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MUSIC
Remembering Selena: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre,
Mount Vernon
Symphonic Band: 8pm, Performing Arts Center,
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WORDS
Pancake Breakfast: 8am-1pm, Rome Grange
Laughter Club: 4pm, Elizabeth Park
ON STAGE
VISUAL ARTS
World of the Shipwright Opening: 12-5pm,
Whatcom Museum
On the Waterfront Reception: 2-5pm, Iron Street
Gallery
Koenig Roundtable: 2pm, Whatcom Museum
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DANCE
Disco Fever Dance Party: 9-11pm, U & Me Dance
MUSIC
Planetarium Show: 7pm, Haggard Hall, WWU
EndFair: 7-12pm, Fairhaven Hall
Gye Nyame Ensemble: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre,
Mount Vernon
Ashana: 7pm, Wise Awakenings
Exit 9: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
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COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
FRIDAY
ON STAGE
Twelfth Night: 1pm and 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
Ethel Merman’s Broadway: 6pm, Mount Baker
Studio Theatre
The Human Comedy: 7:30pm, Performing Arts
Center, WWU
The Creature: 7:30pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU
Doubles Improv: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront
Theatre
Raised in Captivity: 8pm, iDiOM Theater
DANCE
VISUAL ARTS
Photography Reception: 6-9pm, Allied Arts
Private Collection Sale: 5pm, Two Moons Gallery,
La Conner
Youthnet Fundraiser: 5pm, Mount Vernon
06.02.08
Valley Dance Barn
Ethel Merman’s Broadway: 6pm, Mount Baker
Studio Theatre
Center, WWU
The Creature: 7:30pm, Old Main Theatre, WWU
Doubles Improv: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Upfront
Theatre
Twelfth Night: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
DANCE
Contra Dance: 8-11pm, Fairhaven Library
MUSIC
EndFair: 12pm-12am, Fairhaven Hall
Whatcom Wind Ensemble: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, Bellingham
Bayshore Symphonic Ensemble: 7:30pm, St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, Mount Vernon
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SATURDAY
ON STAGE
Sterling Deitz Magic Show: 4pm and 7pm, Sudden
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Poetry Night: 8:30pm, Fantasia Espresso
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TUESDAY
ON STAGE
WORDS
Phillip Margolin: 7pm, Village Books
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts
Center
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Spring Pow Wow: 12-10pm, Wade King Recreation
Center, WWU
Pride Prom: 7-9pm, Viking Union, WWU
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Square Dance: 5:30-7:45pm, YWCA Ballroom
COMMUNITY
THURSDAY
The Unusuals, Prozac Mtn. Boys: 6:30pm, American Museum of Radio
Amara Grace: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts
Center
The Mishras: 7:30pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount
Vernon
ON STAGE
The Stairwell Sisters: 2pm, Nancy’s Farm
Bayshore Symphonic Ensemble: 7:30pm, Central
Lutheran Church
Skip Gorman: 8pm, YWCA Ballroom
05.29.08
MUSIC
SUNDAY
MUSIC
Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham
Public Market
Center, WWU
Ethel Merman’s Broadway: 7:30pm, Mount Baker
Studio Theatre
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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WEDNESDAY
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Re-Opening Celebration: All day, Bellingham Bay
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AN ENCHANTED
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ACTOR-TURNED-DIRECTOR SYDNEY POLLACK, 73, died of complications from cancer at his Los Angeles home on Mon., May
26. The Oscar winner was best known for directing films such
as Out of Africa, Tootsie, and The Way We Were, but kept his
foot in the acting door most recently with a bit part in Michael
Clayton. “A tip of the hat to a class act,” said Clayton co-star
George Clooney. “He’ll be missed terribly.”
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13: Buds, boozers, borders
14: Lessons learned
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REAR END
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WOW! Mayor Dan Pike has taken more steps to protect Lake
Whatcom after just months in
office than other local leaders
have taken in years. I doubt
our veteran County Executive
Pete Kremen can catchup, but I
would love to see him try. Hats
off to a real leader, Dan Pike.
Thanks Dan, and keep up the
excellent work. You and your
council are kicking butt.
—Elizabeth Martin, Bellingham
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On May 19, Bellingham City
Council met with the City Administration in executive session (not open to the public).
What came out of that closed
meeting was a resolution retreating from the much-acclaimed February resolution
pulling back the previously
large urban growth area (UGA)
expansion. The new resolution states “The portions of
the City’s Comprehensive Plan
dealing with land supply and
UGA boundaries and the City’s
Land Supply Analysis adopted
by the City in 2006 remain in
effect today.”
With this resolution, the city
has returned to its position of
a massive UGA expansion all
the way to the Smith Road. The
resolution goes further and
abdicates all UGA expansion
responsibility to the county.
The county is now forced to
go against the city’s position
of massive UGA expansion
and multi-millions of dollars
behind CAITAC USA, the main
beneficiary of the expansion.
The Whatcom County Council
sent a letter to the city asking
the city to intervene in support
of the county. Our city leaders
declined. So much for collaborative planning and commitment to stemming sprawl.
I was at the City Council
meeting in February and witnessed the enthusiasm citizens had with our new City
Council and mayor and a new
approach to growth expansion.
The overwhelming majority of
citizens spoke in favor of the
city’s resolution to reduce
the massive expansion of the
city’s UGA. However, I saw
that resolution as amateurish
and illegal. It was hollow symbolism, and the subsequent
resolution passed on May 19,
standing by the massive UGA
expansion and the unwillingness to commit to and follow
the proper process to shrink
the city’s huge UGA request,
has left me disappointed.
We have a super-majority of
council members and a mayor
that have claimed they do not
want a massive expansion of
the UGA. It is time they follow through on their campaign
promises and figure out how to
get the job done. I am sure this
City Council could do the same
if they commit the time and
resources to this high-priority
issue as soon as possible.
—Dan McShane, Bellingham
YORK SHOOTING
Last Saturday night at my
house, we were hosting a
birthday party for an eight-
—Sarah Weeks, Bellingham
CMPD COMPLEXITIES
The issues around the Chuckanut
Mountain Park District initiative are
much more various and complex than
would first appear. The disappointed
proponents now declare their resolve
to continue working to protect the
right of citizens to vote from the
counties’ “bureaucratic” actions.
But I think the reality is that a lot
of people who have looked closely at
the initiative, including the boundCONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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I want to highlight an upcoming
event on May 29, “Speak Out: I had
an Abortion.” The event is organized with the intent of breaking
the stigma that surrounds abortion
and emphasizing women’s individual experiences. I am excited about
the possibilities of this event.
What we are missing from the
abortion dialogue are the voices
of women speaking on the array
of personal reasons for choosing
an abortion, and the range of feeling that can be evoked after having an abortion, from empowerment to deep loss and everything
inbetween. Speak Out gives names
and faces to our sisters, girlfriends,
mothers and friends who have had
abortions allowing connections
to grow between women and help
friends, families and partners of
women who have had an abortion
give love and support.
The Speak Out will be a rare opportunity to do one of the greatest things we can do for each other
as human beings: listen. It is not a
time to throw in our own two cents,
to debate or to judge. Until women
do not have to choose between
their voice and their safety, we will
have to depend on the courage of
the women who are speaking out to
bring the humanity and compassion
to abortion that we all need.
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minutes. The attacker (from out of
town) calmly climbed back in his car
and gave a polite smile and a wave
as he drove off. The police have no
real leads in either case.
I don’t know what to do about
the apparent fact that randomly
shooting at houses seems “cool” to
some fucked-up kids. The news lady
wanted me to tell her all about how
terrified I am, what with kids in the
house and all, and the recent stabbing on top of it. I declined.
I hope my house does not get hit
again.
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year-old friend of the family when
some jackasses decided to drive by
my neighbors’ unoccupied house
and light it up. We heard three shots
fired; witnesses saw fire erupting
from an old, white Oldsmobile.
Nobody was hurt. The shots were
fired at a college rental. I have to
assume it was random, as the kids
who live there don’t seem like the
type to be into anything that might
come with a drive-by.
One of the bullets was fired
into a bay window on the side of
the house. It traveled through the
back wall of the house, through
the wooden fence on the property
line and then into and through my
house as well. It wasn’t until the
police arrived to take pictures that
we realized that the misshapen
slug had lost enough velocity that
by the time it entered my house it
bounced harmlessly off of a piece
of plastic and rolled onto the living
room floor. Five kids under the age
of 10 were in the living room at the
time the shots were fired.
Again, I am so thankful no one
was hurt. I seriously doubt that
the shooters thought about how
far their bullets would travel and
what all they might hit before they
stopped. Not even hardened criminals tend to be keen to pop a cap in
an eight-year-old’s ass. But the full
consequences of actions don’t tend
to be explored of whatever motivated these wannabes—and that is
exactly what could have happened
when a couple of idiots decided to
play “gansta” last Saturday night.
Bellingham is a small town. A
liberal town. A hippie town. Bellingham is not a place that produces
lives that do drive-bys. Nobody’s
life is so hard here that shooting up
a house seems like a viable option.
This gansta mentality is one that
appears to have been adopted by
choice by a select few, not one that
has been impressed by inevitability
as it has in some bigger cities.
Alone on the street, anywhere in
Bellingham, anytime, night or day,
I have never felt at risk of being a
victim of a violent crime. The worst
thing that has ever happened to
me in 10 years here in Bellingham
was getting egged on my bike by
a drunk driver. After the shooting
I am still not afraid. But what the
hell is going on? It was only a couple of weeks ago that a man was fatally stabbed a few blocks down the
street. My neighbor and teammate
got to witness that one. One stab,
from the side, through the ribs and
into the heart. He was dead in five
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ary review board members and a whole lot
of other citizens and governmental entities have seen a variety of serious problems masked under the attractive title and
general mission of the initiative.
Good intentions don’t necessarily make
good government, and as the public examination of the initiative has proceeded,
support for it has obviously dwindled. Initiatives have risks for all of us, since they
readily create situations where voters vote
for general ideas without understanding
all the actual ramifications. I think this is
why we have representative democracy.
Here are the two biggest problems with
the CMPD proposal as I see them:
1) All existing metropolitan park districts exist to provide services and
benefits for the citizens living within
their boundaries. Period. This initiative
invited the relatively small number of
citizens within the proposed district
to pay taxes to provide seed money to
protect (and develop for eco tourism)
the Chuckanut Range. The Chuckanuts
are significant to the whole region and
state and a recreational resource for
people all over the Northwest. Protecting this area is a worthy goal, but
it is the proper responsibility of the
state and the counties—not just of the
citizens who happen to live within the
boundaries as drawn. Metropolitan park
districts just don’t fit the mission, however much you like the mission.
2) The electoral imbalance in the proposed
district between the 1,000 or so people
in Skagit and the 14,000 or so in south
Bellingham killed the proposal in Skagit
as soon as residents here saw the implications. That the law allowed this imbalance is a clear defect in the law (which,
as written, didn’t even require any signatures or votes in Skagit.) That the
proponents tried to ignore the issue and
continued to talk of democracy simply
added to the resistance, and ultimately
to the close examination that properly
led to the rejection of the district by the
boundary review boards.
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NEW DEAL FOR A RAW DEAL
The unfortunate response of the
Whatcom Boundary Review Board to the
Chuckanut Mountain Park District proposal—and the mob-like circus of fear,
misinformation and intimidation that
precipitated it—underscores the need
for a 21st-century New Deal and a return
to democratic principles regarding property rights and responsibilities to neighboring properties and to the community
at large at a time when our natural world
is shrinking.
It saddens me that those few who are
cheering loudest right now are celebrating the loss of the only existing viable
alternative to the majority of residents
and landowners, who seek other future
options than selling off to logging, gaming or development interests.
Existing land trusts and conservancies
in this region have increasingly stepped
back and/or compromised the ecological
and recreational integrity of the Chuckanut Mountain range (recent examples
include Blanchard Mountain, Governor’s
Point, Lake Samish, and North Chuckanut
Mountain) and are focused on protecting
“wilderness” preservation far outside the
expanding urban areas where the need
for functioning natural ecosystems is
greatest.
