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ON STAGE
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Tulip Festival: Through April 30, Skagit Valley
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ON STAGE
The Odd Couple: 7pm, Barn Theatre, Sudden
Valley
Two Gentlemen of Verona: 7:30pm, Old Main
Theatre, WWU
Playfest 2010: 7:30pm, Orcas Grange, Eastsound
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Allegra: 12:30pm, Whatcom Museum
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Caleb Barber: 7pm, Village Books
Joan Fitzgerald: 7pm, Bellingham Unitarian
Fellowship
COMMUNITY
Stand Against Racism: Through Sunday, various
Bellingham venues
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ON STAGE
Wizard of Oz: 6pm, Bellingham Arts Academy for
Youth
Valley
Doc Holliday: 7:30pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom
Theater, WWU
Lend Me a Tenor: 7:30pm, Sehome High School
Little Theatre
Taffeta Memories: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner
Theatre, Mount Vernon
Poet’s Table: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Cage Match: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Petrushka: 7pm and 9pm, Bellingham Circus Guild
MUSIC
Bryan Bowers: 7:30pm, Nancy’s Farm
Bellingham Chamber Chorale: 8pm, PAC Concert
Hall, WWU
Millie & the Mentshn: 9pm, Café Bloom
VISUAL ARTS
Photography Club Fundraiser: Through Sunday,
the Roeder Home
Trash Fashion Show: 8pm, Viking Union, WWU
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ON STAGE
Wizard of Oz: 2pm and 6pm, Bellingham Arts
Academy for Youth
Valley
Theater, WWU
Doc Holliday: 7:30pm, Leopold Crystal Ballroom
Lend Me a Tenor: 7:30pm, Sehome High School
Little Theatre
Taffeta Memories: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner
Theatre, Mount Vernon
Poet’s Table: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Cage Match: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCE
Petrushka: 7pm and 9pm, Bellingham Circus
Guild
The Little Mermaid: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall,
Mount Vernon
Folk Dance Party: 8-11pm, Fairhaven Library
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Sacred Music Festival: 7pm, Salem Lutheran
Church, Mount Vernon
Kulshan Chorus: 7:30pm, Bellingham High
School
Bruce Cockburn: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Showcraze!: 7pm, American Museum of Radio
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MUSIC
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Stacey O’Brien: 6-9pm, Corona Court Clubhouse
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The Little Mermaid: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount
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Two Gentlemen of Verona: 2pm, Old Main
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Lend Me a Tenor: 2pm, Sehome High School
Little Theatre
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Comedy Night: 8pm, Fairhaven Pub
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Garden Party: 10am-6pm, Chuckanut Bay Gallery
Don’t Call it Student Art Reception: 5-8pm,
Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison
COMEDY JAM
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Boating Season Opening: 7am, Squalicum
Harbor
BUF Plant Sale: 9am-2pm, Bellingham Unitarian
Fellowship
Garden Expo: 9am-2pm, Grange Hall, Lummi
Island
Birchwood Garden Club Sale: 10am-12pm,
Bellingham Public Library
Kayak Demo Day, Gear Swap: 10am-5pm, Bloedel Donovan Park
Procession of the Species: 4pm, Bellingham
Public Library
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Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-1pm, Centennial Riverwalk Park
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
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COMMUNITY
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Arlo Guthrie: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
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Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the
“Peanuts” gang were sold to Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (the
licensing company that owns Joe Boxer and London Fog)
Tues., April 27, for $175 million. The family of the late, great
Charles Schulz will own part of the business, and chances are
good the payback will be more than peanuts.
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THE PERNICIOUS PENDULUM
What’s going on now in Whatcom County is
disturbing, but not surprising. A new County
Council was elected-and-appointed in 2009, and
the pendulum has swung again, back to thinking there’s a mandate to loot, hard and fast. The
“loot” here is land; looting is moneymaking by
getting the government to create, for willing
landowners, a certain kind of value: the value
to subdivide, develop, pave and sell.
There is, of course, a detriment. That is the
continued destruction of the natural environment
and our ability to relate to it, the extirpation
of plant and animal habitat, the ever-increasing
traffic congestion and concomitant pollution,
the loss of the sense of place. And more: taxes
go up or public services go down as local government struggles with the growth. Contrary to
the pro-growthers’ claims, growth never pays for
itself, not in money and not in quality of life.
But it is inconvenient for the elite who benefit
from this kind of bloat to recognize any detriment, and it is not, mostly, borne by them, but
by the general public. The cost is always foisted
off onto somebody else, including future generations. Internalize the profits and socialize the
costs, that’s their game.
How could such a cowardly, unsustainable and
disrespectful philosophy flourish? How could a
significant number of people come to believe in
what is a patent fantasy, that infinite growth in
a finite space is both possible and good? And
how could a significant number of people come
to think that the precise governmental actions
that would really address their core concerns—
among them, conservative land-use policies and
the promotion of a robust public transportation
system—are a plot against them? What’s the
matter with Whatcom County?
The answer is that we’ve been suckered. The
lawyers and bankers and land developers who
profit from butchering this place don’t need
to convince very many of us to go along with
them. That convincing is done by the national
media whose interest is never served by the small,
local and locally controlled. They dismiss that as
provincial, parochial, and small-minded. Our local “bigger-is-better” acolytes are happy to reinforce the materialistic and destructive policies of
ever-increasing cosmopolitanism.
They get rich doing it, and the rest of us pay
for it.
—Daniel Warner, Bellingham
NO LANDLORD LICENSING
I disagree with Dick Conoboy, who wrote to
propose a requirement for landlord licensing in
Bellingham. I write as one who has been both a
landlord and a renter (my current situation).
Renters and landlords are consenting adults
capable of negotiating between themselves
with no need for the introduction of a government middleman. Landlord licensing will reduce
the supply of available rental property and will
increase the cost of renting.
Government is not the fix-all for every problem society encounters. Regulatory capture
(where the supposedly regulated have so much
to gain that they take over the regulatory
structure) is something that we suffer from at
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In what land is West Division
Street a couple of blocks from the
south end of First Street in Mount
Vernon; and in what land does the
Naung Mai Thai Kitchen have seven
seats? Come on. First off, yeah, the
letter writer could have bothered
to look it up, but the Rachawadee
Cafe on Gates Street, downtown
Mount Vernon is an old lunch counter, with perhaps as many as eight
stools. It is also some of the best
Thai food to be found in these two
counties. The gals there know what
they’re doing.
And, having also lived in the
Northeast, while he’s right about the
majority of diners being huge, I’ve
also been in my share of little lunchcounter ones. The further north you
get, into upstate New York or Vermont-Mass-Connecticut, the more
there are. I can’t speak for Jersey, I
tried not to ever eat there.
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the federal government level every
day. The Wall Street bailouts being
just one example. We are unlikely
to see this problem recreated in
a local matter such as landlord licensing, as there is less at stake
and local government is much more
attuned to the people. However,
there is also very little benefit to
be gained, either. Tenants are not
powerless pawns. They are consumers paying for a service. Bad businesses lose their customers and go
bankrupt (that or they get bailed
out by taxpayer).
Let’s not create a problem where
there isn’t one or make life more expensive for the renter.
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THE GRISTLE
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TAXES, STATE AND LOCAL: We reported a few weeks back
that a bipartisan group of business leaders and lawmakers,
including Rep. Kelli Linville, had quietly met during the
darkest days of the recession and subsequent collapse of
state revenues in order to hammer out rational solutions
to the state’s dysfunctional tax structure. Their solution,
we noted, might swap in a high income tax in exchange
for some relief of the property tax and elimination of the
hated business-and-occupation tax on small businesses—a
“sweet-&-sour” mix that contains a little benefit for nearly
everyone. Such a proposal was rolled out last week as Initiative 1077.
Introduced by Bill Gates, Sr., father of the nation’s richest
man and chair of a 2002 summit on state tax alternatives,
I-1077 would tax couples with adjusted gross incomes greater
than $400,000 annually, or incomes of more than $200,000
for individuals. Supporters say that represents the top 3
percent of earners in Washington. In exchange, the measure
would cut the state property tax by 20 percent and increase
the B&O tax credit to $4,800.
Studies find that Washington has the most regressive tax
system in the country, largely because of the state’s reliance
on sales tax. People earning less than $20,000 annually pay
17.3 percent of family income toward sales and excise taxes
and property taxes, the report said; people in the top 1 percent of earners—those making more than $537,000 a year—
pay 2.9 percent.
And while a high income tax would help address this imbalance, as Associated Press notes, “income tax measures
have been attempted over the years in Washington with
little success. A graduated income tax was enacted by initiative in 1932, passing with about 70 percent of the vote.
But it was thrown out by the state Supreme Court, which
pointed to the state constitution’s call for uniform taxation
on property. Voters have defeated subsequent attempts to
amend the constitution for a state income tax, most recently in 1973.
