GORY GRISTLE, P.6 /#*)$.+'4+xROCKY HORROR, P.16 cascadia REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 10.y~.10 :: #43, v.05 :: !- EXPELLED! TERRIFYING TALES FROM THE PAST, P.8 }} FRIGHTFUL FLICKS: A SCARY, SEMI-RANDOM ROUNDUP, P.24 SPOOKY SOUNDS: LIVE, LOCAL AND LOUD, P.20 34 34 FOOD cascadia Artist )()) helms 27 27 a Day of the Day Dead mask- making workshop for kids and adults Oct. 30 at the Whatcom CLASSIFIEDS A glance at what’s happening this week Museum’s Lightcatcher Building 24 FILM FILM 2 ) .4[10.y~.10] ./0-4[10.z.10] 20 ON STAGE ON STAGE Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm, MBT’s Haunted House: 6-9pm, Bellingham MUSIC Walton Theatre Arts Academy for Youth Halloween Harold: 7:30pm, Old Main MUSIC Theatre, WWU 18 Community Band Exhibition: 6-8pm, Rocky Horror Picture Show: 9pm and ART ART Civic Field 12am, Arntzen 100, WWU Rocky Horror Picture Show: 10pm, WORDS Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon 16 Ann Linnea: 7pm, Village Books Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre STAGE STAGE /#0-.4[10.y.10] DANCE Halloween Dance-Off: 2-5pm, Center for 14 ON STAGE Expressive Arts Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Halloween Dance: 8pm, Bellingham The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Golf & Country Club GET OUT Halloween Dance: 8pm, Northwood Hall MUSIC Contra Dance: 7:30-10:30pm, Fairhaven Matoys: 8pm, Cirque Lab Library 13 Spooktacular All-County Dance: 9pm, COMMUNITY Bellingham Sportsplex WORDS Trick or Treat: 4-6pm, downtown Ferndale MUSIC 8 Scream Fair: Through Oct. 30, North- North Cascades Concert Band: 3pm, west Washington Fairgrounds, Lynden Blaine High School PAC Brother Dalton’s Euphonic Elixir: FILM 3:30pm, Stuart’s at the Market CURRENTS CURRENTS Mt. Baker Film Fest: 7:30pm, Mount Scary Monster and the Super Creeps: Baker Theatre 8pm, Resort Semiahmoo, Blaine 6 Eric Bibb, Ruthie Foster: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre VIEWS VIEWS !-$4[10.y.10] Becki Sue and Her Big Rockin’ Daddies: 8pm, Conway Muse 4 ON STAGE Acorn Project, Polecat: 9:30pm, Wild Hellingham: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Buffalo MAIL MAIL Theatre No-Fi Soul Rebellion, Horror Business: Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 10pm, Boundary Bay Brewery 2 12am, MBT’s Walton Theatre WORDS DO IT IT DO DO IT 2 DANCE Mary Daheim: 2pm, Village Books ArtsCrush with Dance Gallery: 7pm, Charles Neff: 7pm, Village Books 10 Village Books .27. Halloween Party: 8pm, U & Me Dance COMMUNITY 10 Costume Ball: 9pm, Viking Union, WWU Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am- 3pm, Depot Market Square .05 MUSIC Octoberfest: 10am-2pm, Our Saviour’s 43 # Linda Waterfall, Dean Stevens: 7pm, Lutheran Church Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Trick or Treat: 2-5pm, downtown Skagit Community Band: 7:30pm, Maple Bellingham Hall, La Conner A cadre of the undead will Ghosts of Gaches Gala: 7-10pm, La Con- The Spazmatics: 8pm, Skagit Valley ner Quilt & Textile Museum Casino Resort dance the night away during FOOD WORDS /#-$'' - ) Literary Feast: 5pm, Bellingham Unitar- CASCADIA WEEKLY The Poet As Art: 7pm, Lucia Douglas ian Fellowship Gallery performances on Halloween in 2 GET OUT FOOD Fairhaven and again at Maritime Halloween Run: 11am, Fairhaven Park The Big Yum: 6pm, Ciao Thyme Heritage Park .0)4[10.zx.10] ON STAGE Hellingham: 8pm, Upfront Theatre 34 Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8pm and 12am, MBT’s Walton Theatre FOOD Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub DANCE 27 Thrillingham: 7:30pm, Fairhaven Parking Lot Thrillingham: 9pm, Maritime Heritage Park MUSIC CLASSIFIEDS Skagit Community Band: 3pm, Brodniak Hall, Anacortes 24 The Art of Jazz: 4-6:30m, the Amadeus Project Halloween Extravaganza: 9pm, Casa Que Pasa FILM FILM Scary Monster & the Super Creeps: 10pm, Boundary Bay Brewery 20 WORDS Halloween Stories: 3:30-5:30pm, Village Books MUSIC COMMUNITY Kids Harvest Fest: 2-6pm, Central Lutheran 18 Church ART Trick or Treat: 3-6pm, historic Fairhaven Haunted Halloween Garden: 4-6pm, Chucka- nut Brewery 16 STAGE STAGE (*)4[11.x.10] WORDS 14 Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project GET OUT /0 .4[11.y.10] COMMUNITY 13 Vote!: Throughout Whatcom and Skagit coun- ties WORDS Treasure Hunt: Continues through November, Whatcom County 8 CURRENTS CURRENTS 6 VIEWS VIEWS 4 MAIL MAIL 2 2 DO IT IT DO DO IT 10 .27. 