There is no “balance” in growth management, when taxpayers are forced to
subsidize ever-increasing transportation
and residential infrastructure without
proportionally increasing green infrastructure that protects the integrity of
our remaining undeveloped watersheds,
forests and farmlands. The reality is
regional efforts to “restore” our shared
natural salmon habitat, forest and mountain watersheds, coastlines, bays and
farmlands will fail if we allow ignorance,
apathy and lack of long-term vision to
limit our options.
Time will tell whether the North Sound
Conservancy and the Upper Skagit Tribe
will put their money where their mouths
are and fund all the unimplemented habitat, open-space and recreation priorities
in this region that are collecting dust on
our county planners’ back shelves, while
the land needed to support such ecologically and recreationally significant public
assets gets divvied up by development
and other natural-resource-depletive
uses, one project and LLC incorporation
at a time.
Cheers? I think not.
—Cathy McKenzie, Bellingham
GOING POSTAL
The sign reads “General Delivery hours
for mail pick-up will be 10:00–11:30am,”
which is a discriminatory practice against
the homeless members of our community.
Simply because we have found ourselves
in a peculiar situation as to need our mail
delivered to a post office instead of an actual street address, we are now considered
second-class citizens and not afforded the
same services at the Post Office as other
American citizens.
When any of you (with home/P.O. Box
delivery) has a package that could not be
delivered through “normal” means, the
post office gives you a notice stating that
you can pick up your mail at the post office during “normal business hours.” Want
to buy stamps? You can at any time during normal business hours. Want to mail a
hundred different sized letters? The person at the counter will stand there all day
and weigh and affix postage to each letter—during normal business hours. And if
you are not able to receive home-delivery
mail, well, because you don’t have one?
Too bad! We don’t have to give you the
same courtesy that is extended to any
other postal customer. You have “special
hours” that you must accept because you
don’t have the same rights as those with
money and homes.
Let’s look at this from another perspective. Maybe we can establish special public drinking faucets for the
homeless—separate from other Americans. Maybe we can designate that the
homeless ride in the back of a bus so as
not to offend other Americans. Getting
the idea of how I feel when I enter the
post office as a homeless person?
The post office may cite many excuses for this discriminatory practice: “It
takes too many worker hours away from
other [read: paying] customers to search
through the General Delivery mail for the
homeless customer. Our budget/staffing
issues make it difficult to fulfill the needs
of the homeless verses other [paying]
customers, etc.’” This attitude effectively
allows for discrimination based on the
profiling of a specific “group” of American
citizens. As I stated above, the Post Office
will spend all the time it takes to get my
mail packaged and posted—as long as I
am going to pay for their service.
As a citizen of the United States of
America I should be afforded the same
courtesy and attention as any other
citizen of this country. As a government
agency the Post Office is specifically required to give equal treatment to any
person using their facility. And yet as a
homeless person (the reason for my situation should not be an issue) I am effectively a second class citizen now—an
‘Untouchable’—unseen by the masses as
they carry out their daily missions.
I implore the post office of Bellingham
to reconsider their biased practices and
open the pickup of General Delivery mail
hours to that of any other customer—”any
time during normal business hours.”
—Kurt Feierabend, Bellingham
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EMPTY GESTURES: Last week the Gristle reported Bellingham
City Council had approved a resolution Mayor Dan Pike had
introduced that created a notable (and perhaps, in the rocky
relationship of Bellingham to its water supply, even historic)
yet mostly empty emergency moratorium against subdivisions
and building permits in the city’s portion of the Lake Whatcom watershed during the peak construction cycle. We say
“empty,” because anyone intending to build within the watershed during coming summer months had already, long ago,
filed for their permits; and this ordinance does nothing to
impede those lawful permits—ergo, everything slated to be
constructed in the city’s portion of the watershed this summer will be constructed in the watershed this summer.
We also noted the similarity of the city’s emergency moratorium to one enacted by Whatcom County four years ago,
one that likewise did little immediately to halt development,
and—due to regrettable legislative mishandling—sparked a
bonanza of permit applications that will plague local governments for decades to come. Will COB’s legislative handling be
better? Stay tuned.
The Gristle concluded with a lament that city and county
governments had cooperated very little on land and water
issues over the years. This lack of cooperation is classically
illustrated, for example, by the lack of coordinated action by
these entities to coax a transfer of development rights out
of a rural watershed into urban growth areas better suited to
receive such development: Great idea; no action.
Which segues into the topic of UGAs.
Space did not permit the Gristle to comment on that other
remarkable action of Bellingham city government last week:
To overturn by resolution their February resolution to overturn the city’s highly controversial land supply analysis. The
February resolution essentially agreed to agree with the
county’s more restrictive analysis of Bellingham’s future land
supply needs—one of the more cooperative handshakes the
two entities have grasped upon recently—revoked now as the
city seeks to dodge the legal consequences resulting from its
bold approaches to growth and land use in Bellingham.
Back in June 2006, Bellingham adopted a Comprehensive
Plan that called for an immense increase in the city’s urban
footprint, an increase county government—the actual approving body for such decisions—would not abide. A year
passed, and a more reticent city government decided they,
too, did not want to endorse a plan that would make Bellingham the most bloated little city in western Washington.
Council began to reconsider their earlier eager adoption of
the 2006 Comp Plan.
Their conviction was strengthened by Dan Pike, who actively campaigned in his race for the mayor’s office in favor of no
expansion of the city’s UGAs, a position strongly supported by
the majority of voters.
Last February, Pike made good on his pledge and introduced a warmly received resolution that essentially said the
city would abide by the county’s decision on UGA expansion,
knowing the county’s plan was more restrictive than the city’s
original 2006 Comp Plan. This effectively made the city and
the county partners in coming legal challenges; but put Bellingham at odds with its own growth plan.
Unsurprisingly, legal challenges did come, as petitions were
filed by citizen critics like Bob Weisen and, separately, Jack
Petree to the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board. The WWGMHB conjoined these challenges, which
allege the city did wrong by tossing out its bloated land supply
analysis (and the process that went into it) in favor of partnering with the county for better regional land use planning.
In April, County Council President Carl Weimer sent Mayor
Pike a letter, asking the city to join the county as a friendly
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T HE GR I S T L E
BY ERIC HIRST AND TRIS SHIRLEY
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STRIKING THE BALANCE BETWEEN QUALITY OF LIFE AND
POPULATION DENSITY
MANY FACTORS
affect
our quality of life. Some are internal (like our self esteem and
relationships with family and
friends), and some are external (for example, the scope and
quality of public services, such
as schools and parks).
Land-use patterns, the arrangement of—and harmony
among—natural and humanmade structures and facilities,
substantially affect our sense of
well-being. Land-use patterns
refer to the spatial organization of our homes, commercial
establishments, and industrial
sites and how these manmade
facilities relate to natural features (rivers, lakes, mountains
and valleys). These patterns, in
turn, determine the transportation modes and links that connect these diverse elements.
One key component of landuse patterns is the distinction
between urban and rural areas.
And a key element of this distinction is population density
(the number of people per square
mile), how many people live inside cities and how few people
live in rural areas.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines an urban area as one with
a population density of at least
1,000 people per square mile and
surrounding census blocks that
have an overall density of at
least 500 people per square mile.
Definitions for rural areas are
less precise and generally refer
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125%
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Rural Areas
Comparison of urban and rural population densities in Whatcom County to averages of 22
Washington counties with comparable populations.
to areas that are not urban, have
limited public services available,
and have an economy based on
agriculture, logging, mining and
energy-resource extraction.
If there were only a few people
in Whatcom County, this distinction among land uses would
not matter. Farms, forests, open
space, parks and wildlife habitat
could comfortably coexist with
the occasional residential, commercial or industrial development. Much of the rural United
States was once like this, and
many counties still are. Whatcom
County, however, already contains
a substantial population, and the
potential exists for that population to expand rapidly. Therefore,
the urban-rural distinction is
critical. The risk is that the wonderful diversity of landscapes we
now enjoy will evolve into a ho-
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mogenous urbanization.
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Management Act includes 13
goals. Key among them are:
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One measure of our success in
achieving these goals is the difference in population density between a county’s urban and rural
areas. How well does Whatcom
County do on that (very crude
and simple) measure of compliance with GMA?
Whatcom County cities are
10 percent less dense than the
state average, and the county’s
rural areas are 110 percent more
Eric Hirst and Tris Shirley are members
of Futurewise Whatcom, the local chapter of the statewide smart-growth group
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intervenor in the numerous appeals that
have been filed with the WWGMBH by developers who object to the county’s tighter growth plan.
In his reply, Pike indicated that partnership would be difficult, “as the city’s
current Comprehensve Plan and land supply analysis support more expansive UGA
boundaries than those adopted by Whatcom County.”
Which brings us to last week, when City
Council unanimously agreed in closed executive session to settle the challenge by
Weisen and Petree by undoing their earlier
agreement-to-agree, thereby reasserting
the city’s bloated 2006 Comp Plan.
It’s worth noting that even council
members who did not originally vote in
favor of the 2006 Comp Plan—like Terry
Bornemann and Barbara Ryan, who considered the original plan too problemridden to adopt—glumly voted in favor
of restoring it as the growth plan du jour
for Bellingham. In doing so, Bornemann
and Ryan goofily endorsed the very plan
they’d earlier found unacceptable. As for
Pike, last week’s resolution is more binding than any campaign promise to champion its opposite.
As Pike admits, February’s resolution
“did not change any of the city’s planning
documents that call for more expansive
UGA boundaries.” The city will stick to its
plan; the county can twist in the wind,
friendless, as it defends a tighter, more
protective growth plan to the WWGMHB.
Some partnership!
A cockeyed optimist, the Gristle has
faith nothing sinister is afoot with the
reversal; we’ll accept the mayor and council only embraced too enthusiastically
last February’s 180º change in direction
as an easy gesture to undo an unpopular decision… and then found February’s
resolution just would not hold up in court
because there was—unlike the 2006
Comp Plan—no process or methodology
to justify it. We’ll accept that. (The reality is perhaps a more subtle nuance of the
above layered with the certainty that COB
is simply rigged for endless, inexorable
bloat—like a glacial flow that cannot be
easily redirected—as a result of decades
of having allowed the construction lobby
to draft municipal code and to befriend
senior members of both COB Planning and
Public Works).
Yet we’ll sound a cautionary note about
this new development moratorium in the
watershed—another gesture similarly embraced with enthusiasm but without the
months of planning and process that make
it durable. Let’s hope it holds.
We predict this summer’s public meeting, which must lawfully accompany this
emergency building moratorium, will be a
ruckus worth covering. Stay tuned.
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dense than the state average. But this
comparison may be too simple-minded.
After all, it includes King County, which
contains almost 1.9 million people, 10
times as many as live in Whatcom County. At the other end of the spectrum,
this comparison includes many counties, especially on the east side of the
Cascades, with very small populations.
Let’s exclude King County and those
counties with less than 40,000 people
(17 of the state’s 39 counties). Let’s
also subtract land owned by the federal government. Almost 30 percent of
Washington State is owned by the federal government. About 65 percent of
Whatcom County is national park and
national forest.
With these adjustments, Whatcom
cities are only slightly more dense than
the average of these 22 counties, but
the county’s rural areas are much more
densely populated than the average, by
51 percent. If Whatcom County’s rural
density equaled the average, the number of people living in our rural areas
would be lower by one-third (28,000
fewer people).
The population density in Whatcom
County rural areas is 117 people per
square mile, compared with 78 people
per square mile for these other counties. Given the goals of GMA to protect
rural areas from sprawl and to concentrate development inside city limits,
Whatcom County is not doing well. We
are doing especially poorly in preventing suburban-type developments in rural areas.
What does it mean to have an extra
28,000 people living in the county’s
rural areas? It implies 10,000 more
housing units plus the associated retail
and other commercial establishments
sprawling across the countryside. If
these structures and the associated infrastructure (especially roads) were removed, more land would still be available for working farms and forests, as
well as for wildlife habitat, open space,
parks and other natural areas.
The conclusion we already know:
Whatcom County’s rural areas are being devoured by the relentless push
of sprawling developments. We can’t
do much about past zoning and other
land-use decisions that allowed such
high population densities in our rural
areas. But we can do a lot to stop these
destructive trends in the future. We
need to work with the Whatcom County
government to protect our rural areas
from further losses. Our quality of life,
both in the cities and in the country,
depends on it.
