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RUMOR HAS IT Remembering Lucas Hicks, P.18

A WASTED WATERFRONT Port candidates 3MB weigh in, P.08 The eternal spell of OKTOBERFESTING Macbeth, P.15 A rousing roundup, P.30 c a s c a d i a 30

FOOD ThisWeek SATURDAY [10.14.17] A glance at this week’s ONSTAGE

24 The Women of Lockerbie: 7pm, Lynden Christian happenings High School Camano Radio Theater Players: 7pm, Claire vg

B-BOARD Thomas Theatre, Lynden 3MB: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount

22 Vernon THURSDAY [10.12.17] Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- FILM munity Theatre ONSTAGE Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Dazzling Deceptions: 6:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, 18 Mount Vernon DANCE 3MB: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library MUSIC Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre MUSIC

16 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Byron Schenkman & Friends: 7:30pm, McIntyre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Hall, Mount Vernon ART Skagit Community Band: 7:30pm, Maple Hall, La MUSIC Conner

15 Caspar Babypants: 5pm, St. Paul’s Academy COMMUNITY Electric Vehicle Ride & Drive: 10am-3pm, Depot STAGE WORDS Peter Gray: 6:30pm, Lynden Library Market Square Rob Lewis: 7pm, Village Books Fall Festival: 10am-3pm, Immanuel Lutheran

14 Church, Everson GET OUT Kids’ Math & Science Expo: 10am-3pm, NW Wash- Ladies Night: 6-9pm, Backcountry Essentials ington Fairgrounds, Lynden GET OUT FOOD GET OUT Final Lynden Farmers Market: 12-6pm, 324 Front Lake Padden Half-Marathon: 10am, Lake Padden

12 Street Park Ice Cream Fundraiser: 4-7pm, Jansen Art Center, Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, downtown Bellingham Lynden WORDS FOOD VISUAL Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts 8 Curator’s Talk: 12pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Center Hall Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza Cynthia Camlin Talk: 4pm, i.e.gallery, Edison Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street

CURRENTS Holding Space Reception: 6-8pm, Jansen Art Plaza Center Twin Sisters Market: 10am-12pm, North Fork

6 Library FRIDAY [10.13.17] Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot

VIEWS Market Square ONSTAGE Oktoberfest: 12pm, Deming Log Show Grounds

4 The Women of Lockerbie: 7pm, Lynden Christian High School VISUAL MAIL 3MB: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Procure tickets to a family-friendly concert and Fibers & Beyond: 9am-5pm, Jansen Art Center, Dead Parrots Society: 7:30pm, Old Main Theater, Lynden

2 2 WWU singalong with rocker Caspar Babypants Thurs., Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount out Whatcom County DO IT DO IT Vernon Oct. 12 at St. Paul’s Academy New Exhibits Reception: 2-5pm, Museum of North- Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- west Art, La Conner munity Theatre Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre SUNDAY [10.15.17] 10.11.17 DANCE ONSTAGE Thriller Dance Class: 7pm, Bloedel Donovan Young Frankenstein: 2pm, Anacortes Community .12 Theatre 41 Images both spooky # GET OUT Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Stimpson Family Nature and sublime can be Reserve viewed at an opening MUSIC Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven Solo Piano and Trios: 3pm, First Congregational reception for ceramicist Church FOOD Impromptu: 3pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Oktoberfest: 12pm, Deming Log Show Grounds Irene Lawson’s Skagit Community Band: 3pm, Brodniak Hall, Final Ferndale Market: 3-7pm, Centennial River- Anacortes CASCADIA WEEKLY “Patterns Above and walk Park Tailgate Chili Feed: 4-7pm, Lynden Community 2 Below” exhibit Fri., WORDS Center Oct. 13 at Good Earth Iris Graville: 4pm, Village Books VISUAL Pottery GET OUT Irene Lawson Reception: 4-7pm, Good Earth Pot- Paddle for Food Relay: 9am, Lake Padden Park tery Cemetery Tour: 12-4pm, Mount Vernon Cemetery

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to live, with a strong sense of community. It’s critical that our elected commission- 30 The mixture of homes helped neighbors of er has a proven track record for working all ages, incomes and cultural backgrounds with government entities, private indus- FOOD find the best option for their needs. They try, unions, tribal nations and environ- also encouraged my neighbors and me to mentalists to create jobs while preserving 24 maintain a healthy, active lifestyle: it was and protecting our natural resources. simple and easy to walk and bike to work, When it comes to experience, Wenger to school, or to the store. has the track record to show that he can B-BOARD The policy changes that our city is handle the job to bring both a thriving

considering will make it easier for us to economy and environmentally sound solu- 22 find the home that meets our needs, at tions to Whatcom County’s waterfront. the price we can afford. Studies of Ac- Before casting your vote, I urge you FILM cessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) in several to compare his qualifications with that

cities show that they provide affordable, of his opponent and ask yourself: “Who 18 environmentally friendly rental hous- do I want making the decisions for our ing without reducing neighboring prop- port’s future?” MUSIC erty values. Similarly, an analysis by the —Cheryl Crooks, Bellingham

Sightline Institute shows that duplexes, cob.org/travelwithcare 16

triplexes and townhomes provide a more SUPPORT AMY GLASSER ART affordable path to home ownership than I am a firm believer in and practioner

detached houses. of living in a localized economy. There is 15 I’m grateful that the city is investigat- little that is more local than voting at our

ing ways to make a broader range of hous- local level, a freedom we should never take STAGE ing types accessible to more of Belling- for granted. ham’s residents. We need more options to Local politics especially affect every 14 find homes at prices we can afford. aspect of the quality of life where we —Kevin Covey, Bellingham live. Whether we are a compassionate,

truly caring and effective community is GET OUT BARRY WENGER FOR PORT dependent on the quality of our elected

The District 2 Port Commission race be- officials as well as citizens empowered to 12 tween Barry Wenger and Ken Bell is impor- contribute to the well-being of us all. I tant for us all. would say “leaders” rather than “elected WORDS I support Barry Wenger as the best-qual- officials,” except that not all really em-

ified candidate. body that ability. 8 Barry has helped secure funds for suc- I know one who truly does! cessful waterfront redevelopment, in- Amy Glasser embodies the type of per-

cluding construction of Taylor Street son I aspire to be, and the quality of leader CURRENTS Dock and removal of damaging creosote we need in Whatcom County. A leader who pilings from Bellingham Bay. He has does not talk down to others, who appre- 6 worked successfully with stakeholders in ciates and embraces the input and skills VIEWS communities across the state, facilitat- of others, and who seeks restorative jus- 4 ing sound decisions supporting economic tice in our local justice system—as well 4 and environmental health. as seeking to preserve our natural world, MAIL His opponent has a history of serving water and air quality, and lift up all the MAIL

narrow interests, including support for ac- beings who share our commons. Amy is 2 tions harmful to the environment in What- anything but common in her vision and You’ll FALL com County. approach to bringing our community to- for our DO IT That is why I am supporting Barry gether and protecting the most vulnerable Handcrafted Wenger for Port Commissioner, District 2. among us. She is on the intelligent money Favorites! He possesses the skills and experience side of the latest jail tax issue, single- to do the job and represent our community payer healthcare for all, tiny home villages 10.11.17 values for a healthy waterfront economy for our homeless, and reform of justice to .12

and environment. take in the realities of those members of Milling Our 41 —Patricia Decker, Bellingham our communities who are disenfranchised, Own Fresh # disabled and homeless. 25 GOOD REASONS Your vote for Amy Glasser brings us WHOLE GRAIN I have 25 very good reasons why I’m closer to the leadership Whatcom County Flour Daily! supporting Barry Wenger for Port Com- needs. missioner in the upcoming election. They —Terese VanAssche, Bellingham are: Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Ilwaco, Westport, CASCADIA WEEKLY 305 E Magnolia St Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor, Bremerton, Bellingham, WA 5 Port Orchard, Poulsbo, Port Angeles, Port SEND YOUR LETTERS Townsend, Olympia, Shelton, Tacoma, Se- 360.671.0873 attle, Redmond, Everett, Winslow, Kings- Make them 300 words or fewer. Send to bellinghambread.com ton, Edmonds, Mukilteo, Friday Harbor, [email protected] or mail to P.O. Blaine, Spokane, and Bellingham. Box 2833, Bellingham, WA 98229 Local • Fresh • Wholesome • Delicious THE GRISTLE FIRE AND WATER: With a stalemate continuing in Olym-

30 pia over the issue of residential wells in basins of restricted supply, Whatcom County Council this week ex- FOOD tended their ban on building permits for rural homes that require wells in basins of restricted supply. views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE The state Supreme Court in Oct. 2016 determined— 24 in a ruling against Whatcom County that’s come to be known as the Hirst decision—that a reliable, year-round B-BOARD supply of water is required for new homes or developments, and that must be determined as part of a coun- BY EMILY WEINER

22 ty’s planning and permitting process. County planning has done a credible job of covertly, sub rosa moving

FILM along a limited number of mature development applica- tions that were already underway when the moratorium Dueling Dilemmas 18 curtain fell—contrary to breathless and bloodcurdling reports, the number of homebuilders who were truly DIVIDE AND CONQUER IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR NEIGHBORHOODS

MUSIC trapped mid-action, mid-investment, have been quietly addressed—but County Council is fairly paralyzed until CHANGING THE zoning in yard sunlight and privacy won’t solve

16 a more clear direction emerges from Olympia. built-out neighborhoods to allow the problems of poverty and lack

ART Undoubtedly, the assurance of adequate water supply detached accessory dwelling units of affordable housing—and mis- will have to be determined by county planners as part (what Kelly Bashaw and Dan Hamill directs attention from true causes

15 of their future permitting; but the county and other called “backyard cottages and (as scapegoating always misdirects jurisdictions would prefer to have the state—nota- mother-in-law units over garages” attention from true causes and pos-

STAGE bly the Dept. of Ecology—take a lead role and set the in a recent column, “Schools and sibilities for systemic solutions). standard for defining adequate supply. This—in forms Planning for Growth”) is not the way Predictability is the social con- more aggressive or less aggressive—is at essence what to address Bellingham’s urgent need hibiting detached accessory dwell- tract at the core of zoning laws—so 14 is sought through a legislative “fix” at the state level. for affordable housing. And the de- ing units (unless “grandfathered” a homeowner or prospective buyer State Senate Republicans have issued a bright-line bate over such a zoning change is and legalized under a 1996 law), knows whether a neighbor can build

GET OUT demand that the concerns of the Supreme Court get being conducted in a way harmful and regulating attached acces- a factory, cattle ranch, or apart- sponged away by new legislation. Democrats have to our community cohesion. sory dwelling units (including the ment building next door.

12 shown some flexibility in considering new legislation, Not only would new detached ac- requirement that one or the other The social cohesion of Bellingham’s but believe—along with their supporters, including cessory dwelling units likely be ex- unit be owner-occupied). neighborhoods is precious, and quite environmental groups and the tribes—the court’s pensive to rent and dominated by Conflict among Bellingham resi- a contrast to cities, towns, and es- WORDS concerns about water availability and senior water vacation rentals (so they wouldn’t dents has already been flamed by pecially bedroom communities where

8 rights must be recognized and accommodated, not add significantly to affordable proponents of changing accessory- neighbors don’t know each other. simply obliterated. But Republicans have the lever- housing), but constructing these dwelling-unit zoning—when they We build this social fabric every day age, holding hostage the state’s $43.2 billion capi- new units would tear apart the accuse current homeowners of through block parties, neighborhood

CURRENTS tal budget. The 2017-2019 budget funds hundreds of fabric of existing neighborhoods. lack of compassion for residents associations, front-yard gardening or projects and thousands of jobs around the state. Under the false-hope banner of in- who cannot afford to buy a home porch-sitting, walking and bicycling, 6 6 Since the politics of Hirst are likely to energize and creasing affordable housing, neigh- in the current market. This echoes meeting in neighborhood parks, PTA influence election outcomes statewide for all of next bors would be set up for conflict a long U.S. tradition of promoting and other family activities in our VIEWS VIEWS year—as Republicans seek to capitalize on the rage of between those seeking additional conflict between people defending neighborhood schools, participating

4 frustrated homebuilders and the cash contributions of income and their neighbors who the sparse stability in their lives in soccer teams organized by neigh- powerful construction interests—it’s unlikely the Leg- would lose backyard sunlight, pri- against those with greater need. borhood clusters, and emergency MAIL islature will come to terms on a “fix” any time soon. vacy and predictability. I am concerned that a divide- mapping projects—and through a

2 Meanwhile, Whatcom County is not the only entity How many backyard vegetable and-conquer strategy is being em- commitment to care for each other paralyzed in the impasse. gardens, decks and play areas would ployed whenever I hear remarks like because that’s how we want to live.

