribution Manager: 24: Doctober! Scott Pelton THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS 360-647-8200 x 202 CURRENTS CURRENTS ARE NOT ENOUGH Recently, our County Council moved forward a 26: Film Shorts { spelton@ Burlington. Bellevue. Bellingham. Bellis Fair. short-term rental resolution to change existing 6 cascadiaweekly.com Anytown USA. Anymall USA. laws governing our shorelines of Whatcom Coun- Rear End Whatcom: Erik Burge, Stephanie Simms Five people killed in a place few people even ty. Council voted for a limited amendment to our VIEWS 27: Bulletin Board Skagit: Linda Brown, know, but now remembered as being the latest shoreline laws governed by state law rules WAC 4 4 28: Crossword Barb Murdoch mass gun massacre. And that for only a short 173-26-201. 29: Wellness while, as, appallingly, Burlington is already the Currently all the shorelines of Whatcom County MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL Letters seventh mass shooting (involving at least four prohibit transient housing in residential devel- 30: Free Will Astrology SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ people) in Washington state this year. opments. Business owners of shoreline transient 2 CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 31: Advice Goddess Having more guns than people, and nearly four housing for tourists currently face zoning re- BoB Ballot, p.15 + STUDIO TOUR, p.18 + BELLINGHAM SEAFEAST, p.34 DO IT IT DO cascadia times per capita the homicides by gun than any strictions for bed and breakfast establishments, 32: Comix REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES 09-28-2016 • ISSUE:38 • V.11 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku other country, the United States must seem crazy vacation rentals, hostels, resorts or retreats in a You can handle dOctober the truth, P.24 to our neighbors to the north. Canadians often residential neighborhood. 34: Bellingham SeaFeast come to Burlington Mall. And somehow they get Why is the County Council taking this action? 09.28.16 FUNNY along with a fraction of the gunpowder and lu- Some of the best locations for very profitable *BUSINESS Broadway Takes on Politics, P.16 HILARY CUT nacy we have. transient housing are currently advertised in our .11 FRANZ FOOTLOOSE Surveying Washington's Lynden Music landscape, Festival, P.20 39 ©2016 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by P.08 Already we hear cries for rights to pack more single-family homes on waterfront properties. # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 heat, as if contemporary cowboyism means safer VRBO.com and Airbnb for the Whatcom County [email protected] COVER: See the film communities. Racheting up rhetoric and firepow- shorelines present lists of these homes. Many Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Chicken People starting Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing er can only deepen descent into an unimagin- homes are listed for $500 to $800 per night and papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Fri., Sept. 30 at the SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material Limelight Cinema as ably violent world. Baltimore, as well as Central occupancy exceeds the intended one-family zon- to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- part of Doctober America and Syria, offer sobering lessons for ing with multiple families invited to occupy the ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday what can result. advertised homes. the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Instead, stand up, sit down, or otherwise get Whatcom County has ignored their laws gov- LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. in the way of business as usual. Demand effec- erning transient use of our shoreline residential 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers.