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FOOD chasm has grown. Acknowledging the state budget deﬁcit views

25 25 could now top $7 billion, Rep. Kelli Linville (D- OPINIONS THE GRISTLE 42nd), new chair of the House Budget Commit- tee, told “Inside Olympia” host Austin Jenkins this week, “I hate to call this an opportunity, CLASSIFIEDS because people are going to be hurt by this budget, but we have an opportunity to look

22 22 deep” in terms of what priorities the state may BY AMY GOODMAN fund. FILM FILM Closer to home, Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike acknowledged last week that declining city 18 revenues, a result of local and worldwide eco- A Long Train Ride nomic malaise, will constrict his budget—al- MUSIC ready shortened $10.5 million from the prior OBAMA’S JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON BEGAN A CENTURY AGO year—even further than originally planned.

16 The mayor presented updated revenue ﬁg-

ART ART ures to Bellingham City Council recently, with IT STARTED with a train ride. Obama said he was just one person, particular emphasis on how those generated by Barack Obama rode to Washington, that he couldn’t do it alone. Obama’s development permit fees, real estate sales and D.C., for his presidential inaugura- ﬁnal answer: “Make me do it.” 15 similar growth-focused activities have all but tion on a whistle-stop tour. “To the That’s the challenge. drained away. Indeed, revenues from commer- children who hear the whistle of the After settling the Pullman labor STAGE STAGE cial development and homebuilding activities train and dream of a better life— struggle, A. Philip Randolph continued in 2008 were little more than half those col- that’s who we’re ﬁghting for,” Obama on. He challenged FDR, by beginning 14 lected in 2007. Projected to raise $2.6 million said along the tour, which was com- the Pullman Company was run by Abe to organize a march on Washington in an anemic 2009 budget cycle, the city’s de- pared to the train ride taken by Abra- Lincoln’s only surviving son, Robert set for 1941, to desegregate the mili-

GET OUT velopment services fund has been downgraded ham Lincoln from Springﬁeld, Ill., to Todd Lincoln, until the mid-1920s.) tary and to ensure that the economic to a projected $1.8 million in revenues, accord- Washington, D.C., in February 1861, Randolph’s organizing struggle took activity around the war effort was ing to city budget managers. en route to his ﬁrst inauguration. 12 years, starting in 1925 and go- equally available to African-Ameri-

12 “These shortfalls leaves us with no choice The comparisons between Obama and ing through the economic collapse cans. FDR issued an executive order, but to make some very difﬁcult decisions,” Lincoln abound, describing the arc of 1929 and into the Franklin Delano and later, President Harry S. Truman

WORDS Pike observed. “We are doing everything we between the abolition of slavery in Roosevelt administration. desegregated the military. Randolph, can to maintain quality public services and the United States and the election of Harry Belafonte recalled in an Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King protect people’s jobs while ensuring financial the first African-American president. interview with Tavis Smiley recent- Jr. organized the 1963 March on Wash- 8 stability. The proactive steps we took in 2008 The train holds a deeper sym- ly a story he was told by Eleanor ington, which itself has served as a are softening the effects of these declining bolism, though, that undergirds Roosevelt. She related a public event strong symbolic backdrop to Obama’s revenues. Unfortunately, as we forewarned the Obama’s historic ascension to the when her husband, FDR, introduced victory. This historic weekend also CURRENTS CURRENTS council may be the case, this is not proving to White House, harking back to the A. Philip Randolph and asked him, coincides with Dr. King’s birthday. If Belafonte recalled, “what he thought King had survived, he would have just 6 be enough.” civil-rights struggle, reflecting the 6 As if to illustrate both the severity of the unprecedented grass-roots activism of the nation, what he thought of the turned 80 years old. VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS shortfall and its expected duration, the fol- that formed the core of the Obama plight of the Negro people and what As Obama begins his first week as lowing day the mayor announced he would all campaign and laying out where the did he think... where the nation was president, some might caution that

4 but close down the city’s permit center, issuing nation under the Obama administra- headed.” Continuing the story, Be- it’s only fair to wait and see what he termination notices to ﬁve city employees but tion might go. lafonte recounted what FDR replied might do. But the peace group Code MAIL MAIL with a ripple effect that affects the equivalent A. Philip Randolph was a legend- upon hearing Randolph’s remarks: Pink is not waiting. Along the inau-

3 of 10 positions in that ofﬁce. ary labor organizer and civil-rights “You know, Mr. Randolph, I’ve heard gural parade route, they were hand- “Permit-related revenue, collected in the leader. He organized the Brother- everything you’ve said tonight, and I ing out thousands of pink ribbons, DO IT IT DO self-supporting development services fund, is hood of Sleeping Car Porters, the couldn’t agree with you more. I agree encouraging people to join them in now projected to be about $800,000 less than men who tended to the overnight with everything that you’ve said, holding President Obama to his cam- 09 09 anticipated for this year,” Pike noted. Without guests on the sleeper cars that Pull- including my capacity to be able to paign peace promises: End the war in .21. the corrective action, he predicted the devel- man built. While the porter positions right many of these wrongs and to Iraq; shut down Guantanamo; reject 01 opment services fund would run out of money were better-paying than many jobs use my power and the bully pulpit.... the Military Commissions Act; stop

.04 by April. available to African-Americans at the But I would ask one thing of you, torture; work to eliminate nuclear 03

# Consider it a cautionary note, in a community time, there were still injustices and Mr. Randolph, and that is go out and weapons; hold direct, unconditional so focused as ours on controlling growth, just indignities. The common practice, make me do it.” talks with Iran; and abide by Senate- how much public asset is generated through for example, was to call the porters This story was retold by Barack approved international treaties. growth activities; and how dependent we are “George,” regardless of their real Obama at a campaign fundraiser in Just follow Obama’s own advice: on a certain level of robust growth to maintain name, after the owner of the com- Montclair, N.J., more than a year ago. Make him do it. the quality of basic services we’ve come to ex- pany, George Pullman. Thousands It was in response to a person asking pect from local government defunded at both of porters sought improvements Obama about ﬁnding a just solution Amy Goodman is the host of “Democ- CASCADIA WEEKLY state and federal levels. through collective bargaining. (Iron- to the Israel/Palestine conﬂict. Af- racy Now!,” a daily international TV/

6 Yet the crisis—as Kelli suggested as she dis- ically, after Pullman’s death in 1897, ter recounting the Randolph story, radio news hour. cussed the state budget with Jenkins—is also an opportunity to look closely at the ways and VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE means by which we fund our public en- 30 30 deavors, and to assess what is critical as opposed to merely valuable. Perhaps FOOD we may even better understand the perverse costs associated with the growth 2 25 that sustains the unsustainable. Con- sider roadbuilding, for example, and the sly manner in which that activity

Green CLASSIFIEDS not only aids growth and generates associated revenues, but also increases the number of road-miles that demand WTA is proud to join the Green Power Community 22 future maintenance. When the growth FILM FILM portion of that equation crashes to by converting to PSE’s Renewable Energy Program in 2009. zero, we’re given opportunity to see just how unsustainable much of our 18 municipal activity really is—and how perversely unsustainable practices may MUSIC inﬂuence policymaking.

Perhaps now is the time, while bail- 16

ing, to gauge the general seaworthi- ART ness of our boat, the soundness of its lines and fasteners. It’s a difﬁcult challenge, building ra- 15 tional policy around growth at a time STAGE STAGE when traditional indicators scream we need unfettered, perhaps even subsi- dized growth to kickstart our economy. 14 The challenge is made no less difﬁcult

by statistics released this week that in- GET OUT dicate even the modest amount of rigor applied to urban planning in Whatcom’s cities have had the perverse effect of 12 driving sprawl to rural areas. Statistics released by planners suggest that while WORDS growth in the cities has lagged projections, growth in the unincorporated 8 county has exploded, mushrooming nearly 20 percent (projections planned for a third that amount)—the effect of CURRENTS CURRENTS uncoordinated policies by the county

and its cities that do, as many feared, 6 6 make it cheaper to build on farmland VIEWS VIEWS than where there is urban infrastruc- VIEWS ture. Among designated urban growth areas, only the easternmost, most re- 4 mote, most countriﬁed—Sumas and MAIL MAIL the Columbia Valley—received their

planned allotment of growth. 3 Drawing on the words of President DO IT IT DO Barack Obama in his inaugural address this week, we might apply them to the local challenge, “Everywhere we look, 09 there is work to be done. The state of .21. 01 the economy calls for action, bold and

swift, and we will act.” .04 03

But... it will cost us. # “Now,” the president concluded, “there are some who question the scale of our ambitions—who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and CASCADIA WEEKLY women can achieve when imagination 7 is joined to common purpose, and ne- cessity to courage.” Behold, a new dawn in America.

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25 25 “He’s the people’s president,” said Patricia Correia, 68, of Lancaster, Calif. “He would not be the type to sit here in the car. He knows that we waited CLASSIFIEDS out here this long.” At 15th Street and Pennsylvania Av-

22 22 enue, most people cleared the bleach- ers immediately after Obama walked FILM FILM past, not even waiting for the Bidens, And winding up the two-hour pag- who walked much of the parade route.

