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FILM FILM 2 ) . 4[09.yy.10] MUSIC Blue October: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre MUSIC Macklemore: 9pm, Viking Union Multipurpose

20 Benise: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Room, WWU The Thermals, Japandroids: 9:45pm, Wild Buffalo

MUSIC COMMUNITY Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village DANCE Green In the Context of Life: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC 18 Labyrinth Celebration: 5-7pm, Fairhaven Park Contra Dance: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library ART ART MUSIC Zumbido: 7:30pm, Nancy’s Farm 16 /#0-. 4[09.yz.10] The Illusion of Elvis: 8pm, Bellingham Senior ON STAGE Center STAGE STAGE Bard on the Beach: Through Sept. 30, Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C. WORDS Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Rita Golden Gelman: 7pm, Village Books 14 Squalor: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Mycelium Rising: 8pm, Bloom Café The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre

GET OUT COMMUNITY WORDS Fall Fest: 9am-4pm, downtown Mount Vernon Amy Gulick: 6pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Lummi Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Nugent

12 Brad Lancaster: 7pm, Village Books Drive Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Centen- nial Riverwalk Park WORDS !-$ 4[09.y{.10] Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square

8 ON STAGE Harvest Festival: 11am-3pm, Skagit River Park, Wutcracker Auditions: 6-8pm, Bellingham Burlington Children’s Theatre Oktoberfest: 12-10pm, Pioneer Park, Ferndale Blithe Spirit: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Puget Sound Farm Toy Show: 9am-3:30pm, NW CURRENTS CURRENTS Mount Vernon Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden Drop Dead: 7:30pm, Rome Grange 6 Squalor: 8pm, iDiOM Theater GET OUT Forever Plaid: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Salmon Roe: 10am, Camp Lutherwood, Lake

VIEWS VIEWS The Full Monty: 8pm, Anacortes Community Samish Theatre 4 Games Galore: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre VISUAL ARTS DANCE Whatcom Museum Tag Sale: 8am-12pm, 809 w. MAIL MAIL In the Context of Life: 7:30pm, Firehouse PAC Orchard Dr.

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38 Theatre # biggest hit is called “Hate Me,” Wutcracker Auditions: 3-6pm, Bellingham ./0- 4[09.y|.10] Children’s Theatre it seems people don’t, and Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub ON STAGE Blithe Spirit: 6:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, '0 */* - DANCE Mount Vernon Stories from Jim and Jo: 7pm, Performing Arts Drop Dead: 7:30pm, Rome Grange will bring that hit and others Center, WWU

CASCADIA WEEKLY Squalor: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Forever Plaid: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Sept. 25 to the Mount Baker MUSIC 2 The Full Monty: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre. The Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, the Amadeus Project Theatre Jeff Fox Organ Recital: 4pm, Central Lutheran Games Galore: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Church GET OUT

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have been totally cleaned up. Prog- FOOD ress is being made on others. Remain- ing property owners will face ﬁnes if 27 27 prompt action is not taken. Over the last few years, neighborhood cleanup efforts organized by KendallWatch have resulted in the CLASSIFIEDS removal of trash and unwanted appliances. Litter patrol volunteers have 24 cleaned up neighborhoods and illegal dumping sites. FILM I would like to encourage Rhodes to be more objective and diligent in tell- 20 ing the “whole story.” His credibility MUSIC depends on it. A MYSTERY COMEDY DINNER THEATRE —Kevin Fairshon, Paradise Edited for length 18 ART ART TAKE BACK AMERICA The Far Right has been co-opting our 'RQ·WPLVVWKH 16 language and symbols for over a generation. I’m tired of it, and it’s time to VB Back-to-School STAGE take them back.

Here’s a starting point: the “We The 14 People” lawn signs. These signs are the product of Far Right special interest groups. They are SALE GET OUT attempting to use the symbol of our Sept. Flag and the ﬁrst words of the pre- 12 amble to our Constitution as “code” to 20% 15-30 identify themselves as Republicans. OFF WORDS I’ve got news for these pretentious Children’s TH pretend patriots: our ﬂag and our WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 8 Constitution belong to all Americans. BOOKS & TOYS! You do not have an exclusive right to $ .95 them. 7PM TICKETS 34 CURRENTS Here’s what positive action I’ve tak- Join us in Welcoming

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34 34 continues to dodge forums and other public venues that might allow voters to understand what his positions are FOOD on Whatcom County government. His opponent, Jean Me- views lious, gamely accepts all offers and opportunities to com- OPINIONS ›› THE GRISTLE 27 27 municate. The contrast strongly suggests how each might treat the public once in ofﬁce. Most recently, Tony crapped out on his scheduled ap-

CLASSIFIEDS pearance on Joe Teehan’s afternoon show on KBAI. Meli- ous graciously ﬁlled poor Joe’s dead air time. She had this to say: 24 “The issues aren’t easy, and they aren’t black-and-

FILM FILM white. That’s why on the campaign trail it’s frustrating BY AMY GOODMAN that we can’t talk more about the issues. Without that, it’s just identity politics and name-calling. The voters de- 20 serve better. ...We need to help with problem solving, as

MUSIC opposed to just polarizing people.” Eve Ensler Larson last stepped into the public arena in 2003 when BALD, BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL 18 he tried to hijack more than $12 million in state sales tax rebate revenues intended for the downtown Public ART ART Facilities District to fill potholes at Civic Field to benefit EDITOR’S NOTE: September marks a girls have been raped in the eastern the baseball team he owned. The City of Bellingham spent nationwide emphasis on ovarian can- Democratic Republic of Congo, vic- 16 nearly $40,000 to fend off Tony’s attempted heist. cer. For the fourth year, the County tims of what V-Day calls femicide. The incident speaks volumes about a “conservative” ap- Executive and Whatcom County V-Day has been working with Panzi STAGE STAGE proach to government that sees conversion of public as- Council have proclaimed September Hospital in Bukavu, the only facility sets as a gateway to private wealth; and since such plun- as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in the region where the women can 14 der can only be achieved through fiercely anti-democratic in Whatcom County. receive adequate treatment. V-Day means, such means are often supported as the “cost of women on the planet will be raped is also building a woman-controlled

GET OUT doing business.” BALD, BRAVE and beau- or beaten in their lifetime. Sud- safe zone attached to the hospital In his one rare interview that has contained speciﬁcs, tiful: Those words can’t begin to denly this door opened for me.” called “The City of Joy.” Larson told The Bellingham Herald, “It shouldn’t take a capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. Eve began producing the play to Eve said the women themselves 12 company that’s interested in expanding and creating good She sat down with me last week, in raise funds for rape crisis hot lines developed the plans for the City of jobs for local citizens 18 months to get a permit to do the midst of her battle with uter- and women’s organizations across Joy, “a place where they could heal, WORDS so. The county shouldn’t be considering tightening the ine cancer, to talk about New Or- the U.S. “We came up with this idea where they could be trained, where restrictions on home-based businesses at a time when leans and the Democratic Republic of V-Day,” she told me, “which was they could become leaders, where 8 5,000 fewer people are employed in our community than of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit Ending Violence Day, Vagina Day— they had time and a respite to re- last year.” play The Vagina Monologues and the reclaiming Valentine’s Day as a day build themselves and redirect their The county is not considering doing that, of course, creator of V-Day, a global activist of kindness and good will to wom- energies towards their communi- CURRENTS CURRENTS but Tony continues, “Job creators and start-up companies movement to stop violence against en. We are now in 130 countries. ties.” If all goes well with her own

6 should be welcomed, encouraged and supported by our lo- Last year, there were 5,000 events treatment, she will be joining them 6 women and girls, told me how cal governments. I don’t believe they are. The red carpet “cancer has been a huge gift.” in 1,500 or 1,600 places. It’s raised to open the City of Joy in February. VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS should be rolled out for those potential employers inter- Eve’s moving essay “Congo Can- close to $80 million, that has all With a scarf on her head, having ested in bringing environmentally clean, living wage jobs cer” begins, “Some people may gone into local communities.” lost her hair during cancer treat- 4 to our community, and our current businesses supported think that being diagnosed with The V-Day movement brought ments, she was days away from

MAIL MAIL and encouraged.” uterine cancer, followed by exten- Eve to some of the most desper- starting her fourth round of che- Look, that’s a sentiment all policymakers agree with and sive surgery that led to a month of ate places on earth—Haiti, the motherapy. I asked her how she

2 strive toward. County Council and the planning commis- debilitating infections, rounded off Democratic Republic of Congo, does it. sion have spent hours sweating over the incubation of cot- by months of chemotherapy, might and post-Katrina New Orleans. She “The women of Congo saved my DO IT IT DO tage industries. But the issue gets immediately colored by get a girl down. But, in truth, this spent a year with women in New life,” she said. “Every day I get up, sound land resource management practices that attempt has not been my poison.” The poi- Orleans, compiling their descrip- and I think to myself, I can keep 10 to permit businesses where existing infrastructure (roads, son, she went on, was the epidemic tions of their lives and the impact going. If a woman in Congo gets .22.

