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4 Management to ensure res- ers and the entire City of Bell- pointed that city residents are ervoir and watershed protec- ingham. Their disdain for city not expressing their outrage NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre tion. Lake Whatcom Coopera- residents is apparent in their that a water district is dem- onstrating such disregard for their THE UNDEAD AMONG US reservoir. Where are those who say This money-raising madness NURSERY, LANDSCAPING & ORCHARDS logging is detrimental to the res- among politicians has reached the ervoir? Surely you know develop- point where I’m actually feeling ment is the greatest threat to the some sympathy for the Republicans. reservoir. If you cannot tolerate With that in mind, I offer, free UNIQUE 34 logging under the restrictions of of charge, a sure-ﬁre means of rais- FOOD the Landscape Plan, how can you ing money far beyond the wildest PLANTS FOR remain silent in the face of more dreams of Barack Obama through 28 development in your reservoir’s wa- the creation of a monumental hor- tershed? ror ﬁlm. I have in mind the casting NORTHWEST Granted, poor logging practices of Ann Coulter in Draculette, Prin- can have a negative impact in the cess of Daylight whose cast would CLASSIFIEDS watershed, however, development include George Bush, Dick Cheney, GARDENS 24 is far worse. Most of you live in the Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of city and rely on the Lake Whatcom the merry crew plus Iraq’s own ornamentals, natives, fruit FILM reservoir. You comprise 40 percent Achmed Chalabi whose one line,

of Whatcom County’s population. “never steal anything small and 20 Why aren’t you loudly supporting countries are always worthwhile,” Spring: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4 your mayor and council in their is sure to attract Oscar attention. . Goodwin Road, Everson MUSIC efforts to protect your drinking The essence of the story ﬁnds water resource from a rogue water Draculette, bored by her nighttime www.cloudmountainfarm.com district? You should be demanding adventures in the castle, seeking 18 your county support your city in help from Dr. Melodoma (Rush Lim- ART protecting the Lake Whatcom Res- baugh) who supplies her with a drug THE ATT FOR RAC ervoir and its watershed. to make possible daytime living. A ME TIO 17 —Virginia Watson, Bellingham major plot development concerns CO N

Draculette’s difﬁculties coping STAGE WD10 COMMISSIONER with daytime challenges, including

WEIGHS IN watching Oprah, commentary about 16 In light of the possibility of a re- super delegates and National Pub- Two coolcool bikes. lationship between the City of Bell- lic Radio. She avidly watches if-it- WORDS ingham and Lake Whatcom Water bleeds-it-leads TV news stories and and Sewer District, I am promoting adores Fox News. Two lucky winners. 14 the district postpone committing Yes, there’s a role for Bush: our 4,000 customers to a new $7 He’s Igor, Coulter’s assistant who hot million facility. The city has stated spends much of his ﬁlm time mut- Onespringi nghot into giveaway. summsummerer OUTDOORS that building this new facility will tering, “You’re doing a great job,

harley-davidsondavidson giveawaygiveawaay jeopardize negotiations. Setting Dracky baby!” 8 aside a discussion of the need for —Bob Sanders, Bellingham earn entries this facility on its own merits, we starting may 12 should postpone construction to drawings june CURRENTS give time for both organizations 7 & june 14 to make the best decision for our at 6 pm 6 constituents. $IAMOND$IVIDENDSMEMBERS EARNONEFREEENTRYDAILY VIEWS VIEWS It is our responsibility as com- EARNMOREWHENYOUPLAY STAY missioners to step back and look at DINEORRELAXAT3ILVER2EEF (OTEL#ASINO3PA 4 4 the long-term best interest of our $ETAILSAT$IAMOND$IVIDENDS MAIL MAIL customers by asking many ques- MAIL

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offer equally high quality service IT DO “In Tibet the Dalai Lama was an for less money? By tapping into a embodiment of an old culture that, LI VE E NTE RTTAAI NM E NT larger organization can we see a cut off from the world, spoke for an 08 ancient, even lost traditionalism; now, smaller impact of capital projects .16. in exile, he is an avatar of the new, as 4 on rates? Can we do this while pro- if having traveled eight centuries in TThehe BBuckinuckikingaghhamsam s

tecting the district customer’s au- .03 just ﬁve decades, he is increasingly, 3A3ATATT -A -A- YYYsPMs4ICKETSsPMMs4ICKKETSS “K“KindKind Off A DDrag”,rag”g , “D“Don’tono ’tt YYououo CCare”are”e” 16 tonomy and voice into the future? with characteristic directness, leaning # By succumbing to the pressures in, toward tomorrow. CChristopherhristostopher CCrosross of a short building season and to —PICO IYER, THE OPEN ROAD: THE the tenuous premise that costs GLOBAL JOURNEY OF THE FOURTEENTH 3A3ATATT *UNEs*UUNEE sPMs4I4ICKETSCKKETE SS“S“Sailiailingg”,, ““ThinkThink Off LLaura”auura” DALAI LAMA will be a lot higher in the future, we risk not having the opportunity The Dalai Lama visited the Northwest this week. His biographer and friend, to ask these questions and being

travel writer Pico Iyer, visits Bell- /PENs4OLL&REE CASCADIA WEEKLY penny wise and pound foolish to ingham April 30. Weekly contributor ) %XITs-INUTES7EST )NTERSECTIONOF3LATER2OAD(AXTON7AY the detriment of the customers we Christian Martin encountered both in a 5 3ILVER2EEF#ASINOCOM HOTEL CASINO SPA represent. whirlwind of praise, protest and prayer. —Todd Citron, Commissioner, Don’t miss his account next week. ©2008 Silver Reef Casino Lake Whatcom Water and Sewer District STAY FOR THE AACTION!CTION! THE GRISTLE

HASTY GOVERNMENTS I: The City of Bellingham threw a penalty ﬂag this week to stop the forward motion of Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District (Water District 10), intent

on charging downﬁeld with plans to construct a new head- 34 34 quarters facility in the Lake Whatcom watershed. District views commissioners had signaled their intent to move forward FOOD OPINIONS THE GRISTLE on a $6.4 million construction bid by Ebenal General Con-

28 struction in advance of a consultant’s report, due later this month, on the feasibility of merging LWWSD with COB Public Works. While such a merger would yield an esti- mated $700,000 per year in operating efﬁciencies, accord- CLASSIFIEDS ing to Mayor Dan Pike, those savings would be wiped out by construction of the facility, making its construction a 24 deal-killer for a proposed merger. ALAN RHODES

FILM FILM “If the district awards a bid for its new facility prior to the completion of a merger study, the city will assume that the district is not interested in merger and will expect 20 20 the district to enter into immediate negotiations on new interlocal agreements for water and sewer service,” the MUSIC The Well-Read Hamster mayor threatened in a letter read to district commissioners. “These negotiations will cover all issues of a new in- BOOK TIPS FROM LOCAL WRITERS 18 18 terlocal agreement including, but not limited to, maximum

ART ART water ﬂows, compensation rates, performance standards, and cost sharing for new facilities. If the district delays APRIL 13 through 19 is and renew with each reading.”

17 the negotiations or limits the issues subject to negotia- National Library Week. While Well, I guess that’s a pretty tions,” the letter warned, “the city will seek appropriate the event might pass unnoticed good description of just what

STAGE STAGE relief in Superior Court.” in hamlets less bookish than makes a classic a classic. Pike elaborated, “We consider the district’s intent to Bellingham, it should constitute Author and WWU professor move forward on construction before the consultant’s re- High Holy Days here in our fer- Kate Trueblood’s novel The Baby 16 port, as agreed, to be an abrogation of agreements. There- vently literary town. There are at Lottery has been a favorite of fore, all agreements—some of which are decades old—are least nine bookstores within the book groups lately. Trueblood WORDS subject to review and renegotiation.” city limits. The Newstand down- mentioned as “the primary gods

14 Too stupid or arrogant to glean how such suspension and town carries 3,000 magazine in my pantheon” Virginia Woolf renegotiation of ancient city contracts might cripple LW- titles. This month alone Village clears up crimes in the pleas- and William Faulkner, but said WSD, the commission majority nevertheless agreed to delay Books will host 20 author read- ant Washington town of “Belle- her favorite novel is usually the their decision to more fully discuss the draft consultant’s ings. Book groups proliferate, haven,” a place that might seem one she’s reading at the time. OUTDOORS report. and our library boasts some of somehow…familiar. In this case it was Alan Light-

8 That report promises signiﬁcant aggregate savings for the heaviest usage in the nation Award-winning and best-sell- man’s Einstein’s Dreams, in which district taxpayers and ratepayers, but what’s the point? The for a city our size, circulating ing author Laura Kalpakian told a series of vignettes explores report also warns, “A merger with the district would not around a million items a year.

CURRENTS CURRENTS increase the city’s authority to regulate private property I wanted to do something in the watershed,” the very purpose underlying the city’s signiﬁcantly literary for the 6 6 interest in a merger. occasion, so I’ve compiled a What’s the point, also, of the city making hardline threats reading list for everybody. For FREDERICK EXLEY WAS AN VIEWS

VIEWS VIEWS OBSCENE, when COB has no authority to force LWWSD into merger recommendations I turned to a discussions? Goodwill between the two entities evaporat- logical group: local writers. The CHAUVINISTIC, MENTALLY UNSTABLE 4 ed last summer when interim Mayor Tim Douglas met with City of Subdued Excitement and ALCOHOLIC WHOSE LIFE WAS AN MAIL MAIL Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen and agreed to cut the surrounding hills abound LWWSD out of their joint management agreement proposal with talented wordsmiths, and AFFLICTION. BUT, MAN, COULD THAT 3 for Lake Whatcom, a proposal that has apparently died for they’ve kindly offered up some CRAZY SONOFABITCH WRITE!

DO IT IT DO lack of follow-through by the current administrations. of their favorite novels.

