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ALAN RHODES, P.6 RUMOR HAS IT, P.20CHEF’S CHALLENGE, P.34
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ZORBATRON: ‘SOMEDAY’ HAS FINALLY ARRIVED, P.20 }} BOB’S BACK: VOTE NOW FOR THE BEST OF BELLINGHAM, P.27
MIXED RESULTS: SOME SCHOOLS FAIL TO MAKE THE GRADE, P.8
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A glance at what’s happening this week
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Book Sale: Through Saturday, Bellingham Public
Library
Debra Daniels-Zeller: 7pm, Village Books,
paintings will be among the
stunning views to peruse Sept.
4-5 during the Lummi Island
Artists’ Studio Tour
MUSIC
Clamdigger Jazz Band: 2-5pm, VFW Hall
Bumbershoot: Through Monday, the Seattle
Center
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Book and Bake Sale: 10am-6pm, Maple Falls
Library
COMMUNITY
Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
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COMMUNITY
Lummi Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Nugent
Drive
Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Centennial Riverwalk Park
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
ON STAGE
Bard on the Beach: Through Sept. 30, Vanier
Park, Vancouver, B.C.
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Hotbox V: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC
GET OUT
Wild Whatcom Walk: 9am, Semiahmoo Spit,
Blaine
Lake Padden Relay: 10am, East Lake Padden
Park
Pitch Regatta: Through Monday, Bellingham
Bay
Monica Taylor: 7:30pm, the Roeder Home
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CURRENTS 8
VISUAL ARTS
VISUAL ARTS
Baker From the Air: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall
Artists’ Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Island
Dwelling Reception: 5-8pm, Smith & Vallee
Gallery, Edison
Inner Vision Outbox Reception: 5-8pm, Insights Gallery, Anacortes
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ON STAGE
Street Cirque: 8pm, in front of Casa Que Pasa
Heroes of Sky City: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC
Swil Kanim: 7-9pm, Stuart’s at the Market
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Corn Maze Opening: 6-10pm, Lynden
Wild & Scenic Film Festival: through Sunday,
NCI Learning Center, Diablo Lake
VISUAL ARTS
Museum Estate Sale: Through Monday, Dakota
Art Store, Mount Vernon
Riverscapes & Water Shapes Reception: 6-8pm,
Gallery Cygnus, La Conner
Gallery Walk: 6-9pm, downtown Anacortes
Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham
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Heroes of Sky City: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
Get an up-close-andpersonal glimpse of our
“local” mountain when
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from the Air” presentation Sept. 2 at the
Whatcom Museum
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Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
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Book and Bake Sale: 10am-6pm, Maple Falls
Library
COMMUNITY
Dedication Days: 1-4pm, Peach Arch Park
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Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange
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Artists’ Studio Tour: 10am-6pm, Lummi Island
Poetrynight: 8pm, the Amadeus Project
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Pippi Longstocking Auditions: 4pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth
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gazillions of acts making music and art Sept. 4-6 at the
40th annual summer celebration known as Bumbershoot
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ALAN RHODES, P.6 RUMOR HAS IT, P.20CHEF’S CHALLENGE, P.34
c a s c a d i a
REPORTING FROM THE
HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND LOWER B.C.
09.x.10 :: #35, v.05 :: !-
ZORBATRON: "SOMEDAY" HAS FINALLY ARRIVED, P.20 }} BOB’S BACK: VOTE NOW FOR THE BEST OF BELLINGHAM, P.27
MIXED RESULTS: SOME SCHOOLS FAIL TO MAKE THE GRADE, P.8
COVER: Illustration by Randall
Enos
STATE OF EMERGENCY
SEBASTIÁN, DON’T GO!
Thank you so much for your very accurate
depiction of the county EMS situation.
I will celebrate 30 years as a Bellingham firefighter in a month, 26 of those as a paramedic.
I have been so privileged to work within this
system and care for Whatcom County’s citizens.
In researching the story you must have noticed the hate and disdain directed at us from
the Ferndale group, including elected officials.
Taking the “high road” and not engaging them
in this rhetoric has been difficult for us but
your article has greatly helped. It would be
safe to say all 40 Bellingham firefighters have
extra copies to pass out.
It is very unfortunate that we have elected
officials that can unilaterally support agendas and spend taxpayer money at random as
has been done. And, it was unfortunate that
we had to use the legal avenue of state and
national labor laws to fight to keep Whatcom
Medic One unified.
Believe me, it was minimally about retaining
jobs and all about keeping this system operating at it peak to care for patients.
In any event, thank you again for your diligent research and reporting. You have gained
an avid reader.
You’re leaving and my heart is broken!
When you first came to town, I was curious, cautious and a bit cavalier. It was winter, after all, and you seemed so rigid and set
in your ways. Maybe I didn’t treat you quite
as good as I should have. If I made you feel
second -est, I’m sorry I was blind.
As the seaons changed, time after time, a
casual touch here and there and I began to
see your true colors. You were always on my
mind. No matter how dastardly a day I was
having, I’d see you and smile. You were always
on my mind.
Please don’t go! Give me one more chance to
keep you satisfied. You belong in this city.
The Sebastián sculpture exhibit in downtown
Bellingham is leaving for Canada. You are always on my mind.
—Don Paton, Firefighter/Paramedic
Bellingham Fire Dept.
—Judith A. Laws, Bellingham
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THE GRISTLE
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DIY DFHs: Readers surprised by the uncharacteristi-
cally bitter grousing in The Bellingham Herald’s Aug. 13
op-ed piece by pro-growth advocate Gentleman Jack
Petree need look no further for his inspiration than
Kitsap County, where a similar screed was issued the
previous week in the Port Orchard Independent by the
vice president of the Building Industry Association of
Washington.
“No-growthers have argued, litigated, legislated, and
lobbied for every law, regulation, tax and impact fee
designed to stop homebuilders from building homes,”
BIAW blowhard Tom McCabe snarled. “Enviro groups
with righteous-sounding names like Futurewise and
Earth First! fight against virtually every single development and every single homebuilder. State and local
government agencies such as the Dept. of Ecology and
the Puget Sound Partnership join the fray as well.
“All these self-anointed priests of nature want to stop
growth,” McCabe sniveled. “Well, they succeeded.”
Bringing the tropes home, Gentleman Jack echoed
one week later, “You and I will pay the price”—a coordinated dogwhistle of misdirection to property rightistas around Puget Sound in a coming election season.
How simple it would be if the “dirty fucking hippies”®
were actually to blame (as they have been for everything
since the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic), but the
cause is a little less breathlessly Marxist eco-terrorist
than all that!
Evidently these boys haven’t heard of the collapse
of the speculative housing bubble, where corrupt
land-use practices smashed open rural areas to the
patchwork development of overpriced homes on outsized lots that were then sold under sleazy subprime
mortgages to successively underqualified buyers, these
highly speculative “assets” then cut into tranches,
mixed into a toxic diaper, and sold back as triple-A
stock to unsuspecting investors. It took only a spike
in fuel prices to trip up the “drive ’til you qualify”
equation and a slight rise in mortgage defaults to blow
up this particular “push ’til it buckles” Ponzi scheme.
If you listen closely, you can still hear over-leveraged
community banks, with too much trash on their books,
popping and oozing toxins like bad acne all over the
Pacific Northwest.
The much-needed market correction on home prices
in Whatcom County is far from over; and—with high
unemployment, a decade of flat wages, and a mossy
inventory of overpriced houses—the homebuilding
racket still has a bit further to fall.
Both the magnitude of collapse and the sluggishness of recovery underscore just how much our national and local economies were suspended from the
bubble, and how crashingly unsustainable it all really
was when it burst. And author James Howard Kunstler—warning of the collapse of suburbia in the The
Geography of Nowhere and, more recently, The Long
Emergency—argues how deeply unethical it is to attempt to reinflate that bubble:
“Reality is telling us to downscale and get different
fast,” he writes. “Quit doing everything possible to
prop up the drive-in false utopia and all its accessories. Get local. Tighten up. [But] we have no intention of doing that. The idiocy that passes as informed
opinion wants the U.S. money managers to kick out
the jambs, handing out more money created out of
thin air to promote a fantasy called ‘recovery.’ To what
purpose? To keep the tailgate parties going down at
OPI N IONS › › T H E G R IST L E
BY ALAN RHODES
The Girl With The
Hamster Tattoo
MY ENCOUNTER WITH LISBETH SALANDER
SHE WAS
sitting across the
room from me at the Black Drop
Coffeehouse. It couldn’t be. But it
was. Lisbeth Salander.
Summoning my courage, I approached her. “Ms. Salander,” I said
softly, “I am one of your admirers.”
“Fuck off, creep,” she hissed, not
looking up from her Palm Tungsten
T3 hand-held computer.
“Maybe I can help you. I’m a
prominent local investigative journalist,” I explained, slightly exaggerating my position. “I know this
town like the back of my hand. And
I know all its dark secrets. Possibly
I can be of service.”
“Hmm, maybe so.” She looked up
for the first time. “As you might
know, I have a stratospheric IQ,
computer superpowers and a photographic memory.”
“Yes, I know that.”
“But, even so, I can’t figure out the
street system in this damn town.”
“There is no system,” I explained.
She slid a photo across the table.
“Do you know this man, and where I
can find him?”
I looked at the menacing visage
in the picture. “Yes, I know him.
That’s Thug McBrute, a bad hombre. Lately he’s been manufacturing
counterfeit Birkenstocks, and he’s
been repackaging store-brand coffee and selling it as shade-grown
organic. And now he’s started working behind the scenes to advance
the evil schemes of Brett Bonner.
Why do you want him?”
“My sources tell me that a waitress in a place called the Boundary
Bay Brewery mistakenly served him
a Dry Irish Stout instead of the In-
side Passage Ale he’d ordered. He
threw it in her face.”
“The swine,” I said. “And you
came all the way from Stockholm
for this?”
