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WRITE ON P.12 + FUN WITH FLAGSTONE P.13 + ESPECIALLY SPECIAL P.15 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 02-26-2020 • ISSUE: 09 • V.15 INSIDE Home & Garden *Guide FARMCommunity FRESH supported agriculture P.23 FAME THE MUSICAL CLIMATE RESILIENCE ROAD TRIPPING The stars of tomorrow P.14 Preparing for a warming world P.08 Out-of-town sounds P.16 SATURDAY [02.29.20] A brief overview of this ONSTAGE 23 The Hobbit: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham Arts Acad- week’s happenings emy for Youth FOOD THISWEEK Leap!: 6pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab All the Great Books: 7pm, Squalicum High School My Fair Lady: 7pm, Ferndale High School 20 Godspell: 7pm, Burlington-Edison High School As the Cupid’s Arrow: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Fame: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon B-BOARD culmination of The Curious Savage: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre Whatcom READS, Serial Killers Finale: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Sylvia 19 Center acclaimed Typhoon of Tenderness: 8pm, Sylvia Center FILM Comedy Night: 9pm, Chair 9, Glacier author Eowyn Fifty Shades of Velvet: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre 16 Ivey comes to DANCE Whatcom County Contra Dance: 7pm-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library MUSIC March 5-7 for a MUSIC 15 Manouche NW Concert Series: 7pm, Mount Baker variety of free Theatre ART Jeffrey Elvis: 7pm, Lynden Pioneer Museum readings and Off the Hill: 7:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City 14 workshops. Hall STAGE WORDS Children’s Literature Conference: 8am-3:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU 13 Tamara Jacobi: 7pm, Village Books GET OUT GET OUT Fragrance Lake Runs: 6am, Lost Lake parking lot Daffodil Festival: through March 31, Skagit Valley Deep Forest Experience: 11am-2pm, Rockport 12 State Park Wild Womxn Week: Through March 8, throughout Bellingham WORDS FOOD 8 Pancake Breakfast: 8am-10:30am, Lynden Com- munity Center Washington Beer Open House: 12pm-5pm, CURRENTS various breweries throughout Whatcom and Skagit WEDNESDAY [02.26.20] counties 6 Wine Tasting: 2pm-4pm, Seifert & Jones Wine ONSTAGE Merchants VIEWS The Slacks: 7pm, Thousand Acre Cider House Hula dancers from Fame: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon VISUAL 4 Northwest Hawai’i Cultural Arts Festival: 10am-8pm, Bellingham FILM Cruise Terminal MAIL Human Rights Film Festival: Through Feb. 29, ven- Ohana will be Daffodil Poster Finalists Reception: 4pm-6pm, ues throughout Bellingham Lux Art Center, La Conner part of the annual 2 2 Leap! Reception: 6pm-9pm, Fourth Corner Frames THURSDAY [02.27.20] Cultural Arts and Gallery DO IT DO IT Festival taking ONSTAGE SUNDAY [03.01.20] An Iliad: 7pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center place Feb. 28-29 All the Great Books: 7pm, Squalicum High School ONSTAGE My Fair Lady: 7pm, Ferndale High School at the Bellingham The Hobbit: 2pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for 02.26.20 Godspell: 7pm, Burlington-Edison High School Cruise Terminal. Youth Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre All the Great Books: 2pm, Squalicum High School .15 The Curious Savage: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas The Curious Savage: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas 09 # Theatre, Lynden Theatre Typhoon of Tenderness: 8pm, Sylvia Center Fame: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Improv Mash-up: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre FRIDAY [02.28.20] Typhoon of Tenderness: 8pm, Sylvia Center Depot Comedy Club: 8pm, Aslan Depot Fifty Shades of Velvet: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC ONSTAGE DANCE MVHS Jazz and Mariachi: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre The Hobbit: 7pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for MUSIC An Evening of Flamenco: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts Meghan Yates, Louis Ledford: 7:30pm, Chuckanut Youth Youth Jazz Band: 7pm, Bellingham Senior Activ- and Events Center Center All the Great Books: 7pm, Squalicum High ity Center CASCADIA WEEKLY School Sanford-Hill Piano Series: 7:30pm, Performing FOOD My Fair Lady: 7pm, Ferndale High School Arts Center, WWU Community Breakfast: 8am-12pm, Rome Grange 2 WORDS Elaine Weiss: 6:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Godspell: 7pm, Burlington-Edison High School Vegan Bake Sale: 11am-3pm, Kulshan Brewing Cupid’s Arrow: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre VISUAL Company FOOD The Curious Savage: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Cultural Arts Festival: 12am-8pm, Bellingham Taylor Shellfish Winter Pop-Up: 6pm-9pm, Aslan Theatre Cruise Terminal SEND YOUR EVENTS LISTINGS TO Depot Fame: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Fourth Friday Art Walk: 5pm-8pm, Fairhaven [email protected] Live the Life of Your Dreams Join us in Welcoming Acclaimed IS CLOSER Artist & Children’s Book Author THAN YOU Tamara WINNING THINK! NIKKI JACOBI 23 McCLURE CHICKEN FAJITA Wildpreneurs