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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 05-09-2018* • ISSUE:*19 • V.13
VAGINA MONOLOGUES 20 years and counting, P.15 WORLDS OF Skagit River Poetry Festival, P.12 WORDS
INFILL INSIGHTS The down-low on DADUs, P.08
AURAL ADVENTURES A worthy weekend of music, P.18 MUSIC
Breaking Silence: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham High
30 A brief overview of this School Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine
FOOD week’s happenings Kathy Kallick Band: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, THISWEEK Lynden Chamber Music Concert: 7:30pm, First Congrega-
24 tional Church WEDNESDAY [05.09.18] Collegium Musicum: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
B-BOARD ONSTAGE Guitar Festival: Through Sunday, throughout La Into the Woods: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Conner Vernon
23 Kyle Kinane: 8pm, the Underground GET OUT Lost Lake Ultras: 8am, Larrabee State Park FILM MUSIC Plant Fair: 8am-2pm, Skagit County Fairgrounds Tardo Hammer Trio: 7pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Skagit Spring Classic: 9am, Bayview Elementary School 18 THURSDAY [05.10.18] Master Gardener Sale: 9am-2pm, Hovander Home- stead Park, Ferndale MUSIC ONSTAGE Small Boat Messabout: 10am-4pm, Seafarers Park, Annie: 7pm, Sehome High School Little Theatre Anacortes
16 Hello! My Baby: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Sea Skills Boating Festival: 10am-5pm, Blaine Lynden Marina ART Into the Woods: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Roller Betties: 5pm, Whatcom Community College Vernon Pavilion
15 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre FOOD Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts STAGE FOOD Center Spring Food Forum: 9am-12pm, Squalicum Boathouse Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
14 Market Square FRIDAY [05.11.18] VISUAL
GET OUT ONSTAGE Spring Show: 2-9pm, FishBoy Gallery The Vagina Monologues: 7pm, Firehouse PAC Teen Art Showcase: 3:30-5pm, Deming Library Annie: 7pm, Sehome High School Little Theatre 12 Really Rosie: 7pm, BAAY Theater SUNDAY [05.13.18] 48 Hour Theater Festival: 7:30pm and 10pm, Lucas Hicks Theater
WORDS ONSTAGE Hello! My Baby: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, The Vagina Monologues: 2pm, Firehouse PAC Lynden Really Rosie: 2pm, BAAY Theater 8 Into the Woods: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Hello! My Baby: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Vernon Lynden Improvised Baywatch: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Into the Woods: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount
CURRENTS Backyard Brawl: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Vernon Take Me to Church: 8pm, Rumors Cabaret 6 DANCE
Opus Spring Showcase: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre WILLOUGHBY DAVID BY PHOTO MUSIC
VIEWS Salsa Night: 7:30pm, Conway Muse Guitar Festival: Through today, throughout La Awkward Love: 8pm, Cirque Lab Conner
4 Skating will take center stage at a The Ranney Brothers: 2pm, Anacortes Public MUSIC Library
MAIL Guitar Festival: Through Sunday, throughout La semifinal bout with the Bellingham The Girsky Quartet: 3pm, First Congregational Conner Church of Bellingham
2 2 Roller Betties Sat., May 12 at the Whatcom April Versch Band: 7pm, Nancy’s Farm FOOD DO IT DO IT Spring Wine Walk: 5:30-9pm, downtown Bellingham Community College Pavilion FOOD Mother’s Day Brunch: 10am-2pm, Boundary Bay SATURDAY [05.12.18] Brewery Edison Market Opening: 10am-3pm, Edison Granary Mother’s Day Brunch: 10am-3pm, BelleWood Acres 05.09.18 ONSTAGE Annie: 2pm, Sehome High School Little Theatre Hello! My Baby: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, VISUAL .13 Lynden Mother’s Day Art Event: 1-4pm, Big Rock Garden 19
# Really Rosie: 2pm and 7pm, BAAY Theater Park The Vagina Monologues: 7pm, Firehouse PAC Annie: 7pm, Sehome High School Little Theatre Andre Feriante will be one of MONDAY [05.14.18] 48 Hour Theater Festival: 7:30pm and 10pm, Lucas Hicks Theater many musicians performing as FOOD Into the Woods: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount part of the La Conner Guitar Culinary Career Fair: 1-3pm, Bellingham Technical Vernon College Improvised Baywatch: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
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studio tour save money 30 GREAT EXPECTATIONS June 2 – 3, 2018 save money vanpool FOOD President of York neighborhood, Kim Saturday & Sunday • 10am to 5pm = vanpool Bogren Owen, states that the city’s new Come Join the Fun! DADU ordinance will be a failure if house Great art! Free island wide, self-guided tour 24 prices do not come down. JoinJoin a aWTA WTA vanpool! vanpool! Call Call us us at at 360.788.9312 360.788.9312 This is another example of establishing an exaggerated goal and then blaming an B-BOARD initiative for not hitting it. It is a tech-
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at Boundary Bay THE FOLLY OF RAW EXPORTS Brewery STAGE What really angers me is the unrelent- ing jingoism over the Kinder Morgan pipe- 14 T VA line expansion creating jobs, when almost SKAGI LLEY all are temporary work. A benefit show Also, it’s conspicuous how there’s no dis- Ra e tickets available GET OUT cussion of creating actual long-term em- at 2309 Meridian St. details at re-store.org FRI 05 MAY PM ployment by processing enough of our own 18 12 crude to, at the very least, supply the ex- pensive gas-consumption requirements WORDS of Canadians—even if it means paying a
little more for Canadian wages—instead 8 of exporting the bulk raw resource, then importing the finished product.
A similar question could be asked in CURRENTS regards to our raw-log softwood exports abroad. 6 After 30 years of consuming mainstream VIEWS news media, I’ve yet to come across a se- 4 riously thorough debate on why Canada’s 4 various governments consistently refuse MAIL to alter this practice, which undoubtedly MAIL
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on the same day, with the topic discus- DO IT sion parameters constrained to the point the outcome seemed predetermined. —Frank Sterle Jr, White Rock, B.C. 05.09.18 .13 19 SEND US YOUR LETTERS # CASCADIA WEEKLY
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Make them 300 words or fewer. Send to [email protected] or mail to P.O. Box 2833, Bellingham, WA 98229 THE GRISTLE HOME RUN: In a year punctuated with a significant in-
30 crease in local property tax to meet the state require- ment to fully fund basic education, Bellingham City FOOD Council this week fretted over renewing the Home Fund on the November ballot. Yet few local taxes have views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE had a more profound impact, or produced greater im- 24 mediate success, on a matter of the public urgency than the Home Fund. B-BOARD Enacted by city voters in 2012, the Bellingham Home Found generates about $3 million per year
23 through a dedicated property tax. For every $1 raised by the Home Fund levy, an average of $8 of other
FILM private and public funding is leveraged for housing affordability initiatives. BY MARIE MARCHAND
18 That’s helped enable the addition of 405 completed affordable housing units and another 183 units that
MUSIC are under contract to be built. At a levy rate of .24 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, the renewed Home Fund Imprisoned Splendour
16 could generate up to $4 million for affordable housing
ART for the 10-year duration of the levy. LIFE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS The levy is set to sunset in 2019, but the mayor
15 proposes placing an update on the project this year IN LIFE, there are secrets and thing. That’s how the light gets in.” to keep in place uninterrupted the funding for con- revelations. Things that isolate or I found hope along my journey. I
STAGE structions that are underway and for others that are emancipate. Secrets are not always started to unexpectedly recognize planned. If the levy fails, those projects stall or die. kept deceptively—sometimes we happiness through the veil of my “It has to pass, because it must pass. Because with- simply choose to respect our own illness. Although this respite can 14 out it, we don’t have a lot of options,” Council mem- privacy around sensitive matters. It be transitory (due to cycling), my ber Gene Knutson commented. often happens that life keeps secrets stretches of wellness are now longer
GET OUT But—the question is well worth asking—is $4 mil- from us. We spend our lives piecing ous depression and mania) in 2013, and the times of suffering less severe lion enough? And of all the efforts large and small, together clue after clue until we fi- I decided to do something daring and more manageable. I’ve learned
12 dramatic and modest, is $4 million the best target nally discover who we are. and new as part of my treatment: I that I can have bipolar disorder and voters can aim toward to address what’s widely under- Many of us live with secrets decided to be open about my illness. be happy at the same time. stood as the city’s existential crisis? that, at some crisis point, inevita- This was extremely difficult given If you have bipolar, don’t give up. WORDS In other words, given sufficient public support, bly turn into revelations. Whether my nature as a private person, but If you have any kind of mental ill-
8 might the Home Fund be empowered to do more? welcome or unwelcome, revelations it was a last-ditch effort to change ness, don’t give up. You do belong In 2017, the City of Bellingham surveyed residents arrive suddenly and are usually life- the course of my life. I joined the and you can contribute. Your life is about critical issues facing the community. Over- changing, like the one I experi- board of NAMI Whatcom, earned my valuable, and you can experience
CURRENTS whelmingly, residents cited housing affordability and enced a few years ago. certification as a Peer Counselor, and periods of wellness and moments homelessness (and their adjunct, economic insecu- My secret was bipolar disorder. I started speaking and writing public- of happiness that will carry you 6 6 rity) as the city’s most pressing concerns. didn’t want anyone to know I had a ly. My goals were to give and receive through times of distress. You may Currently, the the Bellingham Housing Author- mental illness. I was afraid it would support. I was searching for hope. have cracks, like everyone does, but VIEWS VIEWS ity—tasked with providing housing for low-income jeopardize my relationships and live- The more frequently mental illness you are not broken. You may not feel
4 households—reports a waiting list of as many as 1,181 lihood. Why was I so reluctant to is talked about, the more likely it is as stable and whole as you would like households waiting to receive assistance. The wait share this significant part of myself that peers and family members will to, but remember, it is through the MAIL time for placement for those on the list is nearly a year. with my family, friends, and cowork- connect with services and one an- cracks that the light gets in.
2 Over the term of the proposed levy, the city proj- ers? After all, they should be my other. Connection increases partici- While Cohen’s lyric is beautiful ects the construction of 580 affordable homes and natural support system, right? pation in community, which enriches and applicable, poet Robert Brown-
DO IT rental assistance for 3,000 low-income households. Stigma shames those of us who everyone. Hearing people’s stories ing had it right, too: Cracks reveal Largely unaddressed, though, is the large cohort of live with mental health diagnoses. It of hope is inspiring and empower- the truth inside so “the imprisoned younger, lower-income working-class households that unfairly erodes community support ing—whether the person speaking is splendour may escape.” do not qualify for public assistance housing, and yet to those who need it most. Prejudice Mariah Carey, Dwayne Johnson, Demi In life, there are secrets and rev- 05.09.18 their incomes are increasingly gobbled up by rising is fear perpetuated by stereotypes Lovato, Carrie Fisher, Rick Spring- elations. Whether you choose to talk rents. And no one is building new housing for this so- and narrow-mindedness. Bipolar can field, or you and me. Moreover, re- about your mental health journey, .13
19 called “gig economy.” be an overwhelming disease, all-con- search shows that knowing someone remember to share the revelation of # “The composition of Bellingham’s population today suming at times. It has a negativ- successful who has experienced a your light with the world. is not well matched to our existing housing stock,” ity bias, meaning that when we are mental illness is the number-one way Don’t let that be a secret. staff admitted in the update to the Consolidated Plan symptomatic, we feel bad about our- people overcome their prejudice. approved by Council this week, a document required selves and our world. Society’s pro- You can imagine (or may know) Marie Marchand has served on the to qualify for future block grants from the U.S. De- jection of shame only serves to keep how hard it is for happiness to Board of NAMI Whatcom since 2014. partment of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for us entrenched in that prison. squeeze itself into the chaos and NAMI Whatcom, an affiliate of the Na-
CASCADIA WEEKLY community development and affordable housing needs. This critical shift requires a dis- pain of a mood disorder. Neverthe- tional Alliance on Mental Illness, pro- “Of all the housing units in Bellingham,” planning mantling of stigma. It is a social less, the human spirit is resilient and vides no-cost education and support 6 staff reported, “46 percent have three or more bed- justice issue. strong, and happiness can squeeze programs to people affected by men- rooms, while the average number of people per hous- When I began to recover from a in. A lyric by Leonard Cohen reads, tal illness. www.namiwhatcom.org, ing unit is 2.17. severe mixed episode (simultane- “There is a crack, a crack in every- 360-671-4950. “The average family size and number of persons per household has steadily declined over time, and there- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE fore has increased demand for smaller A BETTER WAY TO
units like one-bedroom and studio 30 apartments,” staff continued. “Today only 16 percent of housing units have PLAY FOOD one bedroom. Coupled with the slow- EVERY down in housing production that has ! 24 not kept pace with population growth DAY ATNORTHWOOD in general, this has resulted in a very low rental vacancy rate (estimated at B-BOARD 1.79 percent) and rapidly rising rents.