Overarching all, what’s in it for Bellinghamsters, other The ﬁrst person I called upon

08 than a collection of leaking and reeking water district was mystery writer Jo Dereske

.16. sewers and pipes that require considerable repair and who, not surprisingly, included 4 upgrade? a mystery among her favorites:

.03 The city will be just as legally obligated to serve water John le Carre’s Call for the Dead. me that she has dozens of favor- the dreams of Albert Einstein as 16

# to unwanted developments degrading the watershed as the “It’s so wonderfully clever and ite novels, but there are a few he was formulating his theory district currently is; will have no more ability to restrict human,” Dereske sayes, “and she has reread many times: Great of relativity. These vignettes, or regulate such developments than COB may currently en- so beautifully written. It in- Expectations, Vanity Fair, The Trueblood says, “can be read as force outside its city limits; and no more power to stop ﬂuenced me in understanding Great Gatsby, My Antonia, and To poetry, mysticism, the subjec- the nonsense of rogue water districts than it currently en- the ﬂexibility of mysteries.” the Lighthouse. “These are books tive and cultural experiences of joys. Those police powers lie mostly with Whatcom County, If you’re a fan of the mystery I return to again and again,” Ka- time, and even morality tales.” a partner with whom COB council and administration has genre, you might want to read lpakian notes, “and always with Sounds pretty intriguing to me. CASCADIA WEEKLY been slow to negotiate. a couple of Dereske’s own books. pleasure, not just remembered I checked in with a couple of

6 II. Less slow is City Council’s bullheaded charge to declare Her librarian sleuth Miss Zukas pleasure, but books that refresh local poets to see what sorts of virtually anything COB might imagine building an “essential public facility,” which they gaveled through this week. VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY monday special $ 49/ novels they like. James Ber- THE GRISTLE Lamination 1 LZmnk]ZrFhkgbg` tolino, who’s been publishing $ 49 running his poetry for about 40 years In a move that portends little may be improved UÊ 1 ÊÉÊ,Õ}ÊÌ foot ;k^Zd_ZlmIZgbgb Ê Ó{¸Ê7`iÊÊxÊ°ÊÊUÊ Min. 24 hour turnaround BEFORE THE MARKET, NOW OPEN now, thinks that “the novel by swapping WD administration for COB adminis- or buy a Lamination Card: $149 for 100' Laminations. Can be used any day of the week. AT 9AM ACROSS FROM THE HERALD. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn…is tration, Public Works imagines connecting San one of the most important Juan Boulevard through several sensitive wetlands tuesday special TUES–FRI 11–6 & SAT 9–5 34 books I’ve read. His vision of in order to facilitate the build-out of Yew Street Engineering ¢ GGJFbDghUhYgh@XckbhckbV=\Ua FOOD human history, modern hu- hill (the department also proposes construction of copies 99 man failures, and the future a sizable water tank in that area, on the very brink UÊÞÊ+Õ>ÌÌÞt 28 is brilliantly and very simply of city limits, that would aid such build-out, and Ê 1«ÊÌÊÓ{¸ÊÊÎÈ¸ÊÊÓäÊ `ÊÊUÊÊ >VÊÊÊUÊÊ `Ì}Ê ÝÌÀ> articulated – by a gorilla.” beyond, oh-so-well). Min. 24 hour turnaround Ê ÀÊLÕÞÊ>Ê }iiÀ}Ê «ÞÊ >À`\Ê$ÊvÀÊ£ääÊV«iÃ° Okay, Jim, those last three To bypass the city’s Critical Areas Ordinance Can be used any day of the week. words really put the hook in; (CAO), which prohibits destruction of wetlands, CLASSIFIEDS I guess I’ve gotta read this. the Planning Department teamed up with Pub- ÀÊÊHÊÊÇ>« Another Bellingham poet, lic Works to propose sweeping exemptions for ->ÌÊÊHÊÊ£ä>È« 24

Nancy Pagh (don’t miss her anything the city might propose to build in the FILM poetry collection No Sweet- future, a “laundry list” that deﬁnes nearly every

er Fat) listed among her fa- type of public construction as an “essential pub- 20 vorites Alice Munro’s Lives lic facility” (EPF). of Girls and Women, Leslie The state’s Growth Management Act is fairly ;>EEBG@A:F%P: (360) 738-1280 MUSIC Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, illustrative about what constitutes an EPF: “fa- ££ÓÓÊ °Ê-Ì>ÌiÊ-Ì°ÊUÊVÀÃÃÊvÀÊÌ iÊiÀ>` d\PILFDMINDHFOFZlPILFDMIIDIGLO and Michael Cunningham’s cilities that are difﬁcult to site, such as airports, Ã>iÃJV«ÞÃÕÀVi°VÊUÊÜÜÜ°V«ÞÃÕÀVi°V The Hours. Cunningham is state education facilities, state or regional trans- 18 one of my own favorite nov- portation facilities, state and local correctional Real Estate ART elists, and Pagh remembers facilities, solid water handling facilities, and

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“crying as I read the last inpatient facilities, including substance abuse 17 pages of The Hours—not so facilities, mental health facilities, and group White Photograph by Timothy Real People

much about the plot of the homes”—in short, things neighbors do not want STAGE book, but in sheer gratitude in their backyards. These EPFs are understood to JEFF for the gift excellent litera- be uncommon; and to have regional significance. BRAIMES 16 ture really is.” To this list, COB intends to add more common Speaking of crying over items of roads, pipes and sewers, utility corri- 961.6496 E WORDS books, actress and play- dors, along with dozens of unspecified items 734.3420 OIE ! & #'%# wright Carolyn McCarthy culled from beefy chapters of the city’s Compre- 14 says she had a good cry over hensive Plan. Julia Glass’s Three Junes, but Claims that common items like roads cannot be that didn’t stop her from im- built without exemptions to the CAO only serve WHICH ONE WOULD OUTDOORS mediately turning the book to underscore the defects of the CAO as currently over and starting it again. drafted. The city proposes to fix the gate by re- YOU CHOOSE? 8 According to McCarthy it’s moving the hinge pins. Yet, by defining these as MILLER-ARNASON a “modern love story, full of exemptions rather than variances to municipal The elephants? The whales? The clean

REAL ESTATE, LLC CURRENTS humor and pathos,” with “ex- code, the city cleverly short-circuits public and air we breathe? Maybe the choice isn’t quisitely rendered characters legal process, fast-tracking through the Hearings so clear. Maybe you’d like a way to JUST ASK:

& %$+ "%'(""% 6 6 that stay with you long after Examiner decisions that rightly ought to pass keep them all. Now the world’s leading & ')""&+&*+( * the book is over.” council review. As such, the change represents a environmental groups are working VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS And finally, here are my tremendous shift of power and auto nomy to the together. To find out how you can help, own top five all-time favor- mayor’s bureaucracy.

look for us at www.earthshare.org 4 ite novels: Kurt Vonnegut, We get a small preview of how that bureaucracy Ready to Ride?

Slaughterhouse Five; Her- may operate by observing how Planning handled MAIL

mann Hesse, Stepppenwolf; the mandatory environmental review of this pro- W. Somerset Maugham, The posed EPF ordinance. 3

Razor’s Edge; John Stein- City code insists that “an environmental impact IT DO beck, The Grapes of Wrath; statement shall be provided to the Planning Com-

and Frederick Exley, A Fan’s mission.” Only, when the Planning Commission ap- 08

Notes. (A cautionary word proved the EPF ordinance back in February, oops, .16. 4 about Frederick Exley: he was they failed to receive the accompanying manda- WE HAVE WHAT YOU NEED!

an obscene, chauvinistic, tory environmental impact statement. .03 16 mentally unstable alcoholic No problem; Planning simply “reissued” in March # whose life was an afﬂiction. what they failed to properly issue in February and But, man, could that crazy declared since no state agency had complained, sonofabitch write!) the process was properly vetted—yes; and shop- Good Reading, everybody. lifting isn’t a crime if you don’t get caught! And always remember these Over citizen objections, council sunnily gaveled immortal words of that liter- in three quarters of the ordinance. Council Presi- ary sage Groucho Marx: “Out- dent Barbara Ryan summed it up adroitly: CASCADIA WEEKLY side of a dog, a book is man’s “Thank you,” she praised the Planning director, 7 best friend. Inside of a dog, “for doing our thinking for us.” One environment. One simple way to care for it. it is too dark to read.” Touché. currents 34 34 news commentary briefs FOOD

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FILM FILM Heights of Hubris COUNCIL ACCEPTS ADDITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANS 20 20 MUSIC HOLD ON to your hats. Geyer, who ran against council incum- Bellingham City Council agreed Mon- bent Terry Bornemann last fall, praised 18 18 day to at least consider putting the re- Bornemann for his stance against the

ART ART mainder of neighborhood plan updates proposed update. Bornemann voted into the city’s planning hopper. The against docketing, expressing con-

17 decision, known as “docketing,” begins cerns—along with Council President a process where city planners may work Barbara Ryan, who represents the dis-

STAGE STAGE with neighborhood associations to up- trict—for the commercial character of date plans that deﬁne the character Fairhaven. and future of their neighborhoods. Geyer, along with Realtor Da- 16 Sixteen of 23 proposals submitted vid Moody, argued that the former for review in 2008 have already been Fairhaven Hotel, once a majestic show- WORDS docketed. The remainder were held piece for the district, could not even be

14 back on the recommendation of staff or rebuilt there under residents’ proposed Planning Commissioners because they guidelines. Attorney Doug Robertson were unwieldy either by their bulk or predicted investment capital would dry incompleteness, because of stafﬁng or up if a highly restrictive neighborhood OUTDOORS zoning policy constraints, or because plan was adopted.

8 8 contentious associated issues made “The former Fairhaven Hotel, them cumbersome. In the latter cat- the grandest building ever built in egory, count the plan update submit- Fairhaven, should be the model for CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS ted by Fairhaven Neighbors, bringing to Fairhaven’s future,” Geyer argued. “To boil the issue of height restrictions in get there, the Fairhaven area needs 6 this urban center. a professionally staffed planning Council agreed to docket the Fairhaven process that documents the current VIEWS VIEWS neighborhood plan. They also docketed trends, analyzes the capacity for ex- Photo courtesy of Whatcom Museum of History & Art a plan update submitted by Birchwood isting and future buildings, quantiﬁes

4 Big ol’ building could never be rebuilt under revised neighborhood plan restrictions Neighborhood Association. the utility demands for the area, and

MAIL MAIL “The Birchwood plan wasn’t original- brings these facts together so that ly docketed by the Planning Commis- unique to this neighborhood associa- Fairhaven can fulﬁll its role as a pri- FAIRHAVEN FEUD 3 sion, but the Guide/Cordata plan was,” At issue in Fairhaven is a remarkably tion is the controversy that this pro- mary inﬁll area per the adopted Bell-

DO IT IT DO council member Stan Snapp explained. complete and thorough plan for the cess has produced.” ingham Comprehensive Plan.”

