SNOW SCHOOL P.14 + BUSINESS BRIEFS P.23 + STUFF THE TRUNK P.26 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 11-13-2019 • ISSUE: 46 • V.14 INDICATOR SEEKING SHELTER The enigma of Taking it to the streets Eve Deisher P.08 P.16 SKAGIT SOJOURN From Rundgren to Rodney P.18 THE NORMAN CONQUESTS A TRILOGY OF FARCES P.15 for the Arts 26 Pray the Gay Away: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, A brief overview of this Mount Vernon FOOD week’s happenings Tip Top Trios: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre THISWEEK DANCE 22 Blush Punch: 5pm and 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center Salsa Night: 9pm, Cafe Rumba B-BOARD MUSIC Elvis Meets Whitney, Pearl Django: 7pm, Mount 21 Baker Theatre FILM WORDS Leif Whittaker: 3pm, Everson Library Margaret Hellyer: 3pm, Deming Library 18 Clyde Ford: 4pm, Village Books, Lynden Tess Gallagher: 7pm, Village Books MUSIC Cellist Amit Peled GET OUT CapRun: 8am, Thrive Community Fitness, Ana- 16 joins the Bellingham cortes ART Symphony Orchestra FOOD 15 Community Pancake Breakfast: 8am-11pm, for its Borodin Meets Blaine Senior Center Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot STAGE concert Beethoven Market Square Sun., Nov. 17 at the Stuff the Trunk: 10am-2pm, Whatcom County 14 Haggen stores Mount Baker Theatre. VISUAL GET OUT Holiday Craft Fair: 10am-3pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn Holiday Art Show: 10am-5pm, Rexville Grange 12 Artist Talk with Marc Wenet: 4pm, i.e. gallery, WEDNESDAY [11.13.19] Edison WORDS MUSIC SUNDAY [11.17.19] Wine, Women and Song: 7pm, Lairmont Manor 8 The Syrinx Effect: 7pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts ONSTAGE Now Hear This!: 7:30pm, PAC Concert Hall, WWU Leif Whittaker closes Pray the Gay Away: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount out Whatcom Vernon CURRENTS THURSDAY [11.14.19] The Norman Conquests: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center County Library for the Arts 6 ONSTAGE System’s “Read Tartuffe: 7pm, Bellingham High School MUSIC VIEWS Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre & Share” programs Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount The Norman Conquests: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for Baker Theatre at a Sat., Nov. 16 4 the Arts Wayne Horvitz Trio: 4pm, Performing Arts Center Pray the Gay Away: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount presentation at the Concert Hall, WWU MAIL Vernon Behind the Music Improvised: 9:30pm, Upfront Everson Library. WORDS 2 Theatre Kathryn Trueblood: 4pm, Village Books 2 FREYA FENNWOOD FREYA DO IT DO IT MUSIC VISUAL Jansen Jazz Band: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Holiday Art Show: 10am-5pm, Rexville Grange WORDS The Norman Conquests: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center FOOD MONDAY [11.18.19] Boldly Went Storytelling Show: 6:30pm, Boundary for the Arts 5:30pm-10:30pm, Bellingham 11.13.19 Hamster Ball: Bay Brewery The Butterfly Effect: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Cruise Terminal ONSTAGE Rick E. George: 7pm, Village Books I Knew Her as Arachne: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, Gratitude Stew: 6pm-9pm, Peter James Studio Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge .14 Candace Wellman: 7:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old WWU 46 # City Hall Pray the Gay Away: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, VISUAL WORDS Mount Vernon Holiday Art Show: 10am-8pm, Rexville Grange Flea in Conversation with Jonathan Evison: GET OUT Tip Top Trio: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Curator’s Tour: 1:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s 7pm, Bellingham High School An Evening with Conrad Anker: 7pm, Mount Baker Lightcatcher Building Poetrynight: 7pm, Alternative Library Theatre DANCE Holiday Makers Market: 4pm-8pm, Ciao Thyme Blush Punch: 8pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Commons TUESDAY [11.19.19] FOOD Center Fall Food Forum: 9am-12:30pm, Pioneer Pavilion Com- MUSIC CASCADIA WEEKLY SATURDAY [11.16.19] munity Center, Ferndale MUSIC Mt. Baker Toppers: 7pm, Bellingham High School Lone Pinon: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount 2 ONSTAGE FRIDAY [11.15.19] Vernon I Knew Her as Arachne: 1pm, DUG Theater, WWU WORDS Tartuffe: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham High School Chuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Sylvia Center ONSTAGE COMMUNITY Comedy Showcase: 7pm, Blue Abode Bar Tartuffe: 7pm, Bellingham High School Peace Builder Awards: 5pm, Settlemyer Hall, The Butterfly Effect: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab BTC The Norman Conquests: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Pumpkin Pie Push: 6pm, Fairhaven Runners OPENING with On the Mount Vernon Campus of Skagit Valley College Campus ofSkagitValley On theMountVernon Lone PiñonisanacousticconjuntofromNorthernNew Mexico whose music celebrates the integrity of their region’s cultural whose musiccelebratesthe integrityoftheirregion’s roots, performingawidespectrum ofthetraditionalmusic Friday, November Friday, mcintyrehall.org that isathomeinNewMexico. 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