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WHATCOM
Montana
MISCHIEF
Senator says coal
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BANNICK'S
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Woodpecker, P.14
Skagit
SIGHTS
Anacortes Arts
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A glance at this
week’s happenings
Sin & Gin Tour: 7pm, historic Fairhaven
VISUAL ARTS
Anacortes Arts Festival: 10am-8pm, throughout
Anacortes
Art Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham
SATURDAY [08.08.15]
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Grammy Awardwinning singer and
songwriter Michael
McDonald makes a
stop in Bellingham to
share his talents Tues.
Aug. 11 at the Mount
Baker Theatre
The Jungle Book: 3pm and 7pm, Mount Baker
Theatre
The Noble Kinsmen: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, Mount Vernon
Office Hours: 7:30pm, iDiOM Theater
Commedia on the Lawn: 7:30pm, Old Main lawn, WWU
Jake’s Women: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
Three Times a Bridesmaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Comedy Competition: 8pm, the Underground
The Hybrid Show: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Belly Dance Show: 8:30pm, Honey Moon
MUSIC
Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine
Marrowstone Chamber Concert: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
FILM
Dirty Dancing: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green
COMMUNITY
Custer Days: 10am-1am, throughout Custer
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Miles for Memories: 9am, Fairhaven Village Green
Whatcom Dream 5K: 9am, Roosevelt Park
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Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Waterfront Plaza
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts
Center
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Brewfest on the Skagit: 4-9pm, Riverwalk Park,
Mount Vernon
ONSTAGE
Jake’s Women: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
FOOD
Wednesday Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven
Village Green
Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3-7pm, Hammer
Heritage Park
VISUAL ARTS
Anacortes
THURSDAY [08.06.15]
SUNDAY [08.09.15]
ONSTAGE
The Noble Kinsmen: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, Mount Vernon
Other Desert Cities: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
Three Times a Bridesmaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
ONSTAGE
Sample from among dozens of craft beers, peruse food truck
offerings and listen to live music as part of the Lincoln Theatre’s
13th annual “Brewfest on the Skagit” Sat., Aug. 8 at Mount
Vernon’s Riverwalk Park
MUSIC
MUSIC
VISUAL ARTS
Gin Creek: 5-9pm, Hotel Bellwether
Nuages: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park
Stilly River Band: 6-8pm, Riverwalk Park, Mount
Vernon
Marrowstone Faculty: 7:30pm, Performing Arts
Center, WWU
Art Walk: 5-8pm, downtown Mount Vernon
First Thursday Reception: 6-8pm, Jansen Art
Center, Lynden
History Cruise: 6pm, Squalicum Harbor
FOOD
Lynden Farmers Market: 12-5pm, Front Street
The Last Romance: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
Three Times a Bridesmaid: 7:30pm, Anacortes
Community Theatre
The Hybrid Show: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC
FRIDAY [08.07.15]
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Commedia on the Lawn: 2pm, Old Main lawn, WWU
Three Times a Bridesmaid: 2pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Other Desert Cities: 3pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
Romeo & Juliet: 4pm, Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, Mount Vernon
Romeo & Juliet: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, Mount Vernon
Commedia on the Lawn: 7:30pm, Old Main lawn,
WWU
Swil Kanim: 11:30am-1:30pm, Maritime Heritage
Park
Farm Tunes: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres
Haynie Opry: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine
International Concert Series: 2pm, Peace Arch
Park,
Pop Wagner: 7pm, YWCA Ballroom
VISUAL ARTS
Anacortes
TUESDAY: [08.11.15]
MUSIC
COMMUNITY
Michael McDonald: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Burlington Summer Nights: 5-9pm, Burlington
Visitors Center
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It’s a big week for breakups. In addition to the news that
musicians Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani have split
after 13 years of marriage, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy
also announced their separation via Facebook posts: “Our
personal lives are now distinct and separate, and we will
be seeing other people, frogs, et al.,” they wrote. “This is
our only comment on this private matter. Thank you for
understanding.”
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WORKING TOWARD CONSENSUS
I wish to commend the City of Bellingham mayor
for once again offering to consider joining the
county cities in building a jail in Whatcom County.
While being constantly aware of addictions,
mental health issues and homelessness, the citizens also deserve a degree of certainty regarding
their own safety.
Our citizens all deserve safety in their streets,
homes and schools as well as public safety facilities which are precisely that—safe. Hopefully, both our county and city executives and our
city and county councils will place public safety
above partisan politics, gain and publicity.
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THE FIFTH PROJECT
COVER: What’s in his
beard? Lucas Hicks
plays the 15th annual
Subdued Stringband
Jamboree Aug. 6-9 at
the Deming Logging
Show grounds.
Photo by Ben Shaevitz
Whatcom County has been praised by state and
federal transportation staff and legislators for
prioritizing countywide transportation needs.
This work is critical for grant-funding requests—
it lets them know what is important to us.
As a result, the recent State Transportation
Bill funds four truly needed projects in the
County. Surprisingly, a fifth project, a $3 million pedestrian overpass on Guide Meridian at
Van Wyck Road, is also funded.
This overpass was not on our county list. In
fact, it scored poorly and did not even make it
into Bellingham’s Pedestrian Master Plan. Mean-
while, other important projects are not funded.
How did this happen? Senate Transportation
Committee member Doug Ericksen insisted this
silly project be included in the funding bill. Silly,
because even if built, developer and speculator
Ralph Black often made public statements he
would personally fund this overpass as an amenity to his expansive King Mountain development.
This land was annexed into the city with assurances from Black of a dynamic mixed-use urban
village. He has since reneged on his mixed-use
promises and now, apparently, has reneged on his
promise to pay for this overpass.
How did this occur? Has Sen. Ericksen fallen victim to Black’s well-known lobbying trick of offering back-slapping flights in his airplane? Or is this
just raw cronyism by playing favorites to one person? More importantly, what does this say about
good public process and honest representation?
—Jack Weiss, Bellingham
THE ANGRY FRINGE
In the county, there is a movement being proposed to change the system of representation.
In short, conservatives are looking to institute
a system to counter progressives centered in
Bellingham.
Imposing a system based on fragmented districts is contrary to the principle of majority
rule, but apparently it is the only way these folks
I have been living in south Bellingham
for a year and a half. I love it here.
If there is one thing here that disturbs me most, it is the all-day, all-night
tremendously loud honking of the train
horns.
The horn sound volume is outrageous,
and goes on and on far beyond any true necessity for warning anyone foolish enough
to be hit on the tracks ahead potentially.
While scaring off any fools hanging
out on train tracks ahead, entire communities are disturbed, particularly as
the train operators lean on their horns
for incredibly long amounts of time, as if
the fools who just might possibly be on
tracks ahead can’t hear the horns plenty
well the first time and get off of the
tracks with a sufficient, more reasonably
brief, warning toot.
Instead, thousands of innocent people, many of whom attempt to get a decent dose of sleep at night, are bothered
and often awakened multiple times by
the terrible and unnecessary cacophony
of the very loud imposing train horns,
which are leaned on for so long at a time
that it is the equivalent of a car or truck
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—Milt Krieger, Bellingham
A term has been repeated in the news
lately—“cost benefit analysis.”
This is the strategy (rational) to protect
big business from EPA and Department of
Health and Human Services regulations.
The Bellingham Herald reported “cost benefit analysis” was used to reject cutting
the use of mercury in dental fillings for
Medicaid and Medicare programs, the military, in prisons and on Indian reservations
serving “price-sensitive patients.”
Cost benefit analysis is why Shell is
being allowed by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to drill “only on the
top sections” of wells in Alaska while
not having critical emergency equipment on site and why legislators are rejecting labeling GMO foods.
Cost benefit analysis for major industry may be critical to make commercial
products more affordable and convenient, as a recent letter to the editor
suggested, but it restricts consumer
choice, decision-making and safety,
both personal and environmental.
Some CEOs who manage manipulation
of public thinking (Citizens United protected) are the people who are finally
acknowledging their offshore savings
and incumbent tax savings amounting to
billions and billions of dollars. Some also
head companies that are slipping “cost
benefit analysis” into regulation requirements that benefit only their companies
and industries, not we the people.
Sign a petition and vote for I-735 to
fight Citizens United control over commerce, our lives and our health.
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It hasn’t taken long for the Supreme
Court’s Citizens United decision to produce whatever the Republican National
Committee, Fox News and ten candidates
contrive to bring us for this Thursday
night’s debate spectacle. Collectively,
they pollute and degrade what remains
of the concern for “a decent respect to
the opinions of mankind.”
What would those who signed on to
those words think?
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driver leaning on an especially loud horn
and continuing to lean on it from, let’s
say, North Forest Street downtown from
Chestnut to Champion, again and again
and again.
Here’s a simple idea: Have the trains
slow down and come to a stop before
each and every crossing instead of disturbing the peace of everyone around the
area sensitive enough to be affected by
the monstrous honking rather than blasting so loudly day and night to warn some
largely imaginary person or two who just
might be on the tracks ahead.
—Donna Starr, Blaine
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believe they can advance their agendas,
given their views are out-of-touch with
the majority within the defined boundaries of the county.
If this proposal is to succeed, I’d like to
see Bellingham (as the largest and most
prosperous city in the region) take it one
step further, by redirecting all city tax
revenues formerly applied to propping up
failed conservative outposts throughout
the county and instead use these funds
exclusively for the city’s own programs
and services.
Thus, life in prosperous and progressive Bellingham would get even better,
while those on the angry fringes will get
a hard lesson in economics and the need
to compromise.
Conservatives love to complain about
the welfare state and moochers, so it
will be an interesting experiment to see
how well they can fare with nothing more
to eat than their own words and hollow
promises.
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COAL DUMP: What if you spent a fortune to queer an
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election and kneecap local government in order to
build a coal pier, and for all that trouble didn’t get
the coal pier anyway? That’s looking like a very possible outcome following the election this November.
Abysmal voter turnout, such as that seen in this week’s
primary election, could decide the matter as assuredly
as any invisible hand.
The Seattle public policy group Sightline picked
up the story last week—developed through the public disclosure efforts of passionate local activists and
journalists—of Big Coal’s strategy to buy the Whatcom
County Council and nail in place a series of restrictions
to Council’s powers that would limit their environmental review of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at
Cherry Point. The restrictions would ripple far beyond
Cherry Point, though, and cripple local government
across broad areas of public policy.
As detailed by Sightline, in 2013 coal interests spent
more than $170,000 through the SaveWhatcom PAC and
Whatcom First PAC to try to elect candidates who would
give coal the green light. Coal terminal skeptics swept
the election, though, winning all four of the empty
Council seats.
Regrouping with new money in 2014, coal interests
again funneled more than $8,000 through the Whatcom
First PAC to secure nine out of 15 seats on the obscure
Charter Review Commission, including several Republican
party operatives and an officer of the original SAVE Whatcom PAC, which funneled money to these candidates.
“The Republican Charter Review Commissioners entered the Commission with a clear mission,” Sightline
reported. “Change the Whatcom County voting system
so that a minority of voters could consistently secure a
majority of seats on the County Council, enabling the
new coal terminal to get its permits even if a majority
of voters objected. In documents that have come to
light, CR Commissioner Chet Dow asserted that it was
critical to change the voting system in order to get the
County Council to ‘issue the needed permits’ for the
coal terminal. The amendment would switch the county
from county-wide voting for all seven seats to districtonly voting for six seats.”
Of particular concern to Big Coal is how liberally a
future Council might interpret Whatcom County Code
Chapter 20.88.130, which describes how major projects
may not substantially interfere with existing uses,
nor may they impose uncompensated requirements for
public expenditures to mitigate the impacts of a major
project. A Council bought with coal money could waive
those protections.
“Keeping the gerrymandered districts and changing
the voting system would make it possible for Republicans to consistently win 57 percent of the seats in
a county that consistently votes only 40–45 percent
Republican,” Sightline noted. “Pro-coal interests could
lock in an undemocratic advantage created by gerrymandered districts and winner-take-all voting.”
A previous Charter Review Commission narrowly approved an amendment to switch to district-only voting. In 2005, a single progressive member of the CRC
yielded to arguments to put the concept to a vote. In
the first election to test the decision, voters hated the
curtailment of their choices and by 2008 they voted to
return to countywide voting in the general election.