09 water, security) suitable for such businesses already ex- of rape, torture and violence against of Hurricane Katrina into a series up this morning after she’s had her ists. Unless a private company is prepared to fully shoulder women and girls in the eastern of monologues. It’s called Swim- insides eviscerated, what problem

.05 the costs of locating wherever the company chooses, then Democratic Republic of Congo. ming Upstream. Unbelievably, in do I really have? And I think of how 38

# the public and taxpayers do have some say in where and Eve wrote The Vagina Monologues the middle of her chemotherapy, they dance. Every time I go to the how that company should locate. That’s why the general in 1996 as a celebration of women’s Eve is directing two special perfor- Congo, they dance and they sing emphasis of county government should be to encourage bodies and women’s empowerment. mances in mid-September, in New and they keep going, in spite of be- economic development within urban centers. “When I did the play initially,” she Orleans and at the Apollo Theater ing forgotten and forsaken by the Teasing apart the code within Larson’s counter-narrative told me, “everywhere I went on the in Harlem. world. And I think to myself, I have seems to uncover his belief that the county’s regulatory planet, women would literally line Eastern Congo, a war-ravaged to get better. I have to live to see framework is an impediment to business. It’s a frequent up after the show... 90 to 95 per- region of the world’s most impov- the day when the women of Congo CASCADIA WEEKLY meme in conservative and business circles, but it tends to cent of the women were lining up erished country, is where Eve and are free, because if those women 6 come apart under scrutiny and specifics. Further teasing to tell me how they had been raped V-Day have been devoting most of are free, women throughout the apart the code, the overall goal seems either—again—to or battered or incested or abused. their recent efforts. Since 1996, world will be free and will get to expropriate public assets (natural resources), or to shift I had no idea that one out of three hundreds of thousands of women and continue.” liabilities (pollution, traffic, sprawl) onto the public in order to enhance private gain. To the mix is invariably VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE FALL SALE ON NOW! t-*.*5&%450$,0/)"/%t"--4"-&4'*/"- added an anti-tax emphasis that further cripples the public sector while seques- FALL t50% OFF t25% OFF 34 tering wealth among the very few. IS FOR 4FMFDU)ZESBOHFBT 1PɆFE'SVJU5SFFT Now Open on FOOD But let’s turn this argument around: t 35-75% OFF t20% OFF Of the top five employers in Whatcom Sundays, 8:30-4:00 Select Flowering Ornamental Grasses County, six are schools, school districts, 4IBEF5SFFT 27 PLANTING .03&(3&"54"-& the hospital, and Bellingham and What- t35-50% OFF com County municipal governments, *5&.4*/5)& Assorted Pottery /634&3:("3%&/$&/5&3

employing more than 8,300 people—or CLASSIFIEDS nearly one job in ten, according to em- SEMINARS ployment data. This is what makes all 24 the teatard anti-tax shrieking so ridicu- Discover Fall & Winter Color lous and tiresome: We can bellow and FILM pout that the government never-ever Sat., Sep. 25 @ 10am created a single job, we can wish the pri- every step, every day, over and over 20 vate sector controlled all the jobs, but M-S 9-6 / Sun 10-5 300 W. Champion Street 945 E. Bakerview Rd wishin’ don’t make it so. Slicin’ down the MUSIC government payroll doesn’t help. Bellingham, WA 98226 Downtown Bellingham 360-676-0400 Given this reality, are policies that 738-DROP bakerviewnursery.com 18 cripple this sector really going to pro- duce economic gains? ART Considered in a different way, how 16 much money, how much economic pros- bellingham perity, is Whatcom County losing or leav- theatre guild STAGE STAGE ing on the table due to council’s fanatic presents failure to come into compliance with the state’s Growth Management Act? How a tune-ﬁ lled trip 14 much is Whatcom County going to be back to a swinging “Letter-perfect! Sweet, funny and thoroughly amusing!” sanctioned, ﬁned and penalized in the time! The New York Times GET OUT future for being out of compliance? Currently, the county is unable to col-

Sept. 24 to 12 lect transportation impact fees from de- Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International velopment projects because the county Oct. 10, 2010 WORDS is out of compliance with GMA. Accord- written by Stuart Ross ing to county’s own studies, nearly $23 directed by Teri Grimes 8 million in growth-related transportation system improvements could be gener- tickets ated through this modest fee. 733-1811 The county cannot consider impact more info CURRENTS bellinghamtheatreguild.com fees for new schools because it is out of 6 6 compliance with GMA, amounting to mil- )4USFFUt#FMMJOHIBN VIEWS VIEWS lions of dollars in lost opportunity costs VIEWS to county taxpayers. Lake Whatcom is ineligible for state 4

Centennial Clean Water grants and ﬁ- MAIL nancial assistance because the county is out of compliance with GMA. Assistance 2 funding for the Lummi Island ferry? En- DO IT IT DO dangered, because the county is out of compliance. Given employment distribution in 10 .22.

Whatcom County, every $100K in lost 09 opportunity or sanction is potentially a

lost job. Every $100K not received be- .05 38 cause the county is ineligible for state # and federal assistance is an uncompen- sated burden to local taxpayers. And the weight of all this does in fact slow and burden growth in the private sector. Politicians may continue to exploit identity politics and the property rights CASCADIA WEEKLY “culture war,” but they’re just wasting time and opportunities. Getting into 7 compliance—quickly—with GMA is the single most important thing Whatcom County can do to spur job growth and economic development. questionable scientiﬁc techniques that have Hansen so upset: t Small sample size: Some tests, such as

those used to determine rates of defor-

34 34 mity in the fish, had sample sizes as small as six fish. At least 30 would be need for FOOD currents NEWS ›› COMMENTARY ›› BRIEFS a statistically significant finding. t Non-random samples: The company 27 27 culled deformed fish out of the test samples and didn’t identify other samples as randomly selected. This is a big

CLASSIFIEDS scientiﬁc no-no. If you’re cherry-pick- ing, you’re cheating. Ignoring bad years in favor of good 24 t years: AquaBounty’s test were con-

FILM FILM F ducted over several years, yet most of the results were from 2007—the best 0 2

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MUSIC MU trol” ﬁsh. Data from 2005, where the GE salmon fared poorly, showing high

18 rates of deformities, were strangely ab-

RT sent from AquaBounty’s results. ART ART A t Setting detection limits too high: In

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STAGE STAGE S the limits too high, thus ensuring that all their ﬁsh would “pass” the test. As Hansen described it, it’s like a cop 14 with a radar gun that doesn’t go be- UT O BY TOM LASKAWY low 120 mph marveling “See! No one’s

GET OUT speeding!” Even then, several GE ﬁsh still showed detectable levels of an “insulin-like growth factor”—a poten- 12 tial cancer risk. t Using non-standard measures: In tests WORDS Franken-FDA SET TO ACCEPT JUNK to indicate “allergenicity” of the salmon, AquaBounty used something it 8 8 SCIENCE FOR SCALED-UP SALMON called “relative allergic potency,” which does not appear to have any scientiﬁc basis. Still, the GE salmon registered CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS Fish high levels of this measure. 6 t Not bothering to use current technol- ogy: There are far better techniques

VIEWS VIEWS SEN. MARK Begich (D-Alaska) is right: If ever a genetically en- EPA). Thanks to outdated laws and perfor measuring a food’s potential al- gineered product deserved the “Frankenfood” label, it’s the genetically nicious incentives, foods like GE salmon lergenicity than the ones AquaBounty 4 modiﬁed Atlantic salmon created by the Massachusetts-based company are evaluated as “veterinary drugs” and chose to use.

MAIL MAIL AquaBounty. These salmon, which contain growth genes from Chinook companies’ own research is considered Does this sound like “junk science?” I salmon, are truly monsters. They grow faster and end up larger than nor- “objective.” think so.

2 mal Atlantic salmon. And they just received preliminary approval from the Consumers Union senior scientist and We can and should have the debate over FDA; the ﬁnal nod is likely to come in the next month. biologist Dr. Michael Hansen character- the wisdom of introducing wholly novel, DO IT IT DO

It is possible that if the modified salmon is approved, consumers would izes the supporting science performed by transgenic products into the food sys- not even know they were eating it. Current FDA regulations require modi- AquaBounty to Richardson as “sloppy,” tem, not to mention into our bellies. But 10 fied foods to be labeled as such only if the food is substantially different “misleading” and “woefully inadequate.” this particular fish story is really about .15.

