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Grisly Gristle, 3.ɀɆ Paddlers in Peril, 3.ɀɈ Milk Men, 3.ɂɄ cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES {10.28.15}{#43}{V.10}{FREE} THRILLINGHAM The dead can dance, P.16 The Night GALLERY Scary sights at Fourth Corner, P.18 Halloween HAUNTS Sounds like a Spooktacular, P.20 Scream Fair: 6:30-10:30pm, NW Washington Fair- grounds, Lynden 34 cascadia Nightmare on Railroad: 6:30-11:30pm, Boundary Bay Brewery FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Clown Bar: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre A glance at this week’s Rocky Horror Show: 10pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount 27 happenings Vernon FILM B-BOARD B-BOARD Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount Baker Theatre 24 WEDNESDAY [10.28.15] DANCE Halloween Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven FILM ONSTAGE Celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Library Standing on Ceremony: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Horror Picture Show with viewings Oct. 29-31 Thrillingham: 8pm, Maritime Heritage Park 20 MUSIC MUSIC Jamie Stillway, Ben Bonham: 7:30pm, Roeder Home at the Mount Baker Theatre (the film version) and Fidalgo Youth Symphony: 1pm, McIntyre Hall MUSIC the Lincoln Theatre (the stage version) THURSDAY [10.29.15] WORDS 18 Halloween Book Sale: 10am-5pm, Ferndale Library ONSTAGE Extremely Scary Stories: 7-8:30pm, Fairhaven ART Scream Fair: 6:30-9:30pm, NW Washington Fair- Library grounds, Lynden 16 Clown Bar: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater COMMUNITY Standing on Ceremony: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Family Activity Day: 10am-4pm, Whatcom Museum’s Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Lightcatcher Building STAGE Rocky Horror Show: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Haunt the Park: 5-7pm, Pioneer Park, Ferndale Vernon A Masquerade Eve: 6pm, Fairhaven Middle School 14 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Bellwether Halloween: 7-11pm, Hotel Bellwether FILM GET OUT GET OUT Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount Boneshaker Bike Fest: 9am, La Conner Channel Baker Theatre Lodge Haunted Garden: 9am-6pm, Garden Spot Nursery 12 WORDS Fall Family Fun: 10am-6pm, Glen Echo Garden, Murders in the Fourth Corner: 7pm, Ferndale Library Everson Trick-or-Treat: 2-4pm, downtown Anacortes WORDS COMMUNITY Trick-or-Treat: 3-5pm, downtown Ferndale Spooks & Spirits: 5-7pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old Halloween Trick-or-Treat: 3-6pm, historic 8 City Hall Fairhaven Trick-or-Treat: 3-5pm, downtown Mount Vernon FOOD Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, downtown Bellingham CURRENTS CURRENTS Final Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street FOOD 6 FRIDAY [10.30.15] Pancake Breakfast: 8-10:30am, Lynden Community Center VIEWS ONSTAGE Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Nightmare on Railroad: 6:30-11:30pm, Boundary Whodunit? Find out when the Market Square 4 Bay Brewery Scream Fair : 6:30-10:30pm, NW Washington Fair- perennially popular improvised SUNDAY [11.01.15] MAIL MAIL grounds, Lynden Clown Bar: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater murder mystery known as DANCE 2 2 Standing on Ceremony: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Hellingham shows Oct. 30-31 at Open Rep Rehearsal: 12-1:30pm, Firehouse Perform- Rocky Horror Show: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount ing Arts Center DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO Vernon the Upfront Theatre Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC Festival of Music: 2pm, St. John’s Lutheran Church FILM John Reischman & Friends: 2pm, YWCA Ballroom Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount 10.28.15 Baker Theatre WORDS Halloween Book Sale: 1-5pm, Ferndale Library .10 DANCE 43 # Witch’s Ball: 8-11pm, Bellingham Dance Company FOOD Community Breakfast: 8-11am, Rome Grange MUSIC Taste of Skagit: 4-7pm, Maple Hall, La Conner Creepy Cabaret: 6:30-8:30pm, Bellingham High Grape & Gourmet: 5-8:30pm, Silver Reef Event School Center A Nightmare Before Halloween: 7-11pm, Depot Arts Center, Anacortes MONDAY [11.02.15] Peter Mawanga: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount MCDANIEL MATT BY PHOTO CASCADIA WEEKLY Vernon Bingo Spooktacular: 5:30-8:30pm, Bellingham Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven ONSTAGE Senior Activity Center 42nd Street: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre 2 WORDS SATURDAY [10.31.15] Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog Halloween Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Ferndale Library GET OUT Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Stimpson Nature Reserve ONSTAGE WORDS COMMUNITY Trick-or-Treat: 3-5pm, downtown Bellingham Standing on Ceremony: 2pm and 7:30pm, DUG Rick Steves: 7pm, Bellingham High School Monster Mash: 4pm, Village Books Night of the Running Dead: 6pm, Aslan Brewing Co. Theater, WWU Poetrynight: 8pm, Bellingham Public Library SEND YOUR EVENT INFORMATION TO 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #43.10 10.28.15 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 27 FOOD 34 Contact Cascadia Weekly: THISWEEK ` 360.647.8200 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD FOOD Tim Johnson ` ext 260 { editor@ 27 mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle B-BOARD B-BOARD ext 204 { calendar@ 24 cascadiaweekly.com Music & Film Editor: FILM In a story custom-made for Halloween, this week a deer in Carey Ross Rochester, NY, staggered through automatic doors into a ext 203 hospital emergency room after being hit by a vehicle near { music@ 20 a local cemetery. After being strapped to a gurney by two cascadiaweekly.com sheriff’s deputies, animal control was called and the injured MUSIC deer was euthanized. Production Art Director: 18 Jesse Kinsman ART VIEWS & NEWS { jesse@ kinsmancreative.com 4: Monstrous Mailbag Graphic Artist: 16 6: Gory gristle, Views Roman Komarov { roman@ STAGE 8: Paddle to Paris cascadiaweekly.com 10: Last Week’s News Send all advertising materials to [email protected] 14 11: Police Blotter Advertising Account Executive: GET OUT ARTS & LIFE Scott Pelton 12: Dead or disappeared? 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ 12 14: Full moon fever cascadiaweekly.com 16: Thrillingham Stephanie Young WORDS 18: Scary sights 360-647-8200 x 205 { stephanie@ Spooktacular! cascadiaweekly.com 8 20: 22: Clubs Distribution 24: Milk Men Distribution Manager: CURRENTS CURRENTS PROP. 8 IS GREAT to give access to those other parties, provided Film Shorts Scott Pelton 26: Your assessment of the proposed Charter they have support in our county, and bring more 6 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ Amendments, published last week, accurately de- transparency and compromise to the process. This REAR END cascadiaweekly.com scribed the majority of the choices placed before proposition fixes a broken section of our charter VIEWS 27: Bulletin Board Whatcom: Erik Burge, Whatcom County voters on this year’s ballot. Your and is not driven by ulterior motives. Stephanie Simms 4 4 publication does a great public service by help- Proposition 8 received multi-partisan support 28: Wellness Skagit: Linda Brown, ing the voting public understand these complex from the commission and the public. Not only was MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL Barb Murdoch 28: Crossword issues. However, I must take great and personal the “pro” statement in the voter’s pamphlet writ- 30: Free Will Astrology issue with the way that Proposition 8, regarding ten with support from both sides of the politi- 2 Letters Send letters to letters@ the Districting Committee, was characterized. cal spectrum, there were no volunteers to write a 31: Advice Goddess cascadiaweekly.com DO IT IT DO Your statement that Prop. 8 “appears to be “con” statement. This is important to point out, 32: Comix Grisly Gristle, 3.ɀɆ Paddlers in Peril, 3.ɀɈ Milk Men, 3.ɂɄ another way of gaming the County’s political considering the vast divide on the Commission on cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES * * {10.28.15}{#43}{V.10}{FREE} districts” is both unfair and inaccurate. As the almost every other proposed amendment. I urge you, and your readers, to read the vot- 34: Pumpkin power THRILLINGHAM Charter Review Commissioner responsible for in- The dead 10.28.15 can dance, P.16 troducing and championing this amendment, I’d er’s pamphlet and listen to the commission’s re- The Night GALLERY Scary sights at Fourth Corner, P.18 like to clarify its intent and purpose. corded debate prior to casting your vote. If you .10 43 ©2015 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Halloween HAUNTS The system is already being “gamed” by two choose to stand by your recommendation of a # Sounds like a Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Spooktacular, P.20 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 political parties, who hold all of the seats on the “no” vote, that is your prerogative and I respect [email protected] Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. 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