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20 ON STAGE ON STAGE Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm, MBT’s Haunted House: 6-9pm, Bellingham
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
WORDS Trick or Treat: 4-6pm, downtown Ferndale MUSIC
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:
Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 10pm, Boundary Bay Brewery 2 12am, MBT’s Walton Theatre WORDS DO IT IT DO DO IT 2
DANCE Mary Daheim: 2pm, Village Books ArtsCrush with Dance Gallery: 7pm, Charles Neff: 7pm, Village Books
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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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MBT’s Walton Theatre FOOD Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
DANCE 27 Thrillingham: 7:30pm, Fairhaven Parking Lot Thrillingham: 9pm, Maritime Heritage Park
MUSIC CLASSIFIEDS Skagit Community Band: 3pm, Brodniak Hall, Anacortes 24 The Art of Jazz: 4-6:30m, the Amadeus Project Halloween Extravaganza: 9pm, Casa Que Pasa FILM FILM Scary Monster & the Super Creeps: 10pm, Boundary Bay Brewery 20 WORDS Halloween Stories: 3:30-5:30pm, Village Books MUSIC COMMUNITY Kids Harvest Fest: 2-6pm, Central Lutheran 18
Church ART Trick or Treat: 3-6pm, historic Fairhaven Haunted Halloween Garden: 4-6pm, Chucka- nut Brewery 16 STAGE STAGE (*) 4[11.x.10]
WORDS 14 Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project GET OUT /0 . 4[11.y.10] COMMUNITY 13 Vote!: Throughout Whatcom and Skagit coun- ties WORDS Treasure Hunt: Continues through November,
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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
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the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be EXPELLED! TERRIFYING TALES FROM THE PAST, P.8 }} FRIGHTFUL FLICKS: A SCARY, SEMI-RANDOM ROUNDUP, P.24 SPOOKY SOUNDS: LIVE, LOCAL AND LOUD, P.20 returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. during this recession? But that is not all that is wrong with this LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and —Anne-Marie Faiola, Bellingham
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
The Best Just CLASSIFIEDS supplies, how to serve the public while mediating all the varied de-
mands on the land. Or, by the same 24 token, the County Council can work to grease the skids for land specula- Got Better! FILM tors and shopping mall developers.
That’s why it’s so important that 20 local progressives and independents show up for the land this year, which MUSIC means voting local.
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a lot at stake. Over the next year, the ART new County Council will be required -RLQXVIRUWKHOLYHWDSLQJRI to conduct a review of its rural lands, 3GDChuckanut 16 essentially determining the fate of thousands of acres, from the Guide RADIO HOUR STAGE Meridian to Nugent’s Corner, Sandy Village Books’ monthly radio variety show which is recorded Point to Chuckanut Drive. live and features live music, poetry, 14 We need a council that will con- skits, and a special guest author. This month, that guest is... duct this review with the land and the public in mind, not specula- Book Reviewer & Famed Librarian GET OUT tors and developers. There are also
about 8,100 acres of prime, forested 13 watershed over Lake Whatcom avail- able for reconveyance to the county NANCY WORDS from the state. Again, we need a county council wise enough to use 8 the mechanisms of government to take advantage of this opportunity, PEARL will present her latest book... and not squander it by pandering CURRENTS to an antigovernment, tea-partying 6 minority. And let us not forget Lake BOOK LUST Whatcom itself, still in need of a VIEWS VIEWS serious commitment to clean it up TO GO 4 and protect it. 4 There aren’t many places like this Recommended Reading MAIL MAIL around any more, where heron, king- for Travelers, Vagabonds, MAIL
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