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A glance at this
week’s happenings
MUSIC
Quickshot Film Festival: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater
Trish, Hans, and Phil: 3pm, Sudden Valley Dance
Barn
BHS Alumni Band: 7pm, Shuksan Middle School
Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine
Caitlin Hill: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Rockhounds Recycling Rendezvous: 10am-5:30pm,
Bloedel Donovan
Stommish Water Festival: Through Sunday, Stommish Grounds, Lummi Nation
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Fishing Derby: 8am-12pm, Lynden City Park
Race for Education: 9am, Civic Field
Girls on the Run: 9am, Lake Padden
Deming Logging Show: 9am, Deming Logging Show
Grounds
Race Beneath the Sun: 10am, Fairhaven Park
Bark in the Park: 10am-2pm, Storvik Park, Anacortes
Urban Kickball League Finals: 11am-4pm, Maritime
Heritage Park
Blazing Paddles: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount
Vernon
FOOD
Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Waterfront Plaza
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts
Center
Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of
Ferndale
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Brewery Tour: 12pm, Chuckanut Brewery
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COMMUNITY
Celebrate the
passion and
thrill of water
sports at the
third annual
Blazing
Paddles: A
Paddling Film
Festival Sat.,
June 13 at
Mount Vernon’s
Lincoln Theatre
WEDNESDAY [06.10.15]
DANCE
BAAY Dance Company: 7pm, Bellingham Arts
Academy for Youth
MUSIC
Choral Concert: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon
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Wednesday Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven
Village Green
Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer
Heritage Park
Brewers Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Bay
Mistaken identities, dream
sequences, song and dance
numbers and much more can
be expected when The Drowsy
Chaperone—a hilarious sendup
of 1920s Broadway musicals—
opens Fri., June 12 at the
Bellingham Theatre Guild
VISUAL ARTS
Escape Routes Reception: 12-2pm, Western Gallery,
WWU
Roger Small Reception: 5-8pm, the Shop, Conway
SUNDAY [06.14.15]
ONSTAGE
The Muppets Take Manhattan: 2pm, Bellingham
Arts Academy for Youth
The Drowsy Chaperone: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre
Guild
Shrek, the Musical: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,
Lynden
To Kill a Mockingbird: 2pm, Anacortes Community
Theatre
Laughing at the Stars: 8:30pm, Star Club
THURSDAY [06.11.15]
ONSTAGE
Shrek, the Musical: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas
Theatre, Lynden
To Kill a Mockingbird: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Bard on the Beach: Though September, Vanier Park,
Vancouver, BC
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
Theatre, Lynden
Truth Be Told: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Sonny Sixkiller: 8pm, Silver Reef Event Center
Pulp Improv: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
FILM
The Bustle Hustle: 9pm, Cirque Lab
MUSIC
FRIDAY [06.12.15]
Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine
ONSTAGE
FILM
The Muppets Take Manhattan: 7pm, Bellingham
Arts Academy for Youth
The Drowsy Chaperone: 7:30pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
SATURDAY [06.13.15]
ONSTAGE
The Muppets Take Manhattan: 2pm and 7pm,
Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth
The Drowsy Chaperone: 7:30pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
Theatre, Lynden
Truth Be Told: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Comedy Nite All Stars: 7:30pm, Lakeway Inn
Pulp Improv: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
COMMUNITY
Stommish Water Festival: Through Sunday, Stommish Grounds, Lummi Nation
Peter Pan: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre
The Sleeping Beauty: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall,
Mount Vernon
WORDS
David Suzuki: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre
COMMUNITY
Stommish Water Festival: Stommish Grounds,
Lummi Nation
GET OUT
Deming Logging Show: 9am, Deming Logging Show
Grounds
MONDAY [06.15.15]
ONSTAGE
Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab
Guffawingham: 9:30pm, Green Frog
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Things got hog-wild in Xenia, Ohio this week after a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of piglets crashed and tipped,
spilling more than 2,000 small swine onto the highway.
Many were saved, but hundreds died from their injuries and
hundreds more are on the loose. No human injuries were
reported in the accident.
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8: Suzuki’s last stand
10: Last week’s news
11: Police Blotter, Index
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RIDE NAKED
Bellingham’s naked bike ride was a thumbs up
success.
As a participant of the annual event I would
like to address my appreciation to a city open
minded enough to continue not to impede this
overt freedom of expression.
People really do show up for whatever reason
of their own to support the event and shout their
approval. Some even bring their kids. The cops
are there beforehand to warn us of the consequences, legal reps are among the bicyclists to
even things out, everyone is cordial and in a
good mood back at base camp and it seems the
good vibes generated by this collection of freedom enthusiasts permeate across the city.
We appreciate the support of those that line
the streets and it reassures us that choose to
make our lives in Bellingham that we are priveleged to be here and reminds us that we appreciate the city we live in.
—Michael Watkins, Bellingham
POLICE FIGHT CRIME
I was dismayed by the statistics on police
shootings in the June 3 Weekly. What was missing, of course, was the percentage of those shot
by police who were committing violent crimes
and/or actively resisting arrest. My guess is close
to 100 percent.
Contrary to the media narrative, our country
is suffering from a crime wave approaching open
rebellion in some cities, not random violence
from the police. The accompanying cartoon was
an insult to police officers who risk their lives
every day to protect us from violent criminals.
—Brad Howard, Bellingham
There is a difference between being a newspaper and a propaganda tool. Nazi Germany and the
Soviet Union perfected propaganda and we are
approaching that level here.
When the Weekly publishes a cartoon such as
the one on p.11 of last week’s issue, it becomes a
propaganda tool. Same thing with the so-called
statistics. For every person treated unjustly by
a police officer, hundreds are rescued and protected. Take a look at the number of people who
killed each other in Baltimore, Detroit, or Chicago
last week. Those numbers kinda dwarf the dubious stats you quote.
When people in neighborhoods are terrified
they don’t turn to George next door. They call
the cops and pray for quick arrival—an arrival
that may not happen now as the police are vilified into non-function. Who wants to put his
or her life on the line day in and day out while
being told he or she is a pig to throw rocks at,
and worse.
—Lawrence Quinlivan, Bellingham
YES, WE NEED A JAIL
I have been rebuked for not being sufficiently attentive to the needs of the mentally ill.
—Rowan Peterson, Bellingham
MORE TRAIN PAINS
Help. Our park crossing is in trouble.
The Parks Dept. in Belingham is trying
to fix a sewage problem. What they have
come up with is ruining our crossing over
the railroad. The contractors said that
they had do it that way because of some
“permit problems” with BNSF.
Well, it’s awful. Cuts the room for pe-
—Tim Baker, Bellingham
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On reading the City/Port waterfront
development plan, I noticed there is no
real assessment of how earthquakes may
affect the development, which is to be
built on contaminated fill in a corner of
Bellingham Bay. Yet fill like this is susceptible to a process called liquefaction,
resulting in increased damage during an
earthquake. Based on the plan’s statements (or lack thereof), it appears that
the port’s plan for earthquakes is... just
hope they won’t happen. If the city and
port bothered to check, however, the
latest studies say there’s a 37 percent
chance that the nearby Cascade fault will
produce a magnitude 8 earthquake in the
next 50 years. That’s slightly bigger than
the quake that hit Nepal recently.
When the next big quake happens here,
the tsunami to follow could also affect
the waterfront site. Well... let’s just hope
that doesn’t happen as well.
Then there’s the issue of rising sea
levels. The plan—now several years old–
points to studies that indicate sea levels
could rise 15-50 inches over the next 100
years, but they claim “most of” the site
(i.e., at least 51 percent) is 60-84 inches
above the mean high-water mark (no references in the plan to the study this is
based on). That still means up to 49 percent of the site may be below the mean
high-water mark. The plan is on top of
this, however, suggesting that more fill
may be added to the existing fill to raise
some of the low-lying areas. More fill, of
course, will make the site even more unstable in an earthquake. But remember,
we’re hoping an earthquake doesn’t happen. Or if it does, that it’s not too big.
Cross your fingers.
Since the plan was published, each new
prediction regarding sea level rise indicates a faster and higher rise than what
was predicted previously. Well... let’s just
hope it doesn’t happen as fast or get as
high as some predict.
As far as I can tell, the city and port’s
plan for the waterfront, is to hope there’s
no earthquake; hope it’s not too big; hope
there’s no tsunami; hope it’s not too big;
hope the fill on the waterfront doesn’t
undergo liquefaction as predicted; and
hope sea levels don’t rise further than an
old unreferenced prediction.
But there’s always the standard backup
plan: let our children and grandchildren
pay to clean up the mess. Onward!
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Bellingham does seem noisy. I think it
effects our well-being and the marketvalue of our housing. Glad to see it is being discussed.
Much of Bellingham is in a basin—a
bay surrounded by hills. Sound bounces
off those hills and carries across the
open water. What you hear depends on
what is between you and the source.
The freeway roar begins at about 5am
and builds into the day. The York neighborhood has benefited from the concrete sound insulating walls along the
freeway. There are none in Happy Valley
and other neighborhoods. Traffic noise
is a constant.
Train whistles can be pleasant if heard
at a distance and infrequently. When I
lived in Hawaii, I leaned into the phone
if there was the background of the train
whistle on the other end. With the increasing rail traffic, mostly oil and coal,
it is more and more intolerable.
I have heard the slow-moving oil trains
make blasts every five seconds in the wee
hours. This problem may increase manifold if related industries have their way.
Whistles are a safety feature, but are the
consequences of broken sleep worth it?
This is a conflict with housing near the
waterfront. People move to escape the
noise, not to mention vibration.
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—Mark Nelson, Bellingham
destrians to cross, blocks more view of
the bay and it’s ugly to boot. I’m not sure
who is to blame for this awful solution to
the sewage problem. I hope it’s not BSNF
because the railroad is already on a lot of
people’s shit list.
At a time when we need more and better
parks in Bellingham, this is what we get?
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Evidently, if I support the bonding to
build a much-needed jail, I am indifferent to the plight of the mentally ill and
drug addicted.
Not so. When I discuss the issue, those
who wish a counseling center for the
mentally ill insist it be separate from jail
construction. They also insist it be located some distance away, and reduce the
jail by at least a third of the bond size.
That would mean that the jail would go
from 521 beds down to about 347 beds—
less than what our current illegally overcrowded jail holds.
In short, barring compromise on this
jail bond, the taxpayers of Whatcom
County are going to get no safe jail, no
mental health facility concession, and
continue to house inmates in a facility
ripe for heavy lawsuits by both inmates
and administrative staff. Neither the citizens, the mentally ill, nor our enforcement and judicial branches are helped by
the current standoff.
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THE GRISTLE
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A BLUE GREENWAYS?: Bellingham City Council took a
breather this week, retreating from the glare of City
Hall for a relaxed special meeting to focus their own
processes and procedures for dealing with social media
and each other, and to set their legislative priorities
for the coming year.
First up was Greenways, one of the quiet little success stories of COB, a small property tax levy initiative
first established in 1990 to acquire green assets the
public loves.
Historically, every Greenways, Beyond Greenways,
Grandchild of Greenways has differed a bit from its
predecessors, learning and building from past efforts.
In early years, the levy was able to acquire, tranquilly
and without much fanfare, vast tracts of open green
spaces from willing sellers with thoughts of endowments and legacies. This set the tone of how future Greenways would operate—cooperatively and quietly out of
the headlines. By the peculiarities of geography, these
acquisitions tended to cluster on the Southside. Seven
years later, the levy was renewed by voters, the vastness
of acreage acquired for parks and open space was drawn
down only slightly as early opportunities for ripe fruit
receded and acquisitions became a bit more planned and
strategic. In 2006, voters again renewed the effort with
approval for a ten-year levy. It passed by 59 percent in
a robust election with good participation. The levy is
expected to have generated more than $44 million when
it retires at the end of next year.
Greenways III—as many programs grow in their maturity—has unfolded with a bit of turbulence, a little
more sparring about where funds should be spent and
how, more strategy than happenstance, more emphasis
on building parks and maintaining them than on snapping up more raw land. Under the program guidelines,
60 percent of levy funds was to be used for property
acquisitions, 31 percent for development of parks and
trails, and 9 percent for a preservation endowment that
would generate interest for continued park operations.
Sure, a Ridge or two popped up to upset things, and
priorities got drawn as lines on a map, territories to
defend and threaten war over. But, eventually, parks
were created north and south stunning enough to tamp
down much of the quarrel. Like most things in maturity,
Greenways III at last gained a craggy sort of wisdom
coming off a midlife crisis and ebullient, sexy youth.
The essence of Greenways is to link Bellingham’s
trails, ridgetops and shoreline corridors with a continuous series of parks, forests and greenbelts. Projects
using Greenway levy funds have been defined via voterapproved levy initiatives through a small tax of around
.57 per $1,000 of property tax valuation and approved
by the City Council, often based on opportunities and
available resources. Both a Parks Board and Greenways
committee advise policymakers and the administration
on priorities for the funds.
City Council resolved, yes, there should be a new life
for a fourth Greenways effort. But what should it look
like? What direction or counsel, if any, should they give
to the nascent Greenways IV advisory committee that
formed last month and meets again this week?
Certainly, there is broad agreement from all interest
groups that the formula of Greenways balance should
continue to mature, with more resources devoted to
increasing the interconnectivity of lands already acquired—trails and easements to allow residents greater access to these natural assets. And greater portions
OPI N IONS
T H E G R IST L E
BY ROBERT REICH
Anticipatory Bribery
THE WELL-OILED REVOLVING DOOR
ashington has been
rocked by the scandal of
J. Dennis Hastert, the
longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House
of Representatives, indicted on
charges of violating banking laws
by paying $1.7 million (as part of a
$3.5 million agreement) to conceal
prior misconduct, which turns out
to have been child molestation.
That scandal contains another one
that’s received less attention: Hastert, who never made much money as
a teacher or a congressman, could
manage such payments because after retiring from Congress he became
a high-paid lobbyist.
This second scandal is perfectly
legal, but it’s a growing menace.
In the 1970s, only 3 percent of retiring members of Congress went on
to become Washington lobbyists.
Now, half of all retiring senators
and 42 percent of retiring representatives become lobbyists.
This isn’t because more recent
retirees have had fewer qualms.
It’s because the financial rewards
from lobbying have mushroomed,
as big corporations and giant Wall
Street banks have sunk fortunes
into rigging the game to their advantage.
In every election cycle since
2008, more money has gone into
lobbying at the federal level than
into political campaigns. And an
increasing portion of that lobbying
money has gone into the pockets of
former members of Congress.
