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Reporting from the
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The Clinic: Art, music and a puppet show, p.18
BIMA: The beat goes on, p.20
Booked!: Local librarian nabs library looter, p.8
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JIM LE GALLEY shares slides and
stories from the road April 14 at
the Bellingham Public Library at a
talk dubbed “The Western Express:
Bellingham to Santa Fe”
A glance at what’s happening this week
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In addition to the petal-powered fun, partake in art
shows, parades, garden tours and much more
WORDS
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Gary W. Moore: 7pm, Village Books
Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham
Public Market
GET OUT
THURSDAY
ON STAGE
Top Girls: 7:30pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU
Forever Plaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community
Theatre
Sketchingham: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
Little Women: 8pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Sixties Dance: 3pm, Fairhaven Library
MUSIC
BIMA Meeting: 6pm, American Museum of Radio
Beverly Smith, Carl Jones: 7:30pm, Roeder Home
DANCE
Phrasings: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts
Center
Montreal Danse: 8pm, Western Gallery, WWU
MUSIC
Felix Sonnyboy: 7pm, Bellingham Public Market
North Cascades Concert Band: 7:30pm, First
Congregational Church
WORDS
Matthew Stearns: 7pm, Village Books
Metaphysical Fair: 11am-5pm, Woodside Spiritual
Center
Psychic Fair: 1-5pm, Fairhaven Library
Grange Centennial Celebration: 3-8pm, Rome
Grange
COMMUNITY
Rock & Gem Show: 10am-5pm, Bloedel Donovan
Open House: 1-4pm, Pickett House
GET OUT
Charterfest: 11am-5pm, Squalicum Harbor
GET OUT
NSEA Work Party: 9am, Terrell Creek, Ferndale
WHIMPS Work Party: 10am, Galbraith Mountain
Charterfest: 11am-5pm, Squalicum Harbor
Roller Betties: 4pm, Bellingham Sportsplex
Whatcom County Raiders: 6pm, Civic Stadium
04.14.08
MONDAY
WORDS
VISUAL ARTS
ON STAGE
Roland Fryer: 6:30pm, Performing Arts Center,
WWU
Kevin Danaher: 7pm, Village Books
Basket Show and Sale: 12-3pm, Whatcom Museum
Pottery Reception: 4-6pm, Good Earth Pottery
Steeb Russell Reception: 5-8pm, the Paperdoll
Dearly Departed Auditions: 7pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
COMMUNITY
Green Building Conference: 8:30am-5pm, Bellingham Cruise Terminal
GET OUT
Whitewater Rafting Films: 7pm, Communications
Facility, WWU
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FRIDAY
ON STAGE
Top Girls: 7:30pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU
Theatresports: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront
Theatre
HMS Pinafore: 7:30pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn
Forever Plaid: 8pm, Anacortes Community
Theatre
04.12.08
SATURDAY
WORDS
Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso
ON STAGE
Top Girls: 2pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU
Theatresports: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront
Theatre
HMS Pinafore: 7:30pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn
Forever Plaid: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
SketchingJAM: 11pm, iDiOM Theater
DANCE
Phrasings: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts
Center
Scottish Country Dance: 7:30pm, Fairhaven Library
Tango by the Bay: 8pm, Squalicum Yacht Club
Ballroom Dance: 8pm, Melody Hall
COMMUNITY
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Rock & Gem Show: 10am-6pm, Bloedel Donovan
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Tulip Festival: Through April, Skagit Valley
Kayak Safety Talk: 6pm, REI
04.13.08
SUNDAY
ON STAGE
HMS Pinafore: 2pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn
Forever Plaid: 2pm, Anacortes Community
Theatre
Dearly Departed Auditions: 7pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
GET OUT
Travel Talk: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library
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TUESDAY
MUSIC
Garnet Rogers: 7pm, American Museum of Radio
DANCE
WORDS
Phrasings: 2pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
Gene Myers: 7pm, Village Books
MUSIC
North Cascades Concert Band: 3pm, Brodniak Hall,
Anacortes
Cascade Early Music Festival: 4pm, St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church
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Stewart Hendrickson: 7:30pm, Roeder Home
SKAGIT VALLEY TULIP FESTIVAL.
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MUSIC
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WEDNESDAY
Tiptoe through the—well, you know—through
APRIL AS PART OF THE 25TH ANNUAL
VISUAL ARTS
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THIS ISSUE
CHARLTON
HESTON—otherwise
known as Moses,
Ben-Hur, the last
man on earth and
the president of the
NRA—died Sat., April
5 at his Beverly Hills
mansion at the age of
84 after a long battle
with Alzheimer’s.
“I’ve certainly had my
share of great parts,”
the Oscar-winning
actor said in 2001.
Indeed.
VIEWS & NEWS
4: Constructive criticism
6: Forty years later
10: Police beat
12: Seven days of news
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ART & LIFE
15: The economics of race
16: Shaping the terrain
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17: The poetry of movement
18: Clinical trial
20: The sound of BIMA
21: Saint Bernard
24: Beats and brains
REAR END
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27: Help Wanted, Services
28: Crossword, Free Will Astrology
29: Wellness
30: Troubletown, Doug Ogg, Rentals,
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Buy Sell Trade
32: This Modern World, Tom The Dancing
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REPORTING FROM THE
HEART OF CASCADIA
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THE CLINIC: ART, MUSIC AND A PUPPET SHOW, P.18
BIMA: THE BEAT GOES ON, P.20
BOOKED!!: LOCA
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COVER: Photo by Darin Somers
One need only walk four
blocks of downtown to see
the “for sale” and lease signs
in vacant retail spaces that
cropped up post-Christmas. It’s
petty to point a finger at the
consumer who does not shop
more locally, or at the shoddy
and flawed business plans of
some merchants, for not soon
enough March and April roll
around and are potentially
great financial bounce-back
months. Business usually picks
up a little for everyone.
But kicking us as we try
to get up from the financial
slump of January and February, someone had the bright
idea to replace Cornwall’s
water main in April. Perhaps
if downtown businesses were
notified of this major project
sooner than a few weeks ago,
we might have suggested that
January and February might
be a better time to shut down
a section of this busy street
full of local commerce.
The Farmers Market opening is also a time of year when
business picks up a little.
Perhaps we might recommend
the city operate a booth at
the Farmers Market debut this
week. Instead of applause,
could you give out hard hats
to patrons who shop locally?
Or we can have a big new
water main pumping water
to vacated spaces and bankrupt businesses, because this
seems to be the new trend.
—Christine Clauson, Bellingham
MORE RUFFLES ON
‘THE RIDGES’
I share Mitch Friedman’s
concerns about using limited
budgets wisely and prioritiz-
ing natural area conservation
acquisitions. I strongly disagree with his assessments
of the relative conservation
value of Chuckanut Ridge and
its dollar cost and purchase
funding sources.
The City of Bellingham’s
Wildlife Habitat Plan describes
in detail why the total Chuckanut Ridge area is “significantly
valuable habitat.” The city’s
habitat plan calls for us to
“preserve and acquire public
open space in order to achieve
a city-wide network of connected corridors and blocks of
land as wildlife habitat” and in
doing so to “utilize riparian/
stream corridors, ridgelines,
upland reserves, wetlands,
lakes, streams, and marine
shorelines.” The Army Corps of
Engineers has deemed seven
of the large interconnected
wetlands on the site as having
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value to the people in the South Neighborhood. We think that that’s a valuable resource in this community that
should be protected.”
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Chuckanut Ridge is only part of a
much larger ecosystem with no roads or
human habitations in its watershed. The
Hundred Acre Wood is a habitat block
identified by the Bellingham Wildlife
and Habitat Assessment as a target for
preservation. Its value is environmental. If it is destroyed, the biodiversity of
southwest Bellingham will collapse. Its
wetland forest is essential to the health
of the wetlands it drains into, as well
as Chuckanut Creek and Padden Creek.
Studies show that for salmon to survive
in creeks and to stop the degradation
of the Puget Sound, upland watersheds
such as the Hundred Acre Wood must be
preserved. If Horizon Bank’s Fairhaven
Highlands development goes forward,
the city will receive a biological disaster
much more costly to fix than the value
of the property.
Mitch Friedman must know that
$26million is Horizon Bank’s initial asking price, not what the City would pay
for Chuckanut Ridge. An accurate fair
market value will depend on the results
of the environmental impact statement
and anticipated lawsuits involving several issues. In addition, taxpayers will
save an estimated $9 million in subsidies for infrastructure, over and above
developer-paid impact fees. In short,
Bellingham cannot afford not to acquire Chuckanut Ridge.
It is an error to think that “Fairhaven
is park-rich.” The five southwest neighborhoods have a lower park level of
service than the citywide average and
ranks fourth out of the city’s six regions.
In order to accommodate growth in this
area and meet the city’s adopted level
of service, additional parkland and open
space will be needed. Chuckanut Ridge
is the last large undeveloped parcel
available and appropriate for additional
parkland in southwest Bellingham.
The biodiversity and habitat value
of the wetland forest known as the
Hundred Acre Wood are treasures for
all of Bellingham, unique to a city of
our size. It will be well worth the fair
market value.
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such importance that the agency has
asserted jurisdiction over their protection under the Clean Water Act.
By contrast, Mitch asserts in his
opinion piece that the value of Chuckanut Ridge is “mostly social,” while mentioning that it is “lovely” and has “some
wetlands.” While Chuckanut Ridge is a
“social” place for the numerous species
that absolutely depend upon its preservation for their continued existence,
human survival is also dependent on
protecting the remaining forested areas everywhere and restoring much of
what has been lost. There is no room
for talk about sacrificing one important
forest in order to save another.
I think it is apparent to all involved
that the $26 million price proposed
by Horizon Bank is merely an opening
bid in the negotiation process. After
the environmental impact statement
is completed and city requirements are
imposed, a more accurate fair market
value can be determined.
I agree with Mitch that north side
park and open space acquisitions, a
new library, a clean bay and a protected watershed are critical objectives
that require adequate funding; however achieving these goals and acquiring Chuckanut Ridge are not mutually
exclusive. A funding plan has already
been developed that combines funds
already designated for the acquisition
of Chuckanut Ridge along with funds
that will not impact other conservation acquisitions. Additionally, a private group, 1,000 Friends of Chuckanut
Ridge, has embarked on a campaign to
raise $2 million in pledges—in effect
taxing themselves a third time after
two Greenways levies.
Finally, I disagree with Mitch’s assertion that saving Chuckanut Ridge will
only benefit Southsiders. All Bellingham taxpayers will contribute to the
$9 million subsidy for the initial infrastructure, the ongoing infrastructure
maintenance and the costs of adverse
environmental impacts. We will all lose
a valuable educational site that is being used by local students without the
need to bus to the south end of Lake
Whatcom to observe a similar, but less
diverse conservation site. We will all
lose yet another critical carbon and
runoff absorbing forest. Added to these
losses, our city will not gain affordable
housing or a walkable urban village,
which the present administration recognizes we desperately need.
I agree with former Bellingham Planning Director Greg Waddell’s remarks
about Chuckanut Ridge during a 1978
South Neighborhood public hearing,
“The trees that exist and the open
space and green space that exist is a
value to the entire town, not just a
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THE GRISTLE
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AD NAZIUM: Last month five large, half-built houses
on the “Street of Dreams,” an opulent development
in Woodinville, Wash., caught fire. Three unoccupied
homes were gutted and two were seriously smokedamaged to the tune of about $7 million. Fire marshals
investigating the scene found traces of explosives and
accelerants, sure signs of arson.
The homes were notable. Each with a footprint of
more than 4,500 square feet, the “rural cluster development” was unpopular among neighbors, who dubbed
the spec homes McMansions. Touted as “green” by the
developer, their outsized footprints and brobdingnagian price tags belied that status. Curiously, the single
McMansion spared from the intentional blaze was the
only home already sold; others idled incomplete, their
fates uncertain in a collapsing housing market.
The arsonists left a convenient calling card—a large
spray-painted bedsheet that read: “Built green? Nope
black. McMansions in RCDs r not green.” It was signed
“Elf,” understood by investigators to be the Earth Liberation Front.
Labeled as eco-terrorists by federal authorities, ELF
in reality does not physically exist, other than as an organizing banner to rally the radical fringe. Nor—judging by the outcome of the trial last month of University
of Washington arsonist Briana Waters, convicted of her
role in aiding the setting of a fire that destroyed the
UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001—can that
fringe strictly be called eco-terrorists: Federal prosecutors agreed not to retry Waters on charges of eco-terrorism after a jury deadlocked on describing terrorism
as a dimension of domestic civil protest.
“Although rightwing commentators... have used the
attack as ammunition in their ideological war against
environmentalists and the left, few others think it is so
simple,” notes John Vidal, environmental editor of the
U.K. Guardian. “The more anyone looks into the arson,
the more they suspect that it has probably got more
to do with fraud or political smearing and dirty tricks
than with terrorism.”
The dubious origins of the McMansion bedsheet (police have made no arrests and the trail has gone dead,
the FBI admits), the spurious existence of ELF itself
(and indeed of eco-terrorism as a concept) did not prevent the Building Industry Association of Washington
from delivering a fire-breathing sermon in their Building Insight membership newsletter this month.
“The older folks in the mainstream enviro groups
silently applaud this new and novel approach,” BIAW
President Brad Spears snarls. “’If you build it, we will
burn it.’ It’s the next, natural step in the environmental
movement.”
Elsewhere—between scattered photos of association officials and Republican candidate for governor
Dino Rossi beaming their mutual, inseparable love for
one another’s goals—the BIA’s stormwater guru, Mark
Musser, draws parallels between those who view growth
with skepticism and Nazis.