“The Republicans learned their lesson,” Sightline reported. “Don’t give voters’ the option to go back to a
OPI N IONS
T H E G R IST L E
BY ROBERT REICH
Happy Birthday, Medicare
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE ISN’T THE PROBLEM, IT’S THE SOLUTION
edicare turns 50 next
week. It was signed into
law July 30, 1965—the
crowning achievement of Lyndon
Johnson’s Great Society. It’s more
popular than ever.
Yet Medicare continues to be
blamed for America’s present and future budget problems. That’s baloney.
The fact is, Medicare isn’t the
problem. It’s the solution.
Its costs are being pushed upward by the rising costs of health
care overall—which have slowed
somewhat since the Affordable Care
Act was introduced but are still rising faster than inflation.
Medicare costs are also rising because of the growing ranks of boomers becoming eligible for Medicare.
Medicare offers a way to reduce
these underlying costs—if Washington would let it.
Let me explain.
Americans spend more on health
care per person than any other advanced nation and get less for our
money. Yearly public and private
healthcare spending is almost two
and a half times the average of other advanced nations.
Yet the typical American lives
78.1 years—less than the average 80.1 years in other advanced
nations. And we have the highest
rate of infant mortality of all advanced nations.
Medical costs continue to rise
because doctors and hospitals still
spend too much money on unnecessary tests, drugs and procedures.
Consider lower back pain, one of
the most common ailments of our
sedentary society. Almost 95 percent of it can be relieved through
physical therapy.
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But doctors and hospitals often
do expensive MRIs, and then refer
patients to orthopedic surgeons for
costly surgery. Why? Physical therapy doesn’t generate much revenue.
Or say your diabetes, asthma or
heart condition is acting up. If
you seek treatment in a hospital,
20 percent of the time you’re back
within a month.
It would be far less costly if a
nurse visited you at home to make
sure you were taking your medications, a common practice in other
advanced nations. But nurses don’t
do home visits to Americans with
acute conditions because hospitals
aren’t paid for them.
America spends about $19 billion
a year fixing medical errors, the
worst rate among advanced countries. Such errors are the third major cause of hospital deaths.
One big reason is we keep patient
records on computers that can’t
share the data. Patient records are
continuously rewritten and then reentered into different computers.
That leads to lots of mistakes.
Meanwhile, administrative costs
account for 15 to 30 percent of all
health care spending in the United
States, twice the rate of most other
advanced nations.
Most of this is to collect money:
Doctors collecting from hospitals
and insurers, hospitals collecting
from insurers, insurers collecting
from companies or policy holders. A
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third of nursing hours are devoted
to documenting what’s done so that
insurers have proof.
Cutting back Medicare won’t affect any of this. It will just funnel
more money into the hands of forprofit insurers while limiting the
amount of care seniors receive.
The answer isn’t to shrink Medicare. It’s to grow it —allowing anyone at any age to join.
Medicare’s administrative costs
are in the range of 3 percent.
That’s well below the 5 to 10 percent costs borne by large companies
that self-insure. It’s even further
below the administrative costs of
companies in the small-group market (amounting to 25 to 27 percent
of premiums).
And it’s way, way lower than the
administrative costs of individual
insurance (40 percent). It’s even far
below the 11 percent costs of private plans under Medicare Advantage, the current private-insurance
option under Medicare.
Meanwhile, as for-profit insurance
companies merge into giant behemoths that reduce consumer choice
still further, it’s doubly important to
make Medicare available to all.
Medicare should also be allowed
to use its huge bargaining leverage to negotiate lower rates with
pharmaceutical companies – which
Obamacare barred in order to get
Big Insurance to go along with the
legislation.
These moves would give more
Americans quality health care, slow
rising healthcare costs, help reduce
federal budget deficit, and keep
Medicare going.
Let me say it again: Medicare isn’t
the problem. It’s the solution.
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fairer voting system. Conservative
members of the Commission approved
a proposed amendment that would prevent the County Council from letting
voters vote on charter amendments if a
previous amendment has already been
approved by two-thirds of voters. In
other words, if coal interests can secure
a two-thirds vote for district-only voting and majority approval for the limiting amendment, voters will be stuck
with district-only voting whether they
like it or not.”
Undetailed by Sightline is the unprecedented sharing of mailing lists,
covert surveys and organizing materials by Pacific International Terminals
(proponent of the GPT proposal), the
Northwest Jobs Alliance (a supposedly
independent advocacy group focused
on living-wage jobs) and the central
organizing machinery of Whatcom Republicans. Indeed, clicking a link for
additional information on one group
would often take visitors directly to
a support page for one of the other
groups, demonstrating how poorly
their various endeavors were firewalled and how greasily money flowed
from one operation to the others.
Such a high degree of coordination
and control may have even been catalyst for the absence of oppositional
candidates in City of Bellingham races,
a sly strategy to impoverish progressive
interest in this year’s COB elections as
a means to usher in CRC amendments
in a low-turnout election, amendments
that will then foreclose on these votes
in future countywide elections. Based
on turnout in this week’s primary, the
strategy could work.
Partition and suppression, but to
what end? It’s been years in the leadup and more than 28 months since the
environmental review began for GPT,
and—despite pronouncements to the
contrary—it’s unlikely the proponents
will want to introduce their draft environmental impact statement before new
federal and state administrations enter
office in 2017. Meanwhile, coal stocks
have cratered, Asian markets have
foundered or reevaluated their commitments, and the American public is much
more knowledgable about the impacts
of coal and climate change.
Money will flow late and dark in
the November election, too late and
too dark for public disclosure to fully
document, and therefore past must
be considered prologue for Coal’s attempted takeover of county elections:
What’s been spent will be spent again,
and then some.
Voters can stop Big Coal. But will
voters vote?
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Mischief
BY TIM JOHNSON
U.S. SENATE APPLIES PRESSURE TO
CHERRY POINT REVIEW
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teve Daines is not happy with the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers and that agency’s decisions about
the handling of the review process for the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal pier proposed for Cherry Point.
The U.S. Senator from Montana has introduced a flurry of
legislation intended to ease the regulatory burden of coal
exports. In April, the Republican chaired a field hearing
that focused on the importance of coal to Indian tribes in
the West. He’s toured the GPT site at Cherry Point and has
excoriated Gov. Jay Inslee for the state’s sluggish response
in support of this project.
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ABOVE: Lummi Nation will begin another totem pole journey Aug. 21 to
explore the sacred responsibilities of tribes throughout the west. The 11-day,
2,600-mile journey is inspired by the efforts of the public, tribes, local
governments, the faith-based community and the environmental community
to put an end to the proposed transport and shipment of fossil fuels across
the Pacific Northwest. “These toxic materials threaten tribal peoples and
other communities,” says Jewell James, elder of the House of Tears Carvers
of the Lummi tribal community. “We can, and must, stop this madness. The
ancestors expect it. The unborn demand it.”
“It is critical we make this facility happen,” Daines said. “This will serve as an important economic driver, both for the people
of my home state of Montana, as well as the
people here in Washington, who will greatly
benefit from the increased export capacity
the terminal will bring.”
Though his state is tiny in population—so
small Montana has but a single representative in the lower House, compared to Washington’s ten—that creates a potent condensate that lets Daines apply focused and
relentless attention in support of the state’s
resource-extraction industries.
Most recently, Daines used his influence
to encourage 16 members of the Republican
Senate and a score of Republican members
of the U.S. House of Representatives to pen
a letter to USACE, protesting the Corps’ decision to review the potential impacts to
tribal fishing rights separately from environmental review of the impacts to shorelines under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
If constructed, Gateway Pacific Terminal
at Cherry Point could send as much as 54
million tons of coal a year across the Pacific in the largest of ocean-going vessels.
Earlier this year, the Corps was persuaded
by the appeals of Lummi Nation to consider
whether that vessel traffic and shoreline industrial activity could harm tribal fisheries,
protected by federal treaty. The Corps determined the matter of treaty rights warranted
a separate and independent analysis from
that required under NEPA—a two-prong approach to considering the project. Indeed,
the one prong may be resolved before the
second prong even gets started.
That’s what alarms the Republican Congress.
A separate analysis “would short-circuit
the public review period for a very important
project to our nation—the Gateway Pacific
Terminal expansion,” the Senate coalition
warned in a July 28 letter to Thomas Bostick,
the commanding general of USACE. The letter
was signed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell and other senior members of the
Republican caucus.
“The project has been undergoing environmental review as part of the [NEPA] analysis for over 28 months,” the senators noted.
“The draft EIS is expected to be released in
March 2016. We understand the Lummi Indian Nation and other local tribes have raised
certain concerns over the impacts of the
new facility could have on their usual and
accustomed (U&A) fishing rights. As part of
these concerns, the Seattle District of the
Corps has indicated it might conclude a de
minimis standard on the impact of the project on the U&A fishing rights prior to the
issuance of a draft EIS,” the senators noted.
“We respectfully and strongly urge the
Corps to complete the NEPA process and develop project alternatives including mitigation efforts before determining de minimis
impacts to any tribes’ U&A fishing rights,”
the senators warned.
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07.28.15
TUESDAY
Jay Inslee finds a way to swallow the poison pill. The governor
directs the state Dept. of Ecology to develop a plan to cap carbon
emissions in the state and to increase enforcement of existing pollution laws. The proposal differs from the cap-and-trade proposal
Inslee sought earlier this year because the regulatory cap would
not charge emitters for carbon pollution. Inslee said he would not
pursue a low-carbon fuel standard, which requires cleaner fuels
over time. A $16 billion transportation revenue package that was
recently signed by the governor would have moved all fee-based
funding for transit and bike paths into the main transportation
account if the standard was adopted.
WEDNESDAY
A recent Lynden High School graduate is killed and two other
Whatcom County teens and one from Skagit County are injured
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Thirty-four Republican State Legislators, including 42nd District
Representatives Vincent Buys and Luanne Van Werven, sign a letter asking the State Attorney General to investigate Planned Parenthood. The lawmakers say they want to make sure the organization
hasn’t illegally profited from the sale of fetal body tissue. Medical
science has benefited from the donation of such tissue for stem-cell
research for several decades.
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Activists dangling from St. Johns Bridge in Oregon refused to let an oil exploration vessel pass. The Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker was the target
of environmental protesters as it left Portland, bound for an Arctic drilling operation. The Fennica headed out Thursday after authorities forced
protesters in kayaks from the river and removed others dangling from a bridge. The demonstrators had been trying to stop the vessel from leaving dry dock and making its way along the Willamette River toward the Pacific Ocean. The Fennica arrived in Portland for repairs last week. The
icebreaker is a key part of Shell’s exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska’s northwest coast.
in a single car wreck on I-90 near Ellensburg. The
State Patrol reports 18 year old Sophia Milstead
was driving eastbound when her car drifted off
the road to the right and she over corrected.
would reinstate a two-thirds legislative majority
to raise taxes. The state Supreme Court struck the
supermajority requirement down in 2013, saying it
was unconstitutional.
A 19-year-old driver from Ferndale is killed in
a crash on Laurel Road in Whatcom County. The
State Patrol says Michael Waltari’s pickup left the
road, hit a power pole and landed on its top. He
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Opponents of Tim Eyman’s latest anti-tax initiative are suing to keep the measure off of the
November ballot. The lawsuit comes a day after Initiative 1366 qualified for the ballot. The suit argues
the measure oversteps the powers granted to the
citizen initiative process. Washington’s Constitution cannot be amended by a citizen initiative, so
I-1366 attempts to pressure lawmakers into sending
a constitutional amendment to the 2016 ballot that
SATURDAY
Fuel prices nudge up 7 cents a gallon, bringing
total state gas taxes up to 44.5 cents a gallon. The
price of gas may be going down nationally, but
Washington drivers will see slightly higher prices
at the pump as the state’s gas tax makes the first
of a two-step increase. Adding in the federal gas
tax of 18.4 cents, total gas taxes in Washington
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Gaining a permit under NEPA is relatively straightforward: Identify things
that will be lost or diminished by a
project (impacts) and pay cash or deliver offsets to replace or paper over
the loss (mitigation).