“Even as population growth contin- 23 ued, the development of new housing units slowed significantly between FILM 2007 and 2013 during the Great Re- cession,” staff noted. “While the pro- Free Handbag For Points On 18 duction of new units has accelerated Sunday, May 13, the first 150 Winners Club since 2013, this has not yet alleviated Members to earn 100 points get a free spring MUSIC preexisting demand or affordability challenges. For example, the popula- handbag! All will 16
tion has risen by 3,140 since 2015 to ART a total of 86,720 residents. Meanwhile, contain a $5 slot
there were 1,267 new units permitted ticket, and some will 15 in 2015 and 2016 combined.” include $100 Free This is a problem that extends well STAGE beyond the city limits and affects Play! Whatcom County as a whole, driving 14 up rents and home prices, creating a collision with stagnant wages and fixed incomes. GET OUT The solution, Mayor Kelli Liville sug-
gests, would be a countywide Home 12 Fund levy that could generate a much larger pool of resources of all county WORDS communities. But there is little hope
of the larger county picking up that Bring Mom To Sunday Brunch! 8 task any time soon. Treat Mom (or yourself) to Champagne Sunday “There are four basic principles
that motivate us to act in support Brunch at a great price — only $9.99 for Winners CURRENTS of the Home Fund,” Greg Winter, ex- 6 ecutive director of the Opportunity Club Members! Enjoy classic brunch items, an 6 Council, outlined to Council. “Every-
omelet bar, a waffle bar, and a glass of Champagne. VIEWS VIEWS one should be able to live in a safe, decent, affordable home. it should Served from 10am to 2pm! 4 be possible for low-wage workers, veterans, senior citizens and people MAIL
with disabilities to afford housing 2 and still have enough money for the
basics like groceries and child care. DO IT Children deserve a chance to succeed in school and in life, which all begins with their family being able to afford a decent place to live. And finally, it’s 05.09.18 better for society, the environment .13
and families if people can afford to 19 live close to where they work. # “We can add other motivations, in- cluding the fact that the city has de- termined through surveying its resi- MODERN COMFORTS AND JUST TWO TURNS OFF THE dents that housing and homelessness are top priorities for action,” Winter OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY GUIDE MERIDIAN said, citing the enormous deliverable ALDERGROVE CASCADIA WEEKLY 99 15 success of the levy to date, exceed- 8 AVE BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 7 ing its original goals, as evidence it 877.777.9847 should be renewed. 9750 Northwood Road • LyndenBLAINE WA N DRAYTON E BADGER RD NORTHWOOD RD It should be renewed. But the Coun- HARBOR cil should welcome a discussion that it www.northwoodcasino.com might do even more. GUIDE MERIDIAN RD LYNDEN
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BELLINGHAM character], we encourage the city to first inventory the number of DADUs in neigh- borhoods, register them and make certain the illegal ones are brought up to code,”
30 Jan Olson suggested in comments. Rick Sepler, director of Bellingham’s Plan- FOOD ning and Community Development depart- currents ment, said the city will conduct a survey in NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX parallel with the existing ordinance in an ef- 24 fort to bring existing units into compliance with city code. As units are made legal, they B-BOARD will be included in the inventory of the tar- option of the homeowner in all single-fam- get number of ADUs in that neighborhood.
23 ily neighborhoods on lots of greater than Council member Terry Bornemann con- 5,000 square feet. The policy increases demned the new policy. “I promised I’d
FILM the number of people who can share a work to find a compromise that would pro- DADU residence from three to four, while tect our older, vulnerable neighborhoods,
18 reducing the mass and size requirements while at the same time allowing the need- for those units. The unit must be super- ed infill in places best suited for addition-
MUSIC vised and maintained by the occupants of al infill. I failed,” Bornemann confessed. the primary home. The city will review the “For years, Bellingham mayors and councils
16 policy after a target number of ADUs are have worked to develop a good working re-
ART constructed in any neighborhood. lationship with Bellingham neighborhood “Bellingham’s housing prices continue to organizations to give neighborhoods more
15 climb and it’s getting even more difficult say in how they develop. for people to find affordable homes,” a “Past mayors and councils worked to
STAGE coalition of hundreds neighbors through- strengthen the formation of the neighbor- out the city commented in support of the hood associations to give neighborhoods change. “Rentals are hard to come by and more say in how their neighborhoods devel- 14 many in our community—including stu- oped,” he said. “Past mayors and councils dents, seniors and families with children— made promises and covenants with neigh-
GET OUT are on the brink of living on the street. borhoods to protect the single-family zon- Working- and middle-class families are be- ing, in exchange for their accepting addi-
12 ing priced out of town.” tional density. The neighborhoods willingly The new policy emerged from a pilot worked with planning staff to find ways to study by the Happy Valley Neighborhood do this, and to accept higher densities. WORDS Association to permit detached dwelling “We now have an ordinance that will se-
8 units on lots in areas zoned for single fam- verely test that relationship,” he said. “I’m ilies. The pilot program was deemed a suc- afraid those relationships are going to be BY TIM JOHNSON cess by Happy Valley neighbors. shattered.” CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 But other neighborhoods say they should “All I’ve ever asked for since this entire have been provided an opportunity to ex- discussion started is that the other neigh- 6 plore their own programs, rather than hav- borhood associations get the same treat- ing the policy enacted citywide and without ment that Happy Valley got,” said Council VIEWS A Detached their consent, representatives of Belling- member Gene Knutson, who also voted
4 ham’s neighborhood associations argued. against the proposal. “Between Terry and “Let Happy Valley have their pilot project. me, we’ve been doing this for 33 years— MAIL And let the rest of the neighborhoods have the land-use, growth, you name it, we’ve
2 as much input in their fate as Happy Valley been involved in it. does,” South Hill homeowner Deborah Mid- “I feel this can drive a wedge between
DO IT SPACE daugh commented on the plan. us and the neighborhood associations,” he BELLINGHAM PASSES “The DADU issue must be looked at as cautioned. “I feel we should take enough CITYWIDE INFILL POLICY part of a greater whole of land and zoning time with each neighborhood to discuss issues,” Dick Conoboy commented to City this further.” 05.09.18 Council. “Unless we focus on the problems Others on Council discussed the urgent we are trying to solve and devise measured need to move forward on inviting a variety .13
19 and measurable means to get our goals, we of housing forms into the city plan. The # are not going to succeed in the realms of time for action, several argued, is now. TRADITION CLASHED with innovation as Bellingham City Council this affordability and availability. “I pray that future generations will week passed a new law that would permit new additional dwelling spaces on “One cannot look at this without saying find more affordability than what we qualifying lots in every neighborhood throughout the city—including those divide and conquer is alive and well,” he have right now,” Council President Rox- zoned for single families. Council veterans objected to the change, arguing the commented. anne Murphy commented. “I am in no way proposal was too much, too soon, and without proper buy-in from the city’s Other neighbors complained that the city suggesting, and the city has not suggest-
CASCADIA WEEKLY organized neighborhood associations. has a deficient accounting of how many ac- ed, that this will solve our housing crisis, The policy is intended to allow more backyard cottages, carriage houses and cessory dwelling units already exist, many of but I fundamentally believe that we need 8 other so-called “mother-in-law units” throughout Bellingham to supply a great- which were not permitted and are not legal. every single tool that we can get to work er variety of housing needs. “Instead of going ahead with a propos- on this issue on the part of our citizens The changes were recommended by the city’s Planning Commission as a means al that is only partially supported by the that have voiced major concerns about to address a housing shortage and permit infill to urban densities. community and will have a very detrimen- what it is to be housed, and what it is to The new policy would allow detached accessory dwelling units (DADUs) at the tal effect in some cases [on neighborhood be homeless.”
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05.03.18 15 THURSDAY STAGE Canada’s federal government will intervene in the British Columbia pro-
vincial government’s Trans Mountain pipeline court reference action that will OF WSDOT COURTESY PHOTO 14 decide whether the province can restrict any increase in the amount of diluted TOP: Washington State Ferries will to convert the three largest vessels from running on diesel fuel to electric power over the bitumen that moves across its border. B.C. Premier John Horgan announced last next several years. Two of the four diesel engines that power each ferry in the state’s Jumbo Mark II fleet may be replaced
GET OUT month that his province’s highest court would be asked to determine if B.C. has with batteries, pending state funding. the right to seek permits from companies that want to increase the amount of BOTTOM: Crews continue to work from both sides of the SR 20 North Cascades to clear the last seasonal stretch. They’re keep a close eye on conditions as the avalanche threat was high throughout already cleared sections near milepost 163 under Liberty Bell chutes.
12 bitumen being shipped to the West Coast. [CBC] The highway is expected to open this weekend. Western Washington University students will have another degree option WORDS available to them at the university’s Shannon Point Marine Center. As part of Montana—the largest source of climate pol- and March ice levels were as low as far back
8 the state’s 2018 supplemental budget, the Legislature approved the university’s lution in the Western United States. [UTC] as scientists can reconstruct, dating back plan to shift $1.5 million in local funds to state bond funds, allowing Western to more than 160 years. [Washington Post] move forward with projects, including investing $1.3 million in a new marine, Police arrest about a dozen demonstra - CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 coastal and watershed sciences major starting in 2019. [Skagit Valley Herald] tors in Seattle who were protesting tar- 05.08.18 sands development and the proposed Trans 6 05.07.18 Mountain Pipeline in Canada, after they TUESDAY occupied the lobby of the Russell Finan- Washington’s congressional Democrats con- VIEWS MONDAY cial Center and shut down traffic at Second demn the Trump administration announce-
4 Backers of a proposed carbon fee in Washington state say they’ve gathered Avenue and Pine Street with four teepees ment that the United States will re-impose 36,000 signatures and are on track to put their measure on the November erected in the middle of the road. Chase sanctions and withdraw from the 2015 mul- MAIL ballot. Initiative 1631 is sponsored by a coalition of tribes and environmental Bank in particular was targeted for its in- tilateral agreement that prevents Iran from
2 and labor groups called the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy. Oil companies vestment in the Trans Mountain Pipeline. developing nuclear weapons. “If Iran has vi- are leading the opposition to the initiative. They’ve pledged $250,000 to the [Seattle Times] olated the terms of the deal, then President
DO IT “No on 1631” campaign. A spokesman said they will bring together a “robust Trump should present the evidence,” ranking statewide coalition” to talk about the downsides of the fee. [KUOW] Rapid melt has precipitated a re- Senate Democrat Patty Murray said. “I will cord-shattering decline in Bering Sea ice be ready to join others in moving quickly on State regulators criticize Puget Sound Energy over financial risks of their through the winter and into spring, which other options if Iran doesn’t hold up its end 05.09.18 coal power. The state’s Utilities and Transportation Commission accepted PSE's has threatened the very way of life in Alas- of the bargain. But I just haven’t seen any proposed 20-year energy plan on Monday but say they are “deeply concerned” ka’s coastal villages—reliant on the ice compelling evidence that this is the case.” .13
19 with the direct costs of continued operation of the Colstrip coal plant in Eastern cover for navigation and hunting. February [U.S. Senate] #
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WHO’S THAT KNOCKING? FOOD COUNSELORS WITH A BADGE On May 3, a caller reported that an unknown On May 6, a Bellingham Police officer nar- person was knocking on his door with a ham- 24 rated the story of a couple who were being mer. Bellingham Police checked the area and evicted from their home. “There are some could not locate the alleged person knocking other recent events that have put a lot of on the door with a hammer. B-BOARD strain on them both, which resulted in a
heated argument,” the officer observed. On May 6, police reported that someone had 23 shattered five large windows in an alley on
On May 6, a Bellingham Police officer re- Cornwall Avenue in downtown Bellingham. FILM ported that two neighbors “are having is-
sues resulting in feelings of anger, fear and On May 3, Bellingham Police looked for a man 18 anxiety. Both parties were receptive to who was reported throwing rocks at houses
working with Whatcom Dispute Resolution in the Lettered Streets neighborhood. MUSIC Center to address their grievances to hope- fully reach some middle ground.” SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES 16 On April 11, a man told Bellingham Police ART On May 2, a woman near Lowell Park threat- he believed people were following him. ened to jump off her balcony. “Officers 15 grabbed her and took her into protective MORE OF THE SAME
custody,” Bellingham Police reported. On May 3, Bellingham patrol officers shook STAGE their heads at a wrecked hulk that had been CAMPUS CREEPS parked in a city right of way in Roosevelt 14 On April 30, University Police checked on a neighborhood for the past several weeks. report of an older man making inappropri- ate comments to campus services staff. The On May 5, a resident at a Birchwood apart- GET OUT man left the area prior to their arrival. ment complex reported seeing a man being loaded into the trunk of a car, Bellingham 12 On April 30, a strange man was observed Police noted. wandering through the Fairhaven residenc- 6.9 WORDS es on WWU campus. University Police deter- CAT’S NOT ALL THAT, CTD. Magnitude earthquake registered on the south flank of Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island on May 3, the most powerful to strike the island since 1975. After an eruption of lava
mined he lived in a neighboring dorm. On April 24, Bellingham Police responded to 8 near the volcano’s eastern edge, the island was ricked by hundreds of smaller quakes. 8 a report of a possible cat burglary in Puget On April 30, University Police caught up neighborhood, where someone was trying CURRENTS with a man who matched the description to break into an apartment through a win- CURRENTS of a suspicious person of interest they’d dow. “Upon arrival the area was checked, searching for earlier in the day. but no one was located,” police reported. 152 6 Number of earthquakes detected in a 48-hour period around Kilauea of magnitude 2 VIEWS On April 30, University Police counseled ALIEN SKIES to 3. More than a dozen of magnitude 3 were recorded within five kilometers of the
a person who was concerned about social On April 26, a Camano Island man reported volcano's crater. 4 media interactions she’d been having that a glowing diamond shaped craft hovering at have not yet risen to a criminal level. She an elevation of 4,000 to 6,000 feet. “I was on MAIL
did not wish to file a complaint at this time. my front porch having my morning cigarette, 1,700 35 2 when I witnessed a craft come within view Number of people forced to evacuate the Number of homes destroyed by lava that On May 3, Bellingham Police searched for of where I was sitting,” the witness report- DO IT area around Kilauea, as of May 8. erupted more than 61 meters in the air. a man who had been observed screaming ed. “Subsequently, I stepped off my porch obscenities at a woman on Lakeway Drive. onto the sidewalk in order to get a better vantage point. The craft seemingly hovered PECULIAR PARCELS for almost a minute, when suddenly it darted 05.09.18 On May 3, a person arrived at Bellingham off towards the direction of Whidbey Island. 05.18 .13 Police headquarters to give a letter to offi- This craft gave off a yellowish light and no- 19 cers. “This letter appears to tie into earlier ticeably intensified prior to darting away.” Anniversary of the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington state in 1980. The # ‘suspicious’ letters that had been found ear- eruption was the most significant volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous states since 1915. Gov. Jay Inlsee recognized May as Volcano Preparedness Month. lier in the evening, presumably left by the On April 26, a technician in Arlington same subject,” police speculated. noticed an infrared orb of light seen on security monitor that was moving strange- On May 7, Western Washington University ly above the tree line. “I went out to the staff called police after a package in their driveway and looked for it, but did not see 5 CASCADIA WEEKLY possession began buzzing and making odd it,” the security employee reported. “I Number of threat levels for volcanic events, as assigned by USGS. Mount Baker, Glacier 11 noises. The recipient of the package was went back and reviewed the video footage Peak, and Mount Rainer rank the highest threat priority for eruption, as does Kīlauea. contacted and confirmed the package was and the orb of light was in the exact area Currently, volcanic activity in the Pacific Northwest is recorded as normal. his, a gift for his birthday. I was looking at. Evidently, the IR night vision of the camera was picking up an in- On May 7, University Police were alerted frared light source.” SOURCES: Associated Press; Governor’s Office; U.S. Geological Survey; National Parks Service Claudia Castro Luna (the current Wash- ington state poet laureate), Anastacia Renee Tolbert (Seattle’s first Civic Poet), Sam Green (former Washington state
30 poet laureate), Lily Baumgart (youth poet laureate), La Conner’s own Georgia FOOD Johnson, and Seattle scribes who also words work with the Poets in the Schools proj- COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS ect—Daemond Arrindell, Jourdan Keith, 24 Matt Gano, and Tod Marshall. Ellen Bass, Matthew Dickman, Ada Li- B-BOARD mon, Quenton Baker, Lena Khalaf Thuf- faha, Tina Chang, and Irish poet Tony
23 Curtis are also among the big names heading to La Conner to read, lead work-
FILM shops and share their various insights in coming days.
