Amy Goodman, P.6 * Paper Cuts, P.18 * Free Will, P.29 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. {03.14.12}{#11}{V.07}{FREE} Wicked Games The undeniable attraction of CHRIS ISAAK P.20 Gas Grief: Easy oil’s grim realities, P.8 :: Green Scene: The sounds of St. Patrick’s Day, P.21 Sideshow Alert: Sword swallowing, music and more! P.16 34 34 cascadia FOOD Stevie Coyle, a former member of the Waybacks and 27 a lauded fingerstyle guitarist, B-BOARD performs March 21 at the A glance at what’s happening this week Roeder Home 24 FILM FILM 20 MUSIC 18 ART ART 16 STAGE STAGE 14 GET OUT 12 WORDS 2 ) .4[03.x{.12] !-$4[03.x}.12] “Owls Outback” will be one of the many featured top- 8 ONSTAGE ONSTAGE ics at this year’s 2 *2 Northwest Bird- Lysistrata: 7:30pm, Syre Auditorium, WCC JustinCredible Sideshow: 7pm, 9pm and 11pm, The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Bellingham Flea Market ing Festival, which takes place both outdoors and in CURRENTS CURRENTS MUSIC Lysistrata: 7:30pm, Syre Auditorium, WCC March 17 throughout Blaine The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre 6 Persa Gitana: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Cabaret: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Theatre, Mount FOOD Vernon VIEWS VIEWS Celebrate your love Beer Week: Through March 17, throughout The Wizard of Oz: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount 4 Mount Vernon Vernon of Japanese comics Harold: 8pm, Upfront Theatre MAIL MAIL Games Galore: 10pm, Upfront Theatre and animation at an [03. .12] /#0-.4 x| Anime Convention 2 DANCE ONSTAGE Dance Gallery Spring Concert: 7:30pm, Fire- March 18 at the DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 Tres Vidas: 7pm, Heiner Center Theater, WCC house Performing Arts Center Bellingham Public Stand-up Comedy Klub: 7pm, Underground Cof- MUSIC .12 feehouse, WWU Diamond Rio: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort Library 14 Lysistrata: 7:30pm, Syre Auditorium, WCC The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre WORDS Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library .07 03. Vaudevillingham: 8pm and 10pm, Depot Market Kent Hartman: 7pm, Village Books 11 Aida: 7pm, Nooksack Valley School District Dance Gallery Spring Concert: 7:30pm, Firehouse # Square GET OUT Lysistrata: 7:30pm, Syre Auditorium, WCC Performing Arts Center The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Nature Babies: 9:30-11am, Whatcom Falls Park The Fantasticks: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre MUSIC Cabaret: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Theatre, Mount Vernon MUSIC Diamond Rio: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort VISUAL ARTS The Wizard of Oz: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Mockingbird: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Whatcom Wind Ensemble: 8pm, Performing Arts Craft and Antique Show: 10am-8pm, NW Wash- Vernon Lindsay Street: 6-8pm, Time in Play Café Center ington Fairgrounds, Lynden Harold: 8pm, Upfront Theatre FOOD CASCADIA WEEKLY Murder at Timber Cove: 8pm, Bellingham Arts COMMUNITY Farm to Table Meeting: 9am-3:30pm, Commu- Academy for Youth Antiques and Collectibles Evaluation: 11am-4pm, 2 nity Health Education Center ./0-4[03.x~.12] Games Galore: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Bellingham Senior Activity Center VISUAL ONSTAGE DANCE Family Activity Day: 12-4pm, Whatcom Museum Fly Day: 12-4pm, Heritage Flight Museum Craft and Antique Show: 10am-8pm, NW Wash- JustinCredible Sideshow: 7pm, 9pm and 11pm, St. Patrick’s Day Dance: 7-10pm, Blue Moon Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Orca Pavilion ington Fairgrounds, Lynden Bellingham Flea Market Ballroom Gym, WCC GET OUT Snowshoe Fest: 10am-2pm, Silver Fir Camp- 34 34 ground Wings Over Water Birding Festival: 10am- FOOD 4pm, throughout Blaine Runnin’ O’ the Green: 10am, Depot Market Square 27 St. Patrick’s Day Parade: 12pm, downtown Bellingham B-BOARD FOOD Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Hall 24 Reel Food Film Fest: 3pm, Everson Library FILM FILM VISUAL ARTS Craft and Antique Show: 10am-5pm, NW 20 Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden MoNA Style: 10am-5pm, Museum of Northwest MUSIC Art, La Conner Scott Schuldt Talk: 1pm, Anchor Art Space, 18 Anacortes Yvonne Thomas Miller Talk: 1pm, CedarWorks ART Gallery 16 .0)4[03.x.12] STAGE ONSTAGE 14 The Fantasticks: 2pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Murder at Timber Cove: 8pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth GET OUT Aida: 2pm, Nooksack Valley School District The Wizard of Oz: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount 12 Vernon JustinCredible Sideshow: 5pm, 7pm, and 9pm, Bellingham Flea Market WORDS DANCE 8 Dance Gallery Spring Concert: 7:30pm, Fire- house Performing Arts Center MUSIC CURRENTS Whatcom Chorale: 3pm, First Congregational 6 Church MacGregor Family Benefit Concert: 7pm, Our VIEWS VIEWS Saviour’s Lutheran Church 4 COMMUNITY Wedding & Quinceanera Expo: 1-4pm, Hamp- MAIL ton Inn’s Fox Hall 2 2 VISUAL ARTS DO IT IT DO Anime Convention: 12-6:30pm, Bellingham DO IT Public Library Postal Art Workshop: 1-4pm, Mindport .12 Exhibits 14 (*)4[03.x.12] .07 03. 11 # ONSTAGE Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: 10am and 12:15pm, Mount Baker Theatre WORDS Cara Black: 7pm, Village Books Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project CASCADIA WEEKLY 3 /0 .4[03.y.12] MUSIC Chris Isaak: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre thisweek Contact Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 34 34 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 27 ô editor@ mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Sixteen people died and five more were wounded last Editor: Amy Kepferle Sunday when a rogue Army staff sergeant from Washing- Eext 204 ton’s Lewis-McChord military base walked off a base in the ô calendar@ 24 Kandahar province of Afghanistan and began shooting civil- cascadiaweekly.com ians in two nearby villages. 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MAIL MAIL MAIL 31: Crossword export facility so close to home contradicts our Anyone interested in the effects of a coal ter- Amy Goodman, P.6 * Paper Cuts, P.18 * Free Will, P.29 cascadia community’s values of environmental and human minal on the community should contact people REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA 2 32: This Modern World, WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. {03.14.12}{#11}{V.07}{FREE} health, sustainable economic development and in Superior, Wis. From them you’ll get facts, not Tom the Dancing Bug Wicked DO IT IT DO a clean energy future. We each have our own speculation. Games 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku The undeniable attraction of CHRIS unique reasons to participate in the decision- —Dick Lovas, Ferndale ISAAK 34: Fun with quiche making process of this project and to make sure .12 14 our voices are heard. STOP PADDEN DEVELOPMENT Gas Grief: Easy oil’s grim realities, p.8 :: Green Scene: The sounds of St. Patrick’s Day, p.21 Sideshow Alert: Sword swallowing, music and more! 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