“We couldn’t see the distinction, as commercial district… created by resi- Not so, countered commercial prop- Acknowledging building height re-

08 both plan applications were so much dential neighbors without the involve- erty owners and their representatives, strictions were thorny, Vince Biciu-

.16. alike we felt to docket one we needed ment of commercial property owners, who urged council not to docket a plan nas, president of Fairhaven Neighbors, 4 to docket the other.” those property owners allege. update for an urban, commercial center reasoned, “As matters stand, building

.03 Holding off on ofﬁcially docketing “The Fairhaven Neighbors have done that was drafted without full involve- heights are at the discretion of the 16

# the remainder of plans, most of which their due diligence as shown in the ment of commercial investors and dis- Planning director, who, without an up- center around the airport, council 300 plus pages in their application,” trict merchants. to-date neighborhood plan, may lack agreed to at least hear additional com- Snapp argued in favor of their proposal. “We believe that the Fairhaven Neigh- sufficient policy to guide his decisions. ment on why they should consider these “They’ve conducted an extensive ques- bors proposal compromises the critical This difficulty is not a good reason to plans. Planning Director Tim Stewart tionnaire sent to over a thousand resi- elements that make Fairhaven work—its reject our proposal,” she argued. “Quite expressed concern that, due to staffing dents, landowners, tenants and busi- history, its economy and its success as the contrary, we believe this is precise- limitations, no additional neighbor- ness owners.” a diverse urban village,” former Belling- ly the reason why the proposal needs to CASCADIA WEEKLY hood plans would likely receive atten- He noted, “This group has been very ham Planning director and consultant undergo a formal review process.

8 tion this year, including Birchwood and process oriented, and are not unique Bill Geyer argued on behalf of Fairhaven “We cannot solve this problem by ig- Fairhaven. as neighborhood groups go. Also, not Village Association members. noring it.”

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28 Fuzz Buzz ated through the parking lot, striking associate stole watches and other items On March 20, a Whatcom County Sher- another occupied vehicle before smash- from two Duty Free stores near the bor- iff’s deputy arrested an Everson woman MASKED MEN ing at a high rate of speed into the west der. Tragically, he’d completed the job suspected of following an 80-year-old On April 1, a man wearing what Sheriff’s side of the store. The two occupants of application form with his real name and woman home and stealing her purse. In CLASSIFIEDS deputies described as a “death mask” and the other vehicle were not injured. The contact information, making their even- a separate incident, investigators say she carrying box cutters demanded a wom- driver of the out-of-control vehicle was tual hire for court-imposed community allegedly broke into the home of an 88 24 an’s purse in an armed robbery at Birch treated at the scene and then transport- service a fait accompli. year-old woman, overpowered her and

FILM FILM Bay Outlet Mall. The woman refused and ed to the hospital. The crash did not re- stole her wallet. he ﬂed in a white Mustang. A Ferndale quire closure of the store to customers. man was arrested two hours later near 20 20 Lynden in a vehicle that matched the NEXT TIME, CALL THE FIRE description. He was booked DEPARTMENT MUSIC into jail on investigation of On March 29, Blaine Police ﬁrst-degree robbery and pos- were contacted about an in- INNDEX 18 18 session of heroin. timate couple in a business

ART ART parking lot. Police wrote, On April 9, a Southside resi- “Employees and customers

17 dent arrived to ﬁnd an early had grown weary of the pairs’ morning intruder in his home. hour-long osculatory oscilla-

STAGE STAGE He found the front door ajar and tions. Officers asked the couple heard what sounded like some- to find a more comfortable and less one rifling through the cabinets in visible location for remainder of their 16 the kitchen. The victim said he walked visit together.” around the corner and saw the intruder WORDS standing in the kitchen dressed all in TEEN TROUBLES

14 black clothing with a black ski mask On March 27, Blaine Police wrote, and holding a handgun. The intruder “Blaine Middle School reported that had obtained a key to a safe and riﬂed three middle school boys were truant. through it but, according to the victim, One of the kids was picked up by his OUTDOORS did not appear to ﬁnd what he was look- mother and returned to the school, and

8 8 ing for. The intruder made off with the the other 12 year olds were still at-large. victim’s cell phone, Play Station 3, and Officers were searching for the youths a DVD, valuing approximately $900, ac- when they were interrupted by a report CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS cording to the victim. Three other room- of smoke emanating from a shed near mates were asleep in the home during a home on C Street. The genius truants 6 the robbery. Police noted evidence that had started a fire with a spray paint can marijuana was present in the home. The and lighter in the outbuilding, and were VIEWS VIEWS intruder reportedly fled after cursing at still hiding inside when police arrived. the victims. They were evacuated from the smoking 4 building, arrested for trespassing and THE "CORRECT" ANSWER in a Building Industry Associa-

MAIL MAIL MAN STRIKES CAR reckless burning, and released to their tion quiz that asserts the main cause of global warming is guardians after processing. A marijuana not pollution or the greenhouse effect, but "orbital eccen- On April 12, an intoxicated 44-year-old B 3 tricities of Earth and variations of the sun's output." male ran into the middle of Railroad Avenue pipe was also impounded.”

DO IT IT DO at closing time—and collided with a Bell-

ingham Police cruiser. The cruiser suffered On April 5, an 18-year-old was arguing TONS OF INCREASED CO2 emissions over 50 years caused 08 a broken rear view mirror mount. The man with bystanders on Railroad Avenue when by adding one mile of new highway.

.16. continued to lie in the roadway until para- a ﬁght erupted and two people pulled out 100,000 4 medics could tend to his minor injuries. knives. The 18-year-old allegedly hit one

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16 CHANCE IN 10 an American thinks not reporting all # On April 8, a man walked into the back of men were arrested. a pickup waiting at a light on Holly and income for taxes is morally wrong (14 percent think it is North Garden streets in Bellingham. He On April 6, an 18-year-old Bellingham 8 not a moral issue). fell down and acted injured until he heard man was shot in the arm during a fight at sirens approaching. Then he jumped up a party on 20th Street. The shooter fled and ran away. Witnesses say he appeared the scene but was later arrested. PERCENT OF AMERICANS who will be struggling to meet to walk into the truck on purpose. this week's deadline of filing taxes with the IRS.

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10 BULLSEYE of two young entrepreneurs collapsed On April 11, a car crashed into the Tar- when one of the suspected thieves SOURCES: Sightline Institute; Building Industry Assn. of Washington; Pew get Store at Bellis Fair Mall. The driver turned in a job application in an at- Research Center Bellingham Family Health Clinic

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FILM FILM ee Ever the more able 20 20 THE THAT WAS half of the morning team lineup, Brett

MUSIC Bonner hangs up his 04.08.08 headphones at KGMI 790AM, effective

18 18 TUESDAY April 23. “Mid-life career change,” he ART ART After ﬁve months of deliberation, Whatcom County Council says, looking forward ﬁnally approves the lesser of two rate hike proposals for the to getting out of the

17 Lummi Island ferry. Council member Sam Crawford says while fray and becoming his proposal would have meant higher fares for commuters, the a private, “normal” Thousands of people have ﬂocked to see the exiled His Holiness the Dalai Lama since he arrived last week for a ﬁve-day citizen again. We’ll STAGE STAGE approved plan will force the county to use more money from its conference on compassion. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetans and head of that land’s government-in-exile. already cash-strapped road fund. miss you, Brett; it’s He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. been a fun ride. 16 A testy Rep. Rick Larsen says, “When I hear testimony from Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus in the House A 33-year-old Sedro-Woolley man during a brief meeting that followed his WORDS Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, I expect to hear one is sentenced to 92 months in prison main address to a gathering of 50,000

14 of three things: ‘Security has improved; we can’t leave Iraq,’ ‘se- for possessing an unregistered fire- people at Qwest Field in Seattle. curity has worsened; we can’t leave Iraq,’ or ‘security has stayed arm. Michael Ryan Hardesty pleaded the same; we can’t leave Iraq.’ I can only hope that into our guilty last October. He was arrested 04.14.08 sixth year of fighting, Ambassador Crocker and Gen. Petraeus in December 2006 after state troopers OUTDOORS MONDAY will be able to define under what conditions we can redeploy stopped him in a car that had been re- At the summit of a four-decade

8 8 U.S. troops from Iraq.” ported stolen. Under the driver’s seat, The City of Bellingham threatens to run, Amy and Jeff troopers found an unloaded, sawed-off cancel its interlocal agreements and per- Margolis say they’re 04.09.08 rifle that was not registered to Hard- haps file lawsuits against Lake Whatcom putting their mom- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS WEDNESDAY esty. A U.S. District Court Judge says Water & Sewer District in an attempt to &-pop grocery up Hardesty’s lengthy criminal record was stall LWWSD from approving construction for sale and retiring. Everybody’s Store, a 6 Ambassador Crocker and Gen. Petraeus disappoint Congress- a factor in his sentencing. on a new $7 million facility the city says staple on Highway man Rick Larsen. Larsen says the troop surge in Iraq is not a would capsize negotiations for a merger 9 and the center VIEWS VIEWS success, and calls for troops to be transferred to Afghanistan. U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the two entities. District commission- of civic life for the officers arrest a man trying to enter ers yawn, then agree to delay the decision township of Van 4 Bellingham Police begin a manhunt for 20-year-old Cody Mitch- at the Sumas border crossing with 26 for reasons of their own. Zandt, is the eclectic last stop for gas and MAIL MAIL ell Brock, wanted on suspicion of two counts of first-degree as- pounds of ephedrine, a drug used to gab in the Foothills. sault in a shooting incident at a Southside party last weekend. make methamphetamine. Bellingham City Council declines to Owners Amy and Jeff 3 Witnesses say Brock shot an 18-year-old man in the arm and docket a number of neighborhood plan bought the store in 1970.

DO IT IT DO aimed the gun at another person before ﬂeeing. A 13-year-old Blaine Middle School updates for review this year. Among

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08 04.10.08 inﬂating more than 3-½ balloons per plan. Planning staff says there’s too

.16. minute with his nose. Trumpet player much feuding among factions to bring 4 THURSDAY Andrew Dahl inﬂates a total of 213 them to the table just yet.