18 With topics such as “Writing to Change the World,” “Crossing Borders,”
MUSIC and “Paradise Lost” on the lineup, it’s a fair bet that lines of discussion will
16 reach far beyond Skagit County, and
ART that those attending the events will ex- CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA pand their poetic worldview.
15 Grigot says stewardship is a focus of this year’s festival, and that many partic-
STAGE ipating poets do exceptional work when it comes to education and outreach about poetry and its roles in our communities. 14 That’s par for the course for the festival, which started in 1998 as the result of a
GET OUT conversation between leaders from seven
12 rural school districts 12
MATTHEW DICKMAN in Skagit County. “This event was WORDS WORDS started by teachers
8 with students at the heart of their mission ATTEND to support high liter- WHAT: Skagit CURRENTS acy standards in ru- River Poetry ral school districts,”
6 Festival WHEN: May 17-20 Grigot says. “The fes- WHERE: La Conner tival has always been VIEWS COST: Ticket secondary to the
4 prices vary commitment to put INFO: www.skagit ELLEN BASS GEORGIA MONK poets in schools. The
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PHOTO BY IRENE YOUNG BY PHOTO confluence of artists
2 and dedicated educators in the Skagit them happen. For both poets and people Valley was the right formula to host
DO IT who appreciate the wonder of words, the and continue a festival that included BY AMY KEPFERLE 10th biennial blowout will not only fea- students, but also brought exceptional ture a stellar lineup of regional and na- poets to this valley.” tional voices tackling many important is- The recipe worked. Since the event be- 05.09.18 Skagit Poetry Fest sues via their wordsmithing, but will also gan, more than 50 Skagit County teach- provide plenty to do during the downtime. ers a year have hosted resident poets, .13
19 A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT The event opens to the public Thurs., and 400,000-plus students have learned # May 17 with a Poets Table Soiree taking more about the world of poetry. Funds WHEN ASKED to describe what a perfect day attending the Skagit River Poetry place from 5-7pm at Maple Hall, followed raised during the four-day event ben- Festival would look like, board member Jessica Grigot’s wish list includes plenty of time by a reading dubbed “Dear America: Poems efit the Skagit River Poetry Foundation’s to savor what La Conner has to offer. of Resistance and Hope in a Time of Tur- mission to support lifelong literacy and “Saturday at the festival, I’d wake up and take a walk along the channel,” she says moil.” Among the voices that can be heard cultural diversity through the writing, of the event taking place May 17-20 throughout the Skagit town. “I’d get some coffee that night are three-time United States reading, performing and teaching of po-
CASCADIA WEEKLY and breakfast at Calico Cupboard, attend the morning panel/discussions, then visit Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Ada Limon, etry in Northwest Washington schools the trade show and vendors at Maple Hall. I’d have lunch downtown, maybe at the La Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and Brian Turner. Hot and communities. 12 Conner Brewing Company. Visit some shops or galleries that feature local artists and Damn Scandal will also perform. “The festival turns La Conner into a products, or the new bookstore, Seaport Books. See an afternoon group reading and Over the following three days, the town filled with poetry,” Seattle poet Su- discussion. A wine tasting at Hellam’s Vineyard Wine Shop or dinner or happy hour at festival will feature some of the most san Rich adds. “Where else can a person Nell Thorn would follow. I’d then return to the festival for an evening program.” thoughtful and radical voices in contem- sleep, eat, live and breathe poetry for a If this chain of events also sounds ideal to you, it’s still within your power to make porary poetry. Northwest writers include spring weekend?” doit LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME? WORDS
WED., MAY 9 30 WHATCOM WRITERS: Wendy Kendall and Julie
Cooper will lead a “Cast Your Brand Online: How FOOD to Create a Professional Podcast” presentation at a Whatcom Writers and Publishers meeting from 6-8:30pm at Nicki’s Bella Marina, 2615 S. Harbor 24 Loop Dr. All are welcome at the free event; please RSVP to guarantee a seat.
WWW.WHATCOMWRITERSANDPUBLISHERS.ORG B-BOARD WE CAN HELP REACH FRI., MAY 11 YOUR REAL ESTATE GOALS! SEA OF WORDS: Christine Wallace reads from her 23 new book of fiction, Sea of a Thousand Words, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The book takes place Free Home Inspection FILM in the not-so-distant future, when resources are with Consultation scarce and land is disappearing, and begs the ques- tion “Who deserves to inherit our earth?” Call Jerry Swann For Details! 18 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM MUSIC SAT., MAY 12 Best 360.319.7776 SUMAS BOOK CLUB: A discussion focusing on Choice Broker# 100688 16 Jeannette Walls’ Half Broke Horses will be part of a R EALT Y
Sumas Book Club meeting from 10-11am at the Sumas ART Library, 461 2nd St. FREE EVENTS at Village Books in Fairhaven (360) 988-2501 15
LYNDEN BOOK CLUB: Discuss Paulo Coelho’s The Al- Christine Wallace chemist at an Award-Winning Book Club meeting from STAGE 10:30am-12pm at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. All Channel an inspiring former first lady when Jennifer Worick shares ideas from What’s Your M.O.? Live SEA of a are welcome, even if you didn’t finish the book. Your Best Life the Michelle Obama Way Sat., May 12 at Village Books 14 (360) 354-4883 THOUSAND WORDS
WHAT’S YOUR M.O.?: Bestselling author Jennifer BOYNTON POETRY AWARDS: Twenty-five Whatcom Couric at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 GET OUT CLI- Who deserves to Worick shares ideas from What’s Your M.O.? Live Your County residents will be honored for their winning S. First St. Following the film about the issues facing FI! inherit our earth? Best Life the Michelle Obama Way at 7pm at Village poems in the 13th annual Sue C. Boynton Poetry transgender people and their loved ones, there will Friday, May 11, 7pm 12 Books, 1200 11th St. Worick shares what Michelle Contest—judged this year by Richard Widerkehr and be a panel afterwards who will share their stories 12 said or did in a particular situation and then shows Jane Wong—at a free awards ceremony at 7pm at and answer questions. The event is sponsored by The author of The Worst-Case Scenario how you can use her example in your own life. The the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Poet PFLAG Skagit and PFLAG Bellingham/Whatcom. Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex WORDS book also includes the former First Lady’s most Kevin Murphy will emcee. All are welcome to come WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG WORDS inspiring quotes and fun and helpful lists. The event hear the winners read from their works.
Jennifer 8 will include a trivia game and reading. WWW.BOYNTONPOETRYCONTEST.WORDPRESS.COM MAY 11-12 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM SPRING BAZAAR: Find Mother’s Day gifts such as WORICK arts, crafts and Greek treats at a Spring Bazaar tak- will introduce MON., MAY 14 ing place from 9am-4pm Friday and Saturday at St. COMMUNITY CURRENTS BOOKS ON TAP: South Whatcom Library manager Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, 510 E. Sunset Dr. WHAT’S YOUR
Brian Hulsey leads a “Books on Tap” discussion WED., MAY 9 WWW.SAINTSOPHIAS.ORG 6 focusing on Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s OPEN DATA SERIES: “Locating and Using Open M.O.? Son from 6:30-8pm at Sudden Valley’s El Agave 2, 4 Data” will be the subject of the second of four MON., MAY 14 Live Your VIEWS Clubhouse Circle. “Connecting with Open Data” presentations from WIHS FORUM: Learn more about Whatcom Intergen- (360) 305-3632 12-1:30pm at Mount Vernon City Library, 315 Sno- erational High school at a WIHS Community Forum Best Life the 4 qualmie St. Additional events happen May 16 and 23 from 6-8:30pm at Whatcom Community College’s Syre MICHELLE OBAMA
TUES., MAY 15 at the Burlington Public Library. Entry is free and Auditorium, 235 W. Kellogg Rd. Free childcare and Way MAIL MAYFLOWER MEANING: Deming Library staff Erin open to the public. dinner will be part of the event. Please RSPV. If we can’t be her, we at least want to be like her.
