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P.17 WEDNESDAY [10.01.14] Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre 38 MUSIC Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre Mike Allen Quartet: 8pm, BAAY Theater FOOD FOOD cascadia DANCE COMMUNITY Around the World Dance Party: 7-11pm, Pres- Green Drinks: 5-7pm, 2020 Engineering ence Studio 32 Scottish Country Social: 7:30pm, YWCA Ballroom THURSDAY [10.02.14] MUSIC B-BOARD B-BOARD Fierce Fest: 11am-1am, Old Foundry Building ONSTAGE A glance at what’s happening this week The Dark Fantastic: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater FILM 26 Charlie Brown: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Powderwhore’s Some Thing Else: 8pm, Back- Guild country Essentials FILM The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Jeremy Jones’ Higher: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre, Lynden Theatre Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community 22 Theatre GET OUT Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Race for Education: 8am, Civic Field MUSIC The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Run Like a Girl: 9am, Fairhaven Park Arbor Day Celebration: 10am-3pm, Elizabeth Park Used Bike & Gear Sale: 10am-3pm, Sterling Bike 20 MUSIC A Broadway Cabaret: 7:30pm, Firehouse Per- Works ART forming Arts Center Buddy Walk: 11am-2pm, Fairhaven Village Green Gore & Lore Tour: 6pm, Bureau of Historical 18 COMMUNITY Investigation The Art of Death: Through Oct. 11 at a variety of Bellingham venues FOOD STAGE Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, United Church of FOOD Ferndale 16 Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center VISUAL ARTS Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot GET OUT Art Walk: 5-8pm, downtown Mount Vernon Market Square First Thursday Reception: 6-8pm, Jansen Art Ferndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, Centennial Center, Lynden Riverwalk Park 14 Say hello to a classic cartoon Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit Valley crew when showings of the FRIDAY 03 Fall Fruit Festival: 10am-5pm, Cloud Mountain WORDS [10. .14] Farm, Everson musical version of You’re a ONSTAGE Bier on the Pier: 12-6pm, Port of Anacortes 10 Charlie Brown: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Warehouse Good Man, Charlie Brown Guild Harvest Market and Food Swap: 10am-4pm, The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Bow Little Market Theatre, Lynden CURRENTS CURRENTS continue Oct. 2-5 at the BOOM: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall VISUAL ARTS 8 Anything Goes: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Theatre throughout Whatcom County VIEWS The Dark Fantastic: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival: 10am-6pm, La Conner Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre 4 MUSIC SUNDAY [10.05.14] MAIL MAIL Fierce Fest: 6pm-1am, Old Foundry Building ONSTAGE Celebrate local 2 GET OUT Charlie Brown: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild 2 crops this weekend Super Horse Showdown: Today through Sunday, The Sound of Music: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas DO IT IT DO DO IT IT DO NW Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden Theatre, Lynden at the Harvest Gore & Lore Tours: 6pm, downtown Bellingham Anything Goes: 2pm, Anacortes Community and historic Fairhaven Theatre Market at the Bow Comedy Church: 9pm, the Royal FOOD 10.01.14 Little Market (Sat., Bier on the Pier: 5-9pm, Port of Anacortes MUSIC Oct. 4), the Skagit Warehouse Fierce Fest: 11am-11pm, Old Foundry Building .09 Branford Marsalis: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre 40 # Valley Festival VISUAL ARTS Moving the Bones: 3-5pm, Fairhaven College Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival: 10am-6pm, La Auditorium of Family Farms Conner (Oct. 4-5), and the Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes FOOD Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange annual Fall Fruit Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit Valley Festival at Everson’s SATURDAY 04 Fall Fruit Festival: 11am-4pm, Cloud Mountain CASCADIA WEEKLY [10. .14] Cloud Mountain Farm, Everson ONSTAGE 2 Farm Center (also The Dark Fantastic: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater VISUAL ARTS Charlie Brown: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival: 10am-4:30pm, La Oct. 4-5) Guild Conner The Sound of Music: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Whatcom Artist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Theatre, Lynden throughout Whatcom County september 29 - november 1 29-november september EXPLORE AT SWINOMISH CASINO &LODGE CASINO SWINOMISH AT 7pm, 9pm,11pmandmidnight Oct. 31 - Nov. 1 midnight only 1midnight 31-Nov. 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And I must admit after noticing that just as well as some adult nightlife features added in. 33: Stephanie Simms, Crossword Robin Corsberg about every third storefront was nothing but an Well, that’s the best I can do! MAIL MAIL MAIL MAIL empty, lifeless shell I began to understand why —Bill Walker, Maple Fall 34: Comix Skagit: Linda Brown, business people are increasingly desperate for 2 Barb Murdoch 35: Slowpoke, Sudoku Canada: Kristi Alvaran some kind of change. STARS UNALIGNED DO IT IT DO 36: Free Will Astrology However, in my humble opinion, I’m not so sure I’m an alumni of Western Washington Uni- 37: Advice Goddess Letters that changing the name to Blaine Harbor is going versity and I read Cascadia Weekly pretty often Send letters to letters@ to make all of that much difference as far as in- while I lived in Bellingham. I’ve never had a rea- 38: The Oyster Bar cascadiaweekly.com creased tourism is concerned. I admit that Blaine son to complain, but the “Advice Goddess” ar- 10.01.14 Fuzz Buzz,Buzz, 3.ɁɃɁɃ * River GalleryGallery,y,, 3.ɂɀɂɀ * The Oystery BaBar,r,, 3.ɃɈ cascadiac a s c a d i a is just plain but Blaine Harbor doesn’t excite me ticle lastweek was so atrocious I couldn’t keep REPORTINGREPORTING FROMFROM THET HEARTHEART OF CASCADIACASCADIA WHATCOMWHWHHAAATTCOM *SKAGITSKAGIT*ISLANDISLAND*LOWERLOWER B.C.B .C . {10.{10.01.01.14}{#4040}{V.09}{}{V.09}{FREEFREE} much either. If you were to ask me, which no one my mouth shut. .09 ©2014 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by 40 doctober has, Drayton Harbor sounds much more Angela Her response to “Rationally Based” is narrow- 7+( 7587+ ,6 287 7+(5( 3.ɂɆ # Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. 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