In viewing campaign contributions as the major source of corruption we overlook the more insidious
flow of direct, personal payments—
much of which might be called “anticipatory bribery” because they
enable office holders to cash in big
after they’ve left office.
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For years, former Republican
House majority leader Eric Cantor
was one of Wall Street’s strongest
advocates—fighting for the bailout
of the Street, to retain the Street’s
tax advantages and subsidies, and
to water down the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation.
Just two weeks after resigning
from the House, Cantor joined the
Wall Street investment bank of Moelis
& Co., as vice chairman and managing director, starting with a $400,000
base salary, $400,000 initial cash bonus, and $1 million in stock.
As Cantor explained, “I have
known Ken [the bank’s CEO] for
some time and… followed the
growth and success of his firm.”
Exactly. They had been doing
business together so long that Cantor must have anticipated the bribe.
Anticipatory bribery undermines
trust in government almost as much
as direct bribery. At a minimum, it
can create the appearance of corruption, and raise questions in the
public’s mind about the motives of
public officials.
Was the Obama White House so
easy on big Wall Street banks—
never putting tough conditions on
them for getting bailout money or
prosecuting a single top Wall Street
executive—because Tim Geithner,
Barack Obama’s treasury secretary,
and Peter Orszag, his director of the
Office of Management and Budget,
anticipated lucrative jobs on the
Street? Geithner became president
of the private-equity firm Warburg
Pincus when he left the administra-
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tion; Orszag became Citigroup’s vice
chairman of corporate and investment banking.
Another form of anticipatory
bribery occurs when the payment
comes in anticipation of a person
holding office, and then delivering
the favors.
According to the New York Times,
as Marco Rubio ascended the ranks
of Republican politics, billionaire
Norman Braman not only bankrolled
his campaigns but subsidized Rubio’s personal finances.
A case of anticipatory bribery?
Certainly looks like it. In the Florida
legislature, Rubio steered taxpayer
funds to Braman’s favored causes,
including an $80 million state grant
to finance a genomics center at a
private university and $5 million
for cancer research at a Miami institute. “When Norman Braman brings
[a proposal] to you,” Rubio said,
“you take it seriously.”
Hillary and Bill Clinton have
made more than $25 million for
104 speeches since the start of last
year, according to disclosure forms
filed with the Federal Election Commission in mid May—of which she
delivered 51, earning more than
$11 million of the total.
We need some rules here.
First, former government officials,
including members of Congress,
shouldn’t be able to lobby or take
jobs in industries over which they
had some oversight, for at least
three years after leaving office.
Second, anyone who runs for
office should bear the burden of
showing that whatever personal
payments they received up to three
years before were based on their
economic worth, not anticipated
political clout.
Finally, once they declare, perhaps
even their spouses should desist.
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of the fund maintaining and improving
those acquired assets.
In fact, as Council members observed, Greenways in maturity begins
to look more and more like a park levy.
Perhaps it should be.
The State of Washington provides a
special-purpose taxing instrument for
the creation of a metropolitan parks
district. Such an instrument was created in 2012 for the Chuckanut Community Forest Park District, governed
by an elected board and authorized to
levy a small tax of .28 per $1,000 of
property tax valuation for 10 years. The
levy is designed to make the Greenways
endowment whole after the purchase of
the famous parcel known as Hundred
Acre Wood and prepare the area for
eventual absorption into the city’s wider constellation of metropolitan parks.
The City of Ferndale likewise plans to
place a MPD measure in front of voters
this fall to improve its green portfolio.
Once formed, the district holds the
capacity to endure in perpetuity, unlike special purpose bonds like Greenways that sunset after ten years,
making MPDs ideal to fund ongoing
operations like parks. But Council continues to favor seeking periodic public
approval through Greenways measures,
and agrees Greenways is a comfortable
brand in the minds of voters.
But a poll measure can’t be all nuts
and bolts, oil and grease. There must
be those special purchases and projects that fire imaginations, thrill volunteers and inspire voters.
An intriguing possibility considered
by the Greenways committee would be
special emphasis on cleaning and restoring city tidelands and shorelines
and tying those into the connectivity
of other parks and trails—a Blue Greenways. Many of these potential acquisitions and projects were identified
along 11 miles of city shoreline by the
Waterfront Futures Group in their 2004
waterfront vision and framework plan,
before that group’s work was hijacked
and slaved to the Port of Bellingham’s
narrow vision for its 137 acres of the
central waterfront. The WFG guiding
principles of design and function remain the best comprehensive vision
for the city’s blueways.
Projects could include providing greater connectivity between
the city’s two waterfronts—bay and
lake—as well as improved access to
the shoreline north at Little Squalicum
Beach and south from Cornwall Beach.
For many years Bellingham has
turned its back on its industrial waterfront. Perhaps the moment has arrived
to embrace it.
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he governments of more than 190
nations will gather in Paris later this
year to discuss a possible new global
agreement on climate change, aimed
at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of dangerous climate change. Meanwhile, ahead
of the United Nations climate summit,
leaders of the world’s seven largest economies met in Germany this week. Leaders
stressed that “deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions” were required with
“a decarbonization of the global economy
over the course of this century.”
Strong words, but are words enough?
The aim was to send a clear signal to
push other nations taking part in the
Paris meeting to commit to reducing dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, which
threaten to melt ice caps and glaciers,
raise sea levels and bring more violent
storms and floods. But it may be too little, too late. Climate scientists say we’re
already pushed well past the UN’s defining goal of reducing carbon emissions
sufficient to keep global temperatures
from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial levels.
The 2C cap has its roots in an Earth
Summit in 1992, which pledged to avoid
undefined “dangerous” human interference with the climate system.
Since that pledge, greenhouse gas
emissions have reached record highs.
And proposed cuts in carbon emissions
from 2020 and promises to deepen them
in subsequent reviews—offered by governments wary of the economic cost of
shifting from fossil fuels—are unlikely
to be enough for the 2C goal.
Indeed, the political will to achieve
that goal is also dismal—a recent poll
found 17 percent of Americans “do not
agree to any international agreement
that addresses climate change.” It’s a
discouraging number, a faction policymakers can cower behind.
“Overall, the science is in: the planet is in terrible shape. And we’re going
backwards,” says David Suzuki. For nearly
35 years, Suzuki has brought science into
the homes of millions on the Canadian
television series, The Nature of Things.
He has become a godfather of the environmental movement, and is considered
that country’s most admired figure. His
outspoken views on
climate change and
the government’s collusion with the petrochemical industry in
developing
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thinker set out to write a series of letters to his grandchildren, expressing his
hopes for their future against worsening
odds. It’s a farewell, of sorts, as Suzuki
prepares for a quiet twilight in Vancouver, clear of public life.
“At my age, whatever politicians and
corporate executives do or do not do
will have little effect on my life, I’m
near the end,” the 79-year-old said.
“But the effects of those actions and
inactions will reverberate through the
entire lives of my grandchildren with
enormous repercussions.
“If young people care about what lies
ahead, they have no choice but to get
involved in whatever way they feel they
can. I am encouraged by people who are
ready to put their bodies on the line, to
risk physical harm and jail time. I believe
they should enlist the most important
recent interview. “And I think that what
we have to also find is a mechanism to
judge people and to make them accountable for the implications of what they
do or do not do for future generations.
That is, there should be a category of
intergenerational crime. You come here
20 years later: how many of the political leaders that were here in 1992 are
now here again? Very, very few, if any.
So, these guys come, they make a lot of
nice words, and they say, ‘Oh, yeah, we
care about this. We’re going to do that.’
Nobody holds them accountable, because
they go out of office, they go on to become billionaires or whatever they do.
But who’s accountable for the lack of any
kind of profound activity?”
Raging at the futility of climate summits, Suzuki observes, “Meetings like this
are doomed to fail, because we see ourselves at the center of everything, and our
political and our economic priorities have
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“We live in a world
in which everything
is connected to
everything else. So
whatever we do, from
the food we eat, to the
products we buy, use
and throw away, has
repercussions. And so
the way we live carries
huge responsibilities.
Freedom carries with it
responsibility and we
are not isolated from
everything else. We are
exquisitely connected.”
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don’t come together and say, ‘Look, let’s
start with the agreement that we are biological creatures, and if you don’t have air
for more than three or four minutes, you’re
dead; if you don’t have clean air, you’re
sick,’ so, surely, air, the atmosphere that
provides us with the seasons, the weather, the climate, that has to be our highest
priority. Before anything economic or political, that has to be the highest priority.
“But what you’re getting is a huge gathering, as we saw in Copenhagen, a huge
gathering of countries trying to negotiate
something that doesn’t belong to anyone,
through the lenses of all of the political
boundaries and the economic priorities,
and we try to shoehorn nature into our
agenda. And it’s simply not going to work,”
he said. “A meeting like this is doomed to
fail, because we haven’t left our vested
interests outside the door and come together as a single species and agreed what
the fundamental needs are for all of humanity. So we’re going to sacrifice the air,
the water, the biodiversity, all in the sake
of human political and economic interest.
“Over and over, we are told that solutions to problems are ‘impossible,’ usually
on the basis of economic cost, but seldom
because of real scientific or engineering
barriers, and almost always because the
blocks are in our minds,” he writes. “Borders, governments, capitalism, the economy, corporations, markets and currency—
these are not forces of nature; they are
human constructs that can be modified
and regulated to conform to the boundaries dictated by nature. But we react and
respond to those global factors by acting
as if our creations somehow are inviolable and must be maintained, so we try to
shoehorn nature into our priorities and
make her conform to our needs.”
His parting advice is to be thoughtful
about the way you live.
“We live in a world in which everything
is connected to everything else,” Suzuki
said. “So whatever we do, from the food
we eat, to the products we buy, use and
throw away, has repercussions. And so the
way we live carries huge responsibilities.
Freedom carries with it responsibility
and we are not isolated from everything
else. We are exquisitely connected.”
“People often come up to me and
say, ‘Thank you for the work you are doing,’”he said. “But if I ask what they are
doing, a typical response is, ‘You’re on
television, so you have a big influence.
I’m a drop in the bucket.’ I’ve been lucky
to have a platform, The Nature of Things,
that has enabled me to present important issues to the public. But I’m still just
one person, too, a drop in the bucket. If
we recruit a lot of drops, however, we can
fill any bucket there is.
“This is what a grassroots movement
is,” Suzuki observed. “We can all be part
of something that can grow into a movement. What matters is, we try.
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burst through:
“You know, you can charge people who
are at a scene, where someone is being
murdered, and if you don’t do anything to
try to help that, you can be charged with
criminal negligence. If something is going on that you should know about, and
you ignore it deliberately, that’s called
‘willful blindness.’ That’s a legal category
for taking people to court,” he said in a
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people on the planet—their parents—to
become eco-warriors prepared to fight
for the future of their children.”
The most personal of his many books,
Letters to My Grandchildren brushes across
many topics and includes stories from
Suzuki’s own remarkable life, and his role
as a father and grandfather reflected in
his own upbringing.
“My father was the great influence of
my life when I was growing up. He instilled in me a sense of responsibility to
always try to make this country a better
place and warned me that if I spoke out
for what I believed, there would always
be people who would be angry and attack me. He taught me the importance
of speaking out,” he said. “My mother
was, to me, the kindest, most modest,
hard-working person I know. And yet, she
will disappear from memory in two generations. Most of the people who have
ever lived were like my mother, good,
hard-working people who didn’t demand
to be recognized and that has always
had an immense effect on me—who do I
think I am if I want to be more than what
my mother was?” he asks.
“I think one of the most obscene descriptions today is the word disposable,”
Suzuki remarked. “Instead of bragging
about durability, resistance to wear and
tear, or lasting a lifetime, we boast of
disposability as a convenience, that can
be discarded for more modern or ostentatious indicators of wealth, We should
cover our ears when someone uses the
word disposable,” he advised, “and admonish them for saying a bad word.”
Suzuki believes we are living in a unprecedented moment in human history
where our actions are pivotal and have
profound global consequences.
“The sudden confluence of explosive
growth in human numbers, technological
dexterity, and consumptive demand is
having a huge impact on the properties
of the planet itself,” he writes. “Some of
the consequences include an alteration of
the biological and chemical composition
of the atmosphere, water and soil, and
massive geophysical change in terrestrial
and aquatic ecosystems. It means you are
heading toward huge changes in weather
and climate as well as in the biological
productivity of forests, reefs, wetlands
and prairies. The scientific warnings of
our potential fate have been issued with
increasing urgency over decades, but
there has been reluctance to meet the
challenge on the scale that’s needed.”
The reasons are many, but he cites inertia as a primary cause. “One must make
a commitment in confronting a crisis, but
that is the hardest thing to do because
we all see the world through beliefs and
values that are powerfully influenced by
politics and economics.”
Though he tries hard to speak as an
elder, wisely retiring from the fray, at
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Health officials conclude a dairy barn at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds was indeed the source of an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in April, but believe the contamination occurred
before the annual Milk Makers Fest. Infecting bacteria can survive
for several weeks. More than two dozen cases of E. coli exposure were
confirmed, some requiring hospitalization. Most of the ill people
were children, including older children who helped with the event.
A man accused of murder in Whatcom County is guilty—but not
of murder. A jury convicts William Smith of manslaughter in the
killing of Jeremy McClellan in March. Smith stabbed McClellan to
death outside a south Whatcom County trailer. The Bellingham Herald
reports defense attorneys argued Smith acted in self-defense. Prosecutors claim Smith continued to stab McClellan even as the victim
tried to run away.
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FRIDAY
Governor Jay Inslee selects the City of Bellingham as the recipient
of the 2015 Smart Vision Award for the comprehensive plan for downtown. Now in its 10th year, the Governor’s Smart Community’s Award
program recognizes achievements by local leaders who promote comprehensive growth planning and projects that contribute to quality
of life in Washington State. Judges noted that the Downtown Bellingham Plan was the broadest, most inclusive look at downtown
issues they had seen.
The U.S. Coast Guard will seek civil penalties against four protestors who entered an established safety zone and climbed an anchor
to the Shell-contracted Arctic Challenger in Bellingham over Memorial Day weekend. On April 28, the Coast Guard established 100yard safety zones around Arctic drilling and support vessels while
moored or anchored, and a 500-yard safety zone while transiting to
allow maximum use of the waterway consistent with safe navigation.
Coast Guard officials can seek a maximum civil penalty of $40,000
for each entry into the zone or day the individuals violated the zone.
