IMMIGRATION NATION: OF MIGRANTS AND MINUTEMEN, P.8
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IMMIGRATION NATION: OF MIGRANTS AND MINUTEMEN, P.8
ALAN RHODES, P.6IVAN DOIG, P.14 RUMOR HAS IT, P.22 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 07.x{.10 :: #28, v.05 :: !- DOG DAYS: SUMMER REP’S CANINE COMEDY, P.18 SUNNYLAND STOMP: ART IN THE YARD, P.20 IMMIGRATION NATION: OF MIGRANTS AND MINUTEMEN, P.8 FOOD 38 While it’s true the CLASSIFIEDS 31 c a s c a d i a its respects to the small red fruit, everything from car shows to live music and athletic events can be had at the event, which occurs July 16-17 throughout Lynden FILM 26 A glance at what’s happening this week )*-/#2 ./-.+ --4 ! ./$1' is intended to pay Picoso: 7-9pm, Boulevard Park WORDS MUSIC 22 Steve Martini: 3pm, Barnes & Noble COMMUNITY STAGE 18 ART 20 Shipwreck Day: 8am, downtown Anacortes Lummi Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Nugent Drive Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Centennial Riverwalk Park Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square Discovery Days: 10am-7pm, Birch Bay FILM Ghostbusters: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green GET OUT 16 GET OUT Bellingham Roller Betties: 5pm, Whatcom Community College Workboat Races: 4-8pm, Anacortes Port Dock CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 VISUAL ARTS The quintessential “American band,” "-)!0)&-$'-*, pulls into Burlington to rock out July 18 as part of the Skagit Speedway Music Festival VIEWS 6 MAIL 4 DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 CASCADIA WEEKLY 2 Skagit Artists Together Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Skagit Valley Children’s Art Festival: 10am-4pm, Hillcrest Park, Mount Vernon Stone Carvers Artwalk: 1-5pm, Camp Brotherhood, Mount Vernon Sunnyland Stomp: 4-10pm, Sunnyland neighborhood, Bellingham .0)4[07.x.10] ON STAGE The Glass Menagerie: 3pm, Walton Theatre Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub ON STAGE Park, Vancouver, B.C. Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Glass Menagerie: 8pm, Walton Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre Intro to Improv: 7pm, 302 W. Illinois St. Sylvia: 8pm, Walton Theatre MUSIC 2 ) .4[07.x{.10] MUSIC The Globes: Noon, Performing Arts Center Plaza, WWU Spoonshine: 5-9pm, Holly and Bay streets Heidi Grant Murphy: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU A Few of My Favorite Things: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center COMMUNITY Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green Festival of Music Freebie: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum Juba Marimba: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Big Band Benefit: 7:30pm, Semiahmoo Golf Club Pavilion GET OUT !-$4[07.x}.10] Chowder Charter: 6-9pm, Bellingham Bay Ryan Stiles & Friends: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre Lost in Yonkers: 8pm, Walton Theatre Hellingham: 9pm, Upfront Theatre /#0-.4[07.x|.10] MUSIC ON STAGE Bard on the Beach: Through September 30, Vanier WORDS Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library Robin Cody: 7pm, Village Books Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, B.C. What the Heck Fest: Through Sunday, Anacortes MUSIC Speedway Music Festival: 12-9pm, Skagit Speedway, Burlington Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, B.C. Alma Villeges: 2-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green Evolution Trio: 3:30-5pm, Big Rock Garden Park Stefan Jackiw, FOM Orchestra: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU COMMUNITY Northwest Raspberry Festival: 10am-7pm, downtown Lynden History Cruise: 6pm, Squalicum Harbor ON STAGE GET OUT Richard and Helen Scholtz: Noon, Bellingham Public Library lawn The 3Ds: 7-9pm, Stuart’s at the Market Jazz Fest Student Showcase: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center ./0-4[07.x~.10] COMMUNITY Northwest Raspberry Festival: 10am-7pm, downtown Lynden Discovery Days: 10am-5pm, Birch Bay Vettes in the Vineyard: 12-4pm, Carpenter Creek Winery, Mount Vernon ON STAGE The Two Gentlemen of Verona: 4pm, Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale Things That Fly: 2pm, Fairhaven Village Green Sylvia: 8pm, Walton Theatre Hellingham: 9pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, B.C. GET OUT Celebrity Golf Classic: 1pm, Bellingham Golf & Country Club VISUAL ARTS Skagit Artists Together Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Skagit Valley FOOD 38 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FILM 26 MUSIC 22 ART 20 STAGE 18 GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CURRENTS 8 DO IT 2 at Mount Vernon’s Camp Brotherhood VIEWS 6 )*-/#2 ././*) .0'+/*-.))0' -/2'& July 17 MAIL 4 Arliss Newcomb will be one of the 50-plus regional carvers represented at the /0 .4[07.y.10] ON STAGE Sylvia: 8pm, Walton Theatre DANCE Dancing in the Park: 7-9pm, Elizabeth Park #28.05 Naseem Rakha: 7pm, Village Books Poetrynight: 8pm, iDiOM Theater CASCADIA WEEKLY WORDS 07.14.10 (*)4[07.x.10] WORDS Ivan Doig: 7pm, Village Books SEND EVENTS TO CALENDAR@ CASCADIAWEEKLY.COM 3 FOOD 38 THIS ISSUE MUSIC 22 FILM 26 CLASSIFIEDS 31 Editor & Publisher: Tim Johnson E ext 260 ô editor@ cascadiaweekly.com George Steinbrenner, the New York Yankees owner known as “The Boss” for his tempestuous style, suffered a heart attack at his home in Tampa, Florida, and died Tuesday at age 80. 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ALAN RHODES, P.6IVAN DOIG, P.14 RUMOR HAS IT, P.22 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C. 07.x{.10 :: #28, v.05 :: !- DOG DAYS: SUMMER REP’S CANINE COMEDY, P.18 SUNNYLAND STOMP: ART IN THE YARD, P.20 IMMIGRATION NATION: OF MIGRANTS AND MINUTEMEN, P.8 Cover: Avett Brothers will play the Vancouver Folk Music Festival this weekend. See page 22 for more details. VEGETABLES ARE NOT ALWAYS THE ANSWER For people who only have access to industrially grown food of unknown origin, a vegetarian diet is probably the safest and most responsible choice; however, in terms of erosion, soil fertility, and outside inputs of fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides, well-managed perennial pastures and the grass-fed livestock associated with them are the most environmentally sustainable of all agricultural enterprises. Unfortunately for local organic growers, maintaining fertility is becoming even more difficult as many of our locally owned dairies are going out of business as a result of falling commodity prices and development pressure. Additionally, tilling up good land to plant vegetables or row crops releases massive amounts of carbon into our atmosphere as soil organic matter is oxidized, and that doesn’t even take into account all of the diesel burned by the farmer’s equipment. In contrast, rotationally grazed pastures are the most efficient way of putting organic matter (carbon) back in the soil. To make a long-winded letter short, even the most environmentally and health conscious individual does not have to feel guilty about eating meat and dairy. If you really want to be a purist, you will probably have to give up your pork and poultry, which normally require substantial supplements of grain in their diets, and stick to local grass-fed beef and lamb and find a dairy that does not feed grain. I would recommend Eatwild.com as an excellent place to start your search for locally and responsibly raised products. —Randall Reinders, Bellingham (edited for length) KALB FOR CONGRESS Larry Kalb is a Bellingham resident who is running for the congressional seat presently held by Rep. Rick Larsen. Larry’s political orientation can best be described as an FDR Democrat. At this critical time in our nation’s history we are in dire need of congressional representation that is of, for, and by the people. Larry Kalb has the knowledge, vision, and integrity to represent citizens in a fashion that prioritizes their needs over that of corporate interests. Kalb will work for jobs based on the Made in America model, health care for all citizens equal to that of congressional members, a 20 percent reduction in the bloated military budget, the creation of a Green New Deal, sensible trade policies, and last but not least, publicly financed political campaigns. Larry is the real deal and will be a principled leader and a positive force for necessary change in Congress. Our nation has very serious problems that require a change from “business as usual” politics and Larry Kalb represents that change very well. Please vote for Larry Kalb! More info at www. kalbforcongress.com. —Kent Heuer, Bellingham FOOD 38 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 CLASSIFIEDS 31 Now through September 1 STAGE 18 ART 20 e z a D r e m Sum WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 Craze SILVER CASCADIA to 70734 CAN carriers text: SILVER CASCADIA to 393939 Enter once a week. Drawings every Wednesday. Please don’t text and drive. No purchase necessary to enter or win. 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As a result of the failure of that levy, Whatcom Transportation Authority plans to trim service countywide as early as September. An independent contract with the city could blunt that threat for Bellingham, a contract paid for by a sales tax increase that might be placed on the ballot in November. While—as council member Seth Fleetwood observed— Bellingham City Council already has the authority to achieve everything contemplated by a TBD (the city can place sales tax proposals in front of voters; and the city can enter into contracts with transit service providers), the special purpose district—the mayor responded—is a means of reassuring voters how (and how long) the revenues will be used. Narrowly approved this week by council, the benefit district has a lifespan of 10 years. Next up, an embattled council must decide whether to ask voters to feed this new creature with a two-tenths of a percent (.2¢) sales tax increase. Should voters approve those revenues, the city could contract with WTA for restored bus service. Since 2007, Western Washington University has maintained a comparable independent contract with the transit authority for increased bus service to campus, paid—as approved by a vote of students—through a small tuition hike. In one sense, the TBD and proposed tax attempt to scoop up the support and goodwill expressed toward transit service left on the table by Bellingham voters last spring. In a broader sense, the effort responds to the collapse of more than $28 million in city revenues as a result of a disastrous downturn in the economy, revenues that might otherwise fund a range of projects like new sidewalks and bike paths, and the resurfacing of aging roadways. Unlike the feds, state and local governments cannot run deficits and are required by law to pay as they go for these projects. Council member Stan Snapp was absent for the initial public hearing that debated the merits of a TBD, but he roared to life this week in opposition to the concept. Snapp said he believed the proposal is isolated from the broader discussion of long-term capital facilities needs (he serves on a committee that is expected to produce a report on these needs later this fall) and the long-term financial plans of WTA (like Pike and council member Jack Weiss, he serves on the WTA board). He joined a strong minority of council members in questioning whether this tax was the right tax to place before voters at this time. “Can this TBD proposal stand the scrutiny that long-term planning requires for both COB and WTA?” Snapp asked. “I don’t believe it stands the sniff test beyond keeping the current Bellingham-only buses on the road.” He added, “This entire process flies in the face of good, systematic and orderly planning.” His disapproval was met with a challenge from the mayor, who admitted the pace of the proposal—racing to get on the November ballot—is not ideal. “We can argue about how we might reallocate dollars if there are funds in the system,” Pike said. “If you don’t get those funds back, you can argue about how you might allocate them theoretically until you are blue in the face.” OPI N IONS › › T H E G R IST L E BY ALAN RHODES Protecting the Defenseless RIDING ALONG WITH ANIMAL CONTROL CARRIE ANDERSON, an animal control officer with the Whatcom Humane Society, was on call last night, receiving phone calls through the early morning hours, so she hasn’t had much sleep when she walks into the shelter to begin her day. After an hour of paperwork, she heads out to patrol the county. I’m along for the ride. A woman had called from Blaine at 2am to report a runaway horse. “She’s holding it on her property,” Carrie says. “We’ll see if we can find the owner.” We spend much of the morning going from one horse property to another. We don’t locate the owner, but Carrie asks people to spread the word. On the way to the next stop I read the printed history of the man we’re visiting. He keeps five pit bulls chained outside who bark incessantly, fight and get loose to terrorize the neighborhood. Someone has reported them loose again. The owner has paid so much in impound fees that you would think he’d get the message, but apparently not. The animals are chained up again when we get there, snarling and lunging at us. There isn’t a neighbor around to verify that the animals were loose, so there’s not much Carrie can do other than deliver yet another lecture to him on responsible dog ownership. A call comes in to pick up a box of kittens left on a construction site, but another officer is closer so we head out to the east county to check out a report of a dog abandoned in a trailer parked along the Nooksack River. The road down to the river is flooded and we turn back when the water reaches the truck’s doors. We park and find a place to clamber dog to a veterinarian. They have no money, so this has not been done and the six-month-old dog has been limping on a damaged leg ever since. Carrie convinces the couple that the best thing for the dog is to surrender it to the shelter where it will be given medical treatment and placed in a home where it can receive proper care. The two kids, who are living handto-mouth, agree. From here we drive out to Paradise, an ironic name for this area dotted with meth labs, abandoned cars, dilapidated doublewides and WE’RE MAKING A FOLLOW-UP CALL ON A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS KEEPING A DOG LOCKED IN A COLD, DARK SHED FOR WEEKS AT A TIME. CARRIE TELLS ME HE’S HOSTILE AND BELLIGERENT. down a steep, slippery bank. A young couple is living in a tiny battered trailer. How they got it here I don’t know, since they don’t have a car and use the bus to get to town. They missed the late bus back last night, so the dog was stuck alone in the trailer. Carrie does some checking and learns the dog was hit by a car a month earlier and another animal control officer advised the couple to get the VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY garbage-strewn yards. We’re making a follow-up call on a young man who was keeping a dog locked in a cold, dark shed for weeks at a time. He’s been breeding dogs and wanted to keep the female locked away from the eight other dogs inside his tiny house. Carrie tells me he’s hostile and belligerent. “Do you carry a gun?” I ask, hoping the answer is yes. “No,” she answers. “I try to treat Follow-up: The runaway horse’s owner was located and the horse went home. The leg of the injured pup had gone too long without treatment and the dog will never regain its use. Milano's Restaurant 9990 Mt. Baker Highway Glacier, WA Fresh Pasta Dinners & Deli Sandwiches Espresso & Dessert FOOD 38 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FEATURING FILM 26 Celebrating our 20th anniversary FREE 10pc Potstickers with Dinner Purchase expires 7/31/10 GRAND OPENING Vegetarian & Meat options / Soups / Lunch / Dinner / Healthy!! 