************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Fuzz Buzz, P.11 * Foggy Fun, P.14 * Rumor Has It, P.20 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {02.26.14}{#09}{V.09}{FREE} Stars GoldA NIGHT AT THE OSCARS, P.24 HIGH TIMES Reefer madness with Alan Rhodes, P. 6 AURAL RAILWAY ANNIVERSARY INDIGESTION Free fun for The shape of everyone! P. 20 shipping, P. 8 WEDNESDAY [02.26.14] White Christmas: 7pm, Judson Auditorium, Lynden 34 ONSTAGE Bingo, the Winning Musical: 7:30pm, Claire vg BOAT Festival: 7pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Thomas Theatre, Lynden FOOD FOOD cascadia Vagina Memoirs: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, Always...Patsy Cline: 7:30pm, Conway Muse WWU The Man Who Was Thursday: 8pm, iDiOM Theater The 39 Steps: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Space Trek: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 28 MUSIC DANCE Ani DiFranco: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Swing Dance: 7-9pm, Bellingham Senior Activity B-BOARD B-BOARD Jamie Laval: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Center Smokey Joe’s Cafe Dance: 7-10pm, Presence A glance at what’s happening this week FILM Studio 24 Human Rights Film Festival: Through March 1, Lalas Burlesque: 7pm, Swinomish Casino, FILM FILM throughout Bellingham Anacortes Dance Gallery Spring Concert: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center 20 THURSDAY [02.27.14] TAO: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre MUSIC ONSTAGE MUSIC International Night: 6-9:30pm, Syre Center, WCC Clamdigger Jazz Band: 2-5pm, VFW Hall BOAT Festival: 7pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild BUG Jam: 3-5pm, St. James Presbyterian Church 18 Vagina Memoirs: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, Chamber Music Society: 7pm, Whatcom Museum’s ART WWU Old City Hall White Christmas: 7pm, Judson Auditorium, Lynden WORDS 16 The 39 Steps: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Children’s Literature Conference: 8am-4pm, Bingo, the Winning Musical: 7:30pm, Claire vg Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, WWU STAGE Thomas Theatre, Lynden JA Jance: 7pm, Village Books The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre COMMUNITY 14 The Man Who Was Thursday: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Kids’ Dog Show: 10am, Bloedel Donovan The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Wonders of Whatcom: 2:3pm, Fairhaven Library An Affair to Remember: 6pm, Lakeway Inn GET OUT MUSIC Cheryl Hodge: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, GET OUT Lynden Winter Field Day: 8:30am-3:30pm, NW Wash- 12 Judy Fjell: 7:30pm, Roeder Home ington Research and Extension Center, Mount Wind Symphony: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, Vernon WORDS WWU Orchid Show and Sale: 9am-5pm, Skagit Valley Gardens Home & Garden Show: 10am-8pm, NW Washing- 8 VISUAL ARTS Thomas Wood Reception: 5-7pm, Lucia Douglas ton Fairgrounds, Lynden Gallery VISUAL ARTS CURRENTS CURRENTS Levi Vincent Reception: 2-5pm, Good Earth Pottery 6 FRIDAY [02.28.14] Northwest Artists Opening: 4-9pm, Matzke Fine ONSTAGE Art Gallery, Camano Island VIEWS BOAT Festival: 7pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Atmospheres Opening: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee Vagina Memoirs: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, Gallery, Edison 4 WWU White Christmas: 7pm, Judson Auditorium, PHOTO BY NOLAN MCNALLY MAIL MAIL Lynden SUNDAY [03.02.14] The 39 Steps: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre 2 Dance Gallery presents its 23rd annual Spring Concert Bingo, the Winning Musical: 7:30pm, Claire vg ONSTAGE Thomas Theatre, Lynden Bingo, the Winning Musical: 2pm, Claire vg DO IT beginning this weekend with March 1-2 shows at the Firehouse Always...Patsy Cline: 7:30pm, Conway Muse Thomas Theatre, Lynden Performing Arts Center The Man Who Was Thursday: 8pm, iDiOM Theater The 39 Steps: 3pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Space Trek: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre DANCE 02.26.14 Area youth—and MUSIC Dance Gallery Spring Concert: 5pm, Firehouse Community Gospel Choir: 7pm, Fountain Com- Performing Arts Center .09 their canine munity Church 09 Skagit Opera: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount # MUSIC friends—are Vernon Skagit Opera: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon invited to the GET OUT