“Since then,” AP continues, “some legal experts have said
a modern court might overturn the 1933 court decision that
defeated the original income tax, arguing that the old decision is based on obsolete legal theory.”
A survey of residents found robust support for the proposal, with 66 percent saying they would favor such a tax. With
its givebacks on property and business taxes, even a majority
of Republicans guardedly favor the idea.
Tax issues continue to vex local governments as well, with
Whatcom County Council this week re-opening debate on a
“through the looking glass” proposal where they’d voluntarily
restrict access to revenues council has not taken.
Responding to voter-approved taxing restrictions, the Legislature in 1986 offered relief to local governments by allowing them to forgo their annual increase in property taxes
without forfeiting access to those revenues later if necessary.
Easing “use it or lose it” concerns, this “banked capacity” encouraged governments to levy only what they needed rather
than the maximum allowable. Like a line of credit or savings
account, the extent a banked capacity exists at all, to any
degree, is a reflection of the restraint of a government from
collecting what it is entitled to collect. Taxophobic Whatcom
County has such a capacity.
Some council members consider a proposal, ginned
up last year, to voluntarily restrict access to revenues
they’ve already agreed not to access—a further pledge
of allegiance to fiscal restaint—just undermines the very
point and purpose of representative government. Elected
officials, they argue, are already subject to the will of voters without additionally burdening their ability to make
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OPI N IONS › › T H E G R IST L E
BY DEAN BAKER
Goldman Scam #5476
GRASPING TENTACLES OF ‘VAMPIRE SQUID’ REACH FAR, DEEP
LAST YEAR, Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid
wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood
funnel into anything that smells like
money.” It turns out that Mr. Taibbi
was far too generous in his assessment of the huge investment bank.
Last week Goldman was indicted
for putting together a collaterized
debt obligation (CDO) from mortgage-backed securities that were expected to fail and then marketing it
to its clients as a good investment.
The central allegation is that in early
2007, hedge fund manager John
Paulson recognized that the housing
bubble was starting to collapse.
This meant that many mortgages
would go bad. The subprime mortgages, in which homeowners had
little or no real collateral, and were
facing resets to higher interest
rates, were especially vulnerable.
Paulson worked out a deal with
Goldman in which he would pick
the mortgage-backed securities
that were put into the CDO. Paulson
would then bet that the CDO would
go bad, by taking out credit default
swaps (CDS) on the CDO. A credit
default swap is effectively an insurance policy where the issuer makes
up a loss if an asset goes bad.
Goldman was left with the other
side of Paulson’s deal, finding suckers to buy this huge piece of junk. It
would have been hard to find buyers
for this CDO if investors knew that
Paulson had deliberately constructed it as a piece of junk to short.
Therefore, according to the SEC
charges, Goldman concealed Paulson’s role in constructing the CDO.
Goldman allegedly told investors the
CDO was constructed by neutral parties, rather than letting them know
the assets were picked by a hedge
fund manager who was taking a
short position.
Of course Paulson won his bet,
the CDO he put together really was
trash. He made nearly a billion dollars on this particular bet, which
involved buying CDS from AIG. AIG
was unable to pay off its bet, so
Paulson got his money courtesy of
the taxpayers when the government
stepped in to bail out AIG. Goldman
was also buying CDS to bet against
the CDOs it was putting together,
although it is not clear that it had
bet against this particular CDO. In
any case, it clearly profited from
the issue since Paulson paid Goldman $15 million for its services.
Goldman’s conduct in this deal
can be framed using an analogy
from Phil Angelides, the head of
the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Angelides noted Goldman
has bought CDS on the CDOs it had
issued and sold. He compared this
to selling a car with bad brakes
and then buying insurance on the
car. In fact, Goldman effectively
cut the brake lines, sold the car to
unsuspecting customers and then
bought the insurance policy.
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In fairness to Goldman, there is
no reason to believe they are any
less ethical than any of the other
big Wall Street actors, just more effective. The other big banks do the
same sorts of deals, even if they
aren’t able to pull off quite as many
scams as Goldman.
All of this should drive home the
urgency of both breaking up the big
breaks and some serious financial
reform. The folks who should have
PAULSON WON HIS
BET, THE CDO HE PUT
TOGETHER REALLY
WAS TRASH. HE MADE
NEARLY A BILLION
DOLLARS ON THIS
PARTICULAR BET.
been clamping down on this behavior were all Goldman’s friends,
starting with then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who had just
left his position as Goldman CEO to
take the job.
Even if we put in place a better
regulatory structure, as long as financial regulation is a conversation
between friends, it will not be serious. We need to kill the Goldman
vampire squid along with the rest of
the species. Only when we have reduced these monsters to a manageable size can be confident that they
will be effectively regulated.
Dean Baker is the co-director of the
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
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tough public policy decisions.
“Supporting such ‘voter oversight’ is
extremely politically popular,” Council
member Carl Weimer observed. “But,” he
cautioned, “this version is again poorly
written so it conflicts with the Charter.”
Weimer explains that the County Charter does not require the administration to
provide a budget to council for consideration until the middle of October. Departments aren’t required to provide budget
information until mid-August.
Yet “council would have to decide by
July 1 of each year whether to ask the
voters to approve a tax increase,” he said.
“How is the council supposed to do that if
they don’t have a clue about the proposed
budget until several months later?”
“It’s a ‘what-if,’ for sure,” shrugged
Council President Sam Crawford, who
supports the restriction. If approved,
specific increases would first be subject to “non-binding, advisory vote,”
he explained.
Non-binding? But placing such a measure on a ballot can cost as much as
$250,000, according to County Auditor
records (considerably less, but still substantial, if a ballot measure is offered
as part of a general election). That’s a
lot of cash just to stir up a hornet’s nest
certain to torment conservatives into a
robust turnout at the polls.
Prodding the stinging insects, Crawford
also supports rolling back recent increases to the county’s Flood Tax. Council,
in its role as the county’s flood control
zone board of supervisors, approved the
increase as a means of getting around a
threatened veto from the County Executive in their efforts to fund a number of
languishing improvement projects for the
county’s impaired water systems.
“I will vote to reduce the levy in 2011
to its former level,” Crawford promised.
Crawford said he would prefer the
county present voters with a more comprehensive property tax package. He envisions a property tax measure that could
pay for not only flood control needs, but
also stormwater fixes and work on Lake
Whatcom’s water quality.
“Not with three cents here and three
cents there with these council-passed increases,” he told KGMI, “but with a substantial package that says ‘here’s what
you’re going to get for your money.’
“I’m not advocating this is the way
we should go,” he said, “just proposing
we discuss the possibilities and see if
we’d like to put something before the
voters that is tangible and visible with
clear benefits.”
And... cannily certain to keep the
Tea Party’s bitter brew bubbling on the
front burner throughout the election
season.
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Of Supreme Importance
THE HIGH COURT CONSIDERS WASHINGTON’S OPEN RECORD LAWS
AS DAWN breaks, Rob McKenna climbs the marble
steps into the halls of justice in the nation’s capital.
This week, the attorney general may make the pitch of
his career, defending the legality of the state’s public
records law to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Monday, McKenna laid out the arguments he’ll
make on why the law’s requirement for revealing names
of people who sign initiative and referendum petitions
does not violate their constitutional right to privacy.
“We believe the court will rule that signing petitions
is in fact a legislative act and that they will uphold a
modest burden on signers,” McKenna said at a press conference. He was joined by Secretary of State Sam Reed.
Two days later, justices heard an hour of argument
on whether signing a petition is protected political
speech and if disclosing signers’ names under Washington’s Public Records Act crosses the line of the U.S.
Constitution.
McKenna asked the court to uphold an appeals court
ruling, supporting the constitutionality of the state’s
public disclosure law and allowing the release of the
names and addresses of petitioners who signed Referendum 71. R-71 placed the state’s expanded domestic
partnership law on the November 2009 ballot. Lower
courts blocked the release of the signatures, ruling
that the state’s disclosure law violated petitioners’
rights to anonymous political speech. McKenna’s appearance is the attorney general’s third in front of the
nation’s highest court.
Attorneys for the group seeking to keep the names
private counter that people have a right to participate
in the political system without the government compelling them to identify themselves.
“This case will have an overwhelming impact on elections not just in Washington but across our country,”
McKenna said. “It does not only address the Ref. 71
petitions but all petitions gathered in support of any
referendum or initiative. Should the court rule against
us, people will have no way to double-check the work
of signature gatherers or government—and no way of
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“THIS CASE
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ELECTIONS
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COUNTRY.”
knowing who is behind a proposed new law. Making law
is too important to be conducted in secret.”
Washington’s public records law, approved through
the initiative process nearly 40 years ago, requires broad
public disclosure of government documents unless the
Legislature provides a specific exemption, McKenna explained. No such exemption for initiative or referendum
petitions, he argued.
