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RANDY & ALBATROSS MR. LAHEY ACTION Take it to the The Nature trailer, P.16 of Writing, P.12

A DREAM DEFERRED Toward a new civil rights movement, P.06

34 cascadia The Music Man: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Theatre Jay Owenhouse: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre A glance at this week’s Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 27 happenings DANCE The Bustle Hustlers: 9pm, the Shakedown B-BOARD B-BOARD MUSIC Lynden Music Festival: Through Sunday, throughout

24 Lynden Skagit Symphony’s Bachtoberfest: 4-7:30pm,

FILM Hillcrest Lodge Mandolin Orange: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall

20 COMMUNITY Blaine Oktoberfest: 8am-8pm, throughout Blaine

MUSIC Deming Oktoberfest: 12pm-1am, Deming Log Show Grounds

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ART Chocolate for Charity 5K: 9am, Hovander Park, Ferndale Park-to-Peak Trail Run: 9am, Hillcrest Park, Mount 16 View the best climbing and Vernon Band Aid Fun Run: 9am, Edgewater Park, Mount STAGE adventure films of the year Vernon Everyday Superheroes 5K: 10am, Squalicum Creek Park 14 when the Reel Rock Film Stigma Stomp 5K: 10am, Bloedel Donovan Park Run, Walk and Roll: 10:30am, Squalicum Boathouse Tour screens on Thurs., Oct. Gore and Lore Tour: GET OUT 6pm, downtown Bellingham 6 at Western Washington Shoot the Trails: 6pm, Bellingham Technical College

12 FOOD University’s Arntzen Hall Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center WORDS Mount Vernon Market: 9 a m - 2 p m , R i v e r f r o n t P l a z a Blaine Market: 10am-2pm, Peace Portal Drive

8 WEDNESDAY [10.05.16] Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square MUSIC Bier on the Pier: 12-6pm, Port of Anacortes Ware- house CURRENTS CURRENTS Lynden Music Festival: Through Sunday, Lynden The Polkatones perform during

6 THURSDAY [10.06.16] the Bavarian blowout known as VISUAL the 34th annual Deming Log Art-Oberfest Art Show: 9am-5pm, Blaine Commu- nity Center and beyond

VIEWS ONSTAGE Westward Ho’s: 6pm, Lookout Arts Quarry Show Oktoberfest taking place Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- out Whatcom County 4 Broadway Takes on Politics: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC Oct. 7-8 at the eponymous The Miracle Worker: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas showgrounds. On Oct. 8-9, you MAIL MAIL Theatre, Lynden SUNDAY [10.09.16] Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre can also attend the Blaine

2 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre ONSTAGE 2 Oktoberfest The Miracle Worker: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, DO IT IT DO

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10.05.16 FOOD Reel Rock Film Tour: 7pm, Arntzen Hall, WWU Theatre Ferndale Farmers Market: 1- 6 p m , C h e r r y S t r e e t Jeff Warner: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Bier on the Pier: 5-9pm, Port of Anacortes Silent Film Series: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre .11 VISUAL Randy + Mr. Lahey: 9pm, Wild Buffalo Warehouse Fifth Inversion: 3pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU 40 # First Thursday Art Walk: 5-8pm, downtown Mount Vernon MUSIC VISUAL COMMUNITY New Exhibits Opening: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Lynden Music Festival: Through Sunday, through- Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Blaine Oktoberfest: 1-5pm, throughout Blaine Center, Lynden out Lynden Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham Jamie Laval: 7-9:30pm, YWCA Ballroom FOOD FRIDAY [10.07.16] SATURDAY [10.08.16] Semiahmoo Oktoberfest: 1-5pm, Semiahmoo COMMUNITY Resort, Blaine ONSTAGE Deming Oktoberfest: 12pm-1am, Deming Log ONSTAGE Sunday Market: 1-5pm, Alger Community Hall CASCADIA WEEKLY Westward Ho’s: 6pm, Lookout Arts Quarry Show Grounds The Miracle Worker: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas It’s Good to Be Home: 7pm, BAAY Theatre Theatre, Lynden VISUAL 2 Traveling with Angels: 7pm, Church of the Assumption GET OUT Broadway Takes on Politics: 3pm and 7:30pm, Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- Broadway Takes on Politics: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC Gore and Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven Firehouse PAC out Whatcom County The Miracle Worker: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Jason Hummel Slideshow: 7:30pm, Backcountry Westward Ho’s: 6pm, Lookout Arts Quarry Art-Oberfest Art Show: 11am-5pm, Blaine Com- Theatre, Lynden Essentials It’s Good to Be Home: 7pm, BAAY Theatre munity Center and beyond

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6 cascadiaweekly.com I wanted to give my fellow Bellingham citizens Whatcom: Erik Burge, Stephanie Simms some helpful insight when it comes to prevent- GIVE COURTS VIEWS Rear End ing someone from taking their own life. In order 27: Bulletin Board Skagit: Linda Brown, THE POWER THEY NEED 4

4 Barb Murdoch to help a loved one who may be dealing with Citizens of Washington state have the chance 28: Crossword thoughts of suicide, it is important to come right to empower families and save lives with their MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL 29: Wellness Letters out with the question and ask them, “Are you vote on Nov. 8. SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@

considering suicide?” Asking this will not put the Initiative 1491 can prevent needless trag- 2 30: Free Will Astrology CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM idea into their head, nor will asking them how edies by allowing family members and law en- 31: Advice Goddess BoB Ballot, p.17 + SILENT MOVIE SERIES, p.20 + DRIZZLE, p.34 DO IT IT DO cascadia they plan to take their own life. forcement to get an Extreme Risk Protection REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES 32: Comix 10-04-2016 • ISSUE:40 • V.11 Ask them why they are considering such a Order from a judge, and do so quickly, if an RANDY & ALBATROSS MR. LAHEY ACTION Take it to the trailer, P.16 drastic decision. Don’t make them feel guilty and individual is showing signs of severe mental ill- 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku The Nature of Writing, P.12 don’t argue with them or get angry at them for ness or is a serious risk for doing harm to her/

10.05.16 34: Drizzle Lynden A DREAM DEFERRED telling you their plans. Make sure you express himself or others. Toward a new civil rights movement, P.06 that you care for this person and you want to This order would provide for a judge to tempo- .11

40 ©2016 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by help and listen to what they have to say. Take all rarily prevent access to firearms by that person. # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 talk of suicide seriously. Only family members, household members or [email protected] Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Some warning signs and risk factors to keep in law enforcement officers may petition the judge Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing mind if someone you know may be considering for this order. Petitioners must file every year to papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material suicide include: giving away personal possessions, renew the order and the subject may file once 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- family history of mental illness and/or disorders, a year to end the order. Both of these actions ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday suffering from clinical depression or other diag- would require a court hearing and sworn, under- the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. nosable mental disorders, recent and traumatic oath testimony. 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. life events, previous suicide attempts, speaking of More than half of gun deaths in the United States 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your death more frequently, substance abuse, unstable are suicides! If there is any way we can prevent letters to fewer than 300 words. home life, and drastic changes in mood. some of those from happening, don’t we at least Remember to encourage your loved ones owe it to each other to try? I-1491 is a small step to reach out for professional help if they are in the right direction to end some of the pain and struggling with thoughts of suicide. By open- suffering individuals and families go through when NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre they lose loved ones through gun violence. resources. Our EMS system needs your Please vote yes on I-1491! support to meet increasing demands. —Linda Schonborn, Ferndale Please vote Yes on EMS. EMS saves lives. —Janice Lapsansky, MS, EMT-B, Ferndale

Initiative 1491 is a simple process where 34 a family member or police officer can go SAVE OUR to court on behalf of a person they believe NATIONAL HERITAGE FOOD is not in the correct state of mind to be As summer comes to an official close, responsible for a gun. It follows a similar I’ve been thinking about all the outdoor 27 process that women or men to go through adventures I’ve had over the past few when seeking a protection order for domes- months, from hiking in the North Cas- tic violence, only in this case the person cades here in Washington to the Rocky B-BOARD does not need to have committed a crime Mountains in Colorado. And as much as

to have their gun taken away for one year. I loved all these adventures, there’s one 24 Too many times a family member knows American icon I’m still hoping to experi- their loved one wants to commit suicide ence: the Grand Canyon. FILM and has a gun and the police cannot do One of the Seven Wonders of the World,

anything until a crime is committed. By the Grand Canyon is a beautiful haven for 20 then, the person dies. Too many times a hiking and other adventures like white- person is off their medications that kept water rafting. But the Grand Canyon and MUSIC them stable and their gun is now a means more than one million acres around it are to kill someone else or themselves. These threatened by uranium mining. Already 18

people need someone to be able to petition waterways in the canyon are contami- ART to the court to take away their weapon so nated from mining that happened decades they don’t have instant access to it. This ago, and now a mine is being reopened six 16 may be seen as a way to take away some- miles from the Canyon’s south rim.

one’s right to bear arms; however, you only We don’t need to let this happen. With STAGE need to know someone that lost a loved one a stroke of his pen, President Obama can to a gun suicide or gun homicide, to under- permanently protect the Grand Canyon 14 stand that the court needs a mechanism to and 1.7 million acres around it. He has take away that weapon before it is used. authority under the Antiquities Act to

Don’t let the NRA tell you this will be bad create the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage GET OUT for your gun rights. People have a right to National Monument.

life and making sure a person with a severe President Obama declared the first 12 mental illness does not have their weapon national marine monument in the Atlan- while they are homicidal or suicidal is a tic. Next, he needs to create a national WORDS good, common sense way to stop at least monument that will protect the Grand

some unnecessary deaths from guns. Canyon forever. 8 —Amy Glasser, Bellingham —Rebecca Houske, Seattle

EMS SAVES LIVES REGAINING MY SANITY CURRENTS The siren of a passing emergency ve- This election is crazy! If I step back hicle means many things to me. I support from all the shouting and noise, a cou- 6 Proposition 1 because I have experience on ple of things become clear. Either Hillary VIEWS both sides of the ambulance door in many Clinton or Donald Trump will be our next 4

roles: granddaughter, parent, friend, clini- president. None of the third party candi- 4 cal research coordinator and volunteer EMT dates can even get the 15 percent poll- MAIL MAIL for more than 15 years. In the emotionally ing needed to make it into the debates MAIL charged moments surrounding a call to 911, much less get elected. So, I asked myself, 2 we are allowed to take for granted that dis- “Which of the two candidates best match- DO IT IT DO patchers and first responders will quickly es my views about America?” apply their training and teamwork to bring I believe in addressing climate change, the most current medical treatment to our gender equality, LGBTQ equality, reduc- emergency. In addition, our EMS system ing gun violence, correcting income strives to go beyond the fundamentals. Our inequality, criminal justice reform and 10.05.16 650-plus medical responders have engaged eliminating systemic racism, making col- .11

in research that brings innovative care to lege affordable and removing the cur- 40 # our neighborhoods and has advanced treat- rent educational loan burden on college ments across the United States. grads, overturning Citizens United and Whenever we put on our uniform, or election financing reform. interrupt responsibilities at home to re- My list goes on a lot longer, but it’s spond to the pager, we solemnly declare clear to me Hillary Clinton is the only can- our dedication to serve emergency medi- didate that speaks for me on these issues. cal needs in our community. However, the I figured electing Hillary Clinton as CASCADIA WEEKLY timely arrival of pioneering equipment the first woman president of the United 5 and skilled responders to your door is pos- States was bound to be crazy, but I never sible only in a community that invests in imagined it would be this bad. Is it hop- continuous quality improvement and hon- ing too much that things will be better ors the commitment of both career and after Nov. 8? volunteer professionals with consistent —Jamie Douglass, Bellingham THE GRISTLE BLOCKADIA: In an evening session that extended well

34 beyond midnight, Whatcom County Council last week extended its temporary ban on the acceptance of new

FOOD FOOD proposals for fossil fuel export projects at Cherry Point. The moratorium yields the Council and their advisors on views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE the Planning Commission a little more time to consider 27 policies to address concerns for health, safety and eco- logical function in the shipment of unrefined fossil fu-

B-BOARD B-BOARD els that have mushroomed since the federal government lifted an export ban on such products in 2015. The mora-

24 torium does not affect industrial activities or permitted expansion projects currently underway at Cherry Point. BY TED VAN DYK

FILM “A lot of people thanked us for helping end the reli- ance on fossil fuels and saving the environment. Others

20 criticized us for destroying jobs and killing economic A Dream Deferred development,” Council member Todd Donovan comment-

MUSIC ed. “I don’t think we really did any of those things.” TOWARD A RENEWED CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The petroleum industry and their supporters arrived

18 early and in great numbers. Piecing together their “AMERICA NEVER was Ameri- Johnson, in pursuing the 1964

ART testimony, perhaps the most intriguing and troubling ca to me. And yet I swear—-Ameri- Civil Rights Act and the ensuing takeaway is the widely shared conviction that the in- ca will be.”—-Langston Hughes. 1965 Voting Rights Act and Great dustry’s only viable future lies in cracking open North To aging civil rights and Great Society legislation (Medicare, Med- 16 America’s fuel resources and funneling with all haste Society activists, rage and sorrow icaid, federal aid to education, a

STAGE the unrefined product to markets overseas. Any at- are the responses to the current War on Poverty) calculatedly sought tempt to limit the speed and volume by which the na- “conversation” about race and the broad and bipartisan support so tion’s strategic energy heritage is exhaustively shared use of race in the 2016 Presidential that it would not be reversed by 14 with the world represents an existential threat to the campaign. Sometimes disingenuous bastion of white power in the South some later President and Congress health of the industry, Council members learned. posturing around secondary issues and in Congress—was changed for- of differing viewpoint.

