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Skatefest: 1pm, Ben Root State Park, Anacortes
Run 542: 3pm, White Salmon Lodge, Glacier
WEDNESDAY
ON STAGE
09.07.08
The Tempest: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
SUNDAY
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A glance at what’s happening this week
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AWARD-WINNING MUSICIAN
Ballroom Dance: 6-9pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom
Titus Andronicus: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver
B.C.
Bellingham Music Club: 10:30am, Faith Lutheran
Church
Used Book Sale: 10am-8pm, Bellingham Public
Library
Arleen Williams: 7pm, Village Books
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Brunonia Barry: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITY
Brigid Collins Celebration: 4:30pm, Garden
Street Family Center
VISUAL ARTS
09.05.08
FRIDAY
ON STAGE
King Lear: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
Theatresports: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Contra Dance: 8-11pm, Fairhaven Library
Dance Party: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance
MUSIC
April Verch: 7:30pm, Nancy’s Farm
Swil Kanim: 8pm, Bellingham Public Market
WORDS
Library
Michael Daley: 7pm, Village Books
MONDAY
Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham
09.06.08
SATURDAY
ON STAGE
Titus Andronicus: 1pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver
B.C.
The Tempest: 7pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
Rick Epting Benefit: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount
Vernon
Rooster: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Mt. Baker Ballet Auditions: 12:30-4pm, Nancy
Whyte Studio
Scottish Ceilidh: 7pm, Depot Arts Center,
Anacortes
MUSIC
Millie and the Mentshn: 7-9pm, Bellingham
Public Market
WORDS
Library
Susan McCaslin: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITY
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot
Arts Center
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Riverwalk
Park
Territorial Courthouse Celebration: 5pm, 1308
E St.
Salmon BBQ: 1-4pm, Fairhaven Village Green
Sam Hill Day: 1-4pm, Peace Arch Park, Blaine
Soup for Shelter: 4-8pm, Boundary Bay Brewery
09.02.08
TUESDAY
ON STAGE
Christmas Carol Auditions: 6-9pm, Lincoln
Elementary School, Mount Vernon
The Tempest: 7pm, Twelfth Night
WORDS
Caroline Sutherland: 7pm, Village Books
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Work Party: 10am-1pm, Squalicum Creek
Family Sailing Day: 10am-4pm, Bellingham Bay
Community Boat Center
Dahlia Show: 12-5pm, Bloedel Donovan Park
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Outdoor Cooking Class: 6pm, Lake Padden
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Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Twelfth Night: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
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COMMUNITY
Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange
Mini Meet Car Show: 9am-3pm, Hovander Homestead Park, Ferndale
Kindred Spirits: 1-6pm, Boxx Berry Farm,
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Public Library
Nalini Nadkarni: 7pm, Village Books
Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham
Public Market
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Editorial
In a week of strained levees and national conventions, late
last week actor David Duchovny chose to enter rehab for a
purported case of sex addiction. Rumors have circulated the
married X-Files alum was caught having an affair with a tennis
instructor, but a close friend says, nope, it’s just a hankering
for porn. Stay tuned.
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ART & LIFE
14: Garrison comes west
16: In search of sun
17: Entertaining for Epting
18: Walking for art
20: Masters of metal
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24: One night in Bangkok
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NEW PLAN FOR
CHUCKANUTS
Mitch Friedman accurately responded to Chuckanut
Mountains Park District architect, Ken Wilcox’s excuseladen letter to the Weekly.
Wilcox should stop trying to
delude the public. As Friedman points out, Wilcox’s letter covered up the fact that
the CMPD proposal is now
dead, unanimously rejected
by the Whatcom and Skagit
Boundary Review boards and
their petition invalidated by
the Superior Court.
Friedman says he was unclear about the CMPD Advisory
Committee’s goals and somewhat skeptical of their strategy. Friedman’s concerns are
shared by many—including
those people who unknowingly signed the faulty petition
only to discover the regrettable truth later.
The overreaching CMPD proposal was a bad idea that misused the intent of the metropolitan park district law. Poorly
conceived, and even more poorly executed, the vague, disingenuous, gerrymandered CMPD
proposal threatened increased
taxes, taking of private property by eminent domain, and
creation of an unnecessary new
layer of government while failing to respect private property
owners’ rights. That galvanized
intense, widespread opposition
by property owners, government agencies, and organizations. The CMPD AC’s pursuit
of high-volume tourism—with
its associated, increased risk
of crime, forest fire and ecological damage—was anti-environmental and most people
quickly figured that out. The
CMPD offered an ill-conceived,
untenable solution to a problem that did not exist.
North Sound Conservancy
favors responsible projects
that achieve worthwhile conservation goals while protecting property owners’ rights.
Many members are already excellent stewards of their land
and have supported beneficial
public conservation projects,
e.g. the Blanchard “Compromise.” They realize, just as
Wilcox and Friedman do, that
we live in an awesome area;
it’s in our own best interests
to protect it.
I concur with Friedman that
a major detrimental effect of
the CMPD proposal has been to
poison the well for beneficial
conservation projects coming
from credible sources in the
future. As Friedman points
out, Wilcox’s lawsuit against
the reasonable, workable
Blanchard “Compromise” jeopardizes legitimate environmental causes. Let’s put the CMPD
behind us, and work together
constructively to protect and
preserve the Chuckanuts.
—Roger Mitchell, Bow
HONOR MR. STINKY
Listening to the Democratic
National Convention on NPR
has motivated me to write
that although I will not vote
for him, should “the people”
elect Mr. Stinky, I will honor
him as our president. Honor
seems a word that denotes
dutiful resolve more than affectionate approval and an
appropriate response. That
acknowledged, it is my strong
conviction that, as citizens,
it is our duty to know the
issues that matter to us, a
state that few have attained
be it our long reactionary
educational response and/or
willful ignorance. As wonderful as
it is, science and technology can
only answer certain needs and we
should look to other venues for
more meaningful questions.
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I am a bleeding-heart liberal
and a card-carrying member of the
American Civil Liberties Union. And
I love Cascadia Weekly.
Thank you for publishing John
Reid’s tirade, in which he rails
against Cascadia Weekly, and also
writes, “We hate liberals for a reason, and it pisses us off when your
kind of trash comes around and
tries to change things.”
My perception is that change is
constant, from the moment you’re
born. If you do not embrace those
changes your life will leave you
behind, stuck, stagnant and full
of fear. You will learn absolutely
nothing new about yourself or anything or anybody else. How can you
ever experience the gratitude and
appreciation for what it means to
be human?
Wake up! Don’t waste time! We’re
all going to die, and that’s a change
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I am concerned about John McCain, who is running again to be
our president, mostly because he
seems mentally incompetent—unable to remember important things
like who we’re actually fighting. I
am a veteran of WWII, and suffer
periodic bouts of “Old Timers Syndrome.” For us common folks, that
may be acceptable, but not for our
would-be president. It is critical
to understand subtle differences,
if we wish to withdraw our forces
from Iraq in a reasonable time and
in a safe way.
Let’s avoid more war, more outrageous national debt, and little concern for vital domestic issues. This
one is up to us, the citizens.
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THE GRISTLE
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8)&3& "/(&-4 '&"3 50 53&"% Not to be
gloomy, but we predict the first casualty of the
state’s new “top two” primary may be suspense.
The new primary is likely an uncanny and stubborn forecaster of the mood of the electorate,
and we predict alignments—at least in state
and local races—in November will vary not one
jot from those in August.
In this calculus, incumbents in the 42nd
Legislative District will enjoy returns similar
to those telegraphed last month; and even in
the up-for-grabs 40th, the percentage of votes
assigned to the Republican candidate will remain unchanged while (once Whatcom Dems
stop licking their self-inflicted wounds) the rest
will deposit and pattern around the remaining
Democrat like iron filings drawn to a magnetic
field. Even in Washington’s gubernatorial race,
we’ll predict statewide percentages in November unchanged from those seen in August, as an
incumbent-favoring electorate judges whether
our pitch-perfect, known governor warrants a
replacement by the unknown Dino Rossi.
All this said, one state race offers uncertainty—Commissioner of Public Lands, head of the
state Dept. of Natural Resources.
Here the incumbent, embroiled in a painfully
well-documented sexual harassment complaint,
faces a well-qualified challenger. Barely 1 point
separates DNR chief Doug Sutherland from
rancher Peter Goldmark—and that vulnerability
has emboldened campaign contributions. Yes,
DNR is actually at risk of changing hands.
Couple potential instability in that agency’s
leadership with the departure of Sen. Harriet
Spanel and the arrival of new discharge standards from the brethren Dept. of Ecology, and
surely the litmus issue in local 2008 politics remains Lake Whatcom. With a change of leadership, Spanel’s seminal Lake Whatcom bill—which
establishes this reservoir as a unique body of
water under Washington law—may come under
new scrutiny.
Into this ferment Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike
and Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen
joined Ecology water quality engineer Steve
Hood to address a capacity crowd at a City Club
luncheon last week. Hood recently co-authored
a report that indicates the impacts of land
development around Lake Whatcom must be
reduced by about 70 percent in order to meet
federal clean water standards.
Describing the filtration effects of forested
lands within a watershed and the importance of
forest canopy, Hood explained to listeners that
in effect we must “fool the lake” into believing
the land clearing and urbanization encircling
its drainage basin is really not there. To that
end, local officials have done a pretty good job
of gathering the low-hanging fruit, Hood said,
including land acquisitions and land use revisions. But, likening the fruit to blackberries,
Hood said the effort must now wade deeper into
the thickets and approach much thornier and
costlier issues.
Kremen sketched the history of water quality efforts to date by both the county and city.
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OP INIONS
T HE GR I S T L E
BY PAMELA WEILER GRAYSON
Power of Negative Thinking
THE SCHADENFREUDE GUIDE TO HAPPINESS
ARE YOU happier than you were
last year? Of course you are not! And
do you know why? No, it isn’t because
the world is a sick and scary place
run by maniacs and morons. You are
unhappy because you are not searching for happiness the right way.
Forget about all those inspirational
books on happiness. If you want to
truly increase your happiness quotient, you have to think negatively,
which is the way most people think
80 percent of the day anyway, if they
are being honest with themselves.
The key to consistent and attainable happiness is schadenfreude,
which is a German word essentially
meaning “pleasure taken from someone else’s misfortune.” This word has
made its way into popular culture
as defining a moment of illicit thrill
when others, particularly those you
envy or dislike, experience pain or
disaster, but surprisingly nobody has
claimed it as a guiding principle to
human happiness.