She looked me straight in the eye.
“If a man hurts a woman, he must
be punished. Let’s go.”
We went outside and got on her
motorbike. I’m not sure how she got
it here from Sweden, but I didn’t
want to ask.
We rode off into the county, and
before long we were pulling up in
front of Thug McBrute’s cabin near
Maple Falls. Lisbeth reached into
her pack and pulled out a length of
rope, a Taser and a CD.
“Wait here,” she told me, “and no
matter what happens, don’t move.”
She pulled the door open and
slipped inside. I waited for what
seemed an eternity. Suddenly the
silence was broken by shouts, scuffling, furniture crashing against
walls and gunshots. A long silence
followed, and then I heard music:
horrible music. Lisbeth stumbled
from the cabin. She was bleeding.
“You’ve been shot,” I cried.
“It’s nothing,” she said, getting
on the motorbike, “just a bullet to
the spine, one to the liver and another to the spleen.”
I remembered that she had once
been shot in the brain and buried
alive, and survived, digging herself
out with a cigarette case.
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“You’re sure you’re o.k., Lisbeth?”
“I’m fine. I’m better off than
McBrute. I left him tied up listening to a continuous CD of Madonna,
Britney Spears, and Miley Cyrus.”
“Whew! That’s harsh.”
“He had to pay. He hurt a woman.
Now women will hurt him. Let’s go.”
She started up the motorbike.
Over the sound of the engine,
over the blaring music, I could
hear McBrute’s agonized screams.
“Please, make them stop. I can’t
stand it. I’ll never do bad things
again.” We roared away.
I gave Lisbeth a little tour of the
county as we headed back to Bellingham. At one point we passed a
man alongside the road who tugged
very roughly at the arm of a little
girl who wanted to stop and look at
some squirrels.
“Ow, that hurts, Daddy,” the little
girl cried.
Lisbeth turned around, circled
back, got off the motorbike and
tasered the guy in the crotch. We
then continued on toward town.
Back in Bellingham Lisbeth
dropped me off on the sidewalk in
front of the Black Drop.
“Won’t you come in and have a
cup of coffee with me?” I asked.
“I have to go,” she said. “Before I
leave I’m going to get a new tattoo
for a souvenir of Bellingham. What
would you recommend?”
I thought for a moment. “Maybe a
little hamster.”
“Done,” she said. “Goodbye. Forget you ever saw me.”
“I’ll never forget you, Lisbeth.”
“Fuck off,” she said.
And then she was gone.
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the NASCAR ovals?
“I admit that contraction is a hard reality,” he writes, “but so is the recognition that we don’t get to live forever.”
As usually happens when starvation
sets in, deprived parties wandering lost
in the wilderness have drawn knives to
decide who gets cannibalized.
In July, the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties
filed a lawsuit against the BIAW, alleging the powerful statewide builders’
lobby had misappropriated premium
payments to the state workers’ insurance program. The Master Builders want
to safeguard their members’ premiums.
Employers who are members of
BIAW—which acts as a trade association—purchase insurance to cover
the cost of their employees’ workplace
injuries. When premiums paid in are
larger than claims paid out, the state
Dept. of Labor and Industries issues a
refund. The BIAW is supposed to refund dollars to employers who are part
of the pool, but gets to retain a portion as a fee.
The fees amount to millions of dollars the BIAW can spend any way the
organization wants. But the BIAW has
gotten into the habit of investing both
fee and—allegedly—the escrowed refunds to finance their endless political
mischief, mischief that has included
attempts to buy the state Supreme
Court and their savage machinations
in support of tiresome candidate-forhire, Dino Rossi.
Last week, the national advocacy
group Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington (CREW) named
Rossi one of “the 12 most crooked
candidates in 2010” for his shady business dealings and efforts to bypass
campaign laws, frequently in league
with the BIAW.
“We have been extremely concerned
about the shrinking refunds, high upfront enrollment costs and fee deductions associated with the BIAW ROII
plan,” Master Builder officials said.
BIAW members are unwittingly paying for corrupt politics while getting
shortchanged in their refunds, their
suit alleges.
By a thin margin, the state’s Public Disclosure Commission last March
agreed to end their investigation
against Rossi and the BIAW in allegations of fraud that involved more than
$600,000 in contributions from 11 local builder groups to BIAW political
committees in 2007. Charges included
illegal coordination of fundraising efforts, exceeding contribution limits
and failing to disclose contributions.
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BY TIM JOHNSON
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Learning? ¯
S U P E R I N T E N D E N T S AY S S T U D E N T T E S T I N G H A S M I X E D R E S U LT S
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
—G.W. Bush, Jan. 11, 2000
R A NDY DOR N is getting
ready to throw a couple of
schools under the bus. But he
hopes it will help them.
Dorn, the state’s superintendent of public education,
this week named schools around the state that had
failed to make the grade. The Adequate Yearly Progress list for schools and districts is required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The test, first taken by
Washington students last spring, identifies schools that
are not making adequate yearly progress in scores and
graduation rates. Results are compared against other
exams—among them the Measurements of Student
Progress (MSP) test and science High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE)—to help grade schools. Most passed.
Some need may remedial lessons, Dorn said.
Preliminary results show 968 schools did not make
adequate yearly progress in 2010, but 332 fewer schools
received poor marks than were on the list in 2009.
“I’m pleased with the first year of online testing,”
Dorn said. “It was a quick adjustment for schools and
students to a different testing system. I feel comfortable,” he said, “calling it a success.”
Education reform is itself undergoing an overhaul.
Dorn was in Bellingham last week, detailing the
highs and lows of the revised state education program, and that offered by the Obama Administration.
He was joined by Jim Taylor, an education consultant
and lecturer from the University of San Francisco, and
Greg Baker and Linda Quinn, superintendents of Bellingham and Ferndale school districts.
“Washington needs to recommit to education, and
it’s not just me saying that, it’s the courts,” Dorn
said. “We are facing a serious budget crisis in this
state, but if we continue to cut education, the progress we’ve previously made will disappear. The state’s
paramount constitutional duty is to fund education,
and as long as I’m in this job, I’ll remind the governor
and the Legislature of that every day.”
Portions of this report were compiled from
Associated Press and the Alternative News
Network.
PERCENTAGE OF
WASHINGTON
STUDENTS WHO
MET SPRING EXAM
STANDARDS:
—Third grade
reading, 72 percent;
mathematics, 61.7 percent.
—Fourth grade
reading, 67.1 percent;
mathematics, 53.6 percent;
writing, 61 percent.
—Fifth grade
mathematics: 53.6 percent;
science: 34 percent.
—Sixth grade
mathematics, 51.8 percent.
—Seventh grade
writing, 70.2 percent.
—Eighth grade
science, 54.4 percent.
—10th grade
writing, 85.9 percent;
science, 44.7 percent.
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ca’s public school system is great,” Jim Taylor
agreed in his presentation last week to Bellingham listeners, “yet the institutional obstacles preventing reform seem even greater.”
Race to the Top—an improvement but not
perfection, according to Taylor—is the latest
iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which funds primary and
secondary education but prohibits the establishment of a national educational curriculum.
The legislation has had various pithy monikers
through the years, dreamt up by whichever
president was in office—Bill Clinton called it
Improving America’s Schools, and George W.
Bush dubbed it No Child Left Behind. Typically
Congress reauthorizes the act every five years.
When Congress considers another renewal next
year, it will be talking about Race to the Top.
“Let’s call these programs what they are,”
Taylor advised, “which is education reform for
poor students. Let’s be honest about the goal
so we don’t invest resources in fixing schools
that aren’t part of the problem.”
Race to the Top is the brainchild of U.S.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who
modeled it on work he did as CEO of Chicago
Public Schools. The program seems like No
Child Left Behind on steroids—the zealous
and narrow focus on reading and math scores
remains, but it’s now backed by provisions to
force school districts to close or semi-privatize a failing school or summarily replace its
principal and 50 percent of its teachers.
Race to the Top and the related School
Improvement Grants are funded by the federal stimulus package. The grants are a longstanding part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, in which money flows
through state education departments to the
local level, but with the stimulus dramatically increasing available funds, the program
has taken on more prominence.
Specifically, the application guidelines
force states to identify their most academically challenged schools, then commit to fixing them largely on the fed’s terms. The idea
is to flood the worst schools with money,
flush out the problems, including personnel,
and start fixing things fast.
Still, Taylor was cautious about the program’s chance for success.
“‘Race,’ as in ‘Race to the Top,’ implies
winners and losers,” he observed. “It focuses too heavily on outcome and results,
and not enough on the process of how children learn.”
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The No Child Left Behind Act, the deeply
criticized stab at education reform offered by
the Bush Administration, was largely graded
a failure by educators around the country
and was replaced by a substitute in another
round of education reform. Obama calls it
Race to the Top, and his reform comes with
a huge carrot ($4.35 billion overall) and a
possibly larger stick (guidelines improve a
state’s chances of receiving money but don’t
guarantee a dime).
Senate Bill 6696, signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire in March, also calls for an array of reforms intended to accelerate student learning. Among the provisions were broad teacher
and principal evaluation guidelines that take
student achievement into account.
Dorn said he understands the need for
testing as a means to discover where schools
need improvement, but chafes against education focused too heavily on passing exams.
“We become so focused on this test score
that we forget about all the education,”
Dorn said.
Dorn was elected in 2008 after campaigning
against the WASL, the much-criticized student
assessment tests. Since then, he has replaced
the WASL with shorter assessments, the MSP
for grades three through eight and the HPE
taken by high schoolers. Shortening the exams
has increased instructional time, Dorn said.
In all grades, the reading, math and science tests were shortened to one session.
About 25 percent of students in grades 6-8
took the MSP on a computer in reading and
math. Several analyses showed no difference
in the results between the online and paperand-pencil tests.
