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SIKH CENTURY ASPERGER'S A history of ARE US healing, P.08 Comedy without + boundaries, P.15 ROSTER ROUNDUP The Frog is jumping, P.18 GOING GREEN Power produce with Chef Jenn Louis, P.30 c a s c a d i a 30  VISUAL Night Market: 6-10pm, 1300 block of Commercial FOOD  ThisWeek Street A glance at this week’s SATURDAY [08.19.17] 24 happenings ONSTAGE Edward II: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater

B-BOARD  Help!: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre An Iliad: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Bicycle Noir: 7:30pm, Cafe Velo and beyond 22 [08.16.17] Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias: 7:30pm, NW Washington WEDNESDAY Fairgrounds FILM  ONSTAGE The Cemetery Club: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Bicycle Noir: 7:30pm, Cafe Velo and beyond The Heroes: 9pm, Upfront Theatre

18 Asperger’s Are Us: 8pm, Make.Shift Art Space MUSIC

MUSIC  MUSIC Skagit Woodstock: 11:30am-10pm, Edgewater Park, Down North: 6-8pm, Maritime Heritage Park Mount Vernon

16 COMMUNITY Kulshan Chorus Variety Show: 4-11pm, Boundary Bay Brewery

ART  NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Summer of Love: 5-8pm, Heart of Anacortes Fairgrounds, Lynden

15 VISUAL FILM La La Land: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green Rodeo Dreams Reception: 5-7pm, the Inn at STAGE  Lynden COMMUNITY NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington

14 THURSDAY [08.17.17] Fairgrounds, Lynden ONSTAGE Cascade Days: 9am-4:30pm, throughout Concrete Edward II: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater GET OUT  GET OUT Help!: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham Bicycle Noir: 7:30pm, Cafe Velo and beyond Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, historic Fairhaven An Iliad: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts 12 The Cemetery Club: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community FOOD Theatre Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts WORDS  Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Pie- and watermelon-eating contests, Center The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre a “Dump Run,” car and pet shows, ice Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza  8 MUSIC Saturday Market: 10am-1pm, Lummi Island Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Chris Eger Band: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether carving, a duck race, craft and food vendors and Plaza Quickdraw String Band: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park

CURRENTS Twin Sisters Market: 10am-12pm, North Fork Whiskey Fever: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Plaza, Mount more will be part of the annual Cascade Days Library Vernon 6 Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Night Ranger: 7:30pm, NW Washington Fairgrounds, Aug. 19-20 in Concrete Market Square Lynden VIEWS  COMMUNITY SUNDAY [08.20.17] 4  NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington ONSTAGE Fairgrounds MAIL  Bicycle Noir: 2pm, Cafe Velo and beyond Way North Comedy Showcase: 7pm, Farmstrong FOOD 2 

2  Brewing Co., Mount Vernon Lynden Farmers Market: 12-6pm, 324 Front St. Help!: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Bow Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese DO IT  DO IT  MUSIC FRIDAY [08.18.17] Amigos Nobles: 1-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner ONSTAGE

08.16.17 COMMUNITY The Comedy of Errors: 7pm, Rexville Grange Cascade Days: 9am-4pm, throughout Concrete Amphitheater Dog Days of Summer: 10am-3pm, Lake Padden Park

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33 An Iliad: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts # FOOD Bicycle Noir: 7:30pm, Cafe Velo and beyond Edison Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Edison Granary The Cemetery Club: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Ride along with the cast of WWU’s comedic “Bicycle Theatre The Heroes: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Noir” and help the lead detective solve a murder MONDAY [08.21.17] Aug. 16-20 starting at Cafe Velo DANCE WORDS Kwame Alexander: 7pm, Village Books Dancing on the Green: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Village

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contention that the Republicans did tion, inhumane treatment in detention 30  this hostage-taking “knowing it would and deportation, devastating poverty be unfair to administer millions in capi- and violence in their countries—a liv- FOOD  tal budget funds for the state to build ing legacy of U.S. involvement. In 1994, its projects when thousands of families trade policies with Mexico, NAFTA, left 24 and taxpayers throughout Washington three million farmers displaced, threat- can’t enjoy the same privilege.” ened food security and pushed them Really? It is “unfair” for workers and into the migration stream. U.S.-spon- B-BOARD  citizens to get the benefits of funding sored wars in Central America forced

public projects because property own- millions to flee death in the ’80s. Today, 22 ers now have to show surety that there the ravages of violence continue. is an adequate water resource avail- Camping in the vast desert to drop FILM  able before digging new wells? There water/food on strategic migrant trails,

is no connection between the two, ex- we witnessed low-intensity warfare and 18 cept for the political calculations of the extreme militarization of the bor- the Republicans. der—Blackhawk helicopters, drones, MUSIC  It is a real problem that property an 18-foot metal wall, virtual walls of owners suddenly cannot develop their cameras and sensors, checkpoints and 16

land because counties do not have the border patrol. ART  resources to determine water availabil- This severe militarized environment

ity. Let’s solve that problem rather than and the limited ability to obtain a 15 creating new ones by stopping needed legal entry closes options for those

capital projects that will provide jobs fleeing poverty and violence. Prior to STAGE  and services that we all value. Let’s the Clinton era, NAFTA, and the 700- stop the political rhetoric and do some mile wall, indispensable guides were 14 problem-solving. known acquaintances. Today, cartels Oink. Oink. control the trafficking, creating dead-

—Michael Chiavario, Bellingham ly consequences. GET OUT  Recently, 10 migrants were found

A BATH OF DISQUIETUDE locked in a truck in Texas: dead from 12 I consider the rise to power of the sweltering July heat. While tragic and madman in the White House. He burst dramatic, more than 7,000 remains have WORDS  onto the political scene with the lie that been recovered since 1994, the majority

Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Like in the Arizona desert while thousands  8 any good con man he noted the politi- more are missing. Why no discussion cal fury that created and recognized his of exploitative trade polices, violent

base. If one lie worked, why not anoth- legacy of U.S. militarism, interventions, CURRENTS er? Our leader blares untruths like a coal desperate poverty and the militarized train siren screaming through town. border behind these deaths? Fewer than 6 He’s in a face-off with North Korea. 1 percent of migrants have a criminal VIEWS  White supremacists march in Virginia record yet they are vilified as criminals. 4  with a wink and a nod from him. ISIS Their crime—a civil offense of crossing 4  would love him predictably overreacting a border without papers. MAIL  to an attack. As violence and poverty persist in MAIL 

Some of us believe in reality. Our Mexico and Central America today, mi- 2  leader creates his own. No one has ever grant crossings are down, but deaths

seen his health care plan that will “cover are up due to the enhanced U.S. border DO IT  everyone at a much lower price.” The strategies pushing migrants/refugees multitudes of scientists presenting facts into a lethal environment of “unintended about global weather changes are wrong. consequences”—the vast and hot Arizo- We bathe in a tub of disquietude. na Sonora desert. Enforcing these poli- 08.16.17 Someone runs our family with an alco- cies has created a “culture of cruelty.” .12

holic personality. He is vindictive, un- Eighteen billion dollars a year to se- 33 predictable and volatile. The only given cure borders is tremendously costly in # is that anyone who disagrees with his lives and creates a humanitarian di- whims will be attacked. saster. While the for-profit prisons and I know that somewhere Luke or Lu- border military industrial complex reap cia Skywalker are training, Jedi Knights huge profits; for the 10 people in the that believe in science and truth. Most truck and the lives of thousands upon of us anxiously await your arrival. thousands of others seeking life, the CASCADIA WEEKLY —Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham cost is deadly. 5 —Shirley Osterhaus, Bellingham A CULTURE OF CRUELTY Since 2012, I’ve accompanied Western Washington University students to the SEND YOUR LETTERS: Arizona/Mexico border with No More [email protected] THE GRISTLE THE MISSING MIDDLE: Two eddies converged into a

30  stream at Bellingham City Council this week, each car- rying the effluent that the City of Subdued Excite- FOOD  ment is quickly becoming a place where few of common means can live. views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE “There’s affordable housing that is subsidized, 24 and then there is what some people would call natu- ral affordable housing,” Council member April Barker B-BOARD  noted in her opening remarks at a special planning committee meeting. One problem is the latter is not BY ALAN RHODES 22 being built. The “missing middle” housing is the city’s term for

FILM  a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types com- patible in scale with single-family homes that help

18 Summertime meet the growing demand for walkable urban living, planning consultants told Council. Examples include

MUSIC  carriage houses, duplexes, triplexes, tiny homes, small lot homes, live/work units, and cottage housing. Miss- and the Livin’ is Lazy 16 ing middle housing provides the City of Bellingham RANDOM EXCERPTS FROM MR. CRANKY’S NOTEBOOK

ART  with more housing options for community members across a range of incomes and lifestyles by filling the

15 gap between apartments and single-family homes. AH, SUMMER: the outdoor from heaven for Dougie. Although The effort intends to focus on “those who can’t concerts, Saturdays at the Farmers many locals were irritated that

STAGE  afford the majority of what is being built in Bell- Market, evening walks around Lake Doug was drawing a state senate ingham right now, which is single-family homes,” Padden, all beneath the benevolent salary while working in Washing- explained Carrie Veldman, project manager for the canopy of thick gray smoke blowing ton, D.C. at the same time, they 14 RJ Group, an architecture, engineering and design down from Canadian forest fires. had to admit that it was nice hav- firm. “Those are priced out of many first-time home- I turn shiftless and irresponsible ing him out of the neighborhood

GET OUT  buyers’ price ranges.” during these summer days, which The team from Boomer’s Drive-In Unanswered is the question of why so much construc- makes writing 750 words on a sus- Once again I skipped participat- won this year’s Ski to Sea race, but

12 tion effort in Bellingham is being invested in homes tained topic seem a Herculean labor. ing in the Naked Bike Ride this sum- I’m not sure it was entirely fair. average incomes, average residents of Bellingham, can- So instead of a column, here are a mer. It’s not that I’m particularly I observed several team members not afford. The stopgap appears to be a variety of spe- few unrelated snippets from my modest, but when I was 11 years chugging down Boomer’s apple pie WORDS  cialty housing forms—townhomes, shared court hous- notebook jottings over the past few old I went over my front handlebars milkshakes, giving them an energy

 8 ing, accessory dwelling units on other properties and weeks. I’ll pull myself together next and skidded facedown across a few boost that might be considered so on. Yet even among these—and the examples are month. Right now, I’m late for a nap. feet of asphalt. The possibility of entry-level doping. not many—the most affordable of these recently built Barkley Bear continues to amble doing that naked is too horrible to Old-timers might recall the ’60s

CURRENTS specialty units sold for $339,000. Which again begs the around the county, emptying bird even think about. and ’70s when Bellingham hosted question of why so many builders are incapable or disin- feeders into his fuzzy little mouth. I’ve been mulling over the may- a large number of draft-age young 6 6 terested in building homes median incomes can afford. He recently added skinny dipping in or’s failed plan to locate a home- men waiting to head for Canada if If we search the market for clues, we might conclude a residential swimming pool to his less shelter on the waterfront. their number came up. This summer VIEWS  VIEWS  that there is enough cash to rake in from the 2 per- activities. I identify with Barkley The Port Commission nixed the we learned that something similar

4  cent annual growth entering the community from else- Bear. I’ve frequently popped open a idea, not wanting to displace ma- is happening as undocumented im- where and with outside money to spend, and that most can of mixed nuts and dumped the rine businesses in an area where migrants pause in Bellingham while MAIL  builders are financially satisfied to cater exclusively to entire contents down my throat. they want to develop, well, ma- looking for ways to slip across the

2  that, leaving the bulk of the community scrambling for And as a kid I used to sneak into rine business. Fortunately, I have Canadian border, figuring they’ll an affordable home. a neighbor’s pool when he was at an alternative suggestion. Maybe have a nicer time in the land of

DO IT  The imbalance is having an effect on public schools, work. I’m in solidarity with you, Albertson’s could donate the large Trudeau than the kingdom of Trump. an emergent demographic, and it is not pretty: Barkley. Run free, brother. building that’s been sitting empty Hard to argue that point. “School districts,” Barker noted, “have been redraw- A recently released survey named since they closed their store and The Aug. 1 local primary is over ing their boundaries for two reasons. One is we’ve had Lynden the seventh safest city in forbade any other grocery store and we’ve got a really good slate 08.16.17 a lot of growth to the north side, which has increased Washington. Lynden would have got- from opening in the same space. of candidates going into the gen- class sizes immensely, and we don’t have enough room ten an even higher ranking had it not Donating the building for a home- eral election. Whoops, here’s a .12

33 in those schools currently for the growth that’s hap- been for the inordinately large num- less shelter offers Albertson’s a glaring exception. Eric Bostrom # pening. We’ve also recognized that those schools don’t ber of locals stepped on by cows. way to start atoning for shutting has squeaked into the race for Bell- have a great balance of social and economic diversity.” Bellingham housing prices contin- down the only grocery store in a ingham City Council At-Large. It’s Lack of economic diversity in neighborhoods is re- ue soaring to psychopathic levels. low-income neighborhood. unlikely that Eric—a gay-bashing, flected in neighborhood schools. Currently about 40 People are so desperate for afford- State Senator Doug Ericksen’s Muslim-baiting sidewalk preacher— percent of students are living at or below the poverty able living space that I listed my double-dipper job with the En- will topple the progressive incum- line, Bellingham School District data suggests. Few tool shed for $250,000 and started vironmental Protection Agency bent Roxanne Murphy, but for the

