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Amy Goodman: The crisis of contraception, p.6 :: Anne Frank: Setting the stage for history, p.13 Los Lonely Boys: Listening in on a cultural collision, p.16

30 30 cascadia FOOD Grammy award-winning singer Rita Coolidge

24 brings her vocal chops to the area for a Feb.

B-BOARD 18 show at the Silver A glance at what’s happening this week Reef Casino 20 20

Tape: 8pm, iDiOM Theater FILM FILM The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre FILM 16 Bellingham Human Rights Film Fest: Through Feb. 25, Pickford Film Center, Fairhaven College, and beyond MUSIC GET OUT

14 Ladies Night: 7-9pm, Fairhaven Bike & Ski

ART ART Analeise Volpe Talk: 7:30pm, Backcountry Essentials

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12 Theatre The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Circus Noir: 7:30pm, Syre Student Center, WCC GET OUT The Diary of Anne Frank: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden

10 Borderline Crazies: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner The- atre, Mount Vernon Iron Curtain: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre WORDS Space Trek: 8pm, Upfront Theatre

8 Tape: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Evil Space Trek: 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC

CURRENTS CURRENTS Los Lonely Boys: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre

6 WORDS Children’s Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Bellingham Public

VIEWS VIEWS Library Love Poetry: 7-9pm, Deming Library 4 Mary McGofﬁn: 7pm, Village Books

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.12 The Diary of Anne Frank: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas ONSTAGE 15 downtown Bellingham Theatre, Lynden 1PLFt$IBUt'SJFOE 7pm, Bellingham Children’s Vaudevillingham: 8pm and 10pm, Depot Market Theatre Square John Walton Magic Show: 7pm, Van Zandt Com- .07 02.

07 munity Hall # MUSIC Tracy Spring: 6-8pm, Community Food Co-op The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre The animals of The Diary of Anne Frank: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Rwanda will come Theatre, Lynden /#0-. 4[02.x}.12] Borderline Crazies: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner The- to life when Lisbeth atre, Mount Vernon ONSTAGE and Alan Fritzberg Iron Curtain: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre CASCADIA WEEKLY Space Trek: 8pm, Upfront Theatre lead a presentation The Diary of Anne Frank: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Tape: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 2 Theatre, Lynden focused on their recent Evil Space Trek: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Iron Curtain: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community travels Feb. 16 at the Theatre DANCE Whatcom Museum Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Black and Red Dance: 7-10pm, Blue Moon Ballroom Brewery Open House Feb 25 @ 1:30-4:30pm Tango Experience Milonga: 8-11:30pm, Pres- Updated Menus featuring Burgers ence Studio

$3 Pints Mon /$1.50 Kolsch Tues MUSIC 30 30 Rita Coolidge: 7pm, Silver Reef Casino Wed 2nd Pint ½ Price / Fri $8 Liter Steins

Alex Krynytzky, John Patrick: 7pm, Lynden FOOD Public Library Philharmonia Northwest: 7:30pm, Maple

Hall, La Conner 24 MixIt with Snug Harbor: 8-11pm, Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building B-BOARD COMMUNITY Fly Day: 12-4pm, Heritage Flight Museum 20 20 FOOD

Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, FILM Norway Hall Reel Food Film Series: 3pm, Everson Library 16 VISUAL ARTS Family Art Day: 11am and 2pm, Museum of MUSIC Northwest Art, La Conner

Amy Jones Reception: 6pm, Karibou Salon 14 ART ART [02. .12] A New Ali Reynolds Mystery!

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E 360.647.8200 30 30 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 24 ô editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle Whitney Houston, the soulful pop princess who turned the Eext 204 national anthem into a billboard blockbuster and sold more ô calendar@ 20 20 than 170 million albums, singles and videos over the course cascadiaweekly.com of her storied career, died of undetermined causes Feb.

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6 24: Bulletin Board, Sudoku Land & Associates I want to express gratitude and appreciation —Mitch Friedman, Executive Director ô distro@ 25: Wellness cascadiaweekly.com for Kris Lytton, who represents the 40th Legisla- Conservation Northwest VIEWS VIEWS 26: Free Will Astrology tive District in Olympia, for exceptional leader- Letters ship and diplomacy.

4 KEEP PADDEN BLUE 4 27: Crossword Send letters to letters@ cascadiaweekly.com. In the late hours of Feb. 9, the State House Lake Padden is a blue jewel in our back- MAIL MAIL MAIL 28: Advice Goddess unanimously passed SHB 2366, a bill related to yard. Clean enough to provide the city drinking

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management of wolves and other carnivores. water from 1900-1968, it is now our most visited REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 2 * * * Tom the Dancing Bug 02.15.12::#07::V.07::FREE This bill had been contentious, caught between park by thousands of North Sound denizens for

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NNRIGHTS RIGHTSRRIRIG UMAUMUMANUMANMAMANA RIGHTS L regarding wildlife like wolves and cougars. Rep. host of races. All this was made possible because H ESTIVAEESTESST BELLINGHAMBBEBELLINGHAELLINGH MFM F FILMLM FP20P200 Lytton played the key role in ﬁnding the common our turn-of-the-century leaders had the common .12

15 ground path to success. It was Kris’ amendment sense to protect the hilly watershed around the

Amy Goodman: The crisis of contraception, p.6 :: Anne Frank: Setting the stage for history, p.13 Los Lonely Boys: Listening in on a cultural collision, p.16 that made the bill appealing enough to all inter- city’s drinking supply. ests to pass the House overwhelmingly. Now the usual suspects on the Whatcom County ©2012 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by COVER: design by .07 02. Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly Included in the bill now is a provision that Council (Brenner, Crawford, Kershner, and Knutzen) 07

# PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 Jesse Kinsman [email protected] makes the killing of a wolf punishable by an ex- once again want to ignore common sense put high Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia tra $4,000. This is vital, as poaching is the big- density housing in the Lake Padden watershed at Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution gest threat to recovery of wolves in Washington. a time when our lake is showing increasing signs SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you Wolves are now at a delicate stage, with less than of overuse and stress with degrading water quality include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- a few dozen individuals spread among several and more frequent algal blooms. ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be packs. And we already lost the state’s ﬁrst pack It is the goal of these County Council members returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope.

CASCADIA WEEKLY LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and to poachers. The legislature needs to be forceful to try to reopen the Yew Street Urban Growth Area content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does on this, so that poaching a wolf will hurt. (UGA) proposal in the Lake Padden watershed. Why 4 not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your The carnivore bill also provided funds (using now? When ﬁve years of hearings just concluded letters to fewer than 300 words. revenue from Orca license plates) to help the that it was not smart to put a UGA in a steep, state work with ranchers and others to prevent undeveloped area outside city limits with limited conﬂicts before they happen. services and far away from the urban core. Now NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre Thanks to Rep. Lytton, the right balance was some shortsighted Council members wish, on Feb. 28, to force a vote on the reopening of a UGA in this sensitive area.

Why would certain Council members Win Your Share Of

reopen a closed case despite the fact 30 that the city does not want it and growth management does not require it? It is es- FOOD pecially dumbfounding considering these same Council members have wasted hun- 24 dreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars repeatedly ﬁghting and losing to the state

, B-BOARD Growth Management board. Haven’t we $50 000 seen this irrational behavior before? It makes one wonder—30 years from now will we have to use a pound of tax- Now Through March 17! 20

payer dollars to buy land back from the FILM developers in order to protect another lake that could have been protected by 16 an ounce of prevention? Deja vu all over again, as developers MUSIC and their politicians try to have their way with our common resources. 14 Don’t let the County Council destroy this gem of Whatcom County. Write the ART County Council and keep Padden blue! —Carol Fuglestad and David Henry, 13 Bellingham *HWOXFN\DW1RRNVDFN5LYHU&DVLQR*HWOXFN\DW1R STAGE REFORM VIOLENCE RESPONSE )HEUXDU\WKURXJK0DUFK)HEUXDU\WKUR I believe that the current system in 12 place in our state for dealing with do-

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The accused is automatically barred from 15 returning home, left indigent and home- $1000 Slot Race! less, cut off from all his social and familial life; this can only lead to more trouble. 7RXUQDPHQWVWDUWV .07 02. 07 A truly just system of DV services and )HEUXDU\DWSP # laws would involve mediation, de-escala- tion, and meaningful complex reconcilia- tion overseen by a jurist. Feminists and advocates will no doubt be upset by these 877.935.9300 views, but they must admit that the cur- 5048 MOUNT BAKER HWY, DEMING WA $10 FREE PLAY! rent system does little to stop the actual CASCADIA WEEKLY violence inﬂicted upon men by women, FIND US ONLINE 9DOLG2QO\7KXUVGD\ 5 or between women partners, and this in WWW.NOOKSACKCASINO.COM IRU )HEUXDU\ itself is proof of the anti-male bias which 9DOLGRQO\DW1RRNVDFN5LYHU&DVLQRDOLGRQO\DW1RRNVD 5HGHHPDW:LQQHU¶V&OXE%RRWK9DOLGRQRQO\8VHRIFRXSRQ permeates the legal system. TWITTER.COM/NOOKSACKRCASINO LPSOLHVDQXQGHUVWDQGLQJDQGDFFHSWDQFHRIDOOUXOHV0DFKLQHPSOLHV DQ DOIXQFWLRQYRLGVDQ\DVVRFLDWHGUHZDUGV/LPLW RQHFRXSRQSHUSHUVRQ0XVWEH:LQQHUV&OXE0HPEHUWRUHGHHP1RWYDOLGZLWKDQ\RWKHURIIHU0HPEHUDQG —Evan Knappenberger, Bellingham FACEBOOK.COM/NOOKSACKRCASINO \HDUVRIDJHWRUHGHHP0DQDJHPHQWUHVHUYHVDOOULJKWV (edited for length) THE GRISTLE

