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Fuzz Buzz, P.11 * Honoring Hillaire, P.12 * Weavers United, P.18
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REPORTING FROM
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Stommish
Water Festival:
History on the
water, P.14
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promises
OF TRUTH AND
TREATIES, P.8
Sweeney
Todd:
Haircuts and
homicide, P.16
American
Bandstanding:
A musical memory
lane, P.20
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Preview or bid on more
than 300 works by
regional artists June
14-15 as part of the
Museum of Northwest
Art’s annual Art
Auction
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A glance at what’s happening this week
ONSTAGE
A version of
Shakespeare’s
comedic Twelfth
Night set in a
European spa in
the early 1900s
will open the season this week
at Vancouver, B.C.’s
Vanier Park
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WORDS 12
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STAGE 16
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Chamber Music Concert: 7pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall
Texas Boys Choir: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center,
Lynden
Gin Blossoms: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort
COMMUNITY
MUSIC
Grand Finale Concert: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall
FOOD
Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
Stommish Water Festival: Throughout the day
and night, Gooseberry Point
Child Safety Fair: 3-7pm, Chevrolet Cadillac of
Bellingham
Science Laser Spectacular: 7pm, Whatcom
Middle School
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Wild Things: 9:30-11am, Marine Park
ONSTAGE
VISUAL ARTS
Sweeney Todd: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre
Guild
The Woman in Black: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
A Rotten Demise: 7:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret,
Mount Vernon
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
Art Auction Preview: 12-5pm, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner
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ONSTAGE
John Stowell, Ulf Bandgren: 12pm, Old Federal
Building
Steve Rudy Trio: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art
Center, Lynden
Mt. Baker Toppers: 6:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s
Lightcatcher Building
Electroacoustic Composers Concert: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
The Aristocats: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham Arts
Academy for Youth
Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab
Peter Pan: 2pm and 7:30pm, Mount Baker
Theatre
Sweeney Todd: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre
Guild
Cage Match: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Woman in Black: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Pulp Improv: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
COMMUNITY
DANCE
Berry Dairy Days: Through Sunday, throughout
Burlington
Dance Fusion: 7pm, Lynden Christian Performing Arts Center
Experience Tango: 8-11:30pm, Presence Dance
Studio
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ONSTAGE
The Aristocats: 7pm, Bellingham Arts Academy
for Youth
Sweeney Todd: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
Peter Pan: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Cage Match: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Comedy Nite: 9pm, Poppes 360
Pulp Improv: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Sweeney Todd Fundraiser: 7:30pm, Bellingham
Theatre Guild
Bard on the Beach: Through June 20 and beyond, Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C.
MUSIC
Barbecue guru .-
shares tips and techniques
that will help you get the summer grilling season cooking
June 17 at Village Books and June 18-19 at a gustatory
gathering on Lummi Island
Anacortes Rocks: 2pm, Port of Anacortes Transit
Shed Events Center
Greta Matassa, John Stowell: 3pm, Old Federal
Building
Her Voice: 7pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall
Gin Blossoms: 8pm, Skagit Valley Casino Resort
WORDS
Summer Book Talks: 11am and 5:15pm, Village
Books
Summer Reading Kickoff: Throughout the day
at Sumas Library, Blaine Library, and Ferndale
Library
DANCE
Dance Fusion: 7pm, Lynden Christian Performing Arts Center
Purple Church Ecstatic Dance: 7:30-9pm, 311
E. Holly St.
COMMUNITY
Battle on Badger Road: 9am, Berthusen Park,
Lynden
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Child Safety Fair: 10am-4pm, Chevrolet Cadillac
of Bellingham
Rockhounds Rendezvous: 10am-5pm, Birch Bay
Square
Warbird Weekend Dinner and Dance: 5pm,
Heritage Flight Museum
VISUAL ARTS
Stephanie Burgess Signing Party: 11am-1pm,
Garden Spot Nursery
Art Auction: 5pm, Museum of Northwest Art, La
Conner
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MUSIC 20
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Swedish Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Norway
Hall
Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Ferndale Senior
Activity Center
Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Blaine Senior
Center
Mount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-1pm,
Skagit State Bank
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot
Arts Center
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Centennial Riverwalk Park
STAGE 16
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Boat Show: 9am-4pm, La Conner Marina
Historic Schooner Sails: 2-6pm, Squalicum
Harbor
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Boat Show: 9am-4pm, La Conner Marina
Historic Schooner Sails: 11am-6pm, Squalicum
Harbor
Trees & Ties Ride: 1pm, Fanatik Bike Co.
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ONSTAGE
Guffawingham: 8pm, Green Frog
WORDS
CURRENTS 8
VIEWS 6
MAIL 4
Stommish Water Festival: Throughout the day,
Gooseberry Point
Warbird Weekend: 9am-4pm, Heritage Flight
Museum
Battle on Badger Road: 9am, Berthusen Park,
Lynden
Bellingham Fete and Car Show: 10am-4pm,
Wilson Motors
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COMMUNITY
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Musical Variety Show: 3pm, St. Francis of
Bellingham
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Sweeney Todd: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild
The Aristocats: 2pm, Bellingham Arts Academy
for Youth
A Rotten Demise: 6:30pm, 1st Street Cabaret,
Mount Vernon
Dynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
WORDS 12
ONSTAGE
Poetrynight: 8pm, Black Drop Coffeehouse
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FOOD
Barbecue Bible Talk: 7pm, Village Books
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THISWEEK
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Bathing beauty Esther Williams, 91, died last week in
Beverly Hills. Although she illuminated the big screen with
movies that focused on her aquatic acumen, in her 1999
autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams spoke
of that stardom as her “consolation prize,” noting that she
would have preferred to be an Olympic gold medalist.
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6: Gristle & Views
8: History takes center stage
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11: Police blotter, Index
ARTS & LIFE
WORDS 12
14: On the water at Stommish
16: A cut above
18: Yarn stormers
CURRENTS 8
20: Bandstand blowout
VIEWS 6
TOC
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24: Apocalypse now?
26: Film Shorts
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COVER: James ‘Smitty’ Hillaire
as Lummi Chief Chowitsoot.
Photo by Paul Anderson.
REFLECT ON WHO WE ELECT
It’s only June, but time flies and in no time at
all the next election season will be upon us! I am
interested in caring for our beautiful local environment, providing healthy habitats for fish and
wildlife and protecting the area’s resource lands.
The future of a healthy Whatcom County depends on who we elect come November. So I have
a few questions for voters to ponder over the
coming summer days: Why don’t we have a balanced planning commission that listens to and
appreciates the opinions of all our citizens and
represents the values of their constituents? Why
is there so much waste of taxpayer dollars to litigate cases that don’t protect critical areas? Who
will have a vision to provide financial necessities
over the next years such as adequate services for
water, sewer, proper police and fire protection?
Don’t we always want to comply with the growth
management laws?
Please enjoy these lovely Whatcom County
summer days, but please be thoughtful about
who will be elected come cold, windy November.
Through wonderful and accessible theater, the
play offered a short course on the long history
that has separated the Lummi people from their
traditional lands.
Those original lands included the area of Cherry Point, which was taken from the Lummi by
fraud and coercion in the many years following
the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot.
While possession of the area has been contested since the 1870s, the Lummi Nation’s reverent
and passionate connection with these historical
lands continues. Existing industrial development
has already degraded their heritage around Cherry Point; this must not be continued with a huge
coal terminal. Enough is enough!
It is no surprise the Lummi Nation opposes the
terminal, with the support of many other tribes.
We should respect tribal members’ rights to
historical sites. It’s our responsibility to join
them in standing up prevent this project. I thank
all of those involved in the theater production
for telling their story so well.
—Hank Kastner, Bellingham
—Annie Welch, Bellingham
WHAT ABOUT THOSE PROMISES?
I hope that people still undecided about the
proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point were
among the full-house audience for the June 1
theater production of What About Those Promises? at Bellingham High School.
Send us your letters
But keep ‘em short (300 words or less). Send to letters@cascadiaweekly.com or mail to P.O. Box 2833,
Bellingham, WA 98229
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OUTLIERS AND OUTLAWS: An emerging meme among
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several of this year’s candidates for county office is
the notion that they’re seeking election to protect
individual homeowners and property owners from
“special interests.” Council President Kathy Kershner declared this as she sought the endorsement of
Whatcom Democrats.
“We’re not just protecting developers,” Kershner explained to Democrats. “We’re protecting folks just like
you, who’ve worked your whole life, invested in your
property, counted on it for your retirement, and then
you turn around and find out that it’s worth nothing,”
she emphasized. “We’re being challenged and sued by
special interest groups who don’t care about all of the
people in Whatcom County.”
Council member Bill Knutzen and Planning Commission Chair Michelle Luke expressed similar declarations
at the recent Water Supply Symposium. Knutzen, in
particular, went out of his way to character his work as
an epic struggle protecting rural homeowners against
preying and uncaring “special interests.” Luke complained of “an abundance of special interest groups,
attorneys, and regulations that prevent solutions.”
Where to start? At the center of these claims is
the blind conceit that everyone who bought property
as investment merits an upzone. Buildable property
purchased at R5 is still buildable... at R5, the zoning in place when it was purchased. With sufficient
water, you can build a home there; you cannot build
(and flip) 100 homes there. Nearly all of the council’s remaining debate concerns a refusal to reverse
themselves on upzones that never should have been
granted in the first place, many created after the
passage of the state’s Growth Management Act that
actively discouraged such practices. Their declarations are leavened by assertions they’re protecting
“Mom & Pop,” but the bulk of unresolved matters
involve properties held by agents like Gold Star Resorts. But more: These declarations must be understood as code, an advocacy of continuing lawlessness in county compliance with state goals.