Here are some simple steps that will
help increase your personal sense of
well-being and inner harmony, based
on the suffering of others:
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Many happiness experts advocate
gratitude journals, but how joyful
can you feel writing the same insipid things like “I’m grateful for my
loving family,” or “I’m grateful for
the sun and the flowers”? You need
to start being grateful for things
that happen to others and not you!
Several people who have tried the
schadenfreude happiness method
successfully have written journal
entries like this: “I’m grateful that
Bob lost his job because he was re-
ally getting to be a pompous ass,”
or “I’m grateful that Cindy’s facelift
makes her look like a scared rat, because she thinks she’s so hot, when
what she really is, is just a plastic
shallow bitch!” Whew, doesn’t just
listening to these fantastic entries
make you feel better, even though
you don’t know Bob or Cindy?
t1SBZ Prayer is a very powerful tool
for happiness seekers, but instead
of just praying for wonderful things
to happen to you and those you
love, try praying for bad things to
happen to those you hate. It’s easy!
And you don’t have to feel guilty
because it’s not like you will actually be causing bad things to happen. But a short communion with a
Superior Being could speed things
up a little in that department. You
don’t need to pray for something
disastrous—just something that
upsets the seemingly perfect balance of someone’s life. Many of our
followers have prayed for unfortunate things to happen to people
they resent, like being passed over
for a promotion or contracting a
partially curable sexually transmitted disease. Sometimes all it takes
to boost your happiness quotient is
praying for your nemesis to have a
particularly painful bikini wax.
t)BOH BSPVOE XJUI -PTFST Let’s
face it: Being around people whose
lives seem fabulous is not going to
make you happy. Try to expand your
social circle to include more people
whose lives are significantly worse
than yours. You might think this
would be depressing, but interestingly, it is a real high. Whenever
you have a bad day, you can just
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call up your friend the struggling
actor who works at Red Lobster
and lives with four roommates in
a studio apartment, or your obese,
chain-smoking divorced friend. After spending time with these folks,
you will feel great, because you are
not them! It’s so simple.
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Forget about searching for happiness within yourself, because it’s
too exhausting, time-consuming
and basically hopeless. Humans
measure themselves against each
other, and fighting that innate
emotion is bound to stress you out.
And stressed out people are not
happy—at least not unless they
see others who are more stressed
out and possibly suicidal. Then
they feel better. The key is not
finding out what fills you with joy,
but what fills other, more successful people with despair. Once you
nail that down, you will discover
that your life is not so bad compared with those of arrogant people who are brought to their knees
by things like financial ruin and a
bad pre-nup. So take a look around
at all the wretched souls out there
whose lives have been wracked
with pain, and stop looking for the
happy person within.
Once you admit that hearing about
the traumas of people you dislike fills
you with a sense of euphoria that
you could never achieve just trying
to think positively or appreciate the
things you have, you will finally be
happy. Or at least happier than others,
and that’s what really matters.
Pamela Weiler Grayson lives in New
York.
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Pike distinguished himself by describing, in some detail, efforts the city will
make moving forward, including stronger policing of water withdrawals from
the lake (so-called exempt wells) and a
greater commitment to take charge and
control of this municipal resource.
For Pete to focus on the past and
Dan to focus on the future is reasonable, given the evolution of burden to
protect COB’s municipal water supply,
as well as COB’s superior access to revenues (utility fees) to fund solutions.
Pike also made keen observations
about the double-edge of property
ownership (it confers responsibility
and liability, he observed, as well as
rights); and also lamentable observations about a proposed settlement of
lawsuits filed by taxing districts who
collect revenues from timber harvests.
Lamentable, first, because these
lawsuits have not yet settled and carry
with them certain disclosure covenants
the mayor may’ve breached in improvident remarks to listeners! Second, because he reinforced the mythology that
delay in settling these lawsuits unduly
burdens those taxing districts—in
particular, the Mount Baker School District, which fails to collect a windfall
from timber harvests in the watershed
on the order of $525,000... in a district
with an annual budget of $9.3 million!
These forest board funds are denied to
most school districts in the state, and
are a windfall to MBSD only as a consequence of the school district’s happy
proximity to state forest board lands.
Pike is correct to be concerned about
children’s education being held hostage to water quality concerns; yet the
reverse is equally true, as water quality
concerns become hostage to wedge arguments in a watershed that, as Hood
describes, needs its working forest
canopy protected so very badly. Which
is why litigants wished for a nuanced
settlement that apportions money back
to the school district without acknowledging any sacred “right” of MBSD to
these forest board trust revenues.
It’s a slippery slope because other
taxing districts also share this “right”
to LW timber revenues—including
Whatcom County, the largest of these,
which has agreed to forego these revenues to preserve water quality. Less
generous is Skagit County, which continues to press its claims for timber
harvests inside Bellingham’s drinking
water supply.
This is, at heart, what Spanel’s Lake
Whatcom bill ultimately sought to address, and settlement of claims does
challenge a precarious legal and social
balance. Tread softly, Mr. Mayor.
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MCCAIN’S CHOICE
Palin is the mom in the strict father family, upholding conservative values. Palin is tough: she shoots, skins and eats caribou. She
is disciplined: raising five kids with a major career. She lives her
values: she has a Down syndrome baby that she refused to abort.
She has the image of the ideal conservative mom: pretty, perky,
feminine, Bible-toting and fitting into the ideal conservative family. And she fits the stereotype of America as small-town America.
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differences on the issues. But the Palin nomination is not basically about external realities and what Democrats call “issues,”
but about the symbolic mechanisms of the political mind—the
worldviews, frames, metaphors, cultural narratives, and stereotypes. The Republicans can’t win on realities. Her job is to speak
the language of conservatism, activate the conservative view of
the world, and use the advantages that conservatives have in
dominating political discourse.
Our national political dialogue is fundamentally metaphorical, with family values at the center of our discourse.
Republican strength has been mostly symbolic. The McCain
campaign is well aware of how Reagan and W won—running
on character: values, communication, (apparent) authenticity,
trust and identity—not issues and policies. That is how campaigns work, and symbolism is central.
Conservative family values are strict and apply via metaphorical thought to the nation: good vs. evil, authority, the use
of force, toughness and discipline, individual (versus social)
responsibility, and tough love. Hence, social programs are immoral because they violate discipline and individual responsibility. Guns and the military show force and discipline. Man is
above nature; hence no serious environmentalism. The market
is the ultimate financial authority, requiring market discipline.
In foreign policy, strength is use of the force. In fundamentalist religion, the Bible is the ultimate authority; hence no gay
marriage. Such values are at the heart of radical conservatism.
This is how John McCain was raised and how he plans to govern.
And it is what he shares with Sarah Palin.
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matters because of realities—the realities of
global warming, the economy, the Middle East, nuclear proliferation, civil
liberties, species extinction, poverty here and around the world, and on
and on. Such realities are what make this election so very crucial, and
how to deal with them is the substance of the Democratic platform.
Election campaigns matter because who gets elected can change
reality. But election campaigns are primarily about the realities of
voters’ minds, which depend on how the candidates and the external
realities are cognitively framed. They can be framed honestly or deceptively, effectively or clumsily. And they are always framed from the
perspective of a worldview.
Republicans have long known this; and the choice of Sarah Palin as their
vice presidential candidate reflects their expert understanding of the political mind and political marketing. Democrats who simply belittle the Palin choice court disaster. It must be taken with the utmost seriousness.
The Democratic responses so far reflect external realities: She is inexperienced, knowing little or nothing about foreign policy or national
issues; she is really an anti-feminist, wanting the government to enter
women’s lives to block abortion, but not wanting the government to
guarantee equal pay for equal work, or provide adequate child health
coverage, or child care, or early childhood education; she shills for
the oil and gas industry on drilling; she denies the scientific truths of
global warming and evolution; she misuses her political authority; she
opposes sex education and her daughter is pregnant; and, rather than
being a maverick, she is on the whole a radical right-wing ideologue.
All true, so far as we can tell.
But such truths may nonetheless be largely irrelevant to this campaign. That is the lesson Democrats must learn. They must learn the
reality of the political mind.
The Obama campaign has done this very well so far. The convention
events and speeches were orchestrated both to cast light on external
realities, traditional political themes, and to focus on values at once
classically American and progressive: empathy, responsibility both for
oneself and others, and aspiration to make things better both for oneself
and the world. Obama did all this masterfully in his nomination speech,
while replying to, and undercutting, the main Republican attacks.
But the Palin nomination changes the game. The initial response has
been to try to keep the focus on external realities, the “issues,” and
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Democracy Now! host and Weekly columnist Amy Goodman and her producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole
Salazar report they were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers following their arrest at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this week. Goodman suffered facial injuries when she was slammed to the
ground while displaying her security credentials, resulting in a bloody nose. Goodman was arrested while questioning police about the unlawful detention of Kouddous and Salazar, who were arrested as they covered street
demonstrations at the RNC. Goodman’s crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of
the press. A photographer for Associated Press was also arrested. All have been released from police custody.
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It is Reagan’s morning-in-America image. Where Obama thought of capturing
the West, she is running for Sweetheart
of the West.
And Palin, a member of Feminism for
Life, is at the heart of the conservative feminist movement, which Ronee
Schreiber has written about in her recent
book, Righting Feminism. It is a powerful
and growing movement that Democrats
have barely paid attention to.
At the same time, Palin is masterful at the Republican game of taking
the Democrats’ language and reframing it—putting conservative frames to
progressive words: reform, prosperity,
peace. She is also masterful at using
the progressive narratives: she’s from
the working class, working her way
up from hockey mom and the PTA to
mayor, governor and VP candidate. Her
husband is a union member. She can
say to the conservative populists that
she is one of them—all the things that
Obama and Biden have been saying.
Bottom-up, not top-down.
Yes, the McCain-Palin ticket is weak
on the major realities. But it is strong
on the symbolic dimension of politics that Republicans are so good at
marketing. Just arguing the realities,
the issues, the hard truths should be
enough in times this bad, but the political mind and its response to symbolism cannot be ignored. The initial
Democratic response to Palin—the
response based on realities alone—
indicates that many Democrats have
not learned the lessons of the Reagan
and Bush years.
They have not learned the nature of
conservative populism. A great many
working-class folks are what I call
“bi-conceptual,” that is, they are split
between conservative and progressive
modes of thought. Conservative on patriotism and certain social and family
issues, which they have been led to
see as “moral,” progressive in loving
the land, living in communities of care,
and practical kitchen table issues like
mortgages, health care, wages, retirement and so on.
Conservative theorists won them
over in two ways: inventing and promulgating the idea of “liberal elite”
and focusing campaigns on social and
family issues. They have been doing
this for many years and have changed
a lot of brains through repetition.
