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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-

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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 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

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8 INITIATIVES AND DISTRICTS fers an excellent solution. 22: Clubs Secretary of State Kim Wyman opposed strik- People in the farmlands have their own 24: Tomlin is tops Distribution ing Tim Eyman’s initiative from the ballot. She district; they are assured their own say. 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

# 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. A recent Fuzz Buzz, however, papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Lacey SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material Here’s the problem with three districts. Some- was a big disappointment. The whole page was to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- one living near Barkley Village theaters and in the all about tree branches falling on or near power ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday Roosevelt area in Bellingham is lumped in with lines in Blaine, and four separate paragraphs the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Lynden, Sumas and the farmlands. Which group were of railroad crossing arms being stuck down LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. does their council member represent? Persons liv- in Blaine. 4 In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your ing in Blaine or Ferndale are combined with folks I’m sure there were plenty of other things that letters to fewer than 300 words. in Bellingham’s Cornwall Park area. What do they took place all around Whatcom County that could have in common? While we all share some common have been included. interests, we may also have different priorities. I hope the next issue has a little more variety. The proposed Five Fair and Equal districts of- It’s pretty boring and lazy to write five para- NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre graphs about railroad crossing arms being noying 4100 kelvin lights. stuck in Blaine, and tree limbs taking out And they want to get this in under the a couple power lines in Blaine! radar with no public input. Vancouver did —Samantha S, Ferndale this and the people have been complain-

We aim to please, but sometimes the ing ever since. There is still time to change 34 weather won’t cooperate —Ed. the minds of city leaders. Please contact

Law Offices of FOOD the mayor if you are concerned about this. HIGH FREQUENCY —Jim McLaughlin, Bellingham The placement and operation of high- Alexander F. Ransomm 27 powered radio towers can affect the health UNCHARTERED WATERS of those living near them. For this reason, The decision in League of Women Vot- the Federal Communications Commission ers v. Washington State has pretty much Compassionate to You, B-BOARD prohibits these antennas in densely popu- done in charter schools in Washington.

lated areas. So it came as a surprise that The state Supreme Court ruling showed Relentless to the Prosecution. 24 BBC Broadcasting, Inc., operating radio it cares about appeasing the WEA, the station KRPI 1550 out of Ferndale, was union that contributed the maximum al- Highly Rated Trial Attorney FILM able to obtain a construction permit from lowed to most of the justices who voted Defending Your Rights. the FCC to build five 150-foot antennas in with the majority. They do not care about 20 Point Roberts. the quality of education that the ruling

These towers would be just 1,000 feet will produce. 119 NORTH COMMERCIAL ST. SUITE #1420 • OFFICE: (360) 746-2642 MUSIC from the Canadian border and the densely Our Supreme Court has shown its loyal- populated suburb of Tsawwassen, British ties lie with the labor leaders who keep www.ransom-lawfirm.com 18

Columbia, home of 23,000 people. In its them in office rather than the Constitu- ART application, BBC conveniently omitted the tion they swore to uphold. We have a cor- presence of 23,000 residents just across rupt monopoly system that badly serves 16 the border in Tsawwassen. The map sub- our students. Again this time, we see mitted with their application showed a Washington state has the best Court union Mount Baker Theatrere STAGE blank space in the area where 23,000 resi- money can buy. dents actually live! —Joan Dow, Bellingham 14 If built, these radio towers will broad- JUST cast at 50,000 watts, 24 hours a day. The STAND FROM WHERE YOU SIT effect on the citizens of Point Roberts and While I generally agree with recent ar- ADDED! GET OUT Tsawwassen will be profound. ticles calling for reduction of fossil fuel

The blanketing interference from high- extraction and use, I think the authors 12 powered radio waves is more than just dis- miss a critical point. ruptive to electronics and home phones. As American consumers, we have as WORDS Studies have shown that continuous ex- much of an ability to regulate how much

posure to the electromagnetic radiation oil drilling and mining is done and how 8 (EMR) from these broadcasts can pose much money corporations have to spend serious health risks, including headaches, on CEO pay and elections as the govern-

fatigue and breaks in cell DNA that have ment does. The oil companies continue to CURRENTS been linked to leukemia in children. drill in public lands because we continue The FCC and Industry Canada should be to buy the gas that they sell. The mining 6 held accountable for accepting this de- companies continue to extract resources VIEWS liberate attempt by BBC Broadcasting to in public lands because we continue to 4

mask the fact that these towers would be buy the products that the resources are 4 built near a populated area. Nowhere in used to make. The corporations continue MAIL MAIL the United States are radio towers allowed to pay their CEOs exorbitant salaries and MAIL to operate in such close proximity to a influence elections because we continue 2 community. The proposed towers for Point to support them through purchasing their DO IT IT DO Roberts should not be the exception. stocks and their products. Saturday, January 16, 2016 | 7:30pm —John Lesow, Point Roberts How many of us who complain about how energy companies and other corpo- Tickets start at $32 CITY OF SUBDUED rations operate continue to invest in the ILLUMINATION stock market and make poor energy choic- 09.23.15 Subdued lighting? Not any more. In es? How can we expect an oil company or a .10

October and November the city is going large corporation to change its’ practices 38

Pink Martini off ers up a lively blend of classical, # to replace many of our charming amber when we continue to endorse these prac- jazz and old-fashioned pop that speaks to streetlights with ultra-bright LED light- tices through our purchases? How can we everyone who loves great enterainment. ing. The antique lights in front of the expect President Obama and government Mount Baker Theatre, and the ones in regulators to listen to our calls for change Fairhaven and in Ridgemont, and many when we continue to support the compa- others around town will go from a soft nies that we are asking them to regulate? glow to an overly bright light range. It is hypocritical to criticize President SPONSOR: CASCADIA WEEKLY HEATHER OTHMER, WINDERMERE REAL ESTATE There are two lights in front of the Obama or government regulators for fail- 5 Mount Baker Theatre that have already ing to act while we ourselves fail to act. If been converted, so you can see what we want to see changes in corporate prac- Tickets: Call 360.255.7891 or Season Sponsor: we’re going to get. LEDs are fine if they tices, we need to first make changes in are in the 2700 kelvin range. But the city our personal practices. Visit the NEW MountBakerTheatre.com is going to go with super-bright and an- —Jordan Beaudin, Van Zandt mail ›› your views

34 WHATCOM A LEADER IN a focus on the services needed by boats, PALLIATIVE CARE reasonable rents for support business-

FOOD FOOD Recently, I had the good fortune to es and marketing our port will lead to attend a presentation on Vashon Island growth for our community. on advance health care planning. The Presently, when a ship comes to shore 27 Vashon event included a panel discussion needing repair, owners often must go with representation from the Whatcom outside the port to access services. If

B-BOARD B-BOARD Alliance for Health Advancement. we had a working shipyard, the service Bellingham and Whatcom County are people would be in place. Seafood pro-

24 known in Washington as leaders in pal- cessing plants, boat repair shops, cold liative care and advance care planning, storage facilities and retail stalls selling

FILM including educating the population about fresh, local seafood would all add to a the importance of completing advance di- vibrant, sustainable waterfront.

20 rectives. There is evidence now that when Bobby has a good relationship with the advance directives are completed before Lummi. He is trusted and respected by

MUSIC a health crisis or accident occurs—done his fellow fishermen, representing them when an adult of any age is hale and as President of Puget Sound Crab Fisher-

18 hearty—there is less job absenteeism, less man Association and as an alternate on

ART stress in the workplace, less family con- the Pacific Fisheries Management Council flict, and greater employee productivity Groundfish Advisory Panel. when a serious illness or injury does occur. Bobby Briscoe is a man who says that 16 Dr. Bree Johnston at PeaceHealth’s St. “you can make most things work if you

STAGE Joseph Medical Center is the commu- want to.” I have met Bobby, heard him nity standard bearer for palliative care speak and liked his answers. services. The Palliative Care Institute If good, local jobs are important to 14 at Western Washington University, as a you, vote for Bobby Briscoe for Port Com- partner with Dr. Johnston, PeaceHealth, missioner.

GET OUT and WAHA is planning an event on March —Naomi Murphy, Ferndale 16, 2016 that will focus on employers en- With a little over one month before edge about what a great working port

12 couraging their employees to complete our county elections, I feel the impor- can look like and how it can be a legacy FEEL THE BERN their advance directives. tance of being informed about the can- we proudly pass on to all descendants I am a millennial. I got my Bachelor Employer involvement in promoting ADs didates who will be shaping policy for who make Whatcom County home. He Degree (the first in my family to do so), WORDS creates a new dynamic between employer our community. wants to hear everybody’s ideas and will worked through college and graduated

8 and employee. ADs are a “gift” to family Todd Donovan is running for County work for transparency as he participates during the biggest economic downturn and friends because they help avoid con- Council. He’s been an active member of in overseeing Port of Bellingham op- since the invention of the microwave. flicts and lift the burdens of misunder- our community for more than 20 years. erations and providing policy direction Thanks, guys. It has taken years of work-

CURRENTS CURRENTS standing if a person is terminally ill and With his years as a professor at WWU, as and decisions in public meetings. He ing hard in thankless jobs to get to a place unable to speak on his or her own behalf. well as volunteering in a variety of orga- believes the port commission serves all where I have such luxuries as health insur- 6 I hope that other counties in our state nization in our community, I trust Todd citizens of Whatcom County. ance and a paid vacation day or two. Many will follow the Whatcom County model. I will help make our county a better place. He does not believe the port is in the of my fellow millennials are still working VIEWS also hope that more employers will en- I believe in Todd’s ability to make sure business of making money. He does be- as wage slaves, struggling just to get by. 4

4 courage their employees to complete our local government is effective and lieve in putting ongoing infrastructure After the economic wreckage caused by their advance directives to help create responsible, and that our tax dollars are maintenance and improvements on the the Wall Street gamblers, I am ready for MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL healthier, happier communities! spent wisely for the interest of everyone front burner, not passing the immensely a candidate who is serious about making

—Rev. Sally Carlson, in our county. I’m confident that Todd larger bill on to the next generation. He our economy serve those who are work- 2 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Renton will ask the tough questions on issues is against selling off our land with no vi- ing hard, someone who believes in a living DO IT IT DO important to us all—he won’t be a rub- sion of the future. wage, who will fund public education and ELECT TODD DONOVAN ber stamp for pet projects and bloated I love his belief that we can do the best will make the Wall Street gamblers pay for Todd Donovan is running for County budgets on key county priorities coming for all citizens, and he is committed to the damages they have done. That’s why I Council District 1. He impresses me for up in the next couple years. finding the best plan. We could again see am proud to support Bernie Sanders. 09.23.15 several reasons. Todd has shown himself to be fair- a working port most of us have no memory You can say he’s radical, but there is He is incredibly smart and knowledge- minded and practical and he’s earned my of. Bobby does. We live in a special place nothing radical about putting Ameri- .10

38 able about fair elections and represen- vote in this election. The more you hear and I hope you will join me in electing cans back to work repairing our crum- # tation. Todd has lived in our community about him, the more I’m sure he’ll earn Bobby Briscoe for Port Commission. bling roads, bridges and buses. They call since 1991 and understands the many yours, too. —Peggy Borgens, Ferndale it class warfare, but how is pushing for water issues such as phosphorus runoff, —Nancy Orlowski, Bellingham guaranteed paid sick and medical leave managing near shore development and Want good family-wage jobs in our so extreme? Remember, the radicals were preservation of our various watersheds. BOBBY BRISCOE FOR PORT county? Bobby Briscoe has a plan for the ones saying, “Oh no, don’t invade He is ready to work on the big picture is- I am very excited about the opportu- promoting our waterfront into a work- Iraq, there’s no weapons there and it will

CASCADIA WEEKLY sues that will affect us all down the road. nity to elect Bobby Briscoe to our Port ing port, supporting recreational and cost us trillions.” Who were the ones say- He gets that these issues affect our qual- Commission. commercial fishermen. Bobby has the ex- ing it would be fine? Oh yes, everyone 6 ity of life here in Whatcom County and Making his living fishing for more than perience working in ports—both good, else currently running for president. our economic future as well. 40 years, he understands the maritime productive ports and poorly run ones. He Join me, and hundreds of thousands of Please join me in supporting Todd economy up close and personal. He has knows what is needed in up grading Bell- others in supporting Bernie Sanders for Donovan. worked in ports from San Pedro, Calif., ingham’s port so its reputation attracts President. —Annie Welch, Bellingham to Alaska. He has a wealth of knowl- more business. Improved infrastructure, —Bryna Sweeney, Bellingham

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NO BAIL FOR JAIL: Oddities combine for one certainty,

34 the $100 million jail sales tax proposal is struggling and in need of a Plan B. FOOD FOOD With hardly a grain of sand left in the hourglass in views which to influence the ballot language or the minds OPINIONS THE GRISTLE of voters on the jail issue, Whatcom County Executive 27 Jack Louws suggested to surprised listeners at the Aug. 31 meeting of Bellingham City Council there might still

B-BOARD B-BOARD be time to craft a facilities use agreement that would allow COB to join the effort to construct a new jail and

24 Sheriff’s complex near Ferndale. City Council listened BY TIM JOHNSON and rallied, holding a special session to hammer out

FILM an offer with representatives from County Council in attendance. The full City Council completed and ap- A Profile 20 proved their offer at their earliest opportunity on Sept. 14, with County Council meeting the following day and COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST BELLINGHAM POLICE MUSIC presumably able to consider the offer under new business. But Louws instead walked COB’s offer across the teen filed a complaint with ficers of racial profiling by asking cy, and the Racial Justice Coalition

18 street slowly, with no plans to introduce it or comment A Bellingham Police last week, Lelo his immigration status and gathered at the courthouse to show

ART on it before Sept. 29, long after any opportunity has accusing police of racial profiling. violating Bellingham Police Depart- support for Lelo and community passed for face-saving cheer to influence the outcome Bellingham Police stopped Alfredo ment policy when they called Cus- members who are targets of stops, of the election. “Lelo” Juarez, 15, for driving the toms and Border Protection. It also racial profiling, and abuses by local 16 The sum total of these events suggest a bamboozle wrong way on a one-way street with accuses police of breaking federal law enforcement.

STAGE of expectations and, perhaps, tee-up for Jail 2.0. no license in Bellingham, on June 20. law for complicity in attempting “Lelo bravely takes this action to There was, of course, little chance COB could craft an Juarez initially told the officers he to deport an applicant in the De- support other victims and people offer the county and its other cities could consider and was 18. He also reportedly told them ferred Action for Childhood Arriv- who live in fear,” said Maru Mora Vil- 14 approve before the details of the sales tax were spelled he is an undocumented immigrant. als program, a national policy that lalpando, who represents an activist out in the voters guide and printed on ballots. And, in- Bellingham Police contacted U.S. exempts some immigrants from de- group called Latino Advocacy. “He

GET OUT deed, the jail services agreement City Council approved Customs and Border Protection in an wishes to bring these abuses by law Sept. 14 was little different from the offer the city attempt to properly identify Juarez. enforcement into the light of day.”

12 made in June that was summarily rejected by County That agency took custody of the teen , Bellingham Police acknowledged Council based on the executive’s recommendation that and placed him in an immigrant de- the incident was unfortunate and the terms were unworkable. If anything, the terms of tention center in Tacoma. Within 24 “What we’re trying have agreed to review their policies. WORDS the city’s revised offer are more exacting—a further hours, Juarez was released and taken to highlight here is “What we’re trying to highlight

8 reduction in the proposed size of the jail to 450 beds, to his family in Mount Vernon. here is that this collaboration be- with commensurate cost of $80 million and the savings “The police officers could not find that this collaboration tween local police and immigration in construction and operations to be shared with the Lelo in their system,” civil rights enforcement should not happen.

