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A glance at what’s happening this week
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WEDNESDAY
ON STAGE
COMMUNITY
Final Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven
Village Green
Candidate Forum: 6:30pm, Bellingham City Hall
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THURSDAY
ON STAGE
Faith County: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre,
Lynden
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Br ighton Beach Memoirs: 8pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
BASSprov: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Wr inkles…Grace in Time: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
COMMUNITY
Domestic Violence Vigil: 6pm, Whatcom County Courthouse
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FRIDAY
ON STAGE
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: 7pm, Lynden Pioneer Museum
Par ty to Murder: 7:30pm, Quality Inn
Mid-Life Cr isis: 7:30pm, Riverbelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon
Lynden
Hellingham: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Theatre Guild
Ser ial Play: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater
Theatrespor ts: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Wr inkles…Grace in Time: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
MUSIC
Kir tan: 6:30pm, Everybody’s Yoga
Swil Kanim: 7pm, Stuart’s at the Market
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“PECULIAR FICTIONS AND
TINY ACROBATICS” WHEN CODY RIVERS HOTSHOT
ANDREW CONNOR PRESENTS HIS ONE-MAN SHOW,
“CYCLOSA CONFUSA,” OCT. 4 AT THE UPFRONT
THEATRE. MONTREAL’S UNCALLED FOR IMPROV
TROUPE IS ALSO ON THE BILL.
PHOTO BY JUN NAKAMURO
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GET OUT
The Edge of Never: 7pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
Climbing Talk: 8pm, Backcountry Essentials
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WORDS 14
GET OUT 16
STAGE 18
ART 20
Lynden
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SUNDAY
DANCE
Wr inkles…Grace in Time: 7pm, Firehouse
Performing Arts Center
MUSIC
Halleck Street Ramblers: 2-5pm, VFW Hall
WSO’s Bernstein & Blues: 7:30pm, Mount
Baker Theatre
VISUAL ARTS
Whatcom Ar tist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm,
Whatcom County
Ar tstock: 10am-8pm, Friday Harbor
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MONDAY
GET OUT
Baker Lake 50K: 8am, Baker Lake
Race for the End: 9:30am, Bloedel Donovan
Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit
Valley
Fruit Festival: 10am-5pm, Cloud Mountain
Farm, Everson
Moonlight Ramble: 9pm, Wade King Rec Center, WWU
VISUAL ARTS
Mov ing Sale: 8am-1pm, Whatcom Museum of
History & Art
Whatcom Ar tist Studio Tour: 10am-5pm,
Whatcom County
Ar tstock: 10am-8pm, Friday Harbor
R. Allen Jensen Reception: 5-8pm, Smith
and Vallee Gallery, Edison
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MUSIC 22
ART 20
STAGE 18
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Thanks to our
Media Sponsors:
ON STAGE
Bunnicula Auditions: 6:30pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
WORDS
Poetr y Night: 8pm, Anker Café
COMMUNITY
Ferndale Farmers Market: 9am-3pm, the
Riverwalk
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square
Beauty Bar: 7:30pm, Nightlight Lounge
FREE MASTER CLASS: Join us for a
master class with Charlie Albright
on Saturday, October 10 from
11am-1pm in the PAC Concert Hall
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ON STAGE
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: 7pm,
Lynden Pioneer Museum
Faith County: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
Mid-Life Cr isis: 7:30pm, Riverbelle Dinner
Theatre, Mount Vernon
Par ty to Murder: 7:30pm, Quality Inn
Hellingham: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Theatre Guild
Ser ial Play: 8pm and 10pm, iDiOM Theater
Theatrespor ts: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
GET OUT
Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit
Valley
Fruit Festival: 11am-4pm, Cloud Mountain
Farm, Everson
Breast Cancer Walk: 1pm, Depot Market Square
Crop Walk: 2pm, Fairhaven Village Green
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SATURDAY
Friday, Oct. 9 at 7:30pm
PAC Concert Hall
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TUESDAY
ON STAGE
Talent Show Auditions: 6pm, Ferndale High
School
MUSIC
Lynden Music Festival: Continues through
Oct. 11, throughout Lynden
WORDS
Julie Weston: 7pm, Village Books
VISUAL ARTS
Photo Club Meeting: 7:15pm, Roeder Home
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Community Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange
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COMMUNITY
CHARLIE ALBRIGHT
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David Icke: 11am, Mount Baker Theatre
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VISUAL ARTS
Ar t Walk: 6-10pm, downtown Bellingham
Galler y Walk: 6-9pm, Anacortes
Quiltfest: Through Sunday, La Conner
MUSIC
Anne and Pete Sibley: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm
Swing Connection: 2-4pm, First Baptist Church
Bellacorda: 3pm, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
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Rocktoberfest: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort
Wr inkles…Grace in Time: 2pm, Firehouse
Performing Arts Center
Scandinavian Dance: 2-5pm, Norway Hall
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Get in the spooky spirit by checking out Corey
Urlacher’s “Collectibles” exhibit Oct. 3 at the
Paperdoll during the downtown Art Walk
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ON STAGE
Theatre Guild
Par ty to Murder: 2pm, Quality Inn
Bunnicula Auditions: 6:30pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
Doubleheader: 7pm, Upfront Theatre
Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
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THIS ISSUE
At the behest of Los
Angeles prosecutors,
Oscar-winning director
Roman Polanski, 76, was
arrested on a decadesold warrant for statutory
rape Saturday while trying to enter Switzerland.
As of Tues., Sept. 29,
more than 100 filmmakers, actors and industry
types—Martin Scorsese
and Woody Allen among
them—had signed a
petition demanding his
release.
ART 20
MUSIC 22
FILM 26
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FOOD 38
MAIL
VIEWS & NEWS
STAGE 18
GET OUT 16
12: Crimes of the times
ARTS & LIFE
14: Questioning authority
16: The walk of life
WORDS 14
CURRENTS 8
VIEWS 6
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REAR END
30: Services, Sudoku
31: Ogg’s World, Troubletown
32: Wellness
33: Advice Goddess
34: Free Will Astrology
35: Crossword
36: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug
38: Flavors of fall
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NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
FOUR TO MOVE
FORWARD
Last January, a professional polling firm conducted a
scientific survey of Whatcom
County residents’ opinions
about land use and population issues. One interesting
result was this: “Younger and
shorter-term residents... were
more supportive of growth
and expansion in the County”
than older and longer-term
residents.
That’s interesting, but not
surprising. People who have
lived here longer or who are
older understand more clearly
than shorter-term residents
and younger people both how
good the quality of life here
still is compared to other
places, and that the quality
has diminished in the past 15
years, particularly with the
loss of farmland, open space
and the increase in traffic
congestion.
Whatcom County Council
policy decisions have a significant effect on quality of
life. Fifteen years ago, the
County Council turned against
conservation and stewardship,
and toward land-use policies
favoring growth and expansion. The results were not
good. Farmland disappeared,
open space was transformed
into sprawl, the county was
sued for violating state landuse laws (and lost) and the
public was forced to underwrite the high costs of development that most people
don’t want.
Now, again, the same arguments are made: modest
regulations to protect water
quality and our county’s rural character are portrayed as
overbearing by a small group
who, as ever, want to internalize the profits of growth and
socialize the costs. With a
campaign of misrepresentation and half-truths, they have
whipped up citizen ire.
We’ve been here before and
the results were not good. Let’s
not have politics that leaves
oldsters shaking their heads
in sorrow and youngsters—our
grandkids—with a place that
used to be a lot nicer. Vote
for the thoughtful and experienced candidates: Carl Weimer,
Laurie Caskey-Shrieber, Ken
Mann and Dan McShane, who
will serve us well.
—Dan Warner, Bellingham
ANGER ON THE LEFT
I honestly don’t know
whether I should be amused
or upset at the recent Gristle
on the 9/11 Tea Party. The article quoted a New York Times
columnist who referred to
the movement as being filled
with “inchoate rage.” Yes,
there was anger in the program, but not what you assume. The problem is not so
much the existence of what
you call “divergent opinion,”
but the belief that this opinion is being rammed down
the American public’s collective throat.
I distinctly remember May,
2003, when conservative columnist Ann Coulter visited the
Mount Baker Theatre. There
was a very angry mob at the
front of the theater, and all
who attended had to go in by
the side door.
Also consider the knee-jerk
reaction of the left when conservative broadcaster Glenn
Beck got an invitation to re-
—Wendy Harris, Bellingham
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Apparently, in Whatcom County we
do not have “special interest groups.”
Instead, we have “victims.” A small
but extremely vocal group consist of
“land grab victims,” which, as far as
I tell, includes 1) residents who are
angry that they have to comply with
county ordinances, mandated under
state or federal law, to protect natural resources, and 2) residents who
failed to vest their rights to speculative land investments when the opportunity existed. The “land grab victims” demand special zoning and land
use exemptions for development that
would otherwise be prohibited.
What is lost in all of this are the
rights of the majority of county residents who can only be called “public
subsidy victims.” While the “land grab
victims” are left holding the prize, the
“public subsidy victims” are left paying the bill. This bill includes the cost
of repairing environmental damage to
critical areas and shorelines. This bill
includes the cost of losing, perhaps
permanently, fish and wildlife. This bill
includes increased food costs resulting
from development of agricultural land.
This bill includes higher taxes and
fees for additional infrastructure and
capital facilities. This bill includes the
public health costs that result from a
decline in our water and air quality. As
someone with asthma, I can tell you
that this cost is sometim es paid for in
human lives.
Let’s stop this rampant victimization by electing County Council members who will protect the interests of
the many against the unreasonable
demands of a few. Laurie CaskeySchreiber, Carl Weimer, Dan McShane
and Ken Mann have the experience and
wisdom to see beyond clever marketing
ploys. They will uphold the federal,
state and local laws that were enacted
to protect the public’s interest in our
natural resources, while promoting
sustainable growth.
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I am saddened by the bland bumper stickers in Bellingham. Given the
politics of the region, Democrat/
Blue/”Pepsi” stickers outnumber Republican/Red/”Coke” stickers.
Nine months into the Obama administration it is clear that it has been a
seamless transition. War rages in Iraq
and Afghanistan, and our government
continues to steal from most of us to
give to the very rich and well connected. We still have troops in 130
countries. To achieve this we borrow
or print $5 billion every day and incur
additional unfunded liabilities (e.g. for
the lifetime care of disabled veterans).
I don’t know how many people we kill,
maim and torture per day.
In 1953 we overthrew the democratically-elected, secular and prowestern Iranian government and installed an oppressive Shah and secret
police. (Why? The Iranians wanted
British Petroleum to pay for the oil
they pumped there.) Eventually the
Iranians were rid of us, so we empowered the dictator Saddam Hussein in
neighboring Iraq.
Under false pretense we invaded
Iraq twice. Through Bush Sr., Clinton,
Bush Jr. and now Obama we’ve killed
more than one million people in Iraq.
When charged with responsibility for
the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children
(mostly from malnutrition and lack of
medicine arising from our sanctions)
then secretary of state Madeleine Albright said it was “worth the cost.”
We turn our nuclear waste (depleted
uranium, DU) into weapons that cause
birth defects that kill babies in Iraq
and Afghanistan. This poison also
harms our soldiers and their children.
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Editor’s Reply: For the record, the 2000
election lawsuit was Bush v. Gore, filed by
the George W. Bush campaign. It is a decision still debated among law scholars.
I agree the left is angry; disagree it is
“inchoate:” It helped elect by a landslide
President Barack Hussein Obama.
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—Russell S. Sapienza, Bellingham, Edited
for length
We are the nation that uses Weapons
of Mass Destruction against the innocent every day.
As nothing changes from election to election and if your car is
sporting a “Coke” or “Pepsi” sticker,
I have a small request. Would you
please replace your sticker with one
for “General Dynamics”, “Halliburton” or “Goldman Sachs?” It matters
not which you choose. If you have a
“Hope” or “Change” car, perhaps you
could upgrade to “Kill, Steal and Lie”
or just cut to the heart with “Save the
American Empire—Kill Towel Heads.”
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ceive a key to the city of Mount Vernon, where he lived for a time.
And, of course, the 2000 election
lawsuit, which Al Gore initiated, and
its unfavorable (to the left) results,
which—for some reason or other—
they still haven’t gotten over.
The so-called “progressive” left have
some serious need of anger management themselves. All a visitor to Bellingham who reads Cascadia Weekly for
the first time needs to do is read the
comics section, which is steeped in
“inchoate rage.”
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THE REVOLUTION WILL COME DRESSED IN YELLOW:
Mere days after yellow t-shirters angrily departed
another Whatcom County Council meeting, a different group clad in yellow t-shirts stormed City Hall
in Bellingham. The first group were property rightistas; and despite the communion of color, the second
group in many ways could not be more different from
the first—representatives of the United Food & Commercial Workers International (UFCW) union’s local
chapter, arriving in droves to support Bellingham’s
continued ban on big-box mega-retailers and their
union-bustin’ practices.
Indeed, most of the people who asked City Council
to lift the cap on retail centers in excess of 90,000
square feet were property owners there to assert their
right to turn a tidy profit. The remainder were fixedincome pensioners who purchase the low-cost goods
made possible by low wages. While many flavors of
tea shriek in kettles around the country, rightistas
and pensioners certainly form the bulk of local teabaggery; Whatcom’s movement is a rainbow coalition
of angry white flecked with gray.