Response from schools and students for online testing was positive. In a survey of 89,433
students, nearly 73,000, or 82 percent, said
they would choose online testing over traditional paper and pencil.
Dorn said the state’s move to online testing in spring 2010 is just the start of a move
toward more real-time classroom testing,
where teachers can test students and immediately receive results on specific skills and
knowledge. The state will begin a formative,
or classroom-based, testing pilot in the fall,
meaning teachers will be able to assess students on specific skills and knowledge immediately after the students have learned them.
Dorn praised the values of positive thinking and energetic motivation. He also
stressed the importance of relationships,
noting that graduating students often attribute their success to certain teachers,
counselors or administrators.
“The need for significant reform of Ameri-
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A “benchmark” glacier monitored in Glacier Peak Wilderness in the north Cascades continues to vanish as a result of climate change.
“South Cascade Glacier has been responding to climate conditions that will not support the glacier in its recent size and position on the
landscape,” scientists observed in a U.S. Geological Survey report released this week.
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A spate of unrelated house fires keeps Whatcom County firefighters
busy. A single-wide mobile home in the Birch Bay area was completely
destroyed this morning. Fire crews put out two fires on Monday—one
near Laurel, and another on Lummi Island.
Financial woes continue for the Bellingham Public Library. The library board submits a budget that calls for an additional $280,000
worth of reductions, including the elimination of outreach services to
healthcare centers. If the mayor and City Council adopt this budget,
cuts in the library system over the last couple of years would equal
nearly $800,000.
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Isaac Zamora, sentenced to spend the rest of his life in confinement
for a killing spree in Alger that left six people dead, gets a new lawyer. A Skagit County Superior Court judge orders a new lawyer to take a
look at Zamora’s case and report back in 45 days. Zamora, who suffers
from mental health issues, says he didn’t realize the consequences of
his plea. The victims in his Sept. 2, 2008, killing spree included a Skagit
County sheriff’s deputy.
A fake death scene almost turns tragically real in rural Whatcom
County. Sheriff’s officials say kids were filming a video skit for YouTube.
com when one of the boys pretending to hang himself slipped and became asphyixiated. The father of one of the boys was able to revive the
11-year-old.
A body recovered by a fisherman in the Skagit River could be a
13-year-old who was swept away Aug. 14 while wading near Burling-
ton. The Skagit Valley Herald reports the body was found more than two
miles downstream from where Joshua Soren disappeared.
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A staff member at the Center for Spiritual Living in Bellingham discovers someone had vandalized the church with swastikas, pentagrams
and the numbers 666. A four-foot wooden angel, carved and donated to
the church as a gift to a former minister, had been doused in gasoline
and lit on fire. Police log the incident as a hate crime.
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Yet another human foot washes up on a beach in the Pacific Northwest, this one on Whidbey Island. Island County detectives say a beach
walker found the severed right foot of a woman or child. DNA tests are
pending, but officials do not believe the foot is linked to the series of
human feet found in shoes in recent years in nearby British Columbia
waters. They believe it was in the water for less than two months.
The jealous husband who pleaded guilty earlier in August to killing his wife’s lover is sentenced to 23 years in prison. Skagit County
prosecutors say Kenneth McBride, 36, and his wife were in a swinging
lifestyle with multiple sex partners, but he became enraged when his
wife fell in love with Ferndale track coach Jeremy Scully. He shot and
killed Scully in April 2008.
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Bellingham International Airport closes for three weeks for resurfacing
work and other upgrades. The Port of Bellingham says the shuttle service
will provide additional rides between Bellingham and Sea-Tac Airport while
the runway is closed. The airport is scheduled to reopen Sept. 22.
Longtime broadcast journalist
and county communications
director Joe Bates died in a
fall Saturday afternoon while
working on the roof of his
home in Bellingham’s Silver
Beach neighborhood. A health
issue may have caused the
60-year-old to lose consciousness before he fell. Joe worked
for KGMI’s sister station KPUG
and the former KNWR, starting
in the 1970s. He then spent
17 years with KVOS TV as a
news reporter, anchor and
producer, before Pete Kremen
hired him to work for the
county in 2007. “He made
Whatcom County a better
place,” Kremen said. Bates is
survived by his wife and two
adult children.
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In May 2009, a Border Patrol agent said
he heard bullets whizzing by his head as
he passed Ericson’s home near Sumas.
The agent claims he was shot at three
times. Prosecutors say Ericson was firing
the bullets from the patio of his home.
Ericson claimed he was shooting at
crows. Ericson made bail on that charge,
but now he sits in the Whatcom County
Jail with bail lifted to $1 million.
On Aug. 8, an Oregon couple vacationing in Blaine spotted a pigeon in the
water beside the public pier. Police rescued the bird and placed it in a dry spot
away from predators. “Animal Rescue
was called,” police reported, “but no
one was available to pick up the nearly
dead bird until later.”
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On Aug. 22, a Sumas man with a history
of gun violations allegedly attempted
to ambush two Sumas police officers
with high-powered weapons. Prosecutors say Kenneth Ray Ericson, Jr. was
spotted hiding under a van near two police officers parked downtown. When he
was spotted, officers called for Ericson
to stand up. He did, but officers say Ericson reached for his waistline to grab a
weapon. One of the officers was able to
tackle Ericson to the ground. The second
On Aug. 26, Bellingham Police investigated a series of five fire hydrants that
had been opened south of the city, causing thousands of dollars in water damage to homes and properties. Police
approached the suspected vandals in a
Fairhaven parking lot. One fled. Police
caught the other as he attempted to
leave in his pickup. The 19-year-old suspect was drunk. In the back of his truck
police found several loose fire hydrant
caps. He was taken to jail.
they’re “certain” they’ll support Initiative
1105, another 2:1 margin on the second
liquor initiative that would revise laws
concerning regulation, taxation and
government revenues from distribution and
sale of spirits. I-1105 would carry certain
protections for smaller spirits vendors.
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they’re “certain” they’ll support Initiative
1100, a 2:1 margin. The initiative would
close state liquor stores; authorize sale,
distribution and importation of spirits
by private parties; and repeal certain
requirements that govern the business
operations of beer and wine distributors
and producers.
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they’re “certain” to support Initiative 1082,
a measure to privatize the state’s industrial
insurance program. The initiative is heavily
backed by the Building Industry Association
of Washington as a means to redirect tens of
millions of dollars from insurance premiums
into the lobbyists’ political campaigns.
May who support Initiative 1053, which
would require a 2/3 majority by the state
legislature to approve tax increases. The
measure is heavily backed by realtors and
the petroleum industry.
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On Aug. 25, the Washington Dept. of
Corrections announced they would expand the scope of their rehabilitation efforts. The DOC received a grant from the
Oregon Zoo to rehabilitate an endangered
species of frog that lives in the Pacific
Northwest. The staff and offenders at
Cedar Creek Corrections Center in Pierce
County report a higher success rate at
rearing the Oregon spotted frog than
zoos and nature centers in Washington,
Oregon, and British Columbia. The frog
rehabilitation is part of the Sustainable
Prisons Project, a partnership between
DOC and Evergreen State College. Part
of the $5,000 grant will be used to raise
crickets for the frogs to eat.
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On Aug. 23, a resident at a special treatment center for violent sexual predators at McNeil Island was sentenced
to nine years in prison for distributing
crack cocaine at the secure facility and
afterward tampering with witnesses.
Federal prosecutors say the scheme of
Lawrence Williams, 52, was uncovered
in July 2008, when the FBI intercepted
the delivery of crack cocaine that Williams had planned to pick up at the
mail room and distribute in the corrections facility. According to testimony
at trial, Williams manipulated women
living outside the facility to help with
his schemes. He called telephone chat
lines, without revealing that he was a
resident of a treatment facility for violent sex offenders, and in one instance
told the woman he was a firefighter in
Oregon. Through various means he convinced the woman and others to assist
him with acquiring drugs to distribute
to the predators. Williams convinced one
woman, a former nurse at the facility, to
become involved with him romantically.
The nurse provided Williams with more
than $250,000, which he used to woo
other women and to pay for drugs and
pornography to be smuggled into the
facility. Additional testimony revealed
Williams conned various women to appear in pornographic videos. He then
reportedly blackmailed one of the women by threatening to send the videos
to her employer if she did not continue
to assist with his smuggling schemes.
After the smuggling conspiracy was uncovered, Williams reportedly called one
of the women he had manipulated and
told her to lie to the FBI and get rid of
a car that he had purchased for her, a
car he’d used in a drug delivery. His conduct resulted in the second conviction
for witness tampering.
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officer pulled his service weapon. When
Ericson was searched, officers found a
.380 caliber semi-automatic handgun,
and a 5.7 x 28 semi-automatic handgun.
Both weapons were loaded. Police say
one of the weapons contained armor
piercing bullets that would penetrate
an officer’s bulletproof vest. Ericson,
who was himself also wearing a bulletproof vest, is currently awaiting trial for
trying to shooting at a U.S. Border Patrol Agent last year.
AMOUNT initiative profiteer Tim Eyman needs to retire debts he incurred trying to drum
up signatures for his Initiative 1053. Eyman’s bankroll for mischief-making in Washington
usually comes from Oregon millionaire Michael Dunmire. Lacking that support, Eyman took
out a second mortgage on his Mukilteo home.
SOURCES: SurveyUSA/KING-5 poll; Washington State Office of Financial Management;
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BY LIBBIE MARTIN
Salmon in the Trees
A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD FOREST
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“THE TONGASS BOASTS NEARLY A THIRD OF ALL THAT
REMAINS OF THE PLANET’S RARE OLD-GROWTH
TEMPERATE RAIN FORESTS.”
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— AMY GULICK
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WHEN YOU
hear the words “rain forest,” what image pops into your
mind? Lazy, slow rivers? Anacondas and other deadly reptiles? Jaguars with big
teeth and voracious appetites? Vicious natives with poisoned dart guns? Skyhigh trees that block out all light and forest floors covered with vines, dead
leaves and tripping roots?