Suda and Katrina Carabba lead a “Books on Tap” WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV WWW.WHATCOMINTERGENERATIONAL.SCHOOL 2 meeting from 7-8:30pm at the North Fork Brewery, Saturday, May 12, 7pm 6186 Mt. Baker Hwy. This month’s title up for discus- THURS., MAY 10 TUES., MAY 15 DO IT sion is Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower. THINK & DRINK: “Back to the Brink: The New Age CITIZENSHIP 101: Do you have a green card? Do WWW.WCLS.ORG of Nuclear War” will be the focus of a Think & Drink you want to learn more about the process of becom- panel discussion from 7-8:30pm at the Mountain ing a United States citizen? If so, join a free “U.S. Mot h e r’s WED., MAY 16 Room at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Citizenship 101” session from 6-7pm at the Point OPEN MIC: Sign up to read your poetry and prose or Speakers include Nicholas Mele, former U.S. diplomat Roberts Library, 1437 Gulf Rd. Local immigration 05.09.18 An enchanting middle-grade play music—or simply listen in—at a Creekside Open and nuclear abolition activist; Dr. Polly Myers, WWU attorneys will cover the general eligibility require- Dayfantasy set in a magical hotel .13 Mic starting at 6:30pm at Sudden Valley’s South professor; and Lilly Adams, organizer for Washington ments for naturalization, explain the rights and full of secrets. 19
Whatcom Library, 10 Barn View Court, Gate 2. Entry Physicians for Social Responsibility. Joy Wiggins responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, and be available # to the monthly event is free. moderates. Entry is free; registration is recommend- to answer questions. Additionally, the Whatcom Tea (360) 305-3632 ed, but not required. Literacy Council will be there to provide information WWW.HUMANITIES.ORG/EVENT about its free programs. Bring your children or grandchildren (ideal for ages 3-9) to Village Books in Fairhaven THURS., MAY 17 WWW.WHATCOMLITERACY.ORG and enjoy some tasty treats, stories, a craft, MY FATHER’S WARS: Idaho-based author Joy ASTRONOMY MEETING: The Whatcom Associa- and good company. Passanente reads from Through A Long Absence: tion of Celestial Observers will meet from 7-9pm at THURS., MAY 17 $6 - Reserve by Friday, May 11. Call 360-671-2626 Words From My Father’s Wars at 7pm at Village Books, Ferndale’s Whatcom Educational Credit Union, 5659 GET HOME ALIVE: Staff member Barb Hudson or stop by Village Books. 1200 11th St. A World War II saga and much more, Barrett Rd. Use I-5 exit 262. The presentation topic leads “Get Home Alive: What to Do in an Emergency CASCADIA WEEKLY pm the book explores one soldier’s personal wars—his is: “A Tour Through the Electromagnetic Spectrum.” Away from Home” at 6:30pm at the Mount Vernon Sunday, May 13, 2 stint as a child bootlegger, his wartime absence Entry is free and open to all. City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St. Hudson will help 13 from his wife, negotiating the chasm between their WWW.WHATCOMASTRONOMY.COM you learn how to be ready for almost any emergency first-generation immigrant families, and practicing by discussing what items you need to have in your VILLAGE BOOKS surgery in tents under fire. GENDER REVOLUTION: Attend a free showing of vehicle to be prepared. Entry is free. 1200 11th St, Bellingham WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM National Geographic’s Gender Revolution with Katie WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV & 430 Front St, Lynden • Open Daily See villagebooks.com for more! doit
THURS., MAY 10 SEA SKILLS BOATING FESTIVAL: PUB RUN: Join a weekly BBay Pub The Bellingham Sail and Power
Run starting at 6pm every Thurs- Squadron will host a Sea Skills 30 day. Open to runners of all levels, Boating Festival from 10am-5pm excursions are 3-5 miles and BBay at the Blaine Marina, 235 Marine FOOD Ambassadors safely guide each Dr. The free day of family-friendly pace group. Tonight’s run starts at boating education will include outside BBay Running, 1431 N. State St. demos, boat tours, workshops on
24 HIKING RUNNING GARDENING Run along Salmon Woods, ending various aspects of boating, harbor at Wander Brewing. Entry is free. rides on the historic Plover ferry WWW.BBAYRUNNING.COM (by donation), food trucks, face B-BOARD painting and more. FRI., MAY 11 WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and BELLINGHAMSAILANDPOWERSQUADRON 23 we adhere to in the “farmstead” portion of our estate. adventurers can join Holly Roger of Wild Whatcom for a “Wild Things” ROLLER BETTIES: Home Team FILM It is here—while building raised beds, Community Program from 9:30-11am F.L.A.S.H. will skate against cobbling together poultry-proof barriers every Friday in May at Cornwall Park. the Dockyard Derby Dames from
18 and performing intensive bouts of shovel- Suggested donation is $5. Tacoma and the Cog Blockers will and-pick-based re-contouring work—that WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG face-off against Tough Love at the
MUSIC my skills and service as a longtime trails Bellingham Roller Betties’ home worker allow me to contribute most hand- SAT., MAY 12 team semifinal bout at 5pm at LONG WANDER: The inaugural the Whatcom Community College 16 ily to the viability of our DIY operation. Ride the Long Wander takes place Pavilion, 237 W. Kellogg Rd. Tickets
ART Among the considerable list of season- from 7am-9pm in Whatcom County. are $6-$14. ally dependent benchmarks I am obliged This group mountain bike ride is WWW.BELLINGHAM an opportunity to raise money for ROLLERBETTIES.COM
15 to meet in my capacity as self-proclaimed Yard Boss, prepping for the annual plant a cause while exploring riding op- portunities around Lake Whatcom. SUN., MAY 13 STAGE sale at Hovander Homestead Park rates as By participating, you will be part MOTHER’S DAY SAIL: Treat your top priority. of a movement to increase the mom to brunch on a classic 1920s Taking place on the second Saturday of connections between the biking sailing yacht at a Mother’s Day Sail 14 14 May in Ferndale, this seminal fundrais- community and issues of local social on the Schooner Zodiac starting at ing event hosted by Master Gardeners of justice. An after-party begins at 10am at Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 6pm at Wander Brewing. 355 Harris Ave. Tickets are $59-$79 GET OUT GET OUT Whatcom County features specialty pe- WWW.LAWADVOCATES.ORG and include a brunch buffet. rennials, herbs, native plants and fruit WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM LOST LAKE ULTRAS: The 10th
12 trees—all for sale in quantity at reason- annual Lost Lake 50K and 25K start at MON., MAY 14 able prices. 8am and 10am at Larrabee State Park, PLANT DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC: WORDS 245 Chuckanut Dr. Entry is $60-$70. Local Master Gardeners will be on Of course, devo- WWW.LOSTLAKEULTRAS.COM hand for Plant Diagnostic Clinics
8 tees to the night- from 5-7:30pm at the SkillShare shade family would PLANT FAIR: The Skagit County Space at the Bellingham Public deem it unpardon- Master Gardener Foundation hosts Library, 210 Central Ave. its annual Plant Fair from 8am-2pm (360) 778-7210
CURRENTS ably remiss if I ne- at Mount Vernon’s Skagit County glected to mention Fairgrounds. In addition to offering 6 ATTEND TUES., MAY 15 WHAT: 27th annual our local chapter gardener-grown plants, there will KAYAKING BASICS: A “Kayaking Master Gardeners of Master Garden- also be garden art, kitchen accesso- Basics” clinic starts at 6pm at REI, VIEWS STORY AND IMAGE BY TRAIL RAT Plant Sale ers owns a well- ries, handmade items, farm produce, 400 36th St. Register in advance; food, educational booths and more. entry is free. 4 WHEN: 9am-2pm deserved reputation WWW.EXTENSION.WSU.EDU/SKAGIT 647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM Sat., May. 12 for promulgating
MAIL WHERE: Hovander multitudinous va- Groundwork Homestead Park, SKAGIT SPRING CLASSIC: Skagit MAY MADNESS RUN: Staff and Bicycle Club hosts its 28th an- volunteers are always on hand 2 Ferndale rieties of locally PLANT SALE PREP INFO: grown tomato starts. nual “Skagit Spring Classic” from to guide the way at the weekly 9am-4pm starting at Burlington’s All-Paces Run starting at 6pm at DO IT www.whatcom. Many years of wsu.edu Bayview Elementary School, 15241 Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. THE LADY of the House isn’t too keen on church-going, but experience have Josh Wilson Rd. The supported ride Tonight’s “May Madness” outing she does have a sacred space she attends—her garden. Within taught me that upon our return from features 25-, 45-, 62-, and 100- will feature demos, a raffle for Topo this botanical diocese of heavenly flower beds and divine shrub- the Hovander Plant Sale, our vegetable mile rides through northern Skagit shoes and other prizes, a Feetures 05.09.18 bery she takes trowel and pruning shears in hand and induces a beds can be expected to absorb the in- and southern Whatcom counties. sock swap, a pre-sun game and preponderance of horticultural miracles. stallation of as many as two or three Entry is $10-$55. post-run treats.
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19 From street frontage to the alley fence, every nook and cranny dozen tomato starts. # around our antediluvian domicile bears the signature of her ef- In order to thrive, these fruit-bearing SMALL BOAT MESSABOUT: Small WAKE MEETING: Featured speaker florescent touch. Stately ferns and riotous perennials festoon vines need plenty of sunshine. And, even boat enthusiasts are invited to the Reg Lake will show The Triple Crown our brick-lined front walkway with genial vigor. A queen-sized more problematic, they must immediately annual “Pull and Be Damned” Small documentary at a Whatcom Asso- bed of bearded irises basks so commandingly in front of our be secured from the marauding instincts Boat Messabout from 10am-4pm in ciation of Kayak Enthusiasts meet- Anacortes at Seafarers Park, 601 ing at 7pm at the NSEA offices at booming Indian plum hedge that it frequently causes passersby of free-range chickens. Seafarers Way. Bring your own boat 3057 E. Bakerview Rd. The film to stop and pay their regards. Which is why this year—thanks to if you have one, or check out all showcases a younger Reg and his
CASCADIA WEEKLY Paradisiacal though our slice of Eden is, the grounds here are all the salvage wood I’ve repurposed sorts of small craft and meet their friends running first descents of no mere altarpiece. Along with possessing the proven ability to from our wind-toppled maple—the once owners. Vessels attending will Central Sierra rivers in the 1980s. 14 propagate showy spectacles, my lady lends her green thumbs semi-permeable borders of our vegeta- include gigs, whitehalls, kayaks, WWW.WAKEKAYAK.ORG skin-on-frame boats, various sail- into cultivating subsistence agriculture, too. ble beds have been fortified behind a ing craft and more. Entry is free. Integrating the methodological constructs of sustainable urban contiguous network of gated log enclo- WWW.ANACORTES SEND YOUR EVENT INFO TO: farming into a decorative landscape while simultaneously keep- sures. I call it Fort Hovander. She calls SMALLBOATCENTER.ORG [email protected] ing a flock of backyard chickens at bay is the definitive priority it Fort Cluckity-Cluck. doit
STAGE 2pm Sunday at Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth, 1059 N. State WED., MAY 9 St. Tickets are $10. KYLE KINANE: Standup comedian WWW.BAAY.ORG 30 Kyle Kinane returns to Bellingham as part of his national tour at 8pm TUES., MAY 15 FOOD stage at the Underground, 211 E. Chestnut VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend St. Tickets are $25. the Bellingham Circus Guild’s
THEATER PROFILES 24 DANCE WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM monthly uncensored variety show, “Vaudevillingham,” at 7pm and 9pm MAY 9-13 performances at the Cirque Lab, 1401 INTO THE WOODS: Stephen Sond- 6th St., suite #102. Expect to see B-BOARD heim’s Into the Woods can be seen everything from aerial performances when META Performing Arts pres- to dance, comedy, magic, juggling, 23 “I approach the script fresh every time,” ents the play at 7:30pm Wednesday burlesque and more. Suggested through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday donation is $5-$10. Lang says of her third go-round as direc- FILM at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM tor. “Obviously there are some aspects that 712 S. First St. Tickets are $12-$25.
carry through because the words are the Additional showings happen May MAY 17-19 18 same, but the feel and delivery are differ- 17-19. THE GUN SHOW: Bellingham WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG TheatreWorks presents The Gun Show ent with each woman who interprets them. MUSIC at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday I’ve seen and listened to these monologues THURS., MAY 10 at the Sylvia Center for the Arts, 205
dozens of times and they never fail to move GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Prospect St. Additional showings 16 me, to make me laugh and cry. Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm happen May 24-26. ART “I keep coming back because of the every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, WWW.SYLVIACENTERFORTHEARTS.ORG material. It’s as relevant now as it was 20 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for 15 “The Project.” Entry is $5-$8. 15 years ago. The power of theater brought 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM DANCE STAGE to bear on the big, complicated subject STAGE of violence against women in all its forms MAY 10-12 makes it accessible in a way that current ANNIE: The Sehome High School THURS., MAY 10 14 events can’t.” drama department presents showings FOLK DANCE: The Balkan Folk Danc- of the perennially popular musical ers meet from 7-9:30pm Thursdays at While allowing that the recent downfall Annie at 7pm Thursday and Friday, the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. of Hollywood bigwigs like Bill Cosby and and 2pm Saturday at the SHS Little Suggested donation is $5. GET OUT Harvey Weinstein and Theatre, 2700 Bill McDonald Pkwy. (360) 380-0456 the concurrent #metoo Tickets are $8-$10. 12 movement does con- WWW.SEHOMEDRAMA.COM FRI., MAY 11 SALSA NIGHT: Cubasere presents a tribute to the relevance MAY 10-13 “Salsasere” Salsa Night from 7:30pm- WORDS of producing the mono- HELLO! MY BABY: The romantic 12am in the Bard Loft at the Conway logues, Lang says there farce known as Hello! My Baby can Muse, 18444 Spruce St. Entry is $10 8 will unfortunately nev- be seen at 7:30pm Thursday and and includes a lesson. er be a time when the Friday, and 2pm Saturday and Sun- WWW.CUBASERE.COM day at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas DEB SLATER context isn’t right to CURRENTS Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets are MAY 11-12 ATTEND bring them back into $10-$14. Additional performances SPRING SHOWCASE: The emerging WHAT: The Vagina 6 the spotlight. happen May 17-20. artists of Opus will display their Monologues “The more we pay WWW.THECLAIRE.ORG progress in ballet, contemporary,
WHERE: VIEWS jazz, hip-hop and more at Spring BY AMY KEPFERLE Firehouse PAC, attention, the more MAY 11-12 Showcase performances at 7pm Fri-
1314 Harris St. 4 people are thinking 48 HOUR THEATER FESTIVAL: The day, and 2pm Saturday at the Mount WHEN: 7pm May about this, the more 48th iteration of iDiOM Theater’s Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.
11-12; 2pm Sun., MAIL momentum we have to 48-Hour Theater Festival happens at Tickets are $5-$10. May 13 WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM Pussy Power help end violence and 7:30pm and 10pm Friday and Satur- COST: $25; 2 day at the new Lucas Hicks Theater proceeds benefit abuse,” she says. “The INSIDE THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES at the Sylvia Center, 205 Prospect AWKWARD LOVE: The Provocateurs
Lydia Place DO IT global theme of En- St. Each night’s performances will be present “Awkward Love” at 8pm Fri- INFO: www.event IT WASN’T until I tackled one of the more prickly missives in sler’s 1 Billion Rising different, but all will feature world- day, and 6pm and 9pm Saturday at brite.com Eve Ensler’s episodic play known as The Vagina Monologues that I Campaign is ‘Solidarity premiere short plays created in 24 the Bellingham Circus Guild’s Cirque truly understood the power of the pussy. Against the Exploitation of Women.’ We’re hours. Tickets are $50 for the first Lab, 1401 6th St. The theatrical and Apparently, there’s something about repetition that acts as part of that every time we perform The Va- show (includes a reception) and $20 empowering dance performances 05.09.18 otherwise. will highlight the trials and tests of a sort of a spell, transforming a word that previously caused gina Monologues.” WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
finding true love. Tickets are $15. .13 me to cringe—yes, it rhymes with “blunt”—into one that I Lang and Renner chose Mother’s Day Additional performances happen 19 was more than happy to share with the masses. The women weekend to present the play, noting it’s a BAYWATCH AND BRAWLS: “Im- May 18-19. # who joined me onstage also took ownership of the language in natural time for women to come together provised Baywatch” brings beach WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM their own monologues, making sure the audience knew the ex- and share their experiences (and, yes, adventures onstage at 8pm Fridays and Saturdays through May at the SAT., MAY 12 periences we were sharing were universal in nature—whether men are welcome). Proceeds will go to Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At CONTRA DANCE: Come play in the they dealt with consensual sexual experiences, having babies, Lydia Place, helping ensure the cycle of 10pm, stick around for “Backyard band, call some dances or simply sex work, body images, rape, or the horrific after-effects of homelessness for women and children is Brawl.” Tickets are $10-$12. dance along when the Bellingham genital mutilation. stopped in its tracks. WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM Country Dance Society hosts an Open CASCADIA WEEKLY From the look of this year’s production taking place May 11-13 I’ll be in my seat Saturday night, Band Contra Dance from 7-10:30pm MAY 11-13 at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th 15 at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, director Ginny Lang and watching to see how the cast members REALLY ROSIE: Talented perform- St. Suggested donation is $8-$10 ($6 producer Jessica Renner have once again corralled a fascinating interpret Ensler’s endlessly entrancing ers ages 9-12 will bring Really Rosie for students). cross-section of Whatcom County women to bring Ensler’s words and entertaining material. Now that I’ve to life at performances at 7pm WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRY to life, making sure the playwright’s worldwide movement to been part of the show, I can’t wait to be Friday, 2pm and 7pm Saturday, and DANCE.ORG end violence against women and girls won’t soon be forgotten. an audience member. doit UPCOMING EVENTS
THURS., MAY 10 ILLUSTRATOR TALK: Children’s book il- 30 lustrator James Michael “Jamichael” Henterly
FOOD will discuss his career as an illustrator, making pictures to share ideas and tell stories, and will share an array of his original artwork, as well as
24 visual published materials, at a 12pm talk at Whatcom GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St.. Entry to the Museum Advocates presentation is free.