Palin will appeal strongly to conservative populists, attacking Obama
and Biden as pointy-headed, tax-andspend, latté liberals. The tactic is to
divert attention from difficult realities
to powerful symbolism.
What Democrats have shied away
from is a frontal attack on radical
conservatism itself as an un-American
and harmful ideology. I think Obama
is right when he says America is based
on people caring about each other and
working together for a better future—
empathy, responsibility (both personal
and social) and aspiration. These lead
to a concept of government based
on protection (environmental, consumer, worker, health care, and retirement protection) and empowerment
(through infrastructure, public education, the banking system, the stock
market and the courts). Nobody can
achieve the American Dream or live an
American lifestyle without protection
and empowerment by the government.
The alternative, as Obama said in his
nomination speech, is being on your
own, with no one caring for anybody
else, with force as a first resort in
foreign affairs, with threatened civil
liberties and a right-wing government
making your most important decisions
for you. That is not what American democracy has ever been about.
What is at stake in this election are
our ideals and our view of the future,
as well as current realities. The Palin
choice brings both front and center.
Democrats, being Democrats, will
mostly talk about the realities nonstop without paying attention to the
dimensions of values and symbolism.
Democrats, in addition, need to call
an extremist an extremist: to shine a
light on the shared anti-democratic
ideology of McCain and Palin, the
same ideology shared by Bush and
Cheney. They share values antithetical to our democracy. That needs to
be said loud and clear, if not by the
Obama campaign itself, then by the
rest of us who share democratic American values.
Our task is to bring external realities
together with the reality of the political mind. Yet it is through cultural narratives, metaphors and frames that we
understand and express our ideals.
George Lakoff is the author of The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand
20th Century Politics With and 18th
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Technology program receives a $125,000 grant
to build a hydrofoil that will be used on a new
passenger ferry being built for Kitsap Transit by
Bellingham’s All American Marine. The project is
the first to be conducted in the new Marine Trades
Innovation Partnership Zone established between
Western and the Port of Bellingham.
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The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk arrives in Puget Sound on its final voyage before decommissioning at Bremerton.
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The Lynden School Board decides to review results of a second investigation into the conduct of Superintendent Dennis
Carlson. The Lynden Tribune reports the investigations allege
Carlson’s actions intimidated staff and were unprofessional.
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A 23-year-old Ferndale man turns himself in after allegedly
raping a young girl in Maple Falls on Sunday.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepares to repair a damaged levee in Deming. A 2007 flood damaged more than 3,000
feet of a Nooksack levee. Repairs are estimated at $808,000.
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A Whatcom County Court Commissioner delivers
a maximum sentence to the 13-year-old boy who
helped start a fire in the Delft Square building
in Lynden. The teen is sentenced to 60 days of
juvenile detention, two years of probation and
300 hours of community service, a punishment beyond what even prosecutors had recommended. A
second boy, accused of actually adding flammable
materials to increase the fire, is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 11.
Classes begin for Lynden Christian schools.
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A grand jury in North Dakota indicts a Hells
Angel biker injured in a bar shooting at an annual motorcycle rally together with five members
of the rival motorcycle gang that assaulted him,
a gang made up of law enforcement officers and
firefighters. Joseph McGuire, 33, was shot Aug.
9 by vacationing Seattle Police Officer Ronald
Smith, 43. Both men are charged with alternative
counts of aggravated and simple assault. Other
men charged include Customs and Border Protection officers Scott Lazalde of Bellingham and
James Rector of Ferndale.
Researchers launch a couple of surveys to learn more about
how motorists drive in Whatcom, Skagit, and Island counties. To participate in the public survey, visit nustats.com/
northsound.
Lynden School District cuts $600,000 from its
budget for the coming school year. School board
members passed a new budget that calls for retiring
seven full-time staff positions and reduces spending
on after-school programs such as sports.
A Swinomish tribal member drowns after a mishap on a crab boat west of Blaine. Dean P. Dan, 50,
of LaConner was pulling up crab pots when a large
wave knocked him into the water. Canadian Coast
Guard medics are unable to revive him.
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Two hikers who spent more than a day stranded
on an 18-inch ledge in the North Cascades are res-
More than 84,000 listeners crowded Denver’s Invesco Field last week to
hear Barack Obama’s historic speech accepting his party’s nomination
for President of the United States. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is Barack
Obama’s pick as vice presidential running mate.
cued, aided by workers who stayed with the couple
until they were able to descend below cloud cover
from the 8,000-foot level of Spire Point near Darrington. They were then retrieved by a helicopter.
A Bellingham seafood company recalls packages
of pepper-smoked salmon that were distributed in
seven states. According to a Food and Drug Administration news release, the presence of listeria monocytogenes was found by the company in routine
testing of a package. No illness from the product is
reported.
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The Bellingham Herald reports an empty Amtrak
train comes off the rails, injuring no one but causing a minor disruption in Labor Day travel.
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TUESDAY
School begins for the remainder of the area’s public school districts, including Bellingham.
History is made as the Republican Party greets
its first woman to be nominated for Vice President of the United States at the GOP’s convention
in Minneapolis.
On Aug. 26, juveniles in Shelton dropped
a heavy object from a freeway overpass,
smashing the windshield of the vehicle passing below. The vehicle was a
Washington State Patrol pursuit vehicle
whose occupant reported the incident,
leading to the arrest of the youths. The
arrested teens said they thought their
stunt would be “funny.”
COCHLEAR CONUNDRUMS
On Aug. 22, Blaine Police visited Adelia
Street where “a resident living at Wits End
called police pleading for protection from
the beeping noise blasting from a house
on Mitchell Street for hours,” police reported. “An officer contacted two homes
near the complainant: one agreed to turn
off his loud music, and the other agreed
to turn off the beeping alarm on her ra-
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On Aug. 17, a man reported someone had
thrown bird seed and small dead fish on
his parked truck. The man told Blaine Police he suspected his ex-girlfriend, “because he knew that she had done similar
things to other people back when they
were blissfully together.” Police said
they’d contact the the alleged vandal to
get her side of the story.
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BBQ CRIMES
On July 17, a woman ran out of the Deming IGA with two bags believed to contain beefsteaks. Sheriff’s deputies were
unable to capture the Prime suspect.
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On July 19, a Southside woman told
Bellingham Police her barbecue grill had
been stolen off her porch in the night.
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On June 28, employees thwarted the
theft of several barbecue grills from a
store on Sunset Drive in Bellingham.
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On Aug. 31, a man walked out of a Meridian Street convenience store with a
cart full of stolen groceries. Bellingham Police were unable to recover the
groceries.
On Aug. 28, a person was reported
swimming nude at Lake Padden. Bellingham Police were unable to locate the
swimmer.
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vice president, Sarah Palin.
heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
PERCENT OF ALASKANS who score Palin's performance as governor "good to excellent." Of that group, 87 percent believe she's
lying about "TrooperGate," an incident where she allegedly pressured and then fired the state’s public-safety commissioner after
he refused to dismiss her sister's ex-husband, a state trooper.
PERCENT OF AMERICANS who think women make better
political leaders than men (69 percent say men and women make
equally good leaders).
POPULATION OF SNOHOMISH County.
Population of Alaska: 670,000.
PERCENT OF THOSE polled who think Palin will hurt McCain's
chances in November rather than help them.
CHANCE IN THREE a political insider privately expressed relief
to reporters that George W. Bush would not make an appearance
at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota this week.
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On Aug. 26, state Republicans sought
distance from Barack Obama’s
claim that he doesn’t “look
like the other presidents on
the currency” after Snohomish County Sheriff’s deputies
helped collect a series of $3
bills depicting the presidential nominee wearing Arab
headgear and leading a camel.
The bills were featured at the
Snohomish County Republican Party’s
booth at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe. A GOP volunteer brought them to the
fair, thinking they were funny.
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On Aug. 10, juveniles in Blaine dropped
a heavy object from a freeway overpass,
smashing the windshield of a motorist
passing below. Police searched the area,
but the villains were not located. Damage to the 2006 Nissan was estimated at
about $300.
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On Aug. 25, Bellingham Police took mercy on a youth in the Lettered Streets after a neighbor called to report his mother
had been yelling at her son for what the
caller described as “several hours.”
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On Aug. 7, Blaine Police responded to a
911 hang-up call originating inside Blaine
Middle School. Officers deduced the
phone was defective and called for repair
service. Over the next several days, they
would be dispatched to the school again
and again, only to confirm fault with a
phone. On Aug. 16, an officer investigated an early morning call with the sound
of dialing in the background. The officer checked the area but found
nothing suspicious. Finally,
the officer “called the number provided and received
an answering machine. Unknown cause of the call,” the
officer observed, “but it’s believed to be a phone problem.”
A request to repair the problem
was again made. Later that evening, officers were again dispatched
to Blaine Middle School. “They arrived
and determined the call originated with
a faulty phone,” the report noted. “They
been dispatched to the same location
multiple times. An officer contacted a
school employee who will be checking
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dio. Thus ended the evening’s audio war
between the neighbors. Both were berated about the collateral cochlear conundrum their criminally creative cacophony
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“THE STRONG
point of radio,” Garrison Keillor once said, “is
that there’s no distractions. People are driving down the road and
you’re right there, whispering in their ear. They have nobody else
to talk to. It’s a lovely situation for spreading untruths and pulling
people’s legs.”
Keillor, who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994, has
been pulling legs and tickling eardrums in a big way ever since his
world-renowned old-timey radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,”
commenced its first live broadcast on July 6, 1974 on the campus of
Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.
Although there were a whopping 12 people in the Janet Wallace
Auditorium to witness Keillor and his friends performing that Saturday
afternoon, over the course of
the next 500 episodes—between then and 1983—the
audience for “A Prairie Home
Companion” grew exponentially, capturing listeners far
and wide across the globe.
Currently, Keillor’s noisy
but
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creative aptitude).
Growing up in a family of long-suffering,
churchgoing Scandinavians during the 1970s and
’80s, the telltale places, hilarious characters and
poignant over-the-top events Keillor described in
and around his fictional Minnesota town of Lake
Wobegone both reflected the plight of and became enmeshed deep within my family’s lore.
Come rain, shine or sub-Arctic blizzard, each
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Inqvist, Father Wilmar, sundry members of the
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The heedless ice fishing, gigantic caramel
rolls and endless tuna hot dish recipes struck
a deep and resonate chord within our nostalgic
Midwestern hearts. For better or worse, Keillor became like some kind of crazy mischievous
uncle to me.
However, not everyone in our family appreciated his antics.
I recall vividly when, one time, after listening to him describe lutefisk as reminiscent of
“the afterbirth of a dog or the world’s largest
chunk of phlegm,” my proud and normally unflappable Norwegian-American grandmother
winced in disgust.