CURRENTS CURRENTS cities, plowed back into municipal programs for mental advocates noted in a press release between local police This is the road to detention,” Vil- health and alternatives to incarceration. and call to action following the ar- lalpando said. “We should not have 6 6 If it was unworkable in June, why would a resubmit- rest. “In order to ‘verify his identi- and immigration local police putting people into de- tal in September change the tenor of discussion? fication,’ they promptly called Cus- portation proceedings.” VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS “I personally think there is a solution here some- toms and Border Patrol (CBP). As a enforcement should Bellingham Police policy notes

4 where, and that current ballot language does not tie us result, CBP arrested Lelo, a 15 year not happen. This is that when a person is suspected of to any certain interlocal agreement or jail size,” What- old, detained him overnight in the an infraction or criminal violation, MAIL MAIL com County Council Chair Carl Weimer wrote to City CBP station, and then took him to the road to detention. the officer “should take reasonable

Council on Sept. 9, hours before their special session, the Northwest Detention Center in steps to determine the person’s 2 which he attended. “My belief is that if we build a cor- Tacoma, exposing him to a prison We should not identity through valid identifica- DO IT IT DO rectly sized jail it frees up millions to deal with equity facility with immigrant adults. tion or other reliable sources,” add- issues about bond payments, operations and also fund- “Bellingham Police Department have local police ing, “Arrests, Identifications and ing for diversion programs. did not issue a ticket, record this putting people Bookings of persons of question- “The County Council received a letter from all the incident at the police department, able immigration status shall be 09.23.15 mayors of the small cities encouraging continued ne- and they have not contacted his into deportation conducted in the same manner as gotiations with Bellingham to find a solution that family, afterwards. Immigration au- those for any other person... with- .10

38 works for everyone,” Weimer reported. thorities released Lelo when they proceedings.” out regard to immigration status.” # In comments to the Weekly, Louws noted he would realized their mistake was noticed — MARU MORA VILLALPANDO, “Bellingham Police Department first have to gain approval of COB’s offer from the by grassroots community groups LATINO ADVOCACY has publicly denied collaborating caucus of small city mayors before he could comfort- fighting to reunite Lelo back with with Customs and Border Patrol in ably present the concept to County Council. But Lyn- his family” in Mount Vernon, activ- local traffic matters,” Villalpando den Mayor Scott Korthuis, who was also in attendance ists noted in their press release. said. “Lelo was stopped by BPD and Sept. 9, suggested any proposal that reduced costs and On Friday morning, Sept. 18, Lelo portation if they entered the coun- requested an identification from

CASCADIA WEEKLYreturned revenue to the cities would probably be sup- walked into the Bellingham Police try under the age of 16. him, when he couldn’t produce one, ported by the caucus. Department alongside representa- Under the umbrella of the Not- instead of being taken to the station 8 While citizen complaints about the jail proposal are tives from several activist groups 1More deportation campaign, Com- for verification of his identity or myriad—from the mercurial bloat of the size of the and handed police a formal community to Community, the Whatcom calling his parents, BPD transferred facility (once upon a time, it was envisioned at more plaint. The complaint accuses of- Civil Rights Project, Latino Advoca- VIEWS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 than 1,000 beds) to the opaque and hazily sleazy process in which it was sited and the property acquired VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE (and does a smaller size still require

that property?) to the evaporation of GO 34 revenues from a .1 percent sales tax NORTHWOOD approved by voters in 2004 for the pur- FOOD pose of building a new jail or to repair the existing facility (neither of which FOR CASINO ! 27 occurred)—the City of Bellingham’s complaints are succinct. They concern FUN the commingling of costs for construc- B-BOARD tion and continued operations of a

new jail facility and the absence of 24 cost controls. And those controls include the alternatives to incarceration FILM the city believes it is fiscally, ethically

WIN A RUSSELL 20 obligated to undertake. The fundamental problem of What- com County’s jail construction plan is MUSIC it siphons away all of the available,

WILSON SIGNED 18 authorized tax revenue that could be

used to create such programs and lards ART it onto the construction and operation of a new facility. The capacity of that JERSEY, OR $1200! 16 facility, in turn, yields blanket permis-

sion to prosecutors to ignore alterna- STAGE tives. Why hassle, when there’s easy SEPTEMBER 27 GET YOUR ENTRY IN BEFORE space at the jail? HALFTIME EACH SEAHAWKS GAME TO WIN! 14 Louws took a gamble in June that • (QGRI¿UVWTXDUWHU $100 he could push past COB concerns and, • (QGRIVHFRQGTXDUWHU $200 with the consent of voters, glom onto GET OUT • (QGRIWKLUGTXDUWHU $300 all of the available funds without duty • (QGRIJDPH $400

to share those revenues with others. 12 For the county, this isn’t a bad plan— • PLQXWHVDIWHUJDPHKDVHQGHG it’s simple, it raises revenues suf- 12th fan $1,200 drawing!3OXVD%RQXVGUDZLQJIRUD WORDS ficient for the jail, and it places the signed Russell Wilson jersey.

county permanently in control of those 8 funds. It serves county intrests; and Jack represents county interests. 12TH FAN SPECIALS EVERY SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER!ER! • 3L]]DDQGDSLQW Perhaps the Executive believed he CURRENTS could pressure Bellingham aboard on • 3RXQGRIZLQJVDQGDSLQW 6 the backend, and to this end the Sher- • R]EDFRQZUDSSHG%DU6WHDNDQG)ULHVZLWKD3LQW 6 iff has proven useful—issuing threats VIEWS that capacity in the current facility VIEWS

must be dramatically reduced by the 4 start of this year and Bellingham, without a facilities use agreement in Try Out The New Oktoberfest Buffet! MAIL place, bound to suffer first and acutely 2 in the transition. EveryEvery Saturday in September and October! DO IT IT DO That Sheriff Bill Elfo laid down the law at City Council’s evening session on Aug. 31, with greater audience and (YHU\6DWXUGD\LQ6HSWHPEHUDQG2FWREHUIURPSPWRSPIRU wider viewership of the proceedings, )HDWXULQJ*HUPDQVSHFLDOWLHVOLNHEUDWZXUVWVDXHUNUDXW should not be brushed aside as coinci- VFKQLW]HODQGVSDHW]OHDQGSRUNFKRSVZLWKDSSOHVDQGFDEEDJH 09.23.15 dental. His dire pronouncement of con- 3OXVDGGWR\RXUEXIIHWSULFHDQGUHFHLYHDFROOHFWLEOH*HUPDQ EHHUVWHLQZLWK\RXUFKRLFHRIGRPHVWLFEHHUWRNHHS .10 sequences, intended for the public as 38 # much as for Council, can best be char- acterized as persuasion headlong into coercion. Doubling down on the pressure, the Executive issued a formal let- MODERN COMFORTS AND JUST TWO TURNS OFF THE ter announcing Whatcom County would discontinue negotiations regarding the OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY GUIDE MERIDIAN provision of jail services to COB. CASCADIA WEEKLY The City of Bellingham responded BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 9 with remarkable steel, invoking a clause of binding arbitration required 1RUWKZRRG5RDG/\QGHQ:$ N by the current interlocal agreement in E BADGER RD NORTHWOOD RD the event the two governments cannot ZZZQRUWKZRRGFDVLQRFRP GUIDE MERIDIAN RD LYNDEN GRISTLE, CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 currents ›› last week’s news

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T SEPT15-21 20 BY TIM JOHNSON s MUSIC 18 State agencies seek additional public input before they’ll review the oil-by-rail proposal for the Shell Anacortes refinery. The public is invited to

ART comment on the scope of an environmental impact statement (EIS) that Skagit County and the Washington Dept. of Ecology plan to jointly pre- 09.15.15 pare for a proposed facility to receive rail deliveries of crude oil at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery. Comments will be accepted though Nov. 5. 16 TUESDAY judge’s order. The judge said the state is violating fills, power plants and refineries. The latter are

STAGE Haggen Foods may return to its former size before a corporate de- the constitutional rights of some of its most vulner- among the heaviest emitters of carbon pollution. cision to acquire surplus stores from Albertsons and Safeway imploded. able citizens. An Associated Press review of records Haggen filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month. The Seattle found that the fines have reached about $700,000 An investigation completed by staff of the 14 Times reports bankruptcy court documents show the company shedding since 2014. Some judges say the failure to provide state Public Disclosure Commission recommends two-thirds of its current size. Documents indicate Haggen operated 17 services isn’t because the hospitals can’t do it, it’s prosecution for initiative gatherer Tim Eyman.

GET OUT profitable stores before the acquisitions, earning $25 million dollars because they won’t do it. In 2002, Eyman admitted having taken hundreds a year. The filing indicates Haggen will try to salvage its business by of thousands of dollars from campaign funds for

12 focusing on those locations and some of the newly acquired stores. In The Bellingham man behind the wheel of the his own personal use while at the same time ly- just three months following their decision to expand, Haggen nearly car that hit and killed two high school students ing to the press, the public and his own follow- exhausted their $33 million credit line, the Times reports. and injured two others was not under the influ- ers by claiming he was working as a volunteer. WORDS ence of drugs or alcohol. Prosecutors say toxicol- In the most recent claim, Eyman appears to have

8 Haggen will waive noncompete agreements that prevented Al- ogy test results came back clean on William Klein, authorized payments to a firm called Citizen Solu- bertsons from hiring workers at the 146 stores sold to Haggen, al- despite the confidence of State Patrol troopers on tions, knowing the company would route part of lowing those employees to apply for work elsewhere as the Belling- the scene who believed he was intoxicated. Klein the money back to him, violating prohibitions on CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 ham-based grocer reorganizes. The ban was meant to protect Haggen maintains he simply fell asleep when he drifted concealment of spending and on personal use of from losing employees to the much bigger Albertsons. Now, a large from the roadway and slammed into students walk- campaign funds. The PDC report suggests Eyman 6 portion of the grocer’s expanded 11,000-member workforce may soon ing from Windward High School on Smith Road in would solicit hundreds of thousands of dollars in be out of work. A merger between Albertsons and Safeway resulted in June. He is charged with two counts of vehicular one campaign and then employ the funds in clone VIEWS a super-abundance of stores in neighborhoods throughout the west homicide and two counts of vehicular assault. initiatives, bootstrapping and pocketing the over-

4 coast. Haggen acquired those in an expansion plan, but now may age. The commission must evaluate the findings. shutter many of them. 09.21.15 MAIL MAIL MONDAY An Oak Harbor man is found guilty of two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of 2 09.17.15 THURSDAY The state Dept. of Ecology proposes capping vehicular assault in a crash near Anacortes that DO IT IT DO greenhouse gases from the state’s 35 largest emit- took the lives of twin sisters two years ago. Ira Judges across the state of Washington continue to issue contempt ters, rolling out a new rule-making process months Lamar Blackstock, 55, lost control of his car on orders and fines against a state agency and psychiatric hospitals for after Gov. Jay Inslee failed to get legislation passed Highway 20 and crossed into oncoming traffic, failing to provide timely competency services. Orders continue to pile on his ambitious cap-and-trade plan. The agen- killing 17-year-old sisters Janeah and Janesah Go- 09.23.15 up even after a U.S. District Court judge issued a permanent injunc- cy began writing a rule to limit—and reduce over heen. A friend was also injured in the crash. A tion on April 2 requiring the state to provide mentally ill people with time—the amount of heat-trapping gases from the jury decides Blackstock acted with disregard to .09

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WEST OF DETROIT FOOD IRON LADY On Aug. 26, Blaine Police checked on a On Sept. 19, a Bellingham woman walked traffic concern after a passerby noticed 27 into traffic on Interstate 5. She was struck a white Lincoln Town Car driving on the by four cars but suffered only minor injuries. street using its hydraulic suspension to

Witnesses say the 39-year-old woman kicked bounce in the roadway. The arriving offi- B-BOARD off her shoes and took off her backpack on cers found the suspect vehicle parked and the shoulder of southbound I-5 near Lakeway unoccupied, police reported. Extra patrols 24 Drive, the Washington State Patrol report- were provided to the neighborhood. ed. Witnesses saw her step into traffic. One FILM car tried to swerve out of the way, struck UNLIKELY TO PERSUADE

her, and kept driving. A second car hit the On Sept. 16, a man suggested he bring 20 woman with its right mirror before the driver a bomb to the parole office in downtown

pulled over. The woman then decided to lie Bellingham because he was so frustrated. MUSIC down on the road and was struck by a third Bellingham Police logged the report but

vehicle. She got up and walked across the could not identify or locate the man. 18 median into the northbound lanes, where ART another car struck her with its right mirror, WRONG ADDRESS WSP reported. All of the impacts were de- On Sept. 10, Blaine Police assisted a very 16 scribed by troopers as “glancing blows.” She intoxicated woman who was pounding on

was taken to the hospital for an involuntary the front door of her home and demand- STAGE mental health evaluation and given a ticket ing to be let in. “The frustrated, dishev- for pedestrian in traffic. “She suffered only eled lady slumped over on the front steps $8,005,488 14 a bruise above eye!” State Patrol Trooper as officers arrived, complaining that the Mark Francis marveled. people inside would not let her in and were

preventing her from getting to her apart- TOTAL non-medical cannabis retail sales in Whatcom County, July 2014 through GET OUT RADIOHEAD ment on the second floor,” police reported. June 2015 On Aug. 27, a traveler came into the Blaine “This explanation helped not a whit, as the 12 Police department to offer information. porch and locked door she was assaulting “She explained that someone had implanted were attached to the side of a darkened sin- $26.34 $39.39 WORDS a device in her left ear through which she gle-family, single-story house. Fortunately

can hear conversations which other people the lady had a cell phone and the officers AVERAGE per capita consumption of MARIJUANA sales in Whatcom County 8 8 cannot detect,” police reported. “The de- reviewed it to find and call her roommate. marijuana statewide. Nine counties per capita—i.e, if everyone in Whatcom vice is activated when she receives certain He walked over from their house and guided continue to prohibit marijuana sales. County bought pot, this is what each resident would have paid. CURRENTS CURRENTS phone calls. She wanted to add Blaine Po- his friend safely home.” CURRENTS lice to the list of federal and local law enforcement agencies that are already aware On Sept. 19, a man called Bellingham Po- 6 8 6 of her situation and ability, while she con- lice to report he’d discovered an unknown tinues her search for a specialist who can woman sleeping inside his home. VIEWS RANK of Whatcom County among RANK of Whatcom County among remove the device,” police explained. “Her 4 Washington counties by marijuana sales. Washington counties by population. information was documented.” TWO FOR ONE On Sept. 15, while a Blaine patrol officer was MAIL

HAUNTED CROSSARM at the Peace Arch Port of Entry processing the 1 8 2 UNEXORCISED arrest of a motorist driving with a suspended DO IT IT DO

On Sept. 16, “it was not stormy but was in- license, another traveler arrived at the facil- deed dark as an officer on patrol waited at ity who was also driving in violation of the RANK of Kilckitat County in highest RANK of Whatcom County in highest the Bell Road railroad crossing for the mid- suspension of his Washington privileges. The consumption of marijuana per capita consumption of marijuana per capita among Washington counties: $65.80 among Washington counties: $39.39 night freight train to pass,” Blaine Police officer arrested, cited and released both driv- reported. “When the barricade arms went ers to mandatory court appearances. 09.23.15 up the nest of gathered autos began taking

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polite turns at the intersection. Suddenly, a DRIVER VS. DIVER 38 # large town car sped north on Peace Portal On Sept. 20, a Bellingham man was an- AVERAGE sales among Whatcom’s nine marijuana retailers, July 2014 through June through their midst, swerved through the noyed to hear someone digging through a 2015. The average sales disrtibuted among the state’s 162 retailers is $157,738 in intersection turning southwest onto Bell trash bin outside the Maplewood Animal the same period. Road, then nearly veered off the roadway Hospital and went to confront him. A fight and onto the railroad tracks before acceler- escalated between the man and the dump- 17.5 ating south. When the officer stopped the ster diver. The man stormed off to his car car moments later, its operator explained he and reportedly tried to strike the dump- REPORTED marijiuana use increased from 15.4 percent of the population to 17.5 CASCADIA WEEKLY was just in a hurry to get home from work. ster diver several times with the vehicle. percent in the past year. Reported rates of increase in Washington are statistically It turned out he was doing this in violation The dumpster diver responded by throwing significant and larger than the increases in the corresponding national rates; 11 of his driver’s license suspension. The man rocks at the car, which further enraged the however, increases in self-reported cannabis consumption may reflect a greater willingness to admit marijuana use now that it is no longer a crime under state law. was arrested for the criminal offense, then driver. Police arrived to take control, and cited and released with a mandatory court arrested the 40-year-old driver on charges SOURCES: Washington State Institute for Public Policy; Washington State Liquor Control Board, date. The 20-year-old called his parents to of assault. Marijuana Sales Activity by License Number; National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) doit WORDS

WED., SEPT. 23 34 THE GAME CHANGER: Franklin Veaux reads from The Game Changer: A Memoir of Disruptive FOOD FOOD Love at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. words This book is the true story of a game-changing COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS relationship that changed not only Franklin and 27 his wife Celeste’s lives, but also the face of the modern polyamory movement. WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM B-BOARD B-BOARD peacefully at home on April 19, 2013. Sev- THURS., SEPT. 24 MEMOIR WORKSHOP: “Tame Your Inner

24 en months after Alan died, I gave a TEDx- Bellingham talk, “Not Here By Choice.” Critic” will be the focus of the final “Write Your Memoir in September” workshop with Cami Ost- FILM (You can access it on my website, www. man from 5:30-7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th phyllisshacter.com) St. Entry is $19.

