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The Last Days of Melville Malloy: 7:30pm, iDiOM

42 cascadia Theater An Evening of Improv: 7:30pm, Firehouse Perform- FOOD FOOD ThisWeek ing Arts Center Mr. Marmalade: 7:30pm, Underground Theatre, WWU A glance at this week’s Prometheus Bound: 7:30pm, Phil Tarro Theatre,

35 35 Mount Vernon happenings Genre Legends: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre

B-BOARD B-BOARD DANCE Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library New Music, New Dance: 7:30pm, Performing Arts 32 Expect epic improvised Center, WWU FILM MUSIC adventures at Genre Ukulele Mini-Fest: 12:30-6pm, St. James Presbyte- rian Church 28 Legends performances Mike Allen Jazz Quartet: 3pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn MUSIC every Friday and Saturday Brewgrass: 7:30pm-12:30am, Rockfish Grill, H20, and the Brown Lantern

26 through November at the Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon ART Upfront Theatre Petunia & the Vipers: 8pm, Spark Museum

24 WORDS David Sedaris: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre STAGE FOOD Veterans Breakfast: 8-11am, Bellingham Senior

22 Activity Center Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square

GET OUT Bow Little Market: 10am-4pm, Beau Lodge, Bow

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20 Holiday Vintage Market: 9am-3pm, Port of Ana- cortes Transit Shed Event Center Holiday Gift Show: 9am-7pm, Depot Arts Center, WORDS Anacortes Holiday Hoopla: 10am-3pm, Hopewell Grange, 8

PHOTO BY MATT MCDANIEL MATT BY PHOTO Everson Holiday Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lummi Island Prepare to dance Holiday Inspirations: 10am-6pm, Chuckanut Bay

CURRENTS CURRENTS THURSDAY [11.12.15] Gallery the night away 6 ONSTAGE SUNDAY [11.15.15] Much Ado About Nothing: 7pm, Bellingham High when Petunia

VIEWS School & the Vipers ONSTAGE Legally Blonde: 7pm, Nooksack Valley High School Legally Blonde: 2pm, Nooksack Valley High School

4 The Last Days of Melville Malloy: 7:30pm, iDiOM perform at a King Stag: 7pm, Mount Baker High School, Deming Theater fundraiser for Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab MAIL MAIL Mr. Marmalade: 7:30pm, Underground Theatre, WWU Mr. Marmalade: 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Underground Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre KMRE Sat., Theatre, WWU

2 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Nov. 14 at the MUSIC DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO MUSIC Spark Museum Skagit Opera’s Hansel & Gretel: 2pm, McIntyre Bellingham Music Club: 7:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Hall, Mount Vernon Old City Hall of Electrical Bayshore Symphony: 3pm, Central Lutheran Church Jansen Jazz Band: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Invention Youth Concert: 3pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden

11.11.15 Joe Hill Road Show: 7pm, Bellingham Unitarian FRIDAY [11.13.15] Fellowship John Whelan: 7pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church .10 ONSTAGE 45 John Rollins Benefit Concert: 7pm, Fairhaven # Much Ado About Nothing: 7pm, Bellingham High Library School Ferndale’s Got Talent: 7pm, Ferndale High School VISUAL ARTS Legally Blonde: 7pm, Nooksack Valley High School Holiday Gift Show: 10am-4pm, Depot Arts Center, King Stag: 7pm, Mount Baker High School, Deming MUSIC VISUAL ARTS Anacortes The Last Days of Melville Malloy: 7:30pm, iDiOM Marcia Kester: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Holiday Gift Show: 9am-7pm, Depot Arts Center, Anniversary Celebration: 12-4pm, Mindport Theater Vernon Anacortes Exhibits Mr. Marmalade: 7:30pm, Underground Theatre, WWU Skagit Opera’s Hansel & Gretel: 7:30pm, McIntyre Holiday Hoopla: 4-8pm, Hopewell Grange, Everson CASCADIA WEEKLY Prometheus Bound: 7:30pm, Phil Tarro Theatre, Hall VISUAL ARTS Mount Vernon Brewgrass: 7:30pm-12:30am, Rockfish Grill, H20, 2 SATURDAY [11.14.15] Holiday Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Lummi Island Genre Legends: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre and the Brown Lantern Holiday Bazaar: 5pm, Cirque Lab ONSTAGE DANCE FILM Much Ado About Nothing: 7pm, Bellingham High New Music, New Dance: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Warren Miller’s Chasing Shadows: 7:30pm, Mount School SEND YOUR EVENT INFORMATION TO: Center, WWU Baker Theatre Ferndale’s Got Talent: 7pm, Ferndale High School [email protected]

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6 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ MAN WITH STAR SETS LOW BAR several years of negotiations, our representatives cascadiaweekly.com A recent Gristle mentioned a candidate and and the people now have less than 90 days to read VIEWS REAR END Whatcom: Erik Burge, some local committees that had failed to prop- it, comment and vote it either up or down. 35: Bulletin Board Stephanie Simms 4

4 erly file financial disclosure forms. The column Because the President was granted authority 36: Wellness Skagit: Linda Brown, was critical of Ferndale Mayor Gary Jensen as to make this deal without any input, Congress MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL Barb Murdoch 37: Crossword someone who knows better but had failed to file cannot suggest even one change. Up or down!

the required disclosure forms. That’s it. 2 38: Free Will Astrology Letters Send letters to letters@ Another candidate that should know better is Most of this TPP “free” trade deal is not about cascadiaweekly.com

DO IT IT DO 39: Advice Goddess Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo. He has also trade and it is not “free,” except to the largest 40: Comix failed to file required forms. global corporations who were in on every step of 41: Slowpoke, Sudoku While the Sheriff didn’t have an opponent in the deal, helping to create the language. the general election, he elected to do full re- Is there any doubt about who will be favored in

11.11.15 42: Jake’s Western Grill porting. A C4 form for the period September 1 this deal? While the people are promised a “bet- through October 12 was due on October 13 and ter” deal than earlier trade deals, nobody has .10

45 ©2015 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by a C4 form for the period October 13 through Oc- found the evidence of the “better deals” yet. In # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 tober 26 was due on October 27. As of November fact, it reads a lot like the old deals—bad for [email protected] Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia 5, neither are available on the Public Disclosure working people, bad for food safety, bad for our Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing COVER: 2015 Best of Commission website. papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Bellingham Best Salon SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material —Bill McCallum, Bellingham to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you winners Eva. Photo by include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- Jesse Kinsman ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday TPP TROUBLES the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. The latest in a string of nasty trade deals is DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and An item in our police column mis- content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. finalized and published. 4 identified a Mount Vernon man arrested In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does It’s called the TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership. not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your in Arizona on bestiality charges as a letters to fewer than 300 words. It is hundreds of pages and 30 chapters, most of retired postal worker. He was a driver for them written to protect the interests of big global a a nationally known package delivery business. It is not “free” and is not about trade. company. Our apologies to postal workers Without any access to this document for the past everywhere. NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre access to affordable life-saving medi- McIntyre Hall Presents cines, bad for our Internet access, over- riding local laws, derailing climate talks, privatizing everything.

This names a few ways this latest trade 42 deal will hurt the American people.

Representative Larsen is holding a FOOD town hall meeting to listen to us about this trade deal at 5:30pm, Friday, Nov. 13 35 35 at Bellingham City Hall. Let your voice be heard. There is not much time left.

—Ronna Loerch, Everson B-BOARD Friday, November 20 The release last week of the 5,544- FREE 32 page text of the Trans-Pacific Partner- 7:30pm ship confirms what its most apocalyptic Mezzanine “Some of the tightest, smoothest, FILM critics feared. sexiest soul and funk... from Large Party Vancouver’s East Side.” According to Chris Hedges, “The TPP, ~ The Georgia Straight 28 along with WTO and NAFTA, is the most Reservations brazen corporate power grab in history. MUSIC It allows corporations to bypass our three 1317 Commercial St. branches of government to impose en- [email protected] MCINTYREHALL.ORG 360.416.7727 26 2501 E COLLEGE WAY, MOUNT VERNON

forceable sanctions by secret tribunals.” ART These tribunals can declare our labor, consumer and environmental protections CHUCKANUT BREWERY 24 to be unlawful, non-tariff barriers subject to exorbitant fines, a transnational & KITCHEN STAGE autocratic system of governance. World government, anyone? Supposedly “high 22 standards” in those topics are only “suggestions,” without an enforcement body.

John Peck, executive director of Family GET OUT Farm Defenders says that family farms are

used as pawns by Congress to get these 20 deals railroaded through, while in real- Get Some ity they will be displaced by commodities Try our Bottled Chuckanut Locavore WORDS speculators that reduce prices to rock Vienna Lager, Posole Soup Pilsner, Kolsch w/Tomatillos!

bottom with cheap, unsafe imports. 8 Our “Save Our Sovereignty” Town Hall convened about 200 people, with “guest Family Friendly listeners” Reps. Suzan DelBene and Rick CURRENTS HoPPY Hour Larsen sending their aides. I doubt they

Sunday-Thursday 4-6pm 6 will change their votes, as they supported fast tracking this monster. However, 601 West Holly St. • Bellingham, WA VIEWS Rep. Larsen is holding his own town hall 360-75-BEERS (752-3377) ChuckanutBreweryAndKitchen.com 4

this week. Show up and express your feel- 4 ings on Friday at Bellingham City Hall. MAIL MAIL As Bill Moyers said, “Only organized MAIL people can stop organized money.” 2 —Dianne Foster, Bellingham DO IT IT DO

SLIPPERY SLOPES Included with the fact that railroads have few regulations other than those provided by the National Transportation 11.11.15 Safety Board is the situation north of Ed- .10

monds, where bluffs recurrently collapse 45 # on the tracks every year, especially in heavy rain events. Picture an oil train being pushed into the Sound, which is very close to the tracks along that stretch, during such an event. If this is not reason to question who is in charge of the transportation of such CASCADIA WEEKLY volatile cargoes, what is? 5 —Mike Stone, Bellingham

Send letters to Cascadia Weekly, P.O. Box 2833, Bellingham, WA 98227-2833. Email [email protected] THE GRISTLE HUMPTY DUMPTY: Like a certain storybook egghead,

42 the county’s jail tax proposition wobbled on the wall of passing in early election returns last week. But in

FOOD FOOD strongly trending later returns, the initiative had a great fall, possibly tugging down the numbers of other views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE propositions and candidates in the tumble. And all the 35 35 administration’s horses and men may find it very hard to put this initiative together again.

B-BOARD B-BOARD Precinct analysis indicates Whatcom County Proposi- tion 2015-1 was yet another issue drawn along a county/

32 city divide—with the measure weakly passing in the ru- BY ERIC HIRST ral county and smaller cities (precinct average of 53.0

FILM percent), and strongly rejected in Bellingham (precinct average of 40.2 percent). Ironically, when public poll-

28 ing examined support for the measure earlier this year, Water Woes it found nearly the opposite—the tax proposal failed

MUSIC everywhere, but the concept had its strongest support DOES WHATCOM COUNTY HAVE A WATER SUPPLY PROBLEM? among Bellingham voters, always a bit more generous

26 with tax proposals than their rural counterparts. This un- MANY FARMERS and oth- challenging to determine whether a

ART derscores the tremendous folly of the county administra- ers believe that claims of insuffi- particular groundwater withdrawal tion’s strategy to pass the jail initiative by shutting out cient water are overstated or just (location, timing, volume and flow the City of Bellingham in preference to the cabal of Small plain wrong; see, for example, the rate) will adversely affect stream- 24 City Mayors. How you could go from the unanimous sup- opinion piece in the Aug. 8, 2015 flows and other groundwater with-

STAGE port for a new jail facility among all opinion leaders and Bellingham Herald. They make two drawals. Detailed computer model- policymakers to squeezing out the approval of just five points: (1) We receive much more ing is needed to show the temporal of the county’s 14 most influential legislators to place water as rain and snow than we use, relationship between withdrawal of 22 such a matter on the fall ballot for voters is prima facie and (2) The Abbotsford-Sumas aqui- and its many tributaries needs to groundwater and its return down- evidence the proposal was not ripe, not ready for voter fer contains massive amounts of stay where it is to support ecosys- stream to surface waters. (A multi-

GET OUT review. Disaster. water that can supply all the water tems, including salmon and other year study is underway to quantify The City of Bellingham, the county’s center of popu- that agriculture needs. threatened fish, as well as recre- these hydraulic-connectivity is-

20 lation and commerce, held grave concerns about the Data from the U.S. Geological Sur- ation and scenic beauty. In 1985 sues with results expected in two proposed .2 percent public safety sales tax levy to con- vey (USGS) show that the average the Dept. of Ecology established or three years.) This relationship struct and operate a new jail. The smaller cities were flow in the Nooksack River is almost minimum flows for many points in will differ among watersheds be- WORDS content with levying the sales tax, when 70 cents of 900 billion gallons a year. This vol- the Nooksack River basin. Ecology cause of geology and soils, as well

8 every dollar of county sales is generated out of Bell- ume of water is much, much greater set these levels to protect fish (in- as depth to aquifer. ingham. But of course, the smaller cities—with their than water use (about 33 billion gal- cluding salmon), other wildlife, rec- A key obstacle to drilling wells smaller numbers of misdemeanants requiring incarcera- lons a year). Implicitly, this suggests reation, water quality and aesthetics and pumping water up (and, in some

CURRENTS CURRENTS tion—didn’t have as much skin in the game. The Execu- that there is no conflict between in the river and its tributaries. These cases horizontally from one area to tive’s strategy of huddling with representatives of just in- and out-of-stream uses; there is levels are not being met at the USGS another) is the cost of infrastructure 6 6 15 percent of the county population while insulting and plenty of water for both. station in Ferndale for almost two- (e.g., pumps and pipes) plus opera- enraging the representatives of 40 percent of the popu- In addition, the Abbotsford-Sumas thirds of the days in summer. tions and maintenance costs. I found VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS lation amounts to electoral malpractice. aquifer contains 275 billion gallons To make matters worse, water tem- only one study of potential local

4 The Sheriff will now set about to do as he indicated of water and recharges every winter. peratures are generally higher when projects, intended to transfer water he must, whether the measure passed or failed, which Thus, the aquifer contains almost 10 streamflows are lowest, further en- from PUD #1 in Ferndale to either MAIL MAIL is to reduce the jail population to safe and sustainable times as much water as used annually dangering fish, which prefer cool, Lynden or the Bertrand Creek area.

levels. One wonders why he did not do so earlier, if by all Whatcom County homes, busi- moving water. Even worse, low flows This study estimated the infrastruc- 2 there was a plan and a procedure to make the jail safer nesses and agriculture. are correlated with high water tem- ture costs at 0.2 to 0.6 cents per gal- DO IT IT DO with existing resources. Although the above numbers and peratures and low levels of dissolved lon. Is this a reasonable price to pay The Gristle is reminded of the sales tax levy for en- comparisons of water resources and oxygen, all of which adversely affect to replace surface water diversions hanced emergency medical services (EMS) that was de- consumption are correct, they are, fish. Recently, Ecology officials indi- with groundwater withdrawals? feated at the polls in 2004. In part, the 2004 EMS levy in my view, incomplete. cated that scientific advances since 11.11.15 suffered from a lack of confidence in the plan among the rule was prepared would result FUTURE opinion leaders. Those leaders hammered out their dif- SURFACE WATER in higher minimum instream flow re- The imbalance between water .10

45 ferences, circled their wagons around unanimous agree- Most of the county’s snow and quirements. Higher minimum flows supply and use will likely get worse # ment on a plan, and the following year voters passed rain fall in the winter, while most of mean less water available for human for three reasons: that revised countywide EMS sales tax plan strongly, our water use (especially for irriga- (out-of-stream) uses. t Natural population growth: with 66.9 percent in support—support robust enough tion) occurs in the summer, leading Historical trends and official to even exceed the requirement for a property tax in- to a major temporal mismatch be- GROUNDWATER forecasts show Whatcom County crease, actually, an option County Executive Jack Louws tween supply and demand. Overall, Withdrawing large amounts of population growing by 1.1 per- categorically rejected as an instrument to construct a summer supply is 29 percent of win- water from the Abbotsford-Sumas cent a year over the next 30

CASCADIA WEEKLYnew jail due to the higher threshold required for pas- ter supply, while summer demand is aquifer (or other local groundwater years (by almost 84,000 people). sage. Yet we see, when the plan is broadly supported 357 percent of winter demand. sources) faces two problems—hy- t Local effects of global climate 6 voters will rise to greet it. In addition, much of the water draulic connectivity and economics. change: Increases in greenhouse- We suspect, though, it won’t be so easy to settle dif- flowing through the three forks of Because aquifers and surface waters gas emissions will continue to ferences and assemble agreeable consensus on a revised the Nooksack River, the river itself interact with each other, it can be WATER, CONTINUED ON PAGE 35 jail plan. Back in September, Bellingham City Council at the in- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE vitation of the County Executive took

another stab at crafting a jail facilities GO 42 use agreement (JFUA)—a last-ditch NORTHWOOD effort by Council to recover what had FOOD become an embarrassment to COB, the failure to agree to a facility that FOR CASINO ! 35 everyone had agreed was necessary, and a very public quarrel between two

FUN B-BOARD governments that need very much to get along. Importantly, the city relin-

quished objections to the sales tax in- 32 strument to finance the jail, and their objections to the design and siting FILM and operation of the jail, and focused

their revisions on certain cost-sharing 28 concerns. The Executive rejected every substantive portion of the city’s pro- WIN A GENERATOR MUSIC posed JFUA.