Legal analysts say McKenna’s arguments rightly underscore the importance of the case to the whole of
Washington’s open records laws, but they also run the
risk of greatly expanding the scope of what the nation’s high court may examine... and overturn.
The ultimate decision could have far-reaching impacts, not just on the state’s initiative and referendum
process, but also for other features of “open government,” like the disclosure of who contributes to political campaigns, and how much they give.
In an editorial this week, The New York Times called
this year’s U.S. Supreme Court docket “one of the most
important terms in years for defining the constitutional scope of freedom of expression.” Among them,
the Times notes, is Washington’s curious but important
debate over whether people have a right to keep their
identities secret when they challenge the civil liberties, and perhaps privacy, of others.
The conservative group Protect Marriage Washington asked the justices to shield the names of
the 138,000 people who signed R-71 petitions in
hopes of overturning the “everything but marriage”
same-sex domestic partner law. Gay rights groups
had threatened to post the petition signers’ names
online, and some fear harassment or threats if their
names are revealed.
McKenna and Washington Secretary of State Reed
said there are laws in place to protect people who
might be threatened.
“Public disclosure serves an important interest
in informing voters about ballot measures,” noted
Western Washington University political scientist
Todd Donovan. Donovan helped research a legal
brief filed in support of the state’s position. “Media and interest groups can analyze and disseminate information about who is signing petitions
and how they are being collected in a way that can
provide ‘cues’ to voters, enabling those voters to
make more reasoned and informed decisions about
whether to support a ballot measure,” he said.
Donovan’s research found little evidence that people who have signed petitions have been personally
harassed or threatened with harm.
“Even assuming that the mere act of signing a
referendum or initiative petition is ‘core political
speech,’ evidence has not shown that public disclosure of the names of signers in any way burdens that speech,” Donovan’s colleagues argued in
their brief. “Disclosure does not infringe ‘privacy
of identity, association and belief,’ as the petitioners suggest, because there is no reasonable
expectation or assumption of privacy or secrecy:
any voter who signs a petition knows that her signature, name and address, and the fact that she is
signing, are being put on paper in the hands of a
stranger, in a public place, in front of others, and
then submitted to a government agency.”
Of the approximately 600,000 voters who signed
referendum petitions in Washington in the last decade, no evidence has identified a single individual
who claims to have been harassed or intimidated as
a result of mere disclosure of her signature, Donovan argued. “More than a million names of signers of
petitions for referenda and initiatives opposing gay
marriage have been posted on the internet. Yet there
is no evidence that any of these signers has faced
any threat of retaliation or harassment.”
In September, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin
Settle ruled that releasing the petition names would
violate those people’s constitutional rights. Settle
said the petition signers were engaging in political
speech—which people are allowed to conduct anonymously under the First Amendment.
The following month, the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals overruled Settle, saying signing a petition
in public is not an anonymous activity and people
should recognize that other petition signers could
see their names and government officials will be
verifying their identity.
The Supreme Court stayed that decision in advance
of arguments this week.
This article was prepared with material from Associated Press
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An 18-year-old man is sentenced to four-and-half-years in
prison for the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian in Bellingham
on Jan. 1. Sean F. Crissy pleaded guilty to driving a van that
struck Mark Christian, 54, as he was out for an evening walk.
Crissy told police he had been drinking alcohol, was “tripping
on mushrooms” and was sending a text message at the time.
Police say a man who was struck and killed by a pickup
truck in Ferndale this evening was wearing dark clothing and
walking on the road. Police say the driver swerved but could
not avoid hitting Tommy Criner, 51, of Bellingham.
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WEDNESDAY
Washington voters could decide in November ballot whether to establish a state income tax on wealthy residents. Bill
Gates Sr. headlines an announced a plan to pursue a high income tax as a ballot measure. Gates is the father of the Microsoft founder and a longtime supporter of tax overhaul.
Repairs begin on a Nooksack River levee that was badly
damaged by flooding in January 2009. Whatcom County officials say this particular levee, near Lynden, has been a problem
every time there is flooding. The improvement project will cost
about $400,000. Other repairs will be made this summer near
Ferndale, one in Lynden and one in Deming.
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State regulators accuse Moneytree Inc. of
skirting new consumer laws that limit a borrower to eight payday loans in a 12-month period.
The Department of Financial Institutions issues a
temporary cease-and-desist order to the Rentonbased payday lender. The state orders Moneytree
to stop allowing borrowers to use and then “rescind” small loans and stick to an eight-loan limit.
Rescinding the loans allows a borrower to have a
clean slate.
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On Earth Day, a 200-yard sheen spreads in Bellingham’s Squalicum Marina following a diesel fuel
spill. The owners of the 102-foot Muir Milach and
the Port of Bellingham report the spill to the state
Dept. of Ecology and U.S. Coast Guard. The cause
and the amount of the spill have not yet been determined.
A federal judge orders a 64-year-old Washington man to undergo a mental health exam after
he threatened to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray earlier this month. Charles Alan Wilson of Selah must
undergo the evaluation and any treatment necessary as a condition of his release pending trial on a
charge of threatening a federal official.
04.yz.10
FRIDAY
Gov. Chris Gregoire signs a multimillion-dollar
revenue package that increases taxes on bottled
water, soda, candy and mass-produced beer. The
tax package, which includes a temporary increase
for certain service businesses, was passed by lawmakers at the end of the overtime legislative session last week.
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A Snohomish County jury clears an Everett police officer of criminal charges in the shooting
death of a drunken-driving suspect in a restaurant
parking lot. Officer Troy Meade shot and killed Niles
Meservey in his car outside the Chuckwagon Inn
last June. Meade testified that he didn’t want to kill
anybody, but he believed that the man was going to
run him or somebody else over. Prosecutors alleged
no one else was in danger and Meade could easily
have stepped out of the way of the car.
Bellingham City Council holds a lengthy discussion on whether certain land permits should be
extended to aid projects stalled by economic
downturn. City officials report tight credit and
sluggish financing have kept developers and property owners from completing their projects on
time. A divided council agrees to the extension.
Whatcom County Council will consider a similar
measure Tuesday.
As a community prepares to mourn the loss of
refinery workers following an explosion and fire
at the Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes, the seventh
victim dies at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center
several hours after undergoing skin graft surgery.
Matt Gumble, 34, of Oak Harbor is among those remembered in a Sunday ceremony at Anacortes High
School’s Brodniak Hall. It was the deadliest event at
a U.S. refinery since 2005.
The Bellingham Herald reports that a dangerous
fungus has apparently made its way into Whatcom County from British Columbia. A Ferndale man
says he recently suffered a potentially lethal fungal
infection, causing severe shortness of breath. He
was treated with antibiotics; but the fungus has
reportedly killed over a dozen people in Canada and
at least five people in the United States.
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drifting late Friday evening. Rescuers searched
the area in a helicopter and patrol boat until they
determined there was no chance of survival. The
Coast Guard found what appeared to be a suicide
note on the 14-foot craft apparently belonging to
a 61-year-old Marysville man.
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The Bellingham School District reports school
budgets may not have to be cut as much anticipated, but the district is still short by about one
million dollars. Some elementary school librarians, as well as literacy and support specialists
positions are being eliminated, but not as many
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fraudulently claim more than
$350,000 in tax refunds from the
U.S. government. The 58-year-old
Alberta man had tried to cash
the check at a Bank of America
branch in Bellingham last October, but an alert bank employee
flagged the deposited funds, U.S.
attorneys said. The IRS told the
bank the check had been fraudulently obtained. The Canadian
was arrested by federal agents
when he returned to the bank to
see whether his funds had been
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was denied entry into Canada and
was waiting for the Greyhound
bus to return. The agency, however, “could not permit the guy
to loiter in their lobby,” police
explained. Police gave the New
Mexico resident a courtesy ride
to the city bus stop.
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George W. Bush. A rising number also blame Obama.
On March 18, Blaine Police investigated a late-night verbal
domestic complaint and found a
couple out in the street, yelling
at each other. “It turned out,”
police reported, “that the lady
half had lost her pleasant disposition when the guy half’s other
girlfriend came knocking at the
door of their home. The lovebirds
separated for the evening,” police noted, “with the possibility
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called Anacortes Police to report
the Social Security Administration had dialed into the radio receiver built into his body and he
was hearing nonstop emergency
broadcasts in his head. The Anacortes American reports he told
police he tried to use tinfoil on
his head to stop the signals, but it
just seemed to make him a better
receiver. He also reported he was
constantly being monitored by
cameras. The man said he called
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Cutter Foods at Sunset Square offered a customer the helpful advice
that the man stank so bad a number
of other customers had complained.
The man punched the employee in
the mouth. The 31-year-old Ferndale man was booked into Whatcom County Jail on a redolent list
of assault charges.