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Green Washington award. Bellingham was honored earlier this month by an international climate summit for being a leader in the design of
a greenhouse gas reduction plan.
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TUESDAY
A 49-year-old Bellingham cyclist dies after she is struck by
an Amtrak train while crossing into Boulevard Park from the
north. Witnesses on the trail say the woman was singing as she
passed them on her bike.
Two young Bellingham women are hospitalized after their
motor scooter collides with a car. The car’s young driver is
cited for improperly exiting from a parked position and for driving with a suspended license. The driver of the scooter is cited
for not having the special permit required to operate such a
vehicle.
Whatcom County Council follows the lead of Bellingham City
Council and establishes an Energy Resouce Scarcity Task Force
to consider the potential local impacts of a projected worldwide energy shortage.
In a public meeting, angry Sudden Valley residents say they
oppose a proposed merger between Bellingham Public Works
and their Lake Whatcom Water and Sewer District, despite the
certainty they’d see lower water and sewer bills under the merger. Many say they’re worried the move would lead to limits on
development in Sudden Valley, which is—yes—exactly what the
merger is intended to do.
Early returns suggest the Ferndale School District’s second
attempt at a $21 million bond measure has also failed. State
law requires 60 percent voter approval to pass bond issues.
02.21.08
WEDNESDAY
Bellingham is named the state’s “greenest government” by
Washington CEO Magazine, edging out Seattle and snagging a
Persistent marine biotoxins again close
shellfish beds in Drayton Harbor and the shoreline around Semiahmoo Spit.
05.22.08
THURSDAY
For the fourth time in less than a year, a right
human foot is found off an
island in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia. Police say they don’t know if
there are any links among
the limbs, and they have yet
to find any matching left feet
on any of the Strait’s scattered islands. Police say a passerby found the
most recent human foot in a shoe on Kirkland
Island along the South Arm of the Fraser River.
Angry neighbors storm a proposal for a
141-home development on Governors Point
near Larabee State Park. The developer says
the gated community along scenic Chuckanut
Drive would be “environmentally sensitive,” but
neighbors object to its potential impacts on
traffic, beach access, storm and sewer concerns
and a variety of other potential problems from
the development. Whatcom County’s planning
director says a full environmental review will
be performed on the controversial project.
05.23.08
FRIDAY
The Washington State Public Disclosure
Commission issues a small fine to Bellingham
Mayor Dan Pike for “sloppy” record keeping
during his 2007 campaign. Mayor Pike failed to
record certain campaign contributions and did
not announce his candidacy in a timely manner, the PDC finds; he also used Skagit County
resources a few times to assist his campaign.
Bellingham City Council member Terry Borneman and City Council candidate Michael Lilliquist are also issued small fines for minor disclosure violations.
05.24.08
SATURDAY
A 79-year-old Mount Vernon woman is recovering in serious condition after being stabbed
in her own home. Police take a 27-year-old male
suspect into custody.
Ski to Sea weekend launches with a grand
parade in downtown Bellingham.
05.25.08
SUNDAY
Ski to Sea weekend continues, but with the
race’s canoe leg canceled and the kayak leg
shortened. The canoe leg was canceled due to
rising waters of the Nooksack River; the kayak
leg was shortened over concerns of high winds
on the bay. Ironically, Clipper Canoes crossed
first, but was edged after time adjustments by
Baglery and Barron Heating teams. The weather
does not inhibit the weekend’s renowned revelry and nonsense, which proceeds apace in
Fairhaven.
05.26.08
MONDAY
Whatcom County forfeits $18.5 million in
state funds after County Council voted 5-2 last
month not to spend $11.5 million for a new
Lummi Island ferry. Instead the penny-pinching council approved $6 million to renovate the
dock and the aging Whatcom Chief ferry. Council
members on both sides of the issue say they
expected to lose the state funds as a result of
their decision.
05.27.08
TUESDAY
The state Utilities and Transportation Commission reports they’ve received 8,000 comments from the public on a proposal to sell
Puget Sound Energy to foreign investors and
raise rates. The WUTC reports about 95 percent of the comments oppose the sale and
rate increase. PSE is the state’s and largest
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On May 21, a Bellingham man reported his bicycle was stolen after
he’d parked it on the roadway near
where there was a “Free” sign.
UNCLEAR ON THE
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On May 18, Blaine Police received
a report that the stench of burning marijuana was wafting from
a neighbor’s apartment into her
child’s bedroom on A Street. “Investigating officers followed their
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On May 10, Blaine Police logged
numerous calls by passersby concerned about a corpse laying
alongside Peace Portal Drive. “Responding officers found that the
body to be an inebriated pedestrian who was engaged in a horizontal pursuit of sobriety while awaiting the bus. Police transported
him to a more frequently serviced
bus stop.”
MALICIOUS DESTRUCTION
OF SLEEP
On May 12, a process server became alarmed when she attempted
to serve legal papers on a Blaine
homeowner and found two young
children, apparently home alone.
Police officers arrived and knocked
on the door for several minutes before a woman came to the door and
identified herself as a mom whose
sleep had been interrupted. “None
of the kids in the house were in
any danger,” police noted. “Mom
wanted the process server arrested, but Nap Destruction isn’t in our
bail book.”
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RANK OF WASHINGTON, among 50 states, in violent
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CHANCE IN 100 a murder in Washington is committed
with a firearm (knives rank second).
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CHANCE IN 100 a person arrested for murder is later
cleared of the offense (2004).
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On May 7, the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a
black pit bull and a white German
shepherd running loose on Allen
West Road near Bow. Deputies
reported the dogs had a history
of being aggressive. On May 9, a
black pit bull was reported dead on
Avon Allen Road near Bow. A white
dog was reported nosing the ingredients of the road pizza.
On May 9, firefighters responded to
a report of a house fire near Drayton Harbor in Blaine. Police noted,
“After the smoke cleared, investigation revealed the teenager had
not baked quite enough muffins
for all the emergency crews who
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On May 21, Lynden border guards
watched as cameras caught three
people running into the United
States from Canada. When investigating agents arrived on the
scene, they observed three individuals running back to Canada. A
short time later the agents found
two large duffel bags stuffed with
potent B.C. bud abandoned in a
field.
On May 20, Blaine Police again responded to a report of an
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On May 13, Blaine Police reported
“a transient from Chicago entered
a duty free store, pocketed a necklace and slinked away.
Fortunately, he slinked
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18-year-old who was smoking marijuana in his own bedroom,” police
reported. “They confiscated his
marijuana pipe and a personal use
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After encouraging signs, negotiations between Western Washington University and its
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Panicked by the prospect that negotiations
could leak into and pollute the next academic
year (to say nothing of a fresh university administration), negotiators redoubled their efforts this week and reached a tentative agreement. The agreement proposes a compromise
on pay and offers union faculty something they
really wanted: binding arbitration by an independent third party on the interpretation of
future contracts.
The agreement must still be ratified by voting members of the UFWW union and by Western Washington University’s Board of Trustees;
however, with the surrender of the administration on the issue of binding arbitration, that
ratification may be virtually assured. The UFWW
membership will vote to approve Western’s first
faculty contract next week.
“Faculty are at the heart of Western’s commitment to engaged excellence. We are pleased
to have found common ground in a fair contract
that is supported by both bargaining teams,”
said Eileen Coughlin, a member of the administration’s bargaining team, visibly relieved by
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This agreement-in-principle punctuates a
heated chapter in negotiations between the
new faculty union and an entrenched administration. The imminent departure of University
President Karen Morse placed additional pressure on agreement among negotiators, who
were unenthusiastic to have their efforts carry
forward into a new academic year—and a new
administration.
At the heart of much of the rancor, faculty claim that while their own salaries have
stagnated, administration hiring and raises
have been brisk. Western faculty salaries rank
among the lowest among peer universities nationally; meanwhile, Western employs almost
three times as many administrators per student
as other public universities of similar size and
reputation, according to faculty union representatives.
“If Western has enough money to support a
large administration, then there is also money
to support higher faculty raises,” noted Kyle
Crowder, an associate professor of sociology,
who researched hiring statistics on behalf of
the UFWW. The agreement, which offers an immediate 4 percent pay raise with an additional
10.5 percent salary increase for qualified faculty, helps close this gap.
The university employs 737 faculty members,
including 614 full-time-equivalent faculty.
Nearly all hold advanced degrees.
In her annual state-of-the-university addresses, Morse has consistently set competitive faculty salaries as one of her top goals.
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Western faculty salaries continue to slip when compared against other peer universities. Additionally,
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the announcement the university’s
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“YOUR ACTIONS AND ATTITUDES SEEM TO REFLECT SOME DEEP RESENTMENT TOWARDS YOUR FACULTY.”
—Open letter to WWU President Karen Morse
Western employs more administrators per student than comparable universities. Administrative salaries have
tended to track better with Bellingham’s rising costs of living, say union negotiators.
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members—by turns outraged and embarrassed by the university’s inability to
satisfactorily conclude negotiations—
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a program designed to highlight the
collaboration of students with faculty
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“My reason for withdrawing is simple,”
Professor Garth Amundson confessed in
a widely distributed email. “Until the
administration compensates me properly, I am faced with withdrawing from
all extra activities beyond basic responsibilities. I will continue to fulfill
my teaching responsibilities, including
office hours and all other required duties, but as far as extras are concerned,
I need to stop taking on projects that I
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Critics said Morse’s inability to negotiate with faculty in a satisfactory way
during her term as president practically
invited an angry faculty to unionize.
Union members have even gone so far
as to carry signs into Western Board of
Trustee meetings to protest stalled negotiations.
Board members decline to comment
on ongoing negotiations.
Ultimately, the union would like to
reach the 75th percentile in pay, something university administrators have
advocated in past years, Lyne said. By
contrast, the settlement would increase
the average to about $70,000—still
below the average of the peer group,
according to data collected by the
union.
“Academic departments are finding it
increasingly difficult to attract quality
candidates to fill faculty positions, and
every year we lose dedicated faculty to
lower-quality institutions that pay their
faculty more,” Lyne explained. “Western faculty do not expect top compensation, but we do expect salaries that
are competitive enough to attract and
retain dedicated instructors engaged in
quality scholarship. If Western’s salaries do not improve, the quality of our
students’ education will soon suffer.”
“What students are most concerned
about is the issue of salary, because we
have all these good professors and we
want them to stay here,” Jessica Sheinbaum, president of Western’s Student
Labor Action Project, told AS Review.
“The issues the faculty are facing also
strongly affect students and the quality of education they receive.
“The other big issue is workload,” she
said, “because we know that if teachers’ workloads aren’t capped, they’re
not going to have enough time to work
with students individually or give us
the attention we need.”
Her concerns proved well-founded.
Cracks formed in the strained relationship last week as some faculty
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am not compensated for.”
Other faculty also threatened to stop
participating in activities for which
they are not compensated.
“Such talk is too easily interpreted as
whining,” explained Professor Barbara
Mathers-Schmidt, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and
Disorders. “But… I don’t know how to
do this any other way, since as a department chair, professor, researcher
and clinician I have major obligations
to my department faculty and staff, to
my students, and to the many clients
who come to our speech and hearing
clinics each day.
“None of this is as personally rewarding as it once was, because I am per-
sonally diminished when my salary and
working conditions are held hostage by
the prolonged bargaining process,” she
explained.
In an open letter to Morse, a frustrated sociology professor, Seth Feinberg, said he was perplexed by “why you
hired a union-busting lawyer at $200+
per hour (plus paid travel time to and
from Seattle) to drag out the bargaining on a contract with the faculty for
17 months, only to make it 99 percent
of the way to completion and then kill
the negotiations at the final hour. It
seems confusing to me,” Feinberg concluded, “that you would publicly state
that you want to get a fair contract
for all, yet your actions and attitudes
seem to reflect some deep resentment
towards your faculty.”
Salaries were not the only—or even
primary—sticking point in negotiations. Just as desperately, faculty
sought binding arbitration on contract
interpretations and an internal appeal
process for workload and performance
reviews, which they say is standard in
agreements of this kind.
’THE $9.7 MILLION QUESTION’
While the need to increase faculty
pay was widely acknowledged by faculty
and the administration, questions arise
of how to fund such pay increases.
