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VOTER'S GUIDE, P.11 + SAVE KMRE, P.12 + A DOLL'S HOUSE, P.15 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 11-01-2017* • ISSUE:44* • V.12 WINTER IS COMING A flurry of films, P.14 ART'S ALIVE! A weekend of wonder, P.16 THE GRISTLE Issues of incarceration, P.08 BREWGRASS! Cornering the market in Anacortes, P.18 Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham c a s c a d i a SATURDAY [11.04.17] 30 ONSTAGE FOOD ThisWeek A Doll’s House: 2pm, Bellingham High School A Doll’s House: 2pm, DUG Theater, WWU A glance at this week’s 12 Minutes Max: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts 24 Center happenings Backyard Brawl: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre B-BOARD DANCE Folk Dance Party: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library 22 MUSIC Traditional Jazz: 2-5pm, VFW Hall FILM Powerhouse Love Lifted Us: 6:30-8:30pm, La Conner United Methodist Church vocalist Shemekia Eric Heatherly, Chris Eger: 7:30pm, Lincoln The- 18 Copeland will atre, Mount Vernon Brewgrass: 7:30pm-12:30am, downtown Anacortes MUSIC be joined by Problem Child: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre Malima Kone: 9-11pm, Lovitt Restaurant 16 rising star WORDS ART Matt Andersen Jessica Stone: 1pm, Blaine Library for a night of Paul Owen Lewis: 2pm, Ferndale Library 15 Gary McWilliams: 7pm, Village Books contemporary STAGE COMMUNITY blues Fri., Nov. 3 Yule Boutique: 9am-3pm, Trinity Lutheran Church Scandinavian Fair: 10am-4pm, Holiday Inn 14 at the Mount Baker Friends of the Forest Benefit: 5-11p, Port of Theatre Anacortes Transit Shed Event Center GET OUT GET OUT Bellingham Trail Marathon: 7:30am, Lake Padden Park 12 Salmon Sighting: 12-3pm, Taylor Shellfish Farms WORDS FOOD Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square 10 Ciderfest: 10am-5pm, BelleWood Acres Specialty Coffee Beer Fest: 10-6pm, Elizabeth Station Full Moon Block Party: 11am-8pm, Stones Throw Brewery CURRENTS Chowder by the Channel: 3-6pm, La Conner Middle 8 WEDNESDAY [11.01.17] Carrie Cooper will be one of eight School artists showing their work at the VIEWS ONSTAGE VISUAL A Doll’s House: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Crafts of the World: 9am-4pm, Good News Fellow- opening for the group exhibit 4 ship Church, Ferndale MUSIC “Cutaway” at Make.Shift Art Space Uncommon Threads: 10am-3pm, Greenbank Farm, MAIL Mike Allen Trio: 7-9pm, Sylvia Center Fri., Nov 3 during the Downtown Whidbey Island Home Free: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre Art’s Alive!: 10am-6pm, throughout La Conner 2 2 Bellingham Art Walk Artist Reception: 4-6pm, i.e. gallery, Edison THURSDAY [11.02.17] New Exhibit Opening: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee Gal- DO IT DO IT lery, Edison ONSTAGE A Doll’s House: 7pm, Bellingham High School SUNDAY [11.05.17] A Doll’s House: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 11.01.17 MUSIC The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Global Spice Series: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU .12 MUSIC Pacific Northwest Opera: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, 44 # High School Jazz: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon FRIDAY [11.03.17] COMMUNITY Mount Vernon Next Show: 7pm, Kennelly Keys, Anacortes Great Futures Gala: 5:30pm, DreamChasersRV of Night Beat: 7:30pm, First Congregational Church ONSTAGE Burlington FOOD A Doll’s House: 7pm, Bellingham High School Grape & Gourmet: 5:30-8:30pm, Silver Reef Event FILM 12 Minutes Max: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing FOOD Center Mt. Baker Film & Art Festival: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Arts Center Holiday Bake Sale: 9am-3pm, Lynden Community Theatre A Doll’s House: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Center VISUAL Backyard Brawl: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Art’s Alive!: 10am-4pm, throughout La Conner CASCADIA WEEKLY FOOD VISUAL Artful Pairing: 2-4pm, Whatcom Museum’s Light- Literacy Breakfast: 7-9am, Bellingham Technical Crafts of the World: 9am-8pm, Good News Fellow- catcher Building 2 MUSIC College Shemekia Copeland, Matt Andersen: 7:30pm, ship Church, Ferndale Breakfast of Champions: 7-9am, Boundary Bay Mount Baker Theatre Uncommon Threads: 10am-7pm, Greenbank Farm, MONDAY [11.06.17] Brewery Pacific Northwest Opera: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Whidbey Island Holiday Bake Sale: 9am-3pm, Lynden Community Mount Vernon Art’s Alive Opening: 5-9pm, Maple Hall, La Conner COMMUNITY Center Brewgrass: 7:30pm-12:30am, downtown Anacortes First Friday Art Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Whatcom Housing Week: Through Thursday NEW! THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 22 editor@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle Legendary mountain climber Fred Beckey, 94, died of ext 204 18 natural causes