A more molecular determination, a
de minimis standard lies at the very
threshold of what can be measured
and therefore likely cannot be mitigated. The tribes’ position—echoed in
a number of court decisions that have
upheld the de minimis standard—is
that fishing is so central to tribal culture and way of life that it cannot be
papered over by cash settlements or
hidden behind cans of farmed salmon..
Lummi Nation replied to the Senate
letter and Montana’s lobbying efforts
with a letter that attempts to articulate
the issues of concern to the tribes.
“Because I believe your letter misstates the regulatory review process
underway, and greatly reflects a misunderstanding of the significance of
Indian treaty rights at stake, I write in
an effort to improve your understanding to avoid further misleading efforts
to undermine the Corps’ regulatory
responsibilities,” Lummi Chairman Tim
Ballew responded in a letter this week.
“The ‘two-prong’ approach serves at
least two purposes,” Ballew explained.
“First, it allows the Corps to independently and clearly assess the impact of
the project on treaty fishing rights.
And second, it serves to promote regulatory efficiency and reduce environmental review costs.
“The Corps must assess the impact
of the Gateway Pacific Terminal on
our treaty fishing rights regardless
of the timing of that approach. Under
the course of action you recommend
in your letter, the Corps could come to
the conclusion that there is more than a
de minimis impact on our treaty fishing
rights and deny the permit after years
of review and expenditure of millions of
dollars of agency costs,” Ballew noted.
“Any effort to affect the scope or
administrative relevance of any Indian
treaty rights should be addressed—if
at all—in open meetings of the Senate and House Indian Affairs commit-
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WED., AUG. 5
PARK POE TRY: Performance poets Kevin
Murphy and Matthew Brouwer will share their
talents at a “Performance Poetry in the Park”
event at 7pm at the amphitheater at Maritime
Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly St. At the free
event, the wordsmiths will be accompanied by
guitar, drum, sax and wind chimes. The event
is a precursor to Word on the Street, a weekly
writing group providing a creative outlet for
those experiencing homelessness or difficult
periods of transition.
778-7000
DEAR DAUGHTER: Los Angeles-based author
Elizabeth Little reads from her debut novel,
Dear Daughter, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St. The mystery focuses on a former “It
Girl” who has spent a decade in prison for
murdering her mother.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
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tees with full and adequate rights of
consultation by the Lummi Nation and
affected tribes,” Ballew warned. “I urge
you to take the more honorable path of
pursuing any of your proposed changes
in federal environmental law through
standard practice, as opposed to ‘middle-of-the-night’ legislative changes.”
Ballew copied his letter to Washington State’s congressional delegation,
including Sens. Patty Murray and Maria
Cantwell.
“When are our representatives going
to stand up and protect our community
and laws?” Ballew commented afterward. “We’ve made repeated attempts
to call on our congressional delegates
to stand up—not just for our rights,
but for Washington State. I hope with
this letter they will see the value in
standing up for something like this.”
Prompting the exchange of letters
was the decision by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers last month to not
delay consideration of tribal claims,
as petitioned by Pacific International
Terminals (PIT), a subsidiary of Seattle-based SSA Marine and proponent of
the GPT project. The company reported they needed more time to respond
to tribal concerns, complaining that
Lummi Nation would not work with
them to identify potential impacts
as precursor to strategies to mitigate
those impacts. The impacts cannot be
mitigated, was the tribal response.
The Corps noted PIT was at liberty to
submit materials at any point in their
review of tribal treaty rights but declined to halt their proceedings until
those materials arrived.
“We denied PIT’s request for addi-
tional time to respond to our information request,” Michelle Walker noted on
behalf of the Corps division’s regulatory
branch. “However, we did indicate we
would consider additional information
they believe is relevant if it is reached
before we make a final de minimis determination.” Lummi Nation would also be
provided opportunity to respond to new
submitted data, she noted.
“Although the USACE has not completed the EIS, which will identify how
to avoid, minimize and ultimately mitigate potential impacts, and although
Lummi Nation has refused to discuss
mitigation, Lummi Nation simply asserts
that impacts cannot be mitigated,” PIT
Vice President Skip Sahlin wrote to the
Corps’ Seattle division in late July. “The
USACE must make an informed decision
based upon conclusive facts and Lummi
has the burden to prove impacts violate
its treaty rights. If the facts are not
conclusive, the project review must certainly proceed.”
With the letter, a frustrated Pacific International Terminals recently
submitted a binder of hundreds of
pages of documents in support of their
project; however, the materials contained nothing substantive that would
change the tribe’s petition for review,
Ballew said.
“We believe the Corps has the materials they need in order to make their determination of de minimis impacts to
our rights under treaty,” Ballew said.
For more information on the 2015
Lummi Totem Pole Journey, http://
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ORCHARD HOUSE: Award-winning author
Tara Austen Weaver reads from her memoir,
Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught
One Family to Grow, at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St. The tome “explores the nourishing, complicated, and sometimes painful
facets of the mother-daughter bond, set in
the most surprising of places—an overgrown
backyard garden.”
FRI., AUG. 7
FLICKER MEN: Ed Kosmatka reads from his
new book of fiction, The Flicker Men, at 7pm
at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The story
focuses on a washed-out scientist whose new
discovery may change the world.
AUG. 7-9
BOOK SALE: Books for all ages and interests,
movies, audio books and music CDs can be
found at a Lynden Friends Book Sale from
10am-5pm Friday and 10am-4:30pm Saturday
at the Lynden Library, 216 4th St. Starting at
12:30pm Saturday, it’ll be $3 per bag.
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LOVE CALLS TOUR: Kimberly Braun will hold
free talks and signings related to her Love Calls
book from 7-9pm Friday at Unity Church of
Bellingham (1096 Telegraph Rd.), 2:30-6:30pm
Saturday at Village Books (1200 11th St.), and
9:30-10:30am Sunday at the Center for Spiritual
Living, 2224 Yew St. Join the former Carmelite
nun, minister and speaker as part of her “Call
to Compassion” tour; bring your own stories of
compassion, or come just to listen.
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SAT., AUG. 8
AUTHOR SIGNING: Local author Mary Barr
will be signing her books—including The
Trouble with Filly Tucker, The Apple, The Hedge
Cat and more—at 1pm at Barnes & Noble,
4099 Meridian St.
647-7018 OR WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM
THIS OLD HOUSE: Listen to or tell stories
about old homes in Point Roberts—either
yours or someone’s else’s—at a “This Old
House” gathering at 2pm at Point Roberts
Community Center, 1487 Gulf Rd. See or bring
photos and memorabilia about a different
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creative verse as part of Poetrynight can sign
up at 7:45pm at the Bellingham Public Library,
210 Central Ave. Readings start at 8pm. Entry
is by donation.
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TUES., AUG. 11
GRANT WRIT ING: “Build Your Grant Writing
Skills: Introduction to Proposal Writing” will
be the focus of a free workshop with Ganga
Dharmappa, the Regional Training Specialist from the Foundation Center, at 1pm at
the Lecture Room at the Bellingham Public
Library, 210 Central Ave.
(360) 778-7210
SONYA’S CHICKENS: Bellingham-based author and artist Phoebe Wahl shares stories and
images from her new children’s book, Sonya’s
Chickens, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th
St. Wahl’s work focuses on themes of comfort,
nostalgia and intimacy with nature.
WED., AUG. 12
SARAH COVINGTON: Local author Dean R.
Blanchard reads from his new book of fiction,
Sarah Covington, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200
11th st. The tome opens with a double tragedy
and its consequences as they affect the everyday lives of its small-town citizens.
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BINGO BLITZ: Those ages 21 and over can
attend a fundraising “Bingo Blitz” starting at
5:30pm at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315 Halleck St. Entry is $15 at the door.
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THE COUNT Y: Local author and neuroradiologist Jason Stoane shares stories from The
County: Gun Shots, Riots and Deadly Diseases
at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The
memoir focuses on time Stoane spent at
Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital as a young
doctor in training.
BURLINGTON SUMMER NIGHTS: Visit “Burlington Summer Nights” from 5-9pm at the
Burlington Visitor Center, 520 E. Fairhaven
Ave. The event kicks off with an open-air
market featuring local vendors and artisans
and continues with music by Mo Trouble.
Entry is free.
CUSTER DAYS: A parade, craft booth vendors, a car show, face painting, food, monster
truck rides, live music, a street dance, a beer
garden, karaoke and much more will be part of
the hometown celebration known as “Custer
Days” from 10am-1am in downtown Custer.
Entry is free.
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OUTDOOR MOVIE: Attend a free outdoor
showing of the animated film UP tonight at
Ferndale’s Pioneer Park. Gates open at 8pm
and the movie will start at dusk. Free balloons
and hotdogs will be part of the fun, and one
of the historical houses in the park will be
decorated like the one in the movie.
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SUMMER READS TOUR: Young Adult novelists Sharon Huss Roat (Between the Notes),
Stephanie Oakes (The Sacred Lies of Minnow
Bly), and Hilary T. Smith (A Sense of the
Infinite) read from their respective works
at a “Not Your Typical Summer Reads Tour!”
gathering at 4pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St.
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FOCUS ON NEPAL: Kathmandu’s Kami Sherpa
leads a presentation focusing on the earthquake aftermath in Nepal and gives an update
on recovery efforts at 7pm at the Deming
Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
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HIROSHIMA COMMEMORAT ION: To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, Christ
Episcopal and Guemes Community churches are
inviting religious leaders, WWII veterans and
the local Community to a ceremony at 8pm in
Anacortes at the Skyline Beach Club Cabana,
5919 Cabana Lane.
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NOOKCHAT: As part of an “Explore the Past;
Enrich the Present” series, Don Richendrfer
will helm a “Nookchat: Community Storytelling” gathering at 6:30pm at the Everson
Library, 104 Kirsch Dr.
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GREEN DRINK S: Join likeminded environmentally aware citizens for the monthly
networking event known Green Drinks from
5-7pm at the Maritime Heritage Pavilion, 514
W. Holly St.
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BAKER EMERGENC Y RESOURCES: If you live
in the Kendall, Maple Falls, or Glacier area and
are worried about what to do in an emergency
situation, join the Baker Emergency Resource
Team from 6:30-8pm on the second Wednesday
of every month in Maple Falls at the Kendall
Hall Fire station 14, 7528 Kendall Rd.
(360) 599-1075
THURS., AUG. 6
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PIONEER PICNIC: The 111th annual Skagit
County Pioneer Association Picnic and Meeting begins at 11:15am at La Conner’s Pioneer
Park. For $12, registered “pioneers” will
receive a colorful ribbon, program, historian’s
memorial pamphlet and ticket for a complete
barbecue salmon dinner.
SK AGIT COUNT Y FAIR: A carnival, music,
eating contests, a kid’s zone, a car show, farm
animals and much more will be part of the
Skagit County Fair taking place from 10am1pm Wednesday through Saturday in Mount
Vernon at the Skagit County Fairgrounds, 479
W. Taylor St. Entry is $6-$8.
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“
h my goodness! These owls are about the most adorable thing ever!” I exclaimed to my date as we toured the collection of photographs of winged
creatures taken by Paul Bannick at “The Owl & the Woodpecker” exhibit currently
on display at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall.
“Maybe in a museum they’re kind of cute, but in the outdoors they can be pretty
damn scary,” he answered without skipping a beat.
Not long afterward, as we came across a stupendous image of a great gray owl—
a large bird whose wingspan can stretch to nearly six feet across—he told a story
about being on a hike and coming across one of the members of the species who
he suspected was protecting a nest of owlets.
“Despite their impressive size, these owls are silent flyers,” he told me. “Additionally, they can get very testy if you’re in their territory—and I was. I made
it out alive, but the bird was very persistent. Trust me when I tell you they’re not
afraid to go for your head.”
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Even though he’s tangled on the trail
with them on more than one occasion, my
companion assured me he has nothing but
admiration for owls, and wouldn’t harm a
feather on their noggins.
“I respect them for their territorial ambitions,” he said. “After all, they’re just doing
what they need to do to stay alive.”
That jibes with the focus of the exhibit
by the Seattle-based photographer, who
uses photos, informative texts and audio recordings of 41 species of owls and
woodpeckers from around North America
to illustrate not only how the birds “define and enrich” the habitats on which
they depend, but also highlights the importance of conserving those habitats.