The folly of that lawlessness was driven home last
week when, after they’d spent $50,000 of your money
on a pricey out-of-town attorney to continue to argue
the merits of the Rural Element of the county’s comprehensive plan, Whatcom County Council again received a beatdown by the state’s Growth Management
Hearings Board, losing on nearly every assertion.
The board found the county’s plan protects neither
rural character or surface water and groundwater resources. Whatcom County, the board found, was heedless in directing development into areas with available
water, authorizing instead a proliferation of private
wells that draw down underlying aquifers and reduce
groundwater recharge of streams. Roughly a third of
these wells are contaminated with nitrates exceeding
health standards, the board found. The county’s fouled
beaches are unfit for shellfish harvest.
“The causes range from increasing urbanization,
to malfunctioning septic systems, agricultural runoff, and removal of riparian vegetation,” the board
commented.
A central organizing principle of GMA is to constrain
the state’s built environment to what existed when
the law was crafted in 1990, a crude yardstick to limit
sprawl. Meeting that goal would direct future growth
into areas that already have a clear, established and
OPI N IONS
T H E G R IST L E
BY NORMAN SOLOMON
Whistleblower
SUPPORT THE ACTIONS OF EDWARD SNOWDEN
n Washington, D.C., where the
state of war and the surveillance state are one and the
same, top officials have begun to
call for Edward Snowden’s head. His
moral action of whistleblowing—
a clarion call for democracy—now
awaits our responses.
After nearly 12 years of the “war
on terror,” the revelations of recent
days are a tremendous challenge to
the established order: nonstop warfare, intensifying secrecy and dominant power that equate safe governance with Orwellian surveillance.
In the highest places, there is
more than a wisp of panic in rarefied
air. It’s not just the National Security Agency that stands exposed; it’s
the repressive arrogance perched on
the pyramid of power.
Back here on the ground, so many
people—appalled by Uncle Sam’s
continual morph into Big Brother—
have been pushing against the walls
of anti-democratic secrecy. Those
walls rarely budge, and at times they
seem to be closing in, even literally
for some (as in the case of heroic
whistleblower Bradley Manning). But
all the collective pushing has cumulative effects.
In recent days, as news exploded
about NSA surveillance, a breakthrough came into sight. Current
history may not be an immovable
wall; it may be on a hinge. And if
we push hard enough, together,
there’s no telling what might be
possible or achieved.
The gratitude that so many of us
now feel toward Edward Snowden
raises the question: How can we truly express our appreciation?
A first step is to thank him—
publicly and emphatically. You can
do that by signing the “Thank NSA
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Whistleblower Edward Snowden” petition, which my colleagues at RootsAction.org will send directly to him,
including the individual comments.
But of course saying “thank-you”
is just one small step onto a crucial
path. As Snowden faces extradition
and vengeful prosecution from the
U.S. government, active support
will be vital—in the weeks, months
and years ahead.
Signing the “thank-you” petition,
I ventured some optimism: “What
you’ve done will inspire kindred spirits around the world to take moral
action despite the risks.” Bravery for
principle can be very contagious.
Snowden has taken nonviolent
action to help counter the U.S.
government’s one-two punch of
extreme secrecy and massive violence. The process has summoned
the kind of doublespeak that usually accompanies what cannot stand
the light of day.
So, when Snowden’s employer Booz
Allen put out a statement Sunday
night, it was riddled with official indignation, declaring: “News reports
that this individual has claimed to
have leaked classified information
are shocking, and if accurate, this
action represents a grave violation
of the code of conduct and core values of our firm.”
What are the “code of conduct”
and “core values” of this huge NSA
contractor? The conduct of stealthy
assistance to the U.S. national secu-
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rity state as it methodically violates
civil liberties, and the values of doing just about anything to amass
vast corporate profits.
The corporate-government warfare state is enraged that Edward
Snowden has broken through with
conduct and values that are 180 degrees in a different direction. “I’m
not going to hide,” he told the Washington Post on Sunday. “Allowing the
U.S. government to intimidate its
people with threats of retaliation for
revealing wrongdoing is contrary to
the public interest.”
When a Post reporter asked whether his revelations would change anything, Snowden replied: “I think they
already have. Everyone everywhere
now understands how bad things
have gotten—and they’re talking
about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are
willing to sacrifice their privacy to
the surveillance state.”
And, when the Post asked about
threats to “national security,”
Snowden offered an assessment
light-years ahead of mainline media’s conventional wisdom: “We
managed to survive greater threats
in our history... than a few disorganized terrorist groups and rogue
states without resorting to these
sorts of programs. It is not that I do
not value intelligence, but that I oppose... omniscient, automatic, mass
surveillance.... That seems to me a
greater threat to the institutions of
free society than missed intelligence
reports, and unworthy of the costs.”
Profoundly, in the early summer
of 2013, with his actions and words,
Edward Snowden has given aid and
comfort to grassroots efforts for democracy. What we do with his brave
gift will be our choice.
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senior right to water: Incorporated cities. Failure to meet that goal ushers in
the water crisis of the current hour, with
hundreds of wells without a water right
drawing down the supply from those who
do have a water right.
The state’s “exemption for private
wells does not exempt the county from
complying with GMA’s mandate to protect critical aquifers,” the board commented. “Similarly, the exemption does
not exempt Whatcom County from complying with the GMA rural element requirements.”
The state’s growth management laws
are modeled after a similar initiative in
Oregon, with one important distinction.
The Oregon model requires counties to
adhere to top-down directives from the
state. Washington lawmakers preferred
to allow counties more control over
their land-use decisions, subject to
oversight by an appointed state board
and the courts. The approach allows an
organic, finer grained local control over
outcomes, but it has also ushered in a
bitter defiance of state goals that has
paralyzed Whatcom County government
for more than two decades.
Initial challenges to the counties’ plans under GMA come not from
the state, but from citizens. Thus,
the “special interests” and “outliers” groused about by candidates
like Kershner, Knutzen, and Luke are,
in fact, neighbors and voters. These
complaints are heard by so-called
“distant boards” and courts, without which there would be no redress
of the destructive policies of county
government. A complaint-driven process is inherently litigious, particularly
when—as GMA bakes right in—”the
burden is on petitioners to overcome
the presumption of validity and demonstrate the challenged action taken
by the county is clearly erroneous.” A
thick-headed County Council, rejecting a mediated settlement, makes it
even more litigious. Therefore, small
wonder citizens band together in “special interests” to defray legal costs—
it’s their only chance of prevailing.
A final point about the “special interests” these candidates find so deplorable: They are largely the same groups
who filed detailed and intelligent concerns during the scoping process for the
environmental impact statement for the
proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal coal
pier at Cherry Point. So remember, when
you go to the polls in November, the
contempt these candidates have already
showered on these groups and their testimony; they’ve essentially promised to
ignore these groups as they respond to
other concerns.
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story of the tribe's way of life and
connection to nature, and how both
were severed by the broken promises
of the Treaty of Point Elliott, signed
in 1855.
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hrough song and oral tradition, the Lhaq'temish,
the People of the Sea, tell the story of their long
years. It is but a short distance from this to the
dramatic presentation of the stage.
The Lummi Nation rocked the house earlier this
month with a sold-out performance at Bellingham
High School of “What About Those Promises?” The
More than 800 people packed the high
school auditorium the evening of June 1 to
hear this story in multiple parts, beginning
with a blessing of song and drum from the
Crab Bay Singers and a moving recital of the
tribe’s world story, delivered in native tongue,
their connection to sea and sky.
Produced by tribal council member Darrell
Hillaire and directed by Western Washington
University Theatre Arts emeritus Dennis Catrell, the production is based on an original
stage play by the late Joseph Hillaire. Performers included tribal elders and students
at the Lummi Youth Academy, where Darrell
Hillaire serves as director. The cast and crew
will perform an encore on Sun., June 16.
“My uncle wrote the parts where the Lummi fisher, the clam digger, the sea lion hunters tell their stories,” Hillaire said. “Other
parts were added. The rest came together
almost magically.”
Punctuating
dramatic
performances,
Charles Wilkinson, a law professor at the University of Colorado, steps forward in the soft
light of powerful archival visuals and tells
the story of 1855 and what followed. Others
echo the story, in a mix of native tongues.
In that year, Lummi—along with representatives of the Duwamish, Suquamish,
Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Skagit, Swinomish
,and other tribes—signed a treaty with the
United States, which called for natives to relinquish much of their homeland in western
Washington Territory. In return, they were
assigned land reserved for them that initially
consisted of 15,000 acres. Onstage, an anguished Chief Seattle (movingly performed
by Vancouver artist Gene Harry) begs these
tribal leaders not to sign. In the end, territorial officials scratched Seattle’s mark on the
document. Within a score of years, their numbers devastated by disease and the poverty
of reservation life, Lummi Nation—which
had once fully peopled the San Juans—had
dwindled to fewer than 435 souls, cut by half
in four decades.
In the 1920s, Lummi Nation made appeals
to the federal government to restore their
rights to fish in traditional and accustomed
places and to fairly compensate them for
their lands. By 1970, this had suppurated
into an official claim with the Indian Claims
Commission, requesting additional money
from the United States, arguing the amount
granted to Lummi in the 1855 treaty was too
low. The commission argued that $52,067
was a fair market value when the treaty was
ratified in 1859 and, in 1972, after a series
of suits and appeals, the tribe was awarded
the amount of $57,000.