“Much like Stalin and Hitler were divided on how to
best go about their socialistic schemes, environmentalists are also divided over how to best go about their
socialistic scheme of controlling human development—
either by burning houses down with Molotov cocktails,
or slowly squeezing the life out of it through extensive,
Sovietesque micromanagement,” Musser observes of the
state’s growth management laws. “Homebuilders are
thus caught between militant ecofascism,” he laments.
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OP INIONS
T HE GR I S T L E
BY AMY GOODMAN
Dream Deferred
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
IT HAS been 40 years since Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while
standing on the balcony outside his
room at the Lorraine Motel. King
was there to support striking sanitation workers, African-American
men who endured horrible working conditions for poverty wages.
While King’s staff was opposed to
him going, as they were scrambling
to organize King’s new initiative,
the Poor People’s Campaign, King
himself knew the sanitation workers were at the front lines of fighting poverty.
I went to Memphis on Dr. King’s
birthday. There I interviewed Taylor Rogers, one of the striking sanitation workers who marched with
King. He told me:
“Back in 1968, 1,300 sanitation
workers—we were tired of being
mistreated, overworked and underpaid. We decided that we were just
going to stand up and be men and
do something about our condition.
And that’s what we did. We stood
up, and we told [Mayor] Henry Loeb
in the city of Memphis that ‘I am a
man.’ ”
While he was organizing against
poverty, King also came out forcefully against the Vietnam War,
alienating his erstwhile ally, President Lyndon Johnson. Exactly one
year before his assassination, on
April 4, 1967, King gave his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church in New York City. He
rehabilitation of its poor so long as
adventures like Vietnam continued
to draw men and skills and money
like some demonic, destructive
suction tube. So I was increasingly
compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it
as such.”
“IT SEEMED AS IF THERE WAS A REAL
PROMISE OF HOPE FOR THE POOR, BOTH
BLACK AND WHITE, THROUGH THE POVERTY
PROGRAM. THEN CAME THE BUILDUP IN
VIETNAM, AND I WATCHED THIS PROGRAM
BROKEN AND EVISCERATED AS IF IT WERE
SOME IDLE POLITICAL PLAYTHING OF A
SOCIETY GONE MAD ON WAR.”
—MARTIN LUTHER KING
said: “A few years ago, there was
a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a
real promise of hope for the poor,
both black and white, through the
poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings.
Then came the buildup in Vietnam,
and I watched this program broken
and eviscerated as if it were some
idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war. And I knew
that America would never invest
the necessary funds or energies in
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He went on, “I could never again
raise my voice against the violence
of the oppressed in the ghettos
without having first spoken clearly
to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own
government.”
Time magazine called the speech
“demagogic slander that sounded
like a script for Radio Hanoi.” The
Washington Post declared that King
had “diminished his usefulness to
his cause, his country, his people.”
King made an essential link be-
Amy Goodman is the host of
Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/radio news hour
airing on 650 stations in North
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be on par with white graduation rates for another 80 years.
The income gap between blacks
and whites will not disappear for
more than 500 years at current
rates. More than one-third of African-Americans earn less than
$20,000 annually, before taxes.
African-Americans are also
far behind in the accumulation of wealth. Add to all this
higher incarceration, less access to health insurance and
shorter life expectancy. King’s
Poor People’s Campaign went
beyond race, as he reached
out to poor whites in places
like Appalachia. Today, one in
five residents of West Virginia
is on food stamps, as is one in
10 Ohioans, and, according Jim
Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, one
in three children in Oklahoma
has been on food stamps at
some point in the past year. It
is clear that Dr. King’s goal of
bringing people “to the promised land” is still far off.
“Reductio ad Hitlerum,” quipped
University of Chicago ethicist Leo
Strauss ([ironically in this instance]
the father of neoconservatism): “Nazis
supported X, therefore X must be evil/
undesirable/bad.” Throw in a reference
to Smokin’ Joe Stalin, and you’ve got
yourself a regular pogrom! (The Gristle
speculates that only the newsletter’s
scant 24 pages prevented Musser from
adding Chairman Mao to the unholy
triumvirate of NIMBY ecofascists bedeviling the tortured homebuilder.)
Such—ahem—incendiary rhetoric
only serves to distance BIAW leadership
from its members, many of whom view
new development standards not as a
canard to hoodwink buyers by repackaging the same ol’ shit in a new green
box, but as a challenge for uniquely
modern design in a world of finite and
dwindling resources. New green standards favor (or at least level the playing field for) smaller, local homebuilders over mass-scale developers.
Perhaps nowhere is the BIAW schism
more evident than embodied in a coming lawsuit against the association
from Whatcom County members who
allege the BIAW misappropriated member trust funds and diverted them to
private political uses.
As explained in the lawsuit, builders
who have participated in an insurance
refund program for their employees
have seen those funds siphoned off.
Local uses of those misappropriated
funds may have included everything
from printing brochures during the last
election cycle to demonize environmentalists to hiring a thug to shadow
and photograph female campaign volunteers for unknown purposes.
“Instead of returning these trust
funds to their rightful owners,” the
suit alleges, “the BIAW skimmed 20
percent off the top. In so doing, the
BIAW has breached its fiduciary duties
to thousands of employers around the
state.
“BIAW’s distribution scheme covertly diverted a large portion of each
employer’s refund to support its own
political and ideological speech, including lobbying and support of candidates and campaigns. The rightful
owners of these trust funds were never
informed of this fact or provided with
their constitutional right to refuse to
fund such political support,” the suit
claims.
Do all builders share the views of
BIAW hardliners? No more than those
who love green and open spaces universally support arson as the “next,
natural step in the environmental
movement.”
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tween poverty at home and
war-making abroad. The connection, sadly, is as relevant
today as it was the last year of
King’s life. A new report from
the Institute for Policy Studies,
“40 Years Later: The Unrealized
American Dream,” lays out key
elements of the inequality that
African-Americans experience
in the United States around
education, employment and
wealth accumulation.
On education, the IPS report
states that African-American
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SOMETIMES YOU need a map to find a map to a thief.
On March 27, federal agents in Great Falls, Montana arrested a man and charged him with interstate transportation
of stolen goods. According to the FBI’s Salt Lake City bureau,
in his possession were at least 648 maps stolen from some
100 books in the Congressional Serial Set owned by Western
Washington University’s Wilson Library in Bellingham.
The arrest of James L. Brubaker, 73,
came some 14 weeks after agents and
local police obtained a court order to
search Brubaker’s property and found
some 1,000 books, most of which bore
library markings from at least 100 academic and public-library collections,
along with thousands of unmarked
lithographs, maps and other loose
documents, some in envelopes ready
for sale. Also found was a magenetic
device allegedly used to bypass library
security devices, two razor knives and
adhesive remover.
Leading police to Brubaker was
Western Washington University government information librarian Robert
Lopresti.
“The story,” Lopresti relates,
“begins just before President’s Day
weekend in February 2006 when
librarian Julie Fitzgerald noticed
something strange. Julie had worked
in the government documents department of Western Libraries for
more than 15 years and she had just
been promoted. The following week
she would be working in a different
part of the operation. But that Friday Julie made her rounds through
the government information stacks
and noticed an older user looking at
some volumes of the Congressional
Serial Set.”
Lopresti recounts that just before President’s Day 2006, Fitzgerald
noticed an elderly user acting suspiciously and “being very careful to
notice who was around him.”
He says, “this guy rang a bell because he was paying careful atten-
tion to Julie. She got the feeling
he wanted to know when anyone—
especially a library employee—was
near him. It was suspicious but he
wasn’t doing anything she could object to, so she didn’t.”
After the holiday weekend,
Fitzgerald inspected the area where
the man had been. Lopresti says she
found “about a dozen books out of
order, some of them upside down on
the shelves, and with pages sliced
out of them.”
“She notified me,” Lopresti says,
“and the hunt was on.”
Cross-checking collections, “We
eventually determined that at least
108 volumes had been damaged,
and at least 648 pages stolen. Why
‘at least?’ It wasn’t always possible
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artifacts, and a thousand or so books with property
stamps from about 100 libraries.
“Turns out,” Lopresti says, “there was more than
one victim after all.”
Lopresti admits he felt frustrated by the lack
of response from colleagues to his calls to come
forward and share information about their missing
materials with law enforcement officials. His plea
did catch the attention of writer Steve Twomey,
whose account of the case appears in the April
2008 Smithsonian Magazine.
While security at Western has been tightened,
eventually investigators may also benefit from the
development of a stolen map database being funded
by the International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association. The group has slated mid-April to have a working prototype availablecomplete, Lopresti notes,
with “a mechanism for third party contact for those
requiring anonymity.”
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the various government agencies had other things
to worry about, like murderers and terrorists. Plus it
was interstate crime, which complicated things. And
each of these publications individually was small potatoes. They sold for an average of $30 each.
“But there was another reason I heard about secondhand. Apparently one government agency employee said, ‘We don’t deal with cases that only have
one victim.’
“That one drove me nuts. This university has
12,000 students, plus many more future students,
and they are all victims of the theft. Not to mention
all the community users. But also, I didn’t believe for
a minute that we were the only library the thief hit.
And yet, if any other libraries had gone public about
it, I sure hadn’t heard it.”
But the trail did not grow utterly cold.
Montana police did research of their own and found
several government agencies had been investigating
Brubaker for years, but did not have the evidence to
get a search warrant.
“The first week of December I got a flurry of calls
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mystery writer began combing eBay, suspecting
some of the materials might surface on the interactive auction site.
“We assumed he stole to sell, so how could we catch
him doing so?” Lopresti asks. “First we sent lists of the
missing material to map librarians, rare book dealers
and other groups. Then we hit eBay.
“There are lots of places you can sell to antique
collectors,” he explains. “But eBay may be the biggest, and it’s also the easiest one to track.
“Within a month it was obvious that more possible matches for our pages were showing up on one
seller’s page than on the rest of eBay put together.
That online store was Montanasilver, run by James L.
Brubaker,” Lopresti relates. “That’s when we started
watching him.”
But, he says, “That wasn’t all we did. A smart cop
at the University Police made a suggestion that I, as
a mystery writer, should have thought of, damn it.
They checked the records and discovered that, sure
enough, a cop had written Mr. Brubaker’s car a parking ticket on campus on the weekend of the theft.”
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and emails from Montana,” Lopresti relates. “Could
I estimate the value of our stolen property? Conservatively, 19 grand. Were there currently any pages
on Montanasilver that might be Western’s property?
About a dozen. Now, as I understand it, they had
what they needed to go to a judge and say, there is
a crime currently underway. They got their search
warrant.”
On December 12, officers of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement served a search warrant on
Brubaker’s property. They found a dozen or so pages
that might have been stolen from Western.
“And, oh yes, they also found in the vicinity of
20,000 other maps and prints, hundreds of Indian
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By September 2006, the Washington state crime
lab had confirmed that several maps Lopresti had arranged to buy from Brubaker through an intermediary
were sliced from WWU holdings. However, it took almost a year before law enforcement became actively
involved in the “wheelbarrow of evidence” the university had amassed.
“And now,” Lopresti laughs, “came the really hard
part: finding some government agency who would pursue the case. That took, so help me, an entire year.”
Why so long?
“Well, a lot of reasons. First, it wasn’t like anyone at my university could dedicate themselves fulltime to hunting for a government go-to guy. Second,
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tween pages 50 and 51, and someone removed it
neatly, how would you know?”
The librarians contacted campus police and continued their research of missing materials. Almost all
of the books were historical documents containing
reports to and from Congress, some dating back to
the 1830s. About three quarters of the stolen goods
were maps.
“The rest,” Lopresti says, “were charts, photographs, illustrations—all suitable for framing and
hanging on the wall.”
Police logged the report and noted the stolen
materials, but it didn’t end there for Lopresti. The
52-year-old librarian, self-taught musician and
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On April 3, former Seattle Police Chief
Norm Stamper told a Western Washington University audience the “War on
Drugs” has cost billions, caused countless
deaths in the United States and abroad
and has done little to address the country’s drug problems. Stamper noted,
“The products themselves are
worthless
weeds—cannabis
(marijuana), poppies (heroin),
coca (cocaine)—or dirt-cheap
pharmaceuticals and ‘precursors’ used, for example, in the
manufacture of methamphetamine. Yet today, marijuana
is worth as much as gold, heroin
more than uranium, cocaine somewhere in between. It is the U.S.’s prohibition of these drugs that has spawned an
ever-expanding international industry of
torture, murder and corruption.”
On March 19, U.S. Deputy Drug Czar
Scott Burns roared, “Decriminalizing
the illegal and highly addictive drug—
marijuana—sends the wrong message to
youth, students, parents, public health
officials and the law-enforcement community.” The deputy director of the Office
of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),
whose office receives in excess of $26.6
million in salaries and expenses, thundered, “Decriminalizing marijuana—the
drug which sends the most of America’s
youth into substance abuse treatment
and recovery—is a dangerous first step
toward complete drug legalization.”
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THURSDAY
Bellingham’s north end erupts into a crime scene when two
men reportedly shoot an air gun at a traveler, knocking him to
the ground. The pair steal his travel bag. An hour later, in roughly the same area, thieves break into Birchwood Service Center
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Ellen Craswell, a longtime conservative figure
in state politics who
spoke unabashedly of
“God’s plan” for government during her unsuccessful run for governor
in 1996, died Saturday
after her third bout with
cancer. She was 75.
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Madrona shareholders unanimously approve a plan that will to
allow their medical group to be acquired by PeaceHealth Medical
Group. Madrona’s CEO, Dr. Erick Laine, says the medical group’s 70
physicians and 375 staff members would join the doctors and staff
of St. Joseph Hospital if the sale goes through. The $4 million deal
is expected to close by July.
