************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Land vs. Lake, P.8 * Skillshare Faire, P.12 * Skyline Divide, P.14 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {09.19.12}{#38}{V.07}{FREE} Buffalo Blowout: A wonderful week of music, p.20 Best of Bellingham: Cast your votes for glory, p.25 BODYTALK BEER WEEK: OF WOMEN AND Don’t worry, be WORDS, P.16 hoppy, p.34 Help build a home for 34 34 cascadia Van Zandt resident Jerry FOOD Bajema by attending a 27 fundraising concert with the Calico Hearts and B-BOARD A glance at what’s happening this week many others Sept. 23 at Mt. Baker High School 24 FILM FILM Meet “the worst Bellingham Children’s Theatre Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 20 Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre singer in the The Bike Trip: 8pm, iDiOM Theater MUSIC Harold: 9pm, Upfront Theatre world”—and laugh MUSIC 18 uproariously— Pagliacci: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon ART ART Joan Osborne: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort when the based- WORDS 16 Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Deming Library Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library STAGE STAGE on-a-true-story COMMUNITY comedy " International Day of Peace Celebration: 5:30pm, 14 Maritime Heritage Park opens this Bingo in the Barn: 6-9pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn Nooksack Days Powwow: 5pm, Nooksack Tribe GET OUT weekend with Community Building, Everson 12 GET OUT Sept. 21-23 shows Nature Babies: 9:30-11am, Whatcom Falls Park WORDS at the Bellingham FOOD Bellingham Beer Week: Through Sept. 30, 8 Theatre Guild throughout Bellingham VISUAL ARTS Phoebe Carpenter Eells Exhibit: 6pm, Karibou CURRENTS Share the love at the Salon 6 Art in the Alleys: 6-9pm, First Gallery, Mount 9th annual Day of Peace Vernon VIEWS VIEWS Celebration starting with 4 ./0-4[09.yy.12] MAIL MAIL a Peace March at 5:30pm ONSTAGE How the Slug Stole Solstice Auditions: 4-6pm, 2 Fri., Sept. 21 at Maritime Bellingham Children’s Theatre After Midnight Cabaret: 7pm, RiverBelle Dinner DO IT IT DO Theatre, Mount Vernon DO IT 2 Heritage Park Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre .12 The Bike Trip: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 19 Harold: 9pm, Upfront Theatre DANCE .07 09. Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library 38 # Tango Milonga: 8-11:30pm, Presence Dance Studio 2 ) .4[09.x.12] /#0-.4[09.y.12] Heart & Hammer: 7:30pm, Roeder Home MUSIC WORDS ONSTAGE GET OUT Joan Osborne: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort Michael Impero: 6:30pm, Sumas Library Bard on the Beach: Continues through Sept. 22, Glaciers and Climate Talk: 12:30pm, Whatcom Ken Klonsky: 7pm, Village Books Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C. Museum WORDS Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre Travelogue Series: 7pm, Whatcom Museum Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Deming Library COMMUNITY Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Fitness Forum: 7:15pm, Fairhaven Runners Nick James: 7pm, Village Books CASCADIA WEEKLY Whatcom Water Weeks: Through Sept. 22, The Bike Trip: 8pm, iDiOM Theater throughout Whatcom County The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre COMMUNITY 2 !-$4[09.yx.12] Nooksack Days Powwow: 9am, Nooksack Tribe FOOD MUSIC Community Building, Everson Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Beau Borrero: 6-8pm, Community Food Co-op’s ONSTAGE Whatcom Skill Share Faire: 10am-6pm, Deming Green Swan Café How the Slug Stole Solstice Auditions: 6-8pm, Log Show fairgrounds Sidewalk Sale and Salmon BBQ: 11am-5pm, historic Fairhaven Bull-A-Rama: 7:30pm, Sumas 34 34 GET OUT Creek Cleanup: 10am-12pm, Whatcom Creek FOOD Discover the Mountains and Sea: 10am-4pm, Larrabee State Park FOOD 27 Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Community & Arts Center B-BOARD Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of Ferndale Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square 24 Ferndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, Centen- nial Riverwalk Park FILM VISUAL ARTS 20 Squalicum Valley Artisans Faire: 10am-4pm, Rome Grange Art in the Park: 10am-5pm, Pioneer Park, MUSIC Ferndale Tag Sale: 10am-5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Syre 18 Education Center ART ART Seconds Sidewalk Sale: 