DO IT Gov. Jay Inslee is in Bellingham this week, discuss- lose hours of sunlight when new “you people who bought houses a I’ve long pondered why Belling- ing climate change and the need for individuals and two-story structures pop up next long time ago and don’t want the ham planners and city leaders push local and state leaders to take action. His presentation door? Apartments over garages are zoning changed are the reason why so hard to loosen accessory-dwell- at Western Washington University is the first of several typically constructed with outdoor people like me can’t afford to buy a ing-unit rules in built-out neighbor- 10.11.17 meetings and town halls the governor will host to em- staircases that are tenants’ only ac- house,” or statements like this from hoods zoned single family, despite phasize the importance of climate action and policies cess to fresh air—so residents would the Bashaw-Hammill column: decades of neighborhood opposi- .12

41 to promote clean energy and technology, carbon and understandably want to sit outside “To us, housing is an equity and tion. I have reluctantly concluded # greenhouse gas reduction, energy efficiency and more. overlooking their neighbors’ yards. fairness issue. By not allowing that their affordable-housing argu- A number of those climate change initiatives are Bellingham’s current zoning people access to different housing ment is a smokescreen for the actual addressed in the stalled capital budget. for single-family neighborhoods types like townhouses, duplexes, motivation: By changing the rules, The governor’s climate action plan was dealt an (more precisely “residential single backyard cottages and mother-in- the City would solve its problem additional blow this week by the Trump administra- zones”) protects current residents law units over garages, we are ef- of long-standing failure to enforce tion’s rollback of the Clean Power Act, dismantling from these encroachments on sun- fectively denying housing to people current zoning for accessory dwell-

CASCADIA WEEKLY President Obama’s signature policy to reduce green- light, privacy and predictability mostly with lower incomes. That in- ing units (even after the “grandfa- house gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. In through a variety of rules. Protec- cludes young families with children thering” exceptions enacted in the 6 a statement this week, the Environmental Protection tions include requirements for set- in our school district.” 1990s). I don’t think this benefit is Agency said repealing the measure will “facilitate the backs from property lines, limiting Taking away from current home- worth tearing apart the social fabric development of U.S. energy resources and reduce un- the buildable portion of a lot, pro- owners the quiet enjoyment of back- of our neighborhoods. necessary regulatory burdens associated with the development of those resources.” VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE For Washington, which receives its A BETTER WAY TO

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BELLINGHAM planned addition to the back portion of the building has not even begun. In October of last year, Harcourt present- ed a revised vision plan for the central wa-

30 terfront. The submitted vision plan affirmed parks along Whatcom Waterway and connec- FOOD tion to the downtown at currents Granary, Laurel, Bay, and NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX Commercial streets. The 24 vision plan also included a generous serpen- B-BOARD tine park through the ments from Dublin, Ireland—was selected center of the site with

22 in the following year. potential connection to Where commissioners and candidates ATTEND city park development FILM disagree is on causes for the delays, and WHAT: Blue south of the former GP The Sum solutions. Green Waterfront mill site. Coalition Forum 18 “There seems to be a misconception The primary differenc- in Whatcom County that the port is hold- WHEN: 6:30pm es in the proposed re- Weds., Oct 11 MUSIC of ing this project up,” Commissioner Bobby WHERE: vision were the streets Briscoe complained at a meeting of the Bellingham Public aligned with the current

16 commissioners last week. “I have been ques- Library grid plan in downtown, MORE: Port

ART tioned and chastised that we are not doing and the replacement our job here, and we’re not moving that GP candidates will of a Commercial Green discuss their

15 NOTHING project along as fast as possible. vision for the Park with the serpentine PORT RACE PONDERS A “I would publicly ask the people of What- Bellingham park. These changes re-

STAGE com County that if they have a problem with waterfront, quire amendments to WASTED WATERFRONT how fast the GP project is going to please with emphasis the sub-area plan and call up the City of Bellingham mayor’s office on jobs and the associated agreements, 14 BY TIM JOHNSON environment and tell them to get off the pot. It’s time to ------but they have not yet move this project along. If I was the devel- WHAT: Port been formally submitted GET OUT oper, I would be upset that we’re not going of Bellingham by Harcourt. along faster than we are. Candidates Forum “These are not major WHEN: 9:30am

12 “Put the pressure where it needs to be,” modifications,” Commis- Sat., Oct. 21 Briscoe advised. WHERE: sioner Michael McAuley The commissioner’s statement came as a noted at the commis- WORDS Bellingham City

BARRY WENGER KEN BELL MICHAEL SHEPARD DAN ROBBINS surprise to the City of Bellingham. Council Chambers sion’s meeting last week. INFO: League

8 City Council has not been asked to take “We generally agree any action since the original master de- of Woemn with the direction,” Voters, www. IT IS AXIOMATIC, THERE’S VERY LITTLE agreement in velopment plan and its general timetables lwvbellingham Tara Sundin, the city’s CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 politics. Yet the current Port of Bellingham Commission were approved by them in 2013, nor have whatcom.org Community and Eco- they been asked to make any amendments nomic Development 6 and the candidates who seek the position in the Novem- or adjustments to what’s known as the Wa- manager, agreed in a report to City Council terfront District Sub-Area Plan. According to in June of 2016, although the fine, precise VIEWS ber election alike all agree: They’re not happy with the agreements, major changes to that sub-area details of road and parks placement would

4 pace of development of Bellingham’s central waterfront. plan require a public review and process by need to be worked out by planners. Sun- the city and the port authority. din stressed that any amendments require

MAIL Their answers to that question range from No to Hell No. That can take time, but they first have to approval of both port and city following

2 Initiated at the turn of this century and now 17 years in, the be submitted. They have not been submitted. required public process. transformation of the former Georgia-Pacific West brownfield to a This week, City Council approved a con- No proposed amendments were received

DO IT revitalized waterfront has cost the port authority tens of millions tract to construct a road next to the Granary by April 2017. If submitted by the close of of dollars. The redevelopment effort has stalled numerous times. No building that would serve as gateway into this year, the earliest City Council could be delay has been more prolonged than the four years that has passed the waterfront redevelopment. The city an- expected to take action on the proposals since the master development agreement for the Waterfront District nounced the timetable last May. Road con- would be in April 2018 as part of their leg- 10.11.17 was approved in 2013 and a master developer—Harcourt Develop- struction is projected to begin next month. islative schedule. But the Granary, originally projected for The Irish developer has announced they’ll .12

41 completion in 2016, remains unfinished—a return to Bellingham later this month to # A Timeline of Time Spent

The Port of Bellingham initi- The Port of Bellingham Port and City agree to a The Port requests proposals for 2000 ates a condemnation action 2005 executes a purchase and 2009 proposed planning framework 2012 the renovation of the Granary against Georgia-Pacific in an effort to acquire the sale agreement with Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. for the master planning process for the central Building as an initial project for the first phase of CASCADIA WEEKLY company’s wastewater treatment lagoon for conver- for approximately 137 acres of property on the waterfront. redevelopment of the waterfront. The Port and City sion to a marina. The settlement forecloses on an Bellingham waterfront. The Port and City of Bell- publish a draft of Waterfront sub-area plan, the 8 After years of delay, Ecology agreement already underway between GP and the ingham approve an interlocal agreement to begin governing document for the redevelopment of the prods the Port to begin the initial state Dept. of Ecology that would have required the the master planning for the redevelopment of the 2011 central waterfront. phase to clean up targeted areas of contamination company to help pay for environmental cleanup of Waterfront District. at the former G-P mill site. the industrial site and adjacent waterway. meet with port and city planners and take the plan that the port and the city agreed another run at their vision plan—perhaps to. If we have to look for a new developer, in time for Council action in 2018. that’s going to mire things down. If we “Harcourt can proceed with developing have to develop a new sub-area plan it is projects that are consistent with the ad- going to stretch this out again,” he said. 30 opted Waterfront District Sub-Area Plan,” “I want to ensure that we as a commis-

Sundin noted. “Harcourt's primary focus sion uphold that plan.” FOOD is redeveloping the Granary building.” Shepard speculated about the need for Last October, Harcourt also proposed an oversight project manager to assist 24 taking on an additional immediate project, collaboration. renovation of the former Board Mill build- Barry Wenger believes the public ulti- ing at the GP site for adapted reuse of a mately fulfills that role. Wenger, an en- B-BOARD hotel and convention center. Port Commis- vironmental planner and water-quality engineer recently retired from the state sioners Briscoe and McAuley voted to deny 22 Harcourt that project because the Irish de- Dept. of Ecology, is challenging Bell for veloper had not made sufficient progress in McAuley’s open seat on the commission. FILM meeting the timetable of Granary comple- The delays, Wenger asserts, may be a

tion and other construction commitments Revised vision plan submitted by Harcourt in October 2016. Note the serpentine park through the center of the site that symptom of having the wrong people in 18 in the initial 10.8-acre development parcel. connects the Granary with city park acres south. positions to enact the plan.

Under the terms of the master de- “The reason you do planning,” Wenger MUSIC velopment agreement, Harcourt would “To me, that really slowed Harcourt down. nancing package they’re willing to put on said, “is because the plan outlives the

complete two major building projects on That made Harcourt say, ‘OK, guys, we’re the table—and the port says no. planners that were there that day. It 16 Bellingham’s central waterfront no later here to play, we’re here to make it go. We “That’s maddening.” creates a consistency over time that can ART than the end of 2021. Harcourt would know what our plan was for Building Two Michael Shepard, an instructor who direct you so we don’t keep changing adaptively reuse the Granary Building by and Building Three, but we want to go to teaches Environmental Studies and Cul- our minds as a community and wasting 15 2019, and complete construction of a sec- Building Four because we think it will bring tural Sustainability at Western Washing- a lot of time.

ond building with a minimum of 40,000 the whole project together quicker.’ ton University, seeks Robbins’ position “The port and the city have the potential STAGE square feet of mixed-use space by 2021. “And I agree with that. on the commission this November. Shep- to work really well together,” Wenger said. The company would not be seriously in “If I was Harcourt, I would wonder if ard believes the remoteness of the master “The complication is the master develop- 14 default of its agreements until 2034. these folks really want us here.” developer, their lack of connection to the er—and to me, that is like the tail wagging “I think the deliverable dates for com- Ken Bell, a businessman who special- community, may be a weakness. the dog. The master developer shouldn’t pletion of projects were overly generous” izes in recycling and waste management “We have a proposal that was agreed have that kind of control to reject a de- GET OUT to the developer, McAuley commented af- and cleanup operations, agrees with to a year ago, and that is reflected in the velopment plan that has gone through an ter the meeting. “We can see that with Robbins that Harcourt needs to be given sub-area plan,” Shepard explained, “but extensive public process and review. 12 the Granary building. more run room to execute their vision for we appear to have deviated from that “They’ve been given a pretty loose “The port says, ‘We don’t want to push the central waterfront. Bell is seeking to agreement, or rather we have not final- rein, without a lot of detailed objectives WORDS too hard on deadlines because we know replace McAuley, who is retiring from the ized that agreement. No longer do we see or timetables to complete them; very lit-

there are complicated things that need to commission at the end of this year. the port and the city and Harcourt all on tle repercussions if they don’t produce,” 8 8 happen, so we’re going to push this date “The current port commission is too the same page. That’s led to a bit of a he said. “If you’ve got a third player that out into the future,’” he said. “Well, we cautious, they listen to too many outside standstill. We don’t have clear marching is not making things happen, then you CURRENTS CURRENTS know that people are going to wait to the entities,” Bell said. “Everybody is afraid orders for where we are going next. might want to bring back the A Team to CURRENTS last minute to do things because that is to move and at some point you’ve got to “We are hoping this Irish developer is get the project back on track. And that is the nature of human nature. So we have a pull the trigger. going to fulfill all of our original inter- going to be unfortunate, because that is 6 building like the Granary, which is ready “The Granary building was the first ests, but it is a little challenging to know going to take extra time. to be leased for tenant improvements, project, we had to keep that building if that is going to happen,” he said. “But: You only get one chance at doing VIEWS

and they can’t even access the building alive as the first priority. Everything “I believe the Irish developer has been this right,” Wenger said. “This is forever. 4 because the road is incomplete. When revolved around getting that Granary achieving progress slower than I’d like, if it takes five years to get it back on the things like that happen, things are going building first,” Bell said. “Part of the and I think there are some red flags right page, get it done right, it is going MAIL

to slow down even further,” McAuley said. agreement is that building would be about them not having a substantial lo- to be worth it for the next hundred years. 2 “In October of last year, Harcourt an- open by this past summer. But the city cal presence—an office in Bellingham, It is the taxpayers’ money, ultimately; it’s

nounced they wanted to pursue a hotel and doesn’t get the roads through. So they or a real estate division, or a local con- their money. DO IT conference center, and my two colleagues can’t open this summer. So now they’re tact,” Shepard said. “It’s proven to be “This is an asset for the entire communi- on the commission said, ‘no,’” Commis- slow-tracking what they agreed to do un- challenging for local businesses who are ty,” Wenger said. “We’ve got one earth, and sioner Dan Robbins commented. “I think til they can get the roads through. interested, for example, in setting up we’ve got one chance to get this right.” they wanted to tell Harcourt that they “Then they come back and say, we’ve shop in the Granary building. 10.11.17 were running the show; Harcourt isn’t. got a hotel and conference center that “We have a good plan, and the best pos- Complete interviews with the candidates .12

“They still haven’t voted for it,” he said. they put in—which is a $40 million fi- sible resolution is that Harcourt fulfills will be posted online Thurs., Oct. 12. 41 #

The Port and City adopt the Wa- Port commissioners approve After more than a year of nego- Harcourt breaks ground on 2013 terfront District sub-area master 2014 an agreement with Harcourt 2015 tiations, the Port of Bellingham 2016 the Granary Building. Sixteen plan and facilities agreement. The Port issues a Developments from Dublin, Ireland, for the first reaches an agreement with Harcourt Developments months pass. CASCADIA WEEKLY request for proposals (RFP) in a search for a master development parcel in the Bellingham waterfront to develop a new commercial and residential area on By this date a design review developer to move forward on a plan to redevelop district. The estimated cost of this search for a 19 acres of Bellingham’s downtown waterfront. Un- for a second building in the 9 Bellingham’s central waterfront. master developer is $4 million. der the terms of the agreement, Harcourt will com- 2017 waterfront district was scheduled to be underway. plete two major building projects on Bellingham’s No design has been submitted for a construction central waterfront no later than the end of 2021. slated to begin early in 2018.

Cascadia Weekly will publish a more extensive timeline of events in future issues.

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10.03.17 OF BELLINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT COURTESY A small plane trying to land at Bellingham International Airport had to make an emergency landing on the beach 14 TUESDAY below the runway. The antique aircraft reported engine problems on landing, so the pilot used his training to put the plane down on Locust Beach. The plane ended up in about three feet of water in Bellingham Bay. [KGMI]

GET OUT After one of the largest fish-farm escapes in history, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a permit for Cooke Aquaculture to rear another 10.06.17 With only 77 orcas remaining, scien-

12 one million Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound. The approval stoked outrage still FRIDAY tists, Indigenous groups, industry and simmering after the catastrophic failure in August of one of Cooke’s eight Puget government look for answers. The latest Sound facilities that sent a cascade of Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound waters. Gov. Jay Inslee criticizes the Trump ad- endeavor for the recovery effort of the WORDS The permit for the company corporation was approved even as the more than ministration’s move to eliminate the Af- whales—listed as endangered in the Unit-

8 100,000 fish that escaped from Cooke’s pen at Cypress Island in the San Juan Is- fordable Care Act’s requirement for health ed States and species at risk in Canada—is lands continue to infiltrate Puget Sound rivers and beyond. [Seattle Times] insurers to provide free birth control to discussed at a symposium in Vancouver. women. ”There is no legitimate rationale The symposium is being held as part of CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 The state Supreme Court’s decision on residential wells in Whatcom County is for taking away women’s access to birth that federal government’s Oceans Protec- leading to layoffs for state workers. Ten people were laid off at the Parks Depart- control, and there is no way we will al- tion Plan that was announced last Novem- 6 ment Saturday, and more state employees are expected to lose their jobs soon. low this rollback of women’s health care ber. [Canadian Press] Republican lawmakers have insisted on agreement on a fix for the Hirst deci- to happen without a fight,” Inslee said. VIEWS sion, which restricts new water wells on some rural property, before they will Access to birth control has reduced unin- 10.10.17

4 agree to pass the two-year capital budget that affects projects in districts across tended pregnancy rates overall and among the state. [KGMI, Associated Press] teens to the lowest they have been in TUESDAY MAIL decades and saved women $1.4 billion in The Waypoint Park is moving forward.