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“Uff-dah,” she growled, turning off the radio
in protest. “That man is a menace!”
“You’d see me on the street and never think
I was an entertainer,” Keillor once noted. “Less
is more. Quieter is better. The audience thinks
‘What’s this about?’ ‘What’s this leading to?’ And,
in the end, it doesn’t really lead to anything.
But you’ve managed to keep their attention for
hours. They feel satisfied. It’s a mystery.”
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FAIRHAVEN BBQ: The annual Fairhaven Salmon BBQ
happens from 1-4pm on the
Fairhaven Village Green. A $12
ticket gets you the full meal
deal and live music by Blues
Union on the grassy green.
920-8223 OR FAIRHAVEN.
Gifts for your home & garden
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TO CURVE: Poet Michael Daley reads from his latest collection, To Curve, at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
671-2626
COURTHOUSE
CELEBRAT ION: Celebrate the 150th
birthday of the Territorial
Courthouse Building from
11am-5pm at 1308 E St. Walking tours, a carving demo, live
music and more will be part of
the free festivities.
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Locally grown flowers & bulbs
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SERIAL STORY: Arleen Williams reads from her book, The
Thirty-Ninth Victim, at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
671-2626
BELLINGHAM MARKE T: The
Bellingham Farmers Market is
open from 10am-3pm at the
Depot Market Square, located
at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street.
647-2060 OR
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BOOK SALE: A preview for
the Friends of the Bellingham Library Used Book Sale
happens from 3-6pm Wed. at
the Bellingham Public Library,
210 Central Ave. The sale continues from 10am-8pm Thurs.,
10am-6pm Fri., and 10am-3pm
Sat.
778-7250
SUN., SEPT. 7
ROME
BREAKFAST: The
monthly Community Breakfast
continues from 9am-1pm at
the Rome Grange, 2821 Mt.
Baker Hwy. This month and
next, there’ll also be a Farm
Stand in the parking lot. Entry
is $3-$5.
671-7862
MINI MEE T: The 36th annual
Whatcom County Mini Meet
Car Show happens from 9am3pm at Ferndale’s Hovander
Homestead Park, 5299 Neilsen
Rd. Admission is free, and it’s
$10 to enter your vehicle.
738-0103
KINDRED SPIRITS: As part
of Eat Local Week, take part in
today’s annual Kindred Spirits
gathering from 1-6pm at Ferndale’s Boxx Berry Farm, 6221
Northwest Rd.
647-7093 OR SCONNECT.ORG
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at him, which was a burden
he bore for many years as a
regular on the show, “Whizzing Through With Whipple,”
but he had secret ambitions
to write a narrative in verse
of American history. The lines
I quoted were from that work,
which was left incomplete on
his tragic death, crushed by a
falling bookcase.
CW: Clint Bunsen, the car mechanic protagonist of Liberty,
suffers a life-altering identity
crisis when a DNA test reveals
that, rather than being 100
percent pure Norwegian as he
always thought, he is actually half Spanish. What makes
Norwegian-Americans so goddamned proud? Is it all the
churchgoing and lutefisk? Or do
they put some top-secret enzyme or special protein powder
in the lefse?
GK: Clint is quite happy to accept being Latino. It explains why he feels out of
place among the Norwegians
of Lake Wobegon. It’s a sort
of freedom from lutefisk and
lefse, and the chance to sing
passionate romantic songs.
And it gives him an excuse to
dress up in a mariachi outfit,
including trousers with silver
buttons down the sides.
CW: Sixty-year-old Clint first
meets his 28-year-old lover,
Angelica, on a website called
“Heritage is Destiny” and they
spend a goodly portion of time
flirting in a chat room called
“ZipZone”. Is the Internet generally a corruptive force in Lake
Wobegon?
GK: The Internet is definitely
having an impact. Lake Wobegon is a place where people
feel they must repress so much
of themselves and the Internet gives you the chance to
be bold and free—and anonymous. Unfortunately, it is
something of a fantasy world,
harmless on the whole but capable of burning up enormous
amounts of time. And it’s very
seductive. It would be sad if
people were so addicted to
it that they didn’t take long
hikes in the woods or canoe
down a river or have coffee
with their friends.
734-4616 or br igid
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Though the stolid denizens
and bucolic terrain of Garrison
Keillor’s fictional Minnesota
town, Lake Wobegon, are most
widely known through the synoptic, cream-rich monologues
he delivers every weekend on
his long-running radio show, “A
Prairie Home Companion,” the
Bard of Hot Dish and Tuna Casserole is also an accomplished
wordsmith who has been serving up fresh, juicy slices of
Wobegonian lore via full-length
novels since 1985.
Liberty, Keillor’s sixth and
latest Lake Wobegon gospel, reveals the lusty, rusty trials and
tribulations of Clint Bunsen,
an outspoken 60-year-old car
mechanic, husband and father
of three who must face down
a gauntlet of interpersonal issues, inexplicable impulses and
a veritable smorgasbord of antagonistic community members
in his pre-geriatric struggle for
fulfillment and freedom.
Cascadia Weekly: At the beginning of Liberty you include a
quote attributed to Emmett Lazarus. Who is Emmett Lazarus?
Is he related to Emma Lazarus,
the renowned Jewish-American
“poet of the huddled masses”
who has part of her sonnet,
“The New Colossus,” engraved
on the base of the Statue of
Liberty? Or is he somebody
from Lake Wobegon? An extroverted Norwegian bachelor
farmer, perhaps?
Garrison Keillor: Emmett Lazarus
is the pen name of an old radio
comedian named Whiz Whipple
whose trademark was the line,
“Whyyyyyyyyyyy me?” Whenever his fans met him on the
street, they would holler that
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HILL RUN: Fairhaven Runners hosts a weekly Evening
Hill run at 6pm leaving from
the store, 1209 11th St. The
gathering is free.
676-4955
STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO
What’s in a Name?
SEPT. 5-7
WALK ING FEST IVAL: The
Whidbey Walking Festival
happens daily in Coupeville through the weekend.
Routes feature options of
three- to 13-mile walks.
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a backpacking excursion, we want to ensure
lots of warm sunshine. The forecast
is iffy so, naturally, we head for
Rainy Pass.
Despite its name, Rainy Pass is
situated at the point in the range
where east meets west—the transition zone between the wet western
side of the mountains and the drier
eastern high country. It’s a good bet
when the weather on our side is unsettled, and a chance to explore the
high country with a reasonable hope
of staying dry.
The Maple Pass loop begins—and
ends—at the Rainy Pass trailhead
situated on Highway 20 and offers a
scenic, concise and easy tour of the
alpine wonderlands near the crest of
the range.
We arrive at the trailhead in—sure
enough—bright sunshine and head
up the trail through sweet-smelling
forest. Bypassing the turnoff for
Lake Ann, we continue upward toward
Maple Pass, enjoying ever-expanding
views as we move above the tree
line. At the pass, the monumental
peaks to the south come into view—
Corteo, Storm King, Dome, and Glacier peaks dominating a resplendent
chorus line of jagged mountains.
Turning east, we follow the loop
trail to its high point on a shoulder
of Frisco Mountain, where we make
camp on a sinuous ridge with a million-dollar view.
The morning breaks beneath clear
blue skies. We explore along the
ridge as dark clouds begin to gather and when we return to camp we
string our little tarp amongst the
krumholtz. Just in case.
No sooner are we done then rain
begins to fall—big, heavy drops that
raise small clouds in the dust. As we
hunker down beneath the small shel-
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DAY TRIP: From 8:30am4pm, head to the North
Cascades Institute’s Learning Center on Diablo Lake
for free Day Trip excursions,
including canoeing and forest and waterfall hikes. The
event is first come, first
served.
(360) 856-5700 OR
NCASCADES.ORG
WE ARRIVE AT THE TRAILHEAD IN—SURE
ENOUGH—BRIGHT SUNSHINE AND HEAD
UP THE TRAIL THROUGH SWEET-SMELLING
FOREST.
ter, everything goes white and the
wind begins to blow. We eat dinner
beneath the tarp as the rain blows
sideways, making it challenging to
stay even semi-dry. In the tent, we
lie awake and listen to the howling
wind. It’s a long, mostly sleepless
night. In the early morning the
wind and rain finally let up and we
emerge bleary-eyed, grateful for
the chance to dry our wet gear in
the shafts of tentative sunlight.
By mid-morning the skies are
blue. Buoyed by this happy turn of
events, we set off up Frisco Mountain over rock and steeply pitched
gardens of blooming purple and
white heather. We ascend progressively higher stone parapets, reaching a small rock platform where we
drop our day packs and survey the
360-degree spectacle of wild mountains. On one side, the burnt umber
teeth of the Early Winters spires rise
beyond Liberty Bell in a sea of bare
peaks. On the other side, the view
encompasses a wild horizon of blue
and green ice and forest.
As the sun prepares to make its
exit, we climb down to camp. By
the time dinner is ready, the sky
is filled with stars. We dine by the
ethereal light of the Milky Way and
watch tendrils of mist move toward
us from the valleys on both sides,
eventually meeting in the middle
and erasing the stars.
Morning hummingbirds buzz us
as we break camp and hoist our
packs. We make our way down toward Rainy Lake through sunlit gardens of wildflowers. Alas, all good
things must come to an end and all
too soon we find ourselves plunging
down through the forest toward the
trailhead. We came for sun and got
a little of everything—just a typical
weekend in the North Cascades.
SERVICE PROJEC T: Join
the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement
Association
for a service project from
10am-1pm along Squalicum
Creek. Meet at Cornwall Park
on Meridian St. to remove
non-native invasive plant
species.
647-8955 OR N-SEA.ORG
PLANT
WALK: Master
gardeners will lead a “Native Plant Walk” at 10am at
Birch Bay State Park’s Terrell Creek Interpretive Trail.
The outing is free.
371-2800
FAMILY SAILING DAY:
The Bellingham Corinthian
Yacht Club will host a free
Family Sailing Day from
10am-4pm at the Bellingham Bay Community Boat
Center, 501 Harris Ave. Reservations are required.
714-8891 OR
SAILPADDLEROW.ORG
FARM WORK SHOP: “Fall
in the Orchard: When is it
Ripe?” will be the topic of
a free workshop starting at
10:30am at Everson’s Cloud
Mountain Farm, 6906 Goodwin Rd.
966-5859 OR
be live music, food and
prizes.
CIT YOFANACORTES.ORG
RUN 542: As part of the
Mt. Baker Hill Climb, runners
can take part in today’s Run
542, which starts at 3pm
at Glacier’s White Salmon
Lodge. The run continues
up to Artist Point. Cost is
$25-$30.