“This was a great insult to my people,”
Lummi Historian Romona Morris recalled.
Lummi tribal government formally rejected
the amount and vowed never to accept it. Each
year, the tribal council renews their resolution
never to touch that money. The money sits in
a trust, managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, gathering interest and dust.
“Some of our newest members on council,
our newest generation, did not understand
all of the background of Resolution 110,”
Hillaire explained. “So we had the idea to
teach them through a performance. From
there, the idea just grew to include the rest
of the community. We thought everyone
should know this story.”
“What we learned is it is not about money,” TJ White Antelope
said. White Antelope is a
student at Lummi Youth
Academy, a multidisciplinary school that ticket sales benefits. “There
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“For people who don’t know who the Lummi
people are, this might be like an outing for
them,” another student, Kyla Frajman, said
of the performance. “For our own people, I
feel like this play can make them proud of
who we are.
“We were practicing and practicing, really
overwhelming at times,” said Frajman, who
has studied drama at the Academy. “Then,
right before we were going up on stage, we
got dressed up and ready, and it was real. It
had a different feel.”
“The elders had their sticks and they were
walking like I had never seen them,” White
Antelope agreed. “Some of them are like 80plus. It all became very real for us. They did
perfect steps.”
“It was magical,” Hillaire laughed. “And
the biggest magic was how it all came together right at the very end.”
A capacity crowd stood and cheered: “We
raise our hands to you... O’ Si’am!”
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A coalition of environmental groups launch a legal battle against
railway and coal companies for alleged pollution of Washington’s
waterways. The Sierra Club and Bellingham-based RE Sources, along
with several other groups, charge that coal from uncovered cars is
ending up in the region’s waterways, violating the federal Clean
Water Act. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railways say the lawsuit
is without merit. The company has already solved the problem of
escaping coal dust from open rail cars, BNSF officials say.
An enrolled member of the Nooksack tribe pleads guilty in U.S.
District Court in Seattle to second-degree murder. Levin Eugene
Charles, 26, admits he killed a member of the Sauk-Suiattle tribe,
Kenneth Joseph, by striking him in the head and face with an axe.
The murder occurred when Joseph, 68, awoke while Charles was burglarizing Joseph’s home on the Lummi Reservation. Charles may receive as many as 27 years in prison when he is sentenced in August.
The Bellingham Planning and Development Commission completes
its review of draft regulatory documents and plans for the proposed
Waterfront District. The commission unanimously accepts the proposal and forwards their recommendation of approval to City Council.
Council could begin discussing the plan in early August.
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FRIDAY
BNSF Railway agrees to pay $55,000 to settle claims by state
regulators that the company failed to fix defects at seven rail-
Saturated sediments at the receding toe of Deming Glacier on the southwest side of Mt. Baker slumped into the Middle Fork Nooksack Valley
last Friday, causing an enormous debris flow—a slurry of mud, boulders, trees and anything caught along the way. The debris could pose a
danger to hikers, the U.S. Forest Service warns. Hikers are advised to find an alternate trail.
road crossings in northwest Washington. Six of the crossing are in
Whatcom County and one was in
Skagit County. BNSF acknowledges that the company failed to
respond to repeated notices from
the state utilities and transportation commission about safety defects and did not repair crossings
quickly enough, resulting in violations of state law.
06..13
SATURDAY
After five weeks of special-session negotiations, the Washington Senate's Majority Coalition
Caucus appears to have arrived
at the same position it held
back in April. The Senate passes
a revised budget proposal, which
was close to the one it approved,
by a 30-18 vote, in late April. Today’s vote was 25-23 along strict
caucus lines.
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MONDAY
A women must serve time for
burglarizing a series of Bellingham homes. Susan Leann Hawley,
36, accepts a plea bargain that
would send her to prison for three
years, followed by another three
years on probation. Working with
a partner, she had stolen property
from a number of homes in Bellingham. The Bellingham Herald reports
drugs were indicated as a motive
in the crimes.
06.xx.13
TUESDAY
Gov. Jay Inslee calls for a second special legislative session as
lawmakers deadlock over the state
budget. Both the House and Senate have passed budget proposals,
but have been unable to agree on
a final deal.
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Newly elected to Congress,
Rep. Suzan DelBene says
she’s deeply concerned about a
prominent NSA program that has
been tracking cell phone calls
and internet use. “It’s troubling
how broad this program is,” the
Northwest Democrat said. “It
amounts to a secret and blanket
form of surveillance on the
American public whether they are
suspected of wrongdoing or not.”
DelBene has co-sponsored a bill
that would update the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act and
require a warrant to access digital information. She encourages
a debate about balancing liberty
and national security.
TEEN APOCALYPSE
ARMS RACE
On May 27, a mother was driving through
Blaine with her children when they spotted a group of armed teenagers blocking
the street ahead. “The group continued to
block her car's right-of-way on the paved
street, and appeared to be brandishing
clubs or baseball bats,” police reported. ”As they slowed the family saw that the
objects the young men were holding were
rifles, and they turned down an adjacent
side street to get away from the danger.
One of the group shouldered his weapon
and appeared to fire on their automobile
and the driver saw an orange-colored muzzle, indicating the weapon was possibly a
less than lethal device or perhaps a toy,”
police commented. ”Police responded to
the area and identified the suspects, who
claimed they had been playing an evening
game with their airsoft weapons. They and
their parents were warned about the seriousness and potential consquences of
their misbehavior.”
On June 9, a man called 911 to report six
people with guns were after him. Belligham
Police determined he was suffering from
mental health issues and there were no
people with guns.
On June 2, a U.S. Border Patrol agent reported a vehicle speeding near the international border near midnight. Blaine Police responded and discovered a group of
juveniles and young adults on foot and in
two cars. ”They had broken into two teams
for an egg war on various streets across
central Blaine,” police reported. “The
yokels returned to the battleground and
On June 9, the same man reported men
with flame throwers were chasing him
around the block. He was taken into protective custody after police could not locate men with flame throwers.
HEADING SOUTH,
ARRIVING NORTH
On May 31, an elderly man arrived at the
Douglas border crossing on Interstate 5 in
his pickup truck. “The gent had disappeared
from his home in Gresham, Ore., a day earlier,” police explained when they were
called to the scene. “Officers confirmed
that the man had been reported missing
by his wife in Oregon on Thursday when he
did not return home from a short drive. The
gentleman did not realize that he had lost
an entire day and night, and was astonished to hear that he was now at the United
States/Canadian border, explaining that he
had left his house for a drive southbound,”
police explained. Blaine Police arranged
for the gentleman to meet with a social
services specialist at a hospital in Bellingham, while his family in Oregon made arrangments to collect him.
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APPROXIMATE number of U.S. civilians killed by terrorist attacks, 1999-2010. In
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On June 9, two people got into an argument near the Wailing Goat Espresso stand,
which reportedly led to one man threatening to stab another with a knife he was
holding. The 19-year-old was booked for
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On June 5, Bellingham Police asked several
vendors of alcohol to create a “voluntary
alcohol impact zone program” downtown.
“All contacted stated they would remove
high alcohol content single serve beer
(above 6.5 percent) from their shelves,”
police reported. “This is being done to address issues of public intoxication in the
central business district area.”
On June 9, two employees got into a fight
in the parking lot of Walmart. One was
jealous because the other was speaking
with a girl he was in love with, Bellingham Police explained.
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On May 29, a woman reported a man had
exposed himself to her along a trail near
Western Washington University campus.
He was described as tall, in his 30s, with
shaggy brown hair and facial hair, wearing
a dark beanie and sweat pants.
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after the bum was reported crawling around
on all fours and mooning people.
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On June 2, an intoxicated neighbor, tired
of his car being dinged by weekend warriors, decided to sneak up and pop out of
his hedge with his BB pistol to accost a
group of young people he spotted near his
car after midnight. ”He missed seeing that
two police officers were standing beside
the juveniles,” Blaine Police reported. “A
moment after he popped out of the bushes,
a brief but decisive understanding of relative firepower potential was achieved. After the officers determined the gunslinger's
intent he was educated about all of the
potential negative results of his actions,”
police reported.
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WRITERS THEATER: Read original writings at the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers
Theatre’s monthly Open Mic at 7pm at the
café at the Firehouse Performing Arts
Center, 1314 Harris Ave.
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PAULINE HILLAIRE AWARDED NEA
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rtist, teacher, native-arts conservator, author and storyteller,
Pauline Hillaire works to carry on the heritage of Washington’s
Lummi Nation and is one of the most knowledgeable living
resources of the Northwest Coast’s arts and culture. For her contribution to the perpetuation of cultural heritage, she will receive the Bess
Lomax Hawes Fellowship, named after the NEA director of folk and
traditional arts who initiated the Heritage Fellowships.
Known as Scällaor, “of the Killer Whale,” Hillaire is a member of Lummi
Nation. As a young child, Hillaire was sent to stay with various Lummi
elders to learn tribal arts, traditions, stories, songs and dances that
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reflected her family’s and her tribe’s value system.
Her grandfather, Frank Hillaire, was the last chief
of the Lummi and a spiritual leader. Her father,
Joseph, was a renowned orator as well as a master carver of totem poles. Hillaire learned artistic
traditions such as basket-making and Lummi songs
from her mother Edna. Throughout her life, Hillaire
has worked to preserve these traditions and share
them with the next generations.