THE WAY FORWARD: Bereft of their single strong

30 30 champion, ’hamsters power forward in their ﬁght against coal. FOOD Former Mayor Dan Pike was a guest of talk show views host Steve Scher on KUOW-FM last week, continuing OPINIONS THE GRISTLE to express his concerns about the Gateway Paciﬁc coal 24 terminal proposed at Cherry Point and its potential impacts on Bellingham’s central waterfront. Pike is

B-BOARD currently under contract with Seattle’s Sightline Insti- tute, collecting data on coal and coal transport for the nonproﬁt research and communications center. 20 20 Pike, who campaigned strongly against coal, sketched BY AMY GOODMAN

FILM FILM the potential impacts of a train up to two miles long crossing through Bellingham for up to 10 minutes each hour, every hour, ferrying up to 56 million tons of coal 16 per year to a proposed export facility west of Ferndale. Contraceptive Holy War

MUSIC The trade-off beneﬁts, Pike said, were taxes and rev- enues related to the construction of the facility, and AMERICA’S PRO-CHOICE MAJORITY SPEAKS OUT

14 the creation of perhaps 300 permanent jobs. Pike’s concerns were echoed by King County Execu- THE LEADERSHIP of the cess birth control—women of color, ART ART tive Dow Constantine in a letter last month to What- Catholic Church has launched what in particular... if you don’t want to com County Executive Jack Louws and the director of amounts to a holy war against Presi- use birth control, don’t buy it, don’t 13 the state Dept. of Ecology. dent Barack Obama. Archbishop Timo- use it. But don’t block others who do “I am concerned about the signiﬁcant impacts of thy Dolan appealed to church mem- want to use it, who cannot afford it, STAGE STAGE this proposal on air, water, energy and natural re- bers, “Let your elected leaders know from accessing it.” sources, environmental health, land and shoreline that you want religious liberty and One possible solution to the debate 12 use, public services, and transportation in commu- rights of conscience restored and that broad-based and unrelenting. By Feb. came from a surprising quarter. Mi- nities along the rail corridor” that stretches south you want the administration’s contra- 3, Komen reversed its decision. On chael Brendan Dougherty, a Catholic

GET OUT to Longview, then east to Spokane, the King County ceptive mandate rescinded,” he said. Feb. 7, Handel resigned from Komen. commentator, was in church a couple Democrat noted in his letter. Obama is now under pressure to reverse Adding fuel to the ire was news that of weeks ago when he heard the priest Pike commented to Scher that up to 55 percent of a health-care regulation that requires the U.S. Department of Health and Hu- read out a letter from Archbishop 10 the residents of Washington live in areas transected Catholic hospitals and universities, man Services had issued the regulation Dolan encouraging Catholics to op- by the rail line, making it indeed a project of state- like all employers, to provide contra- requiring employer insurance plans to pose the president. Dougherty, who WORDS wide signiﬁcance. ception to insured women covered by provide contraception. The coup de supports the church’s opposition to The enlarging scope of statewide impacts was tele- their health plans. Bill Donohue of the grace, on primary/caucus day, was the the regulation, suggested to me that 8 graphed last summer by the involvement of Ecology as Catholic League said, “This is going to decision handed down by the 9th U.S. a single-payer health-care option co-lead in the environmental impact statement (EIS) be fought out with lawsuits, with court Circuit Court of Appeals overturning could solve the problem: “It would county planners will prepare. Indeed, representatives decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe California’s controversial Proposition 8, solve this particular problem of con- CURRENTS CURRENTS of Paciﬁc International Terminals, a division of SSA even in the streets.” In the wake of the which banned same-sex marriages. science, as it has in Europe. The bish- 6

6 Marine, have now asked for two extensions to their successful pushback against the Susan According to the nonpartisan Gutt- ops don’t like that the government permit application, the most recent arriving in Decem- G. Komen Race for the Cure’s decision macher Institute, which studies repro- subsidizes abortion or contraception, VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS ber, for work the company projected might be com- to defund Planned Parenthood, the ductive health issues globally, in the but they are not in full mode of fury, pleted at this point. Obama administration should listen to United States, “among all women who because they are not being asked to 4 “Several actions that we had hoped to be accom- the majority of Americans: The United have had sex, 99 percent have used formally cooperate with things they

MAIL MAIL plished by now have not yet occurred,” SSA Marine States, including Catholics, is strongly a contraceptive method other than view as sinful.”

Vice President Skip Sahlin wrote to planners, “key pro-choice. natural family planning. This ﬁgure Loretta Ross agrees with the 2 components of which are outside of our control.” Rick Santorum most likely beneﬁted is virtually the same among Catholic single-payer solution, but says the

DO IT IT DO Some opponents of the proposed terminal believe from last week’s news cycle, secur- women (98 percent).” According to current contraception controversy

state requirements for environmental review and miti- ing three-state win. Exactly one week a Public Religion Research Institute masks a “war on women with all this gation of those impacts alone may be sufﬁcient to halt before the caucus/primary voting, on poll, 58 percent of Catholics believe rhetoric about religious freedom and .12

15 the project; other opponents aren’t so sure, believing Jan. 31, The Associated Press broke that employers should provide em- care for not only the pre-born, but state guidelines and processes that provide for such the story that Susan G. Komen Race ployees with health-care plans that now, with the attack on contracep- facilities preordain that they will be built. The differ- for the Cure, a $2 billion-per-year include contraception. tion, you’re attacking the precon- .07ence 02. of opinion has created a small schism among ac- breast-cancer fundraising and advoca- Catholic activists who acknowledge ceived. ... We’re not going to take it 07 # tivists, and between Bellingham residents and those cy organization, had enacted policies the broad use of contraception among lying down. And as the ﬁght with the in the rural county. that would effectively lead it to deny their church members, despite its of- Komen Foundation proved, we are a A new group launched earlier this month called funding to Planned Parenthood clinics ﬁcial prohibition, suggest women can force to be reckoned with. And we’re Protect Whatcom. The group, headed by retired public to conduct breast-cancer screenings, “go elsewhere” to get the preventive actually going to work to strengthen interest attorney Terry Wechsler, believes the State especially for women with no health care. And if they can’t afford to? Lo- President Obama’s stand in support- Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) sets a high standard insurance. Linked to the decision was retta Ross, national coordinator of ing contraceptive access.”

CASCADIA WEEKLYthat could block SSA Marine’s plans if studies show a recently hired Komen vice president, the SisterSong Women of Color Re- the coal terminal could not be built without harm to Karen Handel, who, as a candidate for productive Justice Collective in At- Amy Goodman is the host of “Democra- 6 the environment. governor of Georgia in 2010, ran on lanta, told me: “This rule really allows cy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio “While Whatcom County cannot solve trade imbal- a platform to defund Planned Parent- low-income women, women who are news hour. Denis Moynihan contributed ances, the decline of manufacturing in this nation, or hood. The backlash was immediate, dependent on their health care, to ac- research to this column. any other impact of globalization, we can do our part to protect our nation’s natural resources and advocate VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY

THE GRISTLE on behalf of the health of our local communities, economies, and good job ini- 30 tiatives,” the group announced at the launch of their efforts. FOOD Wechsler expressed gentle skepti- cism that a local initiative that seeks brandywine 24 to block coal trains from passing through Bellingham would ultimately SATURDAY, be successful. kitchen B-BOARD Coal-Free Bellingham launched last “From Seed to Plate” month with the aim of putting a com- FEBRUARY 18

20 munity bill of rights on the ballot, chal-

lenging the authority of distant corpo- FILM rations to create the signiﬁcant local 8pm impacts associated with coal freight. 16 “Existing environmental laws are sup- ported by a legal structure that favors 1317 commercial st MUSIC corporations, property and commerce 360.734.1071 over people, communities and nature,” 14 Soney Bird explained. Bird is a former corporate attorney who helped draft the $ .50 ART initiative. “Municipalities have no in- 29 trinsic rights. Under legal concepts de- 13 veloped in the 19th century, municipali- STAGE STAGE ties have only the powers that the state PERFORMING TICKETS LIMITEDLIM TICKETS AVAILABILE AT THE GIFT SHOP says they have, and indeed exist only if BILLBOARD HITS: the state says that they do,” he said. 12 Even if successful, and trains must “We’re All Alone”

route around the city to a line in the GET OUT (Your Love Has Lifted Me) east county, the measure pits the in- “ terests of Bellingham against the wider Higher and Higher” county, some critics complain. 10 A third group, Safeguard the South “All Time High” Fork, seeks to protect the agricultural WORDS and environmental integrity in the 8 Nooksack River watershed from the impacts of coal freight, advocating county interests. CURRENTS CURRENTS “The ‘Farmland–Coal Port Route’ is 8JOBXFFLMPOHHFUBXBZL MPOH HFUBXBZ 6 a contingency that has until recently 6 escaped scrutiny,” said Jeff Margolis, a GPSUXPUP)BXBJJ VIEWS VIEWS spokesperson for the group. ”With the VIEWS advent of a major political effort by 4 Bellingham activists and the prospect of OJHIUEBZUSJQJODMVEFTBJSGBSFIPUFM