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mother had not rewarded his
purchase of undercooked hot
dogs by allowing him to also buy
beer on her debit card. Bellingham officers patiently explained
to him that, as he is now 23
years of age, “his mother is not
required to purchase him hot
dogs or beer and he was lucky
that she allowed him to live at
her home.”
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mandates and see the links back to economic
development.
“There were a few surprises along the way,”
she continued. “One big one was that sometimes cities were doing very little consciously
on these issues, but because of their economic circumstances they were more focused on
‘What’s all this ‘green jobs’ stuff and how do
we get in on it?’
“In those instances, pragmatic economic
development was leading the effort. Many of
the cities I’ve studied aren’t what you’d call
leaders on the enivornmental front, but certainly they want to capture the green jobs.”
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CITIES, WRITES Joan Fitzgerald, are designed of “parts are
linked to the whole, and to each other. We must only connect them. Renewable energy, energy efficiency, green building, recycling, waste reduction,
fewer cars, more trains, walking, and biking are not individual policies but parts
of the whole of how cities must be transformed. As impressive are the efforts of
many American cities, they will realize
their full potential only when the exercise
is understood to be comprehensive and
only when federal and state policy is working to support them.”
In her newest book, Emerald Cities, urban
planner Fitzgerald shows how in the absence
of national leadership, cities like Chicago,
New York, Portland, and Seattle have taken
the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global warming, pollution, energy dependence and social justice. While cities are major sources
of pollution and congestion, because of their population density, reliance on
public transportation and other factors, Fitzgerald argues they are uniquely
suited to promote and benefit from green economic development. For cities facing worsening budget constraints, investing in high-paying green jobs
in renewable energy technology, construction, manufacturing, recycling and
other fields may paradoxically solve two problems at once, sparking economic
growth while at the same time improving quality of life.
Fitzgerald was inspired to write the book
by a trip she took to Europe, where she visited cities that were creatively integrating
environmental and economic-development
goals. She wanted to find out if American
cities were undertaking similar efforts and
whether those cities’ strategies to transition
to a low-carbon economy were in fact leading to local economic growth. Although she
highlights cities that have been successful in
meeting their environmental and economic
development goals, she also tells a cautionary tale of cities that implemented what they
thought were model policies that didn’t end
up producing their desired effect.
“Bellingham is a perfect example of a city
that is leading, but in some ways like public
transportation and urban infill, we have so
much we could learn from other older cities,” said Mariah Ross, who is organizing a
panel discussion this week on these topics.
“Joan talks about a city’s sustainability and
climate change strategy that could also be
the engine of economic development and
how green economic development could
help revitalize the economies of struggling
cash-strapped cities.”
“What would cities’ economic development strategies look like if sustainability and social justice were top priorities?”
Fitzgerald asks. “How do cities that do really good work on sustainability do it? Why
are some cities better at this than others?
“I began with that, but in Europe I saw
how a city was directly linking its sustainability strategy to economic development,”
she said. “I wanted go back to the United
States and look at what I was calling the
‘emerald cities,’ the cities really moving forward on sustainability and climate change
Cascadia Weekly: Steve Cohen, Executive Director of the Earth Institute, was quoted recently as saying New York City was among the
nation’s most sustainable cities, which seems
a bit counter-intuitive as we’ve come to view
cities as gray, wasteful, unnatural places.
What makes a city sustainable?
Joan Fitzgerald: There’s so many elements
to that. Let’s just look at housing. If you
did nothing else in energy efficiency but
move from, say, the energy footprint of a
single-family detached house into something like attached row housing, and on to
apartment buildings, where there are common walls and so forth, that creates an
enormous increase in energy efficiency.
Just by virtue of their density and having any degree of attached housing, cities
are much more energy efficient and use, per
person, much less energy for heating, cooling and other purposes.
By contrast, think about living in the
suburbs where families often have two cars
because they need them. Everywhere they
need to go, they have to get into a car. In
cities—particularly the bigger, denser cities—people can just walk to about any destination or take public transportation. So in
the two big areas of geeenhouse gas emission and energy use, transportation and
housing, you have much better efficiency.
CW: What are cities doing to actively pursue
these opportunities?
JF: There are a number of efforts, and it varies a lot by city. Some cities have people actively coming back into their urban centers;
others are sprawling along quite nicely. But
if you want to attract the “empty nesters”
and the innovators of a new economy, there
are certain things a city has to invest in—
culturally, physically—that can make a city
quite attractive.
Seattle is an example.
There is, in the urban-planning community, quite a bit of interest in something
called transit-oriented development, trying
to densify areas of the city by creating public
transportation lines. And there is also a huge
move in cities in what is called brownfield
development, which is taking abandoned
sites—whether it is residential or industrial
property—and redeveloping that and having
a coherent plan for making these areas more
livable, and to mix functions.
In the past, we divided up commercial,
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POE TRYNIGHT: Sign up to read your
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FAMILY STORY T IME: At 3pm every
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POW-WOW: The Native American Student Union will host its 21st annual
Western Washington University PowWow from 8am-12pm at the Wade King
Student Rec Center, 1880 Bill McDonald Pkwy. “Celebrating the Traditions
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from 8am-4pm for a community-wide
garage sale. Maps are available at the
Ferndale Chamber.
CLIMBING POETREE: Poetry focusing on
activism and social issues can be heard
at a Climbing Poetree performance,
“Hurricane Season,” at 7pm at WWU’s
Old Main Theatre. The event is free.
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be the topic of a Bellingham Community Forum from 6:30-8:30pm at the
Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St.
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Barber reads from his new collection,
Beasts and Violins, at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St.
FUTURE OF BUSINESS: Workshops, lectures and networking opportunities can
be had at today’s “Future of Business”
conference happening from 8am-5pm
at Whatcom Community College, 237 W.
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residential, industrial and never the three shall meet. Now
the trend is just the opposite.
CW: Bellingham is considering just that kind of redevelopment along its central waterfront. What should we be
looking for to catalyze that effort?
JF: I’d say transportation is key in terms of creating an
interelatedness of purpose.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense, for example, to
build a light rail system, as many cities are pursuing,
if you’re not going to do something to create more
housing or more economic activity around those light
rail stations. In fact, one of the biggest predictors of
ridership is proximity to stations. The idea that you
would develop a transportation effort without focusing on the land uses nearby
would not be good planning.
It would not be successful.
CW: You’ve mentioned a couple
of things that set off alarms in
a place like Bellingham. Infill,
density—these ideas get bound
up and associated with issues
like loss of neighborhood charATTEND
acter and reduction of quality of
WHAT: Panel on urban
life. There is a sense that as our
sustainability and ecourban areas become more dense,
nomic development
WHEN: 7pm, Thu.,
these areas become less desirApril 29
able places to live.
WHERE: Bellingham
JF: Yes; how you frame something
Unitarian Fellowship,
becomes so important. And I
1708 I Street
think you’re right that density,
PANELISTS: Joan Fitgerald, director of the
infill, are words that set off
Law, Policy and Society
alarms.
Program at NorthPeople will ask me about
eastern University;
climate change and I say that
Derek Long, executive
is a phrase that’s hard. If you
director of Sustainable Connections; Tara
talk about energy security,
Sundin, special projects
you’re going to get a lot more
manager, COB Planning
takers.
& Community DevelopSo, you’re right. People rement Department; Rick
call the old housing projects—
Nicholson, director of
service development,
mingling with poor people, inWhatcom Transit Aucrease in crime—so perhaps we
thority; Tom Anderson,
need better framing. One term
Initiating member of
that I use a lot is mixed-use deTransition Whatcom
velopment. Who doesn’t want to
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chase a quart of milk? Wouldn’t
you like to be able to walk to a
theater or a bookstore? “Mixed use” represents ease of
living, and so that is a more positive framing of these
concerns—walkability, livability.
With good planning you can create mixed uses and
also create financial incentives for developers to develop in appropriate areas. But you’ve got to do it at the
policy level, create the incentives in the areas where you
want to guide that development.
CW: On the topic of guiding and leadership, you’d mentioned
that many of these communities early on stumbled onto
these initiatives as they’ve pursued other goals. Have you
seen more coordination on these issues?
JF: I think the thing that’s changed in the past months
is we have a different president and it is a priority to
establish policy on energy. We need that and, as you
know, it is stalled.
We won’t be a leader in the world economy if we
don’t have an energy bill, if we don’t have some way of
taxing carbon and using that money for research and
development on various clean technologies.
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Club will host a daylong happening to celebrate
the beginning of Bellingham Bay’s boating season
starting at 7am at Squalicum Harbor, near Gate 3.
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BEACH BIRDING: Join a naturalist for a “Birding
the Beaches of Semiahmoo” walk starting at 9am
at Semiahmoo Park in Blaine. The event is free,
and registration is not required.