The Washington State Legislature,
which provided the university with record amounts of money in its 2007-09
budget, allowed $9.7 million in undesignated funds for Western’s trustees to
allocate. Portions of this money were
spent on new administrative positions,
equipment funds and increased campus
security.
But Lyne and Crowder say this money
could be available to advance any purpose the university administration deems
important, including the enhancement of
faculty salaries to make them competitive with other peer institutions.
Writing in a recent UFWW newsletter, Lyne and Crowder note, this is “new
money to the university. The funding
for all existing and ongoing programs,
DISUNION OF OTHER UNIONS
While Western faculty sigh with relief and quietly prepare to celebrate,
ROSTER OF
ROTATING DEANS
As Western Washington University President Karen Morse prepares to belly up to a $50-a-plate dinner next week honoring her achievements,
she may be relieved the event won’t be boycotted by scores of protesting faculty. But the incoming administration may still be challenged by her
rotating roster of deans who continue to sit in (and climb out of) their wobbly chairs:
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to do so. That’s not the case, they argued; Western’s administration has always been willing to bargain with the
union.
Union members asked Superior Court
Judge Charles Snyder to send the case
on to the Court of Appeals, which has
the authority to decide whether interest arbitration should be granted.
The union won; the motion was
granted by Snyder.
However, in light of the agreement to
binding arbitration for UFWW members,
potential settlement perhaps looks
brighter for PSE members.
If so, it may be the last fiery ember removed from the chair of Karen Morse before she sits down next week to a cooler
and calmer feast in honor of her achievements as the retiring head of one of the
state’s foremost public universities.
Marie Biondolillo is a reporter for the
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unions, granted the union the option
of such arbitration in contract negotiations with Western administration.
The commission delivered the award
because, they found, Western’s administration had committed unfair labor
practices by refusing to negotiate
union salary increases and by making
intimidating comments to the union
bargaining team about job security,
PSE attorney Eric Nordlof said.
Since then, administration attorneys
have been struggling to get PERC’s decision suspended while the union has
insisted it be upheld.
This month the union and Western
administration squared off in Whatcom
County Superior Court.
Western’s administration asked that
the court suspend PERC’s decision because interest arbitration is only supposed to be granted when an employer
refuses to bargain and seems unlikely
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theirs is not the only union seeking
resolution with the departing Morse
administration.
Earlier this month, Western’s administrative support workers’ and supervisors’
union met the administration in Whatcom County Superior Court. Administrative support workers and supervisors are
part of Western’s Public School Employees of Washington (PSEE) union.
This union has wrestled even longer
with Western administration than the
UFWW—since as early as 2004.
Administrative support workers and supervisors express concern the administration is denying them the right of interest
arbitration, where a neutral third party, or
arbitrator, is called in to settle disputes
between employer and employee.
In 2004, the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC), a state
agency that mediates conflicts between
public employers and public employee
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student services, and salaries is part of
the… base budget. So no matter how
the administration chooses to spend
the new $9.7 million dollars, on faculty
salaries or anything else, it will not
take money away from existing university programs.”
But university administrators say the
money is already allocated, with only
$441,800 allocated for faculty promotion and tenure increases.
“The university administration is on
record claiming that faculty salaries
are their number one budget priority,”
Lyne responded. “We find this public
rhetoric hard to reconcile with the fact
that the administration did not set
aside even a single dollar of discretionary funds for faculty salary increases.”
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EDUCATION WILL SOON SUFFER.”
—UFWW President William Lyne
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Dean of College of
Business and
Economics
Replaced by Brian
Burton
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Dean of Libraries
Introduced in 2001;
retires; replaced by Interim Dean Jerry Boles;
Jerry Boles replaced by
Chris Cox
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CAROL EDWARDS
Interim Dean of
College of Fine and
Performing Arts
Replaced by Carol
Edwards
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Fine and Performing
Arts
Introduced in 2004,
resigns 2006; replaced
by Ron Riggins
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Humanities and Social
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Faculty Relations
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of Academic Affairs
Left abruptly; replaced
by Dennis Murphy
In 2003, Provost Bodman helped spearhead the
administration’s deeply
controversial division of
the university into colleges of Humanities & Social Sciences and Sciences
& Technology. In a faculty
vote, 175 out of 212 faculty members opposed
the division. Bodman was
oddly rewarded for his
troubles—the administration says he “resigned.”
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SPOKEN WORD: Spoken Word
Wednesdays happen every week
at 8pm at the Bellingham Public Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave.
The event is free. For more info:
714-0800.
town Bellingham for the 3rd annual Ladies Night from 5-12pm
at Left Right Left and Frank
James, 202 E. Holly St. Enjoy
sales, drinks, goodie bags and
more, then take a limo to watch
the premiere of Sex and the City.
Cost is $30-$50. For more info:
734-0660.
THURS., MAY 29
SAT., MAY 31
SHIF T: Jennifer Bradbury reads
from Shift, a young adult novel
about two friends who bike
across the United States, at 7pm
at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
For more info: 671-2626.
ANNIVERSARY PART Y: Celebrate the fifth anniversary of
the Lynden Library at 6:30pm at
216 Fourth St. Music, tours and
refreshments will be available
at the free party. For more info:
354-4883.
POE TRY NIGHT: Sign up to read
your creations at Poetry Night
at 8:30pm every Monday at Fantasia Espresso, 1332 Cornwall
Ave. For more info: 715-1634 or
poetrynight.org.
ANACORTES MARKE T: The Anacortes Farmers Market is open
from 9am-2pm at the Depot Arts
Center, 611 R Ave. For more info:
(360) 293-1294 or anacortes
farmersmarket.org.
MOUNT VERNON MARKE T:
The Mount Vernon Farmers Market opens today from 9am-1pm
in downtown Mount Vernon at
Gates and Main streets. The
market continues every Saturday through Oct. 11. Info:
(360) 292-2648 or mountvernon
farmersmarket.org.
BENCH DEDICAT ION: Attend
the “Michael Durbin Memorial
Bench” dedication at 10am on
the Whatcom Creek trail (near
the new Racine Street footbridge). Durbin died in 2004
while surfing in Mexico. For more
info: 756-01458.
BELLINGHAM MARKE T: The
Bellingham Farmers Market is
open from 10am-3pm every
Saturday at the Depot Market
Square, located at the corner of
Railroad Avenue and Chestnut
Street. For more info: 647-2060
or bellinghamfarmers.org.
POW WOW: “Honoring Education” will be the theme of today’s
Spring Pow Wow from 12-10pm
at WWU’s Wade King Recreation
Center. Dancing, singing, arts
and crafts, food and more will
be available at the free event.
TUES., JUNE 3
SUN., JUNE 1
EXECUT IVE PRIVILEGE: Mystery writer Phillip Margolin
reads from his new tome, Executive Privilege, at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St. For more
info: 671-2626.
COMMUNIT Y BREAKFAST: Partake in a Pancake Breakfast and
farm stand from 8am-1pm at the
Rome Grange, 2821 Mt. Baker
Hwy. Entry is $2-$5. For more
info: 592-2705.
LAUGHTER CLUB: All are invited to a public laughter session
with members of the Bellingham
Laughter Club at 4pm at Elizabeth Park. Bring your own picnic. For more info: 920-3617 or
WorldLaughterTour.com.
WED., MAY 28
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FRI., MAY 30
PLANT, PULL: Author and Zen
Buddhist Geri Larkin shares
ideas from her book, Plant Seed,
Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden
of Your Life, at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St. For more
info: 671-2626.
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Human Rights
SAT., MAY 31
HONORING ACCEPTANCE
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T WO IN ONE: Gail Carson
Levine reads from her young
adult novel Ever at 2pm and Lou
Ureneck reads from Fatherhood,
Fly-Fishing, and a River Journey
Through the Heart of Alaska at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th
St. For more info: 671-2626.
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FEAR IS
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an ugly word. So are racism, sexism and
hate. But sometimes, an act of aggression meant to
cause fear can be transformed into something positive.
Fourteen years ago, the Whatcom Human Rights Task
Force was born after a cross was erected and burned in
front of a migrant labor housing development on Pole
Road, followed by a drive-by shotgun shooting.
Rallies followed the harrowing event, and brought
members of the Hispanic community, various religious
organizations and folks of all colors and stripes together. The gatherings led directly to the organization
of the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force (WHRTF),
whose mission “works to ensure an individual’s right to
be treated with dignity and to
live without fear of violence,
intimidation, or discrimination
based on group identification
or personal characteristics.”
Each year, the WHRTF honors individuals in the comATTEND
munity who work to battle
WHAT: 12th Annual
discrimination in its many
Whatcom Human
guises. This year’s recipients
Rights Task Force
awards ceremony
include a trio of community
WHEN: 6pm Fri.,
members who toil tirelessly to
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help others. Michael Cohen,
WHERE: Faith Luthe director of the Bellingham
theran Church, 2750
Food Bank, has made it his
McLeod Rd.
COST: $10-$15
mission to eradicate hunger,
INFO: 733-2233 or
the most basic of needs. Colwhrtf.org
leen Curtis, a longtime member of Amnesty International and a supporter of the
Whatcom Human Rights Film Festival, is being honored for her behind-the-scenes efforts with these organizations. Western Washington University elementary education professor Karen Hoeisher works with
local students and teachers to bring the issues of
social justice to life.
MON., JUNE 2
Barbara Rofkar, WHRTF’s Chairwoman, says she’s inspired by this year’s honorees and their work to honor
all of humanity. “You cannot get any more basic than
food,” she says. “We cannot grow, think, learn, play
or live without it. The dedication to education is also
primary. With a mass media that trys to fill our head
with fear and irrelevance, those who bring ideas,
concepts, thoughts that grow our humanity rather
than reduce it need to be honored.”
Rofkar says the night’s events will also honor
2007’s Commemoration Project that recognized and
apologized for incidents of fear and discrimination
that occurred in Bellingham against Sikh and East
Indian workers 100 years ago.
Discrimination—and fear—will likely never be
eradicated, but Rofkar and other members of the Human Rights Task Force will do what they can to bring
it to light and stand up for those who may not feel
they have a voice.
“That discrimination exists in Bellingham cannot
be denied,” Rofkar says. “That we are a community that tries to recognize when that occurs and do
something about it is what created the Task Force. We
are a community as many other communities, some
filled with fear and many many filled with hope for a
more humane future for our children.”
COMMUNITY
MAY 28-30
OPEN
DISCUSSIONS:
The
Women’s Center at WWU will host
events focusing on the topic of
abortion throughout the week.
Jennifer Baumgardner will helm
an “I Had an Abortion” talk at
7pm Wed. at Miller Hall. A documentary and discussion, “Speak
Out: I Had an Abortion” happens
at 7pm Thurs. at the Connection.
An “Abortion Speak-In” happens
at 3pm Fri. at the Viking Union.
All events are free. For more
info: 650-6114.
FRI., MAY 30
LADIES NIGHT: Head to down-
WED., JUNE 4
WORLD ISSUES: “Social Movements is Oaxaca” will be the topic of a free World Issues Forum
at noon at WWU’s Fairhaven College Auditorium. For more info:
650-2309.
WEDNESDAY
MARKET:
The
Wednesday Market kicks off today from 3-7pm at the Fairhaven
Village Green. For more info:
647-2060 or bellinghamfarmers.
org.
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SAN JUAN MARATHON: The San Juan Island Marathon & Half-Marathon starts at 8am in Friday Harbor.
For more info: sjmarathon.org.
NAT IVE ID: A “Native Plant Identification” outing
happens at 1pm starting at WWU’s Fairhaven courtyard. You’ll learn to identify native plants, learn
about their medicinal and culinary uses and when
and how to harvest them. Cost is $20-$24. For more
info: 734-8158.
MON., JUNE 2
became Whatcom Falls Park.
A few decades later, in the 1940s, after an intense
and prolonged period of polluting and damming, the
timely demise of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mill bequeathed upon our fair City a 12-acre lakeside park.
Then, finally, in 1979—about 30 years after the
last wild salmon charged up the creek—Maritime
Salmon Hatchery opened for business on the site
of an old sewage plant and began to replenish the
fishery.
During the early 1990s, Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association commenced tearing up parking
lots, replanting the creek banks with native plants
and shrubs and reestablishing pools, sand bars and
side channels for salmon, trout, lampreys, stickle
backs, sculpin and dozens of other fishes, birds and
mammals who are, once again, making Whatcom
Creek their home.