20 At 3pm Sat., Sept. 26, there will be a 383-3200 OR WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM presentation featuring four speakers at the SKAGIT WRITERS LEAGUE: “Fun with Micro- MUSIC Bellingham Unitarian Fel- fiche and Other Joys of Research” will be the lowship entitled “Alzheim- focus of a presentation by author Kirby Larson 18 er’s: Perspectives, Reali- at a Skagit Valley Writers League meeting from

ART ties, Choices.” It will be 6:30-8:30pm at the Mount Vernon Senior/Com- sponsored by Compassion munity Center, 1401 Cleveland St. Entry is free; & Choices of Washington. please register in advance. 16 At the event, I’ll share WWW.SKAGITWRITERS.ORG

STAGE ATTEND my story and go into some FRI., SEPT. 25 WHAT: detail about the medical ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Northwest Indian Col- “Alzheimer’s: and legal preparations lege English teacher and author AC Fuller reads 14 Perspectives, for someone who decides from his new book of fiction, The Anonymous Source, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Realities, to voluntarily stop eating Choices” The book focuses on a a $500-million secret GET OUT WHEN: and drinking. that leads back to the morning of 9/11. 3-5:30pm Sat., The second speaker is WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

12 Sept. 26 Josselyn Winslow. She 12 WHERE: Bell- and her husband were two SAT., SEPT. 26 MEMOIR AND POETRY: Jay Jacobs reads from ingham Unitar- of the founding members WORDS WORDS ian Fellowship, The Widow Wave: A True Courtroom Drama of 1207 Ellsworth of the Alzheimer’s Soci- Tragedy at Sea—a memoir focusing on the time

8 St. ety of Washington. She he spent as a lawyer defending one of the wid- COST: Entry is will speak about how ows of the tragedy—at 4pm at Village Books, free her mother, who had Al- 1200 11th St. At 7pm, Seattle’s Christopher J. INFO: Jarmick reads from his new book of poetry, Not

CURRENTS CURRENTS zheimer’s, lived with her www.buf.org Aloud. Both events are free. and her family for some WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM 6 years. She’ll discuss the challenges and difficult decisions they faced when the SUN., SEPT. 27 VIEWS BY PHYLLIS SHACTER disease became more advanced. CLOVER READING: Thirteen regional poets— including Jim Bertolino, Laurel Leigh, Larry

4 The third speaker is Tresa Mariotto, the Crist, Paul Hunter, and Michael Dylan Welch— Executive Director of Woodway Assisted will read from their Clover, a Literary Rag: MAIL MAIL Scary Statistics Living. She has had many years’ experience Volume IX selections at 4pm at Village Books,

working with people with various kinds of 1200 11th St. 2 PERSPECTIVES ON ALZHEIMER’S dementia, including Alzheimer’s. She will WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM DO IT IT DO discuss the seven stages of Alzheimer’s. In SEPT. 27-29 lzheimer’s statistics march like stern soldiers in a never-ending war. addition, Tresa will describe what occurs BOOKS BY THE BAY: Authors Robert Dugoni, A As of 2013, more than five million people in this country live with Al- for many residents in the last two stages, Pamela Beason, Bennett Coles, Cami Ostman, zheimer’s, and that could triple by 2050. It appears to be the most feared after they enter the dementia facility. Jennifer Snow, Sara Stamey, William Dietrich, 09.23.15 disease today, especially among baby boomers. If you consider that it is largely The fourth and final speaker is Barbara and more will take part in the “Books by the Bay” Book Fair from 11am-6:30pm Sunday a disease of the older population and that there are about 40.3 million people Green MSW. She develops continuing edu-

.10 through Tuesday at Hotel Bellwether, One

38 over 65 years of age in the United States, this means 12.4 percent of people cation programs for professionals in ag- Bellwether Way. The free and family-friendly # over age 65 have Alzheimer’s disease right now. ing. In her work, she provides guidance for event will feature author signings, sales and More alarming numbers: There are 15 million caregivers who, in 2012, gave using the Compassion & Choices of Wash- readings, door prizes and drawings. 17 billion hours of unpaid care to loved ones. If you put all these caregivers ington Advance Directive for Dementia/ WWW.CHANTICLEERREVIEWS.COM together in one state, it would be the fifth-largest state Alzheimer’s. She will share information MON., SEPT. 28 As early as 2007, my husband, Alan, and I saw cognitive decline in him. The about this relatively new and informative OPEN MIC: Local writer and teacher Laurel neuropsychologist, however, could not detect it until late 2011. My father had Advance Directive. Leigh emcees the monthly Open Mic at 7pm

CASCADIA WEEKLY Alzheimer’s. My husband’s mother had it, too. She endured the disease for more The presentation will end with a ques- at the Book Fare Cafe at Village Books, 1200 than a decade and died a shadow of a person with no physical capacities. tion-and-answer session. We hope to fill 11th St. Published and unpublished writers 12 are encouraged to share their own stories, We both knew what lay ahead for Alan concerning this cruel disease. With the all 250 seats at the Bellingham Unitarian poems and essays. Sign up at the main coun- proper education and research, my husband became certain that he did not want Fellowship. This free event is valuable for ter on the first floor or call the number listed to live into the indignities of the late stages of Alzheimer’s. Instead, he decided anyone who is concerned about Alzheim- here to do so. to voluntarily stop eating and drinking while he was still mentally competent. er’s—either for themselves, a friend or a 671-2626 With the support of a medical doctor and two caregivers, my husband died loved one. We hope to see you there. doit BRUNCH t COCKTAILS t TACOS t OYSTERS t PATIO t DAILY HAPPY HOUR

SNOWDEN: Award-winning journalist and car- what can be done to eradicate it. Entry is free. toonist Ted Rall shares his new book, Snowden, at WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Rall delves into Snowden’s early life and work experience, SEPT. 25-26 34 his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, FALL GARAGE SALE: More than 130 vendors wednesday steak night. new surveillance technologies, and the recent will be onsite at the 22nd annual Fall Garage FOOD history of government intrusion. Sale taking place from 9am-4pm Friday and WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Saturday in Mount Vernon at the Skagit County $16 steak and beer 27 Fairgrounds, 479 W. Taylor St. Additionally, there POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their will be antiques, food, live music and a car show all day wednesdays at rock and rye. creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up (on Saturday only). Entry is $2. B-BOARD B-BOARD at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET Central Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Entry is by donation. P.S. Please use the back fountain entry. SAT., SEPT. 26 24 WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG COMMUNITY RUMMAGE SALE: Furniture, EST. 2014 bicycles, kitchen items, sporting goods, linens, FILM WED., SEPT. 30 small appliances, books, games, CDs and QUEST MEMOIR WORKSHOP: As part of records, tools, clothing, toys, jewelry and more

Whatcom Community College’s “Chuckanut Writ- can be found at the 41st annual Community 20 ers” series, sign up for workshops with Cami Rummage Sale taking place from 8:30am-3pm ROCK AND RYE Ostman focusing on “The Quest Memoir: Writing at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1720 Harris OYSTER HOUSE MUSIC About Travel & Other Assorted Journeys” starting Ave. Funds raised benefit the monthly South- 1145 NORTH STATE STREET tonight from 6-8pm at the school’s Kulshan Hall side Community Meal.

223. Cost is $125; classes continue Wednesdays WWW.OURSAVIOURSBHAM.ORG DINNER Tuesday - Sunday 3 - 11 BRUNCH Saturday - Sunday 10 - 2 18 through Oct. 28. ART 383-3200 OR WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM FARM TOY SHOW: Show, sell, trade or peruse items at the 30th annual Puget Sound Farm Toy

CATASTROPHE/DEMOCRACY: Thom Speidel Show taking place from 9am-3pm at the Haggen 16 shares ideas from Catastrophe or Democracy: Who Expo Building at Lynden’s Northwest Washington

Decides? at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Attendees can dis- STAGE The book proposes a solution to the country’s cover all types of toys—including construction, ecological emergency. cars, trucks, NASCAR and more. Entry is $2 for WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM kids and $5 for adults. 14 WWW.NWWAFAIR.COM THURS., OCT. 1 CROSSING ZION: Former mountaineering guide GENEALOGICAL SEMINAR: “Insanity in the GET OUT Keith Mark Johnson reads from his memoir, 19th Century” and “Finding and Using Your Crossing Zion, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th Ancestors’ Church Records” will be among the 12 12 St. The book is described as an “adventure saga topic discussions at the Whatcom Genealogical dealing not only with the allure of mountaineer- Society’s Fall Seminar happening from 9am-4pm WORDS ing but with divorce, single parenting, failed re- at St. James Presbyterian Church. The public is WORDS lationships, love affairs, loneliness, depression, welcome. Please register in advance. addiction to abusive situations, and getting WWW.WAGENWEB.ORG 8 better, simply because it’s either that or die.” WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM SALMON BY THE BAY: Have fun while learning about the critical link between healthy

watersheds and a thriving working waterfront at CURRENTS “Salmon by the Bay” from 11am-3pm at Belling- COMMUNITY 6 ham Technical College’s Perry Center for Fisheries WED., SEPT. 23 & Aquatic Culture, 1600 C St. The event—which CANDIDATES & LUNCH: “So Who Should I Vote is the conclusion of Whatcom Water Weeks—will VIEWS for for County Council?” will be the focus of a include tours of the hatchery ponds, educational Bellingham City Club-hosted luncheon starting displays, activities for kids and a grilled salmon 4 at 11:30am at Northwood Hall, 3250 Northwest meal (among other things). Entry is free. MAIL MAIL Ave. Whatcom County Council candidates Bruce WWW.WHATCOMWATERWEEKS.ORG

Ayers, Todd Donovan, Kathy Kershner, and Satpal The Bellingham Theatre Guild presents Sidhu will each briefly tell attendees why they SALISH GARDENS: Paint shells, play games and 2 should vote for them, and will answer a few participate in science experiments at a “Garden DO IT IT DO

Monty Python’s questions. Entry is $5-$20. of the Salish Sea: Celebrating Water Weeks” WWW.BELLINGHAMCITYCLUB.ORG event taking place from 12-3pm at Whatcom “Monty“Mo“MoMontynntttyy Python-PyPyththothhoon-n- brandbbrararandnd sillinesssilsisiilllinlliiinnesseesssss andanand Museum’s Syre Education Center, 201 Prospect pottypotppootottyty humorhumhhuumumoror andaannndd THURS., SEPT. 24 St. Entry is free with $5 museum admission. take-no-prisonerstakttaakake-nee--n-no-popoo--p-prisririissoneononneersrs

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by Wander Brewing and yard games will be part BINGO: Attend a Bingo Fundraiser from 1:30- SeattleSeaSSeeeaattttlttltleeT TTimesiimeimmemes .10

of a 10th Anniversary Party starting at 6pm at 3:30pm at the Ferndale Senior Activity Center, September 25 – October 11, 2015 38 # Appliance Depot, 802 Marine Dr. The nonprofit is 1999 Cherry St. Entry is $20 and includes three celebrating a decade of providing job training, cards fro each of the seven games. affordable appliances and a reuse-based business (360) 384-6244 model in Whatcom County. Entry is free. Book & Lyrics by WWW.APPLIANCEDEPOTBHAM.COM SUN., SEPT. 27 Eric Idle COUNCIL OF ANIMALS: Rooted Emerging DEFEATING RACISM: Join Seattle actress and hosts a “Council of the Animals” from 1-4pm Music by

storyteller Eva Abram as she shares American at Fairhaven Park, 107 Chuckanut Dr. Giant John Du Prez & Eric Idle CASCADIA WEEKLY history from an African-American perspective at puppet animals will oversee teen storytelling Directed by a “Defeating Racism Today: What Does it Take?” performances on four natural stages throughout Earl Reid 13 presentation at 7pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old the park. This free event welcomes youth and City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Abram will share her re- families to learn about the organization and search on the history of institutional racism, how Coming of Age programs for ages 11-15. Tickets:Ti k 733-1811733 1811 it affects specific groups in our society today, and WWW.ROOTEDEMERGING.ORG More Info: bellinghamtheatreguild.com doit

WED., SEPT. 23 DIVOTS FOR DOGS: Help raise funds for the

Alternative Humane Society as a “Divots for 34 the Dogs” benefit starting at 4pm at Custer’s Dakota Creek Golf Course, 3258 Haynie Rd. FOOD FOOD Entry is $30 and includes a round of golf, half outside a cart and a hot dog and chili dinner. HIKING RUNNING CYCLING WWW.ALTERNATIVEHUMANESOCIETY.COM 27

GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are welcome at a weekly Group Run beginning at B-BOARD B-BOARD 6pm in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Running a $1,000 prize, and the next nine top en- Company, 702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is great for beginners or for others wanting 24 tries will also get cash payouts. The event will also feature pony rides, face painting, an easy recovery. Entry is free and no registration is required. FILM toad races (yes, you read that right), carni- WWW.SKAGITRUNNERS.ORG val games, harvest food, live music, a talk

20 about bats and other contests featuring SEPT. 23-26 gargantuan produce. You probably won’t be WHATCOM WATER WEEKS: Tours of

MUSIC allowed to wait until after dark to see if you everything from farms to water treatment can spot the Great Pumpkin, but there’ll be plants, shellfish beds, rainwater-irrigated gardens, breweries and beaches will be part 18 plenty of pretty darn good pumpkins to of Whatcom Water Weeks events taking

ART suss out in the meantime. When: 9am-5pm place through Sept. 26 throughout Whatcom Sat., Sept. 26. Where: Christianson’s Nurs- County. See the full lineup of events online. ery, 15806 Best Rd. Cost: Entry is free; some WWW.WHATCOMWATERWEEKS.ORG 16 activities have a small fee. More info: www. SEPT. 26-OCT. 12 STAGE christiansonsnursery.com BOATING CENTER: Classes and lessons Linus never prophesied that “flying continue through Oct. 12 at the Community pumpkins will fill the sky” when discuss- Boating Center, 555 Harris Ave. 14 14 ing his predictions, but it is something WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG the City of Burlington and the Burlington THURS., SEPT. 24 GET OUT GET OUT Chamber of Commerce promise will hap- URBAN KICKBALL LEAGUE: Take part in pen during the pumpkin-pitching faction Downtown Bellingham Partnership’s “Throw- back Thursdays” Urban Kickball League