KING TV reports that Shell Oil is challenging the state’s opinion
that docking the Polar Pioneer drilling rig in Seattle might violate
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Bellingham’s fake Orca fools no one. The effort to scare off hundreds of sea lions in Oregon flops after the the fiberglass Orca went belly up,
swamped by a passing boat. Earlier in the day, Port of Astoria officials had to find a replacement motor for the 32-foot replica, which is on loan
from Bellingham’s Island Mariner Cruises. Port of Astoria said the sea lions got “deathly silent” when the Orca sailed into view—until it started
listing and tipped over.
the state constitution. Last month, the state Department of Natural Resources sent Shell a letter
saying the waterway where the rig is docked is
for navigation, not long-term moorage. DNR asked
Shell to explain how long its equipment will be
there and whether it’s coming back. Shell’s response said ships will be there through June and
return in the fall.
Ten environmental groups are suing a federal agency over its approval of drilling permits
off Alaska’s northwest coast. The lawsuit seeks
a review of permits granted to Royal Dutch Shell
PLC by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
for exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea. The
environmental groups that contend oil companies
are not equipped to deal with a major blowout or
spill in a region lacking deep-water ports, major
airports and other infrastructure routinely present
in other drilling areas.
A high-risk sex offender gets extra years
tacked on to his sentence for having sex with
a teenage girl. Whatcom County’s newest judge
sentences John Wayne Lawrence to an exceptional
10 years in prison, two years more than what the
prosecution and defense attorneys recommended. Lawrence pleaded guilty to several charges,
including rape of a child in the third degree. Superior Court Judge Montoya-Lewis finds his criminal
record egregious.
No one is hurt in a head-on collision between a
Blaine School District bus and a car. There were no
students on board the bus at the time.
Ferndale Police arrest two men they say ad-
mit to a home invasion robbery May 28. Both
men have extensive criminal records for residential burglary, harrassment and drug violations.
The pair broke down the door of a home looking
for cash and drugs but fled when the homeowners
called police.
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The Washington Supreme Court confirms it will
wait until after the Legislature adjourns from its
last 2015 special section to hear a progress report
on how lawmakers have fixed the state education
budget. As lawmakers headed into their second
special session more than a week ago, the state
attorney general sent a note to the court to make
sure the justices could wait for that report. The
report to the court is supposed to explain why
sanctions are not needed in connection with a
contempt order associated with the 2012 McCleary
decision on school funding.
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Washington’s attorney general says he will open
a criminal investigation into state Auditor Troy
Kelley, separate from the federal charges he already faces. The state’s investigation is expected
to focus on the relationship between Kelley and a
former part-time worker at the auditor’s office who
has longstanding ties to Kelley. Kelley, who is on
unpaid leave, was indicted in April on charges that
he ducked taxes and kept more than $1 million in
money that he should have refunded to clients of
his former real-estate-services business.
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On June 5, Bellingham Police joined their
brethren to celebrate National Donut Day.
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On May 25, University Police received a
report of approximately 10 college-aged
persons in the area of the Sehome Arboretum tower, acting strangely. By the time
police arrived, only two remained who were
reportedly acting fine. “They haven’t seen
anything unusual,” police reported.
On May 23, a University Police officer
came across a group of students smoking
marijuana near Buchanan Towers. Campus
cops impounded the contraband weed for
destruction.
On June 8, University Police reported 1012 college-aged men were playing Frisbee
in Red Square. “Group threw two people
into the fountain,” campus cops report-
On May 30, Bellingham Police arrested
three disorderly people who were hosting a
loud party south of WWU campus.
On May 30, Bellingham Police responded to
a report of a loud party near Laurel Park and
WWU campus. Police issued three citations
for violating the city noise ordinance.
On May 30, Bellingham Police responded
to reports of a loud party south of WWU.
to reports of a loud party in York neighborhood near WWU campus.
On May 30, Bellingham Police cited two
people who were hosting a loud party in
Samish neighborhood.
to reports of a loud party in Puget neighborhood.
to reports of a loud party in Happy Valley.
to a report of another loud party in Happy
Valley.
On May 31, Bellingham Police reponded to
a noise complaint near Whatcom Falls Park.
On June 1, Bellingham Police investigated
a complaint about a loud party near Civic
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MILLIONS in new revenue in the
revised House budget proposed by state
legislators. The House has removed
requests for a 0.3 percentage point
business and occupation (B&O) tax
surcharge to service industry businesses,
the closure of wasteful tax breaks, and a
sales tax on some out-of-state internet
retailers.
MILLIONS moved out of the state
budget that would bring health benefits
for teachers in line with state employees.
The budget also eliminates funding
to provide breakfast for children with
low incomes during the school day,
address the educational opportunity gap
faced by children of color, and improve
educational outcomes for foster children.
$65
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MILLIONS of dollars stripped out of
the Senate version of the state budget
intended to help families weather
difficult financial times. The proposed
budget neglects to restore a previous
cut to food assistance, impacting more
than 15,000 children and eliminates
staffing positions that provide public
assistance to struggling individuals and
families.
MILLIONS in lost revenue through tax
breaks contained in the Senate version
of the state budget, including extending
a costly tax break for agricultural
processors and re-enacting a tax break
for high-tech research and development
activities. A Joint Legislative Audit and
Review Committee audit found these
incentives to be a complete failure.
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PERCENT of Washingtonians who do
not have enough income to meet their
basic needs.
PERCENT of all income held by the
wealthiest 1 percent of state residents.
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non-retired Americans represented by
education loans in 1989
PERCENT of installment debt for
non-retired Americans represented by
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health care costs, are among the chief reasons for the continuing budget turmoil, which
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On May 30, campus cops searched without
success for a group of students smoking
dope near Edens Hall.
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control a loud party at Nash Hall on WWU
campus.
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On June 6, a motorist complained that,
while he was stopped at a light downtown, a woman on a bike rode up to him
and accused him of having yelled at her
on Chuckanut Drive a month ago. “The female proceeded to hit his car and spat on
him through the window,” Bellingham Police reported. ”The female then rode away
on her environmentally friendly mode of
transportation.”
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south of WWU campus.
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On June 5, Bellingham Police cited just
one naked cyclist among dozens after
someone complained about how he was
carrying his gear.
On May 29, Bellingham Police responded to a report of a loud party in Sehome
neighborhood near Western Washington
University campus. Four people were cited
for violating the city’s noise ordinance.
11.2
PERCENT pay raise for the Washington State Legislature approved by the Washington
Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials, which has sole authority to
set pay for lawmakers and statewide elected officials. Running the Legislature for an
extra month included more than $180,000 in daily expense payments to lawmakers.
SOURCES: Associated Press; Washington State Budget & Policy Center; LIMRA Secure
Retirement Institute; Seattle Times
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On June 5, police again monitored what they
described as a “unique bicycling event,” the
7th annual Naked Bike Ride through downtown Bellingham. “The police department
will contact participants prior to the event
and inform them of the applicable law,
which prohibits ‘indecent exposure,’” police
reported. “Court rules require a citizen complaint prior to enforcement action. If this is
the case, those who are in violation of the
law will be arrested and cited. According
to the law, increased penalties occur if the
person exposes himself or herself to a person under 14 years of age, or if the violator
has been previously convicted of indecent
exposure or of a sex offense,” police noted.
“The police presence is to ensure that participants comply with applicable laws and
ordinances. The police presence and escort
is not intended to be an endorsement of this
event,” police cautioned.
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that bricks were being stolen from the memorial Yellow Brick Road between Arntzen
Hall and the Fine Arts building on campus.
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done against the will of participants.
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A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE NUCLEAR WEST
ay “downwinder” and most Pacific Northwesterners think of the people of the
Palouse and Columbia gorge living downwind and downstream of the decommissioned Hanford nuclear breeder complex. But stories
of people with eerily similar complaints of health problems, of
diminished lives, pepper the West.
In chilling detail, Seattle author Sarah Alisabeth Fox brings to
light the experiences and concerns of Americans whose voices
have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name
of patriotism and national security, tracing the evolution of a
citizen activist movement that eventually challenged the federal
government and powerful military and energy industries.
“I’m a born and raised Skagitonian and former Bellingham
resident,” Fox said. The Evergreen State College grad was waiting tables in Fairhaven and dreaming of tackling one of the most shrouded and elusive topics of environmental journalism—the atomic West.
“In the 1950s, people living in rural communities were often the hosts of nuclear
facilities, uranium mines, disposal sites, et cetera,” Fox said. “Those locations were
chosen because they had low population densities. But in low population areas you
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those people lived closely to that production or were closely involved in it—whether they had a parent with a ranch or had
a backyard garden—they were able to visibly see contamination entering their food
supply, whether it was dust drifting down
from a very visible mushroom cloud over
Nevada, causing leaves to curl up or spots
to appear on the backs of sheep or horses.
Or liquid wastes coming off uranium mines
and flowing into the water supply.
“People were able to put two and two
together when livestock started to suffer,
when people started to get sick, and they
were able to rely upon their own experiential knowledge of the food chain to combat
these messages they were receiving from
authority figures that they were uneducated
and wrong about their observations and did
not understand why they were getting sick.”
It’s not an easy story to track down or
tell. Decades separate events from consequences, miles separate detonation from
fallout, anecdotes and suspicion supplant
evidence, and permeating all is the desire
of industries and regulators to sweep this
old atomic dust under the carpet.
“I combined a folklore analysis of the
stories, looking at them as community
narratives that were simultaneously personal and collective social material,” Fox
explained. “Analyzing the stories from
that perspective, I was able to identify
some key themes, patterns in the stories—the contamination of local food, the
destruction of local agriculture, the patriotism that defines the Cold War and disillusionment that followed, the dismissal of
women and people of color.
“Once I was able to hone in on those
big themes, I was able to bring in other
disciplines such as medical research, declassified documents related to nuclear
energy energy programs and class-action
lawsuits underway.
“Drawing all those things together I was
able to get a good sense of how those stories
had played out historically and how they had
emerged and developed over time,” she said.
Fox was determined to tell the stories of
these ranchers and homesteaders in a way
that honored their lives. Coursing strongly
through her work is the activism of mothers
as quiet caregivers and fierce healers tending their families, the sick and the dying.
“As a Pacific Northwesterner and very
much a West Coast progressive going into
Utah, I was very interested in trying to
find common ground with people from
other perspectives and—thinking back
to the Spotted Owl issue in the Northwest—other livelihoods, people who
wouldn’t necessarily identify themselves
with environmentalists. Was there a way
we could sit down and talk about common
concerns?” she said.
“These were very much members of the
heartland, devout members of the LDS
Church, a lot of folks who have been voting Republican their entire lives and will
continue to vote Republican and believe
unwaveringly—despite their own personal
experiences—in a strong nuclear arsenal.
Despite having different views from me
politically, we were able to have incredibly
compelling conversations. They weren’t
advocating against nuclear technology because it was trendy, or because they’d read
about it in a flyer. This
is experiential activism—people engaging
this issue because they
had been through pretty
significant personal and
historical events, and
they’d drawn their own
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Are there broad lessons
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for other communities?
WHEN: 7pm
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“Of the many
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primary themes that
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told there was no danger.’ And I think that is very common when
a new industrial technology, a new economic activity arrives that could potentially cause emissions or harming an area’s
water table. There are always assurances
up front, in communities across the United
States, that ‘this is safe, there are smart,
well-trained people running this, that you
have nothing to worry about. And you ordinary folks, who live nearby, should just be
happy for the economic development it is
bringing to your area.’
“What people have had to learn the hard
way, often those people making those
promises up front may have the best of intentions, but it is difficult to know how
new technologies will play out over time,
the impacts they will have on the landscape, on people’s bodies, on the food supply. We need to think critically about the
pro-development messages we get when
new industries come into our communities.
“You can’t fence in nuclear technology,”
she said. “Just like you can’t fence in other
forms of industrial production, such as an oil
spill from an offshore drilling rig where—ultimately—contaminants can reach all of us.
The reality is wind, water and food transport
toxins far from their sources.”
Suddenly, downwind looks like here.
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BOOK TALK: Librarian Katie Bray leads a
bimonthly “Book Talk” at 5pm at the SkillShare
Space at the Bellingham Public Library, 210
Central Ave. Participants can share their
favorite titles, make selections, get reading
ideas and hear more about great new books.
778-7230
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STOMMISH WATER FEST IVAL: Carnival
games, canoe races, bone games, cultural music
and dance, a showing of Sonny Sixkiller Buys the
Washington Redskins, contests, and much more
will be part of the 69th annual Stommish Water
Festival taking place Thursday through Sunday
at the Stommish Grounds on Lummi Nation
(near Gooseberry Point) and beyond.
WWW.STOMMISH.COM
FRI., JUNE 12
SAT., JUNE 13
TRANSFORMAT IONS, TRANSLAT IONS:
Three poets, two artists and one musician
will take part in “Transformations & Translations: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Art”
at 7pm at Works Studio, 301 W. Holly St. The
free event is part of a pop-up gallery show at
the space.
ROCKHOUNDS RENDEZVOUS: All are
welcome when the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem
Club hosts its annual Rockhound Recycling
Rendezvous from 10am-5:30pm at the Bloedel
Donovan Community Center, 2214 Electric Ave.
Sign up for space to buy, swap or sell rockrelated material (fees are $25 for a table) or
simply show up and shop. Entry is free.
(360) 398-7870
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LITERARY PILGRIMAGE: Why would a lesbian and feminist writer identify with author
Richard Brautigan, whose most famous work
doesn’t even name its female characters? Find
out when Seattle-based author Allison Green
reads from The Ghosts Who Travel With Me: A
Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan’s America
at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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READING DEMOS: Discover how reading,
reviewing books, taking quizzes and participating at the library will earn you badges
and chances to win prizes all summer long
at “Online Summer Reading for Adults” Demo
Days at noon today at the Bellingham Public
Library, 210 Central Ave. Additional demos
take place at 5pm Wed., June 17 and 10am
Wed., June 24.
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NECKLACE OF STONES: Alice Lee retraces
her life in Alaska, China, Italy, Washington
and elsewhere when she reads from her new
book of poetry, Necklace of Stones, at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WRITERS THEATER: Sign up to read your own
original writings of stories, poems or creative
nonfiction at the monthly Chuckanut Sandstone Writer’s Theater Open Mic at 6:30pm at
the Colophon Cafe, 1208 11th St.
WED., JUNE 17
MON., JUNE 15
T IGER TAIL SOUP: As part of an “Escape
the Ordinary” Monday night reading series,
Nicki Chen reads and shares stories from Tiger
Tail Soup at 6:30pm at the Mount Vernon City
Library, 315 Snoqualmie St.