You won’t have to get wet during one of North
Cascade Institute’s upcoming half-day-long Wild
Whatcom field excursions, but you will get a comprehensive, down-to-earth look at the past, present
and future of one of Bellingham’s wettest (and wildest) greenways.
MEE T ING, SOCIAL: If you’re interested in being
part of the Mount Baker Club, attend a “Meeting and
Social” at 7pm at the Bellingham Senior Activity
Center, 315 Halleck St. The event is free. For more
info: mountbakerclub.org.
DAY HIK ING: Author Craig Romano will lead a free
slideshow and presentation on “Day Hiking in the
North Cascades” at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. For more
info: 647-8955.
TUES., JUNE 3
WALK ING CLUB: Join the “10,000 Steps Walking
Club Challenge,” which meets at 11am every Tuesday through Aug. 31 at the Bellingham Tennis Club,
800 McKenzie Ave. The class is free. For more info:
733-5050 or bellinghamtennis.com.
WED., JUNE 4
CONSERVAT ION CELEBRAT ION: A charter bus will
be available to take folks to today’s Lily Point Conservation Celebration starting at 10:30am in Point
Roberts. Guided walks, beach explorations, a beach
ceremony, speeches and much more will be part of
the lowest-tide-of-the-year festivities. For more
info: 650-9470 or whatcomlandtrust.org.
RIDING GALBRAITH: Join members of the Mount
Baker Club for a ride up the north side of Galbraith
Mountain leaving at 6pm from Whatcom Falls Park.
CAC TUS EATERS: Dan White reads from his memoir, The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost
Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. For more info: 671-2626.
SEAL TALK: “Blessing or Curse: Our Local Seals and
the San Juan Islands” will be the topic of a free talk
at 7pm at Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.
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QUINN MCKEE
Thirty seconds.
Taken on their own, these two measurements hardly seem
enough to elicit any great sense of horror.
But in the early evening of June 10, 1999, a 28-inch crack was
all it took for 277,000 gallons of fuel to come gushing out of the
Olympic Pipeline and 30 seconds was all it took for the resultant
fireball to engulf 32 acres along Whatcom Creek in a lethal, mushroom-cloud-inducing apocalypse.
Nearly a decade later,this once-smoldering, blackened scar is
almost entirely grown over. But even now, just beneath the green,
charred trees and stumps remain grim and tacit reminders of the
fragile, corrosive underpinnings of our oil-dependent society.
Fortunately for us, much like their bigger
cousins rivers, creeks are—by their very
nature—constant and essential agitators
of change and rebirth.
Whatcom Creek, which takes its name
from an ancient Coastal Salish word meaning “noisy waters,” flows four short, boisterous miles from its headwaters at Lake
Whatcom down to Bellingham Bay, dropDO IT
ping about 300 feet and plunging over four
WHAT: Wild
sets of waterfalls.
Whatcom: The NaIt was the 15-foot lower falls (behind
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WHEN: June 1, 8
the post office and beneath Dupont Street
and 15
Bridge) that provided hydropower for BellWHERE: Begins
ingham’s first major industrial endeavor:
and ends on the
the Peabody-Roeder sawmill in 1852.
banks of Whatcom
From these hardscrabble origins at the
Creek
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creek’s mouth, radiating outward in evINFO: (360)
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856-5700, ext. 209
settlement, industry and commerce has
or ncascades.org
flooded and ebbed.
“The face of the water is a wonderful
book,” wrote Mark Twain. “And it is not a book to be read once
and thrown aside, for it has a new story to tell every day.”
The story of Whatcom Creek is the story of Whatcom County. It is a
noisy, epic, tragicomedy of utilization, abuse, neglect and—hopefully, eventually—full and complete ecological recovery.
Despite the scabrous industrial and postindustrial thrashings
heaped upon it during the past 150 years, our namesake freshwater outlet is still flowing strong and growing greener every day.
Conservation efforts began in 1908 when an outfit called the Young
Men’s Commercial Club raised funds to purchase initial property that
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EARLY BIRDS: Wildlife biologist David Drummond
will lead a “Songbirds of Whatcom County” excursion starting at 6am at the Community Food Co-op,
1220 N. Forest St. Cost is $20-$24. For more info:
734-8158.
WORK PART Y: Join folks from the Nooksack Salmon
Enhancement Association for a work party at 9am
at Padden Creek. Parking will be available at the
Fairhaven Veterinary Hospital, 2330 Old Fairhaven
Pkwy. For more info: 715-0283 or n-sea.org.
WATER GARDENS: Learn more about “Water Garden
Basics” at a workshop at 10am at Bakerview Nursery,
945 E. Bakerview Rd. The event is free, but pre-registration is requested. For more info: 676-0400.
BOAT PARADE: All are welcome at a grand reopening celebration happening throughout the day at the
Bellingham Bay Community Boating Center, 501 Harris Ave. A boat parade, races, raffles, food, music and
more will be part of the free event. For more info:
714-8891 or sailpaddlerow.org.
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BEACH NATURALIZAT ION: If you’re interested in
becoming a Beach Naturalist, come to a volunteer
orientation at 6pm at the RE Store, 2309 Meridian
St. Field trips begin June 1. For more info: 733-8307
or re-sources.org.
PLANT WALK: Members of the Washington Native
Plant Society will lead a free “Plant Walk” at 6pm at
Whatcom Falls Park. For more info: 319-6988.
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ALLIED ARTS: A reception for photographers Gary Meador and Donald Simpson happens from 6-9pm at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave. The show will hang through June
21. For more info: 676-8548 or alliedarts.
org.
PRIVATE COLLEC T ION: View selections
from the private collection of Rita and Art
Hupy at a reception starting at 5pm at Two
Moon Gallery, 620 S. First St., La Conner. For
more info: (800) 547-4449 or twomoonsgallery.com.
YOUTHNE T SHOW: Help out Mount Vernon’s
Youthnet by attending a fundraising art
show starting at 5pm at 227 N. 4th St. Work
by more than 30 regional artists will be for
sale. Tickets are $10. For more info: (360)
336-1610 or youthnetnw.net.
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Darius Kinsey, Photographer
SUN., JUNE 1
ANSEL ADAMS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
YOU HAVE to wonder what drove Darius Kinsey to sojourn
away from the comforts of his stately Seattle home to enter
the dripping, dark primeval forests of the Pacific Northwest so
incessantly. For decades, he was frequently finding excuses to
jump a train or motor coach north out of the city to return to
the logging camps, shantytowns and and snowy summits of the
Cascadian back-of-beyond. Of course, he always packed along
his large-format camera and crates of negatives with him. The
tools of his art lent purpose to his wanderings.
Traveling through the untamed Northwest undergrowth, with
its thickets of devil’s club, vine maples and salal and ankletwisting maze of downed and decomposing old-growth trees,
was seldom an easy affair, and Kinsey didn’t travel light. His
Eastman View camera weighed about
15 pounds and the large glass negative plates were both fragile and unwieldy.
Even though his Eastman View was
advertised as “an excellent camera
of strong and substantial construction,” it is doubtful many Kodak customers pushed their equipment to
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the extremes Kinsey did: shooting in
WHAT: “Logging
all vagrancies of weather, crawling
Days: Recent Donaup and down fern-choked gorges,
tions of Darius Kinsey
teetering across the goat trails of
Photographs”
miners.
WHEN: 12-5pm Tues.Sun., through Aug. 16
If he wasn’t lugging around his
WHERE: Whatcom
camera, he could be found next to
Museum, 121 Proswaterfalls or cedar shake cabins expect St.
perimenting in the improvised arts of
COST: Admission is
taking stereo-camera shots and capby donation
INFO: 778-8931 or
turing panoramic perspectives with
whatcommuseum.org
his “Cirkut” camera, a self-revolving,
50-pound behemoth.
Kinsey is most well known for the record he created of the
Pacific Northwest logging culture. His photos immortalize tableaus of mustachioed men in tin pants and suspenders, buckers crosscutting fallen cedars, shake-splitters retiring to their
smoldering stump huts and steam engines traversing massive
trestles.
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Clear Lake Lumber crew with company’s 3-spot, a Climax locomotive, c.1903
“Through a 50-year career in photography,” Whatcom Museum
archivist Jeff Jewell explains, “Kinsey captured the monumental interaction between men, machinery and mammoth trees
that defined early logging in northwest Washington.” The museum, which holds and tends the world’s largest Kinsey archive,
has recently put on display 38 Kinsey prints, 21 of which have
never been displayed in public before.
Though he created a visual history of our corner of the continent majestic in scope, Kinsey’s work isn’t simply a historical
record. There is a bold and original artistic quality to the prints
he produced that calls to mind the work of Ansel Adams. Both
share the same palette of rich, inky blackness and the thousand subtle shades of grey, the shockingly sharp detail and eye
for dramatic composition. Much like Adams and his beloved
Yosemite Valley, Kinsey’s work presents the Northwest woods
as a cathedral. There is a sense of architecture and a somber,
serious light in many of his prints of the forest.
“Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit,” Adams once remarked.
“Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to
them is an instrument of love and revelation.” Kinsey falls in
the latter camp. Those of us fascinated by the history of the
Pacific Northwest are all the more fortunate for it.
SHIPWRIGHT SHOW: Explore the golden
years of boat and shipbuilding in the region
when “World of the Shipwright: From Wood
to Fiberglass” opens today from 12-5pm at
the Whatcom Museum of History & Art’s Syre
Education Center, 201 Prospect St. For more
info: 778-8930 or whatcommmuseum.org.
WATERFRONT EXHIBIT: View black-andwhite photos of the Bellingham shoreline at
an opening reception for Bill Lewis’ photographic exhibit, “On the Waterfront” from
2-5pm at the Iron Street Gallery, 1846 Iron
St., suite A. The show will hang through
June. For more info: 671-7284.
KOENIG TALK: A roundtable discussion
focusing on Northwest artist John Franklin
Koenig happens at 2pm at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St. The event is free. For
more info: 778-8930.
O N GO I N G E X H I B I T S
BLUE HORSE: Gallery artists will be on
display through June 7 at the Blue Horse
Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. For more info:
671-2305.
LUCIA DOUGLAS: Sculptures by Ann Morris, mixed-media works by Jasmine Valandani, and John Cole’s woodblock prints can
be seen until June 29 at Fairhaven’s Lucia
Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. For more info:
733-5361 or luciadouglas.com.
MINDPORT: “Byproducts” can be viewed
through May 31 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W.
Holly St. The show features works by John
Sloan, Chelsea Von Stubbe, and Hsiu-Ching
Lee. Admission is $2. For more info: 647-5614
or mindport.org.
MONA: Peruse “East and West,” a major retrospective of the late artist Paul Horiuchi,
through June 15 at La Conner’s Museum of
Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. For more info:
(360) 466-4446 or museumofnwart.org.
SMITH AND VALLEE: View “Jennifer Eaton
and Jason Williamson: New Paintings and
Drawings” through June 1 at Edison’s Smith
and Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave. For more
info: (360) 305-4892.
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “John Franklin
Koenig: Northwest Master, Home and Away,”
“Logging Days: Recent Donations of Darius
Kinsey,” and “The Melville Jacobs Legacy”
are currently on display at the Whatcom
Museum, 121 Prospect St. For more info:
676-6981 or whatcommuseum.org.
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HUMAN COMEDY: Follow the lives of the
Macauley family during World War II via
live opera when The Human Comedy shows
at 7:30pm at WWU’s Performing Arts Center
Mainstage. Tickets are $9-$13. For more info:
650-6146.
ETHEL’S BROADWAY: Rita McKenzie recreates
the life and times of a classic actress and musician when Ethel Merman’s Broadway hits the
stage at 7:30pm Wed.-Thurs. and 6pm Fri.-Sat.
at the Mount Baker Studio Theatre, 104 N.
Commercial St. Tickets are $49. For more info:
734-6080 or mountbakertheatre.com.
THURS., MAY 29
Raised in Captivity
WOODY ALLEN perhaps summed up the premise of
Raised in Captivity when he opined in Annie Hall as to his
philosophy on life—namely that it is “full of loneliness, and
misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much
too quickly.”