FOOD PIZZA A Practical KIDS! Guide to What Will 20 Daily in February Pursuing Small: $8.95 Medium: $12.95 These Hands $ Your Passion Large: 18.95 B-BOARD as a Business Make? Special red sauce, mozzarella, pepper jack cheese, white & green onion, red bell Make the Leap! Thursday, 19 pepper, and seasoned chicken finised with A Free Event March 5, 2pm fresh cilantro & lime sourcream. A Free Event Saturday, Feb. 29, 7pm at VB in Fairhaven FILM at Village Books in Fairhaven 16 Twenty years after Speak was released, Halse Anderson shares her own stories of abuse in her memoir, SHOUT. MUSIC Laurie Halse 15 MUFFULETTA ART SANDWICH ANDERSON Mature subject matter will be discussed.13+ 14 Daily in February, 11am - 11pm $ 12.95 $15: ALL TICKETS include a copy of SHOUT. Mortadella, ham, salami, olive salad, Tickets now availble now at Village Books & eventbrite.com STAGE and provolone on a house sesame A percentage of sales Sunday, March 15, 4pm roll. Served with a choice of side. will be donated to DVSAS 13 - at Sehome High School - AND MORE - see VILLAGEBOOKS.COM BAR 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA GET OUT 360.671.2626 • Open Daily 12 & 430 Front St, Lynden, WA - Stop by! WORDS CHICKEN & WAFFLES 8 Daily in February, 11am - 11pm $11.95 Crispy fried chicken breast, bacon CURRENTS and cornmeal waffle with roasted 6 mushroom gravy. VIEWS 4 MAIL 2 DO IT BACON & BEER STEAMERS Daily in February, 11am - 11pm $13.95 02.26.20 One-pound steamed little neck clams with crispy bacon, caramelized onions, and beer .15 09 # sauce. Served with grilled bread. BAR THE PAPERBOYS Friday, March 6 7:30pm “This acclaimed Canadian-based band serves up a heady blend of country-folk-celtic-bluegrass-rock with a bit of traditional Mexican music thrown in for good measure. CASCADIA WEEKLY It defies labelling but hey, who cares, it is just brilliant music!” ~ Patrick Donaghy, Rock n Reel Magazine 3 360.416.7727 mcintyrehall.org SilverReefCasino.com • I-5 Exit 260 On the Mount Vernon Campus of Skagit Valley College 2501 E College Way, Mount Vernon Management reserves all rights. 23 THISWEEK FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 20 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Advertising B-BOARD Sales Manager: Stephanie Young ext 1 sales@ 19 cascadiaweekly.com FILM Editorial Editor & Publisher: 16 Tim Johnson ext 3 MUSIC editor@ cascadiaweekly.com We were going to use this space to discuss disgraced movie 15 Arts & Entertainment producer Harvey Weinstein being found guilty of two felony Editor: Amy Kepferle ART sex crimes early this week, but found a far more deserving ext 2 subject in Katherine Johnson. As one of the NASA mathema- calendar@ ticians who in 1969 helped make it possible for Apollo 11 14 cascadiaweekly.com to land on the moon—and return to Earth—Johnson’s story was brought to life in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. Of the Music Editor: STAGE African American women at the center of the film, she was Carey Ross the only one still living at the time of its release. When she music@ died Tuesday, she was 101 years old. cascadiaweekly.com 13 Production GET OUT Views & News Art Director: 04: Mailbag Jesse Kinsman jesse@ 12 06: Gristle and Goodman kinsmancreative.com 08: Climate resilience Design: WORDS Bill Kamphausen 10: Last week’s news Advertising Design: 8 11: Police blotter, Index Roman Komarov FERNDALE LEVY LOSS lators invited by Whatcom (Cherry Point) indus- roman@ It is a disaster for the entire county that Fern- tries handing out medals to the first-generation cascadiaweekly.com dale’s School District has so much trouble with children of the employees of King County com- Arts & Life Send all advertising materials to CURRENTS [email protected] bonds and levies. I first understood the impact panies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—in 12: Write on of this when I learned of private school parents a math championship sponsored by Whatcom 6 13: Fun with flagstone Distribution who lived in Ferndale, but were purchasing prop- County industries. 14: Stars in the making Distribution Manager: erty in Bellingham’s School District so their 8th I think the damage that Ferndale’s anti-tax VIEWS Erik Burge graders could attend Bellingham High School. bloc is doing to their children’s vocational fu- 15: Especially Special distribution@ 4 4 Having Bellingham play the role of the liberal tures cannot be underestimated. I also suspect 16: Roundup from the road cascadiaweekly.com Whatcom: Erik Burge, district that always finances their bonds and lev- that the current polarized political climate is MAIL MAIL 18: Clubs Stephanie Simms ies at 70 percent margins while neighboring Fern- strengthening the anti-tax bloc in Washington 2 19: Film Shorts Skagit: Linda Brown, dale remains the poor rural stepsister because of and ruining select rural educational systems Barb Murdoch a fierce “anti-tax bloc” is an atrocious and divi- across the state. DO IT Rear End sive electoral result. Such a result can’t possibly —Ryan M. Ferris, Bellingham Letters be hopeful for anyone who believes in the educa- 20: Free Will, Sudoku SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM tional potential of all of Whatcom County.