WWW.MOUNTVERNONWA.GOV
POE TRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their
creative verse as part of Poetrynight can
sign up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public
Library, 210 Central Ave. Readings start at
8pm. Entry is by donation. P.S. Please use the
back fountain entry.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., JUNE 16
BOOK OF ARON: National Book Award finalist
Jim Shepard reads from The Book of Aron at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Aron, the
narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy
MON., JUNE 15
ROCK S & GEMS: Join the Mt. Baker Rock &
Gem Club for its monthly meeting at 7pm at
the Bloedel Donovan Community Building,
2214 Electric Ave. Entry is free.
WWW.MTBAKERROCKCLUB.ORG
WED., JUNE 17
DEATH CAFE: Bring your perspectives,
thoughts, insights and questions surrounding
end of life issues and join an interesting discussion circle at the monthly Death Cafe taking
place from 6:30-8:30pm at Moles Family Funeral
Home, 2465 Lakeway Dr. Entry is by donation.
WWW.DEATHCAFE.COM
ONE GENER AT ION’S T IME: The Whatcom
Peace & Justice Center and Community to Community will host a free screening of the documentary One Generation’s Time: The Legacy of
Silme Domingo & Gene Viernes at 7pm at Garden
Street Methodist Church, 1326 N. Garden St.
WWW.WHATCOMPJC.ORG
JUNE 18-21
BERRY DAIRY DAYS: Fireworks, live music,
a road run, a parade, magic shows, a salmon
barbecue, car and stunt shows, a carnival and
strawberry shortcake will be part of “Berry
Dairy Days” happening from Thursday through
Sunday throughout Burlington.
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ONE BOOK AT A T IME: Chuck Robinson presents and reads from a new version of It Takes
a Village Books: 35 Years of Building Community, One Book at a Time at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St. The book chronicles
35 years of the publishing and book-selling
business—both here and abroad—recounts
local and national censorship and privacy incidents, and offers a glimpse into the future
of the book and bookstore.
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ANCIENT PLACES: Historian, teacher and
author Jack Nisbet reads from Ancient Places:
People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are
welcome at a weekly Group Run beginning at
6pm in Mount Vernon at the Skagit Running
Company, 702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is
great for beginners or for others wanting an
easy recovery. Entry is free and no registration is required.
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URBAN K ICKBALL: Take part in Downtown Bellingham Partnership’s “Throwback
Thursdays” Urban Kickball League by showing
up to support the teams from 5:30-7:30pm
Thursdays at Maritime Heritage Park, 500
W. Holly St. The spring league will conclude
this week with a family-friendly Final League
Tournament from 11am-4pm Sat., June 13. A
summer league is in the works.
WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM
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BY TIM JOHNSON
Toxic Tours
BAYKEEPERS WALK, CYCLE, PADDLE
THROUGH INDUSTRIAL LEGACY
rofits are taken; pollutants are left behind as industries shutter and depart for fairer pastures—it’s
a toxic legacy left behind in harbors and waterways
all across America, and Bellingham is no exception.
Bellingham’s waterfront worked hard for many decades,
generating incomes but leaving waste. The Georgia Pacific
pulp and paper mill is perhaps the most prominent example, but there are others strewn across the bay, littering
the bottom of the bay and poisoning its shorelines. The
cost of cleanup is borne largely by the public—after all,
in a literal sense our public agencies permitted the waste;
but the desire to live in a clean, safe community free of
contaminants is also ours. This duty and desire helped
launch the Waterkeeper Alliance, a group of more than 200
organization with “keeper” in their names, including our
own North Sound Baykeepers Alliance.
On three consecutive Saturdays in June, our Baykeepers
will walk and cycle through a dozen of these former industrial sites along Bellingham Bay. Join them, and you will
learn about the history of each site, the contaminants being
cleaned up, how cleanups will happen and future planned
uses for each site. In addition to the tours, RE Sources will
provide a map of the cleanup sites that will be available for
interested people to embark on a self-guided tour any time.
The 12 toxic cleanup sites in Bellingham Bay were primarily the result of a legacy of industrial practices at the
old Georgia Pacific Mill and in the Whatcom Waterway
that preceded modern environmental laws. At most of
the 12 Bellingham Bay sites, soil, sediment or groundwater were contaminated by industrial processes like pulp
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and paper milling, solid waste landfills,
and boat building. At each of these sites,
contamination levels were high enough
to warrant their inclusion under Washington’s toxics cleanup law, the Model Toxics
Control Act (MTCA).
“By offering these tours, we hope that
citizens will become inspired to more
closely follow the cleanup processes at
several of these sites,” said Wendy Steffensen, North Sound Baykeeper at RE
Sources for Sustainable Communities.
“People have the opportunity to provide
public comment during the cleanup process, and their participation is essential
to achieving a high-quality cleanup.”
For each tour, RE Sources staff will provide a brief history, and explain what the
site is contaminated with, stage in the
cleanup process, and future site plans.
Numerous agencies are involved in the
cleanup process (City of Bellingham, Port
of Bellingham, Department of Ecology, and
Environmental Protection Agency). Representatives from these agencies have been
invited to participate, and may or may not
be present for the tours.
These tours are appropriate for adults
and youth over the age of 14. No preregistration is needed. For biking tours,
participants are required to wear helmets
and are encouraged to wear high-visibility clothing for both biking and walking
tours. Participants must bring their own
bicycles. All events will happen rain or—
increasingly likely—shine.
Tours are funded through a grant from the
Washington State Dept. of Ecology.
Bellingham Bay
Cleanup Sites
WHEN: 10am-12pm
Sat., June 13, June
20, and June 27
WHERE: Each tour
has a different gathering location:
JUNE 13: Bicycle
tour of Little Squalicum Park/Oeser,
Eldridge Municipal
Landfill, Weldcraft
Marine, and I & J
Waterway cleanup
sites. Meet at
Bellingham Technical College Central
Plaza on Lindbergh
Avenue. Tour ends at
Maritime Heritage
Park. Total biking
distance is 3.25
miles.
JUNE 20: Walking tour of the
Central Waterfront,
Holly Street Landfill,
Whatcom Waterway,
and the Georgia Pacific cleanup sites.
Starts and ends at
Maritime Heritage
Park. The total
walking distance is
about 1.25 miles.
JUNE 27: Bicycle
tour of the Cornwall
Landfill, RG Haley,
South State Street
Gasification Plant,
and the Harris Avenue Shipyard sites.
Starts at Marine
Park, ends at the
Bellingham Farmers
Market. The total
biking distance is
3.25 miles.
COST: Free and
open to the public.
Registration is not
required.
INFO: www.
re-sources.org
FRI., JUNE 12
WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild
Things” excursions from 9:30-11am every
Friday in June at Fairhaven’s Marine Park.
Entry is by donation.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
CEME TERY TOUR: The City of Bellingham
presents a “Bayview’s Continuing History”
tour from 1-2:30pm at Bayview Cemetery,
1420 Woburn St. The tour will feature historical notes from Whatcom City Council meetings
and biographies of people buried at Bayview.
Entry is free.
778-7150
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PLOVER FERRY: The Plover ferry runs
through the summer from 12-8pm Friday and
Saturday and 10am-6pm Sunday departing on
the hour from the Blaine Visitor’s Dock, Gate
II at Blaine Harbor. Suggested donation for
the excursions is $1 for kids and $5 for adults.
WWW.DRAYTONHARBORMARITIME.ORG
SAT., JUNE 13
FISHING DERBY: Area youth should bring
their own fishing poles and tackle to the
Loyal Order of Camels’ annual Kids’ Fishing
Derby taking place from 8am-12pm at Fishtrap
Creek at Lynden City Park, 8460 Depot Rd.
Entry is free; donations are welcome.
WWW.LYNDEN.ORG
ORCAS HIKE: Join members of the Mount
Baker Club for a hike to Mountain Lake at
Moran State Park on Orcas Island today. Meet
at Sunnyland Elementary to carpool—cost is
$10 for gas plus shared vehicle ferry tolls.
WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG
RACE FOR EDUCAT ION: Communities in
Schools hosts its seventh annual “Race for
Education” starting at 9am at Civic Field,
1355 Civic Field Way. Entry to take part in the
fundraising 5K is $15-$25.
WWW.WHATCOMRACEFOREDUCATION.ORG
GIRLS ON THE RUN: Sign up for the annual
“Girls on the Run 5K,” which begins at 9am at
the playground at Lake Padden, 4882 Samish
Way. Entry is $15; funds raised support the
Girls on the Run program.
WWW.WHATCOMYMCA.ORG
TRAIL BUILDING DAY: Join Fairhaven Runners and the WHIMPS Mountain Bike Coalition
WWW.WCLS.ORG
SUMMER PROPAGAT ION: A free “Summer Propagation: Softwood Cuttings” workshop takes place
from 10:30am-12pm at Everson’s Cloud Mountain
Farm Center, 6906 Goodwin Rd. Participants will
learn how to clonally propagate plants during the
growing season. No registration is necessary.
WWW.CLOUDMOUNTAINFARMCENTER.ORG
SUDDEN VALLE Y GARDENING: Fleurishing
owner Diane Champaigne focuses on “Gardening in
Sudden Valley” at a free presentation at 10:30am
at the Sudden Valley’s South Whatcom Library, 10
Barn View Court. Champaigne will discuss deer
resistant landscaping, smart solutions for shady
locations, container gardening, what to do with
wet and dry areas, and native plant options.
WWW.WCLS.ORG
K ICKBALL LEAGUE FINALS: The Throwback
Thursday Urban Kickball League concludes its
spring league with a round-robin style tournament from 11am-4pm at Maritime Heritage
Park, 500 W. Holly St. The free, family-friendly
tournament will include a beer garden with local
breweries, an appearance by Mayor Kelli Linville,
food trucks, sports commentators, music from
PhDJ, and a trophy ceremony.
WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM
BONSA I & BLUEBERR IE S: Expert George
Berkompas leads a “Bonsai Seminar” at 11am
at My Garden Nursery, 929 E. Bakerview Rd.
(formerly Bakerview Nursery). At 12:30pm,
there’ll be an “Indoor Gardening” course, and,
at 1:30pm, a how to about how to grow the
“Best Blueberries.” Entry is free; please RSVP
for all seminars.
WWW.MYGARDENNURSERY.COM
CLEMAT IS TALK & BLOOM WALK: “Clemaniac”
Laura Watson leads a “Clematis Made Easy”
BOAT ING CENT ER OPEN: The Community
Boating Center has resumed operations for the
2015 season from 10am until sunset on Saturdays and Sundays at their headquarters at 555
Harris Ave. Rentals include kayaks, sailboats,
rowboats and paddle boards. Registration for
youth camps and adult classes are currently
available online. Starting June 22, the center
will operate through the week.
WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG
MON., JUNE 15
NW CAMPING BASICS: Learn more about
diverse camping opportunities in Washington,
Oregon, and Idaho at a “Pacific Northwest Camping Basics” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St.
The presentation will also cover essentials, gear
and equipment, local activities, great regional
resources and areas to camp.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
TUES., JUNE 16
SUP BASICS: Learn about “SUP (Stand Up
Paddleboarding) Basics” at a free clinic on the
topic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. The program
will offer an overview of Stand-up Paddleboards
and the necessary equipment.
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SUDDEN VALLE Y GARDENING: Fleurishing
owner Diane Champaigne focuses on “Gardening in Sudden Valley” at a free presentation at
10:30am at the Sudden Valley’s South Whatcom
Library, 10 Barn View Court. Champaigne will
discuss deer-resistant landscaping, smart solutions for shady locations, container gardening,
what to do with wet and dry areas, and native
plant options.
DEMING LOGGING SHOW: Events and exhibitions displaying the skills, tools and technology used in the logging industry will be part of
the 52nd annual Deming Logging Show starting
at 9am Saturday and Sunday at the Deming Logging Show Grounds, 3295 Cedarville Rd. Entry
is $4-$7.
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BARK IN THE PARK: Visit with various dog
vendors, watch demos and enter your dog in one
of many silly dog contests at a “Bark in the Park”
event from 10am-2pm at Storvik Park on 32nd
Street in Anacortes. Admission is free.
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SUN RUN: Join the Greater Bellingham Running
Club for its annual “Race Beneath the Sun” at
10am starting at Fairhaven Park, 107 Chuckanut
Dr. The five-mile course is mostly trail. Race-day
registration is $5-$10.
BLAZING PADDLES: Celebrate the passion
of paddle sports at the third annual “Blazing
Paddles: A Paddling Film Festival” at 7pm at
Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St.
Films will cover action, documentary, humor,
and environmental categories featuring sea
kayaking, whitewater kayaking, surf skiing,
canoeing, rafting, stand-up paddle boarding
and other paddling-related footage. Tickets
are $15; funds raised benefit Washington Water
Trails Association.
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WWW.CHRISTIANSONSNURSERY.COM
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
ALL-PACES RUN: Staffers and volunteers are
always on hand to guide the way at the weekly
All-Paces Run starting at 6pm every Tuesday at
Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The runs are 20
minutes out and back on two key routes—by the
water or through the woods. Entry is free.
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SK AGIT RUN: Raise awareness of the support and
services for people with disabilities in our community at a “Skagit Run for Those Who Can’t” event
happening from 9:30am-12pm at Mount Vernon’s
Skagit Valley College track, 2405 E. College Way.
Entry is $10 per person.
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clinic at 11am in Mount Vernon at Christianson’s
Nursery, 15806 Best Rd. Entry is $8. At 1pm, join
John Christianson for a free “June Bloom Walk” at
the 11-acre English garden of La Conner Flats (adjacent to the nursery). Please register in advance
for both events.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
THURS., JUNE 18
CREEK HISTORY: “A Creek With a Past: History
of Whatcom Creek” will be the focus of a Brown
Bag presentation with WWU history professor
Chris Friday at 12:30pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old
City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Friday tracks the creek
through sandstone beds, evergreen forests and
urban settings, sharing the creek’s varied history
as a natural resource for Native Americans and
white settlers to its current role in recreation and
economic development. Suggested donation is $3.
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for a Galbraith Trail Building Day starting at 9am
from the Galbraith Lane parking lot off Samish
Way. Food, beverages and tools will be provided
at the kid-friendly event.
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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 $4-$7.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
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The Bustle Hustle
SHAKE IT ‘TIL YOU MAKE IT
f you’re the type to get flustered by the sight of women’s underthings, tread
carefully when you make your way from the front door of the Bellingham
Circus Guild’s Cirque Lab to your seat for a viewing of the Provocateurs’ performances of The Bustle Hustle.
