MONSTROUS MAILBAG, P.04 + GORY GRISTLE, P.08 + FREAKISH FILM SHORTS, P.23 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 10-24-2018 • ISSUE:43 • V.13 HELL HIKE Ten miles of terror P.14 HAUNT JAUNTS Frightmares and nightmares P.15 NIGHT SPOOKTACULAR! GALLERY Sounds like Halloween, P.18 Beyond Bleedingham, P.16 The Skriker, Duck Variations: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts A brief overview of this How to Succeed in Business: 7:30pm, Anacortes 30 Community Theatre Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre FOOD week’s happenings Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm, Lincoln Theatre, THISWEEK Mount Vernon Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount 25 Baker Theatre DANCE B-BOARD Reel Competition: 9am-5pm, Syre Student Center, WCC BRD’s Frequency: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and 22 Events Center Contra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library FILM MUSIC 18 Halloween Recital: 1pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Rocktoberfest: 4-10pm, Peace Portal Drive, Blaine MUSIC Bassoon Apocalypse: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU 16 Scott Cossu: 7:30pm, Lummi Island Congregational ART Church WORDS 15 Frankenstein Presentation: 11am at the Ferndale Library, 1pm at the Lynden Library STAGE COMMUNITY Halloween at the Y: 2-5pm, Bellingham YMCA 14 Trick or Treat: 3-5pm, downtown Ferndale Boo at Bloedel: 3-5pm, Bloedel Donovan Community Building GET OUT On Sat., Oct. 27, kids in costume can attend “Halloween at the Y,” Haunt the Park: 5-7pm, Pioneer Park, Ferndale “ ” and Ferndale’s “ ” Boo! at Bloedel, Haunt the Park GET OUT 12 Concrete Ghost Walk: 6pm, Concrete Theatre WORDS FOOD THURSDAY [10.25.18] Pancake Breakfast: 8-10:30am, Lynden Community Center 10 ONSTAGE Final Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot The Skriker, Duck Variations: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center Arts Center for the Arts Bellingham Final Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre CURRENTS Street Plaza How to Succeed in Business: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- Circus Guild Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 8 munity Theatre hosts its annual Market Square The Project: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre VIEWS Beastly, MUSIC SUNDAY [10.28.18] Frightful, 4 Creepy Cabaret: 6:30-8:30pm, Bellingham High School ONSTAGE Lindsay Street: 7:30pm, Chuckanut Center Unbelievably Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 2pm, Blaine High School MAIL Spooky Circus PAC FOOD Circus of Doom: 4pm, Cirque Lab 2 Oct. 2 School Garden Harvest Dinner: 5-7pm, Whatcom of Doom BAAY Haunted House: 6-11pm, Boundary Bay Middle School 26-31 at the Brewery DO IT DO IT Cirque Lab VISUAL DANCE Art of Local: 5:30-8:30pm, SpringHill Suites Marriott PHOTO BY THADDEUS HINK THADDEUS BY PHOTO BRD’s Frequency: 3pm, Firehouse Arts and Events Center 10.24.18 FRIDAY [10.26.18] MUSIC ONSTAGE MUSIC VISUAL .13 La Boheme: 3pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Whatcom Frightmare: 5-10pm, Pioneer Park, Ferndale Net of Indra Release: 7-9pm, Herb’s Cider Tasting Fourth Friday Art Walk: 5-8pm, historic 43 Skagit Community Band: 3pm, Anacortes-Westmin- # Circus of Doom: 7pm, Cirque Lab Room Fairhaven ster Presbyterian Church Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 7pm, Blaine High School PAC La Boheme: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Bleedingham Night Gallery: 5-10pm, the Majestic Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, BAAY Theatre Scream Fair: 7-10pm, NW Washington Fairgrounds, Skagit Community Band: 7:30pm, Maple Hall, La Emerald City Music: 5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old Lynden Conner SATURDAY [10.27.18] City Hall The Skriker, Duck Variations: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts FILM ONSTAGE COMMUNITY How to Succeed in Business: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- Wild & Scenic Film Festival: 7:30pm, Lincoln Whatcom Frightmare: 5-10pm, Pioneer Park, Punkin’ Run Car Show: 10am-2pm, Hardware Sales munity Theatre Theatre Ferndale CASCADIA WEEKLY Parking Lot Hellingham: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Circus of Doom: 6pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, Mount COMMUNITY BAAY Haunted House: 6-11pm, Boundary Bay 2 FOOD Baker Theatre Halloween Costume Jamboree: 6pm, North Fork Brewery Eat Island Grown: 12-4pm, Brickworks, Friday Library Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 7pm, Blaine High School Harbor DANCE PAC BRD’s Frequency: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Events FOOD Scream Fair: 7-10pm, NW Washington Fairgrounds, SEND YOUR LISTINGS TO Center Whiskey Walk: 5:30-9pm, Barkley Village Lynden [email protected] THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 25 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Advertising