GET OUT “This moratorium adversely affects the businesses is taking place in lieu of concerted ever in 1948 when Minneapolis “Consensus,” a word Johnson within the Cherry Point UGA, to be competitive in our action to address urgent, existen- Mayor Hubert Humphrey introduced continually used, also was neces-

12 respective industries” noted Pam Brady, representing tial crises in minority and especial- a civil-rights plank at the party’s sary because it took 67 Senate the BP Refinery. “To contemplate growth and to poten- ly black communities. Philadelphia national convention votes then to break a filibuster, as tially respond to a changing regulatory environment, First, some history. that passed unexpectedly, causing compared to 60 today. WORDS which ultimately impacts the ability of these companies It was not so long ago that deep, a walkout of southern delegates There was a conscious strategy be-

8 to provide long-term sustainable jobs in our community. genuine racism was present in and founding of a Dixiecrat Party, hind those mid-1960s breakthroughs. “These policies distinctly disadvantage the two American society. Citizens of to- which disappeared in 1949. First, court decisions and landmark Whatcom County refineries versus our competitors,” she day’s liberal and tolerant Belling- A remarkable group of lead- legislation would remove legal bar-

CURRENTS CURRENTS continued. “Competitors in Skagit and Pierce counties, ham are mainly unaware of the mur- ers rose to win historic legal and riers to equal opportunity and treat- and to the north in Burnaby, BC, who are not subject to der and expulsion here of Chinese legislative victories on behalf of ment for all. But that would not be 6 these same restrictions will gladly fill the void created workers, and the presence of an ac- equal rights. The movement was enough, in itself, to help Americans by restricting Whatcom County refineries.” tive Ku Klux Klan, in the late 19th both top-down and bottom-up. break through other, de facto barri- VIEWS Her remarks were echoed and expanded upon by and early 20th centuries. A “dead- High-visibility black leaders such ers that had been generations in the

4 many others. line” marker in Fairhaven still marks as Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, making. Therefore, initiatives would Unpacking them, the concerns are less about what the line that Chinese were warned Whitney Young, and Martin Luther be undertaken to provide health MAIL MAIL the Council’s action forbids (which is nothing that is not to cross or be shot dead. Neigh- King Jr. were joined by worker bees care, job training, better public edu-

not already currently underway) than how that action boring Oregon, settled in part by like the AFL-CIO’s Bayard Rustin, cation and other services to Ameri- 2 may limit or stall the export of unrefined fuels, and former Confederates, was decidedly who organized the 1963 March on cans trying to rise. Eligibility for DO IT IT DO the message that sends to investors. inhospitable to African Americans Washington (where King delivered these programs was income-based These are curious admissions about an industry whose who came west during the 1930s his “I have a dream” speech), Roy but, as a practical matter, particu- very purpose and existence is the refining and process- and 1940s. Tribal members saw Abernethy, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou larly benefited minorities. ing of unrefined, unprocessed fuels, and an industry daily discrimination. Right into the Hamer, and John Lewis. Grassroots The emphasis, always, was on 10.05.16 that has thrived and profited immensely, employed gen- early 1960s the American South was black preachers, teachers, barbers equal opportunity for all, never on erously while under a 40-year federal ban on the export a segregationist nightmare. beauticians and newspaper publish- a guaranteed outcome for anyone. .11

40 of those fuels to foreign markets. Indeed, the BP Refin- As a graduate student in New ers sparked their communities. The latter, we knew, would be con- # ery came online the very year the federal ban was enact- York, I visited the South during the By the time of the landmark trary to the underlying American ed! Enabled, these export projects would facilitate the mid-1950s and was gut-punched by 1964 Civil Rights Bill, drafted by Dream: A floor for everyone; a ceil- hundred-fold release of heat-trapping greenhouse gases what I saw: Catfish Row housing, then-Senator Humphrey, intro- ing for no one. that are a root cause of global warming and associated segregated schools, transportation, duced by President John Kennedy, A departure from this approach changes to ocean chemistry—a problem for the world, restaurants and restrooms. Drink- passed and signed by President took place during the Nixon presi- sure, but also a problem for a local economy dependent ing fountains were labeled “White” Lyndon Johnson, a vast coalition dency with the introduction of “af-

CASCADIA WEEKLY on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and natural resources. and “Negro.” had formed. It included white, mi- firmative action” as a concept. It Fears about local refineries and energy producers un- Below the surface, though, great nority, labor, business, academic, began with the Philadelphia Plan, 6 able to compete against other projects expanding under change was brewing. President Har- religious and other leaders who be- whereby notoriously discrimina- less onerous restraints ignore the central reality that all ry Truman desegregated the armed lieved in equal rights. Democrats, tory construction trades and unions of them—up and down the Pacific coast—are experi- forces. The Democratic Party—the Republicans, independents. DREAM, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 encing substantial challenge to their expansion plans. “The Pacific Northwest stands squarely between the VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE most voracious energy markets in the

world and huge fossil fuel deposits in the GO 34 interior of North America—Powder River NORTHWOOD Basin coal, Bakken shale oil, Alberta tar FOOD sands, and remote natural gas fields,” Eric de Place noted in his policy brief for FOR CASINO ! 27 Sightline Institute, The Thin Green Line. “Big energy companies plan to unearth FUN these vast reserves of carbon-intense B-BOARD fuels and put them up for sale in Asia.

“But to get their products to market, 24 energy companies first have to build new terminals and pipelines to move FILM all that fuel.” he noted. “They need

destinations for the scores of oil and 20 coal trains that they plan to run across the Northwest, and they need right-of- MUSIC ways to lay new pipelines.” Halloween

Cherry Point may currently be the 18

least encumbered of these destinations. ART Council’s moratorium not only drew these industry confessions into the 16 open, they underscored the wisdom

of dropping the ban in place without STAGE warning in the first place: They stopped Treats! more of these projects from from gain- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 Every 30 minutes from 14 ing immediate complex, entangling 1pm to 5:30pm, drawing winners can pick a Hal- vesting rights and legal standing under loween Treat Basket to keep, plus win up to $500!

Washington law merely by applying for Winners Club Members get a free entry on the GET OUT permit review. day of the drawings.

Earlier in September, County Executive 12 Jack Louws expressed his displeasure with the manner and means by which WORDS Council initially enacted their ban, which

went into place as the Council took their 8 August recess. Louws wasn’t available to sign their emergency ordinance—but

he purposefully would not have done so CURRENTS anyway as a deliberate act of protest, 6 disagreeing with their motivations for Win up to $500 every week! 6 doing so. He needn’t sign their emer- VIEWS gency legislation, which goes into effect Earn 100 Reward Points on a Monday and you’ll receive a Money VIEWS Monster with a scratch ticket, and an entry into the Grand Finale within ten business days after Council’s 4 approval unless actively vetoed, but Drawings on October 31. that would have left open a window of Keep your monster, AND scratch off the ticket to reveal an instant MAIL ten days in which a fossil fuel export win up to $500, or other cash, prizes, or bonus entries! 2 project application conceivably could Grand Finale drawings on DO IT IT DO have been submitted, with its vesting Monday, October 31, for $200 complications. Council Chair Barry Bu- each, every 30 minutes from chanan closed the window, signing the 5:30pm to 10pm. document left unsigned by Louws. That touched off a minor constitutional cri- Winners Club Members re- 10.05.16 sis, as the separation of powers blurred, ceive a free entry for the drawings on October 31. .11 a condition commented upon in a solic- 40 # ited rebuke of Buchanan’s action by the County Prosecutor. Presumably Louws will not sign the extended moratorium (rendered veto- MODERN COMFORTS AND JUST TWO TURNS OFF THE proof by a 6-1 majority), illustrating the soured working relationship between OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY GUIDE MERIDIAN the administrative and legislative CASCADIA WEEKLY branches on this topic, and evidence of BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 7 how alone and isolated County Coun- 877.777.9847 cil is, the many forces arrayed against 9750 Northwood Road • Lynden WA N them, as they work through complex is- E BADGER RD NORTHWOOD RD sues related to the permitting of major www.northwoodcasino.com projects at Cherry Point. GUIDE MERIDIAN RD LYNDEN

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ART DREAM, FROM PAGE 6 Some 20 years ago, I spoke to a meet- officer here at the time he constructed the including Rep. Lewis, a hero of the Selma ing in Memphis of black state legislators bridge, later joined other southern officers March and Freedom Rides of the 1960s, but from southern states and made reference in the Confederate Army and led the final, they are less colorful and likely to generate

16 agreed to set aside a certain percentage of jobs for minorities. The concept then to Jesse Epps, who had famously led the fatal Pickett’s charge that sunk rebel hopes TV ratings than Sharpton or Jackson.

STAGE spread to de facto minority quotas in gov- black garbage workers’ strike in Memphis at the Battle of Gettysburg. (Pickett, while The 2016 major-party Presidential can- ernment contracting, college admissions, to which Dr. King had traveled to help in Bellingham, married a Native American didates have opted to play the race card and other parts of American economic and when he was murdered there. Audience woman. After her death, he cared over a shamelessly in their campaigns. Hillary 14 cultural life. At the same time, President faces were blank. Then someone asked, lifetime for their child). San Francisco Clinton, attempting to nail down black Nixon disestablished the Office of Eco- “Who was Jesse Epps?” Historical memo- 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has votes in November, habitually links Donald

GET OUT nomic Opportunity and scattered its War ry was lacking. stated he will not stand for the national Trump to former Klan leader David Duke on Poverty programs to other agencies At about the same time, I attended a anthem until such time as “suppression of and feeds the narrative of black victimiza- tion. Trump equally plays to Reagan Demo- 12 where they dwindled and withered. national meeting in Washington, D.C. of minorities” has ended in America. Other The 1972 Democratic national platform black elected officials and was surprised athletes have followed his lead. crats who hate the political correctitude committee, where I represented Presi- to find myself one of the few non-black Police harassment of minorities is an they identify with Clinton’s race message. WORDS dential nominee George McGovern, took attendees. Where were others? Probably old story in America, as anyone hassled Both Clinton and Trump go for the political

8 the concept further. Delegates repre- thinking, I realized, that “we did all that” for “driving while black” will confirm. jugular and are unlikely to raise the level of senting various interest groups insisted and were no longer interested. But the harassment has been reduced debate before November. After next Janu- on planks providing special benefits as One must be both blind and ignorant over the years. ary when one is inaugurated as President?

CURRENTS CURRENTS “rights” to their constituencies. Mc- not to recognize the many crises simul- Both black and non-black police officers Do not count on it. Govern lost the election decisively and taneously besetting urban black commu- fear for their own safety when doing duty When things get tough, it is best to re- 6 6 without the support of middle-American nities in particular: High black-on-black in high-crime black urban neighborhoods. turn to first principles. voters who traditionally had voted Demo- murder and violent crime rates; crushing The Ferguson, Missouri incident that trig- What are the causes of the crises in VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS cratic. The old American Dream, oppor- unemployment, school dropout and in- gered the Black Lives Matter movement African-American communities in big cit-

4 tunity-for-all credo had been abandoned, carceration rates for young black men; regrettably was portrayed originally as ies? What are the practical steps we can they felt, in favor of special benefits for broken or nonexistent family structures; the killing of an innocent black teenager take to address them? A first step in the MAIL MAIL special people. Later to be known as Rea- pervasive drug trafficking and use; the attempting to surrender to an officer current black-police conflict, for instance,

gan Democrats, these same voters con- notion that drug dealing is an acceptable (“Hands up, don’t shoot”). Black Lives Mat- would be the resinstitution of the concept 2 tinue today to rebel against what they occupation for out-of-work youth. Chica- ter leadership has since issued a manifesto of Equal Law Enforcement in black neigh- DO IT IT DO now regard as discrimination against go alone has seen more than 500 murders that, unfortunately, reads like a 1930s borhoods. That concept, adopted in the them. They form a large part of Donald in 2016, mostly black-on-black. Hard Left list of demands. late 1960s, meant police would enforce the Trump’s 2016 political base. The situation cries out for the reinvig- The black spokesmen most often getting law fairly in those neighborhoods. It also In ensuing years, black Americans have oration of the prior national consensus media exposure are Al Sharpton and Jesse meant police attention to those neigh- 10.05.16 risen to the highest levels in politics, the that these issues must be addressed in a Jackson. Sharpton has a scandalous past borhoods would be equal to that given judiciary, and all major public and private practical way. Yet present “conversation” including his lies in the inframous Tawana wealthier neighborhoods and that inno- .11

40 institutions. We have a black President instead focuses on matters not related Brawley case in New York and his anti- cent black residents would be protected # and U.S. Attorney General. Women’s and to any of the above. National dialogue Semitism in the Crown Heights conflict from criminals just as avidly as those in LGBTQ rights have advanced dramati- has focused instead on police violence in Brooklyn. He owes several million dol- rich, white neighborhoods. cally. Yet confusion and anger presently against black offenders and suspects, the lars in unpaid federal taxes. His speeches White guilt, black victimization? All characterize debate, in particular, about display of quasi-Confederate flags and and television commentary are inflamma- about Democrats and Republicans? No, black progress. symbols in former Confederate states, tory and divisive. Yet he also serves as a we are all in this together and need to What happened? and alleged white racism and privilege go-to adviser to President Obama on race regroup together.

CASCADIA WEEKLY First, inattention happened. underlying and causing black distress. issues and has been dispatched as his rep- I recall a public discussion, in the mid- Numerous media editorials and com- resentative to trouble spots. Jackson, as Ted Van Dyk, a Bellingham resident, was Vice 8 1980s, in which Harry McPherson, Presi- mentary paint a picture of America 2016 Sharpton, long ago concluded that there President Humphrey’s assistant in the John- dent Johnson’s White House counsel and as if it were Selma, Alabama 1959. was money to be made from race and also son White House and active in civil rights/ staunch Great Society believer, said, “We Here in Bellingham, a local group last turns up to stoke anger and polarization poverty issues over many years. He is the au- did all that” and “it is time to move on” year proposed that Pickett Bridge be re- whenever and wherever conflict arises. thor of Heroes, Hacks and Fools, University when the topic of black progress was raised. named because George Pickett, a U.S. Army There are far more serious black leaders, of Washington Press.

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MUSIC Lummi Nation fishermen deliver a feast of locally caught salmon to feed the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and many sup- porters who are fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tribal leaders deliver dozens of kings and silvers as part of

18 a traditional teaching among Lummi people to show caring and support in times of need. ART Scientists linked the large patch of warm a domestic dispute. Whatcom County Sher- 09.27.16

16 ocean water, nicknamed the “blob,” to the iff’s deputies responded to an emergency TUESDAY vast ribbon of toxic algae that flourished in call that a man had stabbed himself. They

STAGE 2015 and produced record-breaking levels of found Alberto Mora-Morales, 26, dead. The Whatcom County Council extends its ban on new permit applications for a neurotoxin that is harmful to people, fish woman in the home first told officers she projects that ship crude oil and other unrefined fossil fuels out of Cherry Point. and marine life. The outbreak of the toxin didn’t know how he was stabbed, but lat- 14 Supporters applauded the move, saying it will protect the public from dangerous domoic acid, the largest ever recorded on er admitted to stabbing her partner during fuel shipments. Others say potential changes to the industrial zone could hurt jobs the West Coast, closed razor clam seasons an argument over custody of their child.

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12 Petrogas buys Alcoa Intalco’s wharf, pier and associated items for $122 million, coast. [Associated Press] 10.04.16 but only $10.2 million of the registered sale was listed as real estate subject to excise taxes. Had the whole purchase been subject to the tax, the payment TUESDAY

WORDS 09.30.16 lodged with Whatcom County could have been more than $2 million. Tax for sale FRIDAY The state Dept. of Ecology and Skagit

8 of the wharf, which was sold for $10.2 million based on an appraisal, according to County Planning and Development Services Petrogas, was $181,655. For comparison, all of Intalco was valued at $67 million The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases release the draft environmental impact for 2015 taxes, which included the wharf. [Bellingham Herald] the draft environmental impact statement statement for Shell’s proposed oil train CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 for Millennium Bulk Terminals’ proposed project in Anacortes. Shell plans to build 09.28.16 coal export terminal in Longview. The Corps’ a facility to receive up to six more 100-car- 6 shoreline review focuses narrowly on the long oil trains per week at the refinery. More WEDNESDAY project’s impacts at the terminal site, and than 35,000 people participated in the orig- VIEWS Taylor Shellfish, the largest producer of shellfish in the United States, violated does not comment on impacts of the project inal scoping process for the project. Public

4 federal law when the company permitted ongoing racial harassment and retalia- along the rail corridor. The Corps concludes comment on the draft EIS is invited through tory discipline against a black maintenance mechanic, the U.S. Equal Employment the project would only minimally interfere Dec. 2. [Ecology] MAIL MAIL Opportunity Commission alleges in a lawsuit. The suit claims the man suffered with treaty fishing rights. Exporting 44 mil-

derogatory insults and abuse during his employment at Taylor’s Samish Bay lion tons of coal per year, the Longview proj- The state Attorney General’s Office files 2 Farm. [EEOC] ect would be the largest coal export terminal a complaint in Superior Court alleging DO IT IT DO in North America. [Associated Press] campaign finance violations by Secretary 09.29.16 of State Kim Wyman and her campaign. The 10.03.16 complaint alleges the Wyman campaign has THURSDAY failed to file contribution and expenditure 10.05.16 A new study finds that unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures helped cause MONDAY disclosure reports in a timely manner, as re- a massive bloom of toxic algae last year that closed lucrative fisheries from Cal- A Ferndale woman faces a murder charge quired under the state’s campaign finance .11

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was polite and stated that he planned FOOD ANNALS OF HIGHER on going back to his camp located in the EDUCATION Custer area,” police reported. 27 On Sept. 28, University Police checked on an escalating political argument in On Sept. 30, Bellingham Police learned

Red Square on Western Washington Uni- of a suspicious package near Irongate. B-BOARD versity campus. “Crowd is peaceful,” re- “The package was found to contain lieved campus cops reported. drugs that were being shipped out of 24 state,” police reported. “The incident is

On Sept. 30, University Police checked under investigation.” FILM on a report of kids sitting in a planter

box at the Performing Arts Center, with EARWORM 20 their feet dangling over the edge. They On Sept. 29, an irate neighbor in the

were gone when campus cops arrived. Lettered Streets neighborhood called MUSIC Bellingham Police to report his “neighbor

On Sept. 30, University Police checked had been loudly playing the same song 18 on the welfare of drunken students stag- on his stereo repeatedly for 12 hours.” ART gering through the south campus. police reported.