The steam of these teabaggers to steep and stew
and boil over with a pissy hiss seems limitless, as
the arrival of Glenn Beck—more carpetbagger than
teabagger—drew thousands to Seattle’s Safeco Field,
and hundreds more to Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall
over the weekend. Many in attendance also wore yellow
t-shirts, these emblazoned with a coiled snake warning, “Don’t tread on me”—an emblem first promoted by
that unlikeliest of teabaggers, anti-dogmatist and scientific Age-of-Reasoner Benjamin Franklin, to promote
national purpose and unity in the divided Colonies. It’s
a symbol more defining the benefits of a union than the
anti-socialism (in the literal sense) of property rightistas or pensionistas (just as the seminal tossing of British tea into Boston harbor sounds a lot like the nation’s
first buy local campaign against global corporatism).
The bible Beck thumped was also heavily promoted
at Sept. 11’s Tea Party event at the Mount Baker Theatre, The 5,000 Year Leap, which the FOX News carny
barker has been pushing since he launched his 9/12
movement in March. That month, a new edition—complete with a new foreword by oily snake charmer Glenn
Beck—hit No. 1 on bestseller charts. Author of this
tome is Mormon fundamentalist and conspiratorialist
W. Cleon Skousen, who, by the time of his death in
2006 at the age of 92, had authored a baker’s dozen of
half-baked books and pamphlets on the Red Menace,
the New World Order, Christian patriotism, and Mormon end-times prophecy.
The crazy comes full circle as the reigning Grand
Master of modern pop conspiracy theory, David Icke,
comes to the Mount Baker Theatre under shadowy sponsorship next week. Icke certainly draws from the same
curved universe of trilateral trysts, Marxian manifestos
and illuminati intrigue as Skousen and, by extension,
Beck. What makes Icke particularly interesting in this
appearance is he was—until his anti-Zionist leanings
turned radioactively anti-Semitic—traditionally seen
as a creature of the Left. The batty Briton once turned
a spell as a huckster for the Green Party movement.
First the Mount Baker Theatre, then down to McIntyre Hall (with the Lincoln Theatre as the bashful
beneficiary of Beckdom), then back to the Mount Baker… and here we thought the liberals had a lock on
the liberal arts. Evidently, all sides converge at the
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OP INIONS
T HE GR I S T L E
BY AMY GOODMAN
Digital Dawn
SCANNING THE HORIZON OF BOOKS AND LIBRARIES
A BATTLE is raging over the
future of books in the digital age
and the role libraries will play.
One case now before a U.S. federal
court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human
knowledge to global Internet search
giant Google. The complex case has
attracted opposition from hundreds
of individuals and groups from
around the planet.
Google announced in 2004 its
plan to digitize millions of books
and make them available online.
Books in the public domain would
be made freely available. Newer
books, published since 1923 and for
which copyright still exists, would
still be online, but only viewable in
what Google called “snippets.” Two
groups, The Authors Guild and the
Association of American Publishers, sued, alleging copyright violations. In October 2008, the groups
and Google announced a settlement to the lawsuits, dubbed the
“Google Book Settlement” (GBS).
Google would pay $125 million and
create a “Books Rights Registry,”
a new organization that would direct funds from the settlement, and
future revenue from book sales, to
the copyright holders. Google would
be empowered to not only display
works, but also to become a massive, online electronic bookstore.
The settlement grants Google,
automatically, permission to scan,
display and sell books that are still
in copyright but are deemed “out of
print,” and for which the copyright
holder cannot be easily found. These
are referred to as “orphan works.”
The status of orphan works has been
the subject of much debate, and
legislation has been proposed to
make orphan works more available
to the public. The GBS gives Google,
and only Google, sole, legal access
to digitize and sell these works.
UC Berkeley Law professor Pamela Samuelson wrote recently, “The
Google Book Search settlement will
be, if approved, the most significant
book industry development in the
modern era ... (and) will transform
the future of the book industry and of
public access to the cultural heritage
of mankind embodied in books.”
Brewster Kahle co-founded the
Internet Archive, a digital library
aspiring to provide “universal access
to human knowledge.” It houses 150
billion Web pages, 200,000 movies,
400,000 audio recordings and more
than 1.6 million texts. Kahle opposes
the GBS. Google scans large library
holdings and returns to each library
digital versions only viewable on a
limited number of computer terminals that Google provides.
I asked Kahle how he sees the
future of libraries. “Libraries as a
physical place to go, I think will
continue,” he said. “But if this
trend continues, if we let Google
make a monopoly here, then what
libraries are in terms of repositories
of books, places that buy books,
own them, be a guardian of them,
will cease to exist. Libraries, going forward, may just be subscribers to a few monopoly corporations’
databases.” Kahle’s version of the
digital library, which he and others
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are building collaboratively, is open
and shareable, without strings attached as with Google’s deal.
After Judge Denny Chin, who is
presiding over the case, called for
public comment, opposition began
flooding in from around the globe,
from the governments of France and
Germany to scores of smaller and foreign publishers, authors and artists,
including folk singer Arlo Guthrie
and author Julia Wright, daughter of
Richard Wright, who wrote the classics “Black Boy” and “Native Son.”
Marybeth Peters, head of the U.S.
Copyright Office, called it an “end
run around legislative process and
prerogatives.” Judge Chin proposed a
“fairness hearing” for Oct. 7 to decide on the Google Book Settlement.
On Sept. 18, the U.S. Department
of Justice filed an opposition brief.
It read, in part, “the breadth of the
Proposed Settlement—especially
the forward-looking business arrangements it seeks to create—
raises significant legal concerns. ...
A global disposition of the rights
to millions of copyrighted works is
typically the kind of policy change
implemented through legislation,
not through a private judicial settlement.” Judge Chin announced a
delay on the hearing. The Open Book
Alliance, along with many others,
applauded the delay and is calling
for an open, transparent process going forward to deal with the future
of book digitization and the issue
of orphan works in a way that best
benefits the public interest.
Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/
radio news hour airing on more than
800 stations in North America.
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squinting eye atop the pyramid. Beck and
Icke are merely different faces of the same
wooden nickel.
“Far more interesting than Beck himself,” columnist Glenn Greenwald observes,
“is the increasingly futile effort to classify the protest movement to which he has
connected himself. Here, too, confusion
reigns. In part, this is due to the fact that
these ‘Tea Party’ and ‘9/12’ protests are
composed of factions with wildly divergent views about most everything. From
paleoconservatives to Ron-Paul-libertarians to LaRouchians to Confederacy-loving,
race-driven Southerners to Christianist
social conservatives to single-issue fanatics (abortion, guns, gays) to standard
Limbaugh-following, Bush-loving Republicans, these protests are an incoherent
mishmash... far from homogeneous.
“All that said,” Greenwald continues,
“there are some identifiable—and plainly
valid—underlying causes to these protests that are neither Republican nor
Democratic, or even left or right. That’s
when conventional political language
ceases to be useful.
“Is opposition to the Wall Street bailout (supported by both parties’ establishments) left or right? How about the view
that Washington is inherently corrupt and
beholden to the richest corporate interests and banks which, through lobbyist
influence and vast financial contributions, own and control our political system? ...Liberals during the Bush era continuously complained about the doubling
of the national debt, a central concern of
many of these ‘tea party’ protesters. Is
the belief that Washington politicians are
destroying the economic security of the
middle class, while the rich grow richer,
a liberal or conservative view? Opposition
to endless wars and bankruptcy-inducing
imperial policy generally finds as much
expression among certain quarters on the
Right as it does on the Left.”
The strangeness, as Greenwald notes,
has far more to do with deep economic
anxiety and anger toward the political establishment than it does allegiance to one
of the two parties or standard left-right
debates.
We’re in the midst of a tiny revolution,
but the partisan leaders of this universal revolt have little in mind other than
a front to restore themselves to power.
That’s the case whether those operatives
want to stamp their initials over another
massive expansion of debt and corporatist abuse in Washington, D.C., or another
round of subdivision boodling and natural
resource plundering here in the northern
tier of the other Washington.
The revolution will wear a yellow tshirt; it’s the well-laundered smell of it
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Bellingham
Public School District will make good on its pledge to parents
to reopen Lowell School at the earliest opportunity next year, the school board decided last week.
While that news draws a lot of the sting out of this year’s Bellingham Public School District board races,
challenges are still steep. Foremost, perhaps, is the debate over the future of Bellingham’s aging neighborhood
schools, a debate the prolonged closure of Lowell intensified, but a debate no less hot for other neighborhoods
like Sunnyland and Columbia.
The curriculum facing school board members is multi-disciplinary and requires lots of homework.
The lesson plan includes the selection of a new district superintendent following news last month that Ken
Vedra, at the BPSD helm less than two years, seized an exotic offer to head schools in Abu Dhabi. The state has
deemphasized its WASL standardized educational assessment, even as the federal government retreated from the
“No Child Left Behind” mandates that prompted the WASL, spelling a whole different emphasis on education. Finally, there is the math puzzle—the collapse of state revenues in an economic downturn to challenge Washington
schools already woefully underfunded in comparison to national averages.
We quizzed the school board candidates.
You, the voter, get to grade their answers:
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ROGAN JONES
MICHAEL JAY
SCOTT STOCKBURGER
Accountant and
instructor
Business leader
and concerned parent
Dedicated and
experienced teacher
Family practice physician
SS: The primary reason I
got into this race was
this idea of “every child
needs to go to college.”
And while the definition
of that can include a twoyear, a four-year college
or beyond, I think there
needs to be more emphasis placed on better opportunities for kids.
Not everybody’s going
to go to college. Now—
those kids that do, we
need to provide them
with every opportunity
RJ: For me, it began by helping pass that big levy, the
$67 million levy in 2005.
The intent of that levy
was to preserve schools and
to build out the district as
enrollment increased. Now,
that levy never would have
passed if we’d told the town
we’re going to build two
new elementary schools on
the outskirts of town and
close existing schools. The
people of Bellingham never
would have voted for that,
but that is—in effect—
MJ: My number one issue
really has to do with the
representation of the
community on the school
board. Communication is
very important, because
the school board sets
the policy by which the
schools are run.
I think the school board
also sets the direction for
the superintendent, and I
think sometimes that relationship has been confused. I would like to help
change that.
SS: I was encouraged to run by
my friends and neighbors. I
also have two kids, so I am going to be intimately involved
in public schools for the next
12 years or so, so I feel a certain desperation about my own
kids’ education. This is their
one shot and I want to make
sure our schools are as good
as they can be. So I’m not really looking at things in terms
of the distant future, but how
good we can make schools in
the next few years.
The big issue is going to be
budget cuts and how we’re go-
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ing to handle the fact
we’re going to get less
money from the state
next year and the year
after that, in all probability. The real challenge we have to face
as a community is how we’re going to
balance the budget for our public schools
and how we’re going to choose to deal
with the loss of that state funding.
CW: As people approached you to run on
their behalf, what were their issues?
SS: Of course, the big issue is the idea of
neighborhood schools, and smaller elementary schools versus larger elementary schools. A lot of people saw Wade
King, and all of the kids that were being
bused to Wade King, as well as the plans
for the school on Aldrich Road. They saw
those plans juxtaposed to plans to close
smaller schools as a major shift in how
we did public education in Bellingham.
This past spring, during the discussion on budget cuts there were proposals made to close a lot of small elementary schools—Columbia, Parkview,
Larrabee, Lowell were all mentioned
because they were smaller schools and
older schools.
Many people believe there are economics of scale and we should put our
kids in bigger schools where we can have
financial efficiency based on fewer staff
and fewer administrators, a centralized
approach. But I think the majority of
people in our community really believe
that what makes Bellingham special are
the neighborhoods, and the small elementary schools are part of that.
CW: It’s interesting to me that the same
planning issues about building a tight,
walkable community are finding root in
our debate about schools.
SS: I think this is what really got people
excited about the idea of running for
school board. There were proposals to
build schools on the outskirts of town,
which would necessitate closing down
the older schools and putting kids on
buses. That that actually represented a
cultural shift and not simply a way to
save money.
Periodically there will be people who
speak up to say that schools like Lowell should be closed to save money. But
there are smaller schools that are even
more vulnerable, such as Larrabee that
has its own principal and administration. Birchwood and Columbia have been
mentioned as places with schools that
are too small as well.
I think a lot of the larger issues facing
the city are only coming to the attention
of the school board just now.
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As I pointed out
at the last school
board
meeting,
you can say you’d
like to have better communication
with the community, but that means two-way communication. It’s not, as in worst cases, a dictum
from the board in laying it all out, but
it is really being available and listening
to the community. And I don’t mean in
just the three minutes that are allowed
for the public to present and comment to
the board.
CW: It’s ironic you’re so invested in the
process of Lowell School when you’re the
only candidate running who doesn’t live on
South Hill.
MJ: I do think I bring a perspective as being someone who does not live within the
city’s boundaries—I live in Geneva—and
I serve as PTSA president in Squalicum,
where there are at least two schools that
aren’t within the city’s boundary. Geneva
and Alderwood are not within the boundaries, and that creates unique issues.
