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MARIETTA MAKEOVER, P. 10 FUZZ BUZZ, P. 14 DRUG CRAZY, P. 19 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA 4/25/07 :: 02.17 :: FREE PEACEFUL PARDON: ELLEN MURPHY IS A FREE WOMAN, P. 8 THE MONOLOGUE PROJECT: STUDENTS HAVE THEIR SAY, P. 20 FUTURE CITY FEAR: A POST-PUNK REUNION, P. 22 2 Cascadia Weekly #2.17 04.25.07 Do it 3 | Letters 4-5 | Views 6-7 | Currents 8-16 | Get Out 18 | Words & Community 19 | On Stage 20 | Art 21 | Music 22-25 | Film 26-29 | Classifi eds 30-38 | Food 39 BOENPSF TIPQQJOH FOUFSUBJONFOU JOGPSNBUJPOPOSFTUBVSBOUT MPDBMNFSDIBOEJTF'JOE GPSEPXOUPXOFWFOUT BOE NBQT CSPDIVSFT UJDLFUT )PMMZBOE$PSOXBMM XFIBWF "WFOVF OFBSUIFDPSOFSPG -PDBUFEBU$PSOXBMM AHHEJCD=I&JBKNI=PEKJ0P=PEKJ 3EOEPPDA+AS!KSJPKSJ PSDBMM 7JTJU 4VOEBZUP .POEBZ4BUVSEBZUP )PVST NPSFEFUBJMT %PXOUPXO#FMMJOHIBNDPN GPS c . a . s . c . a . d . i . a 39 04.25.07 04.29.07 WEDNESDAY SUNDAY | Food 30-38 ON STAGE EEKLY Throne of Straw: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, ON STAGE eds WWU Life and Times of General George Pickett: 1pm, Whatcom Museum MUSIC A glance at what’s happening this week Throne of Straw: 2pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Bird’s Creek Boys: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Don’t Count Your Chickens: 2pm, Blaine Community | Classifi Big wall climber Micah Dash will Theater WORDS share tales of adventure from 26-29 Dan Savage: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Pakistan to Yosemite April 26 at DANCE Square Dance: 6-8:30pm, YWCA Ballroom Bellingham Reads: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library WWU’s Fraser Hall 4 Hafl a Northwest: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center | Film Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Stuart’s at the Market MUSIC 22-25 Skagit Community Band: 3pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 04.26.07 Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker | Music Theatre 21 Richard Scholtz, Tom Hunter: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, Lucia Douglas Gallery THURSDAY | Art Selena Tribute: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon ON STAGE 20 Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre WORDS Deborah Noyes: 5pm, Village Books Throne of Straw: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU COMMUNITY | On Stage Once Upon A Mattress: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- 19 munity Theatre Dirty Dan Days: 8am-5pm, historic Fairhaven Linuxfest: 10am-5pm, Bellingham Technical College WORDS Soup for Shelter: 2-6pm, Boundary Bay Brewery Ellen Currey-Wilson: 7pm, Village Books Hearts & Hands Awards: 2-4pm, Bellingham High School Songs and Stories: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library Mike Gray: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU VISUAL ARTS Linuxfest: 10am-5pm, Bellingham Technical Garden Art Fair: 10am-5pm, Depot Arts Center, Anacortes College COMMUNITY 04.28.07 Backyard Habitat Garden Party: 12-5:30pm, Chuckanut Safety Fair: 10am-1pm, Barkley Village Bay Gallery Spring Career Fair: 10am-2pm, Viking Union, WWU | Words & Community Plowing Match: 11am, NW Washington Fair- Climber Micah Dash: 8pm, Fraser Hall, WWU SATURDAY grounds, Lynden 18 April Brews Day: 5-10:30pm, Depot Market ON STAGE Square 04.30.07 Peter Pan: 2pm and 7pm, Mount Baker Latino Heritage Celebration: 5:30-9pm, Theatre Viking Union, WWU | Get Out 04.27.07 The Monologue Project: 7:30pm, Firehouse MONDAY 8-16 Performing Arts Center VISUAL ARTS Drowning Lovely: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM ON STAGE Multi-Artist Reception: 7-10pm, Dear Edison Alice: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre FRIDAY Theater Gallery, Edison Ball: 7pm, Viking Union, WWU ON STAGE Throne of Straw: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Garden Art Fair: 10am-5pm, Depot Arts Center, WWU | Currents Peter Pan: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre Center, Anacortes Improv Evolution: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre WORDS 6-7 The Monologue Project: 7:30pm, Firehouse Perform- So You Think You Can Improvise?: 9:30pm, Ken Wilcox: 7pm, Village Books ing Arts Center Upfront Theatre Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso Drowning Lovely: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater Once Upon A Mattress: 7:30pm, Anacortes Throne of Straw: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, | Views Community Theatre WWU Don’t Count Your Chickens: 2pm and 7pm, 4-5 Panic Squad: 7:30pm, Lynden Christian High School Blaine Community Theater 05.01.07 SOARS: 7pm, Viking Union, WWU Improv Evolution: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC So You Think You Can Improvise?: 9:30pm, Upfront TUESDAY | Letters Irish Pub Night: 3 7pm, Maple Hall, La Conner 3 Theatre Skagit Community Band: 7:30pm, Brodniak ON STAGE Once Upon A Mattress: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- IT Hall, Anacortes Throne of Straw: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU munity Theatre DO Other Funny Stories About Cancer: 7pm, Viking Union, WWU Do it WORDS WORDS Mary Lou Sanelli: 7:30pm, Village Books DANCE .07 Urban Legends: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library Afternoon Ballroom Dance: 1:30-4pm, Bellingham Senior 25 Ann Spiers, Anita K. 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Countywide Garage Sale: 8am-4pm, NW COMMUNITY Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden WORDS Countywide Garage Sale: 12-6pm, NW Washington Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Bob Keller: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Fairgrounds, Lynden Hall Jeff Cohen: 7pm, Fairhaven Auditorium, WWU Benefi t Dinner: 6-8pm, United Methodist Church Panic Squad crosses the border to share Dirty Dan Days: 10am-4pm, historic John Lombard: 7pm, Village Books Fairhaven family-friendly improvisational comedy April 27 at Lynden Christian High School TO GET YOUR EVENTS LISTED, E-MAIL COMMUNITY [email protected] Immigrant Solidarity March: 12-5:30pm, Cornwall Park Dine Out for Maple Alley Inn: All day, throughout Cascadia WeeklyCascadia #2.17 For music-related events, see page 25 Bellingham More event information can be found starting on page 18 3 39 THIS ISSUE Contact | Food Cascadia Weekly: D 360.647.8200 30-38 letters Editorial table of contents credits letters eds Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson | Classifi D ext 260 { editor@ 26-29 BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN: Feb. 1, 1931 - April 23, cascadiaweekly.com 2007. “Without Boris Yeltsin, Russia would have remained in the grip of Communism and the Baltic States would not Arts & Entertainment | Film be free. 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