10am-6pm, Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market Art in the Alleys: 12-5pm, First Gallery, Mount 16 Vernon STAGE STAGE .0)4[09.yz.12] 14 ONSTAGE Glorious: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre GET OUT MUSIC Pagliacci: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 12 Jerry Bajema Fundraising Concert: 3pm, Mt. Baker High School, Deming WORDS COMMUNITY 8 Nooksack Days Powwow: 9am-9pm, Nooksack Tribe Community Building, Everson GET OUT CURRENTS Muds to Suds: 11am-6pm, Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale 6 FOOD VIEWS Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen 4 Whatcom Harvest Dinner: 4pm, BelleWood Acres Farm MAIL 2 VISUAL ARTS 2 Art in the Park: 10am-5pm, Pioneer Park, DO IT IT DO Ferndale DO IT .12 (*)4[09.y{.12] 19 MUSIC Anne Feeney: 7:30pm, Roeder Home .07 09. 38 WORDS # Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project COMMUNITY Info Fair: 11am-3pm, Red Square, Western Washington University CASCADIA WEEKLY /0 .4[9.y|.12] 3 WORDS Chuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Heiner Theater, WCC 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 “It sure feels good to know no one in the world pulls string through their nose and mouth faster than me,” Bellingham- Editor: Amy Kepferle based sideshow performer Justin Credible said after learning Eext 204 the Guinness World Records crew had officially confirmed that ô calendar@ 24 the feat he attempted last May had broken the world record cascadiaweekly.com for “Longest String Passed Through the Nose and Mouth in FILM FILM Music & Film Editor: One Minute.” The latex tubing—all 255.22 feet of it—was Carey Ross comparable to the length of an entire city block. 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Wouldn’t it be fantastic if local 8 ô stephanie@ 24: High comedy, low taste cascadiaweekly.com Susan Wickersham suggests a “loving disas- developers today could work cooperatively and 25: BOB Ballot sembly” of the Granary so that a new road can put the Granary to a new use, launching the Wa- Distribution run through its current site. terfront District with panache? CURRENTS 26: Film Shorts Frank Tabbita, Erik While this is a better solution than the wreck- —Lynette L. Felber, Bellingham 6 Burge ing-ball-and-landfill, it misses the Granary’s po- REAR END ô distro@ cascadiaweekly.com tential to create a dramatic entrance to the new LESSER BELLINGHAM VIEWS VIEWS 27: Bulletin Board waterfront. Since the late 1920s, the Washington What a quandary! Letters Cooperative Egg and Poultry Association building I am a fan and faithful reader of Alan Rhodes’ 4 28: Wellness 4 Send letters to letters@ 29: Crossword cascadiaweekly.com. has marked the transition between Bellingham’s column in the Cascadia Weekly. MAIL MAIL MAIL industrial waterfront to its downtown. By plac- And I am one of the five or six people who 30: Advice Goddess Land Vs Lake, P.8 * Skillshare Faire, P.12 * Skyline Divide, P.14 cascadia ing the road beside the granary and transforming support his “Lesser Bellingham” agenda that en- REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 2 * * * 31: Free Will Astrology {09.19.12}{#38}{V.07}{FREE} the building through adaptive use, it can con- courages “smart and small” thinking about city DO IT IT DO tinue as a landmark for the future. The site itself growth. But I have broken his rule about being 32: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug cannot be built upon again because of the State’s negative about where I live. Buffalo Blowout: Shore Management Act. For the past couple of years, I have been buy- A wonderful week of music, p.20 .12 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku Best of Bellingham: Cast your votes 19 for glory, p.25 Forty miles north in Vancouver, Granville Is- ing and giving to friends and family, Returning to BODYTALK BEER WEEK: OF WOMEN AND Don’t worry, be 34: Bellingham Beer Week WORDS, P.16 hoppy, p.34 land presents a model of large industrial build- the Branch, by Alan Rhodes, which is absolutely COVER: Photo by Peter James ings repurposed for restaurants, performance the best souvenir I have ever found that truly re- .07 09. ©2012 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by venues and specialty shops. That 40-acre island veals the heart and soul of Bellingham, Whatcom 38 # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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