The characters in Nicky Silver’s Raised in Captivity are floating, disconnected from one another. They try to do good and
fail spectacularly. Their attempts at retaining some dignity
or decency end in slapstick frustration. And their constant,
grasping attempts at some sort of basic human connection
are met only by an unending string of empty rooms and closing doors. And yet, despite all the odds being stacked against
them, they each strive to change, try to become better people,
stronger and kinder and capable of
doing good. They try to be loved, to
be worthy of love and to be allowed
to love in turn.
The action of the play centers
around a pair of twins, Sebastian
and Bernadette, and the few and
damaged people in their life. Opening at their mother’s funeral, we are
introduced to the pair as Sebastian,
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with anyone since the death of his
lover more than a decade ago. His
only human contact is with his convicted murderer pen pal
and his therapist, who may be more psychologically damaged
than he is.
Bernadaette, meanwhile, is trapped in a cloying, crumbling
marriage to Kip, who has abandoned his career in dentistry
to become a painter. With excellent chemistry between the
two performers, Bernadette’s and Kip’s relationship exists on
an emotional teeter-totter, constantly tipping from one emotional edge to the other without ever achieving the catharsis
that comes with truly crashing down. Everywhere we look in
this work, people are opting out, disappearing and abandoning each other when they are needed most.
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GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The
Project: Mad Comedy in the Making.” Cost is
$5 for the early show, $3 for the late one. For
more info: 733-8855 or theupfront.com.
BEACH BARD: The perennially popular Bard
on the Beach kicks off with a showing of
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at 1pm at Vancouver B.C.’s Vanier Park. The play will run
in repertory with King Lear, The Tempest, and
Titus Andronicus through Sept. 27. Tickets are
$18-$33. For more info: (877) 739-0559 or
bardonthebeach.org.
MAY 30-31
DOUBLES IMPROV: Teams of players will
entertain and enlighten at “Doubles Improv” performances at 7:30pm and 9:30pm
at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10. For more info: 733-8855 or
theupfront.com.
THE CREATURE: Western Washington University’s Student Theatre Productions presents showings of The Creature at 7:30pm at
Old Main Theatre. Tickets are $2. For more
info: 650-6146.
SAT. MAY 31
Raised in Captivity’s stage movement is well choreographed
and sparse, complementing the dialogue and driving home the
sense of disconnect and alienation felt by the characters. In
scenes like Sebastian’s messy breakup with his longtime therapist, the characters seem not only to be having two different
conversations, but also to be having them from two different
places. This sense is backed up by the stage setting and lighting
design, which uses spotlights to tremendous effect in separating the characters from their surroundings, leaving them adrift
in pools of darkness on the stage.
The starkly contrasted bright pinks and dull brown force
the audience and actors out of their comfort zone, bringing
to mind tacky motel rooms and claustrophobic basements, the
furthest places from home one could think of. Some flat points
aside, the performances from the cast are reasonably strong
throughout, especially taking into account the difficulty of the
script, with its many intertwining monologues and the timing
demands it makes on a cast.
And whether it be self-punishment, or a new life in Africa,
or a child, every character brings something new into their
life, something they’re convinced will change everything. Like
so many of us, they want a second chance, another shot at
getting right the lives they’ve mucked up so grandly to this
point. And as much as Raised in Captivity is about damage and
failure, it’s just as much about getting another chance to do
things right.
MAGIC SHOW: Young entertainer Sterling
Deitz will perform a “Magic Show” at 4pm
and again at 7pm at the Sudden Valley Dance
Barn, gate 2. Tickets are $10; proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk for the Cure.
DANCE
FRI., MAY 30
DISCO FEVER: Ballroom, Latin and swing dancing with a club focus will be part of a “Disco
Fever” dance party from 9-11pm at U & Me
Dance, 1027 N. Forest St. Entry is $10-$12. For
more info: 676-0292 or uandmedance.com.
BILLY ELLIOT T: A fundraising screening of
Billy Elliott shows at 7:30pm at the Firehouse
Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Entry is $7. For more info: 306-0595.
SAT., MAY 31
CONTRA DANCE: Up in the Air will provide live
tunes at tonight’s Contra Dance from 8-11pm at
the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested
donation is $8-$10. For more info: 676-1554 or
bellinghamcountrydance.org.
SUN., JUNE 1
SQUARE DANCE: Lucas Hicks will do the
calling and live music will be provided at a
Square Dance happening from 5:30-7:45pm at
the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. Forest St. Entry
is $6. For more info: 733-5960.
WEDNESDAY
8:00 pm shows
June 6, 7
June 12, 13, 14
June 19, 20, 21
2:00 pm shows
June 8, 15, 22
Tickets
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Students
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Children
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AT A recent “State of the WhAAM!” meeting, I learned several important things about Bellingham’s scrappy all-ages organization. I learned where they had come from, where they
currently were and where they hoped to be in the future. In the
end, I came away from the meeting undeniably impressed with
all they’ve managed to accomplish with little or no funding,
a venue they share with several other organizations, limited
equipment and an all-volunteer staff.
These days, WhAAM has doubled the number of shows they
put on per month, from four to eight, and, by spreading the job
of procuring bands and putting together bills among several
Bellingham bookers, they’ve been able to cast an ever-widening
net, drawing an increasing diversity of bands from near and
far. Case in point: this weekend’s lineup of shows features a
group that specializes in three-part harmonies set to acoustic music, a band fronted by
a former Murder City Devil, and a film-school
dropout who found his calling blending the
incongruous entities of emotional frankness
with synth pop.
THE SENATE (FRI., MAY 30): Hailing from
Seattle, the Senate is a band that refuses
to follow the standard formula. Although
they’ve actively promoted themselves as
purveyors of “face-melting sonic riffage,”
you won’t find an electric guitar—or a drum
Rumor Has It
FOR MONTHS, IN this column and when asked in
person—which was pretty often, mind you—I have
been insisting that there would be no live music
at the Copper Hog. And when people would stare
at me in disbelief, apparently unable to grasp the
possibility this could be so, I would say something
to the effect of, “It’s not gonna happen. Let go of
the dream.” Then, as he so enjoys doing, Copper
Hog owner James Hardesty went and made a liar
out of me. While, at this
point, the gastropub is
just dipping its toe in
the live-music pool—
so if you’re looking forr
seven straight nights
of death metal, you’re
still out of luck—it is
true that the J.B. Quartet, fresh off a weekly
gig at Hardesty’s otherr
business venture, the
Green Frog, will start a
run of Wednesday shows
at the Copper Hog. And
if you’re wondering less
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the Copper Hog’s music and more about the
quality of its menu, I’m
here to report that everything I’ve tried there—and, being a good eater,
I’ve tried a lot of things—has been unequivocally
delicious. And a lot of that deliciousness can be
had late, long after most other options in town
have shuttered for the night. This also happens to
be when you can find Hardesty working behind the
bar, so go, have some late-night eats and give him
a hard time about leading us all on with that whole
“no live music” thing.
If anyone has been wondering how it is that the
Boundary Bay beer garden could be open for the
season without the Gallus Brothers anywhere in
sight, rest assured, Bellingham’s favorite dynamic
duo is back and will settle into their regular Monday-night slot starting June 2. The Galluses have
been traveling to Alaska and points between, but
they’ve brought their musical sensibilities and
their mancrobatics back where they belong.
Speaking of being back where he belongs, Robert Blake, after a whirlwind tour in which he played
a whopping 60 shows in 60 days, has returned
to our fair burg. He’ll celebrate his homecoming
with a show, also at Boundary Bay, and featuring
the Wilders, Thurs., May 29. After that, he’ll host
live music and beer trivia in the beer garden every
Thursday. Go slap him around then say you’re sorry. He likes that kind of thing. He’s also into heckling, especially the loud, insistent kind.
Lastly, tickets for the musical entertainment
portion of the Northwest Washington Fair go on
sale May 29. You can purchase tickets for any of
the grandstand’s big-name acts (with the exception of Chicago, which is already sold out), including Randy Travis, Little Big Town, Monster Truck,
and the Newsboys. You cannot, however, reserve
an order of funnel cake at the same time, no matter how much you might want to.
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COMING FULL CIRCLE
WHEN FORMER Waxwing alum Rocky Votolato embarked upon a solo career based largely around sensitive
alt-country songs, it no doubt caused a raised eyebrow or
two in certain music circles. After all, Waxwing hit a little
harder and rocked quite a bit louder than any of Votolato’s
solo endeavors.
However, although the fit may not have been intuitive
to some, this softer, gentler version of Votolato has been
the result of a surprisingly natural progression, and now,
those who have only seen this latest incarnation of the
musician would probably have a tough time imagining him
any other way.
These days, however, Votolato has come full circle. While
his latest release, Brag and Cuss, finds him delving even
more deeply into the realm of alt-country, his summer tour
will focus on songs from his entire solo career—including,
he has said, a possible Waxwing cover or two.
When Votolato hits the stage at Boundary Bay, it will be
for a rare all-ages show at that venue. He’ll be joined by the
innovative piano popsters of the Lonely Forest, who will
make the journey from Anacortes for the occasion.
WHO: The Lonely Forest, Rocky Votolato. WHEN: 6:30pm Sat., May
31. WHERE: Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Cost: $10
advance/$14 at the door. MORE INFO: bbaybrewery.com.
FRI., MAY 30
GYE FROM GHANA: Experience
the music and dance of Ghana
when the Gye Nyame Ensemble
performs at 7pm at Mount
Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712
S. First St. Tickets are $8-$15.
For more info: (877) 754-6284
or lincolntheatre.org.
ASHANA: Healing music,
chanting and poetry will be
part of a performance by Ashana at 7pm at Wise Awakenings,
314 E. Holly St. Cost is $20-$25.
For more info: 756-8072 or
wiseawkening.com.
EXIT 9: Ragtime, West African drumming, steel-pan
calypso and a variety of
other music can be heard
when New Jersey percussion
ensemble Exit 9 performs at
8pm at WWU’s Performing
Arts Center Concert Hall. The
concert is free. For more info:
650-3711.
MAY 30-31
ENDFA IR : An open mic, art
show and music by the likes
of Madrid, 10 Killing Hands,
The Love Lights, No-Fi Soul
Rebellion, Go Slowpoke,
STAIRWELL SISTERS: Hear
“acoustic, old-timey music
with a punk-rock intensity”
when the Stairwell Sisters
perform in support of their
new album at 2pm at Nancy’s
Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested donation is $10-$15.
For more info: nancysfarm.
com.
BAYSHORE #2: Chopin,
Haydn, Strauss, and more will
be on the listening list when
the Bayshore Symphonic
Ensemble does its thing at
7:30pm at Bellingham’s Central Lutheran Church, 925 N.
Forest St. Suggested donation is $10. For more info:
(360) 647-9175.
SK IP GORMAN: “Prairie
Home Companion” contributor and “cowboy” musician
Skip Gorman performs at 8pm
at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026
N. Forest St. Suggested donation is $10. For more info:
733-5960.
WED., JUNE 4
GROUP RECITAL: The Bellingham Music Club presents
a free “Group Recital” featuring recipients of the Nicholas
Bussard and Lena Montgomery awards at 10:30am at
Faith Lutheran Church, 2750
McLeod Road. For more info:
671-0252.
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MUSIC & MOVIES: The Unusuals and the Prozac Mtn. Boys
will provide live tunes from
6:30-8pm at the American Museum of Radio & Electricity,
1312 Bay St. Afterward, watch
the 1956 sci-fi classic, Earth
vs. the Flying Saucers. Cost is
$3-$7. For more info: 714-8391
or bima.com.
HONOR DAY CONCERT:
Blues and reggae singer Amara Grace performs an Honor
Day benefit concert at 7pm
at the Firehouse Performing
Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave.
Admission is by donation. For
more info: 647-8880 or honorday.org.
MISHRAS: Master sitarists
Pandit Shivnath Mishra and
Deobrat Mishra—who also
happen to be father and
son—perform at 7:30pm at
Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. They’ll be
joined by Marco Zonka on the
tabla. Tickets are $10-$20.
For more info: (877) 754-6284
or lincolntheatre.org.
WHATCOM WIND: The Whatcom Wind Ensemble will showcase both band standards
and contemporary works at
a free concert at 3pm at the
Fairhaven Village Green. For
more info: whatcomcommunitywindensemble.org.
