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A brief overview of this GET OUT 30 Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Lake Padden Park Drive for the Arts: 1pm, Swinomish Golf Links

FOOD week’s happenings THISWEEK Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, downtown Bellingham FOOD 24 WEDNESDAY [08.15.18] Ferndale Market: 3-7pm, Riverwalk Park ONSTAGE VISUAL B-BOARD Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Night Market: 6-10pm, Commercial Street MUSIC SATURDAY [08.18.18] 23 Battle of the Bands: 5-7pm, Burlington Visitor Center Amphitheater ONSTAGE FILM Titus Andronicus: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphi- COMMUNITY theater NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Marian: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park 18 Fairgrounds, Lynden Hotbox: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Hound of the Baskervilles: 7:30pm, Anacortes MUSIC FOOD Community Theatre Wednesday Market: 3-7pm, Fairhaven Village Green Push it to the Limit: 9pm, Upfront Theatre

16 Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer Heritage Square, Sedro-Woolley MUSIC ART Barkley Market: 4-6pm, Barkley Village Green Skagit Woodstock: 2-10pm, Edgewater Park, Mount Vernon

15 [08.16.18] Arete Quartet: 6-8pm, Boulevard Park THURSDAY Naughty Blokes: 6-8pm, Heart of Anacortes

STAGE ONSTAGE Bard on the Beach: Through Sept. 28, Vanier Park, FILM Vancouver, BC Black Panther: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green

14 Titus Andronicus: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater Marian: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park COMMUNITY Hound of the Baskervilles: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington GET OUT munity Theatre Fairgrounds, Lynden Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT 12 Nooksack River Walk: 3pm, Horseshoe Bend DANCE Trailhead

WORDS Balkan Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library FOOD MUSIC Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Center 8 Blues and Brews: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether terrace Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Jazz Jam: 5:30-8:30pm, Illuminati Brewing Center High Mountain String Band: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park

CURRENTS Soulfunktion: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Plaza, Mount Vernon Lummi Island Market: 10am-1pm, the Islander Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial 6 COMMUNITY Due to unprecedented attendance records, Park NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street

VIEWS Fairgrounds, Lynden Bard on the Beach will extend its 29th Plaza Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot

4 FOOD season of Shakespearean theater with shows happening Market Square Bow Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Saturday Market: 1-3pm, Concrete Community Center MAIL Vino in the Village: 5:30-8:30pm, historic Fairhaven through Sat., Sept. 28 at Vancouver, BC’s Vanier Park

SUNDAY [08.19.18] PHOTO BY DAVID COOPER DAVID BY PHOTO 2 2 FRIDAY [08.17.18] MUSIC DO IT DO IT ONSTAGE Naughty Blokes: 1-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner King Lear: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater International Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch Marian: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park Park, Blaine Hotbox: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Deakin Hicks CD Release: 7pm, Sylvia Center

08.15.18 Hound of the Baskervilles: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre COMMUNITY Push it to the Limit: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Car Show & Shine: 10am-2pm, BelleWood Acres .13 33 # DANCE FOOD Hot August Nights: 8-10pm, the Majestic Edison Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Edison Granary Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, MUSIC Lynden Summer’s End Music + Arts: 12-10pm, Zuanich Point Park MONDAY [08.20.18] Longstride: 6-8pm, Seafarers Memorial Park, Ana- ONSTAGE CASCADIA WEEKLY cortes Farm Tunes: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge 2 Whiskey Fever: 7-9pm, Eagle Haven Winery, Sedro- Hear classic rock for the modern age when the Naughty Woolley TUESDAY [08.21.18] Blokes perform Aug. 18 at the Heart of Anacortes, and COMMUNITY Aug. 19 at La Conner’s Gilkey Square. GET OUT NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington History Sunset Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal

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8 14: Panning for gold On Sun., Aug. 5, an historic Farmworker March ing partial results for a local race as contained Sales Manager: for Dignity took place along the rural farm roads in six large, randomly selected ballot batches. 15: Loaded lineup Stephanie Young from Lynden to Sumas. These were paper ballots—physical evidence of 16: Plein Air Paint Out  360-647-8200 CURRENTS  advertising@ Participants walked 15 miles over 10 hours, voter choice. Verifiable and recountable. 18: Summer’s End cascadiaweekly.com and had plenty of time to reflect on the long, Washington state made the right choice back 6 20: Clubs Distribution hot, exhausting days endured by farmworkers when many other states were adopting black- day after day in order to bring food to our tables. box, hackable electronic voting devices. VIEWS 22: More than a movie Distribution Manager: The several hundred participants chose to Each ballot set was counted separately by both 23: Film Shorts Erik Burge 4

4  360-647-8200 spend their Sunday to march all day in the heat staff, supervised by County Auditor Debbie Adel-  distribution@ in solidarity with some of the hardest-working stein and witnessed by volunteer observers. The MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com Rear End and lowest-paid workers in our country. two hand counts for each ballot set were compared Whatcom: Erik Burge,

2 Wellness How ironic, then, that there were some mem- first to each other, then to the machine tabula- 24: Stephanie Simms bers of our local community who chose to use their tor totals for each set. The latter had been tallied 25: Crossword Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT Barb Murdoch voices to castigate the marchers by yelling “get a previously and were unknown to the staff who did 26: Free Will Astrology job!” from the air-conditioned cabs of their shiny the hand count. All the counts of the six selected 27: Advice Goddess Letters new black pickup trucks (probably not on their own batches, totaling 1,174 ballots, matched. SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ way to work, on a Sunday). I wonder if they thought Why does this matter? Conducting this random 28: Comix CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 08.15.18 to yell the same slur to the crowd recreating at the comparison of hand counts to machine tallies is 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku ALAN RHODES, P.06 + PAINT OUT, P.16 + FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.26 REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA go-kart race track we passed along the way. a striking example of investment in election in- WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES .13 30: Feel the heat 08-15-2018 • ISSUE:33 • V.13 33 What irony for people who live in a farming tegrity. And the encouragement of citizens to be BEST OF BELLINGHAM Your vote goes here! P.09

# RIVER OF OIL Dwindling orcas, expanding pipelines P.08 community to yell “get a job” to a crowd of hard- part of that process. SUMMER'S END Music and art with a mission ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by P.18 working farmworkers and their allies. The Whatcom Citizens Election Advisory Com- Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 Thank you to all of the people who honked and mittee helped select our recently updated elec- [email protected] MARIAN AND waved and walked out of their front doors to join tion equipment. Our county was the first in Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia iDiOM Theater's MORE loaded lineup Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing P.15 us in solidarity. I want to challenge the handful of Washington state to adopt the above hand count papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material rude passersby to consider what they do on their as standard operating procedure in every elec-

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30 of late ballots yields additional insight into the Au- gust primary and the peculiar dynamics unfolding in FOOD Whatcom County’s northern tier. And that, in turn, yields insight into that fabled and elusive Blue Wave views YOUR VIEWS THE GRISTLE that may be standing offshore, gaining power for a 24 rush inland this November. Late returns in the 40th Legislative District pro- B-BOARD duced a virtual dead heat for second place among three candidates. As we noted at the outset of this BY ALAN RHODES

23 race, this bluest of districts can easily support a general election contest between the platforms of two

FILM Democrats; however, Republican Michael Petrish appears to have held on to his position in the top-two Masculinity, Femininity, Toxicity

18 by little more than 600 votes. In every race in Whatcom’s 42nd Legislative District, IT’S TIME FOR A CULTURAL SHIFT

MUSIC Republican incumbents failed to hit the 50 percent mark in returns—and that is just remarkable in an elec- WOMEN BEGAN coming forth manifestation of toxic masculinity.

16 tion with middling turnout. Just 44 percent of ballots and telling their stories of sexual ha- KB: Absolutely. Many of the shoot-

ART were returned, according to election officials, a level rassment, misconduct and violence, ers have felt that they are entitled of (dis)interest consistent with the past several presi- and the giants began to fall. Al Fran- to something they are not getting.

15 dential midterm cycles. Those past midterm primaries ken resigned from the U.S. Senate Violence becomes the response. tended to skew conservative, though, which suggests a after photos surfaced of him groping AR: We hear news reports about the

STAGE strange undercurrent at work in this election. a sleeping woman. The once-beloved shockingly high levels of sexual In other parts of the state, a similar surprising dy- Bill Cosby was found guilty on three and isn’t to the extreme we limit predation and sexual violence to- namic unfolded. counts of aggravated indecent as- ourselves from the full range of ward women. Stories involving 14 In Spokane, where only a quarter of ballots were sault. Louis C.K.’s comedy and film human emotions and experiences. men who are famous get the most returned, Republican stalwart Rep. Cathy McMorris career plummeted after multiple This can be very dangerous. attention. What does the problem

GET OUT Rodgers struggled against challenger Lisa Brown accusations of sexual misconduct. AR: What does toxic femininity look look like locally? in the conservative 5th Congressional District. In Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, like? KB: Last year in Whatcom County

12 southwest Washington’s conservative 3rd Congres- who had been sexually abusing KB: Toxic femininity occurs when alone in this one office we saw sional District, incumbent Republican Rep. Jaime women for years, was indicted on women also take cultural norms 2,074 cases of domestic violence, Herrera Beutler found herself in a dead heat against two charges of rape. At first the rev- to the extreme. As one example, sexual assault and sexual exploi- WORDS surging Democrat Carolyn Long. elations seemed to involve only the being overly concerned with ap- tation. And we know that the

8 In general, conservatives lost ground in every cor- rich, the famous and the powerful, pearance can result in eating dis- need in the county is bigger than ner of the state—including the Fourth Corner. but then women everywhere—from orders. In another form, lack of that. We continue to see new cli- Until the past several election cycles, the 42nd was executive suites to factory floors to assertiveness can result in passiv- ents on a weekly basis.

CURRENTS a politically dynamic swing district, sending to Olympia agricultural fields—begin stepping ity and vulnerability to predators. AR: You’ve talked about the need for a fiercely centrist, pragmatic and independent-minded forward to share their stories. AR: So it’s our defined gender roles a cultural shift as a means of ame- 6 6 mix of Democrats and Republicans. Returns began to As the #MeToo movement grows that create problems? liorating this problem. How do we calcify during the Bush administration and successive and new outrages are revealed on KB: No one is entirely masculine or bring that about? VIEWS VIEWS years, leaning conservative in nonpresidential elec- an almost daily basis, it seemed an feminine. Most of us find a bal- KB: We start by acknowledging the

4 tions (in presidential elections—with voter turnout at appropriate time for a conversation ance. At the extremes we have issue and understanding it within 80 percent and returns topping 100,000—the county with Karen Burke, executive director problems. In men it can result in our own lives and experiences. MAIL simply runs out of conservatives, and turns blue). of Domestic Violence and Sexual As- an attitude of entitlement, that We can then begin understanding

2 But perhaps the needle may be swinging a new sault Services of Whatcom County. women are lesser than, are objects. how we each play a role in con- direction. Alan Rhodes: You have used the AR: Alek Minassian, who drove a tributing to this culture. When we

DO IT In 2010, Republican Sen. Doug Ericksen—whose re- term “toxic masculinity.” What van into a Toronto crowd of mostly understand the depth of the prob- elections always fall in a lower turnout off-presiden- does that mean? women, belonged to Incel, a group lem and its emotional impacts we tial year—received 61.5 percent in the primary and Karen Burke: Toxic masculinity is of involuntary celibates, men angry can start to dismantle the ways 60 percent in the general. In 2014, he again received when cultural gender norms are because women won’t have any- in which we think about gender. 08.15.18 a plurality of 57 percent in the primary and 58.7 per- carried to extremes. We have lim- thing to do with them. We also need to work more with cent in the general. His returns in the recent primary ited viewpoints of gender that KB: This is a perfect example. If children on understanding the .13

33 collapsed by more than ten points. Reps. Vincent Buys are completely constructed. Who you read their manifestos, they concept of consent. # and Luanne VanWerven similarly failed to break 50 decided that boys like blue and are all about entitlement, an at- I want to make it clear that percent in this election. girls like pink? When we as a cul- titude that “I’m entitled to sex the phrase “toxic masculinity” These results are wonderfully baffling, and particu- ture believe that only women are with women whenever I want it.” does not mean that masculinity is larly so given voters under the age of 40—the largest supposed to be sensitive and men Women are not seen as people, toxic. I don’t want to make men voting cohort, and the one pointedly hostile to the aren’t supposed to cry, that it’s only objects that an individual is feel alienated and defensive. It current flavor of right-wing politics—appear to have more acceptable for boys to settle entitled to. is at the extremes that gender

CASCADIA WEEKLY sat out this off-year primary in typical numbers, re- things with a fistfight, to be vio- AR: School shootings and mass shoot- roles for both men and women turning their ballots at scarcely more than half of the lent and aggressive, to deny their ings all seem to be carried out by become toxic and harmful. 6 intensity of other voting age groups, according to poll- feminine side, we are encourag- men. While these incidents are not ing models. The conclusion must be that independent ing gender norms. When we take necessarily sexual in nature, they For more information, go to voters and those only tenuously aligned with Republi- these ideas about what gender is would certainly seem to be another www.dvsas.org can party values cast their ballots in this primary for Democrats. And there appears to be a measurable “en- VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE OYSTERS thusiasm gap” for the incumbents even

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NOAA FISHERIES WEST COAST FISHERIES NOAA Homestead Park, 5299 than 400. A RIVER Nielsen Ave, “The ships go exactly CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 DWINDLING ORCAS AND Ferndale where the whales go,” INFO: www. Misty MacDuffee, a ma- 6 EXPANDING PIPELINES facebook. rine biologist and the com/ Wild Salmon program di- VIEWS BY TIM JOHNSON RESourcesFor rector for British Colum-

4 Sustainable bia’s Raincoast Conserva- OFOIL tion Foundation, said in Communities MAIL TAHLEQUAH THE mother orca is no longer carrying her dead calf. “The Canadian province of Alberta— a recent interview.