2 10.04.17 2013 alone. Nearly nine in 10 women use The City of Bellingham awards a $2 mil- WEDNESDAY birth control in her lifetime. [Office of lion bid contract to Strider Construction DO IT Governor] to begin construction of the one-acre park Rebuffing the Trump administration, a federal judge orders the Interior De- beginning this fall. Located at the end of partment to reinstate an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful 10.09.17 Central Avenue next to the Granary Build- methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands. The order by ing, the waterfront park will include a 10.11.17 a judge in San Francisco came as the Interior Department moved to delay the rule MONDAY new beach, playground, waterfront trail, until 2019, saying it was too burdensome to industry. [Associated Press] The state Attorney General files a law- art and near-shore habitat. Road improve- .12

41 suit in federal court to block the Trump ments are expected to begin in November. # The Trump administration makes it clear that if the Department of Interior administration’s new rules undermin- cannot roll back Obama-era methane emissions rules, they will delay their im- ing women’s access to contraception. One hand takes away, the other gives. plementation as part of a wider agenda of energy sector deregulation. [CBC] The new rules would allow any compa- Even as the Environmental Protection ny to deny coverage for contraceptive Agency rolls back the Clean Power Act, 10.05.17 services to its female employees based the EPA announces it is awarding more on religious grounds. Additionally, cer- than $41 million to Washington’s clean

CASCADIA WEEKLY THURSDAY tain types of organizations would also water and drinking water revolving funds A former worker for PeaceHealth is suing the the Catholic health care pro- be able to deny this coverage on moral to help finance improvements to water 10 vider, saying its insurance plan refused to cover gender-reassignment surgery grounds. The rules could have a signif- projects that are essential to protecting for her teenage son. The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington filed icant impact on the more than 1.5 mil- public health and the environment. The the discrimination lawsuit against PeaceHealth in federal court on behalf of lion Washington workers and their de- funds will be used to finance water quali- the Bellingham mother and her son, who was denied coverage for the surgery. pendents who receive insurance through ty protection and drinking water projects [Associated Press] their employer’s self-funded plan. [AGO] around the state. finding one, the young man had decid- FUZZ ed to help with the city's water bill by Art of the watering the shrubbery at 3rd and H

Streets with his own implement,” police Highlights of the Haub Family Collection BUZZ 30 commented. “The Belgian guest was cit- from the Tacoma Art Museum ed and released with a criminal citation FOOD BOMB BOX for lewd act, and the officer supplied On Oct. 2, Bellingham Police took a sec- directions to the nearest restroom for 24 ond man into custody who was suspected future reference.” NOW SHOWING of touching off a series of explosions in

York neighborhood in August and Sep- PHOTO FELONS B-BOARD tember. No one was hurt, but damage to a On Oct. 3, Bellingham Police arrested

bridge and two bus shelters was estimat- a man for allegedly taking pictures up 22 ed at $4,200. The 21-year-old was being a teenager’s skirt at Walmart. He had held on charges of malicious mischief. been sentenced for a similar offense FILM the previous week. He immediately ap-

On Oct. 9, the Bellingham Police Chief pealed his conviction for voyeurism. 18 asked for approval to seek a U.S. De- Police said they found dozens of up-

partment of Homeland Security grant skirt images in the man’s possession MUSIC in the amount of $194,456. The money during their investigation.

will be used to purchase a trailer and 16 bomb disposal box for the safe disposal On Sept. 26, a neighbor spotted a man ART of hazardous devices and other high- using a cell phone to record or photo- risk materials. graph another neighbor from the outside 15 of her bedroom window near Broadway

PRAISE THE LORD, Park in Bellingham. STAGE PASS THE AMMO On Oct. 1, Blaine Police checked on a REVERSE CHARGES ON A Art Tacoma 1922 ; Oil on board. Dixon; A Desert Valley, Maynard Museum, Haub Family Collection, Gift of Erivan and Helga . 14 report of a man reported to have a gun LOCAL CALL >Curator’s Lecture Thurs., Oct. 12, noon - 1pm, and causing a disturbance at a local On Oct. 8, a man entered the down- at Old City Hall | 121 Prospect St. | FREE church. “Officers arrived and detained town station of the Bellingham Police GET OUT the man for investigation of a crime,” Department to make a call on the 911- police reported. “The man was released only phone. He broke the phone. He was Whatcom Museum | Lightcatcher | 250 Flora St. 12 to the custody of deputies.” The man arrested. was booked into jail. HIGH-SEAS HIJINKS WORDS

On Sept.9, Blaine Police attempted to 8 PROMISES MADE, GET INSPIRED, THEN 8 PROMISES BROKEN untangle a collision of two boats in the On Sept. 27, a Blaine patrol officer ob- marina. “One boat was trying to park in CURRENTS CURRENTS served a man yelling at no one in par- its slip and crashed into a boat that was CURRENTS ticular downtown. “Passersby reported parked in the adjacent slip, causing the BE ACTIVE 6 that the gent had been drinking alcohol parked boat”s motor to break off and in public earlier, and two nearby emp- submerge into the water,” police report- SUSTAINABLE ty alcohol containers lent credence to ed. The officer took a report of the inci- VIEWS their observation,” police reported. dent and provided case numbers to the DESIGN & 4 “The homeless man received and accept- involved parties. ed warnings for disorderly conduct and DEVELOPMENT MAIL

disturbing the peace, in exchange for a On Oct. 9, Bellingham Police got in the CONFERENCE 2 promise of better behavior.” middle of a quarrel between two com- BELLINGHAM mercial fishermen from different boats NOVEMBER DO IT On Sept. 27, a Blaine patrol officer who got into a heated argument. “There TECHNICAL observed the same man publicly pid- is an ongoing dispute between them re- PATTI SOUTHARD COLLEGE 9, 2017 dling away a good conduct promise he garding fishing etiquette on the fishing King County Green Tools

NW WASHINGTON’S HOUSING 10.11.17 had made just 15 minutes earlier. “The grounds,” police explained. WEEK transient was arrested for lewdly and PREMIER GREEN BUILDING EVENT EVENT! .12 publicly expelling the alcohol he had OYSTER HEIST 41 previously been warned about drinking On Sept. 12, Blaine Police responded to # in public,” police explained. “He was a reported theft of oysters. “The busi- REGISTER ONLINE NOW AT booked into the semi-privacy of What- ness only wanted the suspect trespassed SUSTAINABLECONNECTIONS.ORG com County Jail.” from their business,” police explained. Police obliged. THE PERFECT CONFERENCE FOR On Oct. 9, Bellingham Police checked on ARCHITECTS a homeless man who was yelling at bush- CHOCOHOLIC BUILDERS CASCADIA WEEKLY DESIGNERS es. They calmed him down. On Oct. 7, Bellingham Police arrest- VINCENT MARTINEZ ENGINEERS ed a young man after he stole seven KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ARCHITECTURE 2030 PLANNERS CONTRACTORS 11 BELGIAN WHIFFLE glass bottles of chocolate milk from the On Oct. 2, a Blaine patrol officer spot- Barkley Haggen. Police discovered the HOUSING WEEK ted a weary traveler from Belgium who 19-year-old had an outstanding warrant NOVEMBER 6-9, 2017 was in need of restroom facilities. “Not for an earlier theft. doit WORDS

30 THURS., OCT. 12 ANCIENT MARINERS: Learn more about the

FOOD expeditions of Admiral Zheng He (1405-1433) when author and lecturer Peter Gray presents words “Ancient Chinese Mariners and Inventions” COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS 24 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. Entry is free. (360) 354-4883 B-BOARD FRI., OCT. 13 we shouldn’t be surprised that even in the SIMPLE SWEETNESS: Barbara West reads

22 midst of a sixth planetary extinction, the from her new poetry collection, ...And I Felt environment still polls at the bottom of the Simple Sweetness of Me, at 7pm at Village

FILM voters’ concerns. Books, 1200 11th St. Despite mountains of data, there re- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

18 mains a strange human silence around the SAT., OCT. 14 most profound spasm of biological collapse INDIE AUTHOR CHALLENGE: Follow local

MUSIC we humans have ever encountered. I call indie author Robert Slater as he attempts to it the “silence of vanishing things,” which visit 10-plus libraries in Whatcom County in one day starting at 9:15am at Windward High 16 is the title of a book I am self-publishing School and ending at 4:20pm at the Lummi

ART through the Independent Publishing Pro- Island Library. At each stop, Slater will gram at Village Books. talk briefly about how to get started as an indie author and how to use National Novel 15 The Silence of Vanishing Things asks a simple question: Where’s the howl? Through Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November to challenge yourself. For a detailed schedule, STAGE three essays and 60 poems it attempts check the online listing. some sort of answer by looking at the ques- WWW.WCLS.LIBCAL.COM tion through the lens 14 of language, calling for WRITER’S BLOCK: Attend a “Conquering a sacred, more poetic Writer’s Block” workshop from 2-4pm at the

GET OUT narrative to help break Ferndale Library, 2125 Main St. At the hands- on event, Kent Sisco will demonstrate the the silence and engage free software tool “Speare,” which can assist 12 12 the human spirit in the writers with the three big decisions they fight of our times. face—what to say, how to say it and in what It also seeks to order. Attendees should bring a smartphone, WORDS WORDS ATTEND break down the false tablet or laptop. WHAT: Rob Lewis (360) 384-3647

8 categories that sepa- reads from The rate humans from the Silence of Vanishing MON., OCT. 16 Things rest of creation, for DOG DAY AFTERNOON: Cuddle up to a good book and read to a canine friend from CURRENTS WHEN: 7pm the only place where Thurs., Oct. 12 we’re actually separate the Whatcom Humane Society at “Dog Day

6 Afternoons” events from 4-6pm Mondays WHERE: Village is in our heads. And Books, 1200 11th through October 30 at the Ferndale Library, since language is only 2125 Main St. Please sign up for a session in VIEWS St. COST: Entry is free a context for action, advance. 4 INFO: www. it celebrates activ- (360) 384-3647 villagebooks.com ism, with a personal

MAIL POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their BY ROB LEWIS account of a largely creative verse as part of Poetrynight can

2 unreported vigil by “kayaktivists” in June sign up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public 2015, aimed at the Shell Arctic drilling ves- Library, 210 Central Ave. Readings start at DO IT Vanishing Things sel, Noble Discover. 8pm. Entry is by donation. One thing The Silence of Vanishing Things WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG IN SEARCH OF THE SACRED doesn’t do, I hope, is point accusingly at TUES., OCT. 17 science or environmentalism. Although SASQUATCH STORIES: David George 10.11.17 WHAT IF rather than proclaiming “I have a dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. said I dislike the word (for reasons explained Gordon, renowned author of The Sasquatch “I have a scientific study?” in the book), I consider myself an “envi- Seeker’s Field Manual: Using Citizen Science to .12 Uncover North America’s Most Elusive Creature, 41 What if rather than invoking a “table of brotherhood,” he invoked sociological ronmentalist.” And I greatly admire the

# leads a “Sasquatch: Man-Ape or Myth?” pre- statistics? scientists out there working like mad to sentation at 6:30pm at the Mount Vernon City What if rather than calling out for all people to join understand what we’re doing to this earth Library, 315 Snoqualmie St. Entry is free. hands and sing to be “free at last,” King called out for and to warn us of the dire situation we’re WWW.MOUNTVERNONA.GOV “mitigation of racial impacts?” creating. The problem is not in the effort, Well, we can assume his speech would’ve never galva- but the language. We need a new story, BOOKS ON TAP: Deming Library staff Erin Suda and Katrina Carabba will team up for nized a nation to face the stubborn demons of its slave- and fast. a “Books on Tap” discussion from 7-8:30pm CASCADIA WEEKLY holding past. The rampant destruction of the natural world Am I naive to think words can change at the North Fork Brewery, 6186 Mt. Baker around us calls for a similar moral clarity, and a similar the world? No, but we don’t need to change Hwy. The October read is Colson Whitehead’s 12 spiritual ambition, yet when we talk about it we do so in the world. We need to change ourselves, Underground Railroad. the objective vernacular of science, and more recently, technology. and that is the work of language. Consider (360) 592-2422 Rather than referring to sacred sources for our arguments, we refer to scientific this observation of Mother Teresa, “Words WED., OCT. 18 ones. Rather than describing the situation through the clarifying imagery of sym- lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make OPEN MIC: Sign up to read your poetry and bols and metaphors, we do so with the obscuring objectivity of numbers. Perhaps it ready.” doit 99%+ FOSSIL FUEL-FREE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT prose or play music—or simply listen in—at a

Creekside Open Mic starting at 6:30pm at Sudden Valley’s South Whatcom Library, 10 Barn View 30 Court, Gate 2. Entry is free.

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MIDDLE MANAGERS: Mike Cook, a former

Human Resource professional for Standard Oil 24 of California, shares ideas from Thriving in the Middle: How the Best Managers Create Mutual Suc-

cess, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. B-BOARD WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

OCT. 18-19 BellinghamFinancialPlanners.com 22 BOOK GROUP MIXERS: Drinks, cheese, discus- COLSON FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISOR sion, mirth and merriment will be part of Book FILM Group Mixers taking place at 5:30pm Wednesday Fee-Only Financial Planning | Fee-Based Investment Management at Drizzle (next to Lynden’s Village Books at

430 Front St.) and 5:30pm Thursday at the Book 18 Fare Cafe (at Bellingham’s Village Books, 1200 Ronald Scott Colson irect 303.98.9977 ® 11th St.) Book group members or those inter- CFP , MBA, President oll Free 800.530.3884 MUSIC ested in joining them are welcome to attend 4740 Austin Court the event, which will feature new owners Sarah, ellingham WA 98229259 16 Paul, and Kelly dishing on their favorite books, Writer and “bug chef” David George the world of literature at large, and more. At- ART Gordon, author of The Sasquatch Seeker’s tendance is free. Field Manual: Using Citizen Science to Uncover North WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM America’s Most Elusive Creature, leads a presentation 15 on the mysterious man-ape Tues., Oct. 17 at the

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WED., OCT. 11 14 CANDIDATE FORUM: Attend a Port Commis- (360) 592-2422 sion Candidate Forum from 6:30-8:30pm at the

Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. ELECTRIC RIDE & DRIVE: Test drive a variety GET OUT WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG of electric vehicles and E-bikes and learn more about the benefits of electric mobility at an 12 FILM FESTIVAL MEETING: Everyone is invited Electric Vehicle Ride & Drive taking place from 12 to participate in developing the 18th annual Bell- 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, 1100 ingham Human Rights Film Festival at a meeting Railroad Ave. You must be over 21 years old WORDS taking place from 7-9pm at the Bellingham Public and show a valid driver’s license to test drive NEED A LITTLE WORDS Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. The festival occurs a vehicle.