B-BOARD WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
HUMANITIES TALK: Jane Richlovsky of
23 Humanities Washington leads a presentation Leaf Reader,” which is no longer for sale, dubbed “When Artists Get Together They Talk
FILM because she now lives in my kitchen— About Real Estate” at 6:30pm at Mount Vernon created largely by using found objects City Library, 315 Snoqualmie St. Richlovsky is an artist, educator, cultural space advocate, 18 such as reclaimed wood and recycled and accidental developer. Entry is free. paint. “FishBoy describes my method WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV
MUSIC and media,” Clark says. “I am a recy- cler, so ‘fishing’ for wood and mis-mixed FRI., MAY 11 CORSETRY TRUNK SHOW: Attend a one-of- 16 16 paint and design, ideas and invention a-kind trunk show featuring the work of San ART ART is where the ‘fish’ comes from. The Francisco’s own DarkGarden Unique Corsetry boy—well, that’s me, the inner child, from 3-8pm at Social Fabric, 1302 Commercial St. This is the perfect opportunity to order a
15 the ‘boy’ I will always be.” Either bring mom along to sip on a glass of wine and corset for waist training, bridal foundation or back support. They’ll have samples of all
STAGE pick out her favorite FishBoy creation, their corset styles, and can take personalized or surprise her the following day with fit and personalized design orders for those a new addition to the family. www. looking for something special. 14 fishboygallery.com WWW.SOCIALFABRICART.COM On Mother’s Day proper, attend a re-
GET OUT ception for fine art photographer Jackson SAT., MAY 12 TEEN ART SHOWCASE: Attend a Deming Faulkner, who will be on hand to meet and Teen Art Showcase reception from 3:30-5pm
12 greet visitors and hand out special treats at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. for moms from 11am-2pm Sun., May 13 at The artworks can be viewed at the library’s BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. meeting room through May 19. WORDS “My images give the viewer a chance to (360) 592-2422
8 experience the glow of twilight as it ap- pears over an abandoned barn or the si- ONGOING EXHIBITS lence of an empty grain elevator waiting ALLIED ARTS: In honor of the statewide Arts CURRENTS for the next harvest,” Faulkner says of his haunting prints. “Every image tells a Education Month, view professional work by
6 teaching artists in Whatcom County through story that needs to be told. If we choose May at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. not to honor and remember our past, we WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG VIEWS will lose the history of who we were—and
4 who we are.” A concurrent Country Brunch ARTWOOD: To mark 30 years in Fairhaven, and Mom’s Mimosa Bar will also be hap- both old and new works by members will be
MAIL on display through May at Artwood Gallery, pening—complete with a pop-up flower 1000 Harris Ave. A retrospective including
2 shop and face painting for kids—so make photographs illustrating the gallery’s history
ART BY FISHBOY ART BY reservations now to complete the package. can also be seen. Meet some of Artwood’s art-
DO IT www.bellewoodfarms.com ists from 5-8pm Fri., May 25 during the Fourth From there, add the annual Mother’s Friday Art Walk. WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM Day event taking place from 1-4pm at Big BY AMY KEPFERLE Rock Garden Park to your agenda. Attend- BRAZEN: Works by painter Kathryn Hackney 05.09.18 ees can peruse the dozens of permanent are currently on display at Brazen Shop + and visiting on-site sculptures on the Studio, 1319 Cornwall Ave, suite 104 (enter .13 from the alley). The new shop features a
19 2.5-acre garden, watch plein air paint-
# Art for Mom thoughtfully curated selection of locally ers from Trish Harding’s Studio UFO in handmade goods, jewelry, art and natural LABORS OF LOVE action—as well as purchase their works skincare products. during the event—and soak up the wel- WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BRAZENSHOPSTUDIO IT TOOK Leonardo da Vinci as many as 15 years to finish “Mona Lisa,” 37 years for come sight of countless blooming azaleas Auguste Rodin to wrap up “The Gates of Hell,” and approximately nine months for the and rhododendrons. Live music by the CASSERA GALLERY: Mixed-media works by Sibling Studio’s Lloyd and Christie Houston woman who gave birth to you to create the amazing work of art you see when looking all-female trio known as D’Vas, activities can currently be viewed in La Conner at CASCADIA WEEKLY in the mirror. As a way to pay homage to ladies in your life who labored long and hard for kids, and light refreshments will also Cassera Arts Premiers, 106 1st St. to bring their visions to fruition, following are a few ways to keep them entertained be part of afternoon’s activities. Hint: WWW.CASSERAARTSPREMIERS.COM 16 this Mother’s Day weekend. Parking is limited at 2900 Sylvan St., so Prior to the big day, contemporary folk artist Randy Clark—also known as Fish- head to Silver Beach Elementary at 4101 COOPER LANZA GALLERY: Group classes, private lessons, life drawing, long-pose ses- Boy—will open up his Sunnyland studio and home to the masses for a Spring Show Academy St. to stow your vehicle, and sions, exhibits and more happen on a regular taking place from 2-9pm at 617 Virginia Street (a block west of James Street). There, hoof it from there or catch a shuttle to basis at Cooper Lanza Gallery and School of anthropomorphic animals share space with colorful characters—such as “Zelda: Tea the free festivities. www.cob.org doit
Fine Art, 1415 13th St. “Invisible: Selections from the Permanent Col- WWW.COOPERLANZAGALLERY.COM lection” will be on display through June 10 at La
Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 First St. FISHBOY GALLERY: Peruse the contemporary WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG 30 folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm Fridays or by Law Offices of
appointment at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia PEACEHEALTH: As part of the “Healing Through FOOD St. Art” series, view Trish Harding’s “Separated from 319-2913 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM Normal” exhibit through May 12 at PeaceHealth Alexander F. Ransom St. Joseph Medical Center, 2901 Squalicum Pkwy. 24 FOURTH CORNER: Explore “From the Hand of The paintings are Harding’s visual memories of Dorothy Deets” through May 31 at Fourth Corner growing up on Lummi Island in the 1960s.
Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. Deets (1911- (360) 383-7166 B-BOARD 2009), was a lifelong artist who attended Cornish Experienced, College of the Arts. She began her career illustrat- PERRY AND CARLSON: Katherine Wesselman’s Offices in ing children’s books in the late 1930s and worked “Double Take” shows through May in Mount Vernon Effective & Skagit & 23 in a variety of mediums, including wood carving, at Perry and Carlson Gallery, 504 S. First St.
abstract oils and Sumi-e. WWW.PERRYANDCARLSON.COM Whatcom FILM WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM Compassionate QUILT MUSEUM: “Material Men 2: Contemporary FORUM ARTS: Roger Small’s “Visions of the Soul” Masters,” “Local Material Men, Too,” and “How I Criminal Defense 18 can be viewed through May at La Conner’s Forum Felt: A Woolistic Approach by Flora Carlile-Kovacs”
Arts, 721 S. First St. are currently on display at La Conner’s Northwest MUSIC WWW.ARTBYROGERSMALL.COM Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, 703 S. Second St. WWW.QFAMUSEUM.ORG www.ransom-lawfirm.com · (360) 746-2642 16 16 GALLERY PEGASUS:”Sensorium” shows through ART June 30 at Gallery Pegasus, 301 W. Holly St. The RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related work- ART exhibit is themed to bring awareness of the phe- shops happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery, nomenological and sensory experience of new-age 1421 N. Forest St. See more details and register 15 technologies. online. WWW.GALLERYPEGASUS.COM WWW. WWW.RAGFINERY.COM STAGE ARTBYROGERSMALL.COM UNCAN EWLAND SCOTT MILO: Acrylic paintings by Mary Quintrall D N GOOD EARTH: Deb McCunn’s “Wild Wabbits” will will be featured through May at the Scott Milo Specializing in Residential & Equestrian Properties 14 be featured through May at Good Earth Pottery, Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave. Also showing Put 35 years of 1000 Harris Ave. An artist reception takes place are pastels by LaDonna Kruger, oils by Keith from 5-8pm Fri., May 25. Sorenson, oils by Jane Wallis and watercolors by real estate sales GET OUT WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM Peggy Woods. experience to WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM work for you…
HONEY: Ciara Sana’s “Paper Dreams” will be on Over 150 million 12 display through May at Honey Salon and Gallery, SKAGIT MUSEUM: “Old-Time Tools and New- 310 W. Holly St. The exhibit features a multi- Fangled Furniture” shows through May 13 at La in real estate medium collection of powerful portraits of women Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 sales! WORDS adorned in origami paper accents. S. 4th St. The exhibit features the work of Skagit
WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM furniture-maker Stuart Welch as well as woodwork- When it’s time to 8 ing tools from the museum’s historic collection. find the right home I.E. GALLERY: View new work from mixed-media WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM artists Sheila Klein and Ries Niemi through May 29 or sell yours we CURRENTS at Edison’s i.e. gallery, 5800 Cains Court. SMITH & VALLEE: An exhibit of Skagit-inspired know what you’re
WWW.IEEDISON.COM works by renowned sculptor Philip McCracken looking for. 6 and painter and printmaker Kris Ekstrand shows JANSEN ART CENTER: A “Spring Juried Exhibit,” through May 27 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, License #26963 [email protected] VIEWS “American Folk Heroes; Leotie Richards,” Nick 5742 Gilkey Ave. Payne’s “Nature’s Tender Majesty—Color and WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM Cell (360) 303-4771 Office (360) 734-3420 4 Form,” and “Promising Futures: Whatcom County
High School Art” will be on display through June SOCIAL FABRIC: Sign up for a variety of sewing MAIL 1 at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. and art workshops through May at Social Fabric, MCINTYRE HALL PRESENTS
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG 1302 Commercial St. THE WEEPIES 2 WWW.SOCIALFABRICART.COM HIDEAWAY 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR LUMMI GALLERY: Peruse seasonal exhibits at SATURDAY, MAY 19 7:30PM DO IT the Lummi Island Gallery at the Village Point WESTERN GALLERY: Ibram Lassaw’s “Projection Marina, 4232 Legoe Bay Rd. Paintings” will be on display until May 12 at West- Singer-songwriters WWW.LUMMIISLANDGALLERY.COM ern Washington University’s Western Gallery. Deb Talan & Steve Tennen perform WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU insightful songs with distinctive MAKE.SHIFT: “Imaginary Friends” can be viewed harmonies. Selling more than a 05.09.18 through May at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. WHATCOM ART MARKET: Works by more than million records, with over 17 million
The exhibit features works by Cedar Tree Montessori 45 Whatcom Art Guild members can be perused streams on Spotify & 20 million views .13 19
students paired with responses by adult artists. and purchased from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sun. at the on YouTube, you’ve heard their songs # WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM Whatcom Art Market, 1103 11th St. in lms & television shows including: WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG Sex and the City, Morning Glory, Adam, MATZKE GALLERY: “Spring Has Sprung” will be and Prom, and in episodes of Grey’s on display every Friday through Sunday through WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Hidden in the Bundle: Anatomy, Everwood, One Tree Hill, June 17 at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Gal- A Look Inside the Whatcom Museum’s Basketry Scrubs, Pretty Little Liars , The Riches, lery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way. Collection,” “People of the Sea and Cedar: A How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM Journey Through the Tribal Cultures and History of Kyle XY, Life Unexpected, Up All Night, the Northwest Coast,” “Back at the Park: Vintage The Fosters and Sense8. CASCADIA WEEKLY MINDPORT: Kevin G. Jones’ photography exhibit, Views from the Photo Archives,” and “John M. “A Couple Nice Horses and a Cow,” will be featured Edson Hall of Birds” can currently be viewed on MCINTYREHALL.ORG 17 through May at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. the Whatcom Museum campus. WWW.MINDPORT.ORG WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 360.416.7727 SEND YOUR EVENT INFO TO: 2501 E COLLEGE W AY, MOUNT V ERNON MONA: “Robert McCauley: American Fiction” and [email protected] rumor has it
30 BELLINGHAM IS ALWAYS filthy with music and its related activities, but the weekend of May FOOD 11-13 is a bit ridiculous. Along with all that I touched on to the left of this column is a bunch of other events worth a wealth of space 24 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT all their own. For instance, Avalon Records has rumbled to B-BOARD life with in-store concerts, their annual Record Store Day sidewalk concert and now a record
23 fair, which happens Sat., May 12 at the VFW Hall on State Street. When Avalon owner Chris
FILM Lamb told me about the record fair awhile back, it sounded like such a good idea that I can’t
18 18 believe it hasn’t been happening for years here. According to Avalon, the “fair will be loaded MUSIC MUSIC with tens of vinyl record vendors and collec- tors,” who will
16 bring records,
ART memorabilia and a strong desire to
15 nerd out with fellow vinyl addicts. You’ll
STAGE bring cash because most of the vendors won’t be equipped 14 to take your plas- BY CAREY ROSS tic. The fair will run
GET OUT from 10am to 4pm, is free and all-ages, and the hope is to make it an annual affair.
12 Speaking of annual affairs, BAMF—aka the Bellingham Arts and Music Fest—is also happening this weekend, May 12-13, at the WORDS Lookout Arts Quarry. The locale is perfect for
8 this particular explosion of creativity that seeks to unite artists and musicians across all THE FAMILY CREST genres and disciplines. The event runs for 24
CURRENTS hours and features everything from local mu- sic (including Dryland, the Wednesdays, Porch 6 In a music venue across downtown, the Cat, Ruby Flambe, Noisywaters, Step Dads, BY CAREY ROSS Shakedown has put together its own run of and others) to movement workshops, art in- VIEWS worthy shows, but for them, the “weekend” stallations, comedy, a silent disco and more. A
4 begins Thursday and ends at last call on wholly organic, proudly local, purely positive Sunday night. It all begins with San Fran- endeavor, BAMF is worth checking out.
