THE GRISTLE, P.06 + FUZZ BUZZ, P.09 + BEST OF SKAGIT BALLOT, P.23 c a s c a d i a PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT SURROUNDING AREAS 03-27-2019* • ISSUE:* 13 • V.14 SILENT SKY Stars in her eyes P.13 GETTING ROOTS AND WINGS FRESH An artist CSA Farm Share Fair takes flight P.26 P.14 RANKY TANKY Let go and let Gullah P.16 Round 2: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon A brief overview of this 26 COMMUNITY Bowling for Beds: 5-8pm, 20th Century Bowl FOOD week’s happenings THISWEEK GET OUT Wild Things: 9:30am-11am, Whatcom Falls Park 24 VISUAL Photo Collection Release: 5-9pm, Peter James B-BOARD Photography Gallery SATURDAY [03.30.19] 20 ONSTAGE FILM Silent Sky: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Tarnation: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre The Lover, The Dumb Waiter: 7:30pm, Sylvia 16 Center for the Arts Mamma Mia!: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon MUSIC Silent Sky: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Become a LOL-apalooza: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre 14 champion for DANCE ART Lydia Place at Contra Dance: 7-10pm, Fairhaven Library 13 MUSIC a Bowling for Sudden Valley Jazz Series: 3pm, South Whatcom Library STAGE Beds fundraiser Andalucia: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Fri., March 29 Center 12 The Hunts: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre at 20th Century WORDS GET OUT Bowl Leigh Calvez: 7pm, Village Books COMMUNITY 10 Rock and Gem Show: 10am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan WORDS GET OUT NW Cancer Climb: 9am, Samish Overlook, Bow Plant and Tree Sale: 10am-3pm, Hillcrest Chapel 8 WEDNESDAY [03.27.19] Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Whatcom Com- munity College Pavilion MUSIC CURRENTS Foghorn Stringband: 7pm, YWCA Ballroom FOOD Jared Hall Quartet: 7pm, Sylvia Center Pancake Breakfast: 8am-10:30am, Lynden Com- 6 munity Center WORDS Acclaimed vocalist CSA Farm Share Fair: 12pm-3pm, Boundary Bay VIEWS Joe King: 6:30pm, Everson Library Greta Matassa joins Brewery City Limits Winery Tasting: 2-4pm, Seifert & 4 COMMUNITY “PNW Jazz Plays at Jones Wine Merchants Hidden in Plain Sight: 4-8pm, Mt. Baker High School, Skagit Farm to Pint Fest: 2pm-6pm, Heritage Flight MAIL the Philharmonic” to Deming Museum kick off the Sudden 2 2 GET OUT SUNDAY [03.31.19] Daffodil Festival: Through March 31, La Conner and Valley Jazz Series DO IT DO IT beyond Sat., March 30 at ONSTAGE Silent Sky: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild FOOD the South Whatcom Mamma Mia!: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Skagit Beer Week: Throughout Skagit Valley, through Library 03.27.19 March 30 MUSIC Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer: 7pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship .14 THURSDAY [03.28.19] Ranky Tanky: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre 13 # ONSTAGE Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre The Lover, The Dumb Waiter: 7:30pm, Sylvia COMMUNITY The Lover, The Dumb Waiter: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center FOOD Center for the Arts Rock and Gem Show: 10am-5pm, Bloedel Donovan for the Arts Happy Hour Thursdays: 4-7pm, downtown Mamma Mia!: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount History Tour: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City The Project: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Bellingham Vernon Hall Silent Sky: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre History Harvest: 2pm-5pm, Everson Library MUSIC VISUAL LOL-apalooza: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Time Capsule Reception: 6-8pm, Skagit County FOOD CASCADIA WEEKLY Carolyn Cruso: 7:30pm, Chuckanut Center Historical Museum, La Conner DANCE Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, Ballet Bellingham’s Perspectives: 7pm, Mount Lynden 2 DANCE Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library FRIDAY [03.29.19] Baker Theatre MONDAY [04.01.19] COMMUNITY ONSTAGE MUSIC Smart Business Summit: 12-5pm, Pioneer Park Silent Sky: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild A Journey in Time: 6pm, Firehouse Arts and GET OUT Pavilion, Ferndale Tarnation: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Events Center Tulip Festival: Through April, Skagit Valley WINNING and provide your email address to qualify. emailaddresstoqualify. your andprovide Hourly drawings every Friday, 7pm-10pm. everyHourly Friday, drawings $21K UP FOR GRABS $21K UPFORGRABS IN NEWMEMBERPAYBACKS! 