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MUSIC Walton Theatre Arts Academy for Youth Halloween Harold: 7:30pm, Old Main MUSIC Theatre, WWU 18 Community Band Exhibition: 6-8pm, Rocky Horror Picture Show: 9pm and

ART ART Civic Field 12am, Arntzen 100, WWU Rocky Horror Picture Show: 10pm, WORDS Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon 16 Ann Linnea: 7pm, Village Books Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre STAGE STAGE /#0-. 4[10.y.10] DANCE Halloween Dance-Off: 2-5pm, Center for 14 ON STAGE Expressive Arts Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Halloween Dance: 8pm, Bellingham The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Golf & Country Club GET OUT Halloween Dance: 8pm, Northwood Hall MUSIC Contra Dance: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Matoys: 8pm, Cirque Lab Library 13 Spooktacular All-County Dance: 9pm, COMMUNITY Bellingham Sportsplex

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8 Scream Fair: Through Oct. 30, North- North Cascades Concert Band: 3pm, west Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden Blaine High School PAC Brother Dalton’s Euphonic Elixir: FILM 3:30pm, Stuart’s at the Market CURRENTS CURRENTS Mt. Baker Film Fest: 7:30pm, Mount Scary Monster and the Super Creeps: Baker Theatre 8pm, Resort Semiahmoo, Blaine 6 Eric Bibb, Ruthie Foster: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre VIEWS VIEWS !-$ 4[10.y.10] Becki Sue and Her Big Rockin’ Daddies: 8pm, Conway Muse 4 ON STAGE Acorn Project, Polecat: 9:30pm, Wild Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Buffalo MAIL MAIL Theatre No-Fi Soul Rebellion, Horror Business:

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# Linda Waterfall, Dean Stevens: 7pm, Lutheran Church Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Trick or Treat: 2-5pm, downtown Skagit Community Band: 7:30pm, Maple Bellingham Hall, La Conner A cadre of the undead will Ghosts of Gaches Gala: 7-10pm, La Con- The Spazmatics: 8pm, Skagit Valley ner Quilt & Textile Museum Casino Resort dance the night away during FOOD WORDS /#-$'' - ) Literary Feast: 5pm, Bellingham Unitar- CASCADIA WEEKLY The Poet As Art: 7pm, Lucia Douglas ian Fellowship Gallery performances on Halloween in 2 GET OUT FOOD Fairhaven and again at Maritime Halloween Run: 11am, Fairhaven Park The Big Yum: 6pm, Ciao Thyme Heritage Park .0) 4[10.zx.10]

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6 28: Wellness Scott Herning ‘GRASSROOTS?’ BURDEN TO CITIES 29: Crossword E360-647-8200 x 252 I always read your endorsements for politi- County Executive Pete Kremen touts his bud- VIEWS VIEWS ô scott@ cal races with interest. There was one small get proposal now before the council as revenue 30: Free Will Astrology cascadiaweekly.com misassertion in the endorsement about Ini- neutral. However, for property taxpayers, Kre- 4 4 31: Advice Goddess Distribution tiative 1098. You stated, “This is the only men’s tax scheme is far from neutral. In fact, MAIL MAIL MAIL 32: Sudoku, Troubletown JW Land & Associates state initiative on the ballot this year that this scheme is a redistribution of the tax bur- ô distro@ might arguably be called ‘grassroots.’” den onto city property owners and businesses 33: This Modern World, 2 cascadiaweekly.com Tom the Dancing Bug Letters Interestingly enough, the Seattle Times had in all of Whatcom County’s cities. a different opinion, pointing out that the “No All property owners and businesses (taxed DO IT IT DO Send letters to letters@ 34: A scary amount of seafood cascadiaweekly.com. on 1098” crowd had three times as many in- on property assets) in Whatcom County’s cities COVER: illustration by Dario dividual donors as the “Yes on 1098” side. In will see a tax increase of 3.6 percent. Prop-

10 Castillejos fact, contributions from government employee erty owners outside the cities will get a tax .27.

10 unions ($4.1 million) make up 67 percent of cut on the order of 3 percent. This tax shift

GORY GRISTLE, P.6 /#*) $.+'4+xROCKY HORROR, P.16 .05 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly cascadia REPORTING FROM THE Washington D.C. unions. Union contributions, increase for all properties combined with a $1 HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 43 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 10.y~.10 :: #43, v.05 :: !- # [email protected] especially when they total more than $4 million million county road tax cut that only applies to Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing dollars, are not a “grassroots movement.” non-city property owners only. City property papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Could it be unions are funding 1098 because owners, including small businesses owners, get SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you they don’t want to have to make the same dif- a tax increase while non-city property owners include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday ﬁcult decisions the private sector has made will get a net tax cut.

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CASCADIA WEEKLY distorted tax scheme. Kremen is proposing us- content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. In the interests of fostering dialog and a community forum, Cascadia Weekly does ing Real Estate Excise Tax money generated 4 not publish letters that personally disparage other letter writers. Please keep your letters to fewer than 300 words. EDITOR’S REPLY: The operative word was “ar- throughout Whatcom County and including all guably,” but our assessment was based on 1098’s of the county’s cities to backﬁll the road tax sparing use of the professional signature gath- cut he is giving rural property owners. erers hired by out-of-state corporations to place The budget proposal creates an inequitable NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre this year’s initiatives on the ballot. shift of revenue out of the cities to subsidize a tax cut for maintaining county roads. Contrary to Kremen’s spin, this budget proposal is far from neutral. —Dan McShane, Bellingham 34 FOOD THIS ELECTION, REMEMBER THE LAND! The County Council we elect has 27 immediate concerns—how to curb sprawl, how to protect our water

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34 34 ence of money in the shaping of public opinion more vividly on display than in polls that are cap- FOOD turing the faltering support in the ﬁnal weeks of views campaigning for a state income tax. OPINIONS ›› THE GRISTLE

27 27 When voters were polled on the concept last spring, surveys found strong public support for a tax on high incomes. A SurveyUSA poll in April found 66 percent of voters would support such a CLASSIFIEDS state income tax. In May, the less volatile Wash- BY AMY GOODMAN ington Poll found 58 percent of voters would sup- 24 port Initiative 1098 as the measure was being cir-

FILM FILM culated for qualifying signatures. In Washington, the wealthiest 1 percent pay Bank Robbers consumption tax at roughly 2.9 percent of their 20 personal income, while the poorest one-fifth dish WRECKING OF THE U.S. HOUSING MARKET NOT OVER YET out a staggering 17.3 percent of income in state MUSIC and local taxes. Despite this imbalance, the Wash- THE BIG banks that caused the sure efforts only did so in 23 states— ington Poll released two weeks ago found public collapse of the global finance market, because it is only in those 23 states 18 support had collapsed. Opposition to the measure and received tens of billions of dollars that courts actually adjudicate over ART ART had grown to 51 percent; support had declined to in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have like- foreclosure proceedings. One judge just 42 percent, a nine-point spread. Nearly a quar- ly been engaging in wholesale fraud who oversees foreclosures is New York 16 ter of the people who’d indicated they’d support against homeowners and the courts. State Supreme Court Justice Arthur a tax on personal incomes above $200,000 in the But in a promising development this Schack. He has made national head- STAGE STAGE spring had changed their minds by fall. week, attorneys general from all 50 lines for rejecting dozens of fore- Perhaps voters support an income tax only in the states announced a bipartisan joint out reading them or checking the closure filings. He told “Democracy

14 abstract. Perhaps 1098 is a casualty of “initiative investigation into foreclosure fraud. facts about homeowners said to be in Now!” news hour, “My job is to do fatigue,” too many issues of too much complex- Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, default. And Stephan was just one of justice ... we run into numerous prob-

GET OUT ity crowding the ballot, prompting voters to sweep GMAC and other big mortgage lenders many “robo-signers.” lems with assignments of mortgages, them all aside. recently suspended most foreclosure Recall that GM received $51 billion questionable affidavits of merit and What we might reasonably infer the reversal is proceedings, following revelations in taxpayer bailouts; its subsidiary, just sloppy paperwork in general.” 13 not, though, is an indicator of real, permanent that thousands of their foreclosures GMAC, received $16.3 billion; and Ally Bruce Marks runs NACA, a national change in public attitudes toward proposals to were being conducted like “foreclo- Financial subsidiary GMAC Mortgage nonprofit that helps people avoid fore- WORDS “soak the rich.” sure mills,” with tens of thousands of received $1.5 billion as an “incentive closure. He told me: “When President Here’s a nugget in the same poll by University of legal documents signed by low-level payment for home loan modification.” Obama was running for president, he 8 Washington researchers: staffers with little or no knowledge So you as a taxpayer may have said one of the first things he’ll do is Half the respondents were asked if they support- of what they were signing. bailed out a bank that is fraudulently put a moratorium on foreclosures. He ed extending the Bush tax cuts on upper incomes. Then the Obama administration foreclosing on you. What recourse do never did. He never backed bankruptcy CURRENTS CURRENTS The largest portion, 48 percent, approved extend- signaled that it was not supporting you have? reform so people could have the right 6

6 ing them. The other half of poll respondents were a foreclosure moratorium. Not long Back in February 2009, Ohio Rep. to go in front of a bankruptcy judge.” asked if they approved extending tax cuts only to after, Bank of America announced it Marcy Kaptur advised homeowners to He went on: “And where is Presi- VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS people earning less than $200,000 per year. Here, was restarting its foreclosure opera- force lenders to “produce the note.” dent Obama? When he says, ‘Well, a democratic majority of 53 percent approved. But tions. GMAC followed suit, and oth- People facing foreclosure were being you know, we don’t want to upset the 4 the second, more nuanced question also generated ers will likely join in. So much for the taken to court while the bank alleg- market,’ what is good about a market

MAIL MAIL a shift in extremes of opinion, with more people voluntary moratorium. ing default couldn’t even prove it when someone is foreclosed on and strongly approving of policy that would extend GMAC Mortgage engaged in mass owned the mortgage. The mortgage ... you’ve got a vacant building? We

2 cuts to middle incomes and deny additional cuts document processing, dubbed “ro- document often had been lost in the have to have a national moratorium to upper incomes. bo-signing.” In several cases, GMAC tangled web of ﬁnancial wheeling to give ourselves a window of oppor- DO IT IT DO

Embedded within this poll response seems to be Mortgage ﬁled documents with and dealing. Kaptur told me: “Mil- tunity to restructure mortgages ... to some general confusion about how the federal tax courts that were signed by Jeffrey lions and millions of families are get- look at homeowners as people, not as 10 code would govern extended middle-class tax cuts; Stephan. Stephan presided over a ting foreclosure notices. They don’t a commodity to make money.” .27.