Neither of those schools can have access to certain education grants, for example, because they are not inside city
boundaries. So we need a special understanding of those issues.
At Squalicum, many of the roads
leading to the high school are county roads. At certain times of the year
it can be like an ice skating rink up
there, but the road maintenance is
within county jurisdiction. Trying to
get the city and county to collaborate
to make sure access to that school is
safe and open means working with two
very different organizations.
CW: Is Lowell a symbol of issues facing other
older neighborhood schools in Bellingham?
MJ: There are many pieces to that question. To plan a school takes a fair amount
of time and has to be done in conjunction with other plans. The school board,
for example, has very little control over
where populations live and grow, where
children will be raised.
If you look at the planning that went
into the school on Yew Street, there was
supposed to be a connector, better access from Sudden Valley, but many of
those assumptions and commitments
changed through time. Is that now the
ideal place for a school? It’s not even the
right question to ask right now. Now it is
about trying to make the most out of the
resource that we have.
I think it is horrific that we don’t have
a school out in Sudden Valley right now,
given impacts of transportation to the
lake.
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what we’ve gotten.
I was a member of the Citizens
Advisory
Committee
in
2005,
where
we attempted to understand coming enrollment. But we’re about
600 students off our estimate of
enrollment. The proposed budget
cuts brought me back into this, and
made me realize that this would be
on my conscience if we were closing
schools based on some of the work
we came to on that committee.
So I am running both to shed
light on the issue that we are planning school construction around
enrollment numbers that just aren’t
there, and to effect some changes
in those policies and plans on the
school board.
But central to my campaign is
that we have a really good school
district. We out-test the state, and
we out-test the nation. There are a
lot of problems and challenges in
education, but we’re not a problem
district. In aggregate, we are doing a
great job and we don’t need to be going down a massive reform agenda.
The 800 teachers and administrators in our district are doing a
hell of a job. They need to be supported and encouraged.
If you believe we have a good
school district, it’s worth preserving, not reforming. I want to keep
the emphasis where it belongs.
CW: Your first task may be to help select
the new superintendent.
RJ: Ideally what’s needed is inclusive
leadership.
I think certain aspects of our district haven’t gotten the attention
they deserve, and I am thinking here
of members of our community that
haven’t been part of the district’s dicussion. Neighborhood associations.
Teachers. Parents.
CW: Will the district lose access to
levy funds if school construction is
delayed?
RJ: Yes; I think we need to ’fess up
and admit Wade King was built before Aldrich, out of sequence with
the plan. The board deviated from
that plan and we need to explain to
the community why that was done.
It’s a really good question whether those levy funds could be lost. I
think they will. I am not sure when
that clock starts ticking for their
use.
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to succeed. But where
I think we’re missing
out is on that other
end—kids who want
to be auto mechanics, kids who want to
be plumbers. I want to
create opportunities for them.
CW: What challenges face BPSD?
SS: The biggest issue for the next year
is figuring out the new superintendent.
That’s huge.
Number one, the superintendent
has to be a team-builder. He or she
will have to have great people skills.
One thing I’ve appreciated about Ken
Vedra is he pushed out responsibility
to the individual schools. He allowed
them to make their own decisions,
and I would like to see that continue,
to give them the flexibility to make
good choices for kids.
You know, Bellingham schools are
pretty good, but for a lot of years we
went along and didn’t have anyone
come in and challenge us. And I think
Vedra came along and shook things
up a bit, and that’s good. He got the
board on a new governance structure, so instead of having the board
manage the day-to-day business, the
board is now focused more on policy
issues—“Where do we want to go?”
CW: Is Lowell school symbolic of larger issues facing our neighborhood schools?
SS: In my mind, it was always the case
that Lowell would reopen. I never
doubted that.
But now we have Wade King; and
we have Happy Valley, Larrabee and
Lowell. Happy Valley and Lowell are
about a mile apart, and Larrabee is
right in the middle of them. Are there
enough kids to fill those schools? I
don’t know that answer, but it is a
critical question.
Traditionally Larrabee has pulled a
lot from Lake Samish and down along
Chuckanut, so it didn’t fit the mold
of a neighborhood school because
kids weren’t walking there anyway.
I do think Larrabee could be at risk
because of enrollment issues. It takes
about $400-$500,000 just in fixed
costs to run a school.
I supported the district’s decision
to delay the reopening of Lowell school
to save about $450,000. That was a difficult decision, but those savings were
used to rehire most of the 63 teachers
that were given pink slips last spring. I
believe the choice was between having
fewer teachers and reopening Lowell, I
believe it was the best use of that money to rehire the teachers.
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GOV. CHRIS Gregoire praised the Port
of Bellingham’s new Waterfront Innovation
Zone as among the first of several public-private partnerships in the state that may kickstart Washington state out of recession.
“In these times, you look forward to
things to celebrate,” Gregoire admitted.
A crowd of nearly 300 local business leaders and elected officials greeted the governor’s remarks as she dedicated the facility
Monday. Guests included U.S. Congressman
Rick Larsen, Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike,
Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen,
and state Sen. Kevin Ranker and Rep. Kelli
Linville. Gregoire thanked Western Washington University President Bruce Shepherd
and Bellingham Technical College president
Thomas Eckert, who shared the podium with
her, for their joint efforts to foster the new
Technology Development Center.
The center forms the nucleus of Bellingham’s Waterfront Innovation Zone, one of 11
other similar zones envisioned statewide.
An adaptive reuse of the 10,000-squarefoot Georgia-Pacific tissue warehouse, the
Technology Development Center was created through a partnership between the
port, WWU, and BTC. The facility may serve
as a regional hub to provide technological
training, engineering development and research for both colleges.
The Innovation Partnership Zone program was developed two years ago by Gregoire and the Legislature to stimulate the
growth of industry clusters in an effort to
build regional economies.
Port Commissioner Scott Walker said he
hopes “many local and regional private
companies will use this center to develop
future products.”
Among early projects envisioned for the
facility are marine propulsion technologies that might reduce the wake of waterborne craft. Larsen and Eckert described
the facility as offering the potential to
become a development center for other
clean marine technologies.
“When you think of the thousands of aging marine craft at sea burning bunker oil,
the market is certainly there,” Eckert said.
“We need to focus on job creation,” Larsen observed. “There’s still a long way to
go.”
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Mount Vernon City Council distances itself from Mayor Bud Norris’
plan to honor native son, controversial broadcaster Glenn Beck, on Saturday. Critics of Beck submit a petition of 16,000 to the council in hopes
of keeping him from getting the key to the city. Council members pass a
resolution making it clear they don’t endorse the event.
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The pretty new green jerseys of the Seattle Seahawks are
quickly stained with grass as the team is mauled in the final
minutes by the Chicago Bears, 25-19.
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Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Steven Mura says he needs
more information before he can decide whether a court-appointed arbitrator has the right to order the destruction of a city report. In July,
an arbtirator ordered the city to pay Matia Contractors $240,000 to a
The City of Bellingham releases the dreaded environmental
impact statement for Fairhaven Highlands. Turns out there
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classroom is a place of industry
and experiment where every moment is precious and is often still
full of students long after the bell
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The Bellingham School Board agrees to reopen Lowell School in the
fall of 2010, completing a promise to parents and removing a potential
thorn in coming school board elections. Lowell was temporarily closed
for upgrades and remained shuttered for budgetary reasons.
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Mount Vernon Mayor Bud Norris (pictured in the sign held aloft) managed to present Fox News personality Glenn Beck with a ceremonial key to the city. Saturday
evening’s event was preceded by weeks of protests and petitions calling for the
cancellation of “Glenn Beck Day.” Crowd estimates put the number of protesters and
supports outside the sold-out event at close to 800, the largest protest anybody
could remember in sleepy Skagit.
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on Bellingham’s waterfront. Challengers say they’d like to revisit that
plan in light of economic changes. The challengers also support a
more thorough environmental cleanup and comprehensive transportation plan.
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The Whatcom Humane Society
board of directors names the
charismatic interim director of the
organization, Laura Clark, as the
new executive director. More than
half the board resigned over the
proposed appointment of Ed Boks
to the position after Penny Cistaro
left in May to manage a Sacramento, Calif., animal control program.
Boks, who headed animal control
agencies in New York and Los
Angeles, was forced to resign over
legal issues in both places. Clark
has been the Whatcom Humane
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NATURE’S PATH
On Sept. 22, a truck smashed into the
gate of a business on Nature’s Path
Way in Blaine while jockeying to receive a load of cargo. The driver tried
a second time to back up to the loading dock, only to smash into a second fence. Police checked to see if he
was impaired by drugs or alcohol and
learned, but no, he just wasn’t a very
good driver.
On Aug. 30, a Blaine resident reported
that while walking in an alleyway, a
motorist drove into the alley very fast,
forcing her to have to jump out of the
way. The driver explained she had just
driven into the alley when the mother
of her boyfriend suddenly stepped out
in front of her and started banging
on the hood of her car. “Officers were
not able to reconcile the disparate accounts into a cohesive whole,” police
admitted, prosecutor for review. “In
the meantime, the walker and driver
were advised to stay out of each others way.”
On Sept. 15, a woman told Blaine
Police she was riding a bus when a
stranger beside her suddently told
her to stop talking about religion.
She had not been talking
about religion. But she
does discuss religion,
she said, online on a
social networking website. She suspects the
man might have been
referring to that, and
feared he might be stalking her. “She was not able
to identify the man,” police
reported, “but will be watching
for him. Closely.”
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On Sept. 24, Everett prosecutors
charged five baristas with engaging
in prostitution at an Everett bikini
espresso stand. The action follows a
two-month undercover police investigation into complaints the women
were selling more than coffee. Detectives say the women, ages 18 to 24,
were charging up to $80 to strip down
and flash customers while fixing lattés and mochas. According to charging documents, investigators saw the
women expose their crotches, lick
whipped cream off their co-workers’
private parts and pose naked for pictures inside the Grab-n-Go Espresso
stand on Broadway. Detectives also observed some
of the women charging customers to touch
their bare breasts and
naked buttocks. Detectives say the women encouraged customers to
play “basketball”—a game
in which customers were allowed to throw wadded up
money at the women, who caught
the money in their underpants. Everett police have received more than 40
complaints about various bikini coffee stands around the Everett area.
On Sept. 23, a man told Bellingham
Police he’d allowed some street folks
to spend the night in his apartment
in the Birchwood neighborhood. When
he woke up, he found his shoes were
missing. He admitted he didn’t know
these downtown folks very well, but
evidently he was not deterred in his
friendly hospitality when they told
him they were associated with the Insane Clown Posse street gang.
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On Sept. 21, Bellingham Police spoke
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On Sept. 22, a Blaine resident reported seeing two wayward Basset hounds
crossing through his front yard. A
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minutes earlier to report he was looking for his two missing Basset hounds.
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AUTHORITIES QUESTION ALFIE KOHN’S
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“MOST BOOKS and seminars for parents offer advice for getting children to be ‘well behaved’ and to do what they’re told,” observes education
critic Alfie Kohn. “If we think beyond the current moment, however, most
of us would like our kids to grow into courageous, assertive, moral people—
independent thinkers who are willing to fight injustices.”
Perhaps; but the thought of two dozen bright, assertive young minds ready
to assert themselves in one small classroom is enough to make teachers awake
screaming at night. Maybe that’s why Bellingham School District thought it was
safer to refuse to circulate information about Kohn’s Oct. 9 visit to Bellingham.
Kohn has been described by Time magazine as “perhaps the country’s most
outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” Author
of 11 books, his criticisms of competition and rewards have helped to shape
the thinking of educators—as well as parents and managers—across the country and
abroad. Kohn believes many education practices so overburden young children he urges
parents to take a stand against them.
The acting director of Bellingham School
District, Sherrie Brown, thought these calls
for revolution sounded in conflict with district plans and goals and refused to distribute details of Kohn’s lecture.
“Apparently, the program talks about
the elimination of homework and grades,”
district secretary Marilyn Grams explained.
“We do require homework, so it was felt the
information was inconsistent with our mission.” Brown was unavailable for comment.
Kohn scoffs.
“My approach is that what matters most is
what helps kids to become deep thinkers who
love learning, so it’s
distressing to learn
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mission. But it’s even
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to tell teachers and parents there’s an opportunity to hear a different perspective?
That is very unusual, and I would be outraged if I was a parent or teacher affiliated with that district.
CW: Tell me about your perspective on
learning.
AK: Well, I begin with the notion that we
ought to be more interested in helping
kids to become excited about ideas than
raising test scores, or in making students
jump through hoops.
I love to see classrooms where the curriculum is organized around kids’ questions about themselves and the world,
where problems and projects drive the
investigation across academic disciplines,
rather than by memorizing forgettable
facts and the practice of skills by rote.
I’m not opposed to facts and skills, but I
think they should be learned in a context
and for a purpose.
CW: It sounds as if you’re trying to foster
curiosity.
AK: Curiosity doesn’t have to be fostered;
we just have to make sure we don’t kill
it. Kids come in with a curiosity, with a
thousand questions to know how things
work. Unfortunately, research has found
that traditional schooling tends to dampen that curiosity so that kids have less of
a disposition to discover and learn by the
end of elementary school than they did at
the beginning.
CW: How does that dampening occur?