Do you ever think the words “rain forest” and “Alaska” in the same sentence?
Funny you should ask, because Alaska does have a rain forest. The Tongass, on
Alaska’s coastal panhandle, is a rain forest. Really. But rather than being that
torpid and deadly image most of us have when we think rain forest, Alaska’s
temperate rainforest is one of tall Sitka spruce and yellowwood cedar, cold rain,
swift rushing streams and waterfalls, and bears and otters. Most importantly,
the Tongass is salmon.
Amy Gulick’s new book, Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain For-
est, takes an
in-depth look at
one of the rarest ecosystems
on the planet,
through photography, art and
essays from renowned conservationists, scientists and journalists. It’s a
look from many different perspectives, including those of the people who live in and
around these 17 million acres of old-growth
temperate rain forest.
Gulick, a resident of Washington, has
been photographing and documenting
the flora and fauna of Alaska for years.
Her skills as a photojournalist are evident
in the profiles of area residents and her
essays on what attracts her to this magnificent place, a rare ecosystem known
throughout the world for its importance,
and one to be nurtured and protected.
“The Tongass boasts nearly a third of all
that remains of the planet’s rare old-growth
temperate rain forests,” she writes, “making
it a world as well as a natural treasure. Rarer
still is that all of the pieces are here—ancient
forests, wild salmon, grizzly bears, wolves,
Stellar sea lions, humpback whales and more.
The circle is whole.”
The Tongass is a place, she continues,
where people live “with salmon in the trees
and bears in their backyards.”
When the salmon spawn, the bears, eagles,
otters and other wildlife are waiting to scoop
up the banquet before them. Some they eat
right at the stove, barely waiting to swallow
before grabbing another. Sometimes they
carry the fish into the forest, there to eat
at their leisure. Inevitably, some of the fish
falls to the ground, to be eaten by insects
and smaller mammals,
or to be absorbed into
the soil, becoming—you
guessed it—nutrition for
the trees.
The more bears there
are, the more salmon
there is. This is one of the
few sustainable fisheries
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are breathtaking—vital, colorful portraits
of bears, people, fish and landscape—and
she ties them all together to make a threedimensional picture of a living, growing,
being—the Tongass.
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FRI., SEPT. 3
SINGER AND SONGS: Architect-turned-author Deke Rivers reads from his debut novel,
The Singer and His Songs, at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St.
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SEPT. 4-5
BOOKS AND BAKING: A giant Book and Bake
Sale happens from 10am-6pm in the parking lot
of the Maple Falls Library, 7509 Mt. Baker Hwy.
Contributions to the sale are welcome.
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MON., SEPT. 6
POE TRYNIGHT: Read your original verse at
poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Project,
Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start at 8pm.
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TUES., SEPT. 7
SHORT STORIES: Deborah Willis reads from
her collection, Vanishing and Other Stories, at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WRITER’S THEATRE: The monthly Chuckanut
Sandstone Writer’s Theater Open Mic commences at 7pm at the Firehouse PAC Café, 1314
Harris Ave. Scribes of all shapes and stripes
are invited.
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Farmers Market from 10am-1pm at Centennial
Riverwalk Park. The market continues every
Saturday through Oct. 9.
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BELLINGHAM MARKE T: Purchase and peruse
local fruit and veggies and artistic offerings at
the Bellingham Farmers Market from 10am-3pm
at the Depot Market Square at the corner of
Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street.
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647-2060 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
LUMMI MARKET: The Lummi Island Farmers
Market occurs from 10am-1pm every Saturday
through the summer next to the Islander grocery store.
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BLAINE MARKE T: Local vendors will sell their
wares at the Blaine Gardeners Market from
10am-2pm at H Street Plaza. The weekly event
continues Saturdays through Oct. 9.
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SUN., SEPT. 5
LAUGHTER CLUB: The monthly meeting of
the Bellingham Laughter Club happens from
4-5pm at Elizabeth Park. Entry is $2.
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DEDICATION DAYS: The annual Peace Arch
Dedication/Sam Hill Days happens from 1-4pm
at the Peace Arch Park. Reenactors will be commemorating the arch’s history, and you’re welcome to join the living history exhibit, which
will include live 1920s music, kid’s games, antique cars, refreshments and more.
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DOUBLE HEADER: Christina Baldwin and Colleen Haggerty, contributors to The Spirit of a
Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire, will
read from their selections at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St.
734-2776
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(360) 820-8157
TECH STOMP: “Wild West” will be the theme
of Tech Stomp 2010, which begins at 5:30pm at
the Squalicum Boat House. Entry to the Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington’s fundraiser—which includes live music, a
horseshoe throwing contest, costume contests
and barbecue, beer and wine—is $15-$20.
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NW VEGETARIAN: The final “Get Gardening”
series of the season will feature Debra DanielsZeller sharing tips from her book, The Northwest
Vegetarian Cookbook: 200 Recipes that Celebrate
the Flavors of Oregon and Washington, at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
ROLLER RACING: Traitor Cycles will host “Emerald Sprints,” an indoor roller racing event,
at 9:30pm at the Cabin Tavern, 307 W. Holly
St. (signup starts at 8:30pm). You’ll be racing
side-by-side against competitors while you
listen to heavy metal, so sign up and spend
20 seconds on a bicycle. Cash prizes and other
goods will be up for grabs. The event is free to
watch, $7 if you want to race.
Open daily from 11:00 a.m.
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BELLINGHAM BOOK SALE: The Friends of
the Bellingham Public Library will kick off their
September Book Sale at a preview sale—where
everything is double the listed price—at 10am
at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central
Ave. The sale continues through Sept. 4 and
gets cheaper by the day.
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it!—during the annual Peace Arch Dedication
Days Sun., Sept. 5 at Peace Arch Park
VOLUNTEER MEE T ING: The Larendeau
Foundation is seeking volunteers who are interested in setting up fundraisers to assist
middle-income women with cancer bills. Meet
at 6:30pm at St. Luke’s Education Center, 3333
Squalicum Pkwy.
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three successful years of environmentally
minded networking and socializing at Green
Drinks, which this month happens from 5-8pm
at the Re Sources’ Sustainable Living Center,
2309 Meridian St. The event is for those ages
21 and over, so leave the kids at home.
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CORN MAZE: Lynden’s Future Farmers of
America (FFA) will open its annual Corn
Maze today just south of Lynden on
Hannegan Rd. The event continues from
6-10pm Fridays, 2-10pm Saturdays and
2-6pm Sundays through September. Entry
is $4-$6, or $18 per family (two adults
and three kids.)
We couldn’t leave town until 3pm and we had to be back by 6pm the next day.
But the weather was great, the forecast was promising and the Perseid meteor
shower was peaking—perfect conditions for a fast and light bivouac on the beguiling summit plateau of Table Mountain.
We pulled into Artist Point in the late afternoon. The parking lot was full of
whooping pilgrims up for a sunny afternoon in the mountains. Children, delighted
with the unlikely combination of hot sunshine and voluptuous snow banks, shrieked
from every corner—joyful to watch, but not what we came for.
We slipped into our packs and headed up a boot-worn gully in the snow toward the precipitous face of Table Mountain, quickly leaving the Artist Point
hullabaloo behind.
The snow gave way to bare rock and tiny patches of sparkling heather as we
reached the face and started climbing. Steep, but short, the ingenious trail deposited us on the rim in what seems like the blink of the eye. After a brief stop to
admire the operatic scenery, we headed west across the top of “the table,” which
was almost totally buried in snow.
Abandoning the trail, we proceeded cross-country across the rolling white slopes,
making our way from high point to high point. Only a few hikers remained and they
were all heading down for dinner. Bon appetit, my friends.
Our meandering took us close to the western rim, the highest point on the
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NEW MOON MORNING: Join Wild Whatcom Walks for a “New Moon Morning”
outing from 9-11am at Blaine’s Semiahmoo Spit. Paul Woodcock, past president
of the North Cascades Audubon Society,
will school participants on basic birding
techniques. Admission is by donation,
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PITCH REGAT TA: Multi-hull and selfrighting keelboats can take part in the
three-day PITCH Regatta happening in
Bellingham Bay.
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SAVING SEEDS: The Whatcom County Master Gardeners will host a “Saving Seeds
and Propagating Perennials by Cuttings”
public workshop at 2pm at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead Park. Entry is free and
no registration is required.
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WOMEN’S RIDE: If you’re interested
in meeting and riding with likeminded
ladies, take part in the weekly Women’s
Social rides at 6pm every Monday. See
the link below for location details.
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RIDE 542 PRESENTATION: A multimedia
presentation focusing on “Ride 542: Mt.
Baker Hill Climb” will be shown at 6pm
and again at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. Entry is free, but registration is required.
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Padden Relay starting at 10am at East
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GBRC members, $3-$5 otherwise.
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alpine plateau, where we dropped our packs
on a little rock outcropping surrounded by
snow—camp for tonight. A bit hardscrabble,
sure, but what a view!
As the evening light softened the sky, we
set off, sans packs, across the snow to the
rim itself. At the brink, a small tarn shimmered, half melted out beside a patch of
green heather. Weather-beaten krumholtz
trees gathered in small, tenuous groups. Far
below, the Chain Lakes gleamed in the golden
light, reflecting the sky.
We pumped water from the tarn and
watched the alpenglow on Mt. Shuksan. A
crescent moon rose over the great snow
cone of Mt. Baker and stars assembled
themselves overhead.
We returned to camp in the deepening twilight, our way illuminated by the spectral
glow of our headlamps on the snow. As we
fired up the stove for dinner, the celestial
show began as meteors streaked overhead
in the star-crowded sky. The moon dropped
behind the volcano and the Milky Way was
bright enough to cast shadows. We rolled out
our sleeping bags on the rocks and drifted off
beneath the kinetic heavens.