09 from the conventional version, and the agency has said that the modiﬁed One thing that stood out to me is the a broken and corrupt regulatory process. salmon is essentially the same as the Atlantic salmon. shockingly routine dismissal by the FDA re- Clearly, the FDA wants to approve these

.05 If approved, the fish could be in grocery stores in two years, the com- view board of a high “physical deformity” products. They want to “help” their “cus- 37 # pany estimates. rate among the genetically engineered tomers,” a.k.a. food companies, and no I make no fishbones about the fact that I have a deep skepticism of fish. You’d think something like that would longer seem to have public safety at the transgenic food. And it’s not because I don’t “trust” the concept in some raise eyebrows among regulators. However, top of their priority list. way. What I don’t trust is a regulatory system that puts the companies AquaBounty found an effective, if scien- Let’s hope that someone calls bullshit that want to sell you their genetically engineering product in charge of tifically unsound, way to downplay these on the junk science behind AquaBounty’s proving its safety. Can no one in charge see the flaw in this logic? unfortunate side effects of their genetic product, and that the FDA listens. The This standard doesn’t just apply to genetically engineered food, of manipulations. agency will accept written comments until CASCADIA WEEKLY course. It’s true for drugs and industrial chemicals as well. Indeed, an Yet AquaBounty’s submissions to the FDA November 22. 8 entire “product defense” industry has sprouted up to help corporations were apparently sufficient to convince the publish favorable, and sometimes misleading, science with which to gain FDA’s Veterinary Medicine Advisory Com- Tom is a writer and a media and technol- government approvals and fend off safety concerns. mittee of the salmon’s safety. To accom- ogy consultant who thinks that wrecking the The current process surrounding GE salmon is but one example of the plish this, AquaBounty apparently had to planet is a bad idea. This article was origi- perverted regulatory process now in place at the FDA (as well as the take a few shortcuts. Here are some of the nally published in Grist. ABOUT YOU

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T SEPT14-SEPT21 20 s MUSIC 18 ART ART PHOTO BY RR HORNE 16 The end of the line looms for Amtrak’s second daily run between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. The second Amtrak Cascades train service started as a pilot project in August 2009 and has proven successful, but the Canadian government has imposed border fees that may end STAGE STAGE the service. The state says it can’t meet the $550,000 annual border-clearance fee. The second train brought an estimated $11.8 million in 09.x{.10 economic beneﬁts to British Columbia, carrying nearly 27,000 travelers across the border. 14 TUESDAY As both sides in the Lummi Island ferry dispute return to the nego- scribed as armed and dangerous. In thir search, the next biennium—for a total shortfall of $1.4

GET OUT tiating table, Whatcom County Council formally requests $16 million they blocked the Mount Baker Highway at Ken- billion on the horizon. Gov. Chris Gregoire has in federal aid on behalf of the Lummi Nation. The federal money, sup- dall Elementary School, delaying school buses already signed an executive order that will cut ported by Sen. Maria Cantwell, would be used to make traffic improve- leaving for the day. Eventually, deputies learned state spending across the board to help patch 12 ments in and around the Lummi Nation. The tribe says the improve- the man they believed they were searching for the hole left by lower tax collections. That’s on ments are needed to accommodate Lummi Island ferry traffic. was only one of his associates. He was taken top of the Legislature’s actions earlier this year WORDS into custody on several outstanding warrants. to balance the budget by cutting spending, raid- The state Auditor’s Office says a Western Washington University ad- ing one-time funds and raising taxes. 8 8 ministrator went too far on the state’s dime. Doug Nord is no longer A federal appeals court orders a new trial the director of the Center for International Studies, but he remains for a woman convicted of helping to carry out As cuts to Whatcom County transit service go employed in the provost’s office. The audit found that from late 2007 arson in 2001 that destroyed the University of into effect, Brett Bonner’s anti-tax group urg- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS to 2009, Nord took 22 trips and charged $39,000 in travel expenses. The Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. Bri- es voters to vote no on a City of Bellingham’s

6 audit, prompted by a university whistleblower, questioned the neces- ana Waters was convicted of allegedly serving as sales tax proposal that would limit the severity sity of some of Nord’s submitted expenses and found inconsistencies a lookout during an Earth Liberation Front “eco- of those cuts.

VIEWS VIEWS in the dates Nord said he traveled, dates for conferences he said he terrorist” attack. She was sentenced to six years attended, and locations where he said he stayed. in prison; but the appeals panel questioned the

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a state law limiting campaign contributions in the ﬁnal weeks of bal- THURSDAY Federal Aviation Administration inspection, lot measure campaigns. The law at issue bans contributions larger than The state’s chief economist delivers a new the Port of Bellingham expects commercial op- 10 $5,000 in the ﬁnal three weeks of an initiative or referendum campaign. gloomy revenue forecast for Washington. Rev- erations will resume Wednesday. The airport has .15.

09 enues for the rest of the ’09-11 biennium budget been closed since Aug. 31 for work on a $29 mil- A manhunt ends with the arrest of the wrong suspect. Whatcom are expected to come up $770 million short. The lion project that includes wiring and drainage

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border guard at the Peace Arch crossing THE NOT-NICE NIECE CLASSIFIEDS who allegedly used the threat of arrest to On Sept. 5, Bellingham Police contacted force four young women to “illegal, humil- a woman loitering on the property of her 24 iating strip searches,” in which he groped “uncle,” who was not home. Police spoke

and fondled them. In three separate inci- to the “uncle” by phone, who told them FILM dents of sexual assault in 2007, the Cana- she is no longer welcome at his home dian border guard allegedly took the wom- due to her drug abuse and history of be- 20 en to private areas where he questioned ing a thief. Police escorted her from the

them about drugs they might be carrying property. MUSIC and warned them they could be detained

unless they agreed to strip to their un- LONG PATROL ON A SHORT 18 derwear and be patted down. Regulation PIER, CTD. ART ART require such searches to be conducted by On Aug. 18, a caller reported an intoxicated at least two officers of the same sex as person at the Blaine public pier who was 16 the person being searched. The trial is ex- trying to provoke people into a fight. Two pected to last six weeks. men were contacted by police. “One was so- STAGE STAGE ber and agreed to take his inebriated friend BATMAN VS. THE home to keep him out of trouble. He also MOONMEN agreed to toss back the undersized shellfish 14 On Sept. 16, two men pleaded guilty in he had acquired while his friend was appar-

Whatcom County Superior Court in an ne- ently tossing back brewskis,” police report- GET OUT gotiated agreement that would spare the ed. “Both subjects left, and peace returned men a trial by jury. In Oct., 2008, the men to the pier.” 12 were at a comic book store in Bellingham’s Birchwood neighborhood. One of three men On Aug. 25, Blaine Police responded to a ~x

NUMBER of Washingtonians living below the federal poverty line, or 11 percent WORDS leaving a nearby tavern mooned the men report that a teenager had suffered a head of the population. Up from 9.1 percent of the population in 2007. and drunkenly broke the store window with injury at Blaine Harbor. Ofﬁcers arrived 8 8 his bare buttocks. The two men grabbed a and found that a youth had jumped off the baseball bat and set out for the three men. dock and landed on top of another young- They caught up with them. One of the two ster swimming in the water below. ”The CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS defendants, 43, hit one of the three men blow knocked the swimmer unconscious,”

yy| { 6 so hard with the weapon that the bat shat- police reported, “but he was rescued by tered across his face and skull. The defen- other swimmers and a passing pleasure NUMBER of world’s richest people ESTIMATED percent annual levy on with a combined wealth of $1 trillion, incomes of those 225 people that dents were sentenced to jail time for the boater. Medics evaluated the victim at the VIEWS the combined annual income of the would provide adequate food, safe assault, along with damages to pay for the scene and transported him to hospital.”

world’s 2.5 billion poorest people. water and sanitation, basic education, 4 man’s medical bills. basic health care and reproductive

On Aug. 26, police responded to a 911 call health care to those 2.5 billion MAIL RUDE AWAKENING AT from a pay phone in Blaine harbor. Ofﬁcers people.