If you get past the clotheslines festooned with colorful slips, bras, garter belts
and a variety of other ladylike accoutrements, you’ll almost be home free—that
is, until the show gets underway, and you realize the “laundry” you narrowly
eluded was just the beginning.
Soon enough, however, I predict even the shyest audience members will be
comfortable with the sight of fishnet stockings, billowing petticoats and frilly
underwear. That’s because the women wearing the girlish garments make it clear
from the get-go that they’re perfectly fine with dancing, singing and moving the
story forward while wearing bustiers and bustles.
That’s apropos, especially considering the title of the show. The Bustle Hustle
takes place at the dawn of the 20th century, and focuses its lens on a place called
the Westmore Theater and the resident cabaret troupe—also called the Provocateurs—who are forced to up their performance game when they find out the
longtime venue is on the verge of shutting its doors.
But that’s not the whole story. In between the opening scene and the final curtain, those in attendance will see the women of the troupe deal with everything
from a greedy, villainous usurper to heartache, treachery, soul-searching, domestic violence and decades-old revelations.
It’s clear writer and director Rebecca Temple had fun with the script, making it
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campy enough to provide plenty of laughs,
but also interjecting it with hearty doses
of female solidarity, erotic empowerment
and true emotion.
Those who’ve seen past Provocateurs
shows probably already know that dance
is one of the primary ways they tell their
titillating tales, and The Bustle Hustle is
no different. Songs such as “It’s a Man’s,
Man’s, Man’s World,” “Can-Can,” and “Triplets of Belleville” are brought to vivid life
by the myriad dancing and choreographic
talents of the performers comprising both
the real and the fictional cabaret troupe,
and as they try to save
the theater, the numbers
become even more complex—and also more contemporary.
The production also
makes good use of the
expansive, high-ceilinged
space at the Cirque Lab,
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While there were a few
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tion and whose whispers
grew into audible dialogue throughout
the course of the night, despite being
repeatedly hushed—everybody else (including me) seemed to be having a really
good time.
We laughed when two of the dancers
used a suitcase full of props to highlight
a Whatcom County-based version of “Let’s
Do It,” gasped when the theater’s owner
took on the aforementioned villain with a
very sharp object, and “booed” when the
bad guy used his nefarious ways to further his own agenda.
When it was over, we clapped long and
hard before getting to our feet and making our way back to the front door, where
it seemed even the most shy among us
were unfazed by the clotheslines full of
women’s underwear.
QUICK SHOT FILM FEST: See what seven
teams of actors and filmmakers came up
with relating to the theme “Love is Not
the Answer” at the Quickshot Film Festival
happening at 7:30pm Thursday through Saturday at iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
The short films were created in under two
weeks, and showcase a broad cross-section
of the local film scene. Tickets are $10-$12.
WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
JUNE 11-14
SHREK, THE MUSICAL: The Lynden
Performing Arts Guild presents Shrek, the
Musical starting this week with performances at 7:30pm Thursday and Friday, and
2pm Saturday and Sunday at the Claire vg
Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. The play is
based on the movie of the same name, and
features a large cast dancing and singing
their way through the adventures of the
big green ogre and an array of characters.
Tickets are $8-$12; additional showings
happen through June 28.
WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM
TO K ILL A MOCK INGBIRD: Veteran
director Billy Hendrix helms a version of
the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird
with performances at 7:30pm Thursday
through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday, at the
Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave.
The story is narrated by an adult “Scout”
as she looks back on the summer when
she faced the good and evil of her world.
Tickets are $18 and additional showings
happen through June 20.
WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM
PIRATES OF PENZANCE: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance continues this
weekend with showings at 7:30pm Thursday
through Saturday, and 2:30pm Sunday, at
Oak Harbor’s Whidbey Playhouse, 730 SE
Midway Blvd. Tickets are $20; the comedic
operetta shows through June 21.
WWW.WHIDBEYPLAYHOUSE.COM
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BARD ON THE BEACH: Shakespeare’s The
Comedy of Errors kicks off the award-winning
26th “Bard on the Beach” this month at
Vancouver BC’s Vanier Park, 1695 Whyte Ave.
The comedy plays in repertory with King
Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Shakespeare’s
Rebel. Tickets are $26-$45. Early booking is
recommended for best seat selection; many
performances sell out in advance.
WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG
FRI., JUNE 12
SONNY SIXK ILLER: A repeat performance
of Darrell Hillaire’s Sonny Sixkiller Buys the
Washington Redskins begins at 8pm at the
Silver Reef Casino Event Center, 4876 Haxton Way. The production asks what would
happen if an Indian owned the Washington
Redskins, and raises the very real issue of
racism against Native Americans in a new
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SAT., JUNE 13
COMEDY NITE ALL STARS: Shang, Kiana
Dancie, and Richie Redding will be the featured
headliners at the Comedy Nite All Stars Summer
Comedy Jam starting at 7:30pm at the Grand
Ballroom at the Lakeway Inn, 714 Lakeway Dr.
Guest host Toby Roberts will also join the show.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/COMEDYNITE
IDIOM AUDIT IONS: Actors interested in
auditioning for fall performances of Death, the
Final Irony and Clown Bar can set up an appointment between 6-9pm at the iDIOM Theater, 1418
Cornwall Ave.
[email protected] OR
WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
LAUGHING AT THE STARS: Comedians from
Bellingham and beyond entertain audiences at
the weekly “Laughing at the Stars” Stand-Up
Comedy Show at 8:30pm at the Star Club, 311 E.
Holly St. Joel O’Connor hosts the entertaining
event. Entry is free.
WWW.STARCLUBBELLINGHAM.COM
MON., JUNE 15
VAUDEVILLINGHAM: Attend the Bellingham
Circus Guild’s monthly uncensored variety show,
“Vaudevillingham,” at 7pm and 9pm performances
at the Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St., suite #102. Expect to see everything from aerial performances
to dance, comedy, magic, juggling, burlesque and
more. Both novice and veteran performers are
welcome. Suggested donation is $5-$10.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.COM
GUFFAWINGHAM: A weekly open mic for comedians, “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 9:30pm
every Monday at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State St.
Entry is free.
WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM
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BAAY DANCE COMPANY: Lisa Markowitz’ BAAY
Dance Company performs at 7pm at the BAAY
Theatre, 1059 N. State St. Suggested donation is
$5 at the door.
WWW.BAAY.ORG
THURS., JUNE 11
FOLK DANCE: Join the Fourth Corner Folk
Dancers to learn lively folk dances from Eastern
Europe, Greece, Turkey, and Israel from 7:1510pm every Thursday at the Fairhaven Library,
1117 12th St. Suggested donation is $5; students
and first-timers are free.
(360) 380-0456
FRI., JUNE 12
DANCE PART Y: A mix of swing, Latin and ballroom will be highlighted and danced to with an introductory lesson at the weekly Friday Night Dance
Party from 7:30-10pm at the Bellingham Dance
Company, 1705 N. State St. Admission is $5-$7.
WWW.BELLINGHAMDANCECOMPANY.COM
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THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: A “loving and
hilarious” sendup of 1920s Broadway musical
comedies can be seen when performances of The
Drowsy Chaperone begin this week at showings at
7:30pm Friday and Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at
the Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets
are $8-$14 and additional showings take place
through June 28.
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WIZARD OF OZ: Infinity Dance Company presents The Story of the Wizard of Oz! at 7pm Friday
and Saturday at Lynden Christian High School,
417 Lyncs Dr. The spring production features
dancers from ages 3 to adult. Tickets are $9-$12.
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MUPPE TS TAKE MANHAT TAN: Students from
the Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth present
a lively rendition of The Muppets Take Manhattan
starting this week with performances at 7pm
Friday, 2pm and 7pm Saturday, and 2pm Sunday
at the BAAY Theatre, 1059 N. State St. Tickets are
$10 (kids 5 and under are free). Additional showings happen June 12-14.
NEW OLD T IME CHAUTAUQUA: The Flying
Karamazov Brothers, poet Kevin Murphy, comedian hula-hooper Ty Vennewitz, magician Joey
Pipia, aerialist Carey Cramer, and many more will
be part of a New Old Time Chautauqua benefit
show at 7:30pm at the Bellingham Circus Guild’s
Cirque Lab, 1401 Sixth St. Suggested donation to
the variety show is $5-$20.
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TRUTH AND PULP: Improvised scenes,
characters and relationships will be inspired by
true monologues from the mainstage cast at
performances of “Truth Be Told” at 8pm Friday
and Saturday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208
Bay St. At 10pm, the Tarantino-inspired “Pulp
Improv” returns to the stage. FYI: This show is
not suitable for all ages. Tickets are $10-$12 and
additional showings of both the formats can be
seen through June 20.
GLOW SCHT ICK: Brett Emerson, Joel O’ Connor,
Matt Benoit, Ben Menard, Sue Mattson, Ben Crabill, Eric Schiller, Katie Chandler, and other comedians will take to the stage for “Glow Schtick:
A Stand Up Comedy Showcase” at 9:30pm at Glow
Nightclub, 202 E. Holly St. Entry is free.
SAT., JUNE 13
BALLROOM DANCING: All ages and levels
of experience can attend “Ballroom Dancing”
events from 6:30-9pm on the second and fourth
Saturdays of the month at the Bellingham Senior
Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. The social dances
feature traditional ballroom and swing music
for foxtrot, east coast swing, waltz, nightclub
two-step, cha cha, rumba, salsa, samba and more.
Entry is $5.
(360) 671-7764
PE TER PAN: Original choreography can be seen
when Ballet Bellingham presents a one-nightonly performance of Peter Pan at 7pm at the
Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.
Tickets are $10.
WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
THE SLEEPING BEAUT Y: Northwest Ballet Theatre’s final performance of The Sleeping Beauty
takes place at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre
Hall, 2501 E. College Way. Tickets are $24-$35.
WWW.MCINT YREHALL.ORG
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Start the summer off right at the Lightcatcher. We’ll have activities, inside and
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PHOTOGRAPHY WORK SHOP: “Compose Like
a Pro” will be the focus of a photography
workshop taking place from Friday through
Sunday at Art of Photography Studio and Gallery, 4493 Aldrich Rd. Entry is $89.
WWW.ARTOFPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
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“APOLLO DISCONSOLATE,” BY TOM SHERWOOD (2004)
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Golden
Perspectives
TOM SHERWOOD’S MASTERFUL MYTHOLOGY
’ve got a couple of apologies to make.
To begin with, I’d like to beg forgiveness from Bellingham-based artist Tom Sherwood for not writing about “A Golden Perspective” when
the exhibit first opened last March at Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher
Building—instead of five days before the show’s closure.
The second mea culpa is pretty much the same as the first, except this
time I’m directing it to members of the general public, who really should’ve
gotten the heads-up about the exhibit a little sooner.
Regardless of my editorial transgressions, all is not lost. Those who are
interested in seeing the engaging collection of paintings, prints and compositional studies before they come off the walls next week should know
you have until 5pm Sun., June 14 to do so.
Besides being objects of great beauty representing countless hours of
creative toiling—more on that in a minute—this is probably the last time
viewers will be able to see the assemblage together in one place. The nine
pieces at the heart of “A Golden Perspective” are mostly comprised of works
that have already been sold to private collectors, and once they’ve been
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returned to their owners, it’s unlikely they’ll
be regrouped.
While it’s entirely possible people could
purchase the short book about Sherwood
that’s available at the museum and get a
pretty good idea about the scope of the
Renaissance man’s talent, copied images
on paper pale in comparison to the way the
artist, poet and philosopher’s egg tempera
and gold leaf on wood panel paintings shine
under the gallery lights, revealing secret
messages and making one wonder how long
it took to bring each of the masterful and
mythological creations to life.
The answer, according to Whatcom Museum
Executive Director Patricia Leach, is often more
than a year, but less than
a lifetime.
“I first met Tom and
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his wife, Dorothy, in
WHAT: “Tom Shertheir home several years
wood: A Golden
ago,” Leach says. “We
Perspective”
spent the better part
WHEN: Through
of an afternoon looking
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at Tom’s paintings and
Museum’s Lightdrawings. It was fascicatcher Building,
nating to hear Tom speak
250 Flora St.
about their development
COST: Entry is
and the thought process
$4.50-$10; admission is $5 every
behind them; I found it
Thursday
remarkable that a single
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painting could take sevwhatcom
eral years to complete.”
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The numerous compositional studies and sketches that were precursors to the main paintings in the exhibit,
such as “Projection”—featuring a tall man,
seen from behind, who seems to be lurching through a trail of otherworldly butterflies
and greenery into the direct path of his own
myth—bring this fact home. He didn’t just
sit down one day and create this piece; he
sketched it from every angle, changed it,
added notes, thought about it and, eventually, completed it.
Whether the painting is of a Greek god being shaded by a nymph with leaves for hair
and hands that morph into branches, a human figure both embracing and being flayed
alive by the sun, rabbits with wrinkles and
claws, or a naked woman sitting at a table
with a skull and a giant bird, there are stories to be found in the world Sherwood occupies. I’m just sorry I didn’t tell you about
them sooner.
ESCAPE ROUTES: A closing reception for
“Escape Routes” takes place from 12-2pm
at Western Washington University’s Western
Gallery. The exhibit showcases graduating
Bachelor of Fine Arts studio majors, and
includes a variety of mediums. The exhibit is
up through June 15.
WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU
ROGER SMALL RECEPT ION: A reception for
Burlington-based acrylic landscape painter
Roger Small’s “Through the Eyes of a Dreamer”
exhibit takes place from 5-8pm in Conway at
the Shop, 18623 Main St.
WWW.THESHOPCONWAY.COM OR WWW.
ARTBYROGERSMALL.COM
WED., JUNE 17
ART ISTS RECEPT ION: Meet and talk to local
artists exhibiting paintings, photographs
and sculpture at a “Meet the Artists” reception from 6-8pm at the Lynden Library, 216
4th St. The works will be on display through
June 20.
WWW.WCLS.ORG
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ALLIED ARTS: View “Bold Abstracts” through
June at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The
Juried Artist Series exhibit includes works by
Robert Marki, Courtney Odell, Geoffrey Wilce,
Yvette Nuemann, Kellie Becker, and Kay Little.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
ART IN THE CIT Y: Works by Sarah Denby,
Francis X Donovan, Peter Rand, Samuel
Eisen-Meyers, Jeremy and Ron McManmon
and more can be seen at Art in the City
through June 14 at 1213 Cornwall Ave. The
pop-up gallery is intended to bring energy
and diversity to the Cornwall block and surrounding areas.