3092 Northwest / B’ham (across from Yeager’s) • 360 671 6710 Open Monday - Thursday 11a-9p / Friday - Saturday 11a-10:30p DO IT 2 07.14.10 STONE POT KOREAN RESTAURANT MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ENJOY SUMMER IN THE MOUNTAINS ART 20 Open daily from 11:00 a.m. #28.05 Stressing an urgency to respond before transit cuts occur, Pike noted, “If you make cuts in a transportation system, after a year it is really difficult and costly to get people to trust you enough to get back on the bus. They will have found other alternatives. “It’s important,” the mayor added, “that we continue our leadership in providing people options besides driving.” The division of Bellingham City Council on the issue is, in part, a reflection of mixed signals arriving from the WTA executive board, concerned that Bellingham’s efforts might siphon away support for WTA’s own comprehensive revenue planning. The WTA board probably overestimates its own readiness to place a second attempt at a countywide funding in front of voters; and just as likely overestimates the chance such a measure might pass: A countywide levy requires the county’s conservative voters, living in rural areas underserved by transit service, to agree to tax themselves to support levels of service largely invisible to them, basically to agree to pay for something they cannot or will not use. In the current economic climate and widening political divide, we place the chance of that public generosity at zero. “Most of the people in the county don’t use transit,” Pike observed, “and feel justified in their vote. If cuts occur, they will not have missed a thing.” ’hamsters, using the service, support the service. The advantage of a TBD, which municipalities like COB have the authority to create, is it focuses where service will be supplied and collects operating revenues from the visible beneficiaries of the service. WTA might find such a finance tool useful, but lacks authority from the state to create one. Nine years ago, WTA expanded its board to include more representation from Whatcom’s smaller, outlying cities. The effect was that the influence of Bellingham—by the far the largest user and beneficiary of WTA services— became diluted and defocused WTA efforts in urban areas where support (and density metrics) for transit is greatest. The WTA board, recognizing the county’s deadweight, deadbeat drag on urban services, should welcome efforts to keep ridership from collapsing. Instead, illustrating their division, the board frets over (and narrowly rejects) Bellingham’s apparent willingness to pay its own way, believing those efforts imperil WTA’s own chances at a more comprehensive funding package down the road. But maybe scattered contracts are the way through for WTA, for now. Sometimes piecemeal is the only meal. MUSIC 22 Milano’s restaurant & deli THE GRISTLE CASCADIA WEEKLY people with respect, use humor and keep things calm. If none of that works I go get the sheriff.” The guy isn’t there and, happily, the shed is empty. A relentlessly uncommunicative woman answers the door. Her relationship to the dog’s owner is unclear, but it appears there are now only three dogs on the property, which is good, but Carrie tells me she will check back from time to time because the situation is very likely to get bad again. On the way back to Bellingham we stop on Slater Road for a follow-up visit to a man who calls Carrie his hero. His black Labrador was missing during a recent flood, and he found the dog stranded on high ground but couldn’t get to him. When Carrie got the call, she stopped at a store and bought, at her own expense, a small rubber boat. She and the owner were able to paddle out and rescue the dog. Carrie is here with a definite purpose. The pup is sweet and friendly, but Carrie explains that his personality will soon change if he isn’t neutered. “He’ll disappear for long periods,” she explains, “and he’ll become aggressive toward other male dogs.” She gives the owner a flier from WeSNIP, the mobile spay/neuter station. “Since you’re out of work,” she explains, “the service is free. It will be good for your dog—and will keep him from bringing more homeless puppies into the world.” It’s 6pm when we get back to the shelter. We’ve been all over the county, guided sometimes by Carrie’s GPS system that she paid for herself to save hours of time fumbling with maps on rural roads. She hasn’t stopped for a lunch break, preferring to take extra time at each call to educate people on proper animal care. It is a hard, demanding and sometimes dangerous job. There are days when Carrie witnesses unspeakable cruelty, those times when it’s hard to sleep at night because of the horrors she’s seen— most recently it was a man who apparently was starving his ex-girlfriend’s dog to death. This is a job that takes a special kind of person working for a special kind of organization. It’s a job that most of us would not want. Fortunately for us, and for the animals, people like Carrie and the other officers at the Whatcom Humane Society are out on the city streets and county roads caring for the most vulnerable among us. 7 FOOD 38 currents CLASSIFIEDS 31 N E WS › › COM M E N TA RY › › BR I EFS CASCADIA WEEKLY #28.05 07.14.10 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 BY TIM JOHNSON 8 Immigration Nation STATE INITIATIVE FALLS SHORT, BUT E-VERIFY CONTINUES IN WHATCOM COUNTY WASHINGTON WILL not be among those states following the lead of Arizona in considering limits on immigration and immigrant labor—but not for a lack of interest. Failing to gather enough petitions in support of their effort, backers of an initiative that would require state and local agencies to enforce federal immigration laws say they will make another run at getting the measure before voters next year. The initiative, which would have also required all employers to use the federal “E-Verify” system to check their workers’ immigration status, fell far short last week of the 241,153 signatures needed to put the measure before voters. Organizers said they collected only about 30,000 signatures. Sponsors of Initiative 1056, Respect Washington, blamed the low number on a lack of funds. Only $20,000 was raised for the campaign, hardly enough to pay gatherers the average $1 to $2 to gather a signature. “Every single year since 2004 there has been an anti-immigrant initiative filed in the state of Washington. Every single year,” observed Rosalinda Guillen, a Latina activist who advocates on behalf of Washington’s farmworkers and immigrants. “So far they have failed miserably to get anywhere near the signatures needed. But it is the same group of people each year.” After spending seven years with the United Farm Workers union, Guillen started her own nonprofit, Bellingham-based Community to Community Development, to work on social justice issues. All major projects and programs in her organization are led by women. Guillen has been active in protesting efforts by the Minuteman Civil Defence Corps, a selfappointed patrol group that watches for illegal crossings at the Canadian border. “The Minuteman Project is a national group that has established policy groups in each state,” Guillen explained. “This is a group that is not looking at building community, that is not looking at commonsense solutions for local economies, it’s looking at scapegoating one particular group of folks and then using the cover of policy.” The Whatcom chapter of the Minuteman CDC, headquartered at a private range in Whatcom County north of Ferndale, are part of the Arizona-based organization whose volunteers focus on border issues. In May, Minuteman organizers and other supporters urged Whatcom County Council to begin using the E-Verify system for county employees and businesses that contract with the county. The administration agreed to develop a pilot program—in effect, agreeing to abide by I-1056 before the measure was even certified for the ballot. E-Verify compares an employee documents with data from U.S. government records. If the information matches, that employee may be hired to work in the United States. If there’s a mismatch, E-Verify warns the employer. If the mismatch cannot be resolved, the employer must terminate the worker. “The county is not hiring anyone right now, so it’s hard to say just how effective E-Verify will be,” Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen said. The county is developing a one-year pilot project to test the system. “I don’t anticipate the pilot program will be expanded,” Kremen said. Critics of E-Verify say the system is personally invasive and imperfect—a black mark can permanently stain a person’s opportunity for future employment. Meanwhile, E-Verify doesn’t do anything more than can be achieved through the I-9 process already required by the Immigration and Control Reform Act of 1986, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce complained in a recent lawsuit. The national Chamber believes E-Verify requirements unduly burden private companies who contract with local governments. Locally, the Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce & Industry has complained the system appears cumbersome for private companies that work with the government. “This is something that’s being forced upon (the county) and there’s no evidence to back up the accusations that are being made” about numbers of undocumented workers employed by the county or its contractors, Chamber of Commerce President Ken Oplinger told The Bellingham Herald. “That’s sort of a waste of time.” Kremen said the administration had not had enough experience with E-Verify to determine its limitations or effectiveness. He stressed that he does not support programs that target people based upon their ethnicity. His assurance does not satisfy Rosalinda Guillen. “As a Latina in this community, I believe the county’s use of E-Verify is a race-based decision,” she said. IMMIGRATION, CONTINUED ON 37 Join us for our FOOD 38 Blueberry Festival! July 16-18 %OXHEHUU\)DUP0XVLF6DOHV$UWE\%HQ0DQQ %/8(%(55<,&(&5($0IURP0DOODUGV CLASSIFIEDS 31 $QHQWLUHZHHNHQGRIIXQ 6HPLQDUV)UHVK%OXHEHUU\7DVWLQJIURPORFDO:LOOLDPV MUSIC 22 FILM 26 )ULGD\2XU%HUU\3ODQW6DOH%HJLQV SEMINARS ON SATURDAY Blueberry Magic! Saturday, July 17th 10:00am & 2:00pm ART 20 Come discover how easy it is to grow your own yummy blueberries! We’ll show the many different varieties of blueberries best for Whatcom County, soil amendments, and how to plant, prune and fertilize. Grow your own! STAGE 18 Mallard Blueberry Ice Cream, Blueberry Tastings & Live Blues Music on Sunday! GET OUT 16 “Don’t Miss LAVENDER DAYS July 23-25” *'"!& *%& *)##' $'!'('!%!! WORDS 14 &,*$5(77(6602.(/(6672%$&&2 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 86,7 FDUWRQ LOWEST PRICES IN THEmoAst braRndEsA! DO IT 2 Discounted Cigarettes All Major Brands & Generics on 07.14.10 at MAIL 4 6+23 #28.05 EXPRESS DRIVETHRU CASCADIA WEEKLY (!)'#& %!#! "! "!%!$ ! *Price at time of printing. U.S.I.T. Tobacco Shop owned and operated by Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. Limit five cartons/rolls per customer per day. Must have valid ID. Cigarettes are not legal for resale. Prices subject to change. No Returns. Skagit Valley Casino Resort is owned by Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health. CW 9 CASCADIA WEEKLY #28.05 07.14.10 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 10 On June 26, a 32-year-old man stuffed a baseball bat down his pant leg and attempted to lope out of Prostock with the item. He was followed to a nearby trailer park where Bellingham Police contacted him and recovered the stolen item. He was cited and released with a warning not to return to the sporting goods supplier. BLACK LAB TALIBAN On June 17, two black Labradors triggered an international incident. An officer spotted the duo chasing birds in Semiahmoo Bay. The animals’ owner arrived and said that they had escaped by pushing out a window screen at his house. Officers tried to help him retrieve the retrievers, but they eluded capture and ran north into Canada. The owner remained in the area to await their return. On June 28, a Blaine Police officer again observed two black labs running at-large. “One of them added insult to misdemeanor by messing in a homeowner’s yard as the officer was calling to them,” police reported. “The pair had been running free several days earlier and their owner had already received a warning. He was recontacted and advised that a report was being forwarded to Animal Control and the prosecutor for citation.” FRACTURED FAIRY TALES On June 25, a Blaine resident reported hearing several people in an apartment parking lot shortly before midnight yelling and screaming. The resident told police this is an ongoing problem. Police contacted a group of people sitting outside of the building the caller identified. ”They said they started to yell and scream because a large spider scared them,” police reported. “Spiders don’t have ears, and officers advised the group to have a little respect for all their neighbors who did.” On June 27, Blaine Police spoke to a distraught woman observed crying in a car parked along the street. “She explained that she had just left a birthday party at a relative’s home,” police reported. ”For some reason, her sister had taken offense at her dressing up as a fairy godmother for the celebration, and an argument had erupted.” Police observed, “It wasn’t as good as waving a magic wand, but the lady talked things out with the officer for a bit, then left for home.” McGuiness Larsen Koster Kalb UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON Rossi Murray Mercer NOT HIRED BY WALL STREET On July 2, Border Patrol agents at the remote and sleepy Laurier crossing in the Okanagon were roused when their pup discovered 300 pounds of highgrade marijuana concealed within a commercial load of woodchips. Agent “Diesel” gave a positive alert to the presence of a narcotic odor in five crates stuffed with 255 plastic bags of B.C. Bud, a highly potent form of marijuana cultivated in British Columbia. B.C. Bud can sell for $3,500-$6,000 a pound in the United States. With more than 21,860 metric tons of marijuana reported to be entering the country each year, according to high estimates of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Diesel’s haul amounts to little more than a rounding error. Didier On July 2, a man complained to Bellingham Police that he’d sent money out of the country to claim a cash prize. “He has not collected any prize money to date,” police said. HIGH-OCTANE BIOMASS FOR DIESEL Burr On June 14, a woman contacted Blaine Police to report she’d sent $1,500 and information about her financial accounts and personal identity to a post office box in Arizona after a company representative there claimed he would help her settle some debts. “Once the crook got the money and ID information, he disappeared,” police reported. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 2ND DISTRICT Carmack On July 2, a woman slipped a counterfeit $100 bill past busy employees at a Meridian Street business, using what Bellingham Police termed a “quick change” tactic. The bogus bill, police reported, is a very poor counterfeit. On July 3, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Blaine apprehended a Salvadorian who was wanted in Dallas, Texas for allegedly assaulting a family member. CBP officers discovered his warrant when he presented a counterfeit “green card” for identification, a temporary permit to reside in the United States. The 45-year-old national claimed to have been visiting his sister in British Columbia and was returning to his residence in Texas. Officers sped him on his way, sending him to jail, where he awaits extradition by Dallas law enforcement. APPROVAL FUTURE WALL STREET EXECUTIVES TEXAS HOLD ’EM APPROVAL FUZZ BUZZ Akers WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FOOD 38 hamsterindex More than 400 people listened to congressional candidates at the Bellingham Tea Party’s town hall forum last week. The audience was asked to rate the candidates on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being most-favorable. Sen. Patty Murray and challenger Dino Rossi did not attend. |xx}~~| ONE in five Americans is lazy, worthless or a drug addict, based upon the rhetoric of Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who thunder the unemployment rate is primarily due to those causes. National statistics on the underemployed—including those who chronically cannot gain full-time employment—topped 22 percent last month. x { PERCENT of Americans who thought torture PERCENT of Americans who continued was a poor idea throughout 2001-2008 (aggregate of 26 polls). to oppose torture after Barack Obama announced he would continue Bush administration policies regarding torture (aggregate of six polls). z NUMBER of people killed at a train crossing in Washington last week. Eight have been killed this year. An average of 18 people die each year, nationally, from train collisions. SOURCES: Bellingham Tea Party; Associated Press; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2010 Proceedings of the American Political Science Association; Burlington Northern Santa Fe lettuce eat a vegetarian drive thru burgers, sandwiches, bagels, pitas, soups, salads, kid’s menu - all with gluten free and vegan options MUSIC 22 FILM 26 LLC MUSE FOOD 38 C Y A W ON CLASSIFIEDS 31 THE STAGE 18 GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CURRENTS 8 VIEWS 6 MAIL 4 DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 CASCADIA WEEKLY 0IJP4U#FMMJOHIBNtt0QFO.PO4BUBNQN ART 20 Come try our sweet potato black bean burrito! 11 The W FOOD 38 CLASSIFIEDS 31 LAST WEEK’S NEWS JUNE08-JULY12 CASCADIA WEEKLY #28.05 07.14.10 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 BY TIM JOHNSON 12 Wa at s t k h e e 07..10 THURSDAY After weeks of unseasonably chilly weather, summer arrives with a roar. The National Weather Service reports record highs in Bellingham and other Puget Sound area cities. Today’s temperature of 88 degrees in the Subdued City broke a record that’s been intact since 1952. While the state’s taxable retail sales plummeted to $22.6 billion in the first quarter of this year, sales in Whatcom County apparently bucked the trend. State revenues were 2.9 percent lower than the same period last year; Whatcom County’s taxable retail sales were up 1.2 percent over the same period. The federal Food and Drug Administration may be a step nearer to granting market approval for an aggressive, quick-growing Atlantic salmon that’s been genetically modified with Pacific Chinook salmon DNA. The salmon would be the first transgenic animal headed for the dinner table, but biologists warn the escape of these “frankenfish” from aquaculture pens could decimate wild stocks. Estimates say between 400,000 and 1 million Atlantic salmon have already done so in British Columbia. A Purdue University study alleges if 60 transgenic fish bred in a population of 60,000 native fish, the wild fish would be extinct in 40 generations. 07.xy.10 MONDAY 07..10 FRIDAY Gunfire erupts at the Blaine border after a man rams a barricade in an attempt to elude Customs and Border Protection officers. Officers approached the man in the frequent traveler lane at the Peace Arch border crossing, but he refused to turn off his engine and was evasive in answering questions. The man suddenly stepped on the accelerator and rammed through the gate, swerved around other traffic but crashed into a barricade. The customs officer fired two shots as the van drove off. The man was unwounded and fled, but was later spotted by a Border Patrol helicopter and arrested by agents. Plans to ship Hawaiian garbage into Washington state waters encounter another delay. Officials with Hawaiian Waste Systems LLC were expecting to have several containers of city garbage shipped off to a Washington landfill, but final approval fails to arrive from the federal government. Approval will arrive Monday. Shift your auto loan to WECU® and we'll give you Apply in person or online at www.wecu.com om Offer applies to auto loans not already financed through WECU®. Minimum balance to refinance is $5000. Subject to credit approval. Rate and terms based on credit history. Extended through 9/30/10 A divided Bellingham City Council narrowly approves the creation of a new special purpose taxing district to help support alternative transportation efforts. Now, will they agree to collect taxes? A gray whale given a second chance at life strands itself again off the shores of Everett. More than a dozen volunteers kept the whale wet with buckets of water and protected its sensitive skin with wet towels for hours on Thursday until the tide rose and the the 40-foot whale was able to swim out to open water. Today, those volunteers discover with dismay the whale was again beached about a quarter of a mile west. Marine experts say whales that are sick seek the shores. The whale is unlikely to survive a second beaching. The Washington State Supreme Court agrees to hear a dispute between elected officials. The state Attorney General’s Office has refused to defend the Department of Natural Resources in the appeal of a right-of-way case in Okanogan County. The county Public Utility District won a lower-court decision allowing it to run power lines across state trust land DNR manages. The AGO is the law firm for state agencies in official matters. The head of DNR, a Democrat, requested the appeal. The AG, a Republican, says the appeal is without merit. Can you survive a divorce? Let me help you. Attorney Lauren E. Trent Divorce / Dissolution of Marriage • Child Custody • Parenting Plans • Support Orders – Protection Orders The Lustick Law Firm Bellingham – Mount Vernon (360) 685-4221 www.Lustick.com FOOD 38 currents ›› news FILM 26 MUSIC 22 ART 20 STAGE 18 GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CURRENTS 8 VIEWS 6 MAIL 4 DO IT 2 07.14.10 FOR TWO years, he stayed a barefoot step ahead of the law—stealing cars, powerboats and even airplanes, police say—while building a reputation as a 21st-century folk hero, never physically harming anyone in his banditry. On Sunday, Colton Harris-Moore’s celebrity became his downfall. The American teenager pleaded guilty Tuesday to minor offenses in the Bahamas. He expects to be deported soon to face prosecution for a string of break-ins and plane thefts across the United States. Witnesses in the Bahamas recognized the 19-year-old dubbed the “Barefoot Bandit” and called police, who captured him after a high-speed boat chase, Bahamas Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said at a news conference in Nassau, capital of the island cluster. Greenslade said shots were fired during the water chase but he did not say who fired them. He also said Harris-Moore was carrying a handgun that he tried to throw away. Captured, his feet bare as they reportedly often were in the commission of his lengthy string of crimes, the 6-foot-5 Harris-Moore was led away, his legendary bare feet shackled at the ankles. Another senior police official said police fired to disable the motor on the suspect’s stolen boat, and that HarrisMoore threw his gun in the water. The official, who spoke on condition of ano- nymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case, also said that police recovered a laptop and a GPS locator the suspect had tossed overboard. Residents and law enforcement officials in another chain of islands— the San Juans, Camano, and Whidbey islands—breathed sighs of relief, both that the youth had been captured and that he’d been captured unharmed. Few were more relieved than San Juan County Sheriff Bill Cumming, who has played cat-and-mouse for years as the teen bandit seemingly burglarized with impunity in his jurisdiction. “The bottom line is that our citizens can rest easier in the knowledge they will not be further victimized by HarrisMoore,” Cumming said. The resourceful youth allegeldy stole more than $3 million in property. Cumming and other law enforcement officials watched with fascination as crime patterns matching those of Harris-Moore unfolded across the country, like footprints indicating the route of the Barefoot Bandit moving east into the Midwest. Planes would go missing and turn up in odd places, cars would be stolen in those places and turn up in neighborhoods, neighborhoods then flooded with incidents of break-ins and (mostly) petty theft. In late June, two years after he escaped from a juvenile detention center, the teen was suspected of vehicle thefts stretching as far east as Illinois. The trail of suspected thefts passed through Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. In early July, a Cessna 400 singleengine plane was reported stolen from the Bloomington, Indiana airport. The plane was later found crashed near the shoreline waters of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas with no pilot inside—a well-documented end to many of Colton’s alleged plane thefts—leading to speculation that the youth, with no formal flight training, was responsible. Shortly afterward, a pattern of break-ins was reported across the islands, leading the Royal Bahamas Police Force to issue a manhunt for the teenager. Associated Press provided material for this report. #28.05 ELUSIVE TEEN CAPTURED IN THE BAHAMAS CASCADIA WEEKLY Barefoot and Red-handed CLASSIFIEDS 31 BY TIM JOHNSON 13 FOOD 38 words CLASSIFIEDS 31 COM M U N I T Y ›› L E CT U R E S BOOK S doit WOR DS WED., JULY 14 WRITER’S THEATER: The monthly Chuckanut Sandstone Writer’s Theater begins at 7pm at the Firehouse PAC’s Café, 1314 Harris Ave. Everybody is welcome. i 734-2776 DEBUT COLLEC T ION: Suzanne Rivecca reads from her debut short story collection, Death is Not an Option, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. FILM 26 i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM THURS., JULY 15 CASCADIA WEEKLY #28.05 07.14.10 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC 22 HEART OF LIES: ML Malcolm reads from Heart of Lies at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. 14 BY AMY KEPFERLE Work Song MORRIE AND THE MINERS HISTORY HOLDS a world of intrigue for acclaimed author Ivan Doig, but that doesn’t mean he wants to pack up and move back in time for the rest of his natural life. Still, Doig says, he wouldn’t mind sneaking a peek for short periods to witness events like he writes about in his new novel, Work Song, which recreates the popular character of Morrie Morris—who was last seen making a dramatic exit from a one-room Montana schoolhouse in the final pages of a previous novel, The Whistling Season. The new tome finds Morrie back in the state a decade later in 1919, ready to seek his fortune in Butte, then the copper mining capital of the world. But, as is to be expected with any novel that needs a captivating plot to keep readers turning the pages, he runs into a few problems along the way. For those who aren’t aware of Morrie’s character traits, it must be said that sometimes the former schoolteacher and wrestling manager—who spent time in the previous novel pretending his girlfriend was his sister—is a smidgen too smart for his own good. In this case, his brains first land him a job at the surprisingly opulent Butte Library and then cause mining union leaders to seek him out for help on a variety of fronts. Among the other characters Morrie meets along the way—a lovely widow named Grace, an eclectic duo of retired Welsh miners, a former student from his schoolhouse days and hulking thugs are among them—the true aggressor in the book isn’t even a person, but Anaconda, the longtime mining company that seemed in many ways to be (at least when it was operating in the early 1900s) evil incarnate. “Anaconda, back in that period, was almost a stage villain in ATTEND WHAT: Ivan Doig reads the way the company from Work Song treated the miners, and WHEN: 7pm Tues, July Butte itself,” Doig says. 20 “It had such a cast of WHERE: Village Books, characters: A leading 1200 11th St. COST: Entry is free financier from Standard INFO: 671-2626 or Oil was involved, the www.villagebooks.com company goons were involved. The Montana National Guard occupied Butte at the bidding of the mine owners six times in six years during the strike agitations in 1914-1920. It was like what Theodore Roosevelt, not all that much earlier, had called 'malefactors of great wealth.’ ” For further proof of Anaconda’s many transgressions, Doig points to the 1917 Speculator Disaster—which killed 168 men and injured many others—and, that same year, the lynching of labor leader Frank Little, who was hung from a railroad trestle a month after arriving in Butte and was found with a note pinned to his chest that read “First and last warning.” Because of Doig’s canny ability to merge historical facts with sublime storytelling, Work Song doesn’t feel like proselytizing, but instead storytelling that manages to educate readers along the way. You’ll probably learn a lot about what was going on in the copper mines of Butte more than 90 years ago, but you’ll also get caught up in the stories of Morrie, the miners and the rest of the people who populate the tale. When asked if readers will see Morrie again, the author says chances are good. “Like Morrie, I never say never.” i 671-2626 FRI., JULY 16 FAMILY STORY NIGHT: Members of the Bellingham Storytellers Guild will tell tales at Family Story Night at 7pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. The reading is free. i 778-7188 WAYS OF THE RIVER: Find out what it means to live, love, work and play in the Pacific Northwest when Robin Cody reads from his nonfiction collection, Another Way the River Has, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. i WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM JULY 16-17 BOOK SALE #1: A Library Friends Book Sale takes place from 10am-5pm Fri.