FILM Home & Garden Show: 11am-9pm, NW Washing- Oscar Awards Party: 4pm, Pickford Film Center 31st annual ton Fairgrounds, Lynden GET OUT Kids’ Dog Show Orchid Show and Sale: 9am-4pm, Skagit Valley CASCADIA WEEKLYCASCADIA happening March SATURDAY [03.01.14] Gardens Padden Mudfest: 10am, Lake Padden Park 2 1 at Bloedel ONSTAGE Home & Garden Show: 10am-5pm, NW Washing- The 39 Steps: 3pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre ton Fairgrounds, Lynden Donovan BOAT Festival: 7pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Vagina Memoirs: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU EXPLORE AT SWINOMISH CASINO &LODGE CASINO SWINOMISH AT in the Wa Walton Event Center. 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Sunday Now - May 5th -May Now 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #09.09 02.26.14 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 28 FOOD 34 Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly: ` 360.647.8200 34 Editorial FOOD FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson `ext 260 28 { editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle If you ever laughed out loud during movies such as Ghost- ext 204 24 busters, Animal House, and Caddyshack, you have Harold {calendar@ Ramis to thank. The writer, director and actor died Monday cascadiaweekly.com FILM in Chicago at the age of 69, but the movies he helped bring Music & Film Editor: to the big screen are destined to live forever in the annals Carey Ross of comedic history. Thanks, Harry. ext 203 20 {music@ cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC VIEWS & NEWS Production 4: Mailbag 18 Art Director: 6: Gristle & Rhodes ART Jesse Kinsman 8: Railway indigestion {jesse@ kinsmancreative.com 16 10: Police blotter, Index Graphic Artists: 11: Last week’s news Stefan Hansen STAGE {stefan@ cascadiaweekly.com ARTS & LIFE Send all advertising materials to 14 [email protected] 12: Boys, boats, bombs 14: Fun in the fog Advertising GET OUT 16: Living history Account Executive: Scott Pelton 18: One day at a time 360-647-8200 x 202 12 20: A musical melee { spelton@ cascadiaweekly.com WORDS 22: Clubs Stephanie Young HELPING THE HOMELESS Evergreen State. Geothermal energy is an under- 24: Going for the gold 360-647-8200 x 205 { stephanie@ 8 I was pleased to learn some good news from developed field that has much potential. This en- 27: Film Shorts cascadiaweekly.com Olympia! The House Committee on Community De- ergy source is a clean, sustainable, economically Distribution velopment and Housing and Tribal Affairs, in bipar- sound method of electrical generation. Unlike CURRENTS CURRENTS REAR END tisan agreement, unanimously voted to pass legis- coal, geothermal energy has few carbon emis- Distribution Manager: Bulletin Board lation that would preserve our community’s most sions and a minimal impact on the surrounding 6 28: Scott Pelton important funding source for homeless housing. land. Although the start-up fee is substantial, 29: Wellness 360-647-8200 x 202 { spelton@ The legislation doesn’t raise taxes, it merely once running, no fuel is required to maintain the VIEWS 30: Crossword cascadiaweekly.com keeps in place the funding that would otherwise system, greatly reducing the production costs. Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 4 31: Comix, Sudoku expire next year. I’ve taken some time recently One limitation of geothermal energy is its lo- Stephanie Simms, Free Will Astrology Robin Corsberg to learn more about our local homeless issues. cation dependency. Usable geothermal reservoirs MAIL MAIL 32: MAIL MAIL The bad news is that the lagging effects of the are found on subduction zones, areas where the 33: Advice Goddess Skagit: Linda Brown, Great Recession are still upon us and the poorest earth’s heat is found close to the surface. 2 Barb Murdoch 34: Jambalaya Sunday Canada: Kristi Alvaran among us are the last to recover. The good news Luckily, Washington is a subduction zone as- DO IT IT DO is that Democrats and Republicans in the Wash- sociated with the Juan de Fuca plate. Research is Letters ington House of Representatives understand this currently being done in Oregon at the Newberry Send letters to letters@ and are willing to work together to help. volcano, in hopes of producing an electricity cascadiaweekly.com. I would like to encourage Rep. Vincent Buys to generating Enhanced Geothermal System. I pro- 02.26.14 ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************