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# the Pacific Fishery Management Council releases its recommen- A suffering Washington Mutual, the dation to curtail salmon fishing off the Oregon and California 04.13.08 nation’s largest mortgage lender, pre- coasts for the first time since the birth of the West Coast fishing SUNDAY pares for its shareholders meeting in industry 150 years ago. Seattle, where angry stockholders may Lummi Lama: The Dalai Lama receives try to unseat board members. The con- 04.11.08 a sporty Lummi Nation cedar bark hat sumer bank has been hit by billions in as he urges a small audience of Native defaults. Last week it secured $7 billion

CASCADIA WEEKLY FRIDAY Americans to safeguard their culture. A in new capital, closed its stand-alone

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Tickets: 360-650-6146 or 13 www.tickets.wwu.edu or Village Books or Community Food Coop doit WED., APRIL 16 5075 Karen Rd. For more info: 966-2261. TULIP FEST: The 25th annual Sk- BOAT CHECK: The U.S. Coast agit Valley Tulip Festival is hap- Guard Auxiliary will hold free

pening throughout the month. vessel safety checks from 9am-

34 34 Spectacular ﬂower displays, arts 12pm at Squalicum Harbor Ma- get out and crafts and much more will be rina’s Gate 9. For more info:

FOOD HIKING RUNNING CYCLING part of the petal-powered event. 933-1758 or bliaux.com. For more info: (360) 428-5969 or

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28 tulipfestival.org. can bring their humans along THURS., to a Dog’s Breakfast from APRIL 17 9:30-11:30am at Bloedel Donovan Park, 2214 Electric Ave. Games HORT SOCIETY: The Whatcom

CLASSIFIEDS and prizes will be part of the fun. Horticultural Society presents Suggested donation is $5. For “Color, Form and Texture” with

24 more info: gratefuldogs.org. BY AMY KEPFERLE garden designers Glenn Withey HILL PARTY: Join Bellingham and Charles Price at 7:30pm at

FILM FILM REI and Washington Trails As- the Whatcom Museum, 121 Pros- sociation for a work party at pect St. Cost is $5-$10. For more 10am at the Sehome Hill Arbo-

20 20 info: 738-6833. retum. You’ll be helping build Earth Day COASTAL CONSERVATION: trails that, once complete, will The Coastal Conservation As-

MUSIC provide access to the east side DO IT FOR YOUR MAMA sociation will hold a meeting at of Sehome Hill. For more info: 7pm at 510 Lakeway Dr. If you’re 647-8955. interested in joining up with the 18 18 FARM PARTY: The Surfrider Service Project. After being treated to salmon and steelhead advocacy Foundation will hold an Earth

ART ART group, attend. For more info: a continental breakfast, shuttles will Day work party from 10am-2pm 927-4700. ferry folks to various parks around town at Woodstock Farm. There’s lim-

17 to take part in work parties that address SAT., APRIL 19 ited on-site parking, so meet at environmental issues through commu- BIRDING FESTIVAL: The 6th the Chuckanut Mountain Trail- annual Wings Over Water Bird- head for ride sharing. For more

STAGE STAGE nity service. Choose from mulching at info: 319-2290. BIRD TALK: Squalicum Creek Park, graveling a trail at ing Festival happens from 9am- 5pm at Blaine’s Marine Park Members of the North Cascades Franklin Park, pulling ivy and other inva- 16 and in downtown Blaine. The Audubon Society will lead a tour sive species at Lowell Park, and more. At festival highlights local migra- of “Neotropical Birds” at 10am noon, the shuttle will bring you back to tory birds, but there will also at the Stimpson Family Nature WORDS the PAC for a party in the plaza. For more be seminars, kids’ activities, Reserve. The event is free, but tours, wildlife cruises and much registration is required. For

14 info, call 650-3846.

14 more. Most of the activities are more info: 650-9470. If you want to give back to the plan- free. For more info: blaine- WHATCOM IN BLOOM: Make et by focusing your help on a species chamber.com. spring crafts, view slideshows

GET OUT that relies on a healthy ecosystem, join LITTER PATROL: Join members and learn more about the What- OUTDOORS Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Associa- of the Mount Baker Club at 9am com in Bloom competition at

at Sunnyland Elementary School. Whatcom in Bloom Family Day 8 tion for its NSEA Earth Day Celebration You’ll be part of the Adopt-A- from 1:30-3:30pm at the Roeder starting at 9am at Maritime Heritage Highway litter patrol collecting Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. For more Park (park in the Maritime Heritage Park trash in a section beyond Gla- info: 733-6897.

CURRENTS CURRENTS parking lot off C Street, or consider walk- cier. For more info: mountbaker- TREES, SLIDES: Stephen F. Arno ing or riding your bike to the site). Help club.org. will give a slide program based on his book Northwest Trees at 6 restore the native spawning grounds of OUTDOOR EXPO: Outdoor activity retailers from Northwest 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th Photo courtesy of NSEA Whatcom Creek by removing non-native Washington and lower British St. For more info: 671-2626. VIEWS VIEWS IWANT to save the world. I really do. I recycle, compost, vegetation and cleaning up the sur- Columbia w ill take par t in the 3rd SUN, APRIL 20 grow my own veggies and have had my urban wonderland declared rounding park areas. For more info, call annual Whatcom Outdoor Expo

4 B.C.-BOUND: Hook up with from 9am-6pm at Bloedel Dono- an ofﬁcial critter-friendly habitat by none other than the Na- 715-0283. folks from the Mount Baker Club van, 2400 Electric Ave. Entry is MAIL MAIL tional Wildlife Federation. I try to eat within my foodshed when Water may be a renewable resource, for a day trip to Barnston Is- $4. For more info: 734-9790 or I can, walk to work—more often than just when the weather’s but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pre- land, B.C. today. For more info: whatcomoutdoorexpo.com. 3 676-9843. nice—and wholeheartedly believe yard sales are the most excit- serve as much of it as we can. If you EARTH ENHANCEMENT: The EARTH DAY RUN: Participate in 6th annual Swinomish Earth DO IT IT DO ing way in the universe to reduce, reuse and recycle. sign up for today’s Rain Barrel Work- today’s Earth Day 5K and Alumni Enhancement Association cel- But, like many other Americans who don’t always realize how shop you can learn how to capture water Run starting at 10am at WWU’s ebrates Earth Day from 9am-4pm

08 good they have it, I screw up. I don’t get my leaky 1982 Volvo running off your roof to water the lawn, Performing Arts Center Plaza. at the Swinomish Community Entry is $15-$25. For more info: .16. serviced as much as I should, I’ve had a drip in my claw-foot tub garden, car and the dog. Show up at

4 Center. Community restoration 650-6129 or [email protected]. since 2002, and my lawnmower spews unmentionable amounts of 10am at the RE Store, 2309 Meridian St., projects—such as tree plant- ing, picking up beach debris and

.03 toxic fumes into the environment once a week when I trim my and you’ll head home with a rain bar- TUES., APRIL 22

16 yard maintenance—live music, a BIKE 101: Learn more about

# green expanse. rel that’s ready to be installed. For more Every time Earth Day rolls around—this year most of the ac- info, and to register for the $25 event, salmon lunch and arts and crafts your two-wheeled conveyance will ﬁll the day. For more info: at a free “Bike Maintenance 101” tion goes down April 19, although the actual date is April 22 call 778-7732. esw.org. clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th —I’m reminded of all the things I didn’t do for the Big Mama the I’m fully aware that, like Christmas and RUN FOR RELIEF: Sign up now St. For more info: 647-8955. previous year and resolve to change my ways. For my sake, and the 4th of July, the tenets of Earth Day for the 5K “Run for Relief: WED., APRIL 23 yours, I’ve compiled a few Earth Day suggestions that’ll get you should carry over throughout the year. Burma 2008,” which starts at 9am at Cornwall Park. Cost SQUIRES HIKE: Join members out of the house and into the world to help pamper this particular Good will toward man may be easier to of the Mount Baker Club for an

CASCADIA WEEKLY is $10-$16. For more info: part of the globe we call home (look in the listings to the right stick to than diminishing your environ- 303-6531 or active.com. evening hike to Squires Lake. Meet at 5:45pm at Sunnyland 14 for a host of other options). mental footprint on a daily basis, but PLANT SALE: Attend a Plant Show up at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts this year I think we should all resolve to Sale from 9am-4pm at the De- Elementary or 6pm at the trail- head. For more info: 676-9843. Center Plaza at 8:30am for the Environmental Center’s Earth Day try harder. ming Presbyterian Church, Bike to W & School Day Friday, May 16 BUY ONE GET ONE TREE PURCHASE A PAIR OF CHACO FOOTWEAR BETWEEN APRIL 25-27 AND THE ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION WILL PLANT A TREE IN OUR NATIONAL FORESTS Bike to Work and School Day 2008 is 34 presented by SSC FOOD

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WORDS APRIL 18-20 OPEN HOUSE: Attend an Open House

WED., APRIL 16 daily from 12-5pm at Mount Vernon’s SPOKEN WORD: Spoken Word 34 34 Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. For Wednesdays happen every week at words more info: (360) 336-8955 or lin- 8pm at the Bellingham Public Market, FOOD colntheatre.org. COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS 1530 Cornwall Ave. The event is free. For more info: 714-0800. SAT., APRIL 19 28 PANCAKES: Drop by the monthly THURS., Swedish Pancake Breakfast from APRIL 17 8-11am at Norway Hall, 1419 N. For- POETRY FEST: Ken Warfel and Neil Mc- est St. Entry is $3 for kids and $6 for CLASSIFIEDS Kay will read from their works as part adults. For more info: 733-6618. of the Ferndale Poetry Festival at 7pm FARMERS MARKET: The Bellingham 24 BY AMY KEPFERLE at the Ferndale Public Library, 2222 Farmers Market is open every Saturday Main St. For more info: 384-3647. through December from 10am-3pm at

FILM FILM CANADIAN COLLECTIONS: Canadian the Depot Market Square, located at the poet Marilyn Dumont reads from her corner of Railroad Avenue and Chestnut collections at a free event at 7pm at Street. For more info: 647-2060 or bell- 20 20 Farewell, My Subaru the Lairmont Manor, 405 Fieldston Rd. inghamfarmers.org. For more info: 676-5653. FAMILY DAY: Celebrate Earth Day— MUSIC LIVING THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM AFTER RIVER: Donna Milner reads and the season—at Spring Family Ac- from her debut novel, After River, at tivity Day from 12-4pm at the Whatcom 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Museum, 121 Prospect St. The event is 18 18 For more info: 671-2626. free. For more info: 778-8930.