-Sat. at the Lynden Public Library, 216 4th St. Starting at 4pm Saturday, you can pick up a bag of books for $2. i 354-4884 SAT., JULY 17 BOOK SALE #2: Attend a Book (and Stuff) Sale from 9am-2pm at the Sudden Valley Community Center’s Flea Market. i 318-3699 STEVE MART INI: Bestselling author Steve Martini reads from and signs his latest thriller, The Rule of Nine, at 3pm at Barnes & Noble, 4099 Meridian St. i 647-7018 MON., JULY 19 CRYING TREE: Naseem Rakha reads from The Crying Tree: A Novel at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. i 671-2626 POE TRYNIGHT: Through July, read your original verse at poetrynight at 8:30pm every Monday at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start at 8pm. i WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG WED., JULY 21 GARDEN STORIES: “Once Upon a Time in the Garden” will be the theme of an hour of tales by nationally known storyteller Rosemary Vohs at 7pm at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead Park. The event is free and open to the whole family. i 676-6736 COM M U N I T Y WED., JULY 14 FAIRHAVEN MARKE T: The Wednesday Farmers Market is open from 12-5pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The midweek market continues through September. i 647-2060 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG WWW.AQUACARE.COM SAT., JULY 17 384-3042 647-2060 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG i 778-7323 FLEA MARKE T: A Community Flea Market occurs from 9am-2pm at the Sudden Valley Community Center, located in Gate 2. Space is still available for vendors. i 734-6430 OR WWW.SUDDENVALLEY.COM JULY 17-18 DISCOVERY DAYS: A grand parade, an arts and crafts fair, food, kite flying, wakeboarding and more will be part of the 31st annual Birch Bay Discovery Days throughout the coastal town. i WWW.BIRCHBAYCHAMBER.ORG SUN., JULY 18 VINE YARD VE T TES: Carpenter Creek Winery and the Bellingham Corvette Club will host “Vettes in the Vineyard” from 12-4pm at the Mount Vernon winery, 20376 E. Hickox Rd. Bring a picnic lunch, and visit the tasting room. i WWW.CARPENTERCREEK.COM PRAYERS FOR PEACE: All religions are welcome to show up for a Prayer Vigil for Peace in the Middle East at 5:30pm at the First Congregational Church of Christ, 2401 Cornwall Ave. i 734-3720 MON., JULY 19 ROCK S, GEMS: See what the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club is all about at the group’s monthly meeting at the Bloedel Donovan Community Building, 2214 Electric Ave. i 739-0769 Friday, Saturday, Sunday July 16th, 17th, 18th The San Juan The Mt. Baker CURRENTS 8 WWW.HERITAGEFLIGHT.ORG WONDERS OF WHATCOM: As part of a new “Wonders of Whatcom” series, show up for a free slide presentation on “Early Bellingham House Styles” at 1:30pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Each road-ready box includes: Hand-cut and wrapped cheese, a coordinating cheese condiment, a spreader, a Breadfarm demi-baguette, fresh fruit, napkins, and a sweet taste of chocolate. The Chuckanut Anacortes Earth, Karl Blau, Mount Eerie, Kimya Dawson, Calvin Johnson, Ô Paon, Lloyd & Michael, Andrew Comedy Comedy, Vanessa Renwick, Stella Marrs Clyde Petersen, Harry Smith, LAKE, Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa, Broken Water, Matthew Stadler, D+, Cumulus, Birthday Present, The Hive Dwellers, Chestnut Collection, Motorbikes, Gift Machine, Bryan, Frank & Bob, NK, Lori Goldston, Caulfield & His Magical Violin, Nicholas Wilbur, The Drink Up Honey, Angelo Spencer & Les Hauts Sommets, Key Losers, Ropin’ The Wind, and more. for details and tickets visit www.whattheheckfest.com VIEWS 6 i Grab it & go-go! GET OUT 16 $20 | three menus WORDS 14 WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM ( "&%#! %#** *( ')+($) MAIL 4 i FLY DAY: As part of the monthly Fly Day, from 12-4pm drop by Bellingham’s Heritage Flight Museum,4165 Mitchell Way, to see vintage military aircraft take to the skies. Suggested donation is $5. Choose from our three selections: STAGE 18 [email protected] BLAINE MARKE T: Local vendors will sell their wares at the Blaine Gardeners Market from 10am-2pm at H Street Plaza. The weekly event continues Saturdays through Oct. 9. Rhododendron Cafe :RUOG)DUHa/RFDO)ODLU Serving Handmade Local Ingredients for 26 Years! ~ Island Cooking ~ Caribbean Gumbo Pescado Esmeralda Port Antonio Beef Steak Jerked Chicken ~ Brunch Every Saturday & Sunday ~ For Info & Weekly Specials, go to www.rhodycafe.com 360-766-6667 5521 Chuckanut Drive at the Edison Junction DO IT 2 i ART 20 LUMMI MARKE T: The Lummi Island Farmers Market occurs from 10am-1pm every Saturday through the summer next to the Islander grocery store. 07.14.10 i MUSIC 22 BELLINGHAM MARKE T: Purchase and peruse local fruit and veggies and artistic offerings at the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street. #28.05 i FILM 26 FERNDALE MARKE T: Attend the Ferndale Farmers Market from 10am-1pm at Centennial Riverwalk Park. The market continues every Saturday through Oct. 9. CASCADIA WEEKLY i Ribs, Veggie Burgers, & Brat BBQ in Patio at 5pm Laura Overstreet, country blues at 5:30pm The Groove Patrol, world/jazz/blues at 8:30pm FOOD 38 SOLAR TALK: The Bellingham chapter of Solar Washington meets at 7pm at the RE Store, 2309 Meridian St. “Living Machines”—which focuses on ecologically based wastewater treatment and recycling—will be the topic of the gathering. Join us for our 2nd Anniversary Party July 17! CLASSIFIEDS 31 doit 15 FOOD 38 getout CLASSIFIEDS 31 H I K I NG ›› RU N N I NG ›› C YCL I NG doit WED., JULY 14 WORK PART Y: Join Bellingham Parks & Rec for a work party from 6:30-8:30pm at Squalicum Creek Park. i SAT., JULY 17 SAFE SEA K AYAKING: A “Safe Sea Kayaking in the PNW” seminar and outing happens from 1-5pm at the Community Boating Center, 555 Harris Ave. The class is free, but pre-registration is a must. STORY AND PHOTO BY AMY KEPFERLE Bellingham by Boat i i STAGE 18 GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CURRENTS 8 VIEWS 6 WWW.PADILLABAY.GOV WORKBOAT RACES: The 2nd annual Anacortes Workboat Races happen from 4-8pm starting from the Anacortes Port Dock and continuing into Guemes Channel. LEAVING HISTORY IN ITS WAKE MAIL 4 DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 CASCADIA WEEKLY 16 WWW.SAILPADDLEROW.ORG BEACH SEINE PROGRAM: A 1pm “Beach Seine Program” begins at 1pm at Bayview State Park beach. Entry is free, and registration is not required. ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 i EVERY THURSDAY, when the Island Caper is set loose from its moorage at Bellingham’s Squalicum Harbor, it travels a whole lot further than the three or so miles of shoreline it routinely traverses as part of the Whatcom Museum’s weekly Summer History Cruise. While the voyage isn’t far in terms of geographical distance, the length of the seafaring journey is multiplied exponentially by the 150 years of knowledge crammed into the sunset cruise. Last Thursday, as the thermometer nudged its way up to a record-breaking day of heat, my dad and I took our places on the upper deck of the 110-foot-long craft. Before long, as tour guide Brian Griffin—skillfully picking up the reins where longtime Whatcom Museum historian Richard Vanderway left off after 22 years at the helm—shared his intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of Bellingham’s waterfront, we were caught up in tales of the past, present and possible future of the place we call home. Although I’ve been on the museum’s educational cruise in summers past, it never ceases to amaze me how different Bellingham looks when you’re on the water, or how interesting it really is. For instance, we discovered that, once upon a time, when runs were plentiful, king salmon could be had for as little as 25 cents—that’s for a full 778-7105 fish, folks. Griffin also pointed out the Zuanich Point Park memorial (an ode to the 66 fisher-folks who’ve been lost at sea) and explained who and what was behind the Blue Canyon Coal Company and the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Company. But that was just the beginning. I’ll leave the bulk of knowledge for you to discover on your own, but factoids that stood out for me included these: More than a billion pounds of product are housed at Bellingham Cold Storage each year. ATTEND The long Horizon WHAT: Whatcom Lines freighter Museum Summer History Cruises moored near the WHEN: 6-9pm former Georgia Paevery Thursday cific plant ponies through Aug. 19 up $1,400 each day WHERE: The Island it’s there. Even on Caper leaves from a hot day, seals get Squalicum Harbor COST: $30-$35 cold. The Chrysalis INFO: 778-8963 or Spa was built on the www.whatcom mouth of a former museum.org coal mine. There’s been a shipyard in Fairhaven since 1912. I also learned that, when it’s a scorching day in the Pacific Northwest, sometimes the moon comes out before the sun sets—in this case, via a trio of young fellas who dropped trou as we edged further away from Bellingham proper into the forested wonderland that precedes Chuckanut Bay. I can’t promise you’ll see skin when you set out on your own adventure, but if you keep your eyes open and listen carefully to Griffin’s sonorous spiel, you’re bound to find out a vast number of things you didn’t know about your own backyard. WWW.GOSKAGIT.COM ROLLER BE T T IES: Show up for “Battle Royale”—the final bout of the season for the Bellingham Roller Betties—at 5pm at Whatcom Community College’s Pavilion Gym. Tickets are $6-$12. i WWW.BELLINGHAMROLLERBETTIES.COM LADIES NIGHT OUT: Join naturalists from Wild Whatcom Walks for a “Ladies Night Out” moonlit excursion from 8-10pm beginning at Whatcom Falls Park. Cost is $7 per woman, and registration is required. i 393-7827 JULY 17-18 LAVENDER FEST: Experience all things purple and fragrant at the 9th annual San Juan Island Lavender Harvest Festival happening Sat.-Sun. at Pelindaba Lavender Farm. i WWW.PELINDABALALAVENDER.COM SUN., JULY 18 GARDEN TOUR #1: The 7th annual Relay for Life Garden Tour takes place from 10am-5pm at six unique Whatcom County gardens. Tickets are $10; proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. i 676-9829 GARDEN TOUR #2: The 11th annual Point Roberts Garden Tour will feature 10 unique gardens in Point Roberts. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer questions. Tickets for the self-guided tour are $15. i WWW.POINTROBERTSGARDENCLUB.ORG CELEBRIT Y GOLF CLASSIC: As part of a weekend of fundraising for the Burned Children Recovery Foundation, sign up for 18 holes of golf with a celebrity as part of the Ryan Stiles Golf Classic starting at 1pm at the Bellingham Golf & Country Club, 3729 Meridian St. i WWW.RYANSTILESGOLFCLASSIC.COM PADDEN MTN PEDAL: The off-road bike race known as the 18th annual Padden Mtn Pedal begins at 10am at the Lake Padden Recreation Area. Entry is $15-$30. i WWW.INDIESERIES.COM MON., JULY 19 VOLK SWALK: Hook up with the NW Tulip Trekkers for a VolksWalk starting at 6pm at La Conner’s Potlatch RV Park. i WWW.NWTREKKERS.ORG WED., JULY 21 WORK PART Y: Meet up from 6:30-8:30pm for a work party along the Padden Creek wildlife corridor. i 778-7105 Ockham’s Razor Sponsored by: Summer Concerts Wednesdays July 14-August 11 5:00-9:00pm FREE! all ages! bring the family! with Giants’ Causeway Sponsored by Eldridge Gravy & the Court Supreme w/ The Tea Seas Big Band August 4 Latin Expression w/ Umami August 11 The New Iberians w/ The Sunshine Bumpers Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Volunteer Sponsor: Appliance Depot Volunteer Sponsor: Kulshan Community Land Trust Meet us on Bay St. between Holly St. & W. Champion St. DowntownBellingham.com Sponsored by: c a s c a d i a Amjay Screen Printing - Bellingham Chamber of Commerce - Haggen - Hardware Sales - Home Depot - Kulshan Cycles Sandwich Odyssey - Street Smart Promos - WECU FOOD 38 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FILM 26 MUSIC 22 CURRENTS 8 July 28 VIEWS 6 July 15 21 July P R E S E N T S MAIL 4 P A R T N E R S H I P DO IT 2 B E L L I N G H A M 07.14.10 D O W N T O W N ART 20 #28.05 Pick up a copy each Wednesday for our Art & Event Listings STAGE 18 GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CASCADIA WEEKLY WE SUPPORT THE ARTS 17 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FOOD 38 stage T H E AT ER ›› DA NC E ›› PROF I L ES FILM 26 MUSIC 22 ART 20 STAGE 18 PHOTO BY HUNTER MOT TO GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CURRENTS 8 i i BY AMY KEPFERLE Ruff Stuff MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 INTRO TO IMPROV: A free introductory improv class for adults begins at 7pm at 302 W. Illinois St. Sheila Goldsmith will lead the way. 756-0756 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 WED., JULY 14 SUMMER REPERTORY: Neil Simon’s coming-of-age comedy, Lost in Yonkers, shows as part of the Summer Repertory at the MBT’s Walton Theatre. The production plays in repertory with Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Sylvia at various dates through Aug. 1. Tickets are $10 for students, $20 general. ARE DOGS deep thinkers? Judging by the insights gleaned from the CASCADIA WEEKLY STAGE JULY 14-22 CANINE COMEDY SHINES AT SUMMER REP 18 doit dialogue in A.R. Gurney’s play, Sylvia, the answer is: Not so much. On the other hand, the lack of philosophical inquiry from members of the canine species isn’t really missed once the production gets going. Because while it’s true the eponymous character is just a dog with base instincts— eat, sleep, run, sneak on the couch, rut—the interaction between her and her human owners is rife with hilarity. Sylvia, which shows alongside Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Neil Simons’ Lost in Yonkers on various dates through Aug. 1, is the clearly comedic element of the fourth Summer Repertory Series at the Mount Baker’s Walton Theatre. All three plays are directed by award-winning WWU Theatre Arts professor Mark Kuntz, who, each year, gathers a mix of professional and community actors together to produce high-quality theatrical fare for the masses. The premise for Sylvia is straightforward: A middle-aged man named Greg who’s dissatisfied with his job and his life finds a dog in Central Park one day. She’s got a nametag, but there’s no contact info, so he takes her home. His busy wife, Kate, is not pleased, and declares she’s already raised kids and pets and that phase of her life is over. After a spirited argument, Kate agrees Sylvia can stay “for a few days.” As those handful of days turn into weeks, Greg becomes increasingly infatu- ated with the bundle of fur while becoming less and less interested in his job and, as it turns out, his wife. It’s clear a showdown is in the works. Have I mentioned yet that the character of Sylvia—played with unerring wit and rambunctious, romping energy by Western theater major Andrea Nelson—can talk? Well, she can, and she’s not afraid to speak her mind. Whether she’s declaring her expansive affection for Greg (“Even when you hit me, I love you”), cursing out a cat that crosses her path (“I’d like to chase you up a tree, you cocksucker!”) or handing out a warning to her owners (“I’m getting nervous; I might bite”), you can’t wait to hear what she says next. And, because disbelief is already suspended to allow for a dog that walks and talks, Greg (Justin O’Brien) and Kate (Heather Dudenbostel) can talk back—which makes for some interesting living-room conversations. Even though Sylvia stays true to its comedic roots throughout, the heart of the tale focuses on what happens when a husband and wife are no longer on the same page concerning their SEE IT life’s paths—and the deWHAT: Summer Repertory featuring cisions they must make Sylvia, Lost in Yonthat will cause them to kers, and The Glass either grow closer or rip Menagerie them farther asunder. WHEN: Through Will Kate give in to Aug. 1 WHERE: Mount Baker her jealously of the dog Theatre’s Walton or soften up and allow Theatre, 104 N. ComSylvia to remain a part mercial St. of the family? Will Sylvia COST: $10-$20 consummate her passion INFO: 734-6080 or www.mount for a four-legged felbakertheatre.com low named Bowser? Will Greg figure out what in the heck he’s going to do with the rest of his life? You’ll have to purchase a ticket to find out but, considering you’ll be laughing for the better part