Break Free PNW, p.12 * Free Will Astrology, p.31 * Purple Passion, p.34 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 05-11-2016* • ISSUE:*19 • V.11 THE BACK 2 GRISTLE BELLINGHAM The line has been Music and more at drawn, P.06 WWU, P.20 WELDING RODEO Of myth and metal, P.18 ZOMBIE PERMIT TREATY RIGHTS DERAILED, P.08 SATURDAY [05.14.16] ONSTAGE 34 cascadia Alice in Wonderland: 2pm and 7pm, BAAY Theatre Magician Elliott Hofferth: 3pm and 7pm, Brodniak FOOD FOOD ThisWeek Hall, Anacortes Oliver: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden A glance at this week’s Hope on the Orphan Train: 7:30pm, Alger Com- 27 munity Church happenings Hot Mikado: 7:30pm, Philip Tarro Theatre, Mount Vernon B-BOARD B-BOARD Sketchopedia: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, iDiOM Theater Tarnation: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Exchange Program: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 24 DANCE FILM Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Alice in Wonderland: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 20 MUSIC MUSIC Exploring Sondheim: 7pm and 9:30pm, DUG The- ater, WWU 18 Northwest Ballet Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine ’50s Dance Party: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre ART Theatre brings Bayshore Symphony: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon 16 the magic and COMMUNITY Lynden Bridal Fair: 11am-3pm, Homestead Golf & STAGE movement of Alice Country Club in Wonderland to Back2Bellingham: Through today, Western Washing- 14 ton University and beyond the stage Sat., May GET OUT GET OUT 14 at Mount Vernon’s Roar & Soar 5K: 8am, Lynden High School Bay View Women’s Run: 8:30am, Padilla Bay Inter- McIntyre Hall pretive Center 12 Spring Plant Sale: 10am-2pm, Chuckanut Center Adaptive Cycle Expo: 11am-2pm, Civic Field Stadium WORDS FOOD Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts 8 Center PHOTO BY KARI MARTILLA BY PHOTO Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot THURSDAY [05.12.16] Market Square CURRENTS CURRENTS Eco-minded musician and VISUAL ARTS 6 ONSTAGE Welding Rodeo: 8am-5pm, Bellingham Technical Sketchopedia: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater activist Dana Lyons performs College Oliver: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden VIEWS Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, throughout Camano Island Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre at a Raise the Roof Benefit FishBoy Spring Show: 2-9pm, FishBoy Gallery The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre 4 Concert Sun., May 15 at SUNDAY 015 WORDS [05. .16] MAIL MAIL Deming’s Van Zandt Hall Poetry in the Gallery: 6:30-8pm, Whatcom Mu- ONSTAGE seum’s Lightcatcher Building 2 2 Alice in Wonderland: 2pm, BAAY Theatre Boynton Poetry Awards: 7pm, Bellingham Cruise Oliver: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden Terminal DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO Hope on the Orphan Train: 2:30pm, Alger Com- COMMUNITY munity Church Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Back2Bellingham: Through Sunday, Western Wash- ington University and beyond 05.11.16 DANCE FILM Opus Spring Showcase: 5pm, Mount Baker Theatre .11 Fly Fishing Film Festival: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, MUSIC 19 # Mount Vernon Swing Connection: 2pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom VISUAL ARTS Spring Choral Concert: 3pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Volcanic Inspiration: 12pm, Whatcom Museum Hot Mikado: 7:30pm, Philip Tarro Theatre, Mount WORDS Bayshore Symphony: 3pm, Central Lutheran Church Art Talk: 5:30pm, Sculpture Northwest Gallery Vernon Stories Deployed: 7-9pm, Old Main Theater, WWU Dana Lyons: 3-5pm, Van Zandt Hall FRIDAY 13 Sketchopedia: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, iDiOM Theater Ruach: 4-6pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church [05. .16] Tarnation: 8pm, Upfront Theatre COMMUNITY The Exchange Program: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Back2Bellingham: Through Sunday, Western Wash- GET OUT CASCADIA WEEKLY ONSTAGE ington University and beyond Brain Cancer Walk: 1pm, Civic Field Stadium Alice in Wonderland: 7pm, BAAY Theatre MUSIC 2 Hope on the Orphan Train: 7:30pm, Alger Com- Salish Sea Concert: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal FOOD FOOD munity Church Church Wine Walk: 5:30-9:30pm, downtown Bellingham Tea by the Sea: 1-3pm, Blaine Senior Center Something Wonderful: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Marley’s Ghost: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Center, WWU Vernon VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS Oliver: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden Guarneri Underground: 8-11pm, H20, Anacortes Welding Rodeo: 8am-5pm, Bellingham Technical Art Show Fundraiser: 2-5pm, Studio UFO 3 CASCADIA WEEKLY #19.11 05.11.16 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 12 GET OUT 14 STAGE 16 ART 18 MUSIC 20 FILM 24 B-BOARD 27 FOOD 34 Contact THISWEEK Cascadia Weekly: ` 360.647.8200 Editorial 34 Editor & Publisher: FOOD FOOD Tim Johnson `ext 260 { editor@ 27 mail cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle B-BOARD B-BOARD ext 204 If spending your summer drinking beer and shooting off {calendar@ firearms doesn’t make you feel quite patriotic enough, the cascadiaweekly.com 24 news that Budweiser will be replacing its 12-oz. cans and Music & Film Editor: FILM bottles with the word “America” from May 23 through early Carey Ross November just might. 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But there is something we can do about it. Corps of Engineers upheld its trust obligation 26: Film Shorts cascadiaweekly.com CURRENTS CURRENTS On Sat., May 14, people in the Pacific North- to the Lummi Nation by denying the permit for Whatcom: Erik Burge, west are gathering in Anacortes to express their the Gateway Pacific Terminal project. 6 Stephanie Simms intent to break free of America’s addiction to fos- The Lummi Nation has demonstrated unfailing REAR END Skagit: Linda Brown, 27: Bulletin Board Barb Murdoch sil fuels and accelerate the adoption of renew- resolve to protect its treaty secured to the Lum- VIEWS able energies. This get-together is called—you mi in 1855, and to protect Xwe’chi’eXen (Cherry 28: Wellness 4 4 Letters guessed it!—Break Free-PNW (breakfree-pnw. Point). Such fortitude exhibited by a great sover- 29: Crossword SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM org). Please join us. eign Nation, standing tall. MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL 30: Advice Goddess Give up my Saturday to deal with those crowds Lummi Nation’s actions have given, and con- Break Free PNW, p.12 * Free Will Astrology, p.31 * Purple Passion, p.34 cascadia and traffic? You bet. It’s a chance to do some- tinue to give me, faith and strength to fight 2 31: Free Will Astrology REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES 05-11-2016 • ISSUE:19 • V.11 thing concrete to protect my children from the against dangerous fossil fuel projects proposed 32: Comix DO IT IT DO THE BACK 2 ravages (not just discomfort) of global warm- in our region, including any resurgence of the GRISTLE BELLINGHAM The line has been Music and more at 33: Slowpoke, Sudoko drawn, P.06 WWU, P.20 WELDING RODEO ing and other consequences of climate change. GPT project. Of myth and 34: A passion for purple metal, P.18 Like really hot and dry weather destroying our Back in February, a Bellingham Herald story re- rain forest, like our region becoming a climate ported: “There has been a lot of back-and-forth 05.11.16 ZOMBIE PERMIT TREATY RIGHTS DERAILED, P.08 change refugee camp teeming with unfortunate over the past five weeks among Lummi Nation, the people from areas even worse off than ours—if I U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Gateway Pacific .11 COVER: Illustration 19 ©2016 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by don’t pitch in now, I will find it difficult to face Terminal as the tribe asserts its fishing rights, in # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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