10 and how an income tax is proposed to operate in staff of 12 in suburban Philadel- have proper legal representation ... According to RealtyTrac, banks re- Washington State: phia. Ohio Attorney General Richard possession is nine-tenths of the law; possessed 102,134 properties in Sep-

.05 Both create a sort of “$200,000 deductible” on Cordray filed a lawsuit against GMAC therefore, stay in your property.” tember, a home roughly every 30 sec- 43 # personal income. Mortgage, Stephan and the bank that If you stay in your home, your onds. Every 30 seconds, banks—many Should middle-class tax cuts be extended by Con- owns GMAC, Ally Financial (itself a mortgage lender may break in. Nancy that received funds from the Bush gress, wealthy Americans would still receive (per- subsidiary of General Motors). Jacobini of Orange County, Fla., was administration’s TARP, and that may manent) Bush-era tax rates on the portion of their According to one report, Stephan inside her home when she heard an be using fraudulent practices—fore- incomes below that threshold; they would revert to received 10,000 mortgage foreclosure intruder. Thinking she was being close on an American family’s dream Clinton-era rates on the portion of their incomes documents to process in one month. burglarized, she called 911. Police of home ownership. Meanwhile, GMAC above that amount, a tax rate still considerably determined the intruder was actually Mortgage has reported increased prof- CASCADIA WEEKLY Based on an eight-hour workday, he lower than when Reagan was in office. Similarly, would have had to read, verify and someone sent by JPMorgan Chase to its for the first half of 2010. 6 upper-income Washington households would pay sign, in the presence of a notary, change the locks. And Jacobini wasn’t no income tax on personal incomes below $200,000 about one document per minute. He even in foreclosure! Denis Moynihan contributed research (or incomes below $400,000 for couples). admitted to signing documents with- Most banks that suspended foreclo- to this column. Beyond the poll data, there appears to be general confusion about the degree to which regressive VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE

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against I-1098, despite a provision in GET OUT the measure that would eliminate business tax for 85 percent of businesses in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 13 Citizens United decision, which earlier this year struck down provisional limits WORDS on corporate spending on campaigns, 8 has opened a ﬂood of money directly from large employers like Microsoft and Boeing and indirectly through soft, out- of-state funding sources (admittedly, CURRENTS 6 that ruling has also opened lesser ﬂood- for Voting Us Best Yoga Studio 2010! 6 gates in support of 1098 from unions VIEWS VIEWS and collective bargaining groups). yoganorthwest.com VIEWS Opponents of a state income tax have 360.647.0712 1440 10th Street Historic Fairhaven Bellingham 4 raised more than $5.5 million. Of that,

the opposition campaign has report- MAIL edly only spent $2.2 million, according to state Public Disclosure Commission 2 records, so look for a last-minute blitz DO IT IT DO of radio and television ads to finish off collapsing support for 1098. 10 Perhaps the lasting indictment of op- .27. position to 1098 is that no credible alter- 10 natives are being offered by these most wealthy and influential of Washingtonians .05 43 to file the hard edges off the nation’s # most unfair tax system. The initiative was the brainchild of a bipartisan commission, which the senior Gates chaired earlier this decade, that recognized the courage or ability of the Legislature to equitably address the state’s broken tax CASCADIA WEEKLY system was, at best, nonexistent and that the direction to do so would have to 7 come from the will of the people. 360-739-6432 www.peopleforlinville.com But polls suggest the “will of the people” may itself be nonexistent, a thing Paid for by People for Linville, P.O. Box 5782, Bellingham, WA 98227 easily purchased or driven aside. A Chinaman who formerly resided in What- com is making arrangements to locate

in Sehome. If the people of Bellingham 34 34 permit coolies to again obtain a foothold FOOD currents here, they have less spirit than we esti- NEWS ›› COMMENTARY ›› BRIEFS mate. Let Chinamen understand that this 27 27 is no place for them. Citizens should go one at a time and advise this forerunner

CLASSIFIEDS that he is not wanted. ‘Charley Chinaman’ Ah Fat at his —Item in Whatcom Reveille daily home in Point Roberts shortly before

24 newspaper, Sept. 1886 his death in 1914. Photo courtesy of Point Roberts Historical Society. FILM FILM

The Chinese worked hard and efﬁciently. 20 They labored for far less than white set-

MUSIC tlers competing for the same jobs. The Chi- nese men, in their long pigtails and peas-

18 ant clothing, were easy to spot. They held together and apart, to the annoyance of ART ART grumbling unemployed workers who looked on. A pressure cooker stoked by the ﬂam- 16 ing rhetoric of the local daily newspaper, the situation would soon burst. STAGE STAGE The Chinese would be ordered to leave. All did, with dignity—save one. 14 Of the many Chinese who had worked in cannery and clearing operations over the

GET OUT years, “only one didn’t live in the China bunkhouse, eat at the table with chop- sticks, take orders from any of the China 13 bosses, or be paid at the end of each season,” Carl Gudbranson recalled of his curi- WORDS ous neighbor. “Nor did he wear pigtails. The little man had lived in Point Roberts 8 8 some 20 years prior to our family’s arrival in 1913. “There were stories he may have CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS jumped ship somewhere in British Co-

6 lumbia, Canada, and then followed the BY TIM JOHNSON Great Northern railroad tracks, ending VIEWS VIEWS up in Bellingham.” It was a route—and a story—followed by 4 dozens of Chinese laborers over the years. MAIL MAIL theLast As were many others, Ah Fat was pushed

out of the crowded Taishan district about 2 120 miles southwest of the city of Canton,

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opium wars and similar uprisings in that

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10 meant death by imperial edict. “The population of China had in- .05 creased dramatically over the previous 43 # ‘chinaman’ two centuries,” ethnographer Margaret OBSERVING THE ANNIVERSARY OF Wilson related. In the middle portion of WHATCOM’S ASIAN EXPULSION the 19th century, the population stood at more than 400 million. “Such over- population caused widespread famine. “The great burning issue in Whatcom the last half of 1885 had to do with This, coupled with the after effects of

CASCADIA WEEKLY the Chinese,” historian Lottie Roth wrote in 1926. the Taiping Rebellion, prompted mass emigration,” she noted. 8 “There were one or two Chinese laundries in the town,” Roth related in When word of the discovery of in gold a History of Whatcom County,“ and a score or more were employed by the California reached China during this same period, tens of thousands of desperate townsite owners in the work of clearing.” Chinese workers set out for America in hopes of ﬁnding a better life. By 1855, ties, sawmills went bankrupt.” The railroads by this time had completed most of their construction and they released

thousands of Chinese laborers into this

labor market. 34 “Despite an economic depression that included the entire West Coast, contrac- FOOD tors continued to lure Chinese by prom-

ising jobs in the lucky land of America,” 27 Wilson observed. For newly arrived Chi- nese, willing to work for poverty wages, the depression was less of a concern than CLASSIFIEDS the workers whom they displaced. “The Chinese were willing to work for less money,” Wilson said, “and they were 24

willing to take jobs that the dominant FILM workers, in stable economic times, re- jected. Employers of the 1880s consid- 20 ered them cheap, quick, efﬁcient and reliable.” MUSIC “In 1885 there were 3,276 Chinese in the territory of Washington, the large 18 majority being in the chief cities upon the Sound,” the History of Skagit and ART Snohomish Counties related in 1906. “They were almost exclusively men and 16 were employed as domestic servants and STAGE STAGE laborers in mines, railroads and public works of all kinds.” Many worked as cooks and household servants. 14 “A great prejudice arose against these

Chinese laborers among white laborers,” GET OUT the 1906 history recalled, “on account of the great clannishness of the Chinese race, their refusal to abandon their na- 13 tional peculiarities and adapt themselves to American ideas and methods.” WORDS The prejudice was seized upon in large 8 8 measure by the editors of the area’s daily newspaper, The Whatcom Reveille, who bitterly cried Chinese immigrants were to CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS blame for many of the area’s calamities.

Mingling news with raw commentary, the 6 newspaper management itself was at-

tempting to build a nascent labor move- VIEWS ment, the Knights of Labor, to push back 4 against the downward pressures on wages

and employment the editors believed MAIL threatened to sap the area’s vitality.

The Chinese, willing to work hard for 2

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hole in their effort. “For every Chinese employed,” the 10 newspaper complained in 1885, “an .27.

American home is destroyed.” 10 Reveille’s editor, Thomas Nicklin, and

his associate, Will Jenkins, were not only .05 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND INDUSTRY, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. 43 # Artist’s conception of the 1886 anti-Chinese riot in Seattle, originally from West Shore Magazine, March 1886. staunch supporters of the anti-Chinese movement, they were—in several in- 20,000 Chinese laborers were recorded men. Their families and loved ones were Idaho, but soon Chinese workers were in stances—the instigators of it, research- as living in California alone, and many back in China, and the men here focused demand throughout the West by compa- ers note. others were spreading throughout the intently on their work in order to make nies looking to hire cheaper labor. “The Reveille was bitter in its attacks American West. enough money to help those they left By the 1880s, however, the young upon the Chinese and seldom spoke of

Most of the new immigrants did not behind. townships around Bellingham Bay had them except as ‘lepers,’” Roth wrote in CASCADIA WEEKLY speak English, and they banded to- Chinese immigrants with particular suffered an economic slump. her history. “The organization of the gether with their countrymen, whether skills settled in the cities, where they “Coal was found to be comparatively Knights of Labor, which swept the com- 9 in mining camps or in cities. Due to the established trade and service businesses, low-grade and San Francisco didn’t show munity and which was joined by nearly hardships of travel and the uncertain- but many of the people who came to this the interest [in it] the earlier entrepre- all the citizens, regardless of whether ties that awaited them, almost all of the country were laborers. Initially they set neurs had expected,” Wilson related. they were laborers or not, was strongly new Chinese coming to the U.S. were out for mining camps in California and “The timber industry had union difﬁcul- EXPELLED, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 currents ›› week in review

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GET OUT A man who left threatening messages on Sen. Patty Murray’s voicemail is sentenced in federal court in Seattle to a year and a day in prison. Charles Alan Wilson, 64, of Selah was arrested 13 in April after leaving angry voicemail messages about health care legislation. Wilson pleaded guilty in June to a charge of PHOTO BY ERIN HEYDENREICH, CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH, UNDER MMPA PERMIT #532-1822. WORDS threatening a federal official. A new killer whale calf is born into L pod, one of the three groups of orcas that frequent the Salish Sea. The calf appears to be less than a week old and healthy, the first offspring of L-82, born in 1990. The new calf brings the total for the three Southern Resident pods to 90. 8 8 Sumas Elementary School is one of five schools to receive this year’s Apple Award Construction Achievement Grants. The Sumas Two men rob the Oriento Restaurant in Bell- school will receive $25,000 for capital construction projects ingham’s Fountain District. No one is injured in CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS on school grounds or other public property in the community. the robbery. 6 10.y|.10 The final stretch of the Mount Baker Highway VIEWS VIEWS MONDAY to Artist Point closes for the season. 4 Bellingham City Council unanimously approves a 1 percent 10.y}.10 MAIL MAIL property tax increase for the city’s 2011 budget. TUESDAY

2 State auditors say the City of Bellingham failed to prop- Sugary, high-alcohol energy drinks are the ap-

DO IT IT DO erly bid for a half-million dollar sewer replacement project in parent culprit that sickened a number of college