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GET OUT The Washington State Supreme Court hands the state Attorney General a second defeat. The court reafﬁrms its decision last Sep- tember that Rob McKenna’s ofﬁce must defend the Dept. of Natural 10 Resources in DNR’s appeal against the Okanogan County Public Utility Governor Chris Gregoire says she's proud to put her name to a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in her state, declaring that historians will mark District. The PUD is attempting to seize a utility right-of-way across the day as a milestone for equal rights. Gregoire signed the bill after the state House passed the legislation last week. WORDS state land. McKenna complained that a failed appeal could set a troubling precedent. 53-year-old Anacortes man was ejected from 8 8 his car and landed in the roadway where he 02..12 was run over by the pursuing trooper who was unable to stop. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS THURSDAY

6 Washington's share of a $25 billion national settlement with the na- 02.xz.12 tion's biggest mortgage lenders will be about $648 million. Attorney VIEWS VIEWS General McKenna says the state will get $483 million to help borrow- MONDAY ers with loan modiﬁcation, relocation help and other assistance for As the governor signed gay marriage into law, 4 those who can't afford their payments. Another $84 million will help arch-conservative presidential candidate Rick

MAIL MAIL Washington borrowers who are current on their mortgage payments Santorum brought his campaign to Washing-

but owe more than their homes are worth. People who lost their homes ton. The state's caucuses on March 3 will be- 2 through foreclosures may be eligible for a $2,000 payment that is also gin the process of assigning the state's 43 del-

DO IT IT DO part of the settlement. egates. The Pennsylvania Republican has built

The Port of Bellingham continued tearing down the building that strength in recent weeks in part based on his once housed the bleach plant at the old Georgia-Pacific paper mill conservative stance on social issues, including .12 02.x.12 site, pictured here behind the tiled lignin tanks. The work contin- 15 FRIDAY ues the agency's preparation of the site for redevelopment. opposition to gay marriage. A new group has a different strategy to oppose the proposed coal After protracted debate, Bellingham City .07 02. shipping terminal at Cherry Point. Organizers of “Protect Whatcom” says it received reports Saturday night of both Council agrees 5-2 to increase a city water 07 # say they believe the public should be more involved in the environmen- a snowmobile accident and a plane crash at an surcharge by $7 per month to fund property tal study and permitting process surrounding the controversial project. area known as Schreibers Meadow. When search- acquisitions in the Lake Whatcom watershed. They say the standards set forth in the State Environmental Policy Act and-rescue personnel arrived, they learned that The council’s most senior members declined to are sufficient to block the permitting process that would allow the the injured snowmobilers had been taken off the support the measure until the city completes a project to move forward. Another group disagrees, believing only the mountain by friends. Other snowmobilers took comprehensive study of water and sewer rates direct democracy of a public referendum is sufficient to stop coal train the pilot off the mountain. later this year.

CASCADIA WEEKLY traffic through the City of Bellingham. 02.xy.12 Bellingham City Council also agrees to co- 8 02.xx.12 fund the Whatcom County Health Dept.’s septic SUNDAY maintenance program in the watershed, but cuts SATURDAY A driver fleeing from a Washington State the city’s financial involvement in the program A 28-year-old pilot is resting at home in Bellingham after crashing Patrol trooper is killed in a crash on Highway from two years to one. Only five such residential his small plane on Mt. Baker. The Whatcom County sheriff's office 20 near Deception Pass. The patrol says the septic systems remain inside city limits. index REPEAT CUSTOMERS

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BUZZ FOOD ﬂashing other customers and employees. Police asked the customer to not return PARTY CRASHERS to the business. 24 On Feb. 6, three men crashed a party in Kendall, threatening to kill invited On Feb 9, Bellingham Police cited a guests. The Bellingham Herald reports 75-year-old man who was spotted uri- B-BOARD two brothers from Maple Falls and a nating in plain view at the Lakeway Fred third county man threatened and as- Meyer. He was asked not to return to the saulted the guests, saying they were store. On Feb. 12, police returned to Fred 20

armed. Sheriff’s deputies set up a pe- Meyer after store security observed the FILM rimeter using the Bellingham Police man back inside the store. He was ar- Department’s BearCat assault vehicle. rested for criminal trespass. 16 They eventually captured the men, who face burglary charges. One of the men

QUID PRO QUO MUSIC also faces assault charges for allegedly On Feb. 1, University Police assisted throwing one guest against a wall and Bellingham patrol officers, investigating 14 choking him. two men observed stealing packages left by the UPS at a home on 16th Street. ART BOOZE, BRAWLS AND BAD MANNERS On Feb. 2, Bellingham Police assisted 13 On Feb. 4, the night clerk at a Blaine University Police on a traffic stop. Cam- STAGE STAGE service station called 911 and promptly pus cops detected the smell of marijuana hung up in the hopes a patrol car would and called in one of BPD’s K-9 officers to swing by to investigate. It worked. ”Of- assist with a search of the vehicle. yx{z~ 12 ficers arrived to find that the attendant PERCENT increase in tuition at the University of Washington since 2001. Tuition and fees were $3,983 for UW’s 2001-02 academic year. Tuition and fees for the the 2011-12 academic was being confronted by an irate man On Feb. 9, University Police worked with GET OUT who was bleeding from wounds,” police Bellingham Police to corral a young man year were $10,574. Other state colleges report similar, but smaller, increases. reported. “The gent had wandered in off walking north near campus with a rock the street after being assaulted, but re- in his hand, using it to damaged parked 10 fused medical attention and refused to vehicles. Police booked the intoxicated say who had attacked him. He did ask 18-year-old for malicious mischief and y{ }zx WORDS for and received a ride home from the related charges. 8 PERCENT of 18- to 34-year-olds who report RECORD freshmen applications to Western 8 officers. In the process,” police related, the economy is so bad they’ve moved back Washington University for Fall 2012, 500 “they were able to extract his woeful MAN IN THE MIRROR WAS in with their parents. One in five reported more than last year. Only about 2,800 slots tale, which involved booze, extremely LOOKING AT HIM FUNNY they’ve delayed starting a family until their are available. CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS bad manners and a family brawl. Arrests On Jan. 21, a patrol officer observed a prospects recover. and suggestions of sobriety were applied man staring at himself in the mirror in 6 as needed to calm the household.” the restroom of a Blaine business, becom-

ing increasingly agitated. The officer and VIEWS On Jan. 25, Bellingham Police arrived Border patrol agents approached the man, 4 at the Horseshoe Cafe at 2am to speak who ran from them. When caught, the man yy to a man reportedly yelling, swearing, bit one of the officers. He was taken into REPORTED illnesses from people who attended a state cheerleading tournament last MAIL trying to start a fight and threatening protective custody and transported to the weekend in Everett. Nineteen of the 52 squads that participated have reported symptoms of to hit a woman. hospital for a mental health evaluation. the norovirus that include vomiting and diarrhea. Among them are seven cheerleaders and 2 the coach of the 23-member Lynden Cheerleader Squad, who reported illness after returning DO IT IT DO

from the meet. More than 3,000 people attended the event. MAP FLAP On Feb. 10, Bellingham Police took a report On Feb. 10, a Bellingham man was from a woman who complained unknown .12

sentenced to a year in federal prison people were breaking into her apartment 15 for attempting to sell a map that dis- and leaving towels on her ﬂoor. |x ~ closed surveillance equipment on the PERCENT of Republicans earning less than PERCENT of Republicans earning less than U.S./Canada border. Lief Rankin, 32, PEOPLE YOU $30,000 per year who agree the economic $30,000 per year who agree rich people .07 02. 07 pleaded guilty in November to charges MEET ON THE STREET system in this country unfairly favors the and corporations hold too much power # of theft of government property. He On Feb. 9, Bellingham Police received wealthy. Only 28 percent of Republicans in the United States. Only 39 percent of was arrested when he tried to sell the a report of a young man running nude earning more than $75,000 per year agreed Republicans earning more than $75,000 per with this statement. year agreed with this statement. map of border sensors and cameras to down Ohio Street. Police took him to the someone he thought was involved in hospital, believing he had overdosed on drug smuggling. Instead, he was snared synthetic cannabis incense, or Spice. in a sting operation conducted by law ¹y CASCADIA WEEKLY enforcement. Rankin said he found the On Feb. 8, Bellingham Police checked on MAXIMUM 750,000 homeowners might expect to receive from a $5 billion federal 9 map in a box of gear he obtained at a a person hiding in a ditch near Sehome settlement with banks who wrongfully foreclosed on their homes. “Sorry we stole your garage sale at the home of a U.S. Bor- Village. The person was found to have home,” one commenter observed dryly, “now, here’s two months’ rent.” der Patrol Agent. When Rankin met the an anxiety problem, police reported, and person to make the sale for $6,000 he was checked by medics before being giv- SOURCE: Associated Press; Pew Research Center; Western Washington University; Washington State Health Dept.; KGMI was arrested. en a ride home. doit WORDS

30 30 WED., FEB. 15 SPOKEN WORD: Celebrated poets FOOD words Anis Mojgani and Jared Paul will lead a Spoken Word Night at 7pm at WWU’s COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Viking Union Multipurpose Room. Entry will be $4-$7. 24 650-6146 WORKING DEMOCRACY: Mary Ellen McCaffree and Anne McNamee Corbett B-BOARD share ideas from their book Politics of the Possible: The Decade Our American Democracy Worked at 7pm at Village 20 20 Books, 1200 11th St. 671-2626 FILM FILM FRI., FEB. 17 FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Professional 16 BY AMY KEPFERLE storytellers will weave tales at Family Story Night at 7pm at the Fairhaven MUSIC Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is free. 778-7188