18 eantry, a look to the future: a NASA Asked if it was worth the wait, Jarita lunar rover, the kind that may ferry as- Moore, 28, of Alexandria, Va., said: “I MUSIC tronauts on their planned 2020 return can’t feel my butt. My legs are numb. I to the moon. got a picture of him in the car. I don’t

16 About 15 minutes into the parade, know.”

ART ART Obama and his wife, Michelle, stepped At points along the route, specta- out of the limousine with a USA 1 license tors bundled in parkas and blankets plate to rousing cheers and greeted part were 10 deep, and at one spot people 15 of the enthusiastic crowd. danced in place to the “Electric Slide” A couple of moments later, Vice Presi- to keep warm in temperatures that STAGE STAGE dent Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, joined stayed just below freezing. When the them on the walk. parade started at 3:35pm, the tem- 14 Along the way, hundreds of people perature had dropped to 27 degrees. who had been packed onto rooftops and Chilly, but far from the record of minus

GET OUT balconies broke into loud cheers. They 2 degrees at Ronald Reagan’s second got an unobstructed view of the parade inauguration in 1985. from above the large crowd. “I came because it’s about us mak-

12 The Obamas walked a few blocks before ing history,” said Latori Brown, a 21-year-old black woman from Sumter,

WORDS S.C., who’d been waiting since dawn and shivered under a blanket. “I’m not worried about the cold. It’s worth it.” 8 8 A Tight security along the parade route PROMISE near the White House on 15th Street caused a glaring disparity in the den- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS sity of the crowd lining the sidewalks.

6 TO THE The prime bleacher streets on the south side of the route were nearly empty just

VIEWS VIEWS 2*-' minutes before Obama left the Capitol, getting back in. They got out again as while on the north side, spectators were PRESIDENT BARACK Obama led 4 the limousine neared the parade review- packed in six rows deep. off his inaugural parade down America’s main ing stand in front of the White House Charles Ramsey, Washington, D.C. MAIL MAIL and got the same loud reaction. They police chief during President George street that paid homage to pioneers who paved

3 reached the reviewing stand in front of Bush’s 2001 and 2005 inaugurations, the way for the nation’s ﬁrst black chief execu- the White House to view the rest of the said the size of the crowds Tuesday DO IT IT DO inaugural parade. created major challenges for security tive. Re-enactors from a black Civil War regi- The Obamas ﬁrst spent some time teams. Still, Ramsey, now Philadel- 09 09 ment. World War II’s surviving Tuskegee Airmen. inside the White House, then emerged phia’s police chief, said he misses be-

.21. OBAMA SWORN from their new home—the new presi- ing involved. 01 Freedom Riders from the civil rights movement. IN AS 44TH dent holding the hand of his younger “It’s a unique experience,” said Ram- They were Obama’s nod to the past among .04 daughter, Sasha, and the new ﬁrst lady sey, who attended Obama’s swearing-in

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# walking with daughter Malia. The family ceremony. 13,000 parade participants from all 50 states was met with hugs from many of the VIPs scheduled to travel down Pennsylvania Avenue gathered inside the reviewing stand. Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, The 1.7-mile route was jammed with Matt Barakat, Randy Schmid, and Ken from the Capitol to the White House. joyous but frozen onlookers who’d lined Thomas contributed to this report. up, in many cases, before dawn to secure a good vantage point of Obama’s CASCADIA WEEKLY motorcade and the following two hours

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30 30 FOOD BY TIM JOHNSON 01.16.09 25 25 FRIDAY PASSAGES No sooner announced than done, Mayor Pike says he’ll cut ﬁve city employees funded by permit fees. CLASSIFIEDS The positions of three building inspectors, a plans examiner and a planner will end in February. Permit

22 22 activity —the total number of permits issued and the amount of revenue received from permits—has been FILM FILM trending downward during the past four years, with sharp declines late last year. Pike said the trend is 18 ee likely to continue in 2009 with the slowdown of the local and national economy. MUSIC THE THAT WAS After 30 years of service Demolition begins on Old Town structures near What- to the City Of Bellingham, 16 com Creek, formerly home to the ReStore. Western Refin- Police Traffic Officer Rick

ART ART ery Services won the bid for the city contract to remove Luke will retire January 31. asbestos and the dilapidated buildings for $127,912. The Luke was ﬁrst introduced contract requires a minimum of 50 percent of waste from to the Bellingham Police

15 Department as an Explorer the construction, demolition and land clearing to be di- Scout in February 1970 and verted by recycling, salvage or reuse of materials.

STAGE STAGE became a patrol officer in June of 1978. Puget Holdings, parent company for Puget Sound En- Luke entered the Traffic 14 ergy, accepts requirements for a sale to foreign inves- Division as a motor- cycle officer and was a tors from the Washington Utilities and Transportation familiar (and at times—to

GET OUT Commission (WUTC) and says they should close the deal speeders—unsettling) by Feb. 6. By that date the state’s largest utility will presence on the streets of be sold to a group of Australian and Canadian investors Bellingham.

12 for $7.4 billion. The deal includes $5 billion in capital— approximately $1 billion a year over ﬁve years—to PSE

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In a freak accident, debris from a monster truck rally Hundreds gathered in Bellingham on Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, one day before the inaugura- in Tacoma is hurled into the grandstands, killing a 6-year- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS tion of America’s ﬁrst African-American president. A number of speakers recalled Reverend King’s dream of civil equality, including author Clyde Ford, who says King would be proud of the progress his country has made. old boy and injuring another spectator. A truck came apart

6 during a freestyle competition, throwing metal 30 to 50 feet over a safety barrier into the stands. Carol Hays, instrumental in turning the Lincoln VIEWS VIEWS 01.15.09 01.17.09 Theatre into a more profes-

4 THURSDAY sionally run organization, has resigned from her posi- Northwest Regional Drug Task Force begins an ambitious week of drug- SATURDAY MAIL MAIL tion of executive director. related arrests, nabbing 16 people today in Skagit County following a year long A Canadian man fatally shoots himself with a rented Hays, 61, was hired as the

3 investigation of a cocaine ring. Tomorrow, they’ll arrest two people possessing handgun at at Plantation Riﬂe Range in Bellingham. In- nonproﬁt theater’s director more than 50 pounds of marijuana in a Bellingham residence after a similarly vestigators say the 25 year-old Coquitlam, B.C. resident in 2004. She immedi- DO IT IT DO

ately stepped up to help lengthy investigation. Thursday, they’ll break up two separate cocaine sales had been target shooting at the range and believe the facilitate a $1.5 million north of Bellingham, recovering two kilograms of the drug along with $46,000 incident was likely a suicide. capital expansion project 09 09 in cash. that involved restoring the .21. facade and installing new

01 01.18.09 Determined to get the state economy working again, Gov. Chris Gregoire seats, a new curtain and a SUNDAY new movie sound system.

.04 unveils $800 million worth of construction projects in her second inaugural Hays plans to move to 03

# address. Calling the package “Washington Jobs Now,” the governor plans to Father Tom McMichael blesses his first Sunday Mass at Northern California to be spend about $400 million from the state unemployment program’s reserves, to Bellingham’s Assumption Church. Recently ordained, McMi- closer to family. give richer jobless benefits and employer tax breaks. On top of that, Gregoire chael, 48, is the first married priest in the Archdiocese of wants to give struggling homeowners and their banks more time to work out Seattle, which includes all of Western Washington. troubled mortgages. 01.20.09 Dismal financial projections compel Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike to make CASCADIA WEEKLY deeper cuts into the city budget. Pike says city department directors have been TUESDAY

10 asked to prepare scenarios describing the impacts of additional 3 percent and 5 In other heavenly blessings, Barack Hussein Obama percent reductions to keep the budget balanced. becomes the 44th President of the United States. currents POLICE BEAT :: INDEX

30 30 FOOD 25 25 fuzzbuzz been used recently and the woman INDEX was sober. The pipe was destroyed by police. YOUR WEEK ON DRUGS CLASSIFIEDS On Jan. 15, 16 people were arrested in On Jan. 10, a concerned landlord, connection with a yearlong investiga- cleaning up her rental property after 22 tion of a drug ring centered in Skagit she had evicted the tenant, found FILM FILM County. According to the U.S. Attor- what she suspected was a homemade ney’s Office, smugglers brought five smoking device. Police arrived and to 10 kilos of cocaine per month into agreed, yup, the object had been 18 Skagit County from Mexico. The ring used to consume a controlled sub- also dealt in heroin. Law enforcement stance. Police disposed of the modi- MUSIC officers seized five pounds of heroin fied pop can. and two pounds of cocaine during a 16

search of five residences. Also seized On Jan. 14, a former Mountlake Ter- ART were $23,000 in cash, seven vehicles race police sergeant won his job back and two firearms. The investigation along with an $815,000 settlement utilized court-approved wiretaps, from the city and Snohomish County 15 and confidential infor- after he was dismissed for pub- STAGE STAGE mants to infiltrate the licly supporting the decrimi- drug ring as it recruited nalization of marijuana. Sgt. people to transport co- Jonathan Wender had criti- 14 caine from Tijuana, Baja, cized the department and its

California, and Mexico commanders over the years GET OUT into the United States. over tactics used by police to 2000 2008 ﬁght drug crimes. Among other

On Jan. 17, investigators critics of such tactics are former 12 with the Northwest Regional Drug Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper. PERCENT OF AMERICANS

Task Force arrested four people after Wender will not return to the streets. who are satisﬁed with the WORDS receiving a tip about a cocaine sale The city has agreed to keep him on 55 13 way things are going. near the Hampton Inn in Bellingham. administrative leave and to pay him 8 8 After detectives had chased down and a $90,000-a-year salary for the next arrested the suspects, they received a two years, until he can retire after 20 PERCENT WHO SAY US economic conditions are tip that another cocaine deal would years with the department. CURRENTS CURRENTS 46 7 good or excellent. CURRENTS soon happen in the same location.

