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ALAN RHODES, P.06 + PAINT OUT, P.16 + FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.26 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES 08-15-2018* • ISSUE:*33 • V.13 BEST OF BELLINGHAM Your vote goes here! P.09 RIVER OF OIL Dwindling orcas, expanding pipelines P.08 SUMMER'S END Music and art with a mission P.18 MARIAN AND iDiOM Theater's MORE loaded lineup P.15 Fairgrounds, Lynden A brief overview of this GET OUT 30 Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Lake Padden Park Drive for the Arts: 1pm, Swinomish Golf Links FOOD week’s happenings THISWEEK Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, downtown Bellingham FOOD 24 WEDNESDAY [08.15.18] Ferndale Market: 3-7pm, Riverwalk Park ONSTAGE VISUAL B-BOARD Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Night Market: 6-10pm, Commercial Street MUSIC SATURDAY [08.18.18] 23 Battle of the Bands: 5-7pm, Burlington Visitor Center Amphitheater ONSTAGE FILM Titus Andronicus: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphi- COMMUNITY theater NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Marian: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park 18 Fairgrounds, Lynden Hotbox: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Hound of the Baskervilles: 7:30pm, Anacortes MUSIC FOOD Community Theatre Wednesday Market: 3-7pm, Fairhaven Village Green Push it to the Limit: 9pm, Upfront Theatre 16 Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer Heritage Square, Sedro-Woolley MUSIC ART Barkley Market: 4-6pm, Barkley Village Green Skagit Woodstock: 2-10pm, Edgewater Park, Mount Vernon 15 [08.16.18] Arete Quartet: 6-8pm, Boulevard Park THURSDAY Naughty Blokes: 6-8pm, Heart of Anacortes STAGE ONSTAGE Bard on the Beach: Through Sept. 28, Vanier Park, FILM Vancouver, BC Black Panther: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green 14 Titus Andronicus: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater Marian: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park COMMUNITY Hound of the Baskervilles: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington GET OUT munity Theatre Fairgrounds, Lynden Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre GET OUT 12 Nooksack River Walk: 3pm, Horseshoe Bend DANCE Trailhead WORDS Balkan Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library FOOD MUSIC Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior Center 8 Blues and Brews: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether terrace Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Jazz Jam: 5:30-8:30pm, Illuminati Brewing Center High Mountain String Band: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park CURRENTS Soulfunktion: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Plaza, Mount Vernon Lummi Island Market: 10am-1pm, the Islander Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial 6 COMMUNITY Due to unprecedented attendance records, Park NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street VIEWS Fairgrounds, Lynden Bard on the Beach will extend its 29th Plaza Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot 4 FOOD season of Shakespearean theater with shows happening Market Square Bow Farmers Market: 1-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Saturday Market: 1-3pm, Concrete Community Center MAIL Vino in the Village: 5:30-8:30pm, historic Fairhaven through Sat., Sept. 28 at Vancouver, BC’s Vanier Park [08. .18] SUNDAY 19 PHOTO BY DAVID COOPER DAVID BY PHOTO 2 2 FRIDAY [08.17.18] MUSIC DO IT DO IT ONSTAGE Naughty Blokes: 1-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner King Lear: 7pm, Rexville Grange Amphitheater International Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch Marian: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park Park, Blaine Hotbox: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts Deakin Hicks CD Release: 7pm, Sylvia Center 08.15.18 Hound of the Baskervilles: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- munity Theatre COMMUNITY Push it to the Limit: 9pm, Upfront Theatre Car Show & Shine: 10am-2pm, BelleWood Acres .13 33 # DANCE FOOD Hot August Nights: 8-10pm, the Majestic Edison Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Edison Granary Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, MUSIC Lynden Summer’s End Music + Arts: 12-10pm, Zuanich Point Park MONDAY [08.20.18] Longstride: 6-8pm, Seafarers Memorial Park, Ana- ONSTAGE CASCADIA WEEKLY cortes Farm Tunes: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge 2 Whiskey Fever: 7-9pm, Eagle Haven Winery, Sedro- Hear classic rock for the modern age when the Naughty Woolley TUESDAY [08.21.18] Blokes perform Aug. 18 at the Heart of Anacortes, and COMMUNITY Aug. 19 at La Conner’s Gilkey Square. GET OUT NW Washington Fair: 9am-11pm, NW Washington History Sunset Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal THISWEEK 30 FOOD Contact Cascadia Weekly: 360.647.8200 24 mail TOC LETTERS STAFF Editorial