The Gristle imagines Executive Louws 26

now considers that rejected document ART will form the basis, the starting point, for renewed negotiations with the City 24 of Bellingham in a quick turnaround SUNDAY,

for another attempt at a ballot propo- STAGE sition. In other words, having gotten about 85 percent of what he wanted, NOVEMBER 15! 22 perhaps Jack can yield a bit on 15 per- Drawings hourly from 1pm to cent. We imagine he’ll be gravely mis- 4pm on Sunday, November taken in that belief; and Bellingham 15. Win a gas generator and GET OUT City Council will return to full intran- be prepared for the next big

sigence on issues and terms they were storm! Winners Club Members 20 prepared, under duress, to relent upon. get a free entry on the day of Jack’s own Council is similarly in the drawings. WORDS open revolt, annoyed at being hood-

winked by the Executive over a $28,000 8 mailer the Law&Order Troika (Sheriff, Prosecutor, Executive) sent out in

advance of ballots. And Council is no CURRENTS doubt irritated at having been prod- 6 ded into placing the issue, unripe as it 6 was, on a ballot in the first place—on VIEWS a deeply divided vote of 4-3. VIEWS

And we imagine there will be great GET $10 4 reluctance from all parties to do what now needs to be done, which is wad up Get 5X Points! MAIL a failed jail plan and all its assump- FREE PLAY! 2 tions and start over, from scratch, on a Redeem this coupon to purchase DO IT IT DO new plan: Fire the DLR Group jail plan- a $20 slot ticket and receive a $30 ners and burn all of the poisoned fruit Wednesday, slot ticket, for a bonus $10 in free from that poisoned tree. Set aside the slot play! Sheriff’s bloated Taj Mahal justice cen-

Must be 21 and a Winners Club Member. Valid 11.11.15 ter and the outrageously overvalued November 18 November 11 through 17, 2015, only. Limit one La Bounty Road property, and sharpen Sign in before you play to coupon per person. Redeem at The Winners Club. Cannot be combined with any other offer. .10 pencils for a more modest facility more get 5X Points all day! 45 # central to services. And give critics what they’ve asked for, which is a real needs assessment as required under growth planning; a transparency in ac- MODERN COMFORTS AND JUST TWO TURNS OFF THE counting that properly separates con- struction costs from operating costs; OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY GUIDE MERIDIAN better cost and revenue sharing among CASCADIA WEEKLY the partner governments; and a robust BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 7 and funded (and functioning) suite of 877.777.9847 alternatives to jail. 1RUWKZRRG5RDG/\QGHQ:$ N It’s a lot to ask from a guy who was E BADGER RD NORTHWOOD RD just reelected in a landslide. But, www.northwoodcasino.com Jack, it has to happen. GUIDE MERIDIAN RD LYNDEN

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SEVERE RUSTING SAMISH RIVER BRIDGE STAGE 22 GET OUT 20 WORDS 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 6 EROSION OF PIER PAD, SKAGIT RIVER BRIDGE DAKOTA CREEK CRACKED PIER PAD PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE WATERKEEPERS ALLIANCE OF THE WATERKEEPERS COURTESY PHOTOS VIEWS 4 don’t know who the inspectors are, or MAIL MAIL what their qualifications are. And we are

denied most information about how much 2 and what kinds of dangerous cargo is DO IT IT DO DEADLY CROSSING crossing these bridges. A SURVEY of 250 oil train bridges across America found that almost On Tues., Nov. 10, Waterkeeper Alliance NEGLECTED BRIDGES and ForestEthics released a first-of-its- half showed signs of considerable deterioration, including missing or kind investigative report, “Deadly Cross- 11.11.15 AND EXPLODING OIL crumbling concrete, partially washed-away footings, rotted pilings and ings: Neglected Bridges and Exploding Oil Trains,” which highlights significant .09 TRAINS badly corroded steel beams, according to a report released this week.

45 public safety threats to communities and # BY LEE FIRST Determining whether the problems found by three environmental waterways around the country. Twnen- groups pose a threat to public safety is almost impossible, however, ty-one Waterkeepers around the country because the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rarely inspects the contributed, including the Hudson Riv- erkeeper, San Francisco Baykeeper, Co- nation’s estimated 100,000 rail bridges, including some built more lumbia Riverkeeper, Spokane Riverkeeper, than 100 years ago. Instead the agency leaves that responsibility to Puget Soundkeeper, and others. As part of CASCADIA WEEKLY the railroads, which don’t make their inspection records public. the report, North Sound Baykeeper staff examined 30 bridges over the Nooksack, 8 Most of us assume that bridges are regularly inspected and that there is careful gov- Skagit, Samish, and Stillaguamish rivers ernment oversight, but that is not the case for thousands of railroad bridges around and other creeks and sloughs. The first the nation. The owners of those bridges (mostly railroad companies) are allowed to observation was the bridge over the Swin- set their own load limits, speed limits and inspection and maintenance schedules. omish Channel. Here’s a bit of what we The public has little or no access to the information about how safe they are. We observed: Paddling a canoe north out of Swinom- trains are among the heaviest trains on ish Channel toward Padilla Bay is not for the tracks. The sloshing of liquid cargo the faint of heart. Its position in the land- intensifies weight and momentum’s im- scape combines opposing forces of wind, pact on infrastructure. waves, and current—creating challenges Concerns about the risk posed by 42 for little boats. Padilla Bay is shallow, a these trains are far from hypothetical. lot of power boaters ply these waters to The recent spike in use of oil trains FOOD and from La Conner and the San Juan Is- by industry has been accompanied by lands, adding to the mix. But my partner a spike in the frequency and severi- 35 35 and I were on a mission—we, along with ty of accidents. Last week, two trains 21 Waterkeepers around the country, were derailed in separate incidents in Wis- inspecting bridges where oil trains cross consin. The first spilled about 18,000 B-BOARD our waterways. gallons of ethanol into the Mississippi The swinging bridge over the Swinom- River. The second spilled about 1,000 32 ish Channel dates to 1891, and partially gallons of crude oil on the ground. replaced in 1953 with a 368-foot swing/ In 2015 alone there have been seven FILM draw-span bridge that pivots when a train oil train derailments and five of them

approaches. We launched minutes after a have resulted in fiery explosions. Run- 28 100-plus-car unit oil train crossed toward ning this many heavy trains full of

the Tesoro Refinery, and watched it pivot toxic crude over aging infrastructure MUSIC after the crossing. A dozen power boats is dangerous.

who’d been waiting powered up to con- Northwest Washington knows full 26 tinue on their way and began to move. well that failing to maintain bridges ART has consequences. In 2013 we all saw The strong current pushed us toward the EO P G P L E N ’ S I H C S boats, so we back-paddled along the the pictures of the I-5 bridge collapsed I

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K S cleared out, we paddled into the mid- owned Skagit River Railroad Bridge by Evening Magazine & King 5 TV! channel to look at the bridge. which was built in 1916. Featured in the Try our New Full Gluten-Free and Vegetarian Menus! I’m not an engineer—I’m a clean wa- “Deadly Crossing” report, this bridge 22 ter advocate with lots of experience has significant rust on beams and erod- documenting pollution from all sorts of ed and cracked piers. Were an oil train Four Course Sunset Specials GET OUT sources. My assistant was an ace canoe derailment to occur as part of a bridge $ 95* NOW AVAILABLE DURING LUNCH! Ê££>È«ÊUÊ->ÌÊEÊ-ÕÊÎ«È« handler, and together we had the skills failure the result would be catastrophic. 15 15 Entrees to choose from 20 to safely negotiate the bridge despite Just downstream is the intake for the ««iÌâiÀ]Ê-Õ«ÊÀÊ->>`]Ê iÃÃiÀÌ the waves and boat wakes. We looked for Anacortes water treatment plant, which WORDS missing and crumbling concrete pilings, serves drinking water to not only Ana- Now Offering Ravioli, Gnocchi & Veal rot, rust, loose bolts and the like. We took cortes, but also La Connor, Oak Harbor, 8 /FX%FTTFSU0QUJPOTtCréme Brulee made In-House 8 a lot of pictures, and then sat directly un- and the Whidbey Naval Air Station. der the bridge and looked up at it with ForestEthics and the Waterkeep- *Offer valid 7 days a week (holidays excluded) For additional offers visit www.granaio.com CURRENTS CURRENTS binoculars. ers Alliance are calling for significant CURRENTS We saw a lot of rust, and a big crack changes. The railroads must assume CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 6 in one of the pier pads that supports responsibility for the risk of running Lunch hours 360.419.0674 the swinging portion of the bridge. Over dangerous oil trains over questionable 11am–3pm

WWW.GRANAIO.COM VIEWS the next two weeks we continued these bridges. Public safety officials—and Dinner hours [email protected] 3pm–10pm inspections visiting bridges over the the public at large—should be given £ääÊ Ê Ì}iÀÞ]Ê-ÕÌiÊ££ä]Ê ÕÌÊ6iÀ 4 Samish, Skagit, Stillaguamish, Nook- access to all existing inspection and sack rivers, sloughs and creeks along the repair reports. The Federal Railroad MAIL

BNSF route. At about half of the bridges Administration should be given broad 2 we observed one or more problems: evi- oversight and responsibility for all rail DO IT IT DO dence of cracked, crumbling and eroded infrastructure. Bridge records should Lester & Hyldahl pier foundations, severe rust, loose bolts be not only transparent, but also orga- and brackets, and cracked and rotten nized and accessible to facilitate easy wooden support structures. What’s most access to information so that first re- concerning about these problems is that sponders and community planners can 11.11.15 if oil trains crashed or caught fire in these be prepared. Any infrastructure sup- .09

places, the oil would be very difficult or porting oil trains should be subject to 45 impossible to clean up. In several places, independent, rigorous inspection. And Tom Lester DUI/Criminal # these bridges are upstream of municipal deficient infrastructure must be re- water supplies. placed. Until these changes are made, Doug Hyldahl Personal Injury Northwest Washington is already see- oil trains should not be allowed to pass Attorneys Bankruptcy ing huge amounts of crude oil brought over public waterways. in on trains. Three of the four refineries at Law in Whatcom and Skagit counties already Read the full report at waterkeeper. CASCADIA WEEKLY accept a tas many as 15 oil trains every org/2015/11/10/new-investigative-re- week. The fourth, Shell’s refinery near port-documents-threat-from-oil-trains-on 9 Anacortes, is in the middle of an envi- -nations-neglected-rail-infrastructure/ 360.733.5774 ronmental impact statement with the Lee First is is a professional wetland [email protected] intention of adding another six trains scientist with the North Sound Baykeep- 119 N. Commercial Street, Suite 175 per week. One-hundred-car-long unit oil er Team currents last week’s news

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Satpal Sidhu overtakes Kathy Kerhsner in late returns in their

GET OUT race for an open seat on Whatcom County Counci. Sidhu’s lead widens to 821 votes, beyond the threshold of automatic recount. Todd

20 Donovan widens his lead in later returns, easily gaining office with Northwest tribes stood in solidarity to protect treaty rights in the nation’s capital last week. Tribal leaders gathered from many nations— 55 percent of the countywide vote. representing thousands of tribal members across the region to oppose the nation’s largest coal terminal being built on Lummi’s sacred burial grounds, Xwe’chieXen, at Cherry Point. “For thousands of years, Washington tribes have fought to protect all that is important for those who WORDS The sales tax proposal for a new jail fades in a strong trend of call this great state home. We live in a pollution-based economy and we can no longer allow industry and business to destroy our resources, water and land,” said Swinomish tribal leader Brian Cladoosby, president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), at the 7th

8 late returns. it’s rejected by 51.4 percent of county voters. Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference last week. The federal court drops a hammer on Western State Hospital CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 unless they hire more staff at the psychiatric facility. The hospital But the first round of test results did not find ical injuries, according to the Washington State is under fire for failing to protect staff and patients, and the federal E. coli bacteria in food samples taken from sev- Patrol. He is taken to the hospital but does not 6 government threatens to cut millions in funding if changes aren’t eral Chipotle restaurants, according to officials survive his injuries. The cause of the crash has not made. The state says the inability to fill staff vacancies is keeping at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. While yet been determined. VIEWS the hospital from providing quality care and treatment. The state health officials think the risk for new exposures

4 says it tried to meet the court’s deadline but now believes it can’t is low, the number of cases in the outbreak could 11.10.15 safely achieve that goal. rise or fall as lab tests determine if more ill people

MAIL MAIL TUESDAY have this specific strain of E. coli infection. In

Washington, four tests are still in progress. Is this the end for Haggen Foods? The Belling- 2 11.05.15 THURSDAY ham Herald reports filings in bankruptcy court reveal DO IT IT DO 11.06.15 the local grocery chain is considering auctioning off A case of E. coli contamination is confirmed in Whatcom County. FRIDAY all of its locations, including their core markets, as In Washington, 29 residents in six western counties have been re- means of paying down the company’s debts. Haggen ported as outbreak cases. Ten of the cases were hospitalized. Health Neighbors wade into the cold waters off Lummi confirms that “as part of the restructuring process,” 11.11.15 officials say the vector appears to be linked to the Chipotle chain Shore Road to rescue the driver of an SUV who they were “required to explore potential outside op- of restaurants. The company voluntarily closed restaurants as tests had left the roadway and plunged into Belling- portunities for all of its operations,” including the .09

45 are underway. ham Bay. The 63-year-old driver sustained crit- core stores which are performing well. #

Follow us on Beermenus.com 9 Rotating Taps… CASCADIA WEEKLY 2 Gluten Free 10 House made Soups… Hot and Savory Thin Style Pizza… by the Slice or Whole Pie www.GreenesCorner.com • 360.306.8137 School. Backup from law enforcement FUZZ was requested. FINAL ELECTION RESULTS REPURPOSED PLATES WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL BUZZ 'I6T5ICT ɂ 3O6ITION % 'I6T5ICT Ɂ 3O6ITION % 42 On Oct. 31, Blaine Police stopped a vehi-

cle when a license plate check showed the FOOD A VIRAL INFECTION car’s registration was expired, although On Oct. 28, a senior citizen called Blaine the plate bore current decals. “The reg- 35 35 Police to report that almost $500 had istered owner eventually admitted to been stolen from her in an Internet scraping another family member’s license fraud. “The problem started with a con- plate decal off and repurposing it without B-BOARD vincing man in a phone call explaining to the relative’s knowledge,” police report- her that her home computer was riddled ed. “He did this because he could not get 32 with viruses and was being accessed by new tabs for his own car because he had Satpal Sidhu Todd Donovan hackers,” police explained. “The crook an outstanding unpaid parking ticket. The FILM convinced the lady to pay $449 to re- driver was issued a new ticket for having 50.71% 55.07% move the infection. The victim’s bank an expired registration and operating 28 is working on her behalf to have her ac- a motor vehicle without insurance, and

count reimbursed.” he was advised he might face additional MUSIC charges as well.”

