These Seven Sicknesses Supersizing Sophocles at Idiom Theater, P.16
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P.08 LISTENING IN VOTING A wild week at the SEASON Wild %XȞIalR, P.22 Charting the Charter Review, P.20 WEDNESDAY [10.08.14] Salsa Night: 9pm, Cafe Rumba 38 ONSTAGE MUSIC Shoe Me the Funny: 9pm, Horseshoe Cafe Caspar Babypants: 10:30am, Bellingham Techni- FOOD FOOD cascadia cal College MUSIC Lynden Music Festival: Today through Oct. 12, COMMUNITY 32 throughout Lynden Oktoberfest: 12pm-1am, Deming Logging Show Grounds Bingo Fundraiser: 4-6pm, Bloedel Donovan B-BOARD B-BOARD THURSDAY [10.09.14] GET OUT A glance at what’s happening this week ONSTAGE Everyday Superheroes Run: 10am, Zuanich 26 These Seven Sicknesses: 6:30pm, iDiOM Theater Point Park Charlie Brown: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Band Aid Fun Run: 10am, Skagit Valley Com- FILM Guild munity College The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, Bureau of Historical Theatre, Lynden Investigation 22 Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Concrete Ghost Walk: 6pm, Concrete Theatre Theatre Shoot the Trails Awards: 7pm, Depot Market MUSIC Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Square The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 18 FOOD FOOD Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot ART Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street Arts Center Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of 16 Ferndale FRIDAY [10.10.14] Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square STAGE ONSTAGE Final Ferndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, These Seven Sicknesses: 6:30pm, iDiOM Theater Centennial Riverwalk Park 14 Charlie Brown: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild VISUAL ARTS The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Autumn Arts Festival: 9am-4pm, Saint Joseph GET OUT Theatre, Lynden Center, Mount Vernon Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Fibers & Beyond: 10am-4pm, Hampton Inn’s Fox Theatre Hall 12 Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout Whatcom County MUSIC Elin Noble, Grace Hawley Reception: 4-8pm, La WORDS Violinist Swil Kanim is one of the many local, Coty Hogue: 6-8pm, BelleWood Acres Conner Quilt & Textile Museum national and international musicians who’ll be The Barefoot Movement: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Green Art Reception: 5-9pm, Matzke Gallery, 10 Mount Vernon Camano Island sharing their talents at various venues Oct. 8-12 Popa Chubby: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Harvey Wainapel CD Release: 8pm, BAAY CURRENTS CURRENTS as part of the sixth annual ”Claire de Lune” SUNDAY [10.12.14] Theatre 8 ONSTAGE Lynden Music Festival COMMUNITY Charlie Brown: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild VIEWS Oktoberfest: 12pm-1am, Deming Logging Show The Sound of Music: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Grounds Theatre, Lynden 4 Anything Goes: 2pm, Anacortes Community GET OUT Theatre MAIL MAIL Gore & Lore Tours: 6pm, downtown Bellingham Worklight Comedy Show: 9pm, Swillery Whiskey and historic Fairhaven Bar 2 2 VISUAL ARTS MUSIC DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO Fibers & Beyond: 5-9pm, Hampton Inn’s Fox Hall Swing Connection: 1-4pm, BelleWood Acres The Art of Death Reception: 6-10pm, the Curtis and Loretta: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Majestic Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre 10.08.14 SATURDAY [10.11.14] GET OUT Baker Lake Cleanup: 9am-5pm, Baker Lake .09 ONSTAGE Paddle for Food Relay: 10am, Lake Padden 41 # These Seven Sicknesses: 6:30pm, iDiOM Theater Charlie Brown: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre VISUAL ARTS Guild Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas throughout Whatcom County Theatre, Lynden Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre MONDAY [10.06.14] The Comic Strippers: 8pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount CASCADIA WEEKLY A Swiss Alphorn blowing contest, Bavarian food and beer, live music Vernon ONSTAGE Original Comedy Night: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, Guffawingham: 8pm, Green Frog 2 from the likes of the Polkatones, dancing and more will be part of Mount Vernon Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC the 32nd annual Deming Logging Show Oktoberfest Oct. 10-11 at Old School Reggae Night: 9pm-1am, the Majestic the eponymous showgrounds DANCE Words Contra Dance: 7-10:30m, Fairhaven Library Poetrynight: 8pm, Bellingham Public Library Oct. 3-4, Oct. 17-18 -7pm,9pm,11pmandmidnight 17-18 Oct. 3-4, Oct. 