2 “The ordeal of her carrying a dead calf for at least 17 days and 1,000 miles is now over,” home to a massive tar sands industry Apart from the increase in vessel traf- Ken Balcomb, founding director of the Center for Whale Research, reported. that produces some of the globe’s dirtiest fic and noise, “a spill near the Nooksack

DO IT People around the world were moved as Tahlequah carried her dead baby, a female, day and most polluting oil—has put the Pa- would quickly make its way into the after day, in a seeming protest against her loss. cific Northwest in its crosshairs,” writes Salish Sea, putting the 74 remaining Tahlequah, also known as J35, is part of the critically endangered Southern Resident Clark Williams-Derry, an analyst with Southern Resident orcas and the re- killer whale population. Balcomb said J35 probably has lost two other offspring since Seattle-based Sightline Institute. “The gion’s salmon in even greater jeopardy” 08.15.18 giving birth to a male calf in 2010. province is partnering with the Canadian cautioned Eddy Ury, the Clean Energy But her loss is not unique to the resident orcas. The Southern Resident population has government to ram through the expansion program manager for RE Sources. “The .13

33 not had a successful birth over the past three years, according to researchers. And repro- of the Trans Mountain pipeline, a 715-mile Puget Sound Pipeline currently carries # ductive females have been dying off one by one. conduit that would carry up to 890,000 about 30 percent of all crude oil shipped Based on recent trends, the population is likely to decline further until it reaches a barrels of oil per day from the Canadian into Washington state,” Ury said. level of “quasi-extinction,” in which there are not enough breeding animals to sustain interior to southwest British Columbia.” The advocacy group RE Sources plans a the population. Much of that oil would be exported by gathering on the banks of the Nooksack Researchers also understand why the population is failing—a complex network of fac- tanker from a port just outside Vancou- River at Hovander Homestead Park in tors, nearly all of which lead back to increased human activity in Northwest waters. ver—resulting in a seven-fold increase in Ferndale, where the 65-year-old pipeline

CASCADIA WEEKLY A task force created by the governor met last week to consider short-term actions that oil tanker trips from the Port of Vancouver crosses beneath the river, to help the pub- might slow the extinction for the iconic Salish Sea orcas. But it is becoming increasingly into the Salish Sea. Additional tar sands lic learn about the hazards of the pipe- 8 clear that there are no easy answers, no “silver bullet,” as the 45-member task force drafts oil would make its way south to Puget line and the importance of protecting the an emergency recovery plan. The Southern Resident Killer Whale Task Force is scheduled to Sound refineries, via a 69-mile pipeline Nooksack River for salmon and people. meet again Aug. 28 in Anacortes. called the Puget Sound Pipeline (PSP). Environmental nonprofits, tribes and But while experts are unsure how to make conditions much better, conditions are on the In operation since 1954, the Puget First Nations, and the local British Co- threshold of being made worse. Sound Pipeline system ships Canadian lumbia government oppose the pipeline

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GET OUT A divided federal appeals court orders the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban a widely-used pesticide that critics say can endanger children

12 and farmers. The 2-1 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle overturned former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s March 2017 denial of a peti- tion by environmental groups to halt the use of chlorpyrifos on food crops such A ground-service agent took off in a Horizon Air Q400 turboprop at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Friday night and WORDS as fruits, vegetables and nuts. [Reuters] crashed the plane in south Puget Sound while being trailed by two fighter jets, officials said. The out-of-service plane was piloted by a Sumner, Pierce County, man and crashed on Ketron Island about 90 minutes later, according to the Pierce County

8 Sheriff’s Office. There appeared to have been no passengers on the 76-seat plane. 08.10.18 FRIDAY CURRENTS CURRENTS 8 ground check by T.S.A. and those badges NORTHWEST PASSAGES A Bow-area man is sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to are renewed every two years. She calls this Gov. Jay Inslee appoints 6 second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his father last summer. Court a “one-in-a-million experience,” but an Rob Olson to Whatcom County Superior Court. documents state Lane Maurice Davis, 34, had argued with his parents at their event they can learn from. Port and Sea-

VIEWS Olson will serve in the Samish Island home on July 14, 2017, and accused them of being “leftists” and Tac officials have been and will continue position previously held

4 “pedophiles.” By the time police arrived, Lane Davis’ father, Charles “Chuck” talking with airlines, other airports and the by the late Judge Ira Davis, was dead. Lane Davis’ charge was reduced from first-degree premeditated federal government about additional secu- Uhrig. Olson has spent MAIL murder as part of a plea agreement. [Skagit Valley Herald] rity. [KGMI, Seattle Times] the past eight years serving as Washington

2 state assistant attorney The Skagit County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is disqualified from pros- Researchers say an endangered killer general. In his current

DO IT ecuting the evidentiary hearing of a man convicted of murder. Terrance Irby whale that drew international attention role, he serves as general has been convicted three times for the 2005 murder of a Hamilton man. In as she carried her dead calf on her head counsel to Western Wash- April, a state appellate court ruled that Irby’s Sixth Amendment rights were for more than two weeks is finally back ington University, and in prior roles he represented the state in numerous licensing and child protection violated during his third trial in 2016 when Skagit County corrections deputies to feeding with her pod. The Center for

08.15.18 actions. Olson has also served as a public defender for improperly opened mail from Irby to his public defender. [Skagit Valley Herald] Whale Research reported the orca, known Whatcom County and as a solo practitioner. His expe- as J35, chased a school of salmon in Haro rience includes work in the fields of juvenile and adult .13 crime, and in providing legal services to the LGBTQ 33 A British Columbia Supreme Court judge grants the City of Burnaby an injunc- Strait west of San Juan Island. The whales # tion forcing pipeline protesters to leave their camp outside a Kinder Morgan have been struggling because of a lack community. He also taught business law at WWU for nearly two decades. tank farm. The judge rules all structures, shelters and vehicles must be removed of salmon, and J35’s calf died soon after from the site known as Camp Cloud. The judge says peaceful protesting is still birth on July 24. The mother carried the permitted and individuals are allowed on the site as long as they do not build baby on her head for at least 17 days. more structures. [CBC] [Associated Press] County’s hazy skies rank from “unhealthy for sensitive groups” in the Lynden and

CASCADIA WEEKLY 08.13.18 08.14.18 Custer area to “unhealthy” in Bellingham and Maple Falls, according to the Depart- 10 MONDAY TUESDAY ment of Ecology. Conditions aren’t expected The head of the Seattle Port Commission says all proper security protocols Air quality across Washington drifts to get better in western Washington until were in place at Sea-Tac Airport when a ground worker stole a commercial into unhealthy territory for much of the later this week as the National Weather Ser- aircraft Friday evening. Commission President Courtney Gregoire tells a news state and even hazardous along the east vice forecasts air coming in from the shore. conference that all airport employees get a security badge following a back- side of the Cascade Mountains. Whatcom [Ecology, KGMI] On Aug. 6, a man reported finding “ran- FUZZ somware” on his computer. The malware index locked his computer blocking all access

to his business network and information, BUZZ 30 Bellingham Police reported. FOOD SPECIAL DELIVERY HOARDER DISORDER On Aug. 8, a citizen brought an old gre- On Aug. 3, a resident of Puget neigh- 24 nade into the Ferndale Police station. borhood told Bellingham Police her According to police, the man’s father neighbor is a hoarder. “His house is served during World War II and brought starting to smell strongly of garbage,” B-BOARD the device back with him as a souvenir. police reported.

The device was determined to be inert 23 and harmless by police as the safety lever END OF WATCH and pin had already been removed. “In On Aug. 10, the Alaska Ferry reported FILM cases like this, where an explosive device that a crewmate did not return to the ship

(even though kept as a souvenir and pre- for its departure from Fairhaven. “The 18 sumably inert) is already in the owner’s crewmate was subsequently contacted by

possession, we would prefer they call 911 phone,” Bellingham Police reported, “and MUSIC to request an officer and let us determine he had decided it was time to go home and

the proper steps for disposal,” police was not coming back to the ship.” 16 said, rather than transporting it to their ART station. Police disposed of the device. BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS On Aug. 8, Bellingham Police arrived 15 SKIMMERS AND SCAMMERS at a location to find a man had a rope

On Aug. 10, Sedro-Woolley Police arrest- around his neck with the other end STAGE ed a woman who had allegedly been em- tied to a second-floor balcony and was 5 5 bezzling from the Sedro-Woolley School threatening to jump. “He was agreeable Rank of Bellingham and Western Rank of Bellingham as the worst job 14 District. The woman had been serving as to accepting help,” police reported. He Washington as the worst place to rent market in the United States, based on the treasurer of the parent booster club was taken into protective custody for a in the United States, based on an BLS data on unemployment rate changes affordability and safety index. and wage growth. of the Evergreen STEM Elementary School. mental health evaluation. GET OUT Detectives located evidence related to the fraud and recovered property purchased INTERSECTIONS OF 12 with funds that were taken. Detectives INTERSECTIONALITY found more than $53,000 had been stolen On Aug. 6, Bellingham Police checked on

2 WORDS from the booster club by the treasurer. a teen, evidently on drugs, who kept get- Decades since unemployment has been as low as it currently is, nationally. The national unemployment rate in July was 3.9 percent and the the nation’s private- ting up after falling into traffic on the 8 8 On Aug. 3, a former Skagit County sher- corner of Michigan and Alabama streets sector employers have been adding jobs for 101 straight months—19.5 million since the Great Recession-related cuts finally abated in early 2010. iff’s deputy was indicted in federal court in Rooselvelt neighborhood. CURRENTS on five wire fraud charges. The Skagit CURRENTS Valley Herald reported the deputy was On Aug. 6, a man who was evidently high the treasurer of the Pacific Northwest on drugs kept wandering into traffic on 4 6 Police Detection Dog Association and is the corner of Franklin and State streets

Decades since middle-income paychecks were at pace with purchasing power. Average VIEWS accused of stealing more than $35,000 in Bellingham. hourly earnings for non-management private-sector workers in July were $22.65, up 3

since at least 2010. cents from June and 2.7 percent above the average wage from a year earlier. That’s in 4 On Aug. 5, a woman who was evidently line with average wage growth over the past five years. But in the years just before the On July 26, a man called Anacortes Po- high on drugs kept wandering back and 2007-08 financial collapse, average hourly earnings often increased by around 4 percent MAIL year-over-year. And during the high-inflation years of the 1970s and early 1980s, average lice to report fraudulent activity on his forth into the roadway near Haskell and wages commonly jumped 7 to 9 percent, year-over-year. Despite some ups and downs 2 bank account. The man reported a mail Enterprise roads north of Ferndale. over the past several decades, today’s real average wage balanced for inflation has about

scam had resulted in a financial loss. the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. DO IT “The scam included a mail solicitation On Aug. 5, Bellingham Police spoke to asking if the man wanted to be part of a 19-year-old who was lying in the mid- a ‘shopping survey,’” police explained. dle of the roadway of Cornwall Avenue 2.9 2.7 08.15.18 The Anacortes man responded and he downtown. Cost of living increase (percent), up Increase in wages during the same began receiving text messages provid- from July 2017 to July 2018. period. The average U.S. “real wage,” .13

ing instruction to cash a $1,000 money On Aug. 12, Bellingham Police contacted a federal measure of pay that takes 33 order and send $724 via a wire transfer a man who was engaged in disorderly be- inflation into account, fell to $10.76 # to Georgia. The victim later discovered havior on the corner of Lincoln Street and an hour last month, 2 cents down from where it was a year ago. that the $1,000 money order was invalid Lakeway Drive. and he was out nearly $800 including the wire transfer and fees. On Aug. 12, a person with mental issues who had been wandering in the roadway $3.38

On Aug. 8, Bellingham Police took a report of Bakerview Road was taken into protec- Average price for a gallon of gasoline in Washington, the highest in six years. The CASCADIA WEEKLY of an attempted phone scam. “If the call- tive custody by Bellingham Police. average price of gas increased 50 cents per gallon in the past year nationally, up 11 ers are threatening jail over back taxes or to an average of $2.87, according to AAA. fines—scam!,” police advised. “If you are On Aug. 12, Whatcom County Sheriff’s being asked for emergency bail for a jailed deputies checked on a report of a llama relative—scam!—any jailed relative can on the loose at the intersections of Sand SOURCES: Wallethub; Zippia; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Pew Research Center; Center for call on their own. Just hang up!” and Kelly roads. Microeconomic Data; Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) doit WORDS