Hillaire is also well known for her decades of
work in carrying on the efforts of her father and
grandfather, who founded the song-and-dance
group Setting Sun Dancers in order to preserve
the art form and to educate both Native and nonNative communities in this tradition. The group
has performed for more than a century in Native
communities in the northwest United States and
nationally at tribal gatherings and public institutions. Hillaire has taught classes on Lummi arts
and culture at the Northwest Indian College as well
as public schools, museums and cultural organizations in Washington.
Hillaire has been recorded for audio and DVD
productions as a resource on the arts and culture
of the Northwest Coast. In 2005, the Seattle Art
Museum honored her for her work as a culturebearer and featured her work in the exhibition
“Song, Story, Speech: Oral Traditions of Puget
Sound First Peoples.” She also has two books with
media coming out soon: A Totem Pole History and
Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on
American Indian History and the Future (both from
University of Nebraska Press). In A Totem Pole History, Hillaire tells the story of her father’s life and
the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work. She is the recipient
of three apprenticeship awards from Washington
State Arts Commission and in 1996 was presented
with the Governor’s Heritage Award.
The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965. In 1982, Bess
Lomax Hawes helped develop a program to recognize folk artists to preserve this national
heritage. To date, the Heritage Fellows program
has honored more than 200 culturally significant
artists, from Apache basket weavers to zydeco
and blues musicians. Panels consider nominations under the broad categories of music, craft,
dance and storytelling, but 51 genres of expression have been recognized, from bonsai to weaving, including musical performance on 45 different instruments and dancers performing in 19
distinct artistic traditions.
The 2013 National Heritage Fellows will come to
Washington, DC, for an awards presentation at the
Library of Congress on Wed., Sept. 25.
WOMAN AMONG THE SAMI: Barbara
Sjoholm reads from her historical tome
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A
Woman Among the Sami, 1907-08 at 7pm at
Village Books.
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FRI., JUNE 14
PUGE T STORIES: Editor Rebecca Helm
Beardsall will be joined by a few contributing authors to read from Western
Washington Reflections: Stories from the
Puget Sound to Vancouver at 7pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St.
SAT., JUNE 15
SUMMER BOOK TALK S: Chuck and Dee
Robinson will lead “Summer Open Book
Talks” at 11am and 5:15pm at Village
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SUMMER READING KICKOFF: As part of
Whatcom County Library System’s “Dig into
Reading! Summer Reading” programs, attend kickoffs happening today at 10am at
Sumas Library, 12:45pm at Blaine Library,
1:30pm at Deming Library, and 2:45pm at
the Ferndale Library.
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MIXED BAG: Bernadette Pajer reads from
her latest Professor Bradshaw mystery, Capacity for Murder, at 4pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St. At 7pm, Wendy Jahanara
Tremayne shares stories from her autobiographical tome, The Good Life Lab: Radical
Experiments in Hands-On Living.
MON., JUNE 17
POE TRYNIGHT: Share your verse as part
of Poetrynight at 7:30pm at the Black Drop
Coffeehouse, 300 W. Champion St. Readings start at 8pm. Entry is free.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., JUNE 18
SNIPPE TS: Teen contributors to Snippets
from the Pens of Young Writers will read
from their stories, poems and essays at
6:30pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WED., JUNE 19
BACK YARD ROOTS: California-based
photographer Lori Eanes will share stories
and images from Backyard Roots: Lessons on
Living Local from 35 Urban Farmers at 7pm
at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.BACKYARDROOTSBOOK.COM
THURS., JUNE 20
CHUCK ANUT RADIO HOUR: Attend a
special Chuckanut Radio Hour at 7pm at
Bellingham High School, 2020 Cornwall
Ave. Tickets are $5.
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WARBIRD WEEKEND: Celebrate historic
aviation at the annual Warbird Weekend
starting at 5pm Saturday at a “Greatest
Generation” fundraising dinner, dance and
auction at the Heritage Flight Museum,
4164 Mitchell Way. From 9am-4pm Sunday,
there’ll be a plethora of events including
a pancake breakfast, flying demos of historic aircraft, and more. Entry is $50 for
Saturday’s event, $5 minimum donation
for Sunday’s.
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BAT TLE ON BADGER: Visit the roadtruck-only “Battle On Badger Road” truck
pulls starting with registration at 9am
Saturday and Sunday at Lynden’s Berthusen Park. Badger Rd. Admission is $5
per car load of spectators.
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SUN., JUNE 16
CAR SHOW: Celebrate Father’s Day by
bringing your dad to the Bellingham Fete
and Car Show from 10am-5pm at Wilson
Motors, 1100 Iowa St. In addition to the
car and truck show, there’ll be live music
from multiple band, a wine tasting,
displays from local artists, activities for
kids, a silent auction and food vendors.
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ROCKHOUNDS RENDEZVOUS: The Mt.
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CHILD SAFE T Y FAIR: Community
organizations will be on hand at a free
“Child Safety Fair” from 3-7pm Friday and
10am-4pm Saturday at Chevrolet Cadillac
of Bellingham, 3891 Northwest Ave.
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BERRY DAIRY DAYS: A carnival, a salmon
barbecue, a road run, a grand parade,
a festival with live music and food
vendors, fireworks, tons of strawberry
shortcake and a car show will be part
of the 76th annual “Berry Dairy Days”
happening Thursday through Sunday at a
variety of venues in Burlington.
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CHUCKANUT WRITERS CONFERENCE:
The third annual Chuckanut Writers
Conference will be held Friday and
Saturday throughout the Whatcom Community College campus. This intensive
craft-focused, cross-genre symposium
is designed to inspire writers of all
experience levels by spotlighting both
talented authors who are distinguished
writing teachers, and respected agents
who will share industry insights and hear
pitches. Entry is $159-$259.
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WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers can join
Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild Things” excursions from
9:30-11am every Friday in June at Marine Park. Entry is
by donation.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
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FRI., JUNE 14
WALK ING CLUB: Whether you’re looking to improve or
compete, all are welcome at the weekly Fairhaven Walking
Club led by Cindy Paffumi starting at 8am at various
locations in Fairhaven. Walk routes and meeting places
change from week to week. All paces are welcome.
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JUNE 15-16
BOAT SHOW: The 17th annual Father’s Day Weekend Boat
Show takes place from 9am-4pm Saturday and Sunday at
the La Conner Marina. In addition to being able to view
a variety of boats and yachts of every design, there will
also be a swap meet (on Saturday only). Entry is free.
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SCHOONER SAILS: Join the historic schooner Adventuress for public sails from 2-6pm Saturday and 11am-2pm
and 3-6pm Sunday (Father’s Day) leaving from Squalicum Harbor, 722 Coho Way. Entry to take part in the
environmental tall ship tours is $35-$65 (fathers sail
free from 3-6pm on Sunday).
WWW.SOUNDEXP.ORG
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RABBIT RIDE: Join members of the Mt. Baker Bike
Club for the weekly “Rabbit Ride” starting at 8:30am at
Fairhaven Bike & Ski, 1108 11th St. The 32-mile route sees
riders heading down Chuckanut and back via Lake Samish.
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SUMMER RIDE: As part of Everybody Bike’s Summer
Rides series, show up for a “Trees & Ties” outing starting
at 1pm at Fanatik Bike Co., 1812 N. State St. John Wesselink will reveal the special stories of trees in Bay View
Cemetery, then attendees will ride along Whatcom Creek
Trail. Wear a tie in honor of Fathers’ Day. Entry is free,
and there’s no need to register in advance.
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rom the back porch of our family’s
cabin on Lummi Island, it’s possible to
look across the waters of Hale Passage
and view many postcard-worthy geographical landmarks—Mt. Baker, Portage Island,
and Bellingham Bay among them.
And in the weeks and days leading up to
the annual Lummi Stommish Water Festival,
there’s always a good chance that, at some
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those perched on the deck in order to view WHAT: 67th annual
the lovely landscape will also be gifted with Lummi Stommish
Water Festival
the vision of a variety of long canoes making WHEN: June 12-16
their way quickly through the waves.
WHERE: Near
That’s when it’s time to get out the bin- Gooseberry Point on
oculars and focus your eyes on the scores the Lummi Nation
of paddles hitting the water at precisely COST: Entry is free
INFO: www.
the same time, propelling the boats forward stommish.com
with the speed of warriors rushing to battle
or athletes competing in exhilarating displays of athleticism to
see who is the strongest—and the fastest.
As the war canoe races are an important part of the festival,
it’s only natural the men, women and children who participate in
them for three days every June want to put in as much practice
time as possible. When the big day comes—when they join with
their teammates or compete solo in their own canoes to continue
the tradition of honoring those who came before them—they
want to be ready.
“Week of the Warrior,” this year’s Stommish theme, hearkens
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back to the event’s beginning 67 years ago,
when World War I veterans and Lummi Nation
members Herbert John and Alphonso “Bunny”
Washington got the idea to throw a celebration welcoming those who were returning
home after surviving World War II. (Presumably, they were also honoring the memories of
those who didn’t make it back to their earthly
stomping grounds.)
After issuing an invitation to other regional
tribes to get to Gooseberry Point for the festivities—which, much as they do today, also
included barbecued salmon, singing, dancing,
pageantry, music, games for the younger set
and a carnival—the Lummi Stommish Water
Festival was born.
By all accounts, the inaugural event was a
popular one, with tribes coming from points
both north and south to join in the celebration. Many of them even brought their own
canoes so they could take part in the war canoe races.