37 16 On Oct. 1, University Police checked on a JUST SAYING HELLO

man who had reportedly locked himself in On Sept. 30, a woman in Roosevelt Percent of Whatcom County home sales that occurred in Bellingham during the first STAGE a bathroom with his dog. Police escorted neighborhood told Bellingham Police a nine months of this year. That number has declined in the past decade from a high of the man and dog from campus. rock had been thrown through her bed- 47 percent of home sales in Bellingham. Ferndale is the primary recipient of this shift, with market share rising from 12 percent to 16 percent this year. Overall home sales have 14 room window while she was sleeping. returned to peak sales years of 2006 and 2007. On Oct. 1, Bellingham Police broke up a large party south of Western Washington On Sept. 30, a woman in Sunnyland neigh- GET OUT University campus. Five young men were borhood reported someone throwing rocks cited for disorderly conduct. at her window. Bellingham Police searched 13.6 8.7 12 the area but did not locate anyone. The median price of homes sold in The median price of all homes sold in On Sept. 30, a University Police officer Bellingham in the third quarter was Whatcom County in the third quarter was $369,900, up 13.6 percent from last year. $316,400, up 8.7 percent from last year. WORDS observed the elevator in Higginson Hall On Sept. 30, a man in the Lettered Streets

“smells like pee.” neighborhood reported a rock was thrown 8 8 through the window of his home. On Oct. 2, University Police learned 347 923 CURRENTS CURRENTS someone had vomited into a sink at the On Sept. 30, the same man reported two CURRENTS Nash Hall residence. more windows in his home had been bro- Number of housing units sold in Number of housing units sold in

Bellingham in the third quarter. Whatcom County in the third quarter. 6 ken by thrown rocks. On Oct. 1, University Police checked on blood and vomit reported in a bathroom EVASION OF THE VIEWS at the Ridgeway Delta student housing BODY SNATCHER 4 complex. On Sept. 24, a concerned citizen told 43 54 Blaine Police she had seen what she be- Average days on the market (DOM) for Average days on the market (DOM) for MAIL a Bellingham home, down 4.4 percent a Whatcom County home, down 20.6 On Oct. 2, University Police noticed the lieved was a dead body in a van. “The van from last year. percent from last year. 2 bathroom in the Ridgeway Kappa student drove off before officers arrived,” police DO IT IT DO housing complex needed to be cleaned. reported, “but officers were able to locate the vehicle. An officer contacted the driv- SPECIAL DELIVERY er, who allowed him to look into the van. On Sept. 23, police were contacted by a What the officer found was a gourd un- $309,500 10.05.16 British Columbia resident concerned over derneath some aprons. The crafty female fraudulent use of her mailbox service in driver stated she bought the gourd at the Median price for a home in Ferndale, up 5.3 percent. .11

Blaine. “Several packages were received farmer's market and the aprons were hand- 40 at a local business, much to the mailbox made by her. Whatever plan she had for the # owner's surprise,” police reported. “The gourd, it probably hadn't involved staging 139 purchases appear to have been made a crime scene. The officer and the woman Number of housing units sold in Ferndale in the third quarter, down 2.8 percent through a hacked Amazon account. Offi- parted ways after a good chuckle.” from the previous year. cers advised the victim to contact Ama- zon and cancel cards associated with the BUNNY FEELING FUNNY account. As the identity theft occurred On Sept. 26, a concerned citizen report- 40 CASCADIA WEEKLY in BC, the victim was notified to contact ed finding an injured domestic rabbit in the local RCMP detachment. All packages her neighborhood. “Neighbors' attempts Average days on the market for a Ferndale home, down 48.1 percent 11 from the previous year. were released to the custody of the local to locate an owner were unsuccessful,” business for return to the senders.” Blaine Police reported. “Animal Control responded to pick up the large black bun- On Sept. 29, Bellingham Police spoke to ny and provide it care.” SOURCES: Lylene Johnson, The Muljat Group; Northwest Washington Multiple Listing Service doit WORDS FRI., OCT. 7 34 TANG POEMS: Western Washington University

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24 puts her on the path to studying albatross, 10am-12pm at Honey Moon Mean, 1053 N. State St. or moli as they’re known locally. These mag- (in the alley). From 1-3pm, Anastacia Renee leads a

FILM nificent birds spend many months alone at “Cry Out Loud” workshop. Entry is $30 per workshop sea, “gliding on gravity and wind” over vast or $50 for both; proceeds benefit the Sue C. Boyn- ton Poetry Contest.

20 distances across the Northern Pacific, un- WWW.THEPOETRYDEPARTMENT.WORDPRESS.COM til each November when their instincts pull

MUSIC them thousands of miles back to their life- SUMAS HAPPENINGS: Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto long mates and nesting grounds. will be the subject of a Sumas Book Club meeting at 10am at the Sumas Library, 451 2nd St. At 2pm, 18 Osterlund writes the life stories of several in- local author Susan Colleen Browne leads a “Publish

ART dividual albatross, sharing their names and per- That Book!” presentation focusing on the indepen- sonalities until we too are hooked on these pe- dent publishing process, and how to get started as culiar, endearing creatures and their seemingly an indie author. Entry is free. 16 impossible life quests. She also explores the (360) 988-2501

STAGE Hawaiian concept of aumakua, or “guardian an- HISTORICAL FICTION: “Writing Local Stories in cestors in animal form,” and Historical Fiction” will be the focus of a discus- finds that her intimacy with sion with historian and author J.L. Oakley at 11am 14 the birds provides healing at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St. Oakley will talk for past familial trauma. about how she crafts her novels—which focus on everything from the Pig War to women hiking in the GET OUT On Fri., Oct. 14, Kim North Cascades. Stafford, son of the late WWW.WCLS.ORG

12 poet William Stafford, cel- 12 ATTEND ebrates a new 30th anni- WILDERNESS MYSTERIES: Discuss adventure mys- versary edition of his criti- teries and hear what it takes to be a professional WORDS WORDS WHAT: “Nature author when Pamela Beason leads a “Wilderness of Writing” cally acclaimed collection HOB OSTERLUND Mysteries” presentation at 3:30pm at the Deming series with Hob 8 of essays, Having Every- Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. Osterlund thing Right. A deeply felt (360) 592-2422 WHEN: 7pm Sat., BY CHRISTIAN MARTIN Oct. 8 meditation on the history, FUTURE OF WOLVES: Author Brenda Peterson and CURRENTS CURRENTS ------folklore and natural beauty photographer Annie Marie Musselman share stories WHAT: Kim of the Pacific Northwest,

6 and images from Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Stafford reads this essential title reveals Future of Wolves in North America at 4pm at Village from Having Nature of Writing how nature, culture and Books, 1200 11th St. VIEWS Everything Right community overlap and in- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM READINGS OF THE REGION WHEN: 7pm Fri., 4 Oct. 14 form each other in our cor- TRIMINGHAM READING: Lummi Island-based VILLAGE BOOKS teams up with the North Cascades Institute (NCI) WHERE: Village ner of the country.

MAIL MAIL author Julie Trimingham reads from her books Mock- Books, 1200 11th every spring and fall to offer the “Nature of Writing” speaker series in the Exceptional Mountains: ingbird and Way Elsewhere at 7:30pm at the Island St. Fairhaven bookstore. With a focus on nature writing, science and the natural A Cultural History of Pa- 2 Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd. COST: Free (360) 758-7145 and cultural history of our region, the free readings brings some of the best INFO: www. cific Northwest Volcanoes, DO IT IT DO writers on the natural world to Bellingham. villagebooks.com by University of Montana Two authors have already visited and shared their Professor O. Alan Weltzein, MON., OCT. 10 LIBRARY TOUR: View a hidden fourth floor, a new works. Leigh Calvez’s The Hidden Lives of Owls critically examines the relationship between “book hospital” and much more at a “Behind the (Sasquatch Books) reveals the natural history of 11 the looming, glacier-clad volcanoes and our Scenes” tour taking place from 6-7:30pm at the Bell- 10.05.16 different owl species, while weaving in explorations Cascadian regional identity. He takes a hard ingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Meet at the of human-animal connections, mythology and owl look at the impacts of outdoor recreation, SkillShare Space at the library; entry is free. .11 (360) 778-7217

40 obsession. particularly the mountaineering industry, set # Robert Steelquist’s The Northwest Coastal Explorer against population growth and affluence in the CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Today Will Be Different (Timber Press) is a field guide to the varied habitats Northwest. He’ll visit Bellingham Fri., Nov. 4. author Maria Semple will be the featured author at and marine life of the Washington, Oregon, and Brit- And last but not least, the series wraps up the monthly Chuckanut Radio Hour at Whatcom Com- ish Columbia coasts. From the Pacific banana slug Sun., Nov. 13 with one of the most celebrat- munity College’s Heiner Theater, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. and Pileated woodpeckers of coastal forests to har- ed writers of the Pacific Northwest bring- The live taping will also feature performance poet Kevin Murphy, Weekly columnist Alan Rhodes, and bor seals and sea otters of the Nearshore, Steelquist ing two new books to share. Robert Michael more. Tickets are $5. CASCADIA WEEKLY handily covers the complex weave of life that inhabit our shores. Pyle has a new collection of poetry, Chinook WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Coming up Sat., Oct. 8, Hob Osterlund’s debut Holy Moli: Albatross and & Chantrelle, as well as a reflective memoir, 12 Other Ancestors (OSU Press) blends memoir with her close study of Laysan Through a Green Lens: Fifty Years of Writing POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their albatross. When a distant relative—her grandmother’s cousin, a respected for Nature. creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central cultural anthropologist who wrote the book Hawaiian Mythology—appears in Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Osterlund’s dream, the author interprets it as a sign to move to the islands. Christian Martin is the communications coordi- WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG With only a few hundred bucks in her pocket, Osterlund relocates to nator for NCI doit

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tor Doris Burn—will focus on “The Strength of a deadlines. At 7pm, view a screening of Screenagers. ART Dream: A Daughter’s Portrait of a Northwest Chil- WWW.SP-ACADEMY.ORG dren’s Author” at the university’s Wilson Library. 16 WWW.WWU.EDU OCT. 7-8 DEMING OKTOBERFEST: The 34th annual Deming AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: If you’re planning to partic- Log Show Oktoberfest takes place from 12pm- STAGE ipate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) 1am Friday and Saturday at the Deming Log Show this November or are simply curious about the art Grounds, 3295 Cedarville Rd. The Bavarian-style 14 of writing, attend the first Local Author Spotlight fundraiser for busted-up loggers includes live with Thom Carnell at 6pm at the SkillShare Space music from Sylvia’s German Variety Band and the at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Polkatones, dancers, a Swiss Alphorn blowing GET OUT Entry is free. contest, dancing, German food and drink, a beer WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG garden, free RV parking, and more. Tickets are $11-

$13 and include a beer stein. 12 12 THE DEEP CODE: Seattle-based author Charley (360) 592-3051 OR WWW.DEMINGLOGGINGSHOW.COM Henley reads from his debut collection of short WORDS stories, The Deep Code, at 7pm at Village Books, SAT., OCT. 8 WORDS 1200 11th St. TEENY TED: Be inspired, challenged and enter-

WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM tained by local residents who will share innovative 8 ideas across a broad spectrum of topics in 10 WED., OCT. 12 minutes or less at a “Teeny Ted Talks” event from EMPRESS: Sudden Valley author Alma Alexander 7-9pm at the Point Roberts Library, 1437 Gulf Rd. CURRENTS CURRENTS reads from her new book of speculative fiction, Entry to the all-ages event is free.

Empress, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. (360) 945-6545 6 Alexander is the author of the young adult series, Worldweavers, and the acclaimed The Secrets of OCT. 8-9 VIEWS Jin-Shei. BLAINE OKTOBERFEST: A harvest pancake WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM breakfast, an Ambulance Ride Pub Crawl, a scare- 4 crow display contest, rides on the Plover ferry, “Art-Oberfest,” activities for kids, “Dog-Toberfest,”

THURS., OCT. 13 MAIL PRISON BABY: Jill Bernstein, co-chair of the horse-drawn hay rides, food-and-drink-related

Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force, events and more will be part of the inaugural 2 will interview Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of “Blaine Oktoberfest” taking place from 8am-8pm

Prison Baby and founder of the unPrison Project, Saturday, and 1-5pm Sunday throughout Blaine IT DO We Do the Work at 6:30pm at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, and beyond—including Semiahmoo Resort. Many Tuesdays, 6:30 1207 Ellsworth St. Entry is free. If you give a $20 events are free; some require a fee. See a full list- donation to the project, yo’ll receive a signed copy ing online. KSVR 91.7 FM of the book. WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM (360) 220-3135 OR WWW.BUF.ORG KSVU 90.1 FM 10.05.16 MON., OCT. 10 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY: Speakers, singers, KSJU 91.9 FM .11 40 COMMUNITY dancers and drummers will be part of an Indig- # enous Peoples Day celebration with a theme of WED., OCT. 5 “Clean Water” from 9am-12pm at Whatcom Commu- GREEN DRINKS: Network with likeminded envi- nity College, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. The event will con- ronmentally aware citizens at the monthly Green tinue from 1-5pm at the log building at Northwest Drinks taking place from 5-7pm at the Majestic, Indian College, 2522 Kwina Rd. Entry is free. 1027 N. Forest St. Puget Sound Energy will be on (360) 383-3100 OR WWW.FACEBOOK.COM hand to talk about the Green Power Challenge and how you can help Bellingham earn a $40,000 grant WED., OCT. 12 We Do the Work brings information to the airways that is vital to workers. Weekly features CASCADIA WEEKLY to install a solar array in the city. POLITICAL TRIVIA NIGHT: Longtime news blog include news, interviews, and comments on issues from free trade agreements to health WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG Northwest Citizen will host a Political Trivia Night care, jobs to corporate accountability, security in retirement to legislative deception. 13 starting at 7pm at Brandywine Kitchen, 1317 Com- Together we will learn what we can do to bring about social and economic justice for all. THURS., OCT. 6 mercial St. John Servais and Riley Sweeney will INDIE SCHOOLS FAIR: Attend an Independent host the event. Entry is $5. School Fair showcasing Whatcom County’s nine inde- WWW.NWCITIZEN.COM Listen to our live audio stream! KSVR. org - Find us on Facebook. doit WED., OCT. 5 GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are

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STAGE the focus of Travelogue presentation featuring slides and stories by the Dailey family from 7-9pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 14 14 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $5. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG GET OUT GET OUT REEL ROCK FILMS: The 11th annual Reel Rock Film Tour makes a stop in Bellingham to screen the best climbing and adventure films of the

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EVERYDAY SUPERHEROES 5K Arntzen Hall. Entry is $5-$7. Come watch the films, meet other members of the local climbing WORDS community and get excited about your next outdoor adventure. 8 BY AMY KEPFERLE but is also a way to draw attention to and WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU raise funds for Work Opportunities’ mission FRI., OCT. 7