of two hours, it’ll be worth it. Although dogs are cute and talking dogs are even cuter, you might want to leave the kids at home for this one, as there’s an ample amount of canine cursing and sexual references. THURS., JULY 15 GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $5 for the early show, $3 for the late one. i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM JULY 15-SEPT. 30 BARD ON THE BEACH: Head to Vancouver, B.C.’s Vanier Park for the 21st season of Bard on the Beach. Much Ado About Nothing opens the season, and will be followed by Antony and Cleopatra, Falstaff, and Henry V. Tickets are $19-$38 (Canadian). i WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG FRI., JULY 16 WHOSE LINE?: Ryan Stiles, Chip Esten, Jeff Davis, and Greg Proops from Whose Line is it Anyway? will take the stage at 8pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets to the show are sold out—which is a good thing, as 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Burned Children Recovery Foundation— but there’s rumor of a few left on Craigslist. i 734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM JULY 16-17 HELLINGHAM: As part of a month of performances featuring homegrown forms of improv, show up for “Hellingham” offerings at 9pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. There, you’ll see improvisers facing life-or-death situations as a killer runs amuck in the once-sleepy town of Hellingham. Tickets are $8-$10. i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM SAT., JULY 17 THINGS THAT FLY: WWU’s Department of Theatre Arts presents Things That Fly at 2pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The free performance—which can also be seen July 24 as well as Saturdays in August—tells the story of siblings who attempt to build a flying machine in their backyard. i 650-3876 OR WWW.WWU.EDU/THEATRE JULY 17-18 SHAKESPEARE IN FERNDALE: Shakespeare Northwest performs The Two Gentlemen of Verona—the comedy that’s believed by many to the Bard’s first play—at 4pm Sat. JULY 19-23 IMPROV FOR KIDS: Youngsters can learn the fundamentals of improvisation at a weeklong camp happening from 9am12pm (for those 7 to 10) and 1-4pm (11 to 14-year-olds) July 19-23 at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Sign up now. i 733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM JULY 19-30 CHILDREN’S CAMP: Kids can head outdoors for the second iteration of the Bellingham Children’s Theatre’s Summer Camp, which happens July 19-30 at a variety of Bellingham parks. During the two-week event, they’ll put together two original plays. Cost is $245, and scholarships are available. i 734-9999 OR [email protected] WED., JULY 21 TAMING OF THE SHREW: The Skagit River Shakespeare Festival opens The Taming of the Shrew at 8pm at Whatcom Community College’s Syre Black Box Theatre. Tickets are $8-$12 and additional showings happen at WCC and the Skagit Valley College’s Phillip Tarro Theatre through Aug. 14. i (360) 201-6893 OR WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG THURS., JULY 22 $1.00 OFF ALL PURCHASES OVER $.00 COUPON MUST BE PRESENTED AT TIME OF PURCHASE. FOOD 38 CLASSIFIEDS 31 1530 Cornwall avenue, Bellingham Oyster Bar now open From 5:00 p.m., Tues.- Sat. Fresh Local Oysters - Light Menu - Cocktails Downtown Sounds Wednesdays 5-9 July 14: Spoonshine with Pete Farmer Hours: Tues.- Thurs. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fri. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. / ! DO IT 2 ! 650-6146 SAT., JULY 17 JIVE IN JULY: USA Dance Bellingham will host a “Jive in July” dance from 8-10:45pm at the Blue Moon Ballroom, 1213 Cornwall Ave. An East Coast swing lesson will start off the action. Entry is $7-$10. 734-5676 TUES., JULY 20 DANCING IN THE PARK: The Bellingham Scottish Country Dancers will host “Dancing in the Park” from 7-9pm at the Elizabeth Park gazebo. The event—which will happen every Tuesday through Aug. 10—is family-friendly. Donations are appreciated. i FILM 26 (Flea Market - Saturdays & Sundays only) SALADS, & SANDWICHES. DA NCE i Makizushi - sushi, teriyaki, party trays TRY OUR NEW SOUPS, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: The WWU Department of Theatre Arts presents Disney’s High School Musical starting tonight at 7:30pm at the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $8-$12 and additional showings happen through Aug. 8. i Panini Grill & Deli - paninis, soups, salads MUSIC 22 WWW.FAIRHAVENPUB.COM Juice It - fresh juice, smoothies, lunch items ART 20 i Stuart's at the Market - espresso, teas, desserts STAGE 18 COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly Comedy Night happens at 8pm every Sunday at the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, 1114 Harris Ave. 111 W. HOLLY ST. BELLINGHAM 11 Seven Loaves Pizzeria - pizza, salads, grinders GET OUT 16 SUN., JULY 18 Living Earth Herbs - medicinal herbs & organic bodycare 933-1779 WORDS 14 WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM LA VIE EN ROSE BAKERY CURRENTS 8 i Bargainica - discount natural foods VIEWS 6 FULL MONT Y AUDIT IONS: Audition for fall performances of The Full Monty! from 12-3pm Sat. and 5-8pm Sun. at the Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. Terra Organica - health food & grocery store COME BACK TO MAIL 4 WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG merchants 360.676.7117 3360. 360 36 6600 676 6676. 67 7766 71 711 77117 1117 1117 17 · BBellingham, eellllli elli lliling nggh ngh ngha gha ham, W ha WAA www.SBTBellingham.com ww www w w ww. ww w SSBTB SBBT SBT BTB BTTBBBelli eelllllllilliinngh elli el ngha ng ghha ggha ham.co ccom Northern N th Li Lights ht hs 07.14.10 i Everyday Our #28.05 at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead Park and 2pm Sun. at Whatcom Community College. Admission is by donation and additional showings happen at various venues through Aug. 15. EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN! CASCADIA WEEKLY doit GARDENING 19 1300 Bay St. 360.752.2968 (75.BAYOU) www.bayouonbay.com .$*)%$*) ,''$*$&+#)-(")' --- FOOD 38 visual THURS., JULY 15 CURATOR TALK: Museum of Northwest Art curators Kathleen Moles and Lisa Young will lead informal walkthroughs of the new exhibits at 1:30pm at the La Conner space. i BY AMY KEPFERLE Sunnyland Stomp i STAGE 18 ERICA CHARBONNEAU GET OUT 16 WORDS 14 CURRENTS 8 VIEWS 6 EDLEN SIDDLE MAIL 4 MY BACKYARD is better known than I am. In its lush environs, I’ve hosted gatherings having to do with everything from birthdays to theatrical forays. It’s been home base for a scavenger hunt. I’ve also used a corner of it to burn an ex-boyfriend’s love letters under a full moon, lent it to a few filmmakers here and there and thrown many a karaoke contest over by my plum tree. One thing my backyard hasn’t yet been transformed into is an art space. But the Sunnyland Stomp has me seriously thinking about gathering the many creative folks I know together for an exhibit that would combine the sultry warmth of the Pacific Northwest summers with the raw talent of my friends and neighbors. But, alas, my soiree will have to wait—at least until the second annual Stomp has had its day under the sun (as well as its night under the stars). The beauty of the Stomp is that, as long as you live within the Sunnyland hood—think Trader Joe’s and Bellingham High School area, then hop across Alabama Street—you can take part in what is shaping up to be a seasonal tradition. WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG 733-5361 SAT., JULY 17 WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT? DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 CASCADIA WEEKLY 20 E V EN TS NORTHWEST ESSENCE: As part of the “Healing Through Art” program, a group exhibit by seven Bellingham artists dubbed “Northwest Essence” opens today at the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center, 2901 Squalicum Pkwy. The works can be viewed through Sept. 30. ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 CLASSIFIEDS 31 GALLERIES › › OPENINGS › › PROFILES doit According to organizer Alice Clark—who got in on the action after her mother returned from a trip to Sweden, where she pointed out their pickled herring ATTEND potlucks also included WHAT: Sunnyland Stomp bringing along projects WHEN: 4-10pm Sat., they’ve been workJuly 17 ing on to show each WHERE: Sunnyland other—it’s too late to neighborhood, Bellget added to the map ingham COST: Entry to the that’ll be handed out at self-guided tour is each “official” exhibit free space, but that doesn’t INFO: www.sunny mean those who want landstomp.com to open up their homes for public perusal can’t still do so. The key, she says, is to make sure you’ve got signs up to point the way to whatever happening in the direction of your domicile, be it straight-out visual art, beer crafting, circus endeavors, live music or what have you (all of which are on the lineup this year, so far). Clark notes last year’s collective energy was enough to get her stoked for the July 17 event, and hopes it will continue for the foreseeable future. “I loved watching people roam the neighborhood clutching their maps and enjoying what each backyard revealed,” Clark says. “The gallery owners take a bit of a plunge by opening up their backyards, and I think it’s like opening your little sanctuary in a way. And the people on the Stomp are respectful of that.” Another benefit of last year’s event, Clark adds, was that neighbors who hadn’t previously connected were able to meet and greet on a more intimate level. “If we know each other—and better yet if we know each others hobbies, passions and what makes us tick—then we have something that connects us and we are not just people that go from our car to the house without saying hello,” Clark says. “That is a good thing. STONE WALK: Pieces by more than 50 stone carvers from Washington, Oregon, Canada and beyond will available for perusal at the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association’s annual Artwalk from 1-5pm at Mount Vernon’s Camp Brotherhood, 24880 Brotherhood Rd. i WWW.NWSSA.ORG CHILDREN’S ART FEST: The 26th annual Children’s Art Festival takes place from 10am-4pm at Mount Vernon’s Hillcrest Park, 1717 S. 13th St. Entry is free. i (360) 336-6215 OR WWW. MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV JULY 17-18 SK AGIT ART ISTS TOGE THER: Twentytwo of the area’s finest artists will take part in the Skagit Artists Together studio tour from 10am-6pm Sat.-Sun. throughout the Skagit Valley. Entry to the self-guided tour is free. i WWW.SKAGITARTISTSTOGETHER.COM SUN., JULY 18 STREET FAIR: As the culmination of the weeklong Blaine Jazz Festival, attend an “Art 2 Jazz” street fair from 11am-5pm in downtown Blaine. Artists from around the county will exhibit their works, and there’ll also be live jazz tunes, food vendors and plenty of activities to keep all ages busy. i WWW.BLAINECHAMBER.COM PILCHUCK OPEN HOUSE: Once a year, the Pilchuck Glass School opens the gates of the private campus to the public. Today’s the day, so make reservations and then show up from 12-5pm at the Stanwood space. Entry is $20 for adults. Kids 12 and under can get in free. i WWW.PILCHUCK.COM ONGOI NG E X H I BI TS ALLIED ARTS: Experimental sculptures by Francie Allen and abstract paintings by Sharon Kingston can be seen at the “Interpretations” exhibit through July 31 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. i WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG ANCHOR ART: See Genevieve Castree’s “Ceux qui ne sont plus (The Dead)” through July 31 at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave. i WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG BLUE HORSE: “Egypt, Normandy, Wiltshire & Tuscany Revisited” will be the theme of an exhibit showing through the Just one hour nor th of Bellingham! (360) 293-3663 OR WWW. DEPOTARTSCENTER.ORG WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM GALLERY C YGNUS: Paintings and sculptures from the likes of Peggy Doyle, Todd Horton, Tracy Powell, Patty Detzer, Kevin Paul, and others can be seen through July 25 at the “WildLife” exhibit La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St. i L e Ve n t du N o r d Ken ge Ken ge (Kenya ) GET OUT 16 i WWW.INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM LIT TLE GALLERY: Lanny Little’s new giclee prints of original paintings of Bellingham and Fairhaven and Kay D. Little’s geometric paintings can be seen through July at the Little Gallery, 1220 Bay St. 647-5675 LOOMIS HALL: “On the Edge: An Exploration of Today’s Contemporary Artists” can be viewed through July at Blaine’s Loomis Hall Gallery, 288 Martin St. i WWW.LOOMISHALLGALLERY.COM LUCIA DOUGLAS: View ceramic works by Charles Krafft and new paintings by John Schaefer through July 24 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. i Murray McLauchlan PLUS: W il Campa y su Gran Union (Cuba) Pacific Cur ls (New Zealand) Jill Barber The Paperboys Les Mononcles Iskwew Galant, tu perds ton temps D a v i d F r a n c e y R é v e i l l o n s The Bar Room Mountaineers Amanda Martinez Les Charbonniers de L’Enfer Gerald Charlie & Black Owl Blues Art Napoleon Gadelle & MORE! WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE TO JULY 22 DO IT 2 MONA: “Artists, Poets, Scholars: Fishtown and the Skagit River” and “Max Benjamin, Helmi Juvonen, and Louis Mideke From the Permanent Collection” will be up through Oct. 3 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. i Batata y Las Alegres Renato Borghetti Karoliina Kantelinen (Finland) Ambulancias (Colombia) (Bra zi l) MAIL 4 i WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG #28.05 07.14.10 SMITH & VALLEE: “School of Fish: Contemporary Works by Select Fishtown Artists” can be viewed every Wed.-Sun. through July 25 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. i WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am6pm every Friday through Sunday, stop by the Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron Building, 1314 12th St. i WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Expanded Horizons: Panoramic Photographs by J.W. Sandison,” “Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010” and “Outside the Home: Photographs of Women in the Workplace” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum. i FOOD 38 (360) 420-9568 INSIGHTS: The multi-artist “Animation” exhibit shows through Aug. 13 at Insights Gallery, 604 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. WORDS 14 i ART 20 FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists at the new Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Harris Ave. CURRENTS 8 i /;*<.; ;2?.; 1.;2=*0. 9*;4 q 62<<287 +, q ,*7*-* CLASSIFIEDS 31 WWW.N-SEA.ORG VIEWS 6 i DEPOT ARTS CENTER: “A Landscape Journey,” featuring the work of Sam Schumacher, Mark Raphael, Steve Hendrickson, and Mark Bistranin, can be perused until July 31 at Anacortes’ Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave. FILM 26 671-2305 /. 086,&)(67,9$/ -8/< WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG I a n Ty s o n Te Va ka (Polyn esi a ) Tickets: www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca 604.826.5937 1.866.494.FOLK (3655) CASCADIA WEEKLY i BOUNDARY BAY: NSEA’s 8th annual “Salmon at the Bay” fundraising art show can be viewed and bid on through Aug. 6 at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. 