These days, whether you’re admiring the
view from afar or hanging out closer to the
action, it’s clear that the idea Herbert John
and Bunny Washington had to honor those
who had sacrificed their time, energy and
lives to defend their land was a successful
one. Please remember them.
SMART WATERING: Master Gardeners will be on hand to
share tips on “Smart Watering for Your Garden” at a free
seasonal garden workshop at 2pm at Ferndale’s Hovander
Homestead Park. No registration is required.
676-6736 OR WWW.WHATCOM.WSU.EDU
TUES., JUNE 18
SUMMER RUN: A Brooks-sponsored “Welcome Back
Summer!” all-paces run starts at 6pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. The celebratory solstice run will also
include body paint, water balloons, squirt guns and treats
as part of some post-run frolicking. Entry is free.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
PADDLING ROSS LAKE: Find out what to expect, how to
prepare and where to go at a “Paddling Ross Lake” presentation at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Register in advance for
the free primer.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
THURS., JUNE 20
BIRD TOUR: “Look Who Just Flew In! Migrating Birds of
Whatcom County” will be the focus of a “Bird Tour” at 2pm
at Whatcom Museum’s Syre Education Center, 201 Prospect
St. The event is part of the “Open Nest” events happening
June 20-23 and 27-30 at the center. Entry is $5.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
FITNESS FORUM: “Eat to Run: Getting the Facts Straight
to Run Your Best” will be the focus of a free Fitness Forum
with registered dietician and competitive runner Maria
Dalzot at 7:15pm at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St.
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
Sweeney Todd
A CLOSE SHAVE AT THE BELLINGHAM
THEATRE GUILD
n retrospect, scarfing down a piece of pie shortly before
seeing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
probably wasn’t the best idea ever—but at least I hadn’t
scheduled a haircut for that afternoon.
If you get the aforementioned references, you’re already
well aware the murderous musical currently showing at the
Bellingham Theatre Guild tells the story of a man named
Sweeney Todd who, after getting out of jail after 15 years—
where he was falsely imprisoned thanks to a jerk of a judge
who coveted his lovely wife—returns to his hometown and
sets up shop as a barber with vengeance and homicide on
his mind.
When I gathered together with a few friends for dinner
before the show, those of us who already knew the plot par-
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ticulars were trying to explain to the uninitiated that the flesh of the bodies the “demon
barber” gave his closest shaves to were then
used by his wannabe girlfriend, Mrs. Lovett,
as the main ingredient in her meat pies. We
also pointed out that it was a musical, and
was likely going to inspire them to want to
sing—or shriek—along.
While those who hadn’t heard of Sweeney
before were shaking their heads in disbelief
and shunning the piece of pie that was currently making the rounds at the table, those
of us who knew the story assured them there
was no need for alarm.
Not long afterward, when we were part of
the audience and the
house manager made
the announcement that
there’d also be “smoke
and gunfire” in the production, I wasn’t so
sure they shouldn’t be
scared—especially after the woman sitting
. $/
WHAT: Sweeney
next to me informed
Todd: The Demon
her friend she was a
Barber of Fleet Street
“screamer.”
WHEN: 7:30pm June
But, while I was suffi13-15 and 20-22;
ciently
creeped out by a
2pm Sun., June 15
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number of things—most
WHERE: Bellingham
notably the love song
Theatre Guild, 1600
Sweeney Todd (Joseph
H St.
R. Sasnett) crooned to
COST: $8-$12
his straight-edge razors
INFO:
www.bellingham
and the voraciousness
theatreguild.com
with which the townspeople ate their altered
meat pies—I spent more time during the production being entertained than I did wondering how I’d look with my throat slit and my
innards used for an “eat local” campaign.
Sasnett was eerily convincing as a man
who’d lost his way (and his mind), and leading lady Samantha Brochta tempered his lunacy in her role as Mrs. Lovett, a pie-maker
on the lookout for the choicest cuts. Since a
fair portion of the play is sung, the two had
big shoes to fill—and they did.
While some of the other singers in the cast
were noticeably stronger than their counterparts, the story was told with style, and left a
favorable impression among those in my crowd
who’d never met Sweeney before that night.
“I’ve always been scared of straight-edge
razors,” one friend noted as we made our way
to the car, humming along to “The Ballad of
Sweeney Todd.” “Now I know why.”
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BARD ON THE BEACH: Twelfth
Night and Hamlet will kick off the
new Bard on the Beach season
this week at Vancouver, B.C.’s
Vanier Park. Showings of the two
Shakespearean favorites continue
through June, and will be joined
by Measure for Measure and
Elizabeth Rex in July, August, and
September. Tickets are $24-$43
(Canadian).
WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG
THURS., JUNE 13
GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
at 8pm every Thursday at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St.
At 10pm, stick around for the
“Project.” Entry is $4-$7.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.
COM
JUNE 13-16
THE WOMAN IN BLACK: Stephen Malatratt’s ghostly thriller,
The Woman in Black, shows at
7:30pm Thurs., 8pm Friday and
Saturday, and 2pm Sunday at the
Anacortes Community Theatre,
918 M Ave. Tickets are $18.
WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM
A ROT TEN DEMISE: The murder
mystery dinner theater, A Rotten
Demise, shows at 7:30pm Thursday and 6:30pm Sunday at Mount
Vernon’s 1st Street Cabaret, 612
S. 1st St. Tickets are $20-$45.
WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNER
ingham Circus Guild’s monthly uncensored variety show fundraiser,
“Vaudevillingham,” presents
shows at 7pm and 9pm at the
guild’s Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St.
Suggested donation is $5-$10.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUSGUILD.
COM
COMEDY NITE: Andre Paradise
will headline tonight’s Comedy
Nite show starting at 9pm at
Poppes 360, 714 Lakeway Dr. The
gig will also feature Amos Mack,
Anthony Johnson, and host Jack
Stewart. Entry is $10.
392-6520
JUNE 15-16
EARNEST AUDIT IONS: Audition
for upcoming performances of
the comedic classic known as The
Importance of Being Earnest from
2-4pm Saturday and 5-7pm Sunday at the Anacortes Community
Theatre, 918 M Ave.
WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM
SUN., JUNE 16
DYNAMO: Discover a new way to
spend your Sunday nights when
“Dynamo” shows at 8pm at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St.
Entry is $2.
WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MON., JUNE 17
GUFFAWINGHAM: A new weekly
open mic for comedians, dubbed
“Guffawingham!,” takes place at
8pm Mondays at the Green Frog,
1015 N. State St. Entry is free.
WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM
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JUNE 14-15
PE TER PAN: Visit an enchanting
world of make-believe when the
Northwest Washington Theatre
Group presents showings of
Peter Pan at 7:30pm Friday and
2pm and 7:30pm Saturday at the
Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $15-$24.
734-6080 OR WWW.
MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
CAGE MATCH, PULP IMPROV:
Watch two teams of improvisers
compete for supremacy at “Cage
Match” shows at 8pm Friday and
Saturday at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. At 10pm, Tarantinoinspired “Pulp Improv” can be
seen. Tickets are $8-$10.
WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
JUNE 14-16
THE ARISTOCATS: The familyfriendly musical known as The
Aristocats can be seen at 7pm Friday, 2pm and 7pm Saturday, and
2pm Sunday at the Bellingham
Arts Academy for Youth, 1059
N. State St. Tickets are $8-$10
online or at the door.
WWW.BAAY.ORG
SAT., JUNE 15
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JUNE 14-15
DANCE FUSION: A Gift of Dance
will celebrate all the different cultural influences that
make dance what it is today at
“Dance Fusion” performances at
7pm Friday and Saturday at the
Lynden Christian Performing Arts
Center, 515 Drayton St. Tickets
are $9-$12.
WWW.AGIFTOFDANCE.ORG
SAT., JUNE 15
EXPERIENCE TANGO: Tango
Popolare will host its monthly
“Experience Tango” gathering
from 8-11:30pm at Presence
Dance Studio, 1412 Cornwall
Ave. No partner or experience is
necessary. Entry is $7-$10.
708-8076
JUNE 19-22
CIRQUE FANTASTIQUE: The
Skagit Valley Academy of Dance
will present “Cirque Fantastique” performances at 7pm
Wednesday through Saturday at
Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall,
2501 E. College Way. Tickets are
$14-$35.
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LIBRARY RECEPT ION: Chat with local artists about their work at a “Meet the Artists”
Exhibit and Reception from 5-7pm at the
Lynden Public Library, 216 4th St. The art will
be on display until June 15.
305-3600
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Fiber Frenzy
GETTING WOWED BY WEAVERS
f you happen to be on the Western Washington University
campus Mon., June 17, don’t be surprised if the garbage can
you just threw your used coffee cup into is suddenly the
most attractive thing around.
In anticipation of the NW Weavers Conference, which will take
place June 17-23 throughout WWU, members of the Seattle Weavers’ Guild will spend part of Monday “yarn storming” various educational edifices with woven, knitted and crocheted pieces that
will embellish everything from the aforementioned refuse receptacles to handrails, light poles, columns and much more.
Although the 500-plus fiber enthusiasts who will be attending the conference—and yarn-bombing the school—have filled
the 75 workshops, seminars and one-day classes to capacity
(and did so in within 45 minutes after registration opened in
January) those who are interested in fiber arts—whether they’re
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participating in the creative practice or purchasing the
works of those who do—will have plenty of opportunities
to get involved.