12 of the Harvest Festival at Skagit River Park this Saturday. Visitors can get a look by showing up to support the teams from at the medieval-looking catapults before 5:30-7:30pm at Maritime Heritage Park, 500 WORDS W. Holly St. The summer league will conclude competing teams fling their dense orbs with a family-friendly League Tournament

8 into the air—points for both accuracy from 11am-3pm Sun., Sept. 27. and distance count—and subsequent win- WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM ners are announced. The vegetables will ALMOST THERE: G. William Jolley shares

CURRENTS CURRENTS also be at the forefront of a variety of tales from Almost There: Stories and Musings other events at the family-friendly fes- Along the Pacific Crest Trail at 7pm at Village 6 tival, including a pie-eating contest and Books, 1200 11th St. The memoir focuses on pumpkin painting. Pony rides, zucchini the solo journey Jolley made in 2012—at VIEWS car races, food vendors, live music and the age of 70—along the Washington state section of the Pacific Crest Trail. 4 activity booths will round out the sea- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM sonal fun. When: 10am-4pm Sat., Sept. 26. MAIL MAIL Where: Burlington’s Skagit River Park, 1100 FRI., SEPT. 25

S. Skagit St. Cost: Entry is free. More info: WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers 2 www.burlington-chamber.com can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild Things” excursion from 9:30-11am every Friday in DO IT IT DO While Halloween is still more than a BY AMY KEPFERLE September at Whatcom Falls Park. The group month away, now’s the time to learn how will meet in different places throughout the to sculpt your own Great Pumpkin—or make month, so check the website for updates on one to punk Linus with when the big day locations. Entry is by donation. 09.23.15 Great Pumpkins comes. This can be achieved by signing up WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG for a Pumpkin Sculpting class with Disney

.10 BENEFIT GOLF TOURNEY: Attend Draper

38 PULL UP TO THE PATCH Imagineer Terri Hardin, who’ll be vising the

# Valley Farms’ inaugural Charity Golf Tour Foundry makerspace in Bellingham Sun., starting at 11am in Mount Vernon at Eagle- inus van Pelt had some issues. Every Halloween, the Peanuts character would Sept. 27 to share her big talents. Find your mont Golf Course, 4800 Eaglemont Dr. Entry L spend the night in a vegetable patch, waiting for a mythical holiday figure inner artist and discover what your own is $100 per person or $400 per team and named the Great Pumpkin to arrive. He never did, but that didn’t stop Linus from Great Pumpkin looks like—whether it’s fear- includes a round of golf, lunch, one raffle ticket and a sleeve of golf balls. Proceeds keeping vigil every fall. Perhaps he would’ve done better looking in our neck of some and fanged, or benevolent and beau- benefit Relay for Life and United Way of the woods, where a trio of upcoming events featuring the orange orbs of autumn tiful. Either way, the end product is sure to Skagit County.

CASCADIA WEEKLY just might have all of us believing. be interesting—so much so that you won’t WWW.DRAPERVALLEYFARMS.COM Last year’s winning entry at the Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival competi- want to keep it on your front stoop for fear 14 tion at Christianson’s Nursery weighed in at a whopping 1,450 pounds. On Sat., of losing it to pilfering admirers. When: 2pm SAT., SEPT. 26 CONTAINER DESIGN: Bear Creek Nursery’s Sept. 26, those visiting the Mount Vernon-based locale for the fifth annual event Sun., Sept. 27. Where: The Foundry, 1515 N. Jeanne Hager leads a “Container Design for can expect to see the oversized contestants—giant vegetal blobs in various hues Forest St. Cost: $35 for Foundry members, Autumn Interest” workshop at 9am at Garden of green, yellow and orange—lined up for public perusal in an effort to beat the $50 general (includes pumpkin). More info: Spot Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Hager will previous year’s record-holder. It’s not all about bragging rights; the winner gets www.bellinghamfoundry.com doit

34 FOOD FOOD 27 B-BOARD B-BOARD 24 FILM 20 MUSIC 18 PHOTO COURTESY ADRENALINE EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY PHOTO ART Cheer on participants along a variety of scenic routes Sun., Sept. 27 during the annual Bellingham Bay Marathon

explore a range of cool-weather colors, textures Lands Day by joining REI and the Washington 16 and patterns to cozy up your garden and home. Trails Association for a weekend work party from

Register in advance; entry is free. 8:30am Saturday to 4pm Sunday at Mt. Baker’s STAGE 676-5480 OR WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM Heather Meadows. There are bunks, a kitchen and shower available for those who want to spend 14 TRAIL BRUSHING PARTY: Join members of the night, and WTA will provide the main dish. 14 the Nooksack Nordic Ski Club today for a Trail Please register in advance. Brushing Party to help get the trails at Salmon WWW.WTA.ORG GET OUT GET OUT Ridge Sno-Park ready for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. To carpool, meet at 9am at SUN., SEPT. 27 old Cost Cutter parking lot on Sunset Drive, or at BELLINGHAM BAY MARATHON: Scenic 12 10am at the park. courses with views of Bellingham Bay, the San WWW.NOOKSACKNORDICSKICLUB.ORG Juan Islands, and North Cascades mountains

will be part of the annual Bellingham Bay WORDS LITTLE MOUNTAIN 10K: Sign up for Runfare’s Marathon taking place from 7:30am-2:30pm “Little Mountain Trail 10K” starting at 9:30am at near Gooseberry Point on Lummi Nation and 8 Mount Vernon’s Carpenter Creek Winery, 20376 E. finishing at the Depot Market Square, 1100 Hickox Rd. Entry is $35; funs raised during the trail Railroad Ave. The Finish Festival will include run will support the Mount Vernon Trail Builders. live music, a beer garden and food vendors. WWW.RUNFARE.ORG Entry fees vary. exchange tomorrow CURRENTS WWW.BELLINGHAMBAYMARATHON.ORG buy * sell*trade 6 HOLLY STREET HISTORY TOUR: The Bureau of Historical Investigation teams up with the City RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mount Baker of Bellingham to offer the final “Holly Street Bicycle Club for a “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8am VIEWS History Tour” at 1pm starting in front of the every Sunday at Fairhaven Bike, 1108 11th St. Chuckanut sandstone building at 311 E. Holly The 32-mile route takes riders down Chuckanut 4 St. The free, all-ages excursion is first-come, and back via Lake Samish. The group also holds MAIL MAIL first served, so show up early to snag a spot on weekly rides Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays,

the tour, which covers topics of growth, social and Saturdays. 2 reform, the arts, women’s history, racial ten- WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG sions and more. DO IT IT DO

WWW.COB.ORG MON., SEPT. 28 GOPRO BASICS: A “Getting to Know Your GoPro: MOON WALK: Wild Whatcom Walks hosts its GoPro Basics” will be the focus of a free work- monthly “Ladies Night Out: Moon of the Harvest” shop at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Please register

excursion from 6-8:30pm at a park in Whatcom in advance. 09.23.15 County (location will be revealed upon registra- 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM

tion. Entry is by donation. .10

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TUES., SEPT. 29 # FALL RUN: Attend a free “Fast Track Into Fall” UNREAL: Celebrate “breaking free from the All-Paces Run at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. The confines of reality and venturing into a bound- Mizuno-partnered run will feature a harvest of less world” by viewing the mountain biking apple varieties and toppings to sample after the documentary unReal at 7pm in Mount Vernon run, raffles and gift certificates, and more. at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. “Here, WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM glacial walls transform into mountain bike trails,

rain and snow aren’t the only elements to fall THURS., OCT. 1 CASCADIA WEEKLY from the sky and 1,000-pound mammals become TRAVELOGUE SERIES: Jim Hendrickson focuses riding partners.” Entry is $10-$15. on “North Korea: Behind the Bamboo Curtain” at 15 WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG a Travelogue Series presentation from 7-9pm at &190619005VCVG5Vé Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect 5'#66.'7&+564+%6 SEPT. 26-27 St. Suggested donation is $3. 7PKXGTUKV[9C[0'é PUBLIC LANDS DAY: Celebrate National Public 778-7000 OR WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG $#..#4&09/CTMGV5Vé $WȮ CNQ'ZEJCPIGEQO doit STAGE THURS., SEPT. 24 34 INTERACTIVE SHAKESPEARE: “An Extraordinary Evening of Conversation with FOOD FOOD stage James and Will” takes place at 7:30pm at the Encore Room at the Mount Baker Theatre, THEATER DANCE PROFILES 104 N. Commercial St. Colorado-based 27 Shakespearian actor and impersonator Chuck Wilcox will be joined by actors from the community for an interactive conversation with B-BOARD B-BOARD William Shakespeare and King James VI/I. Admission is by donation.

24 single greatest effort to prevent the un- WWW.CHUCKWILCOXTHEATRE.NET wanted pregnancies that result in abor-

FILM tions,” the respected New England Jour- GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at nal of Medicine says in support of the the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm,

20 nonprofit. “We are outraged by those actors and improvisers Tobias Childs, Jacob who debase these Foerg, and Levi Friedman—also known as

MUSIC women, this work, and the PETER Comedy Trio—will kick off a 12- Planned Parenthood by city, 20-show tour. Admission is $8 to the early show, $10 to the late one.

18 distorting the facts for 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM

ART political ends.” If you agree with SEPT. 24-26 them, and if you’d DEATH, THE FINAL IRONY: Short scenes 16 16 ATTEND like to get involved in and monologues exploring death, dying and the afterlife will be part of Skagit Valley STAGE STAGE actively supporting WHAT: Pink Out College drama professor Andy Friedlander’s Day for Planned Planned Parenthood, Death, the Final Irony showing at 7:30pm Parenthood there are a couple of Thursday through Saturday at iDiOM Theater, 14 WHEN: Tues., ways to do. First is the 1418 Cornwall Ave. The performances—which Sept. 29 aformentioned Pink are directed by Stone Town Theatreworks’ WHERE: Events Donald Drummond—are described as be- GET OUT Out Day. Next Tuesday, in Belling- ings “absurd, tragic, funny (and, of course, ham include a wear pink to show your ironic).” Tickets are $10-$12. Cocktail Crawl; WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM

12 support for women’s Temple Bar, health. You can also Redlight, and share a #PinkOut selfie SEPT. 24-27 WORDS the Shakedown MOON OVER BUFFALO: The “wild and to #StandwithPP on so- will donate 15 wacky” farce known as Moon Over Buffalo con- percent of their 8 cial media or attend a tinues this week with performances at 7:30pm sales to Planned Pink Out event—such Thursday through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday, Parenthood BY AMY KEPFERLE as a Cocktail Crawl tak- at Lynden’s Claire Vg Thomas Theatre, 655 INFO: www. Front St. Tickets are $8-$12 and additional

CURRENTS CURRENTS ing place at the Temple istandwithpp.org showings take place through Oct. 4. ------Bar, Redlight, and the

6 WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM WHAT: Tig Shakedown. Think Pink Notaro Another way to be SEPT. 25-26 VIEWS WHEN: 7pm part of the movement OLIVER: The world of Charles Dickens will TIG NOTARO STANDS WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD Thurs., Oct. 8 be given a fresh voice when the musical 4 is to purchase tickets WHERE: Mount Oliver opens this weekend with 7:30pm espite winds that rattled houses, felled trees and shut down power to much for a show with standup Baker Theatre, performances Friday and Saturday at the MAIL MAIL 104 N. Commer- Dof Whatcom County, the crowd in front of Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood dur- comedienne, writer and Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. cial St. ing last month’s surprising storm stood strong. actor Tig Notaro, who’ll Tickets to see the musical about an orphan 2 COST: $20-$50 Like many other people around the country, they were there to lend support be performing Thurs., and his adventures are $20; additional show- INFO: www.

DO IT IT DO ings happen through Oct. 24. to Planned Parenthood, who had recently been the target of a smear campaign Oct. 8 at the Mount mountbakerthe- WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM alleging the longtime healthcare organization was selling tissue from aborted atre.com Baker Theatre. fetuses for profit. Funds raised at the WELCOME BACK!: A mix of short- and Missives written by windblown attendees on a small whiteboard included notes event will go to Mt. Baker Planned Par- long-form improv styles will be highlighted 09.23.15 such as “Thanks PP for my IUD!,” “Thanks PP for taking care of my mom when she enthood’s early cancer and detection pro- at “Welcome Back Students!” shows at 8pm had no insurance,” “Thanks PP for giving me choices,” and “Thanks PP for family gram. The issue is important to Notaro, and 10pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay .10 St. All students with a valid ID at the door

38 planning services and Plan B!” who was diagnosed with breast cancer in

# can get $5 tickets to the early show and $1 Keep those sentiments in mind Tues., Sept. 29, when Planned Parenthood sup- 2012 and subsequently had a double mas- tickets for the late show. General entry is porters nationwide will take part in “Pink Out Day.” The event is in response to tectomy. She opted out of reconstructive $10 in advance and $12 at the door. last week’s news that the United States House of Representatives voted to pull surgery, and in November of last year per- WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM federal funding for the healthcare provider for one year, a move the White house formed part of a set topless, showing her SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO: Comedy noted would “limit access to health care for men, women and families across the scars—yet making the audience forget Central’s Sebastian Maniscalco brings his nation, and would disproportionately impact low-income adults.” they were there. standup talents to the area with shows at

CASCADIA WEEKLY While Republicans imply Planned Parenthood centers provide nothing more Those who are already fans of Notaro 8pm Friday and Saturday at Bow’s Skagit Val- than abortions, numbers say otherwise. In 2013-2014, for example, its affliates know that despite facing multiple hard- ley Casino Resort. Tickets are $28-$32. 16 gave more than 865,000 Pap tests and breast exams, conducted 704,079 tests for ships, she’s managed to find the humor WWW.THESKAGIT.COM HIV, and provided 1,440,495 emergency contraception kits. The (safe and legal) in her situation. Much like Planned Par- SEPT. 25-27 abortions they provided during that same time frame constituted just three per- enthood—and the supporters who braved SPAMALOT: King Arthur and his Knights cent of the services performed. the wind last month to share their love— of the Round Table—as well as a bevy of “The contraception services that Planned Parenthood delivers may be the she’s standing strong. doit

beautiful showgirls, cows, killer rabbits and N Kids Clothes ______loads of French people—will make appearanc-

es when Monty Python’s Spamalot opens this Pet Store ______34 weekend with showings at 7:30pm Friday and Shoe Store ______Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at the Bellingham FOOD FOOD Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets are $8-$14; Outdoor Gear Supplier ______see the play through Oct. 11. Best Of Bike Shop ______WWW.BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM 27 Ski/Snowboard Shop ______SAT., SEPT. 26 EDGAR ALLAN: View a dark, comedic riff Grocery Store ______B-BOARD B-BOARD on the obsessions, mania and insanity that BELLINGHAMBELLINGHAM Nursery ______haunted the life and work of a famous Ameri- 2016 can author when the Coldharts present the Home Store ______24 Gothic musical comedy Edgar Allan at 7:30pm Hardware Store ______at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 FILM Harris Ave. The two-person musical follows Book Store ______11-year-old Edgar Allan Poe in his first year Toy Store ______at Manor House School as he seeks to gain 20 academic ascendancy over the student body. Yoga Studio ______Tickets are $12. MUSIC 734-2776 OR WWW.THECOLDHARTS.COM Auto Repair ______Massage ______SUN., SEPT. 27 18

CREED BRATTON: Standup comedy and live Tattoo Shop ______ART music will be on the bill when Creed Bratton Gym ______(from television’s The Office) performs at 9:30pm 16 at the Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St. Tickets are YOUR INFORMATION Salon/Barber ______16 $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Your Name ______STAGE Pot Store ______STAGE WWW.WILDBUFFALO.NET Your City ______Headshop ______TUES., SEPT. 29

E-mail ______14 MATT BRAUNGER: Noted comedian Matt Music Store ______Phone Number ______Braunger comes to Bellingham on a tour to Non-Profit ______promote his Big, Dumb Animal comedy special GET OUT (recently out on Netflix) at a show starting SR-542 Stop ______at 9:30pm at the Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly PEOPLE, BEST... St. Braunger—a cast member on MADtv and Local Celebrity ______FOOD, BEST... 12 a frequent guest on many other television shows—will be joined by Tim Riney and other Band/Musician ______Breakfast ______

guests. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at WORDS Artist ______Lunch ______the door. Pizza ______WWW.WILDBUFFALO.NET Bartender ______8 Wait Person ______Burger ______Bakery ______

DANCE Worst Public Official ______CURRENTS Scandal/News Story ______Asian ______SAT., SEPT. 26 6 Barista ______Mexican ______DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA: Watch performances, play rhythm games and learn some dance Italian ______VIEWS moves with staff and students from Infinity ENTERTAINMENT, BEST...