Feb. 15-24. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/EVENTS 8 WWW.BHRFF.WEBS.COM FALL FESTIVAL: Homemade arts and crafts, SEED MONEY a silent auction, a holiday house, door prizes,

THURS., OCT. 12 CURRENTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING: “Professional raffles, a bakery and a luncheon counter will

Wrestling Capitol World” will be the focus of a be part of an annual Fall Festival taking place 6 Whatcom County Historical Society presentation from 10am-3pm at Everson’s Immanuel Lutheran TO HELP YOUR at 7pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Church, 5782 Lawrence Rd. VIEWS Prospect St. Suggested donation is $5. (360) 966-7840 WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG BUSINESS GROW? 4 MATH & SCIENCE EXPO: Children ages 5-12 can

FRI., OCT. 13 learn more about the fields of science, technol- MAIL FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS: Join the South Fork ogy, engineering and mathematics through

Valley Community Association for a “Friday Night demonstrations, experiments and “show and tell” 2 Flicks” viewing of Argo at 7:30pm at Deming’s booths at an annual Kids’ Math and Science Expo Ask about our SEED Program Van Zandt Community Hall, 4106 Valley Hwy. Sug- from 10am-3pm at Lynden’s NW Washington Fair DO IT gested donation to view the R-rated flick is $5. and Event Center, 1775 Front St. Entry is free. for flexible and affordable loans [email protected] WWW.LYNDENKIWANIS.COM to farmers, ranchers and other SAT., OCT. 14 CONSERVATION AUCTION: Fourth Corner Fly 10.11.17 BALLOT ISSUES FORUM: Join the League of Fishers will host its 22nd biennial Conservation value-added businesses! Women Voters of Bellingham and Whatcom County Dinner and Auction beginning with a social hour for a Local Ballot Issues Forum at 9:30am at at 6pm at the Bellingham Golf and Country Club, .12 41

Bellingham City Council Chambers, 210 Lottie St. 3729 Meridian St. All proceeds will benefit local For more information, email # Additional forums happen through October. conservation efforts. WWW.LWVBELLINGHAMWHATCOM.ORG (360) 398-1637 OR WWW.4THCORNERFLY.COM [email protected].

AAUW MEETING: The Bellingham branch of the THURS., OCT. 19 American Association of University Women will U.S. CITIZENSHIP 101: Join a free “U.S. Citi- begin its 100th anniversary year celebration with zenship 101” session at 6pm the Lynden Library, a kickoff program from 10-11:30am at the YWCA, 216 4th St. Local immigration attorneys will cover 1026 N. Forest St. the general eligibility requirements for naturaliza- CASCADIA WEEKLY (360) 392-8856 tion, explain the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, and be available to answer questions 13 VETERAN BENEFITS: United States veterans can about green cards and more. Additionally, the get free assistance at a “Veteran Benefits” event Whatcom Literacy Council will be there to provide from 10am-1pm at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. information about its free programs. Baker Hwy. Veterans should bring a copy of their WWW.WCLS.ORG IndustrialCU.org (360) 734-2043 doit

THURS., OCT. 12 $10 per family. LADIES NIGHT: Appetizers, WWW.GLENECHOGARDEN.COM

drinks, free massages, demos, 30 raffles and discounts on fall and SUN., OCT. 15 winter items will be part of a “La- PADDLE FOR FOOD: Join Whatcom FOOD dies Night” gathering from 6-9pm Paddlers for a “Paddle for Food” outside at Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Relay at 9am at Lake Padden, 4882 HIKING RUNNING GARDENING Holly St. Entry is free. S. Samish Way. Registration is by 24 WWW.BACKCOUNTRYESSENTIALS.NET donation; proceeds will benefit the Bellingham Food Bank. FRI., OCT. 13 (360) 739-2257 B-BOARD ALASKA ACTION: Bestselling Alaskan author and photographer HIKING NAKED: As part of NCI’s Nick Jans will share images and “Nature of Writing” series, Iris 22 stories about arctic Alaska—where Graville reads from Hiking Naked: A he has lived for 20 years—at 7pm at Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance at FILM the Anacortes Senior Center, 1701 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 22nd St. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

18 (360) 755-3238 MON., OCT. 16

MUSIC OCT. 13-14 NOXIOUS WEEDS: Laurel Baldwin GORE & LORE TOURS: The Good will lead a “Noxious Weeds in Your Time Girls combine history with Landscape & Garden” presentation 16 a bit of local horror at “Gore and at 6:30pm at the Mount Vernon City

ART Lore” tours at 6pm Fridays in Library, 315 Snoqualmie St. Fairhaven (starting at the Village WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV Green, 1207 10th St.) and 6pm 15 Saturdays in downtown Bellingham TUES., OCT. 17 (in front of the SPARK Museum, NATURE’S GYM RUN: A weekly All-

STAGE 1312 Bay St.) through Oct. 28. Paces Run starts at 6pm at Fairhaven Entry is $13-$18. Runners, 1209 11th St. Tonight’s WWW.GOODTIMEGIRLSTOURS.COM “Nature’s Gym” run will feature Mer- 14 14 rell demos, a pre-run “tree by leaves” SAT., OCT. 14 identification game, raffle prizes, PUMPKIN TRAIN: Sign up for Lake giveaways and post-run treats. GET OUT GET OUT Whatcom Railway’s “Pumpkin Patch WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM on Rails” outings at 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm leaving from Wicker-

12 WED., OCT. 18 BY AMY KEPFERLE they look for role-players who are also sham Station (just off State Route POLAR BEAR TALK: Wildlife good storytellers. 9 and four miles south of Acme). biologist David Drummond focuses WORDS Tickets are $12-$20; additional on “Life of the Arctic Polar Bear” at a Among the line items visitors will like- excursions happen Sat., Oct. 21. multimedia presentation from 6:30-

8 Unearthing ly learn about when they join the rain-or- WWW.LAKEWHATCOMRAILWAY.COM 8:30pm at the Community Food Co- shine outings is that the initial graves at op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $10. the Mount Vernon Cemetery were dug in NSEA WORK PARTY: Join a WWW.COMMUNITYFOOD.COOP Nooksack Salmon Enhancement

CURRENTS the 1870s, and that the locale was first History Association Work Party from 9am- BIRDS AND PLANTS: Join the known as the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. 12pm at Squalicum Creek Park, 1001 Washington Native Plant Society for a 6 TAKE A HISTORIC CEMETERY TOUR “It stands for Independent Order of Squalicum Way. “Birds and Plants” presentation with the Odd Fellows,” Wolfe says. “They were WWW.N-SEA.ORG biologist Dennis Paulson from 7-9pm VIEWS WHILE IT’S true that the outings tak- a fraternal organization whose motto at the event room at the RE Store, AUTUMN RIDE: Join the Whatcom 2309 Meridian St. Entry is free. 4 ing place Sun., Oct. 15 at the Mount Vernon was ‘to visit the sick, to relieve the dis- County chapter of the Backcountry WWW.WNPS.ORG Cemetery are occurring during the spooki- tressed, to bury the dead and educate Horsemen of Washington for an MAIL est time of the year, Skagit County Histori- the orphan’—thus their establishment Autumn Ride and lunch starting THURS., OCT. 19

at 9:30am Heady Trails in Sumas. SUMMER STORIES: Slideshows,

2 cal Museum Director Jo E. Wolfe wants to of a cemetery.” assure potential visitors that there’s ab- For even more backstory about the Lunch will be served for a donation a Q&A, beer specials and more of $10-$15. will be part of a “Summer Stories” DO IT solutely no need to be afraid of what lies Skagitonians who are buried on Fir Street, WWW.WHATCOM-BCH.COM event at 7pm at Cafe Velo, 120 inside the storied memorial park’s gates. schedule a stop before or after the event ATTEND Prospect St. Greg Heath’s “Road “It is a historic tour,” Wolfe says of the WHAT: Historic at the Skagit County Historical Museum’s PADDEN HALF-MARATHON: The Riding in Norway” and Josh Par- fourth annual event that sees attendees Cemetery Tour headquarters on Fourth Street. Although Lake Padden Half-Marathon and Al rish’s “Bike-packing Idaho Hot 10.11.17 showing up throughout the autumn af- WHEN: 12-4pm they’re between seasonal exhibits, it’s Coyle Community Trail 5K begin at Springs” will be the focus of the ternoon to join wagon rides that make a Sun., Oct. 15 still possible to make an appointment 10am at the east entrance at Lake free, pedal-powered event. .12 WHERE: Mount Padden Park, 4882 S. Samish Way. WWW.CAFE-VELO.CC 41 route around the cemetery, stopping at or Vernon Cemetery, with archivist Mari Densmore, who can Fees vary. # near various gravesites to hear from actors 1200 Fir St. help you navigate the research library’s WWW.LAKEPADDENTRAILHALF.ORG ASTRONOMY MEETING: The portraying some of Skagit County’s most COST: $10-$12 documents, records, newspapers, photo- Whatcom Association of Celestial interesting citizens. INFO: www.skagit graphs and books to make more fascinat- NURSERY TOUR: Attend a free tour Observers meets from 7-9pm at “The character tells their story, and the county.net/ ing discoveries about the past. from 10am-12pm at Fourth Corner Ferndale’s WECU building, 5659 Bar- museum Nursery, 5652 Sand Rd. The outing rett Rd. Organizers will discuss local wagon moves along to the next location,” If learning more about local history will include a review of how the astronomy events, and an interesting Wolfe says, noting that attendees will be and hearing stories about some of its nursery propagates source-identi- and informative presentation is

CASCADIA WEEKLY able to interact with those who have long since left their mor- founding citizens isn’t enough to pique fied native plants. scheduled. tal coils behind—including Mount Vernon pioneer Jasper Gates, your interest, consider the fact that WWW.FOURTHCORNERNURSERIES.COM WWW.WHATCOMASTRONOMY.ORG 14 veteran and former Kern Funeral Home owner Leroy Anderson, it’s the middle of October and you’ll be FALL FUN: Lawn games, hay rides SEND YOUR EVENT potato farmer Mary Jane Peth, and pirate Ben Uri. spending part of your Sunday meeting and more will be part of “Fall Fun” INFORMATION TO: Wolfe says that tour organizers from the La Conner-based mu- dead people. If the prospect of getting gatherings from 10am-5pm at Glen CALENDAR seum make an effort to use descendants of the dearly departed even just a little bit scared is what lures Echo Garden, 4390 Y Rd. Entry is @CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM to stand in for their relatives when possible, but if it’s not, then you in, that’s OK, too. doit

STAGE returns to the stage for 8pm and 10pm shows Friday and Saturday at THURS., OCT. 12 the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. DAZZLING DECEPTIONS: Expect Tickets are $10-$12. 30 spectacular illusions, audience par- WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM ticipation and sidesplitting comedy FOOD stage when illusionist and Skagit County SAT., OCT. 14 THEATER DANCE PROFILES native Brian Ledbetter helms a RADIO THEATER: The Camano Is- “Dazzling Deceptions” performance land Radio Theater Players present a 24 at 6:30pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln live performance at 7pm at Lynden’s Theatre, 712 S. First St. Tickets are Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front $12-$20. St. Tickets will be $15 at the door. B-BOARD Seven Sicknesses. I’m a huge fan of the WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG All proceeds will benefit Whatcom Literacy Council programs.

original and challenging works produced 22 at iDiOM—it’s my artistic home. GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The WWW.WHATCOMLITERACY.ORG Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at CW: Which type of characters do you prefer— FILM 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront SUN., OCT. 15 comic or tragic? Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend the

JB: I think I gravitate toward the tragic for around for “The Project.” Entry is Bellingham Circus Guild’s monthly 18 stage work. Perhaps I need to explore the $5-$8. variety show, “Vaudevillingham,” at 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM 7pm and 9pm performances at the darker stuff to balance my generally posi- MUSIC Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., suite #102. tive outlook on life. OCT. 12-15 Suggested donation is $5-$10.

CW: Something tells me that having only YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: The WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM 16 three actors perform Macbeth might also musical comedy adaptation of Mel ART provide some comedy among the tragedy. Brooks’ Young Frankenstein con- JB: We are laughing a lot during rehears- tinues this weekend with 7:30pm 15 DANCE 15 shows Thursday through Saturday, als. It’s always hard to gauge what will and 2pm Sunday at the Anacortes WED., OCT. 11 STAGE strike the audience as funny. Probably Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. SCOTTISH DANCING: Join the STAGE the murderers. Tickets are $20. Additional show- Bellingham Scottish Country Danc- CW: How many actors are typically in a per- ings happen Oct. 19-21. ers to learn about the social danc- 14 formance of Macbeth? How may will you WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM ing of Scotland from 7:30-9:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. be portraying? FRI., OCT. 13 The drop-in fee is $8. JB:There are about 30 roles in Macbeth. I DEAD PARROTS SOCIETY: The WWW.BELLINGHAMSCD.ORG GET OUT would guess that 15 to 20 or more play- improv troupe known as the Dead ers typically take the stage. I play about Parrots Society hosts a game night THURS., OCT. 12 12 10 roles, though some are just a line at 7:30pm at Western Washington FOLK DANCE: The Balkan Folk University’s Old Main Theater. Entry Dancers meet from 7-9:30pm at the or two. King Duncan, Banquo, Macduff, is $4, and additional donations can Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. WORDS Lady Macduff, a witch and one of the be made to the Borgen Project, a Suggested donation is $5. murderers are the main ones; assorted nonprofit with a goal of eliminating (360) 380-0456 8 lords and messen- global poverty. gers, as well as an WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ FRI., OCT. 13 DEADPARROTSWWU THRILLER DANCE CLASS: If you’d

apparition or two, like to take part in the Bellingham CURRENTS fill out the bill. OCT. 13-14 tradition known as “Thrillingham,” 6 CW: How in the heck WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE: Students show up for the third of five dance from Lynden Christian High School classes tonight from 7-9pm at JEFF BRASWELL does one go about remembering lines present performances of Deborah Bloedel Donovan, 2114 Electric Ave. VIEWS PHOTO BY PHIL ROSE PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHOTO Brevoort’s The Women of Lockerbie Attendees will learn the moves to and stage directions at 7pm Friday and Saturday at the Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and 4 ATTEND for a show like this? school’s Performing Arts Center, perform at Maritime Heritage Park

BY AMY KEPFERLE 3MB MAIL WHAT: JB: You essentially 515 Drayton St. The play focuses on Halloween night. Sylvia Center, WHERE: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ have to learn the on a mother from New Jersey 205 Prospect St. 2 whole play. I don’t roaming the hills of Scotland, THRILLINGHAM WHEN: 7:30pm Oct. looking for her son’s remains that

12-14; 19-21, 26-28 think anyone is off- DO IT 3MB were lost in the crash of Pan Am SAT., OCT. 14 COST: $12-$15 stage for more than Flight 103. Tickets are $6-$10; CONTRA DANCE: TimeZones will INFO: www.idiom MINIMIZING MACBETH a handful of min- additional showings happen Oct. provide live tunes at the Bellingham theater.com utes, and there are 19 and 21. Country Dance Society’s Contra WHEN IT comes to Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s timeless tons of cues and other business to be WWW.LYNCS.ORG Dance taking place from 7-10:30pm 10.11.17 at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th tale of war, murder and betrayal typically boasts large casts incorporated too.