CASCADIA WEEKLY schools adequately reflect that demographic, with some a bidding war. My wife made me take came to an end early this summer. next three months he’ll have some- elementary schools serving 80 percent students experi- it off the market, though, saying, “I While it lasted it offered Doug the thing he loves: a microphone. 6 encing poverty and others with fewer than 20 percent, don’t want strangers living in the opportunity to do damage on the OK, folks, that’s it for now. I illustrating a growing stratification of incomes. backyard, and you’re not bringing all national as well as the state lev- could add more journal entries but The other eddy arrived in the form of an economic that crap into the house.” el, which must have been manna I’ve hit the bottom of the page. survey produced by the Western Washington Universi- ty Center for Economic and Business Research. Mayor VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY Cascadia Weekly

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as an aid to help determine whether 30  the city should agree to or deny the request of Lummi Nation to receive FOOD  city water for an economic develop- ment project they’ve planned north 24 of the city. Basically, the city needs to extend about 300 feet of existing water line at a cost the tribe would september B-BOARD  absorb as a utility customer. Frankly,

the study was misplaced for that pur- workshops 22 pose—the request of a local municipal government for a cooperative agree- harvesting fall fruit FILM  ment to purchase water should rightly

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a policy decision on water service. 15 The study did, however, produce a

fascinating snapshot of the economic STAGE  health of the city in retail—the sector most dependable for job growth. 14 The picture is that retail space in Whatcom County appears to be slightly EBT overbuilt for emergent trends. GET OUT  “While there is a ‘retail gap’ in the Propane & Camping Supply

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There have been significant store clo- 2  sures—many of these offered what SIT WITH US. would be considered commodity items DO IT  which are easily ordered online. Some businesses have flourished—many of these offer unique experiences to Come and their customer along with the tangible 08.16.17 items. Retailers are changing where .12

they find profits.” 33 While not submitted or intended # as commentary predicament of rising income inequality and economic inse- curity, the report nevertheless does suggest that the easy days of living Free Meditation Instruction wages are growing uneasy in Belling- Monday evenings, 7:00 pm ham. That, coupled with a housing Open House Meditation & Talk CASCADIA WEEKLY market that is systemically incapa- Meditation @ 7pm/ Talk @ 8pm 7 ble of providing “natural” affordable 2825 Meridian, Suite 201 • 360-483-4526 housing, projects a dark future for vi- brant public life and diversified life- meditation center styles. The “Missing Middle” may very well be the middle class. bellingham.shambhala.org Some 500 white men, many of them members of the local Asiatic Exclusion League, descended on the Sikhs and oth- er South Asians, routing them from the

30  bunkhouses where they roomed and chas- ing them into the streets. Within hours, FOOD  the entire Sikh population of Bellingham currents had fled, frantically piling onto trains and NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX boats in search of some sort of refuge. 24 Many had been physically battered. I knew nothing about this incident B-BOARD  until I visited Washington this spring and met with members of the Sikh com-

22 munity there. For them, it was easy to draw at least some parallels between

FILM  that century-old ugliness and recent events. Immigrants were again be-

18 ing demonized. Lost jobs were fueling white working-class despair and resent-

MUSIC  ment. Hate crimes were reported to be up. Yelling, “Get out of my country!” a

16 gunman had shot two Indian software

ART  engineers in an Applebee’s restaurant in Kansas. Closer to home, in Kent, a sub-

15 urb of Seattle, a man had shot a Sikh in an apparent hate crime.

STAGE  A few weeks after the shooting, on a gray March day, I met Hira Singh Bhullar at a café in Kent. “The shooting hap- 14 pened four or five blocks from here,” he said, gesturing in the direction of the

GET OUT  crime scene with his finger. Bhullar, who works in the IT depart-

12 ment at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle, was shaken. He’d lived for a time in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He never felt WORDS  entirely safe there, always worried that

 8 somebody would accost or attack him.

PHOTO COURTESY OF VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY PUBLIC OF VANCOUVER COURTESY PHOTO But Bhullar had never felt threatened Sikh immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru in Vancouver Harbor in 1914. They were denied entry. in Washington. Sure, some racists had CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 posted mean comments on his Face- book page when he ran for the Kent City 6 Council. Still, he didn’t take that kind BY A.C. THOMPSON of internet obnoxiousness too serious- VIEWS  ly. Now, though, things seemed differ-

4  ent. He worried about what seemed to him to be a metastasizing meanness MAIL  A OF toward immigrants and members of mi- HISTORY

2  nority religions. Persecution is something Sikhs know

DO IT  well. Their faith began with the teachings of Guru Nanak, born to a peasant fami- ly in 1469 in the Punjab region of South Asia, an area that stretches from eastern 08.16.17 Pakistan to the northwest edge of India. Nanak’s message was decidedly opposi-

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33 tional, challenging the authority of the # region’s two dominant religions, Hinduism FOR MORE than a century, Sikhs in the United States have faced suspicion and violence. and Islam; some scholars compare Nanak’s The 1907 episode in a seaside timber town in Washington came to be known as the Bellingham spiritual revolution to Christianity’s prot- Riots. Really, though, there were no riots. estant reformation, which was unfolding There was a pogrom. in Europe at the same time. At the time, the United States was suffering through deep economic distress, a panic-filled reces- Equality—between man and woman,

CASCADIA WEEKLY sion that had begun the year before. Angry anti-immigrant sentiment was ascendant. And hundreds preacher and congregant, ruler and serf, of Sikh men who had traveled from India to Bellingham to toil in the lumber mills paid the price. high-born and the untouchable—was 8 central to Nanak’s theology. What has developed over the past 500 years is a monotheistic faith with a heavy empha- sis on social justice. Sikh temples, or gurdwaras, make a point of feeding any- 601 WEST HOLLY ST 11937 HIGGINS AIRPORT WY BELLINGHAM BURLINGTON

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commemorating the events and apologizing for the ART  ARCH OF HEALING government’s role in the violence, members of the PROJECT county’s Sikh community began thinking about ways Produced by Epic Events in conjunction with the Historic Fairhaven Association Bellingham has a long history of immigrants to memorialize the immigrant pioneers. 15 traveling through on their way up and down the The Lynden Sikh Temple provided funding in 2013

West Coast. Many have settled here and have made to commission a documentary, We’re Not Strangers, STAGE  significant contributions to the community, but about the history of the Bellingham Riots of 1907. the community hasn’t always been a welcoming Soon the dialogue grew to include local Chinese place for them. Chinese, Indian, and Japanese im- and Japanese community members to make this 14 migrants, in particular, were targeted and forcibly arch a shared memorial for immigrants from India, removed from the city in 1885, 1907 and 1942. China and Japan. GET OUT  The Arch of Healing and Reconciliation is planned The committee drafted a vision to install a red as a monument to honor the immigrants to the granite arch structure named Arch of Healing and Pacific Northwest from China, India, and Japan, Reconciliation. The proposal was well received 12 and in recognition of all immigrants who have by the Bellingham City Council, the City Arts come to America since the 1800s, seeking better Commission and the City Parks Board, earning opportunities for themselves and their families unanimous approval. Jul 22: ROGUE ONE Aug 12: FINDING DORY WORDS  through hard work and determination. Whatcom Community Foundation has also provid- Strangely @ 8:00 Brian Ernst @ 7:30 8 The concept for an Arch of Healing and Recon- ed support and collaboration. Jul 29: WILLY WONKA Aug 19: LA LA LAND  8 ciliation began on the 100th anniversary of the Chocolate Game Show @ 8:00 Bellingham Dance Co. @ 7:00 For more information and to make a donation, go 1907 “Riots” targeting Indian immigrants. As the Aug 5: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Aug. 27: THE PRINCESS BRIDE Whatcom County Council issued a proclamation to www.archofhealing.org CURRENTS  CURRENTS

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teachings. Early Sikh gurus, or prophets, Sikhism, so they see a person with a turban 4  were tortured to death by the region’s rulers. and assume he’s a Hindu or a Muslim. There are an estimated 500,000 Sikhs For a multitude of reasons, there are no MAIL 

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City, California, a small city in the middle it is not hard to appreciate the very real DO IT  of the Sacramento Valley, has become a fact of those crimes. Talk to a member of major hub for Sikhs—Yuba City’s annual the faith. They’ll likely know of an incident. Nagar Kirtan parade, a key holy event, They for sure will know of their history of

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STAGE  08.07.17 MONDAY 14 The City of Bellingham approves a new cable franchise. The agreement will allow CenturyLink to offer cable TV services to most Bellingham residents along-

GET OUT  side Comcast. The franchise agreement carries a 10-year term, but CenturyLink can cancel its services after five years if it doesn’t get enough customers. [COB, KGMI] 12 The BC NDP government launches efforts to “defend British Columbia’s inter- ests” against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by joining the WORDS  Repair on a broken major water main shut off water to Bellingham’s Southside last week. Repair crews shut off the water legal fight against the federally approved project and hiring high-powered legal main, which stopped water service completely for residents and businesses in the Happy Valley and Chuckanut neigh-

 8 advice to stop the project. [Vancouver Sun, Seattle Times] borhoods—and also reduced water pressure for nearby neighborhoods, including Sehome Hill and Western Washington University. The aging pipe was originally installed in 1926. 08.10.17 CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 laws when it approved a general nation- Klan. James Allsup’s resignation came af- THURSDAY al permit for shellfish operations. The ter the College Republicans National Com- 6 A Lummi woman dies while in custody in Whatcom County jail. The Sheriff’s group contends the Corps didn’t consider mittee released a statement calling on all Office reports the woman was heavily intoxicated but was cleared and released by St. the environmental impacts of shellfish op- leaders in College Republicans who “sup- VIEWS  Joseph Hospital, allowing her to be jailed. Paula Jefferson, 48, was discovered un- erations. [Associated Press] port or condone these events” to resign.

4  conscious shortly after she was admitted to the jail and could not be revived. [WCSO] [Associated Press] 08.13.17 MAIL  Washington Labor and Industries (L&I) begins an investigation into a Sumas SUNDAY 08.14.17

2  blueberry farm to determine if any workplace conditions caused the death of a temporary worker. Honesto Silva Ibarra, 28, went to a Bellingham clinic complain- While the President is slow to re- MONDAY

DO IT  ing of headaches after picking berries at Sarbanand Farms. He collapsed and was spond to escalating violence in Virgin- A “convoluted” series of events in Bell- later transported to Harborview Medical Center, where he died. [Seattle Times] ia, Washington’s governor condemns it. ingham’s Roosevelt neighborhood and “No American can ignore the disgusting beyond ends with a man in custody for Dozens of Mexican workers are left in limbo after Whatcom County farm walk- hate and violence we’ve seen in Char- brandishing an assault rifle. Police say 08.16.17 out. The workers are part of a 600-person crew brought from Mexico under the H-2A lottesville over the last two days. We two groups were arguing at a restaurant visa program at Sarbanand Farms. The farm is now offering to pay the workers’ way cannot let anyone stoke racism for po- when one man brought out the AK-47 fire- .12

33 home, but many say they’re reluctant to leave until their concerns are addressed. litical gain,” Jay Inslee said. “We can’t arm. Both groups were gone when police # [Seattle Times] ignore an attack on our people. And we arrived, but officers later responded to will not tolerate hate in any form, any- calls of shots fired and a distraught man A blueberry farm along the Skagit River will restore habitat on a nearby stream where, in the United States of America.” with an AK-47 near Texas Street. No one under a settlement agreement with the Washington Department of Ecology. U.S. State congressional leaders also con- was injured. [KGMI] Golden Eagle Farms appealed a $16,000 penalty from Ecology in 2016 for irrigating demn the violence as a hate crime. [Of- fields without proper authorization. Now the company will spend that same amount fice of Governor] Federal grants totaling $2.5 million

CASCADIA WEEKLY on two nearby restoration projects along a Skagit River tributary. U.S. Golden Eagle have been awarded to prevent sewage Farms will place large woody debris for fish habitat and plant native vegetation to The president of the Washington State pollution  in Washington waters. The U.S. 10 improve the stream bank area. [Ecology] University College Republicans resigns Fish and Wildlife Service grants will be used after attending a white nationalist rally to add more locations where recreational A national food group sues the Army Corps of Engineers over commercial shellfish in Charlottesville, Virginia, that included boaters and other vessels can pump out harvesting in our state. The Center for Food Safety said the Corps violated federal neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux their vessel sewage. [Associated Press] and snatched up a soccer ball belong- FUZZ ing to someone else. “The vehicle then index drove away with the soccer ball,” po-

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SLEEPY TIME FOOD  SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE On July 10, emergency dispatch re- On Aug. 12, a person was discovered ceived a call about a man laying on the 24 deceased in Bayview Cemetery. “Sui- ground in downtown Blaine. An officer cide is suspected,” Bellingham Police checked on the man’s welfare and found commented. he was in good health and did not want B-BOARD  any assistance. Several calls were re-

SHORT TRIP ceived regarding the man throughout 22 WITH A LONG GUN the day, but he was very clear he did not