2008. Sewer pipes under City Hall were leaking and required students at a central Washington party earlier The President of the United States was in Seattle last week, urging

10 replacement. Rather than bidding the project, the city added six this month. Several freshemen were hospitalized a ﬁred-up crowd to cast their votes for Democratic Sen. Patty Mur-

.27. change orders to an unrelated sewer project. City officials admit ray. Barack Obama’s second campaign trip to Washington state this after mixing vodka, rum and beer with caffeine- 10 they failed to declare the action an emergency but wanted to year was part of a flood of high-profile Democrats trying to rouse infused Four Loko. move quickly to avoid a raw sewage leak. voters in competitive races. .05 43 #

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FUZZ activated motion alarm. ”An officer found Cascadia Weekly Tea-Totaler’s Guide to 34 that an industrious arachnid’s cribellum BUZZ deposit had activated the alarm,” police Positions & Personalities FOOD reported. ”An officer used a toothed ag- A CHEAT SHEET FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT SPOOKY CRIMES riculture implement to remove the ma- PROBABLY SHOULD NOT BE BURNED TO THE GROUND. 27 On Oct. 9, clerks at a Blaine grocery terial fluttering in front of the motion store were spooked when a yellow truck detection sensor, and resolved the prob- FEDERAL INITIATIVE 1082: appeared, driven by goblins in Hallow- lem, for the time being.” U.S. SENATE PRIVATIZE WORKERS COMP Patty Murray Reject CLASSIFIEDS een gear. The ghouls cruised the lot Washington’s senior senator is a sea- Corporate-sponsored measure that until police arrived, then vanished into On Oct. 14, a Blaine fisherman had soned voice for the state’s interests. breaks a system that currently works 24 the night. set his nets for a very large catch. He extraordinarily well. Creates wealth for U.S. CONGRESS, 2ND DISTRICT private insurers by throwing injured

had unfurled his commercial ﬁshing FILM On Oct. 16, a Blaine resident reported nets across a city street to tend them, Rick Larsen workers to the wolves. Has uniquely championed the region’s he’d heard weird noises in the night. blocking public access. ”The gentleman

interest in Washington, D.C. Opponent INITIATIVE 1100 & 1105: 20 Gardening in days that followed, he was advised that he could not conduct promises more gridlock and partisan PRIVATIZE LIQUOR found debris, including matches. Police private business on the public right of warfare in Congress. Reject MUSIC searched and found a transient warren in way,” police reported. Makes booze more available, but neither measure was crafted with the state’s his backyard. Officers removed the junk STATE 42ND DISTRICT SENATE interests in mind. The state Office of 18 and the owner will call if he encounters ALIEN SKIES Financial Management estimates that Pat Jerns ART any more zombies in his backyard. On Aug. 26, a skywatcher in Lynden I-1100 would have a five-year cost to A businessman ready to do the district’s the state general fund of $115 mil- was dozing when awoken by a noise. business in Olympia. On Oct. 19, a woman was alarmed when Overhead, “a large light, larger than lion-$123 million. The OFM estimates 16 that I-1105’s five-year cost would be she saw a mysterious hand grazing the the stars which compose the Big Dipper, 42ND DISTRICT HOUSE OF $513 million-$547 million. STAGE glass just outside the front window of but that appeared almost as distant, REPRESENTATIVES, POS. 1 Al Jensen INITIATIVE 1107: ROLL BACK TAXES her Blaine home. Officers and border pa- streamed through the constellation at A centrist with unique perspectives on ON CANDY AND SODA 14 trol agents searched the area and were a very high rate of speed. I thought it law enforcement. Able to reach across Reject unable to find any signs of footprints in might have been a shooting star,” the aisles to get the job done. These taxes are mostly temporary and

the flowerbed beneath the window. Ex- observer reported, “but it wasn’t mov- GET OUT 42ND DISTRICT HOUSE OF very common around the country. Repeal- tra patrols were provided. ing fast enough. Once it reached a spot REPRESENTATIVES, POS. 2 ing this would cost the state approxi- below the Big Dipper, the light dimmed Kelli Linville mately $272 million in lost revenues. 13 On Oct. 15, a Blaine woman arrived slightly, and then moved back and forth A proven performer, holds one of the REFERENDUM BILL 52: most powerful positions in Olympia. home to find a bedroom light on. She in its descent, almost playfully, before BUILD SCHOOLS Keep her there. WORDS searched the home and returned to find taking a straight course again and I Approve the bedroom light had mysteriously eventually lost it over what I believe Would authorize bonds to put people to 8 40TH DISTRICT HOUSE OF 8 gone out. Police were en route when was Canada,” the observer continued. REPRESENTATIVES, POS. 1 work to create energy efficiency in state she called to say she’d identified the “This was not a plane. As soon as I saw Kris Lytton schools. intruder as her husband. it I knew what it was.” Powerful focus on education makes her CURRENTS CURRENTS ESB RESOLUTION 42: DENY BAIL CURRENTS an excellent choice to replace Dave Quall. Reject WHAT JASON’S UP TO BATMAN AND HIS 40TH DISTRICT HOUSE OF Would unilaterally deny bail to certain 6 THESE DAYS SIDEKICK REPRESENTATIVES, POS. 2 inmates. Chilling as a concept and,

On Oct. 17, Boundary Bay Brewery re- On Oct. 13, Blaine Police were dispatched Jeff Morris frankly, bail can already be set much VIEWS higher than a inmate’s ability to bond. ported an intoxicated male was in the to a noontime report of a dispute and Powerful and inﬂuential voice on transportation, energy and high technology. 4 bathroom. He had been spotted by em- found one combatant armed with a base- SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 8225: ployees as having a machete protrud- ball bat. Border Patrol agents assisted in FUZZY MATH MAIL COUNTY ing from his pack. “He was not a paying separating the teen titans, who turned Approve WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL Changes in federal bonding programs 2 customer,” Bellingham Police reported, out to be related. “The guy with the met- Jean Melious means tweaking state constitutional

“and they requested he be escorted al bat denied having used it to take a line Former planning commissioner is bril- IT DO

limits on debt capacity to make the out. The male left prior to police arrival drive on his brother,” police reported. The liant on issues the county is at work on. state as eligible as others for those without further incident.” The follow- witness and the victim disagreed on what ﬁnancial programs. INITIATIVES 10

ing day, police caught up with the man had happened, but “the large bat-shaped .27. INITIATIVE 1053: RESTORE CITY OF BELLINGHAM PROPOSITION with the machete-carrying male and contusion blossoming on the victim’s leg 10 SUPERMAJORITY 1: MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION spoke to him. supported his version of events,” police Reject LEVY said. Officers arrested the 18-year-old Tim Eyman measure would allow a small Approve .05 43 GRAVEYARD STASH brother for felony assault. minority of lawmakers to block any .2¢ sales tax would restore WTA service # On Oct. 8, a sportsman from New Mexico revenue proposal. Would make it virtu- for Bellingham residents and generate much needed revenues for crosswalks, on a quick trip into Canada stashed his On Sept. 5, Blaine Police clocked a ally impossible for legislators to take a balanced approach to Washington’s bike lanes and road resurfacing. shotgun and .30-30 rifle in the bushes motorist on Interstate Five traveling ongoing economic problems. at Blaine cemetery. When Canadia Cus- at 110 miles per hour. The driver was BELLINGHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT toms officials at the border asked him arrested for reckless driving. “The INITIATIVE 1098: STATE PROPOSITION 1: OPERATIONS LEVY INCOME TAX Approve

about weapons he owned, he described driver’s brother arrived on scene CASCADIA WEEKLY Approve 23¢ per $1,000 assessed property value his stash. Canadian officials advised shortly thereafter,” police reported, Would generate more than $2 billion per would keep teachers in classrooms and 11 him to return to the cemetery, where “caused a minor fracas and ultimately year for public education while making classroom sizes within their ability to officers would meet him with helpful had to also be arrested for obstruct- the state’s tax code more equitable. teach. information on where he might safely ing a police officer. Both men from SOURCES: Financial impacts courtesy of the Washington State Budget & Policy Center; Office store his weapons while he visited Can- B.C. were cited and released with a of Financial Management ada for the weekend. mandatory court appearance.” doit WORDS

34 34 OCT. 29-30 POETS AS ART: As part of “The Poet As

FOOD Art” series, award-winning poets Lor- words raine Healy and Peter Ludwin will share COMMUNITY ›› LECTURES BOOKS their words at a reading at 7pm Fri., Oct. 27 27 29 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. From 10:30am-3pm Sat., Oct. 30, Healy will teach a writing workshop focusing on what Pablo Neruda’s Odes CLASSIFIEDS can teach poets. Cost is $3 for the reading, $50 for the workshop. i 398-7870 24 EXPELLED, FROM PAGE 9 SAT., OCT. 30 FILM FILM B & B MYSTERY: Mary Daheim reads opposed to the Chinese. These two in- from her new tome, Loco-Motive: A Bed- ﬂuences soon aroused the community to

20 and-Breakfast Mystery, at 2pm at Village white heat.” Books, 1200 11th St. i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

MUSIC Unlike other areas on the West Coast where Chinese banded together to form MARRIAGE AND MURDER: Charles Neff shares passages from his latest

18 businesses and alliances, even whole thriller, Hard Cache, at 7pm at Village neighborhoods and minor cities, Bell-

ART ART Books, 1200 11th St. ingham’s Chinese community appeared i 671-2626 less organized. Only one Chinese busi- 16 ness was noted in this period, a laundry SUN., OCT. 31 HALLOWEEN STORIES: Members of known as Wah Lee’s wash house. STAGE STAGE the Bellingham Storytellers Guild will In July, 1885, United States ofﬁcers tell Halloween tales that are appro- responded to civil unrest and searched priate for kids of all ages from 3:30- 14 Chinese labor quarters in Bellingham 5:30pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. for opium, but found only half a pound. MUSEUM COURTESYPHOTO WHATCOM OF Entry is free. Chinese waiting at the Sumas Train Station, circa 1885 i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM GET OUT At the time, opium use was viewed as little worse than tobacco, but within MON., NOV. 1 weeks six Chinese laborers were tried Not content with passive boycott, the prefer to freeze out rather than burn POETRYNIGHT: Read your original 13 and found guilty. They were deported to newspaper sent “representatives” with out the Chinamen.” verse at poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Project, Cornwall Ave. Sign- British Columbia. torches into a Chinese residence in the On Nov. 7, 1885, the last terrorized

WORDS ups start at 8pm. Around this time, Nicklin and Jenkins dead of night on Oct. 16 with the intent Chinese laborer left the city. Remain- i WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG introduced the idea of a total boycott of of discovering criminal acts. They were ing residents celebrated with music, 8 8 Chinese residents. Their proposed boy- successful. speeches, gun salutes and torchlight WED., NOV. 3 AFTER THE FALLS: Cathy Gildiner cott included a refusal to frequent Chi- “The pipes and paraphernalia lay be- parades. Bellingham reads from her book After the Falls: nese businesses—apparently only the side the stupeﬁed coolies, who leered was the ﬁrst com- CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS Coming of Age in the Sixties—a sequel one, Wah Lee’s. More devastating, the in surprise at the sudden appearance of munity on Puget to her bestselling memoir, Too Close to

6 editors urged a complete community re- whites,” the newspaper stormed. “When Sound to expel Chi- the Falls—at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 fusal to hire Chinese labor and to refuse accused of smoking in violation of the nese, but it would 11th St.