WHATCOM CHORALE: Hear a
number of compositions by late
19th century composers when
the Whatcom Chorale performs
at 7:30pm at Bellingham’s St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2117
Walnut St. Tickets are $5-$15.
For more info: 738-7166 or
whatcomchorale.org.
BAYSHORE #1: Guest pianists Jody Sharninghausen
and Will Lewis will perform
with the Bayshore Symphonic
Ensemble at 7:30pm at Mount
Vernon’s St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 415 S. 18th St. Suggested donation is $10. For
more info: (360) 647-9175
CLASSIC WORK S: Pianist
and professor Milica Jelaca
Jovanovic gives a free concert
at 8pm at WWU’s Performing
Arts Center Concert Hall. For
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TRIUMPH OF LETHARGY SKINNED ALIVE TO DEATH (SAT.,
MAY 31): Once you get past the unwieldiness of this band’s
name to check out the rest of the groups on the roster—
which also features Black Eyes and Neckties as well as
Camarojuana—you’ll come to realize this is one of the
more rockin’ lineups—all-ages or not—this town has seen
in some time. Three reasons to see the show: 1. Sure, Triumph of Lethargy features arguably the devilest of all the
Murder City Devils in the form of Spencer Moody, as well
as Andrea Zollo from Pretty Girls Make Graves, but for my
money, the band member putting the “super” in this supergroup is erstwhile Bellinghamster and singularly gifted
musician, Corey Brewer. 2. You could tell me you’ve seen
Black Eyes and Neckties put on a bad show, but that would
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY
ALONE (SUN., JUNE 1): Other than
coming up with what is, hands down,
one of my favorite band names, the
artist known as CFTPA, Owen Ashworth, has also made a name for
himself by somehow marrying synth
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and his battered synthesizer, these days, Ashworth has expanded his musical repertoire to include pianos, stringed
instruments, drums and pedal steel. But lest you think
broadening his musical vision has changed his songwriting sensibilities in the least, be reassured that Ashworth
is still as emotionally naked as ever.
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kit, for that matter—anywhere onstage. The trio, which
formed in 2002, manages to wring a surprising range of
powerful sound from two acoustic guitars and an upright
bass. Further breaking the mold, the Senate eschews the
standard frontman-and-backing-vocals setup for an arrangement that features the distinctive three-part harmonies that have netted them slots opening for everyone
from Everclear to the Paperboys.
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and Go Set Go will be part
of EndFair ’08, which starts
at 7pm Fri. night and continues till noon on Sat. at
WWU’s Fairhaven Hall. The
event is free. For more info:
650-2846.
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SELENA TRIBUTE: The 6th
annual “Remembering Selena” tribute happens at 7pm
at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln
Theatre, 712 S. First St. Entry is $3-$5. More info: (360)
421-8917 or lincolntheatre.
org.
SYMPHONIC BAND: Western
Washington University’s Symphonic Band will perform a
variety of tunes at a free concert at 8pm at the Performing
Arts Center Concert Hall. For
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make you a total liar. Because it has never happened. 3.
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Skylark's
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“JUST LIKE old times,” says Sarah
On a Wing and a Prayer
With funding from Unity Production
Foundation, Kaiser and Salam started
work on the film. At inception, they
thought the project was going to be
a hard-driving, Michael Moore-esque
documentary that centered around
one question: Why can’t Muslims fly?
Their fire was only fueled when the FBI
showed up at Bellingham Aero just one
day after Monem enrolled to ask questions about their new student, a first
for the flight school.
However, as filming progressed, the
focus panned out from the circumstances of Monem’s pilot training to
Jessica Parker to the ladies of Sex and
the City, the movie, and she couldn’t be
more correct.
The hype has been building since the
popular HBO series went off the air, so
it’s time for the legions of fans who
loved the television show to grab a
cupcake, strap on the Manolos, and sit
back and relax—you are going to love
this film.
And for those not so familiar with the
lives, loves and designer labels of Carrie,
Charlotte, Miranda, and man-hungry Samantha, you should enjoy it too. But you
may wonder, why all the fuss?
The plot’s been more guarded than Mr.
Big’s real name (a secret that is finally
revealed on the big screen), but some
things can be spoken of without giving away too much about the film’s finer
plot points.
Life after the television series does go
on for this fab four. Carrie (Parker) is now
a bestselling novelist, as well as a writer
for Vogue, and is living with the more-onthan-off love of her life, the super-smooth
Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Samantha (Kim Cattrall) has relocated to Los Angeles and
is now exploring the brave new world of
monogamy in Malibu with her actor boyfriend, Smith.
Always the dreamer, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and her hubby have adopted
a cute little girl from China. And feisty
workaholic Miranda lives in Brooklyn
with husband Steve and son Brady. Life
seems just dandy for the ladies—or so
we think.
The limits of relationships and friendships are tested and tested again, especially when Mr. Big—but I’d stop there.
Needless to say, the bulk of the movie’s
drama comes from the various men in the
ladies’ lives.
Each character gets her own storyline,
each neatly interwoven into the plot as a
whole. There’s also loads of the quartet’s
trademark chemistry-fueled humor, in-
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“NO, THERE’S not an Islamic Martha Stewart. But I would love to be
that!” gushes Iman Salam, moments before rushing a smoke-billowing attempt
at baked chicken out her back door and to the dumpster. We all have dreams,
some of them more realistic than others. Iman’s husband Monem, born in Pakistan, grew up in Dallas dreaming of becoming a pilot like his father, who flew
planes for Saudi Airlines for 37 years.
On a Wing and a Prayer is a documentary made by local filmmaker Max Kaiser
about the Salam family as Monem sets out to accomplish what many would not
dare to attempt in a post-9/11 America: being Muslim American and trying to
earn a pilot’s license.
The necessity of making this film came up when Monem told Kaiser he wanted
to be a pilot and Kaiser found himself considering the possibility, very faintly,
that Monem could be a terrorist. “You don’t really say it to anyone,” Kaiser admits. “But it popped up in my head and I thought, ‘That is wrong!’ I knew his
family. I’m a liberal person. If the media, the paranoia can get to me, imagine
what they can do to the rest of conservative America.”
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Ready to Ride?
cluding a hilarious moment of revenge
for Charlotte. And just wait until you
see how Samantha serves up homemade sushi.
It’s clear writer and director Michael Patrick King has geared this
big-screen version of the small-screen
hit toward existing fans of the show.
It’s all there: the frocks, the cast, the
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chemistry, the sexual politics, the
men, the tears and the tantrums.
And although this is bit like watching a two-and-a-half-hour-long episode (yes, it’s a long movie), for the
most part, this extended Sex session
is, in the end, satisfying. And for fans,
it’s friends reunited, and yes, just like
old times.
include the day-to-day lives of the
Salam family. Iman remembers wondering why Kaiser kept showing up to
film the family in their home when the
point of the film was Monem’s quest
for his pilot’s license. It wasn’t until after the film was completed that
Iman came to understand.
“After seeing the movie, people came
up and said, ‘Oh my god, you and Monem
interact the same way my wife and I do,
you guys have the same feeling we do,”
she says. “And I’m like, ‘Of course we
do. We’re human!’ It just amazed me
that people think we have this different
life behind closed doors.”
Having lived in larger cities like San
Francisco and Dallas, Iman was nervous about how our community would
react to the hijab on her head and her
openly Muslim family. It was because
her experience in Bellingham has been
so positive, that the fact that On a
Wing and a Prayer—and, by association, her family’s Muslim faith—has
endured some backlash from people
who haven’t even seen the film, is so
surprising to her.
“I was really, really shocked,” she
says. “I guess I shouldn’t have been.
Because obviously there are people
that are going to think this in every
city, everywhere you go. I was surprised that, with all the information
people can have these days, they still
think this? That’s what I was more concerned about—that people still have
these stereotypical ideas of what is
Muslim.”
In the end, On a Wing and a Prayer is
a film made for those people who have
no idea what being Muslim means, or
who have never met a modern, American Muslim family. The documentary,
aside from showing at the Pickford
Cinema starting May 30, is now airing
on PBS stations across the country.
This is crucial, Kaiser explains, “because people can watch it in their own
homes. The people I want to get with
this film are the kid of people who
would never come to the Pickford.”
Kaiser concedes that he has received
some nasty emails that say, in effect,
“Sure, Monem and Iman are sweet, but
isn’t that what they say about all terrorists until after the fact?” But he
also points out that the overwhelming response is one of people having
their eyes opened and saying, “I did
not realize how much like me orthodox
Muslims really are.”
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob: My mother
tells me I’m fat but feeds me pork rinds. My strongest
supporter is a person I want to wrap up like a mummy,
put in a canoe, and push out into the middle of the
lake. My exuberant imagination has taken me hostage,
violating its own principles. I’m so completely ambivalent and indecisive about everything that even my
addictive nature can’t figure out what to be addicted
to. I’d embrace my contradictions if I could, but I can’t
because they’ve got me surrounded like a pink-haired,
cross-dressing SWAT team frothed up on Red Bull. Can
you point me in the direction of the exit from this
circus-like hell? - Crazy Crab.” Dear Crazy: I detect a lot
of wit and style in your meditations. Maybe that’s the
purpose of this limbo you’re temporarily lost in: It’s an
opportunity to build your skill at being lively and feisty
and smart no matter what your outer circumstances are.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I love this excerpt from
“The Seeker,” a poem by Rilke in his Book of Hours:
“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I
still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great
song.” Here’s my own personal variation: “I am circling
around love, around the throbbing hum, and I have
been circling for thousands of days, and I still don’t
know if I am a wounded saint, or a rainy dawn, or a
creation story.” Please compose your own version of
this poem, Leo. It’s an excellent time to fantasize about
what you’re circling around and what force of nature
you might be.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your role model is Tilly
Trotter, a blind, 74-year-old grandmother who lives in
the UK. She took up archery two years ago despite her
handicap. Recently she pulled off a rare feat, shooting
her arrow so precisely that it split another arrow already
lodged in the target. Among archers, this is called a
Robin Hood. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you now have the power to do something
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Most astronomers are irrationally prejudiced against us astrologers.
They typically deride our ancient art without ever
having read any of the masters whose work articulates
the core principles of astrology. It’s the equivalent of
speaking about the theory of relativity without ever
having studied Einstein. Despite their disdain, I don’t
hate them back. On the contrary, I celebrate their efforts to understand the universe, and I make abundant
use of the information they’ve gleaned. Be like me in
the coming week, Sagittarius. Appreciate those who
don’t appreciate you, especially if they are doing good
work that can benefit you and others.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This would be a
good week to celebrate failure—to laugh about the
comic horror stories of your past defeats, to gain a new
appreciation for the prickly lessons you learned, and to
let go of any regret, shame, or anger you might still be
lugging around. I’d even recommend that you and your
friends stage a Brag About Your Failures party. Try to
outdo each other as you render in ignominious detail
the things that went wrong, the mistakes you made,
and the people who let you down. I think you’ll be
amazed at how effectively this will dissolve the karma
left over from those misadventures—and help free you
from their ghostly clutches.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Maybe you’ve
conceived a child at some time in your life. Maybe you
never have or never will. Whatever the case, even if
you’re a man, I invite you to visualize the experience.
Imagine that a force of nature has germinated, and
that you are carrying another life within you. Try to approximate the uncanny twinge that a pregnant woman
senses when her fetus first moves. This exercise will be
a simulation of and rehearsal for the psychic quickening
you will soon enjoy.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her journals, Sylvia
Plath said there are two different ways to be free of desires. The first is when you are “dead and rotten inside
and there is nothing in the world.” The second is when
you are “so full and rich and have so many inner worlds
that the outer world is not necessary for joy, because
joy emanates from the inner core of your being.” In the
past, Pisces, you have had a few encounters with the
dead and rotten state. But I believe you are now in a
phase when the full and rich condition will prevail. During this grace period, you will not really need anything
beyond what you already have. My advice? Start the
celebration!
