THE GRISTLE, P.06 + SKAGIT STAGES, P.16 + RIVER GALLERY, P.20 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 04-12-2017* • ISSUE:*15 • V.12 Best OFSKAGIT2017 P.10 TULIP TIPS SPECTACULAR SOUNDS BOWEDISON DON'T MAKE THESE HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOMETHING DIFFERENT BLOOM BLUNDERS, P.18 LINCOLN THEATRE! P.22 AT THE TABLE, P.34 GET OUT Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Stimpson Family Nature c a s c a d i a Reserve 34 Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham FOOD ThisWeek SATURDAY [04.15.17] A glance at this week’s ONSTAGE 28 Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab happenings Don’t Drink the Water: 7pm, Ferndale High School Mia Solo Festival: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts B-BOARD Kiss Me, Kate: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU WEDNESDAY [04.12.17] I Hate Hamlet: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 26 Putnam County Spelling Bee: 7:30pm, Anacortes MUSIC Community Theatre FILM Steve Kaldestad Quartet: 7pm, Whatcom Jazz Music Improvised Baywatch: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Art Center Pirates: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 22 WORDS DANCE An Evening of Poetry: 6:30pm, Blaine Library Salsa Night: 9:30pm, Cafe Rumba MUSIC Hari Kunzru: 7pm, Village Books MUSIC 20 GET OUT Caspar Babypants: 10:30am, Settlemyer Hall, BTC Tulip Festival: Through April, throughout the Skagit Dana’s Jump & Jam: 11am, Mount Baker Theatre ART Valley Ranger and the Re-Arrangers: 7:30pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship 19 THURSDAY [04.13.17] COMMUNITY Spring Garage Sale: 9am-2pm, Shuksan Middle STAGE ONSTAGE Don’t Drink the Water: 7pm, Ferndale High School School Hip Hop Theatre: 7:30pm, Viking Union Multipur- Easter Egg Hunt: 10am, New Hope Foursquare 18 pose Room, WWU Church Mia Solo Festival: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Easter on the Farm: 10am-3pm, BelleWood Acres I Hate Hamlet: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Adult Egg Hunt: 12pm, Skagit Valley Gardens GET OUT Putnam County Spelling Bee: 7:30pm, Anacortes Antique & Collectibles Sale: 10am-2pm, Lynden Community Theatre Pioneer Museum Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 16 The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT Golden Egg Hunt: 9am-12:30pm, Mt. Baker Ski Area DANCE Native Plant Sale: 9am-1pm, Lynn Brown Materials WORDS Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library Center, Bow Work Party: 9am-4pm, Maritime Heritage Park 8 MUSIC Garden Day: 10am-12pm, Cordata Community Food Luthier’s Lingo: 12pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Legendary folksinger Arlo Co-op Hall Sin & Gin Tour: 4pm, downtown Bellingham CURRENTS Night Beat: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Guthrie brings his “Running FOOD 6 FILM Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Center Fly Fishing Film Tour: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Down the Road” tour to Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot VIEWS Mount Vernon Market Square Bellingham for an April 20 Anniversary Party: 12-7pm, Kulshan Brewing Co. 4 WORDS Rick Hermann: 7pm, Village Books show at the Mount Baker VISUAL MAIL George Jartos Auction: 6pm, Cooper Lanza Gallery COMMUNITY Arty Party: 6-9pm, Depot Art Center, Anacortes Theatre 2 2 Antique & Collectibles Sale: 10am-2pm, Lynden Pioneer Museum SUNDAY [04.16.17] DO IT DO IT Bayou Bingo Night: 7-9pm, Bayou Annex Bar ONSTAGE FRIDAY [04.14.17] I Hate Hamlet: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Putnam County Spelling Bee: 2pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre 04.12.17 ONSTAGE Don’t Drink the Water: 7pm, Ferndale High School Kiss Me, Kate: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU COMMUNITY .12 Mia Solo Festival: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Easter on the Farm: 10am-3pm, BelleWood Acres 15 # I Hate Hamlet: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Hip Hop Theatre: 7:30pm, Viking Union Multipur- MONDAY [04.17.17] pose Room, WWU Snow bunnies will Putnam County Spelling Bee: 7:30pm, Anacortes be in full force at ONSTAGE Community Theatre Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog Improvised Baywatch: 8pm, Upfront Theatre the annual Golden Pirates: 10pm, Upfront Theatre WORDS Egg Hunt Sat., Poetrynight: 8pm, Bellingham Public Library CASCADIA WEEKLY WORDS April 15 at the Mt. 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Whatcom: Erik Burge, Rear End However, of all the information sources men- The only practicable way to avert the vast VIEWS Stephanie Simms 27: Bulletin Board, Free Will tioned in the interview for the gathering pro- damage that would result from logging Blanchard Skagit: Linda Brown, 4 4 28: Wellness Barb Murdoch cess for the incarceration facility, I don’t see any is for the State Legislature to act. people who have been incarcerated—those who I support the Blanchard Forest Strategy agree- MAIL MAIL 29: Crossword Letters have firsthand experience with how the system ment as identified in 2008. This collaboratively SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ 30: Free Will Astrology 2 CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM works also have good ideas about what could be generated plan preserves the “core” 1,600 acres 31: Advice Goddess done to keep people out of the cycle of arrest of Blanchard, while allowing other areas to con- THE GRISTLE, P.06 + SKAGIT STAGES, P.16 + RIVER GALLERY, P.20 DO IT c a s c a d i a and process. tinue under a logging plan that is typical of DNR REPORTING FROM 32: Comix THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES 04-11-2017 • ISSUE:15 • V.12 —Bo Richardson, Bellingham lands. However, this strategy requires the State 33: Slowpoke, Sudoku Legislature to act and designate an additional Best 34: BowEdison OFSKAGIT2017 PRESERVE BLANCHARD MOUNTAIN $7.7 million. 04.12.17 P.10 Blanchard Mountain is a very special resource in Please take action. Make a call. Write a letter. our midst, and I urge you to support the protection Post this to your favorite social media feed. We .12 TULIP TIPS SPECTACULAR SOUNDS BOWEDISON DON'T MAKE THESE HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOMETHING DIFFERENT BLOOM BLUNDERS, P.18 LINCOLN THEATRE! P.22 AT THE TABLE, P.34 15 ©2017 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by and preservation of this vital natural area. need our legislators to advocate for, and designate # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 The Blanchard Mountain area is a wild forest, en- funds toward, this popular and important place. COVER: Photo by [email protected] compassing popular hiking, biking and riding trails —Daniel Kirkpatrick, Bellingham Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Jessamyn Tuttle Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. 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