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IS CLOSER THAN YOU THAN YOU THINK! • I-5 Exit260 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #13.14 03.27.19 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 10 GET OUT 12 STAGE 13 ART 14 MUSIC 16 FILM 20 B-BOARD 24 FOOD 26 THISWEEK 26 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Advertising B-BOARD Sales Manager: Stephanie Young ext 1 sales@ 20 cascadiaweekly.com FILM Editorial Editor & Publisher: 16 Tim Johnson ext 3 MUSIC editor@ cascadiaweekly.com Astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were sup- 14 posed to make history as part of the first all-women Arts & Entertainment spacewalk scheduled for Fri., March 29. But early this Editor: Amy Kepferle ART week NASA cancelled the event because only one appro- ext 2 priately sized spacesuit could be made available—caus- calendar@ 13 ing many people to see the move as blatant evidence of cascadiaweekly.com gender inequality. Hillary Clinton chimed in, too. “Make Music & Film Editor: STAGE another suit,” she Tweeted. Carey Ross music@ cascadiaweekly.com 12 Views & News Production GET OUT 04: Mailbag Art Director: Jesse Kinsman 06: Gristle and Views jesse@ 10 08: Last week’s news kinsmancreative.com Design: 09: Police blotter, Index surely we can come up with a better alternative. WORDS Bill Kamphausen SILVER LAKE PARK, Advertising Design: A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE Maybe I am holding Parks to a higher standard 8 Arts & Life Roman Komarov Sometimes it takes strong emotion to bring because I see how much effect Parks can have on Day care roman@ difficult truths to the surface. And the difficult our countywide view of, and respect for, nature. 10: cascadiaweekly.com truth we are all faced with right now is that if I feel the “mission” at Silver Lake should be to 12: Into the wild Send all advertising materials to CURRENTS [email protected] we do not start putting the health of our eco- encourage and cultivate that respect in multiple 13: Silent Sky systems first, above all other considerations, it large and small ways. I am not against tourism, 6 14: Roots and Wings Distribution is quite possible we will not survive intact as a nor against parks making money. But the truth Distribution Manager: species. We simply cannot continue doing things is, plenty of folks are willing to camp (spend VIEWS 16: Ranky Tanky Erik Burge the way that we have been. money) in the park as it is. If our parks can ac- distribution@ 18: Clubs 4 4 cascadiaweekly.com Not only our priorities must shift, but the un- commodate those who want more without mak- 20: Film Shorts Whatcom: Erik Burge, derlying assumptions that fuel them need to be ing such a significant change to the landscape in MAIL MAIL Stephanie Simms re-examined and re-evaluated. the park, then I am not against making those ac- 2 Rear End Skagit: Linda Brown, Whatcom County Parks department are not commodations in respectful and environmentally 21: Crossword Barb Murdoch the bad guys. The “bad guy” here for me is the sensitive ways. But no, with the present plan, I DO IT underlying assumption Parks seems to have that do not believe the sacrifice of hundreds of 60-to 22: Free Will Astrology Letters SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ county residents want Parks to focus on tourism, 80-year-old, healthy Douglas fir and cedar trees 23: Advice Goddess, Best of Skagit ballot CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM economics and recreation, ahead of the health is worth having larger RVs, flush toilets, etc. 24: Comix and spiritual well-being of the landscape itself. People do not live in the campground full- 03.27.19 25: Slowpoke, Sudoku Sometimes with careful planning and a deep time. I am sure they have plenty of comforts at THE GRISTLE, P.06 + FUZZ BUZZ, P.09 + BEST OF SKAGIT BALLOT, P.23 c a s c a d i a PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE home. I do not see it is up to Parks to provide REPORTING FROM commitment to preservation of that landscape, THE HEART OF CASCADIA .14 WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 26: Farm Share Fair 03-27-2019 • ISSUE: 13 • V.14 13 all of those needs may be met. Other times there those comforts in a campground at the expense SILENT # SKY Stars in her eyes P.13 GETTING may be conflicts that require us to carefully con- of the loss of 600 trees that have long been part ROOTS AND WINGS FRESH An artist CSA Farm Share Fair ©2019 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by takes flight P.26 sider what our highest priority is. of, and continue to contribute to, the park’s P.14 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 The situation at Silver Lake seems to be one greater ecosystem.