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WORK PART Y: Hook up with
Northwest Salmon Enhancement
Washington Conservation Corps
party from 9am-12pm at NSEA’s
E. Bakerview Rd.
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Plants by the
People
THE ROOTS OF THE MATTER
WHEN I moved in 10 years ago, the sizeable backyard of my new domicile was a wasteland of dry grass dotted with a few straggly bushes. But
bit-by-bit—and plot-by-plot—the sunny space with a whole lot of potential
has become not only a source of fresh edibles, but also a perennial wonderland that, each spring, astonishes me with its bounty.
In a decade of plant propagation, my main source of root matter has been
found not at Home Depot, but by friends with gardens and at once-a-year
plant sales in area church basements, libraries and parks. The offerings
are typically much less expensive than they’d be at a superstore, and were
grown by people who know what does well in our climate, and put their
smarts to good use.
I’m pretty sure the elderly woman who’d grown the four hostas, bulging
bag of daylilies and thyme start I purchased during one of the D.U.P.I. Garden Club plant sales in Ferndale told me the name of the longtime group
stood for “Digger-Uppers-Putter-Inners.” What I do recall for certain is that
every fern or Solomon’s seal or stinking hellebore I ever bought from the
ladies not only survived, but they also thrived. Also, most of what you’ll find
is—you guessed it—dirt cheap. WHAT: D.U.P.I. Plant Sale WHEN: 9am-2pm
Sat., May 1 WHERE: 2113 Main St., Ferndale
The congregation at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship worships, among other
things, nature. For gardeners, this translates into a fundraising plant sale the BUF
holds each May. They provide pots and potting soil, and members of the church cull
their own yards and bring in perennials,
shrubs, bare-root native plants and trees by
the pickup-full. Halleluiah! WHAT: 26th annual BUF Plant Sale. WHEN: 9am-2pm Sat.,
May 1. WHERE: 1708 I St. INFO: 676-1554
For evidence of what the Birchwood Garden Club can do with green matter, take
a stroll by the main sidewalk leading into
the Bellingham Public Library, which they
transformed from a concrete expanse of
blah into a budding bevy of beauty. (Seriously, they’ve already got bearded irises
blooming over there!) WHAT: Birchwood
Garden Club’s 18th annual Plant Sale WHEN:
10am-12pm Sat., May 1 WHERE: Bellingham
Public Library, 210 Central Ave. INFO: www.
birchwoodgardenclub.org
Tip: If you see a wheelbarrow sitting
alone at the Master Gardeners Plant Sale
at Hovander Homestead Park, grab it. You’ll
need it for the grown-for-the-Pacific Northwest tomato starts, dahlia bulbs, Japanese
maple and rosemary plants on your list (not
to mention the eight other garden items
you didn’t realize you needed but, heck,
why not?). Experts will also be on hand
to offer growing tips as well as diagnose
diseased plants and pesky pests, so come
prepared with questions. WHAT: Master Gardeners Plant Sale and Fair WHEN: 9am-2pm
Sat., May 8 WHERE: Hovander Homestead
Park, Ferndale INFO: 676-6736
I’ve never been to the Backyard Habitat
and Native Flora Fair, but friends who’ve
dropped by say it’s not only a great place to
pick up goods provided by the Washington
Native Plant Society, but also a superlative source of info on everything from how
to make birds love your urban utopia to
what goes where, and when. Guided plant
walks and tours are also part of the foliage festivities. Sounds good to me. WHAT:
Habitat and Flora Fair WHEN: 10am-4pm
Sat., May 8 WHERE: Fairhaven Village Green
INFO: 714-0781
733-2900
LAKE WHATCOM CLASSIC: Sound Rowers will
host its annual “Lake Whatcom Classic” starting
at 10am at Bloedel Donovan Park, 2214 Electric
Ave. Entry is $8-$16.
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GARDEN EXPO: Hundreds of native plants, a
variety of workshops and information booths on
everything from landscaping to protecting marine waters can be had at today’s Lummi Island
Garden Expo from 10am-1pm at Grange Hall, 2220
N. Nugent Rd.
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DEMO DAY, GEAR SWAPS: The Whatcom Association of Kayak Enthusiasts (WAKE) will host its
annual Kayak Demo Day & Gear Swap from 10am5pm at Bloedel Donovan Park, 2214 Electric Ave.
The event happens in conjunction with the 1st
annual Ski-to-Sea Equipment Swap.
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RALLY FOR THE CURE: Raise money and awareness for breast cancer by taking part in the “Rally
for the Cure” at 12pm at the Bellingham Tennis
Club, 800 McKenzie Ave. Entry is $20 and is donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
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PILATES IN THE PARK: Celebrate International
Pilates Day by doing “Pilates in the Park” starting
at 1pm at Bellingham’s Zuanich Park. Bring your
own mats. Admission is by donation; funds raised
will go to the Relay for Life.
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STORY OF BAKER: Author and outdoorsman
John Miles will talk about his book, Koma Kulshan:
The Story of Mt. Baker, at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
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PINE LAKE HIKE: Join folks from the Mount
Baker Club for a hike to Pine and Cedar lakes from
Old Samish Way. Meet at 9am at Sunnyland Elementary to carpool.
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PADDLING ROSS LAKE: A “Paddling Ross Lake”
overview begins at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Admission is free, but registration is requested.
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WED., MAY 5
LADY WASHINGTON: The official ship of the
State of Washington, the Lady Washington, along
with the Hawaiian Chieftain, will be docked at the
Squalicum Harbor Boat House May 5-16. Tours,
battle sails, adventure sails and more will be
available. Tickets prices vary.
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BIKE BASICS: Learn how to lube a chain and fix
a flat at a “Bike Maintenance Basics” clinic at 6pm
at REI, 400 36th St.
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GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, Two Gentlemen of
Verona, can be seen at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat.
and 2pm Sun. at WWU’s Old Main Theater.
Tickets are $9-$12.
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GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at
the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm,
stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $5
for the early show, $3 for the late one.
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collaborative plays during “Playfest 2010”
at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sun. at the Orcas Grange
in Eastsound. Tickets are $5.
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LEND ME A TENOR: Hilarious mishaps
can be expected when Sehome Drama presents the comedic play, Lend Me a Tenor, at
7:30pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Sehome
High School’s Little Theatre, 2700 Bill McDonald Pkwy. Tickets are $5-$8.
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ODD COUPLE: Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple:
Female Version shows at 7pm Fri.-Sat. and
2pm Sun. at Sudden Valley’s Barn Theatre,
gate 2. Tickets are $8-$10.
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NOISES OFF: Watch a comedy-within-acomedy when Noises Off! opens at 7:30pm
at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655
Front St. Tickets are $8-$12 and additional
showings happen through May 23.
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PE TRUSHK A: Dancing by the Silhouettes
will be part of the Bellingham Circus Guild’s
production, Petrushka, at 7pm Thurs., 7pm
and 9pm Fri.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at the organization’s Cirque Lab, 2107 Iron St. Aerialists, jugglers, clowns and others will also
take part. Suggested donation is $10-$20.
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dance of Taffeta Memories at 7:30pm every Friday and Saturday through May 22 at
Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner Theatre,
100 E. Montgomery. Tickets are $20-$40.
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improv show featuring local poets and
Upfront performers can be experienced
at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 I St.
Stick around for 10pm Cage Match performances. Tickets are $8-$10.
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aren’t always what they seem. In Hans Christian Anderson’s famous tale of a heroine with fins who gives up her voice—
and eventually her life—in the name of love, the silver lining is a little
blurry. We talked to choreographer John Bishop of Northwest Ballet to get
the scoop on what to expect during the dance company’s rendition of The
Little Mermaid.
Cascadia Weekly: How in the heck does a mermaid—a creature with no
legs—dance?
John Bishop: In toe shoes and a fishtail-like costume. That is enough
for the audience to use their imagination when she dances and realize
through the movements that she is indeed a graceful mermaid.
CW: Is this adaptation closer to the Disney version or Hans Christian Anderson’s original?
JB: One of the reasons I wanted to do this ballet from the start was to
adapt the Hans Christian Anderson tale to a full-length ballet that delves
into the plot much more deeply than the Disney version. I am not incorporating Disney’s various characters into my ballet because they do not
exist in the original story.
CW: How does one go about adapting a classic into an original?
JB: If the choreographer—in this case, me—can see that doing it has the
potential to bring the story to life in the form of a ballet, they will either
work with a composer to create an original musical score for it or search
for suitable music that will be able to support the storyline of the ballet. Then I try to work out the choreography with the dancers and see if
everything fits.
CW: What would you tell people to entice
them to come see this?
JB: This is an original ballet that has never
been done as a full-length ballet. That itself should pique the curiosity of anyone
and of almost any age. The other reason,
of course, is the sheer entertainment this
is going to bring to people who have seen
us put on similar high-level productions
in the past and to those who will be seeing a Northwest Ballet production for the
first time.
CW: What’s cool about this cast?
