THE GRISTLE, P.6 * SKI TO SEA, P.14 * FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.26 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. 05.y|.11 :: #21, v.06 :: !- Bill McKIBBEN COAL VS. SOUL NEXT WEEK: PICK UP OUR SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE! EMERALD BAY: HISTORY ON ITS TOES, P.15 MEMORIAL MERRIMENT: A WEEKEND’S WORTH OF MUSIC, P.18 30 30 cascadia Attend FOOD ! ./$1'*! !'". the annual Me- morial Day gathering honor- 24 ing those who’ve served in B-BOARD the armed forces, May 30 at A glance at what’s happening this week Ferndale’s Memorial Park 22 22 2 ) .4[05.y|.11] FILM FILM ON STAGE 18 Spring Play Festival: 7pm, Bellingham High School MUSIC WORDS Susie Bright: 7pm, Village Books Ski to Sea Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Bellingham Public 16 Library ART ART 15 /#0-.4[05.y}.11] ON STAGE STAGE STAGE Spring Play Festival: 7pm, Bellingham High School Words in Motion: 7pm, Fairhaven College Audito- rium 14 Comedy Film Nerds: 8pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Music Box 2: 8pm, iDiOM Theater GET OUT The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC 12 Carl Jones, James Bryan: 7:30pm, Nancy’s Farm WORDS WORDS Ski to Sea Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Bellingham Public 8 Library Ruby Nari Mayo: 7pm, Village Books COMMUNITY CURRENTS CURRENTS Chinese Expulsion Talk: 7pm, Whatcom Museum 6 VISUAL ARTS Children’s Art Show Reception: 7-8:30pm, Lynden VIEWS VIEWS Public Library Condom Fashion Show: 7pm, Viking Union Multi- PHOTO BY MATT MCDANIEL BY PHOTO 4 purpose Room MAIL MAIL FOOD View improv inspired by poetry— 2 !-$4[05.y~.11] Community Breakfast: 8-11am, Bellingham Senior ON STAGE Center DO IT IT DO and vice versa—at the final DO IT 2 Pilipino Cultural Night: 6pm, Viking Union, WWU Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of Spring Play Festival: 7pm, Bellingham High School Ferndale weekend of .-/#+ 11 Words in Motion: 7pm, Fairhaven College Audito- .25. rium VISUAL ARTS shows May 27-28 at the 05 Finnegan’s Farewell: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Yvette Neumann Reception: 5-8pm, Fairhaven Origi- Theatre, Mount Vernon nals Gallery Upfront Theatre .06 Scratch Pad: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Art by the Lake: 6-8pm, Bloedel Donovan Commu- 21 # Music Box 2: 8pm, iDiOM Theater nity Building Doubles: 10pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC ./0-4[05.y.11] WORDS Skagit Valley Market: 10am-3pm, Farmhouse Res- Jazz Combo: 7pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Ski to Sea Book Sale: 10am-3pm, Bellingham Public taurant, Mount Vernon Folklife Festival: Through Monday, Seattle Center ON STAGE Library Ski to Sea Grand Parade: 12pm, downtown Bell- Words in Motion: 7pm, Fairhaven College Audito- Mary Lou Sanelli: 7pm, Village Books ingham WORDS rium Ski to Sea Block Party: 5-9pm, Boundary Bay CASCADIA WEEKLY Ski to Sea Book Sale: 10am-6pm, Bellingham Public Spring Play Festival: 7pm, Bellingham High School COMMUNITY Brewery Library Finnegan’s Farewell: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street 2 John Keeble: 7pm, Village Books Theatre, Mount Vernon Plaza GET OUT Scratch Pad: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Chestnut NCI Stewards Kickoff: 9am, North Cascades GET OUT Music Box 2: 8pm, iDiOM Theater Street and Railroad Avenue National Park Diva Ride: 3pm, Black Market Boutique Doubles: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Ferndale Public Market: 10am-4pm, Riverwalk Boating Center Kickoff: 10am-5pm, Community Park Boating Center VISUAL ARTS Art by the Lake: 9am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan 30 Community Building Artists Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Island FOOD .0)4[05.y.11] 24 ON STAGE Words in Motion: 2pm, Fairhaven College B-BOARD Auditorium MUSIC 22 Music on the Green: 11am-5pm, Fairhaven Vil- lage Green FILM FILM The Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, Amadeus Project COMMUNITY 18 Fairhaven Festival: 10am-8pm, historic Fairhaven MUSIC Antique Car Show: 10am-3pm, Boulevard Park GET OUT 16 Ski to Sea Race: 8am, Mt. Baker Ski Area ART Flower Power Ride: 1pm, Bellingham Public Market 15 VISUAL ARTS Art by the Lake: 9am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan STAGE Community Building Seconds Sale: 10am-5pm, Good Earth Pottery 14 Artists Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Island GET OUT (*)4[05.z.11] WORDS 12 Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project WORDS COMMUNITY Festival of Flags: 1-4pm, Moles Greenacres 8 Funeral Home & Memorial Park, Ferndale VISUAL ARTS Art by the Lake: 10am-4pm, Bloedel Donovan CURRENTS Community Building 6 /0 .4[05.zx.11] VIEWS WORDS 4 Bill McKibben: 5pm, Fairhaven Village Green MAIL MAIL Mike O’Connor: 7pm, Village Books Open Mic: 7pm, Blue Horse Gallery 2 2 DO IT IT DO DO IT 11 .25. 