ART ART “CAN A regular American kick his addiction to oil and live GRANGE CENTENNIAL #3: An all- FRI., APRIL 18 ages celebration focusing on “Grange more locally while still dancing to thumping subwoofers and STORY NIGHT: Members of the Bell- Centennial: 1958, the Third Genera- ingham Storytellers Guild will share 17 not looking like a refugee from a Rainbow Gathering?” tion” happens from 3-8pm at the Rome “A Storytelling Celebration of Place” This was the primary question—and challenge—journalist Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker Hwy. For more at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 info: 671-5768.

STAGE STAGE Doug Fine set before himself when, after years of traversing 12th St. For more info: 650-9470. BOYS & GIRLS: “Under the Big Top” the globe, he bought property in New Mexico and settled into LYRIC POEM: Mark Salerno shares will be the theme of tonight’s Boys

16 life as a farmer at the Funky Butte Ranch. selections from Odalisque at 7pm at 16 and Girls Club Auction starting at 5pm Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more His new book, Farewell, My Subaru, chronicles both the ups at the group’s digs at 1715 Kentucky info: 671-2626. and downs of his progress thus far. Positives include raising St. Tickets are $75 and include the WORDS WORDS chickens and goats for eggs and milk, living mostly off the SUN., APRIL 20 auction and a gourmet dinner. For CHRISTIAN MANIFESTO: Bob Ek- more info: 527-9777.

14 grid via the power of solar energy, bartering locally for as many sta- blad shares ideas from his tome, A New MUSEUM FUNDRAISER: “Party Like Christian Manifesto, at 4pm at Village a Kid Again, All Grown Up” is the ples as possible and giving up the Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: theme of tonight’s 12th annual ben- aforementioned Subaru in favor of OUTDOORS 671-2626. eﬁt gala for the Whatcom Children’s a pickup truck that runs entirely on Museum starting at 6pm at the Bell-

MON., APRIL 21 8 vegetable oil. Negatives are mostly ingham Golf & Country Club, 3729 NATIVE SEATTLE: Coll Thrush talks conﬁned to near-death experiences Meridian St. Tickets are $85. For more about his book Native Seattle at 7pm info: 778-8970. involving possible electrocution and “It is the account of everything that at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For

CURRENTS CURRENTS getting the munchies from the pick- ATTEND can go wrong—and then right—when more info: 671-2626. SUN., APRIL 20 POETRY NIGHT: Sign up to read your MODEL RAILROADS: The Bellingham up’s exhaust—which he says tends WHAT: Chuckanut a regular guy tries to get oil out of his creations at Poetry Night at 8:30pm Society of Model Engineers will hold 6 to smell like Kung Pao chicken. Radio Hour featuring life,” Fine says. every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, an Open House from 12:30-4:30pm Doug Fine, author of When asked what important things If you want to probe Fine’s ﬁnds fur- 1332 Cornwall Ave. For more info: at 1469 Silver Run Lane. Admission

VIEWS VIEWS Farewell, My Subaru he’s learned over the past two years, ther, he’ll be the featured guest author 715-16634 or poetrynight.org. is by donation. For more info: (888) WHEN: 7pm Tues., Fine, 38, is quick to say, “Protect April 22 at the Chuckanut Radio Hour. 511-3293.

4 April 22 your chickens from predators, goats WHERE: Leopold The Sustainable Connections fund- COMMUNITY MON., APRIL 21 MAIL MAIL are generally mischievous, and ev- Crystal Ballroom, 1224 raiser includes an interview with Fine, GEM CLUB: The public is invited to eryone—no matter how busy—can Cornwall Ave. live music, essay and poetry readings, attend the Mount Baker Rock & Gem THURS., 3 get around 80 percent of the fossil COST: $5 and the next episode of the Belling- Club’s meeting at 7pm at Bloedel Don- INFO: 671-2626 or APRIL 17 ovan, 2214 Electric Ave. For more info:

DO IT IT DO fuels out of their lives.” ham Bean. Oh, and don’t worry about HUMANS AND FAIRIES: Mary Getten dougﬁne.com 384-3187. Fine understands that not ev- Fine bringing his carbon footprint to and Diana Gay Pepper will give a talk on the Human and Fairy Relations WED., APRIL 23 08 erybody is able to pluck eggs from beneath the feathers of town. Bellingham’s on his Carbon Neu- Congress at 7pm at Wise Awakening, TRUTH BELLINGHAM: The 9/11 Truth

.16. chickens in their backyards or move to a state that provides tral Book Tour, and, for this leg, he’ll be 4 314 E. Holly St. Entry is free. For more Bellingham group will meet at 5:30pm optimum sun for solar panels, but he still believes the “regu- powered by vegetable oil. info: 756-1890. at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. For more info: 911cynic@

.03 lar” American can get carbon miles our of their foods by eating Despite the mishaps he’s had along PLANETARIUM SHOW: Watch the

16 “In Like a Lion” program at 7pm at the openaccess.org. # locally, converting at least a part of their home power to solar the way, Fine says the end result of his and wind or driving on vegetable oil. great experiment is that he’s reduced WWU Planetarium in Haggard Hall. Ad- MAYOR’S ARTS AWARDS: The 29th ditional showings happen April 24 and annual Mayor’s Arts Awards will in- “Most important is to have fun with it,” Fine says. “Do it one his electric bill by 80 percent and no May 22 and 29. Tickets are $3-$5. For clude a public celebration honoring step at a time.” longer needs gas stations to drive. He’s more info: 650-6146. this year’s winners at 6:30pm at the And lest you think Fine is a know-it-all environmentalist also kept his Netﬂix, Internet, fridge, FRI., APRIL 18 Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. preaching to his subordinates, think again. When he ventured washing machine, and those booming WORLD ISSUES: “Women Waging PEACEFUL PRAYERS: All are welcome Peace in Columbia” will be the topic of into the realm of living his eco-friendly dream, he knew next subwoofers he’s so fond of. to attend a Prayer Vigil for Peace in

CASCADIA WEEKLY a World Issues Forum at 7pm at Bell- to nothing about running a ranch. Farewell, My Subaru is basi- “You can actually be a digital-age the Middle East at 5:30pm at Belling- ingham’s First Congregational Church, ham’s St. James Presbyterian Church, 16 cally a documentation of how much he screwed up in the ﬁrst American while reducing your carbon 2401 Columbia Ave. For more info: year of operation. footprint,” he says. 910 14th St. For more info: 733-1325. 650-2309. doit EVENTS forms at 7:30pm at the Fire- house Performing Arts Cen- APRIL 16-22 ter, 1314 Harris Ave. Guest DOG SEES GOD: See what performers will open the happened to Charlie Brown show. Tickets are $10-$12.

and his friends after they’ve For more info: 734-2776 or stage grown up a bit when Dog hackifun.com. 34 Sees God: Confessions of a

THEATER DANCE PROFILES FOOD Teenage Blockhead shows APRIL 18-20 THE GIFT: Blaine Commu- at 7:30pm April 16-19 and

nity Theater present local 28 22-26 at WWU’s Under- playwright LeRoy Smith’s ground Theatre in the Per- The Gift at 7:30pm at the forming Arts Center. Tickets Blaine Middle School, 975 are $7-$9. For more info: H St. Tickets are $8-$10. For 650-6146. CLASSIFIEDS more info: blainecommuni- THURS., tytheater.org. 24 BY AMY KEPFERLE APRIL 10 SAT.,

GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch FILM “The Good, the Bad and APRIL 19 OPEN HOUSE: Attend an the Ugly” at 8pm at the Up-

Open House from 11am-2pm 20 front Theatre, 1208 Bay St. at the Bellingham Arts Acad- Talent Reborn At 10pm, stick around for emy for Youth’s Preschool of

“Stand Up Night.” Cost is $5. MUSIC the Arts, 1059 N. State St. For more info: 733-8855 or SECOND TIME AROUND For more info: 306-1543 or theupfront.com.

baay.org. 18 APRIL 17-19 MURDER MYSTERY: At- EARLIER THIS month, centenarian George Burns came SKETCHINGHAM: Week three tend an interactive murder ART back from the great beyond to grace the small stage of the of Sketchingham continues mystery, The Lethal Latte, at

with sketch comedy per- 7pm at WWU’s Viking Union 17

Mount Baker Studio Theatre. He smoked his trademark cigars, 17 shared tales from his colorful, humor-ﬁlled life and gave a formances from Becky and Underground Coffeehouse. Noelle and Ten West at 8pm Tickets are $7. For more STAGE command performance for none other than God. Sure, Burns at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 info: 650-6146. STAGE was seen in the form of veteran actor Don McCart as part of Cornwall Ave. Stand-up by the one-man show Say Goodnight, Gracie, but that didn’t make Emmett Montgomery will 16 his return any less miraculous. open the show. Stick around DANCE Continuing on with the theme of bringing performers who on Saturday night at 11pm for SketchingJAM. Tickets are $12 THURS., WORDS have been transported into the heavenly realm back for a sec- general, $5 for the late show. APRIL 17 ond spin at the spotlight, Broad- For more info: 201-5464 or TAX HOP: The Prawns will 14 way stalwart Freda Payne will head inﬁnitelaughs.com. perform at tonight’s “Tax to Bellingham April 22-27 to give APRIL 17-20 Relief Hop” at 7pm at the “A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.” Lynden Pioneer Museum, LITTLE WOMEN: See Little OUTDOORS 217 Front St. Entry is $10 per Part of impersonating a larger- Women, the classic story of person or $15 per couple.