BREWED AWAKENING located a group of children there who were 2 On Sept. 15, the Brewed Awakening cof- on a supervised pre-school field trip. When DO IT IT DO fee stand on Consolidation Ave. in Belling- their teacher was momentarily distracted, ham was robbed shortly after the business one of the boys decided to dial 911 to see {xx EARNINGS of top U.S. executives compared to earnings of average American 10 opened by a man who approached an em- what would happen. He and the group worker, up from 42:1 in 1980. .15. ployee and demanded money, threatening learned a lesson. The responsible child said 09 that he had a gun. The suspect fled on a he was very sorry. mountain bike. .05 37 KING OF THE ROAD # THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM On Aug. 11, a woman reported a man wan- ~ On Sept. 13, Whatcom County Sheriff’s dep- dering around the Albertson’s parking lot, AVERAGE number of bankruptcies filed per day by U.S. households in 2009. In uties observed a wrecked pickup truck on giving her “the creeps.” She said the man July 2010, bankruptcies rose nationally by 24.2 percent. Sweet Road south of Blaine. They received kept putting his hand inside his sweatshirt another call of a second wrecked vehicle, a pocket, leading her to believe he had a red Volkswagon that had crashed through weapon. Bellingham Police spoke to a man CASCADIA WEEKLY a guardrail just down the road. Arriving named Billy Joe King. King told police he y}zy deputies noted the vehicles were both was awaiting treatment for his heroin ad- CUMULATIVE percent increase in bedbug complaints nationally since 2004. 11 registered to the same household. While diction and was meanwhile out collecting they logged the incidents, a man pulled cigarette butts. He opened his sweatshirt SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau; Washington Budget & Policy Center; up in a private tow truck to collect the pockets to show police the cigarette butts United Nations Development Program; Business Week; AACER; National Pest wreckage. They noticed cuts on his face he’d collected from the parking lot. Management Association doit

WORDS 34 34 WED., SEPT. 22 RAVEN’S GIFT: Find out more about Jon Turk’s FOOD words spiritual awakening when he reads from The COMMUNITY ›› LECTURES BOOKS Raven’s Gift: A Scientist, A Shaman, and Their 27 27 Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wil- derness at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. i 671-2626 THURS., SEPT. 23 CLASSIFIEDS SALMON IN TREES: Amy Gulick, author of Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass

24 Rain Forest, shares stories and images from her tome at 6pm at the Mount Baker’s Walton

FILM FILM Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Suggested donation is $5. i 734-6080 OR WWW.NCASCADES.ORG 20 RAINWATER HARVESTING: As part of What- com Water Week, Brad Lancaster will share

MUSIC BY AMY KEPFERLE ideas from his book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond at 7pm at Village Books,

18 1200 11th St. i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM ART ART Confronting Clutter FRI., SEPT. 24

16 THE TIGER: Jon Vaillant shares tales from his LIBERATING YOUR EXCESS BAGGAGE tome, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th STAGE STAGE MORE THAN a year after transplanting himself from a mountain away anything that is blocking you from St. i in Kentucky to our family’s cabin on Lummi Island, my 70-something-year- living fully and making yourself at home 671-2626 14 old father still has an alarm- in the world,” the au- SEPT. 24-25 ing number of moving boxes thor says. “It can be a BOOK SALE: Deming Friends will host a Fall Book Sale from 10am-5pm Fri.-Sat. at the Dem- GET OUT crammed in available cran- doorway into all kinds nies, nooks and household of deeper issues. Re- ing Public Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. i 592-2422 cul-de-sacs. ally noticing what 12 12 Some boxes, when opened, kinds of things you’re SAT., SEPT. 25 reveal treasures such as African piling on surfaces and LONE JACK: Bellingham-born author Michael WORDS WORDS tribal masks, vintage records stacking in corners Impero will lead today’s “Explore the Past; En- rich the Present” offering by sharing stories and amazing photographs gives a lot of clues 8 ATTEND from his book The Lone Jack: King of the Mount sourced from a life full of ad- about what’s going on Baker Mining District at 3pm at the Everson Mc- WHAT: Carolyn Beath Community Library, 104 Kirsch Dr. Entry venture and travel. Others con- Koehnline shares tips inside of you. And pe- is free. tain the inexplicable—caches from Confronting Your riodically stopping to CURRENTS CURRENTS i of moldy power bills from the Clutter: Releasing the assess what is no lon- 966-5100 Excess Baggage from NOMAD TALES: Rita Golden Gelman reads 6 early 1980s, for example. ger relevant in your from her true-life tome, Female Nomad and When confronted about his Your Home, Head, life and weeding it Heart, and Schedule Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking VIEWS VIEWS clutter—which, with my prod- WHEN: 11am Sat., out can keep life vital Bread Around the World, at 7pm at Village ding, has been signiﬁcantly re- Sept 25 and new.” Books, 1200 11th St. 4 duced since he ﬁrst landed on WHERE: Village For those who i 671-2626 Books, 1200 11th St. MYCELIUM RISING: Vancouver poets Scott

MAIL MAIL the island with a 27-foot-long need help releasing Penske moving truck—my dad COST: Free their baggage—not Ramsay, Tanya Fader, and Slippery Elm will

INFO: www.village take the stage for “Mycelium Rising” at 8pm at 2 points out that he’s “a collec- books.com or www. to mention their Bloom Café, 1320 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $10; tor, not a hoarder.” confrontingclutter. decades-old utility all proceeds will be contributed to the South DO IT IT DO While admitting he “prob- com bills—Koehnline will Fork Community Forest Initiative. ably should’ve gone through guide attendees at i 303-8343 10 some more stuff before the move,” he’s also been more tortoise than hare about her Village Books gig through a variety

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09 sifting through the stuff of his well-lived life. of relevant exercises. Come Nov. 6, she’ll BANNED BOOKS TALK: KVOS’s Deb Slater will Carolyn Koehnline, a licensed mental health counselor with a private prac- also be offering a “Clearing Clutter for lead a Banned Book Week discussion at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. .05 tice in Bellingham, allows that one man’s dirty is another man’s clean, and a Creative Life” class through Whatcom

38 i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM # that what seems like an disorganized mess to me may well be within my Community College. father’s comfort zone. And dad, if you’re reading this, Koehnline MON., SEPT. 27 “It’s all so personal,” says Koehnline, who’ll be sharing tips on the topic Sept. says not to get freaked out at the thought of OPEN MIC: Story writing instructor Laurel 25 at Village Books relating to her book, Confronting Your Clutter: Releasing all the boxes you’ve still got left to open. Leigh will helm the monthly literary Open Mic the Excess Baggage from Your Home, Head, Heart and Schedule. “A comfortable “Start small,” she says. “Choose a draw- at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. i 671-2626 environment for one person is exactly what might make another person feel er, or cupboard, or surface. Spend time vi- POETRYNIGHT: Read your original verse at crowded, exposed or unsafe.” sualizing how you want it to look and feel

CASCADIA WEEKLY poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Proj- Koehnline, who’s been helping people tidy up their psyches and their living when you’ve ﬁnished. If you feel shame, ect, Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start at 8pm. 12 spaces for more than 20 years, also points out that clutter doesn’t just come say some words of self-forgiveness. Make i WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG from what’s found in boxes piled by the dining room table. Anything that drains sure you have enough air and light. Put on TUES., SEPT. 28 your energy, gets in your way or distracts you from what’s important in your life music if that helps you. And, if you tend to CRISIS TO CREATION: Therapist and author can also be lumped into the word’s deﬁnition. feel isolated when dealing with your clut- James Macartney discusses ideas from his “I get very excited about clearing the clutter as a metaphor for clearing ter, invite a friend to help you.” doit book, Crisis to Creation: Our Power of Choice, at

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WED., SEPT. 29 FOOD HOUSE JUSTICE: Mike Lawson will read from and sign his latest thriller, House Justice, at Pizza Stone & Paddle 27 27 7pm at Barnes & Noble, 4099 Meridian St. En- try is free. Bavarian Emmantaler i 647-7018 Porcelain Composters

GOLDEN MEAN: Anabel Lyon reads from her CLASSIFIEDS new book, The Golden Mean: A Novel of Aristo- Apple Peeler Slicers tle and Alexander the Great, at 7pm at Village

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Guatamalan Aprons FILM COMMUNITY Beeswax Candles 20 WED., SEPT. 22 LABYRINTH CELEBRATION: Attend a rib- Home & Kitchen Gems MUSIC bon cutting and Fall Equinox Celebration from Hiway 9 – Van Zandt