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More than 100 Western Washington University faculty members form a picket line to pressure Western’s Board of Trustees.
The faculty union has been negotiating a contract with the administration for more than a year, but the two sides have not
been able to come to terms on an agreement.
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SATURDAY
Vandals break windows and spray paint graffiti on the walls
and sidewalk outside Woods Coffee in Bellingham’s Boulevard
Park. Police say surveillance cameras captured good quality video of the vandals.
Three men throw another man to the ground on Bellingham’s Woburn Street, stealing his groceries before fleeing from the scene.
Whatcom County’s Rome Grange celebrates its 100th
birthday.
As his children look on, Mayor Dan Pike tosses the traditional cabbage at the opening of Bellingham’s Farmers
Market on Saturday. Photo by Tore Ofteness.
Whatcom County Democrats hold
their party convention as they select 63 delegates for next month’s
Congressional Convention.
04.06.08
SUNDAY
The Bellingham Herald reports a
recent Bellingham City Council retreat cost local taxpayers more than
$17,000. The retreat, which took place
in March at the La Conner Seafood and
Prime Rib House and the La Conner
Country Inn and Channel Lodge, cost
$13,000 more than the previous year’s
retreat. Council members say working
with the new administration requires
additional coordination. Critics wonder why council’s retreat could not be
held in Whatcom County.
Police say an 18-year-old Bellingham man is shot in the arm
in gang violence on Bellingham’s
Southside. Another man was threatened when the gun was pointed at
his head. The suspect and his group
then fled the scene.
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Bayside Dairy in Mount Vernon
settles a federal Clean Water Act
claim for leaking animal waste into a
drainage ditch connected to the Skagit River. The dairy will pay $8,000,
according to Environmental Protection Agency officials.
Citizens deliver their comments
on Bellingham’s plan to buy more
property for parks. City Council
agreed to spend $574,000 for a
15-acre parcel in the 1200 block
of Marine Drive, and $160,000 for
property in the 1300 block of Iron
Street. The Marine Drive parcel will
become part of the trail system. The
Iron Street purchase will be used to
expand Rock Hill Park.
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they’ll challenge retired
Republican State Representative Steve Van
Luven of Skagit County
for the 40th District seat
being vacated by Harriet Spanel. Will former
Bellingham Police Chief
Randy Carroll also enter
the race?
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Mall is closed after water floods
more than a dozen stores during fire
sprinkler maintenance operations.
Beleaguered Washington Mutual Inc. secures $7 billion in new
capital, an injection that is aimed at
reviving the nation’s largest savings
and loan following delinquencies
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BLACK CHILDREN
do worse in school than
white children. It’s as true today as 40 years ago, on
this anniversary of the death of civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Over the decades, researchers and educators of all
stripes have been cautiously
trying to understand the observed phenomenon. They’ve
blamed everything from upbringing to racial bias in
testing. Very few have dared
to consider genetics as a factor. Among the few is Roland
Fryer, an assistant professor
of economics at Harvard and
a fellow at the prestigious
National Bureau of Economic Research. In January, at
age 30, he became the youngest African-American to
ever receive tenure at Harvard.
Fryer applies economics tools to issues of race
and inequality. He has co-authored work on racial
achievement gaps, causes and consequences of distinctively black names and color-blind affirmative action. Fryer earned an economics degree in two years
and completed his doctoral dissertation in three. Despite such scholarship, Fryer says he’s probably the
only economist at Harvard who reads VIBE and listens
to hip-hop.
“I think what economics tells us about race is that
race isn’t rocket science,” Fryer told PBS host Tavis
Smiley. “It’s harder than that. Trying to understand
the intricate ways and complicated ways that have
determined our fate through slavery, Jim Crow, and
some of the situations we deal with now, it’s just
very hard to understand, you know, where we went
wrong. And I say where we went wrong, and I don’t
mean at all—I want to be very clear about this—I’m
not blaming the victim here. What I’m saying is, we’re
not doing so well, man. Why? I don’t know. We could
blame institutions; we can blame white discrimination; we can blame racism; we can blame parenting.
There’s a lot of things we could put on the table.
What economics is going to have us do is take those
things, put everything on the table, and break them
ROUND READING: Northwest
poets read from their works at
10:30am at St. James Presbyterian Church, 910 14th St. For
more info: 676-5853.
LIBRARY FRIENDS: Attend the
annual meeting of the Friends of
the Bellingham Library at 2pm at
the Bellingham Public Library,
210 Central Ave. For more info:
778-7250.
MON., APRIL 14
POE TRY NIGHT: Sign up to read
your creations at Poetry Night at
8:30pm every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, 1332 Cornwall Ave.
For more info: 715-16634 or poetrynight.org.
TUES., APRIL 15
KIDS AND ANIMALS: Environmental studies professor Gene
Myers talks about his book The
Significance of Children and Animals at 7pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
WED., APRIL 16
POE TRY TALK: Western professor Bruce Beasley reads from his
works at 5:15pm at WWU’s Communications Facility, room 110.
For more info: 650-7545.
COLLEC T IONS: Poets Peggy
Shumaker and Connie Voisine
read from their works of poetry at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St. For more info:
671-2626.
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APRIL 10
GREEN BUILDING: Attend the
Spring Green Building Conference from 8:30am-5pm at the
Bellingham Cruise Terminal,
355 Harris Ave. Cost is $69.
For more info: 647-7093 or
sconnect.org.
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ROCK S & GEMS: The Mt. Baker
Rock & Gem Club will host its annual show and sale from 10am6pm Sat. and 10am-5pm Sun. at
Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric
Ave. Entry is free. For more info:
714-8139.
WED., APRIL 16
WORLD ISSUES: “The Islamist
Movement in Egyptian Politics”
will be the topic of today’s free
World Issues Forum at noon at
Fairhaven College Auditorium.
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apart one by one with careful, scientific research.”
Among his many writings, Fryer and Steven D.
Levitt, an economics professor at the University of
Chicago whose best-selling book Freakonomics attempted to pair disparate data to unlock relationships, coauthored a paper entitled “Testing for Racial
Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children.”
The paper analyzed test results for the mental function of kids ages one and three.
They found that while
black children lagged behind their white counterparts at three, there was
little difference in mental
function at age one. Until
that point, the data had
shown black children lagging behind white children
ATTEND
at all ages.
WHO: Roland Fryer
“Our data showed that
WHAT: Distinguished
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either there are no genetic
Incentives
differences, or, if there are,
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Fryer finds that others—
Arts Center, WWU
COST: Free, but tickets
in his field and outside
are required
it—do not always share his
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interest in following the
data, no matter where the
numbers lead: “Sometimes people have got this fixed
idea, and they don’t care what data you bring to the
table.”
Belying this dispassionate focus on numbers,
though, Fryer—shining beyond his own childhood
racked by poverty and violence—confesses his interest in helping improve the lives of American blacks.
“You can’t study race in a vacuum,” the economist says. “You’ve got to be willing to talk to social
psychologists, sociologists, behavioral geneticists,
etc., to be able to understand the race problem.
So we’re at a key point in history now in which
people are talking across fields and we have the
mathematical and statistical tools to actually make
progress.”
PANCAKES: Attend a Pancake
Breakfast from 8-11am at the
Bellingham Senior Center, 315
Halleck St. Cost is $3.50-$5. For
FARMERS MARKET: The Bellingham Farmers Market is open every
Saturday through December from
10am-3pm at the Depot Market
Square. For more info: 647-2060
or bellinghamfarmers.org.
ALTERNAT IVE FAIR: An Alternative Health and Metaphysical
Fair happens from 11am-5pm at
the Woodside Spiritual Center,
2224 Yew Street Rd. For more
info: 734-4160.
PSYCHIC FAIR: Aura healings,
a meditation workshop and
more will be available at today’s
Psychic Fair from 1-5pm at the
Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th
St. Admission is free, but costs
vary for services. For more info:
671-4291.
CHOCOLATE TALK: Fair trade
cocoa campaigner Adrienne
Fitch-Frankel will talk about
“Hot Chocolate: Everything You
Wanted to Know About Chocolate, But Were Afraid to Ask” at
1:30pm at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. For
GRANGE CENTENNIAL #2:
“Grange Centennial: 1933, The
Second Generation: The War
Years” happens from 3-8pm at
the Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker
Hwy. For more info: 671-5768.
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DAYDREAM NAT ION: Matthew
Stearns talks about his Sonic
Youth-based book, Daydream
Nation, at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St. For more info:
671-2626.
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INCLUSIVE HOUSING: Kulshan
Community Land Trust will present a free talk on “Inclusive
Housing: Sharing the Solution”
at noon in Bellingham City
Council Chambers, 210 Lottie
St. For more info: 671-5600 or
kclt.org.
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GREEN ECONOMY: Kevin Danaher talks about his book Building the Green Economy at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St. For
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SPOKEN WORD: Spoken Word
Wednesdays happen every week
at 8pm at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave.
The event is free. For more info:
714-0800.
DIRTY DAN: “Just for the Record: Searching for the Original
Sources on the Life and Passing
of Daniel Jefferson Harris” will
be the topic of a PowerPoint
presentation at 7:30pm at the
Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect
St. For more info: 778-8930
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CERTAIN MYSTERIES happen while we sleep. Muscles
are repaired, spines are lengthened and indefinite thoughts are
transformed into dreams.
At different longitudes, others are brewing coffee, straightening ties and kissing loved ones before work. We know this to be
true though we do not think of it often because, at this moment,
at our small position on the globe, all is quiet. But even at this
longitude, there are those who wake before sunrise for professions that are necessary and mysterious, indispensable and curious to those of us who wake only to the result of their work.
Mount Baker Ski Area groomers shape the terrain while we dream
of powder. They’re up at 2am for breakfast number one, dressed
in Carhartts and Extra-Tuffs, T-shirts under hoodies, speaking in
quick phrases—sentences are too long at this early hour. They
clamber into snowcats, roll out of the maintenance shed, headlights bright on the snow, leaving behind a carpet of corduroy.
Grooming is full of contradiction. Snowcat drivers are out during the coldest part of the night, during the most severe snowstorms, and yet they are dry and warm in their Piston Bullies,
shedding the hoodie for the T-shirt. The heavy machinery, loud
and belching exhaust, is surrounded by the lonely quiet of a ski
area without skiers. The job of Baker’s crew of six is to compact
snow, domesticate unruly moguls and erase tracks and footprints.
Like a new snowfall, groomers wipe the slate clean.
Unlike other ski areas, where groomed runs are the ideal surface, at Baker they are seen as a necessity, a transportation
WED., APRIL 9
TULIP FEST: The 25th annual
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
is happening throughout the
month. Spectacular flower
displays, arts and crafts and
much more will be part of
the petal-powered event. For
more info: (360) 428-5969 or
tulipfestival.org.
WAKE UP: The Whatcom Association of Kayak Enthusiasts
(WAKE) will give a free presentation on “Kayak Safety”
at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. For
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system rather then a destination. “We
groom so you can get to the sickness,”
snowcat driver Jon Roy says.
It’s no secret that Northwest sliders
are powder hounds. We ride wide planks,
never sharpen our edges and seek out
that late afternoon stash as easily as
finding our way to the Taproom. We wake
earlier to ski than to work, fill our pockets with snacks to eat on the lift, and
farm our turns on
Honkers.
More to the point
is this fact: Baker
does not have a
grooming report.
The modus operandi
of the Mt. Baker
Ski Area is the yin
ATTEND
WHAT: Spring
to most ski resorts’
Skiing
yang—the
cats
WHEN: April
groom
more
when
11-13, 18-20,
there is less snow,
25-27; closing day
letting the powdependent upon
conditions
der pile up when
WHERE: Mt. Baker
the snow flies so
Ski Area
we can ride in the
COST: $19-$41
deep.
INFO: 734-6771
Now that spring
or mtbaker.us
is upon us and the
runs will only be open on weekends,
groomers have their work cut out for
them, laying corduroy in corn with only
their tillers and fins to erase evidence of
our spring turns.
Like Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy,
cat drivers bring us the goods while
we sleep, compacting and combing so
we can make tracks on cruisers or just
move easily from one powder run to the
next. By the time you wake at daybreak
to a snow-laden sky and call for the
snow report, Baker’s cat drivers have
been at work since before last call—
preparing the mountain for our first
tracks of the day.
K AYAK FLICK S: Watch a
whitewater kayaking double
feature movie premiere focusing on the “the biggest and
baddest whitewater in Washington and British Columbia”
at 7pm at WWU’s Communications Facility, room 110. Tickets are $2-$5. For more info:
650-7533.
FRI., APRIL 11
BIRDING BY EAR: Naturalist Libby Mills will lead “The
Spring Chorus: Birding by
Ear” from 8am-12pm today
and tomorrow at Mount Vernon’s Breazeale Interpretive
Center. For more info and to
register: (360) 428-1558 or
padillabay.gov.
SAT., APRIL 12
FIT ORIENTATION: If you’re
interested in signing up for a
six-month marathon-training
program, come to the Bellingham Fit orientation at
8am at the picnic shelter at
Lake Padden. Be prepared to
run or walk. For more info:
bellinghamfit.com.
BOATING SAFETY: A “Boating
Safety” class will be put on
by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary from 8am-4:30pm at the
Squalicum Yacht Club. Cost
is $45 and includes lunch.
For more info: 933-1758 or
bliaux.com.
WORK PART Y #1: Join the
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association for a work
party from 9am-12pm at Ferndale’s Terrell Creek. You’ll be
removing non-native vegetation. For more info: 715-0283
or n-sea.org.