When Bannick returns to the museum
Tues., Aug. 11 to share new images, videos and stories that will provide fresh illumination to the themes of the exhibit
and the related book (which was first
published in 2006), those in attendance
will be privy to his latest discoveries.
Recently, the photographer also agreed
to host a short walkthrough of the touring
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wildlife, their habitat, and the environment, to increase public awareness of the
values of wildlife, plants and the natural
environment, and to stimulate action to
preserve and protect them.”
The group offers 35-40 free-to-thepublic field trips each year, and if owls or
woodpeckers are on your list of must-see
birds, you’ll probably come across them
at some point. If you treat them with respect and stay out of their way, it’s likely
they’ll avoid going after your head.
FRI., AUG. 7
WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers
can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild Things”
excursion from 9:30-11am every Friday in August
in Whatcom County. Entry is by donation.
NEW ZEALAND TALK: Experience primeval images and the sound of songbirds with Stuart Rich
as he recounts his backpacking, bicycling and
kayaking adventures at a “New Zealand: A World
of Its Own” presentation at 7:30pm at the Lummi
Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd. Entry is fee.
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SIN & GIN TOURS: Learn more about the
history of vice and sin that helped make the
foundation of our urban locales what they are
today at the annual “Sin & Gin Tours” at 7pm
Friday in Fairhaven next to Skylark’s Hidden Cafe
(1308 11th St.) and 7pm Saturday at the Bureau
of Historical Investigation (217 W. Holly St.).
Tickets to take part in the historical tours are
$15 general and $19 with a drink. Tours take
place weekends through Aug. 29.
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BLUE LAKE HIKE: Join members of the Mount
Baker Club for a hike to Dock Butte and Blue
Lake today. You will need a forest pass for the
six-mile hike through alpine forest and meadows.
See the group’s website for meet-up specifics.
WWW.MOUNTBAKERCLUB.ORG
MON., AUG. 10
BACKPACK ING WASHINGTON: Getting to
the trail, choosing a pack, selecting proper
clothing and understanding the basic gear you
need to reach your destination will be part of a
“Backpacking Washington’s Mountain Ranges”
presentation at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Please
register in advance for the free clinic.
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ALL-PACES RUN: Staffers are always on hand
to guide the way at the weekly All-Paces Run
starting at 6pm every Tuesday at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Entry is free.
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BLANCHARD HIKE: Join members of the Mount
Baker Club for a Blanchard Mountain hike to
Samish Overlook. Meet at 6pm to carpool to the
trailhead at Sunnyland Elementary.
RUN FOR LIFE: Follow scenic seven-mile or
14-mile routes as part of the “Run for L.I.F.E.”
event taking place from 8:30am-2pm on Lummi
Island. Entry is $10-$55; funds raised benefit
the Lummi Island Foundation for Education—a
nonprofit committed to sustaining and enhancing eduction at the Beach School and for
Racing starts at 2pm*
Beer Garden
Live Music Saturday Night
Food vendors
Sponsors displays/booths
Grand Prix’s racing
TUES., AUG. 11
PLOVER FERRY: The Plover ferry runs through
the summer from 12-8pm Friday and Saturday
and 10am-6pm Sunday departing on the hour
from the Blaine Visitor’s Dock, Gate II at Blaine
Harbor. Suggested donation for the excursions is
$1 for kids and $5 for adults.
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Hydro display
Autographs from the Racers
Live music starting at 7pm with
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BAT NIGHT: Join Wild Whatcom Walks for a
return of “Family Field Trip: Bat Night” from
7:30-9pm at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead
Park. In addition to checking in on the baby
bats’ progress, kids and adults can make a model
of a bat wing and find out the facts that may
dispel myths about the flying mammal. Entry is
$8-$12 (children 3 and under are free). Please
register in advance.
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YOGA FOR GARDENERS: Jeanell Innerarity of
Dream Bold Body Works leads a “Yoga for Gardeners” workshop at 9am at Garden Spot Nursery,
900 Alabama St. Come experience relaxing and
tension-releasing yoga in sitting and standing positions, so you too can find peace and
harmony in your own inner garden. Register in
advance for the free class.
In the bay at Oak Harbor Marina
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HISTORY CRUISE: Whatcom Museum’s “Sunset
History Cruise” starts at 6pm at Island Mariner
Cruises, 2621 S. Harbor Loop Dr. Bellingham
historian Brian Griffin leads the popular
Bellingham Bay excursions, which, in addition
to beautiful scenery, includes stories about the
region’s fascinating history. Tickets are $30$35; additional cruises take place Thursdays
through Aug. 27.
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WHATCOM DREAM 5K: The annual “Whatcom
Dream 5K begins at 9am at Bellingham’s Roosevelt Park (on Verona Street, south of Alabama
Street). Entry is $12 for kids and $25 for adults;
proceeds benefit the nonprofit, whose mission is
to lower the poverty rate in Whatcom County.
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Boating Center is open from 12pm to sunset
on weekdays, and 10am to sunset on weekends
through the summer at their headquarters at
555 Harris Ave. Rentals include kayaks, sailboats, rowboats and paddle boards. Registration for youth camps and adult classes are
currently available online.
MILES FOR MEMORIES: Take to the streets to
raise funds to support the Alzheimer Society of
Washington’s services, education and outreach at
the 16th annual “Miles for Memories” Walk/Run
starting at 9am at the Fairhaven Village Green,
1207 10th St. Music, refreshments, awards and
prizes will follow the run. Entry is $30.
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THURS., AUG. 13
WATERFRONT TOUR: Enjoy an evening on the
bay and discover how Bellingham’s past has
opened the door for its future at a “Bellingham’s
Future Waterfront Tour” departing at 6pm from
San Juan Cruises, 355 Harris Ave. Representatives from the Port of Bellingham and the City
of Bellingham will offer details of the planned
redevelopment. Entry is $12.50-$25.
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GROUP RUN: All levels of experience are welcome at a weekly Group Run beginning at 6pm in
Mount Vernon at the Skagit Running Company,
702 First St. The 3- to 6-mile run is great for beginners or for others wanting an easy recovery.
Entry is free and no registration is required.
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Jakes’s Women, and Jon Robin Baitz’s Other
Desert Cities, conclude this week at showings
at 7:30pm Wednesday through Saturday, and
3pm Sunday as part of the MBT Summer Rep
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Birthday Bash
THE WRITING’S ON THE WALL
uring its first year of operations, the walls of the green room at the Upfront
Theatre were mostly bare.
Eleven years later, it can be difficult to find a space on the four walls that
hasn’t been claimed, whether by local improvisers past and present declaring
they were there via short missives or artwork penned in ink, visiting performers
leaving their mark, or by kids and adults who’ve learned a thing or two during
classes designed to get them to look at life in an entirely new way.
Of course, those aren’t the only changes that have occured in the decade-plus since
Bellebrity Extraordinaire Ryan Stiles opened the theater with a focus on improvisational comedy. Many of the performers that were onboard when the doors opened in
2004 have moved on to bigger cities to persue acting careers, while a regular influx
of new talent has kept the roster full of performers eager to make audiences laugh.
Additionally, artistic directors and office managers have come and gone,
walls have been painted and repainted a few times, the large black-and-white
photographs of mainstage performers and visiting talent lining the theater’s
walls have been switched out here and there to reflect the changes of the
guard, and new games and formats—“Hellingham,” “An Improvised Musical,”
“Space Trek,” and more—have been created to popular acclaim.
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goal of the theater: “The Upfront Theatre is a professional organization that
provides innovative, high-quality performance and education rooted in the
art of improvisation,” the mission statement reads. “Guided by the core values
of improv, we commit to countinually
push the boundaries of our craft while
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Thurs., Aug. 13 as part of an alumni show
during the Anniversary Weekend—which
also includes gigs featuring Stiles and
other performers Aug. 14-15—August will
be full of ways to celebrate the theater’s
11th birthday. “The Hybrid Show”—a mix
of short-form improv games and longform improv—will also take place Fridays
and Saturdays through the month.
While you’re there, see if you can pop
your head in the door of the green room,
where you’ll see the writing on the wall—
and the evidence that although many
things change, some stay the same.
COMMEDIA ON THE LAWN: Well-known
stock characters—tricky servants, young
lovers, foolish old men, etc.—will make
appearances at “Commedia on the Lawn”
performances at 7:30pm Wednesday through
Saturday, and 2pm Sunday on the lawn in
front of Western Washington University’s
Old Main. The highly physicalized, masked
comic performance originating from the
Italian renaissance is free. The event is part
of WWU’s Summer Theatre programs, which
continue through the month.
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THURS., AUG. 6
GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday
at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At
10pm, stick around for the “Project.” Entry
is $4-$7.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
AUG. 6-8
OFFICE HOURS: Local playwright Brian
Toews’ Office Hours concludes this week
with showings at 7:30pm Thursday through
Saturday at the iDiOM Theater, 1418
Cornwall Ave. The play is inspired by the
ancient Greek myth of Medea, and tells the
story of the personal and professional fall
of a distinguished English professor at a
prestigious liberal arts university. Tickets
are $10-$12 and additional showings take
place Aug. 6-8. P.S. Due to adult language,
viewer discretion is advised.
WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM
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SHAKESPEARE NORTHWEST: Audiences
can view Shakespeare Northwest’s version
of The Noble Kinsmen, a comedic tale about
two cousins who are vying for the affection
of the same maiden, at 7pm Thursday and
Saturday at Mount Vernon’s Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, 19299 Rexville Grange
Rd. Romeo & Juliet shows at 7pm Friday
and 4pm Sunday. Tickets are $10-$12.
Performances of the two plays continue
through Aug. 15.
WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG
BRIDESMAID PREMIERE: The world
premiere of Three Times a Bridesmaid continues this weekend with shows at 7:30pm
Thursday through Saturday, and 2pm Sunday
at the Anacortes Community Theatre, 918
M Ave. The original play by ACT’s Willow
McLaughlin focuses on the dilemma of an
engaged woman as she recounts the many
trials, tribulations and farcical tragedies in
weddings she has participated in. Tickets
are $18 and additional showings happen
through Aug. 15.
WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM
AUG. 6-12
BARD ON THE BEACH: Shakespeare’s The
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AUG. 12-16
URINE TOWN: Find out what a terrible
water shortage caused by a 20-year drought
has affected a city when Urinetown: The
Musical shows at 7:30pm Wednesday through
Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center.
Tickets are $14-$19; the play is part of the
Western Summer Theatre series.
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DANCE PART Y: A mix of swing, Latin and
ballroom will be highlighted and danced to
with an introductory lesson at the weekly
Friday Night Dance Party from 7:30-10pm
at the Bellingham Dance Company, 1705 N.
State St. Admission is $5-$7.
WWW.BELLINGHAMDANCECOMPANY.COM
SAT., AUG. 8
BELLY DANCE SHOW: Katy Houseman,
Samantha Riggs, Maggie Rose, Anyelle, Lillia,
Bastet Baladi, and Raqs Zahia will be among
the performers taking part in “Dom Tek: A
Belly Dance Show” at 8:30pm at Honey Moon,
1053 N. State St. (in the alley). Live music
by Anton’s Middle Eastern Band and special
guest Dahlia Moon will also be part of the
show. Entry is free; tipping is encouraged.
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COMEDY COMPE T IT ION: Soul Joel Productions hosts the Great Northwest Comedy
Competition at 8pm at the Underground, 211
E. Chestnut St. Comedians from Bellingham,
Seattle, and Vancouver, BC will vie for the
prize—the winning comedian will be awarded an all-expenses-paid trip for a weekend
on the East Coast for two shows. Tickets are
$10 in advance and $15 at the door.
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THE JUNGLE BOOK: Ever been abandoned
in the jungle, adopted by wolves, taught by
a bear, befriended by a panther and chased
by a tiger? You can watch the action happen
if you attend the Missoula Children’s Theatre
musical adaptation of The Jungle Book at 3pm
and 7pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N.
Commercial St. Area youth who have been
taking part in the weeklong camp will also be
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THE HYBRID SHOW: Both classic and
new games and long-form improv will be
highlighted at “The Hybrid Show” at 9pm
Friday and Saturday at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. The performances are part of
the theater’s 11th anniversary celebrations
taking place through August. Tickets are $10
in advance or $12 at the door.