5-7pm at the new permanent labyrinth at 18 Fairhaven Park. Mayor Dan Pike will be in at- www.everybodys.com tendance, and there’ll be live music, as well. ART i WWW.PROJECTLABYRINTH.NET Kristi Nelson Twilight Tunes 8pm 9/23 16 SAT., SEPT. 25 Welcome WWU Nite $1 Off Pints 9/26 The most trusted RUMMAGE SALE: The 35th annual Rummage * STAGE STAGE Sale happens from 8:30am-3pm at Our Sav- brand is also free! iour’s Lutheran Church, 1720 Harris Ave. i 733-6749 Mon Nite $3 Pints/Tues Nite $1.50 Kolsch KBTC Public Television is available free, in High Definition, over-the- 14 FALL FEST: Pony and train rides, a beer and air to the North Puget Sound wine garden, art displays, a street fair and community! Re-scan your much, much more will be part of a Fall Fest television or converter box GET OUT from 9am-4pm in historic downtown Mount and explore more with Vernon. Entry is free. favorites like Sherlock Holmes, 12 i (360) 336-3801 Antiques Roadshow, Nature, 12 FERNDALE MARKET: Attend the Ferndale and The Red Green Show, along with local programs Full WORDS Farmers Market from 10am-1pm at Centennial WORDS Riverwalk Park. The market continues every Focus and Northwest Now. All this and much more from the Saturday through Oct. 9. best front-row seat in the 8 i 384-3042 house: yours. BELLINGHAM MARKET: Purchase and peruse local fruit and veggies and artistic offerings at the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10am- CURRENTS 3pm at the Depot Market Square at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street. 6 i 647-2060 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG www.kbtc.org VIEWS VIEWS LUMMI MARKET: The Lummi Island Farmers * Source: GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, 2010 Market occurs from 10am-1pm every Saturday KBTC is a service of Bates Technical College through the summer next to the Islander gro- 4 cery store. i [email protected] MAIL

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HARVEST FESTIVAL: Zucchini car races, 10 food vendors, seed spitting contests, a pump- MON - SAT, 5-11 PM .22. kin pitch and much more will be part of a Har- 09 vest Festival happening from 11am-3pm at

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i WWW.BURLINGTON-CHAMBER.COM # OKTOBERFEST: Help raise funds for the Ferndale JJmZqak:Y[cmZqak:Y[c Double Dome’s Community Aqua Park at the 3rd annual Oktoberfest happening from 12-10pm J9KH:=JJQE=9< at Ferndale’s Pioneer Park. Live music, German dinners, a beer garden, a bonﬁre, games and activities for kids will be part of the festivities. LIVE MUSIC Entry is $2 for kids, $10 for adults. CASCADIA WEEKLY i WWW.FERNDALEDOUBLEDOME.ORG TUES - SAT 8PM FARM TOY SHOW: The 25th annual Puget 13 Sound Farm Toy Show takes place from 9am- 3:30pm at Lynden’s NW Washington Fair- grounds, 1775 Front St. Entry is $1-$3. i WWW.LYNDEN.ORG doit

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34 34 for a “Walk When the Moon is Full” outing at 6:30pm on the North Lake Whatcom Trail.

FOOD Entry is by donation, but registration is re- getout quired. HIKING ›› RUNNING ›› CYCLING i WWW.WILDWHATCOMWALKS.WORDPRESS.COM 27 27 SAT., SEPT. 25 SOUTH FORK BIKE TOUR: Hook up with members of Whatcom land Trust’s staff at

CLASSIFIEDS 9am for a “South Fork Bicycle Tour.” Sug- gested donation is $5-$10. i 650-9470 24 SAN JUAN SOJOURN: Naturalist David Drummond will be on board for a “Natural FILM FILM History Sojourn in the San Juan Islands” outing from 9am-5pm on Victoria San Juan

20 Cruises. Cost is $79. i WWW.WHALES.COM

MUSIC KILLER CROSS: Cascade Cross will host a “Killer Cross” race starting at 9am at Squali- cum Creek Park. 18 i WWW.CASCADECROSS.COM

ART ART SALMON ROE: Sound Rowers will host the Lake Samish Salmon Roe starting at 10am at Camp Lutherwood. A salmon barbecue will 16 follow. i WWW.SOUNDROWERS.ORG STAGE STAGE SEA KAYAKING: Attend a “Safe Sea Kayak- ing in the PNW” clinic from 1-5pm at Belling- 14 14 ham’s Community Boating Center. The event is free, but registration is a must. i WWW.SAILPADDLEROW.ORG GET OUT GET OUT SUN., SEPT. 26 BELLINGHAM BAY MARATHON: The an-

12 nual Bellingham Bay Marathon begins at 7:30am at the Depot Market Square, 100 Railroad Ave. A half-marathon starts at 9am WORDS and, at 9:15am, so does a 5K Fun Run/Walk. Costs vary.

8 STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO i WWW.BELLINGHAMBAYMARATHON.ORG REMEMBRANCE WALK: Life Song Perinatal Wellness Center will hold its second annual Remembrance Walk & Ceremony starting at CURRENTS CURRENTS Glacier Peak Wilderness 4:30pm at the Cornwall Park shelter. i

6 WWW.LIFESONGPERINATAL.COM A LATE SUMMER SOJOURN MON., SEPT. 27 VIEWS VIEWS SMITH ROCK: A presentation focused on GLACIER PEAK has a reputation as a reclusive volcano. Word is dissipated and within an hour we’d loaded our day- “Climbing Smith Rock” begins at 6pm at REI, 4 it can’t be seen from any paved road. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do packs in warm sunshine for the scramble to the gap. 400 36th St. i 647-8955

MAIL MAIL know the country surrounding it is big and lonely. I like big and lonely. The route climbed steep heather slopes, rock and We were headed for Spider Gap, a small cleft in the mountain wall rubble. The terrain invited wandering; I made my TUES., SEPT. 28

2 in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. We had three nights worth of food and way from rock garden to precipice to pocket meadow GRIZZLY TALK: “Grizzly Bears in the North were raring to go. as the spirit moved me. Snowmelt pools reflected Cascades” will be the topic of a talk at the DO IT IT DO The first five miles were on the world’s easiest, most luxurious trail, dark cliffs and glacial erratics were strewn about North Cascades Audubon Society’s monthly mostly an old road reclaimed by the dry east-of-the-crest forest. The like tossed dice. meeting at 7pm at the Bellingham Public Li-

10 brary, 210 Central Ave. trail eventually broke out into Spider Meadow, a vast green basin ringed Across the Phelps Creek Valley, Seven Fingered Jack i WWW.NORTHCASCADESAUDUBON.ORG .22.

09 by sheer cliffs—an apparent cul-de-sac. and Mt. Maude rose above the ridges, upper reaches But no, the meadow is not a dead end, appearances to the contrary— dusted with fresh snow. Waterfalls streamed down WED., SEPT. 29 FIRST GEAR: Everybody Bike will host a

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34 34 Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the Anacortes Community Theatre, FOOD Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. g At 10pm, stick around for “The 918 M Ave. Tickets are $16. sta e i WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM Project.” Entry is $5 for the 27 27 THEATER ›› DANCE ›› PROFILES early show, $3 for the late one. SUN., SEPT. 26 i WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM BASH AUDITIONS: If you’d SEPT. 23-25 like to take part in “The Gay Bash: A Celebration of

CLASSIFIEDS SQUALOR: Be prepared for strong language, adult situ- Welcoming”—an upcom- ations and a heaping serving ing performance celebrating 24 of theatrical thrills when Mike National Coming-Out Day— Mathieu’s play, Squalor, shows bring your talents to light at FILM FILM at 8pm at the iDiOM Theater, auditions at 4pm at the Bell- CW: Do you really love Bellingham? 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are ingham Unitarian Fellowship, NC: I really do love Bellingham—from $5 on Thursday, $10 otherwise. 1708 I St. 20 i 393-0094 OR the people, to the arts community, i WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM [email protected]

MUSIC to the scenery, to the food and the SEPT. 24-25 businesses. I’ve been to 33 states in BLITHE SPIRIT: Noel Cow- TUES., SEPT. 28 ard’s Blithe Spirit shows at INTRO TO IMPROV: Sheila 18 the U.S. and all sorts of towns, and few have the character and feel that 6:30pm every Friday and Satur- Goldsmith will lead a free in-

ART ART troductory improv class at 7pm Bellingham does. day through Oct. 23 at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner at Improv Playworks, 302 W. CW: What’s your history here? Illinois St. 16 16 Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery i NC: I moved to Whatcom County in 1995 St. Tickets are $20-$40. 756-0756 and went to high school in Ferndale. I i WWWRIVERBELLE STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE WED., SEPT. 29 DINNERTHEATRE.COM went to Western from there and was a RUMORS: Neil Simon’s Rumors theater major. After college I moved GAMES GALORE: Students opens tonight at Lynden’s 14 to Los Angeles for a year, but that should bring along their IDs Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 when they show up for Games city just wasn’t for me so I decided to Front St. The “high voltage hi- Galore shows at 8pm and 10pm larity” shows at various dates

GET OUT come back to the Northwest to ﬁgure at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 through Oct. 17. Tickets are out what was next. Bay St. For this weekend only, $8-$12. CW: When did you ﬁrst post the video? entry for students will be $2 i WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.ORG 12 Can you believe 122,000 people (and for the early show, and free for the 10pm gig. If you’re not a counting) have watched it already? WORDS student, pay $5. DANCE NC: The video went up Sun., Sept. 12 and, i 733-8855 no, I can’t believe it. I never thought 8 SEPT. 24-26 SEPT. 24-25 it would get this big. I just hoped it CONTEXT OF LIFE: Dance, vid- WUTCRACKER AUDITIONS: might get around town and my friends eo, text and photography will BY AMY KEPFERLE The Bellingham Children’s be utilized at per formances of would share it with each other. Instead Theatre will hold open multi- CURRENTS CURRENTS Pam Kuntz’s “In the Context it appears my friends shared with their generational auditions for its of Life,” at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. satirical holiday production, 6 friends, and again with their friends. at the Firehouse PAC, 1314 The Wutcracker, from 6-8pm I’ve heard stories of it being shared Harris St. The performances, Subdued Stars Fri. and 3-6pm Sun. at BTC’s VIEWS VIEWS across borders and overseas. which tell the compelling sto- studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave. ries of 15 community mem- A BELLINGHAM STATE OF MIND CW: What was your favorite part about i [email protected] 4 making the video? bers, show through Oct. 10. DROP DEAD: Nearly Stellar Tickets are $12.