Detectives waited and observed three On Jan. 16, a drug mule who’d stashed 6 other men make the deal. They were two backpacks containing nearly 70 MILLIONS OF PRIVATE

arrested without incident. All told, pounds of cocaine at a Boy Scout sector jobs gained/lost VIEWS detectives seized 2 kilograms of co- camp near the international border +1.6 -2.2 per year. caine, approximately $46,000 in cash in Sumas and then forgot where he’d 4 and three vehicles. hidden it was sentenced to 14 years MAIL MAIL in prison for his crime. Leroy Carr, 47, NATIONAL DEBT, IN

On Jan. 16, Northwest Regional Drug ﬁrst came to the attention of fed- trillions. 3 Task Force ofﬁcers raided a Bellingham eral border agents after being spot- $5.7 $10 DO IT IT DO home, arresting two people on drug ted with equipment commonly used charges. Detectives seized approxi- by smugglers, including night-vision

REAL MEDIAN HOUSE- 09 mately 50 pounds of marijuana with an goggles and a Global Positioning Sys- HOLD income (2007 estimated value between $100,000 and tem device. Agents say Carr later came .21. $50,557 $50,233 dollars). 01 $200,000. The raid follows a yearlong to them and asked to be arrested with

investigation. a press release saying the drugs had .04 PERCENT WHO BELIEVE 03

been seized so the smuggling ring he # there is too much expres- On Jan. 13, US Customs in Blaine in- worked for wouldn’t think he’d stolen 12 29 sion of religious faith by terviewed two men who were in pos- the stash and kill him. political leaders. session of three grams of marijuana (a volume of about 1-½ teabags). DINE-AND-DASH PERCENT OF AMERICANS Neither would admit ownership of the On Jan. 17, Bellingham Police were who think history will weed, so both were cited. summoned to Denny’s on Meridian judge the outgoing

44 11 CASCADIA WEEKLY at 3am after two sisters had eaten president favorably. On Jan. 6, US Customs interviewed a a meal and ﬂed without paying the 11 woman at the Peace Arch Port of En- bill. The sisters were located and sent SOURCES: Pew Research Center; 2006 Gallup Poll; National Geographic Society; Scientiﬁc American; Western Washington University; Seattle Times; U.S. Customs and Border Pro- try who was found in possession of an invitation to discuss the matter in tection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) press release a marijuana pipe. The pipe had not Municipal Court. doit

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WED., JAN. 21 11th St. 30 30 QUEER POETRY: The LGBTA will host 671-2626 a Queer Poetry and Prose reading at FOOD words 7pm at WWU’s Fairhaven College Au- WED., JAN. 28 COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS ditorium. All are welcome. JANEY BENNETT: Bellingham au- 25 25 650-6120 thor Janey Bennett reads from The Pale Surface of Things at 7pm at the THURS., JAN. 22 Barkley Branch Library on Newmar- RADIO HOUR: Celebrate the two- ket St. year anniversary of the Chuckanut 778-7206 CLASSIFIEDS Radio Hour at 6:30pm at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Ave.

22 22 The show will include live music, a COMMUNITY new episode of the Bellingham Bean,

FILM FILM BY TIM JOHNSON and highlights of the 2008 season— THURS., JAN. 22 which included authors Sherman INTERNATIONAL FAIR: Students Alexie, David Guterson, and Garrison and the public can attend today’s

18 Keillor. Tickets are $7.50. International Opportunities Fair 671-2626 from 11am-3pm at WWU’s Viking

MUSIC Your Money or Your Life Union Multipurpose Room. Entry SAT., JAN. 24 is free. VICKI ROBIN PUTS PUTS A PERSONAL SPIN ON THE MONEY JUST DECEITS: Novelist and poet Mi- 354-4883 16 chael Schein reads from Just Deceits: SALTWATER TALK: “Saltwater A Historical Courtroom Mystery at 7pm

ART ART MERRY-GO-ROUND Harvests in Skagit County” will be at Village Books, 1200 11th St. the topic of a free talk at 6:30m 671-2626 at Mount Vernon’s Skagit Valley Co-

15 op, 202 S. First St. ing to spend my money well and wisely SUN., JAN. 25 (360) 336-1931 OR because I recognize by doing so I am COUNTERCULTURE: Nadya Zim- STAGE STAGE PUGETSOUND.ORG reclaiming my life.’ merman reads from her tome, Coun- terculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and HEALTHCARE MEETING: United for “Second, the realization we live in Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties National Healthcare will hold an in- 14 a culture that has a core concept that in San Francisco, at 4pm at Village formational meeting at 7pm at the more is better. And that seems to make Books, 1200 11th St. Laborers Hall, 1700 N. State St. 671-2626 714-8999 GET OUT sense because early in our lives, more is better. You grow up learning that if you POET POPULIST: Seattle-based FRI., JAN. 23 poet Cody Walker—who just com- have a desire, you might acquire some- CEMETERY TOUR: Troy Luginbill pleted a term as the city’s ofﬁcial 12 12 of the Lynden Pioneer Museum will thing; and that satisfying that desire “Poet Populist”—will give a read- give an “indoor tour” of the town’s might make ing at 7:30pm at the Honey Moon, cemeteries at 12:30pm at the Lyn- WORDS WORDS you happy. So 1053 N. State St. The event is free den Public Library, 216 4th St. and open to the public. you don’t no- 354-4883 tice there is 734-0728 8 such a thing MON., JAN. 26 SAT., JAN. 24 CLUTTER TALK: Professional or- called Enough. TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: Envi- ganizing consultant Julie Clarke This idea that ronmentalist, naturalist, author and

CURRENTS CURRENTS will talk about “Taming Your Piles free speech advocate Terry Tempest there is some- of Files” at 1pm at Butterfly Life Williams—she of the lauded tome, in Sunnyland Square. The event— 6 thing called Refuge—reads from her latest book, which is for women only—is free, HEAR Enough is an Finding Beauty in a Broken World, at but reservations are recommended. WHO: Vicki Robin 7pm at Bellingham’s First Congrega- VIEWS VIEWS awakening. 671-0669 WHAT: Your Money Or “The third tional Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave. RODEO QUEEN: A dessert so- 4 Your Life, nine steps awakening is Tickets are $12; proceeds will ben- to transforming your efit the Whatcom Land Trust. cial, silent auction and more will WHO EVER thought it could come to an end? The cosmic when you take be part of the Miss Lynden Rodeo MAIL MAIL relationship with 671-2626 OR VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Queen pageant at 7pm at the Mt. salaries of financial managers, their outrageous bonuses, the money a look at how JAMMIES, STORIES: Kids can

Baker Rotary Building at the North- 3 slender returns to shareholders, the never-ending scandals and WHEN: 7pm, Fri. you spent your don their nightwear for a “Jammies west Washington Fairgrounds. bursting bubbles. Why, it was almost like the credit card deals Jan. 23 money each and Stories” reading at 7pm at the 920-5340 OR LYNDENRODEO.COM

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WHERE: Village that arrived in my mailbox each week, offering new credit ceil- month, and Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Books 778-7188 ings with lower interest payments. Who could have imagined INFO: 671-2626 or you begin to MON., JAN. 26 09 09 OPEN MIC: Local writers are wel- GLOBALIZATION TALK: Author the inﬁnite would end? villagebooks.com translate the come to share their words at the .21. and photojournalist David Beacon Certainly, when the bubbles began inﬂating in 1992, fewer dollar amounts 01 monthly Open Mic Night at 7pm at will give a talk on “Illegal People: people then were starved for the idea of Enough. into the time spent acquiring it. Then Village Books, 1200 11th St. How Globalization Creates Migra- 671-2626 .04 “Enough for survival,” wrote Vicki Robin in that year, when you ask two powerful questions. One is, tion and Criminalizes Immigrants”

03 POETRY NIGHT: Sign up by 8pm at 6:45pm at the Bellingham Uni-

# she co-authored Your Money or Your Life. “Enough is a fearless ‘Did that purchase make me happy?’ The place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place. second is, ”Is it in line with my values, to read your words at the weekly tarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. Entry is $5, or $15 with dinner. It’s appreciating and fully enjoying what money brings into my intention in this life?’ You ask those Poetry Night at the future home of the Anker Café, 1426 Cornwall Ave. 676-2300 your life and yet never purchasing anything that isn’t needed questions, and it transforms the way Readings start at 8:30pm, and all SUSTAINABLE DISCUSSION: or wanted.” you spend money.” are welcome. Sustainability Discussion Group But it is also a sense of knowing what is needed or wanted, Cascadia Weekly: For decades, soci- POETRYNIGHT.ORG kicks off tonight at 7pm at RE and balancing that against carrying capacity—an idea that’s ologists have charted the “happiness Sources, 2309 Meridian St. The CASCADIA WEEKLY TUES., JAN. 27 group will meet every other Mon- come into sharp focus in 2009. index,” where they plot standard of FLOODED: John Soennichsen tells day through March 23. “There are three awakenings,” the Whidbey Island resident living against a general sense of well- tales from his book, Bretz’s Flood: 12 733-8307 OR RE-SOURCES.ORG says. “First, ‘money is life-energy and I am trading my life for far being. That’s been on the decline for The Remarkable Story of a Rebel less money than I thought’; ‘I am more than my job, and I am go- decades, a sense of value. Vicki Robin: Yes; exactly. Your Money or ture that provides very little ﬁnancial Your Life asks, and answers, the ques- education, that puts these extraordi- tion, “How much is enough?” It gives nary… weapons… in peoples’ hands

people a set of tools that deﬁne how called credit cards, with no opera- $ 95 30 much is enough in life, and to actor’s manual. 11 Adult Cuts! Regularly $13

quire that amount and stop there, so CW: Have you observed the country $ 95 FOOD $ that they are insulated—aware and plunged into great despair over the cur- 9 Kids Cuts! Regularly 11 Every Wednesday, 9–1 Senior Discount! 20% Off all Services & Products conscious and insulated—from the rent financial crisis? And is a realiza- 25 temptations of excess. The goal is to tion that we’ve lost so much so quickly Next to Trader Joes! use these tools to recognize excess the first step on a road to recovery? Mon–Fri 9–8, Sat 9–7 Sun 10–6 ◊ Call: 360.715.1040 ◊ 2430 James St. as a burden rather than a boon. VR: Oh, yes. It’s called hitting bottom. One of the linchpins for that re- There has been a grand reckoning. CLASSIFIEDS examination is a tool that we offer I think within the first few weeks

called the real hourly wage. What we of this crisis, people thought it might 22 suggest people do is to determine not just go away if they just closed their how much they’re making per hour, eyes. Or that the market always goes FILM but basically to understand the mon- up after it goes down.