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Dry Roasted Edamame
Mango Tangerine Sorbet
Local Linden Tree Honey
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Comedy of Errors plays in repertory with King
Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Shakespeare’s
Rebel at the 26th annual “Bard on the
Beach” through September at Vancouver BC’s
Vanier Park, 1695 Whyte Ave. Tickets are
$26-$45. Early booking is recommended for
best seat selection; many performances sell
out in advance.
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ART WALK: The monthly Skagit Valley Art
Escape continues with a First Thursday Art
Walk taking place from 5-8pm throughout
downtown Mount Vernon. Peruse works by area
artists and enjoy wine, chocolates, dinner and
more at your favorite locales. This month’s
event also features art by local youth as part
of a Children’s Art Walk.
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INSIDE THE ANACORTES ARTS FESTIVAL
ocal artists were in a panic. With a twinkle in his eye, juror Stefano Catalani
announced the theme of this year’s “Arts at the Port” exhibit to be “Zeitgeist!”
What does that mean? Were our Northwest Washington artists to be elbowed
out of the crown jewel of the 54th annual Anacortes Arts Festival by edgy, tattooed invaders?
But Catalani, director and curator of the Bellevue Art Museum, found local and
Seattle talent as well as entrants from Georgia, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, Missouri,
and Florida. His mantra was “quality and solid craftsmanship,” which included
outstanding locals such as Peregrine O’Gormley, Cynthia Richardson, and Dinah
Steveni. But the most surprising aspect of the Anacortes show—which can be
seen Aug. 7-9 as part of the citywide celebration of art—is the abundance of
photographic works.
Two of these photographers hail from Bellingham. Norman Riley, at one extreme, is the most conservative of the photographers. He uses large-format film
cameras and pulls his own black-and-white silver gelatin prints with unforgettable richness of detail. On the other hand, his current subjects are distinctly
cutting-edge. He creates an assemblage from scraps, including something of
metal, something biological and a circle. He photographs it, then discards it.
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The photograph alone remains—a portrait
of something enigmatic and surreal.
Craig Dunston McGrail’s photography leaps
into the realm of abstraction. His beautiful
images are the product of a moving camera
and multiple computer-processed images of
ordinary objects. The results are colorful,
sophisticated and restrained.
James Lapp (Mount
Vernon), who is also a
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by Iskra Johnson (Seattle) are sophisticated and experimental.
She may use “multiple pass prints,” mixing
silkscreen and digital printing and finds
Photoshop to be “like Jazz…the ultimate
tool for improvisation.” Her “Barge” and
“South Holgate Gantry,” composed of her
own photography and “found or made surfaces,” are compelling studies of waterfront
subjects where industry meets nature.
At the cutting edge is the crowd-pleasing,
digital-video-drawing-cartoonish work of Seattle’s Scott Kolbo. With flat-panel and projected video he brings to life the travails of
a disappearing cat who drinks from the bathroom faucet and her companion person who
bemoans the cat hairs in his toothbrush. This
was so much fun, I had to wait in line to enjoy
it on opening night. Brave the crowds during
the festival, and you’ll see what I mean.
FIRST THURSDAY RECEPT ION: Attend an
opening reception for a Late Summer Juried
Exhibit from 6-8pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art
Center, 321 Front St. Solo exhibit openings
with Steve Cousens and Norman Rile, weaving
instructors from the Association of Northwest
Weavers Guild, music by Andy Koch and more
will be part of the fun.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
FRI., AUG. 7
GALLERY WALK: The Scott Milo Gallery,
Burton Jewelers, Classic Style & Co, H20, the
Depot Gallery, the Majestic Inn and Spa, and
the Anacortes Arts Festival at the Port will be
among those taking part in the monthly First
Friday Gallery Walk from 6-9pm in downtown
Anacortes. The event happens in conjunction
with the opening night of the Anacortes Arts
Festival. Entry is free.
WWW.ANACORTESART.COM
ART WALK: The Hatch space, Allied Arts,
Whatcom Museum, Rock and Rye Oyster House,
Creative Openings, Bay Street Studio Artists,
the Bureau of Historical Investigation, Casa
Que Pasa, Dakota Art Store, Fourth Corner
Frames, Honey Salon, Creekside Building Artists, the Leopold, Pickford Art Studios, the
Racket, and more will open their doors as part
of the monthly Art Walk taking place from
6-10pm throughout downtown Bellingham.
Entry is free.
WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM
DOWNTOWN UPC YCLE THROWDOWN:
Ragfinery presents its inaugural “Downtown
Upcycle Throwdown” from 6-10pm at the new
HATCH space, 1302 Commercial St. The innovative art project will feature the works of more
than 20 art upcyclers who have sewed, glued
spackled and glittered recycled and donated
fabric, clothing and household goods to create
their unique art submissions. The free event will
include an artists meet-and-greet, a People’s
Choice contest and a juried contest, live music,
cold beverages and lots of sweet surprises.
WWW.RAGFINERY.COM
DOOR ART THROWDOWN: Up to 10 teams of
artists will create murals on repurposed doors
in two hours as part of Allied Arts’ annual
“Door Art Throwdown” taking place 5-8pm on
the sidewalks of the 1400 block of Cornwall
Avenue. Art Walk participants will be able
to watch the artists work and vote on which
team they liked best by “tipping” their team
of choice; the doors will be sold that evening
through a silent auction. Entry to compete is
$25 per team.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
WHATCOM MUSEUM: Popular Choice winners
from the “Bellingham National Art Exhibition
and Awards” exhibit will be announced tonight
at Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Build-
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LUMMI LIBRARY: A “Flo Konecke Retrospective” can be viewed through August at the
Lummi Island Library, 2144 S. Nugent Rd.
305-3600
FISHBOY: Head out of downtown proper and
see the works of folk artist R.R. Clark (FishBoy)
from 6-10pm at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia
St. (near Trader Joe’s).
WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
AUG. 7-9
ART AT THE DEPOT: Join Skagit Artists Together and local poets Judy Kleinberg, Nancy Pagh,
Brian Strickland and more, during the weekend
of the Anacortes Arts Festival as part of the “Art
at the Depot” exhibit from 10am-9pm Friday,
10am-6pm Saturday, and 10am-5pm Sunday at
the Depot Gallery, 611 R Ave. Entry is free.
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THRESHOLD OPENING: An opening reception
for Christopher Morrison’s “The Threshold Project” takes place at 4pm at the Western Gallery
on the Western Washington University campus.
The exhibit will feature Morrison’s handblown
glass sculptures depicting the Artist Journey
and exploring the concept of crossing the
threshold. See the works through Aug. 29.
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ART WOOD: Woodwork by Michael Flaherty and
fine art by painter Francy Blumhagen will be
highlighted through August at Artwood Gallery,
1000 Harris Ave. Meet the artists at a reception
from 3-6pm Sat., Aug. 15.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contemporary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every
Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
GALLERY C YGNUS: Painter Todd Horton’s
“Twilight of the Wyrd Wood” will be up
through Aug. 30 La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus,
MINDPORT: San Francisco-based artist Romy
Randey’s “Umbra” is currently on display at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. The exhibit features
an interactive wall panel made from fused glass,
bamboo, sensors and LEDs. Admission is $2.
WWW.MINDPORT.ORG
MONA: Peruse “From the Artist’s Eye,” “Richard
Fairbanks: Potter/Poet,” and “Pilchuck Print
Shop” through Sept. 24 at La Conner’s Museum
of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
WWW.MONAMUSEUM.ORG
QUILT MUSUEM: “Celebrating 20 Years of Art,”
“30 Quilts for 30 Years,” and “Creative Knitting”
show through Oct. 4 at the La Conner Quilt &
Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St.
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MATZKE GALLERY: Check out the “Summer
Moments” exhibit through Aug. 23 on Camano
Island at Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture
Park, 2345 Blanche Way. In addition to the
glass, sculpture and paintings in the gallery,
there’ll also be new sculptures to see in the
10-acre park.
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FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: An opening
reception for “Lost & Found” takes place from
6-9pm at Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery, 311
W. Holly St. The exhibit features work that was
uncovered after the space’s makeover last year.
See it through Aug. 31.
I.E. GALLERY: David C. Kane and T. Michael
Gardiner’s “Quod Erat Demonstrandum” shows
through Aug. 23 at Edison’s new gallery, i.e.,
5800 Cains Court. Hours are 11am-5pm Fridays
through Sundays.
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SMITH & VALLEE: Works by painters Ed Kamuda, Gregg Laananen, Lisa Gilley, Rob Vetter,
and Ruthie V. can be viewed through Aug. 30 at
Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
SCULPTURE NW GALLERY: “Regional Stone/
Regional Sculptors: New Work of the Northwest
Stone Sculptors Association” can be seen from
12-5pm every Fri.-Sun. through Aug. 16 at
Sculpture Northwest Gallery, 203 Prospect St.
WWW.SCULPTURENORTHWEST.ORG
SK AGIT MUSEUM: “Back to Our Roots: A
History of Farm to Table in Skagit County” is
showing through Oct. 11. at La Conner’s Skagit
County Historical Museum, 501 S. Fourth St.
WWW.SKAGITCOUNT Y.NET/MUSEUM
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Bellingham’s National
Art Exhibition and Awards,” “Helmi’s World:
Symbol, Myth, Fantasy,” “The Owl and the
Woodpecker: Photographs by Paul Bannick,”
and “Back at the Park: Vintage Views from the
Photo Archives” can currently be viewed on the
Whatcom Museum campus.
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Advocate” at an opening reception from 6-10pm
at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St. The new collection of paintings and collage illustrates human
connectedness and its opposite and is seen as
an “internal window into the artist’s mind of
love, technology and the seemingly lost art of
human to human interaction.”
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GOOD EARTH: Isaac Howard’s “50 Shades of
Clay” will be highlighted through August at
Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave. Come see
how the shape of the forms, the flow of the
flames in the vapor-fired environment create
beguiling variations in color and texture. A
reception takes place from 3-6pm Sat., Aug. 15.
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“Corvid” takes place from 6-9pm at Allied Arts,
1418 Cornwall Ave. The works by Irene Lawson,
Lyn Jackson, Laurie Potter, Liane RedpathWorlund, and Vikki Jackson will be on display
through Aug. 29.
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from 6-10pm for the Art Walk can also peruse
”Helmi’s World: Symbol, Myth, Fantasy,” and
“The Owl and the Woodpecker: Photographs by
Paul Bannick” at the Old City Hall, 121 Prospect
St. Entry is free.
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JACOB JOLIFF AND WES CORBETT
BY CAREY ROSS
Subdued Stringband Jamboree
OF LABOR AND LOVE
fter having spent the past 15 or so years working for an organization that
relies on an army of volunteers for basic daily operations, I have learned
that you can tell a lot about an entity by the attitude of its volunteer staff.
When volunteers treat their service as though it is an obligation or job
they can barely stand, it tends to speak less to what they are being asked
to do, and more to who is doing the asking. When volunteers are cheery,
helpful and seem grateful to provide free labor—no mater what form that
labor might take—it says some things about who they’re working for.
Without fail, the volunteers I’ve encountered during my many visits to
the Subdued Stringband Jamboree are competent, engaged and exhibit a
real sense of ownership over not just their assigned tasks, but the music
festival as a whole. Their smiles come readily no matter how early they’ve
begun working, no matter how hot (or rainy) the day, no matter how many
things have not gone exactly as planned. Even when they have to police the
behavior or actions of occasionally rule-breaking or rogue attendees, they
do so with their senses of humor intact.
As official ambassadors go, the Stringband volunteers are all-time.
The collective goodwill of the volunteer staff is merely a reflection of the
overall ethos that has been at least as important to the longevity of the
Stringband Jamboree as the music it exists to showcase. The festival has been
a grassroots, community-minded effort since the minute Robert Sarazin Blake
founded it 15 Stringbands ago. Back then, it was the musicians booked to play
who also built the stage, took tickets, did trash duty and undertook all other
tasks involved in making the event come to life, up to and including running a
shuttle bus to the parking lot of Stringband’s first locale.