B-BOARD Sales Manager: Stephanie Young ext 1 sales@ 22 cascadiaweekly.com FILM Editorial Editor & Publisher: 18 Tim Johnson ext 3 MUSIC If you’re struggling to come up with a unique Halloween editor@ costume, consider the headless chicken monster (also known cascadiaweekly.com as Enypniastes eximia). The rare and elusive sea cucumber— 16 Arts & Entertainment which, despite looking like decapitated poultry, is helpful Editor: Amy Kepferle ART in filtering organic matter on the ocean floor—was spotted ext 2 this week off the southwest corner of Australia. calendar@ 15 cascadiaweekly.com Music & Film Editor: STAGE Carey Ross Views & News music@ 04: Monstrous Mailbag cascadiaweekly.com 14 08: Gory Gristle Production GET OUT 10: Last week’s news Art Director: 11: Police blotter, Index Jesse Kinsman jesse@ 12 kinsmancreative.com Arts & Life Design: WORDS 12: True crime Bill Kamphausen 14: Hell hike Advertising Design: Roman Komarov 10 15: Haunted jaunts roman@ cascadiaweekly.com 16: Night Gallery Send all advertising materials to [email protected] CURRENTS 18: Spooktacular! LET THIS GUIDE YOU Housing everyone in our community is going There are big issues that we champion—af- to take the commitment of all of us. I am proud 8 20: Creepy Clubs Distribution fordable housing and homelessness, good paying to make that commitment by voting Yes to renew 22: They’re alive! Distribution Manager: jobs, clean air and water, immigration reform, the Bellingham Home Fund, Proposition 2018-5. VIEWS Erik Burge 23: Fearsome Film Shorts quality education, affordable health care. You Publicly funded solutions like this one are es- distribution@ 4 4 cascadiaweekly.com probably could add one or more that are impor- sential to ending our housing crisis. Whatcom: Erik Burge, tant to you. Then we support the people running Since we first passed the Home Fund in 2012, MAIL MAIL Rear End Stephanie Simms for office that support our issues. we have provided rent assistance to 5,000 neigh- 24: Wellness 2 Skagit: Linda Brown, However, there is no issue more important, more bors and created 700 affordable homes. By re- 25: Crossword Barb Murdoch pressing, more encompassing than our changing newing the Home Fund, we have the opportunity DO IT 26: Free Will Astrology climate. Without a sustainable, healthy planet, (obligation, really) to provide an additional 500 Letters all vital issues become unimportant. The increas- homes and support for even more neighbors who 27: Advice Goddess SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM ing temperatures and dramatic climate swings will are vulnerable to losing their housing. 28: Comix make it difficult to continue doing our jobs and Community-based solutions like the Home 10.24.18 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku schooling. Our beautiful Whatcom County won’t Fund empower each of us to make a difference 30: Terrifying tofu continue to exist as we know it and love it. with our vote. Vote Yes on Prop 2018-5. .13 43 Vote for the candidates that understand the —Eowyn Savela, Bellingham # science and the implications of unabated climate ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by change. We need to take a stand, be bold and MANY FACETS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 agree to do all we can as a community to literally As our county prosecutor, James Erb will work [email protected] change the current tide. tirelessly to ensure the public’s safety by vigor- Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing —Naomi Murphy, Ferndale ously prosecuting those who should be in jail. papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material But currently more than half those in our What- CASCADIA WEEKLY to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you COVER: See Francis AFFORDABLE HOUSING com County jail have not yet been to trial, not include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- Dooley’s “Inner ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday AFFECTS US ALL convicted of any crime. Many suffer from mental 4 the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be Struggle” at the returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. Bleedingham Night I have sometimes felt powerless as I watch health and/or substance abuse issues. Gallery Fri., Oct. 26 at friends struggle to find affordable housing, Erb will implement a range of programs al- the Majestic and as I see more and more folks on the street ready proven successful in other communities who don’t have reliable shelter. We are facing that will enable us to safely lower the number a community crisis. of people in our county jail while reducing our NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre overall jail costs. He will expand the use if 1631 passes. But little else is factual. of our therapeutic drug court for nonvio- The flyer cites various reports, analyzes lent offenders, allowing them to regain and studies as support.