Greek ______4 Dance Company at a “Dance Extravaganza” Place To Meet Men ______from 2-3pm at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. Indian ______Place To Meet Women ______MAIL WWW.WCLS.ORG Sushi ______

Place To Take A First Date ______2 CONTRA DANCE: Heliotrope provides live Deli ______tunes at the Bellingham Country Dance Soci- Movie Theater ______DO IT IT DO Food Truck ______ety’s bimonthly Contra Dance from 7-10:30pm Festival ______at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Entry Fast Food ______is $6-$10. Place To Dance ______WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG Place To Impress A Date ______

Place To Hear Live Music ______09.23.15 Sandwich ______SUN., SEPT. 27 Place To Gamble ______

COMMUNITY DANCE: English country danc- Vegetarian ______.10

Gallery ______38 ing will be the focus at a Community Dance BBQ ______# starting at 1:30pm at the Rome Grange, 2821 Theater Company ______Mt. Baker Hwy. Bellingham English Country Brewery ______Dance’s Robert Campbell will lead a walk- Kid Place ______Coffee Shop ______through and do the calling. Entry is free. WWW.ENGLISHCOUNTRYDANCE. SHOPPING & SERVICES, BEST... Dessert ______HOME.COMCAST.NET Clothing Store ______Cocktail ______

TUES., SEPT. 29 Thrift Store ______Happy Hour ______CASCADIA WEEKLY SQUARE DANCE LESSONS: Beginning Square Dance Lessons start tonight from 7-9pm at 17 Lynden’s Ten Mile Grange, 6958 Hannegan Rd. The first two lessons for the all-ages events for even more categories for Best of Bellingham, see www.cascadiaweekly.com/BOB are free; after that it’s $5 per lesson. Mail your ballot to P.O. Box 2833, Bellingham, WA 98227-2833. Ballots are due Oct. 21 (360) 733-4487 doit

UPCOMING EVENTS

34 FRI. SEPT. 25 NIGHT MARKET: More than 20 local crafts- FOOD FOOD people, artists, entertainers and food purvey- ors will share their wares (and their talents) at visual the inaugural Commercial Street Night Market 27 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES from 6-10pm in the Commercial Street Plaza at 1300 Commercial St. in downtown Bellingham. The markets happen Friday nights through Oct. B-BOARD B-BOARD 2, and entry is free. WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM

24 SAT., SEPT. 26 ternoon will give all of the factions of the VALLEY ARTS RECEPTION: Meet Judd and FILM event a place to add to the conversation. Rebecca Greenwood of Greenwoods Photo- Moderated by researcher and educator graphic Arts at a Valley Arts Group reception from 1-3pm at the Creekside Cafe in the Sudden 20 Barbara L. Miller—who is already investi- gating the connections between art, sci- Valley YMCA, 8 Barnview Court. Entry is free. WWW.GREENWOODPHOTOARTS.COM MUSIC ence, technology and ecology as a pro-

fessor of art and art history at Western MUSEUM DAY LIVE: As part of Smithson- 18 18 18 Washington University—each panelist will ian Magazine’s annual “Museum Day Live!,” there will be free admission to participating

ART present for a few minutes, and then open ART the floor for discussion. museums from 10am-5pm throughout the Panelists include painter and professor country. Nearby, attend Whatcom Museum, the 16 Bellingham Railway Museum, and Skagit County Cynthia Camlin; Swinomish tribal histori- Historical Museum. Go to the website listed

STAGE cal preservation officer here to secure your free tickets. Larry Campbell; ecosys- WWW.SMITHSONIANMAG.COM/MUSEUMDAY tems ecologist Roger 14 SUN., SEPT. 27 Fuller; Skagit Climate BOOK ART OPENING: Survey recent direc- Science Consortium’s tions in book art through 70 diverse works by GET OUT Carol Macllroy; art- 63 prominent artists in the field from across ist Anna McKee; North the United States, Great Britain, and Australia ATTEND when “Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting

12 Cascades National Park WHAT: Surge geologist Jon Riede; Edge” opens today from 12-5pm at Whatcom WHEN: 10am- Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. energy policy profes- WORDS 5pm Sat., Sept. The exhibit explores the limitless potential of 26 and 12-5pm sor Thomas Webler; and the book as an independent medium through BY AMY KEPFERLE both intimately-scaled pieces and large instal-

8 Sun., Sept. 27 Skagit County Commis- WHERE: Museum sioner Ron Wesen. lations. See it through Jan. 3. Entry is $4.50- of Northwest Art, On both days during $10 ($5 on Thursdays). 121 S. First St., WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG

CURRENTS CURRENTS “Surge,” attendees will Surge La Conner COST: Entry is have a chance to get in THURS., OCT. 1 6 OF ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE free on the action. “Explor- ART WALK: The final First Thursday Art Walk INFO: www. ing Sea Level Surge,” of the season takes place from 5-8pm through- VIEWS o demonstrate how Skagit River glaciers have lost more than 800 billion monamuseum.org described as a “col- out downtown Mount Vernon. The event feature work by local and regional artists. Enjoy 4 T gallons of water over the course of the last 50 years, artist Lin McJunkin laborative journey for original art, wine, chocolates, dinner and more used popular Disney movie photos and 2,500 tiny paper cups to get her startling learning, creating and sharing sea level at a variety of locations. MAIL MAIL points across. She christened the mixed-media piece “Un-Frozen.” rise and climate change concerns with WWW.SKAGITVALLEYARTESCAPE.COM

That work—plus another display McJunkin created using Disney’s Imagineering the community,” will feature teaching 2 concept highlighting people with creative “green” careers that aid the physical and artist Richelle Potter leading high school DO IT IT DO economic health of people in local communities—will be part of “Surge,” a two-day students in the creation of a temporary ONGOING EXHIBITS event taking place Sept. 26-27 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA). chalk mural on MoNA’s exterior south A.C.M.E. CREATIVE SPACE: “Forest for the The free gathering is meant to draw attention to climate change, storm surge and wall. Members of the public who want to Trees,” a mixed-media exhibit by interna- the impact of both of these phenomenons on Northwest coastal communities. do more than just see it being made can tional artist Joseph Rossano, is currently on 09.23.15 “I borrowed themes from popular culture, and my young neighbors, coupled chip in, as well. display in Anacortes from 10am-5pm Tues.- Sat. at the new A.C.M.E. Creative Space, 705 with my own artwork,” McJunkin says of her contributions to the ambitious “The Art and Science of Tree Ring Rub- Commercial Ave. .10

38 gathering, which features a concurrent exhibit at MoNA. bings” is another art project both kids and WWW.ACMECREATIVE.CO # She’s not the only area artist who will be lending her talents to the event. adults can get behind. By making art collag- Among others, participants include Jean Behnke, Tyree Callahan, Andrew Stei- es from rubbings of tree “cookies” and other ALLIED ARTS: View “Mystic Mountains” ger, Barbara De Pirron, Heidi Epstein, and Dimitri Katsaros. Margie McDonald, textures found in nature, participants can through Sept. 26 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The juried exhibit features photography Karen Hackenberg, and Gloria Lamson worked together to create “Welcome to learn things like how scientists use growth by Tore Ofteness, John D’Onofrio, and Stephen the Plastisphere” (imagined synthetic sea life made from plastic debris, ad- rings in trees to discover more about past Malshuk. dressing the tragedy of ecosystems evolving to live in a plastic-affected marine climate conditions. (Plus, they look cool.) WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG

CASCADIA WEEKLY environment), and another trio of collaborators created a site-specific instal- While education is at the forefront of lation of a beaver dam made from reclaimed natural and synthetic materials. “Surge,” artists such as McJunkin hope that ARTWOOD: Jewelry and jewelry boxes and 18 cases will be highlighted through September at But at “Surge,” artists won’t be the only ones with a say. Environmental sci- people find it interesting, as well. Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. The paint- entists have partnered with them, and educators, to offer new perspectives on “It will be a chilling but heartwarming ings and collages of Francy Blumhagen will the aforementioned issues, and they’ve got a lot to contribute, too. experience to see dozens of interactive accompany the displays. In addition to the installations, performance art, videos and interactive ac- displays created by artists and their scien- WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM tivities for both youth and adults, a panel discussion starting at 3pm Sunday af- tist partners,” she says. doit

CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Lois Dahl’s paintings Print Shop” through Sept. 24 at La Conner’s

and prints are currently on display at Chucka- Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. Entry

nut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St. is free. 34 WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG FOOD FOOD

DAKOTA ART: Works by 30 artists who have NOVATO: Graphic designer Brad Lockhart and traveled with former Blue Horse Gallery owner clothing designer Nika Munn’s “1989” is on

Wade Marlow over the last 20 years can be seen display at Novato, 115 W. Chestnut St. The two 27 at a “Travel Art Show” through Sept. 25 at the worked together in creating a series of Medi- Dakota Art Store Gallery, 1332 Cornwall Ave. eval rites banners themed around Washington WWW.DAKOTAARTSTORES.COM State and its official symbols (the state bird, B-BOARD the state fish, etc.). Medical Qigong and Mindful Meditation Classes in Mt Vernon & Bellingham FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contem- WWW.NOVATOSHOP.COM porary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm Mt Vernon Bellingham 24 Upstairs from the Food Coop in the Terra Organic every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 QUILT MUSUEM: “Celebrating 20 Years of 1530 Cornwall in the Classroom Conference Room of Acupuncture School FILM Virginia St. Art,” “30 Quilts for 30 Years,” and “Creative Jade Woman Qigong Wednesdays October 10, 24 & Nov 14 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM Knitting” show through Oct. 4 at the La Conner 6:30PM - 7:30PM // Sept 23 - Nov 11 Mindful Meditation: 1-2PM and 6 - 7PM Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St. 8 Treasures Qigong Thursdays 8 Treasure Qigong: 2:30PM - 4PM 20 FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: The “Artist’s WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.ORG 6:30PM - 7:30PM // Sept 24 to Nov 12 Jade Worran Qigong: 4:30PM - 6PM Choice”exhibit shows through Sept. 30 at

Mindful Mediation Fridays MUSIC Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related All classes $15 drop-ins, 7:30AM - 8:30AM // Sept 25 to Nov 13 Mindful Meditation $10 St. The invitational show includes the work of workshops happen on a regular basis at Rag- 18 18 30 regional artists. finery, 1421 N. Forest St. Upcoming workshops Please RSVP: Luna Way : 360-303-7964 or 18 WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM include “Felt Prayer Flags” from 10am-12pm [email protected] or Facebook Sacred Turtle Qigong ART ART Sat., Sept. 26 (cost is $25); and “Lined Zipper GALLERY CYGNUS: Maggie Wilder will show a Bags” from 1:30-4:30pm Sat., Sept. 26 (cost is

“feast” of new paintings through Nov. 1 in La $35). See more details and register online. 16 Conner at Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St. WWW.RAGFINERY.COM

SUBIN CRIMINAL DEFENSE STAGE WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM SCOTT MILO GALLERY: Works by the North- GOOD EARTH: View Chris Moench’s “New west Pastel Society’s Signature Member Group

Wheels for this Turning Earth”—featuring his will be highlighted through September in Aggressive, Experienced, Effective 14 well-known prayer wheels—through September Anacortes at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Com- at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. mercial Ave. Also showing are wire weaving

WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM works and glass tables by Lanny Bergner. Free Consultation GET OUT WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM HONEY SALON: Peruse Karie Jane’s “The Receptionist: (360) 734-6677 Cell: (360) 820-4907 Devil’s Advocate” through Sept. 26 at Honey SCULPTURE NORTHWEST: “Emerge”—an 12 Salon, 310 W. Holly St. The collection of eclectic show of figurative, non-objective and

paintings and collage illustrates human con- experimental sculpture by regional artists WORDS nectedness and its opposite and is seen as in bronze, stone and wire —shows through an “internal window into the artist’s mind of Nov. 22 at Sculpture Northwest Gallery, 203 8 love, technology and the seemingly lost art Prospect St. of human to human interaction.” WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM

SKAGIT MUSEUM: “Back to Our Roots: A CURRENTS JANSEN ART CENTER: A Late Summer Juried History of Farm to Table in Skagit County” is Exhibit is on display through Sept. 25 at Lyn- showing through Oct. 11. at La Conner’s Skagit 6 den’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. A solo County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St.

exhibit by photographer Norman Riley and a WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM VIEWS “Fabulous Fiber 15” show are also on display.

WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG SMITH & VALLEE: View works by painter 4 Tyree Callahan and pottery by Isaac Howard MAKE.SHIFT: Daniel Whitsell’s first solo ex- through Sept. 30 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee MAIL hibit, “Bundled in the Rafters,” shows through Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.

September at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM 2 St. Whitsell’s graphite, ink and oil pieces often DO IT IT DO focus on weighty issues that balance whimsical WESTERN GALLERY: “The Art of Seating” and fantastical elements. shows through Dec. 11 at the Western Gallery WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM on the Western Washington University campus. Entry is free and open to the public.

MATZKE GALLERY: Make bids on glass, WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU 09.23.15 sculpture and paintings at the sixth annual “Art Auction” from 10am-5pm Fri.-Sun. through WHATCOM ART MARKET: From 10am-6pm .10

Sept. 26 on Camano Island at Matzke Fine Art every Thursday through Monday, stop by the 38 # Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way. Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s A live auction takes place Sat., Sept. 26. Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG

MINDPORT: San Francisco-based artist Romy WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Helmi’s World: Symbol, Randey’s “Umbra” is currently on display at Myth, Fantasy,” “The Owl and the Woodpecker: Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. The exhibit Photographs by Paul Bannick,” “Northwest Coast

features an interactive wall panel made from First Nations” and “Back at the Park: Vintage CASCADIA WEEKLY fused glass, bamboo, sensors and LEDs. Admis- Views from the Photo Archives” can currently be sion is $2. viewed on the Whatcom Museum campus. 19 WWW.MINDPORT.ORG WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG

MONA: Peruse “From the Artist’s Eye,” “Rich- SEND YOUR EVENT INFORMATION TO ard Fairbanks: Potter/Poet,” and “Pilchuck [email protected] Rumor Has It

34 IT’S NOT ALL that often that I will use this space to speak to something highly personall. Although

FOOD FOOD I’ve shared plenty of things about myself, I mostly talk about that which I am excited, while using the music word “excited” too many times. 27 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT But I’m not especially excited at the moment. Last week, the House of Representatives, in a

B-BOARD B-BOARD measure with implications that are still unfold- ing, voted to defund Planned Parenthood, poten-

24 tially freezing more than $500 million in federal money for the embattled nonprofit.