For example, a Marketplace Mall featuring supplies, demos and finished pieces by more than 30 merchants from
around the United States and beyond will be open at various times June 20-22. Additionally, five textile-related exhibits will be open to the public and, come Sat., June 22,
a free “Felting Frenzy” will focus on teaching participants
how to take un-spun fibers and
turn them into their own handfelted item, which they can take
with them when they go.
“In the Marketplace Mall, there
will be merchants from near
and far—from Bellingham and
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the surrounding area to Texas,
WHAT: NW Weavers
Canada, California, Mexico, GuaConference Marketplace
temala, the Hill tribes of Laos,
Mall and Fiber Exhibits
and
more,” says organizer Joyce
WHEN: 12-6pm Thurs.,
Hunsaker.
“If you are a weaver,
June 20; 8am-8pm Fri.,
June 21; 8am-5pm Sat.,
spinner, dyer or garment maker,
June 22
you will find looms, tools, yarns
WHERE: Carver Gym,
and accessories for your work. If
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you are not a fiber artist yet, but
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ated, you will find rugs, scarves,
------------------------baskets, bags, and much more,
WHAT: Felting Frenzy
from local artists as well as
WHEN: 1:30-3:30pm
women’s cooperatives in Mexico
Sat., June 22
and Guatemala. Come look, come
WHERE: On the bricks
between Carver Gym and
touch, come be inspired.”
the Fine Arts Building
For those who aren’t quite sure
COST: Free
what fiber arts actually are, registration chairperson Sue Willingham has an apt description. “To me,” she says, “a person who designs and creates items made of fiber or using fiber techniques, such as
weaving, twining, braiding, sewing and many others, is an
artist, whether or not she or he sells that work.”
Judging by how quickly the conference filled up, and
how many people are taking part, those putting on the
event can confidently say getting involved in weaving
and fiber arts isn’t an anachronistic practice, but a vibrant art form that continues to reinvent itself.
And, although the conferences only take place once
every two years, members of the regional roundup say
it takes that long to organize instructors, volunteers,
locales and more.
Once everything’s in place, however, most guild members get down to the task at hand—learning more about
their art form, and networking with other members.
“One of the most exciting events is the Fashion Show
Exhibit,” exhibits chairperson Cyndi White says. “Most
weavers are women, and we love to see what innovative
methods have been used to create a woven garment. The
conference also creates a togetherness among weavers,
as we all love to touch, analyze and share fibers.”
MONA ART AUC T ION: Works by more than
300 regional painters, printmakers, sculptors,
glass artists, ceramic artists, jewelers, textile
artists and photographers will be on display
and up for sale at the 21st annual Art Auction starting at 5pm Saturday at La Conner’s
Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
The public can preview the works (for free)
from 12-5pm Friday and 11am-3pm Saturday.
Tickets to the auction are $100.
WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
SAT., JUNE 15
BURGESS SIGNING PARTY: Local artist Stephanie Burgess will be available to sign her unique
art poles—part of her Painted Peace collection
for the farm and garden—and talk about her
artwork and inspirations from 11am-1pm at the
Garden Spot Nursery, 900 Alabama St. Goodies
and giveaways will be part of the fun.
WWW.GARDEN-SPOT.COM
SUN., JUNE 16
DRAWING THE AIR: “Drawing the Air” will
be the focus of a workshop with Margaret
Davidson from 1-5pm at Anchor Art Space,
216 Commercial Ave. The workshop will be
focused on seeing and drawing “negative
space.” Cost is $25.
WWW.ANCHORATSPACE.ORG
THURS., JUNE 20
GLASS LANGUAGE: Morrison Glass Art’s
Christopher Morrison will focus on the “Language of Art and Glass” at a brown bag talk at
12:30pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall,
121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3.
SOLST ICE CELEBRAT ION: The Mount Vernon
Arts Commission hosts the third annual “Summer Solstice Celebration” starting at 5:30pm
on the riverwalk near the Tulip Tower in
downtown Mount Vernon. Patio umbrellas and
Adirondack chairs painted by local artists will
be auctioned, and there’ll be food, libations
and live music. Tickets are $30.
(360) 336-6215
JUNE 20-23
OPEN NEST: The Whatcom Museum will open
the Syre Education Center’s doors to the
public for an “Open Nest” event from 12-5pm
June 20-23 and again June 27-30 at the venue
at 201 Prospect St. At the rare public opening
of the space, you can view the 500-plus bird
collection and see native peoples’ displays
and historical pioneer, Victorian era and logging exhibits. Admission is $5 for all exhibits
during “Open Nest,” and special events will
be happening throughout.
ONGOI NG E X H I BI TS
ALLIED ARTS: View “On the Edge” through
June 29 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
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ANCHOR ART SPACE: “The Harmony of Silence”
shows through June 16 in Anacortes at Anchor
Art Space, 216 commercial Ave.
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ART WOOD: New works by members of the
creative collective can be viewed through June
at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
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BELLEWOOD: Watercolors and mixed-media
collages by Candace Buethorn and scroll saw
art by Don Hurd can be viewed through July 31
at BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian.
WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM
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CHUCK ANUT BREWERY: Skagit photographer
Jessamyn Tuttle’s images can be seen through
July 13 at Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601
W. Holly St.
WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM
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FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contemporary
folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every Mon.Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
STAGE 16
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
FOURTH CORNER: Bellingham painter Nancy
Lou Canyon’s works can be seen through June
at Fourth Corner Frames, 311 W. Holly St.
GOOD EARTH: Chris Moench’s prayer wheels
will be highlighted through June at Good Earth
Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
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HONE Y SALON: View “Steebfest” through July
31 at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St.
WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM
LUCIA DOUGLAS: The “Summer Resale Exhibition” will be on display from through July 27 at
the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St.
S W E E N E Y
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MAKE.SHIF T: James Mey’s “I Am African”
exhibit can be viewed through June 27 at Make.
Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St.
WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM
SMITH & VALLEE: A large group invitational
show, “From Here to There,” shows through
June 30 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742
Gilkey Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “Clearly Art: The Beauty
of Glass” and “Romantically Modern: Pacific
Northwest Landscapes” can currently be viewed
at the Whatcom Museum.
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HOTEL BELLWE THER: View photographer
John D’Onofrio’s work through June 29 at the
Hotel Bellwether, 1 Bellwether Way.
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GALLERY C YGNUS: View the works of Pacific
Northwest icons Mary Randlett (photography),
Clayton James (paintings), and the late Barbara
James (drawings) through July 14 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave.
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BY CAREY ROSS
A Walk Down
Memory Lane
FROM FABIAN TO THE GIN BLOSSOMS
veryone likes to take a little walk down memory lane from
time to time. And, depending on your memory and the length
of it, you can take your stroll at either the Silver Reef Hotel,
Casino & Spa or the Skagit Valley Casino during the coming days.
Back when my mother was a teenager, American Bandstand ruled
the television airwaves and heartthrob singer Fabian ruled her
heart. She still gets a certain gleam in her eye when she speaks of
the crooner—and her brother, my uncle, has equally fond memories
of flinging her Fabian albums like Frisbees from the roof of their
Seattle house when she would subject him to one too many replay.
What he was so carelessly flinging away was hit songs like “Turn
Me Lose” and “Tiger,” both of which will no doubt loom large on the
set list when Fabian takes the stage Sat., June 15 at the Silver Reef’s
brand-new Event Center as part of the American Bandstand tour.
Joining Fabian will be Brian Hyland, who will sing to you of a “Gypsy
Woman” and an ”Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,”
David Somerville, who will take you on “The Stroll” and call you a
“Little Darlin,’” Merrilee Rush, who will journey from her home just
outside Seattle to reprise her megahit “Angel of the Morning,” and
Chris Montez, the man responsible for “Let’s Dance” and “Call Me.”
While Bandstand—sadly—is no longer an entertainment powerhouse and television staple, its influence still looms large for everyone (including myself) who was raised on its weekly dose of Top 40
hits and questionable dance moves. With the coming of the Ameri-
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can Bandstand tour to the Silver Reef, it’s time to
dust off those dance moves and relive your youth.
Do it for Dick Clark. He would want this for you.
While my mother’s memory lane hearkens
back to the glory days of American Bandstand,
my path is a wee bit shorter. As such, it’s the
Gin Blossoms—who will play two nights, June
14 and 15, at the Skagit Valley Casino Resort—
that evoke a sense of nostalgia for me. Although
I did my level best to be a flannel-clad, Doc
Martens-wearing disaffected youth who lived
my life to a soundtrack of grunge—you know,
just like every other kid growing up near Seattle
during the early ’90s—I was not immune to the
hooky hits cranked out by the Gin Blossoms.
Probably the most successful band to come out
of the musical wasteland that is Tempe, Ariz.,
the Gin Blossoms first garnered attention with
the song “Hey Jealousy” from their 1992 album
New Miserable Experience, which was followed in
short order by “Found Out
About You.” After their
breakout success came a
tragic chapter in the Gin
Blossoms’ history, when
primary songwriter and
guitarist Doug Hopkins
committed suicide after
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being fired from the band.
WHO: Gin Blossoms
WHEN: June 14-15
Those events led to the
WHERE: Skagit
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Valley Casino Resort,
follow-up album Congrat5984 N. Darrk Lane,
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commenting on both the
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WHO: American
Experience and Hopkins’
Bandstand
suicide. That album evenWHEN: June 15
WHERE: Silver Reef
tually went platinum, bolHotel, Casino & Spa,
stered by the hit singles
Haxton Way at Slater
“Follow You Down” and
Road, Ferndale
“Til I Hear it From You.”