the March sisters and their 8 than-life talent means you’ve got For more info: 354-5576. to have the chops to back up the journey to adulthood, at 8pm Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm legend, and Payne has what it takes APRIL 17-19 Sun. at the Bellingham The- PETER PAN: Ballet B.C. pres- to portray the “First Lady of Song.” atre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets ents its version of Peter Pan CURRENTS While Payne may not be responsi- ATTEND are $7-$11. For more info: at 8pm Fri.-Sun. at Vancou- 733-1811 or bellinghamthe- ver’s Queen Elizabeth The- 6 ble for selling more than 40 million WHAT: A Tribute to Ella atreguild.com. atre. Tickets are $27-$75. For records or have 13 Grammies under Fitzgerald FOREVER PLAID: The musi- more info: (604) 280-3311 or VIEWS her belt, she’s no slouch. The R & B WHEN: April 22-27 cally enhanced play, For- balletbc.com. WHERE: Mount Baker and jazz vocalist has the 1970 hit, ever Plaid, shows at 7:30pm Studio Theatre, 104 N. 4 “Band of Gold” on her list of cred- Thurs., 8pm Fri.-Sat., and FRI., APRIL 18 Commercial St. Freda Payne as Ella Fitzgerald 2pm Sun. at the Anacortes SWING DANCE: A “Blue its, and has starred in the Broad- MAIL COST: $49 Note Swing Dance” happens way shows Jelly’s Last Jam , Blues in Community Theatre. Ad- INFO: 734-6080 or man’s larger-than-life story and signature tunes at from 8-10:30pm at Squali-

ditional showings happen 3 mountbakertheatre.com the Night , and Sophisticated Ladies, its core—think “I got Rhythm,” “Everything’s Com- through May 3. Tickets are cum High, 3773 McLeod Rd. The Bellingham Youth Jazz among others. ing Up Roses,” and “There’s No Business Like Show $16. For more info: (360) IT DO WHAT: Ethel Merman’s In the show, Payne sketches Business”—McKenzie has been channeling Merman 293-6829 or acttheatre.com. Band will perform. Tickets Broadway are $5-$8. For more info:

Fitzgerald’s life and times, begin- off and on for nearly two decades. 08 WHEN: May 27-June 1 APRIL 18-19 676-9267. ning with her breakthrough at the COST: $49 “She has found that audiences all over the country THEATRESPORTS: Four .16. 4 Apollo Theater. A small band will want to recreate the experience with Merman, who as teams of improvisers will go SAT., APRIL 19 head-to-head this weekend CONTRA DANCE: The

provide live music while she details the rich musical history a performer was all but a force of nature on stage,” .03 at Theatresports matches at Noodles will provide live 16

that made Fitzgerald such a wonder to behold. producer Scott Sanders says. “And Rita McKenzie ﬁts # 7:30pm and 9:30pm at the tunes at tonight’s Contra “Even today not many jazz singers can deliver scat improvi- the bill perfectly.” Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay Dance from 8-11pm at the sations with the velocity and timbral control that Fitzgerald The intimate setting of the Studio Theatre—which St. Tickets are $8-$10. This Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th wielded while tossing off passages that suggested another is the only place to see live performance at the Mount is the second of a three- St. Entry is $8-$10. For more language passing through her, the jazz equivalent of speaking Baker while the main theater is being renovated— weekend competition. For info: 676-1554. BALLROOM DANCE: At- in tongues,” wrote a New York Times reviewer when Ms. Payne’s makes it possible to catch the nuances you might miss more info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com. tend a Ballroom Dance from show opened there in late February. in a larger venue. Tickets are a little pricey, but if CLOWNING AROUND: Ber- 8:45-10:45pm at Melody CASCADIA WEEKLY Another star expected to reborn soon at the MBT is also you’re going to put down that kind of cash for musical lin’s Hacki Ginda—a master Hall, 4071 Home Rd. Entry is $5-$10. For more info: known as “the Queen of Broadway’s Golden Age.” Acclaimed theater, these are good bets. After all, with Ella and of pantomime, physical 17 actress and singer Rita McKenzie will bring “Ethel Merman’s Ethel long gone, this might be your last chance to see comedy, impersonation and 734-5676. Broadway” to the same venue May 27-June 1. With Mer- them work their magic. other clownly arts—per- doit

EVENTS FRI., APRIL 18 GLASS ON DISPLAY: Bellingham glass art-

ist David Wight will give molten glass sculpt-

34 34 visual ing demonstrations from 10am-5pm at the GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES Tacoma Museum of Glass, 1801 E. Dock St.,

FOOD Tacoma. Entry is $4-$10. For more info: (253) 284-4750.

28 SAT., APRIL 19 ART BOOTH: Get ready for the upcoming Pro- cession of the Species by stopping by an Art Booth every Saturday in April from 10am-3pm

CLASSIFIEDS at the Bellingham Farmers Market at the De- pot Market Square. For more info: bpots.org. 24 MON., APRIL 21 HOLLAND DAYS: A non-juried exhibition of FILM FILM works by local artists and photographers cel- ebrating the upcoming Lynden Holland Days

20 20 Festival opens today at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. A “Meet the Artists” reception BY AMY KEPFERLE happens May 1. For more info: 354-5995. MUSIC WED., APRIL 23 MAYOR’S ARTS AWARDS: The 29th annual 18 18 18 18 Mayor’s Arts Awards will include a public ART ART ART Garbage celebration honoring this year’s winners at 6:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Pros-

pect St. Winners include the Dream Science

17 Circus, John Goodman, the Cody Rivers Show, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Ben Mann, and many others. The event is free. For more info: STAGE STAGE 778-8930. 16 ONGOING EXHIBITS

WORDS Art ALLIED ARTS: “Innovative Fiber Arts,” a two-woman show featuring works by Peggy EQUALS GOLD Kondo and Margie Thierry, shows through 14 April 23 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. For more info: 676-8548 or alliedarts.org. AVELLINO: View abstract artwork from Bell- not permanent and you can’t hang it on your wall I know I will be doing a project in a speciﬁc place,” Zahidi OUTDOORS IF IT’S ingham artist Kellie Becker through April 27 or plop it on a pedestal in your foyer, is it still art? In the says. “The ﬁnal work, however, is ultimately improvised. I at Avellino, 1329 Railroad Ave. For more info:

8 case of “Urban Alchemy: Garbage Into Gold,” the answer is never know how much and what type of materials will get 441-2321. yes. collected, so this obviously affects the scale and design of BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The Helmed by recent Bellingham transplant Kuros Zahidi, the work.” museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. CURRENTS CURRENTS the two-day art installation project—which will use re- You may have already ﬁgured it For more info: 393-7540. fuse collected from Maritime Heritage Park instead of out, but a big part of what Zahidi is BLUE HORSE: Gallery artists will be on dis- 6 paint, clay or easels as its creative tools—is intended trying to do with “Urban Alchemy” play through May 7 at the Blue Horse Gallery, to both celebrate Earth Day and draw attention to issues is create a catalyst for opening up a 301 W. Holly St. New artists include Laurie VIEWS VIEWS of waste, consumerism and the heady responsibility of dialogue about waste. He says once Potter, Nicole Sharpe, Trish Harding, and Mi- chael Heath. For more info: 671-2305. global stewardship. people start thinking about the ini-

4 COLOPHON: See art deco pieces by MimoK From 10am-1pm on April 19, volunteers will help gather tiative and actively collecting gar- through April at the Colophon Café, 1208

MAIL MAIL trash from in and around the park. At 1pm, Zahidi will bage for it, the ﬂoodgates of conver- 11th St. For more info: 647-0092. show viewers what “urban alchemy” really means by us- SEE IT sation open wide up. GOOD EARTH: Works by Eugene and Ene

3 ing the collected refuse to create a unique art display. WHAT: “Garbage Into “This project gives folks a small Lewis will be featured through April at Good Gold” Community Art Earth Pottery, 100 Harris St. For more info:

DO IT IT DO He’ll work until about 4pm, and the ﬁnished piece will chance to come and do something for Project 671-3998 or goodearthpots.com. remain through Sunday afternoon before being decon- WHEN: 10am Sat., a local park, meet new people, laugh HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View “Lost Cities

08 structed and recycled. April 19 and breathe fresh air,” he says. “This of Skagit: Rediscovering Places of Our Past” WHERE: Maritime through Nov. 2 at La Conner’s Skagit County .16. “Art is something valuable, something inspiring, inter- mingling of minds, questioning and 4 esting, thought provoking or beautiful,” Zahidi explains. “I Heritage Park wondering is exactly what I want to Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St. For more INFO: 676-8548 or info: (360) 466-3365 or skagitcounty.net/

.03 am taking the garbage, which is marring the landscape, and alliedarts.org stir up.” museum. 16

# making art with it. It is the same material, but repositioned Zahidi knows the exhibit is only INSIGHTS: Alfred Currier’s “Skagit Legacy” with a speciﬁc intent, it is transformed.” a small step in getting people to paintings show through April 30 at the In- Zahidi, who’s turned garbage into gold many times be- change their ways of thinking about what it means to enact sights Gallery, 514 Commercial Ave., Ana- fore, says he never knows what he’s going to create until change for the planet. But he believes it’s a series of small cortes. For more info: insightsgallery.com. LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Fish,” an exhibit fea- he sees what he has to work with. He’s used everything changes that lead to bigger ones. turing pots by Allen Moe and paintings by from playing cards to wires, paper wrappers, scrap wood “Earth Day is a chance to examine how our society has Thomas Wood, shows through April 19 at the and an old rubber glove with ﬁve syringes inside to bring and is behaving toward the planet,” Zahidi says. “I think Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. For more CASCADIA WEEKLY his visions to life, and says what emerges is always a we need to start at the root and really get the obvious into info: 733-5361 or luciadouglas.com. surprise. our bones, hearts and minds: the planet is us and we are MINDPORT: Cary Lane’s mixed-media exhib- 18 it, “The Sheepcarder and the Small, Stolen “Thoughts and inspirations come to me from the moment the planet.” doit

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Sky,” shows through April 30 at Mindport 19 Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. For more info: 18 647-5614 or mindport.org. ART ART ART MONA: View “East and West,” a major ret- rospective of the late artist Paul Horiuchi, Consignment

through June 15 at La Conner’s Museum of 17 Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. For more info: EVERY THURSDAY 10PM (360) 466-4446 or museumofnwart.org. STAGE STAGE MOUNT BAKER: Maureen Braun’s water- TICKETS ONLY $3 color exhibit, “Splashes of Grace,” can be Instant seen through May at Mount Baker Coffee DRINK SPECIALS 16 Company, 2075 Barkley Blvd. For more info: 733-9756. Replay’s WORDS PAPERDOLL: See an exhibit of works by Replay’s Bellingham artist Steeb Russell through the month at the Paperdoll, 1200 10th St. For THEATRSPORTS 14 more info: 738-DOLL or steebrussell.com. PICKLE BARN: “Art in a Pickle Barn” will show from 10am-6pm daily through April 27 CHAMPIONSHIP OUTDOORS as part of the Skagit Tulip Festival. For more

info: (360) 428-8576 or skagitart.org. 8 QUILT MUSEUM: “Barns & Botanicals” and pieces from “MetroTextual: Manhat- tan Quilters Guild” are on display through

May 11 at La Conner Quilt & Textile Mu- CURRENTS seum, 703 S. 2nd St. For more info: (360)