First light turned the snowfields around
us pink and blue, and the summit of Baker a
dusky rose. I watched the sun spread its lavish light across the plateau and enjoyed the
quiet music of the morning—unseen birds,
the whistling of marmots, the buzzing of insects, the gurgling water sounds that grew
gradually louder as the rising orb converted
snow to water in every direction. We whiled
away the morning on our rock outcropping,
relaxing in the sweet sunshine and enjoying
the solitude.
Life gets busy sometimes, but it’s good to
know that last-minute escapes are there when
needed. If you ever find yourself in need of a
quick fix of mountain mojo, you could do far
worse that spending a night on Table Mountain—even without the meteors.
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WILD FILM FEST: Watch environmentally themed documentaries alongside
presentations from local conservation
groups at a “Wild & Scenic” Film Festival
happening through the weekend at the
North Cascades Institute’s Learning Center on Diablo Lake. Cost for the entire
weekend (meals and lodging included) is
$215-$455, but a special $20 commuter
rate includes one dinner and one evening of film.
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I JOINED THE DRAMA CLUB,
TOOK EVERY ACTING CLASS
AVAILABLE, REPRESENTED
THE SCHOOL AT VARIOUS
STATEWIDE COMPETITIONS
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THE SCHOOL PLAYS THAT
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Audition 101
ROLLING WITH THE ROLES
EVERYBODY WAS watching me. Knowing that, I made my way
carefully down the bleacher steps and stepped onto the gleaming wood
floor in the high school gymnasium, ready to wow my peers with my pep
and athleticism and thereby cause the judges to realize I was clearly the
best gal for the job.
Then, as I was preparing to execute my second right herkie, the unthinkable happened: I forgot the words to the next part of the cheer. Flustered
and red-faced, I stopped what I was doing and looked to the panel, who
motioned that I could start over. I did, but knew I was already doomed. It
didn’t help matters that, as I was returning to my seat, I tripped—hard—
going up the stairs.
Needless to say, I didn’t end up representing Boise High School in a short
skirt and ankle socks. I heard a rumor that I was an alternate to an alternate, but never did get to be part of the inner circle of cheerleaders and
jocks who, back then, seemed to epitomize what it meant to be a cool kid.
Instead, I went the other direction and became a drama geek. I’d already been involved
in theatrical endeavors in grade school and
junior high, but decided to fully immerse myself in “the scene.” I joined the drama club,
took every acting class available, represented the school at various statewide competitions and auditioned for all the school plays
that were on the roster.
While I didn’t get every part I tried out for,
I did learn that auditioning for a play was way
different than trying out for the cheerleading squad. For starters, I didn’t have to do it
in front of hundreds of my fellow students.
Another plus was that, even if I didn’t get the
starring role, there was usually a smaller part
available that still allowed me to take part in
the theatrical camaraderie that exists when
a cast is working toward the common good.
And, if I wasn’t right for the play, there was
still much more to learn behind the scenes.
Looking back, I can see high school drama
was a lot like community theater; everybody,
down to the costumers and stagehands, was
vitally important to the finished product.
If you look at the listings on the following
page, you’ll see that the coming couple of
weeks offer up a bevy of auditioning options
in the community theater realm. Whether
you’re a newbie to the drama-geek scene or a
seasoned performer, it’s good to keep a few
things in mind when your name is called.
First, if a monologue is required, get it
down cold. Memorization is key, and if you’re
not entirely familiar with your lines, it won’t
translate as well under the glare of stage
lights. Second, practice a number of ways to
portray your character—being able to change
the character’s demeanor at the drop of a
hat is essential. Third, find out in advance
if singing is required; there’s not much that’s
worse than discovering you’re auditioning for
a musical you weren’t prepared for.
Finally, have fun. Take yourself seriously,
but don’t approach the audition like a menial
chore. Oh, and try not to trip.
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SEPT. 1-SEPT. 30
BARD ON THE BEACH: Head to Vancouver,
B.C.’s Vanier Park for the 21st season of Bard
on the Beach. Much Ado About Nothing opens
the season, and will be followed by Antony
and Cleopatra, Falstaff, and Henry V. Tickets
are $19-$38 (Canadian).
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STREET CIRQUE: As part of the “Street
Cirque” art opening, members of the Bellingham Circus Guild will perform from 8-9pm in
front of Casa Que Pasa, 1415 Railroad Ave.
Come experience the power of Iyengar Yoga with our expert instructors.
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SUPERHEROES: Expect superheroes, villains and no script when a new format
dubbed Heroes of Sky City shows for the final weekend at 9pm at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10.
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ME TA AUDIT IONS: META Performing Arts
will hold auditions for upcoming performances of How to Eat Like a Child from 6-8pm
Thurs. and 5-8pm Fri. at Mount Vernon’s
Presbyterian Church.
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SCHOONER AUDIT IONS: The Lynden Performing Arts Guild will hold auditions for
upcoming performances of John Reger’s The
Christmas Schooner at 7pm at Lynden’s Claire
vg Thomas Theater, 655 Front St.
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Take I-5 exit 260
Go west on Slater Road to Haxton Way
Go left on Haxton to the ferry dock
8 minute ferry ride leaves at ten past every hour
(as well as many “in-between” runs)
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viewings of “Hotbox #5” at 8pm at the iDiOM
Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. That’s because
Sol Olmstead has just one week to write a
new full-length play and get it to the stage
for you in record time. Tickets are $5 for
Thursday’s show, $10 otherwise.
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the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm,
stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $5
for the early show, $3 for the late one.
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LANNY LITTLE doesn’t have a reputation for doing things in a small way.
A quick stroll through the streets of Bellingham will confirm this fact; one only has
to glimpse the larger-than-life murals of people and places dominating the outer
facades of buildings in Old Town, Fairhaven, and beyond to get
an idea of the scope of the artist’s imagination.
And, although the painter’s given up his harnesses and
hardhat—at the age of 70, he’s not willing to spend long
hours working in the eclectic elements of the Pacific Northwest anymore—that doesn’t mean his visions have become
any less expansive.
Not just a play on their last name, Lanny’s and his wife
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months ago to highlight both their work as well as that of Tango” by Willow
artists who they admire and would like to see gain more Bader
exposure. But, like their moniker, the diminutive confines WHEN: Opening
of the Bay Street gallery dictates that, at least where the reception during
the monthly Art
number of pieces being shown is concerned, they keep the Walk from 6-9 Fri.,
artwork to a minimum.
Sept. 3
With only 400 square feet of public space to work with— WHERE: The
the other 200 feet of real estate are dedicated to Lanny’s Little Gallery,
studio and the storage of paintings—Little and company 1220 Bay St.
INFO: www.little
must choose carefully when it comes time to decide what gallery.com or
to put on the walls.
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Although some may see the lack of abundant square bader.com
footage as a deterrent, Little notes it makes it that
much easier to take care of. Plus, he says, the gallery
gets great light and what is shown is shown to its full
advantage. Another factor in its location, of course, is
the location itself.
“Bay Street is so cool,” Little says. “There’s a comedy
club, Bayou on Bay, the Blue Horse Gallery and the soonto-be Pickford Cinema; it’s just a neat, short street in the
heart of Bellingham.”
Little isn’t entirely new to the charms of the waterfront locale. Soon after he and Kay moved here 12 years
ago, he rented a studio space across the street next to
the Blue Horse Gallery in Bay Street Village. He let it
go in 2001 after a move to Sudden Valley netted him a
home studio.
Now that he’s transitioned from mural to easel painting,
Little says he’s glad to have a place to create that functions both as a place to work as well as a showroom for his
realistic oil paintings—many of which focus on the places
and people in the community he now calls home.
“Other than having to be here at a certain time every
day, I’m enjoying having the gallery here,” Little says.
“We’ll have it open as long as we’re having fun with
it—and as long as it pays for itself.”
THE ART
OF TANGO
Willow Bader’s “The Art
of Tango” exhibit—which
opens Sept. 3 during the
downtown Bellingham Art
Walk—combines both her
love of painting with her
passion for the sensual
dance style she’s worked
hard to perfect. Bader, who
currently has studios in
Seattle, Moab, and Crete,
grew up in Bellingham and
studied at the Philadelphia
Academy of Fine Arts. As an
added bonus, there’ll be a
tango performance at the art
opening.
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PAPERDOLL: An opening for an exhibit featuring works by Kelly Hoekema can be viewed
from 6-10pm at the Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St.
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HONE Y SHOW: Student and artist Amanda
VanderMeer will exhibit her prints at an opening reception from 6-9pm at Honey Salon, 310
W. Holly St. View them through Sept. 30.
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DIGS: “Where Do We Go From Here?,” quilted
compositions by Jess Flegel, can be viewed
from 6-10pm at DIGS, 200 W. Holly St.
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JINX: View “Ruins,” a GP-inspired art show,
from 6pm-12am at Jinx Art Space, 306 Flora
St. Zorbatron, Sugar Sugar Sugar, and PRND
will perform during the festivities.
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NEW AT BLUE: Works by new artists such
as Sandra Taylor, Brian Major, Neal Philpott,
Jessica Kasparian, and others can be perused
from 6-10pm at the Blue Horse Gallery, 301
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ALLIED AC T ION: “Remembrances,” part of
the 2010 Juried Artist Series, opens with a
reception with photographer and painter Ann
Chaikin and oil painter Jeanne Levasseur from
6-10pm at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The
pieces will be up through Sept. 25.
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SEPT. 3-6
ESTATE SALE: Help raise funds for the La
Conner Quilt & Textile Museum and the Museum of Northwest Art at a “Museum Estate
SEPT. 4-5
LUMMI TOUR: Catch the Whatcom Chief for
the Lummi Island Artists’ Studio Tour happening from 10am-6pm throughout the lovely
isle. Dozens of artists will be showing their
work at free event, so come take a peek behind the scenes.