(503) 415-1642 OR [email protected]
ART WOOD: New pieces by members can be
viewed through June at Artwood Gallery, 1000
Harris Ave. A reception happens from 5-8pm
Fri., June 19 as part of the Summer Solstice
Gallery Walk.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
CIT Y HALL: Photographs by winners of the
“Essence of Bellingham” contest can be seen
through June 30 at Bellingham City Hall, 210
Lottie St. Winning entries were selected based
on photographic quality, subject matter and
how well the “essence of Bellingham” was
captured.
WWW.COB.ORG
DEMING LIBRARY: Enjoy art created by students from the Acme, Kendall, and Harmony
Elementary schools at a “Kids’ Spring Art
Show” through June 11 at the Deming Library,
5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
305-3600
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RAGFINERY: A variety of textile-related workshops happen on a regular basis at Ragfinery,
1421 N. Forest St. See details online.
Directed by
Teri Grimes
A Musical Within a Comedy
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WWW.RAGFINERY.COM
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JANSEN ART CENTER: See the Early Summer
Juried Exhibit through July 31 at Lynden’s
Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Viewers can
also check out the third annual Juried Cup Show
and exhibits by the Whatcom Artist Guild and
painter Amanda Houston.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
LUMMI LIBRARY: A “Flo Konecke Retrospective” can be viewed through August at the
Lummi Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd.
Konecke, a profile artist, was “a true island
renaissance woman and local superhero.”
305-3600
MATZKE GALLERY: “The Celebration of Spring”
shows through June 14 at Camano Island’s
Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park,
2345 Blanche Way.
SCULPTURE NW GALLERY: “Regional Stone/
Regional Sculptors: New Work of the Northwest
Stone Sculptors Association” can be seen from
12-5pm every Fri.-Sun. at Sculpture Northwest
Gallery, 203 Prospect St.
WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG
SK AGIT MUSEUM: “Salt of the Earth,”
featuring more than 500 salt cellars from the
permanent collection, shows through July 12 at
La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum,
501 S. Fourth St.
WWW.SKAGITCOUNT Y.NET/MUSEUM
SMITH & VALLEE: View prints and oil paintings by Kris Ekstrand Molesworth, prints by
Elizabeth Tapper, and sculptures by Brian O’Neill
until June 28 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery,
5742 Gilkey Ave.
WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
WATERWORK S: Melinda Hannigan’s “Boxing the
Compass” is on display until June 27 at Friday
Harbor’s WaterWorks Gallery, 315 Argyle St. In
the exhibit, the working side of the maritime
world is presented as abstracted ideas painted
on canvas.
WWW.WATERWORKSGALLERY.COM
WESTERN GALLERY: View the “Senior Show”—
featuring works by art studio majors and BFA
graduates—through June 15 at Western Washington University’s Western Gallery. The exhibit
brings together an exciting variety of work
in photography, sculpture, painting, drawing,
fibers, and mixed media. Entry is free.
WWW.WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU
MINDPOR T: “Stones & Bones,” featuring
found object photography by Kevin Jones,
shows through July at Mindport Exhibits, 210
W. Holly St.
WWW.MINDPORT.ORG
WHATCOM ART MARKE T: From 10am-6pm
every Thursday through Monday, stop by the
Whatcom Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s
Waldron Building, 1314 12th St.
WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG
MONA: “Neo-Naturalists,” “Etsuko Ichiwaka,
Hakoniwa Project: To Touch & Be Touched,” and
“Study in Green” can be seen through June 14
at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S.
First St. Entry is free.
WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG
POSIT IVE NEGAT IVE: View a “Camera Obscura
and Pinhole Camera” exhibition through June
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MAKE.SHIF T: Artworks by Aaron Brick, Ciara
Sana, Gigi Daven, Karie Jane, Pandora Sweet,
Rihannon Rosenbaum, and Steeb Russell can be
seen at a “Hair” exhibit through June at Make.
Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St.
More Info:
733-1811
bellinghamtheatreguild.com
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GOOD EARTH POT TERY: Debra Stern’s “From
Graphite to Clay” will be featured through June
at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. A reception happens from 5-8pm Fri., June 19 as part
of the Summer Solstice Gallery Walk.
Tiets:
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SCOT T MILO GALLERY: The Women Painters
of Washington will be featured through Aug.
4 in Anacortes at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420
Commercial Ave.
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FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: “Hidden
Treasures” shows through June 30 at Fourth
Corner Frames & Gallery, 311 W. Holly St. The
exhibit features the work of Robert Finnigan
(1927-1997), a New York artist with a strong
mid-century style of what he called “Modified
Realism.”
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Bob Martin
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Lisa Lambert
and Greg Morrison
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GALLERY C YGNUS: A new show of paintings
by Maggie Wilder exploring landscape and the
possibilities of local mythology can be viewed
through June 28 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus,
109 Commercial St.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Tom Sherwood: A
Golden Perspective,” “Bellingham’s National
Art Exhibition and Awards,” “The Owl and the
Woodpecker: Photographs by Paul Bannick,”
and “A Curator’s Perspective: Selections from
the Collection” can currently be viewed on the
Whatcom Museum campus.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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QUILT MUSUEM: View “Revealing the Hidden”
(Contemporary QuiltArt Association), “Impressions in Fabric” (Denise Miller and Nancy
Ryan), “Pastels and More: Selections from our
Permanent Collection” and Andi Shannon’s
“Shades of the Northwest” through June 28 at
the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S.
Second St.
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HONE Y SALON: “Unbreakable Girls”, a new collection of gouache paintings, embroideries and
quilts by Jennifer Dranttel that showcase the
overlooked stories of brave and fearless women
of myth and history, can be seen through July
at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St.
“This revved-up
spoof of a 1920s
song-and-dance
frolic… seems
poised to become
the sleeper of the
Broadway season.”
New York Times
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The
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at Positive Negative, 929 N. State St., #1. The
exhibit features works by photographers who
converted everyday objects into image-recording devices to yield prints.
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FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contemporary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every
Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
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BY CAREY ROSS
Kimya Dawson
A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
ecause she has a tendency to be a bit unassuming, almost shy even,
it can be all too easy to misjudge Kimya Dawson.
Indeed, it is a thing that has happened to her from time to time
during the course of her long and varied music career.
Because her songs tend to focus less on deep angst and extreme emotions
and more on conveying the day-to-day details that make up an existence
(angst and emotion included), she has occasionally been accused of being
too precious. Dawson’s turns of phrase are distinctive, unique to her and her
songwriting style, but have sometimes led critics to use words like “twee”
to describe her.
However, you don’t have to possess some kind of extraordinary insight
into Dawson, music or Dawson’s music to see that those who underestimate
the singer/songwriter do so at their peril. Because despite her unpretentious demeanor, Dawson is an artist and musician to be reckoned with.
Lest we forget, this is a woman who has won a Grammy, played Carnegie
Hall, and has collaborated with the likes of They Might Be Giants, Regina
Spektor, the Mountain Goats, Aesop Rock, and many more. She’s shared a
stage with Lil Bub, counts WWE champion Daniel Bryan among her friends,
and once accidentally made a whole lot of people believe she was a cousin
of Fabrizio Moretti, drummer for the Strokes.
Before she accomplished all of that, as one-half of the Moldy Peaches,
Dawson also helped found and was a proponent of the anti-folk scene, a
lo-fi movement that acts as a reaction to the overly serious, politically
B
minded music that has characterized so
much of modern folk for so long. Given
that folk isn’t exactly known for its sense
of humor or whimsy, it can be easy to see
how Dawson’s musical approach could be
misconstrued.
But it takes a fair amount of courage
and a solid sense of self to follow a musical path of one’s own making, and that is
exactly what Dawson has done. After the
Moldy Peaches “went on hiatus” (since it
happened a decade ago, I think it’s safe
to say “hiatus” equals “breakup” in this
case—despite the smattering of reunion
shows the band played in 2007), Dawson
relocated from the East Coast to Washington, where she began to forge a solo
career in the welcoming musical environs
of the Pacific Northwest. It wasn’t long
before she released her first album, the
memorably named I’m Sorry That Sometimes I’m Mean (a sentiment to which
we can all relate, I’m sure), and her output for the next 10 years or so was both
steady (she recorded seven albums in nine
years) and varied (one of her full-lengths,
2008’s Alphabutt, is a children’s album)
and continued to build a reputation as a
skilled songwriter with a sensibility that
is unique to her and her worldview.
It was that reputation that likely led
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AS IS SOMETIMES the case, I am full of secrets
concerning shows that are both confirmed and
nearly so, and it is no exaggeration to say such
information is keeping me awake at night (that
and the train horns—what’s a girl gotta do to
get a few quiet zones in this town?).
Some of those secrets will be revealed when
the Mount Baker Theatre announces what it’s
got in store for its 2015/2016 season at its
June 25 preview event, which is open to the
public for the first time. But you won’t have
to wait until then to get word of its latest big
concert announcement, which just happens
to be a Lucinda Williams show happening on
Weds., July 22, thanks to the fine folks at Seattle Theater Group who are bringing Williams
to town. Since I once devoted an entire summer
to listening to almost nothing but the singer/
songwriter’s album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,
this news excites me
greatly. Tickets go on
sale Fri., June 12, and
you should probably invest in some before you
do something foolish
with your money like
pay bills or buy food.
BY CAREY ROSS
If I were so moved to
sing one of Williams’ songs in public (it is safe
to say I will never be so moved, having not
sung anything in public ever except for that
rare occasion when I karaoked early Madonna
songs at the now-defunct Viking in Stanwood
for an audience of heckling bikers), I could
sign up to do so at the Honey Moon’s annual
Awkward Covers Party, which is happening Sat.,
June 13. I love this event, which promises,
even by its very name, to be a low-judgment,
high-fun outing for participants and audiences
alike. Besides, any happening that encourages us to embrace our inner awkwardness (we
all have some of that, to be sure) instead of
pretending it doesn’t exist is sure to result in
magic. I have no idea who has signed up to
sing what songs (even the night’s organizer,
community treasure Kat Bula, does not know
what’s in store), because preserving mystery is
as important to Awkward Covers Party as it is
to romantic relationships. Is that comparison
awkward enough for everyone?
Also happening the same night is the grand
opening party for K2, the much-anticipated second location of Kulshan Brewery at 1538 Kentucky St. The Kulshan crew has been hard at
work for what seems like decades now, bringing
K2 to life, and now they want to sully it with a
big ol’ party, which is, after all, the Bellingham
way. They’ll be tapping brand-new kegs of their
brand-new beer, Hop Howdy Belgian Blonde Ale,
and music will be happening, courtesy of Baby
Cakes and Sanoma. Because it’s a Kulshan party,
food trucks will be on hand to feed the masses
and prizes can be won by lucky attendees of the
all-day shindig. I think we all know that Bellingham’s chief loves are beer and parties, so a beer
party is right up our collective alley.
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JAZZY SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC: Finnish musicians Olli Hirvonen (guitar) and Saku Mattila
(oboe) will join up with local musicians Sharyn
Peterson and Matthe Rehfeldt to play the jazzy
music of Jean Sibelius and other Scandinavian
composers at 7:30pm at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1207 Ellsworth St. Entry is $15.
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concerts continues with “Country Gospel and Americana Music Extravaganza” concerts at 7pm Friday
and Saturday at Blaine’s Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie
Rd. Musicians taking part include the Andreasons,
the McNeelys, and the Honey Bees. Tickets are $10
at the door. Additionally, a country gospel matinee
begins at 3pm Saturday. Entry is $5.
(360) 366-3321
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WELCOME HOME: Women with Wings will host
a community open house for local musician
Linda Allen and her husband Scott Salba—who
have recently returned to Bellingham after three
years—from 2-4pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N.
Forest St. The informal gathering will include music circles, snacks and information about Women
with Wings, a nonprofit organization bringing the
healing gift of music to those in need.
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Kuhl and the BHS Alumni Band for their annual
spring fundraising concert at 7pm at Shuksan Middle School, 2717 Alderwood Ave. The
program will include classical, big band music,
movie themes and more, with proceeds benefiting the Bellingham school system’s music
programs as well as a scholarship fund. Tickets
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CAITLIN HILL: Singer and actress Caitlin Hill
returns to Bellingham from her opera studies at
UBC to present “Broken Hearts (and other Medical
Emergencies) at 7:30pm at the Encore Room at
the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.
John Evens French accompanies on the piano and
Christopher Key emcees. Tickets are $15; funds
raised will help Whatcom County Medical Society
raise money for their pre-med scholarship endowment at WWU.
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music by students from the Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth can be heard at a Children’s Choir
performance at 7pm at Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Church, 1720 Harris Ave. Admission is $5.
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Hollywood to come calling in 2007, when
several of Dawson’s songs were used as
part of the soundtrack to Juno, a movie
that endured its own share of criticism
concerning its preciousness before it
went on to be nominated for four Oscars
and launched the careers of Ellen Page
and Diablo Cody. As for the soundtrack
that prominently featured Dawson’s music (including “Anyone Else But You,”
which is memorably performed by Page
and Michael Cera at the end of the film),
it hit number one on the Billboard chart
and has since gone platinum.
Not bad for an artist who generally
prefers to fly under the radar.
When Dawson returns to Bellingham for the first time in years to play a
Thurs., June 18 show at Make.Shift, she’ll
be bringing friends and familiar faces
along with her, chief among them Your
Heart Breaks, the band fronted by Clyde
Petersen, much-beloved erstwhile local.
Petersen founded Your Heart Breaks during the late ’90s while he lived in Bellingham, before he moved to Seattle and be-
came an astonishingly
prolific artistic multidisciplinarian. Petersen, a 2015 Stranger
Genius Award nominee, is a filmmaker,
animator, visual and
installation
artist,
ATTEND videographer, and
WHO: Kimya Dawprogenitor of many
son, Your Heart
other artistic endeavBreaks, more
ors that defy easy
WHEN: 7pm
description. Through
Thurs., June 18
WHERE: Make.
it all, he’s kept Your
Shift Art Space,
Heart Breaks close to
306 Flora St.
his, well, heart, and
COST: $10
the Make.Shift show
INFO: www.
will count as an album
makeshiftproject.
com
release of sorts for
the band’s latest effort, America, which is as brand spanking
new as these things get.
Tickets for the show, which also features Ghost Mice, Pretty Okay, and Baltic
Cousins, are available online (unusual
for a Make.Shift show) and it is expected
to sell out. Because while others may
underestimate Dawson, Bellingham audiences know better.