On Nov. 2, Anacortes Police met a woman 26 in the depapartment’s lobby who wanted MID-TERMS ART to report a fraud. “The woman reported On Nov. 5, a Western Washington Univer- that she responded to a pop-up adver- sity student yelled obscenities at a mem- 72 24 tisement on her computer that offered ber of the faculty while off campus. The NUMBER of years since national election turnout has been this abysmal, according technical support for $99.99,” police re- faculty member followed the student to to the New York Times. In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to STAGE ported. “The company later contacted her Wilson Library, and waited until Universi- vote, and no state broke 60 percent. and offered a $2,000 ‘refund’ in exchange ty Police could deliver their exam. for a $1,700 wire transfer to India. Ulti- 22 mately, over $1,800 in funds were lost in On Nov. 9, University Police checked on the transactions.” a suspicious package delivered to Fair- 36.3 36.9 GET OUT haven College. “Contents determined ROOM SERVICE to be part of a holiday basket,” campus AVERAGE percent of national election AVERAGE percent of turnout in 20 On Oct. 29, Blaine Police responded to a cops reported. turnout on Nov. 3. Only the 1942 federal Washington State. Whatcom County election had a lower participation rate performed better than the statewide complaint from the manager of a motel

at 33.9 percent. average, with 49.9 percent of registered WORDS that a guest was refusing to pay his bill On Nov. 6, a student activated the li- voters casting a ballot.

and leave. When police arrived the man- brary book alarms at Haggard Hall but 8 8 ager explained that the problem tenant refused to open a backpack to allow staff was refusing to vacate his lodging. “The to view the contents. The student fled. $110,000 CURRENTS CURRENTS officers went to the patron’s room to get “Unknown if theft occurred,” University CURRENTS his side of the story,” police reported, Police shrugged. AMOUNT spent by coal companies and allies in 2015 to rig Whatcom County “but had to shout through the closed door elections, as disclosed by Nov. 9. 6 to converse with him. The man claimed THE ALPHA AND OMEGA he was unable to depart because the door On Nov. 6, a student was locked out of VIEWS

lock was broken and he had in fact been a dorm room at the Ridgeway Alpha resi- 4 trying to get out of his room since the dence on WWU campus. Police responded. previous day. The tenant of a unit near- 62.8 MAIL

by noted that she had heard the guy the On Nov. 6, a bicycle was reported stolen PERCENT of Seattle voters who supported Initiative 122, which creates democracy 2 night before, yelling about being trapped from the Ridgeway Beta residence. Police vouchers. The measure establishes a voucher system by which all Seattle voters will be given four $25 vouchers that they may give to a candidate or candidates DO IT IT DO in his room. Ultimately, the manager pried responded. of their choosing, provided the candidate agrees to campaign contribution limits. off the lockset and got the door open. Af- The vouchers are funded, in part, by a 30-year annual property tax levy of about $3 ter taking in some fresh air and having a On Nov. 6, a student was locked out of million, or approximately $1.94 per $100,000 assessed property value. face-to-face conversation the gentleman a dorm room at the Ridgeway Delta resi- gathered his belongings and departed,” dence. Police responded. 11.11.15 police concluded. 50 .09 On Nov. 6, a student was locked out of a 77 45 IMPROPER SHOPPERS dorm room at the Ridgeway Kappa resi- # PERCENT of Democrats who fear gun PERCENT of Republicans who fear gun On Nov. 4, store security at the Sunset dence. Police responded. violence more than a terrorist attack. violence more than a terrorist attack. Safeway observed three people pushing a shopping cart loaded with groceries out On Nov. 6, a student was locked out of a of the store without paying for the mer- dorm room at the Ridgeway Sigma resi- chandise. When asked to stop, the group dence. Police responded. 21 4 fled. Bellingham Police caught up with CASCADIA WEEKLY one of the shoppers a few blocks away and On Nov. 6, a student was locked out of a PERCENT of registered voters who PERCENT of registered Republicans cited her for theft. dorm room at the Ridgeway Omega resi- believe income inequality must be who believe income inequality must be 11 addressed. addressed. dence. Police responded. KINDERGARTEN COPS On Nov. 9, a six-year-old was deemed On Nov. 6, a student was locked out of a SOURCES: Whatcom County Auditor; McClatchy-Marist poll; Seattle Times; Sightline; New York out of control at Everson Elementary dorm room at Nash Hall. Times; Washington Secretary of State; Washington Public Disclosure Commission

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24 PART TWO STAGE Compiled by Tim Johnson, Carey Ross, Amy Kepferle,

22 Stephanie Young, Scott Pelton, and Trail Rat

Photos by Andy Porter and Jessamyn Tuttle GET OUT

art two of our readers’ choice awards presents the eateries, 20 Pbreweries, distilleries and swilleries—the gathering holes WORDS that make Bellingham great—and where Bellinghamsters like to 8 go for entertainment both before or after they've sat down for a meal or a drink. CURRENTS CURRENTS

6 We’ve seen changes in the years we’ve polled readers on their favorites. The heart and center of Bellingham continues to plod VIEWS

steadily north. Readers selected Columbia and Sunnyland as THE LAST DAYS OF MELVILLE MALLOY 4 their favorite neighborhoods, and it is easy to see why: They’re JOLENE HANSON PHOTOGRAPHY MAIL MAIL

stuffed with cozy, modest homes where people with modest 2 BEST THEATER

DO IT IT DO incomes actually live and play.

We’ve seen continued favorites, giants with our readers— idiom theater

Village Books, Hardware Sales, Community Food Co-op, and the I recently got an email from iDiOM Theater founder Glenn Hergenhahn-Zhao 11.11.15 Old Town Cafe. And we’ve spotted other surprising new favorites noting there are “big things in the works” for the Cornwall Avenue venue. .10 While I have yet to be filled in on the particulars, I find it hard to believe 45

# climbing fast in the rankings. Glenn and his creative crew have time to make the kinds of plans he hinted This year, we’ve also seen the loss of others: Michaels Books at. Seriously, between the amount of quality theater they're presenting to and the closure of Fairhaven Pharmacy after more than a century the public on a regular basis—including current play The Last Days of Melville of operation. Malloy, which Glenn wrote, directed and is co-starring in—and the ambitious schedule for the rest of the season and beyond, it's a wonder those behind CASCADIA WEEKLY Times change, tastes change, places change. We celebrate the curtain calls find time to eat and sleep. That said, the theater has been 12 them each year—the haunts, the hidey-holes and headquarters making magic happen onstage since 2001, so it's safe to say they know what of the Best of Bellingham. they're doing. Stay tuned for further details about the changes that are in the works, and keep supporting live theater. Where: 1418 Cornwall Ave. Info: www.idiomtheater.com ENTER- 42

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BEST PLACE 35 TO SEE LIVE MUSIC WILD BUFFALO B-BOARD Given the sheer number of great music venues 32 Bellingham is home to, the Wild Buffalo’s down-

right intimidating string of victories in this FILM category is a sign that the longtime Holly Street

venue continues to set a high bar for live enter- 28 tainment. This year has seen the Buff increase

the number and variety of sold-out shows and MUSIC new owners have reinvigorated and streamlined

behind-the-scenes operations. Take all that and 26 combine it with the community-minded ethos ART that has informed the Buff since the day it opened its doors, and it’s no wonder they earn 24 so many of your votes, year after year.

Where: 208 W. Holly St. STAGE Info: www.wildbuffalo.net 22 BEST PLACE TO

DANCE/MEET MEN/ GET OUT MEET WOMEN

RUMORS 20 PHOTO BY JAKE HOLT CABARET WORDS Because we live in the Information Age, for the 8 first time ever, Tinder ranked high among your choices for the Best Place to Meet Men. How-

ever, when you’re not swiping left and right, CURRENTS Rumors remains the go-to locale for those who are looking for love, whatever form that love 6 might take. And when you’re trying to dance VIEWS your way into someone’s heart, the longtime bar

on Railroad is where you find your beat. 4 Where: 1119 Railroad Ave. Info: www.rumorscabaret.com MAIL

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BEST MOVIE THEATER FESTIVAL OF 11.11.15

MUSIC .10 45 # pickford film center Step aside, Subdued Stringband Jamboree. Move over, Summer Meltdown. The Bellingham Sure, this category is a bit of a gimme, as the Pickford’s only real competition in town is Regal Festival of Music, which has been bringing together accomplished musicians from the Cinemas—and I don’t think anyone is touting the fabulousness of the movie-going experience there. world over for more than 20 years, gets some But the Pickford’s utter, complete dominance in this category is also tribute to how much the now richly deserved recognition from this year’s not-so-tiny but considerably mighty nonprofit movie theater has accomplished with a small staff Best of Bellingham voters. Taking place over CASCADIA WEEKLY several weeks during the summer, and cob- 13 and minimal resources, but incredible vision that is matched by incredible community support. The bling together an orchestra of world-renowned Pickford is truly the theater that Bellingham built, and its uninterrupted run of Best of Bellingham classical musicians, the Bellingham Festival of awards is a sign you take that pride of ownership seriously. Music is a prestigious feather in the cap of this city’s much-lauded music scene. Where: 1318 Bay St./1416 Cornwall Ave. Info: www.pickfordfilmcenter.org Info: www.bellinghamfestival.org FOOD

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FOOD FOOD & BEST SANDWICH 35 35 AVENUE B-BOARD B-BOARD BREAD

32 Because I happened to reside in Bellingham in time to snag a Reuben on opening day of

FILM their Railroad Avenue location, I feel qualified to rank myself among the most devoted of

28 the devout. Ridiculous as it sounds, it’s highly likely that I’ve managed to put away well

MUSIC over my own weight’s worth of Avenue Clubs over the years. Same thing goes with Country

26 Eggenues—I can wolf down three or four of

ART those suckers in a single sitting, especially if I happen to have been building trails or luxuriating somewhere in the great outdoors. 24 BEST BREWERY FYI: Avenue Bread's newest location on Front

STAGE Street in Lynden is scheduled to open by the kulshan brewery end of this year, spreading the love beyond Bellingham. 22 Where: 1313 Railroad Ave./2301 James St./1135 Bellingham’s craft beer scene has exploded. We’re also the “Snobbiest Beer City in America.” Basically, 11th St. Info: www.avenuebread.com

GET OUT we rock at all things beer. Since winning this title last year, Kulshan has doubled down and opened up another brewhouse in Bellingham that they have dubbed K2. I guess if you’re the best, you usually BEST BAKERY 20 have the most—and having more breweries than anyone else in town pretty much means you rule at all things beer. MOUNT WORDS Where: 2238 James St.; 1538 Kentucky St. Info: www.kulshanbrewery.com BAKERY 8 Even those who don't consider themselves to be mountain climbers can easily summit

CURRENTS CURRENTS the peaks of Mount Bakery. Start at the base camp in downtown Bellingham with fall favor- 6 ites like apple galettes and pumpkin scones, BEST COFFEESHOP and continue on your “climb” with award-win- VIEWS BEST BARISTA ning fruit pies and more baked goods at the

4 Fairhaven locale. On the trail, you can sample delicacies such as caramelized lemon tarts, MAIL MAIL black drop poached pear frangipane, Belgian chocolate

truffle cakes and shortbread cookies. You'll 2 coffeehouse be burning calories along the way, so take a DO IT IT DO deep breath and enjoy the journey. The Black Drop Coffeehouse wins this award Where: 308 W. Champion St./1217 Harris Ave. Info: www.mountbakery.com every year, and for good reason. They also

11.11.15 employ this year’s Best Barista, Reilly Hanni- BEST DESSERT

.10 gan. This means the city’s best coffee is be- 45 # ing made by the its best barista. I’m not sure PURE BLISS Bellingham can handle this much caffeinated DESSERTS excellence in one location. Make sure to I have sampled (read: scarfed with abandon) seek out Reilly's expertise and order a Level nearly every sweet treat that can be found in 10 Fireball. If you do, your head just might regular rotation at Pure Bliss and can attest CASCADIA WEEKLY explode (in a good way). that I understand with perfect clarity why they earned the majority of your votes in this 14 Where: 300 W Champion St. competitive category. From cakes (I favor Info: www.blackdropcoffeehouse.com the coconut and chocolate bliss) to bars (the lemon and Nanaimo bars cannot be beat) to seasonal offerings (pumpkin cheesecake, I am coming for you) along with a host of bever- Blue Fin Sushi Japanese Restaurant 42 FOOD FOOD Thank you 35 35

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bluefinbellingham.com MUSIC 102 S. Samish Way #105, Bellingham 360.752.2583 26 ART 24 STAGE 22

Voted Thank You! GET OUT BEST MEXICAN in Voted Best 20 BELLINGHAM Mexican 2015 WORDS Again. 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 VIEWS

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119 NORTH COMMERCIAL ST. SUITE #1420 ŋ OFFICE: (360) 746-2642 www.ransom-lawfirm.com ages, beer and great coffee, Pure Bliss lives up to its name with every blissful bite.

42 Where: 1424 Cornwall Ave. Info: www.pureblissdesserts.com FOOD FOOD BEST FOOD TRUCK 35 35 STREAT FOOD

B-BOARD B-BOARD There are tons of food trucks in Bellingham. They are everywhere and they are good. But

32 none are better than StrEAT Food. These culinary kings even have a name for their

FILM followers—“street urchins.” That’s a level of loyalty you don’t find at every mobile eatery.

28 James, Poem and the whole StrEAT Food team have taken food truck cuisine to a different

MUSIC level. They are so popular they opened a cafe at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal to meet

26 the demand. Trailer location changes daily ART Where: Info: www.streatfood.com 24 BEST FAST FOOD STAGE BOOMER'S 22 DRIVE-IN

GET OUT BEST BREAKFAST When you're sick, the last thing you want to do is cook. That's why when my boyfriend and I were recently battling bouts of the flu—yet 20 homeskillet were still ravenously hungry—we took the “feed a cold, starve a fever” adage to heart WORDS and summoned the energy to call Boomer's Through careful research, I've determined leftovers from HomeSkillet taste just as amazing the

8 Drive-In for dinner. By the time my fellow second day as they did the first. And, believe me, there will be leftovers. Even my boyfriend— patient made the short drive to the longtime a dedicated carnivore with a lumberjack's appetite—rarely leaves the colorful Sunnyland staple Samish Way locale to procure our “Big Boom”

CURRENTS CURRENTS burgers, waffle fries and blackberry milk- without a to-go box. It's not for lack of trying. Alas, it's near-impossible to finish the gargantuan, shake—always made by hand with Edaleen 6 made-from-scratch portions of everything from “The Barnyard” (chicken fried steak topped with Dairy ice cream, and always delicious—the order was up. Not long afterward, he arrived

VIEWS ham, bacon, potatoes, a fried egg and gravy so savory it'll make you forget all gravies that came back home and supper was served. With relish, before it) to pancakes, poutine, corned beef and salmon hash, French toast crafted from the souls 4 we cleared our plates, declared for the mil- of cinnamon rolls, biscuits, burritos and personal “skillets” piled high with both meaty and/or veg- lionth time we were grateful McDonald's wasn't MAIL MAIL etarian ingredients. But it's not simply the generosity of portions that have earned owners Kirby the only option for fast food in this town, and

began the healing process. 2 and Tina White their third win in this competitive category. Breakfast is unerringly delicious, the Where: 310 Samish Way DO IT IT DO price is right and service always comes with a smile. Info: www.boomersdrivein.com Where: 521 Kentucky St. Info: www.homeskilletinsunnyland.com BEST GREEK FOOD 11.11.15 CAFE

.10 BEST COCKTAIL 45 # AKROTERI temple bar Souvlaki. Mousaka. Gyros. Dolmathes. Spanako- pita. Falafel. If those are all words that make Within the cozy confines of Temple Bar, I've met a blind date for your mouth water, odds are good you’ve either dinner, sketched alluring models, attended wine tastings, cackled been to Greece—or to Cafe Akroteri, where maniacally with lady friends while sharing appetizers and bottles all those Mediterranean classics can be found

CASCADIA WEEKLY of wine and also sipped on some of the most refreshing cocktails without having to leave the heart of downtown around. Whether it's perfectly executed takes on old familiars (I'm Bellingham. Personally, I have a soft spot for 16 looking at you, happy hour Paloma) or inventive seasonal concoc- the sampler platter because why limit yourself tions (wink, wink, Butterscotch Drop), they're drinks that, upon to one delicious Greek specialty when you can first sip, make one want to stick around for the long haul. try them all? Where: 306 W. Champion St. Where: 1219 Cornwall Ave. Info: www.templebarbellingham.com Info: www.cafeakroteri.com BEST VEGETARIAN

THE OLD 42

TOWN CAFE FOOD At the Old Town Cafe, none of the waitstaff are ever going to give a customer the side-eye for 35 35 asking if they can substitute their eggs with tofu, because the answer is always going to be

“sure thing.” In fact, vegetarians and vegans B-BOARD alike can rest assured they'll find a menu item to their liking—from whole-grain buttermilk 32 pancakes, gluten-free hot cakes, garden tofu tortillas and a variety of scrambles for break- FILM fast to falafel wraps, giant salads, veggie chili

and more for lunch. The fact that the Holly 28 Street mainstay is dedicated to community and

to sourcing their ingredients locally when pos- MUSIC sible is just so much (mushroom-tahini) gravy.

Where: 316 W. Holly St. 26 Info: www.theoldtowncafe.com ART

BEST THAI 24

BUSARA THAI STAGE

CUISINE 22 Words cannot express the lingering sense of culinary disorientation I have been forced to GET OUT endure during the renovation-induced closure of this venerable Sehome Village venue. Mean- 20 while, as the days without being able to order my favorite platefuls of green curry chicken WORDS and Tom Yung Goon (spice level four) turn into weeks and the weeks seem to mount incon- 8 ceivably toward a month, I resort to habitually checking their storefront for imminent signs of

reopening. Fortunately, during my most recent CURRENTS patrol I found a sign taped on the entrance that indicated they would be serving the des- 6 perate masses again by Mon., Nov. 9. VIEWS Where: 404 36th St.