STAND AND DELIVER: Experience St. Suggested donation is $6-$10. .12

who share the heavy lifting required to tell the tale of a Scot- CW: Tell me a little about working with the real-life story of math teacher WWW.BELLINGHAM 41 # tish general who resorts to bloodshed in order to gain access to your fellow actors—Evan Frazier and Lin- Jaime Escalante and his personal COUNTRYDANCE.ORG the throne. In iDiOM Theater’s 3MB—which opens Thurs., Oct. naea Groh. mission of challenging his students 12 at the Sylvia Center—the cast is reduced to three. We caught JB: We’re having a good time. I hadn’t to rise to their full learning potential OCT. 16-19 when META Performing Arts presents SUGAR CABARET: Dance, live up with longtime thespian Jeff Braswell to find out more about worked onstage with either of these two performances of Stand and Deliver for music, stories of love and loss the audacious adaptation. before, but they’re great. When you’ve the final weekend at 7:30pm Friday and more will be part of “Sugar: A Cascadia Weekly: How long have you been involved with iDiOM danced for hours around a witches’ caul- and Saturday in Mount Vernon at Cabaret” performances at 7:30pm

Theater? dron with someone, you form a bond. the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. Monday and Thursday at the CASCADIA WEEKLY Jeff Braswell: I’ve been working with iDiOM since 2006. I’ve CW: What’s your favorite line in the play? Tickets are $10-$18. Underground Nightclub, 211 E. WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG Chestnut St. The American Theater 15 been in 25 or so shows over that time. JB: “Now does he feel his title hang loose Northwest production is directed by CW: What are some of your most memorable roles from your in- about him, like a giant’s robe upon a HELLINGHAM: Help figure out Brie Turoff Mueller. Tickets to the volvement with iDiOM? dwarfish thief.” Also, “Bleed, bleed, poor whodunnit when the improvised mur- 21-and-over show are $18-$20. JB: Twinkles in Clown Bar stands out. Bill in Mike Mathieu’s country.” A couple of timely lines ripped der mystery known as “Hellingham” WWW.SUGARTHESHOW.COM Squalor is another one. Odysseus in both Briseis and These from today’s headlines. doit UPCOMING EVENTS

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30 FIBERS AND BEYOND: The Whatcom Weavers Guild presents the 2017 “Fibers

FOOD & Beyond” Conference and Sale through Saturday Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. In addition to viewing the exhibit,

24 visual there will be a keynote address on Coast GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES Salish weaving, classes and workshops and more. A “Fibers & Beyond” sale happens from

B-BOARD 9am-5pm Saturday. Entry is free; fees vary for additional events. WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG/

22 ter, Jarmila Radova. She and her son, FIBERSANDBEYOND Vojtech Rada, have enjoyed a personal

FILM connection with the River Gallery and THURS., OCT. 12 Rada’s work has been featured here for FALL TRUNK SHOW: Get a sneak peek at Intertwined Design’s new fall line at an Inter-

18 several seasons. twined & Texture Fall Trunk Show taking place Trained as an art restorer, Rada’s be- from 11am-6pm at Texture Clothing, 1425 N.

MUSIC guiling blend of architectural precision State St. Shoppers can also browse Texture’s and fantasy appears profoundly Euro- new fall line, as well. WWW.TEXTURECLOTHING.COM 16 16 pean. His paintings run the gamut—from ART

ART channeling Cezanne to rivaling Salvador CURATOR’S TALK: Whatcom Museum Dali. Perhaps his most public project was Advocates will host a free Curator’s Talk with Tacoma Art Museum’s Faith Brower focusing 15 a commission to paint the stations of the cross for St. Prokop Church in Prague. on the “Art of the American West” exhibit at 12pm at the museum’s Old City Hall, 121

STAGE Don’t overlook the small statues by Rob- Prospect St. ert Gigliotti and Maria Wickwire among the WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG bright aisles of paintings. Their contrast- 14 ing styles whisper an emotional dialogue ARTIST TALK: Painter Cynthia Camlin dis- between head and heart, as old as human- cusses “Boneyard and Bloom” from 4-6pm at

GET OUT kind. Gigliotti carves in several media, ab- Edison’s i.e. gallery, 5800 Cains Court. WWW.IEEDISON.COM stract as well as realist. His small bronze

12 sculptures celebrate athletic perfection HOLDING SPACE: An opening reception for and the beauty of the “Holding Space” takes place from 6-8pm at human figure. Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. The WORDS Wickwire’s ceramic third annual Falling Out of the Box jewelry exhibit will be on display through Dec. 1.

8 figures—here, all WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG female—hide within boxes, suffer dis- FRI., OCT. 13 LAWSON RECEPTION: A reception for cerami- CURRENTS memberment, sprout porcupine quills cist Irene Lawson’s “Patterns Above and Below”

6 exhibit takes place from 4-7pm at Good Earth “THE PATH HOME,” BY DENISE LEBLANC DENISE BY HOME,” “THE PATH where arms should SEE Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. WHAT: Fall Show be or recline sacri- WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM VIEWS WHERE: River ficially on an altar BY STEPHEN HUNTER Gallery, 19313 4 SAT., OCT. 14 Landing Rd., of antlers. They are MONA OPENINGS: “Choices,” featuring works Mount Vernon dramatic beyond

MAIL by Portland-based sculptor and painter Mel 10am-5pm their minute propor- WHEN: Katz; glass sculptor Raven Skyriver’s “Sub-

Fri.-Sun, through 2 River’s Edge tions—but how much merge;” and “Hidden Narrative”—a display of Oct. 22 greater impact would permanent collection paintings—can be viewed INFO: www.river

DO IT at an opening reception from 2-5pm at La Con- SEASONAL SIGHTS IN MOUNT VERNON gallerywa.com they have if even half-life-size, like ner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 N. First St. Show up at 1pm for an artist talk with Katz. Gallery on Landing Road near the lower Skagit River, once a commer- her “Clevis, Goddess of the Deep!” THE RIVER WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG cial greenhouse, is a natural home for art. The light is perfect and it’s roomy enough One can be brainwashed by so much 10.11.17 to show off works by 38 artists—more than most museums. I always look forward to beauty. Driving home, the Skagit farm- DESIGN DRINKS: Presentations by Jordanian the harmony and balance of the exhibition as a whole, curated by Sylvia Strong and land looked as if Monet had painted curator and artist Ola El-Khalidi and Diala Kha- .12 sawnih, Bellingham-based photographers Amy 41 Coizie Bettinger. it—meadows grazed by black-and-white

# Glasser and Sonny Meehan, and local artists Bar- Currently on view at the “Fall Show” are works by more than a dozen first-rate cows, plowed fields paralleling toward bara L.Miller and Dimitri C. Katsaros will be part landscape and nature painters, of whom Christine Troyer, Jennifer Bowman, Cynthia darkly forested hills. of “Design Drinks + Talks” at 5pm at Localgroup Richardson, Lynn Zimmerman, and Dedrian Clark are perhaps the most familiar names. If you have time, I’d also advise stop- Studio, 221 Prospect St. Entry is free. And here are other artists, who glide from nature into something beyond, like Joan ping in downtown Mount Vernon to visit WWW.LOCALGROUP.STUDIO Enslin, Ria Harboe, and woodworker and painter Gary Giovane. the Perry and Carlson Gallery at 504 S. OCT. 14-15 Some, like Charlotte Decker and Lavone Newell-Reim, are equally at home in real- 1st St. Their October show features Deer STUDIO TOUR: More than 40 artists working in CASCADIA WEEKLY ism or abstraction. Jacqui Beck and Yvette Newman, on the other hand, are both Harbor painter Marilyn Jonassen. She a variety of different forms of media will open trenchantly abstract, although Beck may allow a whimsical cow or clothesline into works in the difficult medium of encaus- their creative spaces to the public for the sec- 16 her compositions. tic, in which she has developed a number ond weekend of the 23rd annual Whatcom Artist Each new season, Brooke Borcherding seems to find a new focus: cityscapes, then of innovations. Her present work appears Studio Tour happening from 10am-5pm Saturday and Sunday throughout Whatcom County. Entry landscapes, and now her distinctive brushwork has very appropriately settled on almost minimal, perhaps more confident to the self-guided tour is free. still-life flower studies. than her earlier work shown at the (now WWW.STUDIOTOUR.NET Flowers in the most formal sense have been a speciality of the late Czech mas- closed) Fetherston Gallery in Seattle. doit ONGOING EXHIBITS ALLERY: “Illuminating Darkness” shows

through October at the Allery Fine Art, 1319 Cornwall Ave., #104 (entrance is in the alley). 30 WWW.THEALLERYFINEART.COM

SALE! FOOD ALLIED ARTS: “From Where I Sit” shows EBT through Oct. 28 at Allied Arts, 1418 Corn- wall Ave. Marionberry Habanero Jam 24 WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG QUALITY USED APPLIANCES Appalachian Mtn. Boot Sox • Prices as low as $139 ARTWOOD: Nicolette Harrington’s North- Espresso & Hero Sandwich B-BOARD west landscapes and seascapes will be $ • 90 day guarantee featured along with small tables of all kinds Morel Leek Jack Cheese through October at Artwood Gallery, 1000 • Highest quality 22 Harris Ave. Everybody's Store Hoodies OFF Expires 12./31/17 WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM FILM Local Organic Lamb & Eggs Limit one40 coupon per customer • Inventory online Must present coupon at time of purchase (CW) CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Photographs by Bike & Auto iPhone Holders Lorne Kenyon are on display through mid- 18 802 Marine Drive October at Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen,

601 W. Holly St. Tickle Your Fancy ApplianceDepotBham.com MUSIC WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM 360-592-2297 16 www.everybodys.com (360) 527-2646 16 FOURTH CORNER: See Rob Gisher’s “New Highway 9 – Van Zandt ART Works” exhibit through Oct. 14 at Fourth ART Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM 15

GALLERY PEGASUS: “New Whatcom” shows through Oct. 30 at Gallery Pegasus, 301 W. STAGE Holly St. WWW.GALLERYPEGASUS.COM 14

GOOD EARTH POTTERY: Irene Lawson’s

works will be featured through October at GET OUT Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM 12 HONEY SALON: Sara Holodnick’s “Sweet/ Nothing” is currently on display at Honey Salon & Gallery, 310 W. Holly St. WORDS WWW.SWEETNOTHINGORACLE.COM 8 MAKE.SHIFT: “Aerial Divisions” shows through October at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. CURRENTS WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM 6 SAN JUAN MUSEUM: “Dialogues from the Forest” shows through Nov. 6 at Friday Harbor’s VIEWS San Juan Island Museum of Art, 540 Spring St. WWW.SJIMA.ORG 4

SMITH & VALLEE: View works by sculptors MAIL Allen Moe and Peregrine O’Gormley until Oct.

29 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 2 Gilkey Ave. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM DO IT

WESTERN GALLERY: “Coded Threads: Textile and Technology” shows through Dec. 8 at West- ern Washington University’s Western Gallery. 10.11.17 WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU

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Art Guild members can be perused at the # Whatcom Art Market, 1103 11th St. WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG

WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Art of the American West: Highlights of the Haub Family Collec- tion from the Tacoma Art Museum,” “People of the Sea and Cedar: The Story of the Coast Salish Tribes,” “Nostalgic Saturation,” and CASCADIA WEEKLY “John M. Edson Hall of Birds” can currently be viewed on the Whatcom Museum campus. 17 WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG

SEND YOUR EVENT INFORMATION TO: [email protected] rumor has it

30 I’M GOING TO go ahead and say that Lucas Hicks was the best musician to ever call Bell- FOOD ingham home. From his early days in Pacer and Jill Brazil to his later years with the Gallus Brothers, the Shadies, Deakin Hicks, and the 24 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT massive amount of music he played during and in between, the sheer depth and breadth B-BOARD of his talent and skill were always on display. He was eternally musically curious, which led

22 him to learn the conventions of the various genres that interested him—only so that he

FILM could disregard them to create something that was entirely his own, even

18 18 when he was playing music written by other people. MUSIC MUSIC If the song in his head required an instrument he

16 didn’t know, he would learn

ART it, showing a command of everything from saxophone BY CAREY ROSS

15 to accordion to banjo to ukulele to whatever else might happen to be

STAGE lying around needing to be played. And he made it all look effortless—more than that, he made it all look fun—even when he was 14 sick and playing a show took more energy than he really had.

GET OUT Because Lucas had cancer, and that’s the other piece of his story. He had it for a long

12 time—14 years, give or take. He never wanted his life to be about that though, and so even as he was forced to cede more and more of WORDS his body to the disease, he refused to give it

8 a second more of his time or a fraction more of his existence than he had to. It was why, immediately after one or another of his sur-

CURRENTS geries, or when he’d finished a round of increasingly intense treatment, he returned to 6 playing music as soon as he was able, often while he was still in the hospital. Nothing, VIEWS it seemed, could stop him from trying to fill

4 the world with as much music as possible. It’s probably why we thought he’d beat cancer and MAIL outlive us all.