TULIP TREKK ING: Celebrate
the Northwest Tulip Trekker’s
20th anniversary with two
walks—one is 6.8 miles and
the other is 3.1 miles—starting at 9am at Mount Vernon’s
Emmanuel Baptist Church,
1515 E. College Way. The event
is free. For more info: (360)
392-0101.
WORK PART Y #2: Join the
Whatcom Independent Mountain Pedalers (WHIMPS) for
a work party from 10am-3pm
on Galbraith Mountain. Tools,
food and swag will be available. For more info: 647-8955.
ROLLER BE T T IES: Attend
today’s “Zero Waste” Roller
Betties bout at 4pm at the
Sportsplex, 1225 Civic Way.
Food vendors, merchandise
and a beer garden will be part
of the fun. Entry is $5 for kids,
$12-$15 for grownups. For
more info: 441-5477 or brownpapertickets.com.
RAIDERS:
The
Whatcom
County Raiders, a minorleague football team, will play
an intrasquad game at 6pm at
Civic Stadium. Admission is
free. Bring nonperishable food
items for the Food Bank. For
more info: 224-7200 or whatcomraiders.com.
APRIL 12-13
CHARTERFEST: The 4th annual Charterfest happens
from 11am-5pm at Bellingham’s Squalicum Harbor. Motor
yachts and sailboats will be on
display for tours, and reps will
be on hand to answer questions. For more info: 676-2500
or portofbellingham.com.
MON., APRIL 14
MAP SKILLS: Learn how to
keep yourself found at a free
“Map and Compass 101” clinic
at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. For
RIDE ON: Bicyclist Jim LeGalley will lead a slide presentation dubbed “The Western Express: Bellingham to Santa Fe”
at 7pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave.
Suggested donation is $2. For
FIRST GEAR: Learn how to
make biking around town or
on trails safe and fun at a
free “First Gear” class at 7pm
at the Co-op’s Connection
building, 1220 N. Forest St.
The course is the first of four.
For more info and to register:
734-8158.
TUES., APRIL 15
CLIMBING HIGH: A free
“Alpine Climbing 101” clinic
starts at 6pm at REI, 400 36th
St. For more info: 647-8955.
WAKE MEE T ING: The Whatcom Association of Kayak Enthusiasts will meet at 7:30pm
at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. The
meeting is open to all. For
more info: wakekayak.org.
WED., APRIL 16
SPRING TRAINING: Sign up
now for an eight-week Spring
Training Camp for runners that
kicks off tomorrow at 5:30pm
at Fairhaven Runners, 1209
11th St. Cost is $50. For more
info: 676-4955 or fairhavenrunners.com.
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reographers are given a lot of latitude as to how they
want to incorporate the poems they’ve chosen.
“Exploring words through movement helps us dancers get out of the box and lets us experience movement and choreography in a new way,” participant
Pam Kuntz says. “All the usual is tossed out the window when the poetry hits the minds and bodies of the
choreographers.”
Coincidentally, Canada’s Montreal Danse is visiting Western Washington University this weekend for
a collaboration of a different nature. The Furies Alpha 1/24 (The Monsters Within) will incorporate the
photography of Portland artist Diane Kornberg with
a dance described as “an all-out, breakneck dance of
fury and desire.”
Furies, which will take place at the Western Gallery,
will use Kornberg’s photography—created specifically
for this show—as a visual backdrop.
While the mediums mentioned above could exist on
their own, the performances this weekend will bring
home the fact that when creative minds put their
heads together, anything can happen.
LITTLE WOMEN: See Little
Women, the classic story of
the March sisters and their
journey to adulthood, at
8pm Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm
Sun. at the Bellingham
Theatre Guild, 1600 H
St. The show continues
through April 19. Tickets are $7-$11. For more
info: 733-1811 or bellinghamtheatreguild.com.
FOREVER PLAID: The
musically enhanced play,
Forever Plaid, shows at
7:30pm Thurs., 8pm Fri.Sat., and 2pm Sun. at
the Anacortes Community
Theatre. Additional showings happen through May
3. Tickets are $16. For
more info: (360) 293-6829
or acttheatre.com.
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THEATRESPORTS:
Four
teams of improvisers will go
head-to-head this weekend
at Theatresports matches
at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at
the Upfront Theatre, 1208
Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10.
This is the first of a threeweekend competition. For
more info: 733-8855 or
theupfront.com.
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PINAFORE: An intergenerational cast will take
to the stage to perform
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CREAT IVE DANCE: No
experience is necessary to
sign up for “Creative Dance
Improvisation for Adults”
at 9:30am at the Firehouse
Performing Arts Center,
1314 Harris Ave. Cost is $8
per class. For more info:
724-6691.
BACK IN T IME: Attend
a “Welcome to the ’60s”
dance party at 3pm at the
Fairhaven Library, 1117
12th St. The event is free.
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APRIL 12
SCOT T ISH DANCING: Up
in the Air will provide live
tunes for a Scottish Country Dancing gathering at
7:30pm at the Fairhaven
Library, 1117 12th St. For
TANGO BY BAY: No partner or experience is necessary to attend “Tango
by the Bay” at 8pm at the
Squalicum Yacht Club, 722
Coho Way. Entry is $5. For
BALLROOM
MOVES:
The Bellingham Ballroom
Dancers will hold a—you
guessed
it—Ballroom
Dance at 8pm at Melody
Hall, 4071 Home Rd. Entry is $7. For more info:
734-5676.
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first, the poems or the dance? According
to Matt Christman of the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company
(BRDC), the syntactic arrangements preceded the movement in
this weekend’s production of Phrasings In Word and Dance.
“The poems are written beforehand, and the choreographers
and dancers respond,” Christman says. But there’s more to it
than that. Christman explains that the idea for the cross-pollination came about last year after the Chuckanut Sandstone
Writers Theater started to host poetry evenings at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center’s Café. At the same time, BRDC
was rehearsing for an upcoming show
in the space.
“Two different groups were there
passionately pursuing their languages,” Christman says. “Once, after the
reading, someone said, ‘Oh, it would
be cool to do a collaboration.’ Next
thing we knew, the two groups were
meeting.”
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After a well-received first year,
WHAT: Phrasings In
Phrasings will bring the partnership to
Word and Dance
the stage April 11-13 at the Firehouse
WHEN: 7:30pm April
11-12; 2pm April 13
for a second time. The six pieces auWHERE: Firehouse
diences will see are based on poems
Performing Arts
the various choreographers chose
Center, 1314 Harris
from entries submitted by a variety of
Ave.
Northwest writers.
COST: $12
INFO: 734-2776
Because he’s providing technical
support for the performances, ChristWHAT: The Furies
man has gotten a behind-the-scenes
WHEN: 8pm April
11-12; 2pm April 13
peek at how different movement masWHERE: Western
ters have chosen to interpret the poGallery, WWU
ems they’ve selected.
COST: $10-$25
“The choreographers are totally
INFO: 650-6146
cloistered,” Christman says. “They’re
working in a fairly pure bubble to be able to create and not be
affected by others.
“I can see how choreographers draw connections to the poems
on a variety of levels. It’s amazing the stuff that comes out of
this. You’ll be seeing a variety of mediums incorporating spoken
word, dance and multimedia. It keeps the level of the production
quite high, at least for the audience’s sake.”
Although the poems must be represented in their entirety—
either through readings during the show or via a chapbook that
will be available at the performances—Christman says the cho-
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DOG SEES GOD: See
what happened to Charlie Brown and his friends
after they’ve grown up a
bit when Dog Sees God:
Confessions of a Teenage
Blockhead opens tonight
at 7:30pm at WWU’s Underground Theatre in the Performing Arts Center. Additional showings happen
through April 26. Tickets
are $7-$9. For more info:
650-6146.
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SKETCHINGHAM:
Week
two of Sketchingham continues with sketch comedy
performances from Mexico
City’s Huh? Uh-Huh! and
Portland’s 3rd Floor at
8pm at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
Stand-up by Kevin Lee
will open the show. Stick
around on Saturday night
at 11pm for SketchingJAM.
Tickets are $12 general,
$5 for the late show. For
infinitelaughs.com.
TOP GIRLS: Student Theatre Productions presents
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at
7:30pm Thurs.-Fri. and 2pm
Sat. at WWU’s Old Main
Theatre. Tickets are $4. For
BY AMY KEPFERLE
AUDITIONS: Actors can audition for upcoming performances of Dearly Departed
at 7pm at the Bellingham
Theatre Guild, 100 H St. For
more info: 733-1811 or bellinghamtheatreguild.com.
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GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch
“The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront
Theatre, 1208 Bay St. The
weekly event features both
budding and seasoned improvisers. Cost is $5. For
theupfront.com.
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the Gilbert and Sullivan
musical, HMS Pinafore,
at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and
2pm Sun. at the Sudden
Valley Dance Barn, gate
2. Tickets are $7-$11. For
thebarntheatre.org.
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THURS., APRIL 10
POT TERY TALK: Bellingham potter Chris
Moench will give a free, illustrated talk
about his creations at 10:15am at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. For more info:
778-8930.
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narrow corridor to the coolest basement party ever—or at least as good
as the one where you and your junior high classmates hooked up to play
Spin the Bottle and plant sloppy, tongue-filled kisses on each other.
“This is the first of many basement parties,” says Michelle Schutte,
one of five artists currently renting the below-ground space at the hallowed Odd Fellows Hall on Holly Street. She and her compatriots have
dubbed their voluminous studio “The Clinic” and, every other month,
hope to combine gallery shows with a mixture of music and merriment.
“We’re picturing it as being in between a venue and a house party,”
Schutte says.
Schutte is familiar with combining art with action. As the former
owner of Bellingham’s Hand to Mouth Gallery—a venue that merged
cutting-edge exhibits with private studio space for artists—she was
hip to what it took to get people to leave their houses and come
check out what was on the wall (think music, homemade vittles and, of
course, interesting things to look at).
Forced to evacuate when her landlord chose not to renew her lease,
Schutte transferred her creative energies to the space at the Odd Fellows Hall. Over the past two years, she’s seen many artists come and
go, but feels the current grouping—which includes Karma Stephens,
Katie Houseman, Christopher Mineer, Corey Urlacher, and Gunther Jose
Frank—is one suited to what she envisions the Clinic should be.
“It’s where we hope to get a lot of work done,” artist Karma Stephens
explains. “I also like it that you can see what other people are do-
ing. We have exposure to other artists while
maintaining our own spaces.”
Schutte says the Clinic is a big change
from Hand to Mouth,
where the studio
spaces were all private, and the creativity that took
place within its walls
was enacted behind
locked doors.
“Now we’re in the
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underbelly
WHAT: The Clinic
of the Odd Fellows
WHEN: 7-10pm Sat.,
Hall,” Stephens says,
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laughing.
WHERE: Odd Fellows
Hall, 311 E. Holly St.
Although it’s true
COST: Entry is free
the Clinic is indeed
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in a basement with
windows facing the
alley, it’s likely patrons won’t complain once
they step into the dwelling. The views are
on the wall, you see. Among the paint pallets, numberless brushes, tools and assorted
artistic paraphernalia are the byproducts of
hours spent at easels and work tables, ideas
brought to life through paint, sweat and creativity.
“We’ll all have new pieces for sale,” Schutte
says. “Small groupings of new work.”
At every Clinic party, in addition to the
five artists previously mentioned, they’ll
welcome a guest artist. The inaugural event
will include dioramas by local artist—and
actress—Krissa Woiwod. “They’re lightly macabre children’s stories in white,” Woiwod
explains. “Inside, scary things are about to
happen to woodland creatures.”
In between music sets by the Memes and
the Librarians, Woiwod will also find time
to put on a puppet show. For those familiar with Schutte’s capacity to put on a good
show—and an awesome party—the added
entertainment is par for the course.
“I’m just excited to be connecting the space
with the community,” Schutte says.
BASKET SHOW: Native American baskets
and other woven items made in traditional
ways by Pacific Northwest master artists
will be on display and for sale from 12-3pm
at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
The baskets will reflect a variety of styles,
techniques, and uses of both the Plateau
Tribes and the Coast Salish Tribes. For more
info: 778-8930 or whatcommuseum.org.
BOOK ARTS: Jim Croft will lead a class on
“Toolmaking for Book Arts, and Long and
Link Stitch Binding” from 10am-6pm today
and tomorrow at Bison Bookbinding & Letterpress, 1420 N. State St. Cost is $110, plus
$40 for materials. For more info: 734-0481 or
bisonbookbinding.com.
TULIP T IME: Ferndale photographer DawnMarie Hanraha will sign copies of the inaugural Skagit Valley Tulip Festival calendar from
12-4pm at Cresswell Boggs, 1300 Railroad
Ave. For more info: 384-2497.
POT TERY SHOW: A reception for clay artists
Eugene and Ene Lewis happens from 4-6pm at
Good Earth Pottery, 100 Harris St. For more
info: 671-3998 or goodearthpots.com.
STEEB RECEPTION: See colorful characters, acrylics on wood, whimsical animals
and much more at an opening reception for
an exhibit of works by Bellingham artist
Steeb Russell from 5-8pm at the Paperdoll,
1200 10th St. For more info: 738-DOLL or
steebrussell.com.
SUN., APRIL 13
HORIUCHI TALK: Guest curator Barbara
Johns will talk about “Paul Horiuchi: Finding Nature” at 2pm at La Conner’s Museum of
Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. For more info:
(360) 466-4446 or museumofnwart.org.
TUES., APRIL 15
THEN AND NOW: Historian Wes Ganaway will
present “Whatcom County in Photographs:
Then and Now” at 12:30pm at the Whatcom
Museum, 121 Prospect St. The event is free.