JB: Amber Johnson, who portrays the mermaid, is just radiant
and conveys every element in my choreography exactly the way
that I want the people
who are watching her
to experience it. She
has talent, maturity
and virtuosity that go
ATTEND way beyond her tender
age of 21.
WHAT: The Little
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Mermaid
WHEN: 7:30pm
cast—which includes
Sat., May 1 and
other mermaids, sword2pm Sun., May 2
fish, sea rays, jellyfish,
WHERE: McIntyre
starfish and sea anemHall, Mount Vernon
ones—will also catch
COST: $20-$30
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McLane, who performs
in many Bellingham
WHEN: 7:30pm
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mances, puts in a more
2pm Sun., May 16
WHERE: Mount
than commanding role
Baker Theatre, 104
as Triton. The evil UrN. Commercial St.
sula, portrayed by Mija
COST: $15-$24
Bishop, is also someone
INFO: 734-6080
to watch for.
or www.mount
bakertheatre.com
I would also like to
mention that this production would not have been possible
without the tremendous support of our
dancers, artistic staff and crew.
DOC HOLLIDAY: Show up for a one-man play
about a legendary gunfighter when Doc Holliday and the Angel of Mercy shows at 7:30pm
Fri.-Sat. at the Leopold Crystal Ballroom,
1224 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $12-$15 and
additional showings happen May 7-8.
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REC YCLED ART, FASHION: The RE Store,
in partnership with WWU, presents its annual Recycled Art and “Trash Fashion Show”
at 8pm at the university’s Viking Union Multipurpose Room. Tickets to see the runway
show that features wearable wares crafted
from the Pacific Northwest’s waste stream
are $11-$15.
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PHOTO CLUB SALE: The Bellingham Photography Club will host a fundraising gallery show and sale, “Preservation Through
Photography,” Fri.-Sun. at the Roeder Home,
2600 Sunset Dr. Funds raised will help support the historic venue.
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GARDEN AND ART: Attend an annual May
Day Garden Party from 10am-6pm at the
Chuckanut Bay Gallery and Sculpture Garden, 700 Chuckanut Dr.
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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
WHAT DO wearable art, humans masquerading as animals and Earth Day
have in common? They’re all important elements of the Procession of the Species, an annual event that sees community members take to the streets to celebrate both their connection with nature and the creativity of their brethren.
Started in 1995 by a handful of organizers in Olympia, the first Procession
was seen as a way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day and, at the
same time, draw attention to the Congressional renewal of the Endangered
Species Act. Since its inception, other communities have taken note, and
started their own. Bellingham joined the parade in 2004.
With just three simple rules to guide the way—no motorized vehicles,
no written or spoken words and no live animals or pets are allowed—the
Procession of the Species is open to just about anybody who’s willing to don
a costume and share the love.
But while all the hoopla surrounding the colorful cacophony of creatures
both large and small typically happens on the day of the actual event, it’s not
all there is to the story.
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Long before the oversized owls, 10-legged
caterpillars, bike-powered whales, giant
tent spiders and mystery mollusks cruise,
crawl and creep their way through downtown Bellingham, participants get involved
via workshops that help bring together
their lively visions.
Each Saturday during April, those who
wished to make Procession 2010 one to remember have been meeting at the Environmental Learning Center
with artistic visions at
the ready. They’ve been
painting big banners,
making tails, wings,
feet and heads, creating “stroller beasts”
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lizing cardboard, plasMay 1
tic and fabric.
WHERE: Line up at
Even if you haven’t
3:30pm behind the
Bellingham Public
been able to make any
Library, 210 Central
of the gatherings, it’s
Ave.
not too late to join the
COST: Free
herd. Look through old
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org
inspiration, or find out
if a friend happens to have a gorilla suit you
can try on for size. Barring that, get imaginative and stitch, paint or glue your way to
the starting line.
When all is said and done, and you’re
hobnobbing with hirsute lions, long-tusked
elephants or pint-sized bumblebees at the
Maritime Heritage Park celebration that
follows the parade, take a long look at your
costumed community members and realize
that what you’re seeing isn’t just a costume
party—it’s an art show, and you’re part of
the display.
BACHELORS OF ART: A reception for “Don’t
Call it Student Art” happens from 5-8pm at
Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey
Ave. The exhibit features young artists
from the WWU’s BFA Program, and pushes
the question about when an artist becomes
an “artist.”
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WED., MAY 5
FREE DAY: If you haven’t had time to visit
the Whatcom Museum’s new Lightcatcher
Building at 250 Flora St.—as well as the old
City Hall building—do so from 12-5pm today as part of the venue’s new monthly “Free
Day!” offering.
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THURS., MAY 6
TRUNK SHOW: La Conner jewelry artist Jane
Penman will host a Trunk Show featuring her
free-from stone jewelry from 6:30-9pm at
the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
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ONGOI NG E X H I BI TS
ALLIED ARTS: As part of the annual
“ReArt” show, more than 20 local artists will
show art that contains 75 percent or more
recycled materials through April 30 at Allied
Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
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BLUE HORSE: The Northwest Pastel Society’s annual “Members Show” will be up
through May 28 at the Blue Horse Gallery,
301 W. Holly St.
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LUCIA DOUGLAS: A group exhibit featuring humor, art and a contemporary point of
view shows until May 29 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St.
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WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Expanded Horizons:
Panoramic Photographs by J.W. Sandison,”
“Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists
1880-2010” and “Outside the Home: Photographs of Women in the Workplace” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum.
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Arlo Guthrie
THE FIRST FAMILY OF FOLK
IT IS well known that, for whatever reason, certain professions
follow a familial line. For instance: the children of cops often go
on to become police officers themselves.
The same is often true of athletes. In
Hollywood, multigenerational acting dynasties abound. And, in similar fashion,
musicians often beget musically likeminded offspring.
But when your pops isn’t just your avATTEND
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WHO: Arlo Guthrie
or even a famous musician with a slew of
WHEN: 7:30pm
hits under his belt, but a full-blown muSun., May 2
sical legend, one whose legacy is lauded,
WHERE: Mount
learned and part of an entire country’s
Baker Theatre, 104 N.
Commercial St.
cultural, political and historical heriCOST: $20-$42
tage—well, that can make following in
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deed. To say the least.
But that’s exactly what Arlo Guthrie—son of the aforementioned
legend, Woody Guthrie—did. And for more than four decades now,
Arlo—along with several other
musically inclined Guthries—has
been doing more than his fair
share to keep alive the legacy that
was begun by his famous father.
And, much like his dad did before him, Arlo uses his music both
as means of entertainment and
as medium for his message. While
he doesn’t play a guitar labeled
with the slogan “This Machine
Kills Fascists” as Woody did, that
doesn’t mean he’s afraid to speak
up and speak out, often peppering
his songs and performances with
thought-provoking lyrics and stories, in true Woody-inspired folksinger fashion.
But Arlo is not Woody, and vice
versa. In fact, far from it. While it
may, in theory, seem nigh impossible for the child of one whose
shadow extends so far and so wide
in folk music to step out of that
shadow and forge a career all his
own, that’s exactly what Arlo has
done. His inclination is to use humor to make his message heard,
and nowhere is this artistic leaning more prevalent than on the
song he’s most famous for, “Alice’s
Restaurant.”
While most of us know the song
by its more abbreviated moniker,
its true title is “Alice’s Restaurant
Massacree,” and when it was released in 1967, its 18-minute, 34second length took up the entire
first side of the album on which
it was featured (and, as Arlo has
been known to point out, the
song is also the exact length of
one of the famous “gaps” in Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes). The
song, based on events from Arlo’s
own life, tells the story of a man
who’s called up in the draft for
the Vietnam war, but is deemed
unfit for service due to his criminal record—a record that consists
of a sole littering charge. While
18-plus minutes of mostly spoken
word about such a simple incident
hardly seems like fodder for a hit
song, in Arlo’s hands, the prospect
Rumor Has It
IF YOU NEED more proof that Bellingham bands never
die, they just go on hiatus for reeeaaallly long periods
of time, look no further than the Elvi’s reunion that’s
set to take place Sat., May 1 at the American Museum
of Radio and Electricity. No, this is not just another
example of a rumor I’m spreading in the hopes it will
become true (although I’m still hoping to see Fed X
and the Mono Men play the Jinx basement. And my
dream of a Monotonix/Mono Men/Zorbatron triple bill
hasn’t quite died yet, either)—instead the Elvi’s are
reuniting for a show to benefit WellSpring Community
School. If your memory or residency in Bellingham
doesn’t reach far enough back to conjure a memory of
this band, suffice it to say, in their heyday, the Elvi’s
were, to put it succinctly, insanely popular. In fact, I
believe at one point I may have called singer Michael
Costelloe the most dynamic frontman in town—and
I’m willing to bet it’s still true.
They’ll be joined by Sir Reginold
Cosgrove and His Nighttime Singers, Vinnie Blackshadow, and the
Fanatics. It’s all-ages, tickets are
available at the door and kids get
in cheap.