B-BOARD Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson ext 260 23 editor@ cascadiaweekly.com FILM Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle ext 204 18 Get into the groove by paying homage to the Queen of Pop, calendar@ who turns 60 this week. The iconic material girl was born cascadiaweekly.com MUSIC Aug. 16, 1958 and has spent most of her life entertaining Music & Film Editor: the masses. In addition to being the bestselling female Carey Ross 16 recording artist of all time, she’s also a dancer, actress, ext 203 mother, record producer, film director, author, and humani- ART music@ tarian. Happy birthday, Madonna! cascadiaweekly.com 15 Production Art Director: STAGE Views & News Jesse Kinsman 04: Mailbag jesse@ 14 06: Gristle & Rhodes kinsmancreative.com Design: 08: Orcas in the path Bill Kamphausen GET OUT 10: Last week’s news Advertising Design: Roman Komarov 11: Police blotter, Index roman@ 12 cascadiaweekly.com Send all advertising materials to Arts & Life [email protected] WORDS 12: A killer read FARMWORKER MARCH FOR DIGNITY members count ballots by hand. They were tally- Advertising 8 14: Panning for gold On Sun., Aug. 5, an historic Farmworker March ing partial results for a local race as contained Sales Manager: for Dignity took place along the rural farm roads in six large, randomly selected ballot batches. 15: Loaded lineup Stephanie Young from Lynden to Sumas. These were paper ballots—physical evidence of 16: Plein Air Paint Out 360-647-8200 CURRENTS advertising@ Participants walked 15 miles over 10 hours, voter choice. Verifiable and recountable. 18: Summer’s End cascadiaweekly.com and had plenty of time to reflect on the long, Washington state made the right choice back 6 20: Clubs Distribution hot, exhausting days endured by farmworkers when many other states were adopting black- day after day in order to bring food to our tables. box, hackable electronic voting devices. VIEWS 22: More than a movie Distribution Manager: The several hundred participants chose to Each ballot set was counted separately by both Erik Burge 23: Film Shorts 4 4 360-647-8200 spend their Sunday to march all day in the heat staff, supervised by County Auditor Debbie Adel- distribution@ in solidarity with some of the hardest-working stein and witnessed by volunteer observers. The MAIL MAIL cascadiaweekly.com Rear End and lowest-paid workers in our country. two hand counts for each ballot set were compared Whatcom: Erik Burge, 2 Wellness How ironic, then, that there were some mem- first to each other, then to the machine tabula- 24: Stephanie Simms bers of our local community who chose to use their tor totals for each set. The latter had been tallied 25: Crossword Skagit: Linda Brown, DO IT Barb Murdoch voices to castigate the marchers by yelling “get a previously and were unknown to the staff who did 26: Free Will Astrology job!” from the air-conditioned cabs of their shiny the hand count. All the counts of the six selected 27: Advice Goddess Letters new black pickup trucks (probably not on their own batches, totaling 1,174 ballots, matched. SEND LETTERS TO LETTERS@ way to work, on a Sunday). I wonder if they thought Why does this matter? Conducting this random 28: Comix CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 08.15.18 to yell the same slur to the crowd recreating at the comparison of hand counts to machine tallies is 29: Slowpoke, Sudoku ALAN RHODES, P.06 + PAINT OUT, P.16 + FREE WILL ASTROLOGY, P.26 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA go-kart race track we passed along the way. a striking example of investment in election in- WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND COUNTIES .13 30: Feel the heat 08-15-2018 • ISSUE:33 • V.13 33 What irony for people who live in a farming tegrity. And the encouragement of citizens to be BEST OF BELLINGHAM # Your vote goes here! P.09 RIVER OF OIL Dwindling orcas, expanding pipelines P.08 community to yell “get a job” to a crowd of hard- part of that process. SUMMER'S END Music and art with a mission ©2018 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by P.18 working farmworkers and their allies. The Whatcom Citizens Election Advisory Com- Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 Thank you to all of the people who honked and mittee helped select our recently updated elec- [email protected] MARIAN AND waved and walked out of their front doors to join tion equipment. Our county was the first in Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia iDiOM Theater's MORE loaded lineup Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing P.15 us in solidarity. I want to challenge the handful of Washington state to adopt the above hand count papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material rude passersby to consider what they do on their as standard operating procedure in every elec- CASCADIA WEEKLY to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you COVER: Photo of Marian, own days off to help farmworkers feel appreciated, tion.
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