WED., AUG. 15 30 CREEKSIDE OPEN MIC: Sign up to read your poetry and prose or play music—or FOOD simply listen in—at a Creekside Open Mic words starting at 6:30pm at Sudden Valley’s South COMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS Whatcom Library, 10 Barn View Court, Gate 24 2. Entry to the monthly event is free. (360) 305-3632

B-BOARD THURS., AUG. 16 CHOICE: Dawn Harju leads an Excellence Northwest workshop focused on “Choice”

23 and renewal. Jar of Hearts follows the story of Georgina Shaw, known as Geo, a at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. At the free event, she’ll ask questions such as FILM successful executive at a Seattle phar- “What am I making important? How can you maceutical company. One day, police tell what you’re making important? Have you

18 raid her corporate boardroom and lead ever gotten into a situation where you’ve Geo out in handcuffs, charged as an ac- agreed to something and later wished you didn’t?” Entry is free. MUSIC cessory in the murder of her close high WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM school friend Angela

16 Wong 14 years prior. LITERACY LOVE: The Whatcom Literacy Council is currently recruiting volunteers to ART Angela and Geo’s other high school pal, work two to four hours a week with adults who have asked for help to improve their

15 Kaiser Brody, is now a English, reading, writing, math and computer detective for the Seat- skills. Training and ongoing support from

STAGE tle Police Department, professional staff will be provided. struggling to resolve WWW.WHATCOMLITERACY.ORG/ his longtime crush on BECOME-A-TUTOR 14 GET IT HOW: Grab a copy Geo with the knowl- from any Whatcom FRI., AUG. 17 edge that not only BOOKS AND BITES: Bring your lunch if GET OUT County Library did Geo know where System location you’d like and join a lively “Books and (or from a Angela’s body was all Bites” conversation about Jim Lynch’s Border Songs from 1-2:30pm at the Blaine

12 these years, but she 12 Bellingham Public Library location). also played a role in Library, 610 3rd St. The club meets on the third Friday of the month. It’s available as Angela’s death. WORDS WORDS (360) 305-3637 a book, eBook, The narrative alter- and downloadable FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Bellingham Story- 8 audiobook. nates between dif- INFO: ferent perspectives, teller’s Guild members will lead an hour of www.wcls.org or following Geo’s experi- coaching and an introduction to the craft www.bellingham at 6pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th CURRENTS ences serving her five- publiclibrary.org St. At 7pm, Fairhaven Family Story Night will year prison sentence. commence. Entry to both events is free. 6 REVIEWED BY Little by little it comes WWW.BELLINGHAMSTORYTELLERSGUILD.ORG CHRISTINE PER- to light that Geo’s high VIEWS KINS school romantic obses- SAT., AUG. 18 CORRESPONDENCE CLUB: Anyone over 8 4 sion with a charismat- years old can show up for the monthly Cor- ic but deeply disturbed respondence Club gathering from 10:30am- MAIL older man, Calvin 12:30pm at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly

St. Supplies, materials and instructional

2 James, set her on a terrible path. Though Jar of Hearts Calvin lands a lifetime prison sentence as guidance will be provided for collage Mail Art, envelopes, postcards and more. Bring DO IT the Sweetbay Strangler, he manages to your addresses and your postage, and make A KILLER READ escape. Then, just as Geo is about to be it a good mail day. freed, several bodies are found, murdered WWW.MINDPORT.ORG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka struck a plea in the same way Angela was. Is it Calvin? 08.15.18 deal with prosecutors in return for her testimony that her hus- Is Geo in danger? Can she ever escape her STORYTELLING WITH PUPPETS: Kids in grades K-5 can find out more about the art of band, Paul Bernardo, raped and murdered at least three minors past and build a future?

.13 oral storytelling when Myria Rodeman leads

33 in a series of grisly deaths that began with Homolka’s younger Readers need to have a high toler- “Storytelling with Felted Puppets” from 2-3pm # sister Tammy. ance for gore and sexual violence beat the Lummi Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a mere 12 years fore choosing this book, but if you like Rd. The free event will also celebrate the in prison, Karla served her time and walked free in 2005, de- Chelsea Cain, Gillian Flynn, or Stephen conclusion of summer reading programs with ice cream provided by Mallard. spite the fact that videotapes were discovered during the trial King, you should be all set. Hillier WWW.WCLS.ORG that clearly showed her complicity in the gruesome crimes. serves up a good helping of twists and Homolka and Bernardo were household names in Canada turns and overall creepiness, all with a JOKE CONTEST: Tell your best joke for a

CASCADIA WEEKLY throughout the 1990s when author Jennifer Hillier was grow- Seattle backdrop. The title is a refer- chance to win and get your name on the ing up in Toronto, and the news coverage made a big impres- ence to Christina Perri’s 2010 somber prestigious Ha-Ha Cup at the annual Point 12 Roberts Joke Contest happening from sion on her. Hillier often wondered how Homolka was able to restart her life upon her pop single, which would make a good 7-9:30pm at the Point Roberts Community release. Media accounts allege that Homolka married, changed her name, bore three soundtrack while reading. Center, 1431 Gulf Rd. Snacks and soda will be children and is now volunteering in her children’s elementary school in Montreal. provided at the free, adults-only event. Hillier marveled at Homolka’s audacity and her ability to put the past behind her, Christine Perkins is the executive director (360) 945-6545 and set out to write a novel that would explore the limits of forgiveness, redemption of the Whatcom County Library System. doit SIT WITH US.

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Free Meditation Instruction 23 Monday evenings, 7:00 pm FILM Open House Meditation & Talk Meditation @ 7pm/ Talk @ 8pm 18 2825 Meridian, Suite 201 • 360-483-4526 MAIL ART supplies will be provided at a monthly Correspondence Club gathering MUSIC Sat., Aug. 18 at Mindport Exhibits meditation center

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JAMES & DEBORAH 15 Writing Group meets from 3:15-5:15pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Members bring printed copies FALLOWS of their pieces for others to follow while you read STAGE aloud; the group critiques aloud and also writes Our Towns notes on your printout, and returns the print outs to AA 100,000100,000 MileMile JourneyJourney IntoInto thethe HeartHeart ofof AmericaAmerica you for you to keep. New members are asked to at- 14 tend at least two meetings before submitting their own works for critique. A Free Event at VB in Fairhaven WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Wed, August 22, 7pm GET OUT Don’t miss these FREE EVENTS in Fairhaven TUES., AUG. 21

Join us for the LIVE TAPING of 12 BOOKS ON TAP: Deming Library staff Erin Suda The 12 and Katrina Carabba lead a monthly “Books on Tap” WORDS gathering from 7-8:30pm at Josh VanderYacht Me- Chuckanut Radio Hour WORDS morial Park, 4106 Valley Hwy. Read History of Wolves featuring award winning poet by Emily Fridlund for tonight’s meeting. 8 WWW.WCLS.ORG Kids can learn more about “Storytelling FRANCES with Felted Puppets” Sat., Aug. 18 at the WED., AUG. 22 Lummi Island Library

McCUE CURRENTS CITY CLUB MEETING: Critically acclaimed authors James and Deborah Fallows will regale attendees at Whatcom Community College 6 at today’s Bellingham City Club meeting with tales occasionally hosts a lecture. weekly Trivia! event starting at 3:30pm Sundays Tuesday, Sept. 4 from their co-written book, Our Towns: A 100,000 WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GROUPS through September at the beer garden at Boundary doors at 6:30pm VIEWS Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, at 11:30am Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Entry is $1. Enjoy live music, at Northwood Hall, 3240 Northwest Ave. Entry is FRI., AUG. 17 WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM fun skits, humor, and Frances 4 $5-$18 and includes a buffet lunch. Reservations are ROADEO: The City of Blaine’s Public Works depart- McCue introducing her latest recommended, as the event is expected to sell out. ment hosts its third annual equipment “Roadeo” TUES., AUG. 21 book of poetry... MAIL WWW.BELLINGHAMCITYCLUB.ORG from 1-3pm in the parking lot behind the Blaine FANCY BINGO: Help raise funds for Whatcom Library, 610 3rd St. Experience big equipment in ac- Literacy Council at a Fancy Bingo event happening Tickets $5 TIMBER tion with demonstrations, interactive activities for from 8-11pm at the Mountain Room at Boundary Bay available at Village Books 2 CURTAIN & brownpapertickets.com kids of all ages, games and prizes. Entry is free. Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Bingo cards are $2 each Award-winning Author

COMMUNITY Elizabeth Fournier DO IT WWW.CITYOFBLAINE.COM or three for $5. Receive a FREE TICKET to the show with every pre-event purchase of Timber Curtain! AUG. 15-18 WWW.WHATCOMLITERACY.ORG NW WASHINGTON FAIR: Performances by Bret SAT., AUG. 18 Tickets also available at VB for Michaels, High Valley, and Jeff Foxworthy will be a JOB FAIR AND BBQ: Taylor Driving Schools will WED., AUG. 22 few of the highlights of the annual Northwest Wash- host its annual Job Fair and BBG from 11am-2pm in PLANNING AHEAD: “What’s Next: Planning Ahead— 08.15.18 ington Fair taking place from 9am-11pm Monday Burlington at 650 N. Burlington Blvd. More than 20 Making Choices for Your Legacy and Health Care” will HANK GREEN through Saturday at Lynden’s Northwest Washington potential employers will be looking for drivers, and be the focus of an event taking place from 9am-4pm October 6 at WWU .13

Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Other activities and there will also be a truck show and competition, at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck 33 events include the Demolition Derby, the Lynden activities for all ages, and hot dogs. St. Presentations on palliative care, advanced direc- & # PRCA Rodeo, thousands of exhibits from local farms, WWW.TAYLORDRIVINGSCHOOLS.COM tives, family conversations, wills and legal issues, and residents and FFA youth, a wide variety of carnival end of life choices will be offered, and vendors will be ANNE LAMOTT rides and games, acts from area performers and SUN., AUG. 19 on hand to answer questions. Entry is free. November 15 at MBT much, much more. General admission is $8-$13; SHOW & SHINE: Corvettes Unlimited will host its WWW.WCCOA.ORG ticket prices vary for special events. 21st annual Open Classes Car Show & Shine from 10am- Go to VILLAGEBOOKS.COM WWW.NWWAFAIR.COM 2pm at BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. Regis- TECH BASICS: If you need help with basic com- for more information about these

tration starts at 8:30am; all cars are welcome. Entry puter, tablet, Internet, streaming,and download- and other upcoming events! CASCADIA WEEKLY THURS., AUG. 16 free for owners is $15; touring the vehicles is free. ing skills, sign up for a free, one-on-one coaching GO CLUB: Join the Bellingham Go Club from 6-9pm WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM session with a Librarian or Volunteer Tech Helper 13 at the upstairs mezzanine space at the Community at ”Tech Basics Coaching” from 2-4pm at the VILLAGE BOOKS Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Members welcome TRIVIA TIME: Bring your thinking cap when host SkillShare Space at the Bellingham Public Library, everyone to come play or learn how to play—in- Jeff Zwiers presents brain-busters about history, 210 Central Ave. & PAPER DREAMS cluding kids. The group also reviews games and sports, science, pop culture, music and more at a (360) 778-7210 1200 11th St, Bellingham & 430 Front St, Lynden • Open Daily

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AUG. 15-22 WWW.WNPSKOMA.ORG BOATING CENTER OPEN: The Com-

munity Boating Center will be open LYNDEN CEMETERY TOUR: A cos- 30 from 10am until sunset daily through tumed guide will explore the many the summer at their headquarters at historic personages of Lynden FOOD 555 Harris Ave. Rentals include kay- when the Lynden Pioneer Museum aks, sailboats, rowboats and paddle helms a tour at 1pm every Saturday outside boards. Registration for youth camps through September at the Lynden

24 HIKING RUNNING GARDENING and adult classes are available online. Cemetery, 1975 Front St. Attendees WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG at the free event can learn about the meaning of grave decorations B-BOARD AUG. 16-20 and how burial practices have SKAGIT TOURS: As part of the changed since the 1800s. annual “Skagit Tours,” Seattle City WWW.LYNDENPIONEERMUSEUM.COM 23 Light, the North Cascades Institute, and the National Park Service offer RIVER WALK: Learn about local FILM Diablo Lake boat tours, Gorge power- salmon species, discover native house tours, and Ladder Creek Falls plants and find aquatic insects at the

18 by Night events Thursdays through Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Asso- Mondays through the summer in and ciation’s Nooksack River Walk starting

MUSIC around the three dams near Highway at 3pm in Glacier at the Horseshoe 20. Prices for boat tours and other Bend Trailhead. The free, all-ages events range from $5-$42. educational excursions will be led by 16 WWW.SKAGITTOURS.COM Nooksack River Steward naturalists