On June 24, a man reported he was want or require aid or police assistance. FILM  standing near the first parking slots

next to Marine Park in Blaine when a ve- On July 20, Blaine Police responded to 18 hicle pulled up behind him and parked. a business for a report of a man who

The driver got out of his vehicle and would not wake up. An officer arrived MUSIC  pulled out what looked like a long rifle. and spoke with the man. “The man was

The man walked over to the blackberry able to contact a friend to come and 16 bushes and threw the rifle in. The driver pick him up, since he could not legally ART  got back into his vehicle and then head- drive,” police reported. ed north into Canada. “Officers searched 15 for the rifle, but could not get very far On July 7, police were notified a

into the brambles,” police reported. “The man was unconscious in a business in STAGE  Public Works crew assisted with clearing Blaine. An officer arrived as the man the bushes and locating the recklessly was getting into his truck to drive 27 14 disposed of property, which turned out away. “Employees in the business were Number of citations issued by the Washington State patrol under the state's new to be a replica firearm. Unfortunately, concerned for his safety” police re- Distracted While Under the Influence of Electronics law in the week after the law took police were unable to identify the man ported. The officer contacted the man effect on July 23. GET OUT  to speak with him about his careless and before he could drive away, so the fire ill-advised choice,” officers commented. department could make sure he was OK 12 to drive. “The fire department arrived On July 9, a man was turned back from and determined it was probably not 337 Number of WSP stops of motorists for violating the new distracted driving law through July WORDS  Canada after accidentally bringing his safe to drive,” police commented. “The 29. Of these, 306 were issued verbal warnings. Four were given written warnings. unloaded sidearm with him. “The man man agreed to let the fire department 8  8 willingly surrendered his firearm to transport him home.” Blaine Police for training purposes, in CURRENTS  CURRENTS lieu of destruction,” officers report- TAKING A POWDER IN THE 7,941 CURRENTS ed. “He then continued on his north- POWDER ROOM Number of citations issued by State Patrol troopers in Washington in 2016 to motorists who 6 ernly travels.” On June 23, a Blaine patrol officer were observed using handheld cell phones or texting on cell phones while they were driving. observed a vehicle quickly pull into Earlier prohibitions on driving with electronic devices were replaced by the new, more FEELING PECKISH an abandoned parking lot. After first comprehensive driving while distracted law. VIEWS 

On Aug. 13, a drunk kept calling Dom- spotting the officer, the man then 4  inos Pizza in Bellingham. walked swiftly away from the vehicle. The officer had the vehicle and its reg- 6 MAIL  Number of months WSP will observe a “grace period” with the new law—meaning troopers istered owner checked through law en-

A STUNNING VIEW 2  are looking to educate drivers on the new law, not ticket them. However, if troopers observe On Aug. 11, Bellingham Police re- forcement databases and learned there distracted driving violations coupled with other dangerous driving behaviors, or if they’ve sponded to a traffic hazard after was an arrest warrant for the owner. already issued a warning about the new law, drivers run the risk of getting a ticket. DO IT  someone left two plastic chairs sus- The officer searched for the driver and pended from the Alabama Hill pe- located him hiding in the women’s destrian overpass, blocking a lane of rest­room of a nearby restaurant. After 32 08.16.17 travel on the roadway below. verifying the driver and the wanted Percent of highway fatalities caused by distracted drivers in 2014 and 2015. man were one and the same, he was .12

NIGHT DEPOSIT arrested on the Bellingham Municipal 33 On Aug. 12, a 32-year-old man was ar- Court warrant and booked into jail. # rested after he threw trash cans and 3,447 rocks through the doors and windows NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH National highway deaths in 2015 due to driving while distracted. of the US Bank branch in Bellingham. On July 21, police spoke to an intox- icated man on the streets of Blaine. DINE AND DASH “The man was not allowed to enter 44 $841

On Aug. 12, two people ran up a tab Canada and was now wandering around Percent increase in auto insurance after Average cost of an auto insurance premium CASCADIA WEEKLY and fled a Bellingham bar wthout pay- Blaine after consuming multiple alco- the National Highway Traffic Safety in 2017. Administration determined distracted- 11 ing their bill. holic beverages,” police commented. driving deaths increased 9 percent in 2015. “The man was provided a courtesy GOOOOOAL! transport to the Lighthouse Mission On Aug. 11, a child hopped out of a car in Bellingham after it was determined in Bellingham’s Cordata neighborhood that no crime was committed.” SOURCES: Washington State Patrol; Washington Traffic Safety Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sues facing how humans interact with technology today. In a near-future setting, advance-

30  ments to existing technologies such as 3D printing, as well as methods FOOD  that use resources more efficiently, develop a post-scarcity economy. This means that minimal human labor 24 words COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS is needed to produce goods in abun- dance. When all basic human needs are B-BOARD  met at almost no cost, the author asks, what does this mean for a class system

22 of haves and have-nots? Response to ownership and control of goods can be

FILM  different in a post-scarcity economy. As the author suggests, there is no

18 need to fight back when something is taken from you. Walk away.

MUSIC  Doctorow’s writing appeals to any- one who has had that uneasy feeling

16 in the gut of being tracked by a smart

ART  phone or social media account. He gained a large following in the Young

15 Adult market with Little Brother (2008) and more recently with his graphic

STAGE  novel, In Real Life (2014). His writing style is both accessible and chock-full of ultra-jargon with 14 more references than a Wikipedia article.

GET OUT  I felt simultaneous- ly fully engaged and 12

12 a bit dumb when it came to Walkaway. As always, Doctorow is WORDS  WORDS  GET IT able to remain acces- MORE: Visit

 8 sible to both general www.wcls.org or and content-specific www.bellingham publiclibrary. audiences. Emblem-

CURRENTS org if you atic of this was his live within choice to appear at 6 Bellingham city the New York Public limits to find Library in May, in- VIEWS  Walkaway at a library near you. terviewed by Edward

4  It is available Snowden via Skype. in print, Described as an ”op- MAIL  audiobook timistic disaster nov- on CD,

2  el” by podcaster Marc downloadable CORY DOCTOROW audiobook, and Sollinger, Walkaway

DO IT  eBook formats. imagines a dystopian future resulting from technology being used by the super-rich REVIEWED BY MICHAEL COX to surveil and control people in order to 08.16.17 serve their own interests. To many read- ers, this will be a familiar theme that .12

33 has had a popular resurgence, driving

# Walkaway George Orwell’s 1984 to bestseller status AN OPTIMISTIC DISASTER NOVEL earlier this year. Doctorow mixes his expert knowledge AUTHOR, BLOGGER and activist Cory Doctorow described himself as a “pulp of issues involving abusive threats science-fiction writer” while in Bellingham for his latest book tour. to new technologies and online civil Before turning to writing full time in 2006, Doctorow worked with the Electronic liberties with a writing style that at-

CASCADIA WEEKLY Frontier Foundation, an international digital rights group that provides guidance to tracts readers across generations and governments and courts on issues regarding Internet civil liberties. The EFF has been genres. What results is a page-turner 12 successful in influencing legislation relating to encryption and email privacy. that explores a revolutionary response All this is to say, I trust Doctorow’s speculative imagining of how new technol- to the bourgeois elite. Walk away. ogies and government oversight could play out in the future, and I suggest you give this “pulp science-fiction writer” more than pulp respect. Woven through Michael Cox is the Deputy Director of the his new book, Walkaway, are solid references to some of the most important is- Whatcom County Library System. FREE EVENTS in Fairhaven - Join us! doit New York Times Notable Author WORDS DAVID

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WED., AUG. 16 30  OPEN MIC: Sign up to read your poetry and prose or BRAVE DEEDS Thursday, August 17, 7pm play music—or simply listen in—at a Creekside Open FOOD  Mic starting at 6:30pm at Sudden Valley’s South Newbery Award-Winner Whatcom Library, 10 Barn View Court, Gate 2. Entry to the monthly event is free. KWAME 24 (360) 305-3632 ALEXANDER Poet, educator, and THURS., AUG. 17 B-BOARD  the bestselling author BRAVE DEEDS: Montana-based author David of CROSSOVER Abrams reads from his new book of fiction, Brave introduces his new YA Novel–told in prose Deeds, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Span- Bestselling and award-winning author Kwame Alexander reads from his Young Adult novel and amazing! 22 ning eight hours, the novel follows a squad of six Solo Mon., Aug. 21 at Village Books Enjoy the eclipse then join us SOLO in wishing Kwame a AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-torn FILM  Monday, August 21, 7pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their leader, Staff Sergeant Rafe Morgan. TUES., AUG. 22 JOKE-TELLING CONTEST: The Friends of the Point TWO EVENTS in ONE DAY with WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM BELLINGHAM READS: New members are welcome Roberts Library will host its annual Joke-Telling Con- Acclaimed Portland Chef 18 to come and discuss George Elliot’s Middlemarch at test from 7-9:30pm at the Point Roberts Community

FRI., AUG. 18 tonight’s Bellingham Reads book discussion group Center, 1487 Gulf Rd. Win and get your name on the MUSIC  BOOKS AND BITES: Bring your lunch if you’d like taking place from 6:30-7:30pm at the Dodson Room prestigious Ha-Ha Cup! The event is for adults only JENN and join a lively conversation about Howard Exelrod’s at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. (no kids in attendance), and no bad words or ethnic LOUIS 16 The Point of Vanishing at a “Books and Bites” gather- (360) 778-7323 slurs will be allowed. will present ing from 1-2:30pm at the Blaine Library, 610 3rd St. (360) 945-6545 ART  (360) 305-3637 WED., AUG. 23 The Book of STORIES IN THE PARK: Professional tale-tellers 4pm- Demo AUG. 19-20 GREENS 15 FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Bellingham Storyteller’s will share delightful, enchanting or just plain hilari- CASCADE DAYS: A parade, a “Dump Run,” chain at the Fairhaven A Cook’s Compendium of Farmers Market! Guild members will lead an hour of coaching and an ous stories at a “Storytellers in the Park” gathering saw carving, car and pet shows, ice carving, jam 40 Varieties, from Arugula 7pm STAGE  introduction to the craft at 6pm at the Fairhaven at 1pm at Ferndale’s Pioneer Park. Young children are and jelly contests, craft and food vendors, pie and to Watercress, with More - Presentation Than 175 Recipes at Village Books Library, 1117 12th St. At 7pm, Family Story Night will welcome at the free event, which is part of a series of watermelon eating contests, a duck race and more in Fairhaven commence. Entry is free. seasonal soirees being put on by the City of Ferndale. will be part of the annual “Cascade Days” taking Wednesday, August 23rd 14 WWW.BELLINGHAMSTORYTELLERSGUILD.ORG WWW.CITYOFFERNDALE.ORG/PARKS place from 9am-4:30pm Saturday and 9am-4pm Sunday in Concrete at Veterans Memorial Park and TWO AUTHORS on Tuesday, September 9th

PARTICIPLE POETRY: Bellingham-born poet Wayne THURS., AUG. 24 beyond. Many events are free. 4pm: JUDY SCHACHNER GET OUT  Lee reads from his new collection, Googling a Present FICTION WRITING GROUP: Come meet other writ- WWW.CASCADEDAYS.COM The bestselling creator of Participle, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Lee ers who can help you get organized, give feedback and SKIPPYJON JONES 12 is now married to poet and painter Alice Lee and lives assist you with your writing goals at a Fiction Writing SUN., AUG. 20 will introduce her brand new 12 in New Mexico. Group meeting from 6-8pm at Village Books, 1200 11th DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: Whatcom Humane book, Sarabella’s Thinking Cap! WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM St. This group is open to newcomers and drop-ins and Society will host its annual “Dog Days of Summer” Tour Kick-Off Events WORDS  WORDS  meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month. Festival from 10am-3pm at Lake Padden Park, 4882 7pm: J.A. JANCE SAT., AUG. 19 (360) 671-2626 Samish Way. The canine-friendly event will feature Get your thrills on when SALISH STORIES: Join the Nooksack Salmon interactive games and activities, contests for dogs  8 this mystery writer extraor- Enhancement Association’s River Steward volunteers (with fabulous prizes), dog demos, entertainment, dinaire returns with her for an interactive community event, Salish Stories, COMMUNITY pet-themed booths for shopping and education, latest J.P. Beaumont Novel! from 7-9pm at the fire pit outside of Glacier’s Chair an animal caricaturist (by donation), a vegetarian CURRENTS 9, 10459 Mt. Baker Hwy. Volunteers will be reading AUG. 16-19 food court, and shelter and adoption information. salmon-themed books, sharing laughs and providing NW WA FAIR: Performances by Night Ranger (Aug. Entry is free. VILLAGE BOOKS 6 s’mores. All ages are welcome at the free event. 17), Scotty McCreery (Aug. 18), and Gabriel “Fluffy” WWW.WHATCOMHUMANE.ORG WWW.N-SEA.ORG Iglesias (Aug. 19) will be a few of the highlights & VIEWS  of the annual Northwest Washington Fair taking TRIVIA NIGHT: Jeff Zwiers will host a Trivia Night PAPER DREAMS 1200 11th St, Bellingham & 430 Front St, Lynden place from 9am-11pm through Saturday at Lynden’s from 5-8pm in the beer garden at Boundary Bay Brew- SUN., AUG. 20 4 