VIEWS VIEWS i to rent to them. law they confessed, and with two others not be the last. The 671-2626 Despite the ferment, an element downstairs, were arrested.” rest of the decade

4 THURS., NOV. 4 in the city remained favorable to the The newspaper put up funds to pros- would be scorched CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Book Lust

MAIL MAIL Chinese. In August, these supporters ecute the matter. with reports of Chi- author and librarian Nancy Pearl will be // ) the featured guest at tonight’s rendi-

passed resolutions against Chinese ex- “The Chinese,” Wilson said, “did not, nese expulsions—

2 WHAT: Discussion tion of the Chuckanut Radio Hour at clusion. They condemned the efforts of or in many cases were not allowed to, of Chinese Expul- some violent, some 6:30pm at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom,

DO IT IT DO newspapers to heighten tensions. use the American court system. A Chi- lethal—across the 1224 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $5.

sion of 1885 Now motivated, Nicklin and Jenkins nese person could not testify in court, WHEN: 7pm, Puget Sound. i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM Mon., Nov. 8

10 called for a town hall meeting, over nor could a Chinese person act as a “The thoroughly WHERE: Fairhaven

.27. which the mayor presided. witness to another Chinese who was frightened China- College Audito- COMMUNITY 10 “The sentiment was that the Chinese being accused.” men left the town rium, WWU WED., OCT. 27 should be removed from Whatcom,” Roth “Wholesale arrests of Chinamen were COST: Free as ordered, and their

.05 UNNATURAL CAUSES: View the ﬁlm related. “The resolutions declared that made,” Roth reported. A deal was struck MORE: Exhibit at going was celebrated 43 Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making # Bellingham Public the territory was being invaded by Mon- that the prosecutions would end if the with a grand torch- Us Sick? at 7pm at the Whatcom Peace & Library through golian slaves, paralyzing the demand for Chinese left town by November 1. light parade,” Roth Justice Center, 100 E. Maple St. November and degrading white labor and spread- “If they keep the faith, well and good; wrote many years i WWW.WHATCOMPJC.ORG ing diseases and vice. if not they must suffer the consequenc- later. “An aftermath upon which they THURS., OCT. 28 “It was the sense of the meeting,” es,” the Reveille warned. “We caused the had not counted came quickly when the TRICK OR TREAT #1: From 4-6pm, kids she wrote, “that the Chinese should be arrests for various reasons: to show city federal grand jury at Seattle summoned a can stop by local business in downtown Ferndale for “Trick or Treat” fun. CASCADIA WEEKLY compelled to leave by January 1, and ofﬁcers had failed to do their duty; to large number of Whatcom citizens to ap- the committee was appointed to ask the prove to the Chinese and not the white pear before it on a charge growing out of i WWW.FERNDALECHAMBER.COM 12 townsite owners not to lease or release citizens of Whatcom are breaking the this written stipulation made in criminal OCT. 28-30 property to Chinamen.” law; and to get rid of the Chinese with- cases concerning the Chinese.” SCREAM FAIR: Get three haunted Residents who refused to sign the out trouble or cost if possible. Despite federal prosecution, which houses for the price of one when the general boycott saw their names pub- “The Chinese will go,” a Reveille head- rounded up Nicklin and others, Whatcom Scream Fair Haunted House returns to Lynden Oct. 28-30 at Northwest Wash- lished in the Reveille. line crowed. “The citizens of Whatcom EXPELLED, CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 doit Oct 28 Tunes w/Brad Loomis, 7:30pm Oct 31 Halloween Haunted Beer Garden 4-6pm ington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St. Gen- eral admission is $13. Nov 9 Brewers Night /Nov 17 Beer Dinner

i 34 WWW.SCREAMFAIR.COM Mon $3 Pints/ Tues Kolsch Nite $1.50

FRI., OCT. 29 FOOD GREEN ROOF WORKSHOP: Learn what’s behind putting vegetation on top of your house at a “Raise the (Green) 27 Roof” workshop from 2:30-5:30pm at 1118 Franklin St. i 647-7093 OR [email protected] CLASSIFIEDS SAT., OCT. 30 BELLINGHAM MARKET: Purchase and peruse local fruit and veggies and ar- 24 tistic offerings at the Bellingham Farm- ers Market from 10am-3pm at the Depot FILM Market Square at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street. 20 i WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG OCTOBERFEST: A bake sale, crafts, Christian gift items, lunch and more MUSIC will be part of an Octoberfest celebration from 10am-2pm at Our Saviour’s 18 Lutheran Church, 1720 Harris Ave. ART ART i WWW.OURSAVIOURSBHAM.ORG TRICK OR TREAT #2: Mini ghouls and goblins can rake in the goods from Valid All Day, Every day! 16 2-5pm at the annual Downtown Trick or Treat outing happening throughout STAGE Bellingham’s urban core. Look for signs $ from participating merchants. i WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM 14 GHOSTS OF GACHES GALA: Find out Large5.00 Cold Cut Sandwich why a historical mansion has a repu- GET OUT tation for being haunted at tonight’s “Ghosts of Gaches Gala” Halloween fundraiser happening from 7-10pm at 13 the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum in the Gaches mansion. Tickets are $75.

i (360) 466-4288 WORDS 8 SUN., OCT. 31 8 KIDS HARVEST FEST: A Kids Harvest Festival takes place from 2-6pm at Bell- ingham’s Central Lutheran Church, 925 Lakeway Shopping Center CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS CURRENTS N. Forest St. Next to Cost Cutter i 734-7180 1068 Lakeway Drive 6 TRICK OR TREAT #3: From 3-6pm small goblins and princesses—among 714-1t14-1772 others—can trick or treat in historic Valid only at above location. One coupon per customer VIEWS per visit. Not valid with any other offer or coupon. Fairhaven. Stop by the Fairhaven Phar- PRESENT COUPON TO REDEEM. 4 macy to get your photo taken. i WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM MAIL MAIL HAUNTED GARDEN: Bring the whole

family along for a Haunted Halloween 2 Garden from 4-6pm at the Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen, 601 Holly St. A IT DO costume contest,apple bobbing and U U gypsy fortune telling will be part of the excitement. 10 i 752-3377 .27.

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Calabresi Hot Salami 43 about salmon recovery and watershed 9JJ=D ?=< =K=JN= # restoration in the Nooksack Basin at Coriander Goat Cheese : %9 J the annual “Salmon Summit” happening today at the St. Luke’s Community Custom Deli Cold Cuts ;;a\]jFgogfLYha\]jFgogfLYh Health Education Center, 3333 Squali- cum Pkwy. Entry is free, but pre-regis- Country Comfrey Salve tration is required. LIVE MUSIC i WWW.N-SEA.ORG Chocolate Cranberries CASCADIA WEEKLY GREEN DRINKS: The monthly iteration Cinnamon Roll & Awfy of Green Drinks—wherein environmen- TUES - SAT 8PM 13 tally minded folks meet and greet— happens from 5-7pm tonight. See the link below for location details. O Say Can You “C” i WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG Hiway 9 – Van Zandt www.everybodys.com doit DO IT

WED., OCT. 27 34 34 TREE KEEPERS: Celebrate Urban For- estry Month when Ann Linnea—the FOOD getout ﬁrst woman to circumnavigate Lake HIKING ›› RUNNING ›› CYCLING Superior by sea kayak—shares stories

27 27 from her book, Keeper of the Trees: A Guide to Re-Greening North America, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. i 671-2626

CLASSIFIEDS THURS., OCT. 28 MT. BAKER FILM FEST: View ﬁlms

24 showcasing movie makers and pho- STORY AND PHOTO BY TRAIL RAT tographers of the ski and snowboard

FILM FILM industry at the annual Mt. Baker Film Festival starting at 7:30pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commer-

20 cial St. Show up at 6pm for a vendor Grime and Punishment expo, carnival games, a DJ and more.

MUSIC Tickets are $7.50-$9. SHARING THE MISERY ON GUNN PEAK i 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM 18

ART ART ALTHOUGH OUTWARDLY SAT., OCT. 30 BOUNDARY RIDE: Join members of the Mount Baker Club for a Boundary

16 I MAINTAINED THE VERY Bay bike ride today. Meet at 8am at Sunnyland Elementary to carpool.

STAGE STAGE PICTURE OF HAPPINESS AT i 392-1015 THE START OF MY FOURTH WORK PARTY #1: Join NSEA and others from 9am-12pm at a work party 14 14 along the banks of Terrell Creek in ATTEMPT, DEEP INSIDE, THE Birch Bay.

GET OUT i WWW.N-SEA.ORG GET OUT PAIN AND DOUBT INFLICTED WORK PARTY #2: Join Village Books BY MY MANY PREVIOUS to weed, pick up debris and take care 13 of native shrubs at a work party from 10am-12pm on Bellingham’s South Bay FAILURES DID LINGER. Trail. Tools and gloves will be provid- WORDS ed. “Sure thing,” I answered. “No problemo.” i 671-2626 8 But both my legs were completely numb and my core HALLOWEEN RUN: WWU’s Western temperature had plummeted to dire degrees. Road Racers will host a Halloween 5K The sun was invisible. The sky was a thin blue starting at 11am at Fairhaven Park, 107

CURRENTS CURRENTS Chuckanut Dr. Costumes are encour- strip. Wallowing heedlessly through a mossy hallway aged, and prizes will be given to the 6 THE FIRST time I tried to climb Gunn Peak, I made it to 3,000 of boulders and trees, a gloomy pall of maritime best. Admission is free. feet and got lost in fog. The second time I tried to climb Gunn Peak, I murk held me grimly in its grip. I shivered upward i WWW.WWU.EDU

VIEWS VIEWS made it to 3,200 feet and got lost in the snow. The third time I tried to through steaming vapor clouds, straining with ev- BULB CLASS: Secret Garden Design’s climb Gunn Peak, I made it to 3,212 feet and got lost in a pugnacious erything I had just to subdue my chattering teeth. Debra Olberg will lead a free “Autumn 4 swarm of yellow jackets. The tangled ground grew steeper. Knees creaked Bulb Planting” class at 9am at the Gar- den Spot Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Call MAIL MAIL Then I gave up. Not only did I give up, but I also made a solemn vow and calf muscles strained as I zigzagged up the slip- to register. to myself never to set foot within a hop, skip or jump from that P.O.S. pery slope haunted by growing uneasiness. But at i 676-5480