14 LOVE POETRY: Foothills poets will share their poetry about love in its ART ART Vacation Bookshelf many forms at a “Love Poetry” event ONTHEBEACHANDBEYOND from 7-9pm at the Deming Library, 5044 13 Mt. Baker Hwy. Entry to the adults-only reading is free. STAGE STAGE FOR ME, dream vacations involve plenty of sun, sultry breezes, something any white woman on the other 592-2422 RED ROOF: Mary McGofﬁn shares true splashing about in warm waters and, most importantly, plenty of spare time end of a black woman’s paycheck could ever stories from her book, Under the Red 12 10 to read. Thanks to a bevy of last-minute recommendations by friends, I truly understand. But trying to understand Roof: One Hundred Years at Northern spent a recent exotic getaway with a more-than-adequate supply of reading is vital to our humanity.” I couldn’t have State Hospital, at 7pm at Village Books,

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GET OUT material. I enjoyed the following trio of tomes, and I think you will, too said it better. (even if you’re not on the beach). WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM FEB. 17-18 10 / by Armistead Maupin (HarperPerennial) CHILDREN’S BOOK SALE: The Friends Flying in airplanes freaks me out, and I can rarely concentrate on reading of the Bellingham Public Library will WORDS anything too intense before wondering what the next raucous bout of tur- host a fundraising Children’s Book Sale from 10am-6pm Fri. and 10am-3pm Sat. bulence portends. After a Xanax and a screwdriver, however, I was able to

8 at the library’s headquarters at 210 distract myself from my own mortality long enough to jump into the ﬁrst of Central Ave. Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series, and it was the perfect antidote 778-7250 to my fear of ﬂying. CURRENTS CURRENTS SAT., FEB. 18 Set in San Francisco in the late 1970s, the tales focus on a makeshift POETIC DUO: Poets Richard Widerkehr 6 family comprised of an eccentric landlord and the “children” who live in her and Anita Boyle read from their respec- Barbary Lane compound. Relationships—homosexual, heterosexual and ev- tive tomes, Her Story of Fire, and What

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B-BOARD BIKE TRAVEL SLIDE- “Baker Lake Snowshoe SHOW: “Cycling Across the Excursion” with the North USA” will be the focus of Cascades Institute. The old snowboarder on the rise into a lumbering, all-day event costs $95, 20 20 Franken-footed gimp with no job and $46,000 a bicycle travelogue slide show at 7pm at RE Sources’ and includes transportation and lunch. FILM FILM in medical bills who couldn’t so much as wig- Sustainable Living Center, gle his right big toe—let alone drive his own 2309 Meridian St. Sug- WWW.NCASCADES.ORG car anymore. And his attitude reﬂected it. gested donation is $3, and

16 SUN., FEB. 19 no registration is required. “Plates, screws and brackets,” he kept moan- BIRCH BAY MARATHON: WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM ing as I chauffeured him back from the hospital. The 44th annual Birch MUSIC “It’s like a goddamn hardware store in there.” THURS., FEB. 16 Bay Marathon and Half- Not only did Big Karl need help getting VOLCANIC TALK: Geolo- Marathon begins at 8am 14 gist Dave Tucker presents at Blaine’s Birch Bay State around, he needed assistance maintaining his Park. Registration deadline ART ART self-respect. So, although we were ﬁve full- “The Eruptive History of the Active Volcano in Our is Feb. 15. grown men renting out Eagle’s Eyrie that win- Backyard” at a Brown Bag WWW. 13 ter, it fell on me—Big Karl’s oldest friend—to presentation at 12:30pm BIRCHBAYMARATHON.COM take on the role of chief caregiver. at the Whatcom Museum,

STAGE STAGE TUES., FEB. 21 121 Prospect St. Suggested “Call me Nurse Ratched,” I said, stacking pil- SOCIAL RIDE: Join the donation is $3. lows six-high on our coffee table to elevate his Mt. Baker Bike Club for a WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM. 12 Social Ride every Tuesday cast-ridden leg. “As long as you take your medi- ORG cation and stay off that gimpy limb as your doc- starting at 10am at BIKE NIGHT FOR Ferndale’s Pioneer Park.

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2 “Throw in unfettered access to your spa- shares stories and images at 7:30pm at Backcountry was an oversized snowboarder with an appetite ghetti western DVD collection,” he winced, from her recent “Travels in Essentials, 214 W. Holly St. DO IT IT DO BIG KARL Entry is free. for both food and adventure. Sure, he stood six-foot-four and “and you’ll placate me good and proper.” Spain” at 7:30pm at Back- country Essentials, 214 W. 543-5678 routinely knocked down a dozen ﬁsh tacos per sitting, but what But that only kept him occupied for a couple Holly St. Entry is free.

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15 really made Karl “big” was his unfailing ability to burger-flip the days. Once the snow level started to drop and 543-5678 View Working Triumph chicken salad off a crater rim cornice like it was nobody’s moun- flurries reached the cabin, something inside (a workingman’s ski and tain but his own. him snapped. FRI., FEB. 17 snowboard feature) and NATURE BABIES: Kids, FreeRider (featuring split .07 02. During two epic gravity-defying seasons, Big Karl racked up so “Try focusing on simpler pleasures,” I ad- adults and adventurers can 07 board mountaineer Kyle # much hang time while hucking himself off the local array of cliffs, vised, attempting to distract him. “Go make join Wild Whatcom Walks Miller) at 7pm at WWU’s kickers, gaps and jibs he made Air Jordan look like a puddle jumper. some mixed tapes for your bros or start visual- for Nature Babies excur- Fraser Hall 4. Entry to see He was, indisputably, the most balls-to-the-wall freestyle aerialist izing all those honey-glazed spare ribs we’ll be sions from 9:30-11am every the adventure films is free. I have ever had the pleasure of repeatedly failing to out-do. barbecuing at the party tonight.” Friday in February on the WWW.AS.WWU.EDU Interurban Trail. Suggested FITNESS FORUM: Hiking Although he eschewed organized competitions and corporate “No!” he cried, rising defiantly up on his donation is $5. guidebook author and sponsorship, fortune eventually came calling and pro deals were crutches, “I’m not hungry.” WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG outdoorsman Craig Romano

CASCADIA WEEKLY inevitably signed. Interviews were granted. Articles were writ- I’m still not exactly sure how he managed to leads a “Northwest on ten. A movie contract materialized. hop past me through the living room, squeeze SAT., FEB. 18 DONUT RIDE: At 7:30am the Run” Fitness Forum at 12 Unfortunately, while enjoying a leisurely warm-up run just mo- out our front door, gain three full ﬂights of every Saturday through 7:15pm at Fairhaven Run- ments before the cameras started rolling, Big Karl took a digger steps on me and wind up at the bottom of our February, meet with mem- ners, 1209 11th St. Entry on the ﬂattest, widest, most obstacle-free section on the moun- driveway without killing himself before I was bers of the Mount Baker is free. WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM tain and broke his leg. even across the front deck, but I guess if any- Bike Club for a “Donut Within the span of a few hours, he’d gone from an elite 24-year- body could do it, Big Karl could. doit

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BORDERLINE CRAZIES: WED., FEB. 15 Snowstorms, murder and 30 VAUDEVILLINGHAM: The comedy take center stage when Bellingham Circus Guild pres- G FOOD Borderline Crazies shows for sta e ents its monthly, uncensored the ﬁnal weekend at 7:30pm THEATER DANCE PROFILES variety show known as Vaude- Fri.-Sat. at Mount Vernon’s villingham at 8pm and 10pm at RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, 100 24 the Depot Market Square (on E. Montgomery St. Tickets are the corner of Railroad Avenue $25 (with dessert) or $45 (with and Chestnut Street. Entry is dinner and dessert). B-BOARD by donation. WWW. WWW. RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM SPACE TREK: The completely 20 20 BY AMY KEPFERLE FEB. 15-22 improvised space adventure show known as “Space Trek” THE FANTASTICKS: The FILM third annual Winter Repertory plays at 8pm every Fri.-Sat. Theatre at the Mount Baker through February at the Theatre presents showings of Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. 16 the longest-running theatrical At 10pm, attendees can check

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as a teacher.” IRON CURTAIN: View a new host a Comedian Open Mic 15 “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still Noting that people of all ages have shown musical comedy dubbed Iron night starting at 9pm at the remains.” —Anne Frank interest in attending the show, Posthuma says Curtain at 7:30pm Thurs., 8pm Cabin Tavern, 307 W. Holly St. Fri.-Sat., and 2pm Sun. at the 733-9685 she’s looking forward to sharing the hard work .07 02.