ART Saturdays through Sept. 22. FRI., AUG. 17 WWW.N-SEA.ORG WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and 15 adventurers can join Holly Roger of SUN., AUG. 19 Wild Whatcom for a “Wild Things” RABBIT RIDE: Join members of

STAGE Community Program from 9:30-11am the Mount Baker Bicycle Club for a every Wednesday through August “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8am every at Lake Padden Park. Please bring a Sunday at Fairhaven Bicycle, 1108 14 14 simple, healthy snack to share, and 11th St. The 32-mile route takes dress for the weather. Suggested riders down Chuckanut and back via donation is $5 per person. Lake Samish. The group also holds GET OUT GET OUT WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG weekly rides Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. DRIVE FOR THE ARTS: Lincoln WWW.MTBAKERBIKECLUB.ORG 12 Theatre, the Theatre Arts Guild, and META team up for the fifth annual MON., AUG. 20

WORDS “Drive for the Arts” Golf Tournament PLANT DIAGNOSTIC CLINICS: starting at 1pm at Swinomish Golf Local Master Gardeners will be on

8 Links. Entry is $100 per person or hand for Plant Diagnostic Clinics $400 per team and includes 18 holes from 5-7:30pm Mondays through STORY AND IMAGE BY TRAIL RAT “You’re lucky it’s not a climbing shoe,” of golf, a riding cart, lunch and a August at the SkillShare Space at chance at prizes. Dinner only is $25. the Bellingham Public Library, 210

CURRENTS cracked Uncle Don as he fired up the WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG Central Ave. Bring your gardening power winch. “She tends to eat smaller questions and samples or photos of 6 amounts of rubber whole.” WHEELCHAIR GANGBALL: Attend unknown or problem plants. Pay Dirt The process of disgorging our vehicle Indoor Wheelchair Gangball from (360) 778-7210 VIEWS did not go smoothly. When we finally 5-7pm Fridays in August at Bloedel BUCKET LOADS OF ADVENTURE Donovan, 2200 Electric Ave. Sport TUES., AUG. 21 4 reached the river channel we were hot wheelchairs will be provided, and ALL-PACES RUN: Staff and volun- AS A reward for our most recent round of laborious trail im- and bothered. able-bodied participants are wel- teers are always on hand to guide MAIL provements at his hard-rock mine in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie After setting up camp on a shady terrace, come. Please call or text to RSVP. the way at the weekly All-Paces Run

(360) 303-2130 starting at 6pm every Tuesday at

2 National Forest, our supervisor invited Uncle Don and me to we assembled our panning equipment and spend a “leisurely” weekend gold panning on his placer claim. fanned out upriver to set up operations. Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. AUG. 17-18 The runs are 20 minutes out and DO IT Although it was hardly the chartered saltwater fishing trip he “Dig here,” our supervisor told me, SIN & GIN TOURS: Through Sep- back on two key routes-by the water had promised, we accepted his offer and loaded our gear into his spearing his pry bar into heavy cobble. tember, seasoned guides will regale or through the woods. Entry is free. jalopy with ardor. While he assembled his portable sluice audiences with tales of fascinating WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM The road to his “diggings” had accrued considerable flood box, I put my shovel and sorting screen characters at the margins of history 08.15.18 damage over the years and as our rattletrap conveyance heaved to work and classified a stockpile of at Good Time Girls’ “Sin & Gin” tours HISTORY CRUISE: Whatcom and bucked through a gauntlet of boulder-strewn blowouts I alluvial material. Once our sluice beat 7pm Fridays in downtown Belling- Museum hosts its popular “Sunset .13 ham, and 7pm Saturdays in historic History Cruise” starting at 6:30pm

33 began to suffer motion sickness. came operational I hauled a bucket over, Fairhaven. Tickets are $15-$20. at San Juan Cruises’ slip at the # Disregarding my incessant pleas to ditch the vehicle and contin- poured a scoopful of fines into the trace WWW.GOODTIMEGIRLSTOURS.COM Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 ue afoot, our supervisor calmly advised me to brace for the worst. and watched the heaviest pebbles collect Harris Ave. Historians Brian Griffin Finally, after we encountered a washout so gruesome as to be against the riffles. Fifty buckets later, we’d SAT., AUG. 18 and Doug Starcher will take turns indisputably impassable, he was persuaded to abort the mission. recovered enough concentrates to circu- PLANT HIKE: “Wild Edibles and leading the popular Bellingham Bay Medicinal Plants of Summer” will be excursions aboard the Victoria Star. But the road wasn’t done with us yet. Turning around to park, late through our pans. the focus of a Washington Native In addition to offering stunning our front-passenger-side tire sank into a soft patch of gravel and A few gold flakes and tiny nuggets Plant Society hike with Jazmen Yoder scenery, the event includes stories

CASCADIA WEEKLY our entire rig slid slantwise down an embankment. were hardly the bonanza we’d envisioned, and Jim Davis from 8:30am-5pm at about the region’s fascinating his- We didn’t capsize, but an intervening tree stump wedged our but there was still plenty of riparian rec- Heather Meadows. Hopefully, this tory and how they relate to contem- 14 doors so tightly all four occupants had to exit from the driver’s reation to relish. And when Sheba reap- series of short hikes will be timed porary issues. Tickets are $30-$35; during the peak of Cascade blueberry additional cruises happen Tuesdays side. Sheba, Uncle Don’s wolf-dog, was the first one out and she peared that evening, she relinquished a production. Meet at 8:30am at the through Sept. 11. Reservations are rewarded herself by absconding with a critical piece of footwear. valuable item our supervisor assumed Sunset Square Safeway parking lot to recommended. “Bring that back!” our supervisor snapped as she dragged he’d never see again—let alone in wear- carpool. WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG his neoprene boot away. able condition. doit STAGE TUES., AUG. 21 BIFT: Upfront Theatre improvisors

WED., AUG. 15 will present two sets of short-form VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend the improv comedy games at Beer + 30 Bellingham Circus Guild’s monthly Improv + Food Truck (BIFT) shows at FOOD uncensored variety show, “Vaudevil- 6pm every Tuesday through Aug. 28 stage lingham,” at 7pm and 9pm perfor- at the beer garden at Boundary Bay mances at the Cirque Lab, 1401 Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Tickets

THEATER DANCE PROFILES 24 6th St., suite #102. Expect to see to the interactive, family-friendly everything from aerial performances performances are $5 (free for those to dance, comedy, magic, juggling, 12 and under). B-BOARD burlesque and more. Both novice WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM and veteran performers are welcome to share their talents. Suggested COMEDY OPEN MIC: The weekly 23 donation is $5-$10. Shakedown Punch Up Comedy Open WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM Mic begins at 7:30pm at the FILM Shakedown, 1212 N. State St. Entry THURS., AUG. 16 is free.

GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The WWW.SHAKEDOWNBELLINGHAM.COM 18 Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront

AUG. 22-26 MUSIC Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: As part of around for “The Project.” Entry is $8 a Western Summer Theatre lineup, at-

to the early show, $5 for the late one. tend showings of Young Frankenstein 16 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM

at 7:30pm Wednesday through Friday, ART 2pm and 7:30pm Saturday, and 2pm AUG. 16-18 Sunday at Western Washington 15 SUMMER OF BLOOD FINALE: The University’s Performing Arts Center 15 Skagit River Shakespeare Company Mainstage. Tickets are $11-$17 to see STAGE concludes its “Summer of Blood” the musical—an adaptation of the STAGE season with showings of Titus monstrously funny Mel Brooks film Andronicus Thursday and Saturday at bearing the same name. the Rexville Grange Amphitheater, 650-6146 OR 14 19299 Rexville Grange Rd. See the WWW.TICKETS.WWU.EDU drama King Lear for the final time at GET OUT 7pm Friday. Tickets are $10-$13. WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG DANCE 12 HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES: THURS., AUG. 16 The world-famous mystery known as FOLK DANCE: The Balkan Folk theater.com By the time the Hound of the Baskervilles concludes Dancers meet from 7-9:30pm Thurs- WORDS BY AMY KEPFERLE stage lights revealed this weekend with showings at days at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 the stories, a brand- 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday 12th St. Suggested donation is $5. 8 new play based on at the Anacortes Community (360) 380-0456 that night’s theme Theatre, 918 M Ave. In the play, Sherlock Holmes investigates a FRI., AUG. 17

Marian and was already in the CURRENTS family curse—death at the fangs of HOT AUGUST NIGHTS: Join Bell- works. a horror that prowls the desolate ingham USA Dance for a “Hot Au- 6 Patrons can view moors. Tickets are $20. gust Nights” event starting with a ATTEND the “Hotbox” of- WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM nightclub 2 step lesson at 7:15pm More VIEWS WHAT: Hotbox fering Aug. 17-18, at the Majestic, 1027 N. Forest St. WHEN: 7:30pm Aug. AUG. 16-22 From 8-10pm, dance along to tunes

IDIOM THEATER’S LOADED LINEUP when it comes to 4 17-18 BARD ON THE BEACH: Macbeth, by DJ Skeeter. All are welcome, WHERE: life at the center’s As You Like It, Timon of Athens, and including singles, seniors and MAIL IF A playwright contacts you an hour before showtime to ask if Sylvia Center Lucas Hicks The- Lysistrata show in repertory through beginners. Entry is $7-$10. you want to be her date to view the short play she penned the COST: $1-$12 ater (which will Sept. 28 at Vancouver, BC’s “Bard WWW.BELLINGHAMUSADANCE.COM 2 night before, say yes. ------also be the scene on the Beach” Shakespeare Festival at Vanier Park. Tickets start at $24 AUG. 20-22

That was the case last Friday, when I joined iDiOM Theater of a Deakin Hicks DO IT WHAT: Marian (Canadian), and advance purchase is YOUTH DANCE WORKSHOP: stalwart Krissa Woiwod at the Sylvia Center for the Arts for a WHEN: 7:30pm Aug. album release con- strongly recommended. Bellingham Repertory Dance will viewing of the 49th iteration of the 48 Hour Theater Festival— 16-18 cert Sun., Aug. 19). WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.COM host a Youth Dance Workshop one of the offerings recently added on to an already ambitious WHERE: Maritime The full-length play from 10am-2pm Monday through summer lineup of shows. Heritage Park will have been writ- AUG. 17-18 Wednesday at the Firehouse Arts 08.15.18 Entering through the back door of the voluminous space, we COST: Free ten, rehearsed and PUSH IT: Mainstage performers and Events Center, 1314 Harris Ave.

INFO: www.idiom will take big chances by attempting Dancers entering grades 6 to 8 will .13 passed tights-clad castmembers of Marian, or the True Story of performed in just a never-before-seen formats at “Push have opportunities to develop their 33 # Robin Hood. They were leaving the building as we were com- week’s time. After seeing what the pow- it to the Limit” shows at 9pm Fri- technique and expand their artistic ing in, and would soon share the “gender-bending, patriarchy- ers that be at iDiOM can do in just 48 day and Saturday nights in August expression. Entry is $150. smashing take on the classic outlaw legend” with an audience hours, rest assured what you’ll see will be at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. WWW.BHAMREP.ORG/ gathered at Maritime Heritage Park. worth your time. Entry is $10-$12. YOUTH-PROGRAMS WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM Because she wrote instead of acting or directing in Friday’s I haven’t yet seen Marian, but plan to MON., AUG. 20 lineup—five short plays all based on the theme “House of the catch one of the remaining free shows MON., AUG. 20 WEST AFRICAN DANCE: Maya

Rising Sisters”—Woiwod only found out when we arrived that happening Aug. 16-18 at Maritime Heri- GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open Kadakia helms a Western African CASCADIA WEEKLY one of the actors in her work, “Re-Enactment (OF DEATH),” had tage Park—which will also be setting mic for comedians, “Guffawing- Dance Class from 8-9:30pm at the to pull out midafternoon, leaving director Linnaea Groh to mem- of Aphra Behn’s comedic play The Rover ham!,” takes place at 9pm every Van Zandt Community Hall in Dem- 15 Monday at the Firefly Lounge, 1015 ing. No prior experience is needed. orize her lines and do double duty by appearing onstage. Aug. 23-25. The added lineup also in- N. State St. Entry is free. Entry is $15-$20. “I’m pretty sure I was napping while that was happening,” cludes a “Talking Godot” lecture Aug. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GROUPS/ Woiwod said with a guilty look as we took our seats and prepared 30, and an Open House and season GUFFAWINGHAM BHAMWESTAFRICANDANCE to watch the plays that had been written the previous evening. launch Aug. 31. that takes place when pedestrians come across the painters—whether they’re draft- ing an outline under a blue summer sky or holding a paintbrush in their mouth while

30 they struggle to keep a hold of their cre- ation—is important to the event’s success. FOOD In fact, before signing up to take part in PAPO 2018—which this year takes place from 10am-4pm Aug. 25- 24 visual GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES 26—artists need to have signed a release stat- B-BOARD ing, among other things, that since the mission

23 of the event is for the community to see all of

FILM the artists on one day in ATTEND the downtown area, they

18 WHAT: Plein must choose a spot that Air Paint Play is visible to the public. WHEN: MUSIC Whether you’re one of 10:30am Thurs., Aug. 16 the artists that’s been 16 16 WHERE: part of the Plein Air Paint