Another band that, while not
broken up, certainly hasn’t appeared anywhere in Bellingham forr
sometime, has also cropped back
up again. If you’ve missed the
high-flying musical antics of the
Gallus Brothers—and didn’t see
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them during their back-to-back
appearances at Dirty Dan Days (where one-half of the
Gallus Brothers, Lucas Hicks, won the cupcake-eating
contest—this, after winning the Dirty Dan lookalike
contest a couple of years ago. He’s got fish throwing
and piano racing to tackle to become, in his words, “a
Dirty Dan decathlete.” A noble mission indeed), don’t
fret. They’ll bring their ever-popular music and mancrobatics to the Roeder Home on Wed., April 28. And
if you’ve wondered whether not playing every week to
a sold-out crowd of rabid fans at Boundary Bay has
made Lucas less inclined to treat Devin Champlin like
a human jungle gym when they do hit the stage, Lucas
assures me that is simply not the case. In fact, they’ll
be debuting a whole new musical stunt at the Roeder
Home show.
Speaking of Monday-night musical action at Boundary, the band that has called that night their own
for the past couple of months, Polecat, will end their
weekly residency there in fine style, with a party to
celebrate the release of their EP. Show up, augment
your local music collection and bid them farewell—at
least until they show back up in the beer garden at
the end of May.
Not to be outdone, Acorn Project is also throwing a
CD-release party, this one to take place Sat., May 1 to
celebrate the release of their live set from the 2009
installment of Summer Meltdown. As Acorn Project’s
strength lies in its live show, both the CD-release party
and the album in question should be well worth the $10
it will cost you at the door. Plus, this album should tide
you over until they drop their third full-length sometime this fall. Oddly enough, this show will feature the
talents of another erstwhile Bellingham band, BeeCraft.
Reunited, and it feels so good.
ALLEGRA: The 17 singers of Allegra, an advanced women’s chamber ensemble, will perform at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum,
121 Prospect St. Entry is $3.
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BRYAN BOWERS: Autoharpist and singer
Bryan Bowers performs some of the best
songs from early America at 7:30pm at
Nancy’s Farm, 2030 E. Smith Rd. Suggested
donation is $15.
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JAZZ SHOW: The Bellingham Traditional
Jazz Society presents a dance and concert
with the Chris Tyle Silver Leaf Jazz Band from
2-5pm at the VFW Hall, 625 N. State St. Admission is $6-$10.
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from throughout the Skagit Valley will take
part in the Skagit Sacred Music Festival
at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s Salem Lutheran
Church, 2529 N. La Venture Rd. Suggested
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and more. And now they’ve nabbed a slot
opening for Metallica for several dates on
that band’s upcoming European tour.
So who is this band? If you haven’t
guessed by now, it’s the power trio known
as High On Fire, and they’ll be at the Wild
Buffalo for a show Sun., May 2, before decamping for foreign soil and that aforementioned date with Metallica.
So the question then remains: Is the burly
aural onslaught that is High On Fire enough
to out-metal Metallica? The answer remains
to be seen, but I wouldn’t put it past them.
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school—and have a good time—at a musically inclined fundraiser dubbed “Showcraze!” starting at 7pm at the American Museum of Radio, 1312 Bay St. You’ll be witness
to the return of the Elvi’s, who will headline
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Center for Spiritual Living, 2224 Yew St. Suggested donation is $15.
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becomes a far less unlikely one—indeed,
he’s even been known to spin the song out
to 45 or more minutes of politically tinged
comedy during his live performances.
Much like his father did before him, Arlo
tours frequently, traveling hither and yon,
telling stories and spreading his message
in his own entertaining style—but he’s
not doing it alone. When he comes to Bellingham for his May 2 performance at the
Mount Baker Theatre, he’ll bring no less
than four generations of this musical clan.
If folk’s got a First Family, it probably goes
by the name of Guthrie.
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bones, not on hiring somebody to
jump you with a riding lawn mower.
There are back shavers that look like
big squeegees (the Razorba and the
Mangroomer). But, if you have coarse
hair, you could end up with razor-sharp
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(in your case, probably moving into a
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think fur reduction over total fur removal. Laser treatment, which works
best on those with light skin and dark
hair, is probably your ideal bet for
long-term back-hair thinning—lasting
months or a year, or very possibly, permanently. You’ll still have some growth
back there, but from a woman’s perspective, there’s feeling a little body
hair and there’s feeling like Dian Fossey making the first peaceful contact
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I’m a white guy with a black beard—growing out of my back. I know many women
are grossed out by really hairy guys. Are
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If I hated women, I’d tell those looking to date men to grow a big hairy
hedge above their lip. Then they’d appeal to the .00001 percent of the American male population who think nothing’s sexier than leaning over to the girl
they’re dating and whispering, “I think
I should tell you… there’s a little piece
of food caught in your mustache.”
Oh, what a terrible thing, promoting “American standards of beauty.”
Footbinding? Clitoridectomy? Naw,
plucking tiny hairs above a woman’s
lip. Quick! Somebody start an international human rights organization!
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the Darfur rally. We’re marching for a
woman’s right to lip fur.” All together
now: “HELL NO! WE WON’T MOW!”
While I see the occasional strip of
fur bumming a ride on a woman’s lip,
you claim to know a veritable parade
of women from Mustachia. Methinks
you’re telling a fibby—for what you
think is a good cause: keeping women
feministically correct, and never mind
that they’ll likely end up miserable
and dateless. Fibby number two? That
being a chick with a Fu Manchu is no
impediment to getting dates. Right.
There are men who’ll date a woman
with a stache: the visually impaired,
the wildly desperate and college-boy
feminists. The latter aren’t so much
into girls with mustaches as they’re
into being the guy who’s cool with
girls with mustaches.
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age-old problem of getting men to
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to the woman whose female friend has a
mustache. Your only suggesting ways to get
her to remove it was very anti-feminist. I
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just the way I am.” Your response could’ve
included that option. My girlfriends with
facial hair have no problem getting dates
with men, and that’s because they’re
confident and beautiful. Just please don’t
perpetuate misogynistic crap.
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in Australia. Unfortunately, the loudest
thing on screen was her mustache. Even
the host couldn’t help himself: “There is
a mustache on a lady!” Miller had much
to say about victims of nuclear testing,
but she might as well have been farting
out “The 12 Days of Christmas.”
Now, I’m all for a woman with a mustache making the same money as a man
with a mustache. Unfortunately, Congress can’t amend the laws of attraction. A mustache is a really clear male
sex characteristic. Women with facial
hair tend to have higher testosterone
or be aging out of their child-bearing
years, while men are hard-wired to go
for young, feminine-featured women.
Suggesting women who want boyfriends
go proudly unpruned is like telling men
with moobs to rub glitter on their mancleavage and strut it in low-cut tops.
Rather amazingly, you’re suggesting women empower themselves by
looking just like men. The reality is, a
woman needs a mustache like a fish on
a bicycle needs a man. Sure, a woman’s
place is wherever she wants it to be,
but if she’d like male company, she’d
best avoid looking like Gandhi, Saddam, Charles Manson, or one of the Village People, and snarling through her
stache: “We haven’t come a long way,
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important rule for you in the coming week: Keep
your eyes fixed on a vision of your shining destiny. If you do, you’ll be unflappable, indefatigable
and irrepressible. Your luck will be so crazy good
it’ll be almost spooky. Noble deeds you did in the
past will finally bring the rewards you deserve. Allies will conspire to assist you, sometimes in ways
you couldn’t have predicted. I’m not exaggerating,
Cancerian. If you stay focused on the highest prize,
you’ll live a charmed life.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1990, my rock band
World Entertainment War played at a San Francisco
nightclub on the same bill as the Beatnigs, an assemblage fronted by Michael Franti. Their avantgarde industrial music featured band members
rhythmically hitting a steel bar with a power saw
and slapping a long chain against a piece of sheet
metal hanging from the back wall. Fast-forward to
2009, when Franti’s latest band Spearhead released
a catchy romantic pop ditty titled “Say Hey (I Love
You),” which reached number 18 on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart. I predict a comparable development
for you in the next six months, Leo: moving from
a state of raw, dark, obscure power to a state of
bright, refined, accessible power.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mangosteens and
rambutans are exotic fruits that grow in faraway
places. The mangosteen is creamy and purple, with
a peachy citrus taste, while the rambutan is like a
more than one trouble at a time,” wrote author and
clergyman Edward Everett Hale. “Some people bear
three kinds—all they have had, all they have now,
and all they expect to have.” That’s good advice for
you, Sagittarius. Please just stick to the trouble you
have, and drop the other two kinds. There’s no need
to fill up your beautiful head with extra torment. Besides, you’re much more likely to wrestle the current
trouble into submission if you’re not weighted down
by unnecessary extras.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What excites
you? What makes you itch with a longing to be surprised? What fills you to the brim with curiosity and
an agitated sense of wonder? You may not know even
half of what you could potentially realize about these
matters. Have you ever sat down and taken a formal
inventory? Have you ever dedicated yourself to figuring out all the things that would inspire you most?