at a friend’s Seattle home early this week. To calendar@ find out more about the man who is credited with notching cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC more first ascents than any other American mountaineer— and who kept climbing into his 90s—secure tickets ASAP Music & Film Editor: to a viewing of the documentary about his storied life, Carey Ross 16 Dirtbag, Thurs., Nov. 2 at the Pickford Film Center. ext 203 ART music@ cascadiaweekly.com 15 Views & News Production Art Director: STAGE 04: Monstrous mailbag Jesse Kinsman 08: Gristle & Views jesse@ 14 10: Last week’s news kinsmancreative.com Design: 11: Police blotter, Index Bill Kamphausen GET OUT Advertising Design: Arts & Life Roman Komarov roman@ 12 12: Radio silence cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to 14: Snow report [email protected] WORDS 15: A duo of dolls Advertising 10 16: Art’s Alive Sales Manager: 18: Brewgrass! Stephanie Young 360-647-8200 A TROJAN HORSE around the place, and were willing to put our 20: Clubs advertising@ CURRENTS As a relatively late-in-life homeowner in Se- sweat into restoring? 22: The monster is us cascadiaweekly.com home neighborhood, I’ve been following the The COB map of current DADUs shows none in 8 23: Film Shorts Distribution Bellingham Planning Commission discussion on Sehome. Yet when our Senator Harriet Spanel detached accessory dwelling units. was president of Sehome Neighborhood Asso- VIEWS Distribution Manager: My concern is the same as many in the Bell- ciation, she gave the city her list of 25 ADUs in Erik Burge Rear End 4 4 360-647-8200 ingham Neighborhood Coalition—that an ap- the single-family zone. I can see three of them 24: Bulletin Board, Free Will distribution@ parently harmless rezone to allow backyard from my house. MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com 25: Wellness detached ADUs in single-family zoned neighbor- Checking with the Planning Department’s reg- Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 hoods (that will presumably increase availabili- istration office, I see that two of the three are 26: Crossword Stephanie Simms ty and affordability for “middle income” current registered, but not owner-occupied, therefore 27: Advice Goddess Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT Barb Murdoch Bellingham residents) is not what it seems. Is previous rules are not being enforced. Yet they 28: Comix this a Trojan horse for up-zoning all of Belling- expect us to trust future enforcement of rules 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku Letters ham to multifamily? pertaining to inspection and owner-occupation, SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ The Planning Commission has already voted to prevent mass predatory absentee landlord- Soup scene CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 11.01.17 30: their approval, having marginalized voices of ism that would surely jack up the price of hous- VOTER'S GUIDE, P.11 + SAVE KMRE, P.12 + A DOLL'S HOUSE, P.15 c a s c a d i a working-class people in the downtown historic ing. Additionally, this staff person did not know REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA .12 WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 11-01-2017* • ISSUE:44* • V.12 44 ©2017 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by neighborhoods most affected. They applied this what happened to the list, and had never heard # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly WINTER IS COMING PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 A flurry of films, P.14 proposal, seemingly unbiased, to the entire city. of Senator Spanel. So much for local input into ART'S [email protected] ALIVE! A weekend of wonder, What is not spoken is that most of what I the process. Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia P.16 Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing call “McMansionland” outside the historic areas I do like the DADUs in our neighborhood, and papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution THE SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material GRISTLE would like to see more, but not the infill toolbox, Issues of have covenants, private laws that trump public incarceration, P.08 to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you BREWGRASS! Cornering the market include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- in Anacortes, P.18 law, therefore are not affected by this possible with ugly two-story units blocking my sun—on ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday “up-zone.” the garden where we raise much of our food. the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be COVER: Photo by Ian CASCADIA WEEKLY returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Provo courtesy of The leadership of this movement is the Build- As PCO for this precinct, I don’t mind more LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content.