Info: www.busarabellingham.com 4 MAIL MAIL BEST BURGER

FIAMMA IT DO

BURGER Confidential to everyone: At $6.75, Fiamma Burger’s fried chicken sandwich—huge, hot and 11.11.15 delectable—just might be one of the best meal BEST LUNCH .10

deals in town. If you’re feeling fancy, it can 45 # be transformed into a Sriracha or bacon ranch chicken sandwich for about a dollar more. If you ciao thyme prefer your burger to be made of Northwest beef ground fresh in-house, Fiamma’s got your back Anybody who's ever been to one of Ciao Thyme's multi-course “Incognito” dinners knows owners Mataio and with a plethora of options—I’m partial to the Jessica Gillis' aim is to feed their community memorable meals that, as often as possible, are sourced with S.W. burger (hatch green chilies, guacamole, pep- locally procured ingredients and delivered with love. It's a concept that seems to be working. In 14 years of per jack), the N.W. burger (roasted garlic, smoked CASCADIA WEEKLY onions, cheddar jack, horseradish mayo), and business, they've moved from being a catering company with just two employees (them) to a food hub with a 17 the “B'Ham” burger (prosciutto, egg, shoestring staff more than a dozen strong who also help the dynamic duo teach classes, host dinners, conjure premade potatoes), all slathered in the heavenly wonder that is their house-made curry mayo, of course. meals to-go, and run “On the Side,” a small cafe operating four days a week that is designed to “elevate the Where: 1309 Railroad Ave. Bellingham lunch experience.” Judging by Ciao Thyme's first win in this category, they've done just that. Info: www.fiammaburger.com Where: 207 Unity St. Info: www.ciaothyme.com BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT TACO LOBO

42 If I had a dollar for every time Taco Lobo has taken home the Best of Bellingham win in this

FOOD FOOD category, I'd use the pile of dinero to make my way to Luis Santos' Magnolia Street restaurant for an authentic Mexican meal and a frosty 35 35 margarita. It would be tough to choose between the pollo verde, chile relleno, carne asada, fish

B-BOARD B-BOARD tacos or posole, but I'd force myself to come to a decision. This dilemma would be made easier

32 by the fact that, at Taco Lobo, there's no wrong choice.

FILM Where: 117 W. Magnolia St. Info: (360) 756-0711 28 BEST INDIAN MUSIC

26 TANDOORI

ART BITES In an unlikely convenience mart at Sehome 24 Village, you’ll find a mashup of Mexican, Medi-

STAGE BEST HAPPY HOUR/BEST WAITPERSON terranean, Chinese and the wonderful flavors of India. Choose Tandoori bites for a fabulous selection of curries, masala, vindaloo, briyani

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45 lock on this category that proves it. # A delicate haiku: Where: 1317 N. State St. Info: www. Cucumber and cream dannascafeitaliano.com cheese rolls ain't sushi, People. BEST BARBECUE Their Bento beats the band. Yum. CASCADIA WEEKLY JECKYL Yes, I know there was an extra syllable in 18 AND HYDE there, but I just couldn’t help myself. Like I couldn’t help myself to an extra serving of Richard van Dommelen loves to smoke things, and I love to eat what he smokes. “Low and fusion-style maki rolls. slow” is his culinary credo, and he stokes up Where: 102 S. Samish Way Info: www.bluefinbellingham.com his smoker with a delectable array of flavor- STILL GOING STRONG! )5(6+/2&$/352'8&(),1(/2&$/&5$)765($'<72($7)22'

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EnjoyE live theatre fun for less than a trip to IT DO thet movies! Alive Inside Add our Silent Film Series to your family calendar,c too, this January/February/March. FRI. NOV. 13 Organist Dennis James delivers a magical WARREN MILLER: SAT 11.11.15 step back in time with classic silent Àlms Chasing Shadows and authentic live accompaniment on MBT’s

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8 down with a carefully collated wine Sumas Library, 451 2nd St. selection—and judging by how WWW.WCLS.ORG many times they’ve decisively won THE POINT BETWEEN: Michelle Dmeres reads CURRENTS CURRENTS in this category, I’m not the only one out there trusting them with and signs her book The Point Between at 5pm

6 at the Point Roberts Library, 1437 Gulf Rd. The my mealtimes. book focuses on a murder that takes place in Where: 1228 N. State St. Point Roberts and requires ghostly interven- VIEWS Info: www.oldworlddeli1.com tion to solve. Copies will be available to purchase. 4 (360) 945-6545

MAIL MAIL BEST STOP ON HIGHWAY 542 DAVID SEDARIS: A beloved NPR humorist and

2 bestselling author shares his myriad talents at “An Evening with David Sedaris” at 7pm at the

DO IT IT DO Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. CHAIR 9 It’s the final stop for a cocktail Well-known for his side-splitting essays and short stories, Sedaris first gained widespread on the way up to the Mt. Baker recognition when National Public Radio invited Ski Area; or, if you prefer, it’s the him to read “SantaLand Diaries,” the now- 11.11.15 first stop for great pizza on the famous account of his experiences as a Macy’s drive home. On the last warm day elf. Tickets to the (sold out) show are $29-$45. .10 WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM

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# BEST PIZZA from Church Mountain, crossed SUN., NOV. 15 the Nooksack at Coal Creek, and fat pie pizza HIGHER REALMS: Bellingham-based author was in desperate need of an icy Paula Forget shares stories from Guided to the beer and a Lone Jack burger. Higher Realms at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 A game was on, and the locals Bellingham, you love pizza. Your ballots told us so. But, if you haven’t 11th St. The book is a detailed account of her encounters with spiritually evolved Beings, how gathered for the big-screen been to Fairhaven’s Fat Pie Pizza, I can confidently tell you you’re they guided her to higher realms and deepened CASCADIA WEEKLY excitement. I took a seat on the missing out on a little slice of heaven. And this perfect pie just keeps her understanding of the soul. deck out back, hemmed in by tall WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM 20 forests. Travelers had brought out on giving—even the small pie will likely have you nibbling on it for MON., NOV. 16 their instruments and pitched an days. My personal favorite? Chicago-style Motown (with basil!). Al POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their impromptu open mic. What a day. Capone would be impressed. creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up Where: 10459 Mt. Baker Highway, Glacier at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Info: www.chair9.com Where: 1015 Harris Ave. Info: www.fatpiepizza.com doit FORGET ME NOT SALON AND SPA COMMUNITY

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OPPCO ANNIVERSARY: Help the Opportunity Call to 32 Council celebrate its 50th anniversary at a Com- schedule munity Celebration starting at 6pm at the Mount FILM Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Speakers and videos celebrating community action over the 527-2646 (Free pickups available in last 50 years will be part of the night’s festivities. FREE Bellingham and Ferndale) 28 Tickets are $10.

WWW.OPPCO.ORG PICKUPS 802 Marine Drive MUSIC OF YOUR OLD APPLIANCES Bellingham, WA FRI., NOV. 13 Your donated appliance supports our job training program, appliancedepotbham.com 26 RICK LARSEN PUBLIC MEETING: Congress- helps protect the environment, and strengthens the local economy.

man Rick Larsen will be in Bellingham to hear ART residents’ thoughts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement between 24 the U.S. and 11 other countries, from 5:30-7pm at Beloved humorist and bestselling author David Sedaris City Hall, 210 Lottie St. The meetings he’s hosting shares his witty repartee with the masses at a sold- throughout Washington this week will help Larsen STAGE out show Sat., Nov. 14 at the Mount Baker Theatre. make a decision about how he will vote on the TPP. WWW.LARSEN.HOUSE.GOV 22 Central Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Entry is by donation. P.S. Please use the back fountain entry. PARTY FOR THE PAWS: Help WeSnip—the WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG Whatcom Education, Spay & Neuter Impact Pro- GET OUT gram—celebrate its 15,000th spay/neuter surgery WED., NOV. 18 at a “Party for the Paws” at 8pm at the Bellingham

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Short story author Cory Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. (WeSNiP provides 20 20 Skerry will talk about past experiences with high-quality spay and neuter services to low- NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) at an income pet owners. The nonprofit organization WORDS Author Spotlight event from 3-6pm at the Belling- facilitated a record of 170 surgeries in October, WORDS ham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. surpassing the milestone of 15,000 surgeries since

WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG it was founded in 2008.) Dance music, games, 8 prizes and a no-host part will be part of the fun. FLASH OF SILVER: Former “Galloping Gourmet” Tickets are $15. Graham Kerr presents the omnibus edition of his WWW.WESNIP.ORG CURRENTS CURRENTS book Flash of Silver at 7pm at Village Books, 1200

11th St. The book, which was originally available SAT., NOV. 14 6 only as a serial publication, is part memoir and DAY OF PLAY: A variety of fun and family- part spiritual journey. friendly activities—including face painting, cool VIEWS WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM crafts, games, lots of prizes and giveaways—will be part of today’s “Day of Play” event from 4 THURS., NOV. 19 11am-6pm at Fairhaven Toy Garden, 1147 11th BOOK TALK: Librarian Katie Bray leads a St. The celebration is part of Neighborhood Toy MAIL MAIL “Book Talk” at 1pm at the SkillShare Space at Store Day, a national event introducing consum- the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. ers to the benefits of shopping local during the 2 Participants can share their favorite titles, make holiday season. WWW.FAIRHAVENTOYGARDEN.COM selections, get reading ideas and hear more about IT DO great new books. 778-7230 NOV. 14-15 ROCK AND GEM SHOW: The Skagit Rock and RANDOM HOUSE PICKS: Join Random House Gem Club hosts its annual Show and Sale from sales reps as they share their favorite picks for 9am-5pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday at the 11.11.15 fall and winter 2015 at 5pm at Village Books, 1200 Sedro-Woolley Community Center, 703 Pacific

11th St. Looking for a read for your book group? A St. Hourly door prizes, jewelry vendors, lapidary .10 45

great gift (or three)? A book for yourself? Look no tools, minerals and gems and more will be part of # further! These two experts are here to help. Entry the fun. Entry is free. is free; their published picks will be $10 each. (360) 424-8340 671-2626 MON., NOV. 16 STORIES OF ALOPECIA: Learn more about the ROCKS & GEMS: All are welcome at the monthly hair loss condition that affects more than 146 Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club meeting at 7pm at the million men, women and children throughout the Bloedel Donovan Community Center, 2214 Electric world when Bellingham-based author Deeann Ave. At the meeting, club members will be bring- CASCADIA WEEKLY Graham shares stories from Head On: Stories of ing gems, minerals, rocks, fossils or still other Alopecia at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. rock-related treasures they acquired last summer. 21 This collection of personal narratives follows the There will also be door prizes, refreshments, a courageous journeys of more than 75 writers as silent auction of rocks and rock literature, and a they find their way after being diagnosed. brief business meeting. Entry is free. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM WWW.MTBAKERROCKCLUB.ORG doit WED., NOV. 11 GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are

welcome at a weekly Group Run beginning at 42 6pm in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Running Company, 702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is FOOD FOOD great for beginners or for others wanting an outside easy recovery. Entry is free and no registration HIKING RUNNING CYCLING GARDENING is required. 35 35 WWW.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG THURS., NOV. 12 B-BOARD B-BOARD HEYDAYS OF SALMON: Ken Culver will share “You could try a little further downstream,” memories and unique experiences of his boyhood growing up on Orcas Island’s Point

32 one of the more well-seasoned interpreters informed us. “Or, since a little birdie told me the Lawrence Lodge at “The Heydays of Salmon: Life at an Early Fishing Resort” at 12pm at FILM chum are running over on Chuckanut Creek, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect you could always give Arroyo Park a try.” St. The Whatcom Museum Advocates presenta-

28 So back to vehicle we marched—getting tion is free. damper by the minute, but hot on the trail of WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG

MUSIC a promising lead. FRI., NOV. 13 She Said: Less than five minutes later, we’d WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers

26 found a roadside parking spot at Arroyo Park can join Holly Roger of Wild Whatcom for a “Wild Things” Community Program from 9:30- ART and were soon on our way down another steep trail to the creek below. (And even though he 11am every Friday in November at Cornwall was gripping a large umbrella at the time, my Park. Suggested donation is $5. 24 WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG male counterpart managed to stay upright.)

STAGE We didn’t have to go far to find our sub- CHASING SHADOWS: Warren Miller’s 66th ject matter. Before we’d annual winter sports film, Chasing Shadows, gone 40 feet, we came to a begins at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 22 22 22 small dam. What first looked 104 N. Commercial St. This year’s installment of the iconic series celebrates why skiers and like one lone chum salmon snowboarders commit themselves every winter GET OUT GET OUT struggling to make its way to a passion that’s guaranteed to melt away upstream soon morphed into every spring, featuring athletes and locales from around the world. Entry is $22.

20 a dozen, then perhaps a dozen more. 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM I was transfixed. The WORDS DO IT LIVING WITH GRIZZLIES: Biologist, WHAT: Nook- sight of salmon struggling photographer, author and outdoor educa- tor David Moskowitz focuses on “Living with 8 sack Salmon to fulfill their final missions Enhancement in life is one I’ve witnessed Grizzly Bears” at a presentation at 7:30pm at Association before, but is something I Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly St. During Salmon Tours the free event he will explore both the changes

CURRENTS CURRENTS never tire of. BY AMY KEPFERLE AND TRAIL RAT WHEN & that increasing grizzly bear populations may WHERE: 12- With a little help from bring to our region’s ecosystems, as well as how 6 3pm Sat., Nov. the guy with the umbrella, humans might need to adapt to their presence 14 at North I pushed aside some pesky in some of our favorite outdoor haunts. VIEWS Chuckanut Bay branches and settled onto WWW.BACKCOUNTRYESSENTIALS.NET Up the Creek and 12-3pm 4 a small sandbar for what Sat., Nov. 21 SAT., NOV. 14 IN SEARCH OF SALMON at Chuckanut turned out to be an hour or WHISTLE LAKE HIKE: Join members of the MAIL MAIL Creek more of what he refers to as Mount Baker Club for a hike to Whistle Lake

A persistent drizzle spritzed through the trees as the Lady of COST: The “salmoning.” today. (Whistle Lake is a small lake located in 2 HE SAID: the House and I scampered down the soggy trail at Fairhaven Park toward family-friendly Whether you’re a long- the city limits of Anacortes Community Forest tours are free; Lands.) Meet at 9am at Sunnyland Elementary DO IT IT DO Padden Creek with notebooks in hand and cameras at the ready. It was our time trail expert (him) or come anytime to carpool. idea of a date. We were there not only to relish each other’s company, but during the simply someone who enjoys WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG also to provide on-the-spot coverage of one of our favorite, most eagerly three hours, an excursion in the great anticipated news events of the season. and talk to outdoors on occasion (me), WORK PARTY: Join the Nooksack Salmon 11.11.15 “Chum salmon return to native stream-course!” I shouted, barely manag- naturalists it’s an easy enough activity. Enhancement Association and Bellingham Park and Rec for a Community Work Party from 9am- ing to verbalize the headline I envisioned before slipping on a greasy leaf along the Simply stand there and let

.10 strem 12pm along Little Squalicum Creek. Volunteers

45 pile that sent me stumbling off the trail. nature seep into every fiber will plant native trees, remove invasive weeds

# INFO: www.n- “Overzealous outdoors reporter takes a world-class trip!” she replied sea.org of your being. and spread mulch. with a barely stifled giggle, deftly managing to un-holster her Canon and Before long, you’ll realize WWW.N-SEA.ORG squeeze off a few action shots as I struggled to stay ambulatory in the it’s hard not to see and better understand the TRAIL RUN SERIES: The first Winter Trail Run circle of life when salmon are using the last sopping-wet ferns. Series of the season begins at 10am at Bell- “Opportunistic photographer gets her jollies at companion’s expense!” I of their energy to flop and dart through shal- ingham’s BBMX Park, 5022 Guide Meridian. The felt like bellowing as I lumbered laboriously back onto the thoroughfare. low waters to reach a safe spot where they can additional 5K cross country trail runs take place

CASCADIA WEEKLY But for the sake of keeping our romance alive, I did what I normally do and mate and die. Dec. 19, Jan. 23, Feb. 27 and March 26. Entry is decided against it. “You O.K. over there?” my fellow report- $5 for those under 18 and GBRC members, and 22 $10 general. Fortunately, we made it to the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Associa- er yelled from his own bank 40 feet away, WWW.BBMXWINTERCROSS.COM tion’s (NSEA) interpretive tent a few minutes later without enduring any breaking me out of my existential reverie. I further travails and, even more critically, with our relationship fully intact. gave him a thumbs up, and then returned to FOWL FUN RUN: Skagit Runners present Unfortunately, we were met with bad news. According to the NSEA staff, watching the fish live out their final, beau- their 37th annual “Fowl Fun Run” starting at there weren’t any salmon running quite that far up the creek yet. tiful fight. doit WORK WITH YOUR WHOLE MIND!