ART Whatcom

ART Out since its inception, Museum’s are new to the concept Lightcatcher

15 of painting in public, or Courtyard, 250 Flora St. are a patron of the arts

STAGE MORE: Kids who is eager to engage

“ON GOLDEN POND,” BY JODY BERGSMA JODY “ON GOLDEN POND,” BY ages 18 months with artists in your com- to 6 years old munity, there are a few 14 can explore other things about the stencils, watercolors, unique event and follow- GET OUT salt and soap ing exhibit at Studio UFO bubbles to keep in mind. COST: Included

12 For instance, all the with admission; entries must be origi- free for nal and mostly finished WORDS

“CLOAK,” BY SHELLEY ALLEN BY “CLOAK,” members INFO: on the day of the Plein www.whatcom 8 Air Paint Out. Addition- museum.org ally, paintings must be ------reflect the uniqueness WHAT: 13th CURRENTS annual “Plein of downtown Belling- Air Paint Out” ham on paper, board or 6 WHEN: 10am- stretched canvas, and be “ESSO ELEPHANT,” BY MAX GROVER BY “ESSO ELEPHANT,” 4pm Sat.-Sun., ready to hang by early VIEWS Aug. 25-26 September. All works WHERE: 4 Downtown must be for sale during Bellingham the exhibit, and artists MAIL COST: $10 will get 70 percent of

for artists;

2 the profit. registration “Studio UFO also re- should be DO IT postmarked by serves the right to pho- Wed., Aug. 15 tograph entries and art- BY AMY KEPFERLE ners of the urban core is an amusing one, ------ists in action and use it’s not that far off from reality. In 2015, WHAT: “Plein photographs for the pur- 08.15.18 a vicious windstorm actually had partici- Air Paint Out” poses of documentation, exhibit opening pants scrambling to keep their easels, can- education, publicity and .13 The Chase WHEN: 6-9pm 33 vases and painting supplies from blowing Fri., Sept. 7 to encourage public in- # PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT away. But despite the worrisome weather, WHERE: Studio teraction with the arts,” Harding said it was one of her favorite days UFO Gallery, the prospectus reads. SOMETHING TRISH Harding told me nearly a decade ago resurfaced recently, ever when it came to painting outside. 301 W. Holly st. “You give that permis- INFO: and it explains a lot about why the prolific painter is so passionate about the Plein “The streets were teeming with people www.studio- sion by your entry.” Air Paint Out (PAPO)—an event she’s been organizing every summer for the past 13 almost playing in the wind gusts,” she ufo.net It should also be noted years that sees scores of artists taking to the streets of downtown Bellingham to ply said. “Everybody was talking to each that in addition to sup-

CASCADIA WEEKLY their creative trade. other on the streets and all seemed so porting the Plein Air Paint Out artists by “I love to paint—and to see other artists paint—outside,” she said at the time. “You excited. We never did get any rain, but stopping and talking to them about their 16 have to be totally in the moment, because in the next moment everything changes; the my oh my, what fun it was.” rain-or-shine endeavors and how they clouds, the birds. It’s like a sundial, almost. You have to go with the air, the rain and Because a major element of the Plein merge art with their everyday lives, view- the wind. You chase your painting, if you have to.” Air Paint Out is drawing attention to the ing and purchasing their finished works is While the imagined vision of a paint-speckled artist following after and finally catching wealth of local artists who live and work in another way to ensure they stick around, up with the product of their creativity through the sidewalks, alleyways, curves and cor- Bellingham, the aforementioned dialogue chasing their visions for the long haul. doit

UPCOMING EVENTS until Aug. 19 at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Gal- lery, 2345 Blanche Way. WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM FRI., AUG. 17 NIGHT MARKET: Artisan vending, intriguing enter- 30 tainment, delicious food and local music will be part MONA: Patty Detzer’s “Proceed with Abandon” and of the second Commercial Street Night Market of the “In Red Ink” show through Sept. 23 at La Conner’s FOOD season from 6-10pm on the 1300 block of Commercial Museum of Northwest Art, 121 First St. St. Entry is free. Additional markets happen Sept. 21 WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG and Dec. 21. 24 WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM PERRY AND CARLSON: Mixed-media works by Susan Singleton will be featured through August in Mount Vernon at Perry and Carlson gallery, 504 S. First St. SAT., AUG. 18 B-BOARD STEPPING STONES: Sign up for a “Mosaic Stepping WWW.PERRYANDCARLSON.COM Stone” workshop with Jean Kroll from 1-4pm at the

Chuckanut Center, 103 Chuckanut Drive N. In the begin- QUILT MUSEUM: “Pacific Northwest Needle Arts 23 ner-friendly class, participants will design and create Guild,” “Seeing Stars: A Celebration of Star Quilts, Old

a unique mosaic garden paver using a wide variety of and New,” and “Fabric Poems” are currently on display FILM colorful “tessarae.” Suggested donation is $30. If you haven’t yet seen “The Intimate Diebenkorn: Works on Paper 1949-1992” and “Crow’s Shadow Insti- at La Conner’s Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, WWW.CHUCKANUTCENTER.ORG tute of the Arts at 25” currently on display at Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, Sun., Aug. 19 is 703 S. Second St. your last chance to do so. WWW.QFAMUSEUM.ORG 18 GREEN SCENE: Learn more about Robin Green’s

drawings on silk and ceramic sculptures at a “Coffee RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related workshops MUSIC with the Artist” event from 12-2pm at at Edison’s i.e. happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery, 1421 N. gallery, 5800 Cains Court. The watercolors of Hui-Yin LeSage will also continue GALLERY PEGASUS: Peruse “Natura” through Sep- Forest St. 16 16 WWW.IEEDISON.COM to be highlighted. tember at Gallery Pegasus, 301 W. Holly St. WWW.RAGFINERY.COM ART WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM WWW.GALLERYPEGASUS.COM ART SUN., AUG. 19 SCOTT MILO: Paintings by Bellingham-based artist ECO-DYEING WORKSHOP: Irene Hinkle will lead an BANK OF THE PACIFIC: View works by painter Lorna GOOD EARTH: “Tactile,” featuring works by by Amy Jody Bergsma will be featured through Sept. 4 at the 15 “Eco-Dyeing from Weeds and Waste” workshop from Libert from Aug. 17-Sept. 3 at the Bank of the Pacific, Popelk, will be featured through August at Good Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave. 12-2pm at the Chuckanut Center, 103 Chuckanut Drive N. 100 Grand Ave. Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM Bring interesting leaves, fronds and flowers (both fresh WWW.BANKOFTHEPACIFIC.COM WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM STAGE and dried are fine) if you like and incorporate them into SOCIAL FABRIC: Sign up for a variety of sewing and your eco-dyed paper. Suggested donation is $25. BELLEWOOD ACRES: View photographs by Rich Cavnar I.E. GALLERY: Robin Green’s drawings on silk and art workshops through August at Social Fabric, 1302 14 WWW.CHUCKANUTCENTER.ORG and paintings by Laurel Baldwin through August at the ceramic sculptures and Jef Gun’s encaustics can be Commercial St. gallery at Bellewood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. viewed through Aug. 24 at Edison’s i.e. gallery, 5800 WWW.SOCIALFABRICART.COM CROWS AND DIEBENKORN: If you haven’t yet seen WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM Cains Court. GET OUT “The Intimate Diebenkorn: Works on Paper 1949-1992” WWW.IEEDISON.COM SMITH & VALLEE: “The Wild Life” shows through Aug. and “Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25,” today COOPER LANZA: Group classes, private lessons, 26 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5472 Gilkey Ave. WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM from 12-5pm is your last chance to do so at Whatcom life drawing, long-pose sessions, exhibits and more JANSEN ART CENTER: View a “Summer Juried 12 Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. Entry happen on a regular basis at Cooper Lanza Gallery and Exhibit,” the sixth annual “Cup Show,” and exhibits is $5-$10. School of Fine Art, 1415 13th St. featuring artwork by Ria Harboe, Nancy Canyon, WHATCOM ART MARKET: Works by Whatcom Art WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG WWW.COOPERLANZAGALLERY.COM Norman E. Riley, and Peggy Woods through Aug. 31 at Guild members can be perused Wed.-Sun. at the What- WORDS Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. com Art Market, 1103 11th St.

FISHBOY GALLERY: Discover the contemporary folk WWW.JANSEARTCENTER.ORG WWW.WHATCOMARTMARKET.ORG 8 ONGOING EXHIBITS art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm Fridays or by appoint- ment at the Fishboy Gallery, 617 Virginia St. MAKE.SHIFT: Through Aug. 25, view juried works ex- WHATCOM MUSEUM: “The Intimate Diebenkorn: ALLIED ARTS: “We are WACK” shows through Aug. 25 319-2913 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM ploring the dark side of sleep at “Wake Up! A Group Show Works on Paper 1949-1992,” “Crow’s Shadow Institute CURRENTS at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. About Nightmares” at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. of the Arts at 25,” “People of the Sea and Cedar,”

WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: See “A Member of the WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM “From Tin to Table: The Art of the Salmon Label,” and 6 Family” through August at Fourth Corner Frames & Gal- “John M. Edson Hall of Birds” can currently be viewed ARTWOOD: Wood boxes and bowls will be featured lery, 311 W. Holly St. MATZKE FINE ART: See the multi-artist exhibit “Sum- on the Whatcom Museum campus. VIEWS through August at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. WWW.FOURTHCORNERFRAMES.COM mer Moments” from 11am-5pm Fridays through Sundays WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG 4 MAIL

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30 AS I’M FOND of saying, I’m lucky enough that most of my lady heroes are people I know FOOD and am friends with in real life. One of those, Alice Clark, founder and former executive director of the Pickford Film 24 music SHOW PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT Center and current executive director of the Downtown Bellingham Partnership, taught B-BOARD me the lesson that has become the bedrock belief of my Bellingham life: that one person

23 can change the entire town for the better. It’s fitting that one of Alice’s coworkers,

FILM DBP Events Director Lindsey Payne Johnstone, is a living, breathing

18 18 example of that belief made manifest. MUSIC MUSIC Lindsey started working for DBP a decade

16 ago, and ever since she

ART joined the civic-minded nonprofit, Downtown

15 Sounds has been, well, hers. The concert series BY CAREY ROSS

STAGE already existed when she came on board, but it needed someone to take it on who could see its potential and then make it so. 14 From the start, Lindsey not only had real affection for Downtown Sounds, but she also

GET OUT knew it could offer significant benefits to the people who came, the bands that played, the

12 sponsors and downtown Bellingham itself. HIBOU So she brought her vision to life with a lot of work, a slew of volunteers and an abun- WORDS dance of love. And she hoped we’d see in

8 BY CAREY ROSS Summer’s End is a ticketed event—as in, not Downtown Sounds what she saw. free—because that’s what happens when a Lindsey built it and we came. First by the good idea’s ambitions outpace its resources. As hundreds and now by the thousands.

CURRENTS with most such similar local enterprises, orga- It’s only appropriate then, that the 2018 Summer’s End nizers hope to keep the cost to the public as Downtown Sounds, which marked Lindsey’s 6 low as possible—a full-price ticket to Summer’s 10-year anniversary, was its most success- MUSIC + ARTS End is $25—so volunteer opportunities abound ful in history. The concerts, which once VIEWS SUMMER’S END Music + Arts Gathering is a pretty cool event. It mar- for those lacking the requisite resources. took place in the alley next to the Wild Buf-

4 ries music, art, dancing, giant board games and more together to create an The other change is falo, have now expanded to two entire city experience that not only engages attendees, but also encourages attendees the location. For the first blocks—and if this year’s attendance is any MAIL to engage with each other. It’s decidedly community-minded, but not preachy time, Summer’s End will indication, even that might not be enough

2 about it. It’s proudly local and looks to celebrate this region, its artistic take place at Zuanich to contain the series, which only gets more bounty and its beauty. In short, there’s a lot to like about Summer’s End. Point Park, which is be- popular and grows more beloved with time.

DO IT And yet, for the first two years of its existence, I found myself harbor- ing rented out by the Port The success of Downtown Sounds can be ing a strange and wholly unwarranted mental block concerning the one-day of Bellingham for the oc- attributed to a variety of factors and Lind- festival. So, in order to get to the bottom of my imaginary mystery angst, I ATTEND casion. I will say I have sey certainly doesn’t pull off the massive en- sussed out last year’s iteration, which took place at Maritime Heritage Park. WHAT: Summer’s what is best described as terprise alone. But the whole undertaking, 08.15.18 Even though the 2017 Summer’s End had to contend with a chilly, gray End Music + Art some complicated feel- from its welcoming atmosphere to its army of day, the windbreaker-clad attendees didn’t seem to mind. Nor did the bands, Gathering ings about a public park cheerful volunteers to the way performers are .13 WHEN: Sat., Aug.