MEMOIR WRITING GROUP: A Nonfiction & Memoir Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. ery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Teams of up to six people can VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Read more at villagebooks.com

Writing Group meets from 3:15-5:15pm at Village Other activities and events include the Lynden play; entry per person is $1. The all-ages event will MAIL  Books, 1200 11th St. Members bring printed copies PRCA Rodeo, thousands of exhibits from local take place Sundays through the summer.

of their pieces for others to follow while they read farms, residents and FFA youth, a wide variety of WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM 2  aloud; the group critiques aloud and also writes carnival rides and games, acts from area performers notes on your printout, and returns the printouts and much, much more. General admission is $8-$13; WED., AUG. 23 DO IT  to you for you to keep. New members are asked to ticket prices vary for special events. CONSERVATION CAFE: Join the Pacific Biodi- attend at least two meetings before submitting their WWW.NWWAFAIR.COM versity Institute for its “Conservation Cafe”—a own works for critique. monthly event featuring provocative environmen- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM SAT., AUG. 19 tal films and paradigm-shifting discussions—at 08.16.17 BOOTS & BREWS: Lynden Line Dancers will team up 7pm in Anacortes at ACME Creative, 705 Com- MON., AUG. 21 with Heroes and Horses to host a “Boots & Brews” mercial Ave. Tonight’s cinematic journey focuses POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their fundraiser featuring live music, an auction, barbecue on the shrinking world of the mountain caribou. .12 33

creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up at goods, brews, a 50/50 raffle and line dancing (with Following the short film, naturalist, tracker and # 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central a free lesson) from 10am-3pm at the beer garden at educator Marcus Reynerson will speak about his Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Entry is by donation. Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Entry to experiences with the project. Entry is $15. WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG the all-ages event is free. Funds raised will benefit WWW.PACIFICBIO.ORG Heroes & Horses’ equine and backcountry experience SOLO: Bestselling and award-winning author Kwame programs serving veterans. THURS., AUG. 24 Alexander explores what it means to finally come WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM ANT BENEFIT: Attend an all-ages fundraiser for home when he reads from the Young Adult novel Animals as Natural Therapy from 4-8pm at Aslan Solo—which he co-wrote in poetic verse with Mary RUMMAGE SALE: Collectibles, tools, children’s Brewing Co., 1330 N. Forest St. In addition to visit- CASCADIA WEEKLY Rand Hess—at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. items, furniture, books, sporting items, bedding, ing with a variety of animals in the parking lot, a The tome tells the story of 17-year-old Blade Mor- clothing, dishes and lots of miscellaneous items can percent of your drink purchases during this time 13 rison, whose life is bombarded with scathing tabloids be found at a large Rummage Sale happening from frame will go to the nonprofit that is dedicated to and a father struggling with just about every addic- 10am-4pm at Everson’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, empowering individuals of all ages through honest tion under the sun. 5782 Lawrence Rd. Early birds will pay double. relationships developed with animal partners. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM WWW.IMMANUELLUTHERANEVERSON.COM WWW.ASLANBREWING.COM doit

WED., AUG. 16 from 12-8pm Fridays and Saturdays, GROUP RUN: All levels of experi- and 10am-6pm Sundays departing

ence are welcome at a weekly Group on the hour from the Blaine Visitor’s 30  Run beginning at 6pm in Mount Ver- Dock, Gate II at Blaine Harbor. Sug- non at the Skagit Running Company, gested donation for the excursion on FOOD  702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run the oldest foot passenger ferry in the outside is great for beginners or for others state is $1 for kids and $5 for adults. HIKING RUNNING GARDENING wanting an easy recovery. Entry is WWW.DRAYTONHARBOR 24 free and no registration is required. MARITIME.ORG WWW.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG SAT., AUG. 19 B-BOARD  AUG. 16-24 RIVER WALK: Learn about salmon, BOATING CENTER OPEN: The discover native plants and find bugs Community Boating Center will be at the Nooksack Salmon Enhance- 22 of remarkable peaks and a chiaroscuro of rock and snow. A stand of gnarled trees open through the summer from 12pm ment Association’s Nooksack River until sunset on weekdays and 10am Walk starting at 3pm in Glacier at the FILM  shielded us from the wind. sunset on Saturdays and Sundays at Horseshoe Bend Trailhead. The free, As evening approached, shafts of lu- their headquarters at 555 Harris Ave. all-ages educational excursions will

18 minous sunshine danced on the peaks, Rentals include kayaks, sailboats, be led by Nooksack River Steward vol- highlighting first one spire then another rowboats and paddle boards. Reg- unteers Saturdays through Sept. 23. WWW.N-SEA.ORG MUSIC  like an impressionist animation. Far be- istration for youth camps and adult low, islands of trees emerged from the classes are currently available online. WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG SUN., AUG. 20 16 mist and then disappeared like phan- DOGGIE DASH: As part of its “Dog

ART  toms. For a moment, we could see the AUG. 17-21 Days of Summer” festival, Whatcom distant cone of Mt. Rainier shining in the SKAGIT TOURS: As part of the Humane Society hosts an annual annual “Skagit Tours,” Seattle City “Doggie Dash” 5K fun run/walk start-

15 last light of the sun. After dinner, we leaned back and lis- Light, the North Cascades Institute, ing at 10am at Lake Padden Park, and the National Park Service offer 4882 Samish Way. Superhero cos-

STAGE  tened to the Zen monk-like rhythms of Diablo Lake boat tours, Gorge pow- tumes are encouraged, and there will a chanting grouse, watching darkness erhouse tours and Newhalem tours be prizes in many categories. Entry swallow the mountains. Thursdays through Mondays through is $20 per person; dogs run free. 14 14 When I emerged from the tent at first the summer in and around the three WWW.WHATCOMHUMANE.ORG light, visibility was again nil. Unzipping dams near Highway 20. Prices for boat tours and other tours range TUES., AUG. 22 GET OUT  GET OUT  the tent vestibule, I startled our resident from $15-$42. HIKING BASICS: Learn about bird, who gave me the full grouse treat- WWW.SKAGITTOURS.COM trip planning, essential items, equipment, safety precautions,

12 ment—neck pouches inflated, tail feath- ers fanned wide. FRI., AUG. 18 local resources and places to go at Daypacks loaded, we headed north up WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and a “Hiking Basics” clinic at 6pm at WORDS  adventurers can join Holly Roger of REI, 400 36th St. Please register in the ridge along a narrow spine, traversing Wild Whatcom for a “Wild Things” advance for the free primer.

 8 rocks, snow and heather. The clouds began Community Program from 9:30- 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM to lift as the ridge top opened up, reveal- 11am every Friday in August at Lake ing technicolor gardens. In my many years Padden Park. Please bring a simple, ALL-PACES RUN: Staff and volun- healthy snack to share, and dress for teers are always on hand to guide

CURRENTS of enjoying wildflower blooms in the North the weather. Suggested donation is the way at the weekly All-Paces Run Cascades I had never seen flowers like this. $5 per person. starting at 6pm every Tuesday at 6 In places, a dozen varieties were amassed WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO in great bouquets, a kaleidoscope of day- runs are 20 minutes out and back VIEWS  glow colors. In other spots vast fields of ART OF RAPPELLING: Baker on two key routes—by the water or Mountain Guides staff will lead through the woods. Entry is free. 4  lupines created purple carpets. an “Art of Rappelling” clinic from WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM Bedazzled, we each went off in dif- 7:30-9pm at Backcountry Essentials, MAIL  Sky Gardens ferent directions, gingerly exploring the 214 W. Holly St. Attendees will learn HISTORY CRUISE: Whatcom Mu-

how to “rap like a pro” and get down seum continues its “Sunset History 2  A WALK AMONG THE FLOWERS trail-less gardens. The clouds parted and our great volcano was revealed, close at from the mountains both safely and Cruise” season at 6pm at San Juan efficiently. Entry is free. Cruises’ slip at the Bellingham DO IT  THE ROAD is obscure. It is little-traveled, but by and large is hand and glittering with blue ice. At the WWW.BACKCOUNTRY Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. not in bad shape. Along the upper reaches the sides were lined far end of the ridge I found a comfort- ESSENTIALS.NET Historians Brian Griffin and Doug with alpine wildflowers—columbine, lupine, tiger lily, paintbrush, able rock and sat for a while, delicate Starcher will take turns leading the phlox. Glacial ice gleamed blue-green across the plunging valley, white blossoms at my feet on the brink AUG. 18-19 popular Bellingham Bay excursions 08.16.17 its bottom clad in dark conifers. Somewhere down there, invisible of an abyss above a scrimshaw of snow SIN & GIN: Guides will regale aboard the Victoria Star—which, from this elevation, a cold, clear creek rushed through the trees. cornice and sculpted glacial ice. audiences with tales of fascinat- in addition to offering stunning .12 ing characters at the margins of scenery, includes stories about

33 When the rain stopped, we packed our backpacks and headed In late afternoon, the clouds again history at Good Time Girls’ “Sin & the region’s fascinating history. # up a sort-of-trail that exists on no map, climbing up through billowed in, and we made our way back Gin” tours every Friday and Saturday Tickets are $30-$35. the wet woods. The way was rough and tumble; steep and slip- toward camp, feeling our way along the through August starting at 4pm at WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG pery—progress was slow. ridge crest. After dinner, we were treat- Bellingham Tourism’s Downtown Info As we ascended, we encountered snow patches that grew larg- ed to one last spectacle as the clouds Center, 1306 Commercial St. Tickets WED., AUG. 23 are $20 and include a spirits tasting WALKING WITH PENGUINS: Lau- er and larger, eventually finding ourselves on a steeply pitched dropped below us, flowing like rivers at Chuckanut Bay Distillery. At 7pm rie and Vic Kritz lead a free “Walk- snow slope. The clouds descended and visibility dropped to 50 through the dark valleys. The Salish Sea Saturdays, tours happen in historic ing with the Penguins” presentation

CASCADIA WEEKLY feet. We deployed ice axes and kicked steps up the steep snow. gleamed in the distance. Fairhaven, with a post-tour cocktail from 6:30-8pm at the Blaine Library, One last grunt and we were on top of the south-facing ridge; a Darkness finally fell on the ridge and at Archer’s Ale House. 610 3rd St. The virtual tour focuses 14 paradise of greenery and flowers, the vivid colors stunning after I savored that beloved combination of WWW.GOODTIMEGIRLSTOURS.COM on a cruise the duo took beginning in Punta Arenas, Chile, continuing the snow field whiteout. exhaustion and euphoria, filled with the AUG. 18-20 to the Antarctic Peninsula, and then We pitched our tents, being careful to avoid the delicate satisfaction of a day fully lived. Stars PLOVER RIDES: The Plover ferry on to the Falkland Islands. wildflowers that carpeted the lonely ridge top. Mists swirled appeared, the wind died and the silence runs weekends through Labor Day (360) 305-3637 around us, erasing the landscape except for occasional glimpses was like music. doit STAGE SUN., AUG. 20 COMEDY SHOWCASE: Chris Mejia AUG. 16-20 and Bo Johnson will be joined by BICYCLE NOIR: You’ll need a two- Chase Roper and Monisa Brown at 30  wheeled conveyance to take part in the monthly Way North Comedy Bicycle Noir, which hits the streets Showcase from 7-9pm in Mount FOOD  stage at 7:30pm Wednesday through Vernon at Farmstrong Brewing Co., THEATER DANCE PROFILES Saturday, and 2pm Sunday starting 110 Stewart Rd. The event will also at Cafe Velo (120 Prospect St.) and include an open mic. Entry is free. 24 continuing on a five-mile loop. The WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/EVENTS free, all-ages comedic mystery will involve attendees following the ac- TUES., AUG. 22 B-BOARD  tion of a lead detective as she solves BIFT: Upfront Theatre improvi- multiple murders. sors will present short-form improv 22 WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU comedy games at Beer + Improv + Food Truck (BIFT) at 6pm at the beer FILM  THURS., AUG. 17 garden at Boundary Bay Brewery, GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The 1107 Railroad Ave. Tickets are $5.

Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM 18 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick AUG. 23-26 MUSIC  around for “The Project.” Entry is ANGEL FOOD CAKE: As part of $5-$8. Western Summer Theatre, attend

733-8855 OR showings of Kelli Lynn Wood- 16 WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM end’s Angel Food Cake at 7:30pm ART  Wednesday through Saturday, and AUG. 17-19 2pm Sunday at Western Washing- 15 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: ton University’s DUG Underground 15 Shakespeare Northwest concludes its Theater. Set in a Tennessee, one STAGE  15th annual Skagit River Shakespeare very unusual family wrestles with STAGE  Festival this weekend with showings doubt, love, obsession, and the of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II fine line between faith and fan- at 7pm Thursday and Saturday at the tasy. Tickets are $15. 14 Rexville Grange Amphitheater, 19299 650-6146 OR Rexville Grange Rd. The final showing WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU of The Comedy of Errors can be seen at GET OUT  7pm Saturday. Tickets are $10-$13. AUG. 23-27 WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG THE MALE INTELLECT: Robert Du- bac transforms into five hysterical 12 AN ILIAD: Power, humor and poetry boneheads who offer sidesplitting

can be expected when Glenn Hergen- advice on how to best straddle the WORDS  BY AMY KEPFERLE hahn-Zhao presents Lisa Peterson’s gender gap—all while drinking In sketches highlight- and Denis O’Hare’s adaptation of beer—at performances of The Male  8 ed during the documen- the ancient Greek classic An Iliad at Intellect: An Oxymoron? at 7:30pm tary, it’s clear the satiri- 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday Wednesday through Sunday at the at the Sylvia Center for the Arts, 205 Mount Baker Theatre’s intimate

cal and absurdist pieces CURRENTS No Borders Prospect St. Tickets are $12-$15. Walton Theatre, 104 N. Commercial hit the right notes with WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM St. Tickets are $45.50. 6 ASPERGER’S ARE US more than the cast. 734-6080 OR WWW. While a piece dubbed THE CEMETERY CLUB: The “life MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM THE MEMBERS of Asperger’s Are Us appreciate it when “Ethan’s Funeral” had a comedy” play The Cemetery Club con- VIEWS  ATTEND cludes this week with showings at people enjoy their shows, but they’d also like it to be known couple of older audience 4  WHAT: Asperger’s 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday DANCE that the sketch comedy they’ve been generating together off Are Us members walking out, at the Anacortes Community Theatre, and on since 2010 isn’t designed to do anything other than WHEN: 8pm Wed., others responded well to 918 M Ave. Tickets are $20. MAIL  Aug. 16 WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM make themselves—and other people—laugh. the short tale of a father FRI., AUG. 18 2  “It’s about improving people’s standards for comedy,” cast WHERE: Make. explaining fire safety to DANCING ON THE GREEN: The Shift Art Space, AUG. 17-20 final “Dancing on the Green” event member Noah Britton says of the group that formed after he met 306 Flora St. his son—after point- HELP!: Actress Kimberly Richards happens from 7-9:30pm at the DO IT  New Michael Ingemi, Jack Hanke, and Ethan Finlan at a summer COST: $8 ing out that his broth- stars as a woman who has just Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th camp for kids on the autism spectrum. He was their counselor, INFO: ers and sisters hadn’t survived her 50th birthday at the St. A mystery guest will provide but soon realized they had an affinity beyond sharing bunk space www.geocities. been so responsive, and final showings of Help! My Husband the music, and local instructors and dealing with a developmental disorder characterized by dif- ws/aspergersareus were now buried in the Has Gone Missing, My Daughter is will teach a variety of social dance 08.16.17 Getting Married, and I am Having styles. Entry is free. ficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication. basement. “The Brooklyn Plumber,” “Presi- 778-7000 OR WWW.COB.ORG Hot Flashes at 7:30pm Thursday .12

Their weird senses of humor connected, Finlan says, and they dential Press Conference,” “Small Claims through Sunday at the MBT’s Wal- 33 eventually decided to form a comedy troupe. They weren’t out Court,” and “Razor Blade Testing Facility” ton Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. USA DANCE: The Prawns will # to make fun of people with Asperger’s or to prove that people also combined clever wordplay with off- Tickets are $45.50. perform at a USA Dance Bellingham living with it were capable of generating laughter for the mass- the-wall interactions. 734-6080 OR event taking place from 7:15-10pm WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM at the Majestic, 1027 N. Forest St. es, but rather to have a good time. When Asperger’s Are Us makes a stop in Mary Evans will start things off with “Everyone always asks, ‘So the point of you guys isn’t to Bellingham Wed., Aug. 16 at Make.Shift AUG. 18-19 a rumba lesson. Entry is $7-$10. teach everybody that autistic people can be funny?’” Britton Art Space, a short Q&A after the perfor- THE HEROES: Follow a team of WWW.BELLINGHAMUSADANCE.COM recounts during an interview in the 2016 Netflix documentary, mance will allow those in the audience to heroes as they take on villains to CASCADIA WEEKLY Asperger’s Are Us. “No. That’s not the point. We’re together be- query the troupe about their experiences save the world when “The Heroes” SAT., AUG. 19 returns to the stage with 9pm SALSA NIGHT: Rumba Northwest’s 15 cause we think we’re funny, and we like what we’re doing and we with autism—or about where they get shows Friday and Saturday at the bimonthly “Salsa Night” takes place want it out there. Our goal is to be funny for our own entertain- ideas for their sketches. Either way, your Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. from 9:30pm-12am at Cafe Rumba, ment...If the audience gives you positive reinforcement, that’s only directive is to sit back and watch the Tickets are $10-$12. 1140 N. State St. Entry is $5. awesome. But if they don’t, you get it from succeeding at your show. They hope you enjoy it, but it’s not WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM WWW.RUMBANORTHWEST.COM goal of being hilarious for your own sake.” a prerequisite. doit UPCOMING EVENTS

WED., AUG. 16

30  WONNACOTT RECEPTION: A reception for Elizabeth Wonnacott’s “Rodeo Dreams” exhibit

FOOD  takes place from 5-7pm at the Inn at Lynden, 101 5th St. The painter will be in attendance at the event, and the show can be viewed

24 visual through Sept. 20. Entry is free. GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG

B-BOARD  THURS., AUG. 17 ART OF ADAPTATION: Adults and school-age children are invited to “The Art of Adaptation:

22 Skill Sharing” with local artist Ben Mann at 2pm at the Lecture Room at the Bellingham

FILM  Public Library, 210 Central Ave. At the free event, Mann will talk about the balancing act of painting, promotion, production and more. 18 WWW.BELLINGHAMPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG

MUSIC  FRI., AUG. 18 NIGHT MARKET: Numerous artisans, food vendors, entertainment, music and more will 16 16 be part of the monthly Night Market taking ART  ART  place from 6-10pm on the 1300 block of Bell- ingham’s Commercial Street. Entry is free. The final Commercial Street Night Market of the 15 season takes place Fri., Sept. 15. WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM STAGE  SAT., AUG. 19

14 ART FAIR: Shop for authentic tribal art and support local Native businesses at a Lummi Art & Small Business Fair from 10am-3pm at the

GET OUT  Lummi Te’Ti’Sen Center, 4920 Rural Ave. Artists will be on hand at the quarterly event. (360) 306-8554 12 “VENICE,” BY ANITA LEHMANN ANITA BY “VENICE,”

WORDS  ONGOING EXHIBITS BY STEPHEN HUNTER Several of the café ACME: Longtime Skagit artist Anne Martin

 8 sketches capture the McCool’s meditative abstractions and whimsi- feeling of the tropics. cal and symbolic expressions can be viewed Cafe Sketches Shannon Troxler confess- through September in Anacortes at ACME Creative, 705 Commercial St. CURRENTS es, “One of the greatest THE ART OF ADVENTURE joys of being an artist is WWW.ACMECREATIVE.COM 6 slinging my backpack… ALLERY: Scratch board and gouache by “CAFÉ SKETCHES,” a lighthearted selection of artists’ travel drawings and over my shoulder and Kaetlyn Able and acrylic diptychs by Rachel VIEWS  paintings, is showing until the end of the month at Perry and Carlson Gallery in SEE exploring a town or city Driscoll—two artists with Montana ties—will WHAT: “Cafe 4  Mount Vernon. in some faraway corner be featured through August at the Allery Fine Sketches” Art, 1319 Cornwall Ave., #104 (alley entrance). The exhibit features line drawing, which since the Renaissance has been acknowl- Perry of the world.” She takes MAIL  WHERE: WWW.THEALLERYFINEART.COM edged as the foundation of all visual arts. Gallery co-owner Christian Carlson, an and Carlson us south of the border

Gallery, 508 S. 2  architect himself, selected a number of elegant works by fellow architects as well as with her red and blue oil ALLIED ARTS: View “Organic Reaction” other artists. First St., Mount painting, “Terra Cotta through Aug. 26 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Vernon DO IT  Five pencil drawings by Anita Lehmann reveal her mastery. She’s a Seattle archi- Courtyard,” a colorful Ave. The group exhibit features works by WHEN: Wed.- tect who has also designed unique alphabets for the Smithsonian. pick-me-up, summoning Clarissa Callesen, Richard Dunford, Jed Huff, Sun., through and Courtney Putna. Her graphite sketches of Italy from a distance appear precise, but close up, become memories of lazy after- August WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG impressionist. “Venice” conveys the massive weight of cathedrals, next to which a INFO: noons in Mexico. 08.16.17 pencil stroke or two becomes a banner in the wind or ripples in water. The generous www.perryand Alexis Roberts Keiner, ARTWOOD: Steve Pulver’s turned bowls will negative space invites viewers to imagine endless possibility. carlson.com formerly of Alaska, is be featured through August at Artwood Gal- .12 lery, 1000 Harris Ave. Meet the artist at the

33 As visitors to Rome and other ancient cities quickly discover, washing hanging be- also a dedicated traveler. He recalls Hanoi

# Aug. 25 First Friday Fairhaven Gallery Walk. tween buildings to dry is a common sight. In “Laundry,” and “Trastevere,” Lehmann with a few strokes of graphite in “Giang WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM adds a touch of watercolor to indicate the clothes, taking us far into the realm of Coffee,” while Lisa Lady captures the rich modern abstract technique. heritage of Turkey with her watercolor, CHUCKANUT BREWERY: View art by Ben The pencil compositions of Raul Hirsch, an architect located in Mount Vernon, are “Ephesus.” And Sky Gelbron takes us to Saucier through Aug. 26 at Chuckanut Brewery more precise and offer a subtle contrast to those of Lehmann. “Japan” with a flight of village steps, and Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St. WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM Eons ago in ancient Sumeria, a stylus and a tablet of wet clay were state of the traditional homes and a weeping tree re- CASCADIA WEEKLY art. Hirsch brings us up to date with his electronic pencil on tablet computer to give vealed by evening light—all within the COOPER LANZA GALLERY: Group classes, us classic, spare images of “Santa Elena Church” and “San Marco.” He also employs space of eight-by-five inches. private lessons, life drawing, long-pose ses- 16 negative space as a gesture toward modernism, and freely sketched lines give life to It’s an enigma to see included in a trav- sions and more happen on a regular basis at sky or suggest a crowd of folks in the square. el-themed exhibit Lucia Dill’s portrait of Cooper Lanza Gallery and School of Fine Art, 1415 13th St. The gallery showcases works by Fiona McGuigan’s “Zurich 1,” a small etching/graphite/watercolor composition, de- three folding chairs. They could be any- regional and internationally known artists, fies its minute dimensions with formal weight and strength. One imagines a pair of where. Perhaps they imply the ubiquity of including an ongoing exhibition of founder massive bird statues in a plaza—perhaps central to some antique ritual. our westernized existence. doit WHATCOM MUSEUM PRESENTS Cooper Lanza’s expressive oil paintings. WWW.COOPERLANZAGALLERY.COM

FISHBOY GALLERY: Peruse the contemporary 30  folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm Fridays or by ap-

pointment at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St. FOOD  319-2913 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM

Works by semi-abstract painter

FOURTH CORNER: 24 and drawer Jane Hamilton Hovde can be viewed through Aug. 26 at Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery,

311 W. Holly St. B-BOARD  WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM

GALLERY PEGASUS: Pieces by 10 area artists can 22 be viewed at the “Surrealists and Whimsy” exhibit Vernon Leibrant Liane Redpath Jenna Goodman

through August at Gallery Pegasus, 301 W. Holly St. FILM  WWW.GALLERYPEGASUS.COM EXHIBITION AT OLD CITY HALL Art, entertainment, music and more will GOOD EARTH: Debra Stern’s “Diverse & Delight- light up your weekend at the monthly Com- 18 ful” will be featured through August at Good Earth mercial Street Night Market Fri., Aug. 18 in THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. downtown Bellingham In anticipation of the Whatcom Artist Studio Tour in MUSIC  WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM October, the Whatcom Museum is showcasing a variety Wick, can be perused and purchased as part of 16 16 HONEY SALON: View new and mixed-media works a “Healing Through Art” series through Aug. 19 of artwork by participating Studio Tour artists. Visit Old ART  by Genevieve Gray at an “After Goodbye” exhibit at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center, 2901 City Hall’s first floor gallery to see the diverse selection ART  showing through September at Honey Salon & Gal- Squalicum Pkwy. of artwork from talented local artists. lery, 310 W. Holly St. WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM 15 WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM Wednesday - Sunday, Noon - 5 PM QUILT MUSEUM: “Pieces of the Past: 20 Years of I.E. GALLERY: Oil painter Patricia Hagen’s “Ap- Collecting,” “The State of WA(ter),” and “Felting Admission $10 General | $8 Youth 6-17/Students/Seniors STAGE  proaching Awe” and mixed-media artist Clarissa Today” exhibits are currently on display at the $5 ages 2 - 5 | Under 2 free | Members always free! Callesens’ “O Horizon” can be perused through Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum in La 14 Aug. 27 at Edison’s i.e. gallery, 5800 Cain Court. Conner at 703 S. Second St. WWW.IEEDISON.COM WWW.QFAMUSEUM.ORG Old City Hall

121 Prospect Street GET OUT  INN AT LYNDEN: Painter Elizabeth Wonnacott’s RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related work- 360.778.8930 solo exhibit, “Rodeo Dreams,” will be on display shops happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery, 1421 www.whatcommuseum.org

until Sept. 30 at the Inn at Lynden, 100 5th St. N. Forest St. See more details and register online. 12 The artwork will be available for purchase through WWW.RAGFINERY.COM the Gallery Shop at the Jansen Art Center. (360) 746-8597 SCOTT MILO: Renowned Bellingham artist Jody WORDS  Bergsma will show florals, birds and landscapes

JANSEN ART CENTER: The “Cup Show,” “Look. with metallic mixed media accents through Aug.  8 Miller + Katsaros,” a “2017 Summer Juried Exhibit,” 29 in Anacortes at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 and Whatcom Art Guild’s “Books, Puzzles & Games” Commercial Ave. show through Sept. 1 at Lynden’s Jansen Art WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM CURRENTS Center, 321 Front St.

WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG SKAGIT MUSEUM: “For Whom the Bell Tolls” 6 shows through Aug. 20 in La Conner at the Skagit LUMMI GALLERY: Peruse seasonal exhibits at the County Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St. VIEWS  Lummi Island Gallery at the Village Point Marina, WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM 4232 Legoe Bay Rd. 4  WWW.LUMMIISLANDGALLERY.COM SMITH & VALLEE: Ann Morris’ “Bronze, Boat &

Shadows” exhibit shows through Aug. 27 at Edi- MAIL  MAKE.SHIFT: “Make.Shift Family: Appreciating son’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. The

Those Who Make.Shift Happen” shows through Lummi Island-based artist’s solo exhibit features 2  August at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. The sculptures, photographs and hand-built boats exhibit celebrates the volunteers, tenants and made from organic materials. DO IT  staff that make the creative space possible. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM SOCIAL FABRIC: Sign up for a variety of sewing MATZKE: A “Summer Moments” exhibit shows week- and art workshops through July at Social Fabric, 08.16.17 ends through Aug. 20 at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine 1302 Commercial St. Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way. WWW.SOCIALFABRICART.COM

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WHATCOM ART MARKET: Works by more than # MINDPORT: Kevin Jones’ “Sun, Stone, Water” 45 Whatcom Art Guild members can be perused photography exhibit shows through August at and purchased from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sun. at the Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Whatcom Art Market, 1103 11th St. WWW.MINDPORT.ORG WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG

MONA: “Clayton James: Art and Archives,” “Kelly WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Bellingham National 2017 O’Dell: transient (h)ours,” and “Whiting Tennis: Juried Arts Exhibition,” “Whatcom Artist Studio Painting, Drawing and Sculpture” can be viewed Tour,” “People of the Sea and Cedar: The Story of CASCADIA WEEKLY through Sept. 24 at La Conner’s Museum of North- the Coast Salish Tribes,” “Nostalgic Saturation: west Art, 121 First St. Entry is free. Mid-Century Bellingham in Historic Color,” “Back at 17 WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG the Park: Vintage Views from the Photo Archives,” and “John M. Edson Hall of Birds” can currently be PEACEHEALTH: “Quiet,” featuring new works by viewed on the Whatcom Museum campus. Bellingham-based painters Terry Nelson and E.V. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG rumor has it

30  BY THE TIME you read this, I will have ogled exotic goats, cheered for automotive FOOD  carnage at a demolition derby, eaten my weight in funnel cake and ridden the Zip- per—probably not in that order. 24 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT That’s right, it is the most wonderful time of the year. B-BOARD  I’m talking, of course, about the North- west Washington Fair, which remains the

22 highlight of my summer social season, year in and year out. Depending on when you

FILM  read this, I may have been back to Lynden for a second trip to the fair, possibly to see

18 18 Night Ranger play a Thurs., Aug. 17 con- cert, where I hope they MUSIC  MUSIC  will explain what the hell the lyrics to “Sister

16 THE BURYING GROUND Christian” mean. Why is

ART  she motoring? What is motoring? And what’s

15 her price for flight any- way? Since general ad- BY CAREY ROSS

STAGE  mission tickets to the show are free (preferred seating is $25), you can query them yourself and all it will 14 cost you is time well spent for a mystery that has been too long in the solving.

GET OUT  American Idol winner and bona fide country star Scotty McCreery will perform the next

12 night, Fri., Aug 18, where he will explain the trouble with girls as only a 23-year- BULLETS AND BELLES SAWYER FREDERICKS old can. Tickets are still available to see WORDS  the fresh-faced heartthrob who looks like

 8 every boy my mother ever wanted me to pears Thurs., Aug. 17 at bring home (sorry again, mom!). BY CAREY ROSS the Green Frog, it’ll be In not so great news, by the time you

CURRENTS with Stephanie Nilles. read this, it will almost certainly have been Nilles hails from New Margaret Bikman’s last day working for the 6 The Green Frog Orleans, and she and Bellingham Herald. In what has to be one of her powerhouse voice the most shocking pieces of local publish- VIEWS  FOUR WALLS AND A GRILLED CHEESE play somewhere in the ing news during my time here, the indefat-

4  neighborhood of 150 igable editor of Take Five, who brought her LIKE ALL of you, I have spent the past several weeks ingesting the bulk shows a year. She’s clas- considerable skill, steadfast good cheer

MAIL  ATTEND of my musical intake in the great outdoors. From parks to fields to beer WHO: Thomas Deakin sically trained, has self- and unfailing arts advocacy to bear every

and Stephanie Nilles

2  gardens to amphitheaters to the streets themselves, no al fresco spot has released five full-length single day of her 26 years with the newspa- been safe from the seasonal sonic onslaught. WHEN: 7pm Thurs., albums, and will be per, saw her position eliminated. Aug. 17 DO IT  I’m certainly not complaining. The ability to wander into a concert at fresh off an appearance Margaret’s dedication to her job was ------many of my favorite outdoor haunts is one of the things I remember fondly WHO: Sawyer with Deakin at the Sub- legendary, not only in publishing circles, and wistfully during the dark days of winter. Fredericks dued Stringband Jam- but within the greater arts community as But after the orgy of outdoor entertainment that happens when the end WHEN: 7pm Fri., boree. The show begins well. A more staunch supporter of anything 08.16.17 of Downtown Sounds segues into the weekend of the Subdued Stringband Aug. 18 early, at 7pm, making it arts-related you will never find, and her Jamboree and Summer Meltdown, I often find myself craving four walls, a ------a perfect way to spend a constant presence at concerts, plays and .12 WHO: Bullets and

33 darkish room and a full bar—and some quality live music, but that goes Belles weeknight. events, along with her fierce encourage- # without saying. WHEN: 9:30pm Fri., If you’re a fan of tele- ment and nurturing of this town’s rich ar- And if I can find a place that will feed me a ridiculously over-the-top Aug. 18 vised singing compe- tistic spirit should not be underestimated grilled cheese sandwich with a side of succulent smoked brisket, so much ------tition The Voice, then and cannot be replaced. She helped carve the better. WHO: The Burying you’re already familiar out space for arts coverage in this region, Ground Lucky for me, the Green Frog is such a place. Even luckier, the State Street WHEN: 8pm Sun., with Sawyer Fredericks, and then she filled that space with the bar has not fallen prey to the typical—and understandable—late-summer Aug. 20 who will play a Fri., Aug. bands, musicians, actors, artists, movies

CASCADIA WEEKLY entertainment slowdown that has been known to affect area venues, and WHERE: Green Frog, 18 concert at the Green and more that she so loved. It’s not an ex- has crammed its calendar with ways to pass a little or a lot of time. 1015 N. State St. Frog. Fredericks earned aggeration to say that a bright line can be 18 Normally, when I run into Thomas Deakin, whether it be at one of the INFO: www.acoustic his spot on the show by drawn from the work Margaret has done to tavern.com shows he likes to schedule for times that I cannot attend or—as is more covering “I’m a Man of the job I do and the love I have for it. I’m common—on the street or enjoying a cup of coffee somewhere, he’s with Lu- Constant Sorrow”—the old-timey song being fond of telling people that the thing I most cas Hicks, as befits a guy who is one-third of Deakin Hicks (the Jon Sampson a somewhat unorthodox choice for a Voice appreciate about Bellingham is that one evidently being silent, as least as far as band names go). But when he ap- contestant—and then proceeded to sweep person can make this entire town a better FROM PAGE 18 isn’t playing (drink beers on the deck and GREEN FROG, smoke meat, I’m guessing) the Burying Ground, from Vancouver, BC, will take Free Pre-Festival Community Concert! the entire season by covering such songs you back in time on Sun., Aug. 20 with • Friday, September 1st 4pm - 7pm as “Summer Breeze” by Seals and Croft, their blend of ragtime, blues, jazz and 30  Neil Young’s “Old Man,” and Al Green’s country. The band gives old songs new • Two great bands: North Country &

“Take Me to the River.” He emerged the polish and makes new songs sound old, The Hovander Homestead Boys FOOD  winner, nabbed $100,000 and a record and everything is a glorious mix of tra- • Great for families: bring a picnic and a blanket • Ice Cream and Beer Garden deal—and did I mention he was only 16 ditional to us and unique to them—with • No pets or alcohol allowed 24 years old? Now having reached the ripe some washboard and kazoo thrown in for age of 18 with his flowing locks and good measure. anti-folk sentiments intact, Fredericks After that, you’ll probably be suffer- Want Even More? B-BOARD  is touring in support of his upcoming al- ing some from cabin fever and itching to

bum, Hide Your Ghost. His is also an early take your show, such as it is, back into 22 show—starting at 7pm—after which Bul- the sunshine. No one will blame you for lets and Belles will bring their self-de- needing to spend as much time in the FILM  scribed “neo doo-wop-folk” to the Green open air and under blue skies as you can Hovander Homestead Park,

Frog stage at 9:30pm, making for a weird before all turns gray and cold and sad. 18 A Weekend of Great Bluegrass! Ferndale WA (North of Bellingham)  18 and wonderful musical doubleheader. But when you want to pair three chords Labor Day Weekend, September 1-3, 2017 Prices & Tickets at hhbgf.org MUSIC After taking Saturday off to do what- and the truth with four walls and a grilled MUSIC  ever the Green Frog does when the music cheese, the Green Frog shall provide. Our Bands 16 ART  doit Edgar Loudermilk featuring Jeff Autry 15 WED., AUG. 16 part of “Burlington Summer Nights” from 7-9pm Red Wine MUSIC AT MARITIME: As part of a free summer- at the Burlington Visitors Center Amphitheater,

Kathy Kallick Band STAGE  time lineup presented by the City of Bellingham, 520 E. Fairhaven Ave. Opening activities take Circa Blue Down North will perform at a “Music at Maritime” place from 5-7pm, and food vendors will be Jim Hurst Trio

concert taking place from 6-8pm at Maritime onsite. The series concludes with classic hits by 14 Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly St. Lawn games, the DogTones Fri., Aug. 25. The Purple Hulls circus entertainment, a beer garden and more will WWW.BURLINGTON-CHAMBER.COM Jeff Scroggins and Colorado The Kathy Kallick Band The Purple Hulls

be part of the family-friendly fun. An additional GET OUT  concert with OSO happens Aug. 23. SAT., AUG. 19 Camping Available Thursday – Tuesday | Craft & Food Vendors | Beer Garden WWW.COB.ORG SKAGIT WOODSTOCK: The Jimmy Wright Band, Instrument Workshops | Informal Jam Sessions | Children’s Activity Area @hhbluegrass

Bucula, Never Cry, Expertease, and High Voltage 12 THURS., AUG. 17 will perform at the eighth annual “Skagit Wood- BLUES & BREWS: The Chris Eger Band performs stock” Festival and Rockin’ Car Show taking place at a “Blues, Brews & BBQ” summer concert series from 11:30am-10pm at Mount Vernon’s Edgewater WORDS  taking place from 5-9pm on the waterfront ter- Park, 600 Behrens Millet Rd. In addition to the

race at Hotel Bellwether, One Bellwether Way. music and classic cars, there will be food and  8 Additional concerts happen Thursdays through craft vendors, a beer garden, raffles and more. Sept. 14. Entry is $5. Entry is $10 (kids 12 and under are free). All pro- WWW.HOTELBELLWETHER.COM ceeds benefit the Skagit Valley Hospital’s Cancer CURRENTS Patient Assistance Fund.