Anacortes Community Theatre, 07 # AT THE ﬁrst rehearsal for the Lynden Performing Arts her cast and crew have put into making the 918 M Ave. Tickets are $20 and FEB. 20-23 Guild’s upcoming performances of The Diary of Anne Frank, theatrical experience a memorable one. Using additional showings happen BOAT FESTIVAL: View 12 short director Ruth Posthuma couldn’t help but notice that many of words such as “dedicated,” “passionate” and through Feb. 25. plays and musicals during the BOAT (Bellingham One-Act those taking part in the read-through were moved to tears. “tenacious” to describe her creative cohorts, WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM Theatre) Festival starting “A myriad of other emotions—from laughter and wonder the director says she couldn’t have asked for a FRI., FEB. 17 at 7pm Feb. and continuing to fear and horror—have followed,” Posthuma says of the better group of people to collaborate with. CIRCUS SHOW: Whatcom Com- almost nightly through March munity College’s Queer Student 3 at the Bellingham Theatre

process of getting the play from the page to the stage, which “They’ve given me everything I’ve asked for CASCADIA WEEKLY has also included many hours spent researching the charac- and more, starting with the research everyone Alliance and members of the Guild, 1600 H St. Entry is $4 per show or $10 for a festival ters and the Amsterdam ofﬁce building where a young Anne did on their own about their characters and Bellingham Circus Guild will join 13 forces for a “Circus Noir” show pass. Frank, her family and a handful of others hid for two long the place and time,” Posthuma says. “They at 7:30pm at the Syre Student WWW.BELLINGHAM years during the Holocaust. are deﬁnitely living these people’s lives, and Center. Entry is by donation. THEATREGUILD.COM “Our major focus has been to experience and relay the re- I know the performances will be poignant and 383-3000 ality of these people,” Posthuma says. “They are not simply powerful for so many reasons.” doit UPCOMING EVENTS

30 30 SAT., FEB. 18 FAMILY ART DAY: Mary Quintrall leads

FOOD Family Art Day workshops focusing on “Artistic Leaf Rubbing” at 11am and 2pm at visual La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. The event is meant for all ages

24 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES and skills. Register in advance. (360) 466-4446 OR WWW. MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG B-BOARD WILD THINGS: A reception for photog- rapher Amy Jones’ “The Presence of Wild tion with regard to my rights—especially where any Things,” takes place at 6pm at Karibou 20 20 proﬁt from the works may be gained by me. How- Salon, 1201 11th St, suite 201. Live music by DJ KitchenSink and light refreshments

FILM FILM ever, I may present the digital work in any manner that I see ﬁt. will be provided. Entry is free. WWW.KARIBOUSALON.COM CW: And how will you do that at the Honey Moon per- 16 formance? FEB. 18-19 SC: I “borrowed” one of Jones’ most important sto- SKAGIT LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP: Area MUSIC ries, The Old Bone Dance, and wrote it on a model’s painter Todd Horton leads a “Birds in the Skagit Landscape” oil painting workshop skin. The Old Bone Dance is an allegorical story 14 14 from 10am-3pm Sat.-Sun. at Bow’s Harmony about taking the skin off of the English language Fields. Cost is $80. ART ART ART ART to get down to the bones, the skeleton of deeper WWW.HFPRODUCE.COM meaning, that informs and animates the body of

13 TUES., FEB. 21 the language. SAT MEETING: Skagit Artists Together will CW: For those who aren’t aware of what Jones meant to host its monthly meeting at 6pm at the STAGE STAGE your life, can you offer up a short primer? Padilla Bay Interpretive Center. Painter and SC: Charles “Bonesy” Jones was born in Little Hope, instructor Dianna Shyne will speak about

12 Texas in 1945 and died in the Chama River Valley in her travels to China and the inﬂuence the trip had on her work. All are welcome. New Mexico in 2005. I knew him for more than 20 WWW.SKAGITART.COM

GET OUT years and was with him when he died. No one has had a greater inﬂuence upon my life. He was ONGOING EXHIBITS 10 one of those people that lived ALLIED ARTS: As part of the Bellingham a life of quiet intensity. In an- Chinese Cultural Festival, 17 local Chinese WORDS other age, he would have been a artists will display their works through Feb. 28 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. philosopher monk. I haven’t met

8 WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG // ) many people that I would con- WHAT: “An Ex- AMADEUS PROJECT: Collage artist Norma quisite Corpse on sider “holy,” but Jones had that Sorby will show her mixed media paintings a Living Body: A quality about him in spades. through February at the Amadeus Project, CURRENTS CURRENTS Multi-Media Usu- CW: Why did you commit his 1209 Cornwall Ave. WWW.AMADEUSPROJECT.ORG 6 fruct by Scot Casey words to skin? Why not paint on with Poetic Fire by a canvas? ANCHOR ACCESS: Schott Schuldt’s multi- Robert Lashley and disciplinary exhibition, “The Wildness VIEWS VIEWS SC: To have a corpus of words Sonic Architecture Within,” will be on display until March

PHOTO BY DJANGO BOHREN DJANGO BY PHOTO by Jess Manley” decorating, adorning, a liv- 24 Anchor Access, 216 Commercial Ave., 4 WHEN: 8pm Sat., ing human being just seemed a Anacortes.

MAIL MAIL Feb. 18 beautiful thing to do WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG WHERE: Honey CW: Approximately how many ARTWOOD: “Boxes, Boxes, Boxes” can be BY AMY KEPFERLE 2 Moon, 1053 N. words can ﬁt on a human body? perused through February at Artwood, 1000 State St. Harris Ave. SC: I guess it depends on how DO IT IT DO COST: Entry is by 647-1628 donation small you can write. The Old Bone BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: INFO: 441-7669 or Dance is almost 3,000 words. The museum is open to the public from .12 scotcasey@gmail. 15 Bodies of Work There was plenty of room. I think noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 com with some effort I could put Commercial St. PROSE, PORES AND BIG IDEAS around 5,000 words on an average-sized body. 393-7540

.07 02. CW: What are the challenges of writing on skin? CEDARWORKS: Peruse and purchase

07 a variety of Native American art from # stories will be two of the creative tools used to SC: There are the obvious ones, pores and ridges SKIN AND 10am-6pm Wed.-Sat. at the CedarWorks Art surprising effect when “An Exquisite Corpse on a Living Body” brings and such. But what is most interesting about Gallery, 217 Holly St. images, poetry and music to the forefront Feb. 18 at Honey Moon. writing on skin, as opposed to paper, is that it 647-6933 Organizer and performer Scot Casey notes the “multimedia usufruct”— keeps reminding you that it is alive. It is breath- CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Works by Laurie which will feature words by Charles “Bonesy” Jones, images of words ing and twitching and just sort of pulsing there Potter are on display through March 10 at on ﬂesh by Django Bohren, Ashley Berger, and Sean Dowd, poetry by under your pen. At times, it is like writing on wa- the Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St.

CASCADIA WEEKLY Robert Lashley, and improvisational music by Jess Manley—will also ter. The other challenge is working out where the WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN. utilize the skin of a model for further artistic exploration. text will go. COM 14 Cascadia Weekly: It’s not often the word “usufruct” is found in a press CW: What do you hope people come away with after DEMING LIBRARY: View paintings by release. How does the word—which pertains to legal rights to proper- viewing the multimedia extravaganza? Michael Davenport through March 24 at the ty—correlate to the one-night show? SC: I want people to sense that they have experi- Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. Scot Casey: After [mentor] Charles “Bonesy” Jones died, I was named enced something challenging and different and, at 592-2422 the custodian of his digital works. There has been some legal conten- the same time, entertaining, engaging. FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the doit

contemporary folk art of RR Clark from

12-5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St. 30 30 714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY. SALE

COM FOOD GALLERY CYGNUS: “Natural & Supernatural: Contemporary Art of the Northwest Coast” can be viewed through 24 March 25 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St. WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM * B-BOARD GOOD EARTH: A multi-artist “Teapot 50% OFF Show” can be seen through February at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. 20 20 WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM

HISTORICAL MUSEUM: The Skagit FILM Valley Weavers Guild will display “Over ‘n Under” through April 29 at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 th 16 S. 4th St. MONDAY

WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET FEB. 20 MUSIC LUCIA DOUGLAS: Works featuring artists Cass Nevada, Donna Watson, and PRESIDENTS’ DAY 9am to 9pm 14 Brian O’Neill can be viewed until Feb.

25 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 ART 13th St. Mon. - Sat. 9am - 9pm, Sun. 10am - 7pm

WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM 13 14 MONA: View “Yesterday’s Tomorrow,” a ART ART

multi-artist exhibit of “old-fashioned STAGE futuristic work” and “Study in Blue” through March 14 at La Conner’s Museum

of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. 12 WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG QUILT MUSEUM: “Ten Years of Beaded

Find us on *Sale excludes new merchandise GET OUT Quilts,” “Variations on a Theme: Wear- JOINTHE (red tags), books and items tagged ables and Quilts,” and “Embroidered CLUB www.supersaversclubcard.com housewares or furniture. Beauties: Old and New” are on display through March 25 at the La Conner Quilt 10 & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St.

WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM WORDS SCOTT MILO: “Wetland Abstractions,”

featuring oils by Dederick Ward and poetry 8 by Jane Alynn, can be viewed through Feb. 28 at Anacortes’ Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave. CURRENTS CURRENTS WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM

SMITH & VALLEE: The multi-artist 6 exhibition “Of Birds & Flight shows through March 25 at Edison’s Smith & VIEWS VIEWS Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. Hours are 11am-5pm Wed.-Sun. 4 WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM

ST. JOSEPH: The latest Healing Through MAIL Art exhibit, “Spring Reﬂections: A Group

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The works are by Shirley Erickson, Ruthie V., Yvette Newman, Mary Froderberg, and Mary Jo Maute. WWW.PEACEHEALTH.ORG .12 15 WESTERN GALLERY: View Australian artist Gosia Wlodarczak’s “Between Wander & Settlement,” through March 3 .07 02.

at WWU’s Western Gallery. 07 # WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am-6pm every Friday through Sunday, stop by the Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG

WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Lesley Dill’s CASCADIA WEEKLY Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan” and “Jack Carver: At 15 the Blossom Time Parade” are currently on display at the Whatcom Museum’s @;@=3E;4D7I;@9 5A?ƋƐƋH3@4GD7@7G97@7AD79A@ Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.COM Rumor Has It

30 30 I'VE ALWAYS HAD a yen for local history. And if learning about the ways and wherefores of FOOD our lovely corner of the world happens to come with a side of salaciousness, so much the bet- music ter. This is why I've got a real soft spot for the 24 SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT ongoing whatdoings of the Good Time Girls. This dynamic duo appeared on my radar when

B-BOARD I went on one of their ﬁrst Sin and Gin tours, which is a walking tour through Bellingham's randy past (to sum it up: if you're reading this 20 20 anywhere in the downtown core, the building BY CAREY ROSS

FILM FILM you're currently occupying was probably once a brothel or the land it sits on was the site of a brothel at one time. If that's an exaggera- 16 16 tion, it's only a slight one). Since then, they've

MUSIC branched out into a number of other naughty MUSIC Los Lonely Boys exploits, and their latest offering is an Old West Variety Show that will take place Fri., Feb. 17 at

14 DON’T MESS WITH TEXICAN the Blue Horse Gallery. According to the girls, ART ART playing in the Nashville club scene. However, the evening will feature Music City wasn’t their proverbial promised Can Can girls, opera re- 13 land, and after several years, they eventually citals, ragtime piano and hightailed it back to Texas, and the musical more, and the Dirty Bird STAGE STAGE roots from which they sprung. Cabaret, among others, While some people may argue the adage will be on hand to help

12 “there’s no place like home,” it certainly round out the festivi- proved to be true for the Garzas, as in 2004 ties. All the Good Time

GET OUT they nabbed a distribution deal with Epic Re- Girls ask (other than for cords and soon unleashed the $10 cover) is that their Texican sound— you show up in your best 10 characterized by nimble Western duds should you BY CAREY ROSS guitar playing, three-part so desire and that you WORDS harmonies and an upbeat "check your guns at the door and hitch your feel, even when dealing horses outside." Simple enough. 8 ATTEND with such subjects as lost Should you desire to get an early start when WHO: Los Lonely love and the hope for re- it comes to Mardi Gras, the Whatcom Museum Boys demption—on an unsus- aims to help grant that wish with a Sat., Feb. 18 CURRENTS CURRENTS WHEN: 8pm Fri., pecting public. Mardi Gras-themed Mixit event. All the standard- Feb. 17 6 WHERE: Mount And from the band’s very issue Fat Tuesday suspects will be on hand—i.e. Baker Theatre, 104 ﬁrst single, they proved face painters, circus entertainers, masquerade

VIEWS VIEWS N. Commercial St. Texican was a sound that masks—and while I suspect plenty of beads will COST: $20-$42 would stick. Undoubtedly, be strewn about, I'm guessing you won't have 4 MORE INFO: if you happened to turn to show what the good lord gave you to nab www.mount MAIL MAIL bakertheatre.com on a radio station playing some (nor will such behavior be encouraged. popular songs during a cer- Save it for Bourbon Street, people). Providing

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heavy rotation staple during that time. Los eight-piece soul band sounds like inside the Lonely Boys would ride that wave of popular- museum, this is your chance to ﬁnd out. .12

15 ity clear until the 2005 Grammys when they If you happen to be near the tiny town of nabbed the award for Best Pop Performance. Edison come Sun., Feb. 19, or are merely look- In 2006, they were nominated for two more ing for a worthy place to escape to for the day,

.07 02. Grammys, although they didn’t take any stat- I suggest oyster shooters at the Longhorn Sa- 07 # ALTHOUGH SAN Angelo, Texas isn’t directly on the U.S./ ues home that year. loon, followed by the music-makings of Ste- Mexico border, it is close enough that it’s tough to tell where one Since then, they’ve done what bands of their phen Ray Leslie. I have long maintained that culture leaves off and the other begins. Indeed, this cultural col- ilk do, namely writing and recording more mu- Steve's superior songwriting is some of the lision even comes with a familiar name, “Tex-Mex.” sic and hitting the road to play for audiences best to be found around these parts, and that's And while Tex-Mex is a proper descriptor for such foodstuffs who crave their singular Texican sound. After an opinion I'll continue to stick to as long as as fajitas and chili con queso, when it comes to music, Tex-Mex suffering through some setbacks, including a he continues to write and sing all those pretty songs. For this outing, he'll be joined by the fa- CASCADIA WEEKLY doesn’t quite hit the mark. However, Los Lonely Boys, who hail label change and surgery for Jojo’s overtaxed from the aforementioned San Angelo and are therefore experts vocal cords, the band is set to release a new miliar faces of Loren Huggins, Bruce Shaw, and 16 on the matter, have solved this problem, dubbing their particular album, Rockpango, which is Spanglish for “rock Tom Forester (and if you're hoping for a sur- hybrid of rock, Texas blues, country and Tejano music “Texican party.” And it’s a rock party they expect to prise appearance by Stell Newsome, well, so rock ’n’ roll.” throw when they take the stage Feb. 17 at the am I). So hie thy hindhalf down to the Chucka- The brothers Garza (guitarist Henry, bass player Jojo, and drum- Mount Baker Theatre, where they will ﬁll the nut ﬂats and treat yourself to a good time. You mer Ringo) formed this Texican trio sometime during the 1990s, air with the Texican sound they created. deserve it. No, really, you do. musicevents musicevents

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UKULELE GROUP: The Bellingham Ukulele Group hosts a 30 30 BY CAREY ROSS song circle from 7-9pm at the third ﬂoor conference room at the Herald Building, 1155 N. State St. Suggested dona- FOOD tion is $5. WWW.BELLINGHAMUKULELEGROUP.COM

Hip-hop in the Buff SAT., FEB. 18 24 UKRAINIAN CONCERT: Hear traditional instrumental du- CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP ets, historical songs, ballads and contemporary Ukrainian folk songs performed on the Ukrainian bandura when Alex B-BOARD After that, it’s time to jump for- Krynytzky and John Patrick perform at 7pm at the Lynden ward to hip-hop’s future. And, come Public Library, 216 4th St. Entry is free.

Saturday night, Seattle’s Cham- WWW.WCLS.ORG 20 pagne Champagne will help you do PHILHARMONIA NW: Hear unique chamber music when just that. If you like your hip-hop Seattle’s Philharmonia Northwest performs at 7:30pm at La FILM to be the product of a punk-rock Conner’s Maple Hall. Tickets are $15-$17. ATTEND WWW.LACONNERCHAMBER.COM 16 ethos and a penchant for party- 16 WHO: Afrika MIXIT: Celebrate Carnival when the eight-piece band Snug Bambaataa, DJ ing, Champagne Champagne is the Harbor performs at the latest MixIt gathering from 8-11pm MUSIC Clint Westwood, act for you. If you like your hip-hop at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora MUSIC King Khazm, more to feature actual musicians play- St. Tickets are $5-$10 and includes live circus entertain-

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WHO: Champagne see a band with a killer live show WHATCOM SYMPHONY: Pianist Milica Jela a Jovanovi 13 Champagne, that can comfortably share a stage joins the Whatcom Symphony for a “Russian Romance” concert at 3pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial AFRIKA BAMBAATAA S.O.T.A. with just about anyone—yep, that’s STAGE St. Tickets are $12-$30. WHEN: Sat., Feb. Champagne Champagne too. But, of 18 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM somewhere out there, some very smart peo- course, for Bellingham’s contingent I’M SURE COST: $5-$7 12 ple are, right this minute, trying to unlock the secrets of ------of Blood Brothers fans, Champagne TUES., FEB. 21 time travel. But until we can hop into whatever whiz-bang WHAT: Biggie vs. Champagne’s allure boils down to CHOIR CONCERT: Western Washington University’s various

Tupac feat. Serve choirs will join up for a “Winter Choral Concert” at 8pm at GET OUT thingamajig they invent to whisk us away to bygone eras, one man: Mark Gadjahar. We’ll take the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. The performance we’ll have to settle for time travel of a different variety. Stacks and Idlhnds him in whatever musical form we WHEN: Sun., Feb. is free and open to the public.