2 pile of rocks ever again. least my core temperature stabilized! DAMAGE PREVENTION: A “Winter Seven years passed. A lot of weird shit happened. And blammo!, two It took everything I had, and then some, just to Damage Protection” workshop begins DO IT IT DO

weeks ago, there I was—tits-deep in the dark, frosty jungle, lacing my reach my previous high point. at 10am at Bakerview Nursery, 945 E. boots for yet another attempt. And hours might as well have been years for how Bakerview Rd. At 2pm, show up for “Fall 10 Cleanup for Your Garden or Landscape.” Looming 6,245 feet above the sleepy old mining town of Index, Gunn long it took me to surmount the massy phantasmago- .27. Classes are free, but registration is re-

10 Peak (along with its nearby sister peaks, Mt. Baring and Merchant Peak) ria of boulder heaps and murderous ledge systems that quested. might not scrape the sky as high or as mightily as many other North Cas- lay waiting in the ether beyond. i 676-0400

.05 cades giants, but its craggy, indomitable ﬂanks help belay the rugged, The mountain kept getting colder, icier and gener-

43 WED., NOV. 3 # irascible character of a 102,000-acre parcel of Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie ally more foreboding. It jangled my nerves and bat- AVALANCHE AWARENESS: Learn how National Forest that recently earned federal designation as the Wild tered my body. It scuffed up my id and pulverized my to stay safe in the snow at an “Ava- Sky Wilderness Area. ego. Increasingly, I wanted to quit. lanche Awareness and Leading a Com- Although outwardly I maintained the very picture of happiness at the But my climbing partners didn’t let me. They panion Rescue” clinic at 6pm at REI, start of my fourth attempt, deep inside, the pain and doubt inﬂicted by trudged me through the meadows. They sidestepped 400 36th St. Entry is free, but registration is required. my many previous failures did linger. me across the gullies. They rock-hopped me through i 647-8955

CASCADIA WEEKLY The only real solace I took was that this time around, if anything bad the talus. They scrambled me up the chutes. They WINTER GLORIES: The Whatcom Hor- happened, I would be able to share the misery with all or any of the led me all the way to the final, highest approach, ticultural Society will host a “Winter 14 three other climbers in our party. put a rope in my hands and literally shoved me, Glories: Choosing the Best Shrubs for It didn’t take long. Five hundred feet into the forest, the jumbled screaming and crawling, onto that summit of sweet Winter Beauty” talk with Roger Gossler profusion of greasy, frost-coated logs across Barclay Creek managed to salvation. at 7:30pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect. General admission is $12. send me flailing keister-first into the ice-cold effluent. For route descriptions, see Cascade Alpine Guide Vol. i WWW.WHATCOMHORTSOCIETY.ORG “You all right?” asked our fearless leader. 2: Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass, by Fred Beckey. KulshanCLT

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THURS., OCT. 28 34 34 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at FOOD g the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, sta e stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $7

27 27 THEATER ›› DANCE ›› PROFILES for the early show, $4 for the late one. i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM OCT. 29-31 HELLINGHAM: There’s a killer running CLASSIFIEDS amok, and the audience and fellow towns- people must struggle to ﬁgure out who-

24 dunit. That’s right, it’s time once again for “Hellingham,” the completely impro-

FILM FILM not only knew every line in the flick and how to vised murder mystery that’ll show at 8pm respond to it, but actually showed up and stayed and 10pm Fri.-Sat. and 8pm Sun. at the in character for the duration. This wasn’t simply Upfront Theater, 1208 Bay St. Entry is 20 a viewing of a movie; it was more like those in $8-$10. i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM the theater were a part of the movie itself. MUSIC Thirty-five years after it first hit the big SAT., OCT. 30 screen—making it the longest-running theat- HAUNTED HOUSE: Zombie “Thriller” 18 rical release in film history—The Rocky Horror dancers, an eccentric host, a visiting ghost

ART ART and a bevy of actors will be front and cen- Picture Show shows no signs of losing its mojo. ter at the 2nd annual BAAY Haunted House To wit, three different venues in the area will Adventure from 6-9pm at the Bellingham 16 16 be hosting viewings through Halloween, some Arts Academy for Youth, 1059 N. State St. multiple times. Tours depart every 20 minutes. Suggested STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE If you’re a “virgin” donation is $2. i WWW.BAAY.ORG to Rocky Horror, come HALLOWEEN HAROLD: The improvis- 14 prepared. First, a little ers of the Dead Parrots Society present a about the plot: A newly Halloween Harold dubbed “Tales from the Spooky Section of the Library” at 7:30pm GET OUT engaged couple (Susan Sarandon and Barry at Western Washington University’s Old Bostwick) get a ﬂat tire Main Theatre. Audience suggestions will

13 be gleaned from spooky and bizarre tomes, in the middle of no- and horriﬁc humor will ﬁll the night. Sug- where and seek help at gested donation is $3. WORDS ATTEND a nearby castle, which i WWW.WWU.EDU WHAT: The Rocky Horror just happens to be the 8 SUN., OCT. 31 Picture Show site of an annual Tran- WHEN: 8pm Oct. 27, 8pm COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly Comedy Night and 12am Oct. 29, 8pm and sylvanian Convention. happens at 8pm every Sunday at the 12am Sun., Oct. 31 It’s soon clear all is not Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, 1114 Harris CURRENTS CURRENTS WHERE: MBT’s Walton The- right with Dr. Frank-N- Ave. i WWW.FAIRHAVENPUB.COM 6 atre, 104 N. Commercial St. Furter (Tim Curry), their COST: $9 scantily clad host, who INFO: 734-6080 or www.

VIEWS VIEWS BY AMY KEPFERLE mountbakertheatre.com just might be from an- DANCE other planet, and has 4 WHEN: 10pm Sat., Oct. 30 deﬁnitely been involved THURS., OCT. 28 WHERE: Lincoln Theatre, FOURTH CORNER FOLK: Hook up with MAIL MAIL in some Frankenstein- the Fourth Corner Folk Dancers at 7pm ev- Rocky Horror Mount Vernon style shenanigans. COST: $10 ery Thursday at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 2 Neophytes will soon GIVING PROPS TO A CULT CLASSIC INFO: www.lincoln 12th St. If you’re new to the world of Bal- learn what comes next, kan, Israeli, Romani, and Greek dancing,

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and those who’ve made entry is free—otherwise a $5 donation is THREE EVENTS stand out from the two weeks I attended drama WHEN: 8pm and 11pm Sat., attending The Rocky Hor- suggested. 10 i 380-0456 camp at Western Washington University during a certain summer in the late Oct. 30 ror Picture Show part of .27. WHERE: Arntzen 100, WWU 10 1980s. In no particular order, they are: 1. pretending to have, and lose, a glass COST: $2 their Halloween festivi- FRI., OCT. 29 ARTSCRUSH: As part of the ﬁnal eye, 2. Playing tonsil hockey with a cute Canadian named Martin Cummins INFO: 650-6120 ties will come prepared “ArtsCrush” events of the month, to- .05 who’d go on to star in the MGM series, Poltergeist: The Legacy, and 3. Attending with a bag of props.

43 night’s gathering will feature members of # my first viewing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Another suggestion; you should probably re- Bellingham’s Dance Gallery demonstrat- While kissing a talented teen from across the border and almost getting serve seats for the Mount Baker Theatre shows ing pieces from the longtime ensemble’s away with the theatrical lie about my lazy eye were both pretty exciting, in ASAP, as tickets for its five-run offerings are sell- repertoire and inviting participants to the end neither compared to the thrill I got when I sat down to watch a sweet ing fast. I’m not sure how seats are filling for the learn short, fun phrases. The free event transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania do his thing. Lincoln Theatre gig, but with Bellingham’s favor- begins at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Until then, I’d always assumed that once you took a seat in a theater, you ite drag queen Betty Desire in line to sacrifice the i 671-2626 OR WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM

CASCADIA WEEKLY sat quietly and—unless you were laughing or crying—watched the movie. virgins, it’s likely those will go quickly, too. HALLOWEEN PARTY: A costume contest, You certainly didn’t (loudly) call the heroine of the movie a slut, throw toast, If you see me in attendance this weekend, “Thriller” dance instruction and more will 16 sound off noisemakers, spray other attendees with water guns and join a cos- don’t take me for a ﬁrst-timer, even though be part of a Halloween Party starting at tumed horde in front of the screen during the more rousing dance numbers. it’s been awhile since I participated in the 8pm at U & Me Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. I’d been warned what to expect by fellow thespians who’d experienced the wonder that is Rocky Horror. I’ll be the one Entry is $10-$12. i WWW.UANDMEDANCE.COM cult classic already, but nothing could’ve prepared me for the raunchy joy those watching for cues as I wait to do the “Time in the audience brought to the interactive experience. These were people who Warp.” Again. doit Center for Expressive Arts Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center Presents the 8th Annual COSTUME BALL: Students and members The Art of Love and Rage of the community are invited to dance the Art to express the urgency of the environmental crisis we face, and our profound depth of connection to the Earth. Peace Builder Awards Gala night away at a “Costume Ball” starting at

Join us for an opening reception on Friday, Nov. 5, 6-9pm 34 9pm at Western Washington University’s Friday, Nov. 12th at 7:00 p.m. Viking Union Multipurpose Room. Cos- Kids Yoga and Art Party FOOD tumes are strongly encouraged. Mysterious Ancient Egypt theme i WWW.WWU.EDU November 20th, 5-8pm $27 presale, $30 day of Live Music! SAT., OCT. 30 Halloween Dance Off! FREE! 27 Saturday Oct. 30th, 2-5pm DANCE-OFF: Trick-or-treaters can take Trick or Treaters are invited to take a break and break a break at a free “Halloween Dance Off!” it down w/ Local-Motion’s Creative Dance Party Improv Comedy! happening from 2-5pm at the Center for Expressive Arts, 1317 Commercial St. Fall Drama Classes for Kids CLASSIFIEDS i WWW.CENTERFOREXPRESSIVEARTS.COM Taught by Jessika Houston, $36.00, 4 wk. session

HALLOWEEN DANCE #1: The Rocky Vasli- Story & Creative Drama Classes Hors D’oeuvres! 24 no Show will provide the entertainment at Times & ages vary, Call! Wednesdays Oct. 13-Nov. 3 tonight’s Halloween Dance starting at 8pm FILM at the Bellingham Golf & Country Club, Book Making Workshop November 27th, 1-3pm, $10 in advance 3729 Meridian St. Tickets are $25; proceeds

20 beneﬁt the International Footprinter As- Adult Art Classes: Soul Collage® sociation. Intro, Advanced, Day shops, & Open Studios options i WWW.VASALINO.COM Dates, times, & costs vary; please contact for more info MUSIC

360-676-0122 HALLOWEEN DANCE: #2: Salvadore Dali 1317 Commercial St. #201, Bellingham / 671-5355

Llama and local actors present a night www.centerforexpressivearts.com Tickets at www.whatcomdrc.org 18 of freaky fun with live music, holiday inspired theater, costume contests and ART more at a Halloween Dance starting at franks with all the fixin’s drive thru / dine in heated outdoor hot dog bar catering 16 8pm at Northwood Hall, 3240 Northwest Hnk^o^gbg`l 16 Ave. Entry is $10 per person or $15 per couple, and tickets must be purchased in STAGE STAGE STAGE STAGE advance. cnlm`hmfhk^ i 510-5450 CONTRA DANCE: Northern ContraBand ]^eb\bhnl' 14 will provide the tunes at tonight’s Hal- loween-themed Contra Dance from 7:30- 10:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 After hours with Old World Deli, GET OUT 12th St. Entry is $8-410. now open evenings till 10pm i WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG

Thursday–Saturday. 13 HALLOWEEN DANCE #3: Attend a Imported wine, beer, antipasti, “Spooktacular All-County Halloween small plates, espresso & free wifi. Dance” starting at 9pm at the Belling- WORDS ham Sportsplex, 1225 Civic Field Way. A

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FILM FILM BY AMY KEPFERLE 20 “WITHOUT DEATH, LIFE WOULD MUSIC Death Becomes Him NOT BE THAT IMPORTANT” 18 18 18 COREY URLACHER’S BODY OF WORK —COREY URLACHER ART ART ART ART AMONG THE mannequins adorning various store windows 16 in downtown Bellingham, one stands out from the rest. She’s not a perfectly put-together version of what female beauty is supposed to STAGE STAGE look like. In fact, she’s splashed with blood and is missing most of her innards, which have instead been replaced with various items

14 of interest from inside the store. For that, you have artist Corey Urlacher to thank. We caught up with the found art sculptor—whose

GET OUT macabre machinations often incorporate skulls, skeletons and a variety of assorted body parts—to ﬁnd out what gets under his skin. Cascadia Weekly: I just watched Evil Dead 3 last night, and real- 13 ized the skeletons have a whole lot of personality. What attracts you to skeletons and skulls (of which there seems to be a lot of in WORDS your work)? Corey Urlacher: I have to blame it on Disney’s Fantasia. When 8 I was young, I remember watching the animation of the village going to sleep and the demon on the mountain awaking from slumber. He then CURRENTS CURRENTS proceeds to conjure up skeletal spirits from

6 the graveyard below. I was fascinated, and have been ever since.

VIEWS VIEWS CW: What are your assorted body parts made of? Is it true you use dog and cat teeth for some 4 of your sculptures? If so, where in the hell do SEE IT

MAIL MAIL you get them? WHO: Corey Urlacher CU: I use some cast bone and skulls but many WHERE: Jinx Art CW: What, or who, inspires you?

2 sculptures have real bones in them. I do use Space, 306 Flora St. CU: I think I answered a lot of this in the knife cat and dog teeth, as well as birds feet, and INFO: www.goatus question, but there are many inspiring artists DO IT IT DO art.com all I can say is I have a connection for such such as Edward Kienholz, Joel Peter Witkin, HR things (insert maniacal laugh here). Geiger, Clive Barker, Chet Zar, and many ﬁlm ef- 10 CW: What was the inspiration for the Merch Bot display? Did the eviscer- fects companies. .27.

10 ated woman already exist, or did you create her speciﬁcally for the CW: What, or who, scares you? macabre window dressing? CU: I would say “not much,” until I watched this

.05 CU: The Zombie was created for www.shopzombie.com, another com- show called “Monsters Inside Me” about para- 43 # pany associated with Merch Bot. It was made to go to trade shows sitic worms eating your eyeballs from the inside and horror expos to display the goods. I was given the mannequin out and lying eggs in some crease of your flesh. to “zombify” and thought she would be perfect for the window That is scary. around Halloween. CW: Do you typically find something first and then CW: What would your dream Halloween look like? discover what you’re going to do with it, or are CU: A Hellraiser movie!!! CW: If you were forced by knifepoint to describe you looking for specific things at the outset? CU: I have always found the most success with CASCADIA WEEKLY CW: “Severed Head of a Vision Red,” “Hymn for Decay,” and “Our Lady your art, how would you explain your style? of Death” are just a few of the titles of your sculptures. Can we ever CU: Tough one! I would describe the style as the letting sculptures build themselves. I may have 18 expect to see “Rainbows and Unicorns” from you? culmination of all my passions and interests in a concept for a piece, but I try to not over-think CU: Maybe someday: I love a challenge. a sculptural form. From skulls, to the occult, anything and let it just “become.” CW: Are all your sculptures one of kind? antiquity, metal music, horror films, decay, CW: Why is death so darn beautiful? CU: Yes! Since every sculpture is constructed from the found objects plague, this list could go on until the person CU: I don’t know, but without it, life would not be I have at the time, that makes them one of a kind. holding me at knifepoint got tired of listening. that important. doit

UPCOMING EVENTS through October at DIGS, 200 W. Holly St. i WWW.DIGSSHOWROOM.COM

THURS., OCT. 28 FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists ellingham 34 LEAD PENCIL LECTURE: Artists from the Se- pion, B at the new Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Har- t Cham akery.com attle-based Lead Pencil Studio will share details ris Ave. es mountb C W www. FOOD about their innovative collaborations and site- 08 5 book i WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM 3 5-219 on Face speciﬁc installations at a free lecture at 4pm at ) 71 GALLERY CYGNUS: “Riverscapes and Water (360 WWU’s Old Main Theater. The public is invited to Shapes,” an exhibit featuring paintings by Mag- 27 the free event. gie Wilder and glass sculpture by Theodora John- i 650-3963 son, shows through Nov. 7 at La Conner’s Gallery Company coming SAT., OCT. 30 Cygnus, 109 Commercial St. i WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM for the holidays? CLASSIFIEDS MINI STUDIO TOUR: If you’re interested in the artists who’ll be taking part in the Nov. 12 “Art HONEY SALON: View paintings by Jackie Webley through Oct. 29 at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St.

+ All That Jazz” fundraiser at the Whatcom Mu- 24 seum, visit the studios of Ed Bereal, Caryn Fried- i WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM Bring them in for a

lander, John Keppelman, Christopher Morrison, LITTLE GALLERY: Peruse Lorna Libert’s “Capti- FILM Barbara Sternberger, and Thomas Wood today vating Characters” exhibit through Oct. 30 at the delicious breakfast or lunch from 12-5pm throughout Bellingham. Another Little Gallery, 1220 Bay St. tour happens Nov. 5. Tickets to each are $10. i 647-5675 or special order desserts, pastries, 20 i 778-8963 LOOMIS HALL: Attend “The Voices of Whatcom,” and cookies to share at home! FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY: A Dia de los Muertos a group show featuring many of the county’s ﬁn- MUSIC Family Activity Day happens from 12-4pm at the est artists, through Nov. 8 at Blaine’s Loomis Hall Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Gallery, 288 Martin St. OPEN 8 AM TO 3:30 PM 6EVEN DA<6 A WEEK 18 18 18 Flora St. Day of the Dead activities include skull i WWW.LOOMISHALLGALLERY.COM B5EAKFA6T AND LUNCH 6E5VED ALL DAY CA6H OR CHECK6 ONLY PLEA6E ART ART mask-making with Ben Mann, plus more. Entry is LUCIA DOUGLAS: View works by iconic North- ART $3 and includes museum admission. west painter Clayton James, landscape artist Paul i 778-8930 Havas, and Jim Orvik until Nov. 29 at Lucia Doug- 16 QUILT EXPRESSIONS: Linda Bylsma will show las Gallery, 1415 13th St. i WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM

off vintage signature quilts at 3pm at the Everson STAGE McBeath Community Library, 104 Kirsch Dr. The MINDPORT: “Water, Water: Boat Floating on heirlooms were crafted from ﬂour sack material Canyon Creek” is currently on display at Mindport in Nooksack and Sumas during the 1930s. Entry Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. 14 is free. i WWW.MINDPORT.ORG i 966-5100 MONA: “Thomas T. Wilson: a Survey,” Karen GET OUT Willenbrink-Johnsen’s “A Journey in Glass,” and “Guy Anderson and Other Friends: The Paul I. ONGOING EXHIBITS Gingrich, Jr. Collection” will show through Jan. 13 ALLIED ARTS: Pieces by Yvette Neumann, Sheila 2 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 Sondik, and Craig Dunstan-McGrail can be viewed S. First St. until Oct. 30 at the “Aesthetic Expressions” ex- i WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG Fall WORDS hibit at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. PAPERDOLL: Works on paper by Portland’s Juli- i WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG anna Swaney can be viewed through Nov. 4 at the Coat Sale 8 ANCHOR ART SPACE: “Four Friends: New Work” Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St. shows through the month at Anacortes’ Anchor i WWW.THEPAPERDOLL.NET Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave. Russell Prather, SKAGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Way We 20% Off CURRENTS Carol Phillips, John Harmon, and Jean Behnke Played: Early Skagit Recreation” can be seen

contributed to the exhibit. through July, 2011, at La Conner’s Skagit County 6 i WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG Historical Museum, 501 4th St. Entire Stock BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The mu- i (360) 466-3365 VIEWS VIEWS seum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. SKAGIT VALLEY GALLERY: “Point of Depar- 4 and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. ture,” an interactive art sculpture by Tacoma art- 1317 Railroad Avenue Bellingham 360.671.5704 i 393-7540 ist Phil Roach, shows through Oct. 29 at Mount

BLUE HORSE: “EOS, Goddess of the Dawn: A Cel- Vernon’s Skagit Valley College Art Gallery. MAIL ebration of the Feminine for Breast Cancer Aware- i (360) 416-7623 ness” will be the theme for the multi-artist ex- SMITH & VALLEE: Bellingham artist Ruthie V’s 2 hibit showing through Oct. 29 at the Blue Horse new exhibit, “Work,” can be viewed until Oct. 31 DO IT IT DO Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey i WWW.BLUEHORSEGALLERY.COM Ave. The one-woman show investigates work and

BOUNDARY BAY: Solace Wonder’s Oktoberfest- the day-to-day life of Americans. 10 i WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM

themed art show will be on display through Octo- .27. ber at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. WESTERN GALLERY: “Spellbound: Selections 10 i WWW.BBAYBREWERY.COM from the Lehmann African Art Collection” shows

CASA QUE PASA: A collaborative show dubbed through Nov. 24 at WWU’s Western Gallery. .05

“Street Cirque” can be viewed through October at i 650-3963 43 # Casa Que Pasa, 1415 Railroad Ave. WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am-6pm every i 756-8226 Friday through Sunday, stop by the Whatcom Art CEDAR WORKS: View and purchase a variety of Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron Build- Native American art from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sat. at ing, 1314 12th St. the Cedar Works Art Gallery, 217 Holly St. i WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG i 647-6933 WHATCOM MUSEUM: “1934: A New Deal for DEPOT ARTS CENTER: “Water Music,” featuring Artists,” “Shifting Views of Space and Place: Col- weavings by Mary Snowden and pottery by Mar- lection Selections/One” and “Outside the Home: CASCADIA WEEKLY guerite Goff, can be viewed until Oct. 30 at the Photographs of Women in the Workplace” can 19 Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes. currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum. i (360) 293-3663 OR WWW.DEPOTARTSCENTER.ORG i WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG DIGS: “Home,” a collection of paintings by Port Townsend artist Terry Leness, can be perused Rumor Has It