ey in your wallet is money you bought I’m not happy with the degree to 18 with your time, and that the trade is which people are suffering, but it is not as good as you think. a very good time of reckoning. Before MUSIC 16

I THINK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN A STATE OF ART STRESS AND DENIAL. PEOPLE HAVE GONE 15 ALONG WITH A SENSE THAT OVER-SPENDING WAS NORMAL AND COMPLETELY SAFE. STAGE 14 Nominally, you’re making $20 per you hit bottom, you’re digging deeper PASTA & PIZZA ! zz hour—but take taxes off the top, and and deeper into over-extension. There ffer a GET OUT Barkley Village ow o ing P zz car fare, day care, job costuming—take is a trivialization that if you are buy- n IZZA with Pa all that off. And then add to your nom- ing, buying, buying, it can’t be that 360.714.1168 12 inal eight-hour day the commute time, each purchase has great value or is 12 Eff!Xjmefsnvui!BSOQ!!XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Ovstf!Qsbdujujpofs!'!Dmbttjdbm!Ipnfpqbui and you start to see that that $20 an well considered. WORDS hour in dollars in your pocket that you I think people have been in a state WORDS can actually spend is more like $5. of stress and denial. People have gone So, the next time you go in for your along with a sense that over-spending 8 double-tall soy-mocha latte, you real- was normal and completely safe— 3487!Nbjo!Tusffu-!Tvjuf!4 ize “Oh, that’s an hour of my time.” CW: Our consumer culture demands that. Gfsoebmf-!XB!:9359 This is different from, as we’ve Arguing for frugality, you’re ﬁghting CURRENTS CURRENTS become used to, “I deserve it. It’s a against an entire consumer industry )471*!495.3:11 that says, “Bet the other way.” xxx/cfuufsifbmuiczdipjdf/dpn!!!!!Dpwfsfe!cz!nptu!jotvsbodf!qmbot

treat. Everybody does it, why can’t 6 I?” The program is an awareness- VR: Absolutely. But on your question 35!zfbst!pg!fyqfsjfodf jo!dmjojdbm!qsbdujdf XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Dbsf based program, not a budget. If you of realization, of hope—and its cor- VIEWS do this program you’ll ﬁnd you are ollary, dread—I think it is very in-

spending less and enjoying life more. teresting timing that the economy 4 You become aware of what you are tanked at the end of Bush’s watch, MAIL MAIL consuming so you take actual plea- right when Obama got elected.

sure in it. There’s this cross current that things 3 CW: It strikes me the exact opposite is are tanking, but things are also

4_9\Y[U`YjjQ/ IT DO what’s played out—both on an individ- hopeful. EXIQX9T_\Y[U`YjjQ ual level and nationally—and what’s It is a not gleeful reckoning; it’s

4_i_e\Y[U`YjjQ/ 09 brought about the ﬁnancial crises of more like, “I’ve sensed disaster is the present hour, a focus on credit and coming, and it is a relief that day .21. 01 consumption, played out by millions of has actually arrived.” And that it

people, with little regard for what we’re has arrived at a time when some- .04 03

actually purchasing with our money. one in charge actually seems to be # VR: Sure; we’ve had stellar examples an adult [laughs] coming into the in our public servants and our cor- White House. porations where everyone’s got their People made fun of Obama being snout in the trough, making out like a community organizer. Well, I think bandits, and there’s a sense that “I that is the perfect thing, at this mo- need to get in, too.” ment in time, for our American com- So, yes, we’ve been proﬂigate in munity to be organized to partici- CASCADIA WEEKLY

spending on credit cards, buying un- pate in our own destiny. 13 wisely without regard for cost; but I Read the entire interview online at also place this at the foot of the cul- cascadiaweekly.com doit

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25 25 HIKING RUNNING CYCLING 26 at Ferndale’s Tennant Lake Interpretive Center, 5236 Nielsen Ave. Cost is $7 per class or $36 for all. 733-2900

CLASSIFIEDS BIKE CLINIC: Learn how to do everything from patching a tube to adjusting your brakes at a Bike Maintenance Clinic at 7pm at 22 22 Through blinding sleet and strength-sapping WWU’s Outdoor Center in the Viking Union. cold, we shouldered our packs through crusty, Cost is $5 for students, $10 for guests. FILM FILM knee-deep snow about a quarter mile to the 650-3112 OR OUTDOOR.AS.WWU.EDU half-ﬁnished “guest cabin” and made ourselves FAMILY BIKING: “Bicycling as a Family in

18 creaturely at home. Eastern Europe” will be the topic of a talk and slideshow at 7pm at the Bellingham Just as my friend had promised, he’d furnished Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Entry is $2. MUSIC this hovel with a woodstove. But we couldn’t ﬁnd EVERYBODYBIKE.COM a sprig of dry kindling or cord wood anywhere. SAT., JAN. 24 16 Cold and shivering, near hypothermic and ERIE HIKE: Join members of the Mt. Baker

ART ART greedy for immediate heat, we searched franti- Club for a “beer and burger” hike to Mt. Erie cally through a tangle of discarded furniture, leaving at 8:30am from Sunnyland Elemen- derelict appliances and mothballed motocross tary, 2800 James St. Suggested carpool fee 15 bikes until we ﬁnally discovered a large, tinder- is $4. dry stack of bevel red cedar siding. 332-3195 STAGE STAGE That stuff goes for about $20 per piece. But, TULIP TREKKERS: Join the NW Tulip Trek- kers for a Bald Eagle Festival walk at 9am seeing as this was an emergency situation, we leaving from Concrete High School, 7830 S. 14 14 helped ourselves to as much of it as we could Superior Ave. The 6.2-mile walk is free, but carry and lit a toasty, rip-roaring ﬁre. you must register in advance. NWTREKKERS.ORG GET OUT GET OUT Next morning we received a terrible shock. In- stead of delivering our complimentary lift tickets SNOWSHOE EXCURSION: Join tracker and to the cabin before he left for work as promised, teacher Dave Moskowitz of the North Cas- cades Institute from 9am-4pm today and 12 my friend left a short, hastily scribbled note say- again Feb. 1 for a “Nooksack Snowshoe ing we’d have to track him down in his lift man- Excursion.” Cost is $95 and includes snow-

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6 zooming up U.S. 2. blemount throughout the weekend. Most “I’ve got a bad feeling events are free. SKAGITEAGLE.ORG VIEWS VIEWS Queasy Rider DO IT about this,” uttered my WHAT: white-knuckled driver as he TUES., JAN. 27 4 Stevens Pass ﬁnally wheeled us into the A STEVENS PASS SURVIVAL STORY WHEN: 9am-4pm, HIDDEN GREECE: Walker Nancy Nesewich Stevens Pass parking lot af- MAIL MAIL Tues.-Wed. and leads a “Walking Hidden Greece” program 9am-10am, Thurs.- ter a death-defying 40-mile at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121

3 THE PASSIONATE, near-unquenchable thirst for fresh tracks and deep Mon., through commute. Prospect St. The lunchtime event is free. powder can do strange things to even the most agoraphobic, dyed-in-the-wool April 19 He was right. The storm 778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG DO IT IT DO Mt. Bakerite. WHERE: Cascade clouds were ﬁnally clear- TEAM IN TRAINING: Get details about Mountains Team in Training, the world’s largest Last week, for instance, lured by a friend’s offer of free lift tickets at Stevens COST: $7-$62 ing but trafﬁc up there was endurance training program, at an in- 09 09 Pass, I mustered the courage to depart the home terrain for a harrowing, near- INFO: stevens bumper-to-bumper. There formational meeting at 6pm at REI, 400 .21. unprecedented journey to the south. pass.com wasn’t a single goddamn 36th St. 01 From a select but generally limited pool of potential takers, I somehow man- parking space to be found. TEAMINTRAINING.ORG/WA AUDUBON PROGRAM: Join the North

.04 aged to secure a car and driver to transport me to that sprawling hive of indus- We had to keep circling through a nightmare Cascades Audubon Society for a “Trekking 03

# trial-strength outdoor recreation. carousel of vehicles, pedestrians and aggres- from Nepal to Tibet” program with Alan Poor bastard didn’t even know what hit him. sive, idiotic behavior. Fritzberg at 7pm at the Bellingham Public “Shouldn’t we have taken Highway 9?” he asked as we lurched through excru- By the time we finally managed to jockey our Library, 210 Central Ave. ciating stop-and-go traffic on I-5 through Marysville. way into a slot, we’d become so tense and disori- NORTHCASCADESAUDUBON.ORG “Just stick with it,” I said, trying to encourage him. “The Snohomish traffic is ented that all we could think to do was escape. WED., JAN. 28 vicious down in the flatlands, but once we pass through Gold Bar the mountains The high-glade ridge right behind us looked SKI TUNING: Find out how to do minor take over completely.” like heaven. So we fired up our transceivers, base repairs and wax your gear at a free CASCADIA WEEKLY Sure enough, by the time we finally arrived at my friend’s remote wilderness packed up our boards and headed up the first “Ski & Snowboard Tuning 101” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. 14 homestead on the South Fork of the Skykomish River just past midnight, the decent-looking cat road we could find, travel- traffic had vanished into thin air and we found ourselves engulfed by a deluge ing only as fast and as safely as our own two 647-8955 of monstrous incomparable proportions. feet would allow. doit