AK: Number one, by excluding kids from
decisions about what will be learned and
when and how and why. Just like adults,
kids like to have some say in what they do
all day. They not only are happier when
they are consulted, they tend to do better
quality learning.
Number two, we teach kids that learning isn’t only a goal in its own right, it’s a
means to the end of getting some goodie—such as getting a sticker, or someone
else’s approval, or—worst of all—being
able to triumph another kid when we set
them against one another. This is why the
best schools do not use grades, because
research overwhelmingly finds that when
kids are focused on trying to get better
grades they become less excited about
what they’re learning and they learn it in
a more superficial fashion.
The next way we kill that curiosity is
by turning learning into something that
is measurable by tests, even though we
know good thinking can’t be reduced
merely to measurable numbers.
Finally, by treating kids as isolated
selves, as individuals stationed at his or
her own desk, rather than creating a community of learners so that kids can prod
and challenge and learn from one another.
CW: And yet you’ve championed a fierce spirit
of the individual to think critically.
AK: No; I don’t think critical thinking requires individualism at all. In fact, I’m
POE TRY NIGHT: Sign up to read from your
written verse at the weekly Poetry Night at
8pm at the Anker Café, 1424 Cornwall Ave.
Readings begin at 8:30pm.
POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., OCT. 6
GOOD T IMES GONE: Julie Whitesel Weston
reads from her autobiographical tome, The
Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and
Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town, at 7pm at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
WED., OCT. 7
AMERICAN JOURNE Y: Michael Rosen shares
his autobiographical book, What Else but
Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey
between the Projects and the Penthouse, at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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WEDNESDAY MARKE T: The final Wednesday
Market of the season can be visited from 125pm at the Fairhaven Village Green.
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CANDIDATE FORUM: The League of Women
Voters will host a general election Candidate
Forum from 6:30-9:15pm at Bellingham City
Hall, 210 Lottie St. Seating is limited, so
come early.
734-2366
THURS., OCT. 1
DOMEST IC VIOLENCE VIGIL: As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, attend at
opening vigil at 6pm at the Whatcom County
Courthouse, 311 Grand Ave. The Kulshan Chorus will also perform at the free event. At
5pm Tues., attend a Labyrinth Walk for Healing at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal.
312-5700 OR DVCOMMISSION.ORG
FRI., OCT. 2
BLOCK PART Y: Attend a “Block Party” during the downtown Art Walk from 6-10pm at
the Center for Expressive Arts and Experiential Education, 1317 Commercial St. Live music, games, performances and more will raise
funds for Amy’s Place, which offers teens on
FASHION SHOW: A “Fall Fling Fashion
Show” occurs from 11am-2pm at the Bellingham Golf & Country Club, 3729 Meridian St.
Tickets for the Assistance League fundraiser
are $40 and include lunch.
380-5877
SALMON AND AUC T ION: An annual Auction and Salmon Dinner can be had at 5pm
at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center, 315
Halleck St. Entry to the fundraiser is $15.
734-4030
BEAUT Y BAR: Spa services, trunk shows,
fashion shows, booze and much more will
be available when Project Bham brings back
the ever-popular Beauty Bar from 7:30pm to
midnight at the Nightlight Lounge, 211 E.
Chestnut St. Tickets are $10 and proceeds
will benefit DVSAS.
PROJECTBHAM.COM OR
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OCT. 3-4
TRAIN SHOW: From 9am-5pm Sat. and
10am-4pm Sun., attend the Lynden Lions’
annual Model Train and Circus Builders Show
at the town’s Northwest Washington Fairgrounds. Entry is $4-$5, or $15 per family.
371-0718
SUN., OCT. 4
ROME BREAKFAST: Attend the monthly
Community Breakfast from 8am-1pm at the
Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker Hwy. In addition to pancakes and French toast, get served
by local political candidates. Entry is $2 for
kids and $5 for adults.
671-7862
WED., OCT. 7
GREEN DRINK S: If you’re interested in
Green Drinks, a monthly social get-together
with likeminded environmentally conscious
folks happening tonight from 5-7pm, check
out the website below for location details.
RE-SOURCES.ORG
THURS., OCT. 8
SPEAKER SERIES: Carmen Werder will give
a talk on “Healing Healthcare: Confrontation
or Conversation?” as part of the YWCA’s fall
Speaker Series at noon at 1026 N. Forest St.
Tickets are $12 and include beverages and
dessert.
734-4820 OR YWCABELLINGHAM.ORG
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BELLINGHAM MARKE T: The Bellingham
Farmers Market is open for business from
10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, located at Railroad Avenue and Chestnut Street.
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T IMELINE HISTORY: Historians Paula Becker and Alan Stein will share slides culled from
images for their book, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition, Washington’s First World’s Fair: A
Timeline History, at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
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MOUNT VERNON MARKE T: The Mount Vernon Farmers Market occurs from 9am-3pm
every Saturday through October in downtown
Mount Vernon.
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FERNDALE MARKE T: The Ferndale Farmers
Market happens from 9am-3pm every Saturday through Oct. 17 at the Riverwalk on Main
Street.
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DAVID ICKE: British writer and public
speaker David Icke, dubbed “one of the most
controversial speakers of our time,” will give
a seven-hour presentation focusing on the
Global Elite and the Shadow Government
starting at 11am at the Mount Baker Theatre,
104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $50-$75.
734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
ANACORTES MARKE T: From 9am-2pm every
Saturday through Oct. 10, make your way to
the Anacortes Farmers Market in downtown
Mount Vernon.
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BANNED BOOK S DOC: As part of Banned
Books Week, watch the documentary Jailed
for Their Words at 7pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St. The event is free.
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the schools in need of help and setting
unreachable goals that benefit no one
except private tutoring agencies.
CW: You are ultimately arguing that invigorating education can make better citizens.
AK: Yes, if by “citizen” you mean people who
are active participants in a democratic society. As opposed to “docile employees”
who will make sure Microsoft’s profits exceed that of its competitors.
Whenever I hear people talk about
education’s role in “competitiveness in
the global economy,” I start to sweat.
I find it deeply offensive. And the practical consequences of framing education as no more than a means toward
toward greater profitability is devastating, framed in purely economic terms,
when the entire thrust of education—
every parent’s hope for his or her child—
should be toward creating a richer, fuller
personal life.
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sible—and more importantly schools
should be small—but some schools have
managed to make this kind of learning
happen despite limited budgets.
There are schools in New York City
under terrible budget limitations. They
have only so many staff members and
so they’ve decided to cut down on the
number of administrators and specialists
in order to have a lower student-teacher
ratio. They have set some priorities about
the way money is spent. For example,
they are not going to fritter it away on
packaged curriculum materials when they
can use it to buy real books—the kind
you find in libraries.
It is certainly possible, without increasing costs, to give kids more say about
what they’re learning and for the learning
to be richer and more engaging, even if
the class size is higher than we’d like.
CW: Do you find educators surprised by your
approach to learning?
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AK: A lot depends on whether I am talking
to classroom teachers or people higher
up the hierarchy.
The idea, for example, of a standardized curriculum enforced by standardized
tests becomes more appealing to you the
farther removed you are from real children
in real classrooms. State decision makers
and legislators are far more enamored of
this “accountability” fad with its corporate-style, test-driven approach to school
reform than are district superintendents.
And so on, down the chain.
CW: You said “fad.” You called it a “corporate” approach.
AK: Yes, it’s a series of interlocking rewards
and punishments to mandate a curriculum
by authorities and companies far removed
from classrooms, and to confuse higher
test scores with better learning. Elements of this have been in vogue, on and
off for many decades, but it has picked
up steam in the last two decades, to the
point where there are some teachers who
cannot even remember a time when the
goal was to enrich thinking rather than
to raise scores on terrible multiple choice
tests, like the WASL.
Some of us in the late ’90s thought we
had hit bottom, and then the floor broke
and we found ourselves in a basement
we didn’t know existed. What should
be called the “Many Child Left Behind”
act is a punitive act created by people
who were primarily opponents of public
schooling. They created an extremely effective argument for privatizing the way
we are educating our children by hurting
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more interested in creating a community
of critical thinkers.
It’s a common misperception in this
country that in order to challenge authority, to be skeptical of claims that are
made, to move off in new and innovative
directions, it’s all about individuals.
In fact, when you put critical thinking and choice together with a community, you get something called democracy,
which is unfamiliar to people in this country and certainly in our schools.
The majority of schools, sadly, are
more about getting kids to comply with
rules, whether or not those rules are
reasonable, to memorize facts on standardized tests, even though the costs
to kids, and ultimately to our whole society, are painfully high.
If you begin with a few basic premises about taking kids seriously and taking thinking seriously, as well as wanting
to work with students to solve problems
rather than doing things to the students
to make them obey authority, then you
are led to question a whole bunch of practices that we’ve been encouraged to take
for granted—such as schooling that is
based on lectures, worksheets, textbooks,
homework, grades and tests.
CW: With classroom sizes growing and school
budgets shrinking, can schools take this
more open, proactive approach to learning?
I suspect many educators might agree with
your approach if the resources were there.
AK: We have plenty of evidence to the
contrary from all over the world. I believe classes should be small when pos-
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ST IMPSON HIKE: Join members of
the Mount Baker Club for an evening
hike at the Stimpson Family Nature
Reserve tonight. Meet at 5:30pm at
Sunnyland Elementary to carpool, or
at 5:45pm at the trailhead.
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EDGE OF NEVER: Learn about life,
death and dreams in the world’s
most dangerous mountains when the
ski film, The Edge of Never, premieres
at 7pm at the Mount Baker’s Walton
Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $20.
734-6080 OR
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OF ALL the rote, labor-intensive tasks I’ve thrown myself into during my farflung career as a backcountry trail crew leader, it has never ceased to astound
me just how much of my time and energy gets sucked away teaching otherwise
perfectly able-bodied and seemingly highly intelligent Americans how to walk.
Sometimes such ambulatory tutelage requires little more than offering
tips—like how to swing their arms to help build or reduce momentum or that
they can always lock their knees to give themselves a “rest step” on steep
ascents.
But unfortunately, more often than not, it comes down to fundamentals:
gait and balance, hind-foot/fore-foot, breathing techniques, elastic vaulting,
required footwear and basic foot care.
Ridiculous as it may sound, I have actually spent several days of my life instructing and re-instructing hundreds of tweens, teenagers, college students
and college graduates how to properly lace and tie their boots.
Although I would be remiss not to admit that doing whatever I can, when
and wherever I can, to mitigate the insidious, ever-expanding phenomena
known as “mind-body disconnect” generates no small amount of joy deep
down to the very bottom of my shaggy Neanderthal soul, I can’t deny the fact
that such a glaring deficiency among the younger generations causes me no
small concern about the direction this nation is heading.
If the United States of America can find enough resources to build pilotless
war drones, send robots to Mars and make diesel fuel out of French fry grease,
just how exactly is it that we can’t seem to muster up the wherewithal to
teach our children how to put one foot in front of the other?
Making a big old brouhaha out of something
so seemingly mundane as a daily school commute might appear excessive on the surface,
but when you consider the fact that nearly onethird of our nation’s entire population—50 million primary and secondary students, 18 million
college students, along with 7 million teachers, administrators and support staff—is either
driving or being bussed back and forth to some
sort of learning institution on a daily basis, the
far-reaching revolutionary cultural and environmental impacts of said endeavor come more
clearly into focus.
Feel like helping to reduce petroleum consumption, traffic congestion and air/water/
noise/light pollution?
Interested in shedding a few pounds, lowering your blood pressure and minimizing the
chances of being eventually stricken with diabetes, cancer or heart disease?
Need some fresh air?
Wednesday, Oct. 7
you and your family are
cordially invited to join
several millions citizens
from dozens of countries around the world
in leaving your vehicle
at home and taking it
to the streets in cele// )
bration of the 10th anWHAT: International
nual International Walk
Walk to School Day
to School Day.
WHEN: Wed., Oct. 7
WHERE: Everywhere
In case you haven’t
COST: Free
noticed, the vast and
INFO: walktoschool.org
ever increasing number
of pedestrian-friendly
improvements being made to our greenways,
sidewalks and transit system here in greater
Whatcom County are making it easier, safer and
more efficient than ever to free ourselves from
the heavy burden of foreign oil and fuel combustion engines and travel the globe in peace.
Walking to school might not solve all the
world’s problems, but it’ll definitely be a step
or two in a healthier direction.
CLIMBING SHOW: Blake Herrington, a Bellingham native, will
host a slideshow and talk focused on
“Climbing Around the Hemisphere:
Storms and Success in Patagonia and
Alaska” at 8pm at Backcountry Essentials, 214 W. Holly St. Suggested
donation is $3.
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OCT. 1-4
FALL BOAT SHOW: More than 70
boats of varying styles and types
will be on display at the annual Fall
Boat Show through Sunday on the
docks of Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes. Entry is free.
ANACORTESBOATSHOW.COM
SAT., OCT. 3
BAKER LAKE 50K: Head to Concrete to watch the start of the Baker
Lake 50K, which follows an undulating trail along, you guessed it, Baker
Lake.
BAKERLAKE50K.COM
RACE FOR THE END: Help raise
awareness about domestic violence
and benefit DVSAS and Womencare
Shelter at today’s “Race for the End”
starting at 9:30am at the Bloedel
Donovan Gym, 2214 Electric Ave.