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dubbed “Street Cirque” can be viewed from
6-10pm at Casa Que Pasa, 1415 Railroad Ave.
The exhibit features works by Maryann Miyashiro, Kelly Bjork, Orion Misciagna, Megan
Harmon, Amber Radcliffe, and Mo Miano. A
performance by Bellingham Circus Guild members takes place at 8pm.
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WATERFRONT COLLEC T IVE: The Waterfront
Artist Studio Collective will host its Fall Gala
Opening in conjunction with the Art Walk
from 6-10pm at its home base at 1220 Central
Ave. New works by the 16 artists housed at
the collective will be on display.
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WEAVERS GUILD: Master weaver and author
Laura Fry will be the featured speaker at the
monthly Whatcom Weavers Guild meeting at
7pm at St. James Presbyterian Church, 910
14th St.
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ANCHOR ART SPACE: Contributions by Todd
Horton, Ana Reid, and Michael Johnson can
be viewed through Sept. 25 at Anchor Art
Space, 216 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
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ART WOOD: The weavings of Laura Goldberg
can be perused through September at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.
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DEPOT ARTS CENTER: North Coast painters
will show their works through Sept. 25 at the
Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes.
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FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists
at the new Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960
Harris Ave.
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GOOD EARTH: Prayer wheels by potter Chris
Moench can be perused through September at
Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
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MONA: “Artists, Poets, Scholars: Fishtown
and the Skagit River” will be up through Oct.
4 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art,
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Sweetest Sweet
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Dreamiest Drink
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Best of the Brews
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QUILT MUSEUM: “All That Blooms” and
“Japanese Textiles” can be perused through
Sept. 26 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Shifting Views of
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and “Outside the Home: Photographs of Women in the Workplace” can currently be viewed
at the Whatcom Museum.
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ART WALK: The monthly Art Walk occurs from
6-10pm throughout downtown Bellingham.
Peruse the listings below for more details, or
pick up a map at participating locations.
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C YGNUS OPENING: “Riverscapes and Water Shapes,” an exhibit featuring paintings
by Maggie Wilder and glass sculpture by
Theodora Johnson, opens with a reception
from 6-8pm at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus,
109 Commercial St. The show can be viewed
through Nov. 7.
DWELLING OPENING: Buildings, structures,
houses and homes will be depicted at the
opening exhibit for “Dwelling” from 5-8pm at
Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey
Ave. Lisa Gilley, Terry Leness, David Ridgway, and David Wall contributed to the show,
which will be on display through Sept. 26.
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BAKER FROM THE AIR: Photographer Tore
Ofteness will lead a “Komo Kulshan: Mount
Baker from the Air” slideshow at 12:30pm at
the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall building,
121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3.
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A LONG TIME IN THE MAKING
THAT BEAU Boyd had made an album was not
what was astonishing. He is, after all, a musician. Of
course, when word came that he’d written and recorded the whole thing himself, playing every instrument,
singing every song, that was a little surprising. However, the fact that he’d holed up by himself for months in
a tiny cabin in Olympia to do it was hardly a shocker.
To back up a bit, the year was 2003, and we all knew
Boyd as one-third of the hard-touring and even harder
rocking Federation X, arguably the best band to ever
call Bellingham home. We were accustomed to seeing
Boyd behind his battered kit, hitting the drums impossibly hard, providing the driving beat behind Fed X’s
loud, heavy rock.
So, when his own album, dubbed Zorbatron after a
high-school nickname that stuck, dropped, I think we
all expected it to be in the same vein as the band he’d
so long been associated with. But Zorbatron, both the
project and the album, was wholly different. It was an
album that can only be described as “poppy.” Not a
collection of synthetic, saccharine, pre-fab pop in the
Top 40 sense, but more a rock/pop hybrid that was
entirely Boyd’s own.
“I like the rock thing,” he says, “but I also like
good pop music.”
During the intervening years, as Fed X went on
hiatus, came out of hiatus, and then went on hiatus
again, and the other members of the band went
on to other projects, other locales, indeed whole
other lives, Boyd seemed to be just…waiting.
“I really got burnt out with Fed X—we all got
road weary,” he says of his own personal musical
break. “I didn’t really want to have anything to do
with music.”
But the Zorbatron album was always in the back
of his mind. And, indeed, from time to time, if
you could pigeonhole him in a bar and get him to
talk about it, Boyd would put
a real-world start date on the
project of “someday.”
However, all that changed
about six months ago, when
Boyd decided “someday” had
finally arrived. It was time
to assemble Zorbatron: The
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Narrows on bass, former 3B
owner and Mono Men member Aaron Roeder on drums, and classically trained
pianist Melanie Pence on keyboards. As for himself, the guy who we’re all used to seeing sitting
down, at the back of the stage, mostly obscured
by his drum kit, will be front and center, playing
guitar and singing.
“If people know me as a drummer, they might not
know I can play the guitar,” he says, laughing.
Boyd also says that he “knew from the get-go that
live, Zorbatron would be a different animal,” but
says the process of turning his one-man band into
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Rumor Has It
I REALIZE WE’RE all, “Monotonix, this” and “Fed X,
that” around the music scene these days, but other
shows on the near horizon are actually happening
as well. Aside from the big birthday party happening at Jinx (for more about that, look to your left),
several other shows have me twitching with undignified excitement. The Wild Buffalo will play host to
Helmet (Sept. 14), the Thermals (Sept. 25), and the
Melvins (Sept. 29). And, lest we forget, Tech N9ne is
making his way back to town with E-40 on Sept. 30.
Also hitting up the Buff will be Built to Spill, who’ll
be here Nov. 15.
But not all the action takes place inside the Wild Buffalo (obviously). Green Frog owner James Hardesty has
Mark Olson of the Jayhawks coming his way Sept. 11,
as well as a band the exceedingly fine folks at Seattle’s
Sound On the Sound can’t get enough of, the Head and
the Heart on Sept. 25, Fred Eaglesmith returns Oct. 20,
and Gerald Collier’s retooled Best Kissers in the World
will hit the Green Frog stage come Dec. 6. As for the
Cabin Tavern, for me, it’s all
about the one-two punch of
Police Teeth, Cold Lake, and
Generalissimo (Sept. 24), followed by the Sugars, Holy
Tailfeathers, and Mysterious
Chocolate (Sept. 25).
But not all things worth
doing take place in dark bars.
Some of them—or one of
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them, at least—take place
inside dark movie theaters. The event in question is
a movie called Something Happened to Him, Something
Happened to Me, and you may have seen posters featuring the handsome visage of the movie’s main character
(played by Glyndon Jewell) plastered up all over town.
Along with Jewell, the feature-length film—which was
made locally by Sid VillaSana and Jeff Emtman from a
script by Kyle Roe—also features characters played by
many people we know and love—and I’m told some of
them even get naked. Oh, the things people will do in
the name of celluloid (or digital, as the case may be)
success. So, to recap, your reasons to see this film are:
1. it is lovingly, locally crafted, from script to stars
to finished product, by people you know who you may
actually like and respect, and 2. some of those people
you respect will be nude. Sure, the film is about more
than that, and my reducing it down to its naughty bits
and the repeated mention of its unmentionables is, at
best, a vast oversimplification. But you will only know
the extent to which I’ve probably insulted the fine work
of many people who I consider to be my friends if you
attend one (or all) of the showings. Something Happened to Him, Something Happened to Me shows at 9pm
Sept. 7-9 at the Pickford and tickets are available at
www.brownpapertickets.com.
Also in the realm of locally produced films—although
certainly not quite in the same league—is the “Pink
Gloves On” vid made by the staff at St. Joseph Medical Center to help raise breast cancer awareness. It involves employees in some 30 departments and from
what I can gather is inspired by a “Pink Glove Dance”
video made by a hospital in Portland. Either way, the
St. Joe’s staffers sing. They dance. They all wear pink
latex gloves. It can be found on YouTube and is exactly
as weird and as wonderful as you’d want it to be.
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a living, breathing multi-member reality
has been “very rewarding overall.”
As for whether the songs, some of
which Boyd wrote while he was in high
school, and all of which were recorded
more than half a decade ago, will hold
up now, Boyd is both philosophical and
optimistic. “I guess whether they hold
up at all is subjective,” he says. “But I
think a well-written song is timeless.
Aesthetically, it might seem dated. But
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well-written music is well-written music. There’s a math to it. There’s a math
to good art.”
And because life is a funny thing,
not only is Boyd breathing new life into
Zorbatron, but Fed X is also ending its
extended hiatus—at least long enough
to play a November show at the Wild
Buffalo. Boyd says the two bands coming back into being is more than just
coincidence. “It’s like a personal renaissance,” he says. “It gives my life a new
sense of vigor. Music is in my blood and
I have to keep doing it. It’s the only
thing I really believe in.”
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music’s original outlaw. One is a child
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raised on a diet of Townes Van Zandt,
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much every other hard-living country
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pasted together from bits and pieces of old Judd Apatow and Nora Ephron bromances
and chick flicks. Then they’re tailored to fit whichever star happens to be available.
This time it’s Drew Barrymore.
She plays Erin, a 31-year-old journalism student at California’s Stanford University, who falls for Garrett (Justin Long), a New Yorker, while spending the summer
in Manhattan. She’s working as an intern on a New York daily, he’s a scout for a
record company and they meet at a bar, bonding over their addiction to the same
arcade game.
Many drinks later, they end up in bed together at his apartment, where he lives in
frat-house squalor with a slacker pal. This character is played by comic Charlie Day, looking as if he’s come from the set of Knocked Up without bothering to shower, and he not
only eavesdrops on their lovemaking, but he also supplies musical accompaniment from
his CD collection. And be warned: This is the movie’s most inspired joke.
Miraculously, Erin is still there in the morning. Good sport, indeed. And six weeks
later, when it’s time for her to return to California, she and Garrett are in love.
