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************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Fuzz Buzz, P.10 * Nature of Writing, P.14 * The Local, P.34 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {11.13.13}{#46}{V.08}{FREE} Digging Deeper The trouble with Sakuma Brothers Farm, p.8 Multicultural MAGIC: Ric Gendron makes it at MoNA, p.16 Back at the BUFF: Blitzen Trapper and the Meat SERIAL Puppets, p.20 killersSLAUGHTER, P.15 SURVIVING THE WEDNESDAY [11.13.13] Performing Arts Center Experience Tango: 8-11:30pm, Presence Dance 34 ONSTAGE Studio International Comedy Competition: 7pm, FOOD FOOD cascadia Poppes 360 MUSIC North Cascades Concert Band: 7:30pm, What- MUSIC com Community College 27 Sanford-Hill Piano Series: 8pm, Performing California, Montreal Guitar Trios: 8pm, Mount Arts Center, WWU Baker Theatre B-BOARD B-BOARD COMMUNITY THURSDAY [11.14.13] Trinkets & Treasures Holiday Festival: 9am- A glance at what’s happening this week 5pm, Ferndale High School 24 ONSTAGE Lend Me a Tenor: 7pm, Bellingham High School FOOD FILM FILM The Baker’s Wife: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Center, WWU Hall Hamlet: 7:30pm, Sehome High School Little Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior 20 Theater Activity Center The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Nooksack Valley Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot MUSIC High School, Everson Market Square Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Bow Little Market Holiday Festival: 10am-4pm, The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Beau Lodge 16 Skagit Wine and Beer Festival: 4-9pm, Cot- ART MUSIC tonTree Inn, Mount Vernon Night Beat: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts 15 Center VISUAL ARTS Wind Symphony Fall Concert: 8pm, Performing Island Chicks: 9am-4pm, Port of Anacortes STAGE Arts Center, WWU Holiday Inspirations: 10am-6pm, Chuckanut Bay Gallery Holiday Festival of the Arts: 10am-6pm, 1825 14 FRIDAY [11.15.13] Cornwall Ave. More Than Mudflats Exhibit: 2-5pm, Padilla ONSTAGE Bay Interpretive Center GET OUT Last Comic Standing: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Lend Me a Tenor: 7pm, Bellingham High School SUNDAY [11.17.13] 12 Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab The Baker’s Wife: 7:30pm, Performing Arts ONSTAGE Center, WWU Lend Me a Tenor: 2pm, Bellingham High School WORDS Hamlet: 7:30pm, Sehome High School Little Hamlet: 2pm, Sehome High School Little Theater Theater The Sound of Music: 2pm, Nooksack Valley High 8 The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Nooksack Valley School, Everson High School, Everson Annie: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Doubles and Triples: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Media Attention Comedy Tour: 8pm, Wild CURRENTS CURRENTS Theatre Buffalo Dynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 6 DANCE Bellingham Rep’s Gradient: 7:30pm, Firehouse DANCE VIEWS Performing Arts Center Bellingham Rep’s Gradient: 5pm, Firehouse PHOTO BY NOLAN MCNALLY Performing Arts Center 4 MUSIC The Tennessee ensemble known as the Black Lillies The Black Lillies: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount MUSIC MAIL MAIL Vernon Rio Con Brio: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Concert Choir: 3pm, Performing Arts Center, will channel country, roots, rock and blues at a Nov. 2 VISUAL ARTS WWU Holiday Festival of the Arts: 10am-6pm, 1825 DO IT 15 concert at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall Cornwall Ave. COMMUNITY Alternative Holiday Market: 1-4pm, Assump- tion Catholic Church 11.13.13 Travel titan SATURDAY [11.16.13] FOOD Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery Rick Steves ONSTAGE .08 The Baker’s Wife: 2pm and 7:30pm, Performing VISUAL ARTS 46 # shares tips Arts Center, WWU Holiday Festival of the Arts: 10am-6pm, 1825 for European Lend Me a Tenor: 7pm, Bellingham High School Cornwall Ave. Hamlet: 7:30pm, Sehome High School Little vacationers Theater The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Nooksack Valley TUESDAY [11.19.13] at a Nov. 19 High School, Everson Annie: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon MUSIC CASCADIA WEEKLYCASCADIA presentation Serial Killers: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater Wine, Women & Song: 7:30pm, Lairmont Manor Doubles and Triples: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront at Bellingham Theatre 2 WORDS Rick Steves: 7pm, Bellingham High School High School DANCE Contra Dance: 7-10:30m, Norway Hall SEND YOUR EVENTS TO Bellingham Rep’s Gradient: 7:30pm, Firehouse [email protected] EXPLORE AT SWINOMISH CASINO &LODGE CASINO SWINOMISH AT Earn 1200 points in a day and inaday Earn 1200points BIG CASH GRABBIG CASH TITLES SLOT NEW Four November 3-24November 18th 16-Dec. 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Your coverage of the election Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 4 29: into law by George W. Bush, who had been se- campaign and indeed your coverage of the whole Crossword Stephanie Simms, 30: Robin Corsberg lected to be President by the U.S. Supreme Court debate over the Gateway Pacific Terminal project MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL Free Will Astrology in 2000. For the very first time, control of our has been anything but objective journalism. Your 31: Skagit: Linda Brown, Advice Goddess elections was outsourced to private, for-profit characterizations will go a long way in helping 2 Barb Murdoch 32: Slowpoke, Sudoku Canada: Kristi Alvaran corporations like Diebold, Inc., manufacturer of foster an atmosphere for civil debate. DO IT IT DO 33: Comix electronic voting systems. 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