FILM I’m not going to talk about the strategy or politics behind such a decision. Instead, I’d sim-

20 20 ply like to speak to what Planned Parenthood has

meant to me. MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC For nearly all of my adult life, I have been a

18 low-income, uninsured

ART woman—in other words, one of the very people Planned Parenthood was 16 created to help. As a low-

STAGE income, uninsured woman, I have been, for the most part, unable to af- 14 ford access to even basic preventative healthcare.

GET OUT I have, however, been able BY CAREY ROSS to receive subsidized care for things like annual

12 exams, birth control and more via Planned Parent- hood, which has made the organization my de fac- to primary-care physician. Were it not for Planned WORDS Parenthood, I would have received exactly zero

8 non-emergency healthcare for many years. In this, I am no different from more than a million women. To get even more personal: My mother is a breast-

CURRENTS CURRENTS cancer survivor. My grandmother had early-onset breast cancer. Medical records reaching further 6 back than that are spotty in my family, but there is reason to believe my great-grandmother also had VIEWS breast cancer. The odds of my being diagnosed with

4 BY CAREY ROSS Felice Brothers could certainly move more breast cancer sometime during my lifetime are, in than their fair share of tickets in this town. the understated parlance of medical professionals, MAIL MAIL Together, this seemed, well, a lot like the “strong.” Should that diagnosis come, it will almost

biggest show Jewell had ever booked. certainly be via a low-cost mammogram that I ob- 2 Conor Oberst After that initial burst of news came noth- tained through Planned Parenthood, should I still DO IT IT DO THE BUFFALO’S BIG SHOW ing but radio silence. As weeks went by with be able to obtain such services there. no word, I started to assume Jewell was It is not my intent to politicize what is happen- very so often, Wild Buffalo owner and talent booker Craig Jewell will playing a bizarrely pointless practical joke ing with regard to Planned Parenthood, but to per- E reach out to me and say, “What do you think of This One Musician?” Or, on me, or he was the subject of a practical sonalize it. To show that the real cost of defunding 09.23.15 “Have you ever heard of This Other Band?” joke himself, or someone had pranked him the nonprofit is not paid in rhetoric or ground won It’s a game I never tire of playing, even though I harbor no illusions and now he was pranking me. But, nope. and lost during an election season. It is paid by .10

38 about having any influence when it comes to the venue’s decision-mak- The whole time, he was wheeling and deal- people for whom Planned Parenthood is vitally, # ing—indeed Jewell rarely, if ever, mentions actually booking any of these ing—and waiting and hoping—to turn this profoundly, absolutely necessary. musicians, meaning it could all just be so much idle chitchat, but a girl can strange twist of fate into a twist of fortune. I stand with Planned Parenthood because I infer a thing or two from the tone and tenor of his inquiries. I suppose we’ll never know quite why or can’t afford not to. I stand with Planned Parent- And when Jewell refers to a potential show as the biggest of his booking how Oberst and Co. landed at the Wild Buf- hood because doing so could save my life. And I career, I’m inclined to think it’s not just hyperbole. He may be a man of falo. I think the official unofficial story don’t stand alone. much enthusiasm, but he knows what words mean. had something to do with this stacked crew Tuesday, Sept. 29 is Pink Out Day, designed for

CASCADIA WEEKLY Such was his statement a few months ago, leading me to badger him for wanting to play a small room before embark- people to show their support for the nonprofit. details. When he (finally) deigned to divulge, I had to go back and reference ing on a larger tour. Which makes perfect Toward that end, a cocktail crawl has been or- 20 his message the next day to be certain I hadn’t hallucinated the whole thing. sense when you consider that the Wild Buf- ganized by the Temple Bar, Shakedown, and the Not only would Conor Oberst possibly be playing the Wild Buffalo, he’d be falo is certainly the smallest venue of the Redlight, all of which will donate 15 percent of bringing M. Ward and the Felice Brothers along to share the stage with him. stint—but not so much when you place the their day’s sales to Planned Parenthood. As ac- To put this into perspective, Oberst alone can—and routinely does—sell out show in the context of a tour that lasts less tivism goes, a cocktail crawl is both simple and rooms two or three times the size of the Buff. On their own, M. Ward or the than three weeks and encompasses just fun. Let’s stand together. OBERST, FROM PAGE 20 musicevents TALES FROM THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM WED., SEPT. 23 eight shows before Oberst departs for a run with his PERFORMED BY THE GUY MENDILOW ENSEMBLE COLTRANE TRIBUTE: The What- punk-influenced band, Desaparecidos. com Jazz Music Art Center presents 34 Maybe the motivation was nothing more than a a tribute to John Coltrane featur- crew of supremely talented musicians (who have ing a full performance of “A Love FOOD played together before, if not all at the same time) Supreme” with regional all-star musicians at 7pm at the Majestic, saying, “This sounds like fun. Why the hell not?”

1027 N. Forest St. Tickets are $5 27 That’s what I’m choosing to believe, anyway. for students and $10 general. When you bear in mind the whole of Oberst’s WWW.WJMAC.ORG musical career, the fact that he would do some- B-BOARD thing as unorthodox as this is simply par for his COTY HOGUE TRIO: The Coty Hogue Trio—featuring Hogue particular course. Beginning in his teens, the man on clawhammer banjo, guitarist 24 who is largely responsible for putting the Omaha, Aaron Guest, and fiddler Kat

Neb. music scene on the map recorded and played Bula—performs old favorites FILM and new songs at 7:30pm at the as Bright Eyes, and although his singular style of THURSDAY PM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. OCTOBER 1, 7:30 20 decidedly indie folk/rock at first confused critics, 20 TICKETS OR ONLINE ONCERT ALL WWW.COTYHOGUE.COM : $11 - $22 (360) 650-6146 C H it was not long before they were lauding him as AA/EO DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION: 360-650-6146, [email protected] MUSIC a wunderkind, a musical ingénue with real vision FRI., SEPT. 25 Old Sephardi songs from the Mid-East MUSIC and enough smarts to see that vision through. FARM TUNES: Moongrass ÜÌ >y>Àiv>iV>`>` performs at a “Friday Fish Fry, Vision is a thing Oberst possesses in abundance, 18 PREVIEW AT CFPA.WWU.EDU/MUSIC along with what appears to be boundless creative Farm Tunes, & Old Fashioneds” event from 6-8pm at BelleWood ART energy. While Bright Eyes has most often been char- Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. The acterized as Americana, the musician only hewed

free series concludes with a per- 16 to the descriptor in the broadest, for-lack-of-a- formance by Nashville Northwest Fri., Oct. 2. better-genre sense of the term, refusing to be held STAGE to one confining sound, style or structure. He re- WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM presents the 3rd annual corded what he wanted, collaborated with whom he

SAT., SEPT. 26 14 pleased, was notoriously prolific and accomplished TUMBAO: The annual Sudden much without burning out or Valley Jazz Series kicks off with a fading away. Indeed, his mu- performance by Tumbao at 3pm at GET OUT sical output remained remark- the Sudden Valley Dance Barn, 8 Barnview Court, Gate 2. The fiery ably strong until he retired the six-piece collective will bring its 12 Bright Eyes moniker in 2011. “highly infectious” Latin beats A BENEN FITF FOOR WHAW TCOM COUNTYY FOOD BANKNKS As well, Oberst has shown to the stage, so come prepared to WORDS not just a desire, but a real dance along. Tickets are $20. drive to collaborate with mu- WWW.SUDDENVALLEYLIBRARY.ORG 8 sical cohorts whenever pos- ATTEND DREAMS TOUR: Singer-songwrit- sible. His projects include the WHO: Conor ers Merry Ellen Kirk and Ruth Acuff

aforementioned punk-inspired Oberst, M. Ward, will perform an intimate concert CURRENTS Desaparecidos, his Mystic Val- the Felice Broth- as part of their “Dreams Tour” ley Band, his solo work, and ers from 6-9pm at the Lighthouse Bar 6 WHEN: 8pm Mon., & Grill at Hotel Bellwether, One his most high-profile project

Sept. 28 Bellwether Way. Expect “evoca- VIEWS since the sunsetting of Bright WHERE: The Wild tive, poignant alternative pop

Eyes, Monsters of Folk, the Buffalo, 208 W. with a dreamy sparkle.” CiC cchittt i’s Pizza SIMMERRINI G TAT VA LeL xi & Mollyy 4 aptly named band that also in- Holly St. WWW.MERRYELLENKIRK.COM Hoot MeM ss FOOD TRRUCU K Goatt Mountain Pizzz a Cones & Flloats cludes Jim James of My Morn- COST: $35 (show MAIL is sold out) SUN., SEPT. 27 Grant’s Burgers OUTLAWWS BBBQ Deli’ccioouus Mischief ing Jacket, Bright Eyes alum INFO: www.wild ART OF JAZZ: Pianist Bill An- DDANIELE LE’S BACA K SWEEE T PEP TITET JT’s SMOKIN’ BBQQ 2 Mike Mogis, and She & Him’s buffalo.net schell, drummer Jeff Busch, and EASTT BBQQ TAT CO TIME NWW SuS gaar Shacck ICE CREAM DO IT IT DO M. Ward (who is Oberst’s match bassist Chris Symer will perform STREET DOD GZG EL AGAVE HaH ggen Splp ash Van when it comes to creativity, productivity and lust at the Jazz Project’s “Art of Jazz” El Tapatio Taco Trucck B&B Sweet Trreats Creppe Townw for meaningful musical collaboration). When Oberst concert from 4-6:30pm at the Kurlr y’s Kart NoNorthwwesst Kettle corn Kermmit Dogs Encore Room at the Mount Baker announced the formation of the Mystic Valley Band, Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. 09.23.15 M. Ward was one of the names attached, even Tickets are $10 for students and SEPTEMBER 4 $ though reality never quite synced with speculation. $16 general (free for members). 26 10PRESALE Civic .10 WWW.JAZZPROJECT.ORG 11am–3pm

Oberst’s roots with the Felice Brothers run simi- 38

INCLUDES 5 TRUCK BUCKS # larly deep. The folk-rock five-piece first toured with Stadium THURS., OCT. 1 Bright Eyes in 2007, and signed with Oberst’s Team GUY MENDILOW ENSEMBLE: *Live Music* BEERGARDEN Love Records mere months later. They’ve spent the Listen to music from Israel, * * perfpe ormem d byby intervening years touring with everyone from Jus- Palestine, Argentina, Japan, the Presala e Tickets tin Townes Earle to the Dave Matthews Band, peri- United Kingdom and the United SpaceBand are available ata anyy odically playing shows with Oberst and remaining States when the Guy Mendilow INDUSTRIAL Ensemble performs “Tales From the ThaThT nk youu to our firmly in his constellation of co-conspirators. genennererous supupporterters:s CASCADIA WEEKLY Forgotten Kingdom” at 7:30pm at CREDIT UNION Regardless of what Oberst, M. Ward, and the Fe- Western Washington University’s FoF llow Commmunity Foood Drivve on BRANCH 21 lice Brothers have in store for the now sold-out Wild Performing Arts Center Concert FFacebook forr thhe latatese t updaates! Buffalo audience, the show is sure to earn its place Hall. Tickets are $11-$22. in Bellingham’s rich musical lore. At the very least, 650-6146 OR WWW.TICKETS. WWU.EDU it will be a night to remember—at least until such For more information visit time as Jewell books an even bigger show. CommunityFoodDrive.com

musicvenues 34 See below for venue

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27 Anelia's Kitchen & Nate McCartney Woe Be Gone Tom Mullin Stage B-BOARD B-BOARD Happy Hour BBQ w/Robert Blake (early), Twilight Fish Fry w/The Legendary Downtown Bellingham Irish & Folk Night w/ Out of the Ashes, Paul Boundary Bay Brewery Aaron Guest

24 Concert w/The Crow Quill Chucklenuts Partnetship Fundraiser Margaret Inez Driscoll Klein Night Owls (late) FILM Brown Lantern Ale Open Mic Three For Silver House 20 20

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MUSIC Cabin Tavern Open Mic Sweet Lou's Sour Mash Mark Dawson Zigler Acoustic Sunday

18 Uncle Acid and the Dead- Commodore Ballroom Paul Weller, Villagers beats, more ART

Conway Muse A Love Electric Petunia & the Vipers Baby Gramps 16

STAGE Corner Pub Knut Bell and the 360s

14 EVERLAST/Sept. 26/ Edison Inn Chuck Dingee Baby Cakes Bow Diddlers Shakedown

GET OUT Anelias Kitchen & Stage 511 Morris St, La Conner, WA • (360) 466-4778 | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Bobby Lee’s Pub & Eatery 108 W Main St, Everson • 966-8838 | Boundary Bay Brewing Co. 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Brown Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business 402 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-9788 | Cabin Tavern 307 W. Holly St. • 733-9685 | Chuckanut Brewery 601 W Holly St. • 752-3377 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) 739-4550 | Conway Muse 18444 Spruce/Main St., Conway (360) 445-3000 | Corner Pub 12 14565 Allen West Road, Burlington WORDS 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 VIEWS A Weekly Radio Program from the Pacifica Radio Archives 4 MAIL MAIL

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musicvenues 34 See below for venue addresses and phone 09.23.15 09.24.15 09.25.15 09.26.15 09.27.15 09.28.15 09.29.15 FOOD numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

Whatever's Clever Variety 27 Glow Nightclub DJ J-Will Shadow Variable Back 2 School Party DJ Boombox Kid Show B-BOARD B-BOARD Run Boy Run, more (early), Scarlet Locomotive (early), Open Mic (early), Guf- Terrible Tuesday Soul Green Frog Mare Wakefield and Nomad Slow Jam (early) Memphis vs. Nashville (late) Weather Machine (late) fawingham (late) Explosion 24 Polly O'Keary and the H2O DJ Ryan I Rhythm Method FILM

Christmas Cactus, Guillotine Honey Moon Open Mic Marcel's Bluegrass Night Bilongo Quartet Eyes 20 20

KC's Bar and Grill Karaoke Karaoke MUSIC MUSIC

Kulshan Brewing Co. One Lane Bridge Heron & Crow The Devilly Brothers 18 ART Main St. Bar and Grill Electric Soul Society Maximus 16

Make.Shift Art Space Seminars, Sin Bad, more STAGE

CREED BRATTON/Sept. Old World Deli D'Vas and the Dude 27/Wild Buffalo 14

Ryan Randholm, Thomas Poppe's 360 Aaron Belcher Tyler Clarke Trio Vincent Black Shadow Open Mic Sandblom GET OUT

Rockfish Grill Fidalgo Swing El Colonel, Mary De La Fuente 12

Royal Karaoke Karaoke Country Night DJ Jester WORDS

Rumors Cabaret Throwback Thursday DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave Foam Party Karaoke w/Zach 8

Frog Eyes, Grounder, City Minor Plains, Crossbows and The Shakedown Everlast, Guests Comedy Showcase Sexless, Gnash, Noceur Aireeoke

Hall Catapults, Freeway Park CURRENTS

Sebastian Maniscalco Sebastian Maniscalco 6 Skagit Valley Casino (Showroom), Social Network (Showroom), Social Net- (Lounge) work (Lounge) VIEWS Skylark's Chad Petersen The Sonja Lee Band Faucher Four 4

Northern Allies, MAIL Harpoon the Whale, Old Swillery Whiskey Bar The Shows, Wild English, more Drag Me to Bellingham Grandparents, Muscle Haunts, more

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Swinomish Casino and PETUNIA AND THE VIPERS/ IT DO Michelle Taylor Band Hell's Belles Lodge Sept. 25/Conway Muse

The Underground DJ B-Mello DJ B-Mello 09.23.15 Via Cafe and Bistro Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke Karaoke .10 38 The Village Inn Jam Night Karaoke #