10am at Mount Vernon Christian School, 820 W. Blackburn Rd. Runners can choose from a 7-DAY GROUP 5K or 10K—both courses are run on flat, low- traffic farm roads in the Skagit Valley. Entry MEDITATION 42 is $15-$30. FOOD FOOD WWW.FOWLFUNRUN.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG RETREAT

FALL FAMILY FUN: Hot dog and marshmallow with Holly Gayley & Rick Merrill roasting, leaf pile jumping, hay rides, sheep 35 feeding, games, huge stump history and photo IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THIS opportunities will be part of “Fall Family Fun” MINDFULNESS-AWARENESS B-BOARD B-BOARD events from 10am-6pm Saturdays through Nov. WEEK-LONG EXPERIENCE 21 at Everson’s Glen Echo Garden, 4390 Y Rd. Entry is $10 per family (up to four kids).

for new & seasoned meditators 32 WWW.GLENECHOGARDEN.COM Sat. Dec. 26 - Saturday Jan. 2 SUN., NOV. 15 8am to 6pm each day FILM RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mount ~ Please register online ~

Baker Bicycle Club for a “Rabbit Ride” starting 4LYPKPHU:\P[L 28 at 8:30am every Sunday at Fairhaven Bike, 1108 11th St. The 32-mile route takes riders MUSIC down Chuckanut and back via Lake Samish. meditation center The group also holds weekly rides Tuesdays,

Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. bellingham.shambhala.org 26 WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG ART MON., NOV. 16

AVALANCHE AWARENESS: Reps from 24 Mt. Baker Guides will be on hand at a free )TGCV

“Avalanche Awareness” presentation at 6pm STAGE at REI, 400 36th St. The course introduces )KHV+FGCU and explains where and why avalanches occur 22 22 and introduces the recognition of avalanche See our catalog 22 danger and how to reduce the risk. Please register in advance. inserted in this GET OUT 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM issue of GET OUT

EL CAMINO STORY: Artist and teacher the Weekly! Christine Wardenburg-Skinner shares stories 20 FREE EVENTS at Village Books and images focusing on “The Art of Solitude:

An Artist’s 500-Mile Journey on El Camino” at Local Author WORDS 6:30pm at the Mount Vernon City Library, 315 RICHARD LITTLE Snoqualmie St. Entry is free and open to all. 8 WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV Join us for this reading of colorful stories from TUES., NOV. 17 Postcards From the Road ALL-PACES RUN: Staffers and volunteers CURRENTS are always on hand to guide the way at the Friday, November 13, 7pm 6 weekly All-Paces Run starting at 6pm every Former “Galloping Gourmet” Tuesday at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The runs are 20 minutes out and back on GRAHAM KERR VIEWS two key routes—by the water or through the woods. Entry is free. Entry is free. 4 WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM Flash of Silver Join former “Galloping MAIL FITNESS FORUM: “Tips and Tricks: Training Gourmet” Graham Kerr as

he presents his book Flash of 2 for Your First Ultra” will be the focus of a free Silver—part memoir and part Fitness Forum at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, spiritual journey. It is sure to DO IT IT DO 1209 11th St. Author, ultra-runner, coach and appeal to anyone who has Chuckanut 50K race director Krissy Moehl will hoped to live life to the fullest. lead the presentation. Wednesday, November 18, 7pm WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM 11.11.15 WED., NOV. 18 DEEANNE GRAHAM

SNOWSHOEING BASICS: Learn more about HEAD ON .10 what gear you need and where to go to get 45 Stories of # started at a “Snowshoeing Basics” clinic at 6pm Alopecia at REI, 400 36th St. Register in advance for the This collection of free workshop. personal narratives follows the 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM courageous journeys of over 75 writers as they ﬁnd their way after THURS., NOV. 19 being diagnosed with Alopecia Areatam—a hair loss condition that affects over 146 TRAVELOGUE TALK: “Encountering the New million men, women, and children worldwide.

China: Overland from Laos to Bejing” will be CASCADIA WEEKLY the focus of a Travelogue talk and slideshow Thursday, November 19, 7pm with author and world traveler Marie Laure Read more at villagebooks.com 23 Valandro from 7-9pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3. VILLAGE BOOKS WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 1200 11th St., Bellingham 360.671.2626 doit STAGE

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

FOOD FOOD Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick stage around for “The Project.” Entry is $8 for the THEATER DANCE PROFILES early show, $5 for the late one. 35 35 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM NOV. 12-14

B-BOARD B-BOARD MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: View William bookkeeping, publicity and directing the Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at 7pm Thursday through Saturday at Bellingham High

32 individual dance pieces, but also choosing School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. Tickets to see the what works to present to the public. talented students perform the romantic comedy

FILM Another aspect of BRD’s success is that, are $8 for students and seniors and $10 general since the beginning, the dancers have at the door. P.S. The production is rated “PG.” (360) 676-6575

28 collectively chosen works that are sure things. They watch DVDs of performanc- LAST DAYS OF MELVILLE: Glenn Hergenhahn- MUSIC es from companies across the country, Zhao’s The Last Days of Melville Malloy can be choosing pieces that have already been seen at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday at

26 successfully executed at other venues. the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Described as a “drug-fueled mystery about a famous singer

ART Once they’ve agreed on a possible lineup, gone missing,” the story reconnects the play- they suss out whether they can afford to wright with former Bellinghamster Nate Smith. use the piece, and go from there. 24 24 Tickets are $12-$15; additional showings happen According to a recent press release, through Nov. 21. WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM STAGE STAGE “Ten” represents the most geographically diverse collection of choreographers the NOV. 12-15 company has ever presented. A quick look 22 MR. MARMALADE: Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade at the lineup solidifies this. Among the se- shows at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday, lections are Virginia-based choreographer and 2:30pm and 7:30pm Sunday, at Western

GET OUT Ryan Corriston’s “Exo- Washington University’s PAC Underground dus,” Gina Sorenson of Theatre. Tickets to see the Student Theatre Productions offering are $4.

20 Somebodies Dance The- WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU ater’s “Eyes East” out of San Diego, a resurrec- LEGALLY BLONDE: Watch what happens after WORDS tion of a work from for- a young woman goes to Harvard Law School to win back her boyfriend when students perform

8 mer company member Legally Blonde the Musical at 7pm Thursday Wyn Pottratz (who now ATTEND through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at Nooksack WHAT: Belling- lives in Scotland), and Valley High School, 3326 E. Badger Rd. Entry is

CURRENTS CURRENTS ham Repertory pieces by San Francis- $6 for students with ID, $10 general. Dance presents co’s Kevin Jenkins and (360) 988-2641 6 “Ten” Boise’s Lauren Edson. WHEN: 7:30pm LION IN WINTER: Get a history lesson or two BY AMY KEPFERLE “Assimilating these

VIEWS Thurs.-Fri., Nov. at showings of The Lion in Winter this week at 19-20 and 5pm choreographers’ diverse 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday, and 2pm

4 and 7:30pm Sat., perspectives in one Sunday in Oak Harbor at the Whidbey Playhouse, Nov. 21 concert, the breadth 730 SE Midway Blvd. Tickets to see the story

MAIL MAIL Ten WHERE: Fire- and pure movement about King Henry II and the exiled Queen house Performing Eleanor are $18; additional showings take place of ‘Ten’ feels like the 2 BELLINGHAM REP’S DECADE OF DANCE Arts Center, 1314 through Nov. 22. Harris Ave. double-digits birthday WWW.WHIDBEYPLAYHOUSE.COM DO IT IT DO WHEN YOU settle into your seat at Bellingham Repertory Dance’s production COST: $15 in party that the profes- of “Ten,” be aware that the pros who will be sharing their sizable talents with the advance, $20 at sional company has NOV. 13-14 audience aren’t there for the money; they’ve donated their time to the company the door been building toward FERNDALE’S GOT TALENT: Help raise funds INFO: www. for fine arts and performing arts scholarships by not only because they love to dance, but also because they want to share that for the last decade,”

11.11.15 bhamrep.org attending performances of “Ferndale’s Got Tal- palpable passion with the audiences who flock to see them every year. members say. “‘Ten’ is ent” at 7pm Friday and Saturday at Ferndale High That’s par for the course. When the nonprofit dance company started a decade a frenetic and physically powerful con- School, 5830 Golden Eagle Dr. Tickets are $7; if .10 you come to the talent show the first night, you 45 ago—hence the title of this year’s performance—it was with a mission to bring cert that will sweep away audiences with # high-quality, contemporary dance to their community, provide professional-level movement that reflects the most current can attend the second night for free. performance opportunities to Whatcom County’s most accomplished dancers, and trends in contemporary dance.” WWW.FERNDALE.WEDNET.EDU to lend support to both established and emerging choreographers. If you’re wise enough to procure tickets PROMETHEUS BOUND: The Skagit Valley Ten years after Bellingham Repertory Dance (BRD) founders sat around a table for “Ten,” you should also remember that College Drama Department Prometheus Bound at Boundary Bay Brewery crafting that mission and discussing what it would take in addition to volunteering their time, starting this weekend with performances at to start a modern dance collective and make their dreams a reality, it’s clear the the dancers of Bellingham Rep have made 7:30pm Friday and Saturday at the school’s Phil Tarro Theatre. The classic Greek myth of the Titan CASCADIA WEEKLY decisions they made in 2005 have proven to be the right ones. a conscious decision to stay in Belling- chained to a mountain by Zeus for delivering fire, First off, they made sure the movement-makers they chose to represent Belling- ham to ply their trade. This makes it pos- 24 knowledge and art to mankind is coupled with a ham Rep were up to the task. That year, and every year since, they’ve held auditions sible for audience members to drive across design inspired by Native American Salish art and to find the cream of the crop among the dancers who have chosen to make Whatcom town—rather than to have to venture to storytelling tradition. Tickets are $10; additional County their home. Many of the members chosen over the years have performed bigger cities north and south—to see pro- showings happen Nov. 20-22. professionally in companies across the country, and all of them chip in to make sure fessional-level talent. Stick around after WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG BRD runs smoothly. This means not only sharing responsibilities for tasks such as the show to thank them. doit

RADIO SHOWS: Veteran actors will reenact meet Prince Tartaglia, witness him being cursed classic radio shows of the 1930s and 1940s at by an evil witch and encounter wizards, demons,

7:30pm Friday and Saturday at the Anacortes inanimate objects and more. Tickets are $5.

Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets are $10; WWW.WHATCOM.CTC.EDU 42 all proceeds will support ClassACT programs and scholarships. NOV. 19-22 FOOD WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM BEING EARNEST: Squalicum High School’s drama program opens its season with showings of Oscar

GENRE LEGENDS: Expect to see everything from Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at 7pm 35 improvised fairytales and Westerns to film noir Thursday and Friday, 2pm and 7pm Saturday, (and much more) at “Genre Legends” shows at 8pm and 2pm Sunday at the school’s Forum at 3773 E. and 10pm every Friday and Saturday in November McLeod Rd. Expect exciting new twists on an old B-BOARD the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $10 favorite. Tickets are $5-$10. in advance and $12 at the door. WWW.BELLINGHAMSCHOOLS.ORG

WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM 32 BYE BYE BIRDIE: The Lynden Performing Arts Guild

NOV. 13-15 presents Bye Bye Birdie starting this week at 7:30pm FILM KING STAG: Mount Baker High School Drama Thursday and Friday, and 2pm Saturday and Sunday at presents Carlo Gozzi’s King Stag at 7pm Friday and the Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at the auditorium at to see the “delightfully charming musical satire on 28 Mount Baker High School, 4936 Deming Rd. Tickets American Society in the late 1950s” are $8-$12. Ad- to see the commedia dell’arte classic that finds ditional showings happen through Dec. 6. MUSIC a beloved and beleaguered king at the end of his WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM

search for a loving queen are $6-$8. 26 WWW.MTBAKER.WEDNET.EDU DANCE ART SAT., NOV. 14 24 EVENING OF IMPROV: View improvised scenes THURS., NOV. 12 24 and games when tImprov Playworks players present FOLK DANCE: Join the Fourth Corner Folk Dancers to “An Evening of Improv” at 7:30pm at the Firehouse learn lively folk dances from Eastern Europe, Greece, STAGE STAGE Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets Turkey, and Israel from 7:15-10pm every Thursday at are $12 online or at the door. the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested dona-

WWW.IMPROVPLAYWORKS.COM tion is $5; students and first-timers are free. 22 (360) 380-0456 SUN., NOV. 15

VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend the Bellingham FRI., NOV. 13 GET OUT Circus Guild’s monthly uncensored variety show, PARKINSON’S DANCE CLASS: Kuntz and “Vaudevillingham,” at 7pm and 9pm performances Company’s Pam Kuntz leads a dance class for at the Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., suite #102. Expect people with Parkinson’s disease and other move- 20 to see everything from aerial performances to ment or neurological disorders at 10am at Ballet dance, comedy, magic, juggling, burlesque and Bellingham, 1405 Fraser St., suite #103. Suggested WORDS more. Both novice and veteran performers are donation is $5-$7. No registration is necessary; welcome. Suggested donation is $5-$10. P.S. This just show up ready to dance. month and next, starting at 5pm, attend a Holiday (360) 510-4711 OR WWW.KUNTZANDCO.ORG 8 Bazaar preceding the show. WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM NOV. 13-14

NEW MUSIC, NEW DANCE: See new work cre- CURRENTS MON., NOV. 16 ated from the collaboration of compositions and

GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open mic for comedians, choreography of students and community members 6 “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 9:30pm every Mon- at free “New Music/New Dance” performances at

day at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State St. Entry is free. 7:30pm Friday and Saturday at Western Washington VIEWS WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM University’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.

WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU 4 NOV. 17-18

MARY POPPINS AUDITIONS: The Theater Arts SAT., NOV. 14 MAIL Guild will host auditions for upcoming perfor- CONTRA DANCE: Northern Contraband will provide

mances of Mary Poppins at 5:30pm Tuesday and live music at the Bellingham Country Dance Soci- 2 Wednesday at Mount Baker Middle School, 2301 E. ety’s Contra Dance from 7-10:30pm at the Fairhaven DO IT IT DO

Section St. There are roles for actors, singers and Library, 1117 12th St. All skill levels are welcome, dancers of all ages and experience in this enchant- and no partner is necessary. Entry is $8-$10. ing musical. All roles are open. WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG WWW.THEATERARTSGUILD.ORG

TUES., NOV. 17 11.11.15 NOV. 18-22 SKAGIT FOLK DANCERS: Join the Skagit- COUNTRY APPLE THE CRUCIBLE: Sehome High School’s award-win- Anacortes Folk Dancers for a weekly International

.10 ning drama department presents showings of Arthur Folk Dancing event from 7-9:30pm at Bayview Civic CLASSIC PUMPKIN 45

’ # Miller’s The Crucible at 7:30m Wednesday through Sat- Hall, 12615 C St. No partners are needed; just show ROCKIN urday, and 2pm Sunday at the Sehome Little Theatre, up and dance. Entry to the drop-in event is free for RASPBERRY 2700 Bill McDonald Pkwy. Tickets to the always-rele- the first session, $3 afterwards. vant play—which focuses on a Puritan community in WWW.SKAGITFOLKDANCERS.ORG JUICY BLACKBERRY Salem, Mass in 1692 and suspicions that arise when a hand formed & ﬁlled with SPICY BLUEBERRY group of young girls are found dancing in the woods THURS., NOV. 19 and immediately fall ill—are $8-$10. MISTATIM: Red Sky, Canada’s leading company farm fresh deliciousness. CHOCOLATE SILK WWW.SEHOMEDRAMA.WEEBLY.COM of contemporary world indigenous performance Place your Thanksgiving Order CASCADIA WEEKLY in dance, theatre and music, presents Mistatim at HONEY ROASTED

NOV. 19-21 10am and 12pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, by November 23, 2015! PEANUT PUTTER 25 THREE ORANGES: Attend showings of For the 2501 E. College Way. The show is described as a Love of Three Oranges at 7:30pm Thursday through “coming of age story about the truest of friend- Many thanks for our Baked $20. To bake at home $19. Saturday at Whatcom Community College’s Syre ships. Admission is $7. wonderful customers. Place your order today! Auditorium, 237 W. Kellogg St. Audiences will WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG (360) 318-7720 Happy Thanksgiving! or bellewoodfarms.com doit UPCOMING EVENTS

42 WED., NOV. 11 GALLERY TOUR: Sarah Clark-Langager, the FOOD FOOD former director of the Western Gallery at West- ern Washington University, leads a bimonthly Gallery Tour from 1-2:30pm at Lynden’s Jansen

35 35 visual GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES Art Center, 321 Front St. Come explore and learn about regional artists and their work. Entry is free and open to all. B-BOARD B-BOARD WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG NOV. 12-15 32 HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW: Attend the 21st BY AMY KEPFERLE annual “Nutcracker Holiday Gift Show” from FILM 9am-7pm Thursday through Saturday, and 10am-4pm Sunday in Anacortes at the Depot

28 Arts & Community Center, 611 R Ave. Please Interactive Inspiration bring canned or nonperishable food items to donate to the local food bank. MUSIC THE MAGIC OF MINDPORT WWW.ANACORTES.ORG 26 26 ment titled “Allella” that resembles parts of NOV. 13-14 HOLIDAY HOOPLA: More than 20 vendors

ART a drum connected to parts of an oversized ART lute and makes some sweet sounds. will share their creative wares at the third an- Among the curiosities, visitors will also nual “Holiday Hoopla” craft and vendor event 24 from 4-8pm Friday and 10am-3pm Saturday at find a tornado machine, a short-wave ra- Everson’s Hopewell Grange, 3440 Hopewell Rd.