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SILVERREEFCASINO.COM from 1-4pm Sat. or 7-9pm CLASSIFIEDS Sun. at the Anacortes Com- THURS., JAN. 22 munity Theatre, 918 M Ave. BY AMY KEPFERLE 22 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch ACTTHEATRE.COM “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm at the SUN., JAN. 25 FILM Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly St. At 10pm, stick around Comedy Night happens at Body Talk 18 for “The Project: Mad Com- 8pm every Sunday at the edy in the Making.” Cost is Fairhaven Pub & Martini THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN DANCE MUSIC $5 for the early show, $3 Bar, 1114 Harris Ave. for the late one. FAIRHAVENPUB.COM THEUPFRONT.COM modern dance TUES., JAN. 27 16

group that has JAN. 22-25 VARIETY SHOW: A “Get ART broken new FESTIVAL OF PLAYS: Stu- Lucky” variety show and ground via what dents will perform a variety open mic starts at 7pm at 15 the Chuckanut Ridge Wine 15 they do with of short works at the annual “Winter Festival of Plays” at Company, 1017 N. State St. their bodies. 527-0900 STAGE STAGE 7:30pm at Bellingham High STAGE The collective School, 2020 Cornwall Ave. PAUL’S PUPPETS: Watch originated in a Each evening will feature The Georgette Show, a pup- Dartmouth Col- different works. Tickets will pet variety show hosted by 14 ATTEND lege dance class be $5 at the door. the beautiful Princess Geor- WHAT: Lar 676-6575 gette, when members of the

in 1971, and has GET OUT Lubovitch Dance Paul Mesner Puppet Theatre Company been bringing FRI., JAN. 23 perform at 7pm at the What- WHEN: 7:30pm Fri., humor and in- GREATER TUNA: Gain insight com Museum, 121 Prospect A SCENE FROM LAR LUBOVITCH into Texas’ third-smallest St. Tickets are $4-$5. 12 DANCE COMPANY’S “DVORAK SERENADE” Jan. 23 ventiveness to town when Greater Tuna WHERE: Performing the stage ever 778-8930 OR Arts Center, WWU shows at 6:30pm at Mount WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG WORDS PHOTO BY STEVEN SCHREIBER since. If you’re COST: $14-$30 Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner INFO: 650-6146 in the audience Theatre at the Old Grainery JAN. 27-29 you haven’t noticed, setting the stage for her own works. Feb. 3 and wit- Building, 100 E. Montgom- AUDITION #2: META Per-

IN CASE 8 Bellingham has become a magnet for In 1926, Graham debuted the ﬁrst WHAT: Stage Match ness what they ery. Tickets are $16-$25 and forming Arts will hold audi- WHEN: 8pm Jan. 30- additional showings happen tions for Fiddler on the Roof modern dance. Nimble athletes from performance of her dance company, can do with 31; 3pm Feb. 1 through Feb. 28. from 6-9pm at Mount Ver- near and far are setting their sights and things haven’t been the same WHERE: Firehouse their minds non’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 (360) 336-3012 OR CURRENTS on our stages. since. Focusing on strong emo- Performing Arts Cen- and muscles— RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE. E. College Way. Both kids ter, 1314 Harris Ave. not to mention COM and adults are encouraged Before getting into the speciﬁcs of tions and spare sets, the dances 6 COST: $10 when and where you can enjoy the view themselves were based on precise costumes that MCMANUS IN LOVE: Tim to audition. INFO: 1-800-838- Behrens performs McManus (360) 466-3072

of people a lot more ﬂexible than you movements that were about as far defy reality— VIEWS 3006 or brownpaper- in Love—his one-man show sharing their many talents, it might away from classical ballet as you modern dance JAN. 28-29 tickets.com that’s based on the humor- ANNIE: Revisit your favorite 4 be worth it to actually explain what in can get. will never seem ous writings of Pat McManus- WHAT: Pilobolus redheaded orphan when the the heck “modern dance” really is. The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company the same. —at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s WHEN: 7:30pm Tues., 30th anniversary tour of An- MAIL Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First Contrary to its phrasing, the lan- hasn’t put in as many decades as Feb. 3 Closer to nie heads to town for 7:30pm St. Tickets are $12-$30. guage of contemporary movement has Graham did, but it’s getting closer. WHERE: Mount home, the fel- shows at the Mount Baker 3 (877) 754-6284 OR been around for quite a while. It all Created by Lubovitch in 1968, the Baker Theatre, 104 las who bring Theatre, 104 N. Commercial LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG DO IT IT DO started in the early 1900s, when Eu- company is celebrating its 40th anni- N. Commercial St. you the sketch St. Tickets are $20-$55. COST: $20-$45 ropean dancers began grousing about versary by heading out on a national genius of “The JAN. 23-24 734-6080 OR INFO: 734-6080 or MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM THEATRESPORTS: Teams of 09 the rigid rules of classical ballet. tour for the ﬁrst time since 1995. mountbakertheatre. Cody Rivers

improvisers will vie for glory .21. Soon, instead of focusing entirely on Lubovitch, a versatile choreographer com Show” will of- at Theatresports matches at 01 the structured steps laid before them, who’s been dubbed “one of the 10 best fer up a “Stage 8pm and 10pm at the Up- DANCE

choreographers came to realize they choreographers in the world” by the Match” Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at the Firehouse front Theatre, 1208 Bay St. .04

Tickets are $8-$10. JAN. 23-24 03 didn’t have to follow the playbook of New York Times, has created more than Performing Arts Center. The perfor- # CONVERSATIONS: An plies and poses. 100 different works. When the company mances will feature a dance collabora- 733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT. COM intergenerational cast of Thanks to people like Martha Gra- makes a Jan. 23 stop at WWU’s Perform- tion with Milwaukee’s Monica Rodero community members will ham, a small-town Presbyterian girl ing Arts Center, audiences will have a and Dan Schuchart, as well as original SAT., JAN. 24 perform alongside profes- from Pennsylvania who decided at the chance to see three pieces, “Jangle: works by both sets of performers. MAGIC OF STERLING: sional dancers when “Con- age of 16 that she wanted to devote Four Hungarian Dances,” “Men’s Sto- To assure that purveyors of “mod- Watch the “Magic of Ster- versations” takes the stage ling” with award-winning at 7:30pm at the Firehouse her life to dance, the universe of mod- ries: A Concerto in Ruins,” and “Dvorak ern” movement will continue to bless young magician Sterling Performing Arts Center, CASCADIA WEEKLY ern movement got a whole lot bigger. Serenade.” If you don’t have tickets al- our local stages, you only have to do Dietz at 3pm and 7pm at 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets After studying with pioneers such as ready, act quickly. a few things: buy tickets, secure a the Whatcom Community are $12. 15 Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, Pilobolus, who’ve wowed audienc- seat, and put two hands together to College’s Syre Theater. Tick- 510-4711 Graham spent years as a dancer before es in Bellingham before, are another clap at the end of the night. doit

EVENTS 28 at DIGS, 200 W. Holly St. 306-8301

30 30 THURS., JAN. 22 FERNDALE LIBRARY: Handmade PUBLIC LECTURE: Distinguished works from Whatcom County arti- FOOD Korean artist Do-Ho Suh will helm sans will be on display as part of visual a free public lecture on his art proj- the “Potpourri of Quilts” Jan. 13- ects at 4pm at WWU’s Fraser Hall, 25 25 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES 31 at the Ferndale Library, 2222 Room 4. Main St. 650-3900 384-3647 SAT., JAN. 24 LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Clay Today: A Group Show with Ten Ceramic Art- CLASSIFIEDS TRIBAL ART: Nine artists from ists” is on display through Jan. 25 seven Paciﬁc Northwest tribal com- at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 munities will participate in today’s 22 22 13th St. Rhoads notes that her childhood “Q’u’qwsa, A Gathering of Native LUCIADOUGLAS.COM had a lot to do with what she cre- Women Artists: Celebrating Old & FILM FILM ates. Part of her youth was spent liv- New Traditions” exhibit from 11am- MONA: “Graceful Exuberance,” a ing on a boat with her family in the 4pm at La Conner’s Skagit County retrospective of works by artist Manfred Lindenberger, can be seen 18 Caribbean, and diving and exploring Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St. The artists will demonstrate and through March 8 at La Conner’s Mu- the world underneath the ocean af- discuss their individual crafts— seum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First MUSIC fected her in ways that continue to which include weaving, pottery, St. Glass artist Kait Rhoads’ “As Be- resonate today. mask making, quilting, basket mak- low, So Above” is also on display. (360) 466-4446 OR 16 16 “My work is all inspired by na- ing and more—throughout the day. Entry is $3-$4. MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG ART ART ART ART ture,” Rhoads says. “Although SKAGITCOUNTY.NET/MUSEUM MINDPORT: “Escape Routes: Map- that’s a very simplistic way to tie ping Many Worlds” is currently on it all together, I think you’ll see a MON., JAN. 26 display at Mindport Exhibits, 210 15 range of uses for the glass.” WAG MEETING: If you’re interest- W. Holly St. Admission is $2. Sewing, another skill Rhoads ac- ed in the arts, attend the monthly MINDPORT.ORG STAGE STAGE PHOTO BY ROBERT VINNEDGE ROBERT BY PHOTO meeting of the Whatcom Art Guild, MCCOOL GALLERY: Raku jars, ki- quired along the way, has allowed which happens tonight at 7pm at her to use glass in ways more tra- mono tiles and more can be seen the Bellingham Public Library, 210 at an exhibit featuring works by 14 “Bloom” ditional artists probably would never Central Ave. ceramic artist Marguerite Goff at even think of. Plus, by using copper 384-4045 the McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial

GET OUT wire to stitch pieces of glass to- WED., JAN. 28 Ave., Anacortes. MCCOOLART.COM gether in unique conﬁgurations, she ARTISTS FOR KIDS: Author and doesn’t have to spend all her work educator MaryAnn Kohl will share PAPERDOLL: “Loose Ends,” a col- BY AMY KEPFERLE 12 hours in a hot ideas from her book, Great Ameri- lection of original works by Erin Clancy, will be on display through shop blowing can Artists for Kids, at 7pm at Vil- lage Books, 1200 11th St. Parents January at the downtown Paper- WORDS glass, and can and educators can glean ideas from doll, 312 W. Champion St. Glassworks take her time. Kohl at the free event. 738-3655 “Using that 671-2626 QUILT MUSEUM: “Ralli Quilts: Tex- 8 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW type of method tiles from Pakistan and India” and with glass al- the multi-artist exhibit, “All Things Not Quilted,” can be seen through SEE IT lows me to make ONGOING CURRENTS CURRENTS March 29 at the La Conner Quilt & WHAT: “Meadow CLOSER LOOKS are larger pieces,” EXHIBITS Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St. Squid,” a talk with ALLIED ARTS: View “Trespassing” (360) 466-4288 OR