Once that inaugural pickin’ party proved to be an idea with legs, Blake
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began to assemble his army of volunteers,
many of which have remained with Stringband year after year, their duties growing
along with the event. These days, they begin months before the festival does, doing
publicity, drumming up sponsors and supplies, operating behind the scenes to make
sure each Stringband is a resounding success. During Jamboree weekend, they still
take tickets and man the shuttle, and they
also operate the merch tent, prepare and
serve food, work the info booth, lead activities for children, provide as-needed medical services and much, much more. As such,
they are they heartbeat of an event that
boasts an abundance of heart.
As for the music, it is the reason for
the Jamboree’s existence, and if you think
making the drive to the Deming Logging
Show grounds to kick up a little dust dancing in a field sounds like anything other
than a real great way to spend an August
weekend, well, you’ve obviously never
been to Stringband. Having attended most
of them, I can attest to the festival’s ability to show everyone involved—audiences,
weeks/months, I have been sitting on the most
major show announcement for what feels like
forever. I divulged this precious info to exactly
no one, so if you’d like to unburden your soul
of its deepest secrets, I am obviously your girl.
Because I am eminently trustworthy.
Until now, that is.
In recent days, I learned the show in question,
which has been wending its way—slowly—from
idea to reality for the aforementioned time span
of forever, has been confirmed. And while I’m not
certain I’m actually allowed to tell anyone about
it yet, much less everyone, well, occasionally I
trade my “loose lips sink ships” philosophy for
one that hews closer to the idea that it is better
to ask forgiveness than permission.
At the risk of never being told anything worthwhile in confidence ever again, I’m here to let
you know that “An
Evening of Musical Collaboration with Conor
Oberst, M. Ward and
the Felice Brothers”
has been booked for a
Sept. 22 show at the
Wild Buffalo. Oberst,
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of course, is a brilliant
songwriter best known as the founder of Bright
Eyes. M. Ward is half of She & Him with Zooey
Deschanel, and is an excellent songwriter in his
own right. Both are members of the supergroup
Monsters of Folk, which also numbers My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis among its star-studded personnel. The Felice
Brothers are a hard-touring band with undeniable chops and big heart. Any one of these acts
could easily sell out the Wild Buffalo. All three
of them together is the kind of WTF, out-of-theblue show that drops in Bellingham’s charmed lap
more often than it should. In other words, this is
the Biggest Goddamn Deal Ever.
So, just how did the Wild Buffalo come to land
such an incredible lineup of musical talent?
It seems Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and the Felice Brothers, having all played together in some
form or another in the past, decided to launch
a tour together, but wanted to hone their show
into its final form in front of live audiences. They
determined the best way to do so would be to
play smaller-than-normal rooms, and somehow
the Wild Buffalo was on that list. Enter Buffalo
owner Craig Jewell and his seemingly endless
ability to magically bend reality to his liking,
and suddenly we have ourselves an amazing show
happening in our near future.
To be sure, performers such as these come at
a premium, and so the ticket price for the show
will certainly reflect that. Even so, what is pricey
for a show the Buffalo is still reasonable for anywhere else, and seeing this dynamic trio of musical acts on the stage of a limited-capacity local
venue is worth just about any price. Tickets will
be for sale Fri., Aug. 7 and I can only imagine
they will sell out wicked fast. Get yours before
they’re gone.
AUG. 5-9
MARROWSTONE MUSIC FEST IVAL: Orchestral
and chamber music rehearsals, master classes,
and public performances will be part of the
Marrowstone Music Festival taking place through
Aug. 9 at WWU. Prices vary.
WWW.MARROWSTONE.ORG
THURS., AUG. 6
BLUES AND BREWS: Gin Creek will perform at a
free “Blues, Brews & BBQ” concert from 5-9pm at
Hotel Bellwether, One Bellwether Way.
FARM TUNES: Knut Bell performs at a free
“Friday Fish Fry, Farm Tunes, & Old Fashioneds”
event from 6-8pm at BelleWood Acres, 6140
Guide Meridian.
WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM
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HAYNIE OPRY: Seattle-based bluegrass band
Pickled Okra will headline a Haynie Opry concert
at 7pm Friday at Blaine’s Haynie Grange, 3344
Haynie Rd. At 7pm Saturday, the Hank Williams
Tribute Show will return to the stage. Tickets
are $10 per show. A 3pm Country Gospel Matinee
happens Saturday. Entry is $5.
(360) 366-3321
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SUN., AUG. 9
PARK CONCERT SERIES: Hear the gypsy jazz
of Nuages when they perform from 6-8pm at
Bellingham’s Elizabeth Park.
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POP WAGNER: Cowboy anthems and fiddle
tunes can be heard at a “Pop Wagner in Concert”
performance at 7pm at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026
N. Forest St. Tickets are $15.
WWW.POPWAGNER.COM
RIVERWALK CONCERT SERIES: The Stilly River
Band performs as part of a free Riverwalk Summer Concert Series from 6-8pm at Riverwalk Park
in historic downtown Mount Vernon.
WWW.MOUNTVERNONCHAMBER.COM
FRI., AUG. 7
MUSIC AT MARIT IME: Violinist and storyteller
Swil Kanim performs at a “Music at Maritime”
TUES., AUG. 11
MICHAEL MCDONALD: Expect to hear hits such
as “I Keep Forgettin’” and “What A Fool Believes”
when five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald
makes his way to Bellingham for a 7:30pm show
at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial
St. Tickets are $49-$89.
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George Colligan performs at 7pm at the Whatcom
Jazz Music Art Center at the Majestic, 1027 N.
Forest St. Entry is $5-$10.
gathering taking place from 11:30am-1:30pm at
the Maritime Heritage Park, 500 W. Holly St.
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performers, volunteer staff and even (or
especially) Stringband founder Blake—
the very best good time.
For several years now, Stringband has
gotten a Thursday-night start, and this
year Blake himself will kick off the weekend on the Slanted Stage as Robert Sarazin Blake and the Happy Hour Band. After that, the music switches between the
large Flat Stage and the smaller Slanted
Stage and will consist of sets from Moongrass, John Reischman and the Jaybirds,
circus performers and more.
Friday begins, not with music, but with
a group photo—and everyone’s invited
to take part. All you have to do is show
up to the Flat Stage at 9am in your best
Stringband-branded duds, and you can be
part of Jamboree history. Then comes music on both stages by Grace Love and the
True Loves, Rabbit Wilde, Bellingham Celli
Club, Bar Tabac, Peadar MacMahon, Deakin
Hicks, Yogoman, Robert Sarazin Blake and
the Putitalldownina Letters, and more.
Saturday, typically Stringband’s biggest
day, features Hot Damn Scandal, Dorrensoro Eta Hicks (Lucas Hicks putting his
always-welcome musical stamp all over
Stringband), Stephen Ray Leslie and the
Crooked Mile (Leslie being my personal
do-not-miss performer), Baby Gramps,
Meghan Yates and the Reverie Machine,
Gallowglass, the Songwriter in the Round set
(this year with Biagio
Biondolillo,
Matney
Cook, and Chris Acker),
the ever-popular square
dance with the Shadies,
and others.
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late-night revelry, one
of the hallmarks of Stringband has been
campfires and the music-making that
goes with them, however, considering
this year’s dry conditions, a burn ban will
be strictly enforced. Bring your batteryoperated light sources in lieu of firewood,
and you should be just fine. Should you
ignore this policy—or any of Stringband’s
few, commonsense rules—you can expect
a visit from a volunteer, who will no doubt
politely put you on the right track with
both a smile on their face and a spring in
their step. Because that’s always been the
Stringband way.
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SATURDAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Live Music
Live Music
Live Music
Happy Hour BBQ w/Robert
Blake (early)
Fish Fry w/Joy Ride
Faces NW Benefit
Anelia's Kitchen &
Stage
Boundary Bay Brewery
Aaron Guest
Brown Lantern Ale
House
Open Mic
Cabin Tavern
Open Mic
Four Stroke, Save the Babes
Kosmo, more
Conway Muse
R.X. Bertoldi and Son
Nick Vigarino's Meantown
Blues, Dennis Jones Band
Mojo Cannon and the 13th
St. Horns, The Atlantics
The Skeptix Guitar Duo
CC Adams Band
Fear and Loathing
DJ Boombox Kid
Corner Pub
Edison Inn
Glow Nightclub
Green Frog
Shadow Variable
Korby Lenker, Jesse Terry
Out of the Ashes, Paul
Klein
Toney Rocks
Gizzard
Ron Bailey & The
Tangents
DJ SLY/Every Tuesday/
Rumors Cabaret
Slow Jam (early)
Open Mic (early), Guffawingham (late)
Terrible Tuesday Soul
Explosion
Anelias Kitchen & Stage 511 Morris St, La Conner, WA • (360) 466-4778 | Bellewood Acres 6140 Guide Meridian, Lynden • (360) 318-7720 | Bobby Lee’s Pub & Eatery 108 W Main St, Everson • 966-8838 | Boundary Bay
Brewing Co. 1107 Railroad Ave • 647-5593 | Brown Lantern Ale House 412 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-2544 | The Business 402 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 293-9788 | Cabin Tavern 307 W. Holly
St. • 733-9685 | Chuckanut Brewery 601 W Holly St. • 752-3377 | Commodore Ballroom 868 Granville St., Vancouver • (604) 739-4550 | Conway Muse 18444 Spruce/Main St., Conway (360) 445-3000 | Corner Pub
14565 Allen West Road, Burlington
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Knut Bell and the 360s
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MONDAY
TUESDAY
DJ Boombox
Knut Bell and the 360s
Karaoke
Momo Grace, Shareef Ali
Taqsim Bellydance
Karaoke
Karaoke
Honey Moon
Open Mic
The Catkins
KC's Bar and Grill
Kulshan Brewing Co.
Broken Bow Stringband
The Whetherman
Main St. Bar and Grill
Landing Party Duo
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Karaoke w/Zach
Nashville Northwest
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Karaoke
Country Night
DJ Jester
Rumors Cabaret
Leveled
Throwback Thursday
DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave
DJ Mike Tolleson
DJ Enz
Slough Feg, Skeletor, more
Metal DJ Night
Radiation City, Pearles, Go
Slowpoke
Girl Guts, Know Your
Saints, Aspiga
Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch
Telefonic
The Spencetet
The Shakedown
Skagit Valley Casino
Skylark's
Karaoke
Americana
Swinomish Casino and
Lodge
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DJ B-Mello
Karaoke
Karaoke
Karaoke
Jam Night
Karaoke
The Underground
Via Cafe and Bistro
Karaoke
The Village Inn
Wild Buffalo
’90s Night
Karaoke
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Karaoke
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Open Mic w/Chuck D.
Lip Sync Battle
The Green Frog 1015 N. State St. • www.acoustictavern.com | Edison Inn 5829 Cains Ct., Edison • (360) 766-6266 | The Fairhaven 1114 Harris Ave • 778-3400 | Glow 202 E. Holly St. • 734-3305 | Graham’s
Restaurant 9989 Mount Baker Hwy., Glacier • (360) 599-3663 | H20, 314 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 755-3956 | Honey Moon 1053 N State St. • 734-0728 | KC’s Bar and Grill 108 W. Main St.,
Everson • (360) 966-8838 | Kulshan Brewery 2238 James St. • 389-5348 | Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St. • 389-3569 | Main Street Bar & Grill 2004 Main St., Ferndale • (360) 384-2982 | McKay’s
Taphouse 1118 E. Maple St. • (360) 647-3600 | Nooksack River Casino 5048 Mt. Baker Hwy., Deming • (360) 354-7428 | Poppe’s 714 Lakeway Dr. • 671-1011 | Paso Del Norte 758 Peace Portal Dr. Blaine •
(360) 332-4045 | The Redlight 1017 N State St. • www.redlightwineandcoffee.com | Rockfish Grill 320 Commercial Ave., Anacortes • (360) 588-1720 | The Royal 208 E. Holly St. • 738-3701 | Rumors Cabaret
1119 Railroad Ave. • 671-1849 | The Shakedown 1212 N. State St. • www.shakedownbellingham.com | Silver Reef Casino 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale • (360) 383-0777 | Skagit Valley Casino Resort 5984 N.