PARK CONCERT: Hear bluegrass by the Quickdraw (360) 202-0884 6 String Band from 6-8pm at the Columbia neigh- borhood’s Elizabeth Park. Entry to the final free KULSHAN VARIETY SHOW: Musical perfor- VIEWS  summer concert series of the season is free. mances by Yesterday’s Playboys, the Sonja Lee

WWW.THEELDRIDGESOCIETY.ORG Band, Summer Jam, Geoff Morgan and Friends, 4  Mhondoro Marimba, and the Atlantics will be

RIVERWALK SERIES: As part of the free part of a Kulshan Chorus Variety Show and silent MAIL  Riverwalk Summer Concert Series, Whiskey Fever auction from 4-11pm at the beer garden at

performs from 6-8pm at Mount Vernon’s Riverwalk Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. The 2  Plaza. Additional concerts happen Aug. 24 (Pole- event is all-ages until 10pm. Suggested donation

cat), and Aug. 31 (Rivertalk). to the fundraiser is $5-$10. DO IT  WWW.RIVERWALKCONCERTS.COM WWW.KULSHANCHORUS.ORG

FRI., AUG. 18 SUMMER OF LOVE: Wear ’60s-era duds and listen SUMMER SERIES: Mojo Cannon performs as part and dance to the classic rock sounds of the Walrus 08.16.17 of a Port of Anacortes Summer Concert Series at a “Summer of Love” fundraiser hosted by the from 6-8pm at Seafarers Park, 601 Seafarers Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts from 5-8pm Way. Entry is free. A variety of food vendors will at the Heart of Anacortes, 1014 4th St. A silent .12 33

be on hand to sell their edible wares. The final auction, raffle, costume contest and more will be # concert of the season features the Chris Eger part of the fun. Entry is by donation. Band on Fri., Aug. 25. WWW.THEHEARTOFANACORTES.COM WWW.PORTOFANACORTES.ORG SUN., AUG. 20 FARM TUNES: Hear straight-up Americana tunes LA CONNER LIVE: As part of a summer-long “La when the Broken Bow String Band performs as Conner Live!” concert series, Amigos Nobles will part of “Farm Tunes” from 6-9pm at BelleWood perform a mix of world-beat fusion and Euro- Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. The seasonal, Mediterranean music from 1-4pm at the town’s CASCADIA WEEKLY bluegrass-focused series features bands, food and Gilkey Square. Entry is free. The series continues 19 drink every Friday through October. Sundays through Labor Day. WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM WWW.LOVELACONNER.COM

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Happy Hour BBQ w/ Fryday Fish Fry w/The Irish and Folk

22 Heroes & Horses, Out of the Ashes DJ Dance Party w/ Robt Sarazin Blake, Copacetics, Reggae Night w/Claire Boundary Bay Kulshan Chorus (early), BIFT Brewery Traffic Twilight Series w/ Night w/Blessed Boucher & Brad FILM  Variety Show (late) Hot Damn Scandal Coast Hurley

Acoustic Night w/Andy Banjo Open Mic Marcel and Nakos 18 18 Brown Lantern Ale House MUSIC 

MUSIC  MEGS MCLEAN/Aug. 19/ Commodore Ballroom 2 Chainz, Young Dolph H2O 16 Conway Muse Paul Mauer and the Silence Lizzie Weber The Burying Ground ART 

Corner Pub Knut Bell and the 360s 15

STAGE  Culture Cafe at Kombucha Aireeoke Open Mic Town

14 Edison Inn Birdsview Bluegrass Bow Diddlers

Thomas Deakin and Stephanie Sawyer Fredericks (early), Bul- Slow Jam (early), The Open Mic (early), Guf- GET OUT  Green Frog Soul Night Nilles lets and Belles (late) Burying Ground (late) fawingham (late)

Songwriter Circle w/Myron 12 Greene's Corner Acoustic Night w/JD Falcon Vincent Blackshadow Brown WORDS   8 CURRENTS 6

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Kulshan Brewing Co. Chuck Dingee Marcel and Nakos 2 CHAINZ/Aug. 18/Commodore Ballroom 18  18 MUSIC

Loco Billy's Wild Moon MUSIC  Jam Night/Open Mic Competition Cowgirls Gone Wild Nowhere Near Nashville Saloon 16 Make.Shift Aspberger's Are Us Wigwam, Ultimax, more ART 

Main St. Bar and Grill JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase Baby Cakes SpaceBand 15 STAGE  Old World Deli Noah Byrd 14 Rockfish Grill Wayne Hayton Sara Vega GET OUT  Royal Karaoke Karaoke Country Night DJ Jester

Trivia & Talent Show w/DJ 12 Rumors Cabaret DJ Intermix DJ Party Rock DJ Party Rock and Friends Fetish Night Aireeoke Trashy Tuesday ShortStak

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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 | Bobby Lee’s Pub & Eatery 108 W. Main St., Everson • 966-8838 | 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) 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. CASCADIA WEEKLY 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 | Glow 202 E. Holly St. • 734-3305 | H 0, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N. State St. • 734-0728 | KC’s Bar and Grill 108 W. Main St., Everson • (360) 966-8838 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Loco Billy’s 2 21 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. Soderbergh, of course, is the king of the modern movie heist caper, and Logan Lucky is an obvious cousin to his Ocean’s films, though it’s hardly Ocean’s Fourteen

30  in white-trash drag. The heist is diaboli- cally clever, but only rarely does it feel FOOD  movie clever. It has a homemade, gim- film crack, screw-top quality that marks it as a pure product of the down-home South- 24 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS ern imagination, and the way Soderbergh has directed the movie, rooting it in an B-BOARD  authenticity of locale, manners and eco-

nomics, it could almost pass for a true- 22 22  life crime drama. Logan puts a team together to com- FILM  FILM  mit the heist, starting with his younger brother, Clyde (Adam Driver), a sad-sack

18 bartender who lost his forearm during one of two tours of duty in Iraq. The two share

MUSIC  a sense of living out the “Logan curse,” a community legend that basically boils

16 down to the fact that they’re both ne’er-

ART  do-wells who’ve been on a downward track since high school. Clyde, who wears the

15 legend heavily, is a conspiracy nut who speaks with robotic gloom, and Driver

STAGE  makes him a sympathetic semi-crackpot who’s attached, in more ways than one, to his fake arm (it’s his best friend). 14 Their key accomplice is Joe Bang, an explosives expert played, with a savagely

GET OUT  fast and funny spark, by Daniel Craig as a snaky hillbilly varmint in a platinum-

12 blond buzzcut. Since Joe is serving a prison sentence, they have to break him out of the slammer and then back in with WORDS  no one noticing, a plan that proves near-

 8 ly as complicated as the heist itself. But it’s worth the effort, since only Joe—a hayseed chemistry wizard—would know

CURRENTS how to build a bomb out of bleach tabs, fake salt, and Gummy Bears. In just about 6 every heist film, we’re told what the plan is before it’s hatched, but in Logan Lucky VIEWS  we watch the robbery unfold without

4  having any idea where it’s going, and that gives it a jerry-rigged quality that’s MAIL  yes, he should have mentioned it on his at once hilarious, suspenseful and plau-

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2  application form. Yet the timely corporate sible (well, sort of). injustice of this here-today-gone-tomor- There are other offbeat and engaging

DO IT  row layoff tells you all you need to know characters, like Jack Quaid and Brian Logan Lucky about the prospects for Jimmy’s future: Gleeson as Joe Bang’s siblings, who com- There are none. plete the heist team (they’re even further A SOUTHERN TALL TALE That’s why he feels utterly justified— down on the backwoods totem pole); Seth 08.16.17 and so does the audience—when he de- MacFarlane as a skin-crawlingly obnox- STEVEN SODERBERGH’S Logan Lucky is a high-spirited, lowdown blast. It’s a cides to go for broke by robbing the Char- ious British sports-car magnate; Dwight .12

33 let’s-rob-the-racetrack heist comedy set in that all-American place that even rednecks lotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Yoakam (cast hilariously against type) # would have no problem calling redneck country: the land of NASCAR and child beauty Carolina. That’s where he was driving a as a prison warden who sweeps his petty pageants, spangly long fingernails and roadside biker-bar brawls, and—these days bulldozer underground to repair sinkholes scandals under the rug; Hilary Swank as being what they are—chronic unemployment and spiritual stagnation. The script, by when he made a startling observation: an FBI agent; Katie Holmes as Jimmy’s Rebecca Blunt (it’s her first, and it’s a beauty), exploits the Southern gift for turning All the money that comes into the racing scalding ex-wife; and the magnetic Riley something as basic as a series of freeway directions into a tall tale. complex gets moved through an old-fash- Keough as the Logans’ hairdresser sister. Logan Lucky turns out to be a sharply observant tall tale all its own, a movie ioned pneumatic tube transport system They’re all terrific company, and so is

CASCADIA WEEKLY that taps into the shifting dynamics of Trump country (though the T-word itself is (PTT), a network of snake-like cylinders the movie, even when it takes a last-act never mentioned). After a prologue that features the twin fetishes of John Denver that wind their way underground and fun- twist that heightens its vantage but de- 22 nostalgia and pickup-truck repair, the action gets set in motion when Jimmy Logan nel the money into a steel bank vault. flates a bit of its energy. Still, that’s a (Channing Tatum), a beefy divorced dad who lives in a tin-walled shack in Boone Because of the repair work, the vault’s minor quibble. Logan Lucky is Soderbergh County, West Virginia, loses his latest hard-hat gig, all because someone from human seismic-sensor alarm system has been in midseason form, and there should be a resources spied him walking with a slight limp, which could signal a pre-existing turned off. And those tubes? They’re the solid summer niche for a movie that’s this condition, which could prove actionable. Actually, it’s just an old football injury, and all-too-easy way in. much rip-snorting fun. film ›› showing this week

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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Al Gore didn’t want to come back and kick us in the pants again about climate change, but we didn’t listen B-BOARD  to him the first time, so here he is. HHHH (PG • 1 hr. 39 min.) 22 22 

Annabelle: Creation: Seriously, anyone who took FILM  one look at the demented doll in this movie would FILM  know it was made for murder and would smash it into a thousand pieces and then shoot the debris into 18 space immediately. HHH (R • 1 hr. 49 min.) MUSIC  Atomic Blonde: While we await the return of Furiosa, Charlize Theron kicks ass all over 1980s Berlin in this actioner directed by John Wick’s David Leitch. 16 HHH (R • 1 hr. 55 min.) ART 

City of Ghosts: Much as the White Helmets have taken on the herculean task of trying to save lives 15 in Syria, citizen journalists are doing the dangerous

work of shedding light on atrocities occurring there. STAGE  This documentary tells the story of these modern-day heroes. HHHHH (R • 1 hr. 37 min.) 14

The Dark Tower: Is it too much to ask of this long- gestating Stephen King adaptation that it not be WHOSE STREETS? utter garbage so that Idris Elba can finally realize GET OUT  his potential as my future movie-star boyfriend? Apparently, it is. Better luck next time, Idris. H female ensemble comedy since Bridesmaids.. HHHH (R missteps, this superhero franchise gets the right star streets in an effort to take their country back from (PG-13) • 2 hrs. 2 min.) (Tom Holland), the right villain (played by Michael those who would harm it and them. HHHHH (R • 1 12 Keaton), and the right mentor (Tony Stark/Robert hr. 40 min.)

Despicable Me 3: The fact that this franchise is The Glass Castle: Of the glut of navel-gazing mem- Downey Jr.). HHHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 14 min.) WORDS  three movies in and hasn’t made a horrifying misstep oirs out there, Jeannette Walls’ heart-wrenching story Wonder Woman: Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman con- yet is just another sign that one should never ques- of her hardscrabble upbringing is one of the best. A Step: This widely praised movie documents the senior tinues to own the hearts and minds of critics as well  8 tion the comedic gifts of Steve Carell. HHH (PG • 1 movie cannot possibly do it justice, and lo, this movie year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against as the box office, proving not only that representa- hr. 30 min.) does not. HH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 7 min.) the background of inner-city Baltimore. As each tion matters, but it can also be highly lucrative. member tries to become the first in their families to HHHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 21 min.)

Detroit: The writing/directing team of Mark Boal and The Hitman’s Bodyguard: This movie comes with attend college, the girls strive to make their dancing CURRENTS Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) are the tagline “Get triggered.” Ugh forever. Go see any- a success against the backdrop of social unrest in the back with this critically acclaimed dramatization of thing else instead. H (R • 1 hr. 51 min.) troubled city. HHHHH (PG • 1 hr. 23 min.) 6 events that happened in July 1967 at Detroit’s Algiers

Motel. HHHHH (R • 2 hrs. 22 min.) Kidnap: Halle Berry stars as the determined single Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: VIEWS  mother of a kidnapped child in this disposable action Like you, the only things I know about this movie is

Dunkirk: I feel like I have been waiting for this flick that is getting a courtesy run in mainstream that it’s some futuristic sci-fi thing based on a comic 4  movie about the WWII evacuation of Dunkirk just this theaters before its inevitable repeat showings on the book series and Rihanna is in it. HH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. side of forever. Christopher Nolan never lets me down, Lifetime Movie Network. HH (R • 1 hr. 40 min.) 27 min.) MAIL  but I need this to be the one that finally gets him the

Best Director Oscar nomination he deserves. HHHHH Logan Lucky: See review previous page. HHHHH War for the Planet of the Apes: The end chapter 2  (PG-13 • 1 hr. 47 min.) (PG-13 • 1 hr. 59 min.) in a surprisingly excellent trio of Apes movies? Or a near-future parable in which man fights beast for Showtimes DO IT  The Emoji Movie: This movie is at 6 percent on Rot- The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature: Probably the planetary supremacy? HHHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 20 ten Tomatoes and I have never felt so validated in my best part of the continuing animated saga of Surly min.) Regal and AMC theaters, please see life. H (PG • 1 hr. 26 min) Squirrel and his quirky cohort is the movie’s title— www.fandango.com.

but you have to admit, that’s a pretty good title. H Whose Streets?: Being an American is exhaust- 08.16.17 Girls Trip: Starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen (PG • 1 hr. 26 min.) ing at the moment, and yet we must not look away. Pickford Film Center and Latifah, Regina Hall, and Tiffany Haddish as four friends This documentary details the uprising in Ferguson, PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see .12 having a wild weekend in New Orleans, this is the best Spider-Man: Homecoming: Finally, after too many Missouri that caused ordinary citizens to take to the www.pickfordfilmcenter.com 33 #