NORKARECREATION.COM
SEPT. 6-7
DAHLIA SHOW: The Whatcom County Dahlia Society
presents its annual Dahlia
Show from 12-5pm Sat. and
10am-4pm Sun. at Bloedel
Donovan Park, 2214 Electric Ave. More than 2,000
blooms from the best growers in the region will be on
display. Entry is free.
WHATCOMCOUNT YDAHLIA
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SUN., SEPT. 7
RIDE 542: Take advantage
of the only day of the year
that Hwy 542 is reserved for
cyclists as part of Ride 542,
which kicks off at 7:30am
in Glacier. Entry costs vary,
and there is no day-of registration.
NORKARECREATION.COM
SK AGIT FLATS: The Skagit
Flats Marathon and HalfMarathon kicks off at 8am
at the Burlington-Edison
High School, 301 N. Burlington Blvd. The entry fee
is $50-$75.
SKAGITFLATSMARATHON.COM
GOLF TOURNE Y: The “Little Wishes” golf tournament
held today at the Shuksan
Golf Club will raise funds for
Blue Skies for Children. Cost
is $85 per person or $340
for a four-person team.
312-9590
MON., SEPT. 8
DUTCH OVENS: Car campers
can learn more about feeding themselves in the great
outdoors at a free “Dutch
Oven Cooking” workshop at
6pm at Lake Padden. Take
the east entrance and look
for the REI event tent.
647-8955
CLOUDMOUNTAINFARM.COM
TUES., SEPT. 9
SK ATEFEST: The 10th annual Skatefest gets rolling
at 1pm at the Ben Root
Skate Park on R Avenue in
Anacortes. In addition to
the competitions, there’ll
BIKE 101: Learn how to
keep your two-wheeler in
tip-top shape at a free “Bike
Maintenance 101” clinic at
6pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955
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733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM
SEPT. 5-6
MIXED BAG: Teams of improvisers will go head to head in a Theatresports match at 9pm at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. The
all-male group Rooster will take the
stage at 9pm Sat. Admission is $8$10.
733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM
SEPT. 9-10
efit Show
Mount Vernon
COST: $18-$24
INFO: (877) 754-6284 or
lincolntheatre.org
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WHEN: 8pm Sat., Sept. 6
WHERE: Lincoln Theatre,
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WED., SEPT. 3
AUDIENCE MEMBERS lucky enough to score tickets
to the annual “Rick Epting Benefit for the Arts” happening Sat.,
Sept. 6, should take careful note of the seats they’re occupying
at the Lincoln Theatre. Without Epting’s help, they might not be
sitting there at all.
Before Epting’s untimely death in 2005, the musician and tireless arts supporter was instrumental in the restoration campaign
for the historic Mount Vernon landmark, which was built in 1926
as a vaudeville and silent movie house. Featuring a Spanish motif
and one of 98 Wurlitzer organs remaining in its original space,
today the restored theater features everything from movies to
live theater to world-renowned bands and local talent shows.
Not wanting his mission to falter, in 2006 friends of Epting
formed the Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts with the aim to
keep his legacy of supporting the arts in Skagit County alive. The
annual benefit show, now entering its third year, raises money
needed for nonprofit groups to promote live performances and
continue serving the community.
You’ll likely forget you’re at the Lincoln Theatre for a cause
once the curtains go up. Touted as “three shows in one,” the
night will feature performances from the Cody Rivers Show, the
Dream Science Circus, and members of the Upfront Theatre.
“We are doing almost all-new material which will be debuted at
the Lincoln,” says Andrew Connor, one half of the creatively combustible sketch comedy duo that is the Cody Rivers Show. “That stuff
is currently in development, and we will be mixing in a few really
obscure pieces from the past, revised and revamped.”
Connor and co-conspirator Mike Mathieu have been touring for the past
five months, and he says they’re “very
much looking forward to being back in
the Fourth Corner.”
The Dream Science Circus, another regional gem, will also take to the stage
to astound and amaze theatergoers.
With a wily blend of acrobatics, dance,
comedy and pantomime, the performers
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of this unique circus will draw you deep
Benefit Show
into their mystical blend of storytelling
WHEN: 8pm Sat., Sept. 6
and physicality. Members have traveled
WHERE: Lincoln Theatre,
the globe to share their “dreams,” and
Mount Vernon
their show shouldn’t be missed.
COST: $18-$24
INFO: (877) 754-6284
Fans of comedy created on the spot
or lincolntheatre.org
will be glad to see the improvisational
antics provided by mainstage members
of Bellingham’s Upfront Theatre. Utilizing suggestions from the
audience, the actors will bring their offerings to life, and may
provide some standup comedy as well.
Throughout the night, as audience members laugh and gasp at
the troika of talent taking the stage as part of the benefit, they
should remember that it’s thanks to people like Rick Epting—those
who believe the arts are a vital part of any healthy community and
do what they can to ensure they continue—that they’re able to
be there at all.
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DANCE
BALLROOM MOVES: Sentimental
Journey will provide live tunes for a
free Ballroom Dance happening from
6-8pm at the Leopold, 1224 Cornwall
Ave.
733-3500
FRI., SEPT. 5
CONTRA DANCE: Live music and a
caller will be part of the first Contra
Dance of the season happening from
8-11pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117
12th St. If you need instructions,
there’ll be a 7:30pm lesson. Suggested donation is $8-$10.
676-1554
SAT., SEPT. 6
AUDIT IONS: Get ready for the upcoming 2008/2009 season at the
Mt. Baker Ballet by auditioning from
12:30-4pm at the Nancy Whyte Studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave.
734-9141 OR
NANCYWHYTEBALLET.COM
SCOT T ISH DANCE: The Skagit Scottish Country Dancers invite the public
to a Ceilidh at 7pm at Anacortes’ Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave. Admission
is $6 per person or $15 per family.
SKAGITSCD.ORG
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AUDIT IONS: The Theater Arts Guild
will hold auditions for upcoming performances of A Christmas Carol from
6-9pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln
Elementary School, 1005 S. 11th St.
There are parts for up to 60 actors
of all ages.
(360) 770-8751 OR
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GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm
at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay
St. At 10pm, stick around for “The
Project: Mad Comedy in the Making.”
Cost is $5 for the early show, $3 for
the late one.
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BARD ON BEACH: Twelfth Night
plays in repertory with The Tempest,
King Lear, and Titus Andronicus as
part of Bard on the Beach through
Sept. 26 at Vanier Park in Vancouver,
B.C. Tickets are $18-$33.
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OPENINGS
WED., SEPT. 3
CALL FOR ART: Skilled artists and artisan
vendors from Whatcom, Skagit, Island, and
Snohomish counties can sign up now to take
part in the Fall Harvest Festival happening
Sept. 27 in Mount Vernon.
(360) 336-5087
OPEN HOUSE: Attend an Open House for a new
art space from 6-10pm at Jinx, 306 Flora St. The
night will feature works by Richard Olmstead
and others, as well as live music.
920-4216
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Art Walk
FIRST FRIDAY: The monthly Art Walk happens
from 6-9pm at various venues in downtown
Anacortes. The event is free.
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WE SHOULD BE CELEBRATING
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See Erin Libby’s “Walking with Moonchild” at the Blue Horse Gallery as part of the Art Walk
DURING THE past few weeks, you may have seen posters
touting the new Art Walk pasted on bulletin boards and windows
throughout downtown Bellingham. The image is simple: a crossing signal features the flashing word “ART” with the symbol of a
human in motion representing the letter “R.”
According to Downtown Renaissance Network member Gretchen
Bjork—the owner of shoe store Left Right Left and upscale furnishing establishment, Digs—the Art Walk is a new and improved
version of the longtime Gallery Walk.
“A group of business owners have been talking about the problems we have with how the Gallery Walk was,” Bjork, 30, says.
“Nobody knew when it was because it was kind of random and the
months weren’t consistent. Plus, we felt the words ‘Gallery Walk’
excluded a lot of other venues that have art in them.”
When the Art Walk makes its debut Fri., Sept. 5, 22 venues
will take part in the new format, which aims to keep to a regular
schedule. Every first Friday of the month—except for this October, when it’ll happen on the second Friday—galleries, restaurants, businesses and studios will stay open later than usual so
the public can better partake of their offerings.
“We changed the name to Art Walk so it includes different kinds
of venues,” Bjork says. “We’re hoping to see everything from culinary arts to performance arts and music. Because it’s now being
put on by the Downtown Renaissance Network, we thought it made
sense to match it to the downtown branding that’s going on.”
Although walls full of art are still one of the main
draws of the monthly event, Bjork and other DRN
members are encouraging venues to think outside
the box.
For the inaugural event, you can still peruse exhibits at more traditional spaces such as the Blue
Horse Gallery, Allied Arts, Waterfront Artists Studio Collective, WFA Dream Space studios, and more.
New are events such as “The
Art of Paella” at the Temple
Bar, which pairs outdoor dining with a special dinner by
Paellaworks Catering’s Knut
Christianson. Left Right
Left will host a trunk show
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ist Yellow Dame, and BackWHEN: 6-10pm, Fri.,
country Essentials will highSept. 5
WHERE: Downtown
light Entertwined Designs,
Bellingham
Heather Fitzstarawn’s hemp
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that’s just the beginning.
To get new venues to participate, Bjork says
they’re offering monthly rates. Nonprofits can sign
up for $50, and it’ll be $65 for regular folks to take
part. Scholarships will also be available for independent artists and others who may not be able to
participate otherwise. Above all, Bjork notes, they
want downtown to be a vibrant hub every first Friday of the month.
“Art is all around us, and we should be celebrating it all the time,” Bjork says. “I think the new
energy will be contagious and the audience will
grow. I think the more reasons people have to come
downtown and enjoy it, the better.”
FACES OF BURMA: Dennis Walton will present
“Faces of Burma,” a photographic portrait of
Myanmar, at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum
of History and Art, 121 Prospect St. The event
is free, and participants can bring their lunch
along.
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ALLIED ARTS: “Seeing From Within, A Retrospective and Celebration of Life, Tammy Zlotnik, 1963-2007” shows through Sept. 6 at Allied
Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
676-8548
ART WOOD: Woodworker Michael Flaherty will
be featured through September at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.
647-1628
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The museum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues.
and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
393-7540
BLUE HORSE: Erin Libby’s retrospective, “A
Creative Life: Visions of the Fantastic” shows
through Sept. 27 at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301
W. Holly St.
671-2305
FERNDALE LIBRARY: The Whatcom Art Guild’s
“Fall Art Exhibit” shows through Oct. 2 at the
Ferndale Public Library, 2222 Main St. The work
of 25 artists is on display.