2 Sometimes it doesn’t work that way. Lucas gether than they were as individuals and lost his fight with cancer. He died last week, BY CAREY ROSS DO IT formed a band. After that, things happened at home, surrounded by friends and family. at a bit of a breakneck pace. As news trickled out about his death, trib- They auditioned for and won a spot in the utes began to appear on social media, written first-ever singer/songwriter major offered by friends, acquaintances and those who did

10.11.17 The Accidentals at the prestigious Interlochen Center for not know Lucas but had long admired him. It EVERYTHING TO SEE HERE the Arts, named their band the Accidentals, became clear immediately that his ability to .12

41 recorded two full-length albums and an EP, forge meaningful connections to people was # WHEN I was a teenager, I probably had big plans of some kind. But in played on 15 other albums, contributed mu- not limited to his music. He gave freely of reality, I spent most of my time making and then consuming microwave sic to two film scores and saw their music himself, as much as he was able and often fudge in my friend’s basement, watching Grease and Dirty Dancing over and featured on the big and small screens. When more, and the result is an astonishing number over, and gossiping deep into the night about people whose names I can no they weren’t busy with all that, they found of people who now have a piece of Lucas to longer remember. the time to play some 700-plus shows in less remember him by. Normal enough teenage behavior, but certainly not impressive. than three years. Oh, and they still studied, I have my own piece of Lucas. He was my

CASCADIA WEEKLY Katie Larson and Savannah Buist have spent their teenage years a little went to class, took tests and participated in friend and I loved him. He was a good friend more productively than I wasted mine. The two first met in a high-school the other activities that go along with still to have, wicked funny, always interesting 18 orchestra class—Larson was freshman and Buist was a sophomore—when being in high school. and interested, ready to engage in meaning- an instructor asked for volunteers to play at an event and they were the only Evidently, youth is not always wasted on ful discourse or utter nonsense depending on ones to raise their hands. the young. the situation—and he was also tough as hell. Serendipitous, that. But the Accidentals were just getting To be frank, I’m having a hard time coming From that exercise, the duo quickly realized that they were stronger to- started. Even though Larson and Buist are to terms with losing him. What happened to doit ACCIDENTALS, F ROM P.18 press, most of their music fits into boxes labeled “folk” and “pop,” but the fit is WED., OCT. 11 HUMAN not an exact one. Owing to their orches- JAZZ FOREST: Emmy-nominated composer Ryan both multi-instrumentalists who ef- tral training and ability to play so many Jones brings Jazz Forest to town for a 7pm What- fortlessly transition from guitar to instruments and thus command a differ- com Jazz Music Arts Center concert a the Sylvia Center for the Arts, 205 Prospect St. The ensemble 30 cello to violin to mandolin to ukulele ent kind of sound than your standard gui- of Seattle performers includes veteran big band to accordion to glockenspiel to musical tar/bass/drums configuration, they are tenor sax Pete Christlieb. Entry is $5-$20. FOOD saw and more during their live shows, fearless musical explorers, limited only WWW.WJMAC.ORG

they needed a percussive element to by their creativity and imaginations. Art of Being The 24 round out their sound. So, in 2014, That fearlessness and proficiency THURS., OCT. 12 CASPAR BABYPANTS: Attend a Family Concert they added drummer Michael Dause, carries through to with Caspar Babypants—aka Chris Ballew of the and, more recently, Josh Allen on key- their live shows, Presidents of the United States of America—at B-BOARD boards and auxiliary guitar. which have been 5pm at St. Paul’s Academy, 1509 E. Victor St. Tickets are $5-$10. Please register in advance. But the heart, soul and sound of the honed by touring Meditation as a Path to Develop 22 WWW.EVENTBRITE.COM Accidentals resides in Larson and Buist, stints with Andrew Openness & Courage Bird, Brandi Car- FILM who trade off vocals just as easily as SAT., OCT. 14 October 20 & 21, 2017 they do instruments, crafting delicate, lile, Ladysmith Black MYRON BROWN: As part of a new live music Eve+1-Day Retreat~Register Online

airy harmonies to go with their lively, Mambazo, and more. series, Myron Brown will perform from 7-9pm at 18 2825 Meridian, Suite 201 • 360-483-4526 18 strings-heavy sound. As well, their lyr- In short, they’re Pizza’zza, 1501 12th St. Entry is free and open

ATTEND to all ages. MUSIC ics are clever and often witty, dealing exactly what you’d MUSIC WHAT: The WWW.PIZZAZZA.COM meditation center with issues both specific to their par- Accidentals want a band of confi- ticular experiences and place in the WHEN: 7pm Fri., dent, skilled teenage BYRON SCHENKMAN: Baroque and classical bellingham.shambhala.org 16 world as well as broader, more general Oct. 13 girls who have never chamber music can be heard when Byron Schenk- ART WHERE: The man & Friends perform at 7:30pm at Mount themes. One minute, they’re singing a subscribed to any of Free Events at Village Books in Fairhaven song about what it’s like to be teenag- Green Frog, 1015 the reductive and Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. N. State St. The concert will include two of Bach’s brilliant Thursday, Oct. 12, 7pm 15 ers on the tour circuit, forced by their COST: $15 sexist belief systems and rarely-performed double concertos, a string

underage status to spend too many INFO: that infect and in- concerto by George Philipp Telemann and instru- Rob Lewis STAGE hours hanging out in endless, nameless, www.acoustic form every aspect of mental canzonas by Girolamo Frescobaldi and The Silence featureless parking lots, and the next tavern.com the music industry to Claudia Francesca Rusca. Tickets are $25-$35. of Vanishing Things Poetry & Essays! 14 they’re taking on sexism and the per- sound like. WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG niciousness of female stereotypes. But Which brings me to my next point. OCT. 14-15 BARBARA no matter what the theme of the song, The Accidentals are coming our way SKAGIT BAND: Hear some of the Skagit Com- WEST GET OUT they play and sing with remarkable self- for a 7pm Fri., Oct. 13 show at the Green munity Band’s most-loved works from over the ...And I Felt the Simple possession and jaw-dropping skill. Frog. All shows that happen at the ven- years at “Favorites” concerts at 7:30pm Saturday Sweetness of Me 12 The music of the Accidentals is most ue before 9pm, such as this one, are all- at La Conner’s Maple Hall (104 Commercial) and POETRY! 3pm Sunday in Anacortes at Brodniak Hall (1600 often described as “genre-defying” or ages. Opportunities for young people, Friday, Oct. 13, 7pm 20th St.). Works by Gustav Holst, Frank Ticheli, WORDS North Cascade Institute’s Nature of Writing Series! “genre-bending,” frustrating character- especially girls and those who identify Franz von Suppe and more will be on the lineup. izations that could mean everything and as such, to see bands comprised of peo- Entry is free; donations are appreciated. IRIS GRAVILLE 8 nothing at the same time. Although they ple who look like them—who could be WWW.SKAGITCOMMUNITYBAND.ORG dabble in whatever form and type of mu- them—are pretty thin on the ground. SUN., OCT. 15 HIKING NAKED sic that suits their fancy or a particular Representation is important, and the CLASSICAL CONCERT: Bellingham House A Quaker Woman’s CURRENTS song or sentiment they’re trying to ex- Accidentals represent. Concert presents “Solo Piano and Trios of Search For Balance 6 Beethoven and Muczynski” at a 3pm perfor- Sunday, Oct. 15, 4pm mance at the First Congregational Church North Cascade Institute’s Nature of Writing Series! of Bellingham, 2401 Cornwall Ave. Pianist VIEWS Kay Zavislak will be joined by Sue Collado on Langdon Cook rooms and honored not just the music 4 RUMOR HAS IT, F ROM P.18 clarinet and cellist Sasha Von Dassow. Entry is UPSTREAM itself, but also the remarkable level of $5 for students, $10 general.

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Lucas was so brutally unfair that I am until the end. TICKETS AVAILABLE! 2 unable to take its measure or to reckon Mostly, though, I am enormously grate- IMPROMPTU: The duo Impromptu will share classical music written for flute and bassoon at a Join us for the LIVE TAPING of the Radio Show with it just yet. ful to those people in Lucas’ life he was 3pm concert at Western Washington University’s The DO IT In lieu of acceptance, the feeling I am closest to, the ones who helped make it Performing Arts Center, 516 High St. They’ll be Chuckanut Radio Hour left with, other than grief, is profound possible for him to find his way through joined by harpist Jill Whitman. Entry is free. featuring Crazy Horse family gratitude. I am grateful that, after his this on his own terms as much as he (360) 303-4014 Floyd Clown & initial diagnosis, Lucas opted to move could, the ones who gave generously and 10.11.17 WED., OCT. 18 Doug War Eagle back here, to call this place and this unreservedly of themselves to him so that MVHS FALL CONCERT: More than 200 talented and author William Matson .12 community home. I am grateful that he he could give so much to us. They sur- Mount Vernon High School students will perform 41 was driven to push so much of his music rounded him with friendship and fellow- at a Fall Concert at 4pm at McIntyre Hall, 2501 at Whatcom Community College # Enjoy live music, humor, E. College Way. The diverse performance will out into the world and to share so much ship, gave him a soft place to land, sup- skits, poetry, and guest of his skill and creativity and sheer joy ported him and never left his side. And feature musical styles from around the world, interviews including classical and popular selections. Entry with us. To have his music now and to then when there was nothing more to be Crazy Horse Tickets $5 - at is by donation. The Lakota Village Books & brownpapertickets.com know its impact will continue to rever- done and his time was waning, they gath- WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG Warrior’s One FREE with each berate is a wondrous gift. I am grate- ered at the home Lucas had made with Life & Legacy purchase of Crazy Horse ful that, as a community, we showed longtime partner Jenny Rose and filled it JEREMY KAHN QUARTET: Noted pianist Jeremy Thursday, Nov. 9, 6:30pm CASCADIA WEEKLY up for him, and that we tried to make with love and music and let him go. Kahn will be joined by Mike Allen (tenor sax), Julian MacDonough (drums), and Michael Glynn performing for us worth the increasing I don’t know how to reconcile the 19 (bass) for a Whatcom Jazz Music Art Center VILLAGE BOOKS effort he put into it. When cancer had loss of someone like Lucas. I don’t have concert from 7-9pm at the Sylvia Center for the taken so much from him physically, he those words or possess that wisdom. But Arts, 205 Prospect St. Entry is $5-$10. & PAPER DREAMS still played with skill and focus, and I I am going to take my piece of him and WWW.WJMAC.ORG 1200 11th St, Bellingham & 430 Front St, Lynden

am grateful for those times we filled hold it close. And I will be grateful. VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Read more at villagebooks.com musicvenues 30

See below for venue FOOD addresses and phone 10.11.17 10.12.17 10.13.17 10.14.17 10.15.17 10.16.17 10.17.17 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 24 Alternative Library Lotus Drops, Nori, Cauliflowa Geist and the Sacred Ensemble

B-BOARD Anelia's Kitchen & Stage Craig Adams & Mary Ellen Lykins Stewart Woods 22 Boundary Bay Aaron Guest Piano Night Paul Klein Brewery FILM

Brown Lantern Ale House Acoustic Night w/Dave Lervik Open Mic Forest Beutel 18 18 MUSIC MUSIC Commodore Ballroom Gavin DeGraw Paul Weller, Lucy Rose Paul Weller, Lucy Rose 16 Conway Muse Wayne Hayton Cassie and Maggie XOfenders ART

Corner Pub Knut Bell and the 360s P.O.S/Oct. 14/Wild Buffalo 15

STAGE Culture Cafe at Aireeoke Open Mic Kombucha Town

14 Eat Restaurant and Bar BJ Block Duo Jamie Findlay Duo

GET OUT Edison Inn The Rocket Revelers Jenny & The Tomcats

The Accidentals (early), The Slow Jam (early), The Open Mic (early), Guf- 12 Green Frog Jeffrey Martin Y La Bamba Soul Night Desert Kind (late) Burying Ground (late) fawingham (late) WORDS 8 CURRENTS 6 VIEWS 4 MAIL

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20 musicvenues 30 See below for venue addresses and phone 10.11.17 10.12.17 10.13.17 10.14.17 10.15.17 10.16.17 10.17.17 FOOD numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

Acoustic Wednesday w/JP 24 Greene's Corner Myron Brown Falcon

H2O DJ Z Tighty Whities Karaoke B-BOARD

Honey Moon Open Mic w/Pace Rubadeau The Yankee Drivers Scrub McHugh Boys Irish & Folk Monday Jan and Sam and Laura 22 FILM Hotel Bellwether Adrian Clarke Sara Vega Blake Angelos Blake Angelos Janette West Trio Christain Casolary Trio 18 18 Kulshan Brewing Co. Brittany Collins Gallowglass PAUL WELLER/Oct. 16-17/Commodore Ballroom MUSIC MUSIC

Loco Billy's Wild Moon Jam Night/Open Mic Competition Cowgirls Gone Wild Colt and the Peacemakers

Saloon 16

Thee Unsound, The Landmarks, ART Make.Shift Eastsound 15 Main St. Bar and Grill JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase The Replayzmentz Jack Benson STAGE

Old World Deli BJ Block Trio 14

Rockfish Grill Stilly River Band Joan Penney Levi Burkle GET OUT

Royal Dance Party Karaoke DJ Jester DJ Jester Karaoke 12 Trivia & Talent Show w/DJ Rumors Cabaret DJ Intermix Flashback Friday Partylicious Saturday Fetish Night Trashy Tuesday ShortStak WORDS

Makeken Hand, Teleporter, Illogicians, Jerkagram, The Shakedown Medici Local Ghost 8

Silver Reef Hotel Casino Jet City Players Spa CURRENTS Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris Skagit Casino Resort (Showroom), Raucous (Showroom), Rau- 6 (Lounge) cous (Lounge) VIEWS

Skylark's Roger Quiggle The Spencetet Anissa 4

Badd Dog Blues MAIL Stones Throw The Devilly Brothers Tom Sandblom Brewery Society

Carnage the Executioner, Gabriel Karaoke Free Live Music Octoberween Drag Show

Swillery Whiskey Bar DO IT Lucas, more

Swinomish Casino The Machine The Machine and Lodge 10.11.17

The Underground DJ B-Mello DJ B-Mello EMMYLOU HARRIS/Oct. 13-14/Skagit Casino Resort .12 41 # The Village Inn Jam Night Karaoke

Electro Funk w/Cat Passidy, P.O.S, Sean Anonymous, Blues Jam w/Andy Badd Wild Buffalo ’90s Night w/Boombox Kid Pass the Aux Fat James Memorial Lip Sync Battle Strattcat, Booty Callins more Dog Koch

Alternative Library 519 E. Maple St | Anelias Kitchen & Stage 511 Morris St., La Conner • (360) 466-4778 | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Boundary Bay Brewery 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Brown

Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-9788 | Chuckanut Brewery 601 W. Holly St. • 752-3377 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) CASCADIA WEEKLY 739-4550 | Conway Muse 18444 Spruce/Main St., Conway (360) 445-3000 | Corner Pub 14565 Allen West Road, Burlington | Culture Cafe at Kombucha Town 2010 E. Chestnut St. • www.kombuchatown.com | Eat Restaurant & Bar 1200 Cornwall Ave • www.4u2eat.com | The Green Frog 1015 N. State St. • www.acoustictavern.com | Edison Inn 5829 Cains Ct., Edison • (360) 766-6266 | H 0, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N. State St. • 734-0728 2 21 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon 27021 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood • www.locobillys.com | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • www.makeshiftproject.com | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s Taphouse 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | The Redlight 1017 N. State St. • www.redlightwineandcoffee.com | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret 1119 Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | The Shakedown 1212 N. State St. • www.shakedownbellingham.com | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • (360) 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 | Swillery Whiskey Bar 118 W. Holly St. | Stones Throw Brewery 1009 Larrabee Ave. | Swinomish Casino 12885 Casino Dr., Anacortes • (888) 288-8883 | Temple Bar 306 W. Champion St. • 676-8660 | The Underground 211 E. Chestnut St. • 738-3701 | Underground Coffeehouse Viking Union 3rd Floor, WWU | Village Inn Pub 3020 Northwest Ave. • 734-2490 | Vinostrology 120 W. Holly St. • 656-6817 | The Waterfront 521 W. Holly St. • www.waterfrontseafoodandbar.com | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your live music listings included, send info to [email protected]. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. the foremost being the greatest of them all, Jimi Hendrix (Cherokee and Afri- can-American). “Rumble” was actually banned for a time because radio station

30 owners feared it would incite juvenile delinquency. FOOD In discussing “Rumble,” Robertson film (Mohawk) says, “It made an indelible mark on the whole evolution of where 24 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS rock was gonna go. And then I found out Link Wray was an Indian!” After so many B-BOARD years in which Native American culture was gutted or nullified, Robertson says

22 directly into the camera, “You wouldn’t let me talk about it before. Well, now I’m

FILM going to talk real loud.” Others profiled include Jesse Ed Davis

18 18 (Kiowa and Comanche), whose guitar solo on Jackson Browne’s “Doctor, My Eyes” is MUSIC MUSIC among the most memorable in folk-rock; Pat Vegas (Yaqui/Shoshone), who explic-