466-4288 or laconnerquilts.com. 6 SEASIDE GALLERY: “Tulip Mania” runs through May 15 at La Conner’s Seaside Gal- VIEWS VIEWS lery, 112 Morris St. For more info: lacon- nerseasidegallery.com. SMITH/VALLEE: Works by Northwest 4 artist R. Allen Jensen—also known as

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APRIL 25 & 26 # Squalicum High School students through 7:30PM and 9:30PM Infants to Adults April at World Cup Coffeehouse, 2118 James St. For more info: 733-5615. Unlimited Consignment WHATCOM MUSEUM: “John Franklin Koenig: Northwest Master, Home and Away,” “Love, TICKETS FRI/SAT $10 Murder, Magic,” “Photography Biennial,” PURCHASE WED-FRI 12P-3P 2701 Northwest Ave. and “The Melville Jacobs Legacy” are cur- CALL OR VISIT BOX OFFICE

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I AM HERE to tell you that the world is a strange place indeed. What do Black Eyes and Neckties have

to do with semi-pro wrestling? Everything, as it 34 34 music turns out. What the hell am I talking about? Well, it seems that our very own BENt are the headlining FOOD PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT musical act at Chronic Pain (part 5, because it is, af-

28 ter all, “chronic” pain), a semi-pro wrestling extravaganza set to take place Sat., April 19 at Seattle’s King Cobra. Sure it costs $15 and it’s in Seattle, but when will you ever again get to see BENt share the CLASSIFIEDS stage with such semi-pro square-circle illuminati as “Ronald McFondle” or “Mr. Generico?” And I’ve gotta 24 think it’s worth at least the ticket price, if not con-

FILM FILM siderably more, to see two guys in banana suits—the BY CAREY ROSS appropriately namedamed “BunchBunch of BananasBananas”— throw down someme sweet tag-teamtag-team action. 20 20 20 This will all, of course, bebe ofﬁciatedofﬁciated by guest ref “B.A.. Maracas.”Maracas.” AndAnd I’mI’m MUSIC MUSIC ASP Pop Goes Off guessing that wwhenhen the poster for the event tells me “i“it’st’s all realreal in

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17 I cannot recall the last time ASP Pop booked three shows to be jealous of BENtBENt forfor take place during the same week. Although it is likely not un- nabbing this gig.g. Nope,Nopepe,

STAGE STAGE heard of, this week’s multi-show entertainment extravaganza is it wasn’t Idiot PPi-i- a welcome occurrence for the music-hungry masses on WWU’s lot scoring thatat campus and beyond. While this week’s three headliners—Tegan major-labell 16 and Sara on Wednesday, the Handsome Furs on Sunday, and record deal Rilo Kiley on Monday—have little in common in terms of musi- that turned WORDS cal proclivities, all, at some point during their careers, have on my green- BY CAREY ROSS

14 been hailed as “indie darlings” by various and sundry critics eyed monster,r, and other members of the music instead it is thehe press. Which I guess makes them idea of Black Eyes and Neckties pro- the indiest indies of all the indies, viding musical entertainment for “Draven Lawless” OUTDOORS or some such thing. Whether your and “Master Blaster” that has awoken in me a ﬂeet-

8 preference is synth pop, atmo- ing desire to learn to play a musical instrument. A spheric rock, or something in be- girl’s got her priorities, after all. tween, all you have to do is head If watching dudes in spandex struggle to pin

CURRENTS CURRENTS up the hill to Western to scratch LISTEN each other down in a conﬁned area for a crowd your entertainment itch. WHO: Tegan and Sara, An of eager hecklers isn’t your idea of a good time, 6 Horse well, frankly, I’m not sure what’s wrong with you, WHEN: 7:30pm Wed., TEGAN AND SARA: They’re Canadi- but other diversions do exist to tickle your enter- April 16 VIEWS VIEWS an! They’re identical twins! They’re WHERE: Viking Union tainment fancy. Continuing their new tradition of lesbians! Now that we’ve dispensed Multipurpose Room, WWU showing up at venues where you’d least expect 4 with non-music-related headline COST: $20-$30 them (like, say, the Green Frog), Piano Mover is

MAIL MAIL grabbers, let’s talk about the stuff WHO: Handsome Furs, ing for the likes of David Cross and Modest Mouse slated for a Sun., April 20 in-store show at Ev- that counts. After all, you can be Arthur & Yu eryday Music. Why is it so unusual to see them

before they’d recorded an album. Their debut album, 3 the hottest duo of Canadian lesbian WHEN: 7:30pm Sun., Plague Park, is nine tracks of lush, atmospheric indie at these places? Because, as they’ve reminded us April 20

DO IT IT DO identical twins on earth, but if you rock with vocals that range from plaintive longing to both with their words and with the force of their WHERE: Old Main Theater, can’t back it up—say with a heap- WWU dark decadence. Not bad for an idea born during the music many times over, Piano Mover is ephing

08 ing helping of synth pop and folk COST: $6-$10 dark nights of a Montreal winter. metal. And they are not kidding about that. Not

.16. rock—you’re never going to tour even for a second. And, with the exception of a

4 WHO: Rilo Kiley, Whis- with the Pretenders, Weezer, or Ben pertown 2000, Michael RILO KILEY: Dear Jenny Lewis: I know you are a couple of upcoming house shows, at this point, Runion

.03 Folds, and Neil Young is not going ﬁercely skilled singer and songwriter. In fact, I’ve the band is not scheduled to play anywhere in

16 WHEN: 8pm Mon., April

# to sign you to his label. While the enjoyed most of your work as lead singer of Rilo town until they take the stage at Fantasia in early 21 ofﬁcial story is that Tegan and Sara Kiley, whether you’re giving me heartbreak with a June. So get your metal while the metal’s good. WHERE: Viking Union began making music together in Multipurpose Room, WWU touch of twang or turning on the torch and dialing Should you be wondering what your favorite their teens, listening to them col- COST: $18-$25 up the sexy. Your most recent album, Under the nonproﬁt all-ages organization has been up to, laborate, one could easily assume INFO: 650-6146 Blacklight, is well worth whatever the asking price WhAAM will host its “State of the WhAAM!” meet- they got their start in the womb. just to hear you belt out songs like “The Money- ing at 7pm Thurs., April 17 at the Bellingham Pub- maker” and “Breakin’ Up.” Unfortunately, although lic Library. I’m not certain exactly what this meet- CASCADIA WEEKLY HANDSOME FURS: The Handsome Furs are one of those bands that you’re clearly an incredibly talented musician with ing will entail, but I’m guessing if you’ve got any

20 really are larger than life. Comprised of Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner a long career ahead of you, to me, you will always question about the organization, its mission or its and his wife, writer Alexei Perry, the duo booked a European tour be Wilderness Girl Hannah Neﬂer from Troop Beverly future plans, that would be the time and place to before they’d written a single song, and found themselves open- Hills—and for that, I owe you an apology. get them answered. musicPREVIEW non-clubMUSIC THURS., give a free concert at 7pm more info: (866) 624-6897 at the Bellingham Public or mcintyrehall.org. APRIL 17 Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. BUCKINGHAM TRIO: The For more info: 714-0800. SUN., BY CAREY ROSS Buckingham Trio performs APRIL 20 34 34 from 6-8pm at the Co- SAT., SPRING TONIC: Stone op’s Swan Café, 1220 N. Soup will perform a free APRIL 19 FOOD Forest St. For more info: JAZZ CONCERT: As part “Spring Tonic” concert at 734-8158. of the “Looking at Jazz” 2pm at the Whatcom Mu- Volume Control 28 TILLER’S FOLLY: Listen series, Grammy-nominated seum, 121 Prospect St. For B’DAMN TO TALK NOISE to high-energy acoustic songstress Nancy King will more info: 778-8930. roots music when Tiller’s perform—along with Jud CLASSICAL TUNES: Ford Folly performs at 7:30pm at Sherwood, Steve Christ- Hill, Jeffrey Gilliam, Victo- WHILE RECENT events in the music Ferndale High School, 5380 offerson, and Tom Anas- ria Ebel-Sabo, and Dan Sabo CLASSIFIEDS community—such as venue closures, liquor Golden Eagle Dr. Tickets tasio—at 7:30pm at the will give a “Four-Hand Pia-

are $6-$10. For more info: 24 licensing issues and noise violations—set Heiner Theatre at Whatcom no Duets” concert at 3pm 383-9312. Community College. Tickets at the Firehouse Perform- some people to grumbling, still others as- AMARA GRACE: Blues and are $11-$15. For more info: ing Arts Center, 1314 Harris FILM sessed the situation, formed Bellingham’s reggae singer Amara Grace 650-1066. Ave. Tickets are $10-$15. performs at an Honor Day GOSPEL CHOIR: The Total For more info: bellingham- 20 20 Downtown Alliance for Music and Nightlife 20 (B’DAMN) and got to beneﬁt concert at 7pm at Experience Gospel Choir houseconcerts@hotmail. the Firehouse Performing work. will give a “Performance for com. MUSIC Arts Center, 1314 Harris Peace” at 7pm at the Blaine SWING CONNECTION: The MUSIC As Bellingham’s Ave. Entry is by donation. United Church of Christ, 885 18-piece Swing Connection downtown core be- For more info: 734-2776 or 4th St. Tickets are $6-$12. Big Band will do their thing 18 18 comes home to more honorday.org. For more info: 332-7165 or from 2-4pm at the Leopold, and more residences, FRI., totalexperiencegospelchoir. 1224 Cornwall Ave. Sug- ART noise from music org. gested donation is $5. For

APRIL 18 more info: 714-0054. venues and other LISTEN JAZZ SINGER: Watch the APRIL 19-20 17 nightspots becomes WHAT: B’DAMN documentary Anita O’Day: WHATCOM SYMPHONY: TUES., Public Forum The Life of a Jazz Singer, The Whatcom Symphony a bigger—and loud- APRIL 22 STAGE Orchestra presents its “Live WHEN: 3pm Sun., at 7pm at the American MOCKINGBIRD: A cappella er—issue. The main from Vienna” concert at April 20 Museum of Radio and Elec- trio Mockingbird will give a

thrust of B’DAMN’s 7:30pm Sat. and 3pm Sun. 16 WHERE: Fantasia tricity, 1312 Bay St. The free concert at 12:30pm at at WWU’s Performing Arts efforts thus far have Espresso, 1324 event is part of the “Look- the Whatcom Museum, 121 Center Concert Hall. Ac- been to revamp the Cornwall Ave. ing at Jazz” series. Tickets Prospect St. For more info: claimed soprano Charlotte WORDS city’s outdated and COST: Free are free, but necessary. For 778-8930. MORE INFO: mys- more info: 650-1066. Pister will join in for the

ineffective noise or- 14 pace.com/bdamn CHICAGO TRIBUTE: The performances. Tickets are WED., dinance, and they’ve soon as late summer—and B’DAMN would like Chicago Tribute Authority $19-$23. For more info: APRIL 23 650-6146. gone about their ef- to hear your opinion. What do you think con- pays homage to its name- APPALACHIAN ACTION: sake at 7pm and 9:30pm at SKAGIT CHORALE: More forts the old-fashioned way: by doing re- stitutes noise? How loud is too loud? What Appalachian musicians Kate OUTDOORS than 100 voices will be search, encouraging cooperation and facili- would you like to see in a noise ordinance? Bow’s Skagit Valley Casino. Long and Robin Kessinger raised in song when the Sk- Tickets are $15. For more will perform at 7:30pm at tating dialogue. If you’ve got ideas/advice/opinions to share, agit Valley Chorale performs 8 info: (877) 275-2448 or the Roeder Home, 2600 Now, after having met with everyone from show up at 3pm Sun., April 20 at Fantasia at 7:30pm Sat. and 2pm Sun. theskagit.com. Sunset Dr. Suggested do- at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre jaded hipsters to Mayor Dan Pike, the time Espresso, where B’DAMN will host a public FRITZ, FREELOADERS: nation is $8-$12. For more Hall, 2501 E. College Way. is at hand to reshape the noise ordinance— forum aimed at making sure that, when it Fritz and the Freeloaders info: 671-3480. CURRENTS B’DAMN says a new one could be in place as comes to noise, your voices are heard. Tickets are $16-$25. For 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL

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FILM FILM FILM The documentary follows the ambitions of REVIEWED BY GREG DEFORE Sabriya Tenberken, a blind educator from Ger- many, who after being refused a government 20 20 Foreign Service job ﬂew to Lhasa, Tibet, and founded the school Braille Without Borders. MUSIC Forgetting Sarah Marshall If that were not audacious enough, several years into Tenberken’s enterprise she wrote 18 18 MEMBERS ONLY American super-athlete and memoirist Erik

ART ART Weihenmayer—the only blind person to have like cop show) beats himself up in song. climbed the “Seven Summits”—and persuaded

17 The familiar boy-loses-girl, boy-meets- him to take her older students on a death- new-girl storyline is enlivened by well- defying Himalayan expedition.

STAGE STAGE timed banter, the occasional bit of oddball “If you could climb to the top of the world,” inspiration—Peter’s ambition, for instance, she wrote Weihenmayer in an email, “we also to write a musical that’s equal parts Dracu- can overcome our borders and show the world 16 la, Les Mis, and Avenue Q—and solid sup- that the blind can equally participate in soci- porting turns by Paul Rudd and good-luck ety and are able to accomplish great things.” WORDS charms Jonah Hill and Jack McBrayer. Blindness, in Tibetan culture, is considered

14 Russell Brand steals a couple of scenes a sign of possession by demons or proof of as the hyperbolically self-absorbed rock- great sins done in a past life. So the children er who is so upfront about his hedonism in Tenberken’s school have been shunned or that Peter almost comes to respect him. abandoned by their parents, in some cases OUTDOORS left to rot on the streets.

8 In typical documentary fashion, Walker cuts away from the main narrative of the ﬁlm—the THERE MIGHT COME 23,000-foot, three-week climb to Lhakpa Ri on

CURRENTS CURRENTS A DAY WHEN AMERICAN the north side of Mount Everest—to tell the individual stories of the six blind Tibetan youth. 6 MOVIEGOERS STOP All have been psychologically abandoned by MOVE OVER, Greg Mottola: Time to welcome Nicholas Stol- their parents, who doubt their ability to com-

VIEWS VIEWS BURSTING INTO SELF- ler to the clique of directors whose unusually yuk-heavy films will plete the climb or have a life that is fulfilling. be credited largely to producer and male-nudity aficionado Judd But the film’s melancholy moments are

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MAIL MAIL Forgetting Sarah Marshall might not be as outrageous as Mot- AT THE SIGHT OF A odd group of Tibetan teenagers, German ed- tola’s Superbad or as unusual as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, directed by ucators, and American super-jocks (one blind,

3 DANGLING MALE Apatow himself, but it’s another comedy that works better than its the rest sighted) make their trek, a debate

DO IT IT DO template promises and should perform well (if not breakthrough, MEMBER breaks out over the merits of such physical

star-making well) at the box ofﬁce. exertion. What does climbing an enormous

08 Written by and starring longtime Apatow alum Jason Segel, the mountain mean when you can’t see it and

.16. ﬁlm exploits the sweetly vulnerable persona he made memorable As in other big-screen Apatow produc- must move quickly and often under great fear 4 in Freaks and Geeks. Segel’s Peter Bretter, having been dumped by tions, a good deal of the humor is raun- and duress?

.03 his actress girlfriend, is so obviously adrift that workers at the chy—from the travails of a God-fearing Unfortunately, the kids in the movie— 16

# Hawaiian resort he flees to—coincidentally, the same one his ex honeymooner (McBrayer), who’s repulsed whose translated Tibetan names include Vic- is visiting with her new rock-star lover—can’t help but watch over and scared by his bride’s desires, to the re- tory, Little Moon, Happy, and Lucky—are not him: A mountainous chef recruits Peter to help slaughter a pig, peated deployment of Segel’s genitalia for big talkers. But by the film’s end, we come to bartenders indulge his drinking benders, and the babe at the front shock laughs. understand climbing Everest was a turning desk (Mila Kunis) sets him up with freebies and shows him a good There might come a day when American point in their lives. time during her off hours. moviegoers stop bursting into self-con- The gripping tale of their transformation is The setup’s so sweet that Peter’s initial inability to find comfort scious laughter at the sight of a dangling a reminder that love, attention and positive CASCADIA WEEKLY is all the more pathetic. Segel is good at wallowing, as he proves in male member, but Forgetting Sarah Mar- reinforcement can forever alter a young per-

24 hysterical crying jags and during a cathartic scene where the musi- shall proves—and proves and proves some son’s life. cian (in his unfulﬁlling day job, he writes the score for Sarah’s CSI- more—it’s not here yet.

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FILM FILM Passed Over 20 20 RECONSTRUCTING THE PULVERIZED BREAD OF AFFLICTION MUSIC water for 12-15 minutes, and serve hot. THE JEWS ﬂed Egypt in such a hurry, the Old Testament reports, they Intrigued by De Gouy’s postmodern inter- 18 18 couldn’t even wait for their bread to rise; they mixed ﬂour and water, baked pretation, I decided to compare his recipe

ART ART ﬂat sheets called matzo (Mah-tsah), and bailed. with my mom’s. By all accounts, the ensuing 40-day matzo fast was no picnic. Matzo is “I just follow the recipe printed on the

17 dry, chalky, oven-browned with burn marks, and bland. Appropriately, mat- Manischewitz matzo meal box,” mom said. zo is a staple of Passover, the Jewish celebration of a hunger for freedom Both balls were served in soup, as is

STAGE STAGE worth eating matzo for. This year, Passover falls on April 20. customary. I’d made mom’s chicken soup: Meanwhile, the famous last supper of Jesus Christ was a Passover supper, or seder. Today, 16 INTRIGUED BY DE Passover celebrates survival on earth, while Passover’s spawn, Easter, celebrates resurrec- GOUY’S POSTMODERN WORDS tion and rebirth. INTERPRETATION OF

14 Guided by readings from the Haggadah, the Jew- ture of this Jewish festival commemorat- ish Passover script, a seder’s pace resembles that ing the Hebrews’ liberation from Egyptian THE SYMBOLIC FLESH OF of a desert crossing—a relative famine compared bondage. Fleeing Egypt hurriedly, the Jews to the feast which follows. The seder food, chosen had no time to leaven the bread. This they MY PEOPLE, I DECIDED OUTDOORS EAT IT to symbolize different aspects of suffering and WHAT: Communal have eaten for thousands of years, remem- TO COMPARE HIS RECIPE

8 struggle, is the ultimate un-comfort food. Passover Seder bering it as the bread of afﬂiction.” Hebrew-school dropout that I am, I appreciated WHEN: 8:30pm Sat., Given the symbolic and culinary impor- WITH MY MOM’S. the after-feast more than the seder ceremony itself. April 19 tance of matzo meal, and De Gouy’s knowl- WHERE: Viking Union CURRENTS CURRENTS Instead of the Old Testament, my sacred text dur- edge of the subject, I was shocked to notice Room #565, WWU ing those years was the Gold Cook Book by Louis P. COST: Free that his recipe for matzo ball soup doesn’t boiled chicken, carrot, onion, parsnip and 6 De Gouy, which I discovered when I was nine. INFO: To make reser- use matzo meal. celery. This context proved a deciding My parents both worked full time, and after years vations, call 933-4818, Six whole sheets of matzo are soaked in factor in the second-place ﬁnish of De VIEWS VIEWS of nightly bliss at the Red Dragon Chinese buffet, or go to jewishbelling- boiling water for one minute, then pressed Gouy’s balls of matzoth, which have a I got sick of Peking ravioli, fried rice, etc.—to the ham.com and crumbled. A grated onion is fried in two delicate, Dim Sum-like quality, and were 4 point where I offered to cook dinner myself. tablespoons of chicken fat, to which the more interesting on their own. But hers

MAIL MAIL I followed De Gouy’s recipe for veal scalopini au marsala. Next was salmon soggy matzo is added, and seasoned with made the soup taste better. And when re- poached in cheesecloth. As the meals continued, I found other sources of salt, pepper, chopped parsley and ginger. constituted in my pot of Jewish penicil-

3 inspiration and lost track of the Gold Cook Book. But on a recent visit to Three beaten egg yolks are mixed in, and the lin, these reconstructions of the pulver-

DO IT IT DO Seattle, I found an old copy for sale in the basement of Pike’s Market. whites, beaten stiff, are folded in. Cool this ized bread of afﬂiction had the authentic

In his recipe for “Matzoth Balls,” De Gouy, scholar-chef that he was, in- mass o’ matzo, pat it into 1-2 inch diameter ﬂavor of comfort food. Not fancy, but

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