STAGE dio, four tanks mimicking a self-sustain- Entry is free. ing aquatic ecosystem, WWW.LYNDEN.ORG intricately built small 22 NOV. 13-15 houses that light up ENCHANTED SEASON: Fine art photography only when people come by Aspnes Photography, leather sculptures GET OUT near them, panels of by Jacquie Bresadola, mystical ceramics by pulleys that morph into Veronica Nordby, and northwest lights by Anne Harrington will be part of the “Enchanted

20 moving art and depend upon human motion to Season and Art Show” from 12-8pm Friday, SEE IT 10am-5pm Saturday, and 11am-5pm Sunday at WHAT: 20th move them, framed fine WORDS Pace Atelier Art Studio, 3815 Bakerview Spur. Anniversary art photographs of lo- (360) 393-1335 Celebration

8 cal waters and flora and WHEN: 12-4pm SAT., NOV. 14 Sun., Nov. 15 fauna, boxed dioramas containing very small VINTAGE MARKET: Attend the Island Chicks WHERE: Mind- annual “Holiday Vintage Market” from 9am-

CURRENTS CURRENTS port Exhibits, people and very large 3pm at the Port of Anacortes Transit Shed 210 W. Holly St. food items, and a small Event Center, 100 Commercial Ave. More than 6 COST: Entry fee “SONOLUCE” library with titles such 35 vendors will have vintage, repurposed, is $2 as The Klutz Book of refreshed and handmade treasure available.

VIEWS INFO: www. Knots, The Way Things Entry is $5 with a nonperishable food item to mindport.org donate, $7 otherwise.

4 OUTSIDE, IT was raining and chilly and the dense cloud formations loom- Work, Trees, and The New WWW.THEISLANDCHICKS.COM ing above didn’t look like they’d be willing or able to give way to blue sky Book of Image Transfer. MAIL MAIL anytime soon. Although many of the visitors on the TRINKETS AND TREASURES: Craft and food vendors, a bake sale, live music and more will Inside Mindport Exhibits, however, it was a different story. day we stopped by Mindport Exhibits 2 As soon as my date and I walked through the doors of the Holly Street space, consisted of kids and their keepers, we be part of the Ferndale Band Boosters’ annual “Trinkets & Treasure” Holiday Craft Market from DO IT IT DO I knew we’d made the right decision for a Saturday morning adventure. Seconds weren’t the only grownups who seemed to 9am-4pm at Ferndale High School, 5830 Golden after paying the nominal $2 entry fee, we were immersed in a warm, dry world be inspired by what was happening around Eagle Dr. Entry is free. of wonder. them. In fact, the adults who founded (360) 384-2792 For those who’ve never been to Mindport before, the first thing you should know Mindport Exhibits in 1995 are the ones 11.11.15 is that it’s not a typical gallery. Instead of signs warning patrons to keep their mitts responsible for building many of the in- HOLIDAY INSPIRATIONS: Attend an open house and “Holiday Inspirations” event from off the precious works of art, there are instead missives encouraging visitors to get teractive displays, and it appears they’ve 10am-6pm at Chuckanut Bay Gallery, 700 .10

45 involved with what’s happening around them (for the record, a handful of “No Cell- never stopped creating new ones in the Chuckanut Dr. The event will celebrate the # phones” placards scattered are here and there, which I was thrilled to see). two decades since. gallery’s new ownership, and there will be new We joined the other visitors who were smart enough to temporarily escape At a 20th anniversary celebration taking items to browse, refreshments and giveaways. the inclement weather in trying our hand at various interactive exhibits merg- place Sun., Nov. 15, you can find out for WWW.CHUCKANUTBAYGALLERY.COM

ing science, invention and fun. I giggled at the results of the “Backwards yourself about the inspiration behind the TOOLMAKING WORKSHOP: Create useful Speech” machine—which plays recorded speech at different speeds, either exhibits, some of which have been around bookbinding and paper-folding tools out of backward or forward—barely recognizing my voice as it replayed the iconic since the gallery was located at its first wild-harvested elk and deer bone, bamboo, and

CASCADIA WEEKLY phrase “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret” in what sounded like a recording space on Grand Avenue. There’ll also be various hardwoods at “Jim Croft’s Toolmaking from outer space. live music, behind-the-scenes tours and Workshop” from 12-4pm at Bison Bookbinding 26 & Letterpress, 112 Grand Ave. Croft is a legend Nearby, my clever companion manipulated “Burl Jives,” a reconfigured hunk of a variety of other celebratory activities in the bookbinding and paper-making world wood that also doubles as a musical instrument—something many of the 40-plus designed to give thanks to the thousands and travels the country teaching his craft. exhibits throughout the large gallery also feature as their focus. For example, of visitors who walk through Mindport’s Entry is $45-$55. there’s also a “Wave Music Translator,” a Theremin with an accompanying psyche- doors each year. Be one of them, and make 734-0481 OR WWW.BISONBOOKBINDING.COM delic light exhibit dubbed the “Sonoluce,” and, among other things, an instru- your own day. doit

ENVIRONMENTAL ART: Artist Ruth San ONGOING EXHIBITS Pietro will show attendees how to recycle ALLIED ARTS: View “Flora & Fauna” through junk mail and old magazines into beautiful Nov. 28 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. 42 cards, books, sculpture or jewelry at an “En- WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG vironmental Art: Handmade Recycled Paper” FOOD workshop from 1-3pm at Sudden Valley’s South ARTWOOD: Karen Healy’s “Copper, Silver, Whatcom Library, 10 Barn View Court. Entry is Stone, and Steel: A Woodworker Branches Out” free; registration is required. exhibit will be featured through November at 35 (360) 305-3600 OR WWW.WCLS.ORG Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM

TOTEM POLE JOURNEY: Lummi Master B-BOARD Carver Jewell James leads a “Totem Pole Jour- CASSERA ARTS: Elaine Badgley Arnoux’s ney” presentation at 7:30pm at the Lummi “Fables” will be highlighted through Dec. 10 Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd. At the free in La Conner at Cassera Arts Premiers, 106 32 event, he will talk about this year’s journey, 1st St. named “Our Shared Responsibilities,” which WWW.CASSERAARTSPREMIERS.COM FILM travels from Bellingham to Montana, home of the Cheyenne, and raises awareness about the CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Nature and land- James Allen, Machines (detail), 2009; Excavated book, Life Science Library 1964. Courtesy of the artist. 28 export of fossil fuels. scape photographs by Damian Vines are on WWW.WCLS.ORG display through Nov. 27 at Chuckanut Brewery, JIM CROFT’S TOOLMAKING WORKSHOP 601 W. Holly St. Sat., Nov. 14, noon - 4pm MUSIC NOV. 14-15 WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM Create bookbinding and paper folding tools at Bison Bookbinding. 26 LUMMI STUDIO TOUR: More than 30 art- 26 ists and craftspeople will show their work FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contem- ART ART at 17-plus locations at the Lummi Island porary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm BREAKING BOUNDARIES: THE HAND AS THE CUTTING EDGE Artists’ Holiday Studio Tour from 10am-5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 OF THE MIND Saturday and Sunday throughout the lovely Virginia St. Sun., Nov. 15, 2pm 24 land mass. Paintings, drawings, prints, 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts & Rare Book Curator at the Univ. of WA talks

notecard, jewelry, photography, sculpture, STAGE glass, woodwork, stonework and more can FOURTH CORNER: View an “Artist’s Choice” about book art at Old City Hall. be perused and purchased. Entry to the self- exhibit through November at Fourth Corner guided tour is free. Pick up a flyer at the Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. AFTER HOURS ART: SALVAGED BOOK EVENT 22 Islander Store or at any of the participating WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM Thurs., Nov. 19, 5:30 - 7:30pm studios throughout the island. Transform an old book into a work of art at Bison Bookbinding.

758-7121 OR 758-2815 GALLERY CYGNUS: View Camano Island- GET OUT based painter Michelle Bear’s work through For more info visit www.whatcommuseum.org/events SUN., NOV. 15 Dec. 24 in La Conner at Gallery Cygnus, 109 CIRCUS BAZAAR: Illustrated greeting Commercial St. Whatcom Museum | www.whatcommuseum.org | 360.778.8930 20 cards, artisan salts and tinctures, felted WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM

earrings, wooly hats and many more hand- WORDS made items can be perused and purchased GOOD EARTH: Lonnie Schang’s “Radiant at a Holiday Bazaar starting at 5pm at Raku” will be highlighted through November 8 the Bellingham Circus Guid’s Cirque Lab, at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. 1401 6th St. The event precedes the 7pm WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM “Vaudevillingham” performance. If you stick around a little longer, see the show for a I.E. GALLERY: An exhibit featuring works by CURRENTS suggested $5 donation. Warren Dykeman and James Reisen is on dis- WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM play through Nov. 15 in Edison at i.e. Gallery, 6 5800 Cains Court.

BOOK ART: Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts & Rare (360) 488-3458 VIEWS Book Curator at the University of Washington, examines content and structure in contem- LUCIA DOUGLAS: An exhibit featuring the 4 porary artists’ books, highlighting innova- work of regional artists shows through Dec. 19 tion and adaptability, at 2pm at Whatcom at Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. MAIL Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM is accepting my Suggested donation is $3. 2 WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG MAKE.SHIFT: View Christina Miglino’s “Mod. DO IT IT DO Saints: Rites, Riots and Relics” through No- insurance and THURS., NOV. 19 vember at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. AFTER HOURS ART: Whatcom Museum WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM presents an “After Hours Art: Salvaged Books” workshop from 5:30-7:30pm at Bison Book- MONA: “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expres- fitting my budget 11.11.15 binding & Letterpress, 112 Grand Ave. Par- sions in Indigenous Art” shows through Jan. ticipants can try their hands at transforming 3 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, .10

an old book into a sculpted treasure. Bison Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. 45 # owners Carly James and Kevin Nelson will help WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG RG you turn your idea into a reality. Entry is $15- make Planned Parenthood $18; please register in advance. SMITH & VALLEE: Multimedia artist Jasmine your health care provider 778-8961 OR WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Valandani and sculptor Andrew Vallee will show their works through November at Edi- NOV. 19-21 son’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Seasonal WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM

decor, gift items and gourmet foods can CASCADIA WEEKLY be purchased at the 34th annual “Home for WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Unhinged: Book Art on the Holidays” from 5:30-9:30pm Thursday, the Cutting Edge,” “Chipping the Block, Painting 27 9am-9:30pm Friday, and 9:30am-5:30pm the Silk: The Color Prints of Norma Bassett Hall,” 1.800.230.PLAN Saturday at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, and “Back at the Park” can currently be viewed mbpp.org 355 Harris Ave. on the Whatcom Museum campus. Bellingham · Mount Vernon WWW.HOMEFORTHEHOLIDAYSBELLINGHAM.COM WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Friday Harbor rumor has it

42 WHEN I turned 10 years old, I’m pretty sure I had a roller-skating party followed by Shakey’s

FOOD FOOD Pizza and a Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake. It could very well have been the high-water mark of my birthday parties and possibly my life. 35 35 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT I’m perfectly fine with that. Even as an adult, it’s pretty tough to beat ice cream cake.

B-BOARD B-BOARD The Green Frog is turning 10 years old soon, and James Hardesty has a slightly more grownup

32 birthday party in mind to celebrate. The celebration of the music venue/tiniest beer hall in all

FILM the land/seasonal barbecue palace/site of great grilled-cheese gluttony will take place Weds., Nov.

28 28 18 and along with live music, the Green Frog will

have beer on tap from every brewery in town for MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC the occasion. That means Boundary Bay, Chuckanut, Kulshan, Aslan, and Wander breweries will all come

26 together in the name of good, locally made beer

ART and the Green Frog’s milestone birthday. The all-encompassing lo- 24 cal brewer’s night will only

STAGE be the first round of festivities, however. Man cannot live on beer alone (although 22 were such a thing possible, James certainly would) and

GET OUT the Green Frog does not ex- BY CAREY ROSS ist merely to sling pints. Hardesty has also spent the

20 past decade slinging music of all kinds and some of his favorites will help to repay him for providing them with a place to play by playing in the place WORDS he’s provided. The lineup includes CR Avery and the JACKALOPE

8 Boomchasers, Ron Hardesty, and Robert Sarazin Blake—or the official lineup, rather. I’m sure all manner of shenanigans will happen on that stage be- BY CAREY ROSS CURRENTS CURRENTS very nexus of beer and bluegrass. fore the night is over, so get there early, buy yourself Not so fast, says Anacortes. a pint and find Hardesty and congratulate him on all 6 Although the tiny town on Skagit County’s Fi- his hard work. On the off chance you’ve never met dalgo Island is smaller than Bellingham by about him, he’ll be the guy with the hair and the laugh. VIEWS Brewgrass 70,000 people, what Anacortes lacks in numbers More description than that would be superfluous.

4 OF BEER AND BLUEGRASS it makes up for in wisdom. The city has long In other news of Bellingham musical mainstays, known that microbrews and music go together it seems Dave Crider, owner of Estrus Records and MAIL MAIL ALTHOUGH BELLINGHAM’S streets do not yet run with mi- like Netflix and chill. Of course, Anacortes’s sto- the man without whom the music scene as we know

crobrews, surely such a day cannot be too far off. Beer in Bellingham ried musical history is well-documented, so the it would not exist today, has himself a new band. 2 is hobby, pastime, vocation, religion—and serious business. Brewer- idea that its citizenry would go in for a little Called Machine Animal, it also counts Black Beast DO IT IT DO ies are plentiful, more are on the way and, thus far, our thirst for bluegrass is hardly a farfetched notion. Revival’s Bill Anker and Zack Van Houten as mem- handcrafted, homegrown beer is a thing than cannot be slaked. As for the beer piece of this puzzle, the city bers—and Vincent Blackshadow. Along with being a But what of you who might favor beer not brewed here? We’ve got is home to a namesake brewery, and its rotating musician since before he could form the word, Black- you covered as well, with multiple establishments devoted to pulling slate of pale ales, pilsners, porters and more are shadow is the talented offspring of the exceedingly 11.11.15 as many different pints as possible—or cracking open as many differ- brewed with a level of care and downright nerdy talented Jeff and Patti Braimes, who also happen ent bottles or cans—from breweries domestic and foreign. If someone attention to detail that are the calling cards to be alums of other Crider musical projects. Maybe .10

45 somewhere is brewing a beer commercially, odds are you can drink it of high-quality beer palaces everywhere. But more than any kid in the history of ever, Blackshad- # in Bellingham. Anacortes Brewery is just one half of this beer- ow was raised on Estrus music, and given his paren- Bellinghamsters can also make some impressive boasts when it centric business enterprise, the other half being tal lineage, it comes as zero surprise that he’s been a comes to bluegrass music. The two bands that have had the Best of the Rockfish Grill, with a menu of seasonal, local rock star since the minute he was born. Bellingham’s Best Band category on lock the past few years, Rabbit fare designed to highlight whatever is on tap and So, either Crider is amassing an army via mind con- Wilde and Polecat, while decidedly different entities, are both blue- a stage designed to highlight, more often than trol and advanced trickery to carry out his musical grass at their core. Venues like the Wild Buffalo and the Green Frog not, musicians of a bluegrassy bent. mission and the Braimes family is evidence of that,

CASCADIA WEEKLY routinely play host to bluegrass artists from all corners of the coun- It is no coincidence then, that the Rockfish or this is our music scene coming full circle. It’s fun try and beyond—and the Green Frog has about a billion beers (give is ground central for Brewgrass, a festival that to imagine the former, but I have a feeling it’s more 28 or take) on tap as well. Hell, if you can only stand to listen to your takes place in November every year as a means akin to the latter, which is perhaps a sign of my ad- bluegrass while you drink your microbrews from their source, you can to celebrate the intoxicating cocktail that is mi- vancing age given that I once saw Blackshadow pluck do so at at least two breweries (Kulshan and Boundary Bay) and one crobrews mixed with bluegrass. This year marks a guitar while he was still a toddler (and I was not meadery (the Honey Moon) on the regular. the 12th inauguration of Brewgrass, a sign that exactly a toddler myself at the time), but I’m just too All this could lead a person to think that Bellingham exists at the Anacortes has been embracing for more than a busy being tickled by the whole thing to care. doit BREWGRASS, FROM PAGE 28 THURS., NOV. 12 concert is $20 (or pay-as-you-are-able). decade the lifestyle Bellinghamsters are pretty sure BMC PERFORMANCE: Help the Bellingham WWW.SALMONRUN.WIX.COM

they invented just a few years ago. Music Club celebrate its 100th birthday at an Anniversary Concert at 7:30pm Whatcom UNIVERSITY CHOIR: Listen to vocalists 42 But just one venue does not a Brewgrass make, Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. The telling stories through song when Western so the Rockfish’s sister bar, H2O, is one of the BMC plays a vital role in Whatcom County, Washington University’s Concert Choir presents FOOD festival’s locales as well. With 24 taps, craft making music accessible to everyone with its a free public concert at 3pm at the Performing cocktails, a full menu and a dance floor, what free concert series featuring local musi- Arts Center Concert Hall.