16 itly played up his roots with his group

ART Redbone, especially in their hit song “Come and Get Your Love”; Randy Castillo

15 (Isleta Pueblo/Apache), the heavy metal artist whose drumming had a strong

STAGE “tribal” element; and Jaime Luis Gomez (Shoshone), also known as Taboo, of the Black Eyed Peas, who grew up knowing 14 only of his Mexican heritage until, on a trip with his grandmother to Arizona, he

GET OUT discovered his Native American identity. The alchemy of American music as it

12 relates to Native Americans is such a voluminous subject that, inevitably, the documentary Rumble can’t do it justice. WORDS Bainbridge and Maiorana sketch the

8 highlights, but I wish they had included more commentary from interviewees like Giddins, Quincy Jones, Guy Davis,

CURRENTS Taj Mahal, and many others. (This is another way of saying I wish the film were 6 at least four times as long.) Inevitably, the subject dovetails poli- VIEWS tics and the fraught history of Ameri-

4 can race relations. Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), for example, who was a leading MAIL mainstream exponent of Native Ameri-

2 REVIEWED BY PETER RAINER They “passed” as white, or in some cases, can music as a rallying cry for social as solely African-American or Hispanic. protest in the 1960s (and subsequently),

DO IT Robbie Robertson, the lead guitarist talks about being blacklisted by Ameri- for the legendary group the Band, who can radio stations. Rumble grew up in Canada’s Six Nations Reserve, The irony is that, for so long, Native remembers a saying from the 1950s, when American artists felt compelled to hide

10.11.17 THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD he was starting out: “Be proud you’re an their roots in order to have any chance at IN THE fascinating documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, the Indian, but be careful who you tell.” a commercial career; in the era of iden- .12

41 great jazz critic Gary Giddins says, “The one group that hasn’t really been investi- Rumble profiles, with occasional side tity politics that began in the 1960s, the # gated in terms of their contribution [to music history] is the Native Americans.” trips, 10 subjects, starting with the situation reversed itself. Hendrix could This new film, co-directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana, the for- great delta blues guitarist Charley Patton tell Vegas, who had been floundering mer of whom previously co-directed the documentary Reel Injun, about Native Ameri- (Choctaw, African-American), who was a with different non-indigenous costumes, can stereotypes in Hollywood movies, aims to rectify that omission. (Those who made major influence on such greats as Robert to “do the Indian thing.” It worked. The the movie were inspired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American In- Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf. Mildred Bailey movie doesn’t look too closely at, among dian’s exhibit “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians In Popular Culture,” which was (Coeur d’Alene), revered by Tony Bennett other conundrums, how asserting one’s

CASCADIA WEEKLY co-created by Stevie Salas, a veteran Apache guitarist, and Tim Johnson.) and Frank Sinatra for her phrasing, which racial identity can itself lead to a kind Why was such an integral swath of musical culture neglected for so long, in a field was influenced by her Native American of commercial stereotyping and inau- 22 where it seems as if every last bit of academic arcana has already been tilled? roots, was a leading jazz singer during thenticity. But what is strikingly brought One of the problems, as the film points out, is that, up until at least the 1960s, the 1930s. Shawnee guitarist Link Wray’s home in Rumble is how the vast stew it was commercially even less advantageous to be an Indian (the term is often used 1958 rock instrumental “Rumble,” with of influences in American music, rather throughout the movie) than an African-American. Native American singers, musicians its distorted amplification, influenced than diluting everything, makes the mu- and songwriters did not announce their heritage (which was often of mixed blood). an entire generation of rock guitarists, sic all the more powerful. film ›› showing this week

BY CAREY ROSS name is Aronofsky. HHH (R • 2 hrs.) 30

The Mountain Between Us: On the one hand, this FOOD high-altitude survival story is full of things I hate: FILM SHORTS plane crashes, cold weather, broken bones, situations that require bravery and physical stamina, etc. On the 24 American Assassin: It is true that I will watch just other hand, it is full of things I love, like Idris Elba about any movie starring Michael Keaton. I’m not and Kate Winslet, but mostly Idris Elba. I’m torn. HH lying—I recently watched the edited-for-TV version of (PG-13 • 1 hr. 40 min.) B-BOARD Multiplicity, complete with commercial breaks. That is not a good movie. And neither is this one. HH (R • 1 My Little Pony: The Movie: Saddle up, bronies. 22 hr. 51 min.) Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, and their 22 friends need your help saving Ponyville. HHH (PG • 1 FILM American Made: Tom Cruise, once an excellent dra- hr. 39 min.) FILM matic actor, now seems to only make action movies. Here’s another one of those, which makes far better Rumble: See review previous page. HHHHH (Unrated 18 use of Cruise’s charisma and cinematic gifts than much • 1 hr. 43 min.) of his recent work. HHHH (R • 1 hr. 55 min.)

HAPPY DEATH DAY MUSIC Spider-Man: Homecoming: Finally, after too many Battle of the Sexes: This movie details the 1973 missteps, this superhero franchise gets the right star tennis match in which Bobby Riggs made a bunch of International Women’s Film Festival, and so much children with scythes, reincarnated toddlers and (Tom Holland), the right villain (played by Michael 16 misogynist words about what female athletes are—or more. HHHHH (Varies) young girls with daddy issues on the list of things Keaton), and the right mentor (Tony Stark/Robert ART in his case, are not—capable of, and Billie Jean King Stephen King has taught me to fear. HHHH (R • 2 Downey Jr.). HHHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 14 min.) was like, “Hell no, bro” and kicked his ass all over the Girls Trip: Starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Lati- hrs. 15 min.) court in a moment of the sweetest justice known to fah, Regina Hall, and Tiffany Haddish as four friends The Stray: A family saves a stray dog and then the 15 ladykind. Stars Steve Carell as Riggs and Emma Stone having a wild weekend in New Orleans, this is the best Kingsman: The Golden Circle: In the first install- stray dog saves the family because it is a guardian

(in full-on Oscar-bait mode) as King. HHHH (PG-13 • female ensemble comedy since Bridesmaids.. HHHH (R ment of this franchise, Colin Firth proved he was angel in a fur suit or something. I was right there with STAGE 2 hrs. 1 min.) • 2 hrs. 2 min.) somehow the best British secret agent since Bond. this movie until the dog-as-celestial-being-in-disguise He’s donned the pinstripes to save the world in style angle arose. HHH (PG • 1 hr. 32 min.)

Blade Runner 2049: It’s finally here and it is bril- The Foreigner: I can’t think of any circumstances once again. HH (R • 2 hrs. 21 min.) 14 liant. I know. I’m shocked too. HHHHH (R • 2 hrs. that would ever call for an action movie starring Victoria and Abdul: Dame Judy Dench is here in full 44 min.) Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and yet here we are. The Lego Ninjago Movie: Because I am child- period regalia, playing the queen we all know her to What a time to be alive. HHH (R • 1 hr. 54 min.) avoidant, I had no idea that Ninjago was a line of Lego be. HHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 52 min.) GET OUT Brad’s Status: Ben Stiller takes his son on a visit to that involves a television show, video games, graphic his college alma mater and it triggers a sense of inse- Flatliners: Do not resuscitate. H (PG-13 • 1 hr. 48 novels, activity books and now this movie. Those Wind River: Writer/director Taylor Sheridan stunned curity in his own life, as he wonders whether he stacks min.) minifigs sure are industrious little creatures. They’ve everyone with Hell or High Water, and he’s back with 12 up to his seemingly more successful friends (played by built an entertainment empire and I can barely dress a similarly stunning murder mystery set on Native

Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson, and more) in this touch- Happy Death Day: This is the Groundhog’s Day of myself. HH (PG • 1 hr. 30 min.) American land and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jer- WORDS ing dramedy. HHHH (R • 1 hr. 42 min.) horror movies in which a young coed (because it’s al- emy Renner. HHHHH (R • 1 hr. 41 min.) ways a young coed) is killed over and over again until Marshall: Never has the story of a young Thurgood 8 Doctober: In Doctober offerings this week, we have a presumably she figures out who is doing the murdering Marshall been more necessary viewing for all of us. look at how to be still in a world growing ever-louder and dispatches him/her accordingly only to have them Watch, learn, go forth and resist. HHHH (PG-13 • 1 Showtimes (In Pursuit of Silence), a mule with big equestrian rise again for at least two or three more sequels. HH hr. 58 min.) dreams (Dyna Does Dressage), Bill Nye’s quest to quell (PG-13 • 1 hr. 36 min.) Regal and AMC theaters, please see CURRENTS climate deniers (Bill Nye: Science Guy), the behind-the- Mother!: Darren Aronofsky’s (Black Swan, Requiem www.fandango.com. scenes action at the prestigious Paris Opera (The Paris It: See this movie, never not be afraid of clowns For a Dream) highly anticipated psychological thriller 6 Opera), the 1992 Los Angeles riots courtesy of Oscar- again. I know this because I watched the 1990 mini- starring Jennifer Lawrence is, as expected, hugely po- Pickford Film Center and winner T.J. Martin (LA92), as well as showings of Big series and haven’t gone near a circus since. Just add larizing even though no one who has seen it can figure PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see VIEWS Sonia and Letters From Baghdad courtesy of Cascadia clowns to dogs, cars, high-school proms, small-town out what they just watched. Genius and madness, thy www.pickfordfilmcenter.com 4 MAIL BRUNCH • COCKTAILS • TACOS • OYSTERS • PATIO • DAILY HAPPY HOUR

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FOOD even if they seem sticky or prickly. Don’t you dare let The NW Lions KidSight Pro- Coulby Styles from 6:30-8pm performed in a seated posi- Sex Addicts Anonymous ASTROLOGY your attention get consumed by the dreamy distrac- gram will provide free vision Tues., Oct. 17 at the Com- tion. Entry is free. More info: (SAA) meets at 7pm Tuesdays screening for children six munity Food Co-op, 1220 N. (360) 778-7217 and Thursdays and 9am Satur- tions of faraway places and times. For the foreseeable

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24 ARIES (March 21-April 19): 10:45am-12pm Wed., Oct. 11 use the principles of pre- Attend "Yoga for Limited ian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner discusses the at the Deming Library (5044 ventative medicine in your Mobility" from 10-11:30am St. More info: (360) 420-8311 Mt. Baker Hwy.) and 10am- garden ecosystem through Thursdays at the Lummi Is- or www.pugetsoundsaa.org visionaries who built the Aswan Dam in Egypt. Their LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "I am more interested 12:30pm Thurs., Oct. 12 at the the application of effective land Library, 2144 S. Nugent efforts brought an abundance of cheap electricity to in human beings than in writing," said author Anais B-BOARD B-BOARD Lynden Library, (216 4th St.). microorganisms (EMs). Entry Rd. Kathleen Gallagher leads A Grief Support Group millions of people. But the planners didn't take into Nin, "more interested in lovemaking than in writing, For more info: www.wcls.org is $10. More info: www.com- the free gatherings. More meets at 7pm every Tuesday account some of the important effects of their inno- more interested in living than in writing. More inter- munityfood.coop info: (360) 758-7145 at the St. Luke's Community vation. For example, the Nile River below the dam no ested in becoming a work of art than in creating one."

22 Michelle Mahler leads an Health Education Center, 3333 "Essential Remedies: Pain Certified herbalist and Attend Gam-Anon meet- Squalicum Pkwy. The free, longer flooded its banks or fertilized the surrounding I invite you to adopt that perspective as your own for Relief & Injury Repair" work- aromatherapist Ruby Mushkin ings (for family and friends of drop-in support group is for land every year. As a result, farmers had to resort to the next twelve months, Libra. During this upcoming FILM shop at 6:30pm Wed., Oct. 11 will focus on "Aromatherapy individuals with a gambling those experiencing the recent chemical fertilizers at great expense. Water pollu- chapter of your story, you can generate long-lasting in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Basics for Immune and Re- disorder) from 7-8:30pm Fri- death of a friend or loved one. Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. spiratory Support" at a free days in Mount Vernon at the More info: 733-5877 tion increased. Marine life suffered because of the upgrades if you regard your life as a gorgeous master- First St. Class and notes are workshop at 6:30pm Wed., First Lutheran Church, 2015 river's diminished nutrients. I hope this thought will piece worthy of your highest craftsmanship. 18 free; each student can make Oct. 18 at Mount Vernon's Blackburn Rd. Entry is free. Attend Zumba classes motivate you to carefully think through the possible and take home a roll-on for Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 More info: www.gam-anon.org from 5:30-6:30pm Tuesdays at consequences of decisions you're contemplating. I Scorpio actress Tara $10. More info: www.skagit- S. First St. Please register in the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): MUSIC foodcoop.com advance. More info: www. Co-Dependents Anony- No experience is necessary; guarantee that you can avoid the logic of failure and Reid told the magazine Us Weekly about how her skagitfoodcoop.com mous meets from 7-8:30pm join instructor David Renteria instead implement the logic of success. But to do so, cosmetic surgeries had made her look worse than she Kristi and Blake Allen, cer- most Mondays at PeaceHealth for the free class and bring you'll have to temporarily resist the momentum that had been in her natural state. "I'll never be perfect 16 tified facilitators and trainers Richard Tran, a chiroprac- St. Joseph's Community a water bottle, comfortable with the Transformational tor with a holistic approach, Health Education Center, 3333 clothing and shoes. More info: has been carrying you along. You'll have to override again," she mourned. I bring this up in the hope ART Breath Foundation, will lead will lead an "Inflammation Squalicum Pkwy, conference (360) 354-4883 the impatient longing for resolution. that it will inspire you. In my astrological opinion, an "Introduction to Transfor- and Auto-Immunity" work- room B. Entry is by donation. you're at a tuning point when it's crucial to ap- mational Breath" primer from shop from 6:30-8pm Thurs., More info: (360) 676-8588 Join Lynne to prevent 25 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you primed to preciate and foster everything about yourself that's 15 6:30-8:30pm Thurs., Oct. 12 at Oct. 19 at the Community pounds of greenhouse gas the Community Food Co-op, Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Abby Staten leads "Yoga at lunch. More info: (360) seek out new colleagues and strengthen your existing natural and innate and soulfully authentic. Don't fall 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $5. You’ll learn action steps you for Multiple Sclerosis" classes 733-3305 alliances? Are you curious about what it would take to sway to artificial notions about how you could be STAGE More info: www.community- can take immediately. Entry from 10-11am Tuesdays and infuse your best partnerships with maximum emotional more perfect than you already are. food.coop is $5. More info: www.com- 11am-12pm Fridays at Christ Relax and meet other intelligence? From an astrological perspective, the munityfood.coop the Servant Lutheran Church, breastfeeding mothers in a Join Rooted Emerging to 2600 Lakeway Dr. The weekly inviting and respectful environ- next nine weeks will be a favorable time to do these SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I didn't go to 14 observe "Passageways Day Attend a Healing Hour from events are free for people ment at a Breastfeeding Cafe things. You will have opportunities to deepen your work today. I woke up late, lingered over a leisurely 2017: An International Day of 5:30-6:30pm every Wednes- with MS, and no registration from 9am-12pm every Tuesday engagement with collaborators who cultivate integrity breakfast, and enjoyed a long walk in the autumn Reflection & Dialogue" from day at Simply Spirit Reading & is required. Please bring a at the Bellingham Center for and communicate effectively. It's possible you may woods. When I found a spot that filled me with a 2-3:30pm Sat., Oct. 14 at the Healing Center, 1304 Meador blanket or yoga mat. More Healthy Motherhood, 1012 Du- GET OUT Community Food Co-op's Ave. Drop in anytime during info: [email protected] or pont St. Free. Info: www.cen- feel shy about pursuing at least one of the potential wild sense of peace, I asked my gut wisdom what Healthy Connections meet- the hour to receive an aura/ www.yogabellingham.com terforhealthymotherhood.com new connections. 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2 6:30pm Mon., Oct. 16 in Mount Vernon at the Skagit suggests that Fridays falling on the 13th of the have taught me anything, it is this," wrote novelist Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. Wondering month are safer than other Fridays. The numbers of Junot Díaz. "You can never run away. Not ever. The only DO IT First St. Attendees will learn about the nuts fires and traffic accidents are lower then, for ex- way out is in." That's your plucky wisdom for the coming to observe nature, to change ample. I find this interesting in light of your current weeks, Aquarius. You have arrived at a pivotal phase with the seasons and live and bolts of situation. According to my analysis, this October's in your life cycle when you can't achieve liberation by fully in the five elements. the homebuying Entry is free; please register Friday the 13th marks a turning point in your ongo- fleeing, avoiding, or ignoring. To commune with the only in advance. More info: www. process?