ONGOING
EXHIBITS
ALLIED ARTS: “Innovative Fiber Arts,” a
two-woman show featuring works by Peggy
Kondo and Margie Thierry, shows through
April 23 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
For more info: 676-8548 or alliedarts.org.
AVELLINO: View abstract artwork from Bellingham artist Kellie Becker through April 27
at Avellino, 1329 Railroad Ave. For more info:
441-2321.
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The
museum is open to the public from noon-5pm
Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
BLUE HORSE: The annual “Ship of Fools”
exhibit, which features sociopolitical commentary, shows through April 12 at the Blue
Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. For more info:
671-2305.
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11th St. For more info: 647-0092.
HISTORICAL MUSEUM: See “Lost Cities of Skagit: Rediscovering Places of Our
Past” through Nov. 2 at La Conner’s Skagit
County Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St.
For more info: (360) 466-3365 or skagitcounty.net/museum.
INSIGHTS: Alfred Currier’s “Skagit Legacy”
paintings show through April 30 at the Insights Gallery, 514 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. For more info: insightsgallery.com.
LUCIA DOUGLAS: “Fish,” an exhibit
featuring pots by Allen Moe and paintings by Thomas Wood, shows through
April 19 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery,
1415 13th St. For more info: 733-5361 or
luciadouglas.com
MINDPORT: Cary Lane’s mixed-media exhibit, “The Sheepcarder and the Small, Stolen Sky,” shows through April 30 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. For more
info: 647-5614 or mindport.org.
MONA: View “East and West,” a major
retrospective of the late artist Paul Horiuchi, through June 15 at La Conner’s
Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First
St. For more info: (360) 466-4446 or
museumofnwart.org.
PICKLE BARN: “Art in a Pickle Barn” will
show from 10am-6pm daily through April 27
as part of the Skagit Tulip Festival. For more
info: (360) 428-8576 or skagitart.org.
QUILT MUSEUM: “Barns & Botanicals”
and pieces from “MetroTextual: Manhattan Quilters Guild” are on display through
May 11 at La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St. For more info: (360)
466-4288 or laconnerquilts.com.
SEASIDE GALLERY: “Tulip Mania” runs
through May 15 at La Conner’s Seaside Gallery, 112 Morris St. For more info: laconnerseasidegallery.com.
SMITH/VALLEE: Works by Northwest artist
R. Allen Jensen—also known as Max Edison,
Backroad Bob, and Robert Dante—can be
seen through April 27 at Edison’s Smith/
Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. For more
info: (360) 305-4892 or smithvalleegallery.
com.
TOAD MOUNTAIN: Maureen Braun’s watercolor exhibit, “Splashes of Grace,” can
be seen through April 30 at Toad Mountain
Coffee, 2075 Barkley Blvd. For more info:
733-9756.
UNDER COVER: “I See London, I See
France,” a multi-site exhibit exploring the
cultural meaning of underpants, shows
through April 16 at a number of venues on
Western Washington University’s campus.
For more info: (208) 860-2806 or islisf.
googleplaces.com.
WESTERN GALLERY: View an exhibit of
photographs by Dianne Kornberg as part of
Montreal Danse’s The Furies dance program
happening through April 12 at WWU’s Western Gallery. For more info: 650-3963.
WORLD CUP: View a variety of works from
Squalicum High School students through
April at World Cup Coffeehouse, 2118
James St. For more info: 733-5615.
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Franklin Koenig:
Northwest Master, Home and Away,” “Love,
Murder, Magic,” “Photography Biennial,”
and “The Melville Jacobs Legacy” are currently on display at the Whatcom Museum,
121 Prospect St. For more info: 676-6981 or
whatcommuseum.org.
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sical institutions might just be one many people in the music
scene are unfamiliar with. While many of us can quickly rattle
off the names of whatever bands are the darlings of the music
scene at any particular moment—down to the musical pedigrees and love lives of every member—it’s likely far fewer of
us know what BIMA is, or even what the acronym stands for
(it’s the Bellingham Independent Music Association, for the uninformed). Even those familiar with the organization may not
know exactly how long BIMA has been around, or just what,
exactly, it does.
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering such things—or find
yourself wondering them now—you may want to stop by their
annual meeting, which takes place
starting at 6pm Thurs., April 10 at
the American Museum of Radio &
Electricity. And, while an annual
meeting doesn’t exactly sound like
the kind of place to get your groove
on, it should be noted that this
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“meeting” also serves as BIMA’s 8th
WHAT: BIMA’s Annual
birthday party, as well as a chance
Meeting and Showcase
for many of its musicians to showWHEN: 6pm (Showcase
begins at 8:30pm)
case their skills after all the busiThurs., April 10
ness is dispensed with. If you’re
WHERE: American
still skeptical, when was the last
Museum of Radio & Electime you heard of an annual meettricity, 1312 Bay Street
ing offering up door prizes instead
COST: Free
MORE INFO: bima.com
of power suits and PowerPoint presentations? I rest my case.
While much has been made of Bellingham’s musical legacy being an unabashedly loud one, those most active among BIMA’s
membership base—including its founder, exceedingly skilled
local musician David Weiss—tend to favor the kinder, gentler
sounds that are often overlooked but just as integral to this
town’s rich music community. But that’s not to say that your
average black metal band can’t get something out of a BIMA
membership. After all, the organization exists, in part, to provide resources and knowledge to musicians looking to do more
than just practice sporadically and play every now and again.
And while it’s probably more hip to sit at the bar and swill whiskey than be a regular attendee at BIMA meetings, odds are the
guy at the barstool next to you will not be able to tell you how
to make rock ‘n’ roll pay the rent, no matter how well-founded
DAVID WEISS
his advice sounds three or four drinks in.
Case in point: before the musical festivities begin at the annual meeting, author, musician and
artist Lenedra Carroll will be on hand to introduce
her Artist Advance project—which aims, among
other things, to get more live music into schools
and private homes—and make herself available
for future interaction with any and all interested
musicians in attendance. Aside from her own career in music, Carroll was also the former business
manager for none other than Jewel, so it’s a pretty
fair assumption that she’s a knowledgeable and experienced resource for many things musical.
But if you’re just interested in BIMA for a good
time, show up at 8:30pm for the musical showcase,
which is slated to feature no less than 11 musical
acts, including BIMA founder Weiss, along with
practitioners of everything from Klezmer to reggae
to blues to Americana, making many stops in between. The whole thing wraps up, as it should, with
a jam session open to anyone with an interest and
an instrument—which is sort of the whole idea behind BIMA as well. I’m guessing your last birthday
party wasn’t near as action-packed. Show up, and
see what you’ve been missing all these years.
Fair announced its musical lineup, which just
happened to include Ted Nugent, I thought
there was no way they could surpass that bit
of entertainment magic. As it turns out, I was
right. That’s not to say that Chicago, Randy Travis, and Little Bigtown (who the hell is Little
Bigtown, anyway?) are not worthy performers
in their own right. It’s just that the Nuge sets a
pretty high bar. In every respect.
Another band that has spent the past seven
years or so setting their own standard for musical entertainment, the Cicadas, are calling
it quits. As their shows have been few and
far between for some time, this can hardly
be surprising news, but it’s sad, nonetheless.
Few Bellingham bands have played with the
kind of raw ferocity the Cicadas brought to
the stage with every performance, and while
the breakup (amicable though it may be) hurts
ired ears
my heart, my tired
rateful.
are probably grateful.
For those of youu who’d
hance to
like one last chance
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times and say
farewell,
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band is playing
its final show
April 29 at thee
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Speaking
of
shows at the Buff,
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has anyone noticed that none other than DeVotchKa is slated for a May 1 show at the bar?
Because I sure have. When I saw the posting on the Buffalo’s website I had to rub my
eyes and slap myself around a little in order
to make myself believe what I was seeing. But
when I was finished with the self-abuse, the
listing still existed. Which makes me believe
the show is actually happening, and this isn’t
just John Goodman’s way of messing with my
feeble mind. If you recall, when DeVotchKa
played the Nightlight, the show was packed
beyond capacity and I don’t know of anyone
who walked away disappointed. Which is my
way of saying that you probably shouldn’t wait
to buy your tickets. They’ll run you $15 for
advance tickets and $18 the day of the show.
But needless to say, if you wait until the day
of to buy your tickets, it’s unlikely there will
be any left.
And, if you haven’t been paying attention,
a scant week after Cat Power comes to town
to help take back the night, Tegan and Sara
will make an appearance on campus on Wed.,
April 16. Now, I have to confess to being one
of those people who don’t drink the Tegan and
Sara Kool Aid, but I realize I’m in the minority
on this deal. And, when it comes right down
to it, even I can probably be swayed by the
sight of identical twins singing together. I’m
easy like that.
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WHEN BOUNDARY Bay Brewery said, in light of recent venue closures, that they would try and pick up
some of the slack by ramping up their
own live music offerings, they weren’t
kidding. Straying far from their traditional bluegrass and Americana fare,
they’ve diversified their lineup to include
everything from indie pop to garage rock.
But now they’ve gone and booked a bona
fide Grammy nominee, in the form of jazz
guitarist and composer Will Bernard.
Bernard
first
began to garner
musical
acclaim
as a member of
mentor and longtime collaborator
Peter Apfelbaum’s
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standards to funk
to world music to
hip-hop, making stops in between at
whatever musical genre happens to capture his interest. However, it was his
collaboration with Charlie Hunter on
1997’s If Four Was One that earned him
the Grammy nod, and shortly thereafter
Bernard began to release albums on his
own, the most recent being last year’s
Party Hats.
These days, Bernard is spending a fair
amount of time touring, both with his
own band and the Stanton Moore Trio,
and the opportunity to see him in our fair
burg is one not to be missed.
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BIMA MEETING: If you’re interested in learning, sharing or
gaining a foothold in the music
industry, drop by the Bellingham Independent Music Association’s annual meeting at 6pm
at the American Museum of Radio, 1312 Bay St. For more info:
714-1630.
FRI., APRIL 11
SONNYBOY: Felix Sonnyboy and
the Muddy Boots will play a variety of tunes at a free concert
at 7pm at the Bellingham Public
Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. For
CONCERT BAND #1: The North
Cascades Concert Band will play
a variety of pieces by John Philip Sousa and others at 7:30pm
at the First Congregational
Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $5-$12. For more info:
371-2267.
SUN., APRIL 13
CASCADES BAND #2: The North
Cascades Band spreads its love
to Anacortes with a concert at
3pm at Brodniak Hall, 1600 20th
St. Tickets are $5-$12. For more
info: 371-2267.
EARLY MUSIC: The Cascade
Early Music Festival presents a
program of works by Johann Sebastian Bach at 4pm at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 2117 Walnut St.
Suggested donation is $15. For
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BEVERLY AND CARL: Guitarist
Beverly Smith and Carl Jones will
play bluegrass and traditional oldtime tunes at 7:30pm at the Roeder
Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested
donation is $8-$12. For more info:
671-4511 or smithjones.net.
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performs traditional songs from
the United States and the British Isles at 7:30pm at the Roeder
Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Tickets for
“Fiddles, Voice and Guitar” are
$8-$12. For more info: 734-7872
or 733-6897.
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GARNET ROGERS: Canadian singer
and songwriter Garnet Rogers will
perform at 7pm at the American
Museum of Radio and Electricity,
1312 Bay St. Tickets are $15. Attendees must be 21 or over. For
more info: 738-3886 or amre.org.
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Felix Sonnyboy and the
Muddy Boots
Jazz Jam
SUNDAY
John Butler Trio, Mama Kin
MONDAY
TUESDAY
The Trews
Apart From That (film), Karl
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Fairhaven Pub
Green Frog Café
Acoustic Tavern
Main St. Bar and
Grill
Karaoke
Blind Fate
The Retros
The Collected, Twigbirdleaf,
Seagullinvasion, Queen
Amina
Order of the Cremson Wizards, The Tread Abraham,
Pacific Graveyard
The Contra, Human Infest
young/lost ones, Braille
Tapes
Adam Hill
The Shiftless Rounders
Joseph Blood and The
Bluetick Houn’ Dogs
Soul Wagon
Scrub
Laura Overstreet
Open Mic w/Chuck D feat.
Ask Sophie
Third Rail
Third Rail
Go Slowpoke, Karl Blau, Gift
Machine, Memes
Can-U, Rec Room, The
Knowgooders
The Love Lights, Shane
Tutmarc, 10 Killing Hands
DJ Jaron
Fritz & The Freeloaders
Fritz & The Freeloaders
Marvin Johnson
Half Alive
Players Club
The Beautiful Girls
Karaoke
Old Foundry
Performing Arts
Center (WWU)
Richard's on
Richards
Royal
College Night
Poetry Night
Second Sunday Singer
Songwriter Slam
The Cainthardly Playboys
Line Dance Lessons w/Bev
Ollerenshaw
Karaoke
Cat Power, Appaloosa
Poppe's
Rockfish Grill
Comedy
Open Mic w/Chuck D feat.