33 artists, organizers or volunteers. Music was being played, art was being cre- being closed to the public taken care of reflects the attitude her leader-

# 17 ated, the aforementioned giant board games were seeing a lot of use and WHERE: Zuanich for a private event, but ship brings to it. No one works harder than silent disco participants were dancing blissfully to music only they could Point Park those opinions are best she does—and no one believes more strongly hear. As I meandered in and around the various components that comprise COST: $25, kids reserved for my Port Com- that working hard should be fun as much and this multidisciplinary spectacle, I noticed that despite Summer’s End’s size 12 and under are missioners. All Summer’s as often as possible. And no one brings more free and variety, the vibe remained low key, laid back and welcoming. End wants to do is throw love to what they do than Lindsey. INFO: As I said, a lot to like. And then I realized my issue had to do with the www.summers a party and show every- To witness the profoundly positive effect CASCADIA WEEKLY name. Summer’s End. It’s a good name. Simple. Easy to remember, hard to endfest.com one a good time—and that a single person can have on a whole misspell. Its only crime is that it reminds me of something I like to remain if you’re going to stage town, one need not look any further than 18 in complete denial of for longer than is probably prudent. something with a local focus that celebrates Bay and Prospect streets during five magi- Luckily for me, this year’s Summer’s End happens Sat., Aug. 17, well the many different forms of beauty this area cal Wednesdays every summer. Lindsey likely before the season it’s named for calls it quits, meaning the name is now has to offer, Zuanich Point Park is pretty thinks when I reference the Reign of Payne more moniker than harbinger. much the perfect place to do so. that I’m half-serious. But it’s no joke. Reign But that’s not the only thing that’s different in 2018. For the first time, The centerpiece of the sprawling, multi- of Payne 4 eva. END, FROM PAGE 18 up sponsorship dollars or in-kind trade. Camber will host a pop-up coffee shop, Vital Climbing Gym will erect a climb- faceted affair is music (as it should be), ing wall, Backcountry Essentials is go- and in that regard you’ll find Hibou; Mr. ing to hang some hammocks and invite 30 Feelgood & the Firm Believers; Marshall people to chill, and Tito’s Vodka—one

Law Band; Guayaba; Club Mage; Hello, of the event’s presenting sponsors—will FOOD I’m Sorry; Porch Cat; and a DJ set by erect a temporary dog park for your furry Mostafa. But don’t forget about the friends. And that’s far from all you’ll find. 24 silent disco (I’d explain, but it’s way As part of their mission to support com- more fun not to), where Underground munity beyond providing an avenue for

Transmissions, Lotus Drops, Squanch, imagination, escapism and entertainment, B-BOARD Korra the Kid, Heirz, Shadow Variable, proceeds from the beer garden at Summer’s

Episcool, Prongs, Sweekends, Dub Ja End will benefit local nonprofits, and some 23 Vu, and James Gatz will offer up the of the on-the-spot works of art created soundtrack and all who are interested that day will be auctioned off at a Septem- FILM will provide the movement. ber event, with funds going to a cause or

As well, artists of many different charity of each artist’s choice. 18 18 disciplines and genres will be creating As mentioned above, it’s easy to find MUSIC paintings and pieces on the spot, and something—or many things—to like MUSIC local businesses will participate in ways about Summer’s End. Just don’t hold their

more innovative than simply ponying name against them. 16 ART

doit 15

Mama Dirty Skirt, and Stereo Bones will perform at

WED., AUG. 15 STAGE BATTLE OF THE BANDS: Come watch talented the Skagit Woodstock & Rockin’ Car Show starting teen musicians perform onstage at a free Battle of at 2pm in Mount Vernon at Edgewater Park, 600

the Bands happening from 5-7pm at the Burlington Behrens Millett Rd. Entry is $10. 14 Visitor Center Amphitheater, 520 E. Fairhaven Ave. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SKAGIT-WOODSTOCK WWW.BURLINGTONWA.GOV/LIBRARY

ARETE QUARTET: Arete Quartet shares its GET OUT THURS., AUG. 16 transcendent acid jazz as part of a summer concert BLUES AND BREWS: “Blues, Brews and Barbe- series from 6-8pm at Boulevard Park. Entry is free.

cue” features the sounds of the Atlantics from WWW.COB.ORG 12 5-9pm on the outdoor terrace at Hotel Bellwether, 1 Bellwether Way. Admission is $7-$10. NAUGHTY BLOKES: As part of a free Summer WORDS WWW.HOTELBELLWETHER.COM Concert Series, listen to the Naughty Blokes perform from 6-8pm at the Heart of Anacortes, JAZZ JAM: The Jazz Project’s Jud Sherwood hosts 1014 4th St. From Tin to Table: 8 a rotating house trio at a Jazz Jam happening WWW.HEARTOFANACORTES.COM from 5:30-8:30pm Thursdays at Illuminati Brewing, The Art of the Salmon Label 3950 Hammer Dr., Suite 101. Entry is free. SUN., AUG. 19 CURRENTS WWW.JAZZPROJECT.ORG LA CONNER LIVE: The Naughty Blokes will per-

form as part of a “La Conner Live!” series taking 6 PARK CONCERT: High Mountain String Band place from 1-4pm at Gilkey Square. Entry is free.

performs from 6-8pm as part of the Elizabeth Park WWW.LOVELACONNER.COM VIEWS Summer Concert Series. Entry is free.

WWW.THEELDRIDGESOCIETY.ORG INTERNATIONAL TUNES: Experience Tibetan 4 music when Lharik Dhakpa and Tsering Dolker

RIVERWALK CONCERT SERIES: Soulfunktion will perform as part of an International Concert Series MAIL perform as part of Mount Vernon’s free Riverwalk at 2pm at Blaine’s Peace Arch Park. Entry is free.

Concert Series from 6-8pm at the Riverwalk Plaza. WWW.PEACEARCHPARK.ORG 2 WWW.MOUNTVERNONCHAMBER.COM

DEAKIN HICKS CD RELEASE: A Deakin Hicks DO IT FRI., AUG. 17 Album Release Concert begins at 7pm at the Sylvia ANACORTES SERIES: As part of a free Summer Center for the Arts, 205 Prospect St. The Last will Concert Series by the Port of Anacortes, listen be released with a concert of Lucas Hicks’ all- and dance to Longstride from 6-8pm at Seafarers’ original compositions. Tickets are $15. 08.15.18 Memorial Park, 601 Seafarers’ Way. WWW.SYLVIACENTERFORTHEARTS.ORG WWW.PORTOFANACORTES.COM Now Showing Through August 26th MON., AUG. 20 .13 33 FARM TUNES: As part of the free Friday Night VOICE WORKSHOP: Adult sopranos and altos can at Old City Hall # Farm Tunes series, the Prozac Mountain Boys work with Artistic Director Wendy Bloom and learn perform from 6-9pm at BelleWood Acres, 6140 about Vox Pacificia at a voice workshop from 6:30- Salmon can labels have long been collected for their variety Guide Meridian. 8:30pm at Central Lutheran Church, 925 N. Forest WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM St. Suggested donation is $10. and beauty, a decorative prize for the avid recycler. See the [email protected] artistry of labels that originated with Fairhaven’s Pacific WHISKEY FEVER: Hear rock and rockabilly when Whiskey Fever performs as part of a summer concert THURS., AUG. 23

American Fisheries (1899 - 1965) in this exhibit! CASCADIA WEEKLY series happening from 7-9pm at Sedro-Woolley’s HOUSE CONCERT: Chuck Dingee, Sharon Mayson, Eagle Haven Winery, 8243 Sims Rd. Entry is $12-$15. and Katie Weed will perform as Threefer at a House 19 WWW.EAGLEHAVENWINERY.COM Concert happening from 7:30-9pm at the Chucka- Whatcom Museum nut Center, 103 Chuckanut Drive N. Suggested SAT., AUG. 18 donation is $5-$10. Old City Hall SKAGIT WOODSTOCK: Never Kry, High Voltage, WWW.CHUCKANUTCENTER.ORG 121 Prospect Street whatcommuseum.org musicvenues 30

See below for venue FOOD addresses and phone 08.15.18 08.16.18 08.17.18 08.18.18 08.19.18 08.20.18 08.21.18 numbers WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY

24 David Leibe Hart, Johnny Alternative Library Open Stage BF Knowhere, Flais, more Poetrynight Thursday

B-BOARD Anelia's Kitchen & Stage Live Music Live Music

B-Town Kitchen & Raw Threefer Thomas Sandblom 23 Bar

FILM RODNEY ATKINS/Aug. 17-18/ Beach Store Cafe Sher Vadinska, Margaret Wilder Skagit Casino Resort

The StillVettas, Something In the 18 18 Boscoe's Karaoke Anubis Unit, Yellbox Trees, Grey Glass MUSIC MUSIC Stringband Thurs- day w/Robt Sara- Fryday Fish Fry w/ Southern Fried Irish & Folk Boundary Bay zin Blake, Twilight The Lonesome Town Sunday w/DJ Monday w/ Out of the Ashes 16 Brewery Concert w/Sierra Painters Yogoman Robin Elwood

ART Ferrell

Acoustic Night w/ Open Mic Dodgy Mountain Men 15 Brown Lantern Ale House Weird Year

STAGE Michael Franti and Spear- Maceo Parker, Nina Commodore Ballroom Yelawolf head, Hirie, Ahi Mendoza

Tutwiler Station/Randy Norris 14 Conway Muse William Pint and Felicia Dale Backyard Bison and Jeff Nicely

GET OUT Eat Restaurant and Bar Live Jazz

Edison Inn Cascadia Groove Bow Diddlers 12 WORDS

8 Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale, WA SEPTEMBER 1 & 2, 2018 CURRENTS 6 VIEWS

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Soul Night w/DJ Firefly Lounge Weird Year Jason Eady The Dizzys Kat Bula, Cory D. Ward 24 Yogoman

Greene's Corner Open Mic and Poetry Night B-BOARD

Guemes Island General Clinton Fearon and the Boogie Brown

Store Band, Milo Matthews 23

H2O DJ Clint Westwood CC Adams Band FILM 18 Honey Moon Open Mic w/Pace Rubadeau RSS Trio Jazz Jam Quickdraw String Band Flaccid Bag Dandelion and Friends Christopher Burke LeCompte 18 MUSIC MUSIC Hotel Bellwether The Atlantics Tony Floreno Live Music Alicia Dauber Quintet 16

Kulshan Brewing Co. Daddy Treetops Gallowglass ART 15 Cheryl Hodge w/Hadassah Lovitt Restaurant Bonnie Northgraves Trio Tango Cowboys McGill STAGE

Main St. Bar and Grill JP Falcon Acoustic Showcase The Replayzmentz The Takers 14

Make.Shift Hi Crime, Erin Parkes GET OUT

Old World Deli Lindsay Street 12 Rockfish Grill Blues Union WORDS CLINTON FEARON/Aug. 18/Guemes Island Royal Dance Party Karaoke DJ Jester DJ Jester Karaoke General Store 8 Talent Show w/Vivienne Take Me to Church w/Betty Karaoke w/Seamus Rumors Cabaret Duchanne and DJ Total Request Live Flashback Friday Partylicious Saturday Trashy Tuesday Desire O'Carey Shortstack Vincent Blackshadow's 21st Flannel, Josiah and the Six Organs of Admittance, Wino, Punch Up Comedy CURRENTS The Shakedown Birthday w/Mean Ether, Amazing Technicolor Xasthur Open Mic

more Dreamboats 6 Silver Reef Hotel DJ Clint Westwood

Casino Spa VIEWS Rodney Atkins

Rodney Atkins (Show- 4 (Showroom), The room), The Marlin James Skagit Casino Resort Marlin James Band Band (Lounge) MAIL (Lounge)

Skylark's Tom Xavier Telefonic T.G.R. 2 DO IT The Naughty Blokes Lefty and His Right Hand Stones Throw Brewery Trace Reziduex Unplugged Band

Swinomish Casino and Aaron Crawford Band Aaron Crawford Band Lodge 08.15.18

The Underground DJ B-Mello DJ B-Mello .13 33 # The Village Inn Jam Night Karaoke AYRON JONES AND THE WAY/Aug. 17/Wild Buffalo

Whalien, Hippopatamus Hot Ayron Jones and the Way, ’90s Night The Penny Stinkers, Lind- Wild Buffalo Tub, Rubber Bandit Boogie Whitney Monge, The Black Latin Night w/DJ Note Lip Sync Battle w/Boombox Kid say Street, Whitewing Brigade Tones