Smoked & Pickled Salmon 35 H2O lacks in microbrews made on the premises, cians and professional artists, including WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU WWU Music Department faculty and Whatcom Horse-Radish Cheddar it more than makes up for in everything else. The Symphony Orchestra members. Suggested YOUTH CONCERT: The monthly “Sunday @ same could be said of the Brewgrass’ third set- donation is $3. 3 Youth Concert” begins at 3pm at Lynden’s Greeting, Note & Postcards B-BOARD ting, the Brown Lantern Ale House. At 80-plus WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Entry to the Aero-Press Coffee Makers years old, the Brown Lantern has a whole lot of all-ages performance is a suggested $5 for 32 history in Anacortes—which translates into a JANSEN JAZZ BAND: Listen to a variety of adults. Skin Salves & Lotions big band sounds when the Jansen Jazz Band WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG whole lot of experience. The only thing they’re FILM Concert performs at 7:30pm at Lynden’s Jansen Local Organic Eggs more serious about than burgers (not just burg- Art Center, 321 Front St. Entry is $10. JOE HILL ROAD SHOW: David Rovics, George WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG Jewelry & Clothing Mann, Rebel Voices, and Linda Allen will cel- 28 ers, but most of the burgers of my dreams) is 28

beer. Add bluegrass, and suddenly I’m Googling ebrate the life and contribution of songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World activist FRI., NOV. 13 MUSIC the length of the commute between Bellingham Cheese Fest Nov. 21 MUSIC MUSIC AND RECOVERY: Country, rock, blues at a “Joe Hill Road Show” concert at 7pm at and Anacortes. and pop music will be on the lineup when the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1207 360-592-2297

The specifics of this year’s Brewgrass, bro- Marcia Kester presents “A Night of Music...A Ellsworth St. Familias Unidas por la Justicia www.everybodys.com 26 ken down by the numbers, is as follows: two Life of Recovery” at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s and Whatcom-Skagit IWW will have information Hiway 9 – Van Zandt ART days, three venues, six bands, 51 handles. Cover Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. In addition tables at the event. Entry is $10-$20; advance charge: free. Dates to mark on to the music, Kester will share her personal tickets are $15 at Village Books and the Com- journey of recovery from drug addiction and munity Food Co-op. 24 your calendars: Nov. 13 and 14. depression. Tickets are $15; proceeds will WWW.BUF.ORG OR WWW.JOEHILL00.COM

Potential for a good time to be go to support Skagit Recovery Center’s youth STAGE had: unquantifiable. treatment program. JOHN WHELAN: Irish button accordion mas- Like many genres of music, WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG ter John Whelan performs at 7pm at St. Paul’s bluegrass is a vague, varied and Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St. Tickets are 22 SAT., NOV. 14 $10-$15. forgiving descriptor—especial- UKULELE MINI-FEST: Workshops for all WWW.JOHNWHELANMUSIC.COM ly when it comes to organizing levels, jam sessions, a ukulele swap-and-sell, GET OUT an event designed to appeal to local vendors and a concert by Aaron and Nicole JOHN ROLLINS BENEFIT: The Klassen Family, ATTEND a broad range of people. Kiem of the Quiet American will be part of the Mark Wilson, Hanh Nguyen, David Feingod, Bob 20 WHAT: For anyone who’d like to get Bellingham Ukulele Guild’s “Ukulele Mini-Fest” Clifton, Walt Burkett and others will perform at Brewgrass from 12:30-6pm at St. James Presbyterian a Benefit Concert for Bellingham-based luthier an unofficial, early start to the WHEN: Nov. Church, 910 14th St. Workshop are $30; entry to John Rollins at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, WORDS 13-14 Brewgrass festivities, Rabbit the concert is $12. 1117 12th St. Rollins suffered a workplace WHERE: The Wilde, fresh of their 2015 Best WWW.BELLINGHAMUKULELEGROUP.COM injury last January that required the amputa- 8 Rockfish, H2O, of Bellingham win, will play tion of his left leg, just below the knee; funds and Brown Lan- a Weds., Nov. 11 show at the JAZZ SERIES FINALE: The Mike Allen Quartet raised will help with medical expenses that tern, Anacortes will close out the Sudden Valley Jazz Concert have accrued. Suggested donation is $15.

Brown Lantern. But once Brew- CURRENTS COST: Free Series season with a 3pm concert at the Sudden WWW.GOFUNDME.COM INFO: www. grass itself gets started, you Valley Dance Barn, 8 Barn View Court, Gate 2. anacortes may want to engage in a little Tickets are $20. MON., NOV. 16 6 rockfish.com strategic planning in order to WWW.FSWL.ORG MINTON AND MULLER: Western Washington take in all the bands—taking University’s Music and Sound Culture present VIEWS PETUNIA & THE VIPERS: Wear your dancing a free concert by world-renowned musical in all 51 microbrews being neither encouraged shoes and expect to hear highly original roots improvisers Phil Minton (vocalist) and Torsten 4 nor physically possible. music when Canada’s Petunia & the Vipers Müller (bassist) at 8pm at the school’s Perform- After that, Hot Damn Scandal, with all its cir- return to Bellingham to play a fundraising show ing Arts Center. MAIL at 8pm at the Spark Museum of Electrical In- WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU cusy, somehow familiar, folky charms will play the 2 Brown Lantern Fri., Nov. 13, while the Shed Boys vention, 1312 Bay St. Tickets are $15. Proceeds from the concert will benefit KMRE, Belling- TUES., NOV. 17 DO IT IT DO will hold down H2O with acoustic string-band ham’s community radio station. WIND SYMPHONY: Attend a free concert by stylings, and the Rockfish stage will ring with the WWW.SPARKMUSEUM.ORG OR WWW.KMRE.ORG the Western Washington University Wind Sym- sounds of impeccable harmonies and more tradi- phony at 8pm at the school’s Performing Arts tional bluegrass music courtesy of Pearly Blue. NOV. 14-15 Center Concert Hall. When Sat., Nov. 14 rolls around, it’s time to do BAYSHORE SYMPHONY: Selections by WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU 11.11.15 Telemann, Rossini, Schubert, and more will be it all over again—meaning you’ll have the oppor- part of the Bayshore Symphony’s Fall Concert at THURS., NOV. 19 .10

tunity to sample different music and those beers 7:30pm Saturday in Mount Vernon at St. Paul’s WINE, WOMEN, SONG: Allegra Womens’ En- 45 # that you didn’t check off your list the night before. Episcopal Church (415 S. 18th St.) and 3pm semble and Whatcom Sound Jazz Singers will This time, the Duntons, whose voices should be Sunday at Bellingham’s Central Lutheran Church perform at a “Wine, Women & Song” benefit familiar to anyone in the greater Anacortes area, (925 N. Forest St.). Suggested donation is $15 concert for Bellingham Sings at 7:30pm at (free for children 12 and under). Lairmont Manor, 405 Fieldston Rd. Entry is will perform at the Rockfish, Birdsview Bluegrass WWW.BAYSHOREMUSICPROJECT.COM $25 at the door and includes appetizers and a will present bluegrass both old-timey and modern glass of wine. to the assembled audience at H2O, and Jackalope SUN., NOV. 15 WWW.BELLINGHAMSINGS.ORG will encourage you to have a “good time at the ex- CHAMBER MUSIC: Experience virtuosic and CASCADIA WEEKLY pense of good judgment”—basically a life mantra colorful works for recorder, oboe, violin and LUFT AND EDWARDS: Singer, songwriter and harpsichord by Telemann, A. Scarlatti,Vivaldi, guitarist Cara Luft—one of the founders of the 29 for many of us—at the Brown Lantern. Prowo, Corrette, and Couperi when Salmon Run Wailin’ Jennys— will be joined by JD Edwards When the final notes of Brewgrass fade, the fes- Concerts presents “Sonate auf Concerten- for a 7:30pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, tival itself might be gone until next year, but the art: Part II” from 2-4pm in Mount Vernon at 2117 Walnut St. Suggested donation is $20; beer and the bluegrass that inspired it will remain, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St. proceeds benefit the Maple Alley Inn. in Anacortes, where they’ve always been. Suggested donation to the Baroque chamber WWW.CARALUFT.COM musicvenues 42 See below for venue

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42 This is no Merchant and Ivory- style, sun-drenched, gauze-filtered

FOOD FOOD period drama. It resolutely sticks to film the ashen grays and mud browns that made up the color palette of Lon- 35 35 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS don’s working-class streets, homes and workplaces—putting all the more

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32 32 over the top. Mulligan, in particular, delivers, bringing believability to a FILM FILM role that’s quite a stretch, given the transformation her character has to

28 go through from workaday mum to first-wave feminist superhero. As her

MUSIC frustrated husband—a guy who’s just as much a victim of his era as she is—

26 Whishaw is touchingly conflicted.

ART Screenwriter Abi Morgan (Iron Lady, Shame) does a decent job of balanc- ing fact with story-advancing fiction, 24 though the narrative gets muddled

STAGE at times. Director Sarah Gavron fails to develop some crucial characters enough to make us even remember 22 their names, let alone care about their fates. This is especially true of

GET OUT Emily Wilding Davison—a real person whose dramatic, fatal act at the Ep-

20 som Derby made international head- lines and prompted empathy for the cause. As bomb-making Edith Ellyn WORDS (loosely based on real-life suffragette

8 Edith Garrud), an underused Helena Bonham Carter seems reduced to an expository device.

CURRENTS CURRENTS Though Streep commands the screen for precious few minutes as Pankhurst, 6 the political activist idolized by the rank-and-file women warriors in whom VIEWS she encouraged militant tactics, her

4 memorable speech from a balcony nearly eclipses all that transpires be- MAIL MAIL fore and after. “I’d rather be a rebel

than a slave,” she tells them, with 2 REVIEWED BY KRISTIN TILLOTSON that timelessly triumphant half-smile DO IT IT DO Streep has so convincingly used for so long (and it still hasn’t gotten old). Suffragette Suffragette begins with a politi- cian’s voiceover opining that women 11.11.15 SISTER SOLDIERS don’t need to vote because their concerns are already “well-represented .10

45 “WHAT’S A suffragette?” ask a whole lot of people younger than 40. despite fending off the groping of her by their fathers, husbands and broth- # That alone is reason enough to bring women’s early-20th-century struggle to lecherous boss. ers.” That statement brings guffaws win the vote to the big screen. But it’s also a fascinating story of ingenuity, Like most women in her situation at of incredulity now, but was far and sacrifice and English women in flowery hats who resorted to such unladylike that time, Maud isn’t interested in pur- away the prevailing attitude of its behavior as breaking windows and blowing up mailboxes “because war is the only suing more. But then she catches the day. To think otherwise was seen by thing men listen to,” as rabble-rouser factory worker Violet Miller (Anne-Marie brewing fever of the activists around the majority as absurd. Duff) puts it. her after being thrust into speaking at At a time when the word “feminist”

CASCADIA WEEKLY American women got the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amend- a hearing about the vote. She draws the has taken on similar pejorative con- ment in 1920, about a decade before their counterparts in England. Suffragette attention of Irish detective Arthur Steed notations, and Hollywood continues 32 mixes real-life characters including movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl (a perfectly understated Brendan Glee- to shortchange women everywhere Streep in a small but powerful role) with fictional ones, chief among them Maud son), who employs cameras to track the from the director’s chair to star sala- Watts (Carey Mulligan). women’s movements in one of the earli- ries, the film is a reminder of both Maud is a lower-class laundress who loves her husband, Sonny (Ben Whishaw), est uses of surveillance technology. how far equality has come and that and dotes on their young son. She manages to rise through the ranks at work Maud and her partners in righteous the battle continues. Business Hours Happy Hour

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The 33 ing way, a near-miss attempt that seems STAGE DON’T GET TRAPPED to seal the miners’ doom, the international effort to drill a hole large enough FIVE YEARS ago, the world held its to get the capsule down, the uncertainty 22 collective breath as 33 miners, trapped for of that first miner inching through the Legends 69 days after a cave-in at the San Jose brittle rock. The trouble is, The 33 only of the GET OUT Mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, emerged knows broad strokes. Lacking any specific one-by-one from a capsule lowered 2,300 angle on the ordeal, the filmmakers give

Blues III 20 feet below the surface. Based on Hec- the once-over-lightly treatment to every tor Tobar’s book Deep Down Dark, The 33 aspect of it, which ensures that none of WORDS aims for a comprehensive survey of efforts them will be properly served. Political above ground and below, but winds up issues like the negligence of the mining 8 looking less like a sober docudrama than a company or the calculations of the govern- ginned-up Irwin Allen disaster movie. ment are raised with little follow-through,

The trouble begins almost immediately, and the community within “Camp Hope,” CURRENTS as director Patricia Riggen hastily sketches the makeshift tent city for the miners’ the miners during a retirement party in Co- wives and children, sags from inattention. 6 piapo, Chile. As it happens, the honoree has While having the international cast speak a few days left in the gold-copper mine be- English is an unfortunate concession to VIEWS

fore hanging up the hardhat, and another commercial reality, the performances do 4 (Mario Casas) begs for extra work because little to smooth over the problem. Binoche his wife is expecting soon. If a collapsed is one of the best actresses in the world, sponsored by MAIL

mine didn’t get them, they might as well but not the ideal choice. Ditto Byrne, the Arlington 2 have tickets for the S.S. Poseidon. pasty Irishman, who fakes his way through

Arts IT DO The party gives other ill-fated laborers a the role of a Chilean engineer by underplay- brief introduction, each with conflicts or ing it the best he can. Banderas has the Council personalities that are never expanded be- opposite problem as the exuberant “Super yond a phrase: There’s Edison Pena (Jacob Mario,” sucking so much oxygen out of the Vargas), an Elvis impersonator; Yonni Bar- room that it’s a wonder there’s any left in Opening w/ Stacy Jones Band 11.11.15 rios (Oscar Nunez, familiar from The Office), the Refuge for the other 32. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 .10 who’s in the middle of a feisty love trian- The 33 opens with a sobering statistic 45 gle; and Luis Urzua (Lou Diamond Phillips), about the roughly 12,000 people who die # known to the men as “Don Lucho,” whose from mining accidents every year, but it at Byrnes Performing Arts Center warnings about mine safety go unheeded. seems content to pay tribute to these men 18821 Crown Ridge Blvd., Arlington Washington When the mine collapses, sending the 33 who survived without grappling with the deep underground to an area called the “Ref- conditions that put them in this situation. Tickets are $15 at BrownPaperTickets.com uge,” they coalesce around Mario Sepulveda The thrill of reliving the Chilean miner saga and at Flowers by George, 338 N. Olympia Ave., (Antonio Banderas), aka “Super Mario,” an again onscreen isn’t nearly as compelling as CASCADIA WEEKLY indefatigable leader who keeps them united watching it unfold at the time—not neces- in downtown Arlingtonat the door under desperate circumstances. As Super sarily because the audience knows the out- 33 Mario and his comrades work to stretch come, but because there’s so little else in FAMILY FRIENDLY! Youth under 12 enter free three days’ worth of food and water, the which to invest. While Riggen goes drilling Paid for in part by Arlington & Snohomish County Lodging Taxes rescue effort hits a snag when the mining for inspirational moments, the rest of her www.arlingtonartscouncil.net company fails to act and the Chilean gov- movie crumbles from neglect. film ›› showing this week

42 BY CAREY ROSS star, Kristen Wiig continues to choose to embody

FOOD FOOD fundamentally flawed characters in a series of indie efforts—much to her credit. This time the story has to do with a gay couple who are trying to have a baby

35 35 FILM SHORTS with their best friend Polly while also being harassed by a menacing character known as “The Bishop.” No The 33: See review previous page. ++ (PG-13 • 2 frothy comedy, this is a drama that packs a punch.