The cost for the 5-10K run is $15,
and participants are urged to raise
extra funds.
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ROSE CARE: A free “Fall Rose Care”
gardening workshop begins at 10am
at Bakerview Nursery, 945 E. Bakerview Rd. At 2pm, show up for a
“Fall Lawn Care” workshop.
676-0400
TREE GIVEAWAY: Farmers Growing
Trees for Salmon will host a free community tree giveaway from 10am4pm today and again Oct. 10 and
17 at Blaine’s Van Wingerden Garden
Center, 8210 Portal Way. Seedlings
to choose from include Sitka Spruce,
Western Red Cedar, and Doug Fir.
354-1337 OR WCFARMFRIENDS.COM
SOLAR TOUR DAY: The 14th year
of National Solar Tour Day includes
a Bellingham Solar Tour throughout
the day. Pick up a guide at the Bellingham Farmers Market or check it
out online.
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COASTAL OBSERVAT ION: The
Coastal Observation and Seabird
MOONLIGHT RAMBLE: Listen to live music
and try out for raffle prizes before heading out to explore at tonight’s “Bike Bellingham Moonlight Ramble” from 9pm-1pm
starting at WWU’s Wade King Student Recreation Center. Cost is $15-$25; proceeds
benefit the Pickford Film Center.
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naturalists from the Nooksack Salmon
Enhancement Association and members
of the Community Boating Center for a
“Sunset Salmon Ecology Paddle.” Cost is
$70 per person.
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WORK PART Y: Join folks from Village
Books for a trail work party from 1-3pm on
the South Bay Trail. Meet at the trailhead
at the corner of 10th Street and Douglas
Avenue, and dress appropriately.
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Survey Team will offer a free training
session for those interested in monitoring potential changes in the marine environment from 12:30-4:30pm at the RE
Store, 2309 Meridian St. Please register
in advance.
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FEST IVAL OF FARMS: The 11th annual
Festival of Family Farms happens from
10am-4pm throughout the Skagit Valley. Thirteen farms will participate in
the event, which features everything
from educational tours to hay rides, farm
equipment displays, food sampling and
much, much more. Admission and parking is free. Check out the website for a
full listing of participants.
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FRUIT FEST IVAL: From 10am-5pm Sat.
and 11am-4pm Sun., take part in the
20th annual Fruit Festival happening
at Everson’s Cloud Mountain Farm, 6906
Goodwin Rd. Live music by Lindsay Street
will complement copious fruit samplings,
a pumpkin patch, cider pressing and lots
of fun for the kids. Entry is $2.50 per person or $6 per carload.
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PLAYGROUND OR PRESERVE: John
Miles will talk about his book, Wilderness
in National Parks: Playground or Preserve,
at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
WED., OCT. 7
RAVEN TALK: David Drummond of the
Merlin Falcon Foundation give a free presentation on “Iconic Ravens” at 6pm at
REI, 400 36th St.
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a stand against hunger in the world at
today’s “CROP Hunger Walk” starting at
2pm at the Fairhaven Village Green.
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BREAST CANCER WALK: Mt. Baker
Planned Parenthood will host a 5K to
bring awareness to—and raise funds
for—early detection of breast cancer
starting at 1pm at Bellingham’s Depot
Market Square. Free mammograms will be
available onsite. Entry is $20 and costumes are encouraged.
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FAITH COUNT Y: The Lynden Performing Arts Guild performs its run of Faith
County at 7:30pm Wed.-Sat. at the Claire
vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets
are $8-$12 and performances continue
through Oct. 18.
354-4425 OR CLAIREVGTHEATRE.ORG
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AGE IS JUST A NUMBER
WHEN ASKED
how old she’ll be on her impending birthday, Noemi
Ban laughs and flutters her eyelashes before answering, “Seventeen, of
course!”
While those looking at Ban can figure out she’s no longer a flirty teenager—
she’ll be 88 by the time these words are printed—her infectious grin and easy
laughter make it easy to see the scrappy kid and beautiful young woman she
must’ve once been. That’s what makes it so difficult to reconcile the fact that,
in 1944, Ban and her family were spirited away from their home in Hungary,
sent in cattle cars to a concentration camp with the horrible, guttural name
of Auschwitz and separated—never to be reunited—with the flick of a Nazi
soldier’s whip.
When Ban takes the stage Oct. 1 for the debut of “Wrinkles…Grace in Time,”
audiences can get a clearer picture of what it took for her to survive.
As part of Western Washington University instructor Pam Kuntz’s latest
collaboration between community members and local dancers, Ban and
the four other silver-haired women highlighted in the performance will
share experiences—and some canny moves—from their long and varied
existences. Recent WWU graduates Paige Fredlund and Sarah Schermer,
along with Kuntz, will add to the mix with dance and dialogue that help
propel the stories forward.
In addition to hearing about the heady
decision Ban made to stay alive while being surrounded by people who wanted to see
her die, audiences will also discover more
life lessons via the stories of the four other
women, the youngest of whom is a spry 71.
First, there’s poetry in motion with Dorothy Regal, who penned missives set to dance
that focus on the folly of men, daughters
becoming mothers and likening an aging
body to a high-maintenance structure that
requires a boatload of cash to operate. Lynette Allen tap-dances her way through a
lifetime of love and farewells, and Marge
Moench shows that, hell, if you’re living,
you’re still dying, so it’s better to live. Ban’s
tale is next, followed by a fleet-footed duet
with Barbara Sylvester and dancer Schermer
that has them volleying both verbally and
on the dance floor.
Along the way, you’ll
learn more about all
five women, and the
things they’ve discovered through the decades that have kept
them on their feet.
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During the intermission, while the
performers visited the restroom or got a
glass of water, Ban stopped to warn me that
her piece might not be as cheery as the others, as she was a Holocaust survivor. When I
watched her story unfold, though, I thought
the opposite. As she told of the orchestra
comprised of prisoners that provided a lifeline to the outside world, I saw that hers is
a story of resilience and hope. Don’t take
life for granted, she says. Enjoy the time
you have. It’s a message that bears repeating, no matter what your age is.
GOOD, BAD, UGLY, BASSPROV: Catch “The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm,
show up for a special show with BASSprov,
an acclaimed two-man improv group from
Chicago who portray blue-collar guys that
spend their free time fishing and talking about sports. Cost is $3 for the early
show, $6 for the late one.
733-8855 OR THEUPFRONT.COM
OCT. 1-4
BRIGHTON BEACH: Neil Simon’s coming-ofage play, Brighton Beach Memoirs, continues with performances at 8pm Thurs.-Sat.
and 2pm Sun. at the Bellingham Theatre
Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets are $7-$11 and
additional showings happen Oct. 8-11.
733-1811 OR
BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM
OCT. 2-3
CHARLIE BROWN: The Fourth Corner
Theatre presents its version of the You’re
A Good Man, Charlie Brown musical at 7pm
at the Lynden Pioneer Museum, 217 Front
St. Tickets are $8-$12.
966-5670 OR 4THCORNER.ORG
MID-LIFE MUSICAL: Mid-Life Crisis: The
Musical shows at 7:30pm every Friday and
Saturday through Oct. 17 at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, 100 E.
Montgomery St. Tickets are $35 with dinner or $20 for dessert and the show.
(360) 336-3012 OR
RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM
SERIAL PLAY: Glenn Hergenhahn’s serial
play, Be Glad as Children, as Birds in the
Sky: The Story of the Brothers Karamazov as
Told by the Monks of St. Augustine’s Abbey,
finishes up its five-week run with 8pm and
10pm showings at the theater’s digs at
1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $10.
201-5464 OR IDIOMTHEATER.COM
HELLINGHAM: See the completely
improvised murder mystery known as
Hellingham at 8pm at the Upfront Theater, 1208 Bay St. (additional showings
happen through the month). At 10pm,
a competitive Theatresports match will
ensue. Tickets are $8-$10.
OCT. 2-4
PART Y TO MURDER: Nearly Stellar Entertainment presents A Party to Murder
at 7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the
Quality Inn, 100 E. Kellogg Rd. Adult
language and subject matter is on the
bill for the murder mystery, so you might
want to leave the kids at home. Tickets
are $10 at the door.
(360) 303-4036
SAT., OCT. 3
AUDIT ION #1: The Neighborhood Playhouse will hold auditions for A Christmas
Carol from 1-5pm at Birchwood Presby-
COMEDY NIGHT: A weekly Comedy
Night happens at 8pm every Sunday at
the Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, 1114
Harris Ave.
FAIRHAVENPUB.COM
OCT. 4-5
AUDIT ION #2: Auditions for upcoming performances of Bunnicula begin
at 6:30pm at the Bellingham Theatre
Guild, 1600 H St. Young actors are encouraged to audition.
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a one-man solo comedy show full of
“peculiar fictions and tiny acrobatics”
by Cody Rivers’ Andrew Connor can be
seen at a doubleheader with Montreal’s
Uncalled For improv troupe at 7pm at
the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $12.
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AUDIT ION #3: Community members
are invited to audition for the Ferndale
High School Talent Revue—which happens Nov. 12 and 14—at 6pm at the
school’s auditorium, 5830 Golden Eagle
Dr. Come prepared with costumes, music and any necessary props.
383-9261
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FLAMENCO
WORK SHOPS:
Oscar
Neito, once dubbed a “flamenco Fred
Astaire” by the L.A. Times, will teach
three flamenco workshops in honor of
Isabel Morca throughout the day at the
Chinese Martial Arts Academy, 1705 N.
State St. Cost is $25 for one workshop
or $55 for an all-day pass.
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SCANDINAVIAN DANCE: Vancouver’s
Gammel Dansk will provide live music
at the monthly Scandinavian Dance
happening from 2-5pm at Norway Hall,
1419 N. Forest St. Suggested donation
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THRILLER: Find your inner zombie by
signing up for a “Thriller” dance class
from 7-9pm at the Bellingham Tennis
Club. The five-part class, which happens
every Friday in October, will culminate
with a performance. Cost is $50 and a
percentage of the proceeds will benefit
Blue Skies for Children.
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with the Fourth Corner Folk Dancers
from 7-10pm every Thursday at U & Me
Dance, 1027 N. Forest St.
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HOW LONG does it take to look at a work of art? Sometimes it’s only
a nanosecond, but if the painting, sculpture or photograph catches the
eye in any way, it can be hard to tear yourself away.
The next question involves the hours, days, months or years it takes to
produce the visual stimulus, and that’s a much tougher one to answer. Does
the time the artist spent thinking about her or his particular vision count?
What about the rough drafts? Then there are the afternoons taken up with
gathering supplies, the mornings alone with a sketchpad, paintbrush, camera or blowtorch, and, of course, the decades spent perfecting their craft.
To get a better understanding of what local artists go through in order
to bring what they generate to the masses, it’s worth taking a look at the
places where the action actually happens. For year 15, the Whatcom Artist
Studio Tour—happening Oct. 3-4 and again Oct. 10-11 throughout Whatcom
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County—will provide those with a yen to understand
what it takes to create with a behind-the-scenes
peek at the studios and spaces that, 50 weekends of
the year, are considered private property.
“I think my favorite part is being able to show
my work in its fullness from start to finish,” says
prayer wheel potter Chris Moench, who founded
the tour in 1995 as a way to connect artists to the
community in which they live. “It’s a whole different energy and effort on my part than packing
up and going to an arts fair. So many of the artists involved work in isolation, and that includes
me. I’ve come to really crave the contact with the
people that I’m making the work for.”
Moench says that although the studio tour has
changed since its inception—it now takes place
in early October instead of November to capitalize
on hours containing daylight, and the number of
artists has grown exponentially from the original
10 that signed up for the festival in its inaugural
year—the goals are the same: to provide insight
into the creative process, give the community a
chance to purchase original
works directly from those
who toiled over them and,
more often than not, watch
artists in action.
“I’m always surprised at
how many artists come out
of the woodwork to take
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to their profile in the comCounty
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self-guided tour
really enhances their ability
is free
to continue to produce their
INFO: 650-9691 or
work. Not only are they sellwhatcomstudiotour.
ing art, but there’s a real
net
sense of affirmation when
people come to view their workspaces.”
Since the tour comprises four days, don’t fret
if you can’t fit all your artistic exploration into
one afternoon. Spread the love, ask questions and
don’t worry if you don’t whip out your pocketbook
during the entirety of your voyage. Simply keep
your favorites in mind when it comes time to find
that perfect piece of art.
“A lot of this event is about establishing the
presence of artists in the community,” Moench
notes. “Probably 80 percent of the work I do is
custom work, and I think that’s true for a lot of
the artists.”
YOGA WATERCOLORS: Maureen Braun’s “Yoga
Garden” watercolors can be seen from 7-9pm at
3 OMS Yoga, 1210 Bay St.
734-8663
POST MORTEM: Check out “Post Mortem,” an
invitational art show, starting at 6pm at Jinx
Art Space, 306 Flora St. Music by Police Teeth,
Ovipositor, and Generalissimo is also on the
lineup.
JINXARTSPACE.COM
ART WALK #2: A variety of galleries will have
their doors open from 6-9pm for the monthly
Anacortes Gallery Walk.