MAIL MAIL NC: Working with Chris Patton. He co- Entertainment presents a mys- i WWW.KUNTZANDCOMPANY.ORG POTATO BURRITOS, Ryan Stiles, juggalos, Ski ordinates the local Trailer Wars ﬁlm tery farce dubbed Drop Dead at

2 to Sea, La Feen’s, Baker’s cookies, the Horseshoe, Whatcom competition, and I became friends 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. SAT., SEPT. 25 at the Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Falls, and douche bags at the Royal are all part of living in with him through that over the past CONTRA DANCE: The Retro-

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spectacles will provide live Bellingham—at least according to 26-year-old actor Nathan year. It was a lot of fun to just roll at the door and will include tunes at tonight’s Contra Cox. If you don’t recognize his name, you’ll likely recognize his around Bellingham, doing some pret- dessert. Dance from 7:30-10:30pm at 10 face. Along with fellow performer Rashawn Scott, the two have ty guerilla-style shooting. i 303-4036 the Fairhaven Library, 1117 .22. FOREVER PLAID: The “deli- 12th St. Suggested donation 09 gained Bellebrity status in the past week as their rendition of CW: How do you spend your free time? Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”—aptly titled “Bellingham State NC: I’m an improviser at the Upfront ciously goofy” story of four is $8-$10. young men who were killed in i WWW.

.05 of Mind”—has gone viral on YouTube, with more than 122,000 Theatre and a member of Backflip a car crash on the way to their BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG 38 # viewings at press time. We caught up with Cox to find out what Wilson, a local sketch group I’m in first big concert—and have was behind the hit sensation. with five of my friends from college. been miraculously revived to SUN., SEPT. 26 Cascadia Weekly: What was the impetus to make “Bellingham I’m also a public events DJ, which is perform the show that never JIM AND JO: Pam Kuntz’s collaborative dance and the- State of Mind?” one of my passions. was—can be seen when the musical Forever Plaid opens ater piece, “Stories from Jim Nathan Cox: I had seen other versions of “Empire State of CW: What do you like about your life? this weekend with 8pm show- and Jo,” returns to the stage Mind” done for different locations, and I knew Bellingham NC: I love my friends and family. I ings Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at for one night only at 7pm at deserved its own. like the wonderful opportunities I the Bellingham Theatre Guild, Western Washington Univer- CASCADIA WEEKLY CW: Who came up with the lyrics? have to create and express myself. 1600 H St. Tickets are $8-$12. sity’s Performing Arts Center. The original work explores the i WWW. 16 NC: I sat down for about four hours and just wrote the whole If I don’t have a way to express medical complications of Par- BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM thing out. I made a list of the places in Bellingham I love and myself—whether through comedy, kinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis. THE FULL MONTY: Watch that are iconic and then kind of filled in the verses, trying to acting, music or dance—it starts to Tickets are $5-$10. what happens when unem- i 650-6146 match some of the structures and cadences of Jay-Z’s rhymes. get me down. ployed steelworkers decide to

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EVENTS 34 34 SEPT. 24-25 FOOD MUSEUM TAG SALE: Go on a treasure hunt when visual the Whatcom Museum Guild hosts its 6th annual Tag Sale from 12-6pm Fri. and 8am-12pm Sat. 27 27 GALLERIES ›› OPENINGS ›› PROFILES at 809 W. Orchard Dr., suite #5 (off Meridian St. across from the entrance to the Bellingham Golf Club). Artwork, jewelry, toys, furniture and much more will be available and up for sale. CLASSIFIEDS i 778-8939 OR WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG SAT., SEPT. 25 24 FRIENDS OF BLUE HORSE: If you’re a friend of the Blue Horse, celebrate “an ending with a FILM FILM new beginning” by welcoming the new owner, BY AMY KEPFERLE Christine Grinsted, and saying farewell to

20 Wade and Tonie Marlow (who, will, actually, still be around on a limited basis), from 3-9pm at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. MUSIC Born to Scrounge i 671-2305 OR WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM SMITHSONIAN DAY: Both Bellingham’s 18 18 18 ARUNAS OSLAPAS’ RAW MATERIALS Whatcom Museum and La Conner’s Skagit ART ART ART ART County Historical Museum will be taking part in “Smithsonian Day” today. If you’re interested in attending either of these museums 16 WHEN HE was still in high school, Arunas Oslapas refash- free of charge, check out the link below to ioned his family’s dining and living rooms with wood salvaged from download free tickets. Each card provides ac- STAGE STAGE a 100-year-old barn—everything from shelving to walls, a table cess for two people. i WWW.SMITHSONIAN.COM/MUSEUMDAY and even a TV stand came from the materials he’d recycled after 14 the teardown. MON., SEPT. 27 By that time, he was used to being the ﬁx-it kid. As a child of WAG MEETING: All are welcome at the What- com Art Guild’s monthly meeting at 7pm at the

GET OUT hardworking parents who’d escaped from Lithuania and made their Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. way to the United States in hopes of providing a better life for their i WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG family, Oslapas had already put in a whole lot of face time into 12 helping out around the house. WED., SEPT. 29 If the dishwasher broke, he’d ﬁgure out how to get it running HAWAIIAN QUILTING TALK: Nancy Lee

WORDS Chong will share the “History of Hawaiian again. If the bathroom sink was plugged, he’d ﬁnd a way to get it un- Quilting” at a talk from 6-8:30pm at La Con- plugged. And, as referenced above, he wasn’t shy about using found ner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First 8 items to make the casa more user-friendly. St. Entry is $25 and includes hors d’oeuvres “Everything I made was from free materi- and beverages. i als,” says Oslapas, who’s now an artist and WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG CURRENTS CURRENTS industrial design professor at Western Wash-

6 ington University. “I always had to scrounge. I ONGOING EXHIBITS straightened out a lot of nails and made a lot ALLIED ARTS: “Remembrances,” part of the

VIEWS VIEWS of things with minimal supplies.” 2010 Juried Artist Series, features works by These days, Oslapas uses the lessons of fru- photographer and painter Ann Chaikin and oil

4 ATTEND gality and invention to his advantage. He’s painter Jeanne Levasseur through Sept. 24 at WHAT: An Evening Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.

MAIL MAIL been an industrial designer since the 1980s, with Arunas i WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG and has worked for an architectural ﬁrm, a Oslapas

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2 WHEN: 5-8pm Fri., ﬁlm studio and even spent some time building Horton, Ana Reid, and Michael Johnson can be Sept. 24 furniture in Michigan. At WWU for the past 14 viewed through Sept. 25 at Anchor Art Space, DO IT IT DO

WHERE: Fairhaven 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. years, he also formed Garbage Art in 1999 and Originals Gallery, i WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG now spends his summers making masterpieces 960 Harris St., 10 from metal. suite #103 ARTWOOD: The weavings of Laura Goldberg .22. COST: Free can be perused through September at Artwood

09 To craft the recycled metal baskets, “quilts” paint, it’s ready to be woven. Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. and eclectic animals that he sells at juried art INFO: www.belling Oslapas contributes the leftovers—the little piec- hamfog.com i 647-1628 .05 shows across the country—and at Fairhaven es that end up on the shop ﬂoor after the baskets of BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The mu- 38