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COME THE LALAS Tickets start at $30 at$30 start Tickets october 25 october 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #41.09 10.08.14 DODO ITIT 2 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 8 CURRENTS 10 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 B-BOARD 32 FOOD 38 Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly: ` 360.647.8200 38 Editorial FOOD FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson `ext 260 32 { editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle ext 204 26 {calendar@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM Native American activists in attendance at Monday’s Music & Film Editor: Seattle City Council meeting were in high spirits when the Carey Ross council unanimously passed a resolution commemorating ext 203 22 “Indigenous People’s Day,” which will be celebrated every {music@ year on the second Monday of October—otherwise known cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC as Columbus Day. Bellingham City Council will consider a similar resolution next week. Production 18 Art Director: ART Jesse Kinsman VIEWS & NEWS {jesse@ kinsmancreative.com 16 4: Massive mailbag Graphic Artist: 8: Gristle & Rhodes Roman Komarov STAGE 10: Last week’s news {roman@ cascadiaweekly.com 11: Police blotter, Index Send all advertising materials to 14 [email protected] ARTS & LIFE Advertising GET OUT 12: Young love Account Executive: 14: Wandering White Rock Scott Pelton 360-647-8200 x 202 12 16: Sophocles says { spelton@ cascadiaweekly.com 18: Making Madonna WORDS Stephanie Young 20: Charter checkoff 360-647-8200 x 205 { stephanie@ 10 22: Buffalo blowout cascadiaweekly.com 24: Clubs Distribution CURRENTS CURRENTS 26: Siblings and suicide TIRED OF SAME OLD STORY tax on this income derived not from work but Distribution Manager: I am writing in response to Luanne Van Wer- from the sale of assets. One report I read sug- 8 28: An inoffensive adaptation Scott Pelton 360-647-8200 x 202 ven’s letter to the Weekly. I am so tired of the old gested that any income from capital gains over 30: Film Shorts { spelton@ tactic that uses people’s fear of taxation to try $10,000 ($20,000 for couples) in gained value VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com and win elections. would be taxed at 5 percent. Most of us don’t Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 REAR END 4 Taxes are how we pay for services we all use have that kind of capital gains income and those Stephanie Simms, 32: Bulletin Board Robin Corsberg in order to have a functioning society: roads, that do can likely afford to be taxed a little to MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL schools, firefighters, EMTs, police, airport and help our state function for all of us. Income tax 33: Crossword Skagit: Linda Brown, highway infrastructure, etc. The idea of taxation seems to terrify people. Nice job feeding the fear 2 Barb Murdoch 34: Comix Canada: Kristi Alvaran is not inherently bad. What has become unfair is Van Werven. Truthfully, the income tax proposal DO IT IT DO 35: Slowpoke, Sudoku that working people are carrying a heavier load that was rejected by voters in 2010 was for a 36: Free Will Astrology Letters of the tax burden than the wealthy—including tax on annual income over $250,000. Most of us Send letters to letters@ corporate wealth. Van Verven’s list of the tax pro- do not make anywhere close to this amount. It 37: Advice Goddess cascadiaweekly.com posals she is unhappy with are: a carbon fuel tax, is hard for me to believe we the voters weren’t 10.08.14 Ratatouille! 38: Fuzz Buzz, 3.ɁɁ White Rock Wander, 3.ɁɄ Madonna Comix, 3.ɁɈ * * cascadia an increase in fuel tax, a state capital gains tax duped just a little into believing if we open the REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {10.08.14}{#41}{V.09}{FREE} and an income tax. floodgates of the evil income tax monster we .09 These Seven 41 ©2014 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by SicknesseS The carbon tax is an important issue that re- are all going to get bitten. If I earned anywhere Supersizing Sophocles # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly at iDiOM Theater, P.16 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 sponsible governments need to look at if we hope close to $250,000 I’d be happy to pay to help [email protected] ALAN to clean up our environment and encourage inno- improve the functioning of our state.