COST: $35
A few years later, folMORE INFO: www.
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lowing some internal
struggles that manifested
in some lineup changes, the Gin Blossoms broke
up, presumably never to be seen again. However, band breakups are almost never the permanent kind, and just more than a decade ago, the
Gin Blossoms reunited. They’ve since released
a couple of albums and have resumed touring,
which brings them to the present day and their
two-show stint at the Skagit Valley Casino.
Whether your walk down memory lane takes you
to Fabian and the American Bandstand tour or you
detour at the Gin Blossoms, this is one wander
that’s sure to have an entertaining outcome.
Rumor Has It
I KNOW WE all like to believe that the endless
supply of exceedingly skilled and talented musicians who migrate to and come from these parts
is the thing that makes our little musical world
spin, but there’s a whole bunch of folks who
operate behind the scenes to make certain the
endless supply of shows here continue to be,
well, endless.
I know. That realization comes as a shock to
me too.
Which brings me to a pair of Bellingham’s smaller—but no less important—venues and changes
in personnel that have recently taken place.
One such change happened at the Cabin Tavern recently. Audra Robson, longtime Cabin show
booker and bartender—and Wheel of Fortune
winner, karaoke goddess and all-around force to
be reckoned with—is no longer booking for the
Holly Street bar. However, she deserves much
credit for championing live music—of the
mostly loud variety—
during a time when
our local venue situation wasn’t quite as
healthy and at a place
that had been mostly
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untried and untested
with regard to hosting shows. Robson brought
great enthusiasm to her job, and the fact that
the Cabin Tavern is now one of Bellingham’s bona
fide music venues is a thing for which she deserves much credit. As well—and I’ve said this
on several occasions in the past—the Cabin fills
a vital niche in this music community as being a
place where unproven, inexperienced bands can
get their first shows and get a taste of performing in a generally hospitable environment. Human Infest’s Robby Cleary has taken over Robson’s
booking job, and here’s hoping he carries on that
important duty. Best of luck to him, and I’m sure
the venue is in good hands.
But that’s not the only booking change taking place at a bar in town. Tubb’s Whiskey Bar,
which has dabbled in live music pretty much
since the day it opened its doors, is in the midst
of an ownership change, and its new owners—
Bill Lohse and Kate Rosser—are known quantities to many in the music community. They’ve
tapped Black Beast Revival’s Erin James as their
booker, so look for shows to be more plentiful
at the bar during the coming days/weeks. Does
James have experience in this realm? I have no
idea. But if he’s as good at drawing a crowd with
scheduling shows as he is with playing them,
Tubb’s and its future will be just fine.
Booking shows, in any capacity for any band
or at any venue, is an often thankless task that
requires much patience and even more attention to detail. Cleary and James join a specialized crew of hard workers (read: gluttons for
punishment) who help make certain this area’s
music venues never go silent—unless they
need the rare night off, that is. A big thanks to
all the bookers and talent buyers around these
parts. We couldn’t do without you.
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ANACORTES ROCK S: An all-ages “Anacortes
Rocks” concert begins at 2pm at the Port of
Anacortes Transit Shed Events Center, One
Commercial Ave. Sleepy Lagoon, Karl Blau, and
Heart By Heart will be the featured performers. Tickets are $15-$30; funds raised will help
benefit the design and construction of a stadium
at War Memorial Field.
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JAZZ GUITAR DUO: Portland-based jazz
guitarist John Stowell and Swedish jazz
guitarist Ulf Bandgren will perform at noon
at the courthouse in Bellingham’s old Federal
Building, 104 Magnolia St. Tickets are $5 at
the door or online.
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MT. BAKER TOPPERS: The a cappella men’s
group, the Mount Baker Toppers, perform at
6:30pm as part of “After Hours Art” at Whatcom
Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St.
Entry is $5.
ECOW SHOW: The Electroacoustic Composers
of Western (ECOW) will host a show featuring
surround works, interactive performances and
installations by a variety of musicians at 8pm
at WWU’s Performing Arts Center, room 16.
Entry is free.
650-3711
FRI., JUNE 14
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: The Bellingham
Chamber Music Society presents “An Evening
of Chamber Music” from 7-8:30pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St.
This special concert features quartets written
especially for this most interesting arrangement
of instruments, as well as Brazilian and French
duos and trios. Suggested donation is $20.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCHAMBERMUSIC.ORG
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AFTERNOON JAZZ: Seattle vocalist Greta Matassa
and guitarists John Stowell and Ulf Bandgren will
present a Jazz Concert at 3pm at the courthouse
in the Old Federal Building, 104 Magnolia St.
Tickets are $10 at the door or online.
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HER VOICE: A cappella trio Mockingbird will
team up with poet Lois Holub for a “Her Voice”
performance at 7pm at Whatcom Museum’s Old
City Hall, 121 Prospect St. The performance
explores themes in the lives of women through
songs and poems. Suggested donation is $15.
752-1423 OR WWW.MOCKINGBIRD.ORG
SUN., JUNE 16
MUSICAL VARIE T Y SHOW: Cellist Ian Slater
presents a “Musical Variety Show” featuring
duets and ensemble music at 3pm at St. Francis
of Bellingham, 3121 Squalicum Pkwy. There may
also be some singing and acting. Entry is $10
per person or $25 per family.
734-6760
WED., JUNE 19
BUG SONG CIRCLE: Join the Bellingham Ukulele Group (BUG) for a Song Circle from 7-9pm
at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested
donation is $5.
WWW.BELLINGHAMUKULELEGROUP.COM
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STEVE RUDY TRIO: Hear some of the best jazz
in Whatcom County when the Steve Rudy Trio
performs from 5:30-7:30pm at Lynden’s Jansen
Art Center, 321 Front St. Entry is free.
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TEX AS BOYS CHOIR: Expect the enthusiasm
of childhood mixed with artistic maturity when
the Ford Bend Texas Boys Choir performs at
7:30pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front
St. Tickets are $5 for kids 12 and under and $10
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SVS GRAND FINALE: Skagit Valley College’s
music department will present its “Grand
Finale” featuring outstanding graduates and the
school’s large performance ensembles at 7:30pm
at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College
Way. Tickets are $10.
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A.J. Croce plays at 8pm Thurs., June 13 at the
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If you’re going to try and make it in music,
there are worst last names to have than Croce.
Although A.J. Croce was barely a toddler when
Jim, his famous father, was killed in a 1973
plane crash, he’s proof that musical ability does
often run in families. Indeed, A.J. nabbed his
first record deal while still a teenager, and these
days he puts out his releases on his own label,
Seedling Records. Time will tell whether A.J.’s
mark on music will match that of his father, but
something tells me the “I Got a Name” singer
would be pretty proud of how his son is living
up to that name.
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THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Karaoke w/Bobby
Karaoke w/Kristina
Karaoke w/Kristina
Piano Bar w/Bobby Lee
Happy Hour BBQ w/Robert
Sarazin Blake (Beer Garden)
Fish Fry w/Bakertown (early)
Bobby Lee's Pub &
Eatery
Boundary Bay
Brewery
Happy Hour BBQ w/Lindsay Street (Beer Garden),
Aaron Guest (Taproom)
Brown Lantern Ale
House
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TUESDAY
Paul Klein (Taproom)
Open Mic
Cabin Tavern
Karaoke w/Amy G.
Tovio, The Austerman File
Noise Toys, Before the Eyewall
Conway Muse
Nick Moyer
David's Drinking Band
The Pine Hearts
Piano Night
Juke House Hounds
DJ Little
Boombox Kid
Girl Meets Boy
A.J. Croce, Jack Mattingly
and Whiskey Fever
Lost Highway Band
Maria in the Shower
DJ Clint Westwood
Seth Freeman
Edison Inn
Glow Nightclub
Green Frog
The Howlin' Brothers
H2O
Karaoke w/DJ Steve
Ahmed Hassan, Sam Chue
Open Mic
The Atlantics
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Shakedown
Slow Jam (early), The
Honeycutters (late)
Eric Taylor
DJ Yogoman's Terrible
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This is movie in which
audiences can get off
seeing actual movie stars
behaving like stupid rich
frat boys
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and outdoes Woody Allen in his expressions of
distaste for Los Angeles and the people who
live there, especially the hated Hill, with whom
he’s now obliged to hang.
But in a startling manner as if co-devised by
Nathaniel West and Irwin Allen, a Biblical-scaled
disaster strikes in the form of explosions, rumblings, the ground opening up, fires raging, cars
crashing and shafts of light beaming down from
the heavens. Los Angeles is burning and many
guests are swallowed up by a lava-filled sinkhole
while others flee into the acrid night. In the end,
those left in the seeming sanctuary of Franco’s
crib are Rogen, Baruchel, Hill, Craig Robinson,
and Franco, who arms himself with a World War
I-vintage pistol left over from Flyboys.
The cuddly sleeping arrangements assumed by
the terrified man-boys cues plenty of predictable
innuendo, and the morning brings a set of surprises, beginning with the presence of McBride,
who wasn’t even invited to the party. Soon Watson barges in from the outside world, which she
reports has been invaded by zombies, but she
quickly decides to take her chances there rather
than remain in the house once she overhears the
REVIEWED BY TODD MCCARTHY
This Is the End
A COMEDY APOCALYPSE
he seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange
temporary reprieve with This Is the End, an unlikable but weirdly
compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars
and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality. A sort-of The
Day of the Locust centered on successful comic actors, rather than downand-outers, facing a conflagration in Los Angeles, this is a dark farce
that’s simultaneously self-deprecating, self-serving, an occasion to vent
about both friends and rivals and to fret about self-worth in a cocooned
environment. With everyone here officially playing themselves, the result
is like a giant home movie and a reality horror show, different enough
from anything that’s come before to score with young audiences.