Alternative Library 519 E. Maple St | Anelias Kitchen & Stage 513 S. 1st St., La Conner • (360) 466-4778 | Beach Store Cafe 2200 N. Nurgent Road, Lummi Island • www.beachstorecafe.com | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Big Lake Bar & Grill 18247 WA-9, Mt Vernon • (360) 422-6411 | Boundary Bay Brewery 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Boscoe’s 118 W. Holly St. | Brown Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business CASCADIA WEEKLY 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-9788 | Chuckanut Brewery 601 W. Holly St. • 752-3377 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) 739-4550 | Conway Muse 18444 Spruce/Main St., Conway • (360) 445-3000 | Corner Pub 14565 Allen West Road, Burlington | Culture Cafe at Kombucha Town 2010 E. Chestnut St. • www.kombuchatown.com | Eat Restaurant & Bar 1200 Cornwall Ave • www.4u2eat.com | Edison Inn 5829 Cains Ct., Edison • (360) 766-6266 | Firefly Lounge 21 1015 N. State St. | H20, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N. State St. • 734-0728 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Lovett Restaurant 1114 Harris Ave, • (360) 671-7143 | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • www.makeshiftproject.com | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s Taphouse 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | The Redlight 1017 N. State St. • www.redlightwineandcoffee.com | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret 1119 Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | The Shakedown 1212 N. State St. • www.shakedownbellingham.com | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • (360) 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 | Stones Throw Brewery 1009 Larrabee Ave. | Swinomish Casino 12885 Casino Dr., Anacortes • (888) 288-8883 | Temple Bar 306 W. Champion St. • 676-8660 | The Underground 211 E. Chestnut St. • 738-3701 | Underground Coffeehouse Viking Union 3rd Floor, WWU | Village Inn Pub 3020 Northwest Ave. • 734-2490 | Vinostrology 120 W. Holly St. • 656-6817 | The Waterfront 521 W. Holly St. • www.waterfrontseafoodandbar.com | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your live music listings included, send info to [email protected]. Deadlines are always at 5pm Friday. gold-digger by Nick’s boorish buddies, smirking aunties and beautiful ex-girl- friend (Jing Lusi). She also gets a polite but frosty greeting from Eleanor, who’s

30 determined to keep her son from marry- ing someone so ill equipped to shoulder FOOD the Young dynasty. film For all the movie’s razzle-dazzle, its dramatic center holds, rather beautiful- 24 MOVIE REVIEWS FILM SHORTS ly. Wu, a memorable tiger-mom spitfire on Fresh Off the Boat, makes a complete B-BOARD reversal here as a sympathetic Lizzie

Bennet-like heroine who schemes only 23 23 in self-defense. Golding, meanwhile, in- carnates the screen charisma of a young FILM FILM Tyrone Power; he has only to flash his mega-watt smile to slip a scene into his

18 immaculately tailored pocket. The power of that smile may partly explain why the

MUSIC filmmakers chose this biracial British Malaysian actor to play a Chinese Singa-

16 porean—a decision that has riled cast-

ART ing purists and suggests just how many representational burdens this movie will

15 be forced to bear. It’s silly to think that any one picture

STAGE could ever stand in for a place, a subject, a realm of experience as vast and intricate as the Asian continent and its countless 14 diasporas. But like all pioneering efforts, and like any movie about the pleasures

GET OUT of the aristocracy, Crazy Rich Asians will inevitably be criticized for what it isn’t

12 and never attempted to be. You can probably expect a think-piece excoriating Chu for not making his generation’s Bicycle WORDS Thieves. Still others may take him to task

8 for recycling a standard Cinderella fantasy. Images and ideas matter; so do sounds and smells, textures and politics. I can’t

CURRENTS remember the last time Hollywood produced a Cinderella fantasy with a mouth- 6 That pressure may at least partly explain watering foodie montage at an open-air REVIEWED BY JUSTIN CHANG the script’s anxious, eager-to-please qual- market, or a makeover sequence scored to VIEWS ity, which feels both touchingly awkward a Cantopop cover of “Material Girl.” These

4 and wholly appropriate to the giddy as- may be incidental pleasures, but they’re pirational fairy tale it’s selling. The film’s no less significant than the movie’s dis- MAIL Crazy Rich Asians heroine is not the formidable Eleanor but tinct emphasis on family, as we see when

2 MORE THAN A MOVIE rather the sweet, guileless Rachel Chu the Youngs gather to make dumplings to- (Constance Wu), a New York economics gether, in a scene that brings the central

DO IT BEFORE IT whisks you off on the sunniest, most extravagant Singaporean holiday professor who has been dating Eleanor’s dramatic tension painfully to the fore. imaginable, Crazy Rich Asians begins on a curiously dark and stormy night. dreamily handsome son, Nick (Henry Gold- The dumpling scene is one of several in When Eleanor Young (a mesmerizing Michelle Yeoh) arrives dripping wet at an exclu- ing). Due back in Singapore for the sum- which Wu and Yeoh politely lock horns, sive London hotel, the snob at the front desk declines her booking and advises her to mer wedding of his best friend, Colin (Chris and as much as your sympathies may veer 08.15.18 stay elsewhere (“May I suggest Chinatown?”). He’s hopelessly unaware that he’s dealing Pang), Nick is serious enough about Rachel toward Rachel, you can’t help but hang with one of the world’s wealthiest families, or that the tables will soon be satisfyingly that he invites her to come and meet his on Eleanor’s every word. In a crisp, au- .13

33 turned. In this juicily poised score-settler of a movie, the crime of underestimating an family, whom he’s been fairly tight-lipped thoritative, sometimes startlingly vul- # opponent is always met with a swift, humiliating comeuppance. about until now. It’s not until she finds nerable performance that never lapses The opening sequence—notably, the first and last time a white actor appears on- herself flying first class that Rachel begins into dragon-lady stereotype, Yeoh bril- screen—makes a nice teaser for the movie itself. Directed with an exuberantly personal to guess why that might be the case. liantly articulates the unique relation- touch by Jon M. Chu from a spirited if uneven script by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, “We’re comfortable,” Nick admits. But it ship between Asian parents and their this adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s 2013 international bestseller is many things: a tour de falls to Rachel’s quirky college pal Goh Peik children, the intricate chain of love, force of lifestyle pornography; a slick, enjoyable divertissement; a surprisingly tren- Lin (a terrific Awkwafina) to inform her guilt, devotion and sacrifice that binds

CASCADIA WEEKLY chant study of class and cultural difference. Most of all, it’s a concerted effort by a that she’s basically dating a Rockefeller. them for eternity. long-neglected Hollywood minority to storm the big-studio citadel and possibly even In these old-moneyed enclaves, an For those parents and children in the 22 beat it at its own game. Asian American career woman like Rachel audience, her words may trigger a curi- It’s been 13 years since Memoirs of a Geisha, the last major studio picture to feature isn’t just a fish out of water, to borrow ous, even paradoxical sensation. Some of an all-Asian ensemble, and a full quarter-century since The Joy Luck Club, the last such one of the movie’s nastier later images; us have been struggling with these senti- production to grapple with the puzzle of contemporary Asian American identity. Those she’s a fish in a Darwinian shark tank. ments all our lives. How are we only now ridiculous statistics have saddled Crazy Rich Asians with equally ridiculous expectations. Rachel is regarded as little more than a hearing them for the first time? film ›› showing this week

BY CAREY ROSS 30 FOOD FILM SHORTS 24

Alpha: I don’t know how historically accurate this man-meets-wolf story is, but if you’re into survival B-BOARD stories in which boy and beast come together to triumph over nature, this is the movie for you. HHH

(PG-13 • 1 hr. 36 min.) 23 23

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Marvel’s most inconse- FILM FILM quential hero is also its most fun (sorry, Guardians), and Paul Rudd one of its most inspired casting

decisions since Robert Downey Jr. became Tony Stark. 18 Chalk up yet another win for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. HHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 58 min.) MUSIC

BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee tells the crazy-but-true

story of the time a black police officer and his Jewish 16

partner infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1970s Colo- ART rado—and he does it as only Spike Lee can. HHHHH (Unrated • 1 hr. 28 min.) 15

Black Panther: Take yourself to the Fairhaven Vil-

lage Green and imagine you’re in Wakanda and part of STAGE the Marvel Cinematic Universe when this box-office barrier breaker shows Sat., Aug. 18 as part of the Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema. Music by Brian Ernst opens MILE 22 14 the show. HHHHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 14 min.) GET OUT Christopher Robin: Christopher Robin (Ewan through the eyes of 13-year-old Kayla (in an astonish- The Meg: Jason Statham has fought various drug many people who will be talking about it. HHHHH McGregor) is all grown up and being an adult is a ing breakout performance by Elsie Fisher) in a way cartels, corrupt political regimes, wackadoo criminal (R • 1 hr. 45 min.) big bum deal (tell me about it, Chris), so his stuffed that is sensitive, insightful and all too real. HHHHH masterminds and his own body, so naturally the only 12 friends of yore—Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl, and that (R • 1 hr. 34 min.) thing left is for him to fight a giant prehistoric shark. The Spy Who Dumped Me: Dear Hollywood, I need honey-loving scamp Pooh—come back to life to save I don’t think it’s spoiling anything to say the shark you to start writing better parts for genius comedic

him from himself. Which sounds cute in theory, but if Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation: I feel a probably won’t win. HH (PG-13 • 1 hr. 54 min.) actresses like Kate McKinnon because you are wasting WORDS my Cabbage Patch Dolls start speaking to me, I will little bad about constantly forgetting this animated her talent with this mediocre buddy comedy. HH (R • HHH

never recover. (PG • 1 hr. 44 min.) franchise exists considering it continues to crank out Mile 22: Mark Wahlberg, works for a shadowy govern- 1 hr. 56 min.) 8 pretty decent film after pretty decent film. Dracula ment organization, shoots stuff, probably saves a life Crazy Rich Asians: See review previous page. HH✍ can’t get no respect. HHHH (PG • 1 hr. 37 min.) or something. Apologies. I lost interest in finishing HHH (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 1 min.) the sentence right after typing “Mark Wahlberg.” (It’s Incredibles 2: No surprise here, Pixar continues to not you, Mark. It’s me.) HH (Unrated) CURRENTS Death of a Nation: The poster for this film melds knock it out of the park, bringing the long-gestating 6 Abraham Lincoln’s face with Donald Trump’s, so it family superhero sequel to the big screen at a time Mission: Impossible—Fallout: Tom Cruise is back is my hope that it is a time-traveling presidential when we need our superheroes—especially the ones as Ethan Hunt, summer’s most bankable action hero romp in which Lincoln journeys to the future to with big hearts and subversive spirits—the most. that is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At VIEWS vanquish Trump and finish out his presidency and HHHHH (PG • 1 hr. 58 min.) 56 years old, he still does nearly all his own stunts not a shrill anti-liberal screed with a name that is and, like its star, this is the rare film franchise that 4 derived from another film that is widely regarded as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: I love Meryl seems to be getting better with age. HHHHH (PG-13 MAIL being blatantly racist. Zero stars forever. (PG-13 • 1 Streep. I love ABBA. I’ve never been to Greece, but I • 2 hrs. 27 min.)

hr. 49 min.) have a feeling I love it too. All of that, plus Cher as 2 Grandmamma Mia. Count me in. HHHH (PG-13 • 1 hr. Slender Man: I guess if emoji can get themselves a Equalizer 2: Because this stars Denzel Washington 50 min.) movie, it was only a matter of time until an internet (in his first sequel ever), the acting will be better meme did. Hollywood’s next great plot concept: a Showtimes DO IT than it has any right to be for an action sequel. McQueen: Fashion designer Alexander McQueen was tweet that’s gone viral. Imagine the possibilities. Or Regal and AMC theaters, please see Because this was directed by Antoine Fuqua, it will part exciting visionary who electrified and horrified don’t. H (PG-13 • 1 hr. 33 min.) be way more stylish than it has any right to be for an the too-proper world of haute couture and part deeply www.fandango.com.

HH 08.15.18 action sequel. (R • 2 hrs. 9 min.) troubled soul who took his own life a the age of 40. Sorry to Bother You: Boots Riley, with his debut Pickford Film Center and This documentary delves into the triumph and tragedy film—a present-day, alternate-reality, sci-fi satire, HHHHH PFC’s Limelight Cinema, please see Eighth Grade: Writer/director Bo Burnham gives us of one of fashion’s great enfant terribles. if you can believe that—just made the movie of the .13

a glimpse at the last week of eighth grade as seen (Unrated • 1 hr. 51 min.) year. See it so you can make conversation with all the www.pickfordfilmcenter.com 33 #

Celebrating 30 years! CASCADIA WEEKLY Pepper Sisters 23 Flavors of New Mexico From scratch Served with love since 1988 Dinner nightly, Tuesday through Sunday 1055 N. State peppersisters.com WELLNESS EVENTS

30 FOOD 24 24 B-BOARD B-BOARD 23 FILM 18 MUSIC “How Sleep Changes with Age” will be the focus of a free presentation with Dr. Alethea Fleming Mon., Aug. 20 at the 16 Skagit Valley Food Co-op. ART

GATHERING OF CRONES: Find support, share your Tuesdays in August at the SkillShare Space at the

15 adventure in living and connect with other sisters at a Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Chair Tai monthly Gathering of Crones from 10-11:30am Thurs., Chi uses all of the concepts and flowing choreographed Aug. 16 at the Willows, 3115 Squalicum Pkwy. Newcom- movements of standing Tai Chi except it is performed in STAGE ers are always welcome. a seated position. Entry is free. (360) 595-4485 (360) 778-7217 14 HEALTH IS EVERYTHING: As part of National Health MEDITATION EVENTS: Attend a variety of events this Center Week, Unity Care NW will host a screening of week and on a regular basis at the Bellingham Insight

GET OUT the documentary Ola: Health is Everything at 5:30pm Meditation Society, 1021 N. Forest St. Thurs., Aug. 16 at the Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay WWW.BELLINGHAMINSIGHT.ORG St. Writer, producer and director Matthew Nagato will

12 be on hand for a post-screening Q&A. Entry is free and ADVANCE CARE PLANNING: PeaceHealth hosts open to the public. Facilitated Advance Directive monthly workshops at WWW.WCNW.ORG 6pm on the first Thursday of the month and 4pm on WORDS the the first Tuesday of the month at St. Luke’s Health CHOICE: Dawn Harju leads an Excellence Northwest Education Center, 3333 Squalicum Parkway. Register in 8 workshop focusing on “Choice” at 7pm Thurs., Aug. 16 advance for the free “Advance Care Planning” events. at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Entry is free. (360) 752-5267 WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

CURRENTS GAM-ANON: Attend Gam-Anon meetings (for family SLEEP CHANGES: Naturopathic physician Dr. Alethea and friends of individuals with a gambling disorder)

6 Fleming leads a presentation focused on “How Sleep from 7-8:30pm Fridays in Mount Vernon at the First Changes With Age” at 6:30pm Mon., Aug. 20 in Mount Lutheran Church, 2015 Blackburn Rd. Entry is free.