The Physics, Brothers from Conor Oberst, M. Ward Wild Buffalo ’90s Night Free Funk Friday MTBTZ, Hydef, more Creed Bratton Matt Braunger, more Another, more and the Felice Brothers

The Green Frog 1015 N. State St. • www.acoustictavern.com | Edison Inn 5829 Cains Ct., Edison • (360) 766-6266 | The Fairhaven 1114 Harris Ave • 778-3400 | Glow 202 E. Holly St. • 734-3305 | Graham’s

Restaurant 9989 Mount Baker Hwy., Glacier • (360) 599-3663 | H20, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N State St. • 734-0728 | KC’s Bar and Grill 108 W. Main St., Everson • (360) 966-8838 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • 389-3569 | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s CASCADIA WEEKLY Taphouse 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | Nooksack River Casino 5048 Mt. Baker Hwy., Deming • (360) 354-7428 | Poppe’s 714 Lakeway Dr. • 671-1011 | Paso Del Norte 758 Peace Portal Dr. Blaine • (360) 332-4045 | The Redlight 1017 N State St. • www.redlightwineandcoffee.com | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret 23 1119 Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | The Shakedown 1212 N. State St. • www.shakedownbellingham.com | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • (360) 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 | Star Club 311 E Holly St. • www.starclubbellingham.com | Swillery Whiskey Bar 118 W. Holly St. | Swinomish Casino 12885 Casino Dr., Anacortes • (888) 288-8883 |Temple Bar 306 W. Champion St. • 676-8660 | The Underground 211 E. Chestnut St. • 738-3701 | Underground Coffeehouse Viking Union 3rd Floor, WWU | Via Cafe 7829 Birch Bay Dr., Blaine • (360) 778-2570 | Village Inn Pub 3020 Northwest Ave. • 734-2490 | Vinostrology 120 W. Holly St. • 656-6817 | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your live music listings included, send info to [email protected]. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. best work since the cheated-on wife in The Descendants. Still, the show belongs to Tomlin, who hasn’t headlined a film since the mid-

34 1980s and who’s having something of a moment, given her costarring role with

FOOD FOOD Jane Fonda on the Netflix series Grace and Film Frankie. The vein of caustic truth-telling that was present even back in her Laugh- 27 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› SHOWTIMES In Edith-Ann days and that surfaced most brightly in Tomlin’s stage work in the

B-BOARD B-BOARD 1970s and ’80s—she won two Tonys for her one-woman shows—has become part of

24 24 her persona and part of Elle, who tells so many truths, with such wry ferocity, that FILM FILM most people can’t stand being in the same room with her.

20 Grandma plays this for funny-granny character comedy, but the movie’s less

MUSIC soft-edged than its trailers suggest, despite some cutesy business with an old

18 Pontiac and with Sage’s dim-bulb boy-

ART friend (Nat Wolff). Elle is a real pill, a

16 , STAGE Grandma is predictable in

14 many places and acerbic in others, sentimental GET OUT when you expect it and

12 poignant when you don’t.

WORDS But it stars Lily Tomlin,

8 and that’s all you really need to know CURRENTS CURRENTS 6

know-it-all who has her disgust with the VIEWS REVIEWED BY TY BURR world’s failings to disengage from feeling

4 anything, especially grief. (“How come you stopped writing?” someone asks Elle. MAIL MAIL Grandma “People stopped reading,” she replies, as if

that were a reason.) What saves her (and 2 THE RETURN OF LILY TOMLIN us) is her acerbic observations about ev- DO IT IT DO eryone and everything. All of which are randma is as slender as they come: a character study of a cranky old lady as dreadnought Type-A lawyer who seems an funny and most of which are right. Gshe spends a morning and afternoon trying to help her granddaughter get an awfully easy reaction against growing up The writer/director is Paul Weitz, whose abortion. It’s predictable in many places and acerbic in others, sentimental when with hippie moms; the actress does solid career has veered from the ridiculous 09.23.15 you expect it and poignant when you don’t. But it stars Lily Tomlin, and that’s all work with middling material. (American Pie) to the sublime (About a you really need to know. Sam Elliott—the go-to guy for graying Boy) and back again (Little Fockers). This .10

38 At 76, Tomlin has shed what precious few inhibitions she had left, and her char- hunks these days—gets to dig into rich counts as an indie film for him, but you # acter in Grandma is, one senses, reasonably close to the woman herself. Elle Reid wells of bitterness and regret as a long- can sense the tidiness with which it’s all is a Los Angeles-based writer who had some notoriety as a poet and feminist back ago lover of Elle, and the late Elizabeth put together. It’s not where this movie in the day but who has retreated into the hills in a kind of low-level war against Pena is onscreen much too briefly as a goes that surprises you but the grace modernity and other people. A happy four-decade relationship ended a year earlier cafe owner to whom Elle tries to sell her notes on the way there. The most unex- with the death of her partner, Violet, and a new girlfriend, a worshipful young- first editions of feminist classics. La- pected aspect is that Sage’s abortion is er woman named Olivia (Judy Greer), has just been sent packing for unspecified verne Cox of Orange Is the New Black is neither minimized nor built up into a Ma-

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NO SOUND, ALL FURY 14 Sergey, after taking the required initia- GRANDMA (R) 79m THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PIPPI ne of the most original debut films tion beating, works his way up the chain of "Lily Tomlin is at the height of her LONGSTOCKING (G) 102m

in recent memory, Myroslav Slabosh- command to chief pimp for two girls, Anya powers. Her performance is funny, Great Adaptations - Only $5/$4 GET OUT O acerbic, touching — and ultimately, Based on the much loved children's pytskiy’s The Tribe is a gang drama set in (Yana Novikova) and Svetka (Rosa Babiy). exhilarating." San Fran Chronicle book by Astrid Lindgren, this youthful a boarding school for the deaf. It features The transactions are eerie, conducted by Fri: (4:30), 6:45, 9:05 adventure chronicles the further 12 a nonprofessional cast of deaf and mute handwritten notes and exchanges of cash. Sat: (12:15), (2:25), 4:30, 6:45, 9:05 exploits of the mischievous, magical actors who are not given names, and is His predecessor on the job dies in a star- carrot-topped Pippi.

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fortunes in giddy London. Their 6 our senses: A tale of no sound, just fury. administration is in on it. While a political wants to be, with Patricia Clarkson ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. and Ben Kingsley wonderfully on The film’s lack of audible speech puts allegory isn’t obvious, the film was shot Sat: 11:00AM; Wed: 5:30 viewers in the position of disoriented in early 2014, during the Maidan Square point." Detroit News VIEWS Fri: (4:00), 6:30, 8:55 TRAILER WARS (R) 90m outsiders, struggling to find the clues. protests, which led to the ousting of 4 Sat: 4:00, 6:30, 8:55 Bellingham's only fake trailer We’re only slightly more lost than the Ukraine’s pro-Russian government. competition. This month's theme: film’s teen protagonist, Sergey (Grigoriy A shop teacher (Alexander Panivan), Sun: (3:00), 5:30, 7:55 MAIL Mon & Tue: (4:00), 6:30, 8:55 Gross out comedies

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34 BY CAREY ROSS smart, funny, riveting viewing) having the highest August opening weekend ever for an R-rated movie FOOD FOOD is actually hearing “Straight Outta Compton” come FILM SHORTS pounding out of theater speakers in Dolby Digital sur- round sound. That’s my kind of summer blockbuster. 27 90 Minutes in Heaven: Unlike other such recent ++++ (R • 2 hrs. 37 min.) stories of people who have gone to Heaven and returned to Earth to tell the tale (I’m looking at you Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos: This is a PG-13 B-BOARD B-BOARD “Boy Who Came Back from Heaven”), Don Piper’s story Spanish-language film about a rooster (presum-

of his 1989 car accident and subsequent near-death ably the “many-egged” fowl of the title) that joins 24 24 experience doesn’t seem to be a bunch of money-grub- a cock-fighting ring to save the ranch he lives on bing fakery. I can’t say the same for this movie—but, from bankruptcy. It is a known fact that I endorse FILM FILM then again, I can’t say the same about any movie. ++ all chicken-related animated adventure, and as such, (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 1 min.) my opinion on such matters is not to be trusted. Five stars all the way. +++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 33 min.)

20 A Walk in the Woods: A harmless cinematic take on Bill Bryson’s harmless book, with a cast (Robert Unbranded: Four Texas horsemen try to bring aware-

MUSIC Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Nick Offerman) ness to the plight of wild horses on public lands by that might just elevate it into a decent day spent at driving a dozen or so of them (and a burro!) 3,000 the movies. ++ (R • 1 hr. 38 min.) miles from the Mexican border to Canada via the pub- 18 lic trail system. All does not go smoothly in this story

ART Black Mass: Johnny Depp plays Whitey Bulger in a that mixes humanism with striking scenery and food critically lauded performance that might just rescue for thought. ++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 45 min.) his career from the brink that playing a pirate and 16 whatever he is in all those Tim Burton movies have The Visit: M. Night Shyamalan scales back and em- pushed it to. Welcome back, Mr. Depp. ++++ (R • 2 braces a horror/comedy vibe in an effort to resurrect a STAGE hrs. 2 min.) career that also has a distinct horror/comedy vibe to it. Here’s hoping he has another success because all Captive: This movie imagines a world in which a of my “I see dead people” jokes are pretty tired. Give 14 criminal who is the subject of a massive manhunt a girl some new material, M. Night. ++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. (David Oyelowo) takes a recovering meth addict 34 min.) hostage (Kate Mara)—and then she reads to him from GET OUT The Purpose Driven Life and they achieve enlighten- War Room: A Christian movie for people who like ment together or something. I know we’re all looking PAWN SACRIFICE Christian movies. Probably has a plot, possibly some for Hollywood to give us more in the way of original prayer, definitely some kind of faith-based messaging. 12 content, but I just can’t even/don’t know/what is even Do with that what you will. + (PG • 2 hrs.) the eff here. ++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 37 min.) attached to it. On the other, it’s a kids movie with Meru: Three legendary mountaineers attempt to climb

WORDS a Halloweenish theme, and how much damage can the Shark’s Fin on Mt. Meru, the most dangerous and Everest: This docudrama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Sandler do as just one member of an ensemble cast? heretofore unattainable first ascent in the Himalaya,

8 Josh Brolin, Robin Wright, and more covers the same It’s not like he wrote the script or voices the main and emerge with this stunning, harrowing documen- (terrifying) territory as Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air character. Oh wait... ++ (1 hr. 29 min.) tary in tow. +++++ (Unrated • 1 hr. 27 min.) about the 1996 climbing season on Everest and the blizzard that cost eight climbers their lives. ++++ The Intern: This comedy finds Robert De Niro star- Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation: The last CURRENTS CURRENTS (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 1 min.) ring as a business owner and widower who some- movie I saw Tom Cruise in was Going Clear: Scientol-

6 how (I’m sure you’ll probably have to suspend your ogy and the Prison of Belief, and I have to say, it was Grandma: I am not ashamed to say that I have disbelief to buy this plot conceit) becomes an intern his best performance in years. Seek it out. As for this watched the preview for this comedy in which the at Anne Hathaway’s fashion website. I suppose bigger film, I’m told it’s pretty good too. +++++ (PG-13 • VIEWS unfuckwithable Lily Tomlin cracks wise and kicks ass crimes in Hollywood have been committed by those 2 hrs. 12 min.) roughly 1,000 times (all right, maybe not 1,000 times, far less qualified than De Niro and Hathaway. ++ (PG- 4 but close) and it still makes me laugh every single 13 • 2 hrs. 1 min.) Pawn Sacrifice: Tobey Maguire (excellent actor, time. Who even cares what the plot is? Tomlin can do my former movie-star boyfriend) plays chess prodigy MAIL MAIL no wrong. Costars Sam Elliott and Laverne Cox are just Learning to Drive: Ben Kingsley plays driving Bobby Fischer at the moment he challenges his Soviet

so much gravy. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 22 min.) instructor to Patricia Clarkson in this endearing dram- counterpart to a winner-take-all match at a time when 2 edy. Appears to be pretty predictable fare, but Kings- the United States was on the brink of Cold War and ++++ DO IT IT DO The Green Inferno: Even torture porn has its Godfa- ley and Clarkson will no doubt turn it into something Fischer himself was on the brink of madness.

Showtimes ther, and that is Eli Roth. This time his unsuspecting worth seeing. +++ (R • 1 hr 45 min.) (PG-13 • 1 hr. 54 min.) group of attractive young people is saving Amazonian Regal and AMC theaters, please see rainforests when they cross paths with a tribe of can- Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: The second chapter The Perfect Guy: This is obviously a Lifetime movie www.fandango.com. nibals. One can only assume that cannibalism results. in the Maze Runner series, this is the latest in YA that somehow tricked its way onto the big screen—

09.23.15 Pickford Film Center and ++ (R • 1 hr. 43 min.) action-adventure movie franchises to teach me that and I am perfectly all right with that. ++ (PG-13 • 1 if teenagers can save all of civilization, they can hr. 40 min.) PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see

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carry though through the transition, gov- fortunes. What are three specific ways you’re ignorant 34 erned by a third-party entity other than about getting and handling money? Educate yourself.

FOOD FOOD the Sheriff’s glowering authority. Three FREE WILL days later, Louws was in front of City Coun- LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth,” wrote author William cil for another stab at agreement. Faulkner. Some astrologers would say that it’s unlikely a

27 ASTROLOGY 27 The offer by Bellingham City Council Libra would ever say such a thing—that it’s too primal certainly narrows the scope of 2.0 issues: ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are destined a feeling for your refined, dignified tribe; too lush and to become a master of fire. It’s your birthright to unruly. But I disagree with that view. Faulkner himself B-BOARD B-BOARD B-BOARD It’s a full-throated support for a new jail; become skilled in the arts of kindling and warming was a Libra! And I am quite sure that you are now or it concedes the siting and general design and illuminating and energizing. Eventually you will will soon be like a wet seed in the hot blind earth— for the facility; and it relinquishes control develop a fine knack for knowing when it’s appropri- fierce to sprout and grow with almost feral abandon. 24 of the sales tax instrument to the county, ate to turn the heat up high, and when it’s right to simmer with a slow, steady glow. You will wield SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You and I both subject to the specific terms of the agree- FILM your flames with discernment and compassion, rarely know that you can heal the sick and raise the dead ment. Those myriad citizen concerns are or never with prideful rage. You will have a special and turn water into wine—or at least perform the off the table. power to accomplish creative destruction and avoid metaphorical equivalent of those magical acts. 20 But Jack was in no hurry to incorporate harmful destruction. I’m pleased at the progress you Especially when the pressure is on, you have the are making toward these noble goals, but there’s room power to attract the help of mysterious forces and agreement into a change in the terms of

MUSIC for improvement. During the next eight weeks, you unexpected interventions. I love that about you! the current jail proposition. There’s still a can speed up your evolution. When people around you are rendered fuzzy and inert chance voters will give him everything he by life’s puzzling riddles, you are often the best hope 18 wants. And he’s taking that chance. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born for activating constructive responses. According to my physicist Wolfgang Pauli won a Nobel Prize for his analysis of upcoming cosmic trends, these skills will ART research. His accomplishment? The Nobel Committee be in high demand during the coming weeks. said he discovered “a new law of nature,” and named

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STAGE PROFILE, FROM PAGE 8 difficult for me and I wish I were a film comedian that cramps our style and squelches our freedom. But Nationally-Syndicated Political Cartoonist & or something like that and that I had never heard here’s my hypothesis: Behind Saturn’s austere mask is award-winning Journalist Lelo into CBP custody. anything about physics!” I imagine you might now be a benevolent teacher and guide. She pressures us to

14 feeling a comparable frustration about something for focus and concentrate. She pushes us to harness and “Thanks to community groups in which which you have substantial potential, Taurus. In the discipline our unique gifts. It’s true that some people 7('5$// Lelo participates, including the farmworker spirit of Pauli’s perseverance, I urge you to keep at it. resist these cosmic nudges. They prefer to meander

GET OUT union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, he all over the place, trying out roles they’re not suited “Ted Rall’s was released from detention in less than GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1921, the French for and indulging in the perverse luxury of neglecting Snowden is a city of Biarritz hosted an international kissing contest. their deepest desires. For them Saturn seems like a 12 hours,” she said.