0,66,21) * 77>* 5 MUSIC 22 month at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. The exhibit features works by artists who traveled to the aforementioned countries on “slow travel” art trips. ;- STAGE 18 doit 21 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FOOD 38 music CASCADIA WEEKLY #28.05 07.14.10 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC MUSIC22 22 FILM 26 SHOW PREVIEWS › › RUMOR HAS IT 22 CALEXICO BY CAREY ROSS Vacouver Folk Music Festival THE MANY SOUNDS OF FOLK TO SOME, folk has a very narrow definition. Its music hews to a certain, easily identifiable, sound, is made by a certain set of people and follows a straight line from a certain musical tradition. These are people who hear the word “folk” and immediately think of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and even Bob Dylan. To them, folk primarily means protest songs and other music with a politically topical bent. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But for a whole other group of people, folk has a meaning with a depth and breadth that allows for a more expansive interpretation of the musical genre. For these people, folk is simply the music of the people, a storytelling tradition of sorts, one that has survived different times and climates, both political and social, and embraces all sorts of artists, styles and sounds. The organizers of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, a giant musical hootenanny that takes place July 16-18 at Jericho Beach Park in Vancouver, B.C., clearly subscribe to the second school of thought. With a lineup that draws from all corners of the globe and encompasses a dizzying array of folk traditions, the Vancouver Folk Festival is clearly trying to expand the horizons of what is considered folk music for fans and critics alike. But the festival isn’t some sort of esoteric exercise in folk academia. It’s a living, breathing, joyful-noise-making event. And over the years, it has grown to such size and stature that it can now offer an impressive roster of musical talent. To wit: Helping to bring the festival to a close Sun., July 18 will be mainstage performer Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. Bellinghamsters likely have the music 14-time Grammy winner fresh in their memories, as it has been less than a year since the bluegrass pioneer played at the Mount Baker Theatre. Following FOLK FESTIVAL, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Rumor Has It WHILE I’VE SPENT the past few weeks extolling the virtues of summer in Bellingham—virtues that are indeed plentiful—I’ve sort of overlooked another irrefutable fact about these long, lazy, halcyon days: Summer sort of blows for venue owners. Some venues, like, say, Boundary Bay, are custom made for the warm-weather months, what with its welcoming beer garden and all the attendant barbecuing and hula-hooping that take place there. However, other venues, ones that we are only too happy to hole up in during the 20 or so long, rainy cold months of the year, have a rougher go of it when the sun comes out. The reasons for this are simple: during the summer months, the town’s population decreases. Those of us who do remain here, are so sun-starved that we must bask while we can and so we head outdoors at every opportunity. Said basking can often come at the cost of spending many hours inside the various music venues we normally frequent to watch bands, nurse drinks and grouse about the terrible weather. As many venues are operating pretty close to the bone even during theirr most prosperous months, summer can often be a time when they cross theirr fingers and pray to simply make it through. BYY CAREY CAREYY ROSS ROSS Case in point: the Green Frog, a venue that 1. all of us probably love—and for good reason and 2. is maybe the only bar in town where it is not unusual to find live music seven nights a week, is currently enduring a summer situation that is just this side of dire. Owner James Hardesty, never one to mince words, has laid it all out pretty clearly and it sounds a little something like this, “Show up soon, or you won’t have a bar to show up to at all” (I’m paraphrasing here, but I think you get the point). Make no mistake, this is not James ringing the alarm bell because he wants you to feel sorry for him or pity his situation. He likes his bar. He knows you like it too. He wants to keep it open (he also wants to move it to the former Rogue Hero space, an idea I heartily endorse). And he will as long as he can. All he needs for you to do is show up, see some music and drink some beer. You can even heckle his hair if you want. He may even hug you. What about any of that sounds like a bad deal? Speaking of things that are a good deal—and in this case a deal that can only be described as “Ican’t-believe-this-is-actually-for-real” good—the much-ballyhooed Make.Shift van is tuned, greased up and ready to ferry bands on tour throughout the Pacific Northwest. How does it work? Simple. If you’re in a band that would like to tour regionally but cannot due to lack of money or wheels, go to www.makeshiftproject.com and fill out an application to use the Magic Van. The van committee will then assess your application, and, if it’s approved, you’ll have a van and a driver for your summer tour. Pretty amazing, right? However, you still have to book the tour yourself. The Magic Van, after all, cannot do everything. Organic White Corn Alaskan Halibut Steak Local Raspberry Honey German & Italian Sausage The Exotic Grocery Hiway 9 – Van Zandt STAGE 18 www.everybodys.com BETT YE LAVETTE CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown. She recorded her first full-length at Muscle Shoals, spent some time as a Motown artist, and even did a stint on Broadway, appearing alongside Cab Calloway. However, if you’re like me, you probably weren’t aware of LaVette until her amazing 2005 album I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise, which saw LaVette covering songs by everyone from Fiona Apple to Dolly Parton, and thrust her back into the musical limelight. But the Vancouver Folk Music Festival is much more than just the sum total of its mainstage acts. Musicians come from far—Morocco, Colombia, Belgium, Scotland, Mali, Australia, etc.—and near—all corners of Canada as well as the United States is well represented at the fest—to mix, mingle and most importantly play music all weekend long. All you have to do is show up and soak it all in. musicEvents i 650-2489 DOWNTOWN SOUNDS: Spoonshine kicks off the seasonal Downtown Sounds concerts, which happen weekly from 5-9pm in the 1300 block of Bay St. i WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM MURPHY AND MUSIC: Bellingham native Heidi Grant Murphy performs with the Festival of Music Orchestra at 7:30pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $18-$43. i WWW.BELLINGHAMFESTIVAL.ORG JULY 14-17 BLAINE JAZZ FEST: As part of the 9th annual Blaine Jazz Festival—which aims to connect students with professional musicians—attend a variety of concerts through July 17 throughout Blaine. Costs vary, and many events FREE FOM MUSIC: As part of the Bellingham Festival of Music, show up for a free community concert with the festival’s Chamber Players at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall building, 121 Prospect St. i WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG MUSIC IN THE PARK: Listen to the African dancing band known as Juba Marimba from 6-8pm at Bellingham’s Elizabeth Park. i 778-7000 FRI., JULY 16 FOR THE KIDS: The first Brown Bag Children’s Concert of the summer features tunes by Richard and Helen Scholtz at noon on the lawn of the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. i 778-7000 THE 3DS: Bluegrass and Celtic tunes can be heard when the 3Ds offer up a free show from 7-9pm at Stuart’s at the Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. i 714-0800 SAT., JULY 17 PICOSO: Listen and dance to the “urban Latin” sounds of Picoso from 7-9pm at Bellingham’s Boulevard Park. i 778-7000 MCCAULE Y AND CO.: Three Pacific Northwest musicians—Lydia McCauley, Jami Seiber, and Nancy Rumbel—will perform at 7pm at a Bellingham House Concert. Tickets are $20. i 647-0152 SUN., JULY 18 SPEEDWAY MUSIC: Starting at noon, the Jimmy Murphy Band, Mid-Life Crisis and the Alimony Horns, Jamie O’Neal, and Grand Funk Railroad will be among the musicians who’ll take part in Burlington’s Skagit Speedway Music Festival. Tickets are $20. i WWW.SKAGITSPEEDWAY.COM FIDDLIN’ FOX: As part of the annual “Fiddlin’ Fox” outdoor world music se- ries, listen and dance to the Latin sounds of Alma Villeges from 2-5pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The concerts are free and happen every Sunday in July. i DO IT 2 THURS., JULY 15 WWW.PACIFICARTSASSOC.ORG WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM EVOLUT ION TRIO: As part of the summer park concert series, the Evolution Trio will perform their global fusion mix from 3:30-5pm at Bellingham’s Big Rock Garden Park. The event is free. i 07.14.10 NOON CONCERT SERIES: As part of WWU’s free Summer Noon Concert Series, listen to the Globes at noon at the Performing Arts Center Plaza. i #28.05 are free or by donation. 778-7000 FOM CLOSER: Violinist Stefan Jackiw will join the Bellingham Festival of Music Orchestra for the concert that will close out the annual gathering at 7:30pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $18-$43. i CASCADIA WEEKLY WED., JULY 14 WWW.BELLINGHAMFESTIVAL.ORG WED., JULY 21 NOON CONCERT SERIES: As part of WWU’s free Summer Noon Concert Series, show up to hear roots and rock music courtesy of Leroy Bell & His Only Friends at noon at the Performing Arts Center Plaza. i MUSIC 22 22 MUSIC Float Rings & Harmonicas ART 20 Bandana, Hat, & T- Shirts FILM 26 Psychedelic Jaw Breakers VIEWS 6 him, and closing the festival in true folk fashion, is Boukman Eksperyans, a band whose name might not provoke instant recognition, but one that is a true star in its native country of Haiti, for their music itself, as well as a tradition of political protest that has seen them flee that dangerously unstable country in exile while their songs became anthems for the people there. Take that, Bob Dylan. But plenty will happen at the festival before those final mainstage performances. And with three full days worth of music (plus a couple of free warm-up concerts set to take place before the festival kicks off) on 10 or so stages, the sheer magnitude of this event can be difficult to comprehend. Also set to take the mainstage, this time on the festival’s opening night, Fri., July 16, is the Avett Brothers, a North Carolina band that are commonly described as “folk-rock,” HEAR which is as apt a description as any gross WHAT: Vancouver Folk Music Festival generalization gets, but with their blend of WHEN: July 16-18 bluegrass, honky-tonk, with a little ragtime WHERE: Jericho and a whole lot of melodic jangle mixed Park, Vancouver, in, they’ve got a sound that’s equal parts B.C. Townes Van Zandt and Buddy Holly—tough COST: $40-$185 MORE INFO: to imagine, but they pull it off with surpriswww.thefestival. ing ease. Following them will be Calexico, a bc.ca Southwestern alt-country band that’s been at it a long time, and has performed their ethereal, melodic and instantly recognizable music with everyone imaginable, including a several critically praised collaborations with Iron & Wine and Neko Case. But if the alt-country end of the folk spectrum isn’t your thing, and you’d like to hear something with a little more soul, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival has got you covered in that regard as well. The second night, Sat., July 17, features a mainstage performer that should be right up your musical alley. Bettye LaVette got her start in the early ’60s, charting her first hit with 1962’s “My Man—He’s a Lovin’ Man” and has toured with CLASSIFIEDS 31 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE MAIL 4 FOLK FESTIVAL, FOOD 38 musicEvents 650-2489 23 Melissa Brown & Michael Costello Tom Amend * Tony Will * Dan Radil Brian Sibley & Rachael Sibley FOOD 38 CLASSIFIEDS 31 musicvenues See below for venue addresses and phone numbers Archer Ale House 07.14.10 07.15.10 07.16.10 07.17.10 07.18.10 07.19.10 07.20.10 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Charlie Baker T-Bone Taylor Shawn McCole & Friends Bloom Café The Mahala Belly Dancers Boundary Bay Brewery Aaron Guest (taproom), Yogoman's Wild Rumpus Brown Lantern Ale House Cabin Tavern Misty Flowers (lunch) Happy Hour Music feat. Robert S. Blake and the High, Wide and Handsome Band The Scott Greene Band (early), Abbey Road (late) The Little White Lies, Jay Serrao and the Juice, Drogados Chuckanut Ridge Wine Company Henry Wesson (early), Jazz Jam feat. 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Jinx Art Space Nooksack River Casino Slow Jam, Open Mic GET OUT 16 Green Frog Café Acoustic Tavern Karaoke DJ Clint Stilly River Band Live Music Live Music Marion Weston Band Marion Weston Band Fat Tones James Harman Band Royal One Hit Wonder Night DJ Jester DJ Jester DJ Jester Rumors Betty Desire Show, DJ Postal Throwback Thursdays w/DJ Shortwave DJ QBNZA DJ Mike Tollenson Semiahmoo Resort The Dogtones (Seaview Terrace) Blues Union (Packers), Jon Mutchler (Stars) Silver Reef Hotel Casino & Spa Tweety and the Tomcats Tweety and the Tomcats No-Fi Soul Rebellion, So Adult, Brendan McCreary, Andrew Chiang CURRENTS 8 Glow Ron Bailey and Al Kaatz DJ Jester ’80s-’90s Dance Hits Karaoke w/Poops DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave MAIL 4 Fairhaven Pub Bob Caloca and Friends DO IT 2 Downtown Sounds FILM 26 OREGON DONOR/July 17/Brown Lantern Skagit Valley Casino Vocal Showcase w/Walt Burkett Steve Rutledge Steve Rutledge The Unusuals Telefon Temple Bar Open Mic feat. Daniel CASCADIA WEEKLY The Dividing Line Village Inn Wild Buffalo Irish Session Blake Angelos Jazz Trio Three Trees Coffeehouse Watertown Pub 07.14.10 GABRIELLE LOUISE/July 15/Green Frog Skylark's MUSIC22 22 MUSIC Ed Solem and the Barnacles, The Hamer Brothers ART 20 Tango Café feat. 