GRISTLE P.06 + VOTING GUIDE P.09 + TALE OF TERROR P.12 c a s c a d i a PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 10-30-2019 • ISSUE: 44 • V.14 PILGRIMAGES Tim Egan is SPOOKTACULAR, on the move P.10 TAKE TWO A Halloween VETERAN roundup P.16 Scenes of service P.14 BLUSH PUNCHBellingham Rep's fall colors P.13 GET OUT 26 Gore and Lore Tour: 6pm, historic Fairhaven A brief overview of this FOOD VISUAL week’s happenings First Friday Art Walk: 6pm-9pm, downtown THISWEEK Anacortes 22 Art Walk: 6pm-10pm, downtown Bellingham WEDNESDAY [10.30.19] SATURDAY [11.02.19] B-BOARD ONSTAGE Crafts, music, a community altar and more ONSTAGE #HereToo: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Matilda the Musical: 2pm and 7:30pm, Lincoln 20 will be part of a Dѓa de los Muertos (Day Theatre MUSIC of the Dead) Family Activity Day Sat., #HereToo: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU FILM Charlie Porter Quintet: 7pm, Sylvia Center for the The Witches: 7pm, Blaine High School Arts Nov. 2 at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall. The Norman Conquests: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Jazz and Mariachi Night: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, for the Arts 16 Mount Vernon Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Taproom Comedy Night: 8pm, Local 20 Taproom, MUSIC WORDS Sedro-Woolley Alan Gratz: 7pm, Congregation Beth Israel 14 DANCE THURSDAY [10.31.19] Folk Dance Party: 7:30pm-10:30pm, Squalicum ART Yacht Club ONSTAGE BAAY Haunted House: 6pm-11pm, Boundary Bay 13 MUSIC Brewery Traditional Jazz: 2pm-5pm, VFW Hall Circus of Doom: 7pm and 10pm, Cirque Lab Scott Cossu: 7pm, Lummi Island Congregational STAGE Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Church #HereToo: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre 12 WORDS Scream Fair: 7pm-9pm, NW Washington Fairgrounds, Leif Whittaker: 1pm, Lynden Library Lynden Debu Majumdar: 1pm, Blaine United Church of GET OUT Christ FILM Paula Becker: 7pm, Village Books Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre 11 Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, MBT’s COMMUNITY Walton Theatre Scandinavian Fair: 10am-4pm, Holiday Inn Denim to Diamonds: 5:30pm, Settlemyer Hall, BTC WORDS WORDS Skagit History Hall of Fame: 6pm-10pm, Maple Extremely Scary Stories: 7:30pm-9pm, Fairhaven Hall, La Conner 8 Library Fabganza Fundraiser: 7pm-10pm, Conway Muse COMMUNITY GET OUT Boo Boogie: 4pm-6pm, Depot Market Square CURRENTS Gore and Lore Tour: 6:30pm, downtown Belling- Trick or Treat: Events in the Fountain District, down- ham 6 town Bellingham, Fairhaven, Anacortes, Mount Vernon, Lynden, and La Conner FOOD Trunk or Treat: 5pm-8pm, Northwest Chevrolet of VIEWS Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Bellingham Market Square Harvest Party: 6pm-7:30pm, Hillcrest Church 4 GET OUT MAIL FRIDAY [11.01.19] Miles for Memories Glow 5K: 6pm, Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden 2 ONSTAGE 2 The Witches: 7pm, Blaine High School VISUAL DO IT DO IT The Norman Conquests: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair: 9am-4pm, Hillcrest the Arts Church #HereToo: 7:30pm, DUG Theater, WWU Family Activity Day: 10am-3pm, Whatcom Mu- Matilda the Musical: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount seum’s Old City Hall Vernon Fall Art Sale: 10am-3pm, Camano Center, Camano 10.30.19 Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Island Points of Light Reception: 4pm-6pm, i.e. gallery, .14 MUSIC Edison 44 # Spencer and Rains: 7pm, YWCA Ballroom Tricia Stackle Reception: 5pm-7pm, Smith & Val- SoundBlock with Manatee Commune: 7:30pm, lee Gallery, Edison Viking Union Multipurpose Room, WWU Blaine Community Reid Jamieson Band: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center Theater presents SUNDAY [11.03.19] Pacific Northwest Opera: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, showings of Roald MUSIC Mount Vernon Pacific Northwest Opera: 3pm, McIntyre Hall Dahl’s classic tale EastWest Winds Quintet: 4pm, Blaine Performing CASCADIA WEEKLY FILM The Witches at 7pm Arts Center Mt. 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So MAIL MAIL 20: Film Shorts Stephanie Simms paign against a candidate for County Executive. they have minions to do their dirty work. —James E. Weaver, Bellingham 2 Skagit: Linda Brown, Indeed, the smearing is being done by outside Rear End Barb Murdoch interests beholden to the national Republican DO IT 21: Free Will, Advice Goddess Party. MR. CRANKY’S Letters Second, we have the fair-haired minion of state POLITICAL OPINIONS 22: Crossword SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM Republicans attacking our transportation system. Alan Rhodes’ column in the Oct. 18 issue of 24: Comix And, like he has done in most of his “anti-tax” Cascadia Weekly was absolutely right-on! Thank GRISTLE P.06 + VOTING GUIDE P.09 + TALE OF TERROR P.12 10.30.19 c a s c a d i a PICKFORD CALENDAR INSIDE REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA campaigns, he has falsified reasons for doing so. you for printing it. 25: Slowpoke, Sudoku WHATCOM SKAGIT SURROUNDING AREAS * * 10-30-2019 • ISSUE: 44 • V.14 One example: his overused canard that our I have always enjoyed reading Alan’s articles PILGRIMAGES .14 26: A garden lullaby Tim Egan is SPOOKTACULAR, on the move P.10 TAKE TWO A Halloween VETERAN roundup P.16 44 Scenes of state has one of the heaviest tax burdens in and have heartily agreed with his written views service P.14 # the nation. for a long time, but this one—especially before ©2019 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Way back when he attacked our property tax our general election—could not have been more Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC.