************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** The Gristle, P.6 * Fuzz Buzz, P.20 * Food Haus, P.36 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. {04.23.14}{#17}{V.09}{FREE} Climate Movement: Collective problems, collective actions, P.8 Vagina Monologues: Powerful prose for V-Day Bellingham, P.16 SIGNED FEST: Occupying a space all its own, P.20 BELLINGHAM CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL, P. 24 WEDNESDAY [04.23.14] COMMUNITY LinuxFest Northwest: 9:30am-5pm, Bellingham 34 GET OUT Technical College Skagit Tulip Festival: Through April, throughout Tulip Festival Street Fair: 10am-6pm, down- FOOD FOOD cascadia the Skagit Valley town Mount Vernon MUSIC GET OUT 28 Margo Murphy, John Roberts: 7:30pm, Roeder Home Plant Sale: 9am-1pm, Everson Elementary School Jansen Jazz Band: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, DUPI Plant Sale: 9am-2pm, United Church of Lynden Ferndale B-BOARD B-BOARD Pioneer Dash: 10am, Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale A glance at what’s happening this week THURSDAY [04.24.14] Rhody Flower Show: 10am-3pm, Christianson’s 24 Nursery, Mount Vernon ONSTAGE FILM FILM The Women of Lockerbie: 7:30pm, Bellingham FOOD Theatre Guild Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church Les Miserables: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community of Ferndale 20 Theatre Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Market Square MUSIC Theatre Ferndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, Centennial The Mastodon: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Riverwalk Park The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre April Brews Day: 6:30-10pm, Depot Market 18 Square ART FRIDAY [04.25.14] VISUAL ARTS 16 Art of Gardening: 10am-4pm, Depot Arts Center, ONSTAGE Anacortes STAGE Leading Ladies: 7pm, Nooksack Valley High Native Art Presentation: 2pm, Whatcom Mu- School seum’s Old City Hall The Women of Lockerbie: 7:30pm, Bellingham Spring Cavort Opening: 5:30-9pm, Matzke Fine 14 Theatre Guild Art Gallery, Camano Island A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 7:30pm, Perform- ing Arts Center, WWU GET OUT Les Miserables: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community SUNDAY [04.27.14] Theatre Scratchpad: 8pm, Upfront Theatre ONSTAGE 12 The Mastodon: 8pm, iDiOM Theater A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 2pm, Performing Pulp Improv: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Arts Center, WWU The Women of Lockerbie: 2pm, Bellingham WORDS MUSIC Theatre Guild Prozac Mtn. Boys: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Leading Ladies: 2pm, Nooksack Valley High 8 Vernon School A cupcake-eating contest will be among the food-related Cantabile of Skagit Valley: 7:30pm, United Hair: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre Methodist Church, Anacortes CURRENTS CURRENTS festivities during the annual Dirty Dan Days festival happening Arlo Guthrie: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre MUSIC Bellingham Community Chorus: 3pm, First 6 April 27 in historic Fairhaven COMMUNITY Congregational Church Tulip Festival Street Fair: 10am-6pm, down- Art of Jazz: 4-:30pm, BAAY Theatre VIEWS town Mount Vernon Ruthie Dornfeld, John Miller: 7pm, YWCA Ballroom 4 Sanford-Hill Piano Series: 7:30pm, Performing SATURDAY [04.26.14] Arts Center, WWU MAIL MAIL ONSTAGE COMMUNITY 2 Leading Ladies: 7pm, Nooksack Valley High LinuxFest Northwest: 9:30am-5pm, Bellingham 2 School Technical College DO IT DO IT DO The Women of Lockerbie: 7:30pm, Bellingham Tulip Festival Street Fair: 10am-5pm, down- Theatre Guild town Mount Vernon A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 7:30pm, Perform- ing Arts Center, WWU GET OUT Les Miserables: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Pooch Scoot: 9am, Fairhaven Fitness 04.23.14 Theatre Dan Harris Challenge: 10am, Boulevard Park Scratchpad: 8pm, Upfront Theatre .09 The Mastodon: 8pm, iDiOM Theater FOOD 17 # Pulp Improv: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Dirty Dan Day: 10am-4pm, Fairhaven Village Green DANCE Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library VISUAL ARTS Art of Gardening: 10am-3pm, Depot Arts Center, MUSIC Anacortes Champian Fulton: 3-6pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn Comador Stewart Reception: 1-4pm, Good CASCADIA WEEKLY CASCADIA Millie & the Mentshn: 7:30pm, Firehouse Per- Earth Pottery forming Arts Center Cantabile of Skagit Valley: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s 2 The American tribal love-rock musical known as Hair brings its Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon MONDAY [04.28.14] Skagit Symphony: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount peace, love and songs to Bellingham for an April 27 show at the Vernon MUSIC Unknown Music Concert: 8pm, Anchor Art Anne Feeney, Evan Greer: 7:30pm, Union Center Mount Baker Theatre Space, Anacortes Hilary Hahn: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU EXPLORE AT SWINOMISH CASINO &LODGE CASINO SWINOMISH AT $24.95 – Friday Nights 4-10PM Nights – Friday $24.95 SEAFOOD BUFFET SEAFOOD Free shows Friday &Saturday Friday shows Free Featuring Dungeness Crab Dungeness Featuring April 25-26 9PM to 1AM 9PMto April 25-26 At the Two SalmonCafé theTwo At THE PENGUINS on theCasinoFloor EXPLORE our EXPLORE Rewards! 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VIEWS cascadiaweekly.com REAR END —Silas Maddox, Sedro-Woolley Over the last two years a small group of con- Whatcom: Erik Burge, 4 28: 4 Bulletin Board cerned Birch Bay residents (Save Birch Bay) have Stephanie Simms, 29: Robin Corsberg Readers selected their choices in multiple carefully studied the PID, resulting in a user- MAIL MAIL Crossword MAIL MAIL categories. —Editor friendly document called “Facts and Impacts” 30: Comix Skagit: Linda Brown, of GPT. Important facts are highlighted in large 2 Barb Murdoch 31: Slowpoke, Sudoku Canada: Kristi Alvaran FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED print and include colorful diagrams and photos, DO IT IT DO 32: Free Will Astrology Plans for Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) are referencing specific pages in the PID, revealing Letters progressing, while everyone waits for the Draft discrepancies and contradictions between SSA’s 33: Advice Goddess Send letters to letters@ Environmental Impact Study (EIS) to be made public statements and the PID. 34: cascadiaweekly.com Food Haus public sometime next year. 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