CURRENTS CURRENTS to connect adults with disabilities and busi- WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers ness partners in order to build diverse and can join Holly Roger of Wild Whatcom for a “Wild 6 Weekend Warriors resilient communities. Once attendees have Things” Community Program from 9:30-11am A CITY OF SUPERHEROES made their way along the lovely waterfront every Friday in October at the Stimpson Family VIEWS Nature Reserve. Suggested donation is $5. course, they can stick around for food, live WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG

4 IF YOUR weekend plans involve running or walking in a scenic locale, consider entertainment, prize drawings and visits putting some of that energy into an endeavor that will not only elevate your heart by juggler Jason Quick, Bellingham Balloon MOUNTAIN RESCUE EVENT: Washington- MAIL MAIL rate, but also make that tender organ grow a few sizes by knowing you’ve accom- Fairies, and Whatcom Therapy Dogs. When: based photographer and ski mountaineer Jason Hummel will be front and center at a plished good things for good people. Following are a few ideas of ways to combine 10:30am Sat., Oct. 8 Where: Squalicum Boat- 2 fundraising slideshow for Bellingham Mountain altruism with athleticism. house, 2600 N. Harbor Loop Dr. Cost: $15 Info: Rescue Council—an all-volunteer nonprofit DO IT IT DO First off is the annual Everyday Superheroes 5K taking place Sat., Oct. 8 at Squali- www.runwalkandroll5k.com that has been performing rescue services in the cum Creek Park. The family- and pet-friendly event urges community members to dress Awareness is also at the core of the final mountains of Whatcom county since 1955—at like caped crusaders, and also draws attention to humans who work to save lives on event, a Stigma Stomp happening Satur- 7:30pm at Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly a regular basis—namely, hospital caregivers and employees. The nurses who started day morning at Bloedel Donovan Park. Put St. The event will also feature signed copies

10.05.16 of Hummel’s first book, Alpine State of Mind. the event did so to raise funds for those of their own who were in need, whether as on by the Whatcom County chapter of the Tickets will be $10 at the door. a result of illness, injury, tragedy or death with their family. “We feel that in order to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), WWW.WCSAR.ORG/BMRC .11

40 truly care for our patients, we need to take care of our own hospital employees first,” the 5K run and walk encourages physical # organizers say. “It is our mission to provide assistance to get them back to work as activity to support mental wellness. From OCT. 7-8 quickly as possible and to give them peace of mind while they are at work that their 11am-2pm, the grassroots organization GORE AND LORE: The Good Time Girls combine history with a bit of horror at “Gore and Lore” financial burden is lessened.” If you don’t have time to make like Wonder Woman, will also host a Mental Health Fair featur- tours at 6pm Fridays in Fairhaven (in front of Spider Man, or Bat Girl, you can still be a hero by making a donation to the worthy ing more than 20 local health and wellness Skylark’s) and 6pm Saturdays in downtown Bell- cause. When: 10am Sat., Oct. 8 Where: Squalicum Creek Park, 1001 Squalicum Way Cost: organizations, a photo booth, raffles, re- ingham (at the Bureau of Historical Investiga- $20-$25 Info: www.behindthecross.org freshments and more. Even if you’ve never tion, 271 W. Holly St.) through Oct. 29. Entry is $15- $20 (includes a drink ticket). CASCADIA WEEKLY Before delving into the details of the next event, consider the facts that—according been affected by mental illness, your par- WWW.THEBUREAUBELLINGHAM.COM to the local nonprofit Work Opportunities—8.5 percent of Whatcom County residents ticipation will help the scores who have, 14 under age 64 have a disability, and the national unemployment rate for people with making you a worthy weekend warrior, and SAT., OCT. 8 disabilities is 12.5 percent (compared to 4.9 percent for those without disabilities). one of Bellingham’s many superheroes. CHOCOLATE RUN: The Ferndale Food Bank and Keep these statistics in mind when you sign up for the Run, Walk & Roll 5K taking When: 10am Sat., Oct. 8 Where: Bloedel Don- Pioneer Meadows Montessori School team up place Saturday morning at Squalicum Harbor. As part of National Disability Employ- ovan Park, 2214 Electric Ave. Cost: $30-$40 to present the inaugural “Chocolate for Charity 5K” starting with a Kids’ Dash at 9am at the ment Awareness month, the event is not only a celebration of everybody’s abilities, Info: www.namiwhatcom.org doit

34 FOOD FOOD 27 B-BOARD B-BOARD 24 FILM Find out what’s in the night sky when the Whatcom Association of Celestial Observers hosts an “Inter- national Observe the Moon Night” event Sat., Oct. 8 outside Bellis Fair Mall. The group will also host a

monthly meeting Oct. 2 at Ferndale’s WECU. 20

city’s Hovander Park, 5299 Nielson Ave. A chocolate CEMETERY TOUR: Join the Skagit County Historical MUSIC fountain, hot chocolate and other sweet treats will Museum for its third annual Cemetery Tour from

be available to participants. Entry is $25. 12-4pm at La Conner’s Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, 18 (360) 223-0788 OR WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ 17666 Valentine Rd. At the oldest pioneer cemetery FERNDALEFOODBANK in Skagit County, attendees can expect to see actors ART sharing the stories of those resting here.

PARK-TO-PEAK: Skagit Symphony will host a WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM NOW PLAYING 16 fundraising “Park-to-Peak” Trail Run starting at 9am at Mount Vernon’s Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St. TUES., OCT. 11 Fri, October 7 - STAGE The course climbs to the top of Little Mountain, and ALL-PACES RUN: Staff and volunteers are always Thu, October 13 concludes back at the park. Entry is $10-$25. on hand to guide the way at the weekly All-Paces 14 WWW.SKAGITSYMPHONY.COM Run starting at 6pm every Tuesday at Fairhaven Run- 14 ners, 1209 11th St. The runs are 20 minutes out and BAND AID RUN: Musical entertainment will be pro- back on two key routes—by the water or through GET OUT vided throughout the sixth annual “Band Aid” Fun the woods. Entry is free. GET OUT Run 5K and 10K starting at 9am at Edgewater Park, WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM 600 Behrens Millett Rd. Entry is 30; funds raised benefit Mount Vernon High School band students. BACKCOUNTRY BASICS: Learn more about back- 12 DOCTOBER 2016 FEATURES OVER 50 FILMS! WWW.BANDAIDFUNRUN.ORG country ski and snowboard lines for those with the right tools, experience and time at a free “Baker AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY (R) 110m - At the Limelight WORDS FALL FAMILY FUN: Garden tours, hot dog and Backcountry Basics” presentation at 6pm at REI, 6:30; (1:15), 6:30; (12:15), 5:30; 6:30 marshmallow roasting, hayrides, a petting zoo, 400 36th St. Please register in advance. Fri: Sat: Sun: Mon - Thu: games and photo opportunities will be part of “Fam- 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM FREIGHTENED: THE REAL PRICE OF SHIPPING 90m - Fri: 6:30 8 ily Fun Days” from 10am-6pm Saturdays through BREAKING A MONSTER 92m - Sat: (11:45AM) Oct. 29 at Everson’s Glen Echo Garden, 4390 Y Rd. WED., OCT. 12 THE C WORD 89m - Sat: (2:00) FREIGHTENED:

Entry is $15 per family (up to three kids). EXPERIENCE IRELAND: Local author Susan Colleen THE REAL PRICE OF SHIPPING CURRENTS 30m - Q+A with stars! Reception @ 3:30 WWW.GLENECHOGARDEN.COM Browne leads an “Experience Ireland: Along the EVERY ROW A PATH

Atlantic Coast” workshop from 6-9pm at Whatcom Sat: 4:15 - Presented by Whatcom Co. Democratic Women 6 SHOOT THE TRAILS: The Whatcom Mountain Bike Community College, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. The event MAD HOT BALLROOM 106m - Pickford Family Matinees

Coalition hosts Shoot the Trails,” its sixth annual includes a slideshow that features Irish history, Sat: (4:00) - Only $1 Admission, presented by Peoples Bank VIEWS photo and video contest, at 6pm at Bellingham Tech- culture and travel tips. Entry is $45. FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK 111m - Trivia opener by Steve Meyers nical College, 3028 Lindbergh Ave. Tickets are $15 WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM 4 6:10; (4:00) BREAKING A MONSTER and include food, a variety of local beer and a raffle. Sat: Wed:

122m - 8:40, 9:00 MAIL WWW.WMBCMTB.ORG THURS., OCT. 13 + STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (PG) Sat: SERVICE AND SWAP: Join Wild Whatcom and THE CASE OF THE 3 SIDED DREAM 88m - Sun: (12:30); Thu: (4:00)

MOON NIGHT: Join the Whatcom Association of Bellingham Parks and Rec for a Family Service Day to LEARNING TO SEE: THE WORLD OF INSECTS 68m 2 Celestial Observers for “International Observe the weed and mulch around young trees in a new forest 3:15 - Presented by Mindport Exhibits - Pre-show reception.

Sun: IT DO Moon Night” from 6-9pm at Bellis Fair Mall, 1 Bellis restoration area from 3-5pm at Squalicum Creek FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK Fair Pkwy. All ages are welcome to peer through the Park, 1001 Squalicum Way. From 5-6:30pm, there’ll DO NOT RESIST 72m - Sun: 5:30 organization’s telescopes at the free event. P.S. Bad be a potluck, live music and an outdoor gear swap. STARLESS DREAMS 76m - Mon: 6:30 weather cancels. WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS 90m - Tue: 6:30 WWW.WHATCOMASTRONOMY.ORG 10.05.16 TRAIL SISTERS: Colorado-based ultra trail runner YARN 76m + the Short film THREADS 30m - Wed: 6:30 - Q+A after! OCT. 8-9 and TrailSister.net founder Gina Lucrezi leads a RESILIENCE 60m - Thu: 6:30 - Presented by United Way

YARN + THREADS .11 BOATING CENTER OPEN: The Community Boating “Trail Sisters: Building a Stronger Community” pre- 40

PICKFORD FILM CENTER | 1318 Bay St. | 360.738.0735 | www.pickfordfilmcenter.org # Center is open from 12pm to sunset Saturdays and sentation at 7pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th PICKFORD FILM CENTER: 1316 Bay St. | 360.738.0735 | www.pickfordfilmcenter.org Enjoy a drink while you watch! Mary's Happy Hour: M-F, 4-6pm $1 off Beer + Wine Sundays through mid-October at their headquarters St. At the free event, you’ll learn about Lucrezi’s PFC’S LIMELIGHT CINEMA: 1416 Cornwall Ave. | Parentheses ( ) denote bargain pricing at 555 Harris Ave. Rentals include kayaks, sailboats, mission to get more women interested in the sport ALSO PLAYING AT PICKFORD FILM CENTER: rowboats and paddle boards. of trail running. A MAN CALLED OVE (PG-13) 116m WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM Fri: (3:30), 6:15, 9:00; Sat: 6:30; Sun: 5:15, 7:30; Mon: (3:30), 6:15, 9:00 Tue: (4:45), 9:15; Wed & Thu: 6:15, 9:00 SUN., OCT. 9 ASTRONOMY MEETING: The Whatcom Associa- HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (PG-13) 101m RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mount Baker tion of Celestial Observers will meet from 7-9pm Fri: (4:00), 8:45; Sat: (1:30); Sun: (Noon), 8:00; Mon & Tue: (4:00), 8:45 CASCADIA WEEKLY Bicycle Club for a “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8am at Ferndale’s Whatcom Educational Credit Union, Wed: (3:45), 9:15; Thu: (3:45), 8:45 every Sunday at Fairhaven Bicycle, 1108 11th St. The 5659 Barrett Rd. Use I-5 exit 262. The event will THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK (NR) 138m - Sun: 2:15 15 32-mile route takes riders down Chuckanut and back include a discussion of local astronomy events and ALSO PLAYING AT THE LIMELIGHT CINEMA: via Lake Samish. The group also holds weekly rides outreach projects, and a presentation. Entry is free THE GREASY STRANGLER (R) 95m Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. and open to the public. Fri & Sat: 9:00; Sun: 8:00; Mon - Thu: 9:00 WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG WWW.WHATCOMASTRONOMY.ORG CAPTAIN FANTASTIC (R) 93m Fri: (3:45); Sat: 3:45; Sun: (2:45); Mon - Thu: (3:45) doit STAGE

THURS., OCT. 6

34 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront

FOOD FOOD Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for stage “The Project.” Entry is $8 for the early show, $5 for THEATER DANCE PROFILES the late one. 27 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM OCT. 6-8 B-BOARD B-BOARD BROADWAY & POLITICS: Musical comedy and Eventually, however, I came to realize that al- political satire can be expected when the Bellingham Music Club presents a new musical cabaret show,

24 though all of the flawed characters weren’t nec- Broadway Takes on Politics, at 7:30pm Thursday and essarily people you’d want to spend the holidays Friday, and 3pm and 7:30pm Saturday at the Firehouse FILM with, they were definitely an interesting assem- Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. The “Night blage of humans worth getting to know a little Beat” performances promise to skewer the American election system with songs and scenes from 30 clas- 20 better. For example, the bespectacled “Bubbles” may have a tendency to steal shopping carts, but sic and obscure Broadway shows. Tickets are $20. WWW.BELLINGHAMMUSICCLUB.WORDPRESS.COM

MUSIC he also takes in homeless cats and is fiercely loyal to his friends. WESTWARD HO’S: Comedy, spaghetti, audience

18 That fealty is also evident in Ricky and Julian’s inclusion and mustaches will all make appear- ances when “Westward Ho’s” opens this week with

ART willingness to share the blame for their various crimes and go to jail together—something they do performances at 6pm Thursday through Saturday at the Lookout Arts Quarry, 249 Old Hwy 99N. The event at the end of pretty much every season—and in 16 16 being put on by comedy artist Deanna Fleysher (Butt Mr. Lahey and Randy’s tumul- Kapinski) features live music by Cowpoke Pattycake, STAGE STAGE tuous relationship, which of- hot dinner and drinks, and an indoor-outdoor saloon ten ends with Lahey getting under the big top. Tickets are $25 and include dinner way too drunk and expressing and the show—which focuses on a film buff who 14 attempts to create a live Spaghetti Western with a his everlasting love for his gang of physical comedians. Additional performances cheeseburger-loving, typically happen Oct. 13-15. GET OUT shirtless romantic interest. WWW.UNIVERSE.COM/WESTWARDHOS So despite my initial mis- OCT. 6-9

12 givings, watching Trailer Park ATTEND THE MIRACLE WORKER: Watch the story of Annie WHAT: Randy and Boys became less of a chore Sullivan and her blind and mute student, Helen and more of an enjoyable way

WORDS Mr. Lahey: No Pants Keller, when The Miracle Worker concludes this week Unpissed Tour to pass the time (and a rea- with performances at 7:30pm Thursday and Friday, WHEN: 9pm Fri., and 2pm Saturday and Sunday at Lynden’s Claire vg

8 son to get my own partner in Oct. 7 crime to watch shows like the Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets are $8-$12 WHERE: Wild and can be purchased online or at the door. There Buffalo, 208 W. BBC’s Call the Midwife with me will be a special showing with interpretation for the

CURRENTS CURRENTS Holly St. when the time came). hearing-impaired on Sat., Oct. 8. COST: $20 In fact, when it was an- WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM 6 INFO: www. nounced that Randy and Mr. wildbuffalo.net Lahey would be coming to THE MUSIC MAN: Meet fast-talking salesman Har- VIEWS old Hill when The Music Man continues this weekend Bellingham as part of their with shows at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday,

4 “Fear and Loathing” tour in May of 2015, I didn’t and 2pm Sunday at the Anacortes Community hesitate to purchase tickets. Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets to the musical about a MAIL MAIL I’d like to say I remember everything that hap- conman whose plans are foiled when he falls in love are $20. Additional performances happen weekends pened at the show during our nontraditional date 2 through Oct. 20. BY AMY KEPFERLE night, but the truth of the matter is things got a WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM DO IT IT DO little blurry after my third rum and Coke (thanks for the inspiration, Julian). FRI., OCT. 7 Randy and Lahey What I do recall is that I laughed uproarious- TRAVELING WITH ANGELS: Television actress J. ly at Mr. Lahey and Randy’s often ribald songs Rene Pena (Private Practice, Dexter, Scandal, etc.)