384-3647
GOOD EARTH: Nature-based ceramic designs
by Gene Buckley and Cheryl Lee will be featured
through September at Good Earth Pottery, 1000
Harris Ave.
671-3998 OR GOODEARTHPOTS.COM
HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View “Lost Cities of
Skagit: Rediscovering Places of Our Past” until
Nov. 2 at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical
Museum, 501 South 4th St.
(360) 466-3365 OR SKAGITCOUNT Y.NET
INSIGHTS: Anne Schreivogl’s “Last Splash of
Summer” exhibit can be see through Sept. 30
at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
(360) 588-8044 OR INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM
QUILT MUSEUM: “Paths to Edo: Quilts from Japan” and “Sashika Old & New: Works of Kazuko
Yoshiura” can be seen through Sept. 21 the La
Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 South 2nd
St.
(360) 466-4288 OR LACONNERQUILTS.COM
SMITH/VALLEE: Jack Gunter’s “Where Pigs Fly”
exhibit will be on display from 11am-5pm every
Fri.-Sun. through Sept. 28 at Edison’s Smith/
Vallee gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. The 25-year retrospective features Gunter’s championship flying
mammal.
(360) 305-4892
VILLAGE BOOK S: “Messages Home” shows
through September at Village Books, 1200 11th
St.
671-2626
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “World of the Shipwright”
is currently on display at the Whatcom Museum,
121 Prospect St.
778-8930 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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PUBLIC MARKE T: An exhibit featuring photos
from the demolition of Georgia-Pacific buildings by Tore Ofteness will show through October
at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 Cornwall
Ave.
647-8006
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PEACE ARCH PARK: The annual Peach Arch Park
International Sculpture Exhibit is open through
Oct. 1 at Blaine’s Peace Arch Park.
332-7165 OR PEACEARCHPARK.ORG
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PAPERDOLL: Libby Chenault’s “Fascination:
Portraits in Thread” shows through Sept. 6 at
the Paperdoll, 1200 10th St.
738-DOLL
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ONE OF ONE: “Untied,” featuring the paper artistry of Helen Hiebert, is currently on display
at Bison Bookbinding’s One of One gallery, 1420
N. State St.
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MONA: Glass artist Ginny Ruffner’s “Aesthetic
Engineering: The Imagination Cycle” can be perused through Oct. 5 at La Conner’s Museum of
Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
(360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
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more are on display as part of the multi-artist
“Off the Edge” exhibit on display through Sept.
28 at Mindport Exhibits, 219 W. Holly St. Admission is $2.
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BY CAREY ROSS
3 Inches of Blood
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THEY WEAR
spikes and leather, sing songs titled things
like “Destroy Orcs” and “Through the Horned Gate,” and feature
a vocalist that isn’t afraid to get in touch with his inner Rob
Halford. No wonder people have mistaken Vancouver’s 3 Inches
of Blood for a joke metal band. But a joke they are most certainly
not, and one could easily argue that, if this were the early ’80s,
3 Inches of Blood would simply be some of the metalest dudes
around, rather than a oft-suspected parody of the same.
However, people in general have never really known what to
make of 3 Inches of Blood. Much more so than other types of
music, metal is fractured into a number of distinct subgenres—
black metal, metalcore, thrash metal and
power metal are just a few that come to
mind—and at some point or another, 3
Inches of Blood has been classified and
claimed by each. However, the band itself
remains unconcerned with such classifications, content to be who and what they
are, evolving as they see fit. The general
genre of heavy metal was good enough for
the bands they claim as influences—Judas
Priest, Iron Maiden, and the like—so it’s
good enough for
them.
Despite all this
classification controversy, it is worth
noting that the
band’s most recent
release, 2007’s Fire
Up the Blades, defiHEAR
nitely trends more
WHO: 3 Inches of
toward the black
Blood, Full Frontal
metal end of the
Assault, Super Happy
Story Time Land
spectrum than their
WHEN: Sun., Sept. 7
previous efforts.
WHERE: Wild Buffalo,
Maybe it’s because
208 W. Holly St.
that’s what guitarCOST: $8 advance,
ists Shane Clark and
$10 day of show
MORE INFO: wildbufJustin
Hagberg,
falo.net
who penned all the
album’s songs, were
into at the time, but personally, I think
this black metal bent can be ascribed to
the fact that they wrote the entire thing
while holed up in the heavy metal bastion
of Tacoma, Wash. Whatever the reason, this
effort hits harder and faster and sounds
darker than previous releases, and also has
the sound of a band that is leaning less and
less on its influences and creating a sound
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Rumor Has It
3 INCHES OF Blood at the Wild Buffalo? I know.
When I saw the show listed on the Buff’s calendar, I had to shake my head and do a double
take too. While I’ve been open to the possibility that anything can happen at the Wild
Buffalo since DeVotchka played there, I don’t
know that I was quite prepared for “anything”
to come in the form of 3 Inches of Blood. But I
am glad it does. The show, which happens Sept.
6—a Sunday, so plan accordingly—and also
features Full Frontal Assault and Super Happy
Story Time Land. While we may all be familiar
with what FFA has to offer (a ferocious punk/
metal hybrid that, frankly, scares me a little),
Sequim’s Super Happy Story Time Land may be
a bit more of a mystery around these parts.
They are self-described purveyors of “punishing metal with uplifting lyrics and a positive
message,” and claim to be “Disneyland meets
Cannibal Corpse and the Partridge Family at
the same time.” It’s a
little hard to wrap the
mind around. But I do
know SHSTL will make
a delightful counterpoint to 3 Inches
of Blood’s “we’re alll
doomed—and I mean
really, really doomed”
lyrical content.
Another show that
I’m pretty excited
about is an upcoming WhAAM fundraiser featuring JaBY CAREY ROSS
panther, No-Fi Soull
Rebellion, Little Party and the Bad Business,
and 10 Killing Hands. It’s been too long since
we’ve seen the likes of Japanther around these
parts, which propels their Sept. 16 show at the
Nightlight into the realm of long-awaited and
much-anticipated. Advance tickets are $7 and
are available at Everyday Music, and the whole
thing, as I mentioned, is a benefit for WhAAM,
an organization with big goals but little money
to make them a reality. (In the spirit of full
disclosure, it should be noted that I recently
joined WhAAM’s board of directors because, as I
have said many, many times before, I believe a
self-sustaining all-ages music venue to be vital
to the health and well-being of the arts community in any town.)
If it seems like the Sweaty Sweaters are everywhere these days, well, it’s because they
are. Since releasing their new album, Care, in
mid-August, it feels a little like the band has
spent more time onstage than off. They’re currently at the beginning of a month-long Monday-night run at the Green Frog, and you can
also catch them this Sat., Sept. 6 at the Wild
Buffalo, and they’ll also play—along with a
whole slew of your favorite local bands—at a
big ol’ benefit for Homes For Our Troops Sept.
13 at Boundary Bay.
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Grayskul, Dim Mak, Smoke, and Xperience play at 8pm Thurs., Sept. 4 at the
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MUSIC CLUB: Guest artists from the Skagit Opera will perform at a free concert being put on by
the Bellingham Music Club at 10:30am at Faith
Lutheran Church, 2750 McLeod Rd.
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APRIL VERCH: Award-winning Canadian fiddler
and singer April Verch will perform at 7:30pm at
Nancy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested donation is $10-$12.
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a musical legacy built on a foundation of flannel and angst, truth is,
musicians of all stripes find themselves nestled in the Emerald City’s
rainy but musically welcoming embrace. In fact, the city is home to
a hip-hop community that has, in
recent years, grown exponentially in
both strength and numbers.
Hip-hop in Seattle, as in many
places, tends to be a group effort, and no group is more prolific
or prominent than the Oldominion
collective, which counts among its
offshoots Boom Bap Project, Sleep,
Norman, and Snafu. In the world of
underground hip-hop, Oldominion
is unquestionably influential and
its artists undeniably innovative.
Four years ago, two such artists,
Onry Ozzborn and JFK—along with
on-again, off-again bassist Rob
Castro—decided to hook up and
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create a darker and more mystical
brand of hip-hop. Dubbing themselves Grayskul, the duo established itself by opening for Eyedea
and Abilities, before cranking out
Deadlivers, a release that quickly
caught the attention of the underground hip-hop community.
However, while necessity may indeed be the mother of invention,
when it comes to Grayskul, creativity is the mother of reinvention, as
evidenced on their latest release,
2007’s Bloody Radio. Designed to
both show the dexterity of Ozzborn
and JFK, as well as turn a genre that
has, like so many others, recently
become fractured into ill-defined
subgenres, on its ear, the album is a
mash-up of sounds and styles, featuring cameos by the likes of Aesop
Rock, Slug, and Pigeon John—not
to mention former Pretty Girls Make
Graves alum Andrea Zollo.
Lest you think Grayskul is simply
an exercise in hip-hop exploration, it should be noted that the
duo’s songs are still rife with the
kind of message and substance that
are their stock in trade. But don’t
take my word for it—you’ll have
your chance to see this duo in action when they play Sept. 4 at the
Rogue Hero.
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FIRST FRIDAY: Virtuoso violinist Swil Kanim
will give a free concert from 8-10pm at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave.
714-0800
SAT., SEPT. 6
MILLIE, MENTSHN: Millie and the Mentshn will
perform from 7-9pm at the Bellingham Public
Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. The concert is free.
714-0800
SUN., SEPT. 7
JAZZ ORCHESTRA: The Northern Lights Jazz
Orchestra will feature a plethora of Cuban music
at a performance at 1:30pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The event is free, but donations are
appreciated.
223-8845
WED., SEPT. 10
YOUTH BAND: The 12th annual Bellingham Youth
Jazz Band will begin rehearsals from 7-8:30pm at
the Bellingham Senior Activities Center, 315 Halleck St. Interested 7th-9th grade musicians are
invited to take part.
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they can claim as their own.
While some folks may have a
hard time wrapping their mind
around the kind of music 3 Inches
of Blood so expertly creates—after all, it is hard and fast and fantastic in lyrical content—those
who speak out in defense of the
genre point to the near-impossible level of technical skill it takes
to create a truly good metal song.
And while preachers and parents
may be afraid of heavy metal, any
true music fan should be awestruck by the musicianship it requires to not only crank out killer
guitar riffs at hyperspeed, but
also to have each one sound distinctly different than the next.
Hearing all this top-notch musicianship in its recorded form
is one thing, but the proof is in
the performance pudding, and 3
Inches of Blood is a band with a
well-earned reputation for leaving it all on the stage at every
show. And they’d better be in
top form, because they’ll be taking the stage at their Sun., Sept.