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THE SCIENCE ADVICE the $300 dinner!” 30 In your situation, however, nobody’s ARTIST STUDIO TOUR deceiving anybody. You’ve repeatedly First 2 weekends in October ✽ Oct. 7,8 & 14,15 FOOD GODDESS made clear that there will be no sexca-

pades. He’s got an amusing dining com- 24 24 PAY PAL panion and a dear friend. When we care A FREE Self-guided Art Tour An older male friend keeps paying for me— about people, we do nice things for B-BOARD Guidebooks available in B-BOARD buying me meals and clothes. Am I making them—offer them a bite of our sandwich Opening the studio doors of a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly or our disposable income. businesses and restaurants Whatcom County artists made clear that I have no romantic interest Sure, he’s probably still clinging to throughout the county. for twenty-three years. 22 in him. I’m a struggling artist, and he’s wisps of hope. But in time, he should Many studios are open highly successful. We’re basically BFFs, talk- accept that if the day comes when you FILM ing and laughing every day. He occasionally suddenly grab him in your arms, it’ll be all year long. Call

jokes that I should be “giving up the sugar because he’s got a small piece of chicken individual artists to 18 to the sugar daddy,” but I roll my eyes and caught in his windpipe and he’ll die unless schedule a visit. say, “Hush!” I think he’s teasing me, but you give him the Heimlich maneuver. MUSIC could he be playing the long game? OCT 7,8 & 14,15 —Worried CHECK, MATE! 16

I’m a 28-year-old guy, and I read your column ART Welcome to the “never say never” on how men and women are clueless about

school of hope. My Chinese crested, who’s supposed to pay and when. I’ve had 15 Aida, is also enrolled—hoping with all dates be insulted when I wouldn’t take their

her tiny purse-doggy might that rare money and others insulted when I did. Is there STAGE metal-eating termites will make the an optimal strategy for the first few dates? kitchen table leg collapse, causing —Lost 14 her to be caught in a brief but intense hailstorm of bacon. Meet the flexible feminist. She can There are some asymmetries be- do an hour and a half straight on why COME SEE WHERE CREATIVITY BEGINS! GET OUT tween men and women in the effort we need to “smash the patriarchy,” but

required to get some action out of when the check comes, she reaches in her For more info: studiotour.net facebook.com/WhatcomArtistStudioTour 12 the opposite sex. Some men will en- purse and pulls out a tube of lip gloss. gineer elaborate plots to try to wear As I pointed out in that column you WORDS a woman’s “nuh-uh, never gonna hap- mention, sociologist Janet Lever and 18TH ANNUAL pen” into a “maybe just this once.” her colleagues find one striking com- Mt. Baker 8 A woman, on the other hand, doesn’t monality between men and women: in- have to plot. Assuming she’s reason- tense confusion about who should pay t FilmNovember Fes 2 ably attractive, she can probably just and when. For example, nearly 60 per- CURRENTS make extended eye contact with a man cent of women said they “always” of- 6 while eating a banana. fer to help pay, even on the first date. This difference reflects what evolu- Meanwhile, 39 percent of women wish VIEWS tionary psychologist David Buss ex- men would reject their offer to pay— plains as men’s and women’s conflict- but 40 percent say it bothers them 4 ing evolutionary goals. It’s in a man’s when men don’t accept their money. evolutionary interest to, as they say, Argh, huh? MAIL

"shoot and scoot" (possibly passing Because female emotions evolved to 2 on his genes without putting out any push women to feel bad when they’re further time, energy, or resources). with a man who shows no signs of be- DO IT However, because women can end up ing a “provider,” I think it’s wise for a all “baby on board,” they evolved to guy to pick up the tab on the first few look for emotional commitment and the dates. The researchers concur, explain- ability and willingness to “provide.” ing that “men who fail to pay risk being 10.11.17 (A woman’s psychological bottom line: viewed as lacking economic resources .12

“Can this wild man be turned into a or as being uninterested, unchivalrous, 41 minivan purchaser with a dad bod?”) or—worse yet—cheap.” # Buss notes that these sex differ- That said, your investment should ences in evolved mating psychology be more symbolic than substantial, show up in the different ways men and you keep it that way by following and women try to deceive each other. my three-point advice for the first few Scammy men tend to exaggerate their dates: make them cheap, short and lo-

“resources” (probably a sizable chunk cal. This means, for example, getting CASCADIA WEEKLY of the Ferrari rental business) in hopes to know a woman over happy-hour 27 of suckering the ladies into the sack. drinks—as opposed to the kind poured Scammy women, on the other hand, by a sommelier (flanked by his two as- tend to feign “willingness to have sistants) who comes to your table right sex in order to secure nonsexual re- after the team of loan officers helps sources”—as in, “Sorry, Bob. I had my you finalize your paperwork. rearEnd comix

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24 chow RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES ICE CREAM PARTY: Three mystery flavors will be provided by Edaleen Dairy for an Ice Cream Fundraiser taking place from 4-7pm B-BOARD at Lynden's Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Entry is $5 (in a paper bowl) or $10 (includes a bowl make by local artists and students); 22 proceeds benefit the J's Ceramics Center. WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG FILM

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WORDS WWW.NORTHH2O.COM/SUPPER-CLUB FRI., OCT. 13 8 BY AMY KEPFERLE ten to live music and find out more about the philanthropic endeavors of Overflow’s FINAL FERNDALE MARKET: Vendors will sell a selection of locally grown produce and owners. To gain entry, bring a new pair of handmade crafts at the final Ferndale Farmers

CURRENTS socks to be donated to the homeless in Market of the season from 3-7pm at the city's Oktoberfesting our community, and help spread the love. Centennial Riverwalk Park, 1931 Main St. 6 A ROUSING ROUNDUP More info: www.facebook.com/overflowtaps WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG A week later, the second annual Bell- VIEWS COFFEE TASTING: Attend a weekly coffee original Oktoberfest was held to celebrate the 1810 marriage of taking place from Although the ingham Hoptoberfest tasting from 3-3:30pm at Camber Cafe, 221

4 a couple of German royals—Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and his blushing bride, 6-10pm Sat., Oct. 21 inside the Belling- W. Holly St. Entry is free, and no RSVP is the Saxon-Hildburghausen Fraulein known as Princess Therese—it has since spread ham Sportsplex on Civic Field Way will veer needed to come in and enjoy a small tasting MAIL its partying proclivities far and wide. Following are a few ways to join the festivi- slightly away from the Germanic theme to flight of the venue's single-origin coffees. WWW.CAMBERCOFFEE.COM

2 ties; no long-distance travel to the gates of Munich will be required. focus instead on the wide array of hops- In this rousing roundup, the taking place from focused liquid libations to be found in our 35th annual Deming Oktoberfest FOOD NOT BOMBS: All are welcome to par-

DO IT 12pm-1am Fri.-Sat., Oct. 13-14 at the Deming Log Show Grounds is likely to be the corner of the world. take of nutritious and delicious vegan meals closest celebrants will come to the original bridal blowout. Patterned after the At the thirst-quenching event, approxi- when Food Not Bombs offers a community “true” festivals that are held in Germany, the fun kicks off at 12pm on Friday with mately 30 local and regional breweries— meal from 4-6pm every Friday on the corner the opening of the beer garden and dance hall—both of which will remain open until from Aslan to Boundary Bay to Kulshan, of Magnolia Street and Cornwall Avenue

10.11.17 (alongside the peace vigil). The event— late into the weekend hours. Melvin, Ninkasi, Elysian, Iron Horse Brew- which is dedicated to spreading food, love In addition to the consumption of plenty of Bavarian food, beer, wine and cider, ery, Samuel Adams, Alpine Beer Company, and nonviolence as an action against war .12

41 attendees at the 21-and-over event will also be entertained by the eight members and far beyond—will provide more than and poverty—is free. # of the Polkatones—who are expected to play everything from “Oom-Pa-Pa” to the 70 draft beers for guests to sample. While WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BELLINGHAMFNB “Chicken Dance”—Sylvia’s German Variety Band, and the Tirolean Dancers, a long- they won’t all be Bavarian in nature, ex- CHILI FEED: Attend a pre-football-game time folk group known for wearing traditional costumes (lederhosen, dirndls, etc.). pect seasonal selections and something Tailgate Chili Feed from 4-7pm at the Lynden An alphorn-blowing contest, camping and dancing until midnight will be part of the for everyone. Live music from Sunset Su- Community Center, 401 Grover St. Entry is fun. Entry fees are $12-$13 and include a souvenir beer stein. perman, local food trucks, yard games, $5 for kids, $10 for adults and includes a More info: (360) 592-3051 or www.demingloggingshow.com silent auction items and more will round bowl of chili or chili dog, coleslaw, corn-

CASCADIA WEEKLY In Barkley Village, the inaugural “Socktoberfest” at Overflow Taps on New- out the evening’s entertainment. Entry is bread, cider and apple crisp. Funds raised benefit the center's Senior Meal Program. market Street from 1-4pm Sat., Oct. 14 will also include the bestowing of a $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and $30 30 (360) 354-4501 beer stein to those participating in the Socktoberfest Games Tournament. This for VIP guests. Like the aforementioned means if you sign up for Beerpong, Cornhole, or a Stein Hoisting Contest, you’ll events, expect a commemorative beer SAT., OCT. 14 also go home with a memory of the madness (while supplies last). While you’re stein. Tis the season, after all. HOMESTEAD GARDENING: Author and sipping Northwest and German-style beers from local and regional brewers, take More info: www.bellingham gardener Susan Colleen Browne will teach attendees how to “Grow a Homestead-Style a gander at those decked out for an Oktoberfest-themed costume contest, lis- hoptoberfest.com doit

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Master Gardeners will give attendees the dirt on the best “Planting Garlic” tips at a free talk 119 NORTH COMMERCIAL ST. SUITE #1420 • OFFICE: (360) 746-2642 MUSIC Sat., Oct. 14 at the Lynden Library 16 Food Garden” from 9am-12pm at Whatcom Commu- apples, a corn maze, apple bin train rides, live www.ransom-lawfirm.com ART nity College, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. The workshop will music, distillery tours, corn cannons and face cover sustainable food gardening and backyard painting will be part of “Harvest Happens” events farming essentials, emphasizing fall activities. weekends through October at Bellewood Acres, 15 Entry is $45. 6140 Guide Meridian. WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM Four-Course STAGE MOUNT VERNON MARKET: The final Mount SUN., OCT. 15

Vernon Farmers Market of the season happens from COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: Eggs to order, 14 9am-2pm at the city's Riverfront Plaza. omelets, hash browns, pancakes and more can Early Dinner WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG be had at a Community Breakfast taking place

from 8-11am at Sedro-Woolley's American Legion GET OUT ANACORTES MARKET: Garden goods by ap- Post #43, 701 Murdock St. Entry is $5 for kids, proximately 60 vendors and more will be part $7 for adults. $23.95 of the Anacortes Farmers Market from 9am-2pm WWW.SEDRO-WOOLLEY.COM Monday to Friday until 6pm. 12 every Saturday through October at the Depot Arts

Center, 611 R Ave. MON., OCT. 16 WORDS WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG TAPAS CLASS: Jesse Otero focuses on “Meze: Tapas of the Eastern Mediterranean” from 6:30- 8 GARLIC PLANTING: Learn about prepping your 9pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest garlic bed, choosing garlic varieties, planting and St. Attendees will enjoy seasonal meze offerings maintenance for a successful harvest next July at like charred cauliflower with tahini; spiced lamb a “Planting Garlic” presentation helmed by WSU pastry; crispy grape leaf, cheese, and fig salad; CURRENTS Master Gardeners from 10-11:30am at the Lynden and a few extras. Entry is $39. Library, 216 4th St. Entry is free. WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM 6 (360) 354-4883

TUES., OCT. 17 VIEWS BLAINE MARKET: Homegrown and handmade MEDITERRANEAN FEAST: Come enjoy an evening farm products, baked goods, arts and crafts and of amazing food from Lebanon and beyond when 4 more can be found at the Blaine Gardeners Market Nahla Gholamm, fresh back from a trip overseas, Enjoy the waterfront view from from 10am-2pm Saturdays through October at the will lead a “Mediterranean Feast” course from Anthony’s Hearthfire Grill. MAIL city's H Street Plaza. 6:30-8:30pm in Mount Vernon at Gretchen's

(360) 332-6484 Kitchen, 509 S. First St. Entry is $45. Select your four-course dinner 2 WWW.GRETCHENSKITCHEN.COM including your choice of appetizer, TWIN SISTERS MARKET: Affordable, Whatcom DO IT County-grown produce can be procured at the WED., OCT. 18 soup or salad, an entree and dessert. Twin Sisters Farmers Market from 9am-3pm at the SEASONAL BEER: Coco Ryan will focus on “Beers Monday through Friday, until 6pm. parking lot at Nugents Corner, and 10am-2pm of Fall and Winter” from 6:30-8pm at the Cordata Just $23.95. in Maple Falls at the North Fork Library, 7506 Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Ryan 10.11.17 Kendall Rd. The markets continue Saturdays will cover some of the history behind fall and through October. winter beers, along with style tasting notes, food .12

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