ANACORTESART.COM
GALLERY CYGNUS: Works by a variety of artists—
Peregrine O’ Gormley, Art Hansen, Elizabeth Tapper, and Fay Jones—can be seen at an opening
reception from 6-9pm at La Connor’s Gallery Cygnus (formerly Gallery 109), 109 Commercial St. The
show will be up through Oct. 25.
(206) 723-9362
OCT. 2-4
QUILTFEST: Award-winning quilts, workshops,
vendors, a silent auction and more will be part
of “Quiltfest 2009,” in lovely La Conner throughout the weekend. Activities and exhibits happen
at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, Maple
Hall, and the La Conner Civic Garden Club. Cost
is $10 and includes entry to all venues.
LACONNERQUILTS.COM
SAT., OCT. 3
MOVING SALE: Exhibit props and posters,
antiques, jewelry, housewares and collectibles
will be available at a Moving Sale from 8am-1pm
at the Whatcom Museum of History & Art, 121
Prospect St.
WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
JENSEN RECEP T ION: An opening reception for
assemblage artist R. Allen Jensen’s “Rework” exhibit happens from 5-8pm at Edison’s Smith and
Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. The show, which
focuses on Jensen’s process and includes some
elements from his studio, will be up from 11am5pm every Wed.-Sun. through Oct. 31.
(306) 305-4892 OR SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
OCT. 3-4
ARTSTOCK: Celebrate the diverse artistic talents of those living on San Juan Island from
10am-8pm Sat. and 10am-6pm Sunday in Friday
Harbor and beyond.
GOOD EARTH: Linda Stone’s functional clay
pieces will be on display through October at
Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
GOODEARTHPOTS.COM
INSIGHTS: Abstract works by Anne Schreivogl,
Michael Moe, Carla Dimitrou, and Yvonne BuijsMancuso can be viewed through Oct. 31 Insights
Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM
LUCIA DOUGLAS: Oil paintings by Ron Farrell,
ceramics by Brian O’Neill, and landscapes based
in nature by E.V. Wick can be viewed through
Oct. 17 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th
St.
733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
MINDPORT: “Garden,” a collection of photos by
Kevin Jones, can be perused through Oct. 31 at
Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2.
647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG
MONA: “Elusive Elements” and Ellen Sollod’s
“Lake Washington Palimpsest” shows until Oct.
4 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121
S. First St.
(360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
NEW YORK PIZZA: Works by Sherman R. Buck,
Phil Rose, Jessica Bjorn, John DeBeeld, and
Kristina Collins can be seen on a daily basis at
New York Pizza & Bar, 902 State St.
733-3171
QUILT MUSEUM: Sandy Bonsib’s “Play With
Your Food” and “As the Needle Turns,” featuring
students of Nancy Chong, show Sept. 30-Dec. 27
at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S.
2nd St. Admission is $5.
LACONNERQUILTS.COM
SCOT T MILO GALLERY: Pastels by Patty Forte
Linna and works by Pepper Peterson, Judy Sherwood, and others will be featured through Nov.
3 at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave.,
Anacortes.
SCOTTMILO.COM
VILLAGE BOOK S: Comic strips by Fenmere the
Worm—also known as Jonathan Sodt—can be
seen in the Readings Gallery through October at
Village Books, 1200 11th St.
VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
WESTERN GALLERY: Geraldine Ondrizek’s “The
Sound of Cells Dividing” multi-media exhibit
will be on display through Nov. 25 at WWU’s
Western Gallery. The Portland artist will give a
talk Oct. 21 on campus.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “On a Grand Scale” and
“ARTIFACTual: The Object In View” are currently
on display at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
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CHUCK ANUT BREWERY: View oil landscapes
by Bellingham artist Rebecca Meloy through Oct.
24 at the Chuckanut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St.
752-3377
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URLACHER AT PAPERDOLL: Corey Urlacher’s
macabre “Collectibles” sculpture exhibit can be
viewed at an opening reception from 6-10pm at
the Paperdoll, 312 W. Champion St.
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ANCHOR ART SPACE: Ceramics and paintings
by Jim Romberg will be featured through the
month at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial
Ave., Anacortes. An opening reception happens
from 5-8pm Fri., Oct. 2.
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JURIED SERIES: The 2009 Juried Artist Series
continues with a series of works from fictional
painter Leonid Tornillo as presented by local artist Pattison. An opening reception for “Guerra y
Sueno (War and Sleep)” happens from 6-10pm at
Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
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LANNY LIT TLE: An opening reception for Lanny Little’s “See the Light” exhibit happens during the Art Walk from 6-10pm at the Blue Horse
Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. The show will be up
through Nov. 6.
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PHOTO CLUB: The Bellingham Photography
Club meets at 7:15pm at the Roeder Home, 2600
Sunset Dr. The meeting is free and the public
is invited.
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ART WALK #1: Stroll through the streets of
downtown Bellingham from 6-10pm as part of
the monthly Art Walk. Check out the listings below, or pick up a map of participating galleries
and businesses at each location.
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BY CAREY ROSS
Greg Brown
WAITING ON YOU
SEVERAL YEARS
ago, during
the blush of newfound romance, a boy
I was trying on did what many boys do,
and made me a mixed CD. While most of
the mix was comprised of the glib indie
pop that was his musical currency (and
struck me as ideal background music for
cleaning, driving and/or any number of
other tasks that required a soundtrack
that wouldn’t distract me from the job
at hand), stuck right in between the Dismemberment Plan and Wilco was a song,
“Waiting On You,” by Greg Brown.
It was a song that, with the simplicity
of both its lyrics and arrangement—not
to mention the richness of Brown’s baritone—was diametrically opposed to the
often jangly energy of the rest of the
mix. Upon first listen, it made me pause,
sit down and intently eye my stereo as
though Brown himself was trapped inside, playing the song just for me. After
listening to it all the way through, I listened to it again, and again, intrigued
by the way he sang those lines about
waiting for a woman to make up her
mind about him, struck by the straightforward sentiment of the thing. By the
time he made it to the end, singing,
“One of these days, I’m gonna go away
from this. Without a why. Without a cry.
Without a kiss,” I found myself curious
about this man and his songs.
What I came to find out was that, when
it comes to Greg Brown, I’m more than a
little late to the party. Brown, born to
a guitar-playing mother and a Pentecostal preacher father in rural Hacklebarney,
Iowa, has been making music—and lots
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Rumor Has It
WHAT DO YOU get when you mix manicures,
makeovers and mixed drinks? No, not a teenager’s sweet 16 slumber party, but the return of the Beauty Bar. For the uninitiated,
this event strives to make us all a little more
fashionable, one updo or mini-mani at a time-an often-challenging task in cheerfully stylestunted Bellingham. For the bargain price of
$10, participants get the spa service of their
choice, the chance to rifle through the various
trunk shows offered up by local designers and
businesses and the ability to shake their newly
made over selves to the sweet beats of DJ Deerhead, DJ Buckshot, and DJ Jonesy. The whole
thing kicks off at 7:30pm Sat., Oct. 3 at the
Nightlight Lounge, and
lest you think this is the
sort of thing Bellingham
isn’t into so you’ll have
all the time in the world
to mosey down there,
know this: You could not
be more wrong. Showing
up fashionably late to the
Beauty Bar might mean
being turned away at the
door.
In other news, the Wild
Buffalo is celebrating its
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first birthday Thurs., Oct.
1 with a special weeknight appearance by the
ever-beloved boys of Flowmotion. I know you
may be thinking I’ve finally let go of my mind,
as the Buff has clearly been around longer than
a year, but it was one year ago that ownership
of the music venue switched hands from John
Goodman, who had built it into Bellingham’s
blues bastion, to the dynamic trio of Craig
Jewell, Roger Mills, and Edward Eversoll. While
they’ve certainly infused fresh life into the
venue, I think we can all agree the new owners have remained true to Goodman’s original
dream, which was to provide Bellingham with
a top-notch place to hear live music.
Not to be forgotten, Boundary Bay also recently celebrated a birthday, although at 14
years old, the brewpub is slightly more aged
than the new ownership stake of the Wild Buffalo. This can be seen as both a blessing and a
curse. On the one hand, during its near decade
and a half, Boundary Bay has become, without a
doubt, the definition of a Bellingham institution.
On the other, Boundary is now entering those
difficult teen years. Will it start cutting classes,
staying out past curfew, dating bad boys and
otherwise openly defying authority? I guess
we’ll have to wait and see.
Lastly, Jinx Art Space is bringing the noise in
the name of Art Walk once again. This month’s
installment, which takes place Fri., Oct. 2, features the musical talents of Ovipositor, Generalissimo, and Police Teeth, and they’ll be singing to celebrate the opening of “Post Mortem,”
which will showcase art dealing with forensics
and anatomy. Frightening and intriguing, just
like Jinx itself.
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can
often be found under the hood of a vehicle, elbow deep in grease and car parts,
making something run again, usually for
someone else. He has been known to take
whatever conversational topic that happens to strike his fancy and mull it over
and over like a raccoon shining a piece of
tin. He’s easily one of the nicest humans
you’ll ever be lucky enough to meet.
Biagio also makes music. And just beneath what is a decidedly, not to mention deceptively, unassuming exterior
lies a vast, deep reservoir of musical talent. Nimble with his guitar and evocative in his lyricism, Biagio’s songs are,
in a word, beautiful—and that is not a
word I use lightly. It’s not so much that
Biagio is reinventing the wheel, one song
at a time—in fact, most of the tracks
on his forthcoming album Alone On This
Here and Now tread the familiar territory of love sometimes found but mostly
lost—it’s more that he manages, with
his songs, to make that which is universal feel so very personal. When he writes
about searching, for love, for the better
man within himself, for a way to come
to terms with it all, it is a quest we can
all relate to, but most of us could never
put it into words and set it to music with
Biagio’s degree of emotional dexterity.
To know Biagio is to hear him muse
about skill sets, his own and those of the
folks around him. To be a possessor of
many skills is important to this man, and
one has to wonder, in the taking of his
own personal inventory, if he regards his
musical ability as a skill to be reckoned
with. If he doesn’t, he certainly should.
Biagio Biondolillo will play an all-ages CD
release/tour kickoff show at 7pm Fri., Oct.
2 at Everyday Music, 115 E. Magnolia St.
Cost: free. More info: myspace.com/biagiobiondolillo
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band sounds when the Swing Connection performs from 2-4pm at Bellingham’s First Baptist Church, 110 Flora
St. Admission is by donation.
SWINGCONNECTION.ORG
BELLACORDA: Listen to a program
including Haydn, Mendelssohn, and
Gershwin when Bellacorda, a new
string quartet comprised of members
of the Whatcom and Skagit symphonies, perform at 3pm at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St.
Admission is by donation.
BELLINGHAMTHRESHHOLDCHOIR.ORG
TUES., OCT. 6
LYNDEN MUSIC FEST IVAL: Celebrate the life and legacy of musician
and arts supporter Claire vg Thomas
at the first-ever Lynden Music Festival, which begins today and continues through Oct. 11 throughout Lynden. Featured entertainers include
the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra
and Grammy-winning vocal sextet
Take 6. Prices vary.
510-0654 OR LYNDENMUSICFESTIVAL.
COM
WED., OCT. 7
MUSIC CLUB: A percussion ensemble
and string quartet from the Whatcom
Symphony Orchestra will perform at
a free concert hosted by the Bellingham Music Club at 10:30am at Faith
Lutheran Church, 2750 McLeod Rd.
671-0252
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ANNE, PETE SIBLE Y: Anne and Pete
Seebly will perform their acclaimed
traditional bluegrass and folks songs
at 2pm at Nancy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith
Rd. Suggested donation is $12.
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French Bakery & Cafe
111 W. Holly St.
360-715-1839
Tues. Kolsch Night $150
Happy Hour Sun–Thurs, 4-6pm
Live Music Saturday, 8pm
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BERNSTEIN & BLUES: The Whatcom Symphony Orchestra kicks off
its 35th season with a “Bernstein &
Blues” pops concert at 7:30pm at the
Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. They’ll be joined by the Realtime Vocal Quartet and the 40 voices
of the Mount Baker Toppers. Tickets
are $10-$42.
734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.
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HALLECK STREE T RAMBLERS: The
Bellingham Traditional Jazz Society
presents a concert and dance featuring the Halleck Street Ramblers from
2-5pm at the VFW Hall, 625 N. State
St. Admission is $6-$10.
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SWIL K ANIM: Violin virtuoso Swil
Kanim performs at a free concert
from 7-9pm at Stuart’s at the Market,
1530 Cornwall Ave.
714-0800
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K IRTAN: All are welcome at a calland-response Kirtan from 6:30-8pm
at Everybody’s Yoga, 1609 Broadway.
Admission is by donation.
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der by a project called Songs of InnoFROM PREVIOUS PAGE
cence and Experience in which he set the
poems of William Blake to music, proving himself to be an artist both bold and
of it—for more than two decades. Durbrainy. Since then, the prolific musician
ing that time, his songs, populated by
has unleashed a staggering number of
simple folks, complex emotions, a sense
songs and albums upon the world, most
of humor and more than a little bit of
of them on his own Red House Records
down-home common sense, have earned
label, which has also been home to such
him the kind of following that only
artists as Utah Phillips, Tom
comes when folks have felt the
Paxton, Louden Wainwright
same emotions, loved and lost
III, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott,
in the same way and borrowed
among others. Along the way,
the same brand of trouble Brown
Brown has managed to pick up
himself traffics in. And when all
a couple of Grammy nods for
of that is sung in Brown’s senhis own music and has earned
sitive, sandpapery baritone—
a loyal and broad fan base
reassuring and resonant at the
same time—those songs take on
// ) built on a solid foundation
for live shows that are both
WHO: Greg Brown
lingering, lasting lives of their
WHEN: 8:30pm
magical and memorable.
own.