6 necessary when surveying she says. “In the Kait Rhoads through Jan. 31 at Allied Arts, 1418 LACONNERQUILTS.COM the work of Seattle artist WHEN: 2pm Sun., hot shop, every- Cornwall Ave. ST. JOSEPH: Artwork by William

VIEWS VIEWS Kait Rhoads. thing happens Jan. 25 ALLIEDARTS.ORG With glass as the stepping WHERE: Museum so fast. I like Burney can be perused through ARTWOOD: Small tables of all Jan. 30 at the St. Joseph Hospital 4 of Northwest Art, stone of most of her pieces, to use smaller sizes—and featuring a variety of La Conner Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, she uses the malleable me- units, tying woods—can be perused through 809 E. Chestnut St. MAIL MAIL INFO: museumofn- January at Artwood Gallery, 1000 dium in ways that demand wart.org them together. 715-6420

Harris Ave. 3 both introspection and con- It might take a VIKING UNION: The traveling exhib- “Sideweed” 647-1628 it “Race, Lies and Stereotypes: Post- templation, adding other el- VINNEDGE ROBERT BY PHOTO year and half to

DO IT IT DO BAGELRY: Paintings by Kelcey Bates ements such as copper wire, steel, opaline powder, wax and muslin ﬁnish a piece, as opposed to three or ers on Racism and Anti-Semitism,” can be viewed through January at a shows through Jan. 30 at WWU’s along the way. four hours in the hot shop.” the Bagelry, 1319 Railroad Ave. Viking Union Gallery, room 507. 09 09 “As Below, So Above,” the exhibit of Rhoads’ work currently on If you’d like to learn more about 734-8663 650-6534 .21. display at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, is, she says, about the techniques Rhoads uses to bring BLUE HORSE: Vote on your favor- WESTERN GALLERY: “Ken But- 01 the horizon below and above the actual horizon. her eclectic, inspired works to life, ite pieces of art during the multi- ler: Hybrid Visions” is up through artist “Public Hanging” exhibit March 14 at WWU’s Western Gallery.

.04 “Half the show is about clouds and pine trees, the other half she’ll be giving a Jan. 25 talk dubbed through Jan. 30 at the Blue Horse A reception for the exhibit, which 03

# is rooted more in the sub-aquatic—anchors, seaweed, building “Meadow Squid” at MoNA. While Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. features hybrid musical instru- blocks of coral,” Rhoads, 40, explains. “It’s basically two different you’re at it, check out the Manfred 671-2305 ments and installations, happens bodies of work.” Lindenberger retrospective, which CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Acrylic Feb. 11. Because she started her artistic explorations as a painter and Rhoads says has similar rhythms to and metal leaf works by Bellingham 650-6146 sculptor before choosing to focus on glass, her pieces seem to her own work. artist Karma Stephens will be on dis- WHATCOM MUSEUM: “World of merge everything she’s learned along the way. Whether she’s fash- Whether you come for the talk play through Feb. 1 at the Chuckanut the Shipwright” and “Trespass- Brewery, 601 W. Holly St. ioning a wall panel that makes it appear as if cherry blossoms and or stop by during regular gallery ing” are currently on display at 752-3377 CASCADIA WEEKLY the Whatcom Museum, 121 Pros- buds are ready to burst forth from an otherworldly tree or stitching hours, be prepared to spend a lot of DIGS: “Loophole,” an exhibit of pect St. 16 copper wire into blown glass to create something that looks like it time perusing “As Below, So Above.” dynamic compositions by Adriana 778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM. was born underwater and might be found on the Great Barrier Reef, Why? Because you won’t be able to Phillips, is on display through Feb. ORG each carefully constructed work of art is many things at once. look away. -C).492%(!,,02%3%.43

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WHAT A LONG, strange trip it’s been for the 30 30 Nightlight Lounge. Since the music venue closed

FOOD a little more than a year ago, I’ve reported on the abundance of rumors that have emerged

25 25 music concerning its future, but the missing variable PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT in this musical equation has always been actual input from the Nightlight’s owner, Matt Feigen- baum. Until now, that is. CLASSIFIEDS First, while everyone wants to know exactly when the Nightlight will reopen, at this point

22 22 an exact date still has not been set, although Feigenbaum says it should be no more than FILM FILM “two to three weeks,” and the bar “will prob- MUSICpreview ably open on a Thursday.” In terms of the all- 18 18 important question of the Nightlight’s liquor license, it seems the Liquor Control Board MUSIC MUSIC has sussed out the space, was satisﬁed with BY IAN CHANT what they saw and issued the bar a temporary

16 license. After some paperwork wends its way

ART ART through the proper channels in Olympia, what Jenny Lewis was temporary will become permanent. Now we come to the ever-important question 15 THIS IS NOT A STICKUP of operating capital. When the Nightlight shut down, it did so carrying a heavy burden of back STAGE STAGE own formidable solo careers. Those seek- tax debt, some of which Feigenbaum must still ing proof of this need look no further than pay off beforeefore the music can start and the lili- 14 WWU’s Performing Arts Center, where this quor can ﬂﬂow.ow. FeiFeigenbaum,genbaum, havinhavingg sspentpent the Thursday night, child-star-turned-indie- better partrt ofof thethe pastpast yearyear

GET OUT rock-songstress Jenny Lewis will be per- trying to workwork out tthishis par-par- forming, and almost certainly not on the ticular ﬁnancialancial wrinkle,wrinkle, says run from the law. he is now simply waiting on

12 After a youth spent appearing in such money he’s’s received from cinematic gems as The Wizard and Troop an inheritance,eritance,

WORDS Beverly Hills, Lewis staged a mid-career then it’s allall 180, forgoing the silver screen for a life systems go.o. in recording studios and rock clubs with However,r, 8 her band Rilo Kiley, which also features Feigen-- former child actor and Elected frontman baum hass Blake Sennett. Almost a decade and ﬁve not justt BY CAREY ROSS CURRENTS CURRENTS critically acclaimed albums later, it seems spent the pastt year

6 to have been a pretty savvy career move. raising cash, but he’s But a string of great albums with a stag- also devoted that time to deconstructing his

VIEWS VIEWS STOP ME if you’ve heard this one. A former child actor, now geringly talented band just isn’t enough business, cataloguing its successes and exam- all grown up, walks into a liquor store on the outskirts of Vegas. for some people, and after her success ining its failures in the hopes of building a

4 This poor soul, reeking of cheap liquor and with Rilo Kiley, Lewis just keeps expand- better Nightlight. He acknowledges that, al- broken dreams, sidles up to the counter, pro- ing her horizons. She has recently teamed though “the business was growing every year, MAIL MAIL duces a small-caliber pistol in one shaking with alt-folk heartthrobs the Watson Twins we needed to get to where we needed to get

3 hand and announces, uncertainly, that this and worked alongside longtime friend and to faster” and says, “toward the end, it was a is a stickup. As the clerk places the meager sometime label mate Conner Oberst. time growth could’ve been quicker—but I was DO IT IT DO contents of the register into a paper bag But her latest great leap forward finds exhausted.” he keeps handy for just such occasions, it her striking out on her own with her first These days, ready and rejuvenated, Feigen- 09 09 dawns on him. “Hey,” he asks, more curi- solo album, 2008’s Acid Tongue. And even baum aims to continue charting a similar course .21. ous than accusing, “Didn’t you used to be though Bellingham didn’t make the cut for with regard to the bands you’ll see onstage—“I 01 a Power Ranger?” Panic creeps into the eyes HEAR the first leg of Lewis’ tour behind the al- feel confident that every show we do will be of WHO: Jenny Lewis,

.04 of the one-time Saturday-morning televi- Norfolk & Western bum, the cliche that good things come to the highest quality,” he says—but along with the 03

# sion icon. The gun goes off. Seconds later, WHEN: 10pm Thurs, those who wait holds true in this instance, shows, the staff (most of them familiar faces) and cash in hand, one more forgotten Hollywood Jan. 22 and later this week, patient Hamsters can the drink specials, the Nightlight’s business plan prodigy is pointing an El Camino down a WHERE: PAC Concert ﬁnally get a taste of what they’ve been now includes something he says it was sorely Hall, WWU dusty highway, away from the approaching missing when Lewis brings her stunning lacking: a marketing strategy to better get the COST: students, $18; sirens and an unforgiving past. general, $25 vocal talents to our fair corner of tundra. word out about bands slated to play there. Pretty boring, huh? MORE INFO: 650-6146 But instead of appearing with her backing Another big question mark, at least for those And the really sad thing is, it doesn’t or tickets.wwu.edu band, Lewis will be all by her lonesome, of us with a longstanding investment in the CASCADIA WEEKLY have to be this way. Instead of knocking which means that there will be nothing Bellingham music community, has been the re-