Darrk Lane, Bow • (360) 724-7777 | Skylark’s Hidden Cafe 1300 11th St. • 715-3642 | Star Club 311 E Holly St. • www.starclubbellingham.com | Swillery Whiskey Bar 118 W. Holly St. | Swinomish Casino
12885 Casino Dr., Anacortes • (888) 288-8883 |Temple Bar 306 W. Champion St. • 676-8660 | The Underground 211 E. Chestnut St. • 738-3701 | Underground Coffeehouse Viking Union 3rd Floor, WWU | Via
Cafe 7829 Birch Bay Dr., Blaine • (360) 778-2570 | Village Inn Pub 3020 Northwest Ave. • 734-2490 | Vinostrology 120 W. Holly St. • 656-6817 | Wild Buffalo 208 W. Holly St. • www.wildbuffalo.net | To get your
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
SETTING THE BAA
onventional wisdom may have it that sheep are dumbest of all livestock, but
the woolly ones’ wits get a collective sharpening in Shaun the Sheep Movie, a
sweet-natured but cleverly off-kilter feature-length debut for Aardman Animations’
plucky farmyard hero. Retaining the gentle, nonverbal comedy and daffy sight gags
of the popular stop-motion TV series—itself a loose spinoff from Aardman’s cherished Wallace and Gromit franchise—while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban
escapade more expansive than their usual short-form gambols, the film should
reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.
Originally introduced 20 years ago in the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit
outing “A Close Shave,” diminutive sheep Shaun has since headlined more than
100 miniature adventures for the small screen—each one cramming a complex
degree of farce into a seven-minute running time, before returning affairs to
a rustic status quo. In devising a feature narrative 12 times the length of any
single episode, writer-directors Mark Burton and Richard Starzak have wisely kept
a number of the series’ formal restrictions intact. Most cannily and crucially, the
film remains dialogue-free, with the animals communicating solely through ex-
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pression and gesture, while human characters—not unlike the adults in various
“Peanuts” films and specials—speak in
unintelligible gibberish.
It’s a device that considerably broadens the franchise’s appeal to children. At
a time when much studio animation is
skewing older and hipper, Shaun the Sheep
Movie is thoroughly preschooler-friendly,
though older viewers can appreciate its
droll asides and dashes of silly satire. It
also lends Shaun himself the absorbent,
observant innocence of a Monsieur Hulot
figure, albeit in a considerably fuzzier
guise; he’s an endearingly ingenuous vessel for the film’s choreographed-in-clay
physical comedy.
The film opens with a tightly rhythmic
montage—shot Super 8-style—illustrating the cheery daily grind at Mossy Bottom Farm, where the flock is tended by a
balding, nameless human farmer and his
bright, put-upon sheepdog Bitzer. As in
every episode, the animals seek an escape
from the mundane demands of farm labor,
this time ingeniously sending the farmer to
sleep via a live chain of fence-jumping. The
snowballing sequence of mischief that follows sees him accidentally transported to
the big city (London in all but name) and
losing his memory.
Naturally, it’s Shaun and his bleating
entourage—ranging from super-sized ewe
Shirley to helpless lamb Timmy—to the
rescue, though it’s not long before they
require rescuing themselves, with their arrival in town triggering unwanted attention from animal containment services.
(By way of apparent homage, the movie
is a happy reminder that the critical rehabilitation of Babe: Pig in the City is complete.) Meanwhile, their amnesia-afflicted
master has stumbled into an unlikely new
career as a celebrity barber to moneyed
urbanites—the current vogue for severely
undercut hairstyles isn’t a world away from
sheep shearing, after all. Complete with
jabs at social-media marketing, this is one
of the film’s few extended jokes likely to
go over the collective heads of very young
audiences, but it’s the kind of absurdly
exaggerated everyday detail—complete
with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry—on which Aardman’s comic brand
is built. Other in-built games for adults
include spotting various throwaway references to considerably less family-oriented
films, The Night of the Hunter and Martin
Scorsese’s Cape Fear included.
Though realized on a more modest scale
than other Aardman features, the film is
still an absolute delight in terms of set and
character design, with sophisticated blinkand-you’ll-miss-it detailing to counterbalance the franchise’s cruder visual trademarks. (Every sheep’s mouth, for example,
still emerges sporadically from the side of
its face; no wonder they never speak.) Production designer Matt Perry deftly evokes
the shifting, half-gentrified streetscape
of London without resorting to obvious
landmarks. Composer Ilan Eshkeri, taking
a breather from scoring the more solemn
likes of Still Alice and The Invisible Woman,
contributes suitably jangly accompaniment, though assorted pop contributions
on the soundtrack don’t quite mesh with
the wordless story world at hand.
Shaun the Sheep Movie, incidentally, marks
the first collaboration between Studiocanal
and Aardman, whose past couple of features
were financed and distributed by Sony. Although the deal was initially made as a oneoff, it’s not hard to imagine a film franchise
emerging from this happy new pairing; the
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Ant-Man: Even though my knowledge of the comicbook universe is largely limited to “Superman: good.
Lex Luthor: bad,” I will see this movie because,
to paraphrase Gotham Police Commissioner James
Gordon, Paul Rudd is both the superhero I deserve and
the one I need. ++++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 55 min.)
A Lego Br ickumentar y: Examine the mystique
behind this perennially popular children’s toy in this
documentary that features a Minifig Jason Bateman
as narrator and showcases the elaborate art that can
be made with these simple bricks. +++ (Unrated • 1
hr. 35 min.)
Dark Places: The second film adaptation of one of
Gillian Flynn’s creepy, creepy novels (the first being the
blockbuster Gone Girl), this one stars Charlize Theron
and delves into the mystery surrounding the murder of
her entire family. +++ (R • 1 hr. 54 min.)
Fantastic Four: With all the superhero action these
days, I almost forgot about this quartet of mutants?
Aliens? Radioactive life forms? Overachieving children
of the future? At any rate, they probably get caught in
some kind of good vs. evil predicament in which they
exhibit incredible bravery and harness superpowers
that cost millions of dollars in CGI to bring to life. +
(PG-13 • 1 hr. 46 min.)
The Gif t: Written, directed and starring the alwayssuperb Joel Edgerton, this is a story of a couple
(played by Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall) forced
to pay a price in the present for sins committed in
the past. Creepy, critically acclaimed and called a
cross between Fatal Attraction and Michael Haneke’s
Cache, this ain’t your average thriller. +++++ (R •
1 hr. 48 min.)
Inside Out: Without a doubt, Pixar is the best, most
visionary cinematic force in the world. Has this genius
animation house made its perfect movie yet? Probably
not, but this one comes pretty close. +++++ (PG •
1 hr 42 min.)
Irrational Man: Woody Allen, accused of sexually
abusing his daughter when she was seven years old,
recently referred to his relationship with wife Soon-Yi
Previn (formerly his ex-wife Mia Farrow’s adopted
daughter who he entered into a romantic relationship
with when she was barely out of her teens) as being
“paternal,” and said he allowed her to make decisions
as a “gift” to her. Major UGH. That’s what you support
when you buy a ticket to this not-very-good movie. +
(R • 1 hr. 36 min.)
Jurassic World: Ain’t no party like a dinosaur party
‘cause a dinosaur party don’t stop. +++ (PG-13 • 2
hrs. 3 min.)
A LEGO BRICKUMENTARY
Minions: This movie is for everyone who watched
Despicable Me and thought, “I just wish those adorable
little yellow dudes had a movie all their own.” So,
basically, everyone. +++ (PG • 1 hr. 31 min.)
Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation: The last
movie I saw Tom Cruise in was Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, and I have to say, it was
his best performance in years. Seek it out. As for this
film, I’m told it’s pretty good too. +++++ (PG-13 •
2 hrs. 12 min.)
Mr. Holmes: The last time Ian McKellen (gift to us
all) teamed up with director Bill Condon, it was for
1998’s excellent Gods and Monsters, and the effort
resulted in an Oscar for Condon and a Best Actor
nod for McKellen. This time, McKellen plays Sherlock
Holmes as he retires to the countryside and grapples
with a 50-year-old unsolved case in a role seemingly
tailor-made for the English knight. +++++ (PG • 1
hr. 43 min.)
Paper Towns: John Green, Young Adult oracle, sees
his second adaptation (the first being last summer’s
wildly successful The Fault in Our Stars) hit theaters
in what has been a banner season for stories of teens
and tweens on the big screen. The movie’s comingof-age themes are nothing new, but young love—
especially as viewed through the lens of Green’s
genuine sentiment—never gets old. +++ (PG-13 • 1
hr. 49 min.)
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review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it isn’t even close
to Adam Sandler’s worst movie ever. He’s made 15
other movies that are rated even lower than this one.
Dear Hollywood, I am reasonably confident I can do
the same level of shitty work, and I’ll do it for half the
salary. Get at me. + (PG-13 • 1 hr. 46 min.)
potent spell, this movie is likely to be your undoing.
+++++ (R • 2 hrs. 2 min.)
Vacation: This movie exists and I don’t understand
anything anymore. + (R • 1 hr. 39 min.)
Ricki and the Flash: The preview for this is cheesy
as all hell, but I’m sure Meryl Streep (greatest living
actor whose name isn’t Daniel Day Lewis) will totally
bring it as a musician trying to make amends with her
family, and will likely put the rest of the cast (Rick
Springfield, Kevin Kline), the script (by Diablo Cody)
and the direction (by Jonathan Demme) to shame.
Long live Meryl. +++ (PG-13 • 1 hr. 42 min.)
Shaun the Sheep Mov ie: See review previous page.
++++ (PG • 1 hr. 25 min.)
Southpaw: Long ago, after stellar work in such
movies as Donnie Darko and The Good Girl, I granted
Jake Gyllenhaal the considerable privilege of being
my Movie Star Boyfriend. Then he starred in Prince of
Persia, and I was all, “Bye, Felicia.” Since then, he’s
chosen grittier, far more interesting roles like this
one as a boxer who must fight his way back from rock
bottom, apparently in an effort to win me back. Woo
me, Jake. +++ (R • 2 hrs. 3 min.)
Trainwreck: Amy Schumer + Judd Apatow = the
summer of 2015’s most profoundly hilarious and likable comedy. If you have yet to fall under Schumer’s
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6:30-8:30pm Tuesday, Aug. 11
at Simply Spirit Reading &
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more than 35 years experience of providing readings
and energy healings, and the
joy of helping others gain
clearer insight into their lives
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workshop attendees (as many
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stress, anxiety and stabilizing
mental condition at a “Neurofeedback” workshop with
practitioner Joan Cross at
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No experience is necessary.
Entry to the ongoing event is
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name
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U.S.M.C.” star Jim
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some places
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Perry
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21 Ice Bucket Challenge’s premise
22 Beckett’s noshow
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man named Liam Bennett has developed a “dausage,”
which is a blend of a doughnut and sausage. One of
his most requested treats is pork meat stuffed with
strawberry jelly. Even if this novel blend doesn’t appeal
to your taste buds, it serves as a good prompt for my
advice: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to
expand your notion of what types of nourishment are
fun and healthy for you. I mean that in the metaphorical as well as the literal sense. Experiment with new
recipes, both with the food you provide your body and
the sustenance you feed your soul.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the woods, living
matter isn’t segregated from the decaying stuff. Rotting tree trunks are host to teeming colonies of moss.
Withered stems of ferns mingle with cheerful saplings.
Audacious mushrooms sprout up among scraps of
fallen leaves. The birds and beetles and lizards and
butterflies don’t act as if this mix is weird. They seem
to be at peace with it. I suspect they thrive on it,
even exult in it. That’s the spirit I suggest you adopt
as you enjoy the paradoxical mélange of your life in
the coming weeks, Gemini. Celebrate the mysterious
magic that emerges as you simultaneously fade and
flourish, decline and increase, wind down and rise up.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are some tips
on being the best Cancerian you can be: 1. Cultivate
your sensitivity as a strength. Regard your emotional
vulnerability as a superpower. 2. Nurture yourself at
least as much as you nurture others. 3. Learn to know
the difference between your golden hunches and the
glimmering delusions that your demons stir up. 4. Be
kind, but don’t be exorbitantly nice. 5. Remember that
others’ unhappiness is rarely your fault or responsibility. 6. Keep reinventing the way you love yourself.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “What are the best things
and the worst things in your life, and when are you
going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
This question was posed by Leo author Ray Bradbury in
his book Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity.