MAIL A Worthy Weekend cisco band the Family Crest, who will pay the Recently, I ran into—almost literally—
MUSIC, MUSIC EVERYWHERE
2 venue a return visit on Thurs., May 10. The Thomas Deakin, who told me during the band, which refers to its music as “orches- space of a short-but-delightful conversa-
DO IT NO MATTER for how many years and how many words I write about tral indie rock,” is comprised of seven core tion that he’s 1. back in town (as evidenced music and its related events in Bellingham and surrounding environs, I members, who you’ll see at the Shakedown, by his corporeal form in front of me at the still get a thrill when I look across a week’s worth of shows and see worthy but when the time comes to record, they time) and 2. had been rehearsing for the entertainment options nearly everywhere my eye lands. And so it is during enlist the help of lots of people—to date, latest installment of “Mingish,” the tribute 05.09.18 the coming days. numbering in the hundreds—to help them to Charles Mingus he’s part of along with Of course, much of the musical chatter centers on the Fri., May 11 Against bring their grand vision to life. As for what Stephanie Nilles, John Sampson, and Julian .13
19 Me! show at the Wild Buffalo. Since that show has been sold out for some they sound like, if Mumford and Sons and MacDonough. The last time they got Ming- # time, I know where many of you will be come Friday night. And judging by Arcade Fire had seven babies, they would be ish was back in October, and it was a great the number of you in my Facebook newsfeed seeking tickets, some of you the Family Crest. success. They’ve learned a mostly new set will need to formulate a backup plan in case your ask doesn’t yield the de- Friday night brings with it one of Belling- list of Mingus music for this go-round, a sired results. As is often the case, I just happen to have a few suggestions. ham’s favorite excuses to get out of hand, task Deakin was tackling when we spoke, I would be remiss in not mentioning the other Very Big Show happening at the inimitable Bob Log III. In his trademark and one he laughed and characterized as the Wild Buffalo this weekend, which takes place Sat., May 12 and features human-cannonball suit and the helmet-tele- being “impossible.” As the event invite
CASCADIA WEEKLY brand-new band the Longshot. The band is a side project for Bille Joe Arm- phone-microphone device he sings through, says, the quartet will do their “very best” strong, Green Day frontman and genuine massive rock star. Accustomed to he cuts a distinctive figure. His sound is del- and “it will be Mingish.” But knowing as I 18 playing arenas, stadiums and the world’s largest stages, Armstrong wanted ta blues with a decidedly punk sensibility— do this particular group of musicians, their to tone it down a bit for the Longshot’s first tour, playing smaller-capacity and his live shows are pure, distilled chaos. “very best” is going to be pretty damn venues. Enter the Wild Buffalo’s Craig Jewell, who cast his customary spell Entertaining chaos, though. Anything can— good. Mingish happens at 7pm Sun., May 13 and lured the band to Bellingham. Somehow, tickets remain available for this and frequently does—happen at a Bob Log at the Firefly and tickets are available. Get show (at press time, anyway), but they are growing increasingly scarce. show, and should you somehow find yourself yours and get Mingish. WORTHY, FROM PAGE 18 shirtless and onstage, take comfort in knowing you’re far from the first. Open- 30 ing the show is Sugar Sugar Sugar, who got the band back together for a What’s EBT FOOD Up! 20th anniversary show and had such a good time they’ve decided to play a
Organic & Free Range Eggs 24 show here and there as the spirit moves Sunseed Organic Veg Starts them. And what better show to play than Bob Log in Bellingham? Fantastic Ubuild Sandwiches B-BOARD After giving Sat., May 12 over to an Moon Valley Skin Salves
Oh My Goth! ’80s dance party (costumes 23 encouraged!), the Shakedown will host a Camplights & Headlamps party of a different kind to close out the Ben & Jerry-Acme Ice Cream FILM weekend when Minneapolis rapper Prof PROF Greenacres Dolomite Lime comes to town Sunday night. Before writ- 18 18 ing this, pretty much all I knew about MUSIC Prof was that he’s not afraid to get a lit- equal parts “showman” and “shaman” who I think is Prof’s way of saying, “Get you a As Good As Gold MUSIC tle raw with his lyrics and he’s known for was sidelined due to unspecified injuries man that can do both.” It concludes with 360-592-2297 hard-partying, leave-it-all-onstage live earned from his “wild live shows,” which “Please remember to enjoy Pookie Baby www.everybodys.com 16 shows. Then I read his official bio and led to his most introspective and intimate responsibly,” and after reading the whole Highway 9 – Van Zandt ART now I think I’m in love. It introduces him album to date, also called Pookie Baby. thing, I’m pretty sure I need a cigarette. as a person who has “walked his own pri- The release contains such tracks as “Send Of course, should none of those op- 15 vate catwalk,” hints that he might have Nudes” and “I’ve Cooked Crack Before,” tions entice, there’s always Rod Picott PEACEMAKING
a party-boy image, informs us that he’s which, believe it or not, are, respectively, (May 12) or Mingish (May 13) at the Fire- STAGE “newly sophisticated” and lets us know commentary on our digital age and a cyni- fly Lounge. Or Dearheart at Make.Shift he’s now the artist “more accurately re- cal statement about art. There’s also a re- (May 11). Or Havilah at B-Town (May 12). 14 ferred to as Pookie Baby”—and that’s mark in there about “this new Pookie Baby Or Joseph Demaree and Jonathan Mc- just the first paragraph. persona” being both “all cleaned up” and Intyre at Boscoe’s (May 10). I think you
From there, we learn that Pookie Baby is “teeming with unbridled sexuality,” which get the picture here. GET OUT The POWER of POWER The 12
doit WORDS
WED., MAY 9 Tickets are $5-$20. Vanhal, and Joseph Martin Kraus.
Overcoming Aggression in a 8 TARDO HAMMER TRIO: New York City-based WWW.KULSHANCHORUS.ORG WWW.CFPA.WWU.EDU pianist Tardo Hammer will be joined by bassist Lee Challenging World Hudson and drummer Steve Williams for a Whatcom HAYNIE OPRY: “Hotrods and High Heels” will SUN., MAY 13 May 12 & 13th ~ 10a to 6p
Jazz Music Arts Center concert at 7pm at the Sylvia be the theme of a Haynie Opry concert at 7pm RANNEY BROTHERS: As part of a Jazz at the 2-Day Workshop ~ Register Online CURRENTS Center for the Arts, 205 Prospect St. Tickets are at Blaine’s Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Rd. The per- Library series, the Ranney Brothers—Seattle-based
2825 Meridian, Suite 201 • 360-483-4526 6 $5-$20. formance will feature Matt Audette and the Circle tenor sax player Travis and Bellingham-based pia- WWW.WJMAC.ORG of Friends Band performing classic songs from the nist Scott—will perform at 2pm at the Anacortes
1950s and ’60s, plus special guest Bill DeGroot and Public Library, 220 10th St. Entry is free. meditation center VIEWS THURS., MAY 10 his astonishing tribute to Roy Orbison. Tickets are WWW.JAZZATTHELIBRARY.COM
JAZZ JAM: The Jazz Project’s Jud Sherwood hosts $10 at the door. Tickets to a 3pm Old-Time Gospel bellingham.shambhala.org 4 a rotating house trio featuring top-flight local and Matinee will be $5. GIRSKY QUARTET: Bellingham House Concerts
regional musicians at a Jazz Jam happening from (360) 366-3321 features a performance by the Girsky Quartet MAIL 5:30-8:30pm Thursdays at Illuminati Brewing, 3950 at 3pm at the First Congregational Church of
Hammer Dr., Suite 101. Entry is free. KATHY KALLICK BAND: Hear hot bluegrass and Bellingham, 2401 Cornwall Ave. Works by Haydn, 2 WWW.JAZZPROJECT.ORG cool originals when the lauded Kathy Kallick Band Beethoven, and Shostakovich will be on the lineup.
makes a stop in Lynden for a 7:30pm Firefly Series Entry is $5-$15. DO IT MAY 11-13 concert at the Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. The WWW.BELLINGHAMHOUSECONCERTS.COM GUITAR FESTIVAL: Concerts, special events, ensemble’s powerful mixture of original and classic workshops, exhibits, panel discussions and much material, mirroring their distinctive combination of APRIL VERCH BAND: Expect charm, humor and
more will be part of the annual La Conner Guitar traditional and contemporary sensibilities, prom- boundless onstage energy when the April Verch 05.09.18 Festival happening Friday through Sunday through- ises to have great appeal. Tickets are $25. Band performs at 7pm at Nancy’s Farm, 2030 E. out the Skagit town. Events take place at Maple WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG Smith Rd. In addition to Verch, the trio features .13
Hall and a variety of other showcased locations. world-class musicians Cody Walters on upright- 19 Entry is $15-$20 for a one-day pass, $40-$50 for CHAMBER CONCERT: “Out of this World! A Tribute electric bass and banjo, and Alex Rubin on guitar # all three. to David Maslanka” will be the focus of a Belling- and mandolin. Tickets are $15 at the door. (If you’re WWW.LACONNERGUITARFESTIVAL.COM ham Chamber Music Society concert at 7:30pm at not on the mailing list, call the number listed the First Congregational Church of Bellingham, below to get an invite.) SAT., MAY 12 2401 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $5-$15. (360) 739-5651 OR WWW.NANCYSFARM.COM BREAKING SILENCE: The Kulshan Chorus teams WWW.BELLINGHAMCHAMBERMUSIC.ORG up with Kuntz and Company’s Pam Kuntz and Keefe WED., MAY 16 Healy to present “Breaking Silence” at 2pm and 7pm Western Washington Grammy Award-winning
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM: BRIAN LYNCH QUARTET: CASCADIA WEEKLY at Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. The University’s Department of Music presents a free trumpeter Brian Lynch will be joined by pianist artistic representation of the underlying ground of concert by the classical/baroque ensemble Colle- John Hanse, drummer Julian MacDonough, and 19 the #MeToo movement will use choreography, spoken gium Musicum at 7:30pm at the school’s Performing bassist Michael Glynn for a Whatcom Jazz Music word and stage design alongside a collection of Arts Center Concert Hall. The theme for the concert Arts Center concert at 7pm at the Sylvia Center, 205 21st century choral pieces that will evoke empathy, is the “Sturm und Drang,” featuring the minor key Prospect St. Tickets are $5-$20. resilience and clarity between right and wrong. works by Johann Christian Bach, Johann Baptist WWW.WJMAC.ORG musicvenues 30
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24 Hot Damn Scandal, Caitlin Alternative Library Jemma, Bart Budwig
La Conner Guitar Festival La Conner Guitar Festival (early), B-BOARD Anelia's Kitchen & Stage (early), Cosmos Dream (late) Josh Clauson (late)
B-Town Kitchen Havilah Rand 23 & Raw Bar
FILM Beach Store Cafe Pretty Little Feet
18 18 Big Lake Bar and Grill North by Northwest Soverien Band MUSIC
MUSIC Joseph Demaree, Open Mic THE LONGSHOT/May 12/ Boscoe's Karaoke DJ Showcase Mobroll Jonathan McIntyre w/Jesse Schooler Wild Buffalo 16 Boundary Bay BCLC Benefit Mother's Day
ART Aaron Guest Piano Night Paul Klein Brewery w/SpaceBand Brunch
15 Acoustic Night Brown Lantern Ale House Open Mic Ebb, Slack & Flood w/David Johnson
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14 Summit of Two Plus/Caitlin The Lonesome Town Painters/ Ben Starner/Mojo Cannon and the Conway Muse Jemma and Bart Budwig Salsasere 13th St. Horns
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Thomas Harris Duo Tea Seas Trio w/Tyler Morgan Clarke, 12 Eat Restaurant and Bar Ruby Flambé w/Conner Helms Roger Yamashita & Joel Litwin WORDS “The Rock Stars of Bluegrass” 8 CURRENTS
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# Music Awards)! Jamie Dailey and Billboard Magazine says Dailey & Darrin Vincent are joined for this Vincent “continue to set the stan- show by one of the best bands on dard by which all modern-day tour today giving Bellingham a Bluegrass artists are measured.”
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Irish & Folk Monday MUSIC Honey Moon Open Mic w/Pace Rubadeau WJMAC Jazz Jam Scrub McKain Lakey Grandpa Doom MUSIC w/Jamie Stillway
Hotel Bellwether Nick Swanson Nick Swanson Blue Root Quartet 16 ART Kulshan Brewing Co. Brittany Collins Black Lung Canaries 15
Lovitt Restaurant Scot Raney Milo Peterson HELL’S BELLES/May 12/Swinomish Casino & Lodge Kids Sax Ensemble STAGE
JP Falcon Main St. Bar and Grill Allison Chains, Exit 266 Girls Night Out Acoustic Showcase 14 Dearheart, Southworth, Make.Shift Art Space The Not-Creepy Gathering Razzleberry GET OUT Old World Deli Meghan Yates & The Reverie Machine 12 Rockfish Grill Stilly River Band WORDS Royal Dance Party Karaoke DJ Jester DJ Jester Karaoke
Talent Show w/Vivienne Take Me to Church Karaoke 8 Rumors Cabaret Duchanne and DJ Total Request Live Flashback Friday Partylicious Saturday Trashy Tuesday w/Betty Desire w/Seamus O'Carey Shortstack The Family Crest, Bob Log III, Punch Up Comedy Oh My Goth! '80s Goth Dance Party Prof The Shakedown CURRENTS Goodnight Texas Sugar Sugar Sugar Open Mic
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30 tage photos showing him to be tall and handsome, her a petite beauty. Perhaps FOOD more important, their minds comple- film mented each other. He placed the pri- MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS orities of her career over his own. As 24 she wistfully recalls, her late husband was the “first boy I ever knew who cared B-BOARD that I had a brain.”