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Margaret Mitchell suffered a broken ankle back in
1925. She got so bored as she lay around the house
recuperating that she started writing a book. Eventually it blossomed into the 423,000-word blockbuster
Gone with the Wind, which sold 30 million copies and
won her the Pulitzer Prize. Judging from your current
astrological omens, Aquarius, I suspect that you too
may soon be offered an opportunity disguised as a
ho-hum problem.
I discovered a website with a video of quirky songstress Cat Power singing David Bowie’s iconic song
“Space Oddity.” I love her, I love Bowie, and I love
the tune. And yet a wave of disappointment broke
over me when I realized, 30 seconds into the performance, that it was actually a car commercial. I felt
duped. Appalled. Outraged. Any pleasure I’d gotten
from the experience was ruined. Don’t be like me,
Pisces. You, too, may soon receive a blessing that has
some minor annoyance. Don’t overreact like me. Look
past the blemish and enjoy the gift.
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cheat on their mates, polyamorists carry on two or
more intimate relationships but don’t lie about it.
Their lovers know about each other and have agreed
to the arrangement. I applaud those who have the
inclination to pull off this tricky work, even though I
personally couldn’t manage it. Handling just a single
intense bond takes improbable amounts of my ingenuity. If I were trying to weave my fate together with
more than one partner, I wouldn’t have any energy
left over to write these horoscopes or do anything
else. How about you, Scorpio? You’re in a phase when
splitting your attention might be tempting, not just
in regards to your love life but in other areas, too.
Whether that’s the right thing to do, I can’t say.
Here’s what I do know: You can either go deeper or
wider, but not both.
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you’d enjoy life more if everything was pure fun and
smoothly easy? Here’s an astrological perspective:
People who have an over-abundance of positive aspects in their natal horoscopes often turn out to be
lucky but lazy bums who never accomplish much.
So I say, be thankful for the complications that are
visiting you. I bet they will make a man out of you
if you’re a woman, or a woman out of you if you’re
a man. If you’re white, they’ll help you get blacker,
and if you’re black, they’ll make you whiter. Catch
my drift? As you do your best to solve the knotty
riddle, you’ll become better balanced and more versatile than folks who are rarely challenged.
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can be dangerous. I constantly meet people who
have boxed themselves into tight spots by misusing their smattering of astrological information.
There’s no better example of this than the superstition about Mercury retrograde, which is supposedly
a bad time to begin anything new. During one such
period last year, an acquaintance of mine decided
to delay accepting a dream job offer as editor of
a magazine. By the time Mercury returned to normal, the magazine had hired another applicant. I
wish I’d have known, because I would have told
her what I’ll tell you: Some of America’s biggest,
most enduring Fortune 500 companies began when
Mercury was retrograde, including Disney, Goodyear,
and Boeing. The moral of the story: Of all the signs
of the zodiac, it’s most important that you Tauruses
don’t worry about launching new projects during
the current Mercury retrograde.
Emory proposes that we add a new meme to the
cultural lexicon: interpersonal intellectual orgasm.
Here’s how he describes it: “It happens when your
conversation with another person becomes so intense that nothing else matters except the dialog
you’re creating together. The two of you are so intune, so intellectually bonded, that the sensation
is almost like making love. For that time, it’s like
that person is in you and you are in that person;
you are one because you understand each other so
completely.” I bring this to your attention, Libra,
because you’re in a phase of your astrological cycle
when the interpersonal intellectual orgasm is far
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salsa published recently, one of the ingredients was
misstated, due to an error,” said an apology run by
a local newspaper. “The correct ingredient is ‘2 tsp.
of cilantro’ instead of ‘2 tsp. of cement.’” This is an
example of the kind of miscue you should be alert
for in your own life during the coming week, Aries.
As long as you pay close attention and spot the tiny
booboos as they arise, you won’t end up dipping your
chips into a gritty, gravely mess.
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big hairy red grape. This is a perfect moment, astrologically speaking, to invite them into your mouth.
Likewise, the time is right for you to consider welcoming other colorful, striking, and foreign elements
into your life. So maybe consider making friends with
a Paraguayan acrobat. Sing Vietnamese folk songs.
Read the memoirs of an Iranian exile. Exchange conspiracy theories with an Icelandic fairy.
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DEBBIE PATON wants you to put your money where your mouth is.
As the community services director at the Opportunity Council, Paton helps
organize “Dine Out for Maple Alley Inn,” the annual fundraiser that sees area
eateries donate 20 percent of a day’s take to the biweekly program that has been
feeding people in need since 1987.
If she could fit it all in—and that’s a big if—Paton’s visits to participating restaurants would start early and end late. That said, she might choose to kick-start
her day with an Americano at Fresh Start Espresso, soak up the caffeine with a
California omelet and sourdough toast at the Old Town Cafe, wait a few hours
before sitting down to lunch (Chicken Slovakia at Cafe Akroteri or a Sofia pizza at
La Fiamma, or one of the many others serving a midday repast), grab a friend for
a happy hour bottle of wine and cheese plate at the Temple Bar, saunter over to
Ciao Thyme for dinner, stop by Mallard for a mint Oreo cone and end the movable
feasting with a late-night happy-hour snack at Nimbus.
But even if she can’t hit each and every spot on the long list, Paton—like the
countless other patrons who make it a point to stop by at least one of the venues
on the first Tuesday of May during “Dine Out for
Maple Alley Inn”—knows what she chooses to eat
in the course of the day will make a difference.
“Dine Out is a win-win-win event,” Paton
says. “Restaurants get business, people have
fun dining out, and Maple Alley Inn gets support to provide meals to people in need.
“Restaurateurs know good food; they also
know Maple Alley Inn provides hot, nutritious, high- quality food to its guests and
this inspires them to stay involved with Dine
Out. Restaurant owners and employees like to
know that by participating in Dine Out they
are helping to provide good food to people
with limited resources.”
This year, Paton says, support for the program is especially important, as the Maple
Alley Inn is in the process of expanding its
services. And, while food donations from local
farms and bakeries help round out the menu
items, cash donations are a vital part of filling
in the missing pieces.
For those who need numbers to understand why
it’s important to help feed the need, try these on
for size: Last year, Maple Alley Inn served nearly
15,000 hot meals to the homeless, mentally ill,
working poor, aging, disabled veterans and families with children that came through its doors. To
make things go smoothly—and it does—as many
as 40 volunteers contribute to each meal, which
always includes a green salad, one or two vegetables, a protein-rich main dish, bread, dessert,
juice and coffee. (Oh, and guests are welcome to
seconds.)
If your May 4 calendar is full, but you still want
to help out Maple Alley Inn, the Opportunity
Council accepts donations of time and money
throughout the year.
As for Paton, who knows where you’ll see her
come next Tuesday? She’s sure to be out and
about at one—or more—of the many dining
establishments listed above, and will be taking note of what people are doing to help.
Her favorite part of the event each year, she
says, is “Making connections with other people
who are dining out and witnessing all the bustling restaurants. Plus, seeing the generosity in
our community to support Maple Alley Inn.”
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WHAT: Dine Out for
Maple Alley Inn
WHEN: Tues., May 4
WHERE: Bayou on Bay, Bayside
Cafe, Bellingham Bar and Grill,
Billy McHale’s, Black Drop Coffeehouse, Boundary Bay Brewery
& Bistro, Busara Thai Cuisine,
Cafe Akroteri, Cascade Pizza,
Ciao Thyme in the Kitchen,
The Copper Hog, D’Anna’s Cafe
Italiano, Diamond Jim’s Grill,
Diego’s Mexican Grill & Take Out,
Fiamma Burger, Flats Wine &
Tapas Bar, Fresh Start Espresso,
Giuseppe’s Italian Restaurant,
The Grace Cafe, Hilltop Restaurant, India Grill Restaurant, La
Fiamma Wood Fire Pizza, Mallard
Ice Cream, Mambo Italiano,
Mykonos, Nimbus Restaurant,
Old Town Cafe, On Rice Thai
Cuisine (Barkley), On Rice Thai
Cuisine (Fairhaven), On Rice
Thai Cuisine (Samish), Past·zza,
Pepper Sisters, Rocket Donuts,
Rudy’s Pizzeria, Sehome Diner,
Shrimp Shack, Taco Lobo, The
Temple Bar, Thai House Restaurant, and Tivoli
COST: Varies
INFO: www.oppco.org
WHAT: Maple Alley Inn
WHEN: 11:30am-1pm every
Wednesday and Thursday
WHERE: Faith Lutheran Church,
2750 McLeod Rd.
COST: Always free
INFO: 739-7335
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