************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Earthy Birthday, P.14 * Talking Trash, P.25 * Weeds for Dinner, P.34 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {04.17.13}{#16}{V.08}{FREE} Sustainable EarthDay Futures: 2013 The cost of innovation, P.8 Record Store Day: A musical grab bag, P.20 RARE: The art of recycling, P.18 Leave the kids at home when novelists Chuck 34 34 cascadia Palahniuk, Chelsea Cain, FOOD and Monica Drake lead 27 a raucous “Bedtime Stories for Grownups” B-BOARD A glance at what’s happening this week gathering April 24 at the 24 Wild Buffalo FILM FILM DANCE Dance Faculty Concert: 7:30pm, Performing 20 Arts Center, WWU MUSIC MUSIC Worthy Fest: 1pm-2am, Foothills Field, Deming 18 John Dennis: 6:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden ART ART Music for the Masses: 7pm, Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church 16 COMMUNITY Tulip Festival Street Fair: 10am-6pm, down- STAGE STAGE town Mount Vernon 14 GET OUT Bull Riding Competition: 7:30pm, NW Wash- ington Fairgrounds, Lynden GET OUT FOOD Wine & Tulips Festival: 11am-6pm, Carpenter 12 Creek Winery, Mount Vernon VISUAL ARTS WORDS Spring Showcase Reception: 6-8pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden 8 ./0-4[04.y.13] CURRENTS Sword fighting, archery, a bazaar and much ONSTAGE 6 more will be part of Sir Edward’s ( Improv for Education: 6-9pm, Broadway Hall You Can’t Take it With You: 7pm, Bellingham VIEWS VIEWS High School ! ½/ April 20 at the Bullshot Crummond: 7pm, Bellingham Arts 4 Academy for Youth Deming Logging Show Grounds The Secret Garden: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, MAIL MAIL Mount Vernon The Three Musketeers: 7:30pm, Sehome High 2 School Cinderella: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 WWU The Producers: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Vernon 13 2 ) .4[04.x~.13] !-$4[04.x.13] Red: 8pm, iDiOM Theater 17. Scratch Pad: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 04. ONSTAGE ONSTAGE Red: 8pm, iDiOM Theater You Can’t Take it With You: 7pm, Bellingham You Can’t Take it With You: 7pm, Bellingham Legally Blonde: 8pm, Anacortes Community High School DANCE High School Theatre .08 Dance Faculty Concert: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Bullshot Crummond: 7pm, Bellingham Arts Harold: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 16 # GET OUT Center, WWU Academy for Youth Tulip Festival: Through April, Skagit Valley The Secret Garden: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount DANCE MUSIC Vernon Dance Faculty Concert: 7:30pm, Performing Jerri Mercer: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Spontaneous Combustion: 7pm and 9pm, Bell- Arts Center, WWU /#0-.4[04.x.13] Lynden ingham Children’s Theatre The Three Musketeers: 7:30pm, Sehome High MUSIC ONSTAGE FOOD School Worthy Fest: 10am-2pm, Foothills Field, Deming You Can’t Take it With You: 7pm, Bellingham Wine & Tulips Festival: 11am-6pm, Carpenter The Producers: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount CASCADIA WEEKLY High School Creek Winery, Mount Vernon Vernon WORDS Cinderella: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Scratch Pad: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 2 Ferndale Poetry Festival: 1-3pm, Ferndale The Three Musketeers: 7:30pm, Sehome High VISUAL ARTS Red: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Public Library School After Hours Arts: 6:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Legally Blonde: 8pm, Anacortes Community Allen Frost: 3pm, Bellingham Public Library Legally Blonde: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Lightcatcher Building Theatre Spring Poetry Evening: 7pm, Deming Public Theatre Harold: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Library Leigh Newman: 7pm, Village Books COMMUNITY Bocce Ball Tournament: 9am-4:30pm, Belling- ham Sportsplex 34 Tulip Festival Street Fair: 10am-6pm, downtown FOOD Mount Vernon Blessing of the Animals: 12-3pm, Windy Acres Farm Medieval Faire & Combat Tourney: 12-5pm, 27 Deming Logging Show Grounds GET OUT B-BOARD Tulip Pedal: 7am, La Conner Middle School Fun with the Fuzz 5K: 9am, Bellingham Police 24 Department Earth Day 5K: 10am, Western Washington Uni- FILM FILM versity track FOOD 20 Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway Hall