Even if you’re not a writer yourself, you will benefit
from responding to his exhortation. It’s one of the best
things you could possibly do to activate your dormant
creativity and intensify your lust for life. This is one of
those times when working with your extremes is not
only safe and healthy, but also fun and inspirational.
So do it, Leo! Get excited and expressive about the
best and worst things in your life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to leave behind the golden oldies. You’d be wise to tiptoe away
from tradition, and give the ghosts of the past one
last kiss goodbye, and wean yourself from nostalgia
for the good old days. Frankly, my dear, you’ve got
numerous appointments with the future, and it would
be a shame to miss them because you’re mucking
around with memories. In the coming weeks—for that
matter, in the coming months—you’re most likely to
thrive if you become an agent of change. And the
most important thing to change is your relationship
to the person you used to be.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In Indonesia, the term
gotong-royong is defined as the “joint bearing of burdens.” In practice it means that you and I and our allies get together voluntarily to help each other achieve
a shared goal. It may also be an agreement to provide
mutual aid: I help you do what you need to have done,
and you help me with my task. Gotong-royong also
implies that we enjoy working together. The emotional
tone that we cultivate is affection and care. By sharing
a burden, we lighten the load that each of us has to
bear. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because it’s
the gotong-royong season for you and yours. Be the
ringleader who initiates and sustains it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In one of his
poems, Jack Gilbert mentions “the incurably sane,”
who are “uncrippled by beauty” and “unbutchered
by love.” When I read those lines, I felt a surge of
protest. Is there a single person on the earth who
fits that description? No! I was miffed by such
starry-eyed idealism. Later, though, as I studied the
astrological omens for you Scorpios, my attitude
softened. I realized that the coming weeks may be a
time when many of you will at least temporarily be
incurably sane, uncrippled by beauty, and unbutchered by love. If you’re one of these lucky ones, please
use your blessed grace to spread an abundance of
blessed grace everywhere you go.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re not
skirting the edges of the forbidden zone, you’re playing it too safe. If you’re not serving as a benevolent
mischief-maker for someone you care about, you’re
shirking your duty. Your allegiance should be with
X-factors and wild cards. You will thrive to the
degree that you cultivate alliances with mavericks
and instigators. Are you shrewd enough to mess with
time-tested formulas? Are you restless enough to
rebel against habits that stifle your curiosity?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How to be a
Capricorn, according to my Capricorn reader Sadie
Kennedy: When you are younger, take yourself too
seriously. Look and act older than you actually are
as you serve what’s most practical. Sacrifice fun and
frivolity, working doggedly to achieve the goals you
yearn for, until you reach some level of accomplishment. Then realize, as if struck by a thunderbolt, that
fun and frivolity have practical value. Begin to age
backwards like Benjamin Button as you balance work
with play and discipline with leisure. Enjoy the fruits
of your intense efforts as everyone tells you how
relaxed and supple and resilient you are becoming.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Cracking open the
shell of a soft-boiled egg is a tricky task. You must be
firm enough to break the shell, but sufficiently gentle
to avoid making a mess. If you live in Germany, you
have access to a metal instrument that provides
just the right measure of soft force. It’s called an
Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher, translated as
“soft-boiled egg shell cracker.” Your assignment in
the coming weeks is to cultivate a talent that is
metaphorically similar to an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. I believe you will need that blend of
sensitivity and power on numerous occasions.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Americans often regard Cuba as impoverished and backwards. There is an
element of truth in their prejudice, primarily because
the U.S. has imposed a stifling embargo on the Caribbean nation for over 50 years. That’s why, for example,
many Cubans drive cars that were manufactured in the
1950s. But I wonder how my fellow citizens would
respond if they knew that in some ways Cuba’s healthcare system is better than America’s. The World Health
Organization recently congratulated Cuba for being the
first country on earth to eradicate the transmission of
syphilis and HIV from mothers to babies. Can you identify a metaphorically similar situation in your personal
life, Pisces? Are there people you regard as inferior or
undeveloped who could teach you an important lesson
or motivate you to grow? Now is a perfect time to
benefit from their influence.
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There’s being open and honest, and
then there’s bragging about your sexual
options, which is the mark of a mantoddler: “Mommy, Mommy, look at the sex
fort I’m making!”
The guy’s spirit animal appears to be
the trash can with the swinging lip.
He either wants you to like him more
or he is warning you that you like him
too much. Time will tell. Meanwhile,
just sitting there blinking as he rattles
on about his harem-in-waiting doesn’t
make you seem cool and easygoing; it
makes you seem cool with disrespect.
In other words, you actually need
to say no to knowing. This doesn’t
take some long, icky speech. Just a
slightly singsongy “Overshare!” And
if he doesn’t quite get it, maybe add,
“Fascinating, but unless I’ll be needing
a penicillin nightcap, TMI.” Assuming
he listens and stops and is generally
attentive to your feelings, you probably shouldn’t fixate on this. Even the
sweetest guy may say things he doesn’t
quite think through—to the point
where a girl’s sometimes got to ask for
tech support: “Hi, sorry, but I couldn’t
find this in your FAQs. How do I log out
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I’m dating this guy. We aren’t committed,
but I’d like us to be. Recently, he’s been
mentioning chicks who want to sleep with
him whom he shut down. I appreciate his
honesty, but I guess I’m wondering why
he’s telling me this stuff at all. —Earful
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O.K. then. You’ll just be having a nice
big scoop of “What Comes Around Goes
Around.” Cup or cone? Nuts? Sprinkles?
As for your shock at his behavior—
“I can’t believe he would disrespect me
like this!”—it’s not like you two met
while working at the ethics factory.
People who cheat with you are cheaters, meaning that they can probably
be counted on to cheat on you. We all
know this. Yet there you are, not only
suspending disbelief but driving it out
to the desert and burying it in a shallow grave.
You’re doing this not because you’re
dumb but because you’re succumbing
to a mental shortcut called “optimism
bias”—a belief, fueled by ego and wishful thinking, that bad things likely to
happen to other people will pass over
you like a flock of birds, not leaving so
much as a souvenir dropping in your
hair. Optimism bias is maintained with
denial—like your questioning whether
phone sex is “really cheating.” Um, if
some behavior by your partner, done
openly, is likely to cause you to burst
into heaving sobs, chances are he’s
crossing the line: “Be right there, dear!
Just talking dirty to my ex-wife.”
As for your notion that you could just
seethe in silence, wonderful idea—
except for how, as resentment builds,
“head in the sand” starts to feel like
“head in the blender.” To stop giving in
to optimism bias, give yourself a crack
upside the head with how things actually are. Yes, you need to admit that
your husband is cheating on you. Once
you have your meet-and-greet with reality, let him know you’re onto him and
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I had an affair with a married man, and
we fell madly in love, and he left his wife
for me. We’ve been happily married for
many years, but, recently, I found out
that he’s still in contact with his ex-wife.
I got suspicious, bought a voice-activated
recorder, and tapped our landline. Lo and
behold, they’re having hot phone sex while
I’m visiting my elderly mother on Sundays!
I can’t believe he would disrespect me like
this! Especially after all we’ve done (like
moving across the country to get away
from his psycho ex). I really love him, so
I’m wondering whether I should confront
him or just seethe in silence (because I
know he won’t go back to her). And honestly, I’m not even sure phone sex is really
cheating.
—Shocked
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then sit down together to see what you
have and whether it’s fixable (and not
just by making your elderly mom take
the bus to your house so you can stand
guard by the phone).
To figure things out, spend 12 hours
straight in a hotel room together.
Yes, really. No books, TV, phone calls,
naps, or walks outside. You can sit silently—or talk about anything regarding one or both of you. The late therapist Nathaniel Branden, who came up
with this idea, called it an “experiment in intimacy.” Branden explained
that when all avenues of escape are
closed off, a couple can experience
real breakthroughs in communication.
As opposed to what you’ve been experiencing—real breakthroughs in communications devices: “Yeah, we have a
very happy relationsh—hold on, Katrina, sorry; that was just the tracking thingie telling me my husband’s
going south on Oak Street.”
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BY ARI LEVAUX
Planning Ahead
STILL TIME FOR A FOOD PARTY
pring is the season for planting, and fall is for harvesting and preserving.
At least, that is the conventional wisdom among those who partake in such
pursuits. But these rules of thumb can oversimplify the matter, and can get in the
way of a DIY-food lifestyle led to the fullest.
It’s not to late to plant, yet. Nor is it too early to start putting away the harvest.
There is an important window in the weeks following the summer solstice, during which time a fall garden is planted. This planting usually includes many of the
same cool-weather crops that were sown in early spring for an early harvest, like
spinach, lettuce and radishes.
As these original plantings go to seed in the long days, a new wave can now
be planted that will sprint through the end of summer and cruise in the cool
days of fall. Other short-season plants can be sown as well, like broccoli or peas.
Some fast-growing herbs, like cilantro, can be sown every two weeks throughout
the season.
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Depending on your location and the
crop in question, you might consider
attempting to keep some plants alive
through winter by covering them, building cold frames, or both. Spinach, kale
and mustard greens are good candidates
for a wintergreens patch.
If you didn’t leave much room for a fall
garden, find space in the gaps left by the
failures of spring, or vacancies created as
the season unfolds. Dig up the peas and
lettuce patches, harvest the garlic, and
replace them with fall plantings.
Sow into well-watered soil, and keep
the seeds and sprouts very wet in the
days that follow, as they grow into little plants. If you forget to water for a
day too many in the summertime heat,
they could fry.
Growing your food is a noble business.
But depending on your motives and resources, preserving the harvest might be
a more valuable use of your time. Farmers markets are my primary source of
food to process, as it’s fresh and local,
and my garden isn’t big enough. But you
can play Little House on the Prairie with
produce from the store, too.
But the big misconception, even
among insiders, is that we must wait until “harvest season” to start making our
pickles, preserves and
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a pantry-filling project, but I’m also doing research ahead of a big cucumber
harvest I’m expecting from the garden.
But the most important reason to pickle
cucumbers now, rather than “harvest
season,” is so you don’t have to mess
with them when it’s time to pickle peppers, or make salsa.
There’s a large population of Belarusians where I live, several of whom have
stands at the farmers market. Their tables are essentially DIY kits for Eastern
European-style pickles—just add vinegar. Their stands offer little more than
cucumbers, dill and sometimes horseradish leaves (for crispier, tastier pickles).
The cucumbers are grown in greenhouses
as well as outdoors, and from the first
day of the farmers market to the last,
their tables look the same.
With their help, my pantry is filling
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addition to the fresh, local food, expect
activities for kids, cooking demos and
special events through the season, which
continues through Oct. 17.
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the Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave.
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COMMUNIT Y MEAL: Meatloaf, mashed
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Church of Ferndale, 2034 Washington St.
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SK AGIT BREWFEST: Dozens of local
craft beers, food trucks and music by
Moongrass, Von Stomper, and Rabbit Wilde
will be part of the Lincoln Theatre’s 13th
annual “Brewfest on the Skagit” taking
place from 4-9pm at Mount Vernon’s new
Riverwalk Park. Tickets to the fundraiser
are $20 in advance and $25 at the gate
and include five tastes. Tickets are $15 for
designated drivers.
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FERNDALE PUBLIC MARKE T: Attend the
Ferndale Public Market from 2-7pm every
Sunday through Oct. 11 near the town’s Old
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BEER & BRATS: Hemplers bratwurst,
Kulshan Brewery beer and locally made buns
can be had at the weekly “Beers & Brats”
evening cruise leaving at 6:30pm from the
Island Mariner’s slip at Squalicum Harbor,
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Tickets: $10 General/$5 Museum members
Join Seattle author and photographer Paul Bannick as he shares
new images and stories from the field about the inter-relationships
between owls and woodpeckers. Arrive early for a pre-event
exhibition tour led by Bannick at 6pm. Doors at 5:30pm.
Seating is limited. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com/event/1381965.
Co-sponsored by the North Cascades Institute &
the North Cascades Audubon Society.
See the exhibition, The Owl & the Woodpecker, at Old City Hall.
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LYNDEN FARMERS MARKE T: Procure
goods from local growers at the Lynden
Farmers Market from 12-5pm at 324 Front
St. (across from the Jansen Art Center).
The market continues Thursdays through
Oct. 29.
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Market from 3-7pm every Wednesday through
September at Hammer Heritage Park.
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