Wed., Oct. 7
As for my short-lived roWhile for some, Brown is not
WHERE: PAC
mance
with that long-ago
a household name, that doesn’t
Concert Hall, WWU
boy,
it
turns
out Brown’s music
mean he’s been toiling away in
COST: $22-$25
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obscurity all these years. A stint
nightlightlounge.
found. Eventually, like the man
on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie
com
in the song, he grew weary
Home Companion” helped him
of waiting on me, moved far
get his start, and, in 1985, he
away and is presumably making mixed
released his first widely available alCDs for someone else. He rarely crosses
bum, In the Dark With You, which garmy mind these days, but I will always renered the previously unknown singer/
member him fondly for introducing me
songwriter no small amount of critical
to the music of Greg Brown.
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Cee Cee James Band, the
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Rise N Shine, Endorfins,
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Order of the Crimson Wizard, Scarlet Room, Spindle
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REVIEWED BY ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Capitalism: A
Love Story
MICHAEL AND ME
MICHAEL MOORE has proven again and again that
he has a remarkable feel for where the zeitgeist is heading.
He’s like a zeitgeist divining rod.
Roger and Me was way ahead of the curve on the collapse
of the auto industry. Fahrenheit 9/11 was way ahead of the
curve on the collapse of the house of cards the Bush administration used to lead us to war in Iraq. Sicko was way
ahead of the curve on the collapse of the U.S. health care
system. And now, with his new movie, Capitalism: A Love
Story, he is riding the wave of the collapse of trust in our
country’s financial system.
The film is a withering indictment of the current economic order, covering everything from Wall Street’s casino
mentality to for-profit prisons, from Goldman Sachs’ sway
in Washington to the poverty-level pay of many airline pilots, from the tidal wave of foreclosures to the tragic consequences of runaway greed.
Right from the beginning—after a funny set-up juxtaposing End of Empire Rome and Modern America—Michael
goes directly to the beating heart of the economic crisis,
showing a hard-working, middle-class family being evicted
from their home. The knot in your stomach starts to tighten—and the outrage starts to build.
Moore successfully walks a cinematic tightrope, alternating between a punch-to-the-solar-plexus critique of
the status quo, heart-wrenching portraits of the suffering caused by the economic crisis and laugh-out-loud
social satire.
The film turns a spotlight on some underreported gems:
an internal Citibank report happily declaring America a
“plutonomy,” with the top 1 percent of the population controlling more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent;
an expose of “dead peasant” insurance policies that have
companies cashing in on the untimely deaths of their em-
ployees; and amazing footage of FDR, found buried in
a film archive and not seen in decades, calling for a
Second Bill of Rights that would guarantee all Americans a useful job, a decent home, adequate health
care and a good education.
While taking no prisoners, and directing equal
doses of ire at Republicans and Democrats alike,
the film also features a number of heroes, including
bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren; Wayne County,
Michigan Sheriff Warren Evans, who announced in
February: “I cannot in clear conscience allow one
more family to be put out of their home until I am
satisfied they have been afforded every option they
are entitled to under the law to avoid foreclosure;”
and Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who took to the House
floor and offered a radical solution to the foreclosure crisis: “So I say to the American people, you be
squatters in your own homes. Don’t you leave.”
What we have right now is Corporatism. It’s welfare
for the rich. It’s the government picking winners and
losers. It’s Wall Street having their taxpayer-funded
cake and eating it too. It’s socialized losses and priva-
tized gains.
Which is why—although you can bet many will
try—Capitalism: A Love Story can’t be dismissed as a
left-wing tirade. Its condemnation of the status quo
is too grounded in real stories and real suffering, its
targets too evenly spread across the political spectrum. Indeed, Jay Leno, America’s designated Everyman, was so moved by the film he insisted Moore appear on the second night of his new show, and told his
audience that the film was “completely nonpartisan…
I was stunned by it, and I think it is the most fair
film” Moore has done.
I asked Michael what impact he hoped the film
would have. He chuckled and said that, in some way,
he had made the movie for “an audience of one:
President Obama. I hope he sees it and remembers
who put him in the White House… and it wasn’t
Goldman Sachs.”
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief
of the Huffington Post. This review is reprinted with permission of the author.
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9: Shane Acker made an animated short so good, it
garnered an Oscar nod and netted him a deal to turn
his concept—sort of like Wall*E meets The Terminator, but starring rag dolls—into a full-length film.
Even if this longer effort doesn’t match the innovation and stunning creativity of the short (how could
it, really?) Acker is still one to watch. ★★★ (PG-13
tISNJO
Bellis Fair 12:15 | 2:40 | 5:15 | 7:50 | 9:50
FILM SHORTS
All About Steve: Why must Sandra Bullock continue
her reign of rom-com terror? And, more importantly,
when will someone put a stop to this once-promising
actress? Seriously, Sandra, I’ve got three words that
describe what should be done with your last several
cinematic outings: straight to video.
Bellis Fair 11:50am | 2:20 | 4:50 | 7:20 | 9:40
Objectified: Gary Hustwit’s documentary about
industrial design is as sleek and handsome as any of
the new and improved household items it exhibits.
★★★★6OSBUFEtISNJO
Pickford Oct. 2-4 @ 2:00
Br ight Star: See review next page. ★★★★ 1( t
2 hrs.)
Pickford Call 738-0735 for showtimes.
Bruce Spr ingsteen: Live in Barcelona: The
Pickford kicks off its month of documentary offerings—appropriately dubbed Doctober—with a visit
from Bruce. Sure, he won’t be here singing his heart
out in person, but seeing him on the Pickford’s big
screen is probably the closest Bellingham will ever
get to having the Boss darken our collective door.
★★★★★6OSBUFEtIST
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Pandorum: Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star as astronauts who awaken from a long slumber aboard a
pitch-black ship in outer space only to realize they’re
not alone. Cue the aliens and the bloodshed. ★★
(R)
Sunset Square 1:15 | 3:50 | 6:30 | 9:05
Zombieland
Capitalism: A Love Stor y: See review previous
page. ★★★★3tISTNJO
Sehome 1:15 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:45
Is Tarantino a genius? A madman? Possibly the auteur of our time? The answer is yes. ★★★★★3t
2 hrs. 33 min.)
Sehome 3:30 | 9:15
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs: Consider this, an
adaptation of the popular children’s book by the same
name, your big-screen warm up for the soon-to-follow
Where the Wild Things Are, except it’s not live action,
not directed by Spike Jonze and therefore not at all
the same. ★★★1(tISNJO
Bellis Fair 11:30am | 2:00 | 4:30 | 7:15 | 9:30
The Informant!: I’ve tried hard to dislike Matt Damon. But whether as an unlikely screenwriter (Good
Will Hunting) or an unlikely action hero (the Bourne
franchise), Damon has proven himself to be eminently likeable. Will this winning streak extend to
screwball comedy as well? With Steven Soderbergh at
the helm, the odds are better than decent. ★★★★
3tISNJO
Sehome 12:45 | 3:45 | 6:30 | 9:30
Distr ict 9: Proof that a movie with a cast of unknowns, helmed by an untried director, made on a
shoestring budget in an often-tricky genre (sci-fi)
does stand a chance against all those Hollywood
mega-blockbusters. Score one for the little guy—
and those kibble-eating aliens. ★★★★★3tIS
52 min.)
Sehome 1:00 | 6:45
Fame: To sum this movie up, I’d like to quote wise
words once sung by Irene Cara: “I’m gonna live forever. I’m gonna learn how to fly (High!). I feel it
coming together. People will see me and cry, ‘Fame!’
I’m gonna make it to heaven. Light up the sky like a
flame.” I think you know what I’m trying to say here.
★★★ (PG)
Bellis Fair 2:10 | 4:40 | 7:30 | 10:00
Harr y Potter and the Half-Blood Pr ince: Harry
Potter gets darker and deeper in the sixth installment of this, the highest-grossing movie franchise
in Hollywood history. I’d divulge a few plot points,
but you’ve all read the books. You know. ★★★★ (PG
tISTNJO
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The Invention of Lying: Consider this the bizarro
counterpart to Jim Carrey’s Liar Liar. Ricky Gervais
discovers lying in a world where everyone only tells
the truth. Comedic chaos ensues. ★★★1(t
hr. 39 min.)
Sunset Square 1:45 | 4:30 | 7:30 | 10:00
Whip It
In Search of Beethoven: Musicians, critics, and
musicologists weigh in with lucid, informative, and
unpretentious comments on Beethoven, the man and
the artist. ★★★★★6OSBUFEtISTNJO
Pickford Oct. 3-4 @ 11:00am
Inglour ious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino pays
homage to the European cinema he loves by employing Brad Pitt to fight Nazis, spaghetti-Western style.
You never know when you might need a good lawyer
u Felonies
Julie & Julia: I’m still not OK with bloggers getting
book deals, but now they’re invading Hollywood, too?
Seriously, my cat does some pretty clever stuff. Let’s
give her a three-picture deal with Paramount and see
what develops. ★★★1(tISTNJO
Bellis Fair 12:30 | 4:10 | 6:45
Love Happens: A self-help guru (Aaron Eckhart)
unable to take his own advice meets a woman who
has sworn off love (Jennifer Aniston). Gee, I wonder
what will happen next? Methinks clues can be found
in the film’s title. ★★1(tISNJO
Sunset Square 1:30 | 4:10 | 6:45 | 9:15
Surrogates: No, this is not a documentary about the
birth of Sarah Jessica Parker’s twins via a surrogate
mother. Rather this is a sci-fi flick starring Bruce Willis about the dangers of a future where we can create
perfect versions of ourselves, then live vicariously
through them without ever leaving the house. Sort
of like Second Life, but for real. ★★ (PG-13)
Sunset Square 12:00 | 2:20 | 5:00 | 7:20 | 10:10
Theater of War: A behind-the-scenes look at the
staging of Bertolt Brecht’s famous play, Mother Courage, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Far from
just a fly-on-the-wall account, this documentary addresses the responsibility of the theater as an agent
of social change. ★★★★6OSBUFEtISNJO
Pickford Oct. 6 @ 2:15 & 4:30
Toy Stor y 1 & 2 in 3D: Sweet fancy Moses, digital
3D has finally made its way to Bellingham. And not a
moment too soon. Sure, we’ve all seen these Toy Story
movies—and keep in mind, this is a double feature—
but they can only be improved when they come alive
via the magic of 3D technology. ★★★★ (G)
Bellis Fair 11:00am | 3:00 | 7:00
Whip It: Who says Drew Barrymore is a one-trick
pony? Here she makes her directorial debut—and
gets a sizey helping hand from the always-excellent
Ellen Page—with a story about beauty pageants,
roller derby and the vast gulf that lies between the
two. ★★★★ (PG-13)
Sunset Square 1:00 | 4:15 | 7:10 | 9:45
Zombieland: A movie starring Woody Harrelson as
a zombie slayer trying to survive the “zombie apocalypse” with a ragtag team of the not-yet-undead in
tow? Think Shaun of the Dead level absurdity, add a
wacky plotline about Twinkies and let Harrelson have
his way with his character, and you’ll have a zombie
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sofa with his head lolling in Fanny’s lap. In stark
contrast, Brown’s grubby affair with one of his
kitchen staff looks morally bankrupt and seedy.
The kind of spiritual intimacy between Keats
and Brawne is given it seems almost de rigueur
these days to frame every serious romance with
graphic sex. The most poignant detail of all
is that their relationship remained unconsummated. After contracting tuberculosis, the act
would literally have killed him, as would another winter in England, so Keats is obliged to go
to Rome. Fanny never sees him again.
Campion films the melodrama with admirable
restraint. Visually, her film is as spare and sensual as the poetry she manages to stitch into
the film with a thrilling lack of fuss. After a
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Brown for Keats’s heart that gives the film its
most flinty and revealing moments.
Schneider’s sniping Brown plays all sorts of
cruel tricks and mind games to keep the would-be
lovers out of each other’s reach. He throws insults
at Fanny when she asks Keats for lessons in poetry. Cornish’s persistent Fanny gives as good as
she gets, shredding Brown’s pathetic efforts at
writing poetry. It’s great spice.
By contrast, the romance between Keats and
Fanny is pure Romeo and Juliet. Whishaw’s charismatic poet simmers with mystery and desire on
rambling walks over Hampstead Heath.
There are chaste, lingering kisses in the woods.
A coy holding of hands. Keats’ poetry hits a purple high where we watch as he composes “Ode to
a Nightingale” under a tree in the garden, and
the title poem “Bright Star” stretched out on a
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JANE CAMPION has turned the short and doomed
affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne into an enthralling film that tenderly rips your heart to shreds. A period piece about a sickly Romantic poet and his obsession
with the girl next door is not exactly a scenario that sets
pulses racing on the Croisette. The surprise is just how
exhilarating and tragic this true story actually is.