34 34 WHILE YOU MIGHT think the entertainment roundup located starting directly page left covers your full FOOD range of Halloween music options, it doesn’t. At all. In fact, there’s a couple of worthy shows I failed to

27 27 music mention entirely. SHOW PREVIEWS ›› RUMOR HAS IT First of all, while I omitted it in all my excitement over Acorn Project ﬁnally winning Halloween, the Wild Buffalo is actually throwing two Fright Night CLASSIFIEDS parties, the second coming Fri., Oct. 29 courtesy of BuildStrong and featuring a lineup that includes 24 Fresh Espresso, Head Like a Kite, the Productionists,

FILM FILM and Helladope. As you’re probably already well aware, Fresh Espresso, who seems to just want everyone to get drunk and have a good time, is making some seri- 20 20 ous inroads in Seattle’s hip-hop scene. And, coupled with Head Like a Kite (not to mention the rest of this MUSIC MUSIC lineup), it seems chances are better than good this is a party that will simply be ﬂat-out fun. 18 But will it be as much fun as, say, the birthday ART ART party Casey Nolan has dreamed up and will shortly be executing for herself? 16 Such things are not for me to judge. As I’ve mentioned this STAGE STAGE event before, I won’t go into great detail again, except to

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GET OUT reunited Connecticut Four, a permanently broken up but somehow still-playing

13 BY CAREY ROSS U.S.S. Horsequit (which, I suppose, makes them the undead of the local mu- WORDS sic scene), another Horror Business appearance, and Vancouver band Hospital Blonde. There’s just a few 8 other things you need to know about this party: 1. Horsequit is reportedly bringing a setup I’m not cer- NO-FI SOUL REBELLION tain will even ﬁt inside the venue. 2. According to the CURRENTS CURRENTS invite, the show starts at 8pm—for real—and comes

6 with the all-caps tagline of “I’m Casey Nolan and this BY CAREY ROSS is serious business.” And 3. I’m guessing you’d prob- VIEWS VIEWS ably like to know where all this “serious business” is located. Well, you’re just gonna have to ﬁgure that 4 one out on your own.

MAIL MAIL Fright Night Fun For anyone who sussed out the Halloween schedule and realized that—gasp!—Sugar Sugar Sugar

2 IT’S THE HALLOWEENIEST isn’t slated to play anywhere in town, you should know they’ll be down in Edison for an Oct. 31 party DO IT IT DO

I LOVE Halloween. Actually, that’s not entirely Boundary Bay Brewery: Per usual, when Boundary known as “Night of the Living Dead-ison,” where accurate. I love Halloween in Bellingham. Some may celebrates a holiday, they do it up right. Having they’ll be playing with $hit Machine, SmokeWagon, 10 be inclined to disbelieve this, as I haven’t donned a spent my fair share of them there—Halloween in- and the Daffodils. Kudos to tiny Edison for scoring a .27.

10 costume since grade school, don’t hand out candy to cluded—I can attest to the fact that this brewpub lineup that easily rivals (if not surpasses) anything its kids and generally don’t do anything else that most knows how to throw a premiere party. This year, the surrounding neighbors have to offer. Much like the

.05 people would deem as being “participation” in this festivities begin with a Sat., Oct. 30 show featuring event mentioned above, you’re on your own with 43 # particular holiday. Yet this love persists, and, in fact, the crowd-wowing talents of No-Fi Soul Rebellion, regard to further details. it gets stronger with every year I spend here. Baltic Cousins, one of a few appearances by Misfits On a final note: if you, like everyone else in Belling- The reasons for this are as plentiful as they are cover band Horror Business, and They Hibernate. ham, has an itch for nostalgia you can never scratch simple: I have a real soft spot for a spectacle and Hal- Come Sunday, Scary Monster and the Super Creeps enough, head to the Casa Cantina, where you will loween in Bellingham is, from “Thriller” dancers to the will bring their Halloween moniker and David Bowie find the walls adorned with 3B Tavern show posters costumed masses to the attendant revelry, a spectacle covers to the Boundary stage. Sure, one might think courtesy of Aaron Roeder and his totally enviable th encyclopedic collection. In terms of sheer artistic CASCADIA WEEKLY to the n degree. Secondly, I love music—particularly Horror Business or Scary Monster—what with their that of the live, local, loud variety—and Halloween built-in Halloween appeal—are the big draws (and value, it’s eye candy of the highest order (was there 20 here is one big, bombastic musical showcase, and can they indeed might be), if No-Fi doesn’t steal the ever a better creative collaboration than the one be the best night of the year for local music. Keep- show right out from under everyone else, it will be that existed between Art Chantry and Aaron Roeder? ing that in mind, I’ve compiled my annual amalgam a shocker indeed. WHERE: 1107 Railroad Ave. INFO: www. Not in this town, methinks). And it’s also kind of like of your fright-night entertainment options. Because bbaybrewery.com walking into a time capsule, which is a little freaky. when it comes to Halloween, Bellingham rocks. But in the very best sort of way. musicEvents musicEvents

Green Frog: Here’s the thing: even if the Green Frog was si- WED., OCT. 27 lent come Halloween (or, Oct. 30, which will serve as the bar’s COMMUNITY BANDS: Students from Bell-

ingham High, Burlington-Edison, Ferndale 34 Halloween party)—which it most assuredly isn’t—it would High School, Sehome, and Squalicum will

probably be worth showing up there simply to see what owner perform at a Community Band Exhibition FOOD James Hardesty will costume himself as this year. Does he have from 6-8pm at Bellingham’s Civic Field. En- a reputation for elaborate and amazing Halloween garb? Not try is by donation. that I know of. However, I have high hopes. But, even without i [email protected] 27 him, you’ll still have the sweet sounds of Drunken Prayer to THURS., OCT. 28 entertain you, along with Stephen Ray Leslie and the Crooked MATOYS: Mexico City ensemble the Matoys

Mile. And although I’ve mentioned it before, it probably bears perform at 8pm at the Bellingham Circus CLASSIFIEDS repeating: in a town full of singer/songwriters, Leslie is among Guild’s Cirque Lab, 2107 Iron St. Tickets to hear the jazz, new age and world music the very best. I’ve been a fan for a long time, and if you spend group will be $10 at the door. 24 Halloween with him at the Green Frog, you will be too. WHERE: i 733-1997 902 N. State St. INFO: www.acoustictavern.com FILM FRI., OCT. 29 GENERATION CELEBRATION: Nationally 20 Nooksack River Casino: If I weren’t going to be wandering recognized folk singers Linda Waterfall 20 around downtown Bellingham come Oct. 30, I’d be spend- and Dean Stevens perform at a “Genera- MUSIC ing the evening at the Nooksack River Casino. Why? Because, tion Celebration” concert at 7pm at the MUSIC from what I can gather, they’re throwing some sort of party Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. Tickets are $7-$10 and proceeds ben- ACORN PROJECT that requires attendees to dress as their favorite dead rock 18 eﬁt the Whatcom Hospice Foundation.

stars. I know many of you will disagree, but Zombies are ART i 647-1537 Cabin Tavern: I have made my love of live music at the Cabin played out, which means playing dress-up as the undead is so OCT. 29-31 loud, plain and clear on any number of occasions—and this one last Halloween. But dressing up as the actual dead? An idea 16 doesn’t figure to be any different. Sure, they don’t offer the best whose time has come, methinks. Plus, best costume nabs a BEYOND THE GRAVE: The Skagit Commu- nity Band presents “Music From Beyond sound in town. Yeah, they don’t even boast a stage. But the $500 prize, and you’ll be entertained by Live Wire, the AC/ the Grave” at 7:30pm Oct. 29 at La Conner’s STAGE Cabin offers something that’s unique, indefinable and infinite- DC cover band that is, thankfully to some, not Hell’s Belles. Maple Hall and 3pm Sun., Oct. 31 at Brod- ly better: for whatever reason, seeing a show is just more fun Happy Halloween indeed. WHERE: 5048 Mt. Baker Highway, Deming niak Hall in Anacortes. Tickets are $10-$15 14 there. Part of that is because they know their audience and they INFO: www.nooksackcasino.com per person or $30 per family. book accordingly. To wit: Phreddy and the Nightmares, Pirate i WWW.SKAGITCOMMUNITYBAND.ORG Pirate Motorhome, and the Cathoholix will kick the weekend off Semiahmoo Resort: Even somewhat staid Semiahmoo wants a SAT., OCT. 30 GET OUT Fri., Oct. 29. By the time Saturday rolls around, so will a rare little Halloween action, it seems. And who can blame them? GERSHWIN AND FRIENDS: The North Cascades Concert Band performs its “Ger- (and highly anticipated) performance by the Cheeps, along with Well, it looks like they’re gonna get it and get it good on Sat., 13 Zorbatron and Tearamanapart. On Halloween proper, expect to Oct. 30 in the form of Scary Monster and the Super Creeps, who shwin and Friends” repertoire at 3pm at Blaine High School’s Performing Arts Cen-

WHERE: WORDS be entertained by Ghost Power, Rib Cages, and Slumpter. must be on some kind of insane Halloween world (O.K., Whatcom ter, 765 H St. Tickets are $5-$12. 307 W. Holly St. INFO: www.myspace.com/thecabintavern County) tour. I’m not sure what other delights the resort has in i WWW.NCCBAND.ORG

store for your holiday pleasure, but getting the chance to dance EUPHONIC ELIXIR: Brother Dalton’s Eu- 8 Casa Que Pasa: Yep, you read that right. Casa is dipping its po- to David Bowie in the Semiahmoo Ballroom has to top the list. phonic Elixir will perform neo-traditional, tato-burrito-sauce-laden toe into the waters of live music once WHERE: Semiahmoo Parkway, Blaine INFO: www.semiahmoo.com old-time sounds at their monthly concert from 3:30-5:30pm at Stuart’s at the Market, again. This is a rarity, so if you’d like to see what happens when CURRENTS 1530 Cornwall Ave. Entry is free. everyone’s favorite burrito barn is transformed into a music Skagit Valley Casino: I would just like it to be known that I have

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Fetish. And while you’re there, butter up the powers that be and ridiculed out of it). So, I would like to offer sincere and heartfelt at Blaine’s Resort Semiahmoo. Tickets are 4 see if you can help usher in a renaissance of live music in the gratitude to the Skagit Casino for dubbing their party the Spook- $12-$15 and include appetizers and lots of

dancing. MAIL space. Flattery may just get you everywhere. WHERE: 1415 Railroad tacular Ball, and giving me the opportunity to use spooktacular i WWW.SEMIAHMOO.COM

Ave. INFO: 738-8226 2 again in such totally legit and utterly spooktacular fashion. The FOSTER AND BIBB: Experience “A Night of Spooktacular Ball takes place Sat., Oct. 30 in the Paciﬁc Show- Blues” with renowned performers Ruthie DO IT IT DO Conway Muse: I know that Conway may not be anywhere near room and features the talents of the Spazmatics. Needless to Foster and Eric Bibb at 8pm at the Mount Bellingham’s neighborhood, but for plenty of folks, the tiny say, I ﬁnd all of this to be simply spooktacular. WHERE: 5984 N. Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets town is part of their Halloween picture. And, seeing as the Darrk Lane, Bow INFO: www.theskagit.com are $20-$39. 10 i 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE. folks at the Conway Muse are of the accommodating sort, .27.