10.05.16 performs Traveling with Angels at 7pm at the Church A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER and skits and that audience participation was a of the Assumption, 2116 Cornwall Ave. The one- big part of what made the sold-out show work woman show is based on Pena’s life. Show up at 6pm .11

40 PART OF being in a successful long-term relationship is being willing so well. I can also verify that the actors were for wine and music. Tickets are $20. Funds raised # to feign enthusiasm for your significant other’s interests. It’s one of the nowhere in attendance; Dunsworth and Roach benefit Hope House. reasons I agreed to sit in on a marathon viewing session of the Canadian personified their characters so completely that WWW.TRAVELINGWITHANGELS.COM mockumentary Trailer Park Boys a few years ago. at one point I was convinced I was actually in a OCT. 7-8 “I think you’re really gonna love this, babe,” I recall my guy saying as Trailer Park Boys episode. COMING HOME: Experience the story of Luke, a he slid the first of many discs into the DVD player and settled in for the That could happen again when the duo returns Native American youth struggling to find his way long haul. I offered up my most sincere fake smile and gave a thumbs-up to Bellingham Fri., Oct. 7 as part of their “No home after years in the foster care system, at

CASCADIA WEEKLY to the endeavor. Pants Unpissed” tour stop at the Wild Buffalo. Al- performances of It’s Good to be Home at 7pm Friday and Saturday at BAAY Theatre, 1059 N. State St.. At first, I was mildly horrified by the goings-on at the fictional Sunny- though I don’t have tickets to the show just yet, 16 In the play produced by Darrell Hillaire and Setting vale Trailer Park, where ex-convicts Ricky (Robb Wells) and Julian (John I’m contemplating another profanity-filled date Sun Productions, reconnections are made when Paul Tremblay) and their buddy “Bubbles” (Mike Smith) grow, sell and smoke night—one that’s full of cheeseburgers, booze ideas, determination and forgiveness are met with dope, drink a lot of rum and Coke—often while driving—and battle their and alley makeout sessions. Maybe we’ll even the healing power of the spirit. Tickets are $10 in nemesis, park supervisor Jim Lahey (John Dunsworth) and his on-again-off- stroll by a trailer park on the walk home. A girl advance or at the door. WWW.BAAY.ORG again lover, a former male prostitute named Randy Bobandy (Patrick Roach). can dream, can’t she? doit

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Nursery ______B-BOARD Home Store ______24 2016 Book Store ______Yoga Studio ______FILM Auto Repair ______20 Massage ______Escape artist and illusionist Jay Owenhouse presents “Dare to Believe!” Sat., Tattoo Shop ______MUSIC Oct. 8 at the Mount Baker Theatre Gym ______18 HELLINGHAM: Help figure out whodunnit when Salon/Barber ______ART the perennially popular improvised murder mystery Pot Store ______known as “Hellingham” returns to the stage for 16 8pm and 10pm shows every Friday and Saturday YOUR INFORMATION Headshop ______16 through October at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay Your Name ______Music Store ______STAGE St. (and Mon., Oct. 31). Tickets to view the come- STAGE Your City ______dic carnage are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Non-profit ______WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM Email ______

SR-542 Stop ______14 Phone Number ______SAT., OCT. 8 Car Dealership ______DARE TO BELIEVE: Renowned escape artist and illusionist Jay Owenhouse brings his “Dare Attorney ______GET OUT to Believe!” show to Bellingham for an 8pm PEOPLE, BEST... performance at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Local Celebrity/Character ______FOOD, BEST... Commercial St. The elaborate production includes 12 magic, Bengal tigers, dangerous escapes and Band/Musician ______Breakfast ______inspiring storytelling. Tickets are $30-$70. Lunch ______WORDS 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM Artist ______Bartender ______Pizza ______MON., OCT. 10 8 Burger ______GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open mic for come- Wait Person ______dians, “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 9:30pm Barista ______Bakery ______every Monday at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State CURRENTS St. Entry is free. Each week, the event features Worst Public Official ______Asian ______approximately 20 standup comedians who each Mexican ______6 do a four-minute set. Scandal/News Story ______

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Place To Meet Women ______2 PARKINSON’S DANCE CLASS: Kuntz and Deli ______Company’s Pam Kuntz leads a dance class for Place To Take A First Date ______DO IT IT DO people with Parkinson’s disease and other move- Food Truck ______Movie Theater ______ment or neurological disorders at 10am Fridays Fast Food ______through Nov. 18 at Ballet Bellingham, 1405 Fraser Festival ______St., suite #103. Entry is free. No registration is Place To Impress A Date ______

necessary; just show up ready to dance. Place To Dance ______10.05.16 Sandwich ______(360) 510-4711 Place To Hear Live Music ______

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SAT., OCT. 8 Place To Gamble ______40 BUSTLING BURLESQUE: Local burlesque and BBQ ______# Gallery ______cabaret performers present “The Bustle Hustlers: Brewery ______A Night at the Movies Burlesque” at 9pm at the Theater Company ______Shakedown, 1212 N. State St. Entry is $8. Come Coffee Shop ______dressed for a film-themed costume contest. Dessert ______WWW.SHAKEDOWNBELLINGHAM.COM SHOPPING & SERVICES, BEST... Clothing Store ______Cocktail ______

TUES., OCT. 11 CASCADIA WEEKLY SKAGIT FOLK DANCERS: Join the Skagit- Thrift Store ______Happy Hour ______Anacortes Folk Dancers for a weekly International 17 Folk Dancing event from 7-9:30pm at Bayview Civic Hall, 12615 C St. No partners are needed; for even more categories, see www.cascadiaweekly.com/BOB. You must enter minimum 15 categories in order for your just show up and dance. Entry to the drop-in vote to be counted. Mail your ballot to P.O. Box 2833, Bellingham, WA 98227-2833. Ballots are due Oct. 14 event is free for the first session, $3 afterwards. WWW.SKAGITFOLKDANCERS.ORG doit UPCOMING EVENTS WED., OCT. 5 34 QUILT RECEPTIONS: An opening reception for “Ekphrastic: Quilts & Poetry,” “Best of the FOOD FOOD Festival,” and “The Nature of Place” takes place from 4-6pm at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St.

27 visual GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.ORG THURS., OCT. 6 B-BOARD B-BOARD ART WALK: Sixteen locations will be exhibit- Newell-Reim is a disciple of Wassily Kan- ing original work by outstanding artists at the

24 dinsky, for whom all art is the expression of final First Thursday Art Walk of the season from the soul. Time stops for her as she puts on 5-8pm in downtown Mount Vernon. Featured

FILM Celtic music and paints through the night. artists include Frederico Busonero and “The Land That Remains” at Perry and Carlson Gallery (408 Her “Interpretations” offer swirling lines S. First St.) and Eve McCauley-Chomiak at the

20 and heavy impasto. Front Gallery (420 Myrtle St.). Catherine Kerwick lives beside a res- WWW.MOUNTVERNONDOWNTOWN.ORG

MUSIC ervoir where trumpeter swans shelter on winter nights. The swans, she says, JANSEN OPENING: An opening reception for four new exhibits takes place from 5:30-7:30pm 18 18 18 “quicken my spirit and at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Mi-

ART teach me how to soar.” ART chael Dinning’s “Exploring What Lies Hidden,” an Images of the birds “Out of the Box Jewelry Challenge: Take a Wrist,” merge with thoughts a multi-artist “Fall Juried Exhibit” and “Fibers 16 of motherhood into and Beyond” will be on display through Dec. 2. WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG

STAGE graceful pearlescent bowls finished with WILDLIFE PHOTOS: Attend a “Wildlife Photog- glaze, acrylic paint and raphy” event with photographer Mike Caroff from 14 SEE encaustic—which is 7-8:45pm at the Ferndale Library, 2125 Main St. WHAT: Autumn wax, so don’t put yours Images and stories featuring his travels Alaska to Africa (and beyond) will be part of the free event. GET OUT Show in the oven. WHERE: River (360) 384-3647 Ria Harboe is the only Gallery, 19313

12 Landing Rd., La painter I know to have FRI., OCT. 7 Conner shown work at McMur- ANACORTES ART WALK: A.C.M.E Creative Spac- WHEN: 10am-5pm doe station, Antartica. es, Burton Jewelers, the Good Stuff Arts, Scott WORDS Milo Gallery, the Majestic Inn and Space, and the Fri.-Sun., through She worked in this re- Oct. 16 Depot will be among the venues opening their

8 mote spot for several INFO: www. doors for the monthly Art Walk taking place from rivergallerywa. years but now lives on 6-9pm in downtown Anacortes. Entry is free. com Lummi Island. Harboe WWW.ANACORTESART.COM

CURRENTS CURRENTS admits to feeling the BELLINGHAM ART WALK: The Allery, Allied pull of the “dark side.” Her inner vision

6 Arts, Bayou on Bay, Artifacts Wine Bar, the takes shape on canvas in the form of wildly Community Food Co-op, the Beauty Institute, swirling clouds and leaning trees, reminis- Bellingham Folk School, Bellingham Frameworks, VIEWS cent of the work of Edvard Munch. “Take Us Dakota Gallery, Downtown Visitors Center, Fourth Corner Frames, Make.Shift ARt Space, 4 Home” suggests an invocation to the gods. Pickford Art Studios, the Racket, Sculpture A counterpoint to Harboe’s passionate Northwest Gallery, Shanti Center for Healing MAIL MAIL

“LEARNING TO FLY,” BY CHARLOTTE SLADE DECKER CHARLOTTE BY FLY,” “LEARNING TO work is the lyric voice of Lynn Zimmerman, Arts, Wandering Oaks, Western City Center, and

whose favorite subjects are the marshes Whatcom Land Trust will be among the venues 2 BY STEPHEN HUNTER of the Nooksack and the “big sky, endless opening their doors for the monthly Art Walk from 6-10pm throughout downtown Bellingham. DO IT IT DO waterways” of the Skagit Valley. In Zim- See the website for a full list, or pick up a map merman’s works, sky and water merge and at participating locales. the land seems to float away. Zimmerman WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM Skagit Scene teaches art at her own school in Bellingham. 10.05.16 RIVER GALLERY’S SEASONAL VISIONS Charlotte Slade Decker has lived an adven- ALLIED ARTS: “Splendid Sunsets” opens turous life, growing up in rural Ohio the child tonight from 6-9pm at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall .11 Ave. The group show inspired by “all the warm

40 TWICE A year, Sylvia Strong pulls together some of the best painting, sculpture, of a single, Mexican mother, excelling in art # colors of the sky” shows through Oct. 29. glass and jewelry from the Skagit region to show in her gallery, a well-lit former school, traveling in South and Central Ameri- WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG greenhouse. It affords plenty of space to display a selection of small, affordable ca, where she made a living painting murals, pieces by 38 invited artists. starting a family in the Maine woods, then CO-OP: An art extravaganza featuring works by Both representational and abstract works are on display. Cynthia Richardson is a creating colorful fabrics in her La Conner staff members can be seen at the monthly “Feed Your Head” event from 6-8pm at the Community skilled painter who sees landscape through her experience as an architect and cre- boutique. Her abstract paintings are patch- Food Co-op, 1220 N. forest St. Live music by ates beautiful scenes that “invite viewers” to see themselves in that place. work quilts, rich in movement and color. Checo Tohomaso (who once toured as a backup

CASCADIA WEEKLY Dedrian Clark and Coizie Bettinger also focus on representation—in pastel. Not Driving home, the Skagit Valley beckons musician with Marvin Gaye) and tasty tidbits a stroke of color is out of place. Clark, upon retirement from business, enjoys with patterns and subtle color. You may will be part of the free fun. 18 an amazing burst of creativity: his studies of wildlife, domestic animals, moths, catch peek-a-boo views of Mt. Baker, White WWW.COMMUNITYFOOD.COOP

stream-sides and similar, quiet natural subjects are moving and luminous. Horse Mountain, and Three Fingers Peak— DAKOTA GALLERY: The Northwest Pastel Nearby are abstractions by Lavone Newell-Reim and Terry MacDonald. Mac- and on clear evenings Canadian mountains Society presents its annual “Members Show” at Donald’s share the same vivid reds and black with her more familiar portraits of pop above the horizon and even Mt. Rainer an opening reception from 6-9pm at the Dakota crows and roosters. makes an appearance. doit EMPTINESS fruit tree sale – buy 2 trees, get 3rd free ! Art Gallery, 1322 Cornwall Ave. An awards opening takes place from 2-4pm Saturday (Oct.

8). There will be demos from 2-4pm Saturdays through October. 34 WWW.DAKOTA FOOD FOOD

SCULPTURE NW: See the Sculptors Society of

British Columbia’s “Wood, Stone and Beyond” Night Thursday 27 exhibit at an opening reception from 6-9pm at Sculpture Northwest Gallery, 203 Prospect St. The works by 11 artists with differing art prac- B-BOARD B-BOARD tices can be viewed through Dec. 17. produce, WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG Buddhist Teachings on the

pumpkins & 24 ALLERY FINE ART: Paintings by Kat Houseman, Heart Sutra and Emptiness sculpture by Corey Urlacher, and glasswork by 5 every other Thursday evenings cider at FILM Randy Walker will be among the art to be seen Please register on website from 6-10pm at Allery Fine Art, 1319 Cornwall the farm stand Thursdays, 7-9pm, begins Oct 13th

Ae., suite 104 (in the alley behind Kids North- 20 west). The new venue will feature a rotation of  4LYPKPHU:\P[L‹  local and regional fine art. fruit tree sale wed-sat 10-5, sun 11-4 MUSIC WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEALLERYFINEART 6906 goodwin road, everson | (360) 966-5859 meditation center through october www.cloudmountainfarmcenter.org 18 18 MAKE.SHIFT: Peruse “Love Loves to Love” at bellingham.shambhala.org :KDWFRP&RXQW\ VQRQSURÀWFRPPXQLW\IDUP HGXFDWLRQFHQWHU 18 ART an opening reception from 6-9pm at Make.Shift ART Art Space, 306 Flora St. The exhibit features the Two FREE EVENTS at Village Books in Fairhaven paintings of Malissa Perry—a woman with Down 16 Syndrome and autism—and her caregiver, artist Join us in welcoming 20 WINES "ON SPOUT" Christen Mattix. See the works through October. WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM x Daniella Chase BEER & FOOD • BEST POPCORN IN TOWN STAGE

WHATCOM LAND TRUST: View oil painter "HOURS OF HAPPINESS" DAILY 3 - 7 Lorna Libert’s new “Down on the Farm” exhibit BREAST CANCER 14 from 6-8pm at the gallery at Whatcom Land Trust, 412 N. Commercial St. The exhibit will SMOOTHIES GET OUT run through December. 100 Delicious, WWW.WHATCOMLANDTRUST.ORG Research-Based

Recipes for Prevention 12 OCT. 8-9 and Recovery ART-OBERFEST: View the works of 23 creative artists as part of an “Art-Oberfest Art Show Thursday, October 6, 7:00pm WORDS and Gift Market” from 9am-5pm Saturday and

11am-5pm Sunday at the pavilion at the Blaine Slide Show! 8 Community Center, 635 H St. Area artists will also open their studios to the public during the Brenda PETERSON & event, which is part of a “Blaine Ockoberfest”

