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The Gristle, 3.ɀɆ Addressing Alzheimer's, 3.Ɂɂ Advice Goddess, 3.ɃɁ cascadia Pickford Calendar Inside REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES {09.23.15}{#38}{V.10}{FREE} Best Of BELLINGHAM Your vote goes here 3 SURGE Art with an eGge 3 STANDING STRONG CONOR Tig Notaro's comedic OBERST crusade, p.16 Going big at the %XȞI 3 Moon Over Buffalo: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden 34 cascadia Oliver: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Sebastian Maniscalco: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Resort Welcome Back Students Shows: 8pm and 10pm, A glance at this Upfront Theatre 27 week’s happenings DANCE Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library B-BOARD B-BOARD MUSIC Tumbao: 3pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn 24 COMMUNITY FILM Help kick off the annual Feed the Need Community Rummage Sale: 8:30am-3pm, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church Community Food Drive by grabbing lunch Farm Toy Show: 9am-3pm, NW Washington Fair- 20 grounds, Lynden at a Food Truck Round Up Sat., Sept. 25 Fall Garage Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit County Fair- MUSIC grounds, Mount Vernon at Civic Stadium Salmon by the Bay: 11am-3pm, Bellingham Techni- 18 cal College ART GET OUT Giant Pumpkin Festival: 9am-5pm, Christianson’s 16 Nursery, Mount Vernon Harvest Festival: 10am-4pm, Skagit River Park, Burlington STAGE Holly Street History Tour: 1pm, downtown Bellingham 14 FOOD Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Water- GET OUT front Plaza Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center 12 Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square Food Truck Round Up: 11am-3pm, Civic Stadium WORDS VISUAL ARTS 8 Surge: 10am-5pm, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner WEDNESDAY [09.23.15] Valley Arts Group Reception: 1-3pm, Creekside CURRENTS CURRENTS Cafe, Sudden Valley MUSIC Knights, killer rabbits, 6 Coty Hogue Trio: 7:30pm, Roeder Home cows and showgirls will SUNDAY [09.27.15] all make appearances VIEWS GET OUT ONSTAGE Divots for Dogs: 4pm, Dakota Creek Golf Course when Monty Python’s Spamalot: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 4 Whatcom Water Weeks: Events happen through Moon Over Buffalo: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Sept. 26, throughout Whatcom County Spamalot opens Sept. Lynden MAIL MAIL Creed Bratton: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo FOOD 25-27 at the Bellingham 2 2 Eat Local Month: Through September, throughout Theatre Guild DANCE Whatcom County Community Dance: 1:30pm, Rome Grange DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO Wednesday Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green MUSIC Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer Defeating Racism Presentation: 7pm, Whatcom Dance Company Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Heritage Park Museum’s Old City Hall 09.23.15 MUSIC WORDS THURSDAY [09.24.15] FOOD Farm Tunes: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres Books by the Bay: 11am-6:30pm, Hotel Bellwether Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street UB40: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre Clover Group Reading: 4pm, Village Books .10 ONSTAGE 38 # Death, the Final Irony: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater FRIDAY [09.25.15] COMMUNITY GET OUT Interactive Shakespeare: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Fall Garage Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit County Fair- Bellingham Bay Marathon: 7:30am, Gooseberry Theatre ONSTAGE grounds, Mount Vernon Point Moon Over Buffalo: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Spamalot: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Theatre, Lynden Death, the Final Irony: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater VISUAL ARTS FOOD Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Moon Over Buffalo: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Commercial Street Night Market: 6-10pm, Com- Ferndale Public Market: 2-7pm, Pioneer Park PETER Comedy Trio: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Theatre, Lynden mercial Street Plaza Bard on the Beach: Though Sept. 26, Vanier Park, Oliver: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre VISUAL ARTS CASCADIA WEEKLY Vancouver, BC Sebastian Maniscalco: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino SATURDAY [09.26.15] Surge: 12-5pm, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner Resort 2 DANCE Welcome Back Students Shows: 8pm and 10pm, ONSTAGE MONDAY [09.28.15] Folk Dance: 7:15-10pm, Fairhaven Library Upfront Theatre Spamalot: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Edgar Allan: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts ONSTAGE COMMUNITY DANCE Center Matt Braunger: 9:30pm, Wild Buffalo Anniversary Party: 6pm, Appliance Depot Friday Night Dance Party: 7:30-10pm, Bellingham Death, the Final Irony: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #38.10 09.23.15 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 27 FOOD 34 Contact Cascadia Weekly: THISWEEK ` 360.647.8200 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD FOOD Tim Johnson ` ext 260 { editor@ mail 27 cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle B-BOARD B-BOARD ext 204 { calendar@ 24 cascadiaweekly.com Music & Film Editor: FILM Carey Ross She wasn’t from Hollywood, but bestselling British author ext 203 Jackie Collins loved to write about it. 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A Distribution Manager: CURRENTS CURRENTS 25: takes no position on I-1366 or its constitution- coastal district, like Birch Bay, has a guaran- Intended to unsettle Scott Pelton ality, but is simply defending people’s right to teed vote. Bellinghammers get their opinion 6 26: Film Shorts 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ vote on it. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled heard. People in the foothills have an equal cascadiaweekly.com against the challengers’ motion for an injunc- vote, too. Everyone is represented! VIEWS REAR END Whatcom: Erik Burge, tion. The lawsuit was against Wyman. With Five Fair and Equal districts, the individual 27: Stephanie Simms 4 Bulletin Board 4 By the way, no initiative with an AG’s ballot ti- citizen and county council will always have rep- 28: Wellness Skagit: Linda Brown, tle and sufficient signatures has ever been struck resentation from each district. This makes sense! MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL Barb Murdoch from the ballot. —Paul Orlowski, Bellingham 29: Crossword —David Ammons, Olympia 2 30: Letters Free Will Astrology Send letters to letters@ A foolish, avoidable error we regret and are hap- ‘THE AWAKE ONE’ cascadiaweekly.com DO IT IT DO 31: Advice Goddess py to correct. The online version of our report has Seventy years on this lovely planet, and still The Gristle, 3.ɀɆ Addressing Alzheimer's, 3.Ɂɂ Advice Goddess, 3.ɃɁ been updated for archival purposes. —Ed. have a heart and no brain. Ha!! Just wanted t 32: Pickford Calendar Inside Comix cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM *SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES 33: {09.23.15}{#38}{V.10}{FREE} express my enjoyment reading [the other] Tim Slowpoke, Sudoku Best Of BELLINGHAM The Thirteen Colonies broke away from British Johnson’s great letter! I hope to hear from Mr. Your vote goes 09.23.15 34: Soup’s on here 3 rule in 1776 because they wanted to be repre- Cranky-er in the future. Thanks! SURGE Art with an eGge 3 sented. All the voters lived in England, none in —Tom Williams, Bellingham .10 STANDINGANDIDING 38 ©2015 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by America. Our current three districts system has a # STRONG CONOR Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Tig Notaro'st 'd comedici OBERST crusade, p.16 Going big at the PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 %uȞI 3 similar representation problem. BRANCHES AND CROSSARMS [email protected] Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia The five fair and equal districts proposal, My husband and I often get Cascadia Weekly Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing COVER: Photo by Kate changes that and gives good representation. for the Fuzz Buzz. 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