Entering the legal profession at a time 23 23 when women were not widely welcomed, she found “not a law firm in New York FILM FILM would employ me.” Having studied law so that “I could do something that could
18 make society a little better,” she followed the example of the civil rights movement
MUSIC to reduce private, state and federal dis- crimination against women. The tone of
16 the era sounds almost medieval. In some
ART states, husbands had the sole power to choose where their family lived, whether
15 to permit their wives to apply for a credit card or even to rape their wives with no
STAGE legal consequences. Ginsburg challenged gender bias in a se- ries of cases she argued at the Supreme 14 Court in the 1970s. The all-male panel at that time couldn’t conceive that such
GET OUT traditions made women second-class citi- zens. She recalls, “I did see myself as kind
12 of a kindergarten teacher in those days be- cause the judges didn’t think sex discrimi- nation existed.” Her tutorials worked. WORDS She won an impressive string of landmark
8 cases featuring male plaintiffs in circum- stances identical to women’s, represent- ing both genders simultaneously.
CURRENTS The film, which relies on archival foot- age for its look at her early days, later 6 shifts to a more person-to-person tone, interviewing longtime friends and ad- VIEWS mirers, including Gloria Steinem and Na-
4 tional Public Radio’s legal correspondent Nina Totenberg. In the interest of gender MAIL REVIEWED BY COLIN COVERT sives, too abrupt and untraditional for equality, there also is commentary by Bill
2 conservatives. Clinton, who appointed her to the Supreme The film doesn’t whitewash such con- Court, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
DO IT troversy, opening with a tour of Wash- We meet her grown children, who tell RBG ington landmarks against a soundtrack us she works tenaciously, with just a few of classical music and comments angrily hours’ sleep daily, then hibernates all NOTORIOUS denouncing Ginsburg. weekend to bounce back. They also say 05.09.18 For those who need reminding, the film that she was no barrel of monkeys in their MARKING THE 25th anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 1993 appointment to notes that to grow up in 1950s America youth when she finally appeared home .13
19 the Supreme Court, directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen had a lot of ground to cover. as Ruth Bader did was living in a different after long days at the office. Daughter # Madam Justice is a workaholic, opera lover, proponent of judicial friendship across world. She entered Harvard Law School in Jane notes that the kids kept a journal ideological lines, 85-year-old fitness buff, champion of gender equality, writer of blis- 1956, one of just nine women in a class of her chuckles called Mommy Laughed, tering dissents, architect of a significant legal legacy, mother and grandmother. of about 500 men. In an interview, she which “had parsimonious entries.” She is the only member of the court to have risen to the level of cultural icon, cel- recalls the dean asking the new female There’s a nice look at her long, cordial ebrated in portraits on coffee mugs, bobblehead dolls, tattoos, a coloring book and the students, Why are you taking a place at relationship with her ideological op- nickname “Notorious RBG,” based on the stage name of her fellow Brooklyn homie, the the law school, occupying a seat that could ponent Antonin Scalia, whose scathing
CASCADIA WEEKLY late rapper Biggie Smalls. It’s a pet name Ginsburg says she loves. be held by a man? wit and shared love of opera made them The very fact that the filmmakers could stuff the details of her overwhelming life into Married to fellow law student Marty affable companions outside the court. 22 97 minutes of agreeably informative entertainment earns their documentary RBG good Ginsburg (who died in 2010), she simulta- The filmmakers do a commendable job marks. The film tells her life story in detail, thanks to the unprecedented access the neously studied at Harvard Law, watched of covering the personal, professional usually private justice granted them. the couple’s toddler and cared for her and philosophical angles of a woman What emerges is a respectful examination of a historically important woman whose husband, wearied by radiation treat- who, whether idolized or despised, is in belief in patient, incremental social change seems too slow and cautious for progres- ments for his testicular cancer, serving a class by herself. film ›› showing this week localgroup
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studio FOOD FILM SHORTS 24 coworking space for A Quiet Place: John Krasinski directs himself and wife Emily Blunt (who elevates every project she takes designers + creatives on) in this smart, truly terrifying creature feature in B-BOARD which silence isn’t just golden, it’s a matter of life events and death. With a tagline of “If they hear you, they 23 hunt you,” this one will haunt you. HHHHH (PG-13 • meeting space 23 1 hr. 30 min.) pop-ups FILM workshops FILM Avengers: Infinity War: Spoiler alert: They don’t all die. But this supersized superhero movie may very [email protected] 18 well hit $2 billion in worldwide box office. Some- 221 Prospect Street where, Pixar and Star Wars execs are sitting around Downtown Bellingham MUSIC their respective boardroom tables saying, “Challenge www.localgroup.studio accepted.” HHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 36 min.) 16 Bad Samaritan: This is a movie in which a woman ART is kidnapped (I’m guessing from the gag in her mouth that she is more prop than actual human) and all
of the men involved make her life worse until one 15 of them rescues her. You know, the basic plot of 98
percent of all action movies in existence. Hard pass. STAGE HH (R • 1 hr. 47 min.)
Black Panther: This movie blew by $1 billion 14 in worldwide box office. Between this and Wonder Woman (the other top-grossing superhero origin story of all time), looks like that age-old Hollywood belief GET OUT that it takes a white male to anchor a successful big-budget blockbuster franchise is like so many other LIFE OF THE PARTY age-old beliefs: untrue and outdated. Get with the 12 times, Tinseltown. Representation = $$$. HHHHH
(PG-13 • 2 hrs. 14 min.) just that wonderful. HHHHH (Unrated • 1 hr. 20 popcorn-worthy. HHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 20 min.) WORDS min.) Blockers: A teen sex comedy that puts horny girls Super Troopers 2: If you liked the first one, you’ll 8 looking to lose their virginity at the center of the Life of the Party: Melissa McCarthy, funniest wom- like this one. The bar’s not really that high here, folks. story, taps the considerable comedic gifts of Leslie an alive not named Kate McKinnon or Tiffany Haddish, And that poor pun was at least as good as the jokes in Mann, and begs the question of who is the better is ridiculous and hilarious in every role plays, while this movie. H (R • 1 hr. 39 min.)
pro-wrestler-turned-comedic-actor: John Cena or the also choosing projects not worthy of her consider- CURRENTS Rock. HHHH (R • 1 hr. 42 min.) able comedic gifts. Will this caper about a divorced Tully: Written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult), mom who goes back to college be a hit (Spy) or a miss directed by Jason Reitman (also Juno, Young Adult), 6 Breaking In: Gabrielle Union is a woman not to be (Tammy)? HH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 45 min.) and starring Charlize Theron (Young Adult, Furiosa),
trifled with who is trifled with when her children are this comedy about an overwrought mother gifted a VIEWS kidnapped, forcing her to kick way too much ass all Love After Love: When a family loses a husband nanny was made for me, but I’ll let you watch it too.
over the place. HHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 28 min.) and father, those left behind (the luminous Andie HHHHH (R • 1 hr. 34 min.) 4 MacDowell, the underrated Chris O’Dowd) cope in ways Ghost Stories: A horror anthology that hearkens that threaten to unravel a once-tight-knit family. You Were Never Really Here: Lynne Ramsay, maker MAIL back to old-school creepshows in which three seem- HHHHH (Unrated • 1 hr. 31 min.) of intense, thought-provoking movies, finds her
ingly disparate tales all seem to be connected to the perfect foil in Joaquin Phoenix who stars in this crime 2 life of a professor who built his career on debunking Overboard: This gender-swapped remake of the 1987 thriller in which nothing is as simple as it seems.
ghost stories. HHHH (Unrated • 1 hr. 37 min.) Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy probably won’t live HHHHH (R • 1 hr. 35 min.) DO IT up to the charms of its predecessor, but if tapping I Feel Pretty: Amy Schumer (insecure, wears Spanx) Anna Faris—more Goldie’s comedic heir apparent receives a head injury in a SoulCycle class, gains the than her own daughter, Kate Hudson—to star wasn’t
self-confidence of a supermodel and begins to win a stroke of inspired casting, I don’t know what is. H 05.09.18 at life. If this is the body-positivity message you’re (PG-13 • 1 hr. 50 min.) looking for, and you’d like it to come from a white, .13
blonde, conventionally pretty woman, I guess this is Rampage: Just a few months ago, we were having 19 the movie for you. H (PG-13 • 1 hr. 50 min.) a serious national debate about Dwayne “The Rock” # Johnson as a possible presidential candidate and now Isle of Dogs: Unlike everyone else of my general here he is starring in this movie with a giant ape. age range, I do not enjoy Wes Anderson movies. America, get your shit together. HH (PG-13 • 1 hr. With one exception, that is: Fantastic Mr. Fox. For 47 min.) some reason, when animated, all of the precious contrivances that irritate me so much about Ander- RBG: See review previous page. Respect the RBG. HH
son’s filmmaking become charming. Here he brings HHH (PG • 1 hr. 37 min.) CASCADIA WEEKLY his stop-motion technique to a story about dogs, Showtimes and I’m here for every last good boy and girl. HH Ready Player One: After a long run of Serious Films, 23 HHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 41 min.) Steven Spielberg is back in the cinematic comfort Regal and AMC theaters, please see zone he created: fantastical stories that are rife with www.fandango.com. Itzhak: A documentary about violin virtuoso Itzhak nostalgia in which young people are the heroes and Perlman in which we learn that not only do we save the day with old-fashioned teamwork. This time, Pickford Film Center and revere him for his musical gifts, but he’s also a guy he’s got Ernest Cline’s bestseller and a $175 million PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see we’d probably all love to hang out with because he’s budget to work with and the results are predictably www.pickfordfilmcenter.com WELLNESS SERVICES WELLNESS EVENTS
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MUSIC (360) 739-6803 16 Alternatives to the management of pain and anxiety associated with serious illness and end-of-life JAIME LYNN SCHNEIDER LMT ART will be part of the Palliative Care Institute’s conference, “Holistic Pain Management: An Alternative to Licensed Massage Therapist 1209 11th St. Studio 1 Opioids,” Fri., May 11 at Bellingham Technical College License #MA60558674 Fairhaven, WA 15 — $10 OFF FIRST MASSAGE! — FOOD, BODY, LIFE: Life Coach Sarah Clarke will lead a free event, which is a guide to creating an exceptional STAGE “Food, Body, and Life Purpose” worksop from 6:30-8pm life through design thinking. Daimon facilitates a Life COUPLES AND ADDICTION RECOVERY Wed., May 9 at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Design mastermind that provides an instant group of
14 Forest St. Entry is $25. like-minded collaborators and ongoing support. A Gottman Approach for Therapists, WWW.COMMUNITYFOOD.COOP WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Counselors and Addiction Professionals.
GET OUT WILDCRAFTING: Natasha Clarke focuses on “Wild- HEALING HOUR: Attend a Healing Hour from 5:30- June 1, 2018 8:30-4:00 pm crafting with the Seasons: Herbal Medicine That 6:30pm Wednesdays at Simply Spirit Reading & Healing Presented by Dr. Robert Navarra Rewilds Our Hearts and Lands” at 6:30pm Thurs., May Center, 1304 Meador Ave. Drop in anytime during the 12 $250, including 177-page manual; 6 CE hours available 10 at the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. To- hour to receive an aura/chakra healing. Entry is $5. night’s free class will focus on mullein root and roses. WWW.SIMPLYSPIRITCENTER.COM Clarke will discuss the correct identification, medicinal WORDS A ROADMAP FOR THE uses and contraindications as well as best techniques CHAIR TAI CHI: “Chair Tai Chi” takes place at 3pm for preparation and preservation. Thursdays in May at the SkillShare Space at the Bell-
8 JOURNEY FROM ADDICTION WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM ingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Chair Tai Chi A Workshop for Couples in Recovery from Addiction uses all of the concepts and flowing choreographed June 2 & 3, 2018 8:30-4:00 pm HOLISTIC PAIN MANAGEMENT: The Palliative Care movements of standing Tai Chi except it is performed
CURRENTS Institute focuses on “Holistic Pain Management: An in a seated position. Presented by Dr. Robert Navarra Alternative to Opioids” at its annual conference taking (360) 778-7217
6 $475. place from 8:30am-4:30pm Fri., May 11 at Bellingham Technical College’s Settlemyer Hall, 3028 Lindbergh Ave. MEDITATION EVENTS: Attend a variety of events on Visit www.drrobertnavarra.com for more information VIEWS on Dr. Robert Navarra and his experience and Speakers and workshops will address promising alterna- a regular basis at the Bellingham Insight Meditation expertise as a national and international speaker. tives in the management of pain and anxiety associated Society, 1021 N. Forest St.
4 with serious illness and end-of-life. Entry is $50-$100. WWW.BELLINGHAMINSIGHT.ORG (360) 650-2799 OR WWW.WWU.EDU
MAIL Or contact Mirabai Wahbe at 360-738-9880 GAM-ANON: Attend Gam-Anon meetings (for family LIFE TRANSFORMATION: Psychotherapist and life and friends of individuals with a gambling disorder)
2 coach Hal Pullin focuses on “Step by Step Weight from 7-8:30pm Fridays in Mount Vernon at the First Loss for Life” at 10am Fri., May 11 at the Skagit Lutheran Church, 2015 Blackburn Rd.