Annie Marie MUSSELMAN CURRENTS happening through the weekend. WWW.BLAINEHARBORARTGALLERY.COM WOLF HAVEN 6 WHATCOM STUDIO TOUR: As many as 40 Sanctuary and the MONDAYS OPEN 3-9 TUES-SAT OPEN AT 3 artists working in a variety of different forms Future of Wolves in VIEWS of media will open their creative spaces to the SUNDAYS CLOSED • 120 WEST HOLY ST. North America 4 public for second weekend of the 22nd annual Whatcom Artist Studio Tour happening from Saturday, October 8, 4:00pm MAIL MAIL 10am-5pm Saturday and Sunday throughout

Whatcom County. Entry to the self-guided tour is Join us for the LIVE TAPING of the 2 free. Plan your route online, or pick up a map at businesses throughout the county. Chuckanut Radio Hour IT DO

WWW.WAST.ORG featuring bestselling author THURS., OCT. 13 Maria Semple ARTIST CONFESSIONS: “Confessions of a Farm-to-Table with a French Twist Reluctant Artist” will be the focus of a Museum 10.05.16 Join us for a fun evening of Located at 1200 Cornwall in beautiful Advocates presentation by John Feodorov at skits, humor, music, and the Bellingham on the corner of Chestnut… 12pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 author of Where’d You Go, .11

Bernadette with her latest novel, Mon - Fri PM 40 Prospect St. Feodorov will address his ongoing Open 1-10 # conflicts with being an artist in an age of high Today Will be Open Late on Fri capitalism, digitalization of human experience, Live Music Thurs, Fri, Sat and international and environmental injustice. DIFFERENT Sat - Sun PM Entry is free. Tickets $5 - available now Brunch 10-2 at VB & brownpapertickets.com WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG one FREE with each purchase of Today Will Be Different Coming Soon French Bakery OCT. 13-15 Mon., October 10, 6:30pm CRAFT & ANTIQUE SHOW: More than 100 Whatcom Community College CASCADIA WEEKLY artisans will share their wares at the 27th annual Fall Craft & Antique Show taking place from 19 10am-8pm Thursday and Friday, and 10am-5pm VILLAGE BOOKS Saturday at Lynden’s Northwest Washington 1200 11th St, Bellingham Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Entry is $5-$6. & 430 Front St, Lynden www.4u2eat.com WWW.LYNDENCRAFTANTIQUESHOW.COM /PEN$AILYs Make reservations today SEE6),,!'%"//+3#/-FORMORE 360.306.3917 rumor has it

34 WHEN I’M not going to shows or hanging out in bars or judging pantsuit competitions

FOOD FOOD (a thing I did a couple of weeks ago, unlock- ing another strange achievement in a life built on such things), I occasionally find time in my 27 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT busy schedule to do a little art walking. As I’ve mentioned before, art stuff isn’t so

B-BOARD B-BOARD much in my particular wheelhouse. You can tell that’s true by the way I just called it “art stuff.”

24 on their best finery and make their way, not But I like to pretend to be a cultured person, to a multiplex, but to an exquisitely ornate and cultured people gaze upon art, so occasion-

FILM movie palace where the movies were silent ally I do the same in the hopes that culture will and the score played live by pianists of far find me while I’m roaming around during Bell-

20 20 greater skill than recognition. ingham’s monthly Downtown Art Walk, the next

Sounds like a pretty nice way to spend a installment of which takes place Fri., Oct. 7. MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Sunday afternoon or three. Truthfully, my abiding interest in Art Walk Fortunately, the Mount Baker Theatre arose from the realization that even when the

18 possesses all the ingredients necessary medium is visual, musical influences are often

ART to emulate the movie-going experience at play. Such is the case at the Redlight, where of yesteryear: a movie palace built at the Jim Blanchard will hang a show of recent works tail end of the vaudeville/silent film era called “Hold the Mayo.” 16 that encouraged such things, still-intact If your personal his-

STAGE projection equipment that enables them tory of the Bellingham to show the movies of the music scene doesn’t era, a Mighty Wurlitzer extend very far back, 14 organ that is a work of you might not remem- art unto itself, and a pia- ber the days when

GET OUT nist—Dennis James—who Blanchard’s show post- has spent more than four ers, album covers and

12 decades playing along to merch designs could be silent films. found everywhere you I suppose all we need looked—along with WORDS ATTEND WHAT: Peter now is to know what mov- work by such other de- BY CAREY ROSS Pan

8 ies make up the series. sign luminaries as Art WHEN: 3pm The first of the three Chantry and Jacob Covey, all of whom made a Sun., Oct. 9 movies is the 1924 produc- distinctive and lasting mark on the visuals of ------

CURRENTS CURRENTS WHAT: Hamlet tion of Peter Pan, which the music community here. During that era, Bell-

PETER PAN WHEN: 3pm shows at 3pm Sat., Oct 9. ingham may have sounded like Estrus Records 6 Sun., Jan. 8 Long before Mary Martin and garage rock, but we looked a lot like Jim ------played the boy who never Blanchard and his contemporaries. VIEWS WHAT: Ben-Hur wanted to grow up, Betty Of course, Blanchard’s irreverent, often hilari- BY CAREY ROSS WHEN: 3pm 4 Sun., May 14 Bronson nabbed the role ous, totally distinctive art extends far beyond WHERE: in the silent production, our music scene. His portraiture is astonish- MAIL MAIL Mount Baker beating out both Gloria ing—rendered in lifelike detail with Blanchard’s Theatre, 104 N. Swanson and Mary Pick- unique style. Those portraits will be on display 2 Music at Commercial St. ford. (Bronson will make at “Hold the Mayo” (as will the surprises the wily COST: DO IT IT DO $10.50-$22.50 another onscreen appear- Blanchard no doubt has in store for us) and if INFO: www. ance before the series you happen to be art walking while I’m there, the Movies mountbaker is over.) For many years, you’ll probably get to hear me utter things like, theatre.com this production—in which “How does he draw so good?” and similar com-

10.05.16 FROM PETER PAN TO BEN-HUR Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie was heavily in- mentary. As I said, I’m pretty cultured. AFTER SEVERAL months of partaking of music in the great outdoors, volved—was thought to be lost forever, a Also opening during the Downtown Art Walk .11

40 judging by the fact that I wore sweaters more days last week than I donned fate that has befallen many classics of the will be a show at the Allery—and if your re- # T-shirts, I’d say fall is definitely happening, despite my efforts to deny it. For silent era. But a print was found, the film sponse to that is “WTF is the Allery?” it might some of you, the changing of the seasons is an excuse to clamber up the side was restored and now we have the opportu- help you to know that it’s a new gallery and of a mountain in search of fall color—which is what you do in the months nity to watch the first screen adaptation of Friday will serve as its grand opening. Called before you clamber up the side of a mountain in search of fresh powder. the now-timeless tale, complete with James’ the Allery because it’s a gallery with an alley As for me, a bite in the air and leaves crunching under my feet are my cues organ accompaniment. entrance (in the 1300 block of Cornwall Avenue to head inside and seek entertainment that requires neither specialized gear Continuing the trend of casting women in the alley behind Kids Northwest), it’s com-

CASCADIA WEEKLY nor a great deal of physical exertion. in male roles is the next film in the series, ing into being in grand style with a showcase Very often, that entertainment comes in the form of something musical. Hamlet, which will show at 3pm Sun., Jan. of such local artists as Corey Urlacher, Kat 20 Just as often, it comes in the form of something cinematic. When I am very 8. Portraying the most emo Dame who ever Houseman, Michelle Schutte, Steeb Russell, lucky, it includes both. spoke to a skull is Asta Nielsen, one of the Logan McQuaig, and many more. Living at the nexus of my love of movies and music is the Mount Baker first international silent film stars and all- If, after imbibing all that art, you still do not Theatre’s Silent Film Series. around badass. Spending much of her life find yourself satiated, you can always go watch Imagine a time when going to a movie was an event, when people would put in Germany—where she was known simply some bands, if you’re into that kind of thing. as Die Asta or “The Asta”—Nielsen rose to We’ll all have to hang on until spring worldwide fame, which is what enabled her for the final installment in the Silent Film to make Hamlet with a female lead. Nielsen Series—until Sun., May 14, 2017, to be ex- then turned in a performance that is as icon- act—but the movie will be well worth the ic now as it was controversial back then. But wait. If you associate Ben-Hur with the 1959 34 that’s par for the course for the actress and Charlton Heston movie, you might want to entrepreneur who made more than 75 movies ante up at the box office for a ticket to the FOOD during her lifetime, started her own studio story’s first adaptation, the silent version, and said “no thanks” when Adolf Hitler asked which was released in 1925. Certainly one of 27 her to come out of retirement on behalf of the most epic silent movies ever made, it is the Third Reich. Her Hamlet remains a high- best known for a truly reality-defying chari-

water mark in a career that boasted more ot race, one that took 42 cameras and more B-BOARD than a few of those. I’ve seen works by the than 200,000 feet of film to capture. James’ Bard in several forms over the years, but I live score promises to be epic as well, and 24 can think of few things more appealing than if you’ve ever wondered just how mighty the

a version that is all music, no talk. Sorry, Mighty Wurlitzer can get, something tells FILM Shakespeare, but I have my priorities. me this will be the time to find out. 20 20

doit MUSIC MUSIC 18 ART 16 STAGE 14 GET OUT 12 Dynamic duo Mandolin Orange will bring their North Carolina-tinged Americana to Mount Vernon for a Sat., Oct. 8 concert at McIntyre Hall. WORDS

WED., OCT. 5 MANDOLIN ORANGE: The North Carolina duo WJMAC CONCERT: The Whatcom Jazz Music Art known as Mandolin Orange bring their unique blend 8 Center begins a new season of performances with of Americana and folk music to Mount Vernon for a 7pm concert by the Matt Jorgensen Trio at 7pm a 7:30pm performance at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. Col-

at Unity Spiritual Center, 1095 Telegraph Rd. lege Way. Tickets are $20-$30. CURRENTS Entry is $5-$10. Upcoming concerts include the WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG

Miles Black Octet (Oct. 12) and the Tony Foster 6 Trio (Oct. 19). SUN., OCT. 9

WWW.WJMAC.ORG JEFF WARNER: Hear songs from lumber camps, fish- VIEWS ing villages and mountaintops when Jeff Warner pres-

OCT. 5-9 ents his traditional tunes at a 2pm concert at Nancy’s 4 LYNDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL: Performers from the Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested donation is $15.

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will perform a variety of genres of music (jazz, FIFTH INVERSION: Listen to a tour-de-force 2 big band, bluegrass, classical, country, opera, of leading artists from the Pacific Northwest DO IT IT DO

etc.) as part of the eighth annual Lynden Music when Fifth Inversion performs at 3pm at Western Festival taking place Oct. 5-9 at a variety of Washington University’s Performing Arts Center, 516 venues throughout the city. Many events are free High St. Entry to see the woodwind quartet consist- and open to the public; some special performance ing of talented faculty members is free. tickets range from $5-$20. WWW.WWU.EDU 10.05.16 WWW.LYNDENMUSICFESTIVAL.COM TUES., OCT. 11 FRI., OCT. 7 BRIAN LYNCH: Grammy Award-winning jazz trum- .11 40 JAMIE LAVAL: U.S. National Scottish Fiddle peter Brian Lynch brings his formidable talents to # Championship winner Jamie Laval performs from town for a 7:30pm concert at Western Washington 7-9:30pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. Forest St. University’s Performing Arts Center. The WWU Jazz He’ll be joined by Dan Compton for the acoustic Combo will open the show. Tickets are $10. concert. Entry will be $15 at the door. 650-6146 OR WWW.WWU.EDU (360) 733-5960 WED., OCT. 12 SAT., OCT. 8 IN MY LIFE: The award-winning hit musical biogra- CASCADIA WEEKLY BACHTOBERFEST: Skagit Symphony hosts “BACH- phy of the Beatles as seen through the eyes of man- toberfest!” from 4-7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s Hill- ager Brian Epstein can be seen when the renowned 21 crest Lodge, 1717 13th St. The fundraiser includes tribute band Abbey Road presents In My Life: A live music, improv comedy, food, ale tastings, a Musical Theatre Tribute to the Beatles at 7:30pm at silent auction and more. Tickets are $75. the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. WWW.SKAGITSYMPHONY.COM Tickets are $25-$65. musicvenues 34 See below for venue FOOD FOOD addresses and phone 10.05.16 10.06.16 10.07.16 10.08.16 10.09.16 10.10.16 10.11.16 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

27 Anelia's Kitchen & Grizzly Troubador The Sky Colony Chantel & Bailey Stage B-BOARD B-BOARD Boundary Bay Aaron Guest Piano Night Paul Klein Brewery

24 Acoustic Night w/Nathan Brown Lantern Ale House Open Mic Bob Fossil McCartney FILM

Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruf- Seven Lions 54-40, Aiden Miller 54-40, Northcote Phantogram, The Range Grouplove The Proclaimers, Jenny O Commodore Ballroom fians, The Elwins 20 20

The Scarlet Locomotive, William MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Conway Muse Pint & Felicia Dale, Squirrel CD Woodbury Band Midnight Legend Butter

18 PHANTOGRAM/Oct. 9/ Corner Pub Knut Bell and the 360s Commodore Ballroom ART

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16 Kevin Woods Duo Rich Rorex Eat Friends STAGE Edison Inn Skeptix Duo Chris Eger Band Kimball & The Fugitives

14 Jeffrey Martin and Sky Colony, Wood- Slow Jam (early), Open Mic (early), Soul Explosion Throwback Thursday Anna Tivel (early), Gin land West, Levi Curtis Eller's Ameri- Guffawingham Green Frog (late) Gypsy (late) Burkle can Circus (late) (late)

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12 Restaurant & Bar 1200 Cornwall Ave • www.4u2eat.com WORDS 8 interActing WITH MOUNT BAKER THEATRE CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 JAZZ AT LINCOLN Did you know MBT’s pipe organ VIEWS CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH is considered one of the best in the WYNTON MARSALIS US? Immerse yourself in an authentic 4 score while enjoying the “Peter

MAIL MAIL wwitthh Livve ScScoorreess Pan” chosen by JM Barrie himself— an unknown seventeen year-old

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Irish Monday w/Flattery New Music Tuesday w/ B-BOARD Honey Moon Open Mic w/Scot Casey Tee King Quickdraw Stringband Rainy Day Ramblers Irish Band Orion Eaton 24 Kulshan Brewing Co. Broken Bow Stringband The Devilly Brothers FILM

Loco Billy's Wild Moon Jam Night/Open Mic Cowgirls Gone Wild Marlin James Band Saloon 20 20

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Main St. Bar and Grill JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase Jack Benson Troy Fair Band BABY CAKES/Oct. 7-8/Skagit Valley Casino Resort MUSIC 18 Make.Shift Art Space Art Walk Girl Teeth, Vervex, more ART

Old World Deli Bilongo Quintet 16 STAGE Poppe's 360 Johnny and Rachel 14 Rockfish Grill Intuitive Compass, Strangely GET OUT Royal Karaoke Karaoke Country Night DJ Jester 12 Rumors Cabaret Panty Hoes Total Request Live DJ Graymatter DJ Robby Clark Funk Night Aireeoke DJ Graymatter, more WORDS The Breaks: A Celebration of Hip- Shitshow 2016: Throwdown at Muppet Fetish, Genocide The Shakedown Tetrachromat, Supperclub, more A Night at the Movies Burlesque Hop Culture the Shakedown Skin, Dumbfox 8

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Via Cafe and Bistro Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke 10.05.16 The Village Inn Jam Night Karaoke .11 40 The Waterfront Live Music JEFFREY MARTIN/Oct. 7/Green Frog #

100 w/Boombox Kid, Hunter, Nahko and Medicine for the Ying Yang Twins, Knucklehead Wild Buffalo 90s Night w/DJ Boombox Kid Randy and Mr. Lahey Luca Lush, FXL, Traffic Lip Sync Battle BMoe People, Hirie Banga, DJ Roy Boy

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102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood • www.locobillys.com | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • www.makeshiftproject.com | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s Taphouse CASCADIA WEEKLY 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | Poppe’s 714 Lakeway Dr. • 671-1011 | Paso Del Norte 758 Peace Portal Dr. Blaine • (360) 332-4045 | 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. 23 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 | Swillery Whiskey Bar 118 W. Holly St. | 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 | Via Cafe 7829 Birch Bay Dr., Blaine • (360) 778-2570 | 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 clubs@ cascadiaweekly.com. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. that he’s a “child of God. You’ve got pur- pose!” And as he turns his Bible education to sermons, he makes himself even more useful to the master. He can “help folks

34 get their slaves to calm down a bit” with his lay sermons about obedience, “God’s

FOOD FOOD will” and such. film And so he does, until the horrors of the life he and his wife live and the system 27 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS he witnesses—barbaric cruelty and grue- some violence, much of it meted out by

B-BOARD B-BOARD the murderous slave hunter Cobb (Jackie Earle Haley )—drives him to preach rev-

24 24 olution and dream of freedom won by vengeful, righteous violence. FILM FILM Parker does better at suggesting the shell shock Nat seems to wear as his lot in life.