Jasmine Riley
Karaoke
Honey Moon
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DJ Clint Westwood
Cancer Rising, Rudy and the
Rhetoric, The Productionists, N/NW, DJ Swervewon
Industry Night
College Night
Ladies Night
Party Night
Betty Desire Show, DJ
Velveteen
DJ Buckshot, DJ Deerhead
DJ QBNZA
DJ Mike Tollenson
The Jim Basnight Band
Pop Tarts
Pop Tarts
Karaoke
The Goods
The Goods
The Otters
Ray Downey & Tim Matheis
The Spencetet
Silver Reef Hotel
Casino & Spa
Skagit Valley
Casino
Skylark's
Temple Bar
The All Nighters, The Whiskey Wailers
Karaoke
Band Fight Night
Karaoke w/Poops
DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave
Irish Session
Bar Tabac
Three Trees Coffeehouse
Pacific Graveyard
Underground Coffeehouse (WWU)
Kaylee Cole, Neal Burton
Wild Buffalo
Acoustic Oasis Open Mic
feat. Cam and Moses
Jean Jaque Tetu
Wayne Patrik
Broken Bottle Band
Happy Hour Jazz Project
(early), The Growers (late)
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Connie
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Where there’s no Arab cultural center. Or, in the
words of bemused cafe proprietor Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), “no culture of any kind.”
And no hotel either.
The boys in blue aren’t completely out of luck;
Dina has the will and the means to help them out.
She finds rooms for them for the evening and takes
courtly Tawfiq and louche Khaled back to her place,
in part perhaps for the minor thrill of scandalizing
her neighbors.
She takes a shine to Tawfiq, whom she parades
around the little town like a new pet. Meanwhile,
Khaled invites himself along on a shy Israeli man’s
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A LITTLE film based on a short newspaper account of a real
incident, Israeli director Eran Kolirin’s debut The Band’s Visit is so
satisfying that it might be better not to talk too much about its poetic cinematography and precisely calibrated palette—the Carolina
blue uniforms of the titular band’s members, the hammering white
of the Sinai, the industrial dun of the nowhere town where the
hapless brigade winds up. While the colors are hardly the point of
this droll fish-out-of-water comedy, they’re probably the strongest
evidence of the film’s extraordinarily intelligent design.
Art films aren’t usually this flat-out enjoyable and accessible;
The Band’s Visit is so delicious it’s hard to believe it might actually
contain some nutritional value. But Kolirin is at least as much an
artist as an entertainer, and there’s hardly a moment in this delightful movie that doesn’t ring with authentic human feeling.
The film’s premise is basic. The members of the Egyptian Alexandria Municipal Police Ceremonial Orchestra are on their way to play
at an Arab cultural center in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva. But no
one is there to meet them at the Tel Aviv airport when they arrive.
Temporarily disconcerted, their leader Tawfiq (played by Israeli actor Sasson Gabai) decides they’ll take the bus. There are no signs
in Arabic, so he orders the band’s young violinist/trumpet player
Khaled (Saleh Bakri) to find out which bus they need.
Though Khaled protests that his English—the lingua franca of the
Israelis and their Arab neighbors—isn’t so good, Tawfiq suspects
him of slacking and makes his request an order. Soon, handsome
Khaled—who bears a resemblance to a young Engelbert Humperdinck—is serenading the young woman behind the counter. And
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friend, eventually making himself useful.
We might make assumptions about the tension
that might develop if a group of Egyptian police
officers were stranded in an Israeli settlement. Kolirin’s more universal subject is the inadequacy—
and ultimately, the irrelevance—of language. Most
of the time the characters are communicating in
English—a language in which none of them are
completely fluent. Yet they are able to make themselves understood through gestures and music and,
most of all, facial expressions.
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the faces of their actors as canvases and subtly make
a case for the commonality of the human spirit as
a more important signifier than racial or national
identification. While never steering into sentimentality—it comes close—The Band’s Visit manages to
provide a solid reason for optimism. It’s not by accident that the town’s name—Bet Hativka—may be
translated as “place of hope.”
Mark Jude Poirier and commercials director Noam Murro make a competent
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characters and conflicts lack the sharper
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Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is
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University enrollee son James (Ashton
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ER chief Dr. Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica
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also the happiest and most open.
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ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): High-definition
TV makes everything look more vivid than standard
broadcast technology. Images are so high-quality they
almost appear 3-D. While this is enjoyable to viewers,
some performers are uncomfortable with the way it
reveals their skin’s imperfections. Did you know that
Brad Pitt has acne scars? I predict a metaphorically
similar development for you in the coming weeks, Aries.
Every little thing you do will be more highly visible and
have greater impact than before. Wherever you’ve been
2-D, you’ll become 3-D. That could turn out really well
for you if you take it as a challenge to fine-tune your
commitment to excellence and integrity.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “When nothing is working very well,” says astrologer Caroline Casey, “it might
be a cosmic conspiracy to get you to experiment.” Let’s
proceed as if that hypothesis were true, Taurus. Identify
a place in your life where you’re stuck, where everything
you attempt meets with resistance, or where you don’t
have the motivation you’d like to feel. Then brainstorm
about an experiment you could do that would break you
out of the holding pattern. Proceed on the assumption
that the universe will become friendlier and more helpful
if you try an approach you’ve never used before.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What I hope you’ll
achieve in the coming days is a state of mind like that
described by Dan Linton, one of my readers. This is his
report. “Last night I went to Wal-Mart with a friend who
was returning some tools. I walked around the store while
he was at the service desk. In the shampoo aisle an
unusual man who looked like an Aborigine made extended
eye contact with me. As he walked past he announced in
a happy tone, ‘Your mind is empty.’ I was super excited
and found my friend to tell him. ‘Isn’t that an insult?’ he
asked. ‘No,’ I said. ‘The guy meant that my mind is clear,
which is true. This is the first time in two years I’ve felt
that my mind is free of shrunken expectations, limiting
concepts, and emotional distortions.’”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Normally you’re inclined
to massage problems until they relax, not bash problems
until they break. Your preference is to paint fuzzy, impressionistic pictures rather than creating crisp snapshots.
Nevertheless, the astrological omens indicate that in the
next two weeks, you should take an approach recommended by Winston Churchill: “If you have an important point
to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then
hit it a third time—a tremendous whack.”
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hesitate to be so blunt,
but the fact of the matter is that right now God in on
your side. This is true even if you’re an atheist. Simply
put, the Divine Wow is listening to you more closely than
She is to everyone else; She is more prone to slipping
you little gifts than all of Her other children; She is plotting to reveal more useful inside information to you than
She has in a long time. Here’s a tip to ensure you’ll get
the maximum benefit out of your goodies: Use at least
some of your fantastic luck to help people in need.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “On an average
weekday,” wrote Saul Bellow, “the New York Times
contains more information than any contemporary of
Shakespeare’s would have acquired in a lifetime.” But
religious writer F. Forrester Church adds a caveat to
that imposing thought. In his book Lifecraft: The Art
of Meaning in the Everyday, he writes, “The Times is
a fine paper. But for all its information, it only hints,
and then only occasionally, at what Shakespeare knew
so well: that the beauty of the bird, the symbol of the
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Where would the gardener be if there were no weeds?” asked ancient Chinese
sage Chuang Tzu. To that I add: Where would lawyers be
without crimes? How would psychotherapists fare without
neurotics? What would critics do without the stuff they
love to diss? Now let’s apply this line of thinking to you,
Libra. What thing that you dislike also happens to be
something you need? What condition that you’re opposed
to is essential in constructing your identity? This is a
good time to acknowledge the value of everything you
oppose, disagree with, and fight against.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Marie Poland Fish
was an oceanographer who invented a new form of
underwater sound detection for the navy. To perfect
the technology, she spent years studying the sounds
made by 300 different species that live in the sea. Her
innovations allowed attack vessels to tell the difference
between enemy submarines and schools of fish, thereby
avoiding assaults on the fish. She’s your role model
for the coming week, Scorpio. May she inspire you to
develop more foolproof methods for distinguishing
between actual threats and the harmless influences that
may superficially resemble them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here’s the first
thing you need to know about the current state of your
destiny: “Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it
were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” That message
comes to you from poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Here’s the
second piece of wisdom you should take with you everywhere you go. It’s from Vladimir Nabokov: “For aren’t you
and I gods? Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Release
life’s rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying.
Everything is screaming. Laughter. Running.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Want to know a
secret? I “predict” the present, not the future. In other
words, I discern unconscious patterns and invisible influences that are affecting you now. I also try to inspire
you to read your own mind so as to uncover feelings
that you’ve been hiding from yourself. So I can’t necessarily tell you what specific events will transpire in the
coming days. But I do suspect the following things are
true, although you may not be aware of them yet: You
are in the midst of redefining what home means to you.
You’ve been neglecting a deep need that’s a bit embarrassing to you. And there’s a place in your foundation
that’s in disrepair and requires your attention.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Opening for travel
in 1926, Route 666 ran from Arizona through three
other states. It became a problem for fundamentalist
Christians, who got obsessed with the idea that 666 is
an evil number associated with the devil. As their toxic
delusions increasingly poisoned America’s collective
imagination, there was a growing outcry to rename the
road. Finally, highway authorities gave in to the pressure and officially banished 666, turning it into Route
191 in Arizona and Route 491 elsewhere. This is an
idiotically superstitious example of an otherwise sound
principle that actually has merit: Altering the name of a
person or thing can change the way it’s perceived, and
possibly even transform its essential nature. I bring this
up, Aquarius, because now is an excellent time for you
to use this principle to your advantage. What or whom
would benefit from a renaming?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please don’t get sidetracked by the pursuit of minor dreams that would give
you trivial satisfaction. And please talk yourself out of
going after ephemeral rewards that would at best provide you with a false sense of accomplishment. Here’s
why this advice is even more important than usual: You
have an intense but limited amount of driving ambition
available to you at the moment, so you’ve got to make
sure you use it on a project or projects that will still be
meaningful to you a year from now.
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25 In a steely way
26 Range ___
28 Baby eel
30 Tryst site, sometimes
31 ___ Park, Colo.
32 “Swell!”
LETTERS AND NUMBERS
34 “___ Man Answers”
(Bobby Darin movie)
68 High times?
Across
36 1960s college protest
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Favorite
1 Gyllenhaal of “Zodiac”
group re-formed in
70 “Get ___!”
5 ___ dispenser
2006
8 Cliff’s wife, on “The Cosby
39 The only “Celebrity
Down
Show”
Apprentice” participant
1 “Hallelujah” singer
13 Singer Fitzgerald
to appear on a previous
Buckley
14 Org. on toothpaste
“Apprentice” season
2 Wet wipes additive
boxes
40 Houston, Tex. campus
3 Heidi of “Project
15 “Press Your Luck” bad
41 Verve
Runway”
guy
46 Toward the back, on
4 Musical ability
16 Bag in a Roman hospital
a ship
5 Part of PTA
room?
48 George’s friend
6 Magazine staffer
18 Pilot
49 Fourteen-line poem
7 ___ Dingbats (picto19 Having XX chromosomes:
graphic computer font) 52 “I just remembered...”
abbr.
54 Tribute
8 Rivera of “Chicago”
20 Roman martial arts star?
55 Saudi Arabia neighbor
9 Voice box
22 “There ___ I in T-E-A-M”
56 It’s a bad thing
10 Bullets
23 Randy’s son, on “South
57 Prefix meaning “inside”
11 David Bowie’s wife
Park”
12 Baseball Hall-of-Famer 58 Cut
24 Charlie Parker, to fans
59 Hibiscus holder
Sandberg
27 Lock of hair
60 Neon sign word
15 Arrives, as a scent
29 “Uncanny” superhero
61 Compass point
17 Provides music for a
group
64 Margarine container
wedding reception,
33 Bad bacteria
perhaps
35 Maria’s husband, on
©2008 Jonesin’ Crosswords
21 Problem
“Sesame Street”
(editor@jonesincrosswords.
22 Running in neutral
37 Sugary suffix
com)
24 Prove proper
38 2006 Roman movie
based on a comic book?
42 Suffix for percent
43 French girlfriend
44 Winter weather condition
45 Banks on the runway
47 Farm measures
50 “On top of that...”
51 Aching
53 Nutjob
55 With 63-across, Roman
song collection?
59 It may be solemn
62 Currencies
63 See 55-across
65 McArdle who played
Annie on Broadway
66 Ending for plastic
67 Multipurpose product’s
benefits
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When in Rome
Last Week’s Puzzle
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Tai Chi is excellent for developing balance, strength,
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Progressive
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compassionate and inclusive
community that proclaims the
unconditional love and compassion of God and embraces
every human person regardless of their state or condition
in life. The American Catholic
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who feel alienated by prior
church experiences. We reject artificial barriers to the
reception of the Sacraments
based on marital status, sexuality or orientation. Mass is
on Sundays at 10AM at the
Community of St. Francis Pastoral Center, 1334 E. Axton
Rd., Bellingham. Contemplative prayer proceeds Mass
at 930AM. ALL ARE WELCOME! Phone: 360-734-2814.
Email:[email protected]
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CranioSacral
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Advanced Licensed Massage Therapist now taking
new clients for cranial treatments, gentle work to shift
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release blocked energy, build
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relaxation and wellbeing.
Sliding scale. For appointment call Nancy 676-6823,
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offers a variety of imaging
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large format printing, artwork
replication and image editing/post. Our goal is to be
your one stop photo business.
We are able to perform virtually any imaging tasks you
may have — from scanning of
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Empire Imaging Northwest,
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360.734.1803
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Got a Mac and don’t know
how to use it as well as you’d
like to? Affordable, professional training available at
360-303-6877.
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you like to create a video
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There is no project too big or
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Wood stove, 3 bdrm, 2 bath,
dining rm & 2 Bay windows in
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garbage paid. Prefer No Pets
$1200/mo. Available May 1st
360-303-8381
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toy trains but will tackle just
about any type of collection.
Email: [email protected]
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looks a bit rough. 25,000mi
on rebuilt engine. 4WD, removable hardtop, automatic
transmission. Could use a new
flywheel as the one it has is
missing a couple of teeth, but
not a necessity. Email or call
at 734-3572.
1995 Isuzu Trooper Limited, 4x4, leather, AC, moonroof, 3.2 liter V6, 119,000
miles. This car drives great.