So it’s shaping up as a long haul, with certain echoes of Ephron’s classic exercise
in delayed gratification, Sleepless in Seattle, without being nearly as extreme.
Their separations, however, will highlight the efforts of their supporting cast of
relatives and best friends. As a result, the director, Nanette Burstein—a documentary maker new to the rom-com—has done the usual and recruited a collection of
stand-up comics, inviting them to go for broke. Christina Applegate plays Erin’s
protective elder sister, Corinne, a woman
with a hygiene fetish and a deep distrust
of her sister’s new boyfriend, while Jim
Gaffigan, another comic, is her deadpan
husband, Phil, an unrepentant boor who’s
envious of Garrett’s status as a part-time
lover. As he sees it, he has the relationship game mastered, flying in to dispense
a little romance then wisely retreating
before the going gets tough.
Then there’s the New York team. Completing Garrett’s merry little band of manchild buddies is Jason Sudeikis, yet another
comic. Pervading all of this group’s scenes
together is the sense that they’ve been instructed to build every conversation into a
routine fit for Saturday Night Live.
Long and Barrymore should make a fine
match. They’re both game for anything
while being endowed with a healthy sense
of self-deprecation. Long, for instance,
blithely abandons all vanity during a
spray-tanning scene, which requires him
to wear nothing but a shower cap. But the
dialogue—by newcomer Geoff LaTulippe—
limps along. When wit fails, as it does all
the time, he go for the raucous, peppering his lines with four-letter words and
serving up a full menu of bodily functions
gags. Everything’s covered—from the etiquette of masturbation to defecation.
Their dilemma rings true enough.
There’s also poignancy in it. Having endured another longstanding relationship
ruined by the tyranny of distance, Erin
has been feeling as if time is getting the
better of her. At 31, she’s one of the oldest students in her class and when finally
offered a newspaper job in San Francisco,
she can’t pass it up. But there are no jobs
for Garrett on the West Coast so he can’t
join her. It’s an impasse of a kind familiar
to many thirtysomethings, but reality isn’t
part of the equation with this film. It’s all
about the current rom-com model and its
strictly limited range of formulas.
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The charges against Rossi and the
BIAW were considered sufficiently
egregious that two former Supreme
Court justices also joined the PDC
civil lawsuit and encouraged the
state Attorney General to pursue
criminal charges.
“The evidence upon which we base
our legal action can be construed to
show that Dino Rossi was not just a
beneficiary of these illegal activities, but was a knowing and active
participant,” the justices wrote.
Attorney General Rob McKenna,
himself a frequent beneficiary of
BIAW campaign money, declined to
prosecute the matter.
Threats from the Master Builder
lawsuit and the PDC, which monitors
and regulates how campaign dollars
are spent, bundled with increased
finance scrutiny from a variety of
directions, have caused the BIAW to
cast about for more abundant means
to jigger Washington’s elections.
Most recently, the organization
shelled out $500,000 to put Initiative 1082 on the November ballot. The
initiative would privatize the state’s
public nonprofit workers compensation
system, potentially delivering hundreds of millions of L&I dollars into the
BIAW scheme-machine.
Until the Legislature steps in to
reform the Retro program, the BIAW
will continue to shovel money into a
raging furnace in corrupt attempts to
reinflate the pro-growth bubble, the
fumes from which will continue to
poison our social and political health.
Oh, and voters should slap BIAW
hands away from workers’ comp, too,
by voting down I-1082.
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Lolita figure in the tale of Ben’s downfall. When this likable rake accompanies her on a college-interview visit to
his alma mater, a stupid impulse yields
a string of bad consequences and yet
more stupid impulses that propel the
film along.
Solitary Man was penned by Brian Koppelman and directed by Koppelman and
David Levien, his writing partner on The
Girlfriend Experience and Rounders, not
to mention Ocean’s Thirteen. It’s worth
noting that their last (and first) feature
directorial effort, 2001’s Knockaround
Guys, was a total stinker. But it was a
total stinker with creative ambition,
the sort of failed effort that looks good
on paper until it implodes on screen.
This time, they nail the execution,
coaxing relaxed performances from Susan Sarandon as Ben’s rather sophic exwife and Jesse Eisenberg as the decent
kid who gives Ben a campus tour. Danny
DeVito’s role as Ben’s moral and marital
antithesis—a humble deli owner who
approaches the world with a level, loving maturity—couldn’t be more obvious, yet the two actors hit a sweet spot
of laid-back candor in their scenes together. Tricia Cook’s editing and Alwin
H. Kuchler’s (Sunshine) cinematography
lend a seamless cohesion that reveals
major turning points in minor details.
And while the movie’s end zone is visible from a long way off, Douglas brings
us there with nettled desperation—and
an unflagging charm that takes a turn
toward creepy. Ben is a walking cliche.
Douglas’ performance is not.
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and young woman. Sex
and the fear of death. Are there four
more hackneyed elements in the history
of movies? In all of literature, dating
back to the oral tradition?
Probably not, which is why they make
a fine excuse for a bit of dramedic cudchewing in Solitary Man, yet more proof
that Michael Douglas can do anything
he pleases so long as he’s playing a jerk.
What joy it is to watch the man slime
himself on camera, whether he’s doing
the Gekko for Oliver Stone, going ballistic in Falling Down or playing a potsmoking literary basket case in Wonder
Boys. For his latest turn, he’s an unctuous aging sex addict who messes up
every part of his life he could possibly
mess up. And then some.
Douglas plays Ben, a former New York
car salesman whose weakness for young
women and easy money got him in
trouble with the wife and the law. The
movie opens “about six and a half years
ago” on a doctor’s visit in which Ben,
in the midst of some schmoozy blather
about dealerships and TV spots, learns
he has a heart irregularity. As the physician informs him he’ll need more testing, Douglas’ face freezes—it comes
to a screeching halt, like it’s crashed
up against an unmovable object—and
we’re sold.
Flash forward to “today,” where Ben
is now an out-of-work businessman with
a plan to get back in it. He also has
a girlfriend (Mary-Louise Parker) with
an 18-year-old daughter, Allyson (Imogen Poots), who becomes the modified
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BY CAREY ROSS
Cera can essentially play himself in every movie
and still remain adorable is pretty much the sum
total of his considerable charm. Combine that with
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The Amer ican: I know this movie is reputed to be
beautifully shot but mediocre in content. But it stars
my other movie-star boyfriend, George Clooney, who
imbues even the most understated role with leadingman charisma. Plus, he’s sexy as all hell. How bad
could this movie really be? +++3tISNJO
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Solitar y Man: See review previous page. ++++ (R
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Something Happened to Him, Something Happened to Me: An all-local product and production,
this is the story of a man in existential crisis. Starring Glyndon Jewell, Neill McLaughlin, Terra Sharp,
and Hunter Jackman and directed by Sidra VillaSana
and Jeff Emtman from a script by Kyle Roe, this is a
film that looks like home—even if it doesn’t quite
feel that way. ++++6OSBUFEtIS
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Avatar: Special Edition 3D: Because a movie that
clocked in at more than two hours and grossed roughly a jillion dollars in worldwide box office was neither
long enough nor rich enough already, we have this
re-release with Extended! Never-Before-Seen! FootBHF*WFHPUOFXTGPSZPV.S$BNFSPO"MMUIFVOreleased footage in the world still won’t get you that
Best Picture Oscar. ++++1(tISTNJO
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Despicable Me: I love the idea of an animated flick
that tells its story from the point of view of the villain, rather than the hero. I love it even more when
that villain is voiced by the deadpan and dead funny
Steve Carell. Sure, this movie totally rips off Pixar,
but, in my opinion, that can only be a point in its
favor. ++++1(tISNJO
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Dinner For Schmucks: This movie, based on a
much-loved French farce, stars funnyman Steve Carell
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Rudd’s boss hosts a monthly dinner, and the person
who brings the biggest schmuck wins a promotion.
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enough for you, the film also features a little thing
called Zach Galifianakis. ++1(tISNJO
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Eat, Pray, Love: I will admit that, after reading
this mega-bestseller about one woman’s globe-trotting quest to find herself, I opined that the book
should instead have been titled Me, Me, Me. However,
if anyone can render this exercise in self-absorption
both palatable and meaningful, it is Julia Roberts.
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The Expendables: This movie stars Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, and Dolph Lundgren. I just love
it when a film’s title is both name and punch line all
in one. +3tISNJO
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The Extra Man: Kevin Kline may be a washed-up
playwright in this adaptation of the Jonathan Ames
novel, but no one is having more fun onscreen than
him—certainly not his costar Paul Dano, who is just
trying to keep up. ++3tISNJO
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Get Low: This movie stars Robert Duvall as a hermit who wants to throw his own funeral. That alone
would be reason enough to see it, but throw in a cast
that also includes Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, and
this film suddenly becomes irresistible. ++++ (PGtISNJO
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I Am Love: Sure, this movie is a beautifully rendered story of one woman’s sexual awakening and the
consequences thereof, and is a feast for both the eye
and the intellect, but the thing that amazes me most
about it is Tilda Swinton learned to speak Italian with
a Russian accent for the role. Is there nothing she
can’t do? ++++3tIST
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Inception: With every single cinematic outing,
Christopher Nolan has proven himself to be a filmmaker of rare and extraordinary vision. Now with the
kind of budget and clout only a massive blockbuster
can buy (I’m speaking, of course, of Dark Knight
he essentially has all the rope most directors would
normally use to promptly hang themselves. But not
Nolan, who rounds up Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page,
and a whole slew of mind-boggling special effects to
craft a film that is, literally, the stuff that dreams are
made of. ++++1(tISTNJO
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The Last Exorcism: Finally, a movie that is about
neither vampires nor zombies. Just a little oldfashioned demonic possession and the casting out
thereof. Despite the fact that everything about
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Machete: What started out as a faux preview attached to the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez
double-feature Grindhouse has now become a featurelength film helmed by Rodriguez. And if the movie is
even half as good as the preview was, I might start
to forgive him for The Faculty. Maybe. +++3t
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returns, bringing her decidedly un-Mary Poppinsesque powers and talents with her. ++++1(t
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The Other Guys: We all know Will Farrell is maybe
the most endearingly funny guy on the big screen
today. However, who knew Mark Wahlberg boasted
such comedic chops as well? There’s a lesson to be
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Rollins, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, and Malcolm McDowell. Finally, a vampire flick I can sink my teeth into.