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The Assassin: An intensely beautiful, robustly styl- Our Brand is Crisis: Based (loosely) on the 32 32 ish and thoughtfully paced samurai movie the likes of excellent 2005 documentary of the same name, this which you’ve never seen before from one of cinema’s mediocre adaptation starring Sandra Bullock is worthy FILM FILM unsung (but rarely underestimated) greats, Hou Hsiao- neither of the story nor its star, but it probably won’t hsien. +++++ (Unrated • 1 hr. 47 min.) make you scorn your entire existence either. ++ (R • 1 hr. 48 min.)

28 Bridge of Spies: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks team up for the fourth time to tell the true(ish) story Pan: All I have to say about this movie is, if you’re

MUSIC of a lawyer, a spy and some seriously suspenseful going to give critics such a pun-worthy title to work 1950s Cold War “diplomacy” in what is seen by some with, you’d better make a real good film. Critics, cue as the first big contender of this year’s Oscar season. the pan puns. ++ (PG • 1 hr. 51 min.) 26 +++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 43 min.)

ART The Peanuts Movie: Although I’m not opposed to By the Sea: This movie starring Angelina Jolie and the big-screen resurrection of the Peanuts gang, I Brad Pitt appears to be the cinematic equivalent of am, on principle, thoroughly opposed to trusting 24 the two most gorgeous people in the world saying, Hollywood with anything precious from my childhood. “You’re the prettiest.” “No, you’re the prettiest” to +++ (G • 1 hr. 32 min.) STAGE one another over and over for a couple of hours. Throw in an Italian backdrop and some plot pretense about Spectre: Apologies to all Sean Connery fans, but a failing marriage and look, I just saved you 20 bucks Daniel Craig is the best James Bond of all time and 22 and two hours of your time and you are welcome. ++ I will have Daniel Craig fight anyone who does not (R • 2 hrs. 2 min.) agree with me on the subject of Daniel Craig. +++

GET OUT (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 30 min.) Crimson Peak: You can have your artless, lowest- common-denominator torture porn; I’ll take my horror Suffragette: See review previous page. ++++ (PG-

20 movies made with extraordinary vision and creepi- 13 • 1 hr. 46 min.) ness to match by writer/director Guillermo del Toro. ++++ (R • 1 hr. 59 min.) WORDS LOVE THE COOPERS Goosebumps: Maybe you didn’t grow up on R.L.

8 Stine’s Goosebumps books. Maybe you didn’t have a childhood. That’s perfectly fine—now you can watch The Keeping Room: Starring Brit Marling, this is Weir), directed by a master of large-scale, cinematic all of them at once (well, maybe not quite all of the a post-Civil War Western of sorts, in which Marling sci-fi (Ridley Scott), starring a universally competent 200-something of the tomes currently in existence) escapes a brutal assault—and then must fight back and compelling actor (Matt Damon) and an excellent CURRENTS CURRENTS with Jack Black playing the role of the prolific and when her attackers hunt her down and try to exact ensemble cast (Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Chiwe-

6 iconic kid-lit author. +++ (PG • 1 hr. 43 min.) revenge. Spoiler alert: Brit is not to be trifled with. tel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig), this is the sci-fi epic you’re ++++ (R • 1 hr. 26 min.) looking for. ++++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 14 min.) Hotel Transylvania 2: On the one hand, this VIEWS animated sequel has Adam Sandler (kiss of death) The Last Witch Hunter: Quoting directly from the Miss You Already: Jess (Drew Barrymore) and Milly attached to it. On the other, it’s a kids movie with synopsis, this is a movie in which “Vin Diesel is all that (Toni Collette) are besties, weathering all of life’s ups 4 a Halloweenish theme, and how much damage can stands between humanity and the combined forces of and downs together in routine girl-power fashion—

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32 complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy world.” Early in her career she vowed, “I’m going to one condition: Avoid being terrible. Can you do make everything around me beautiful,” and she often

FILM that? I think so, although you will have to summon did just that. In part through her influence, the dark, unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky and collaborative ingenuity. draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to

28 rooms with brighter light, softer colors, and more in- TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have the viting textures. I’d love to see you be inspired by her answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as mission, Scorpio. It’s a good time to add extra charm, MUSIC if there were different or better answers to be had. grace, and comfort to your environments. Moreover, you’ve been offered blessings that could

26 enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you’re SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At the age of barely taking advantage of them—apparently because 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to ART you underestimate their potency. Here’s what I think: his father Herman. As he described the ways that his As long as you neglect the gifts you have already been dad’s toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed

24 granted, they won’t provide you with their full value. If his maturation process, he refrained from lashing out you give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom. with histrionic anger. Instead he focused on objec- tively articulating the facts, recounting events from STAGE GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Edgar Rice Burroughs childhood and analyzing the family dynamic. In accor- (1875-1950) tried to earn a living by selling pencil dance with the astrological omens, I recommend that sharpeners, but couldn’t make it. In frustration, he you write a letter to your own father—even if it’s filled 22 turned to writing novels. Success! Among his many with praise and gratitude instead of complaint. At this popular novels, 27 of them were about a fictional char- juncture in your life story, I think you especially need Hansel acter named Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the the insights that this exercise would generate. (P.S. GET OUT movies based on Burroughs’ books was Johnny Weiss- Write the letter for your own sake, not with the hope muller. As a child, he suffered from polio, and rebuilt of changing or hurting or pleasing your dad. You don’t his strength by becoming a swimmer. He eventually won have to give it to him.) 20 & five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, Gemini. It’s a CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Shizo Kanakuri

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2 prompt you to laugh the loudest. They will provide im- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In most sporting portant clues about the parts of your life that need lib- events, there’s never any doubt about which competi- DO IT eration. What outmoded or irrelevant taboos should you tor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants consider breaking? What inhibitions are dampening your and spectators know who has more points or goals or well-being? How might your conscience be overstepping runs. But one sport isn’t like that. In a boxing match, its bounds and making you unnecessarily constrained? no one is aware of the score until the contest is fin- Any time you roar with spontaneous amusement, you ished—not even the boxers themselves. I think you’re 11.11.15 will know you have touched a congested place in your in a metaphorically comparable situation. You won’t psyche that is due for a cleansing. find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the

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CASCADIA WEEKLY begun to attack him. I’m guessing you will soon have feeling that flows through your body will be a blend of an experience akin to Tara’s. Maybe you’ll make a gutsy exhilaration and ease. Anywhere you want to go, you 38 move that earns you an unexpected honor. Maybe you’ll will maneuver skillfully to get there. After a while, you carry out a dramatic act of compassion that’s widely ap- will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a preciated. Or maybe you’ll go outside your comfort zone knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation. gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots. Whether or not you remember this LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to cartoon dream, the next day you will work some practical magic character Homer Simpson, “Trying is the first step that begins to shrink or dissolve the problem. 99%+ FOSSIL FUEL-FREE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT BY AMY ALKON The safe time to compliment a woman on her hotitude is after you’ve BellinghamFinancialPlanners.com

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Though it’s the tail end of 2015, pendency paradox,” a finding by social CURRENTS evolutionary psychologists Leda Cos- psychologist Brooke C. Feeney that the 6 mides and John Tooby explain that more you show a romantic partner that “our modern skulls house a stone age they can rely on you, the less they feel VIEWS mind” with “stone age priorities.” the need to cling. This would seem to

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41 rings, pulled-pork nachos, fried pickles and fried cheese sticks. In the end, we settled on a plate of boneless wings, which consisted of at least 10 chunks of chicken breast, fried

42 and smothered in barbecue sauce. (There are 42 two sauce options: spicy buffalo or barbe- FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD cue.) Before the wings even arrived we were presented with a plate of piping-hot corn bread with butter—a melt-in-your-mouth 35 35 chow RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES bun we devoured in two bites. The wings ($7) were a crispy, satisfy-

B-BOARD B-BOARD ing starter and I was glad I’d requested the half-portion of Jake’s Steak Salad ($9.99) in-

32 stead of the full-size ($12.99) for my entree. It came with lettuce topped with crumbled

FILM blue cheese, hard-boiled eggs, bacon bits and chopped flat-iron steak, and it made for a fill-

28 ing yet lighter lunch. Brian and Tanya know most of their regular

MUSIC customers by name and work hard to rein- force their rewards program. Subscribing to

26 it is an easy choice because you only have to

ART send a text—even while you’re seated at the table—to get an immediate free appetizer worth as much as $9. 24 I couldn’t resist trying a

STAGE sample of the brisket, Bri- an’s favorite dish. “It takes between 12 and 15 hours 22 to smoke it,” he said with a grin. It was tasty, soft and

GET OUT tender on the tongue and EAT extremely delicious.

20 You can usually divide any WHAT: Jake’s menu up into “man-food” Western Grill (the heavier items) and WORDS WHEN: 11am- 8pm Sun.-Thurs. “lady food” (salads, soups and 11am-9pm

8 and grilled proteins), and Fri.-Sat. Jake’s is no different. It has WHERE: 8114 a number of options in each WA-539, Lynden

CURRENTS CURRENTS INFO: www. category. Men will love the jakeswestern meaty burgers and sand- 6 grill.com wiches, all less than $12.99, like the Cowboy Burger, VIEWS

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAKE’S WESTERN GRILL OF JAKE’S COURTESY PHOTO which is topped with cheddar cheese, sautéed

4 onions, mushrooms and bacon and includes a choice of sides such as mac and cheese, fried

MAIL MAIL BY LAUREN KRAMER okra, sweet potato fries or onion rings.

The combo platter, a choice of two or three 2 meats with two sides, is a large-meal ideal, DO IT IT DO Jake’s Western Grill while the salads—Cobb, Caesar, southwest- ern and steak—represent lighter choices. NICE TO MEAT YOU They can be customized in size and added to with more proteins like chicken, pulled pork, 11.11.15 If you’re in the mood for a great Western-style meal served with warm, Restaurant (since closed), in the Delft Build- steak or brisket. Southern hospitality look no further than Jake’s Western Grill in Lynden. ing downtown. We had no stomach space left for the des- .10

45 The 85-seat restaurant, located a few doors down from Food Pavilion on “I’m passionate about Southern food and serts, tempting though they were. With a # Highway 539, opened in 2008 with a professional meat smoker and large dol- barbecue,” he told me when we sat down choice of molten lava chocolate cake, pecan lops of authentic barbecue meats on the menu. We’re talking smoked baby- together on a sunny October afternoon. “I pie, blackberry cobbler or cookie skillet topped back ribs, pulled-pork plates, flat-iron steak and “hog wild” tater skins. This is love high-quality meat, which is why we use with ice cream and chocolate syrup, sweet- a meat-lover’s paradise, and one where owners Brian and Tanya Poag lovingly top-of-the-line Angus beef and smoke all toothed diners will be well rewarded whichever craft their own gluten-free seasonings, rubs and sauces. our meats in-house in small batches. We’re item they choose. And thanks to the ample The Western theme is predominant the moment you walk through the glass also known for our Southern hospitality, portions, those sweet treats are easily shared.

CASCADIA WEEKLY doors. There are rodeo images on the restaurant walls, a saddle hanging over which means generous portion sizes and a We loved our meal at Jake’s Western Grill, the wall, waitresses in cowboy apparel and lots of other rustic touches. Most lot of warmth and friendliness in the way particularly the restaurant’s emphasis on au- 42 of the tables are booth-style with comfy leather benches and, for those who we treat people.” thentic barbecue, the warmth and genuine want a stiff drink, there’s a full bar with a large TV screen where you can order You have to take it slowly at Jake’s, be- friendliness of its staff and the speed of ser- off the regular menu, too. cause Poag isn’t joking about large serving vice—we were in and out in less than an Brian, a Tennessee native, has worked in food service since the age of 19 and sizes. We were hard-pressed to choose an hour. Stop by this great eatery for lunch or previously owned two other restaurants: Nuthouse Grill in Lynden and the Loft appetizer from the selection of fried onion dinner—and arrive hungry. doit

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Learn more about “Oolong Teas of China and Taiwan” at a talk and tasting event Wed., Nov. 18 at the Sumas Library 28

every Saturday through Dec. 19.

WED., NOV. 11 MUSIC SEASONAL EATING: Licensed Acupuncturist WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG Cadie Federmeyer leads “Eating with the Seasons: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective” at HOLIDAY FESTIVAL: More than 30 food and craft 26

6:30pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. vendors will be on hand at a Bow Little Market ART Forest St. In the class, she’ll explore the different Holiday Festival taking place from 10am-4pm in energies of the seasons, foods, herbs, and recipes Bow at the Beau Lodge, 17851 Wood Rd. Hot spiced through the lens of Chinese Medicine and other cider, live music and lunch offerings will be part of 24 cross-cultural traditions. Entry is $5. the festive fun.

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THURS., NOV. 12 BEES 101: “Of Bees and Beekeeping” will be ART OF WINE: Ryan Wildstar focuses on “The the focus of a presentation by Karen Bean of 22 Art of Wine: A Tour of France, Part Two” starting Brookfield Farms at 3pm at the Everson Library, tonight from 6:30-8pm at the Community Food Co- 104 Kirsch Dr. At the free event, local honey-based GET OUT op, 1220 N. Forest St. Each class will focus on an products will be available to purchase. entire region and examine the connections linking WWW.WCLS.ORG the terroir (the unique combination of soil, climate 20 and environment) with the fine wines and seminal SUN., NOV. 15 works of art, literature, music, and film from the COMMUNITY MEAL: All are welcome at the monthly same region. Entry is $129; the class continues Southside Community Meal happening from 5-6:30pm WORDS through Dec. 10. at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1720 Harris Ave.

WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM Meals include a main dish, salad and break. Entry is 8 free; guests are asked to bring a potluck dessert. SAT., NOV. 14 733-6748 OR WWW.HAPPYVALLEYNA.COM VETERANS BREAKFAST: Pancakes, biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, sausage, fruit and yogurt TUES., NOV. 17 exchange tomorrow CURRENTS parfaits, and beverages will be on the menu at a FALL SALMON: Salmon fisherman extraordinaire buy * sell*trade 6 Veterans Breakfast from 8-11am at the Bellingham Jeremy Brown’s troll king salmon will be prepared and Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. At 11am, served with finesse and flair when Robert Fong helms there will be a performance from the Pakawalups, a “Fall Salmon” course from 6:30-9pm at the Commu- VIEWS a USO-style harmonizing trio. Entry is free for nity Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $49. 4 veterans, $4 for kids and $6 for adults. WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM WWW.WCCOA.ORG WED., NOV. 18 MAIL

PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Sumas Lions Club hosts a WORLDLY APPS: Nahla Gholam will show you 2 Pancake Breakfast from 8-11am at the Sumas Se- how to make an array of starters—including nior Center, 461 2nd St. Admission is by donation. Spanakopita, Manchego cheese with membrillo, DO IT IT DO

(360) 927-5712 Spanish tapas, chicken wings Italian style, and beef meatballs at an “Appetizers from Around the COMMUNITY MEAL: Beef stroganoff, veggies, World” class from 6:30-8:30pm in Mount Vernon at green salad, bread and bread pudding will be on the Gretchen’s Kitchen, 509 S. First STt. Entry is $40. menu at the bimonthly Community Meal from 10am- WWW.GRETCHENSKITCHEN.COM 11.11.15 12pm at the United Church of Ferndale, 2034 Wash-

ington St. Per usual, entry is free and open to all. TEA TALK: “Oolong Teas of China and Taiwan” will .10

714-9029 be the focus of a presentation at 7pm at the Sumas 45 # Library, 451 2nd St. The free event will explore COOKIE PARTY: Munch on platters of traditional dozens of these teas and will be accompanied by a holiday cookies while instructors demonstrate how tasting of a variety of high-end oolongs. to make delicate and delicious krumkakes and tra- WWW.WCLS.ORG ditional Lefse for the holidays at a “Scandinavian Cookie Party” from 10am-12pm in Mount Vernon at THURS., NOV. 19 Gretchen’s Kitchen, 509 S. First St. Entry is $30. COAST SALISH FEAST: Ethnobotanist and Casca-

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