MUSIC Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Activity Center Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Blaine Senior Center 18 Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot ART ART Market Square Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Centen- nial Riverwalk Park 16 Wine & Tulips Festival: 11am-6pm, Carpenter Creek Winery, Mount Vernon STAGE Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery VISUAL ARTS 14 Family Activity Day: 10am-4pm, Whatcom Mu- seum’s Lightcatcher Building Into the Light Reception: 3-5pm, Bellewood GET OUT Acres CD Art Release Party: 6-9pm, Anchor Art Space, 12 Anacortes WORDS .0)4[04.yx.13] 8 ONSTAGE You Can’t Take it With You: 2pm, Bellingham High School Bullshot Crummond: 2pm, Bellingham Arts CURRENTS Academy for Youth 6 The Three Musketeers: 2pm, Sehome High School The Producers: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount VIEWS Vernon The Secret Garden: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount 4 Vernon MAIL MAIL Legally Blonde: 2pm, Anacortes Community Theatre 2 2 Dynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Comedy Nite: 8pm, Guido’s Italian, Ferndale DO IT IT DO DO IT DANCE Dance Faculty Concert: 2pm, Performing Arts 13 Center, WWU 17. 04. MUSIC Music in the Manor: 1pm, Lairmont Manor .08 Bellingham Community Chorus: 3pm, St. James 16 # Presbyterian Church Glacier Bay Brass Quintet: 3pm, Christ the Servant Lutheran Church Third Sunday at Three: 3pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden COMMUNITY Tulip Festival Street Fair: 10am-5pm, downtown CASCADIA WEEKLY Mount Vernon 3 FOOD Wine & Tulips Festival: 11am-6pm, Carpenter Creek Winery, Mount Vernon Contact THISWEEK 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 Editor: Amy Kepferle Eext 204 ô 24 calendar@ Persona-shifting comedian and actor Jonathan Winters, cascadiaweekly.com 87, died April 11 in California. 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This to notice the prevailing sense of white supremacy. ô stephanie@ 25: Getting trashed cascadiaweekly.com is the same gun that was used at Sandy Hook Whether on the Tea Party host Kris Halterman’s and in other recent mass killings, which makes “Saturday Morning Live,” or on “Wealth Wake Up” 26: Film Shorts Distribution CURRENTS the inclusion of one in the fundraising auction a with Dick Donahue, it’s always about what’s in it Distribution Manager: highly symbolic gesture, whether the organizers for the white people. Even on “Radio Real Estate” 6 REAR END Scott Pelton meant it that way or not. with Mike Kent, the economy is always about what E360-647-8200 x 202 27: Bulletin Board They claim that in doing this, they are not white people can take, while it is assumed that VIEWS VIEWS ô spelton@ 28: Free Will Astrology cascadiaweekly.com making a pro-gun statement, but merely a fund- the original owners of Whatcom County—the 4 4 29: Wellness Frank Tabbita, Erik raising statement. This seems to be an extraor- Lummi Indians—will continue to give. Burge dinarily arrogant, insensitive and uncaring atti- Initially, it was the Indian lands and islands MAIL MAIL MAIL 30: Crossword Letters tude, at a time when all of us who have children the whites wanted. So while we now have luxury 31: Advice Goddess are thinking once again about what happened in resorts in the San Juans, the Lummis—who used 2 Send letters to letters@ 32: This Modern World, Tom the cascadiaweekly.com. Newtown while the Senate prepares to debate to live in glorious places like Roche Harbor— DO IT IT DO Dancing Bug some pretty mild new gun regulations. now reside next to an oil refinery and aluminum Earthy Birthday, P.14 * Talking Trash, P.25 * Weeds for Dinner, P.34 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA I haven’t owned a gun for a long time and I’m smelter. While the Lummis once had a healthy WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku {04.17.13}{#16}{V.08}{FREE} 13 not especially anti-guns as long as the guns are economy based on abundant salmon and crab, Sustainable 17. EarthhDayDaa Futures: 34: Weedy wonders 2013 The cost of innovation, P.8 in the hands of responsible owners. However, an their displacement and the destruction of the en- 04. attitude like the one taken by the Washington vironment by the whites have left many of them Republican Party makes it very hard to remain with jobs as waiters in casinos.