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Takers: A crack group of top-notch bank robbers consisting of Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown,
Hayden Christensen, and Michael Ealy assemble to
pull of one last big job (you know, because if I were
going to pull of a high-stakes bank heist, Chris Brown
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Toy Stor y 3: Pixar has amassed a string of hits unprecedented in Hollywood history—and don’t expect
that streak to end here, as this film hews to what has
become that studio’s trademark blend of stunning,
innovative visuals and emotionally resonant storytelling. +++++(tISNJO
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Trailer Wars 12: I’m not sure what the theme is for
this installment of the insanely popular faux preview
series, but I have heard tell of a trailer based on a melange of Point Break meets Near Dark. Wrap your mind
around that. If you can. +++++6OSBUFEtIS
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Vampires Suck: It was just a matter of time before someone parodied the recent rage for all things
blood-sucking. And, even if this movie totally blows,
it’s probably still more entertaining than any part
of the over-serious, deeply dramatic, angst-ridden
Twilight Saga. Yeah, I said that. What? +++1(
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In an old comedy
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the role would best be played by a strapping young
man with exceptional running and leaping skills.
“It’s possible that no two-legged men will apply,”
the agent tells the applicant, “in which case you
could get the part.” Don’t be like the one-legged
man in this story, Aries. While I usually encourage
you to think big and dream of accomplishing amazing feats, this is one time when you should respect
your limitations.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You probably get
emails that close like this: “Sent from my iPhone.”
Maybe you even deliver emails like that yourself. Keep
that detail in mind while I tell you the dream I had
last night. In the dream, all of my Gemini friends
had sent me poignant emails. Every one of them said
something like, “I’ve got to get back to where I started from” or “There’s something really important that
I’ve got to do, but I can’t remember what it is” or “I
hear a voice calling my name but I don’t know who it
is or where it’s coming from.” And each of their emails
ended like this: “Sent from my iSoul.” I suspect my
dream is in perfect accordance with your astrological
omens, Gemini. It’s time to go home, in every sense
of the word.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): My name was “Robbie” from birth till seventh grade. But as my adolescent hormones began to kick in, I decided I needed
a more virile stature. My name became the punchier,
sleeker “Rob.” But with every year that passes, I find
myself heading back in the direction of “Robbie.” The
clever severity of my youth yearns to meld with the
buoyant tenderness I’ve been cultivating the past decade. I want my paradoxes to harmonize—my blithe
feminine qualities to cooperate with my aggressive
masculine side, my bright-eyed innocence to synergize
with my restless probing. So you can call me “Robbie”
if you like, or “Rob,” or sometimes one and sometimes
the other. Isn’t it time for you, too, my fellow Cancerian, to circle back and reclaim an early part of you
that got lost along the way?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Clash was a leftwing
punk band that launched its career in 1979. With its
dissident lyrics and experimental music, it aspired to
make an impact on political attitudes. But then one
of its songs, “Rock the Casbah,” got so popular that
college fraternity parties were playing it as feel-good
dance music. That peeved the Clash’s lead singer Joe
Strummer, born under the sign of Leo. He didn’t want
his revolutionary anthems to be used as vulgar entertainment by bourgeois kids. I sympathize with his
purity, but I don’t advocate that approach for you. For
now, relinquish control of your offerings. Let people
use them the way they want to.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The trouble with life
isn’t that there is no answer; it’s that there are so
many answers,” said folklorist Ruth Benedict. That’s
always true, of course, but it’s especially apropos for
you right now. You’re teeming with viable possibilities. There are so many decent ideas eddying in your
vicinity that you may be hard-pressed to pick out just
a couple to give your power to. My advice: Let them
all swarm and swirl for a few more days, then go with
the ones that you feel will last the longest.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Jack Mytton was a
famous 19th-century eccentric whose wealth and
privilege often shielded him from the consequences
of his odd behavior. One of his less successful adventures came on a night when he got a bad case of the
hiccups. Thinking he could scare himself into being
cured, he set fire to his pajamas. In the ensuing mayhem, his hiccups disappeared but he burned himself.
I bring this to your attention, Libra, in the hope it
will dissuade you from attacking a small problem in a
way that causes a bigger problem. For now it’s better
to endure a slight inconvenience. Don’t seek a quick
fix that causes a complicated mess.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with
the astrological omens, Scorpio, I will ask you to
make everything wetter; to be the personification of
fluidity. Where there is drought, use your magic to
bring the rain. If you’re stuck in a dynamic that is
parched and barren, add moisture and tenderness. Be
ingenious, not rash, as you stir up dormant feelings
in people you care about. Remind those who are high
and dry about the river that runs through them. (A
good way to do that is to reveal the river that runs
through you.)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Gwyneth
Paltrow is the most perfect person alive, said Gawker.com. From a certain perspective, I suppose it’s
possible to award her that title. She’s beautiful,
rich, famous and in good shape. She’s a talented
actress and published author. Without denying that
Gwyneth is a gem, however, I must say that my
standards of perfection are different. Are you doing the work you love? Are you engaged in ongoing
efforts to transform your darkness? Do you practice
compassion with wit and style? Are you saving the
world in some way? Are you skilled at taking care of
yourself? Those are my primary measures. What are
yours, Sagittarius? It’s an excellent time to define
your ideal human.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In an old Star
Trek episode, a 24th-century starship captain is
weighed down by a knotty problem about how to deal
with two of her enemies who are at war with each
other. Unable to come up with a viable solution, she
retreats to the holodeck, where virtual reality technology can create a convincingly real rendition of any desired scene. Where does she go for advice? She seeks
out Leonardo da Vinci in his 16th-century studio.
Once she has outlined her dilemma, Leonardo offers
his counsel: “When one’s imagination cannot provide
an answer, one must turn to a greater imagination.”
This is my advice to you right now, Capricorn.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Seth GrahameSmith rewrote Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and
Prejudice. He kept 85 percent of her material, but also
added a big dose of “ultraviolent zombie mayhem,”
creating a new story, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
In his version, Austen’s tale is expanded and altered
by the previously unrevealed activities of zombies. I
urge you to follow Grahame-Smith’s lead, Aquarius.
Take some original creation you really like, and add
a shot of your own unique approach to generate a
completely new thing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Everyone alive
should see the musical comedy I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change. At the very least, we should all
meditate regularly on the play’s title, using it as a
self-mocking mantra that dissuades us from committing the folly it describes. How better to serve the
health of our relationships than by withdrawing the
projections we superimpose on people, thereby allowing them to be themselves? Right now you’re in
special need of honoring this wisdom, Pisces. If you
feel the itch to tell friends and loved ones that they
should be different from how they actually are, stop
and ask yourself whether maybe you should transform
yourself instead.
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Chef’s Challenge
THE SECRETS OF SQUASH
GOT SQUASH? If you’re a backyard gardener taking stock of your end-of-summer bounty, then the answer probably goes something like this: “Hell yes, I’ve got
squash. It’s left the confines of the garden plot and has crept steadily toward my house
and family. It’s huge and scary and there’s so much of it I can’t possibly eat it all.”
Whether it’s zucchini, delicata or spaghetti squash, patty pan, acorn, pumpkins or
hubbards that are taking over your life one fruiting at a time,
don’t panic. The end products of most of these vine crops can
be culled and stored for the colder months ahead and, as for the
rest of it, well, it’s time to get creative.
In other words, instead of cringing in horror at the sight
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So, cooks, get imaginative with your crops. Make unique
soups, baked goods and salads. Roast the squash. Bake it. Fry it. Create salsa out
of it. Barbecue it. Candy it. Chill it.
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olive oil, butter and herbs—no more than four other ingredients. Other than that,
anything goes. Have fun in the kitchen!
1 medium butternut squash (about 2 pounds),
peeled, seeded and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
1 medium garlic clove, minced or pressed
½ teaspoon ground allspice
2 tablespoons olive oil
Salt
1 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
¼ of a medium red onion, finely chopped
¼ cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro or parsley
INGREDIENTS FOR DRE SSING
1 medium garlic clove, finely minced with a pinch
of salt
¼ cup lemon juice
3 tablespoons well-stirred tahini
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more to taste
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. In a large
bowl, combine the butternut squash, garlic,
allspice, olive oil and a few pinches of salt.
Toss the squash pieces until evenly coated.
Roast them on a baking sheet for 25 minutes, or until soft. Remove from the oven
and cool.
Meanwhile, make the tahini dressing. In
a small bowl, whisk together the garlic and
lemon juice. Add the tahini, and whisk to
blend. Add the water and olive oil, whisk
well, and taste for seasoning. The sauce
should have plenty of nutty tahini flavor,
but also a little kick of lemon. You’ll probably need to add more water to thin it out.
To assemble the salad, combine the squash,
chickpeas, onion and cilantro or parsley in
a mixing bowl. Either add the tahini dressing to taste, and toss carefully, or you could
serve the salad dressing on the side. Serve
immediately. Serves four.
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Hot Seat Drawings: 10 am – 5 pm
Buy-In: 9 am - 5 pm
THREE DAYS A WEEK!
Present your Rewards Card at either cashier cage for $10 Free Slot or Table Play
when you buy-in for $20. Limit one per person per day.
Buy-In: 9 am – 5 pm

Sep 8 - Cascadia Weekly

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