18 over convenience stores, former child actors can still make valuable to distract the lucky audience from Lewis’ puted involvement of former 3B owner Aaron contributions to society. They can, for example, be highly regarded phenomenal songwriting and hauntingly Roeder in the Nightlight mix. Feigenbaum con- singer-songwriters for noted rock bands before striking out on their beautiful voice. ﬁrms that, yes, Roeder is on board, and says RUMOR has it Join the Mt. Baker Bicycle Club for bicycle travel slide-shows that bring you around the world FROM PREVIOUS PAGE seems to have emerged from a difﬁcult

place and is now raring to go. Ultimately, “Family Cycling in Central Europe” 30 30 his input is “huge—for him and for his strategy for the Nightlight is a long- Thursday, January 22, 7-9 pm, Bellingham Public Library. $2 me”—and huge for the music scene as range one—he speaks in terms of taking www. MtBakerBikeClub.org FOOD well. At this point, the level of that a “10-year view”—and all the minutiae coming up: involvement remains unclear, although and details aside, his simple plan is to “do February - Cycling New Zealand 25 Roeder’s expertise in booking bands our jobs better and engage the commu- March - Family biking the Pacific Coast will almost certainly come into play. nity to help us do our jobs better.” I, for April - Italy, the Dolomites At the end of the day, Feigenbaum one, can’t wait to watch it happen. Presented by Bellingham Parks, everybodyBIKE and Mt. Baker Bicycle Club CLASSIFIEDS

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and the album that spawned it, earned Hornsby a Best New Artist Grammy in 15 1987, and many of his songs remain STAGE STAGE staples on adult-contemporary sta- tions across the country. Aside from being an accomplished 14 songwriter, Hornsby is a deeply skilled

piano player, and his classically trained GET OUT and undeniably nimble ﬁngers have graced albums by everyone from Bob

Dylan to Squeeze. However, Hornsby’s 12 IFIRST heard of Bruce Hornsby in longest-running musical collaboration

1984, back when Huey Lewis was burn- has been with the Grateful Dead. Horn- WorkingWorking toto inspireinspire wholewhole people,people, iinn wwholehole WORDS ing up the charts with “Heart of Rock sby began appearing onstage with the ccommunities,ommunities, ttoo ccreatereate a wwholehole wworld!orld! ’n’ Roll.” My mom and aunt had gone to Dead in 1988, and continues to pay 8 see Lewis play his feel-good hits to a homage to the band by performing sold-out Seattle crowd, and while my their songs during his sets. mom emerged from the show deep in a These days, Hornsby is still tour- CURRENTS CURRENTS Huey-lovin’ haze, my aunt found herself ing, headlining shows like his upcom-

more impressed by Lewis’ good friend ing performance at the Skagit Casino. 6 and opening act, Bruce Hornsby. Huey Lewis must be so proud.

Shortly thereafter, Hornsby stepped Bruce Hornsby appears at 7pm and For a schedule of Classes or Somatic Therapy come to www.Somatic-In.com or call 733-3281 VIEWS out of Lewis’ sizey shadow, and un- 9:30pm Sat., Jan. 24 at the Skagit Val- leashed his chart-topper “The Way It ley Casino, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow. The 4 Is,” a tune both topical and catchy, on show is sold out, but check theskagit. MAIL MAIL the unsuspecting masses. The song, com for updates and details.

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miscMUSIC MEET ME AT THE 09 WED., JAN. 21 tured guest at today’s “Winter Romance” concert .21. 01 TYVA KYZY: The all-female Tuvan throat-singing with the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra at 3pm at MEADERY! and folk music ensemble, Tyva Kyzy, will perform the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.

at 7pm at the MBT’s Walton Theatre, 104 N. Com- Tickets are $10-$39. .04 734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM 03 mercial St. Tickets are $18-$28. TUES-SUN 5-11PM # 734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM JAN. 25-28 SUN., JAN. 25 HORVITZ & CO.: You’ll have two chances to LIVE MUSIC FAMILY CONCERT: The Skagit Symphony will hear renowned composer and jazz pianist Wayne present a “Team Family Concert” at 1pm at Mount Horvitz this week. He’ll perform with his band TUES-THUR-SAT 8PM Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. The Sweeter Than the Day at 4pm Jan. 25 at WWU’s one-hour show—appropriate for children age 3 Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. The second 1053 N. STATE ST. -ALLEY and above—is free for kids and $10 for those 16 concert happens at the same place at 8pm Wed., CASCADIA WEEKLY and over. Jan. 28, with the Gravitas Quartet. Tickets are $9- DOWNTOWN BELLINGHAM $12 for the ﬁrst show, $7-$10 for the second. MCINTYREHALL.ORG 19 650-6146 OR JAZZPROJECT.ORG WHATCOM SYMPHONY: Award-winning violin vir- 1SPEVDUJPO8JOFSZt8JOF#BS tuoso Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg will be the fea- Light Appetizers & Desserts Venues ( 30 30 See below for venue FOOD addresses and phone 01.21.09 01.22.09 01.23.09 01.24.09 01.25.09 01.26.09 01.27.09 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 25 25 Archer Ale House Eagles Whistle, Marinus T-Bone Taylor

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22 22 Brown Lantern Open Mic Alehouse Jacket Mine FILM FILM Chuckanut Brewery The 3D's Sabrina y Los Reyes 18 18 Chuckanut Ridge Julian MacDonough Jazz Get Lucky Variety Show Chuck Dingee, Joe Young Scrub Last Chance Blues Band Wine Company Trio & Open Mic MUSIC MUSIC

Commodore Maz Jobrani, Brown & Randy Bachman Katy Perry

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ART ART THEIR HEARTS DID GO ON—SORT OF BOOKS ARE essential; movies based on books, not so much—this is the lesson imparted by Inkheart, a brisk, overstuffed adaptation of 15 Cornelia Funke’s international bestseller. Despite abundant talent on both sides of the camera and STAGE STAGE a bevy of eye-catching supernatural beasties, this effects-heavy story of a literature-loving fa- 14 ther and daughter battling dark forces unleashed from the pages of a rare tome doesn’t conjure

GET OUT much in the way of big-screen magic. Published to great success in 2003 in Germany, where the proliﬁc Funke has been likened to J.K.

12 Rowling, Inkheart is the ﬁrst installment of a fan- tasy trilogy concerning the adventures of book-

WORDS binder Mortimer “Mo” Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), a voracious reader. As revealed in the 8 ﬁlm’s prologue, Mo is a Silvertongue, a person with the rare ability to bring the characters in a book to life simply by reading the text aloud. CURRENTS CURRENTS Years earlier, when Meggie was a wee girl, Mo

6 cracked open a novel (titled, incidentally, Ink- heart) and not only brought the evil Dustﬁnger

VIEWS VIEWS SAM MENDES’ Revolutionary Road is a stunningly power- of their ironically named address to the ca- and other ﬁctional characters out of it, but also ful yet restrained domestic drama about self-aggrandizement and fes of Paris he subconsciously subverts it. banished Meggie’s mother into it. Mo vowed never

4 delusion set in the gray ﬂannel suburbs of Connecticut during the As a comedy of manners, Revolutionary to use his gift again and has since searched tire- mid-1950s. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, who seem Road cuts deep and close to the bone of lessly for his wife, seeking a copy of the elusive MAIL MAIL determined to atone for their romantic mawkishness in Titanic by anyone who has ever imagined themselves novel into which she disappeared.

3 giving us an honest and chilling portrait of a lost young couple un- to be “special.” On a couple of occasions, Back in the present, father and daughter ﬂee able to recapture—or even remember—the forces that once made Michael Shannon (Shotgun Stories, Before to the posh estate of Meggie’s great-aunt, Elinor DO IT IT DO them indispensable to each other. the Devil Knows You’re Dead) walks on as (Helen Mirren, carping at everyone in sight). But It is the rare movie that does justice to a great book, and credit truth-spewing mental patient John Giv- there’s no escaping Dustﬁnger—or, even worse, 09 09 is due to screenwriter Justin Haythe (a novelist in his own right) for ings, a character who quickly catches the megalomaniacal Capricorn, another refugee .21. distilling the themes of Richard Yates’ underappreciated 1962 novel on to April’s unearned amour-propre and who wants to exploit the Silvertongue’s talent 01 without diluting their potency. The principal change from the book Frank’s lack of faith. He taunts them with a and bring forth more evil into the human world.

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# Caprio) and April Wheeler (Winslet). from their naive hopefulness. for a 105-minute movie, and one of the film’s While Yates, in his alpha-male bull genius way, focused on April as A similarly marvelous cruel streak major flaws is that the characters accept the an object seen through the eyes of her furious, aggrieved husband, runs through Mendes’ precisely beauti- rules much more quickly than the viewer will. the film completes the portrait by allowing us to see Frank through ful set pieces and cinematographer Roger If there are any further cinematic adventures her eyes, a reasonable tactic given the considerable and subtle act- Deakins’ surgically uncovering eye. Revo- of Mo and Meggie, the filmmakers will have ing powers of DiCaprio, who registers here as a panicked poser who lutionary Road is brilliant and cold, like some serious explaining to do, given how tidily understands his modest talents are insufficient to his aspirations. a sun-flooded winter’s day. Unlike the Inkheart dispels the questions and cliffhangers CASCADIA WEEKLY Frank tiptoes on eggshells around April’s disappointments—she doomed Wheelers whose ultimately insig- left unresolved at the end of the novel. It’s a

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16 to follow him every time. Their parents need to handle this the strategic way, found this “cute.” Sue throws tantrums, ART ART by agreeing on boundaries and a plan of or rather, has “emergencies” (like needing action. Let him break the cruel news to furniture moved) at the worst times— his family: “I love you all, but what we 15 making Ted late to my college graduation, say for our lives goes. If you don’t like it, a friend’s funeral and surgery that could’ve

STAGE STAGE try to get over it. P.S. Berating calls will left me in a wheelchair. Saying no means be sent to voicemail, and berating mes- Come Check Out getting days of berating calls from Sue sages will be immediately erased.” While 14 and their parents. Sue’s planning another it would be unfortunate if he lost con- Our Great transfer—here. Ted asked where she’d be tact with his dad, you can’t control that. living, and she said “with you.” Ted said GET OUT You’re just two soon-to-be newlyweds Happy Hour! no way. Still, Ted’s mother called me “to who’d like to be alone together. Yes, this begin Sue’s moving process.” After I gently means a young woman has gotten sad