# Originals Gallery, where, come Sept. 24, he’ll varying sizes have been put together—to his afore- seum is open to the public from noon-5pm take a few hours to talk about his work—Oslapas must first amass mentioned quilts, which he sees as more personal Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. the creative materials needed for the finished works. compositions that tell stories via rusted steel. i 393-7540 “Although the days of roaming the landfills and beachcombing And, just like in his own childhood, Oslapas’ kids BLUE HORSE: Works by new artists such as the dumps are gone, the garbage continues to flow,” Oslapas points and wife get in on the action, helping out with all Sandra Taylor, Brian Major, Neal Philpott, Jes- sica Kasparian, and others can be examined out in his artist’s statement. “Finding a way to intercept it, tame it facets of “the business,” from framing and painting through September at the Blue Horse Gallery, and give it new life brings me great joy.” to helping select and hunt down the metal that will 301 W. Holly St. CASCADIA WEEKLY For the metal strapping used to create his functional baskets, for be used for the various pieces of art. i WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM 18 example, Oslapas hits up lumberyards and factories—or any other “There are so many raw materials that are avail- CASA QUE PASA: A collaborative show business that receives goods in a pallet or crate—for the steel able to us,” Oslapas says. “We don’t look at them as dubbed “Street Cirque” can be viewed through banding that straps down the supplies. Once he’s collected the thin such, though, we look at them as garbage. If we just October at Casa Que Pasa, 1415 Railroad Ave. i 756-8226 banding, he straightens it, paints it and then leaves it outside to changed our perception of the potential those mate- collect rust for a least a year. When the rust has come through the rials have, they could become raw materials.” doit

CEDAR WORKS: View and purchase a variety of Native American art from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sat. 34 34 at the Cedar Works Art Gallery, 217 Holly St. i 647-6933 FOOD DEPOT ARTS CENTER: North Coast paint- ers Carol Merrick, Esther McLatchy, Meredith

Runestrand, Pat Fleeson, and Gerry Friberg will 27 show their works through Sept. 25 at the Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. i WWW.DEPOTARTSCENTER.ORG

DIGS: “Where Do We Go From Here?,” quilted CLASSIFIEDS compositions by Jess Flegel, can be perused through the month at DIGS, 200 W. Holly St. 24 i WWW.DIGSSHOWROOM.COM

FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists FILM at the new Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Har- ris Ave. i WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM 20 GALLERY CYGNUS: “Riverscapes and Water

Shapes,” an exhibit featuring paintings by Mag- MUSIC gie Wilder and glass sculpture by Theodora John- son, shows through Nov. 7 at La Conner’s Gallery 18 18 18 Cygnus, 109 Commercial St. ART ART )<32<7 ART i WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM GOOD EARTH: Prayer wheels by potter Chris

Moench can be perused through September at 16 Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. :[YVUN /LHS[O`YLX\PYL

i WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM STAGE INSIGHTS: “Inner Vision Outbox” can be viewed through the month at Insights Gallery, 604 Com- 5\[YP[PV\Z >OVSLZVTL mercial Ave., Anacortes. 14 i WWW.INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM LITTLE GALLERY: View Willow Bader’s “The Art GET OUT of Tango” through Sept. 25 at the Little Gallery, 1220 Bay St. i WWW.LITTLEGALLERY.COM 12 LOOMIS HALL: “The American Landscape” exhibit shows through Oct. 2 at Blaine’s Loomis Hall Gallery, 288 Martin St. WORDS i WWW.LOOMISHALLGALLERY.COM

LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Portland Prints”—featuring 8 works by Hibiki Miyazaki, Nancy Prior, and Mar- garet Van Patten—can be perused through Oct. 16 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. CURRENTS CURRENTS i WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM

MINDPORT: “Water, Water: Boat Floating on 6 Canyon Creek” can be viewed through September at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. VIEWS VIEWS i WWW.MINDPORT.ORG

MONA: “Artists, Poets, Scholars: Fishtown and 4 the Skagit River” and “Max Benjamin, Helmi

Juvonen, and Louis Mideke From the Permanent MAIL Collection” will be up through Oct. 4 at La Con-

ner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. 2 i WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG DO IT IT DO QUILT MUSEUM: “All That Blooms” and “Japanese Textiles” can be perused through Sept. 26 at the

La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St. 10 i WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM .22.

SKAGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Way We 09 Played: Early Skagit Recreation” can be seen

through July, 2011, at La Conner’s Skagit County .05

Historical Museum, 501 4th St. 38 # i (360) 466-3365 SMITH & VALLEE: Buildings, structures, hous- es and homes will be depicted at the “Dwelling” exhibit through Sept. 26 at Smith & Vallee Gal- lery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. i WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM our little WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Shifting Views of Space &KRRVHIURPPRUHWKDQ and Place: Collection Selections/One,” “1934: A CASCADIA WEEKLY New Deal for Artists,” and “Outside the Home: world EXONIRRGVDWWKH&RRS 19 Photographs of Women in the Workplace” can is now online: currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum. i WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 'RZQWRZQ² &RUGDWD² 1)RUHVW6W :HVWHUO\5G cascadiaweekly.com DW+ROO\6W DW&RUGDWD3NZ\ Rumor Has It

34 34 WELL, BAND LOTTERY, you happened. Going into last Friday night’s free-for-all event at Jinx, I had a limited FOOD set of expectations that mostly consisted of 1. hoping some bands would be good, 2. guiltily anticipating

27 27 music gaining a certain amount of pleasure from the bands SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT that weren’t good, and 3. pretty much hoping for a musical trainwreck of memorable and epic proportions.

CLASSIFIEDS What I got was something a bit different, but more enjoyably so. First of all, the majority of the faux bands were actually good. Not just good for having 24 only been bands for two weeks, but real songs/real

FILM FILM chops/real hard work good. That was certainly a welcome surprise. Another surprise: some of the bands

20 not only had invested time in writing songs and prac- 20 ticing, but also had merch for sale. Which brought the MUSIC

MUSIC ridiculousness to a whole new delightful level. Also, so very delightful were the ad hoc band names. While

18 Hawaiian Ghost Punch seemed to have captured the fancy of the attendant masses, I must express a soft ART ART spot for Boner in the Sauna. But what no one anticipated when Jinx owner Mi- 16 chelle Schutte unleashed the Band Lottery beast upon Bellingham’s music scene was STAGE STAGE how galvanizing so many people would ﬁnd it to be. The 35 musi- 14 cians who’d signed up could not have been more excited to take

GET OUT part. The many, many other mu- sicians who missed the sign-up window this time around but

12 BY CAREY ROSS were eager to take part in a future event made it clear the Band Lottery would not WORDS be simply a one-off show. And the hundreds of people who attended—enough to raise a sum of money for Jinx 8 that was higher than Schutte dared anticipate—got an unintended, but deﬁnitely welcome, object lesson in all the ways in which the Bellingham music scene is far CURRENTS CURRENTS INTERVIEW BY CLARK ELLIOTT more than just a bunch of disaffected hipsters mired in

6 their own fashionable cynicism. I’ve done a lot of talking about what constitutes a music scene vs. a music

VIEWS VIEWS community. And what happened in the Jinx basement Friday night was community at its most creative, sup-

4 The Melvins portive and very best. And I’m not likely to forget it.

MAIL MAIL IT’S A CABARET ACT Also in the realm of things one should not forget is a whole heaping helping of great shows on the immediate

2 AFEWmonths ago, the Melvins released their BO: Bands who’ve influenced me lately would be this horizon. Here’s your list, so you can make your plans ac- 20th studio album, The Bride Screamed Murder, and band Dalek from New Jersey. They sound like Throb- cordingly: At the Wild Buffalo, the Productionists kick DO IT IT DO hit the road soon thereafter, which, for their many bing Gristle with a rapper. I’m influenced by a wide things off Sept. 23 with some sort of CD release party local fans means one thing: a stop in Bellingham. variety of things. It could be a given song—if you they’ve been papering the town with posters about for 10 They’ll be here Sept. 28, for a show at the Wild Buf- listen to the first song called “The Water Glass” on literally months now. Not to be outdone, the Acorn .22.