VIEWS Vernon at the Skagit Valley Food Co-op, 202 S. First St. WWW.GAM-ANON.ORG The informative and entertaining discussion will focus

4 on the ways sleep changes with age, what is important, CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS: Most Mondays, what needs help, and what to do about it. Entry is free; Co-Dependents Anonymous meets from 7-8:30pm at

MAIL please register in advance. PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Community Health Education WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM Center, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy, conference room B. Entry

2 is by donation. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING: Learn why advance (360) 676-8588

DO IT care planning is important for everyone, commonly used terms, choosing someone to be your health care YOGA FOR MS: Abby Staten leads “Yoga for Multiple agent, how to talk with loved ones and doctors about Sclerosis” classes from 10-11am Tuesdays and 11am- your preferences around end-of-life care, and what to 12pm Fridays at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, consider when making your choices at an Advance Care 2600 Lakeway Dr. The weekly events are free for people 08.15.18 Planning Workshop from 4-5:30m Tues., Aug. 21 at the with MS, and no registration is required. Please bring a Everson Library, 104 Kirsch Dr. blanket or yoga mat. .13 (360) 966-5100 [email protected] OR WWW.YOGABELLINGHAM.COM 33 # UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT: An “Understanding Con- SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: Sex Addicts Anonymous flict” workshop takes place from 5-8pm Aug. 22 and 29 meets at 7pm Tuesdays and Thursdays and 9am Saturdays at the Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center. This workshop at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth St. is designed to develop participant’s awareness of their (360) 420-8311 OR WWW.PUGETSOUNDSAA.ORG approach to conflict, and to increase their skills to better manage conflict as it arises. Entry is $95. NEWLY BEREAVED: Adults affected by a recent WWW.WHATCOMDRC.ORG death are invited to a safe and welcoming atmo- CASCADIA WEEKLY sphere for a time of sharing and information at “A HEALING HOUR: Attend a Healing Hour from 5:30- Gathering for the Newly Bereaved” from 10-11:30am 24 6:30pm Wednesdays at Simply Spirit Reading & Healing on the second Tuesday of every month, and from Center, 1304 Meador Ave. Drop in anytime during the 5:30-7pm on the first Wednesday of every month hour to receive an aura/chakra healing. Entry is $5. in the Bereavement Center at the Whatcom Hospice WWW.SIMPLYSPIRITCENTER.COM Administration Office, 2800 Douglas Ave. (360) 733-5877 OR CHAIR TAI CHI: “Chair Tai Chi” takes place at 3pm [email protected] rearEnd crossword

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by AT&T in 1991 Flatow “two"?) 46 Entice 24 24 43 Dress code loosening 3 Reddish-brown wood 32 Retract, as regret- 47 Meeting outline 45 Without toppings 4 Blew up table words 51 Different ending? B-BOARD B-BOARD 48 Suffix after tera- or 5 Bear, to Bernal 33 One way to walk 53 Pyromaniac’s crime peta- 6 Parker Jr. of the tall? 56 “One ___ land ..."

49 Provided party music “Ghostbusters” 36 One generating a 57 Show with Jane 23 50 Bela of horror films theme song lot of interest Lynch as Sue Syl- FILM 52 Ocean liner’s route 7 “Zounds!" 37 Charge for a spot vester 54 Ultravox frontman 8 Remove, to a proof- 40 Capital of Chad 60 Private eye, infor- 18 Midge reader 41 Pulitzer-winning mally

55 1980s Secretary of 9 Antagonist in “The San Francisco col- 61 ___ in “Oscar" MUSIC State Alexander Year Without a umnist Herb 62 ___-Caps (movie

58 “Automatic for the Santa Claus" 42 Sydney suburb, or candy) 16

People” group 10 Sleeve tattoo a California-based 64 D.C. sort ART 59 Trivia magazine locale car-sharing rental 65 Dog noise

started in 2001 11 Waste time frolick- company 15 63 Org. that’s (supposed ing, old-style 43 A.F.L. merger to be) concerned 12 “I've got nothing STAGE with pollution ___"

66 Patient waiter 13 “The Late Late Last Week’s Puzzle 14 67 “Helps stop gas Show” host before

Even Chances native to streaming, before it starts” Kilborn, Ferguson, GET OUT THE ODD ONE'S OUT for short product and Corden 24 Italian racecar 68 “Neither fish ___ 19 Gp. once headed by 12 ACROSS 17 “Humbug!” preceder 28 Levy fowl" Mueller and Comey

1 CNN chief White 18 Harry’s kin 30 St. George’s state 69 Light bite 21 “That’s funny" WORDS House correspondent 20 Honey ___ (Post 31 Difficult responsi- 70 First two words of 24 Overly muscular

Acosta cereal, as renamed in bility some political yard 25 Monopoly purchase 8 4 Disinterested 2018) 34 More sick, in old hip- signs (abbr.) 9 Ax handles 22 1990s Wink Martin- hop slang, or ... more 71 TV alien with a 26 Some meat alterna- 14 ___ pro nobis dale game show that sick, in general reboot announced tives CURRENTS

15 Grammar concern paid off contestants' 35 Long-running role- in August 2018 (as 27 Location of a nurs- 6 16 ___ the side of obligations playing video game found in the long ery rhyme’s three caution 23 Cable company alter- franchise answers) men ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords VIEWS 4 MAIL

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30 Professional, knowledgeable, LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An astrologer on FREE WILL Tumblr named Sebastian says this about your sign: FOOD fun & friendly to work with. “Libras can be boring people when they don’t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves. But they can ASTROLOGY be just as exciting as any fire sign and just as weird 24

24 as any Aquarius and just as talkative as a Gemini and Cerise Noah (360) 393-5826 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The prettier the just as empathetic as a Pisces. Really, Librans are REALTOR® [email protected] garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes some of the most eccentric people you’ll ever meet, aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable but you might not know it unless they trust you B-BOARD B-BOARD to you in the coming weeks. You’ll have extra poten- enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred tial to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you by Sebastian’s analysis, here’s my advice to you: I NOW PLAYING produce will generate practical benefits for you and hope you’ll spend a lot of time with people you trust 23 Fri, August 17 - those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your to expend more effort than maybe you thought you mental and physical and spiritual health, you’ll need FILM Thu, August 23 should. It might feel more like work than play—even to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastian’s www. though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play. venuspapi.tumblr.com.)

18 BLACKKKLANSMAN (R) 122m, In English - From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and theolo- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who calls gian Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitat- herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that

MUSIC the incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American ing human temptation is to settle for too little; to make her “believe in magic.” They include the following: live a comfortable life rather than an interesting “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seed- detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to

16 one. I wouldn’t say that’s always true about you, ling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous Taurus. But I do suspect that in the coming weeks, a a crow’s eyes; being awakened by the early morning

ART mission joined by a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam tendency to settle for less could be the single most sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with Driver): infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. devitalizing temptation you’ll be susceptible to. That’s plants; the ever-changing grey green blue moods of Fri: (1:10), (3:15), 6:15, 9:00; Sat: (2:40), 4:45, 7:45 why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” 15 Sun: (11:45AM), (2:40), 4:45, 7:45; Mon & Tue: (1:10), (3:15), 6:15, 9:00 smaller blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. You’re en- Wed: (12:15), (3:00) -Open Caption, (7:55) -Open Caption Hold out for the best and brightest. tering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic STAGE Thu: (1:10), (3:15), 6:15, 9:00 in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I've learned quite a alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum? EIGHTH GRADE lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed 14 (R) 94m, In English - Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal to be learning.” So says the wise and well-educated SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Since 1969, wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way novelist Margaret Atwood. Judging by your current eight-foot-two-inch-tall Big Bird has been the star through the last week of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year. astrological omens, I think this is an excellent clue of the kids' TV show Sesame Street. He’s a yellow bird GET OUT Fri: (1:00), (4:10), 6:30, 9:15; Sat: (12:30), (2:25), 5:40, 8:00 for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? puppet who can talk, write poetry, dance and roller Sun: (12:05), (2:25), 5:40, 8:00; Mon & Tue: (1:00), (4:10), 6:30, 9:15 Have you been half-avoiding any teaching that you or skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a Wed: (12:40) -Open Caption, (3:15), 5:35 -Open Caption someone else thinks you’re “supposed” to be learning? good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. 12 Thu: (1:00), (4:10), 6:30, 9:15 If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy day IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE - Rocket Sci-Fi Matinees with cheerful rebelliousness. Doing so may lead you to when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighbor- what you really need to learn about next. hood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just WORDS (NR) 69m, in English - One of the best of the low-budgeted sci-fi flicks of the 50s! a figment of Big Bird’s imagination. I'm foreseeing a Sat: (Noon) - Only $3 admission, introduction by Steve Meyers CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sometimes you comparable event in your life sometime soon, Sagit- 8 ROMEO AND JULIET - Royal Shakespere Company make it difficult for me to reach you. You act like tarius. You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or (NR) 182m, What if your first true love was someone you'd been told you must hate? you’re listening but you’re not really listening. You private pleasure or unappreciated asset. Wed: 6:00 - Tix: $16 Member, $20 General, $10 Students. semi-consciously decide that you don’t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself. When you CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and CURRENTS OPEN CAPTION SCREENINGS: BlacKkKlansman - Wed: (3:00), 7:55 Eighth Grade - Wed: (12:40), 5:35 lock me out like that, I become a bit dumb. My author Simone de Beauvoir was one of those Capri-

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30 they need to cook. I start with bacon. 30 Cook slowly on low to make it a little FOOD FOOD crispy, and leave yourself time to remember ingredients you want to add. Then, chow anything else that may benefit from 24 RECIPES REVIEWS PROFILES some time simmering in bacon grease. Zucchini, radish and garlic are good B-BOARD early additions. Tomatoes can be added now, so they have time to spill their

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33 Christina, Wendy, and Karen, who were about my age. The Park girls also taught me how In addition to cooling off, I like to use heirloom tomatoes like brandywine. # to carefully pull noodles, one by one, from a bowl of high-end Japanese instant ramen. spicy ramen as a way to absorb seasonal These veggies may wilt a bit in the heat, Sometimes their parents doctored the ramen with the likes of seaweed, green onion vegetables as they appear. Wild dande- but will still provide a fresh crunch. The and egg. It hampered the noodle games, but by college I had some valuable life skills, lion and nettle ramen during mud season, Koreans, of course, like to add kim chi. along with disdain for my dormies and their cases of Top Ramen. pea and zucchini ramen in spring, which, Last but not least, the spices. I rec- Today, I doctor with produce from the farmers market, but I still use the Park family’s in turn, give way to the umami-rich to- ommend sliced jalapeños and a squirt of instant ramen of choice—a Japanese brand called Sapporo Ichiban. matoes and corn. sriracha, but there are many ways to add

CASCADIA WEEKLY Japan is the undisputed birthplace of ramen, but nearby Korea never developed a In this country, most fresh ramen heat to a bowl of noodles. culture of ramen bars, those storied humble kitchens where fresh noodles are served in includes a choice of miso, soy base, or As the sweat drips and the back of 30 slowly simmered broth. Without that background, most Korean eaters, like their Ameri- tonkatsu (pork bone) broth. When it your neck begins feeling pleasantly can counterparts, first experienced ramen in packaged, instant form. comes to instant, I actually prefer the cool, remember that loud slurping is a Since my early education, ramen is having an extended moment, and Korea has been a chicken or regular flavors of Sapporo Ich- sign of respect to the chef in authentic leader in this worldwide phenomenon. The land that gave us K-Pop produces some of the iban. But regardless of noodle brand and ramen houses. So let your inhibitions go most over-the-top versions of packaged ramen, with multiple flavoring packs delivering even flavor, I like to carry on the tonkat- and dive in. doit

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