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Jim Page (early), McDougall
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Open Mic (early), Guffawingham (late)
Hilary Scott (early),
Terrible Tuesday Soul
Explosion (late)
Sarah Goodin, Elizabeth
Vignali
KC's Bar and Grill
Quickdraw Stringband
Awkward Covers Party
Karaoke
Karaoke
Main St. Bar and Grill
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Unlisted Reality
Old World Deli
The Blackouts
Trish Hatley
Randy Norris, Jeff Nicely
Royal
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Karaoke
Country Night
DJ Jester
Rumors Cabaret
Leveled
Throwback Thursday
DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave
Foam Party
The Shakedown
Bob Log III, Gravelroad,
more
Tin Foil Cat, Mobina Galore,
The Medix
Girl Guts, Ol Doors, more
Marty Stuart (Showroom),
Social Network (Lounge)
Marty Stuart (Showroom),
Social Network (Lounge)
The Spencetet
Skylark's
Bryan Forsloff
3 Parts Jazz
Star Club
Aireeoke
TGIF Karaoke
Songwriter Night
DJ Enz, DJ Pickles
Swillery Whiskey Bar
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Jam Night
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Natty Vibes, Da Beckoning
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more
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Wild Buffalo
‘90s Night
Treble Tuesday
Tom Waits Night
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Laughing at the Stars
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The prankster activists
here turn their imaginative
shaming schemes toward
those corporations and
governments doing little
to address (when they’re
not actively enabling) the
escalating global-warming
crisis.
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might be headed for the exit too, unable to
compete. During the movie’s several-years
progress, they have to make some life decisions that will potentially break up their
joined-at-the-hip partnership.
Primarily, the runtime is still devoted
to various actions, however, nearly all of
which (with one flop exception involving a polar bear disguise) underline the
amazing gullibility with which—at least
to a point—high-ranking media, business
and government personnel can be taken
in by a well-staged prank. Andy poses as
the spokesperson for the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce (that glorified industry lobbying
organization) to announce a “carbon tax”
recommendation on polluters; the actual
agency responses by suing the Yes Men for
“commercial identity theft masquerading
as social activism.” They travel to Uganda
REVIEWED BY DENNIS HARVEY
The Yes Men are Revolting
YOU’VE BEEN PUNKED—AGAIN
he further adventures of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno—not that
those are necessarily their real names—are chronicled in The Yes Men Are
Revolting. The prankster activists here turn their imaginative shaming
schemes toward those corporations and governments doing little to address (when
they’re not actively enabling) the escalating global-warming crisis. Co-directed
with Laura Nix, the duo’s follow-up to The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Fix the
World (2009) is another entertaining mix of agitpop, pranksterism and autobiography that should expand on the prior entries’ success.
The opening sequence brings back The Yes Men Fix the World, specifically its ludicrous, inflatable human “survivaballs” (think of Woody Allen’s inflatable suit in
Sleeper), as the protagonists hope to float a flotilla across the Hudson to get the
attention of a U.N. climate-change summit. (Alas, the Coast Guard and NYPD are
unamused.) After briefly recapping the twosome’s past protests and media coverage, the focus grows a little more personal this time around. No longer in their 20s,
T
both have university teaching posts to
maintain, and have reached various levels
of domestic stability: Mike now has a wife
and two kids, while Andy has finally found
a boyfriend he wants to “spend the rest of
my life with.”
Their relationships have traditionally
suffered, however, from the platonic-soulmate bond (“We’re each other’s perfect enablers”) between them, and the high time
demands (with little financial reward)
that being Yes Men have made on them.
Mike once lost a girlfriend over this issue;
she’s seen but not heard here, Andy’s beau
to meet with local activist Chandia Kodili,
and then join her at a another U.N. climate
change summit (this time in Copenhagen).
There, they pull another hoax to raise the
issue of paying “climate debts” to the lowconsuming Third World countries who’ve
suffered the worst consequences of First
World nations’ environmental impacts.
The dismaying results of that summit,
which saw precious little meaningful regulatory progress, make Bonanno and Bichlbaum wonder if what they’re doing has value at all. Bonanno moves with his family
to Scotland, while Bichlbaum gets involved
with Greenpeace in a very Yes Men-style
prank, calling out Shell Oil’s oil drilling
plans in fragile Arctic regions.
But they can’t quit each other for long,
of course, particularly once Occupy Wall
Street reawakens their faith in popular
protest. The documentary ends with their
infiltration of a Homeland Security conference, where they succeed in getting
attendees stand in a circle singing and
dancing an ersatz Native American song—
suggesting even a roomful of defense contractors might think the time is ripe for us
to downsize fossil-fuel dependence and up
use of renewable energies.
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over and over again. This movie might have some
things going for it—namely that it, much like its
predecessor, was produced by Steven Spielberg—but
it can never match the glory of what came before. +
(PG-13 • 1 hr. 33 min.)
5 Flights Up: A longtime married couple who’ve
spent their lives together in the same New York
apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real
estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
+++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 32 min.)
Entourage: This movie, which has been in the making for half a decade, has no reason to exist. But if
it had a reason to exist, that reason would surely be
the chance to see Jeremy Piven reprise his role as Ari
Gold. And then we can all mourn the Ari Gold spinoff
that almost was. + (R • 1 hr. 45 min.)
WIZARD OF OZ
The Wizard of Oz: As far as I’m concerned this 1939
classic is easily one of the best movies of all time, and
is right up there with The Big Sleep and Children of the
Corn in my personal cinematic pantheon. Take that for
what it’s worth. +++++ (G • 1 hr. 42 min.)
Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy gets
the adaptation his classic novel so richly deserves,
with his incomparable heroine, Bathsheba Everdene,
embodied with great skill and spirit by the equally
incomparable Carey Mulligan. +++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr.
59 min.)
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Tomorrowland: All I know about Tomorrowland is
it’s the place at Disneyland where Michael Jackson
(disguised as Captain EO) lives and it is also home to
Space Mountain, which is good enough for me. All I
know about its cinematic namesake is that it bombed
at the box office, probably because people have no
clue what to do with a film that’s not a remake or a
sequel. +++ (PG • 2 hrs. 10 min.)
Ex Machina: Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine)
crafts for us a prescient story about a future in which
machines become sentient and robots are our sexy
new rulers. +++++ (R • 1 hr. 48 min.)
Insidious: Chapter 3: I dunno, I think the action
won’t really begin to heat up until Insidious: Chapter
10. Can’t wait. + (PG-13 • 1 hr. 37 min.)
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Spy: Even in terrible movies (Tammy, Identity Thief),
Melissa McCarthy’s comedic skills cannot be denied.
This, by all accounts, is the exact opposite of a
terrible movie—instead, it’s the breakout starring
role McCarthy’s been destined for since Bridesmaids.
+++++ (R • 1 hr. 57 min.)
Avengers: Age of Ultron: Summer blockbusters,
meet your new God. ++++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 21 min.)
The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of
the Window and Disappeared: I think the title of
this Swedish film pretty well sums up the plot conceit
in play here—but not the movie’s offbeat humor,
time-hopping protagonist or other surprising charms.
+++++ (R • 1 hr. 24 min.)
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San Andreas: I love a cheesy natural disaster movie.
And this one just happens to be based on a script by
Bellingham native and all-around nice guy, Jeremy
Passmore. It also stars the Rock, and if anyone can
wrestle a giant earthquake to the ground, it’s him.
++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs. 3 min.)
Aloha: The movie that will forever be remembered
as having chosen obviously not-Asian Emma Stone to
play a character that is half Asian. + (PG-13)
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Jurassic World: This film has been in the production pipeline roughly forever, and is possibly the
most anticipated film of 2015 that doesn’t involve
a Wookiee. When will the world learn that bringing
dinosaurs back to life is a very bad idea? Has Chris
Pratt not seen Jurassic Park? The mind reels. +++
(PG-13 • 2 hrs. 3 min.)
Love & Mercy: The Beach Boys are the best American
band in the history of music, and I will fight anyone
who tries to tell me otherwise. This biopic, which
details the triumphs and considerable tragedies of the
life of Brian Wilson, both young (Paul Dano) and old
(John Cusack), does justice to his mercurial genius.
+++++ (PG-13 • 2 hrs.)
The Yes Men are Revolting: See review previous
page. And then keep an eye out for former Bellinghamster Mike Mathieu’s appearance in this doc. ++++
(Unrated • 1 hr. 31 min.)
JURASSIC WORLD
Mad Max: Fur y Road: In 1981, George Miller unleashed his futuristic, post-apocalyptic fantasy The
Road Warrior on the moviegoing public, and the Mad
Max saga was born. Now, some 30-plus years later,
Miller reboots his franchise, with a little help from
stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, and proves
himself to still be the right man to deliver a crazy,
frenetic, ass-kicker of a Mad Max movie. +++++ (R
• 2 hrs.)
Pitch Per fect 2: Sure, it’s thin on plot and many of
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its jokes are infantile at best, but it’s a movie about
competitive a cappella singers, not Citizen Kane.
The girl-power vibe, killer soundtrack and increased
presence of the scene-stealing Rebel Wilson make it a
pretty good time at the movies. +++ (PG-13 • 1 hr.
54 min.)
Poltergeist: The original was the first horror movie
my sister and I ever saw together—she felt great terror and I took great satisfaction in poorly re-enacting
various scenes of the movie in order to freak her out
Showtimes
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Certified Tai Chi instructor Kelly Hong-Williams
leads an “Intro to Tai Chi”
at 2pm Sat., June 13 at the
SkillShare Space at the
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Maya Sullivan leads a
“Dare to Be Your Own Boss:
Follow Your Passion, Create
a Niche” primer at 6:30m
Thurs., June 18 in Mount
Vernon at the Skagit Valley
Food Co-op, 202 S. First St.
The free workshop is based
on the book Dare to Be Your
Own Boss. More info: www.
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“The Call Of Soul"
Spiritual Discussion
Wed., June 10, 17 & 24
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Woods Coffee,
The Kiln Room
470 Bay View Rd.
Boulevard Park
Bellingham, WA
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Dr. Cheryl Schmitt, DC,
joins up with the La Leche
League of Skagit County
for a free presentation on
“Baby Wearing, Breastfeeding & Bonding” at 10am Sat.,
June 13 in Mount Vernon
at the Skagit Valley Food
Co-op, 202 S. First St. The
class focuses on safe and
ergonomic baby-wearing.
Carriers will be available
to try. Please register in
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June 19 at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
Come once, or to all sessions.
Please bring your own yoga
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ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): So you’re trying to
tell me that the way out is the way in. Is that right?
And that the “wrong” answer just might be the right
answer? And that success, if it makes an appearance,
will most likely happen by accident? I don’t know, Aries. It’s tricky to get away with this upside-down approach to life unless you have a lot of discipline and
yet also don’t take yourself too seriously. You’ve got
to be both rigorous and flexible—a stickler for detail
and a master of improvisation. I do suspect you’re up
for the challenge, but what do you think?
and closer. Find out why, and capitalize on it. Meanwhile, a chameleon who has always had your number
just lost it. Find out the details, and take advantage.
If that’s not enough to keep you busy, I’ll clue you in
to the fact that a cool fool only recently realized you
have something that he or she wants. Find out who
and what, and exploit the possibilities. (P.S.: I should
also mention that there’s a wild thing out there who
would love to lick your hand. Find out why, etc.)
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The formula ‘two and
two make five’ is not without its attractions,” said
Dostoevsky. I believe you’ll benefit from embracing that perspective in the coming week, Libra.
Transcending logic will be your specialty, especially if
you do so with a spiritual gleam in your eye. Being a
little crooked could awaken sleeping wisdom within
you, as well as boost your life force and enhance your
physical attractiveness. So please follow any hunches
you have that inspire you to stop making so much
sense. Explore the pleasures of using imaginative flair
in your search for the truth.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In an interview,
musician Attiss Ngoval told the San Francisco Chronicle
that he’d want the superpower of X-ray vision “IF and
ONLY IF I could use it to see people naked under their
clothes. I don’t want it if all I see is skeletons.” That’s
a good standard for you to keep in mind during the
coming weeks, Taurus. I definitely think you’ll have
an ability to see deeper into the multi-layer levels of
reality than you’ve had in quite some time. But your
challenge will be to employ that gift to explore sights
that are really interesting and useful to you, not just
everything and anything that’s usually hidden.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My astrological
charts suggest that your immediate future is wide
open—so much so that it’s difficult to predict which
scenarios are more likely than all the others. This
might mean that your free will is especially free right
now. But in the interest of giving you something specific to grab on to, I’ll name a few of the myriad possible scenarios. 1) A self-styled anarchist scholar, heir
to the fortune of a famed Japanese anime artist, will
invite you to a sushi feast at a speakeasy club called
“Planet Mars” to discuss the Theory of Everything. 2)
A clownish saint with a tattoo of a cobra swallowing
the Earth will get you high by sniffing the pimple
medication Clearasil, and then tell you a secret about
who you were in one of your past lives. 3) A familiar
stranger will hand you a Cracker Jack toy and whisper,
“Are we never going to see each other again? Or will
we get married tomorrow?”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A lesbian reader
who calls herself “Speedy Slow-Hand” wrote to me
asking for advice. She explained that she keeps getting obsessed with the half-feral amazons whom her
intense Scorpio self lusts after, and this causes her to
miss making contact with the warm, nurturing women
her softer side craves. Is it better to have someone to
run the race with, she asked, or someone to massage
her feet after the race? Whether or not you yourself
are in the hunt for love, Scorpio, I think her testimony is an apt metaphor for your current dilemma.
Should you go with the choice that makes your spirit
burn with pungent excitement, or should you opt for
what feeds your soul with rich relaxation? I would
like to suggest that there’s at least a 30 percent possibility you could have both.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of the 190
short films the Three Stooges made for Columbia
Pictures, only five actually had pie fights. However,
those classic scenes sum up all there is to know
about the mythic meaning of pie fights, as well as
the needs they address and the techniques involved.
I urge you to study up on the Stooges’ teachings
concerning these matters—and put them to immediate use. Nothing could be more effective in dealing
with stalled negotiations, convoluted mind games,
superficial exchanges, excessive gravity, and bureaucratic slowdowns than a righteous pie fight. You can
find a Youtube clip of a Three Stooges pie fight here:
tinyurl.com/yvv8hm.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In honor of the
karmic cleanup phase of your astrological cycle, I
invite you to do the following exercise: Imagine a
pit in the middle of a desert that holds everything
you’ve ever used up, spoiled, and outgrown. Your old
furniture is here, along with stuff like once-favorite
clothes, CDs, and empty boxes of your favorite cereal.