In the place of the aforementioned whiz-bang thingam- 19 can get him, but it’s with this hip- 650-3130 10 hop trio that Gadjahar seems to have ajig, we have the Wild Buffalo, where, beginning Thurs., COST: Free-$3 THURS., FEB. 23 WHERE: Wild Feb. 16 and concluding Sunday night, you can visit no less the most fun. JOHNSON, MILLER, DERMODY: Attend a CD release party WORDS Buffalo, 208 W. than three different eras of hip-hop in four days. Although Champagne Champagne for Johnson, Miller, & Dermody’s album, We Heard the Voice Holly St. First up, you’ll step into the way-back machine Thurs- will no doubt bring the party, it won’t of a Porkchop, at 7:30pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. 8 MORE INFO: www. Forest St. Admission is $15. day night for an evening with hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bam- wildbuffalo.net end when they skip town. Sunday baataa. It’s safe to say that without the innovative nature night DJs Serve Stacks and Idlhnds (206) 817-8785 WIND SYMPHONY: The Wind Symphony of Western Wash- and inﬂuence of the DJ from South Bronx, hip-hop as we will pay homage to two of hip-hop’s greats: Biggie and Tu- CURRENTS ington University will perform at a free concert at 8pm at know it would not exist. Indeed, his reach is such that he’s pac. Interspersed with the music of the two entertainment

the school’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. 6 known as the “Grandfather,” and has been credited with giants will be other hip-hop tracks of that era. And with 650-3130 bringing hip-hop culture to all corners of the world. Need- Monday being a holiday for many, there’s no reason not to VIEWS VIEWS less to say, he’s a big deal in this small town. time travel through hip-hop history at the Buff. 4 MAIL MAIL

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30 30 tivists, trainers and teachers. This is the remark- able story of modern revolution, the power of FOOD people to change their world and one man be- ﬁlm hind it all. Quiet, unassuming, soft-spoken and barely known to the wider world, 83 year old

24 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› MOVIE SHOWTIMES Professor Gene Sharp has written the standard textbook for revolutionary leaders around the

B-BOARD globe. Used by activists from Serbia to Egypt, from Ukraine to Syria, and now inﬂuencing Occupy Wall Street, Sharp crafts a handbook 20 20 20 of 198 “strategic weapons” that are used to FILM FILM

FILM FILM topple dictators. Banned in many countries, his work has inﬂuenced a generation of revolutionary leaders who yearn for democratic 16 freedom in Asia, throughout Eastern Europe, in the Middle East, and now here in America. MUSIC (2011 | UK | 88min.) 6:30 AND 9PM, PICKFORD FILM CENTER 14 Opening-night reception between shows at the Pick- ART ART ford Film Center

13 Fri., Feb. 17 START THE HARVEST STAGE STAGE Every year more than 400,000 American children move from their friends, schools and

12 homes to pick the food we all eat. Three are proﬁled in this documentary as they journey

GET OUT from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion ﬁelds to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of

10 A Florida's tomato ﬁelds. Representatives of REVOLUTION Whatcom County’s migrant farm laborers will WORDS answer questions raised by the ﬁlm. (2011 | USA | 80 min.)

8 HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL TAKES IT TO THE 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM

CURRENTS CURRENTS STREETS Sat., Feb. 18

6 SUN COME UP BY TIM JOHNSON Climate change has a human face. Rising

VIEWS VIEWS seas drive Paciﬁc islanders from their an- cestral land in search of a new place to call 4 home. Screens again Fri., Feb. 24 on campus.

MAIL MAIL (2010 | USA | 38 min.) 12PM, PICKFORD FILM CENTER

DIRTY BUSINESS DO IT IT DO

Can coal ever really be “clean?” A clear- eyed, comprehensive look at the pervasive .12

15 presence of fossil fuels and electrical power uman rights begin at home. in all aspects of modern life. This powerful documentary demonstrates how the concen-

.07 02. For 12 years, the Bellingham Human Rights Film Fes- trated power of the coal industry holds us all 07 # tival has been documenting challenges to the human hostage at a time when we need to be seek- H ing innovative, sustainable energy alterna- condition around the globe, often juxtaposing suffering and tives, including increased efficiency, wind, decay against a backdrop of corporate plunder. This year’s film solar and even recycled heat from already ex- selections focus on plunder a bit closer to home—the inexora- isting manufacturing plants. This film maps ble damage caused by the dirty business of resource extraction the connections between political power and

CASCADIA WEEKLY the electrical grid, and undescores the dif- and the fossil fuel industry. ficulties we face in pursuing a sustainable 20 Two dozen films—some long, some short, each profound— energy economy. Representatives from RE- detail the abuses and the enduring human spirit that strug- Sources and Power Past Coal will facilitate a discussion following the film. Screens again gles against those abuses. Films are presented without Fri., Feb 24 on campus. (2009 | USA | 60 min.) charge. For more information visit: www.bhrff.webs.com. 12:45PM, PICKFORD FILM CENTER Great selection of Ales & Lagers

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In 1983, Debbie Peagler was sen- Local Washingtonians travel to Hiro- STAGE tenced to life in prison for first-de- shima and Nagasaki on the 64th anni- gree murder, despite many factors versaries of the atomic bombings. One 12 indicating that she should not have will lead a discussion following the been charged with the crime in the film. (2010 | USA | 34 min.) first place. But Debbie’s case is not 3:45PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM GET OUT one of mistaken identity or a matter

of simply being in the wrong place at SCIENTISTS UNDER ATTACK 10 the wrong time, it's a story of domes- Powerful agro-chemical corporations

tic violence and human endurance. attack the GMO research of two scien- WORDS (2011 | USA | 92 min.) tists. (2009 | USA | 60 min.)

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Sun., Feb. 19 Chinook growth hormones spliced CURRENTS TAR CREEK onto the Atlantic salmon genome cre- 6 Once one of the largest lead and zinc ates a monster fish; big, aggressive and mines on the planet, Tar Creek is now a threat to wild fish. Anne Mossness, VIEWS VIEWS home to more than 40 square miles of en- co-chair of the Industrial Fish Farm vironmental devastation in northeastern Reform Project for the Institute for Ag- 4 Oklahoma: acid mine water in the creeks, riculture and Trade Policy, a nonprofit stratospheric lead poisoning in children, advocacy group, leads a discussion of MAIL

and sinkholes that melt backyards and how genetically modified fish dimin- 2 ball fields. (2009 | USA | 74min.) ish native stocks. Screens again Wed., DO IT IT DO 12PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM Feb 22, at the Bellingham High School Library (2010 | USA | 30 min.)

POWER PATHS 8PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM .12 Inspiring story of Navajo and Hopi 15 communities ﬁghting for their rights on lands devastated by coal mining.

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(2009 | USA | 54min.) PRESUMED GUILTY 07 # 1:30PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM Two young lawyers struggle to bring cameras into Mexican courtrooms to AMERICAN SANDINISTA expose a chilling justice system, cor- In the 1980s, at the height of the rupted and fatally compromised by a Cold War, a bloody civil war between medieval concept of guilt and inno- the socialist-inﬂuenced Sandinistas cence. (2009 | Mexico | 88 min.) and U.S.-backed Contras ravaged Ni- 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM CASCADIA WEEKLY caragua. Despite the danger, American 21 engineers were determined to lend their skills and labor to the revolution- Tues., Feb 21 ary Sandinista cause. One paid the ulti- BLOOD IN THE MOBILE mate price. (2006 | USA | 30 min.) Materials used to produce cell 3PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM RIGHTS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 arts, entertainment, news NOW SHOWING FEB. 17-23 RIGHTS, FROM PAGE 21

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30 30 mines in the eastern Congo. The sale of conflict minerals have financed a civil FOOD war that, according to human rights BEER & WINE ALLOWED IN THEATRE 1: 21 & OVER ONLY organizations, has cost the lives of T1 more than five million people. Nearly 24 half a million women have been raped Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) 35mm/127m. and murdered. Canadian author Gary “This superb remake has the inevitable look of a B-BOARD period piece, a smoke-filled rendering of things Geddes will facilitate a discussion of past...the film also retains its contemporary human rights issues following the film. relevance.” (2010 | Denmark | 82min.) 20 20 20 Fri & Sat: (3:15), 6:10; Sun: (2:45), 5:40 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM Mon - Wed: (4:20), 7:15; Thu: (2:15), (5:10) FILM FILM FILM FILM The Way (PG-13) HD/123m. Take 1 Last Walk Sun: (12:00 PM); Mon - Wed: (1:30 PM) Weds., Feb 22 16 ABUSED Sun Come Up/Dirty Business (NR) 90m - FREE Gripping personal stories of the indi- MUSIC Sat: 12:00 PM - Human Rights Fest Continues viduals, the families and the town that PLAYING IN THEATRE 1 THIS WEEK IN THEATRE PLAYING survived the most brutal, most expensive 14 The Big Lebowski (R) HD/117m. Celebrating... THE HARVEST T1: and largest immigration raid in the his-

ART ART Fri & Sat: 9:00; Sun: 8:30 - ...the grape & hop. tory of the United States, a cautionary Club leads a discussion after the ﬁlm. Pedal-Driven (NR) Thu: 8:00 - On Both Screens! tale of government abuses. (2011 | USA | (2010 | Denmark | 46 min.) 13 72 min.) 7PM, SEHOME HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM STAGE STAGE The Artist (PG-13) 35mm/100m. “Drama, comedy, action and romance are intertwined in this gorgeously MONSTER SALMON photographed and brilliantly directed film. “ USA Today Fri., Feb. 24 12 Fri: (1:40), (4:00), 6:20, 8:40; Sat: (2:20), 4:40, 7PM, BELLINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY SUN COME UP 7:00, 9:15; Sun: 2:20, 4:40; Mon: (12:00), (2:20), 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM

GET OUT 4:40, 7:00; Tue & Wed: (2:20), (4:40), 7:00 EDUCATION UNDER FIRE Thu: (1:00), (3:20), 5:40 Persecution of Baha’is in Iran. Facili- DIRTY BUSINESS tator: Michael Karlberg and Iranian stu- 8PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 10 Beginning of the End (NR) DVD/76m. Admission $2! dents (2011/USA/30min.) Sat: (12:00 PM) - Rocket Sci-Fi Matinee! 7:30PM, BELLINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL WORDS LIBRARY Experimental Selections from Bruce Baillie (NR) Sat., Feb. 25 BHOPALI

8 Sun: 7:00 PM - Bruce Returns, in Person In 1984, one of history's worst indus- Guerilla Film Project (NR) 90m. Sun: 12:00 PM Thurs., Feb. 23 trial disasters struck Bhopal, India. Suf- HOT COFFEE fering from the Union Carbide gas leak CURRENTS CURRENTS Pedal-Driven (NR) HD/65m. Thu: 8:00 Dozens of people were scalded. The continues today, prompting victims to