Keats and Brawne fell in love when they lived in separate parts of the same house in Hampstead village in 1819.
Two years later he died of tuberculosis. Although Campion
neatly hinges Bright Star on Keats’ love letters and verse,
her stroke of genius is to film the romance mostly through
Fanny’s eyes. By so doing, Campion captures the shy and
extraordinary intensity of the relationship itself.
The chemistry between the two leads as they edge
from simple, formal visits into a secret affair is pitch
perfect. Abbie Cornish is magnetic as the headstrong
18-year-old muse who shyly teases Keats about the quality of his verse. There is a dash of Nicole Kidman about
her performance, and the way she can never quite hide
the emotions raging behind her eyes.
Ben Whishaw is magical casting as the penniless and
crumpled 23-year-old poet who is forced to rely on the
charity of others, mostly his best friend, Brown (Paul
Schneider), who jealously monopolizes Keats in return
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My boyfriend of three years wants to have
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were moving in next door, I’m guessing your response wouldn’t be, “Gee,
pity we can’t move.” But, just add discount babysitting to the mix, and it’s
“So, Mr. Hitler, what brings you to the
neighborhood?”
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things come to those who wait. True,
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catching the bus, better things come
to those who do something.
You do talk a good game—how “once
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maybe thought it would be just the ticket to a little respect from the Evil Inlaw
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My boyfriend and I have a year-old son. His
two small boys (from a previous marriage)
live with us on weekends. A while back, he
cheated and gave me herpes. Had I not
been pregnant with our son (unplanned), I
would’ve left him. But, I believe once you’re
pregnant, it’s not about you, so I’m trying to
make it work. But, I hold grudges and haven’t
been able to forgive him. Also, his parents,
who live next door, hate me, and have never
stopped trying to break us up. They expect
him and the two boys at their house for dinner on weekends and many weekdays without
me. They show nasty favoritism, spending
$300 on a toy for the two boys, but gave my
son dollar-store outfits they knew wouldn’t
fit. Because my boyfriend’s mother watches
the two other boys after school for very little
money (and our son at times, too, charging
me four times more), moving isn’t an option.
—Stuck
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FREE WILL
ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is the electron a
wave or a particle? Physicists had to conduct thousands of experiments to arrive at the definitive answer,
which is that it’s both. In other words, the solution to
one of the fundamental questions about the nature of
reality is a paradox. I think this strongly suggests that
the correct response to many other riddles about the
ultimate truth might be two seemingly opposing explanations. Could the Unitarians and Buddhists both be
right? Socialists and capitalists? Mystics and scientists?
In the upcoming days, Aries, you will be offered lots
of practice in adopting this approach as you deal with
a personal dilemma that’s very much akin to “Is the
electron a wave or a particle?”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you ever mused
on the fact that your body is actually a kind of furnace?
And that your whole life depends upon it? Food and
oxygen are constantly combusting inside you, generating
fiery energy that fuels your every movement, thought,
and feeling. This awareness of fire as a source of vitality,
not a destroyer, would be valuable for you to cultivate
in the coming days. Your steady, earthy rhythm needs a
shot of radiance and luminosity and fervor.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Several couples I
know keep lists of the five celebrities they’d be allowed
to boink if the chance ever presented itself. My friend
Jim, for instance, will incur no karmic repercussions
with his girlfriend Alicia if he ever spends a night of
carnal delight with the following people: Lady Gaga,
Sarah Silverman, Karen O, Shakira, or Halle Berry.
Alicia’s permitted to enjoy liaisons with Johnny Depp,
Chris Rock, Marilyn Manson, Jimmy Fallon, and Portia
de Rossi. I bring this up, Gemini, because I believe
you’ll soon be the beneficiary of some extravagant
cosmic luck that could offer you a close brush with an
exotic form of pleasure. This might not exactly take
the form of a one-night stand with a famous fox, but it
could be almost as extraordinary.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m happy you’re
getting back to fundamentals and shedding pretensions
and nourishing your roots, but I also want to make
sure that you don’t get too funky and lowdown. I’d
hate to have to be hoisting you up out of the gutter
next week, or counseling you on how to cover for the
fact that you’ve compromised your own highest standards. So please resist any temptations you might feel
to descend toward the lowest common denominator,
Cancerian. As you deepen your center of gravity, make
sure you keep your attitude elevated.
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wrote R. R. Doister, “but I can certainly love my
fantasy about you.” Personally, I’ve been guilty of
embodying that attitude toward certain people in my
life. There have also been allies to whom I could have
said, “I do love you, although I love my fantasy about
you a little more.” And it has even been the case on
numerous occasions that I’ve been proud to declare,
“I love you even more than I love my fantasy about
you.” What about you, Leo? Where do you stand on the
issue? This is an excellent time to get on the righteous
side of the great divide, which is to say: Adore your
special people for who they really are more than for
your fantasies about them.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In a puckish fantasy,
the poet Linh Dinh imagined a hypothetical scenario
in which it would be uncool to be too cool. “In an
effort to inject more pep and resolve into its lethargic
citizens,” he waxed with prophetic longing, “the
government is mandating the use of an exclamation
mark at the end of each sentence, spoken or written.
‘It looks like rain!’ for example, or ‘I must sleep!’” I
ASTROLOGY
suggest that you take his vision, Virgo, and turn it into
reality for the immediate future! You would really benefit from getting more excited than usual! Who knows,
maybe a simple thing like imagining every one of your
sentences ending with an exclamation mark could make
your whole being more thrillable!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there a big difference between your current job and your beloved
career? Do you suffer from the unsettling feeling that
your calling hasn’t called you yet? Are you under the
impression that your main reason for being here on
Earth may reveal itself at some unknown time in the
future, but not anytime soon? If you answered no to all
those questions, congrats! You are more than halfway
toward living a victorious life. But if you answered yes
to at least one question, it’s high time to take action.
Start by formulating an intention to find out what you
need to know in order to deal with the problem more
aggressively. The cosmic forces are arrayed in such a
way as to reward you for doing so.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Indian guru known
as Amma has hugged over 30 million people during her
three-decades career. I’ve known people who’ve received
blessings from her, and they tell me that she can magically undo your karmic knots with her spiritual power,
freeing you from having to suffer indefinitely for the
bad decisions you made in the past. Amma rarely does a
complete unraveling of all karmic knots in one sitting,
however. Your negative conditioning might be holding
you together, after all, and a sudden super-fix could
cause you to fall apart. That’s the situation I suspect is
true for you right now, Scorpio: You’ll be wise to undo
some, but not all, of your karmic knots.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming week will have something to offend and agitate
everyone—except you. Whines and moans and yelps
will ring out across the land, even as you’re emanating
poise and aplomb. You may be tempted to brazenly
exploit everyone’s vulnerability and seize control of
your corner of the world, but I think that would be
shortsighted of you. A better strategy for capitalizing
on your advantage would be to dole out large doses
of mercy, making sure that the people who will be
important to your future don’t lose their way.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The bear must deal
with 20 obstacles, and each one of them involves pears,”
says the Sufi proverb, “because the bear adores pears.”
That’s a twisty truth worth meditating on, Capricorn. I
suspect that the gifts coming your way will bring their
own unique problems; the dreams you’re in love with will
generate new dilemmas to solve. By no means does this
imply that you should avoid accepting the gifts or pursuing your dreams. Part of the fun of doing great things is
dealing with the changes they generate!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On behalf of all us
non-Aquarians, I’d like to express our appreciation for
the experiments you’ve been performing. Please don’t
be discouraged just because the results thus far have
been inconclusive and left you feeling a trifle rudderless. We feel confident that sooner or later you’ll come
up with discoveries that will have bottom-line value to
both you and the rest of us. We’d also like to apologize
for the shortsighted and timid types among us who are
accusing you of being unrealistic or overly optimistic.
Please keep trying those novel approaches and making
those imaginative forays.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While reviewing the
work of Angelina Jolie in the film Taking Lives, A. O.
Scott called her “the flesh-and-blood actress most
likely to be mistaken for a computer-generated special
effect.” I don’t expect you to rival Jolie’s odd talent
anytime soon, but I wonder if maybe you’ll be seeing a
lot of that kind of stuff in the world around you. Some
of the characters who will be advancing the plotlines
in your life story may seem to be able to breathe fire,
walk through walls, or change the weather at will. At
the very least, you’ll witness phenomena that resemble
optical illusions. My advice: Try to get these exotic
outbreaks to work for you rather than against you.
Embrace them, don’t fear them.
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2 With “The,” band
with a remastered
box set of albums
released 9/9/09 (the
date referring to one
of their songs)
3 Dramatist who was
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4 Not so klutzy
5 Multi-continent
charity concert held
on 7/7/07
6 “Summertime” from
“Porgy and Bess,”
e.g.
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49 Conjure up
50 Sudoku component
53 Sean of “The
Goonies”
54 “You Will Be My
___ True Love”
(song from “Cold
Mountain”)
55 In a smooth way
58 “___ recherche
du temps perdu”
(Proust work)
59 Event with an
opening on
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a lucky number
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63 Give a snotty
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65 Poultry farm
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Ancient Mariner”
author’s monogram
12 Captain Hook’s
helper
13 More urgent
14 Radiohead lead
singer Yorke
16 Israeli statesman
Abba
17 1996 Madonna
musical
18 ___ Six (Louisiana
group who was
the focus of 2007
rallies)
19 Commedia dell’___
20 Word after Pink or
black
21 Punch-to-the-solar-plexus noises
22 Limestone, mostly
24 Panama, for one
26 Arctic, for one
27 Pacer maker
29 ___ a customer
30 Director Anderson
31 Electromagnetic
physicist Michael
34 Former San Francisco Giant Robb
35 There’s no helping it
37 At no cost
40 “If Democrats Had
Any Brains, ___ Be
Republicans” (Ann
Coulter book)
41 Ingredient in
many soaps
45 ___ Me (Requiem
Mass movement)
47 “You got that
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8 Unwritten tests
9 He baptized Jesus
10 Horror movie
remake officially
released on 6/6/06
(at 6:06:06 a.m.)
11 Prove wrong
12 Manatee, e.g.
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would “sell no wine
before its time”
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28 The old ball and
chain?
32 “The Thin Man”
dog
33 Carmaker headquartered in Bavaria
35 Onion relative
36 Bended pipes
37 Crappy motel
38 Where Tanguy may
have got tan?
39 To linguists, it’s
African American
Vernacular English
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partner
43 It hooks up to an
engine
44 Heather Locklear
soap
46 Live (in)
48 They understand
in simple terms
50 Structures on
sitars
51 Prefix meaning
“egg”
52 Like the band
Manic Street Preachers
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candela, e.g.
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director Adrian
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stain, perhaps
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it is not clearly identified as the fruit she picked from
the tree in the Garden of Eden, everyone assumes it was the lusty apple that
drove Eve and Adam to their knees.
While others believe the forbidden fruit was a pomegranate, a fig or even a
quince (a small tree of the rose family, which bears a hard, yellowish fruit), it’s easy
to imagine it was the shiny promise found in the ruby red apple that first tempted
Eve, bringing the loss of innocence and the wearing of that goofy fig leaf.
The apple is rich with symbolism: there’s the story of how the Trojan War
started with Paris and the golden apple; and how Snow White bit a poisoned
one and fell into a cold and timeless sleep.
And then there’s the Johnny Appleseed myth Michael Pollan debunks in the
first chapter of his book, The Botany of Desire. Rather than the saintly image we
learn about in grade school, Pollan shares botanical evidence of Appleseed’s
true work: that he brought “the gift of alcohol [apple cider] to the frontier.”
But for me, there’s no greater joy than seeing the gorgeous fruit hanging
from trees, and we are lucky to have neighbors with prolific ones. The kids
pluck apples before school to drop in their lunch boxes, or we all pick apples for
dessert. If you don’t have fruit trees in your own backyard, travel to BelleWood
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farm if you like, and possibly a sample of the
best HoneyCrisp apples I’ve ever tasted.
Baked apples are a type of ambrosia, and when
it’s cooler outside, it’s easy to turn on the oven.
Apple pies are a standard comfort food, and I made
my first when the kids were young just because
there’s nothing more blissfully domestic than a pie
baking in the oven. Any kind of pie will do, but in
the fall you must bake with apples.
Recently I’ve discovered an easier way to get
the wholesomeness of a pie, and that’s making
a crostata, an Italian dessert tart.
Crostatas aren’t as neat and tidy as a pie, which
is why I like them. If apple pies are the puritanical, American standard, crostatas provide the
more sensual, kinesthetic experience. You pull the
edges of the pastry over fruit or a type of filling,
and bake the crostata on a pizza stone or baking
sheet. The finished look is rustic and uneven.
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15-ounce package), but they’re expensive and
full of preservatives.
If you prefer a more formal look, place the pastry in a pie plate and cover the fruit with a lattice of pastry strips. This is the version I cooked
last night, and it was a huge success.
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1 ¼ c. flour
4 tbsp. sugar
1 stick butter, sliced
2 egg yolks
Pinch of salt
1 lemon, rind grated
3 apples, peeled, cored and thinly
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sugar, butter, egg yolks, salt and lemon
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