20 His urgent pleas go unheeded as his owner is peer pressured into letting visitors enjoy

MUSIC the forced sexual favors of slave women. Parker is not as good at capturing the mes-

18 merizing preacher history tells us Turner

ART was. Like Hammer’s early-career efforts at depicting Billy Graham, it’s his lack of com- mand in the pulpit that lets Parker down. 16 The supporting cast is bolstered by the

STAGE presence of a whispering, acquiescent but- ler/house servant played by Roger Guen- veur-Smith, and Miller, Hammer, and Haley, 14 but undercut by too many other players who were simply all Parker could afford on

GET OUT an indie film budget. Mark Boone Jr., in particular, seems miscast—a beefy beard-

12 ed character actor who suggests nothing of a wily, conniving, argumentative and racist-to-the-marrow preacher. WORDS The handy comparison here is to the

8 Oscar-winning Twelve Years a Slave, and Nation, an attempt to rebrand that title from the racist KKK history D.W. Griffith

CURRENTS CURRENTS filmed during the silent era, is nothing near as moving or impactful. Flashbacks 6 to Nat’s childhood and his nightmarish “African in America” dreams show more VIEWS ambition than plot necessity. The acting

4 isn’t as good, the writing not as sharp, the BIRTH OF A NATION direction pedestrian at best. MAIL MAIL And then there’s the elephant in the

room, a beast from the same herd that 2 REVIEWED BY ROGER MOORE hangs around Woody Allen, Roman Polan- DO IT IT DO ski, and child abuser Victor Salva’s films. That would be the disclosure that the di- rector/writer/star of the film Parker and The Birth of America his college pal, co-writer and apparent 10.05.16 OF ART AND ARTISTS partner in rape, Jean McGianni Celestin behaved callously, despicably and almost .11

40 IF THERE’S a single good thing that has come out of the real-life rape controversy tion family that owned Turner, people who certainly criminally in sexually assaulting a # that has come to hang over Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, it is that it forces one fell on the more humane end of the “pecu- drunken coed whose life spiraled into drugs and all to dispense with the Sundance hype attached to this bio-drama and regard it liar institution” spectrum as it was prac- and an early death (so her family says) due on its own terms. ticed in the 19th century South. But even to a Penn State University crime and the And it’s not bad, a solid “Hollywood” history of the 1830s Nat Turner slave revolt in though Samuel Turner (Hammer) grew up halfhearted prosecution of it. Virginia with a love story, religion, injustices, torture and murder, a movie with mid- with young Nat and tolerates his familiar- Critics can separate the art from the art- dling, unaffecting acting but high artistic pretensions. ity, and efforts to get better treatment ist, but it is the audience that will ultimate-

CASCADIA WEEKLY Parker (The Great Debaters) plays Turner, a Tidewater Virginia slave taught to read by for all the farm’s slaves than local tradi- ly pass judgment on Parker, Celestin, and a patronizing but semi-sympathetic landowner (Penelope Ann Miller). tion expects, and even helps Nat rescue their movie, a court of public opinion that 24 The film’s genius is in showing Turner’s acceptance of the “slavery’s in the Bible” argu- a tortured young slave (Aja Naomi King) will decide if the $17.5 million Fox Search- ment of the whites until the murderous, inhuman cruelty of the system and the injustice whom he eventually will marry, at the end light bought it for (pre-rape allegations) is of it all has him finding his own Bible passages to condemn the slave holders and justify of the day, “Massa” is still the white man money down the drain. And it’s simply not revolt among the slaves themselves. who must be feared and obeyed. good enough to forgive and make anyone Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is the son of the planta- Nat has been told, almost since birth, forget the filmmakers’ pre-movie sins. YOGANORTHWEST The b.k.s Iyengar yoga center of bellingham 34

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efforts of a few genuine provocateurs and the Greasy Strangler. Big Ronnie is clearly STAGE many would-be shock purveyors. But based the Strangler. He kills casually, sometimes on his latest feature, director Jim Hosking to comically gory effect, with a truly nasty (The ABCs of Death 2) may have precisely fixation on eyes. His son doesn’t seem to 14 the knack to create the uncomfortable, realize the connection. Brayden is too pre- even vile visions required to step out into occupied with Janet (Elizabeth De Razzo), GET OUT the front rank of true freaks. once a tour client and now the stunted The Greasy Strangler would feel outré in man’s very first girlfriend. Janet’s presence 12 any collection of audacious, boundary- arouses the competitive aspect of Ronnie’s busting films. It has roots in the patience- overdriven sexuality. Their home is soon WORDS testing comedy of Tim and Eric, and 1990s an emotional and sexual battleground over alt-comics such as early issues of Eightball Janet’s attentions. 8 by Daniel Clowes and Dave Cooper’s sweat- The vividly puerile ends to which Big drenched Weasel. Constructed around three Ronnie will go to get laid are probably

performances that display an utter lack of enough to have this film banned in some CURRENTS physical caution, this is a flatulent, filthy territories. (His chest-puffing story about and trying relationship comedy with every a night out with Michael Jackson is the sort 6 corner pushed beyond extremes. If Barton of confrontational anecdote that YouTube Fink was made by John Waters, this is the reaction videos were meant to celebrate.) VIEWS

sort of movie he’d write. As potent as the film’s many weird shocks 4 Picture this: An old man bellows as car- can be from moment to moment, however, wash scrubbers cleanse him of head-to-toe the sordid tale that plays out as Big Ron- MAIL

grease. Then, nude and wearing an exag- nie and Big Brayden fight for Janet’s affec- 2 geratedly large prosthetic penis, he enjoys tions has the film’s most significant set of DO IT IT DO an all-body blow-dry before wandering, narrative twists. still nude, out to talk to his pal who runs The most striking exploitation films are the car wash. Now picture that six times. marked by a genuine sense of personal ex- The Greasy Strangler is repetitive. Repeti- pression, in which what seems to be an utter- tion is part of its strategy, even its mis- ly alien perspective is revealed to actually be 10.05.16 sion, as Hosking guides his characters how the filmmakers view the world. Despite .11

through the banal rhythms of a storyline, the fact that we now see more movies than 40 such as it is, that will test any audience. ever, these true expressions are still rare. # The old man is Big Ronnie (Michael St. The temptation is to see this movie as Michaels), who lives with his adult son Big a dare, the sort of experience that estab- Brayden, played by Sky Elobar. Wearing lishes a safe word, then waits to hear it AT ANA Y matching hot-pink shorts and turtleneck yelled in a hoarse, desperate voice. That’s combos, the father/son duo makes a living as legitimate an approach as any other, and leading gullible folk on fraudulent walking the running time, at 93 minutes, can make CASCADIA WEEKLY tours of disco-music landmarks. At home, the film feel positively Kafka-esque. But Ronnie emotionally dominates his son and even with its most off-putting moments, 25 makes constant demands for meals swim- when The Greasy Strangler is as disgusting, ming in grease. deviant and defiant as its title character, This twisted family inhabits a cracked- there’s a real pleasure in having a new Indudusts riiala CU.org/FeeeddtheNNeee d mirror version of Los Angeles haunted by a event movie for the truly weird at heart. film ›› showing this week

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A Man Called Ove: Adaptation of the beloved

B-BOARD B-BOARD bestseller by Fredrik Backman about the titular man (a curmudgeonly sort) who likes to spend his days yelling

at people to get off his lawn (literally and figuratively 24 24 speaking) until a boisterous family movies in next door, flattens his mailbox and rocks his world. ++++ FILM FILM (PG-13 • 1 hr. 56 min.)

Author: The JT LeRoy Story: A documentary about

20 the literary scandal involving a faux author, “his” critically acclaimed stories, the raft of celebrities and

MUSIC luminaries who became his champion, and his final unmasking—as told by Laura Albert, the author and fraudster herself. ++++ (R • 1 hr. 50 min.) 18

ART The Birth of a Nation: See review previous page. (R • 1 hr. 50 min.) 16 Blair Witch: Remember when The Blair Witch Project came out and scared the ever-living shit out of every- STAGE one? Remember when we were not wise to the ways of the “found footage” horror genre and thought it might be real? Well, the witch is back, baby. + (R • 1 14 hr. 29 min.)

A MAN CALLED OVE

GET OUT Bridget Jones’s Baby: Bridget has returned to the big screen and she’s better than ever, which is to say she’s the same hot mess she ever was. This time,

12 however, she’s got a baby on board—and one too many as told by his son (For the Love of Spock), and more. Masterminds: This is billed as an “action comedy Storks: An animated adventure that addresses the age- baby daddies. ++++ (R • 2 hrs. 2 min.) +++++ (Varies) based on true events” and it stars Zach Galifianakis, old question of where babies come from. And you can go Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, and three out of the ahead and add that to the ever-growing list of sentences WORDS Captain Fantastic: Viggo Mortensen (definitely fan- The Girl on the Train: I read this book—billed as the four Ghostbusters (Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and I never thought I’d type. ++ (PG • 1 hr. 27 min.) tastic, military rank unknown) is raising six kids in a de- next Gone Girl—in one day, not because it was great, Leslie Jones), and should be the funniest movie any of

8 cidedly eccentric off-grid existence in the deep woods but because it was good enough and I had a day to us have ever seen instead of one of the year’s lamest Sully: Politically speaking, Clint Eastwood is a little of the Pacific Northwest. Life forces them into civiliza- devote to it. That pretty much sums up how I feel comedies. ++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 30 min.) nutty. As a director, however, it’s pretty tough to tion and things get even hairier than Mortensen’s about the film adaptation: probably not great, but it find fault with him. His latest effort brings to life bountiful beard. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 58 min.) stars Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux and was directed Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life: the incredible story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger CURRENTS CURRENTS by Tate Taylor (The Help), so it’ll be good enough to When he’s not writing about murdering murderers who (played by walking Oscar nomination, Tom Hanks), who

6 Deepwater Horizon: I was wondering when Hol- devote a couple of hours to. ++ (R • 1 hr. 52 min.) murder, James Patterson writes YA novels about the landed a plane in the Hudson River, saving the lives of lywood would get around to turning one of the worst awkwardness of adolescence. Kudos to Patterson for all aboard. ++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 36 min.) manmade environmental disasters of our time into an The Greasy Strangler: See review previous page. coming up with a title that speaks so much stone-cold VIEWS action thriller, and now I wonder no more. I’m willing ++++ (Unrated • 1 hr. 33 min.) truth that anyone who ever went to middle school can Suicide Squad: No summer blockbuster has been more to give this one a pass, however, because it was di- probably relate to it. +++ (PG • 1 hr. 32 min.) highly anticipated than this one, which hoped to do for 4 rected by Peter Berg, the man who gave me both Friday Hunt for the Wilderpeople: An old man (a cantan- DC Comics what smart-ass, foul-mouthed Deadpool did

MAIL MAIL Night Lights and The Last Seduction. ++++ (PG-13 • 1 kerous Sam Neill) and a troubled teenager take to the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: for Marvel—too bad it’s a big, dumb dud. Give Harley hr. 39 min.) woods on the lam in this engaging comedy that has It’s a Tim Burton movie that does not star Johnny Depp, Quinn an R rating and then we’ll really see what she can

2 won over literally every single one of the more than so I have high hopes. Either this film will be a whimsical do. ++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 40 min.) Doctober: In this week’s Doctober offerings, we have 100 critics that have reviewed it. +++++ (PG-13 • 1 visual delight that takes place in the kind of world that

DO IT IT DO stories about the kidnapping and eventual escape of hr. 41 min.) only exists in Burton’s mind, or a precious, affected

South Korean film stars by the North Korean govern- jumble of mania. +++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 7 min.) Showtimes ment (The Lovers and the Despot), cancer and the ways The Magnificent Seven: Another week, another in which it is and should be treated (The C Word), the big-budget remake. This retooling—starring Denzel Queen of Katwe: Disney takes on the true story of Regal and AMC theaters, please see true cost of shipping the world’s goods (Freightened), Washington, Chris Pratt, Peter Sarsgaard, and more— young Ugandan corn seller whose life is changed when www.fandango.com. 10.05.16 teenage heavy metal band Unlocking the Truth and of the classic Western (which was itself a remake of she learns to play chess, and has the good sense to their breakout year (Breaking a Monster), the lives of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai) is perfectly service- cast Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo and so has Pickford Film Center and .11 five young migrant women in Skagit Valley (Every Row able. Not great, but not terribly embarrassing either. made a movie both triumphant and uplifting. ++++ PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see 40 # a Path), the life of the world’s most beloved Vulcan +++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 12 min.) (PG • 2 hrs. 4 min.) www.pickfordfilmcenter.com CASCADIA WEEKLY

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29 BY ROB BREZSNY to trek to the top. Unless you're well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year- round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Wil- 34 FREE WILL liams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn't tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge. FOOD FOOD Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as ASTROLOGY he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the 27 27 ARIES (March 21-April 19): At a recent party, a coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don't try guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. "You to push a peanut up there with your nose, too. seem to have had an easy life," he jabbed. "I bet B-BOARD B-BOARD B-BOARD you haven't suffered enough to be a truly passionate LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "It isn't normal to person." I didn't choose to engage him, but mused to know what we want," said psychologist Abraham myself, "Not enough suffering? What about the time Maslow. "It is a rare and difficult psychological

24 I got shot? My divorce? My five-year-long illness? The achievement." He wasn't referring to the question manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you

FILM FILM crash?" But after that initial reaction, my thoughts plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term turned to the adventures that have stoked my passion yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, without causing pain, like the birth of my daughter, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the

20 getting remarried to the woman I divorced, and per- feelings you'd love to feel in abundance every day of forming my music for excited audiences. I bring this your life. Now here's the good news, Libra: The next up, Aries, because I suspect that you, too, will soon ten months should bring you the best chance ever to MUSIC MUSIC have experiences that refine and deepen your passion figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all through pleasure rather than hardship. starts now. 18 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It's the Frank and SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitioners of the ART Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus—prime time to solicit Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of insight about how you're doing. Here are four sugges- regular self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron

16 tions to get you started. 1. Ask a person who loves and recommends that you periodically go out on dates respects you to speak the compassionate truth about with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you what's most important for you to learn. 2. Consult a to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your STAGE trustworthy advisor who can help motivate you to do kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, and other organs. He says the crucial thing you've been postponing. 3. Have an that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The imaginary conversation with the person you were a year coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to 14 ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will New You could summon more excellence in pursuing your also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and essential goals. 4. Say this prayer to your favorite tree or compliments and praise. GET OUT animal or meadow: "Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy." SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming VintageVinta gge ClothingClthinglothing & weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling 12 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many of my readers re- with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. HHalloweenalloween ccostumesostumes gard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years, Why do I say that? Because you're likely to emerge tri-

WORDS they have sent countless emails praising me for my umphant! That's right, you lucky, plucky contender. More GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE original approach to problem-solving and art-making. than I've seen in a long time, you have the potential to But I suspect that I wasn't born with a greater talent draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resil- 8 for creativity than anyone else. I've simply placed a ient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous EntireEntire storestore isis high value on developing it, and have worked harder to winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite would you most like to resolve? What test would you

CURRENTS CURRENTS you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of most like to ace? At what game would you most like to innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor be victorious? Now is the time. 6 off it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you grunting

VIEWS areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity? and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain 30%30% the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey 4 1327 RAILROADROAD AAVEVE ((360)360)-676676-77110110 CANCER (June 21-July 22): Love wants more of as you maneuver your way towards the rewards of the you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and future? I'm rooting for you to put the emphasis on the

MAIL MAIL receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispen- to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that

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DO IT IT DO here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for you to succeed at the second option.

such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what's necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you believe Law Offices of know how to work with such extravagant treasure and that you are mostly just a product of social condition- wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time ing and your genetic make-up? Or are you willing to

10.05.16 to explore the answers to these questions. I'm not sure entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal Alexander F. Ransomm what your answers will be. force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you

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40 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a mul- and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been # tiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there's just unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it's coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around Experienced. closer to the truth to say that you're a community of with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peak- various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap ing. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part limited expectations. Effective. of you that craves love isn't always on the same wave- length as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of your That's why it's a good idea to periodically organize nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter

CASCADIA WEEKLY Exceptional. Compassionate Criminal Defense Attorney summit meetings where all of your selves can gather Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster— and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you'll 30 Fighting for Your Rights moment to foster harmony among your inner voices meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who will and to mobilize them to work together in service of cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded 119 NORTH COMMERCIAL ST. SUITE #1420 • OFFICE: (360) 746-2642 common goals. fantasies. It's also conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pike's Peak is a attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to www.ransom-lawfirm.com 14,115-foot mountain in Colorado. It's not a simple task help you ripen it. BY AMY ALKON males, and some even have “harems” of as many as five boy birds. And it

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it on right in front of them with the 27 27 A MILE IN SOMEBODY other boy birds in her harem. ELSE’S CHOOSE Getting back to Bumble, where the B-BOARD I’m a woman who’s on the feminist dating app goes wrong is in removing the fil- B-BOARD app Bumble, where women have to make tering that comes from a man needing to lay his ego on the line and expend the first move. Men can only write back to 24 women who message them. I thought this effort to pursue a woman. The notion would be empowering, but even pursuing that it’s “empowering” for women to do FILM a guy in this small way feels unsexy and the chasing ignores that it’s in men’s

overly aggressive. Do I just need to get over genetic interest to not turn down a 20 my retrograde thinking? mating opportunity—even with a

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choosier women, even subtle forms of 18 decide it’s time for a change, and give chasing like your contacting a man first the sleeping cougar a kick with its hoof: ART may send a message that you’re not all “Run for your life, you big ugly feline!” that. If you’re really looking to put him The cougar turns around, confused: 16 off, why not turn the tables all the way “What are you doing, man? Haven’t you

and send a panorama shot of your erect STAGE ever seen National Geographic?” Four-Course penis? You: “Yoohoo? Where’d you go?!” Who does the chasing in dating also isn’t some arbitrary thing. It comes 14 down to what evolutionary biologist WHEN PUSH COMES TO LOVE Early Dinner Robert Trivers, in 1972, called “paren- I’ve been dating a 55-year-old guy for a year. GET OUT tal investment.” His theory—borne I have two teenage boys; he has no kids. He $21.95 out in research on humans, animals initially mentioned marriage but now doesn’t and insects—is that the sex that has want to “rush” moving in with me and my Monday to Friday until 6pm. 12 the highest cost from sexual activity boys. As a first step, he’s moving closer. He just signed a lease on an apartment near me. (the female—in almost all species) WORDS will be choosier about whom they I love him, but I’m overwhelmed handling mate with than the sex that invests two teenagers alone. Should I tell him he 8 less (which is almost always the male). needs to speed up the pace? In humans, of course, women are the —Questioning His Commitment ones who get pregnant and stuck with If a relationship leads to an outpour- CURRENTS

the kids, and men can, as anthropolo- ing of feelings, a man tends to prefer 6 gists quip, just “inseminate and run.” “You’re the love of my life!” to “Screw

So—over thousands of generations— you! You’re not my real dad!” VIEWS women being choosier and men being, Perhaps because you’re seeing this uh, chase-ier got wired into human through “I need a break!”-colored glass- Enjoy the waterfront view from 4 psychology. We can’t just shrug off the es, you confuse being careful with not $QWKRQ\¶V+HDUWK¿UH*ULOO MAIL emotional mechanisms that drive this caring. But zoologist Amotz Zahavi has behavior even today—even if Bumble some good news for you. His research Select your four-course dinner 2 founder Whitney Wolfe deems it “het- finds that when a message involves including your choice of appetizer, DO IT IT DO eronormative” hooey that women dam- some expense to the sender, it’s more soup or salad, an entree and dessert. age their desirability by chasing men. likely to be for real. For example, any- Monday through Friday, until 6pm. A trip to the Panamanian wetlands one can claim they’re committed, but as Just $21.95.

would show her she’s wrong—that the saying goes, talk is cheap. Moving, 10.05.16 what drives which sex does the chas- however, is not. It’s costly. Stressful.

ing and which does the choosing really Horrible. Especially if you are older than .11 40 is about who gets stuck with the child- 21 and own more than a sleeping bag, a # care. Yes, in most species, that’s the Nintendo and a couple of bongs. female. But check out the role reversal Your boyfriend may ultimately de- in the wattled jacana, a long-legged cide that the package here isn’t for South American wading bird. him, but pressuring him is unlikely to Zoologist Stephen Emlen and his help. In fact, it’s likely to pressure him team found that it’s the male jacana, right out of your life. There’s a reason CASCADIA WEEKLY not the female, that sits incubating he doesn’t have kids, and it probably #7 Bellwether Way • Bellingham the eggs in the nest and cares for the isn’t that he was too put off by the 360-527-3473 31 chickies after they hatch. And right in possibility of life imprisonment to kid- line with Trivers’ parental investment nap a few at the mall. theory, female jacanas are the ones www.anthonys.com who do the chasing, competing for the ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. W H A T C O M rearEnd comix

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33 doit WED., OCT. 5 SEDRO MARKET: The Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market takes place from 3-7pm every Wednes- 34 34 day through Oct. 12 at the town’s Hammer Heritage Square, 640 Metcalf St. FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD WWW.SEDROWOOLLEYFARMERSMARKET.COM

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27 chow RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES strates recipes from Leanne Brown’s bestsell- ing book Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day from 6:30-9pm at the Community Food Co-op, B-BOARD B-BOARD 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $10 and includes a copy of the book. WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM

24 tion of shaved fennel, cranberry mostarda, smoked pepper aioli, mozzarella, smoked THURS., OCT. 6 FILM ham and arugula. But being a salad gal, I MEXICAN KITCHEN: Ana Jackson presents opted for the poached pear and grapefruit classic Mexican soups with empanadas on the

20 salad ($11), digging enthusiastically into a side at a “Mexican Kitchen” course from 6:30- wonderful assemblage of ingredients coat- 9:30pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $45. MUSIC ed in a light grapefruit vinaigrette. WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM Many of the dishes on Drizzle’s menu

18 contain the olive oils and balsamic vine- AUTUMN SOUPS: Learn to make gingered squash and pear soup, French onion soup, and

ART gars available for purchase in the store, so dining in is a great way to sample some of loaded bacon split pea soup when Erin Gable those unique flavors and see how well they Long leads an “Autumn Soups” course from 16 6:30-8:30pm in Mount Vernon at Gretchen’s pair with various dishes. Kitchen, 509 S. First St. Entry is $35.

STAGE “Folks will try the WWW.GRETCHENSKITCHEN.COM peach balsamic-infused soda and then want to BREAST CANCER SMOOTHIES: Nationally 14 buy the peach balsamic, recognized clinical practitioner, author and educator Daniella Chase shares ideas and for example,” Ross says. recipes from Breast Cancer Smoothies: 100 De- GET OUT “We have a recipe section licious, Research-Based Recipes for Prevention that accompanies the oils and Recovery at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Entry is free.

12 EAT and vinegars and we also WHAT: put out seasonal recipes WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Drizzle Lynden for customers.” WORDS WHEN: 10am- FRI., OCT. 7 The Driscolls got 6pm Mon-Wed.; FERNDALE MARKET: Local vendors and farm- ers will sell their wares at the Ferndale Farmers 8 10am-8pm hooked on oils and vin- Thurs.-Sat; 12- egars after meeting an Market from 1-6pm every Friday through Oct. 4pm Sun. 28 at 2007 Cherry St. PHOTO BY KATHERYN MORAN PHOTOGRAPHY MORAN KATHERYN BY PHOTO olive farmer in Murphy, INFO: www. WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG CURRENTS CURRENTS California several years drizzletasting ago. “She introduced us OCT. 7-8

6 room.com to an excellent supplier BIER ON THE PIER: Thirty breweries and STORY AND PHOTO BY LAUREN KRAMER of really good olive oil—Veronica Foods,” 10 cideries will share their quaffable wares VIEWS Ross says. at the annual “Bier on the Pier” taking place from 5-9pm Friday and 12-6pm Saturday at the 4 Drizzle sells up to 70 oils and vinegars Port of Anacortes Warehouse, 100 Commercial and bottles are filled on demand. “We en- Ave. Tickets are $25-$30 for a one-day pass or

MAIL MAIL Drizzle courage tasting,” he says. “There are no $45-$50 for both and include a commemorative

pre-filled bottles because we want custom- tasting glass and your first six taste tokens. 2 A TASTE OF WHATCOM COUNTY ers to know what’s going into the bottle.” Food and music will be part of the fun. WWW.ANACORTES.ORG/BEER DO IT IT DO It takes one helluva carbonated beverage to stun me into silence, but the Drizzle’s menu includes a selection of tan- Sicilian lemon with balsamic vinegar, muddled mint and soda water at Drizzle in talizing raviolis, cheeseboards comprised SAT., OCT. 8 Lynden did exactly that. of selections from Ferndale Farmstead and GROWING FUNGI: Alex Winstead of Cascadia Drizzle opened on Lynden’s Front Street just before Christmas last year. Owners Twin Sisters Creamery, three kids’ items Mushrooms leads a free “Growing Fungi/Mush- 10.05.16 Ross and Dana Driscoll had opened their olive oil and balsamic specialty shop in and a small but tempting dessert menu. We rooms in an Urban Garden” workshop at 9am at the Garden Spot Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Fairhaven six years earlier, but for their Lynden location they included a 27-seat settled on the blood orange baklava ($9),

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40 restaurant with a full lunch and snack menu. With Executive Chef Andy Nguyen where layers of phyllo are interspersed with WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM # at the helm of the kitchen they are presenting some extraordinarily gourmet squash puree, blood orange, star anise syr- dishes—the kind you might expect in a high-end Seattle hotel. up and cinnamon gouda cheese. Ross’ favor- ANACORTES MARKET: Vegetables, fruit, We started out with a Grande Drizzle Board ($16), a charcuterie platter presented ite, this one is a sophisticated combination baked goods, fresh meat and dairy, cut flowers, wine, eggs, art and much more can be found at as a gorgeous assortment of seasonal colors. Nguyen had prepared a sour cherry of flavors and, like all the dishes at Drizzle, the Anacortes Farmers Market from 9am-2pm pork terrine with pistachios and black pepper on one side, and a head cheese on is exquisitely presented. every Saturday through Oct. 29 at the Depot the other. Both were derived from a pig raised five miles away at Brittle Barns. Though Chef Nguyen looks young, he Arts Center, 611 R Ave.

CASCADIA WEEKLY The platter was decorated with homemade pickles, zucchini, radish, golden has some star accolades under his belt. WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG beets, red onions, carrots, sweet peppers, pickled cherry and homemade mus- He’s worked at the W Hotel Seattle and at 34 MOUNT VERNON MARKET: As many as 60 tards—and every one of those vegetables came from either Lynden or Everson. Chuckanut Manor, and he’s also cooked for vendors will share their wares through the sea- Because of the fall chill, I ordered autumn minestrone soup (gluten-free and Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates. son at the Mount Vernon Farmers Market, which lacto-ovo), a comfort food I can’t resist. The bowl was massive, the stock was “Andy does some good magic in the kitch- takes place from 9am-2pm Saturdays through tasty and the assortment of veggies were crunchy and cooked to perfection. en,” Ross says. “We’re lucky to have him on Oct. 15 at the city’s Riverfront Plaza. The Smoked Hammy Sammy ($10) is Drizzle’s most popular sandwich, a combina- board.” WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG doit

BLAINE MARKET: Procure produce, crafts, food from vendors and more at the Blaine

Gardeners Market from 10am-2pm Saturdays 34 through Oct. 29 at 685 Peace Portal Dr. 34 WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD

BELLINGHAM MARKET: Attend the Bell- ingham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm every

Saturday through Dec. 17 at the Depot Market 27 Square, 1100 Railroad Ave. WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG B-BOARD B-BOARD SUN., OCT. 9 McIntyre Hall Presents SUNDAY MARKET: Attend a Sunday Market from 1-5pm at Alger Community Hall, 18735 MANDOLIN ORANGE 24 Parkview Lane.

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SEMIAHMOO OKTOBERFEST: Enjoy tradi- 20 tional German fare such as pickled herring, potato salad, braised red cabbage, grilled

WITH MUSIC bratwurst, chicken schnitzel and more at LEIF VOLLEBEKK “Semiahmoo Oktoberfest” from 1-5pm at TO OPEN Semiahmoo Resort, 9565 Semiahmoo Pkwy. 18 Entry is $25-$35. ART WWW.SEMIAHMOO.COM

MON., OCT. 10 16 COOKING WITH SPICES: Jesse Otero leads a

“Cooking with Spices” course from 6:30-9pm at STAGE the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $45.

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TUES., OCT. 11 “honest music, shot through with coed harmonies, sweeping fiddle, mandolin, SEASONAL EATING: East Asian Medicine prac- acoustic guitar, and the sort of unfakeable intimacy that bonds simpatico musicians GET OUT titioner and shamanic healer Cadie Federmeyer like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.” ~ American Songwriter focuses on “Eating with the Seasons” from

MCINTYREHALL.ORG 360.416.7727 12 6:30-8pm at the Cordata Community Food Co- 2501 E COLLEGE WAY, MOUNT VERNON op, 315 Westerly Rd. Entry is $10.

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SOURDOUGH STARTER: Micro Eats Farm’s 8 Andy Walton focuses on “Sourdough Bread: From Starter to Finish” from 6:30-8pm at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. Entry is free.

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RHODY FARE: Chef Jim Kowalski focuses on 6 “Local Fare from the Rhody Cafe” from 6:30-

8:30pm in Mount Vernon at Gretchen’s Kitchen, VIEWS 509 S. First St. Entry is $45.

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TOUCH OF THAI: Chef Robert Fong leads “A MAIL Touch of Thai” class from 6:30-9pm at the

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