12 explained that we don’t have room for her, $ 00 $ 00 news about her living quarters, but try 1 off Singles ~ 2 off Keg Size his family stopped speaking to us. Ted’s $ 00 to keep in mind that it’s Sue, not Anne WORDS 3 off Appetizers cut ties with his mother and sister before, Frank, who’s being told there’s no room but I’d hate for him to lose contact with in the attic. 3–6 & 9–Close his father. What’s the polite way to handle 8 Tues, Wed, Fri & Sat this? —Embattled WHERE DOOBIE GO FROM All Day & All Night HERE? If his family has it their way, Sue’ll Mon, Thurs & Sun The man I’ve been dating for ﬁve months CURRENTS CURRENTS do something “cute” like inviting her- spoils me rotten and is good to my 4-year- 1218 Fielding Ave. self along on your honeymoon. She’ll be old. Three months ago, he lost his job, 6 bouncing on the heart-shaped bed when (360) 738-0275 and I let him move into my apartment. He you and your new husband open the door:

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seems to have a spine. The worrisome thing is, it seems to be a recent growth. sending in earrings he got you, or a jar of his bong water, and see if they’ll ac- 09 09 It’s bad that he was late to your gradu- cept it in lieu of a check. But, the mon- .21. ation and your friend’s funeral, but 01 what’s more important than surgery ey is a side issue. See that 4-year-old that could’ve left you in a wheelchair? running around your apartment? The .04 The nurse asks, “Is there anyone we day you produced her was your cutoff 03 # should call in case of emergency?” and date for acting like an idiot with men. what did you say, “Yes, but at the mo- You don’t move a near-stranger in af- ment, he’s helping his sister hang her ter two months because he lost his job new curtains”? and distracted you with shiny objects. The guy is genteel enough to refer Being a good mother means waiting to the girl as his sister, but she’s basi- a year before even introducing a man

CASCADIA WEEKLY cally a big tumor with driving privileg- to your kid; ﬁnding out who he is and es. It seems the parents set her up to whether the relationship has legs— 26 remain a little girl, and him to be her not just crossing your ﬁngers that he’ll surrogate daddy and 24-hour handy- walk in with big bags of groceries in- man. It’s a classic psychological trap: stead of a big baggie of weed. rear end COMIX CROSSWORD

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/ To have the boiling water available for bath or table / the training you’d need to become a master of any skills 12 Occasionally there is someone around who understands that may eventually win you rewards, even if they’re not / The importance of this moment for the water—maybe yet getting their rightful due from our culture. a saint, / Maybe a poet, maybe a crazy man, or just WORDS CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Most art critics 113 Grand Ave. someone temporarily disturbed / With his mind ‘ﬂoating,’ long regarded Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) as a second- in a sense, away from his deepest / Personal concerns to Bellingham tier modern painter, writes Don Thompson in his book more ‘unreal’ things.” In the weeks ahead, Gemini, I en- 8 The $12 Million Stuffed Shark. But that estimation courage you to be one of those crazy ﬂoaters—someone 360.671.3080 got upgraded in 2006, when one of Klimt’s paintings who tunes in to the serious moments that are normally sold for $135 million. Art history was rewritten with a outside your personal concerns. You need a strong dose

checkbook, says Thompson. According to my reading of CURRENTS of the hidden reality behind the obvious reality. Happy Hour the astrological omens, there’s a possibility that your CANCER (June 21-July 22): “When I grow up,” worth will also jump to a higher octave in 2009, Cap- writes Ramona McNabb, “I want to be a river.” In the ricorn. But unlike Klimt, who didn’t do anything new, 6 coming year, that would be a worthy aspiration for you you’ll have to take action to earn your rise in status.

as well, Cancerian. You’d generate a ﬂood of beneﬁts, All Day! VIEWS How? Some suggestions: 1. Practice forgiveness with some unexpected, by cultivating your ability to be more intensity. 2. Be more tolerant of imperfection in

perfectly yourself as you ﬂow ever onward in rhythm yourself and others. 3. Expand your capacity to give. 4 with the sky and earth, unimpeded by the ﬂuctuations AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the ancient

of light and darkness, and in love with the ceaseless MAIL Chinese book Poets’ Jade Splinters, Lu Ji says: “Avoid movement of your own strong currents. the morning ﬂower in full blossom and gather instead

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For the citizens of Switzer- evening buds which are not yet open.” He’s telling 3 land, it’s immoral to absentmindedly pluck wildﬂow- his fellow poets not to rely on what has already

ers out of the ground and throw them aside. That’s IT DO ripened, but rather to concentrate on what’s still in because this enlightened country has a Bill of Rights embryonic form. Lu Ji’s colleague Song Zijing adds a for plants. The 22-page document, drawn up by a panel complementary thought: “If you always use a compass 09 09 of theologians, philosophers, geneticists and lawyers, to draw a circle and a ruler to draw a square, you will strongly urges respect for the feelings and dignity of always remain a slave.” Both Lu Ji’s and Song Zijing’s .21. all vegetation. I wish you would think about including counsel will work very well for you in the coming year, 01 this mindset in your ethical code, Leo. It’s high time Aquarius, even if you’re not a poet.

for you to expand and refine your sense of right and .04 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Once every few years, wrong—not just in relation to plants but to everyone 03 a panel of Hindu and Buddhist judges in Nepal chooses # and everything in the world. a new “living goddess,” a young girl who serves, until VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Many people feel she reaches puberty, as an incarnation of the deity guilty about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about,” Taleju. One of the tests each candidate must pass in or- wrote journalist Sydney J. Harris, “in order to shut out der to be eligible for the role is this: She must show no feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty fear as she spends a night alone in a room filled with about.” Your assignment is to figure out whether this the bloody heads of ritually killed buffaloes and goats. description applies to you. If it does, be brave as you I’d like you to consider the possibility of carrying out a All Day Long expose the truly guilt-worthy stuff you’ve repressed. more humane equivalent of that ceremony, Pisces. For CASCADIA WEEKLY Helpful cosmic energies will flow your way if you un- one night, keep symbols of what you’re afraid of in the cover what you need to atone for and then atone for it. place where you sleep. To do so would be an excellent 29 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): While working on his way to earn the right to graduate to the next level of first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas your spiritual evolution. SUNDAY

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15 Co-op Times Two MAKING HEALTHY CONNECTIONS of speakers near the information Connections educational classes. They STAGE STAGE desk. The music came courtesy of An- are now working together with the acortes-based bluegrass and folk band Continuing Education department at 14 Spoonshine, providing the soundtrack Whatcom Community College to host for the crowds of people with paper lecture-based cooking classes, as well

GET OUT plates and cups in hand as they milled as a slew of other classes from natural around, talked, laughed and devoured history to tai chi and herb gathering. the countless samples available for Co-op Healthy Connections Coordi-

12 taste testing. With all the customers’ nator Kevin Murphy says the What- fervor, one would think people had com Community College collaboration

WORDS been waiting outside for days—which was born out of the college’s desper- was almost the case. ate need for a place to actually hold “We’ve had people coming by for classes. After hosting its classes in 8 three days to see if they can buy other places for a time, the college stuff,” Co-op Marketing and Member- approached the Co-op about the deal. ship Manager Liz Reese says. “When “One of [the college’s] main chal- CURRENTS CURRENTS they found out that they couldn’t, lenges is that they’ve had to scramble to ﬁnd sites,” Murphy says. “After they

6 they’ve been crushed.” The new Co-op building seems much found out we were moving across the

VIEWS VIEWS larger than the existing downtown street, the wheels began to turn.” store, located at 1220 N. Forest St. But To some, the Co-op has been helping

4 as Reese informed me, the Cordata lo- make healthy connections for years. cation only boasts approximately 3,000 Ferndale resident Jina Fagan-Kley MAIL MAIL square feet of additional retail space. says she became a vegetarian in 1973

3 But because they had the luxury of and began shopping at the Co-op three building from the ground up, the com- years later. She raised her sons to be DO IT IT DO pany was able to utilize the added space vegetarian as well, and says the Co-op in a much better way, Reese says. has been an essential part of her life. 09 09 And with the extra space, the Co-op I’ve always relied on the Co-op to .21. did a top-notch job of offering what get healthy,” Fagan-Kley says. “And 01 ON WEDNESDAY last week, at the corner of Westerly Avenue and Cordata the downtown location does not, most that’s important.”

.04 Parkway, moving around was a difﬁcult task to accomplish. With the construction notably an expanded deli with a fresh- And not only does the food help to 03

# completed, the staff hired, the floors polished and the produce unerringly stacked, the meat display case, a salad bar—try the keep residents healthy, but the sup- long-awaited new location of the Community Food Co-op opened its doors for a sneak spicy orzo pasta salad and the turkey plement section of the store does as peek at the goods the day before the store officially opened for business. basil pasta salad—and space to exhibit well. Roy Bob, a Bellingham resident The Co-op was anything but sneaky about the announcement of the night of the local art in the deli seating area. and Co-op member for more than 15 special preview, as droves of residents showed up to catch a glimpse and a quick bite And right next to the seating area is years, goes to the Co-op to pick up to eat. The night was so successful, in fact, the parking lot quickly filled up and police a staircase meant for all the blossoming vitamin and mineral supplements he began directing drivers to an auxiliary parking lot set up near Bellis Fair Mall to ac- culinary artists out there; the staircase says he can’t find at other stores. CASCADIA WEEKLY commodate the overflow. leads to the Community Roots room, ba- “That’s why I came to this town—I

30 When the automatic glass doors at the entrance of the store opened, patrons were sically a classroom on the second ﬂoor kind of like the ideas people have greeted with an almost overwhelming wave of excited chitchat combined with the of the new building. In the room, the here,” Bob says. “I want to see the distinct plucks of a stand-up bass and wavering drum rhythms leaking out of a set Co-op will be continuing their Healthy Co-op grow.”

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