7 show at the Wild Buffalo right
after Bellingham’s best purveyors of “melodic death punk,” Full
Frontal Assault, who owe their
legions of loyal local fans both
to their all-out live show, as well
as a work ethic that gives their
music its razor-sharp edge.
Judging from the band’s previous appearances, Bellingham
boasts a sizey contingent of
metal fans, proving that, despite the rumors they might be
a joke band, 3 Inches of Blood’s
lethal brand of metal is no
laughing matter.
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dleman, he successfully knocks off the first three
targets in more or less professional fashion.
Exterior-based assassination sequences, highlighted by a lengthy boat chase set inside a picturesque floating market, make the first half easier to digest. But Joe’s sudden and unexplained
character change midway through, marked by his
growing teacher-student relationship with Kong
and his altogether platonic affair with an attractive pharmacist (Hong Kong pop singer and
New Police Story star Charlie Young), is never fully
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recipe, but the result is only mildly pungent. Rehashing certain
elements—including striking location shooting—that marked
their much grittier 1999 feature of the same title, Hong Kong’s
Pang brothers increase the decibel level of the gunshots and the
schmaltz level of the scenario, but such embellishments, not to
mention a Nicolas Cage doused with Clairol, make this hefty remake seem less dangerous than incongruous.
Twins Danny and Oxide Pang made their dual-directorial debut
with the Thai-language version of Bangkok Dangerous, whose effective lowlife atmosphere and wide-ranging stylistic palette propelled them onto the international scene. They followed with the
original 2002 The Eye and its two local sequels before debuting
Stateside with last year’s moody horror tale The Messengers.
Working here with a script by Jason Richman (Swing Vote), the
helmers reshape their rough, Bangkok underworld-set story into
a cleaner tourist’s take on crime and corruption. Yet without the
technical nastiness and fatal realism that made the initial film so
compelling, the remake feels like a hollow excuse to present the
myriad ways in which a bullet can pierce a cranium, rather than an edgy portrait of Third World
violence.
As in the original, the film follows the gloomy
itinerary of solitary gun-for-hire Joe (Cage),
who, in the opening scene, takes out a highprofile target in Prague, then coldly eliminates
his assistant via lethal injection. With no hints
as to what exactly pushed Joe into such a dirty
business, we’re left to work with the few personal guidelines he repeats in a voiceover, used
sparingly throughout.
Arriving in Bangkok to execute four contracts
he hopes to be his last, Joe quickly finds himself
immersed in the city’s “corrupt, dirty and dense”
lifestyle, which the filmmakers effectively (albeit
hastily) render through neon-lit street shots and
strobing nightclub scenes. Hiring local henchman
Kong (Thai actor Shahkrit Yamnarm, who delivers
the film’s most endearing turn) to serve as a mid-
tiple killings that follow.
Lively Bangkok locales offer up a colorful urban portrait that winds up being much more complex than the script’s underdeveloped characters.
Working with usual cinematographer Decha Srimantra (who lensed their three Eye productions),
the Pangs manage to bring back some of the exotic grit of the first film, although the imagery
here is more postcard-like.
Cage gives a mostly laconic performance, yet
at times can’t seem to hide his joy at shooting
in so many cool locations, which adds a befitting
sense of wonder to his humdrum persona. Co-stars
Young and Yamnarm are both solid actors who unfortunately disappear in the film’s final stages.
A kinetic score by Brian Tyler is mixed with
several cheesy pop tunes played at a racy Bangkok dance club, which, in this U.S.-friendly version, features only scantily clad, but no nude,
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Mamma Mia: I wouldn’t care if this former Broadway
hit starred Carrot Top and Britney Spears instead of
Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep, the fact that it features most of ABBA’s back catalog is good enough for
me. ★★★1(tISNJO
Call 676-9990 for theaters and showtimes.
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Babylon A.D.: Vin Diesel stars in what I’m sure was
supposed to be a piece of near-future social commentary. But since, like I said, it stars Vin Diesel,
things didn’t quite turn out that way. ★1(t
hr. 30 min.)
Man on Wire: Imagine someone stringing a high wire
between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center—
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years later, James Marsh made this fascinating documentary about it. ★★★★★1(tISNJO
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Bangkok Dangerous: See review (and Nicolas Cage’s
mullet) on previous page. ★★3tISNJO
College: John Belushi wore a sweatshirt that simply
said “College” on it in Animal House, which is somehow related to this film. A movie based on a shirt?
Someone should alert the Traveling Pants. This sounds
like an intellectual property issue to me. ★3tIS
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The Dark Knight: With more than $500 million in
ticket sales (making it the second-highest-grossing
film of all time), oodles of critical acclaim and Oscar
buzz surrounding Heath Ledger’s maniacal turn as the
joker, this Batman blockbuster could very well be the
best superhero movie ever made. ★★★★★1(t
2 hrs. 32 min.)
Disaster Mov ie: Because we’d gone probably two
whole weeks without another stupid spoof movie,
Hollywood offers us this travesty of celluloid. Um,
thanks? ★1(tISNJO
Hamlet 2: What do you do if you’re a high-school
drama teacher facing the possibility of having your
program cut from the curriculum? If you’re Steve Coogan, you conjure up a sequel to Hamlet, pen a song
called “Rock Me Sexy Jesus” and watch the chaos and
controversy ensue. ★★★★3tISNJO
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The House Bunny: Despite my suspicion that this
is yet another throwaway comedy rife with pratfalls
and toilet humor, I have to confess a soft spot for
the film’s star, Anna Faris, who grew up not far from
here, in Edmonds, Wash. However, from what I can
tell, she’s pretty much the only thing this effort has
going for it. ★★1(tISNJO
Death Race: Does Jason Statham really love to drive,
or is he just typecast as a guy behind the wheel? This
time around, he’s in prison, competing at the behest
of a corrupt warden (Joan Allen) against a group of
vicious criminals for his chance at freedom. ★★★ (R
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The Longshots: Sure, this is a film about a girl who,
with the help of a down-on-his-luck former football
star (Ice Cube), becomes the quarterback of the local
Pop Warner football team. But it is also a sign of the
apocalypse. How so? It is directed by Mr. Limp Bizkit
himself, Fred Durst. Time to build that bomb shelter
you’ve been planning. ★1(tISNJO
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:
Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to
combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an
epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China
high into the frigid Himalayas. ★★★1(tIS
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Pineapple Express: Seth Rogen, who graduated
magna cum laude from the Judd Apatow School of
Comedy, helped pen this exercise in hilarity, which
Rolling Stone says is “like if Superbad met Midnight
Run and they had a baby and then meanwhile that
freaky Quentin Tarantino talk from Pulp Fiction and
True Romance met that freaky Judd Apatow TV stuff
from Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and they had a
baby, and by some miracle those babies met... this
would be the funny shit that they birthed.” ★★★★
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A Prair ie Home Companion: When Garrison Keillor and the late, great Robert Altman team up with
a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy
Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Woody Harrelson, and
many more, you know the end result is going to be a
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The Rocker: Rainn Wilson channels Jack Black (School
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of slacker comedy. ★★★1(tISNJO
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2: The
quartet of lovely ladies are back in a coming-of-age
sequel to their first coming-of-age film. Perhaps this
installment will answer the question on everyone’s
minds: Just how do those damn pants manage to fit
all four girls, anyway? ★★★1(tIS
Step Brothers: Sure, Will Ferrell is a funny guy. But
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for the always amazing John C. Reilly to totally steal
the show. ★★★3tISNJO
Tell No One: See review previous page. ★★★★ (UnSBUFEtISTNJO
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Traitor: Don Cheadle stars in this film, which tries to
be a thoughtful treatise on the blurry world of international terrorism, but instead is just, well, boring.
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Tropic Thunder: Sure, protesters have taken umbrage
with this film, but that hasn’t kept it from cashing in on
the comedic gold that is the trio of Ben Stiller, Robert
Downey Jr., and Jack Black. God bless the return of the
R-rated comedy. ★★★★3tISNJO
WALL-E: A comedic love story between two adorable
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The governor of Minnesota has a wife who loves to go fishing. Tim Pawlenty
told radio station WCCO that his wife Mary is smitten
with the sport. She is genuinely driven to cast her bait
into the lake in quest of the catch. “Now, if I could
only get her to have sex with me,” the governor added,
suggesting that her passion for intimate union with him
was not as pressing as her urge to fish. While I personally lean toward the position that eros is one of life’s
best gifts, I don’t judge Mary harshly for her preference.
Many people find that the most satisfying and useful
way to express their libido is through some non-sexual
activity. You may want to consider that possibility, at
least in the coming days. It’s the sublimation phase of
your astrological cycle.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Normally, you’re not
the most direct person in the world. Nor are you the
most concise. You sometimes display tendencies to
sidestep the main issues and take the long way home
to the truth. Why, then, have you apparently turned
into a sleek paragon of precise communication? To
what do we owe your crisp new efficiency, your knack
for cutting through the crap, and your commitment to
saying exactly what you mean? Maybe it has to do with
the alignment of the planets. Or maybe you really, really
don’t want to be misunderstood.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Resilience is a quality that
allows you to rise above setbacks and find resources
in unexpected places. It’s a willful instinct to seek the
higher ground and a bigger vision. It’s intensely practical, because it shushes the nagging voices in your head
that make negative interpretations of your experience,
thereby allowing you to act courageously in your own
best interests. This is Resilience Week for you, Leo. Call
on your dormant reserves.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pregnant giraffes give
birth standing up. Babies arrive in their new environment
with a jolt, hitting the ground after plummeting six feet.
Although they were fairly safe before, upon leaving the
womb they are in danger of being preyed upon by animals
like leopards and hyenas, which wouldn’t dare attack
their giant mothers. I’m thinking there’s a resemblance
between the newborn giraffes and a new project you’re
will ultimately feel a strong need to learn from has
recently become known to you, or will soon become
known. A series of lessons you will benefit from studying throughout 2009 is already revealing its contours. I
suggest you do some meditation and free-writing about
these developments. Making your intuitions more conscious will prime your deep psyche for the work ahead,
helping it to attract the experiences you’ll require to
prepare for your future educational assignments.