6 corporation was indifferent and corpo- ﬁght for justice against the American NEW PICKFORD FILM CENTER: 1318 Bay St. | 360.738.0735 | PickfordFilmCenter.org rate policy remained unchanged, until corporation responsible for the disaster. VIEWS VIEWS Open 1pm-Close Mon-Fri & 30 Min Before First Showtime on Sat-Sun one seriously injured woman took them (2011 | USA | 75 min.) to court. Bellingham Attorney Doug Shep- 12PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 4 Join us for a drink before your movie! Mary’s Happy Hour: 4-6pm, M-F $2 Beer/$3 Wine herd facilitates a discussion of consumer

MAIL MAIL protection law. (2011 | USA | 88 min.) THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 1:30PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM

2 NOW SHOWING FEB. 17-23 at PFC’s Limelight Cinema FAGBUG TEN CONDITIONS OF LOVE DO IT IT DO

at 1416 Cornwall Erin Davies of Troy, New York, painted A Uygher leader ﬁghts the Chinese Check out our old theater’s her Volkwagen Beetle and took it on government for her people’s rights. .12

15 revamped new space! a provocative road trip across Ameri- (2009 | Australia | 53 min.) ca. Her 55,000-mile journey took her 3PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM through 41 states, where she inter-

.07 02. viewed hundreds of people and spoke EDUCATION UNDER FIRE 07 # out against hate crimes, inspiring others 4:15PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM Sing Your Song (NR) 104m. “The revelations to take a stand. The Sehome Gay Straight keep coming in Sing Your Song and it’s hard Alliance Club will lead a discussion after THE PIPE not to go googly eyed when, for a 1963 CBS the ﬁlm. Screens again Sat. Feb. 25 on In a remote corner of the West of Ire- special, you see Mr. Belafonte discussing the campus. (2010 | USA | 83min.) land sits Broadhaven Bay. It is the perfect march on Washington...” An audience fave! 7PM, SEHOME HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY picture postcard. However, this peaceful Fri: 5:30 PM; Sat: (1:00), 5:30

CASCADIA WEEKLY tranquility belies the turmoil that lies Sun & Mon: (12:00), 4:30; Tue - Thu: (4:30) THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE beneath, and the unique nature of the 22 2012 Oscar Shorts: Animated (NR) 79m. Award-winning Danish journlists coastline that has sustained generations Pixar & more--this year’s best! KID FRIENDLY track down reports of human trafficking of farmers and fishermen, has also deliv- Fri & Sat: (3:30), 8:00; and child labor abuses in the Ivory Coast ered to Shell Oil the perfect landfall for Sun & Mon: (2:30), 7:00; Tue - Thu: 7:00 fuel the worldwide chocolate industry. the Corrib Gas Pipeline. (2010 | UK | 80 min.) Sehome’s Global Awareness Outreach 7PM, FAIRHAVEN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM film ›› showtimes

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DO IT IT DO Would you 43 they ask for because you have not responded. If you serve a notice of appearance on Joyce S. like to Schwensen (the attorney for the Petitioners) at the address below, you are entitled to notice become a before a default order may be entered. .12 69 4 One method of serving a copy of your response on the Petitioners is to send it by certified mail 15 homeowner? with return receipt requested. If service is made by mail, the service shall be deemed complete Join us for upon the third day following the day upon which the response is placed in the mail, unless the third day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, in which event service shall be deemed 63918KulshanCLT’s complete on the first day other than a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, following the third day. .07 02. FREE You have a right to be represented by an attorney. If you are indigent and request an 07 attorney, an attorney will be appointed for you. You have a right to file a claim of paternity # HomeBuyer under chapter 26.26 of the Revised Code of Washington. Your failure to file a claim of paternity 472Education Class! under chapter 26.26 of the Revised Code of Washington or to respond to the Petition for Relinquishment and Termination of Parent-Child Relationships and for Adoption which has Saturday, been filed herein within thirty days of the date this Summons is served upon you is grounds to February 25th terminate your parent-child relationship with respect to the child. 17 If the child is an Indian child as defined by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 U.S.C. 10am–3pm 1901 et sec., and if you acknowledge paternity of the child or if your paternity is established prior to the termination of the parent-child relationship, your parental rights may not be 496 7 Call to terminated unless you give valid consent to termination, or your parent-child relationship is CASCADIA WEEKLY Pre-register terminated involuntarily pursuant to Chapter 26.33 or 13.34 RCW. The court hearing on the termination of your parental rights shall be on March 21, 2012, at 360-671-5600, x109 10:30 a.m. in Department A, First Floor, of the Snohomish County Courthouse, 3000 Rockefeller 24 84 619 www.KulshanCLT.org Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201. YOUR FAILURE TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING MAY RESULT IN A DEFAULT ORDER PERMANENTLY TERMINATING ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED CHILD. Dated this 9th day of February, 2012 at Everett, Washington. 72 5 Joyce S. Schwensen Attorney for Petitioners WSBA Number: 14520

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are asked to be in a lifelong state of metamorpho- 24 ASTROLOGY sis, continually adjusting and shifting to meet our ARIES (March 21-April 19): What do you typi- changing circumstances. I’ll go so far as to say that cally do just before you fall asleep and right after having a readiness to be in continual transformation B-BOARD B-BOARD B-BOARD you wake up? Those rituals are important for your is one of the most beautiful qualities a person can mental health. Without exaggeration, you could have. Are you interested in cultivating more of that say they are sacred times when you’re poised in the capacity, Libra? Now would be an excellent time to 20 20 threshold between the two great dimensions of your do so. Remember that line by Bob Dylan: “He who is life. I’ll ask you to give special care and attention not busy being born is busy dying.” FILM FILM to those transitions in the coming week. As much SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This would be as possible, avoid watching TV or surﬁng the Inter- an excellent time to round up a slew of new role net right up to the moment you turn off the light, models. In my astrological opinion, you need to 16 and don’t leap out of bed the instant an alarm clock feel far more than your usual levels of admiration detonates. The astrological omens suggest you are for exceptional human beings. You’re in a phase

MUSIC primed to receive special revelations, even ringing when you could derive tremendous inspiration by epiphanies, while in those in-between states. closely observing masters and virtuosos and pros TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you ever who are doing what you would like to do. For that 14 gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know matter, your mental and spiritual health would be

ART ART that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has quirk allows them to have a field of vision that ex- found what he or she was born to do and is doing tends as far as 340 degrees, as opposed to humans’ it with liberated flair. 13 Take your fork puny 160-210 degrees. They can also see better at SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): WD-40 is night than we can. Goats are your power animal in a spray product that prevents corrosion, loosens STAGE STAGE in a new direction the coming week, Taurus. Metaphorically speaking, stuck hinges, removes hard-to-get-at dirt, and has you will have an excellent chance to expand your several other uses. Its inventor, Norm Larsen, tried breadth and depth of vision. Do you have any blind 39 different formulas before finding the precisely 12 Mediterranean Cooking spots that need to be illuminated? Now’s the time to right combination of ingredients on his fortieth at- Lunch make that happen. tempt. The way I understand your life right now, GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the animated Sagittarius, is that you are like Larsen when he GET OUT Mediterranean Ham Sandwich film The Lion King, two of the central characters are a was working with version number 37. You’re get- 1MHHPI)EWXIVR'LMGOIR7EPEH*SRXMRE&YVKIV talking meerkat named Timon and a talking warthog ting closer to creating a viable method for achiev- named Pumbaa. Their actions are often heroic. They ing your next success. That’s why I urge you to be 10 Dinner help the star of the tale, Simba, rise to his right- patient and determined as you continue to tinker )KKTPERX6SYPEHIW6SEWX4SVO6MF'LST ful role as king. The human actors who provided the and experiment. Don’t keep trying the same formula

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07 insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty # 1. If you get too ﬁxated on solving a certain prob- car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it lem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that to a Facebook status update. The key thing is that arises outside the context of that problem. 2. If you you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a intensify your focus by looking twice as hard at a signiﬁcant success, even if it’s in a modest or mys- situation that’s right in front of you, you will be less terious way. likely to see a good idea that’s right behind you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A sign outside the VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Thirty-two carrier Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick

CASCADIA WEEKLY pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: for their meritorious service in the World Wars. Of “Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” After 26 course, they probably would have preferred sunﬂow- all, if the builder of the Ark had refused to help the er seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson pesky insects survive the ﬂood, we’d be free of their guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.) animals that have done so much for you, Virgo. Give Please apply this lesson to a situation in your own them goodies they would actually love to receive, sphere, Pisces. As you journey to your new world, not meaningless gold stars or abstract accolades. leave the vexatious elements behind. rearEnd ›› ”So They Say...” — it goes something like this — by Matt Jones

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FILM FILM for him ($12.99). Sussing out the place, my guy pointed to STORY AND PHOTO BY AMY KEPFERLE the long bar (sourced 16 from the late 1800s, he recalled), pressed tin MUSIC ceiling and worn green Archer Ale House carpet as evidence that 14 some things hadn’t ART ART A NEW TAKE ON AN OLD FAVORITE changed much in the years since he’d been a 13 regular. // ) Then the drinks and STAGE STAGE WHAT: Archer Ale House food started coming, WHEN: 3pm-11pm and everything he’d held 12 Mon.-Thurs., dear was forgotten. 3pm-12am Fri., Our taste buds were 1pm-12am Sat.,

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