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24 Market at the Fairhaven Vil- is required. Please bring a 3305 Toastmasters meet from 24 to take action is the byword of all creative spirits," flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that lage Green. Bring your mat blanket or yoga mat. More 7-8:30pm Tuesdays at Spring and come ready to stretch info: [email protected] Come relax and meet other Creek Retirement Center, 223 said philosopher Gaston Bachelard. This mischievous are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins and strengthen in this free, breastfeeding mothers in a East Bakerview Rd. The group advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I that you still haven't atoned for, make a grand effort 30-minute lunch hour yoga Sex Addicts Anonymous warm, inviting and respectful invites you to test your extem- B-BOARD  B-BOARD  believe you'll thrive through the practice of ingenious to atone for them—with gifts and heart-felt messages class led by Yoga Northwest (SAA) meets at 7pm Tuesdays environment at a Breastfeed- poraneous speaking skills, or instructors. More info: www. and Thursdays and 9am Satur- ing Cafe from 9am-12pm every sit back and enjoy an evening rebellion—never in service to your pride, but always if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify villagebooks.com days at the Bellingham Unitar- Tuesday at the Bellingham Cen- of entertaining speeches. to feed your soul's lust for deeper, wilder life. Here's accusations that others have wrongly projected onto

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FILM  "Men's Health 101" discus- and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid sion at 6:30pm Mon., Aug. 21 A Grief Support Group Astrological timing - free and punishment entirely." SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How many countries in Mount Vernon at the Skagit meets at 7pm every Tuesday has the United States bombed since the end of World Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First at the St. Luke's Community helpful to all signs. 18 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Congratulations! I War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America's St. She'll cover why the basics Health Education Center, 3333 matter, as well as specific Squalicum Pkwy. The free, Follow the Moon and the planets at expect that during the next three weeks, you will be intention has been to prod these nations into forming topics such as prostate is- drop-in support group is for www.SkyWatchAstrology.com. immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts MUSIC  sues, erectile dysfunction and those experiencing the recent "the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked na- natural ways to encourage death of a friend or loved one. Information to help you be in the anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame." I tions have become substantially more democratic. I testosterone. Entry is free. More info: 733-5877 right place at the right time. 16 More info: www.skagitfood- realize that what I just said might sound like an exag- suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply coop.com Attend Zumba classes geration. Aren't all of us subject to regular encounters to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Meta- ART  from 5:30-6:30pm Tuesdays at with those states? How could you possibly go so long phorical bombing campaigns wouldn't accomplish even Michelle Mahler focuses the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. on "Summer Sprays with Hy- No experience is necessary; without brushing up against them? I stand by my 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive

15 drosols: Rosewater & More" join instructor David Renteria prediction, and push even further. For at least the next in more ways than one. So I recommend using the at a free workshop at 6:30pm for the free class and bring three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an "killing with kindness" approach. Be wily and gener- Wed., Aug. 23 at the Skagit a water bottle, comfortable inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls "the light of ous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion. STAGE  Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First clothing and shoes. More info: St. There will be an optional (360) 354-4883 focused insight" and "the playful, blissful, all-embrac- supply fee of $5-$10 to make ing experience of joy." SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You know about your own sprays. More info:

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FILM  INGREDIENTS ¼ cup olive oil, plus more to finish

18 1 yellow onion, diced 2 large cloves garlic

MUSIC  12 cups packed arugula leaves, prefer- ably young (you can also try this

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4  main courses, home reed. Store in an airtight container, re- cooks will find out a lot frigerated, for up to three days. To serve, MAIL  Going Green more about the ingre- place the dip on a plate or in a bowl, sprinkle with dukkah, and drizzle with 2  dients they’re working A CHEF WITH A PENCHANT FOR PRODUCE with, whether they’re olive oil. Makes three cups.

DO IT  gleaned from your own I GREW beets for years without realizing the greens atop the blood-red root veg- ATTEND garden, purchased at etable could be cooked and consumed, and were in fact rich with vitamins C, A, and E. WHAT: Jenn area farmers markets or ment Chef Louis learned to make while These days, I’m apt to add them to everything from stir-fries to pasta sauces and Louis and The picked up on a whim at traveling in Israel and now prepares at 08.16.17 omelets, and have even been known to contribute a few leaves to bulk up various pesto Book of Greens a grocery store. Passover to add flavor to chicken. She WHERE: concoctions—something else I’ve learned can be made not just with basil, but also Organized alphabeti- notes it can also be used as a “guilt- .12 Fairhaven Village

33 with various garden goods such as chives, garlic scapes, arugula and beyond. Green, Village cally by green—arugu- free” sauce for brisket, or to spread on # I’m always looking for new ideas about what to with the bounty in my backyard, Books la to watercress—each matzo or other crackers. however, and The Book of Greens appears to be right up my raised beds. WHEN: 4pm entry features details Find out more about this particular In the cooking compendium compiled by Portland, Oregon’s Jenn Louis—the execu- and 7pm Wed., about seasonality, recipe, and many others, when Louis Aug. 23 tive chef at the acclaimed restaurant, Lincoln—more than 175 recipes go far beyond nutrition, prepara- makes a stop in Bellingham Wed., Aug. COST: Free what to do with everyday greens such as lettuce, cabbage and kale (although you’ll INFO: tion, storage tips and 23. She’ll be on hand first for a 4pm find new ways to make their flavors shine, as well). www.village more. Included in the demo at the Wednesday Farmers Mar-

CASCADIA WEEKLY For example, radish greens can be added to mangos for smoothies, cabbage can be books.com recipes, she also adds ket on the Fairhaven Village Green, and grilled, tomato leaves are allowed to share space with pasta and fresh red sauce, and a recommendations for later for a 7pm book signing inside Vil- 30 simple salad of dandelion greens and eggs can be placed atop bread to make a singular substitutions. If you don’t have aru- lage Books. sandwich. Manila clams with sorrel and cream, and lettuce and carrot cake are also gula on hand, for example, swiss chard If you’re only able to come to the early among the many offerings, which pair the greens with seafood, pasta, grains, meat, or spinach are good alternatives. event, pick up some produce that is new beverages and more. That’s the case for the recipe for Bo- to you and a copy of the book. By din- But that’s far from all. Among the plethora of recipes from snacks to soups to rani Esfanaaj, a traditional herb condi- nertime, you could be going green. doit

WED., AUG. 16 9am-2pm Saturdays through mid-October at the WEDNESDAY MARKET: The Wednesday Farmers city's Riverfront Plaza. A Wednesday Market takes

Market takes place from 12-5pm at the Fairhaven place from 11am-4pm weekly through Sept. 27 at 30  Village Green, 1207 10th St. More than 25 vendors the Skagit Valley Hospital. 30 will offer fresh local produce, crafts, tasty treats WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG FOOD  and more weekly through September. FOOD  WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG ANACORTES MARKET: Garden goods by ap- proximately 60 vendors and more will be part

SEDRO MARKET: Produce, crafts and more of the Anacortes Farmers Market from 9am-2pm 24 can be procured at the Sedro-Woolley Farmers every Saturday through October at the Depot Arts Market from 3-7pm at Hammer Heritage Square, Center, 611 R Ave.

118 Ferry St. The market continues Wednesdays WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG B-BOARD  through September. WWW.SEDROWOOLLEYFARMERSMARKET.COM LUMMI MARKET: Produce sales, entertainment, games and more will be part of a Lummi Island 22 BREWERS CRUISE: Tonight's "Bellingham Bay Market taking place from 10am-1pm Saturdays BREWers Cruise" starts at 6:30pm at San Juan through Sept. 2 next to the Islander grocery store, FILM  Cruises' dock at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 2106 S. Nugent Rd. (across the street from the 355 Harris Ave. Entry is $39; additional cruises ferry terminal). 18 happen Wednesdays through Sept. 13. (360) 758-2815 WWW.WHALES.COM BLAINE MARKET: Homegrown and handmade MUSIC  THURS., AUG. 17 farm products, baked goods, arts and crafts and

LYNDEN FARMERS MARKET: Local farmers and more can be found at the Blaine Gardeners Market 16 artisans will sell their edible and creative wares from 10am-2pm Saturdays through October at the ART  at the Lynden Farmers Market from 12-6pm at city's H Street Plaza. 324 Front St. Visit the market Thursdays through (360) 332-6484

October 12. 15 WWW.LYNDENFARMERSMARKET.COM TWIN SISTERS MARKET: Affordable, Whatcom

County-grown produce can be procured at the Twin STAGE  BOW FARMERS MARKET: Attend the volunteer- Sisters Farmers Market from 9am-3pm at the park- run, open-air Bow Farmers Market from 1-6pm ing lot at Nugents Corner, and 10am-2pm in Maple every Thursday through Aug. 31 at Samish Bay Falls at the North Fork Library, 7506 Kendall Rd. 14 Cheese, 15115 Bow Hill Rd. The markets continue Saturdays through October. WWW.BOWLITTLEMARKET.COM WWW.TWINSISTERSMARKET.COM GET OUT  FRI., AUG. 18 BELLINGHAM MARKET: The 25th season of FERNDALE MARKET: Vendors will sell a selection the Bellingham Farmers Market continues from of locally grown produce and handmade crafts at 10am-3pm every Saturday through December at 12 the Ferndale Farmers Market from 3-7pm Fridays the Depot Market Square, 1000 Railroad Ave. Every

through mid-October at the city's Centennial week, a plethora of produce, crafts, ready-to-eat WORDS  Riverwalk Park, 1931 Main St. dining options and more are available. Today's WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG events also include "Chef in the Market," with live  8 cooking demos and samples showcasing ingredi- FOOD NOT BOMBS: All are welcome to partake of ents from the market. nutritious and delicious vegan meals when Food WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG

Not Bombs offers a community meal from 4-6pm CURRENTS every Friday on the corner of Magnolia Street and SUMMER GARDEN PARTY: Enjoy fun in the sun Cornwall Avenue (alongside the peace vigil). The and food samples from local farmers and producers CIGARETTES AND 6 event—which is dedicated to spreading food, love at the final Summer Garden Party of the season and nonviolence as an action against war and taking place from 11am-3pma at the garden center SMOKELESS TOBACCO VIEWS  poverty—is free. at Mount Vernon's Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BELLINGHAMFNB S. First St. Bow Hill Blueberries, Fidalgo Coffee 4  Roasters, Siggi's, the Jasmine Pearl Tea Company, $ 00 MAIL  SALMON DINNER SAIL: Combine your tastes for and Patagonia Provisions will be among those adventure and delicious food when the three-hour sharing their goods. Entry is free.

"Bellingham Bay Salmon Dinner Sail" returns this WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM 2  week aboard the Schooner Zodiac leaving at 6pm 53 from the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris COOKED: View the second showing of the Netflix TO DO IT  Ave. Tickets are $59-$79. Additional sails happen Original series Cooked, with Michael Pollan, at Sept. 1 and 15. 5:15pm in Maple Falls at the North Fork Library, WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM 7506 Kendall Rd. The free event also features $ 50 EXPRESS

raffle prizes and light refreshments. 08.16.17 SAT., AUG. 19 (360) 599-2020 FERNDALE BREAKFAST: Choose from pancakes, DRIVE-THRU .12

81 33 French toast or biscuits and gravy at a Pancake AUG. 19-20 Per Carton • Includes Tax! Breakfast happening from 8-11am at the Ferndale FARM TO GLASS: Attend Farm to Glass Distillery # Senior Center, 1999 Cherry St. Entry is $2.50 for Tours at 12pm or 2pm Saturday and Sunday at ALL MAJOR BRANDS kids and $6 for adults and includes scrambled BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. Attendees eggs, ham or sausage, and beverages. can learn about agricultural practices, cider- & GENERICS (360) 384-6244 making and the distillation process. Entry is $10 and includes samples and a private tasting. Please OPEN LYNDEN BREAKFAST: All are welcome at a Com- make reservations in advance. munity Breakfast from 8-11am at Lynden's VFW WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM CASCADIA WEEKLY Hall, 7011 Hannegan Rd. Entry is $6 (kids 5 and under are free) and includes pancakes or French SUN., AUG. 20 7AM-9PM 31 toast, eggs, sausage and beverages. EDISON FARMERS MARKET: The Edison Farm- CASINO• RESORT WWW.LYNDEN.ORG ers Market continues from 10am-2pm Sundays 7 DAYS A WEEK through September at the Edison Granary, 14136 On I-5 Exit 236• theskagit.com MOUNT VERNON MARKET: The 30th season of Gilmore Ave. *Price at time of printing. Limit five cartons/rolls per customer per day. Must have the Mount Vernon Farmers Market continues from WWW.EDISONFARMERSMARKET.ORG valid ID. Cigarettes are not legal for resale. Prices subject to change. No Returns. The Skagit Casino • Resort and U.S.I.T. Tobacco Shop owned by Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health. New Club Members Receive: $ FREE-PLAY 10 ay! Tod Up gn Si win a suite to the Fans can or up to next big game AT $10,0008PM

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