09 falo, and they’ll bring with them the sludgy sound our new album, that song is a combination of heavy Project will also be releasing an album, Generation Debt, that has inﬂuenced everyone from Soundgarden to metal, military cadence and drum corps drumming. at the Buff the next night (Sept. 24). Buy your tickets

.05 Nirvana. Band leader Buzz Osborne—or “King Buzzo” So I have no problem mixing inﬂuences into our early if you can. No chance this show won’t sell out. 38

# as he is also known—sat down recently to talk about songs. I’m influenced by everything around me. It Sat., Sept. 25 brings the Thermals (who haven’t graced Bellingham, his affinity for New Jersey Band Dalek, doesn’t even have to be music. a Bellingham stage in some time) with Japandroids, and and a whole lot of Big Business. CW: The Melvins have been around for 26 years. Do you the week will close out Tues., Sept. 28 with the Melvins. Cascadia Weekly: Are you excited to be playing in Bell- feel the band will be around for another five years, or But it isn’t all happening at the Wild Buffalo. ASP Pop ingham again? do you want to quit soon? Music is getting things into gear with a show featur- Buzz Osborne: Oh, of course. We like to play in as BO: No, I have no desire to quit. Wanting to quit ing Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Sept. 25 at the Viking many places as we can. I have no interest in just would beg the question that I have something Multipurpose Room, while Pan Pan and Baltic Cousins CASCADIA WEEKLY playing the major, major attraction cities like Chi- else to do. There’s no big fat trust fund that’s will kick of the Underground Coffeehouse series Sept. 20 cago, New York, or San Francisco. Although those going to kick in when I’m 50. I make my living 24. And while James Hardesty can name any number places are great to play, I don’t have any better playing music, and until I can figure another way of reasons on any given night to hit up the Green Frog time playing a big place from a small place. to make a living or I’m forced into that, and I (starting with his presence behind the bar there), one CW: Are there any contemporary bands that you’ve been think we sound great and good, and if we accept of the best is the Head and the Heart, who will play influenced by? another [record] offer—which we would—I don’t there Sat., Sept. 25. musicEvents musicEvents

see any reason why we should quit. WED., SEPT. 22 CW: Now that Coady Willis and Jared Warren (of BENISE: Masterful musicianship, brilliantly cho- reographed dance numbers and much more will be 34 Big Business) have been in the Melvins for four part of tonight’s multi-media “Benise: The Span-

years, do feel this is a permanent change for ish Guitar” performance at 7:30pm at the Mount FOOD the group, or just an era in its history? Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Ticket are BO: It’s a permanent change—until they go out $20-$49. 27 27 of their minds. Soon as they go out of their i 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM minds, we need to ﬁnd new people. It’s all FRI., SEPT. 24 up to them. BENEFIT CONCERT: Queen Anne’s Revenge, CW: Are they enjoying their role in the band? Lovage, VR Trainers, and the Meteors will perform CLASSIFIEDS BO: I hope so. They’ve been really happy, and at a beneﬁt concert for the Family Violence Preven- tion Fund at 7:30pm at Bellingham High School, 24 I enjoy having them in the band. I’ve never 2020 Cornwall Ave. Suggested donation is $3. wanted to kick anyone out of the band. If i 676-6575 people want to play by FILM themselves, than that’s SAT., SEPT. 25

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24 humorous. We had several fun adventures together. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My proposed assign- Here’s how I interpret the dream: It doesn’t neces- ment for you would be fun, but it wouldn’t be easy. It

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20 I’m less susceptible to being motivated by hatred. I’m understand if you’re not up for the challenge. But if able to maintain a live-and-let-live approach to things you’re game, read the following excerpt of a poem by Pablo Neruda (translated by Alastair Reid), and incor-

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ART ART sons will come from doing hard work. I mean that in wholeness, a crackling, living fragrance.” the most literal way: intensifying your commitment to doing your job with maximum integrity and in- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I love to listen 16 Aggressive. telligence and excellence. But I also mean that you to DJ Schmeejay on San Francisco radio station KUSF. should concentrate on what needs ﬁxing, reﬁnement, Like a throwback to the Golden Age of FM radio in the

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CASCADIA WEEKLY mindedness are luxuries the ego may indulge in, but VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Artists suffer for they are not the natural state of our deepest selves. their work, but they don’t mind,” read the headline Rather, at our cores, in the essential primal source 30 in the San Francisco Chronicle. The attached article that sustains us, we are complicated and meander- featured brief interviews with ﬁve artists who all said ing... mysterious and exploratory... curious and ques- they enjoy doing their creative work so much that Life is calling. How far will you go? tioning. In other words, it’s perfectly healthy to be in they gladly put up with the privations it causes them. a labyrinthine state of mind. I hope this meditation #" " " ! That’s the spirit I’d like you to embrace in the coming helps you enjoy your upcoming Season of Soul. weeks, Virgo. See if you can immerse yourself in a she’s not that into sex with a guy built BY AMY ALKON like you. She may like you, respect PEPPER you, and want to want you, but lust 34 doesn’t work that way. You just can’t FOOD THE ADVICE train yourself to be attracted to a per- SISTERS son like you’d train yourself to roller- 27

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CLASSIFIEDS i 383-3200 LOVELY NIGHTSHADES: Mataio Gillis will school attendees on how to utilize “Lovely 24 Nightshades”—tomatoes, pepper, potatoes, eggplant, etc.—in recipes at 6:30pm at Ciao FILM FILM Thyme, 207 Unity St. Fees are $45. i WWW.CIAOTHYME.COM

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STAGE STAGE “Celebrate Skagit Harvest Dinner & Auction” WITH MORE and more people seeking gluten-free solutions due starting at 5:30pm at Mount Vernon’s St. Jo- to celiac disease, gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity or just a desire seph Center, 215 N. 15th St. Entry is $70 per 14 to limit gluten intake, almonds are a safe and delicious choice to help person or $560 for a table. make living a gluten-free life a satisfying sensory adventure. i WWW.SKAGITONIANS.ORG BBQ BENEFIT: Attend a “BBQ and Bands GET OUT Nationally renowned gluten-free expert and cookbook author Elana Beneﬁt” for Marianne’s House from 6-11:30pm Amsterdam is proving that living gluten-free doesn’t mean settling at Bellingham’s Depot Market Square. Food for bland and boring foods. prices range from $6-$10. 12 Amsterdam, author of the popular book, i WWW.MARIANNESHOUSE.ORG The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook,

WORDS SUN., SEPT. 26 shares many of her recipes for enticing, HARVEST DINNER #2: Taste the best of gluten-free dishes on her popular website, Whatcom County’s bounty provided by local 8 www.ElanasPantry.com. food producers at a “Whatcom Harvest Din- One of the staples of her gluten-free ner” starting at 4pm at Ferndale’s Boxx Berry pantry is almond ﬂour. “Almond ﬂour is Farm. Entry is $45, plus an additional $5 if

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6 easy to use, and for those of us watching i WWW.WHATCOMHARVESTDINNER.COM our glycemic index, almond ﬂour is chock MON., SEPT. 27 VIEWS VIEWS full of protein and low in both sugar and CULINARY INTENSIVE: Mataio Gillis will carbohydrates.” In other words—it’s an in- // ) lead a “Culinary Intensive” starting tonight 4 WHAT: Gluten-free Bak- credibly versatile way to meet all your bak- at Ciao Thyme, 207 Unity St. The four-day ing with Jean Layton

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ETHIOPIAN KITCHEN: Mulu Belay will lead to your diet it makes it easier and more N. Forest St. COST: $35 “The Ethiopian Kitchen” cooking class from satisfying to live gluten free. They’re a 6-9pm at the Cordata Co-op. Entry is $35. 10 INFO: 383-3200 . + perfect solution for the gluten-free diet i 383-3200

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.05 Awareness Event calcium (75mg), iron (1.1mg) and protein 1 tablespoon vanilla extract local youth will be highlighted at area res-

38 WHEN: 9:30am-4:30pm # (6g). Not only that, they offer (7.4mg) vi- 2 tablespoons agave nectar taurants this week as part of Common Thread Fri., Oct. 1 and 10am- Farm’s “Kid Grown” project. Specials can be tamin E, (0.3mg) of riboflavin and (1mg) of 3:30pm Sat., Oct. 2 1½ cups almond flour had at Nimbus (Sept. 27), Pastazza (Sept. niacin. Plus, a one-ounce serving has 13 WHERE: St. Luke’s Health ¼ teaspoon salt 28), and Boundary Bay (Sept. 29). grams of good unsaturated fats, just one Education Center, 3333 ¼ baking soda i WWW.COMMONTHREADSFARM.ORG gram of saturated fat and is always choles- Squalicum Pkwy Grapeseed oil, for cooking COST: Admission is free terol and gluten free. In large bowl, whisk together eggs, water, vanilla and TUES., SEPT. 28 INFO: 223-7437 or www. FONG AND SUSHI: Learn how to roll your For many people, the hardest part of fol- agave. Add almond flour, salt and baking soda and mix until CASCADIA WEEKLY glutenfreeway.info own when Chef Robert Fong helms an “All thoroughly combined. Heat grapeseed oil on skillet over lowing a gluten-free diet can be finding a About Sushi” course at 6:30pm at the Com- medium low to medium heat. Scoop 1 heaping tablespoon 34 variety of safe-but-tasty options that sat- munity Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry of batter at a time onto the skillet. Pancakes will form little isfy cravings. Amsterdam has created tempting recipes that just also is $45. bubbles, when bubbles open, flip pancakes over and cook i happen to be gluten free. Her Silver Dollar Pancakes are a nutritious other side. Remove from heat to a plate. Repeat process 383-3200 and delicious way to start the day. with remaining batter, add more oil to skillet as needed. For more enticing recipes and information, visit www.AlmondBoard.com Yield: 18 pancakes.

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