FUZZ BUZZ, P.11 + STUDIO TOURS, P.16 + BIRCH DOOR CAFE, P.30 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 10-04-2017* • ISSUE:*40 • V.12 A TAXING ISSUE Subsidizing earth's demise, P.08 BEER METAL EVIL DEAD A date with demons, P.15 YOGA AROUND TOWN A new kind of serenity, P.14 Bellingham Irish Festival, P.18 c a s c a d i a 30 Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre FOOD ThisWeek Evil Dead, the Musical: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre A glance at this week’s Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 24 MUSIC happenings Bellingham Irish Festival: Through Sunday, throughout downtown B-BOARD Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band: 2-5pm, VFW Hall Jazz Series Concert: 3-5pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn 22 THURSDAY [10.05.17] Trio Da Kali: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon FILM ONSTAGE COMMUNITY Breaking Bread: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Model Train Show: 9am-5pm, NW Washington Bellingham Burlesque of 1927: 7:30pm, Firehouse Fairgrounds, Lynden 18 Performing Arts Center The Mousetrap: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild GET OUT MUSIC Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Run Like a Girl: 9am, Fairhaven Park Vernon Stigma Stomp: 10am, Bloedel Donovan Park 16 The Addams Family: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, downtown Bellingham Theatre, Lynden ART Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- FOOD munity Theatre Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts 15 Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Center The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverfront Plaza Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street STAGE MUSIC Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot The Piano Guys: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Market Square 14 Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, throughout WORDS Skagit County Chuckanut Radio Hour: 6:30pm, Heiner Theater, Fall Fruit Festival: 10am-5pm, Cloud Mountain Farm GET OUT Whatcom Community College Center, Everson Cressida Cowell: 6:30pm, Bellingham Public Library Bier on the Pier: 12-6pm, Port of Anacortes Transit Event Center 12 FRIDAY [10.06.17] VISUAL Whatcom Artists Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- WORDS ONSTAGE Bellingham Burlesque of 1927: 7:30pm, Firehouse out Whatcom County Performing Arts Center Boneyard and Bloom Reception: 4-6pm, i.e. gal- 8 The Mousetrap: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild lery, Edison The Addams Family: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Art Walk: 4-7pm, throughout La Conner Theatre, Lynden New Exhibit Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee CURRENTS Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Gallery, Edison Vernon Cascadia Dreams: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, 6 Young Frankenstein: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- Lynden munity Theatre VIEWS Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre SUNDAY [10.08.17] Brass Monkey Theater Club: 9pm, Sylvia Center 4 Sample as many as 200 varieties of apples, pears and ONSTAGE MUSIC The Mousetrap: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild MAIL Bellingham Irish Festival: Through Sunday, much more at the annual Fall Fruit Festival taking The Addams Family: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas The- throughout downtown atre, Lynden 2 place Oct. 7-8 at Everson’s Cloud Mountain Farm Center 2 Stand and Deliver: 2pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount GET OUT Vernon DO IT DO IT Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven Young Frankenstein: 2pm, Anacortes Community Theatre FOOD Ferndale Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Centennial MUSIC Riverwalk Park Bellingham Irish Festival: Through today, 10.04.17 Bier on the Pier: 5-9pm, Port of Anacortes Transit throughout downtown Event Center El Fin Del Mundo: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm .12 Whatcom Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount Baker 40 # VISUAL Theatre Art Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham GET OUT Buddy Walk: 12pm, Depot Market Square SATURDAY [10.07.17] FOOD ONSTAGE Flute master Gary Stroutsos will play along Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit The Addams Family: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas The- County CASCADIA WEEKLY during —a multimedia atre, Lynden ”Cascadia Dreams” Fall Fruit Festival: 11am-4pm, Cloud Mountain Farm Bellingham Burlesque of 1927: 3pm and 7:30pm, Center, Everson 2 presentation celebrating the landscapes of the Firehouse PAC 24-Hour Theater Festival: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Pacific Northwest—Sat., Oct. 7 at Lynden’s VISUAL Sylvia Center Jansen Art Center Whatcom Artists Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, through- The Mousetrap: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild out Whatcom County Stand and Deliver: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 22 editor@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM For a brief period of time Monday afternoon, fans of Rock Arts & Entertainment and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Petty hoped the longtime Editor: Amy Kepferle musician, 66, might survive a massive heart attack that ext 204 18 had felled him the night before at his Malibu home. 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This time in Las Vegas. than in Roosevelt neighborhood. 20: Clubs CURRENTS advertising@ Enough! So, how would increasing density in single- 22: Blade Runner, take two cascadiaweekly.com Australia banned assault weapons in 1996 and family-residence-zoned neighborhoods make 6 23: Film Shorts Distribution it sharply reduced gun homicides, including sui- more affordable housing if the housing costs are cides, and all but eliminated mass shootings. already higher in these neighborhoods? VIEWS Distribution Manager: There is no excuse for the U.S. Congress not to Seems to me that a granny unit in Silver Beach Erik Burge Rear End 4 4 360-647-8200 ban all assault weapons. Sen. Chris Murphy (D- or Sudden Valley will rent for what the market 24: Bulletin Board, Free Will distribution@ CT) said it best: “This must stop. It is positively allows and that will be a lot more than an apart- MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com 25: Wellness infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are ment or townhome in Roosevelt or on Northwest. Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend A detached accessory dwelling unit in Alabama 26: Crossword Stephanie Simms there aren’t public policy responses to this epi- Hill or South Hill is going to rent for as much as 27: Advice Goddess Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT Barb Murdoch demic. There are, and the thoughts and prayers the landlord can get and neither will qualify as 28: Comix of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired “affordable.” 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku Letters with continued legislative indifference. It’s time If Bashaw and Hammill want children to have SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ for Congress to get off its ass and do something.” better housing, why don’t they do something to CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 10.04.17 30: Birch Door Cafe —Brian Estes, Bellingham improve the quality of the affordable housing FUZZ BUZZ, P.11 + STUDIO TOURS, P.16 + BIRCH DOOR CAFE, P.30 c a s c a d i a that currently exists? Why don’t they legislate REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA .12 WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 10-04-2017* • ISSUE:*40 • V.12 40 ©2017 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by SCHOOL PLANNING AND GROWTH more access to Section 8 housing? Why don’t # EVIL DEAD A TAXING Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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