But this garbage dump also contains subtler trash,
like photos that capture cherished dreams you gave
up on, mementoes from failed relationships, and
symbols of defunct beliefs and self-images you used
to cling to. Everything that is dead to you is gathered
here. Got that vision in your mind’s eye? Now picture
yourself dousing the big heap of stuff with gasoline
and setting it on fire. Watch it burn.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This would be a good
time to activate your sleeping potentials by chanting
positive declarations about your relationship to what
you need. Instead of typical New Age affirmations,
however, I think you’ll benefit from something edgier
and more poetic. That’s why I’m offering you the
statements below. They were originally written by
Andrea Carlisle for use by spiders. Say the following
several times a day: “I am now receiving many fine
fat flies in my web. My web is strong and masterful.
My web is irresistible to all the attractive creatures
I like to nibble on. I am amazingly clever and
extremely popular. Even now, hundreds of juicy tidbits
are headed towards my web.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A talent scout who
has the power to change your course is drawing closer
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some people use
sly intelligence rather than mindless rage to escape
limitations that have outlived their usefulness. Do
you know any? If so, soak up their influence. You
could use some inspiration and counsel as you make
your own break for freedom. The best way to ensure
that your liberation will be permanent, not just a
temporary reprieve, is to go about it with humor and
subtlety and humility.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Writing in Earthwatch magazine, Anne Marcotty Morris rhapsodized
about her trek into Brazil’s rain forest. The jungle is
a fecund place, she said: “Several barbed seeds that
had attached themselves to me on our walk into the
forest had sprouted by the time we walked out.”
These fast-growing seeds happen to be an apt metaphor for the state of your psyche, Aquarius. You’re a
hotbed of lush fertility. Given that fact, I advise you
to be very discriminating about which influences you
give your attention to. Whether they’re good or bad,
empowering or corrosive, they will grow fast.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There has rarely
been a better time than now to blend your fresh
sparkly innocence and your deep ancient wisdom. The
childlike aspects of your intelligence are especially
available, and so are the visionary elements. Furthermore, the two have a great potential to complement
and enhance each other. You might be amazed at how
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basic questions, such as “Hmm, get
waxed or continue living with electricity?” or “I can’t decide: New brakes or
traffic-stopping hair?”
Old-school economists, who view humans as hyper-rational data-crunching
machines (like big, sweaty chess-playing computers), would tell you that it
makes no sense for your girlfriend to
keep ending up, as the saying goes,
with so much month at the end of the
money. (And sure, car trouble can pop
up out of nowhere, but it isn’t like the
need to eat comes as a surprise.)
Evolutionary economists take a more
nuanced view of human rationality.
They find that our glaringly irrational
choices in one domain (like the survival
domain, including financial survival)
aren’t so irrational in another (like the
mating domain). For example, because
men evolved to have a very visually
driven sexuality, women looking to land
a man or retain one’s interest will (often
subconsciously) prioritize beauty measures—sometimes buying eye creams
so pricey they should come with power
steering and a sunroof.
And though we aren’t in a recession
right now, a July/August 2014 Public
Religion Research Institute poll found
that 72 percent of people believe we
are. This is relevant because research
by evolutionary psychologist Sarah Hill
finds that though economic downturns
lead both men and women to cut their
spending across the board, they also
seem to prime women to increase their
spending in one area: beauty enhancement. Hill explains that a scarcity of
resources appears to cue an evolutionary adaptation in women to “increase
the effort they invest in attracting a
mate who has them.” (And this seems
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beauty products and a facial. She isn’t
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resources of her own.)
Still, it isn’t fair for your beautybinging girlfriend to treat you as her
boyfriend/overdraft system, taking advantage of how you’d rather pay for her
car and groceries than see her hoof it
and crash wedding buffet lines with a
big purse. Tell her that you feel bad being put in this position and though you
love her, her abusive relationship with
her debit card is eating away at your
relationship. (A mate-retention warning light should go off in her head.)
Next, show empathy. Mention that many
people find themselves in her position,
mainly because nobody ever taught them
how to budget, and we aren’t all natural
fiscal wizards. In fact, we’re more like
chimps with credit cards.
To help her conscious mind better
understand her subconscious one, explain the evolutionary view of human
rationality and offer to help her plot
out her finances. You might get her
the book Smart Women Finish Rich, by
David Bach. And because our decisionmaking ability evolved in an ancestral
environment where we typically had
just a handful of visible choices in front
of us (like five bison and one with a
limp)—as opposed to big mathematical
abstractions to chew on—you can help
her get a better grip on her spending
by making it visual. As for how helpful
visuals can be in decision-making, evolutionary cognitive psychologist Gary
Brase finds that people are far better at
understanding medical risks when they
are communicated with pictures (for
example, 100 little people on a page
shaded to show that this many of 100
will be cured and this many will end up
going home in an urn).
In keeping with Brase’s findings, you
could draw little rectangles all over a
page to represent $100 bills (in the
amount of her monthly salary). Color
in blocks of dollars to indicate all her
monthly expenses, including any potential expenses, and offer to help her
budget until she gets the hang of it. If
you’re open to paying for the occasional item that’s not in her financial plan,
let her know, but explain that you’d like
to be asked first, not just informed that
all of her dollar bills have run off and
taken up residence in the cash register at Sephora. And finally, while you’re
helping her tally things up, you might
take a moment to count your blessings.
Your girlfriend might be a little moneydumb, but she seems to understand
the importance of keeping up her curb
appeal—mindful that there’s a reason
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The C Shop
TIME FOR A SWEET SUMMER
t’s been 44 years since Patricia and Patrick Alesse first opened the C Shop in
Birch Bay, and the candy, ice cream and pizza store remains a favorite summer
destination among Birch Bay locals and visitors.
Arrive on a hot summer evening and you’ll see bikes parked haphazardly outside,
families trooping in after their barbecue dinner and young couples out on their first
dates, hand-in-hand.
If Birch Bay has a center, this is it: the bright yellow, cheerful structure on the
corner of Alderson Road and Birch Bay Drive, its insides packed full of tasty treats
and warm smiles. The C Shop is just a feel-good, happy place to hang out.
In recent years the couple’s son Keith and his wife, Saara Kuure, have joined “Pat and
Pat” as co-owners and the four partners are happily working side by side, serving customers and creating new chocolate fantasies—like a milk chocolate peanut butter cup.
“My parents don’t want to leave, and we couldn’t do this without them,” Keith says.
Inside the ice cream bar patrons crowd in, patiently waiting their turn to pick from
one of the 20 ice cream flavors. Nobody minds waiting, because watching the C Shop
in action is part of the experience. Directly outside, there’s a large window into the
kitchen so customers can watch carmel corn being stirred in a massive vat and peanut brittle being rolled onto the countertop and cut.
The array of candy is incredible. The first items to disappear are the salt and pepper
caramels, the almond butter toffee, the peanut butter yumms, the carmel corn and
Keith’s C-foam. There are chocolates molded into a wide variety of shapes, fudge samples on the counter and snow cones to take the edge off those muggy, burning-hot days.
But don’t get too distracted by the candy. Just beyond the kitchen there’s another
side to the C Shop, and you’d be remiss not to try it. Here the Alesse’s offer 12- and
16-inch pizzas, baked in a 1916 Edison Electric deck oven, that will get your mouth
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nuts, spinach and feta, and the White
Rock, with white garlic sauce, artichoke
hearts and gorgonzola.
The newest pizza addition for this
season is the Kickerville Rooster, whose
toppings include Sriracha sauce, pineapple, bacon, kalamata olives, pepperoncini and roasted garlic. “It’s sweet,
hot and trendy,” Keith says, describing
how it was made purely by chance. A
last-minute food request had come in
from a friend, prompting he and Saara to assemble a pizza
based purely on what
they had left over. It
was such a hit it became
an immediate addition
to the menu.
Pizzas range in price
from $11.75 up to $28.75,
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Saturdays,
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Sundays;
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rant include cold deli
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and a selection of sundaes, milkshakes and
floats. Come in on your birthday and
you’ll get free jelly beans totaling your
age. Newlyweds and wedding anniversary celebrants also get a free peanut
butter yumm bar to share.
The day I met Keith in late May, he’d
worked the entire night before making
chocolate. Nevertheless, he was still
very much in love with the business and
everything it represents.
“We often hear customers say how
they came to the C Shop when they were
a kid, and now they’re bringing their
own kids,” he says. “Our candy shop has
been a positive experience in their lives,
something they’ve looked forward to and
a connecting point for people of all
ages. Ours is a business that people feel
define the area, and we’re proud that
part of what summer in Birch Bay means
is a visit to the C Shop.”
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Market takes place from 12-5pm at the
Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th St. (behind Village Books). The market continues
Wednesdays through Sept. 30.
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SEDRO MARKE T: Suss out spring offerings
at the weekly Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market
from 3-7pm every Wednesday through
September at Hammer Heritage Park (on the
corner of Ferry and Metcalf streets).
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BREWERS CRUISE: Sample liquid goods
from Boundary Bay Brewery, Wander Brewing, and Aslan Brewing at San Juan Cruises’
first “Bellingham Bay Brewers Cruise” of the
season starting at 6:30pm at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Entry
is $35 and includes various snacks and
beer-brined wings. The cruises take place
weekly through Sept. 26.
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using Ayurvedic principles that have been
practiced for more than 5,000 years when
Juliet Jivanti and Katrina Svoboda Johnson lead an “Ayurvedic Summer Rejuvenation” class from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata
Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd.
Entry is $35.
383-3200
FRI., JUNE 12
WINE SALE: Team Yorky’s Market will host
its 5th annual Wine Sale and Tasting from
5-9pm at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal,
355 Harris Ave. More than 20 wineries
will be represented, and all wines will be
available at a discounted price. Tickets
are $30-$35. All proceeds benefit the
American Cancer Society Whatcom County
Relay for Life.
WWW.TEAMYORKYSMARKET.ORG
SAT., JUNE 13
BASIL 101: A “Basil for Culinary Creations”
presentation begins at 9am at Garden Spot
Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Find out more
about basils and companion herbs, and get
garden-grown recipes for the summertime.
Entry is free; register in advance.
WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM
MOUNT VERNON MARKE T: The Mount
Vernon Farmers Market takes place from
9am-2pm at the city’s Waterfront Plaza.
WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.ORG
ANACORTES FARMERS MARKE T: Vegetables, fruit, baked goods, fresh meat and
dairy, cut flowers, wine, eggs, art and much
more can be found at the Anacortes Farmers
Market, which takes place from 9am-2pm at
the Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave.
WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG
COMMUNIT Y MEAL: Burgers, potato salad,
corn and cookies will be on the menu at the
bimonthly Community Meal taking place
from 10am-12pm at the United Church of
Ferndale, 2034 Washington St. Entry is free.
714-9029
BELLINGHAM FARMERS MARKE T:
Peruse and purchase a plethora of locally
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grown produce, ready-to-eat foods, crafts
and more at the Bellingham Farmers Market
from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square,
1100 Railroad Ave.
WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
B-BOARD 27
BREWERY TOUR: Unearth the mysteries
behind the making of some of the world’s
finest brews at a Brewery Tour beginning at
12pm at Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601
W. Holly St. Tickets are $5.
WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM
MUSIC 20
FILM 24
ALES & SAILS: Boundary Bay Brewery
Chef Matt Hansen will be onboard an
“Ales n’ Sails” beer pairing dinner from
6-9:30pm on the Schooner Zodiac tall ship
from leaving from the Bellingham Cruise
Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Entry is $85 and
includes a four-course dinner paired with
Boundary Bay beer.
WWW.SCHOONERZODIAC.COM
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SUN., JUNE 14
K VWV BENEFIT BRUNCH: Support
Bellingham’s newest community radio
station, KVWV, at a Benefit Brunch from
10am-1pm at the beer garden at Boundary
Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Tickets are
$10 at the door.
STAGE 16
DELUXE SAN JUAN ISLANDS
Free Northwest salmon
and chicken lunch
WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG
2 hours
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to explore Friday Harbor
MON., JUNE 15
TUES., JUNE 16
FROM HER GARDEN: Chef Robert Fong
teams up with Loganita Garden’s Mary
von Krusenstiern for a “From Her Garden”
course from 6:30-9pm at the Community
Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Mary will
also provide planting and cultivating tips.
Entry is $39.
CHUCKANUT BREWERY
& KITCHEN
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fATHER’s Day
CAR SHOW
383-3200
WED., JUNE 17
RAW FEAST: Andy Walton leads a “Raw
Feast” class from 6:30-9pm at the Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Entry
is $39.
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383-3200
THURS., JUNE 18
STRAWBERRIES & SPAGHE T T I: Attend an
annual Strawberry Social & Spaghetti Dinner starting at 6pm at Everson’s Immanuel
Lutheran Church, 5792 Lawrence Rd. Entry
is by donation.
(360) 592-5876
Family Friendly
HoPPY Hour
CLASSIC ROCK BARBEQUE RAFFLES TROPHIES
601 West Holly St. • Bellingham, WA
360-75-BEERS (752-3377)
Register your car at www.gearheadswc.com
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Sunday-Thursday 4-6pm
ChuckanutBreweryAndKitchen.com
MAIL 4
1317 Commercial St.
[email protected]
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06.10.15
FERMENTED VEGE TABLES: Kirsten
Shockey shares tips from Fermented Vegetables at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th
St. The book includes in-depth instruction
and more than 120 recipes for fermenting
64 different vegetables and herbs. Discover
how easy it is to make dozens of exciting
dishes, including curried golden beets, carrot kraut, and pickled green coriander.
FREE
Mezzanine
Large Party
Reservations
LACONNER &
DECEPTION PASS
CRUISE
#23.10
383-3200
Cruises depart from the
Bellingham Cruise Terminal
CASCADIA WEEKLY
ELIMINAT ION DIE T: The Elimination Diet
co-authors Alissa Segersten and Tom Malterre lead an “Elimination Diet 101” class
from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata Community
Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Entry is $39.
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GUARANTEED WHALES!
CURRENTS 8
BEER & WINE
TASTING CRUISES
FERNDALE PUBLIC MARKE T: Attend the
Ferndale Public Market from 2-7pm every
Sunday through Oct. 11 near the town’s Old
Settler’s Village, 2007 Cherry St.
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Purchase show tickets
service charge free at
the Casino Box Office.
Casino opens at 9 am daily. Must be 21 or older with valid ID. *Must be a Rewards Club Member.
Must be present to win. Visit Rewards Club Center for details. Management reserves all rights.

Jun 17 - Cascadia Weekly

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