05 .06 21 # CASCADIA WEEKLY A plethora of produce can be had at Farmers Market openings happening this week in Blaine (May 28) 3 and the Fairhaven Village Green (June 1) SEND EVENTS TO CALENDAR@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM THIS ISSUE Contact Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 30 30 Editorial FOOD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 24 mail ô editor@ cascadiaweekly.com TOC LETTERS STAFF Arts & Entertainment B-BOARD Editor: Amy Kepferle She made Denzel Washington cry, allowed Tom Cruise to jump Eext 204 on her sofa like a hyperactive teen and scolded author James ô calendar@ 22 22 Frey, but Oprah Winfrey’s legions of fans more often than not cascadiaweekly.com tuned in to watch Oprah because of the numerous life lessons FILM FILM Music & Film Editor: they gleaned from the eponymous host. 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Maybe SSA Marine execs live in WORDS WORDS cascadiaweekly.com 20: Clubs David Warren, former NW Washington Central Seattle, but you won’t see your “local” SSA Marine 22: New hangover, same movie Account Executives: Labor Council president, is featured in an ad in the friends and neighbors on Railroad Avenue—or 8 Scott Herning Weekly extolling the virtues of building the “Gate- even at the mall. They don’t live here. 23: Film shorts E360-647-8200 x 252 ô scott@ way Pacific Terminal,” the planned Cherry Point fa- Finally, in a letter to the Seattle Times on March cascadiaweekly.com cility intended to ship coal to China. 29, Warren asserted that “the Gateway terminal at CURRENTS CURRENTS REAR END Scott Pelton Warren’s argument includes two key elements Cherry Point is exactly what the region needs to 24: Bulletin Board, Sudoku 360-647-8200 x 253 6 E that are not accurate and one that is just factual- begin to rebuild a sustainable economy.” This is ô spelton@ 25: Wellness cascadiaweekly.com ly wrong. He notes that SSA Marine, the corpora- what George Orwell called “newspeak.” You know, VIEWS VIEWS 26: Free Will Astrology tion that wants to build the terminal, has “local “war is peace” and “love is hate.” “Coal is sustain- Distribution roots.” This is true. The company was founded in able.” It’s not. We dig it out of the earth, we haul it 4 27: Crossword JW Land & Associates Bellingham in 1949. But, according to SSA Ma- somewhere else, we burn it. It’s gone. This is the MAIL MAIL 28: Advice Goddess ô distro@ rine’s not fully disclosing website, the company exact opposite of sustainable. cascadiaweekly.com 29: This Modern World, left Bellingham at least 30 years ago and prob- If Warren has strong arguments in favor of 2 4 Tom the Dancing Bug Letters ably more than 50 years ago. By 1960 at the lat- building this terminal, I wonder why he does not Send letters to letters@ DO IT DO MAIL est, the company was already called Seattle Ste- present them rather than offering these inaccu- 30: Going underground cascadiaweekly.com. vedore. After 50 years of absence, in what way do rate assertions. THE GRISTLE, P.6 * * FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.26 “local roots” matter? —David Marshak, Bellingham 11 cascadia WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C. 05.y|.11 :: #21, v.06 :: !- Warren then claims that “being local gives them .25. 05 (SSA Marine) an additional incentive to do the proj- STIMULUS NONSENSE ect in an environmentally responsible way because Daly News 2011 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by Casca- In the May 15 issue of the (the editor .06 dia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly !"" it’s not just a job to them; they live here, too.” is Herman Daly), devoted to promoting a steady- 21 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 # [email protected] But SSA Marine is not “local” in any meaning- state economy, Eric Zencey writes: “All of econom- Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly PICK UP OUR SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE! 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