12 dramatic, evoca- After evaluating the participants’ efforts, the panel of dour taskmaster, spoiling their lazy fun. I trust that tive, thoughtful “The community cannot trust BPD when judges declared that Spanish kisses were “vampiric,” you Sagittarians will develop a dynamic relationship and very acces- they say that they are not collaborat- while those of Italians were “burning,” English were with Saturn as she cruises through your sign for the WORDS sible account of ing with CBP, stopping, or racially profil- “tepid,” Russians were “eruptive,” French were “chaste,” next 26 months. With her help, you can deepen your one of the most and Americans were “flaccid.” Whatever nationality you devotion to your life’s most crucial goals.

8 important stories ing when they do not even collect stop or are, Gemini, I hope you will eschew those paradigms— of the century – search data on people of color to prove and all other paradigms, as well. Now is an excellent CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming and one of the this,” Villalpando said. “BPD promises to time to experiment with and hone your own unique weeks will be a favorable time to break a spell you’ve most ominous, style of kissing. I’m tempted to suggest that you raise been under, or shatter an illusion you have been CURRENTS CURRENTS protect all members of our community, but your levels of tenderness and wildness, but I’d rather caught up in, or burst free from a trance you have felt unless citizens when they do this to even a youth, like 6 are roused to you ignore all advice and trust your intuition. powerless to escape. If you are moved to seek help action to rein in abusive state power.” Lelo, trust is eroded. New measures and from a shaman, witch, or therapist, please do so. But CANCER (June 21-July 22): The astrological I bet you could accomplish the feat all by yourself.

VIEWS -Noam Chomsky reform of present law enforcement practices need to occur if BPD is serious about omens suggest you could get caught up in dreaming Trust your hunches! Here’s one approach you could try: about what might have been. I’m afraid you might Tap into both your primal anger and your primal joy. 4 6DWXUGD\2FWREHUSP building trust and creating a safer, better cling to outworn traditions and resuscitate wistful In your mind’s eye, envision situations that tempt you community. wishes that have little relevance for the future. to hate life and envision situations that inspire you MAIL MAIL $6,$ “The ‘road to detention’ starts with You may even be tempted to wander through the love life. With this volatile blend as your fuel, you can labyrinth of your memories, hoping to steep yourself explode the hold of the spell, illusion, or trance. 2 stops like this, but may have serious con- in old feelings that weren’t even good medicine for sequences and tragic results. These stops you when you first experienced them. But I hope you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Go to the edge

DO IT &,752 are acts of racial profiling, dangerous to will override these inclinations, and instead act on of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way 7+( people, ineffective policing, and a poor the aphorism, “If you don’t study the past, you will down.” So advised author Ray Bradbury. That strategy is probably repeat it.” Right now, the best reason to too nerve-wracking for a cautious person like me. I pre- &85,286 use of resources.” remember the old days is to rebel against them and fer to meticulously build and thoroughly test my wings Editorial space was offered to the What- prevent them from draining your energy. before trying a quantum leap. But I have observed that 09.23.15 .,'·6 com Civil Rights Project to voice their con- Aquarius is one of the three signs of the zodiac most 6&,(1&( LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may laugh more in likely to succeed with this approach. And according to

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# sideration. Lelo’s desire to not live in fear &UHDWLYH rable 14-day period since you were five years old. a time when your talent for building robust wings in is admirable. But Cascadia Weekly believes At least I hope you will. It will be the best possible mid-air will be even more effective than usual. +DQGV2Q tonic for your physical and mental health. Even more $FWLYLWLHVIRU there remains doubt the teen was racially profiled in the conventional sense—he was than usual, laughter has the power to heal your PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are being $JHV wounds, alert you to secrets hiding in plain sight, tempted to make deeper commitments and to give stopped in the commission of an overtly il- Just one experiment a week will help build and awaken your dormant potentials. Luckily, I sus- more of yourself. Should you? Is it in your interests to children’s conﬁdence and excitement legal act, driving the wrong way down a one- pect that life will conspire to bring about this happy mingle your destiny more thoroughly with the destinies about the sciences and boost success in way street. He was not initially forthright in development. A steady stream of antics and whimsies of others? Will you benefit from trying to cultivate CASCADIA WEEKLY the classroom! identifying himself to police, leading to con- and amusing paradoxes is headed your way. Be alert more engaged forms of intimacy? As is true for most big for the opportunities. questions, there are no neat, simple answers. Exploring fusion. Nevertheless, the incident engages a 30 Read more at villagebooks.com stronger connections would ultimately be both messy community conversation on the active role a VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a favorable time and rewarding. Here’s an inquiry that might bring presence of federal deportation officers at to fantasize about how to suck more cash into your clarity as you ponder the possibility of merging your VILLAGE BOOKS life. You have entered a phase when economic mojo is fortunes more closely with allies or potential allies: our nearby border play in local policing mat- easier to conjure than usual. Are you ready to engage Will deeper commitments with them inspire you to love 1200 11th St., Bellingham ters. Perhaps that’s a profile that deserves in some practical measures to take advantage of the yourself dearly, treat yourself with impeccable kindness, 360.671.2626 attention. cosmic trend? And by that I don’t mean playing the and be a superb ally to yourself? BY AMY ALKON you sober up—that you find out what you actually have together.

The kind of love that sticks around THE ADVICE is not just a feeling but a feeling 34 that inspires loving action. As nov- FOOD FOOD GODDESS elist Marlon James, quoting a former lover, put it: “Love isn’t saying ‘I love 27 DO I LOOK you’ but calling to say, ‘Did you eat?’” 27 INFATUATED IN THIS? Love that lasts should also inspire a Is there anything inherently bad about sort of loving inaction—loving the B-BOARD B-BOARD B-BOARD getting into a serious relationship quickly? person enough that you don’t hate I met this guy about a month ago. We them for all the ways they turn out hit it off instantly, became boyfriend and to be a total idiot: how they can’t 24 girlfriend two weeks later, and have been seem to understand that pee goes in FILM dropping I-love-yous. It all feels pretty the big white porcelain thing, not on great; I don’t have a history of poor rela- the floor; that those gross phlegm- tionship judgment; and I wasn’t desperate clearing sounds are not a mating call; 20 or even looking for a new partner. However, and that socks left on the bedroom MUSIC popular opinion seems to run against get- rug will not grow tiny legs, crawl up ting involved so fast. Your thoughts? the hamper, and fling themselves in. 18 —Speedy GROWING MOLD TOGETHER ART Ah, yes, your love is like a sum- I’m a 70-year-old man, and my wife is mer’s day—if a summer’s day chased 68. I suffer from ED, and we both seem 16 its lemonade with two Red Bulls and to have lost our sex drive. Don’t get me Business Hours Happy Hour a five-shot latte. wrong; we are still very loving and affec- Sun - Thurs 11:30am - 10pm Everyday STAGE It’s easy for you to assume you’re tionate with each other. We just don’t have in your right mind, just because you sex. Is this a problem I should be address- Fri & Sat 11:30am - 10:30pm 11:30am - 5:30pm 14 haven’t started throwing peanuts at ing or just a side effect of aging? My male people in the park while debating ego keeps telling me that I should still be GET OUT abortion with a squirrel. But there are a horndog. —Older Dude three stages of love: the “falling in it” stage, the “figuring out how it’ll No need to pull out the hose if 12 work” stage, and finally, the “you’re there’s no fire. the one!” commitment stage. You’re So, on date night, you have a ro- WORDS in the starting days of the “falling in mantic dinner (early-bird special!) and it” stage—getting hit by rushing hor- then repair to bed for some rough hug- 8 mones and neurotransmitters—which ging. Assuming your ED doesn’t stem is to say that you’re chemically dazed. from some more serious medical condi- Which is to say that making any sort of tion, the only thing that’s wrong with CURRENTS

decision about what you two have is you is your thinking that something’s 6 like getting really high and going off wrong with you. O.K., your sexparts Prime Rib Thursday Nights Starting @ 5pm to sign papers for a bank loan. aren’t as perky as they were back when VIEWS In fact, according to research by Warren G. Harding (or whoever!) was 3004 Cinema Pl. Bellingham | 360.306.8676 psychiatry professor Donatella Maraz- president. Would you deem yourself Next to Regal Cinemas! 4

ziti, it’s likely that right now, you and less manly if you got osteoarthritis in MAIL this guy are each chemically differ- your elbow? Probably not. But predict- ent people—and thus behaviorally ably, your elbow has probably stopped 2 different people—than you will be working as well as it did when you ([SHULHQFH7DL]p DO IT IT DO once the chemical storm dies down. were 22—just like Mr. Winky Senior. ǲǡǳ Marazziti found significant shifts in The reality is there’s much more to testosterone levels in both men and physical intimacy than being all Vlad ǡǡ ǡƬ women who’d recently fallen in love. the Impaler—a point sex therapist 09.23.15 Compared with single people and Dr. Marty Klein makes in his book Sex- people who’d been in relationships ual Intelligence. Touch and affection /DE\ULQWK .10 38 awhile, women newly in love had el- are essential, and you have those. So # evated testosterone, likely making instead of lamenting what you don’t them more sexually tigress-y, while have, focus on what you do. You ǡǤʹ͹ǡͷ the T levels of men newly in love might also consider that your level of ± dropped, likely making them more manliness is reflected in your char- gooey and emotional—to the point acter—what you do when the chips ǡͶǦͷƬ͸Ǧ͹ǣ͵Ͳ where even a Navy SEAL might start are down—not by how, lately, your CASCADIA WEEKLY sounding like a Valentine’s Day card. favorite thing to do in bed is sleep Ǥǯ How long the biochemical inebriation through the night without getting ʹͳͳ͹Ǥ̷ 31 lasts varies, but Marazziti’s research awakened by the twins: your bladder suggests that couples are pretty much and your prostate. ǤǤ out of the falling in love daze a year to two years later. It’s only then—once ©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. rearEnd ›› comix

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34 the Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th St. (behind Village Books). The market continues FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD weekly through Sept. 30. chow WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG 27 RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES SEDRO MARKET: Suss out summer offerings at the weekly Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market from 3-7pm every Wednesday through Sep-

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24 recipe PORTUGUESE FOOD LITERACY: Attend a “Celebrate Food Literacy” panel discussion featuring authors FILM KALE-SAUSAGE Katherine Pryor and Rick Swan at 4pm at Vil- lage Books, 1200 11th St. The event is part of SOUP Eat Local Month, and is free. 20 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM —Adapted from (now defunct)

MUSIC Kitchen Gardener magazine SEPT. 23-30 2 tbsp olive oil EAT LOCAL MONTH: Sustainable Connec-

18 2 carrots, diced tions’ Eat Local Month concludes this week 4 cloves of garlic, sliced with a “Readers to Eaters” event Wed., Sept. ART 23 at Village Books, an Incognito dinner 1 large bunch curly kale, cleaned, Sept. 25 at Ciao Thyme, Oktoberfest cruises stemmed and roughly torn or chopped 16 with Boundary Bay Brewery Sept. 25-26, 1 quart chicken or vegetable stock and a Trial Vineyard Open House Sept. 26 at Cloud Mountain Farm Center. Get more STAGE 1-2 tomatoes, chopped (or 1 can diced tomatoes) details online. WWW.SUSTAINABLECONNECTIONS.ORG 1 lb hot Italian or Portuguese sausages 14 (if your sausages aren’t spicy, add THURS., SEPT. 24 red pepper flakes to the carrots and LYNDEN FARMERS MARKET: Procure goods

GET OUT garlic) from local growers at the Lynden Farmers Salt and pepper Market from 12-5pm at 324 Front St. (across from the Jansen Art Center). The market Heat the olive oil in a soup pot and 12 continues Thursdays through Oct. 29. saute the carrots and garlic until sizzling WWW.LYNDENFARMERSMARKET.COM and beginning to turn golden. Add the kale WORDS and a good pinch of salt and stir well until GLUTEN-FREE LUNCHBOX: Alissa Segersten it wilts. Add the stock and tomatoes, bring of Whole Life Nutrition leads a “Gluten-Free 8 Lunchbox” class from 6:30-9pm at the Com- it to simmer, cover and cook about 20 min- munity Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Reci- utes on low heat, or until the kale is limp pes and meal-planning tips will be included

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4 kale is tender, slip the sausage into the at Ferndale’s American Legion Hall, 5537 pot, stir it up, and taste the broth for salt. 2nd Ave. MAIL MAIL Autumn Soups 384-7474 Grind in plenty of fresh black pepper and

turn off the heat. 2 A SEASON FOR SIMMERING MOUNT VERNON MARKET:The Mount Vernon Farmers Market takes place from 9am- DO IT IT DO very year, sometime around the end of August, I start to fantasize about 2pm at the city’s Waterfront Plaza. E cooking. After months of salads, grilled vegetables and ingredients that kale is soup. Many years ago I came across a WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG can be prepared quickly in the morning while it’s cool, I want to make long- magazine recipe for a Portuguese-style soup ANACORTES FARMERS MARKET: Attend simmered dishes and things that require the oven to be on for hours, like cas- mostly composed of kale, tomatoes and sau- the Anacortes Farmers Market from 9am-2pm 09.23.15 seroles, pot roasts and soup—especially soup. sage. We made it once and it immediately at the Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave. This summer has been unusually, ridiculously long and hot, so the cooler, went into our permanent repertoire. Some- WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG .10

38 wetter weather of the last couple of weeks has been very welcome. I celebrated times I add white beans or pasta, but the # the seasonal shift by making a pot of chili: pinto beans cooked until creamy, basic recipe needs very little embellishment. COMMUNITY MEAL: Spaghetti, veggies, green salad, garlic bread and fruit crisp will mixed with ground beef, fresh jalapeños, onions, beer and a puree made out of While recipes can be useful, the great be on the menu at the bimonthly Community a shocking quantity of fresh tomatoes that I managed to burn slightly. thing about soup is how forgiving it is. Meal from 10am-12pm at the United Church of Everyone has their own way of making chili: some like it meatless, others like Leave out one ingredient, add something Ferndale, 2034 Washington St. Entry is free. it Texas-style without beans, but this was just the sort I like best. It was good else that you happen to have on hand. Use 714-9029 on the first night, fantastic on the second, then, sadly, gone. meat broth, vegetable broth or just plain BELLINGHAM FARMERS MARKET: At- CASCADIA WEEKLY The perfect soup for September, really, is corn chowder, to celebrate this short water. Double or triple the whole thing, tend the Bellingham Farmers Market from period in which we have both fresh sweet corn and cool weather. Like chili, corn throw in a handful of rice or pasta to bulk it 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, 1100 34 chowder has infinite variations: make it plain, make it with sweet peppers or hot up, whatever you like. It’s always worth Railroad Ave. The market runs every Saturday peppers (poblanos are particularly wonderful with corn), add chicken or crab, mix making a large batch, since one big pot of through Dec. 19. squash into it, or add different types of cheese. It’s hard to go wrong. soup can feed a crowd all at once, make a WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG Another vegetable that comes into its own as autumn settles in is kale, which week’s worth of lunches, or fill the freezer WINE TRIALS: Attend a “Trial Vineyards gets sweeter after the first frost, and one of my favorite things to make with for another rainy day. doit On Weekends! Open House” at 10:30am at Everson’s Cloud Apple Bin Train Rides Mountain Farm Center, 6906 Goodwin Rd. Live Music

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