Kelly Blue Book $5,800, will
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$1900 / 4br - Lake Whatcom View, Silver Beach
Neighborhood 4 Bedroom,
3 bath, large 2.5 car garage.
2500 sq foot custom home 1
block from Lake whatcom in
desireable Silver Beach neighborhood. Hardwood floors on
bottom floor. Huge main deck
overlooking the lake (16x24),
private deck off huge master
suite including gas fireplace,
giant master bath (700 sq
feet) overlooking lake. 2
shower heads in master bath
+ large two person jetted tub
with heated back rests. Gas
heat/stove/oven. W/D hook-
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How to Sudoku: Arrange the digits 1-9 in such a
way that each digit occurs only once in each row, only
once in each column, and only once in each box. Try it!
ups gas/electric. First/Last/
Deposit. Available May 15.
Call Jeff 360-510-3287
like to see the place or if you
need anymore information.
253-722-8493
$635 2 Bed 1.5 Bath
w/s/g/cable
included
pets ok! We are looking
for someone to take over our
apartment for the months of
July and August. You can renew as you like after that. The
lease goes for 1 year. We have
a 2 bedroom 1.5 bathroom unit
available at the beginning of
July. It is approximately 990
sq. ft. with washer/dryer
on site. Rent will be 635.00/
month which includes w/s/g/
AND BASIC CABLE! Comcast
on Demand is available for
only 1.00 a month since basic
cable is taken care of by the
managers. Small pets (cats
and dogs under 15 lbs) are
welcome with an additional
250.00 pet deposit. You get
one covered parking spot per
unit. You get a ground floor
patio. No first/last month’s
rent needed up front. Call Victoria at 360-920-5677.
$675 / 2br - 2 BR / 1.5
BathTownhouse
Apt
available April 15 900
sq ft Two level Townhouse
Apartment,No one over or
under your residence.2 Bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, Large
Walk Through closet, Washer
and Dryer,dishwasher, private patio on greenbelt in
central Bellingham. No Pets
or Smoking. Water,sewer
and garbage/recycling paid.
Damage Deposit of $675 and
1 year lease. $33 application
fee. Quiet and intimate...only
13 units. Drive by and check
it out. Parker Place Apts. 2400
Racine between St Paul and
Racine south of Alabama one
block. Call 360 201 9710
$300 / 4br - Need a place
to live for summer that is
close to Western? I am looking for someone to finish up
my lease from late June to August 31st. The rent is $300 per
month and utilities would vary
depending on what you want.
The house contains: 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, washer
and dryer, dish washer, two
car garage, and a backyard.
Within walking distance to
Western. I know for sure that
my room is available for summer but there might also be
up to 2 more rooms available
as well for summer. Please
feel free to call if you would
$725 / 1br - 1 bd near
WCC, Newer apartment,
no deposit Nice 1 bd rm apt
for lease take overNewly built
apartment building. Moving out of state for job, need
to rent out. Great building,
quite, Cordata area next to
golf course. Washer, Dryer,
large bathroom, Nice balcony,
Dishwasher, Lots of closet
space, Tuscan colors, large
kitchen, full size refrigerator
and stove, garbage disposal,
lots of natural light. Take over
lease, ready to move in now,
with option of renewing lease
from Apex Property Management
(http://www.apexproperty.com/).
Damage
deposit already paid. W/S/G
paid, no pets, no smoking. Call
360-224-6330
$735 / 2br - Great 2 Br
in Quiet 4-Plex This impeccable 2 bedroom unit is
located on Southbend Place,
a quiet cul-de-sac off Sunset
Drive, just West of Woburn.
Conveniently close to Barkley Village, shopping and I-5.
The interior of this main level
unit features all natural wood
doors and trim with Oak cabinetry in kitchen and bath plus
Washer/Dryer. Sliding doors
off Living Room to patio and
private fenced landscaped
rear yard. On site parking.
Monthly Rent $735 - Security
Deposit $750 – One Year Lease
– No Pets – No Smoking. Available May 1st. (360) 201-3111.
$600 / 2br - great apartment for sublet 2bed room,
one bath, kitchen, fridge,
washer,dryer, great location,
covered designated parking
spot. 5 months left on lease.
call Dawson, 253-651-3330
$1150 / 2br - SPACIOUS
NEW CONDOS! Be the first
to live in these brand new
condos! Spacious 2 bedroom,
2 bath condos near Whatcom
Community College and all
Meridian has to offer. Nine
foot ceilings, 1410 sq ft, tons
of closet/storage space and
great appliances include
washer/dryer, microwave and
dishwasher. Each bathroom
has two vanities, dressing
room and soaking tub. On site
gym, storage and community
areas for your convenience!
Units are energy efficient
and have cable/communication outlets in each room. Assigned parking. Available Now.
$1,150 to 1,600/mo depending
on length of lease (The longer
your lease, the cheaper your
$750 looking to rent
rooms in double wide all
utils. included rooms for
rent $750 covers room and all
util. must be ok with kid cause
i got 1 + a dog. No drugs!!!!!!!
No alcohol around my kid.....
Have cable and high speed
internet. If interested call Kyle
at 360-920-1315
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BLAINE
$1095 4 Bedroom Blaine
Duplex Spacious unit in
Blane two blocks from waterfront park. Clsoe to schools.
Large kitchen with solid oak
cabinets. Forth bedroom
could be a mother-in-law
unit or game room(seperate
entrance from deck and attached to upstairs hall. Gas
fired hot water heat in floors
are efficient and comefortable. Newer ulnit with garage
attached, large utility room.
Lots of parking on private
road with no through traffic.
NS/NP 360-398-9157.
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$720 / 2br - 2 Br Large 2
Bedroom,D/W and Garbage
Disposal,W/S/G Pd, On site
Laundry and Managers available now.1st and Deposit.
360.856.6652, cedarsapts@
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COMMERCIAL
$1950 / 1900ft² - 1329
King Street Nice, freestanding stucco building
in Discovery Park area,
off Lakeway Dr. Four very
large offices plus reception
area. Rent $1950-mo./NNN.
(360)303-1100
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Carbon-neutral travel
I’M SITTING at home—on vacation. No, this isn’t normal. My love of
hiking typically draws me to the Southwest this time of year: Canyonlands,
Bryce, Zion, the Grand Canyon. Right
now I wish I were at Zabriskie Point in
Death Valley National Park.
Knowing the impending perils of
climate change, this time I chose
not to fly away. Instead I decided to
spend a portion of my vacation studying whether or not I could effectively
offset the carbon impact of a future
trip.
An obvious question quickly arises:
does purchasing a carbon offset truly neutralize the negative effects of
one’s carbon loading, or is this some
feel-good buy-down of one’s guilt?
The science seems to indicate that if
you accurately calculate the negative
effect of the activity (usually measured in tons of carbon dioxide) and if
you then purchase a high-quality offset, then you really are offsetting the
climate impact of your action.
My research took me to nativeenergy.com, a highly respected website
for calculating one’s carbon footprint
and purchasing the offsets.
The Native Energy calculator spit
out a combined carbon dioxide emission of 1.6 tons. This includes the car
trips (Bellingham to Seattle, round
trip; Las Vegas to the national parks,
round trip) and the two round trips by
air (from SeaTac to Las Vegas International Airport).
Native Energy then calculates I
should spend $24 on the requisite offsets, with the option of making $2/
month payments to achieve this carbon neutrality. I also get to choose
whether my offset purchase will go
toward 100 percent wind power, 100
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percent methane generation, or a
50/50 split between these two alternative energy options.
Pretty simple thus far. I could
close the deal right there on the Native Energy site and be done with it.
But here’s the rub: some consider the
calculator to be conservative, thereby underestimating the true carbon
loading. If you’re interested in understanding this complexity, listen to
my KMRE-FM webcast entitled “Carbon
Offsetting Using Renewable Energy
Certificates.” WWU Professor Dan Hagen does an excellent job arguing his
case to multiply the 1.6 ton impact by
5 (which yields an offset of 8 tons and
an offset purchase of $120).
Am I willing to pay somewhere between $24 and $120 to make this journey “work” for me and for the planet?
And which number am I willing to
choose: $24 or $120?
Given my compelling drive to save
the planet, I’ll choose $120. Yes, perhaps I will offset too much but, hey,
I’ll make up for the hordes of people
who travel and do no offsetting.
Furthermore, since so many people
travel by plane using frequent-flyer
miles, as we usually do, the plane
flights cost virtually nothing. So it’s
not a big stretch to accept this offsetting cost of $120 for the two of us to
travel by plane.
Perhaps this time next year we’ll
head back to Death Valley National
Park. We’ll hike with a lighter load,
knowing we’ve eliminated the burden
of hurting the planet.
Rick Dubrow owns A-1 Builders and Adaptations, their design division www.a1builders.ws. Tune in to his
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$995 / 2br - One MonthFree! - North Bellingham
Lake View! 1300 sqft+ upper unit in 4-Plex. 2 Bedroom,
1.5 baths.Granite and Maple
Kitchen with 7 appliances.
Private deck. Lots of storage.
Covered carport with extra
locked storage. Property is
unique and very private. It is
1 and 1/3 acre of woods and
Japanese Gardens. W/S/G
paid. Will consider cats with
extra deposit. Please no dogs.
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My wife of a year is from a very conservative culture (a Muslim country). She said
she’d only dated three guys, and only kissed
and held hands. I told her it’s nice she was
a virgin, but honesty was more important.
She kept saying I was the first man to touch
her, sleep naked with her, awaken her sensuality, and on and on. Later, she let it slip
that she’d slept naked with her exes, but
said she’d never lie to me again. Eventually,
she let it slip that she’d pretty much done
everything but intercourse with two of these
guys, but it was a detail she’d forgotten.
She doesn’t understand how it hurts the
male ego to repeatedly say, “You’re the only
guy I’ve been with,” then, “Sorry, I forgot,
you’re the third.” Had this happened with a
guy in her culture, it would have resulted in
immediate divorce, and maybe something
much worse. So, do I divorce her, or let this
go?
—Betrayed
In our country, if people find out you’ve
had premarital sex, they might hoot and
slap you on the back once or twice. In
Muslim countries, they bring in a guy with
a bamboo cane to do it 100 times.
In Saudi Arabia, it’s not just premarital sex that’ll get you in trouble, but premarital seating. Religious police there
actually arrested an American businesswoman for sitting with a male colleague
in Starbucks after her office lost power
and she needed WiFi. The Times of London reported the woman was interrogated, strip-searched and jailed for violating laws against public contact between
unrelated men and women. The judge
reportedly told her, “You are sinful and
you are going to burn in hell.” You have
to wonder, if she gets hell for sitting
near a man in Starbucks, what happens
to the giddy 15-year-olds I saw groping
each other in the big chair?
Ask a Western woman if she’s “dated” a
lot, and she isn’t likely to confess, “Why,
I’m the Whore of Babylon!” Yet, you married a woman from a culture where slut
can equal death, and you thought all you
had to do to get her to spill everything
was tell her honesty works best for you?
As for telling you that you were blazing
uncharted territory, and were quite the
lover to boot, even Western women with
sterling integrity have been known to
exclaim, “Wow, that thing’s enormous!”
Meanwhile, they’re thinking, “...compared to the stub of a No. 2 pencil.”
Poor Booboo, you weren’t her first. Or
her second. And there is that possibility
you weren’t even her third. Get over it.
All this moping is distracting you from
the essential question: Did she lie about
her sexploits out of some ingrained policy for self-preservation, or are you likely
to wake up alone one morning and find
that your bank account’s cleaned out,
your car is gone and she’s even taken the
dog? The fact that her character is kind
of a mystery to you suggests you pledged
to spend the rest of your life with a near
stranger. Smooth move, dude! At least
get to know the woman before you divorce her: Is she ethical? Even when nobody’s looking? Does it mean something
to her to do the right thing? Does she act
in your best interest or does she just act
interested out of self-interest? I know,
boring questions, but they’ll ultimately
be more instructive than interrogating
her about whether she let Achmed get to
third base in the summer of 2003.
NIP IT IN THE BUDDY
This great guy at work seems on the
verge of asking me out. I’d like to be
friends with him, and even invite him to
my dinner party. He’d actually get along
great with my boyfriend. So, how do you
tell a guy you have a boyfriend without
seeming presumptuous or rude?
—Worried Girl
A guy you aren’t interested in shouldn’t
get to the point where he’s on the verge
of asking you out. This guy’s probably
spent months flirting and plotting, and
you’re probably getting more and more
uncomfortable—which means you’re
more likely to respond to “You going to
the staff meeting?” by blurting out “I
have a boyfriend!” That’s when you’re
likely to hear back, “Yeah? And I’ve got a
spastic colon.” This really isn’t difficult.
Just casually tuck the boyfriend into
conversation, like, “My boyfriend and I
went...” or “So does my boyfriend.” And
do it right from the start, whenever you
aren’t interested or available. Unless, of
course, the guy mentions that his last
two “girlfriends” were named Kenneth
and Stephen, both of whom he met at
a cute little joint called something like
Chaps, Ramrod, or the Manhole.
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2008 Sue C. Boynton
Poetry Contest Call to all
Whatcom County Poets of any
age and experience. Please
submit one unpublished poem
of no more than 25 lines and
55 characters (letters & spaces) per line, on any topic. Mail
or deliver entries to Poetry
Contest C/O Allied Arts, 1418
Cornwall Ave, Bellingham,
Arts Education International Victimized children
recovering from recent wars
in Sierra Leone need creative
outlets of expression. Please
support young artists by donating any new or used art
supplies like crayons, markers, paper, and paint. There
is a drop off box at World
Cup Coffeehouse/Moka Joe
Roastery 2118 James St. Bellingham. March through April
2nd. For more information
please call 360 966 9604.