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What fun. This good-versus-evil fable soon reveals itself to be a wide-ranging philosophical playground for French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet as he settles into a Paris junkyard where discards, human and otherwise, find a second life. Bazil (the wonderful Dany Boon) is our hero. Orphaned when his father was blown to bits by a land mine, he’s grown up to be a video store clerk content to pass the time watching classic films. A stray bullet from a drive-by changes everything. Removing it from Bazil’s brain box, as someone puts it, would turn him into a vegetable, and so it stays. In short order, he is discharged by the doctor, then his boss, then left waiting to see if the bullet will eventually discharge him too. Both Bazil and his world are infused with a surreal circus quality to start with, but that sensibility grows sharper when he’s taken in by a collection of freaks who make their home in the scrap yard. In Paris, even the dumps are beautiful. There’s a contortionist (Julie Ferrier) who folds herself up in the fridge when she needs to get away from it all and a cannonball man (Dominique Pinon) still pining to make the Guinness Book. There are seven in all, as Jeunet says he was reminded of Snow White’s Seven Dwarfs. That sort of quirky brilliance is in much of Jeunet’s work and it is very much at play here. Like the delightful Amelie, what he and longtime screenwriting collaborator Guillaume Laurant have created in Mic- macs is unexpected charm, with irony rich like candy and worth savoring along with the surprise. When Bazil happens upon a street occupied by the company that made the land mine that killed his father, the conglomerate responsible for the bullet that penetrated his brain turns out to be right across the way. That something must be done to stop the killing and the maiming is a given, and that is where the movie spends much of its time. Though the issue of the arms race and the devastation it leaves behind is a loaded one, the comedy style, liberally plucked from the silent era, keeps things light enough and broad enough that any serious contemplating should be saved for later. Jeunet understands the enjoyment to be had from watching the underdog pull the rug out from under the big guys and he lets Bazil do that again and again. With his mournfully pliable face and clownish physicality, Boon is perfect for the task, bumbling his way along in Chaplin-esque fashion so that dialogue often becomes completely unnecessary. When it is, Jeunet and Laurant have fun with it and, thankfully, little is lost in translation. As much sheer pleasure as there is to this comeuppance story, the look of the film pulls more than its weight in layering in context. Created by production designer Aline Bonetto—like most of the crew, another long-timer in Jeunet’s creative collective—it is strangely beautiful with its pastiche of metal scraps filled with artistic possibility, a dancing marionette mouse made of found parts for one. There’s a sepia tone to this Paris that, coupled with the postcard-care taken in framing it by director of photography Tetsuo Nagata, makes this modern-day tale feel as if it is parading around in ’40s vintage wear. The filmmaker has said he was influenced by Pixar’s Toy Story in devising the characters, but then you could spend all day sorting through the cinematic influences Jeunet has woven into the film, from Sergio Leone’s stark western showdowns to the musical style of The Big Sleep. But whatever the influences, Micmacs is ultimately shaped by Jeunet’s unique creative vision—a funhouse of mirrors that is lovely to get lost in. FOOD 38 steaks seafood billiards sports bar 360 733 2579 1408 Cornwall, Bellingham ★ ★ ★ Skagit County Fair August 11-14, 2010 ★ ★ ★ FILM 26 VIEWS 6 MAIL 4 DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 From pie contests to barrel races, carnival rides & entertainment. CASCADIA WEEKLY Local food & local fun in the heart of Skagit County! CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 Bringing It All Back Home! MUSIC 22 burgers ART 20 9 Flat Screen TVs for your Sports Entertainment STAGE 18 Great Food & Happy Hour Specials 3-6 Monday-Friday CLASSIFIEDS 31 Banquet & Meeting Facilities 27 ★ Come Home to the Fair ★ Online Entry & Tickets at www.skagitfair.com BY CAREY ROSS FILMSHORTS Despicable Me: I love the idea of an animated flick that tells its story from the point of view of the villain, rather than the hero. I love it even more when that villain is voiced by the deadpan and dead funny Steve Carell. Sure, this movie totally rips off Pixar, but, in my opinion, that can only be a point in its favor. ★★★★1(tISNJO 4VOTFU4RVBSFBN]]]]] ]]]] Ghostbusters: If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! If there’s something weird, and it don’t look good, who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! I think we all know what I’m getting at here. Opening up the show will be Fritz and the Freeloaders, who, if they don’t play the Ghostbusters theme song, I will be sorely disappointed. ★★★★★1(tISNJO 'BJSIBWFO7JMMBHF(SFFO+VMZ! Grown Ups: What do you get when you team Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, and David Spade up in the same movie, at the same time? Comedic disappointment on an epic scale. Pretty much the only way this movie could be any worse is if Carrot Top were also starring in it. And by “worse,” I actually mean “way awesomer.” ★1( 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]] Harr y Brown: Oh, Michael Caine. How I love thee. Let me count the ways. As Harry Brown, a geriatric vigilante with a mercenary past and an axe to grind, Caine brings his absolutely formidable but totally understated acting chops to bear in his typically rivFUJOH GBTIJPO 5IF FOE SFTVMU NPSF CBEBTTFSZ UIBO you’re likely to see on a silver screen anywhere, anytime soon. ★★★★3tISNJO 1JDLGPSE$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT Inception: See review previous page. ★★★★1( tISTNJO 4FIPNFBN]]]]]] ]]]]] HARRY BROWN The Karate Kid: Proof that every movie will soon earn itself a remake—whether it needs one or not. Crane kicks and catching flies with chopsticks aside, in my opinion, if no one says, “Put him in a body bag” and then cackles maniacally during this incarnation, it can’t possibly be worth seeing. ★★1( #FMMJT'BJS$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT Knight and Day: Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are two stars in need of a comeback—she only somewhat, but he desperately so. They were both probably hoping this over-adrenalized, totally implausible actioner would be the ticket. Unfortunately, sometimes Hollywood giveth, but Hollywood also taketh away. ★★1(tISTNJO #FMMJT'BJS$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT The Last Airbender: Just to confuse matters, this movie was originally titled Avatar: The Last Airbender. But it features no sexy blue catpeople, no mixed messages about people who preach peace while waging war and no James Cameron anywhere to be found. However, it was helmed by M. Night Shyamalan, who is a filmmaker I’m not quite willing to write off as a total disappointment. (Previous statement amended UPSFnFDUBDDVSBDZJOTUFBEPGJEJPDZ ★★★1(t ISNJO 4VOTFU4RVBSFBN]]]] Micmacs: See review previous page. ★★★★ 3 t ISNJO 1JDLGPSE$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT Ondine: Colin Farrell turns in a surprisingly sensitive performance as a down-on-his-luck Irish fisherman that rescues a woman who becomes tangled in his net—a woman who may or may not also be a creature of Celtic myth. ★★★★1(tISNJO 1JDLGPSE$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT Predators: Remember that one Predator movie starring Ah-nold Schwarzenegger? The one with the super-creepy, almost-invisible villain that could only MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FOOD 38 film ›› showtimes ’ham d at 2 B Vali DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 CASCADIA WEEKLY 28 ns Locatio efmj!!!!!bmf!ipvtf Bellingham’s Tastiest Wood Fired Pizzas 'LUTEN$AIRY&REE/PTIONSs#ATERING Finest Outdoor Patio North of Downtown Check out our New Specials: ss5PDATED#RAFT"REW3ELECTION ss#AR3HOWS4HURSDAY.IGHTS ss,IVE-USIC&RIDAY.IGHTS ss&REE3ODAW0IZZA3ATURDAYS Next to Cornwall Park / Birchwood & Orchard St. 709 W. Orchard Pl., Suite 1, Bellingham sWWWJHDELICOM JUST $4.79! FOOT LONG COLD SUBS Any Day of the Week We accept all Competitor’s Coupons! Expires 7/21/10. Valid only at the 2 Bellingham locations. Must Present coupon at the time of purchase. No Restrictions Downtown Bellingham 206 W. Magnolia St. PH: 360-676-1003 FAX: 360-676-0730 Sunset Square 1115 E. Sunset Dr. PH: 360-671-0255 FAX: 360-676-4495 300 W. Champion Street Downtown Bellingham 738-DROP Toy Stor y 3: Pixar has amassed a string of hits unprecedented in Hollywood history—and don’t expect that streak to end here, as this film hews to what has become that studio’s trademark blend of stunning, innovative visuals and emotionally resonant storytelling. I don’t even like cartoons, yet somehow I still can’t get enough of Pixar’s animated sorcery. ★★★★★(tISNJO #FMMJT'BJS$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT Toy Stor y 3 in 3D: See above. And then watch the movJFNBLJOHNBHJDUIBUJT1JYBS%"OEJGZPVIBQQFOUP be affiliated with another animation studio, take copious notes. ★★★★★(tISNJO #FMMJT'BJS$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: Are you Team Edward? Or Team Jacob? Me, I’m on Team I Don’t Give a Flying Fu— what I’m trying to say is this is a movie about vampires. Or werewolves. Or maybe it’s a love story. Between vampires and werewolves. Yep, I think that’s it. ★★★1( tISTNJO #FMMJT'BJS$BMMGPSTIPXUJNFT t64"tNJOt/3 4BU/PPO t64"tNJO"QQSPYt3t'3&& 8FE1. Summer Membership Drive -- On Now! Win the Bride of Goldfinger Card, a year of free movies! See details at the box office. ROBIN CODY $8.75 regular | $6.75 matinees & under 12 | $5.25 members | 1416 Cornwall | showtimes: pickfordcinema.org | 360.738.0735 will present Another Way THE RIVER FILM 26 MAIL 4 Has DO IT 2 Taut True Tales from the Northwest —The Oregonian July’s Rocket Sci-Fi Matinee Trailer Wars #11: Biopics Edition EVENTS ”Ultimately Another Way the River Has is about us, who we are as a people, how we treat the land and each other... Reading Cody, when he is at his best, is a homecoming to a place millions of us share.” Return of the Creature -The Gill Man is back! 07.14.10 Standing Ovation: This is some kind of family-friendly song-and-dance flick that was not made by Disney and therefore does not star either Miley Cyrus or Zac Efron. :PVNBZLOPXJUCFUUFSCZJUTXPSLJOHUJUMF Straight to Video1(tISNJO 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]] $)5(( (9(17 #28.05 The Sorcerer ’s Apprentice: I tend to judge all Nicolas $BHFNPWJFTCZUIFCFMJFWBCJMJUZPGIJTIBJS5PXJURaising Arizona = a credibly wild mane and, therefore, the kind of over-the-top performance that can make Cage a compulsively watchable actor. Con Air = totally unrealistic weave and the kind of cringeworthy turn that Cage also especially excels at. I would like Cane’s performance in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to fall into the former category, but the mangy mane he’s sporting does not fill me with confidence. ★★1(tISTNJO #FMMJT'BJSBN]]]] /LWHUDWXUH LIVE! CLASSIFIEDS 31 FOOD 38 ENCORE SCREENINGS t*SFMBOE64"tNJOt1( 4BU1. t4VO/PPO Friday, 4pm JULY 16th VILLAGE BOOKS 1200 11th St., Bellingham 360.671.2626 VILLAGEBOOKS.com CASCADIA WEEKLY Revenge of the Creature: The Gill Man is back! Although he encounters some misfortune at the end of the first installment, Gill Man survives, is recaptured and sent to Florida to recover and be studied by a pair of scientists, Helen and Clete. However, as in the first film, Gill Man is hot to trot and looking for love, and takes an instant liking to Helen. Can an escape be far behind? ★★★★★6OSBUFEtISNJO 1JDLGPSE+VMZ! t6,tNJOt3 'SJ1.t4BU1.t4VO1. .PO5VF1.t8FE5IV1. Ondine - A Magical Tale starring Colin Farrell THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE be stopped by a brawny Austrian and his many muscles? Yeah, this isn’t that movie. And somehow, a Predator movie that stars Adrian Brody and Topher Grace doesn’t pack the same theoretical punch. ★★3tISNJO 4VOTFU4RVBSF]]]] “A film that’s as much a character study as it is a crime drama. At the heart of it is Caine’s hauntingly memorable performance.” St. Louis Dispatch MUSIC 22 every step, every day, over and over ART 20 Harry Brown - Starring Sir Michael Caine! STAGE 18 t'SBODFt*O'SFODIX&OHMJTITVCtNJOt3 'SJ t4BU t4VO .PO5VF t8FE5IV1. 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Even when its ambition occasionally outstrips its execution, Inception tosses off more ideas and fires on more cylinders than most blockbusters would have the nerve to attempt. Our guide to this world of high-stakes corporate espionage is Dom Cobb (DiCaprio), an “extractor” paid to invade the dreams of various titans of industry and steal their top-secret ideas. Cobb plunders the psyche with practiced skill, though he’s increasingly haunted by the memory of his late wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), who has a nasty habit of showing up in his subconscious and wreaking havoc on his missions. That’s what happens during a dreamraid on wealthy businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe), who is in fact merely auditioning Cobb for a far riskier job. The target is Saito’s future rival, billionaire heir Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), and the goal is not to steal an idea but to plant one—the “inception” of the title—that will lead to the dissolution of Fischer’s empire. In Nolan’s hands, this ingenious conceit becomes no more implausible than that of a caped crimefighter, as the writer-director grounds his flight of fancy with precise methodology and an architect’s attention to detail. Indeed, Cobb retains an actual architect, Ariadne (Ellen Page), and teaches her how to mentally construct every street, building and room in the artificial world (essential if the dreamer is to be deceived) in a series of visually playful scenes whose trompe l’oeil quality brings Magritte and M.C. Escher to mind. It’s heady, brain-tickling stuff, and like the spinning top that serves as a key plot device, it seems forever on the brink of toppling over, especially toward the end of the nearly 2 1/2-hour running time. But even when questions arise, one so completely senses a guiding intelligence at the helm that the effect is stimulating rather than confusing. 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To put this all in a more positive frame: It’s time for you to engage in a reverent and boisterous celebration of life, nurturing and fostering and stimulating everywhere you go. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The baseball game GET OUT 16 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s the really good news: CIA director Leon Panetta says there are fewer than 100 Al-Qaeda combatants in Afghanistan. Here’s the utterly confusing news: The U.S has over 94,000 highly trained human beings in Afghanistan whose express purpose is to destroy AlQaeda. I bring this up as a prod to get you to question your own allotment of martial force, Gemini. You definitely need to make sure you have a lavish reserve of fighting spirit primed to serve your highest goals. Just make sure, please, that it’s pointed in the right direction. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Give us this day our daily hunger,” prayed French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. It was his personal variation on the “Give us this day our daily bread” line from the Lord’s Prayer. I suggest you use his formulation as your own in the coming week, Cancerian. It’s the high season for your holy desires: a time when your mental and physical health will thrive as you tune in to and express your strongest, most righteous longings. VIEWS 6 MAIL 4 DO IT 2 07.14.10 #28.05 CASCADIA WEEKLY 32 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY was over. TV announcer Mike Krukow was describing the “ugly victory” that the San Francisco Giants had just achieved. The team’s efforts were sloppy and chaotic, he said, and yet the win counted just as much as a more elegant triumph. He ended with a flourish: “No one wants to hear about the labor pains; they just want to see the baby.” That’s my message to you this week, Taurus. All that matters is that you get the job done. It doesn’t matter whether you look good doing it. 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More than ever before, it’s crucial that you bring a beginner’s mind to your evaluations of other human beings. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I want to see your willpower surge and throb and carry you to a ringing triumph in the next two weeks, Virgo. I hope to be cheering you on as you complete a plucky effort to overcome some long-standing obstacle... as you put the finishing touches on an epic struggle to defeat a seemingly intractable foe... as you rise up with a herculean flourish and put the stamp of your uniqueness on a success that will last a long time. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Italian word terribilità was originally used by art critics to de- scribe the sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo. According to various dictionaries, it refers to “a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur,” “the sublime mixed with amazement,” or “an astonishing creation that provokes reverent humility.” In my astrological opinion, terribilità is a prerequisite for the next chapter of your life story. You need be flabbergasted by stunning beauty. Where can you go to get it? A natural wonder might do the trick, or some exalted architecture, or the biography of a superb human being, or works of art or music that make you sob with cathartic joy. For extra credit, put yourself in the path of all the above. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In a favorable review of Badger Mountain Riesling wine, Winelibrary. com said, “The sweet succulent aromas of bosc pears are woven with lilacs and just a hint of petrol.” Meanwhile, Allure magazine named Sécrétions Magnifique as one of the top five sexiest perfumes in the world, even though its fragrance is like “floral bilge.” Petrol? Bilge? Both commentaries seem to suggest that greatness may contain a taint — or even that the very nature of greatness may require it to have a trace of something offensive. I’m guessing that’ll be a theme for you in the coming week. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During the grace period you’re currently enjoying, you have a talent for tuning in to the raw potential of whatever situation is right in front of you; you just naturally know how to establish rapport with circumstances you’ve never seen before. That’s why your spontaneous urges are likely to generate fun learning experiences, not awkward messes. You’ll thrive as you improvise adeptly with volatile forces. It may therefore seem like your progress will be easy, even a bit magical. Some people may regard your breakthroughs as unearned. But you and I will know that you’re merely harvesting the benefits that come from a long period of honing your powers. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A few single friends of mine use the dating site OkCupid to meet potential lovers. One woman got the following notice: “We are pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid’s most attractive users. How can we say this with confidence? Because we’ve tracked clickthrus on your photo and analyzed other people’s reactions to you... Your new elite status comes with one important privilege: You will now see more attractive people in your match results. Also! You’ll be shown to more attractive people in their match results. And, no, we didn’t send this email to everyone on OkCupid. Go ask an ugly friend.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Capricorn, you will soon receive a metaphorically comparable message, not from OkCupid, but from the universe itself. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The liberation movement kindled in the 1960s wasn’t all fun and games. It ushered in expansive new ways of thinking about gender, race, sexuality, spirituality, music, and consciousness itself, but it was fueled by anger as well as by the longing for pleasure and meaning and transcendence. A key focus of the rage was opposition to the Vietnam War. 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This, on the other hand, is like Romeo texting Juliet (on parchment delivered by servants), “OMG, not sure if i can give up pizza nite w family 2 b w/u.” In the real world, for people with more to them than an obsessive connection to another human being, there are often practical considerations: whether they both want kids, who’s going to pay for them, whether they’ll join the Hari Krishnas or keep working as tax accountants. While some people can live anywhere as long as they’re with the person they love, for many, where they wake up and walk out the door every day is no small thing. It’s not just the place, but the way of life in a particular place (“the city that LITE BOOR Family Law Attorney with 18 years experience DO IT 2 After my boyfriend and I returned from a teaching stint abroad, he broke up with me. I was devastated but eventually started seeing somebody else. He got really jealous and flew out a few times to see me until I said yes to getting back together. 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They’ve created fear in this community that is not warranted by evidence.” “My question to our elected leaders is, ‘why are you listening to folks that come from a philosophy that has nothing to do with the local economy, nothing to do with things actually wrong in Whatcom County?’” Guillen added. “We asked Pete Kremen, ‘Is there a problem with immigration in Whatcom County?’” Supporters of a crackdown on migrant labor “aren’t taking into account the impacts on local economy,” Guillen said. “What is the impact to the agricultural economies in Whatcom and Skagit counties? “That’s a very basic, commonsense benchmark to begin to look at. But our leaders are not looking at the issue of immigration reform from the bottom up, on an economic basis. They’re looking at the national economy from a corporate view, which is huge—corporations need guest workers of all different types coming in. Many of those guest workers stay. But there is a big disconnect between that and what happens in Whatcom County.” With unemployment at historic highs nationally, Whatcom County is only the latest place in the country to succumb to fears someone may have a job who is not legally entitled to it. Arizona’s new law—spurred by changing demographics in the Southwest— essentially requires police to demand “papers” from anyone they might believe to be undocumented. The federal government recently responded that such laws appear too close to institutionalized racial profiling. “The idea that you can tell someone is undocumented just by looking at them institutionalizes racism,” Guillen agreed. “I’m an American. I was born in Texas. My entire family are Texans. We’ve spent a lot of time in Mexico, but if you’re just going to look at us, I don’t think you can tell the difference.” Correa added, “If someone walked up to you and said ‘I need you to prove right this minute that you are an American citizen,’ could you prove that? A driver’s license doesn’t prove that. A birth certificate DO IT 2 HOW TO SUDOKU: Arrange the digits 1-9 in such a way that each digit occurs only once in each row, only once in each column, and only once in each box. Try it! 07.14.10 F ROM PAGE 8 #28.05 Sudoku might prove that, but who carries their birth certificate around with them?” “The Latino community across the country is very concerned,” Guillen admitted. Echoing that concern, the U.S. attorney general last week filed a legal challenge to Arizona’s law, deeming it unconstitutional. Attorney General Eric Holder argues it’s the federal government’s sole authority to regulate immigration. States, though, complain the feds just aren’t up to the task. President Barack Obama weighed in last week, imploring Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform to a “fundamentally broken” system. The remedies have long been known: bolstering enforcement of existing laws while offering a path to citizenship for many of the approximately 12 million people in the United States illegally. “What’s discouraging is seeing other states that are taking up a similar type of action as Arizona,” Guillen said. “In Washington, the Minutemen and their cohorts are going into small towns and trying to get resolutions passed that support a hardening of immigration law. And, of course, there is no talk of offering those illegally in the country a path to become legal citizens. “The most serious element in my view is that it has become criminalized to be undocumented,” Correa observed. She explained, “To be undocumented is a civil offense, like getting a traffic citation. The change from a civil offense to a criminal offense happened during the Bush administration. Clinton didn’t help at all” when he enacted the Immigration Reform and Control Act tried to address rising levels of undocumented immigration. “Immigration reform has been very seriously impacted by a suffering U.S. economy,” Guillen admitted. “Immigration has been looked at through an economic lens, and the need for labor in this country over the past 15 to 20 years. That view is very different from the view of immigration through history, where we see ourselves as a nation of immigrants, a melting pot of cultures that made this country great.” Peeling away the layers, the anger seems less about illegal immigration, a problem eased by making legal immigration easier, than about immigration in general—who gets to come to this country, and what culture they’re allowed to bring. “I have tried to reach out to the Minutemen and have conversations with them on immigration issues,” Guillen said. “They tell me, ‘I don’t want to walk down the streets of Lynden and hear Spanish being spoken by people like you.’” CASCADIA WEEKLY IMMIGR AT ION, FOOD 38 rearEnd ›› sudoku › troubletown ›news 37 CLASSIFIEDS 31 FOOD 38 38 FOOD chow CASCADIA WEEKLY #28.05 07.14.10 DO IT 2 MAIL 4 VIEWS 6 CURRENTS 8 WORDS 14 GET OUT 16 STAGE 18 ART 20 MUSIC 22 FILM 26 RECIPES › › REVIEWS › › PROF I L ES 38 BY AMY KEPFERLE The Real McCoy HAVE SUITCASE, WILL BARTEND WHETHER HE’S waxing poetic on the wonders of vermouth, making his own bitters or burning a sugar cube in preparation for concocting an absinthe cocktail, it’s clear Brandon Wicklund has a passion for preserving the craft of a well-made cocktail. When the traveling bartender—working under the moniker of the “Real McCoy”—stops by the Temple Bar this weekend, it’ll be with Prohibition on his mind. But don’t worry; the Feds won’t be stopping by this particular speakeasy. Cascadia Weekly: Can you share some of the cocktail history you learned from your mentor? Where was this? // ) Brandon Wicklund: I had the good fortune to intern WHAT: The Real with Jim German at his bar in Waitsburg, Wash., McCoy WHEN: 7pm-12am which is about 20 miles outside of Walla Walla. Sat., July 17 History of liquor and drinks, such as the origin of WHERE: The the martini (still up for debate), I picked up from Temple Bar, 306 W. my nose being buried in Jim’s bar books. I choose Champion St. to say the martini was born in the late 1800s in INFO: www. therealmccoybar. the town of Martinez, Cali.—where the “first-ever” wordpress.com martini (Martinez) was crafted: 4 parts sweet vermouth, 1 part gin. Over the course of my stay with Jim our conversations spanned from bar etiquette to coping with losing a loved one. It was an unforgettable experience, and I’ll forever be indebted to Jim. CW: What made you decide to start a traveling bar service, and what’s your ultimate goal? BW: The traveling bar idea evolved from wanting to show off what I learned at “Jim German Boot Camp.” I would bring grocery bags full of booze and fruit to friends’ and family’s houses and mix up drinks. Everybody was diggin’ it, which gave me confidence to pursue my newly discovered passion. It was a Christmas present from some good friends, though, that jumpstarted the Real McCoy—a vintage suitcase decked out in classic liquor advertisements. So, “have suitcase, will travel,” right? My goal is to give people a cool experience. Through cocktail history and eclectic liquors, I hope to make each event as unique as possible. When I started the Real McCoy, I said my ultimate goal was to have my traveling bar find a permanent home (in the Bellingham area). CW: After reading your short history of the Real McCoy, it seems like quality over quantity really does count for something. Should people scrimp when they’re searching for the perfect cocktail? BW: I don’t think you need to scrimp or splurge when looking for the perfect cocktail. Fresh ingredients and attention to detail are what make up a good drink, not the dollar amount. CW: What sort of Prohibition-era drinks will you be serving up July 17 at the Temple Bar? BW: A couple on the menu: Aviation and Corpse Reviver #2. The Aviation first appeared in print in the 1916 book Recipes for Mixed Drinks, by New York barman Hugo R. Ensslin. The Corpse Reviver #2 was a part of a series of “corpse reviver” cocktails that were staples on bar menus during the 1930s, only to have been lost in the shuffle during the last half of the 20th century. CW: What’s your take on Prohibition? BW: I think Prohibition was a complete mess. While the idea may have been noble, the execution was flawed and America turned into one big secret gin joint. Alcohol consumption, crime and government spending all witnessed increases. The silliness of banning alcohol actually reminds me of a more current issue… CW: Will you be taking questions? BW: Get a spot at the bar and I’m all ears. CW: If someone wanted to hire you for their event, what should they expect? BW: Through cocktail history and eclectic drinks, I want to give people a unique experience. Working with the party host, I like to come up with specialized menus for each event. The traveling bar comes equipped with all the booze, fruit and bar essentials to set the stage for a memorable event. CW: What’s your favorite drink, ever? BW: In this heat it’s tough to beat a cold beer. But I do have a fondness for stirring up a Manhattan. The mixture of whiskey, vermouth and bitters is simple, classic and so freakin’ good! - 2 ounces gin ½ ounce lemon juice ¼ ounce rose syrup 2 dashes peychaud bitters Champagne Orson Welles would’ve loved this drink. A cocktail I first crafted at jimgermanbar, the Rosebud is fun and refreshing. Fill a pint glass with ice and add gin, lemon juice, rose syrup and bitters. Shake and pour into a tall glass and top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist (or a rosebud, if you can find one). WWW.SCONNECT.ORG 927-4890 OR [email protected] JULY 16-17 NORTHWEST RASPBERRY FEST IVAL: In addition to the loads of delicious offerings you’ll find at this weekend’s Northwest Raspberry Festival—which celebrates the largest harvest in North America—happening from 10am-7pm Fri. and 10am-9pm Sun. in downtown Lynden, there’ll also be a farmers market, basketball tournament, classic car show, live music, fun run and more. WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG ANNIVERSARY PART Y: Celebrate the second anniversary of the Chuckanut Brewery at a party starting at 5:30pm at the establishment’s home at 601 W. Holly St. Live music, a Locavore menu and more will be part of the fun. WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM WED., JULY 21 SWEE T ONIONS: Chef Charles Claasen will lead a “Sweet, Sweet Onions” cooking course from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata Community Food Co-op. There, you’ll learn to prepare eggs with boletus mushrooms and sweet onion tops, French Onion soup and beer-battered onion rings. Cost is $35. i 383-3200 CAMP COOKING: Join folks from REI for a “Camp Cooking Basics” clinic starting at 6:30pm at Larrabee State Park. Meet at the first shelter near the entrance of the campground and look for event signs. Show up tomorrow night at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St., for a “Backcountry Cooking Basics” course. 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