10 .05 The frighteningly funny 43 # format known as # ''$)"#(— featuring a completely improvised murder mystery created anew for each go- CASCADIA WEEKLY round—shows Oct. 29-31 3 at the Upfront Theatre SEND EVENTS TO CALENDAR@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM Contact THIS ISSUE Cascadia Weekly: E 360.647.8200 34 34 Editorial Editor & Publisher: FOOD Tim Johnson E ext 260 mail ô editor@ 27 27 cascadiaweekly.com CONTENTS ›› LETTERS ›› STAFF Arts & Entertainment Editor: Amy Kepferle CLASSIFIEDS Eext 204 ô calendar@ To ensure your pint-sized ghouls and goblins get their fair cascadiaweekly.com 24 share of sugar this Halloween weekend, schedule time from Music & Film Editor: 7:30-10am Fri., Oct. 29 for a visit to IHOP for a Scary Face FILM FILM Carey Ross Pancake. 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There was one small get proposal now before the council as revenue 30: Free Will Astrology cascadiaweekly.com misassertion in the endorsement about Ini- neutral. However, for property taxpayers, Kre- 4 4 31: Advice Goddess Distribution tiative 1098. You stated, “This is the only men’s tax scheme is far from neutral. In fact, MAIL MAIL MAIL 32: Sudoku, Troubletown JW Land & Associates state initiative on the ballot this year that this scheme is a redistribution of the tax bur- ô distro@ might arguably be called ‘grassroots.’” den onto city property owners and businesses 33: This Modern World, 2 cascadiaweekly.com Tom the Dancing Bug Letters Interestingly enough, the Seattle Times had in all of Whatcom County’s cities. a different opinion, pointing out that the “No All property owners and businesses (taxed DO IT IT DO Send letters to letters@ 34: A scary amount of seafood cascadiaweekly.com. on 1098” crowd had three times as many in- on property assets) in Whatcom County’s cities COVER: illustration by Dario dividual donors as the “Yes on 1098” side. In will see a tax increase of 3.6 percent. Prop- 10 Castillejos fact, contributions from government employee erty owners outside the cities will get a tax .27. 10 unions ($4.1 million) make up 67 percent of cut on the order of 3 percent. This tax shift ©2010 CASCADIA WEEKLY (ISSN 1931-3292) is published each Wednesday by YesOn1098’s total funds. $1.75 million is from is the result of a $1 million general fund tax GORY GRISTLE, P.6 /#*)$.+'4+xROCKY HORROR, P.16 .05 Cascadia Newspaper Company LLC. Direct all correspondence to: Cascadia Weekly cascadia REPORTING FROM THE Washington D.C. unions. Union contributions, increase for all properties combined with a $1 HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 43 PO Box 2833 Bellingham WA 98227-2833 | Phone/Fax: 360.647.8200 10.y~.10 :: #43, v.05 :: !- # [email protected] especially when they total more than $4 million million county road tax cut that only applies to Though Cascadia Weekly is distributed free, please take just one copy. Cascadia Weekly may be distributed only by authorized distributors. Any person removing dollars, are not a “grassroots movement.” non-city property owners only. City property papers in bulk from our distribution points risks prosecution Could it be unions are funding 1098 because owners, including small businesses owners, get SUBMISSIONS: Cascadia Weekly welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either the News Editor or A&E Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you they don’t want to have to make the same dif- a tax increase while non-city property owners include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. To be considered for calendar list- ings, notice of events must be received in writing no later than noon Wednesday ficult decisions the private sector has made will get a net tax cut. the week prior to publication. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be EXPELLED! TERRIFYING TALES FROM THE PAST, P.8 }} FRIGHTFUL FLICKS: A SCARY, SEMI-RANDOM ROUNDUP, P.24 SPOOKY SOUNDS: LIVE, LOCAL AND LOUD, P.20 returned if accompanied by stamped, self-addressed envelope. during this recession? But that is not all that is wrong with this LETTERS POLICY: Cascadia Weekly reserves the right to edit letters for length and —Anne-Marie Faiola, Bellingham CASCADIA WEEKLY distorted tax scheme. Kremen is proposing us- content. When apprised of them, we correct errors of fact promptly and courteously.