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memories is gazing into my Taurus daughter’s face just
moments after her complicated birth. She had been
through a heroic ordeal that scared the hell out of me,
and yet she looked calm, beatific, and amused. “She’s
part-Buddha and part-elf,” I thought to myself as I
held her in my arms. I saw elegant compassion blended
with wise playfulness, two states I had never before
witnessed in the same person. This unexpected marvel
imprinted me deeply, and has informed my work ever
since. Do you have a comparable memory, Taurus? A
time when a key to your destiny was revealed to you? A
turning point when you got a gift that has fueled your
quest for years? This is not only a good time to revisit
that breakthrough; it’s also a ripe moment to ask life
for another one.
mutilated when it is removed from all its unreality.” So
said the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in his book
The Poetics of Reverie. He meant that realism alone is not
enough for human beings to live on, especially in our
most intimate relationships. We need fantasy to augment
the merely factual perspective. We require poetic truths
to keep the rational approach honest. Without the play of
the imagination, in fact, our understanding of the world
is impoverished and distorted. In this spirit, Scorpio, I
invite you to be extra daydreamy and imaginative about
love in the coming days. Feed your soul and the souls of
those you love with experiences that arouse mystery and
wonder. (P.S. Nietzsche said: “We have art in order not to
perish of truth.”)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The whole history
of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions
which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
So said British essayist Walter Bagehot. I would add the
following corollary: The fortunes of many individuals have
declined because of belief systems and structures that
were invigorating earlier in their lives but that gradually
became paralyzing or parasitical. Has that ever been true
about you, Capricorn? More importantly, might it become
true in the future? Please take inventory of your reliance
on theories and attitudes and methods that made good
sense once upon a time but that are now becoming irrelevant or even counterproductive.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What did you do this
summer?” I asked my Aquarian readers. “I didn’t build a
single sandcastle,” wrote Emma from Baltimore. “I didn’t
fall in love. I didn’t celebrate the full moon. I didn’t run
through a meadow. I didn’t taste honeysuckle. But on
the other hand, I worked hard on the book I’m writing. I
dramatically improved my diet. I kept my house clean and
well-organized. I watched less TV.” If I’m analyzing the
omens correctly, many of you Aquarians were like Emma in
the past months: more successful at accomplishing practical goals than at having free-form fun. I don’t think that’s
a problem, though. You can’t do everything, right? But
these next few weeks before the equinox will be a good
time to correct the imbalance. I suggest you go in quest
of what has been missing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will have a knack
for seeing what has been invisible and for describing what no one else can say. You’ll have a talent for
perceiving the open secrets that everyone else has
refused to notice and for speaking about truths that
everyone has avoided articulating. I’m not sure what
you’ve done to attain these wizardly abilities, but the
cause isn’t really important, is it? Get out there and use
your superpowers to generate breakthroughs that will
forestall and maybe even cancel sluggish breakdowns in
the group processes..
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of my favorite
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The reality of love is
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44 They’re pulled
from the shell, in
a Squeeze song
title
48 ___ Kippur
51 One of five
children born at
the same time,
slangily
53 Reese of “Touched
by an Angel”
54 “___ Feel Like a
Woman!” (Shania
Twain song)
55 sa>le)
58 Sleep problem
59 “All Those Years
___” (George Harrison song)
60 Make happy
61 Handle effectively
62 ___ Te Ching
(classical Chinese
text)
63 ___ Tag (1980s
toy set)
64 Items on a chain
65 Button on some
cell phones
66 Spider egg holders
in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship,
one must sometimes go forward by going back,” wrote
novelist John Barth in The Friday Book. Consider using
that approach, Aries. Retreat may be the strongest
move you can make right now; surrender could turn
out to be a masterstroke. But in order to get the most
out of this strategy, you’ve got to keep your ego from
injecting its agendas into situations. Don’t act out of
shame or pride; don’t humble yourself excessively or be
burning for revenge. Be objective, neutral, poised.
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4 A followers
7 “Would You Like
to Buy ___?”
(“Sesame Street”
song)
10 Smog watchdog:
abbr.
13 “American Gladiators” co-host Laila
14 Iberia’s cont.
15 “That’s funny!”
on the message
boards
16 “Mayor of Simpleton” band
17 The art of sculpting shrubbery
19 Emphatic
speaker’s phrase
21 Je9ns
23 Cremation containers
25 Miniseries whose
final episode was
the third-mostwatched scripted
show in U.S.
history
26 Philosopher David
Hume, for one
29 Exasperated
exhalation
30 Doctor’s request
while holding a
tongue depressor
31 ___ Valley, California
32 Waters, in Oaxaca
34 “___ Married an
Axe Murderer”
(1993 movie)
35 Passport endorsements
36 aldde
39 Grab a bite
40 Be in the red
41 Pink Floyd
founder Barrett
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Like an ox-cart driver
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My friend Joan was
experiencing a cascade of annoying physical symptoms—
mediocre digestion, mild headaches, chronic congestion
in her ear, itchy skin. None was terrible, but together
they were a big distraction. After two trips to her regular
acupuncturist, there was little improvement. The acupuncturist decided it was time for more drastic measures:
He was going to try a dramatic treatment that was akin
to pushing a reset button on a machine. Success! Joan
was freed from the nagging ailments and experienced
a thorough rejuvenation. I suggest you seek out the
equivalent treatment, Libra: Push the reset button.
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BY ROB BREZSNY
working on, Virgo. Its initial splash into the world may
be a bit rocky and fraught with dicey challenges. But I’m
here to say that if you’re a vigilant caretaker in the early
going, it will grow to maturity.
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Flippin’ Sweet
atre” host Cooke
8 “That’s okay, take
your time”
9 Kennedy couturier
Cassini
10 It’s good to get
some every so
often
11 Bake sale sponsor,
sometimes
12 Get one’s ass in
gear
18 Fit
20 Inactive
22 “Happy Birthday
___”
23 Men’s 4x100 meter
medley relay winners at the 2008
Olympics
24 Latvia’s capital
27 Giants shortstop
Vizquel
28 “___ the season to
be jolly”
33 Poetry competition
35 Wedding
exchanges
37 Chopin piece
38 Baseball Hallof-Famer Ryan
41 Complain loudly
42 “The Year of
the ___” (1984
designation by
Newsweek)
43 “WALL-E” coreleaser
45 Put under
46 Campaign encapsulation
47 The only Blues
Brother to reappear
in “Blues Brothers
2000”
48 Japan’s equivalent
of the Mafia
49 “It’ll be just a
moment”
50 Stingy people
52 Nobel Prizewinning physicist
Bohr
54 Michelle Phillips
and Cass Elliot,
musically
56 Nuclear family
member
57 Silent ___ (presidential nickname)
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You appear to be confusing your love
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a plane to the Swiss Alps, while you’re
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At the moment, you’re with some
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to figure out what you want in a lasting love by trying on a lot of fleeting
“love.” To do that, you’ll have to stop
living like you’ll turn into a cleaning
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the century by midnight.
While you’re at it, you might relax
some in the “grass is greener” department. Judge the value of what you’re
doing by whether it makes you happy,
not by whether your friends did it by
age 12. Try to remember that things
aren’t always as they seem from the
outside. Sure, way back when, maybe
there were a few claims of love tossed
at your sister and friends, and maybe
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if that’s what it took for a 14-year-old
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Eat Local Week
YOUR BODY WILL THANK YOU
WHATCOM AND Skagit county farmers are
making eating local a delicious reality that exists
beyond the realm of a trendy buzzword. Every year,
more small farms pop up in the countryside, and many
existing farms grow stronger by building lasting relationships with enthusiastic chefs and consumers.
Whether you believe in buying locally produced
food because it cuts pollution from transportation
and lowers our dependency on oil, or simply because
it feels good to personally know who is producing
your food, now is the time to jump in and take part
in local gastronomic delights.
Sustainable Connection’s fourth annual Eat Local
Week is bigger and more dynamic than ever, so from
Sept. 7-14 join in the celebration of our region’s agricultural bounty. Festivities include a farm tour, cooking classes, film screenings and
local lunch and dinner specials
at featured restaurants.
Eat Local Week is a great way
to celebrate our farmers during
peak harvest season and feel
a connection with this place.
Eating local food, however,
does not have to be something
ATTEND
we relish once a year; it can be
WHAT: Eat Local
an everyday delight.
Week
One easy way to eat localWHEN: Sept. 7-14
WHERE: Throughly is to cook more. Use local
out Whatcom and
produce and either get fancy
Skagit counties
or keep it simple. My friend
INFO: 647-7093 or
Gretchen Norman, from Holissconnect.org
tic Homestead Farm, pointed
out that veggies fresh from
the farm generally just need olive oil or butter and
salt and pepper to make a fantastic dish.
Be flexible and ready to substitute. If you can’t
find local strawberries, use blueberries. If a recipe
calls for spinach and you can’t find it locally, try
chard or kale.
Make a goal to include something locally produced or harvested into your everyday diet. Shop
at the farmers’ markets on Saturdays in Bellingham,
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Mike Boxx takes a ride at Boxx Berrry Farm. See him in action during the Sept. 13 Farm Tour happening
during Eat Local Week
Ferndale, Anacortes, and Mount
Vernon, or visit the new Local Food
Exchange at 1314 Railroad Ave.
from 12-6pm six days a week (closed
Sundays) and find local fruits and
vegetables from more than 15 small
farmers and producers.
Another option is to create a food
tradition for yourself and family:
canning, pickling, drying or preserving is a fun and rewarding way to
spend a day in the peak harvest. The
pay-off in winter? Open your cupboard or freezer and help yourself to
homemade pickles, jams, pesto, tomato sauce and onion marmalade.
To get professional guidance
with canning and preserving, Ciao
Thyme’s “In The Kitchen” cooking
school offers a class Sept. 23 on
quick pickles and basic jams (call
927-4890 for more details). Whatcom Community College’s Community Education offers “Canning 101:
The Fall Harvest class” Sept. 23 (call
383-3200 for more details).
It was not long ago that people
subsisted primarily on locally grown
meats, dairy and produce. Here in
Whatcom County, we are lucky to
have a relatively long harvest season
that allows us to enjoy fresh veggies
through December and certain foods
like seafood, dairy, meat and locally
processed foods we can savor all year
round. Happy eating!
From 6-10pm Tues., Sept. 9 ,
watch Good Food: Sustainable Food
& Farming in the Pacific Northwest
at Boundary Bay’s beer garden,
1107 Railroad Ave. The film features
Whatcom County locals Rosalinda
Guillen of Community to Community,
the Alm Hill Gardens crew, and Ben
Scholtz from Mallard Ice Cream.
Speakers will follow. Suggested
donation is $6-10, not including
food or drink.
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At 6:30 Fri., Sept. 12, at the Co-op
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Greek Dishes Using Wild and Local
Northwest Veggies.” Suggested
donation is $10-$20. Call 933-1130
to register.
FARMS
From 9am-5pm Sat., Sept. 13, take
part in Tour de Farms: Visit eight
farms and tour in one of three ways
—by bus, bike or carpool. Visit a
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farm, a winery, a buffalo ranch and
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Students are engaged in an
academically creative and challenging
learning environment.
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life choices; to enjoy the
process of informing and
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the personal attention necessary
to reach his or her goals.
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