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it’s no longer the trilogy it was envisioned

34 34 to be by screenwriter Kevin Williamson (the fourth installment is due out in 2011), FOOD this trio of horror flicks ranks high on my film list. Sure, the middle film comes up short, 27 27 MOVIE REVIEWS ›› MOVIE SHOWTIMES as middle films so often do, but this franchise is both smart and scary enough over- all to make up for it. Director and horror vet Wes Craven uses all the horror-film CLASSIFIEDS conventions—“don’t answer the phone,” “don’t answer the door,” and “never, ever, 24 24 under any circumstances say, ‘I’ll be right FILM FILM FILM FILM back,’ because you won’t”—to flawlessly thread the needle between horror and camp. Pitch-perfect details—from genius 20 BY CAREY ROSS casting decisions (particularly Courteney Cox and David Arquette, with an honorable MUSIC mention to Parker Posey, who pretty much runs away with Scream 3) to memorable use 18 Scare Yourself Silly of Nick Cave’s “Right Red Hand”—are a big ART ART part of what makes this series so frighten- WITH A HALLOWEEN FILM FEST ingly watchable. And the hold-your-breath- 16 scary opening scene of the first installment featuring Drew Barrymore’s best perfor- STAGE STAGE mance since E.T. would be enough to get that movie on this list all by itself.

14 Let the Right One In (2008): Sure, this year’s U.S. remake, Let Me In, is reputedly

GET OUT a decent ﬂick, but why would you want a watered-down remake when the Swedish original is so very impeccably done and so 13 undeniably, deeply chilling? Part love story, part vampire ﬂick (about as far removed WORDS from Twilight as it gets), part rumination on duty and obligation, it’s entirely origi- 8 nal and absolutely visionary. It’s also just about as creepy as can be—and that’s only partly due to the vampire element. CURRENTS CURRENTS Halloween (1978): John Carpenter’s

6 classic is a classic for so many reasons: it introduced us to both Michael Myers and

VIEWS VIEWS Jamie Lee Curtis (I’ll let you be the judge of who has had the most staying power), 4 it employs all of the horror-movie charac-

MAIL MAIL teristics, cliches and calling cards that are still being used in the genre today and it

2 remains terrifying enough to prompt one to sleep with the lights on after a late- DO IT IT DO LET THE RIGHT ONE IN night viewing. Plus, in Michael Myers, it gave us the prototype for the disguised (or 10 get a bad rap. They’re often perceived roundup, as I gave them ample attention for a piece I wrote disﬁgured), somehow superhuman, molas-

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10 as being cinematic guilty pleasures, long on camp and gore and last Halloween about the ﬁlms of Stephen King, but, rest as- ses-slow, homicidal maniac with a past to short on redeeming values. But that characterization could not sured, those ﬁlms remain as creepy as they ever were. And, avenge and an axe to grind—sometimes

.05 be more wrong. Frequently innovative in form, technique and lastly, you will find no Saws or Hostels on this list as I feel literally (not to mention the notion of the 43 # style, often featuring top-notch actors and directors and with torture porn to be a bigger blight on modern cinema than the horror franchise that also will not die). a nagging tendency to wear well with age, horror movies can Jersey Shore movie that’s rumored to be in the works. This is rich territory being mined even to- be sneakily well-crafted and downright visionary. Children of the Corn (1984): Anyone who knows me, knows day. See also: the Friday the 13th and A But the true magic of horror movies comes from the fact that, full well this Stephen King not-classic is, hands down, my fa- Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. while superior acting, directing and vision are the end goals of vorite horror film. Not a single one of them shares this affinity. The Birds (1963): Along with kids who most movies that purport to be far more pretentious, they’re But I’m of the opinion that any movie that kicks off with the kill, nature run amok is among some of the most frightening fodder ever committed CASCADIA WEEKLY merely the byproducts of horror flicks. Not to put too fine a point mass murder of an entire small town’s worth of adults at the on it, but horror movies exist to scare the shit out of people. The hands of a cult of kids with a sinister leader named Isaac, who to celluloid. And no animals are more furi- 24 rest is merely window dressing. Take that, Cititzen Kane. oozes malevolence and shows a fondness for wide-brimmed ous or more murderous than the high-flyers What follows is a in-no-particular-order and subject-to-my- hats, means business. Also included: a demonic entity called found in this Alfred Hitchcock classic. All penchants-and-prejudices list of scary cinema that I’ve deemed “He Who Walks Behind the Rows,” ongoing threat of human the angry avian life in the area seem to superior in nature. A couple of caveats: a few of my faves (Car- sacrifice, acres and acres of the most ominous cornfields you’ve have something special for Tippi Hedren, rie and The Shining among them) didn’t make this semi-random ever seen and an early appearance by Linda Hamilton. Plus, evil who arrives in the small town of Bodega the movie—peeing on the rug and spewing projectile vomit while her head spins on its axis is still twisted and shocking. And real, real scary. But it’s also a quality piece of film- 34

making, as evidenced by the 10 Oscar FOOD nominations it earned. The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Some would argue that psychological 27 thrillers don’t really count as horror movies, and if you can come up

with a traditional horror villain that CLASSIFIEDS is as straight-up terrifying as Han- PSYCHO 24 nibal Lecter, I’ll buy that argument. 24 But until that day arrives, this mov- FILM FILM Bay, Calif. and triggers their rage. On ie stays on the list. This is the film FILM its face, this film sounds more campy that spawned more memorable and than creepy, but by the time the film’s oft-repeated lines (among them, “A 20 final minutes tick by and you see the census taker once tried to test me. thousand-yard stare of a veritable sea I ate his liver with some fava beans MUSIC of landed birds, you’ll never look at and a nice Chianti,” and “It rubs the your pet parakeet the same way again. lotion on its skin or else it gets the 18

See also: Arachnophobia and Jaws. hose again.”) than Top Gun. Anthony ART 28 Days Later (2002): When de- Hopkins won an Oscar for his por-

ciding what, if any, zombie movie trayal of seductive sociopath Lecter, 16 to include on this highly subjective while his cinematic sparring partner roundup, one would assume the list Jodie Foster picked up a Best Actress STAGE would begin and end with George A. Oscar and the ﬁlm also nabbed Best Romero, who pretty much invented Picture, Director, and Screenwriting 14 the genre of the zombie ﬂick and Oscars as well. See also: Seven and In continues to rule it handily. However, the Mouth of Madness. Danny Boyle’s 2002 movie is frighten- GET OUT ing for far more than just its armies

of undead. As much a piece of social 13 commentary—frightening, searingly

insightful, tough-to-ignore social WORDS commentary—as it is a horror ﬂick, it introduces the idea that society’s rage 8 can literally go viral, uses that idea to create a post-apocalyptic landscape and then scares the bejesus out of CURRENTS all of us with the aftereffects of that 6 idea. It’s a prescient piece of work, and scary as hell to boot. VIEWS VIEWS Psycho (1960): Yes, it’s the shower NOW SHOWING AT THE PICKFORD CINEMA: OCT 29 - NOV 4 scene, the shower scene, the shower 4 scene that nabs Hitchcock another Jack Goes Boating slot on this list—and rightfully so. Philip Seymour Hoffman Stars & Directs MAIL 28 DAYS LATER

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24 to reach, their dreams during the night might lead instead they retreated as if unnerved. Tigers scared to a meeting with the spirit of the departed. I pro- of chickens?! Since then the zoo ofﬁcials have been FILM FILM PEPPER pose that you consider something similar, Aries. Why? taking measures to boost the big cats’ bravado. I Because according to my reading of the astrological bring this to your attention, Libra, because I’m wor- omens, you would beneﬁt from communing with your ried you might be headed in the tigers’ direction.

20 ancestors. If you can’t actually spend the night near Undomesticate thyself! Halloween costume sugges- SIST their final resting place, find another way to contact ERS tion: a big fierce creature. them in dreams. Put their photos under your pillow, MUSIC COOKING OUTSIDE THE BOX SINCE 1988 maybe, or hold one of their beloved objects as you SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You could really sleep. Halloween costume suggestion: the ancestor use your own personal doorman or doorwoman --

18 Open Nightly Except Monday 1055 N State St B’ham 671-3414 whose influence you need most right now. someone who would accompany you everywhere you go and help you gain entrance through the portals TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In an exhibition at ART ART you encounter. In my vision of what you require, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, performance artist this assistant would go further. He or she would Marina Abramovic stared into the eyes of a succession find secret camouflaged doors for you, and do the 16 of different strangers for 700 hours. Actresses Marisa equivalent of uttering Ali Baba’s magic words “Open Fall into Fashion Tomei and Isabella Rossellini were among those who Sesame!” He or she would even *create* doors for

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# future memories that taste delicious. Your feet will Divorce With Dignity & Mutual Respect found that the only thing one can be sure of chang- touch sacred ground far more than usual. Halloween ing is oneself.” I suggest you adopt that as your costume suggestion: a character from a film that operative hypothesis, Leo. Maybe in a few weeks it’ll changed your life for the better. make sense for you to shower your loved ones with advice, and maybe you’ll eventually get re-inspired PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the middle of to save humanity from its foolish ways. But for now the last century, avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth An- your assignment is to fix, refine, and recalibrate your ger threw a masquerade party called “Come as Your own beautifully imperfect self. Halloween costume Madness.” One of the invited guests was the Piscean

CASCADIA WEEKLY suggestion: hermit, anarchist, keeper of a gorgeous writer Anais Nin. She appeared as the ancient fertil- diary, do-it-yourself brain surgeon. ity goddess Astarte, but with an unexpected wrinkle: She wore a birdcage over her head. This Halloween I 30 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In last May’s national urge you to be inspired by Nin’s decision to portray election, none of Britain’s three political parties got a her madness as a goddess, but reject Nin’s decision majority. For a while, the country had no leader. Even- to cage the head of her mad goddess. Find a disguise tually, the rightwing Conservatives and the leftwing that allows you to embody the best and most beauti- Liberal Democrats formed a weird coalition, making ful part of your craziness, and let it roam free. Conservative David Cameron the Prime Minister. Some You get the relationship you put up BY AMY ALKON with. Three years in, you have no idea

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noeing accident.” women to meet you as soon as pos- 10 Wildly inappropriate PDA is gener- sible for a quick drink instead of carry-

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VIEWS VIEWS no proper in order to get to them. (Don’t napkin. “Still,” he continued, “seafood Buffet from Below worry, I restrained myself.) fullness is a good feeling—like when 4 SCARING UP A SERIOUS AMOUNT OF SEAFOOD This would probably be the time to ad- you’re eating sushi; it feels clean.” MAIL MAIL mit I have a serious thing for seafood. If I agreed, and went back for more. Af- it comes from below—from the depths ter all, I hadn’t tried the Mediterranean

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