Join us to welcome
Matthei Place,
KulshanCLT’s charming,
affordable, ‘green’
infill development in
Happy Valley. Tours will
show how homes can
be environmentally,
sustainably AND
affordably built. A few
2-bedroom Matthei
Place homes are still
available for under
$150,000.
For more information
visit
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Solar Energy for the
Homeowner Presentation
on solar energy types, uses
and payback for homeowners. Weds. April 9th at 7 PM.
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pm Journaling with Heart
will show you how to express
your heart, spirit and senses
on paper. Learn enjoyable
ways to bring more creative
excitement,
self-discovery
and sensory aliveness to
your journaling experience.
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, from 7-9
pm. in Bellingham near WWU.
$20. Presented by lifelong
journaler, Jenny Davidow
M.A., author of “Embracing
Your Subconscious - Bringing
All Parts of You into Creative
Partnership.” For more information and registration,
please call (360) 676-1009 or
visit http://members.cruzio.
com/~twave
Figure Drawing Class
For All Art Mediums. Subject:
Long Pose, Evening Gown
Friday & Saturday 9AM-noon
Sunday 2PM-6PM. FEE FOR
ALL 3 SESSIONS = $125 PER
PERSON. PLUS LIVE MODEL
FEE: $50 PER PERSON. Space
is limited 10 person max, all
skill levels, must be 18. www.
laconnerseasidegallery.com
Call Alek Kargopoltsev- (360)
466-5141
Beginner Quilting Classes Learn the basics of quilting, including rotary cutting,
using templates, basic piecing, paper piecing, applique,
seminole patchwork, log cabin,
strip piecing, circular piecing
while completing a 40”x40”
wall quilt. 6-2hr classes for
$60. Classes starting March 1
[email protected]
Dynamic Dance Classes
New dance classes offered in
Bellingham: Hip Hop, All skill
levels and abilities welcome.
Join us every Tuesday 4-5pm
@ BAAY- Bellingham Arts
Academy for Youth (located
at 1059 N. State St.). Beginning Modern Dance: every
Tuesday 6-7 @ the Chinese
Martial Arts Academy. Contact Improvisation Classes:
suitable for teens and adults
16 and over. Every Tuesday
7-8pm @ Chinese Martial Arts
Academy (located at 1705 N.
State St., near Hot Shots and
Bellingham Fitness). All classes are $10 drop-in or $35 for
the month More info at DancePlant.org. Instructor: Nicole
Byrne, [email protected]
Marimba Classes Learn
to play the joyous music of
Zimbabwe on wooden-key
xylophones. Adults and kids
welcome, ages 7 and up. Info:
360-671-0361; nancysteele@
comcast.net
Knitting Lessons by Jen
Interested in learning to knit
but don’t know where to start?
Wish you could learn at home
where you’re comfortable and
you can find the time? Then
I’m your girl! My name is Jen
and I’ll do everything for you
that I wish someone had done
for me when I started knitting.
Let’s make a scarf, dishcloth
or hat for your first project!
Call Jen at 303-7300
Music Theory and Lefthanded Guitar Instruction Take your songwriting to
the next level. I also specialize
in left handed guitar instruction. Email Adam at bluebiz@
mac.com for more info.
CHILDREN’S
DANCE
CLASSES Creative Dance
and Beginning Ballet for children. Ferndale - 6 miles North
of downtown Bellingham.
Ballet Arts Northwest, (360)
333-0293
Indian Summer: A Menopause Council for women
beyond,in,
approaching
or just plain curious about
Menopause. A unique opportunity to learn, mentor and be
validated as you share your
story. Listening to the diverse
experiences of other women
provides an overview of the
phenomenon and available
symptom remedies, as well
as the humor, frustrations
and opportunity to grow into
your potential that accompany this significant rite of
passage. May 10, 2008 10am
to 4pm in Fairhaven. $30.
More info: www.manyhats.
info, [email protected]
or 360-715-1259.
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Harris Avenue at
15th Street
Everyone is invited
to this Free event
Play Bluegrass Banjo,
Mandolin, Guitar louder,
faster, better! Bluegrass,
Old Country, Old Timey. All
Levels. Banjo: Learn Scruggsstyle on your 5-string banjo
using finger & thumb picks.
Mandolin: Learn how Bill
Monroue & other greats flat
pick leads or chop chords.
Guitar: Learn how to flat pick
or strum & sing at the same
time in any key. Music theory
is optional- learn to play by
ear. 20+ years teaching experience. Contact Jordan Francisco (360)296-5007 at Coda
Music 1200 Harris Ave #104
in Fairhaven.
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10 am – 1 pm
Classes in Clay Classes
Registering now for March
- April. Pottery, throwing,
handbuilding, tile making
workshop, airbrush workshop, more. All levels of
instruction, beginners welcome, days, evenings Saturdays. Teri 360 856-5298
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Saturday,
April 12th
DREAM GROUP IN BELLINGHAM Understand the
helpful message in every
dream. End nightmares, increase well-being and creativity. Learn how to apply
insights to your waking life.
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, from
7-9 pm. $20. Presented by
Jenny Davidow, M.A., author
of “Embracing Your Subconscious - Bringing All Parts
of You into Creative Partnership.”
For information
and registration, please call
Jenny at(360) 676-1009 or
visit: http://members.cruzio.
com/~twave
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Real people looking for
real answers: Are you a
Jr High or High School Student looking for a real place
to hang out? Do you live in
real areas such as Kendall,
Deming, Maple Falls, Sudden Valley, Glen Haven, etc.
I want to invite you to come
check out Area32, a real place
where you’re among friends:
people just like you. Real
people looking for change and
learning how to make it happen. Come as you are. That’s
just how God wants you and
that’s just how we want you.
Area 32: Transforming real
students into real followers of Jesus Christ. - Jr. High
- every Tuesday night from
7-8:30pm and - High School every Wednesday night from
7-8:30pm. You can contact
MikeJ. at (360)318-9446 or
[email protected]. Check out
our website at areathirtytwo.
com. Also looking for Adults
to be involved and set up possible carpools from Sudden
Valley and Glen Haven. Hope
to hear from you soon!
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- 2 female
needed in a
house We are
living in a five
$325 Master Bedroom
Available The master bedroom is available to rent starting May 1st. The apartment to
be shared with a 23 year old
male student at WWU, is a 2
bedroom, 1 bathroom. Utilites
(electric, internet) are about
$45 a month. The apartment
has a dishwasher and laundry
faciliites are in the complex.
The lease is month-to-month.
I have included pictures of
the living room, hallway, and
dining room. I live less than
2 miles away from WWU and
very close to Fred Meyer, Cost
Cutter, and the bus lines. Sorry
but no cats or dogs are allowed
because two cats already live
in the apartment. If this sounds
possible, please e-mail me at
$350 3 Minutes from
Barkely Village on Top
of Alabama Hill! Looking for quiet, clean person to
share... male or female. We
are cool young people who
enjoy socializing elsewhere
and having a quite place to
live. Large backyard for BBQ’s
or games. Great neighborhood to live in! $200 deposit.
Smoking allowed outside. No
pets, no parties, no mess.
Available Now, move in today!
Call 360.303.6994 or email [email protected]
WA 98225, by 5 PM on April
25. Send two copies, one with
name, phone number, email
address and postal address
in the upper right hand corner
and one without any identifying marks. Guidelines available at www.alliedarts.org
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$370 / 2br
roommates
5 bedroom
3 college girls
$385 Big bright room
available in york district
Bedroom available in a spacious well lit house on Iron St.
10 minute walk to downtown
and 5 minute walk to bus line.
I live with 2 great roommates
who enjoy good food and good
conversation. I don’t want
to leave but need someone
to take over my room ASAP.
There is one dog and a full fish
tank at the house as well as
compost and a bicycle shed.
There is a carport to park your
$360 Room for rent at
Mapleglen condominiums I am looking for a quiet
and clean Christian male to
share two bedroom top floor
condo. No smoking or pets.
Everything is included except
internet and T.V. Located just
a 1/2 mile from Albertsons.
Cell# 927-2173 Ben
[email protected].
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$450 1 room in a 3 bed
1 bath house Looking for
a laid back responsible clean
roommate. (references would
be nice)Room will be available starting July 1st. Rent
includes all utilities. Room is
furnished and includes internet access and TV (included
in the rent). We have two dogs
a beagle and a Pekingese, so
dogs are ok upon approval. If
you are interested contact Bill
or Mindi at (360) 778-1679
car and a nice porch out front.
Give me a call at 509-741-0440
if you are interested.
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ROOMMATES
WANTED
bedroom house, so we have 2
open rooms and are looking
for 2 college girls. It is a brand
new house with 2.5 baths a big
open living room and kitchen
and a two car garage that we
do not put cars in right now.
The house is located a little
less then a mile from campus
but only two blocks from a bus
stop that takes you straight
to campus. The rent is 370 a
month which inculdes water
sewer garbage and lawn care.
We are looking for 2 easy going girls who want to live in a
fun but repectful clean house.
Please email me about yourself and maybe we can meet
and talk. My email is track_
[email protected]
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credit and references looking
for a summer rental (JuneishAugust) while we house hunt
in the Bellingham area. We do
have a small, clean, extremely
well-behaved dog (who has
her own references). A cozy
cottage/cabin in the Bellingham perimeter with some sort
of yard would be ideal. Mountain biking trails close by a
bonus! Please email [email protected].
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RE V IE W S
PROF IL E S
BY TRAIL RAT
The Other White Meat
A SAVORY TALE OF PIGS, PORK AND INTRIGUE
“DO NOT GIVE WHAT IS HOLY TO DOGS, AND DO NOT THROW YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, LEST THEY
—JESUS CHRIST
TRAMPLE THEM UNDER THEIR FEET, AND TURN AND TEAR YOU TO PIECES.”
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IT WAS right around this time of year about 150 years ago when a trigger-happy miner-turned-homesteader from Tennessee named Lyman Cutlar
took up residence on the then hotly contested territory of San Juan Island
and set about gardening his way to destiny.
Little did he know, but the flimsy, shoddily constructed fence he halferected around his planting beds would soon help precipitate one of the
most infamous and seemingly unlikely international conflicts our Republic
has ever seen fit to embroil itself in when—on the fateful morning of June
15, 1859—he awoke to find an enormous hairy black boar rootin’ hog-wild
through his tater patch.
P-I-G. Any way you spell it, herd it, hunt it, slice it or keep one as a pet,
it’s a tiny little word that packs a powerful and, oftentimes, morally divisive
punch. But it’s also pretty dang tasty sometimes.
Pork chops and apple sauce. Pork ‘n’
beans. Bacon and eggs. Christmas ham.
Easter ham. Deviled ham. SPAM. Pork rinds.
Chitlins. Bacon-bits. Like it or not, pigs and
pig meat are probably even more American
than baseball and apple pie.
It’s not that I’m proud of it. It’s just
that, well... I like it. I’m not a cruel person, but I did grow up in the Midwest.
And, back there, eating pork is WHAT
YOU DO. It’s like salmon out here (except
there’s way more of it). Pretty much from
the time I could chew, I was scarfin’ on
swine. It is tradition. It is economy. My
relatives raised and butchered them, so
we bought and ate them.
It wasn’t until I entered college that progressive, health-conscious forces shocked
me into reconsidering my long-standing
carnivorous relationship with the other
white meat. So, for the better part of my
Roaring 20s, I took one for Team Herbivore
and generally laid off the ungulates.
But then my Dirty 30s rolled around and,
for reasons that have still yet to be adequately explained to me, I suddenly found
myself yearning for those succulent hams,
tender pork chops and innocent (mouthwatering!) bacon rashers of my childhood.
And so, after many years of struggle, I
opened up the sty gate and let the swine
come bounding back into my life. Fortunately, by this point, my palate has matured
enough so that SPAM no longer holds me
in its dense, dangerously salted, visceracompressed clutches.
Lo, I have sought out new forms, fresh flavors and a wide, ever-expanding repertoire
of domestic and international recipes.
The Pacific Northwest (and especially
the west slope) is hardly a bastion of pork.
Farmers here don’t generally produce it, and
people here don’t generally eat it to any
great degree. But that doesn’t mean you
can’t find it. Between the nori and sashimi
and the organic ranch dressing, there’s pork
aplenty to be found in quantity and quality.
Like much of the ethnically diverse cuisine in the Far Corner, the most delicious
and savory pork dishes are imported from
exotic, far-flung places.
We have chorizo, cochinita and chile verde
from Latin America. We have pork barbecue
(Memphis-style tomato-based and Carolinastyle mustard-based). We have hog maws
(cheeks) and chitlins (intestines). We have
gumbo and jambalaya from the Big Easy.
We have soy-banana-flavored pork from
Hawaii, stir-fried pork in plum sauce from
China, and caramelized pork over lettuce
from Viet Nam.
Although there aren’t many, even a lefty,
vegan-of-a-town like Bellingham contains
a handful of excellent pork-friendly eateries such as Pepper Sisters (1055 N. State
St.), Speak E-Z’s (2400 Guide Meridian), and
Espinoza Mexican Restaurant (Sehome Village).
And pork-o-rama isn’t just confined to
the dinner table. What otherwise decent,
politically correct Northwesterner, for instance, hasn’t found the occasion to incorporate “piggy bank,” “pork barrel,” “go
the whole hog” or even “like a hog on ice”
into conversation at least a time or two in
their lives?
Bring on the honey glaze. Bring on the
horseradish. Bring on the bean paste.
Menudo, anyone?
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