DO IT TAKE ADVANTAGE Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. The free class will WWW.GAM-ANON.ORG of the newly redesigned focus on the principles of healthy life and fullness of Health and Wellness section. being that will help point to a path of personal and CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS: Most Mondays, spiritual growth. Co-Dependents Anonymous meets from 7-8:30pm at Your business can join our WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Community Health Education 05.09.18 full-color services directory Center, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy, conference room B. GATHERING OF CRONES: Newcomers are welcome at (360) 676-8588
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# at the Willows, 3115 Squalicum Pkwy. The group meets YOGA FOR MS: Abby Staten leads “Yoga for Multiple monthly for discussion, singing and poetry. Support Sclerosis” classes from 10-11am Tuesdays and 11am- and connection are also part of the free event. 12pm Fridays at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, (360) 595-4485 2600 Lakeway Dr. The weekly events are free for people with MS. END AND BEGIN: Dawn Harju leads an Excellence NW [email protected] OR WWW.YOGABELLINGHAM.COM Mini Workshop, “Where I End and You Begin,” at 7pm Tues., May 15 at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The free SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: Sex Addicts Anonymous CASCADIA WEEKLY $39 event will focus on accountability, setting boundaries meets at 7pm Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Belling- and creating safe spaces. ham Unitarian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth St. 24 PER WEEK WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM (360) 420-8311 OR WWW.PUGETSOUNDSAA.ORG
DESIGN YOUR LIFE: A mini-workshop focused on Bill BREASTFEEDING CAFE: Attend Breastfeeding Cafe Burnett and Dave Evan’s bestselling book, Designing from 9am-12pm Tuesdays at the Bellingham Center for [email protected] Your Life, takes place at 7pm Wed., May 16 at Village Healthy Motherhood, 1012 Dupont Street. Books, 1200 11th St. Daimon Sweeney will lead the WWW.CENTERFORHEALTHYMOTHERHOOD.COM rearEnd crossword
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49 Wide shoe size 21 Fashion designer 56 Hanukkah candy MUSIC 50 British romance Saint-Laurent 57 Talk back to novelist’s boast? 22 Amy Winehouse 58 Constellation 16 58 Awestruck song called "the Altar" ART 59 Intensify 25 Garment fold 60 “Sopranos” actress 26 Obstacle 15 ___ de Matteo 27 Get ___ start STAGE 61 Samurai without a 28 City northwest of master Orlando Last Week’s Puzzle 14 62 “Monster” that’s 29 Completely messed really a lizard up, in military slang Flip the On Switch 63 Fish sometimes 30 Govt. investment GET OUT TURN ON, TUNE IN eaten by raccoons 31 Giraffe’s relative
64 Special vocabulary 32 #37 12 ACROSS tenstein Brown, e.g. 65 Fix, at the vet’s 33 “On a scale of ___
1 Puts two and two 17 “South Park” co- 24 “I” focus? office ten ..." WORDS together creator Parker 25 Kissing disease’s 66 Turns into compost 38 Inexperienced with 5 Clean the deck 18 Rice-A-___ progression? 41 Sign for October 8 9 Filibuster-airing 19 Oscar winner 34 Lively tunes DOWN 23-November 21 channel Jeremy Where the mojito Commedia dell’___ Parliamentary votes 35 1 43 CURRENTS 14 Cheer 20 Subsequent to a supposedly origi- 2 Boots’s cartoon 44 Meager 6 15 Serve tea sin? nated friend 46 Familiarize with 16 River past Liech- 23 Dartmouth or 36 Pudding layer 3 Active person new surroundings
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6 perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave ten- CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scat- derness into situations that have been suffering from tered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my VIEWS Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrec- dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand in behalf of compas- ognizable.” Luckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few sionate candor. And as you go about these holy tasks, 4 fragments of paradise are gathering in your vicinity. be entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has It’ll be like a big happy reunion of tiny miracles all co- authorized you to be a winsome agent of change. MAIL alescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity. Will you be ready to deal with this much radiance? Will AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931
2 you be receptive to so much relaxing freedom? I hope painting "The Persistence of Memory," Salvador Dali and pray you won’t make a cowardly retreat into the shows three clocks that seem to be partially lique-
DO IT trendy cynicism that so many people mistake for intel- fied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer ligence. (Because in that case, paradise might remain Meredith Etherington-Smith speculated that he was invisible.) Here’s my judicious advice: Be insistent inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he on pleasure! Be voracious for joy! Be focused on the saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a quest for beautiful truths! dinner table. I foresee the possibility of a compa- 05.09.18 rable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, your friends creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of
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# than they usually do. They crave more of your atten- tion, more of your approval, more of your feedback. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved messed up with people falling in love with me,” said ones also hope you will give more love to yourself. Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the They will be excited and they will feel blessed if you truth. She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, up more chaos than she was capable of managing. bright soul. They will draw inspiration from your Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the atten- efforts to push harder and stronger to fulfill your tion coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled
CASCADIA WEEKLY purpose here on Planet Earth. at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at 26 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the advantages these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip #1: Stay in close you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer touch with how you really feel about the people who confidential information about the gods' caprices and express their interest in you. Tip #2: Don’t accept leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn—also gifts with strings attached. Tip #3: Just because known as Father Time—is now willing to allot you a you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on blend your energies with them. BY AMY ALKON if she presses you, keep it kind by keeping it vague. The point is telling her it’s over, not informing her that THE SCIENCE ADVICE she’s got all the emotional depth of a 30
goldfish and then ducking out forever FOOD GODDESS via call waiting: “Sorry—gotta go. Important robocall from Rachel from 24 ENDSHIP RING Card Services on the other line!” 24 I was roommates with a girl five years ago. B-BOARD I was a spoiled brat for many years, but I’ve TO THE BITTER FRIEND B-BOARD worked very hard to change. She, on the After six years of hard work, I’m starting other hand, is still supported by her father, to have some success in my career. Disturb- 23 has no job or interests, and just wants to ingly, my best friend seems envious. I’ll tell
get married. Whenever she calls, she wants her some exciting news, and she’ll barely FILM advice on the same boy drama. I just don’t respond. I understand that she’s trying to Professional, knowledgeable, have the time or patience for this anymore. break through while working a menial job, 18 I tried not responding to her, but she keeps but my other friends are really supportive fun & friendly to work with. calling and texting, “I need to come over and happy for me. She claims she is, too, MUSIC right now!” but her behavior says otherwise. It really —Drama-Weary hurts my feelings. Cerise Noah (360) 393-5826 REALTOR® [email protected] 16 —Disappointed “I need to come over right now!” ART What are you, a day spa for her emo- We often do crazy things simply to tions crossed with the Burger King keep up with our peers who are doing 15 drive-thru? those things—not, say, because we STAGE It’s easy to confuse the chunk of were bored on a Saturday afternoon time a friend has been in your life and had a little brainstorm: “I know! with reason for them to continue be- I’ll pay some total stranger $55 to 14 ing there. It helps to unpack the mys- spread molten wax on my labia and rip
tique about how friendships form. out all my pubic hair!” GET OUT Social science research finds that a We evolved to be creatures of “social major driver of friendship is similar- comparison”—judging how well we’re ity—shared values and attitudes, for doing personally and professionally by 12 example. But demographic similar- how we stack up to others. As I of- ity is part of it, too—like both being ten explain, our emotions are not just WORDS 30-year-old single female zoo workers for mental decoration; they’re moti- who went to a crappy college. vational tools. When we’re lagging 8 And though we want to believe we behind our peers, envy often rises carefully choose the friends in our up—as it seems to be in your friend. CURRENTS lives, personality psychologist Mitja Envy is mistakenly assumed to be ugly
Back and his colleagues are among the and shameful, but evolutionary social 6 researchers who’ve found that “mere psychologist Bram Buunk and his col- proximity” seems to play a big role in leagues explain that the feelbad we VIEWS who our friends are. This means, for get from envy pushes us to get on the 4 example, living in the apartment next stick and narrow the “status gap” be- door, working in the same depart- tween ourselves and others. MAIL
ment, or, in Back’s study, being ran- Understanding the underpinnings of domly assigned to “neighboring seats” envy can help you have compassion 2 in a college class. In other words, you for your friend, which might help you DO IT probably became friends with this avoid taking it personally when she woman because she was sleeping in fails to celebrate your achievements the next room, not because you con- by pulling out confetti and a kazoo. ducted a nationwide search for the Try to accept that she probably can’t 05.09.18 best possible buddy for you. express the excitement you’d like her Now’s the time to choose whether to because every success you rack up .13 19 she stays in your life—and you don’t sneers, “Hey, loser! How come she’s up # do that by hoping she’ll hear your there and you’re down here?” vigorous eye-rolling over the phone If you do tell her about some win, and take the hint. Breaking up with consider pairing the news with men- a friend—if that’s what you want to tion of the years of grubby work and do—should work like breaking up with daily failures that went into it. This
a romantic partner. Don’t just word- might help her view the success you’ve CASCADIA WEEKLY lessly cut off contact; that’s cruel— achieved as something attainable—as and likely to backfire. Tell her that opposed to some magical gift: “OMG, I 27 you need to end the friendship, ex- was just sitting on my porch drinking plaining the problem in broad terms: a beer, when my boss called and said, You’ve “grown apart” or you’re “in ‘You often cut work and smoke a lot different places” in your lives. Even of pot. Let’s give you the VP job.’” rearEnd comix + sudoku
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ART 3 cups diced rhubarb (half-inch pieces) ¼ cup brown sugar 1 tbsp. flour 15
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DO IT in the cookbook were the kind anybody Let sit in blender, while you prepare who grew up in Holland would remember the rhubarb roasts. Typically Dutch as being “typically Dutch.” When rhubarb is cooked, remove skil- By the time Sunday morning rolled let from oven. Raise oven temperature
05.09.18 BRING ON THE BRUNCH, BABY around, our fridge also contained a to 425 degrees. Spoon off about half of The forces that aligned and compelled me to make a Dutch baby last Sunday were metric ton of freshly harvested rhu- the roasted rhubarb into a bowl and set .13
19 beyond my control. barb, so I moved beyond Ron’s simpler aside to be used for topping. Add the two # I’d first begun thinking about the puffy pancake with German origins when I heard six-ingredient Dutch baby recipe to one pieces of cold butter to the hot pan. Give about the recent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions taking place on the Big Island of that included the perennial plant on its the Dutch baby batter a quick blend, then Hawaii—the first and last place I consumed a Dutch baby. With backyard brunch season ingredient list. The roasted vegetable pour batter in to skillet with remaining in full swing, the delicious dish also seemed like it would be a swell addition to my was a savory addition to the dish, and rhubarb. Place back into oven and cook recipe repertoire (sans the lava and ground-shaking). earned two thumbs up from my resident 18-22 minutes, or until puffed, set and The popover plan was solidified after a stop at a Saturday morning yard sale on Bell- taster, who, like me, also added vanilla deep golden around the edges. Remove
CASCADIA WEEKLY ingham’s Walnut Street, where I found a copy of The Little Dutch Cookbook in a free pile. yogurt and syrup to the top of the fin- from oven. (Dutch baby will deflate as it A quick scan of the 50-page primer confirmed a recipe for Dutch babies was included. ished product. cools. Don’t worry, that’s normal.) 30 When I checked to make sure there was no cost, the woman collecting funds for my “I could eat this all the time,” he said Serve warm, topped with reserved other purchases informed me the tome was indeed gratis, and that it had been written while serving up his second helping. “It roasted rhubarb (rewarm if you like). Dust by her husband, Ron. wouldn’t have to be for a special event with powdered sugar or top with vanilla I couldn’t find Ron’s last name when I further perused the contents at home—no like Mother’s Day or anything—any Sun- ice cream for dessert. credit was or copyright was included—but I did discover the soups, salads, appetizers, day brunch would do.” doit THURS., MAY 10 Market from 10am-3pm at the Edison Granary, FOOD FORUM: The Whatcom Food Forum invites 14136 Gilmore Ave. In addition to fresh produce YES on Initiative 1600 all organizations and individuals working on and art from the Skagit Valley, there will be live positively impacting our local food system to music, games for kids, face painting, wood-fired 30 attend a Spring Forum focusing on Whatcom’s pizza and more. UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE 30
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SAT., MAY 12 (360) 398-1184 ART HOMESTEAD GARDENS: Local author and Sponsored by gardener Susan Colleen Browne leads a “Grow A TEA WITH MOM: In celebration of Mother’s Day, 15 Homestead-Style Food Garden” class from 9am- attend a “Tea with Mom or Grandma” event from United for National Healthcare 12pm at Whatcom Community College, 237 W. 2-3:30pm at the Book Fare Cafe—located inside Kellogg Rd. Entry is $45. Village Books, 1200 11th St. Bring your children STAGE WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM and enjoy some tasty treats, a few stories, a craft and good company. Tickets are $6. 14 BOKASHI BASICS: Nicole Styles helms a “Bo- WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM kashi: Indoor Food Waste Composting” class from 11am-12:30pm in Maple Falls at the North Fork MON., MAY 14 www.yeson1600.org GET OUT Library, 7506 Kendall Rd. Entry is free. CULINARY CAREER FAIR: Students and com- (360) 599-2020 munity members hunting for jobs can attend Contact: (360) 332-8934
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MOM'S DAY BREAKFAST: Enjoy a buffet meal # at a Mother’s Day Breakfast happening from 8am- Ahead 12pm in Abbotsford at Jubilee Community Hall, WED., MAY 16 7989 Bradner Rd. Entry is $6. GLUTEN-FREE BAKING: Naturopath Jean Ryan (604) 856-4375 focuses on “Gluten-Free Baking: Quick Breads” from 6:30-9pm at the Community Food Co-op, MOTHER'S DAY BRUNCH: Attend a Mother’s Day 1220 N. Forest St. Entry is $35. Brunch from 10am-2pm at the beer garden at WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Entry ALL MONTH CASCADIA WEEKLY to the buffet is $12 for kids, $24 for seniors, THURS., MAY 17 and $30 general. MEXICAN KITCHEN: Ana Jackson leads 31 WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM/EVENTS “Mexican Kitchen: Tacos de Canasta” from 6:30- 9:30pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. EDISON MARKET OPENING: Bring your mom Forest St. Entry is $39. along for opening day of the Edison Farmers WWW.WHATCOMCOMMUNITYED.COM SKILLET theskagit.com • On I-5 at Exit 236
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