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Across
1 It’s loud on lakes
7 Likely
10 Drain
13 Brody of “The Darjeeling
Limited”
14 “In the Valley of ___”
(2007 movie directed by
Paul Haggis)
15 Christina Aguilera’s “___
Siempre Tu”
16 “Amadeus” setting
17 Butt naked
18 Runaway ___ Cart
(former roller coaster in
Branson, Missouri)
19 Took in
20 1992 Tim Robbins title
role
23 Word before job or tube
25 Nile and Mississippi
26 Outfielder inducted into
the Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1987
31 Run ___ of the law
(commit a crime)
32 At any time
33 Director Luhrmann
36 Taunt
37 Diarist Nin
39 “___ Bonita” (“South
Park” episode)
40 Rds.
41 Women of Spain: abbr.
42 You are here
43 Unsuccessful 2008
Republican candidate for
president
47 Restrictive street sign
49 ___ impasse
50 “Everlasting Love” singer
53 By way of
56 Music hall restaurant
chain co-founded by Dan
Aykroyd, for short
57 Get in the groin, perhaps
58 Unwilling revelation of
gayness
60 ___ Latin (noted record
label)
61 Volcano on Sicily
26 Cancels, as plans
27 “___ bleeds...” (start of
a journalist’s saying)
28 Seafood restaurant cover
29 Part of LCD
30 56, in Rome
34 Concerning
Down
35 Former CNN host Paula
1 Coffee
37 Little fighters
2 Fix a manuscript
38 Senatorial vote
3 Orange or oak
4 ___ bin (nickname for the 39 ___ Crunch
41 Dollar, slangily
penalty box in hockey)
42 Manu Ginobili’s full first
5 Late Enron CEO Lay
name
6 How some presents are
44 Bird that’s a Masonic
wrapped
7 Chemical sprayed on fruit symbol
45 Monopoly token
until 1989
46 “Lawrence of Arabia”
8 Weird Al Yankovic works
9 1988 movie based on the actor
47 Earth tone
novel “The Grizzly King”
48 Wolf or Campbell
10 They’re crowded on
Sundays
51 Monthly money
11 Big, bloody tube
52 “X-Files” actor Nicholas
___
12 Media
53 Wine, casually
14 One of the tides
54 Digging
21 ___-Wan Kenobi
55 “He’s ___ among men...”
22 Dutch ___ disease
59 “I ___ a Putty Tat”
23 Sad
24 Olive ___ (Shelley Duvall (1948 animated short)
©2008 Jonesin’ Crosswords
role)
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63 Word after spare or
floating
64 Q followers
65 One of the Blues Brothers
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her natal horoscope, Icelandic chanteuse Bjork has the sun, moon,
and Neptune in the sign of Scorpio. Here’s how she
describes what it’s like being her: “I have to re-create
the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it
in the evening.” Sound familiar? That’s a pretty good
summary of the temperament of your tribe, and especially so right now, as you navigate your way through
the astrological House of Resurrection.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s transpersonal
psychologist Roger Walsh, writing in the December 2001
issue of IONS Review: “This is the first time in history
that publicly acknowledging that you follow two or
more distinct spiritual traditions would not have you
burned at the stake, stoned to death, or facing a firing
squad. We tend to forget what an extraordinary time
this is, that for the first time in history we have the
entirety of the world’s spiritual and religious traditions
available to us, and we can practice them...without
fear.” I advise you to take full advantage of this extraordinary freedom, Libra—especially now, while you’re
in a phase of your astrological cycle that’s conducive to
expanding your spiritual repertoire. Think about adding
some ideas and practices and magic from outside your
established belief system.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you realize that
you now have a great potential to instigate ringing
surprises? Your knack for healing the seemingly unhealable is at a peak, as is your ability to accomplish the
impossible, get insight into the incomprehensible, and
feel equanimity amidst the uncontrollable. What do you
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of the politicians give the other 10 percent a bad
reputation,” said Henry Kissinger. I’m tempted to draw
a similar conclusion about physicians, cops, lawyers,
performance artists, and a host of other professionals
with whom I’ve had direct contact. Whether or not you
agree with me, please be very picky in the coming days,
Taurus. As you seek out “experts” to help or counsel
you, make sure they are at the top of their respective
fields. Do background research, get personal references,
and try to experience them when their guards are down.
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said that his best work was a very short story consisting
of six words: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” Alan
Moore’s brief masterpiece of fiction is, I think, just as
good: “Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time.”
Your assignment in the coming week, Aries, is to be as
pithy as these terse geniuses. Proceed on the assumption that your effectiveness will thrive in direct proportion to your brevity and conciseness. Assume that you
will be most likely to get what you want if you use the
fewest words and the most minimal actions necessary.
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similar, Virgo: overcome a disadvantage in order to accomplish a riveting triumph that would be difficult even
for those who don’t have to deal with a limitation like
yours. You’re primed to carry out your personal version
of a Robin Hood.
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The Advice
Goddess
SLUG BURNS
My boyfriend of 10 years proposed on
Christmas Eve. Excited, I said yes! The truth
is, financially and emotionally, he’s not at
my level. He lives with his mother and hasn’t
had a job the ENTIRE 10 years we’ve been
together. He looks at least 10 years older
than he is, and I suspected him of having
a drug problem, and cheating on me, too.
To cut to the point, I simply do not want
him. I make $50K a year, own my home,
am attractive, in shape, etc. I’m in my late
30s and smart enough to know the problem
isn’t him, it’s me. So, what allowed me to
stay so long and waste so much time trying
to change him? Why did I work so hard to
persuade others he was a great guy when, in
my heart of hearts, I knew he was garbage?
—Frankenstein’s Fiancee
This guy’s the slacker version of the Energizer Bunny, napping and napping and
napping—except when he jolts awake to
get high, cheat on you, or yell, “Hey, Ma!
Another beer!”
As total failures go, the guy’s been
a stunning success. Most men can only
dream of living like Hugh Hefner, who has
three girlfriends, but had to build a vast
publishing empire, buy a mansion, and
put in a zoo and waterfalls to keep them
around. Granted, your boyfriend only has
two women in his life; apparently, his reward for keeping his pot plants out of his
mother’s begonias, opening his bedroom
door when she brings up his neatly folded
laundry, and picking up the phone when
you call to say, “Hello, this is your girlfriend, how can I provide you with excellent enabling today?”
Now, let’s say some matchmaker-type
asked you, “Hey, how about a cheating,
drug-abusing, prematurely aged boyfriend
who hasn’t worked for 10 years and lives
with his mother?” I’m guessing your response wouldn’t have been, “Wowee, stack
up the bridal magazines!” But, maybe,
when you met the guy, you weren’t really
ready for a relationship, so the wrong guy
was kinda right. And then you felt compelled to defend having spent so much
time with him, which only led to you
spending more and more time with him—
until his Christmas Eve proposal made a
certain someone the happiest woman in
the world. Not you, silly. Think of the joy
his mother must’ve felt at the news that
sonny boy might finally leave home.
As for your excitement, it was probably
part generic wedding lust and part bragging rights: “A man asked me to marry
him!” (Yeah, but which man?) More than
anything else, getting engaged gave
you the perfect justification for why you
stuck around doing all that justifying
for 10 long years. Yeah, you were dumb.
But, you had help. It seems our brains
are wired for self-justification. In *Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)*, social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot
Aronson explain that most people, when
confronted with evidence their beliefs
or actions are harmful, immoral or stupid, “do not change their point of view
or course of action but justify it even
more tenaciously.” Recognizing you have
this tendency is the best way to avoid
succumbing to it—along with forcing
yourself to be ruthlessly honest about
what you’re doing and why you’re doing
it. Admitting your mistakes should keep
you from marrying them, tempting as it
must be when a man gets down on one
knee, holds out a twist-tie with a chunk
of rock candy glued to it, and says, “Hey,
Babe, how’dja like to take over my weekly
allowance payment from Mom?”
I GET AN ICK OUTTA YOU
My sister is being pursued by a married man
in her condo complex. He’s given her gifts,
which she’s given back to him with the comment, “I’m not comfortable taking gifts from
you.” He doesn’t seem to get the message.
Should she threaten to tell his wife? She
and I are a little hesitant on what to do, as
we’re not sure if we’re overreacting. We’re
also afraid we may anger him, creating a
bigger problem.
—Concerned Sister
The next time you drive somewhere,
consider why we have “STOP” signs, not
“We’re not comfortable with you speeding
through this intersection” signs. When you
have something to say to a guy, say it: “I’m
flattered, but I’m not interested in you.
Please stop pursuing me, and stop giving
me gifts.” You should find being firm, civil
and clear far more effective than “I’m not
comfortable taking gifts from you,” which
sounds like one of those phony protests
people make when you give them a birthday present: “Oh, you shouldn’t have.”
Yeah, right. Like, if you didn’t get them
a gift, they’d be all, “Look, everybody! A
signed Hallmark card!”
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We have lived here almost a
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but we are moving to Seattle.
This is a 2 bedroom, top-floor
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VICHYSSOISE (PRONOUNCED
vee-she-shwahs)
is a French soup of pureed leeks and potatoes, traditionally
served chilled during harvest season. And while savvy farmers continue to find new ways to harvest ever-earlier spuds, a
spring vichyssoise season has, until now, been tabled by the
fact that even hotshot growers can’t rush leeks.
One could, of course, buy spring leeks imported from south of
the equator, but who wants jetlag in their chilled soup? The es-
sence of vichyssoise demands to be
savored in a manner better suited
to slow boats than jet planes.
While Northern Hemisphere
leeks are months away from harvest, there is a local, leek-like
substitute available right now that
makes a fantastic vichyssoise.
Garleek, also known as young
garlic, is a spitting image, as well
as a close relative of the leek.
And while garlic can’t be rushed
any more than leeks can—garlic
plants typically take 10 months
to mature—it’s usually planted
in the fall, coming to fruition in
mid-summer.
Later in June, when garlic hits
“plant puberty,” as it were, the
similarities between garlic and
leeks will diminish, as the base
of the garlic plant morphs and
swells into a large, unleek-like
bulb. At that point, the developing cloves will present other
culinary opportunities, as will
the budding flowers.
If you’re lucky enough to have
garlic in the ground, see if your
patch needs thinning. Sometimes
double plants come up, and you
might want to pull one so the
other can grow larger. If your
patch doesn’t need thinning, you
can go ahead and pull some anyway, sacrificing the garlic bulbs
of tomorrow for some garleek vichyssoise today.
Or you can go to the farmers
market this weekend and convince a farmer to harvest some
THE ESSENCE OF
VICHYSSOISE DEMANDS
TO BE SAVORED IN A
MANNER BETTER SUITED
TO SLOW BOATS THAN JET
PLANES.
immature garlic and sell it to you
next week.
And if you’re in less of a hurry,
you could plant a few of those
sprouting cloves hiding in your
kitchen. How do I know that you
have sprouting cloves in your
kitchen? Well, around this time
of year, wherever it is, garlic will
sprout. If you put those sprouted
cloves in the ground, they will
grow into garleek plants this
summer. They won’t make bulbs,
but you can still cook with them,
garleek-style.
You can eat those sprouted
cloves, by the way. Some cooks
throw them away, assuming it’s
passed its prime. I’ve even been
told the sprouts give you gas, and
should be removed with a paring
knife. Both sprout and clove still
taste like garlic to me, so I’m not
sure what the problem is. And
heck, what doesn’t give you gas
these days?
Thanks to a bumper harvest
last summer, I’ve got a big stash
of sprouting garlic, and to get
through it all I’ve been cooking
nearly every meal with a bulb
or two. Sometimes I start with
a handful of sprouting cloves in
the frying pan, slowly cooking in
oil on low, while I decide what
I’m doing.
No matter what the meal turns
into, those whole cloves, cooked
slowly in the pan, turn into treasures that can hang in most any
dish.
SPRING
VICHYSSOISE
Using only the white, tender,
lower portion of the plant,
as you would with a leek,
mince a cup of garleek.
Sauté with two tablespoons
of melted butter, one chopped
yellow medium onion, and a
garlic head’s worth of whole,
sprouted cloves, peeled, on
medium heat.
While that’s going, prepare
3 cups of thinly sliced yellow
potatoes, while heating 2 cups
of chicken (or veggie) stock.
When the garleek, onions
and sprouted garlic are
translucent and tender—not
browned!—add the potatoes
and stock. Simmer, covered,
for 30 minutes or until everything is falling-apart tender.
In this rustic and halffinished form, pre-vichyssoise
is great eating, so I suggest
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some for dinner in this chunky
incarnation, and let the other
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leftovers and then whisk in
two cups of heavy cream (use
less cream and make up the
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