With the Hangover series outliving its welcome, Judd Apatow moving
on to quasi-serious stuff and Johnny-come-latelies like 21 & Over and
Movie 43 falling short, outrageous comedies aren’t what they used to be a
few years back. Early on in This Is the End, James Franco and Seth Rogen
explore story ideas for a possible Pineapple Express sequel, but it’s hard to
know, five years on, what the public appetite would be even for that.
Instead, Rogen and co-writer/co-director Evan Goldberg reached back to
2007 for inspiration, to a nine-minute short they and Jason Stone made
called Seth and Jay Versus the Apocalypse. It is said to have cost $3,000
and starred five of the six main actors from the present feature—Rogen,
Jay Baruchel, Franco, Jonah Hill, and Danny McBride. The full short was
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never shown publicly, only the 85-second trailer, which looks very low-rent indeed.
The central conceit is that this is film about
showbiz’s young and privileged that’s supposedly being honest about their sense of entitlement, their access to constant sex, drugs
and money, neuroses and special bonds both
professional and personal. This isn’t Franco
and Rogen and Michael Cera and everyone else
playing characters getting completed trashed
on coke and weed, this is movie in which audiences can get off seeing actual movie stars
behaving like stupid rich frat boys. At least
that’s the sense of special access This Is the
End is purporting to afford the eager viewer.
The occasion is a housewarming party at
Franco’s dazzling new house (“Designed it myself” the famously multitasking actor-writerdirector-grad student modestly points out). In
the film’s geographically eccentric scheme of
things (it was shot on a set in Louisiana), the
modernist mansion is just down the way from
the Hollywood sign and yet within easy walking distance of convenience stores. The first
15 minutes are crammed with pretty funny
party banter, star sightings—Emma Watson,
Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Cera getting serviced
by two babes at the same time—and the overweening discomfort of Baruchel, who’s come
down from Canada to visit his best bud Rogen
guys discussing “the rapey vibe” the six men/
one woman situation has introduced.
Hunkering down into survivalist mode, the
guys keep joking around but also get serious:
McBride’s the abrasive misfit, inviting expulsion from the house by selfishly flouting rations restrictions, while Baruchel goes seriously scriptural, devotedly reading the Book of
Revelation and announcing that, “I think it’s
the apocalypse.”
Taking this one step further, Hill becomes a
red-eyed demon requiring exorcism, an interlude that becomes its own little movie prior
to a monster-and-effects-dominated climax in
which a bunch of nice Jewish boys dwell, in
an iconographically heavily Christian way, on
whether or not they are worthy of redemption
after the conspicuously secular, hedonistic but
still guilt-ridden way they’ve lived their lives.
So This Is the End goes places you don’t expect it to, exploring the guys’ rifts and doubts
and misgivings just as it wallows in an extravagant lifestyle that inevitably attracts public
fascination. It also expresses the anxiety and
insecurity of comics conscious of the big issues in life they are expected either to avoid or
make fun of in their work. Rogen and Goldberg
take the latter approach here, in an immature
but sometimes surprisingly upfront way one
can interpret seriously. Or not.
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Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
FILM SHORTS
Money & Life: This is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that that asks a
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After Earth: I’m pretty sure Will Smith already
made this movie once, and it was called I Am Legend and costarred a dog instead of his son Jaden.
Except this one was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, so it won’t make any sense and will likely
feature a twist that also won’t make any sense. ★★
1(tISNJO
Now You See Me: I know very little about this
movie other than it stars Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, and more, and involves a bunch of heist-pulling
illusionists—some of whom reputedly learned how to
perform real magic tricks during filming. Must see.
★★★1(tISNJO
Before Midnight: Fresh off the success of the
excellent indie black comedy Bernie, director Richard
Linklater is back with this excellent, insightful cinematic companion piece to Before Sunrise and Before
Sunset. ★★★★★3tISNJO
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Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
David Eisenhower: Going Home to Glory: From the
New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer
Prize finalist Eisenhower at War, comes a fond account of the retirement years of his grandfather,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower. ★★★★ (Unrated
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Donovan’s Brain: The poster for this movie, with
its “Kill. Kill. Kill.” mantra has been freaking me out
for weeks now. Go see this sci-fi classic to find out
what happens when a brain gets a mind of its own.
★★★★6OSBUFEtISNJO
Epic: Only an animated movie could see a cast as
eclectic as Beyonce, Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried,
and Christolph Waltz, all in the same movie. ★★★★
1(tISNJO
Ev il Dead (2013): Cut out the camp and ramp
up the gore and you’ll have this—surprisingly not
pointless and well done—remake of the cult classic.
★★★★3tISNJO
Oz The Great And Power ful: Turns out, without
Judy Garland, the ruby slippers and those adorably
creepy munchkins, Oz ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
★★1(tISTNJO
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Boxing Association Lightweight Champion whose
life took a dramatic turn when his Korean opponent,
Deuk Koo Kim, died of injuries sustained in their
championship fight. ★★★★6OSBUFEtISNJO
The Great Gatsby: Dear Baz Luhrman, you made a
pretty movie. Leonardo DiCaprio was perfectly cast
as Jay Gatsby. Also, you missed the entire point of
the book, and kind of screwed up the story, but who
cares because 3D!!!! ★★1(tISTNJO
onscreen at a theater near you, here it is again. You
are welcome. ★3tISNJO
The Internship: From start to finish, Wedding
Crashers was, is and always will be a funny, funny
movie, thanks in large part to the performances of
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. Sadly, this is not
that movie. ★★1(tISNJO
Iron Man 3: Watch this, what is said to be the best
installment yet of the mind-bogglingly successful superhero franchise, and then rent Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
writer/director Shane Black’s and Robert Downey Jr.’s
first silver-screen endeavor together. And then you
will love this dynamic duo as much as I do. ★★★★
1(tISTNJO
Fast & Fur ious 6: Astonishingly, not nearly as bad
as the sixth installment in a series that wasn’t very
good to begin with should be. Damning with faint
praise? Maybe. ★★★1(tISTNJO
Greenwich Village: Music that Def ined a
Generation: This is a feature-length documentary
about the Greenwich Village music scene and how
it sparked everlasting political, social and cultural
changes. No, Bob Dylan isn’t in it. But everyone else
is. ★★★★6OSBUFEtIST
Frances Ha: I love the understated humor of Greta
Gerwig. For this film, she joins forces with The Squid
and the Whale director Noah Baumbach to craft a
movie that is all her own. ★★★★★3tISNJO
PFC’s Limelight See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for
showtimes.
The Hangover Par t III: Much like a person on a
bender, this is a series that should know when to
quit before it’s had two too many. What I’m trying
to say is having a hangover is probably preferable to
watching this movie. ★3tISNJO
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balsawood raft—despite the fact that he could not
swim—simply to prove it could be done. This visually
sumptuous, dramatic adventure story chronicles his
legendary journey. ★★★★1(tISNJO
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com
for showtimes.
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom
Mancini: This is a sneak preview of the story of
Identity Thief: Just in case you missed this
profoundly unfunny comedy when it first appeared
Man of Steel: Supposedly, this is going to be the
Superman movie that doesn’t suck. Supposedly.
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VIEWS 6
CURRENTS 8
WORDS 12
GET OUT 14
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ART 18
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film ›› playing this week
Sundays, June 2nd, 9th, 16th
Explore the inside of a honey bee hive
Taste honey direct from the comb
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The Place Beyond the Pines: Ryan Gosling teams
back up with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance
for a movie starring Ryan Gosling. Did I happen to
mention Ryan Gosling is in this movie? Because
I think we need to talk about this movie and the
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The Purge: This movie presumes that in the near
future, population control and societal ills will
be addressed by wanton mass killing. So, in other
words, what’s happening now, but with more creepy
masks. ★★3tISNJO
Quartet: The ever-clever and always watchable Maggie
Smith plays a once-popular opera diva who moves into
a home for retired performers in this movie directed
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Even the most devout
Trekkies are forced to admit J.J. Abrams isn’t ruining
their beloved sci-fi touchstone. I guess if it’s good
enough for a bunch of grown men who find pleasure
in dressing like William Shatner, it’s good enough for
you. ★★★★1(tISTNJO
This Is the End: See review previous page. ★★★★
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NOW SHOWING June 14 - 20
“Birth Control: A-Z” will be
the focus of a workshop with
registered nurse practitioner
Lauren Jaye at 6:30pm Monday,
June 17 at Mount Vernon’s Skagit Valley Food Co-op. Learn
how to put the “control” back in
your birth control and find out
which method is best for you.
Free; Pre-register. Info: www.
skagitfoodcoop.com
An information session
focusing on Transcendental
Meditation takes place at
7pm Monday, June 17 or 12pm
Tuesday, June 18 at the Cascade Room at Bellingham’s
Gateway Center, 1313 E.
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An Evening with Nederland Dans Theater: Ekman,
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“Reminds us how important it is to expand our
horizons by making discoveries, exploring new
worlds and pushing ourselves to the absolute
limits of human endurance.” Chicago Sun Times
Fri: (3:30), 6:15, 9:00; Sat: (2:30), 5:15, 8:00
Sun: (2:00), 4:45, 7:30; Mon: (2:00), (4:45)
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20 minutes
Spiritual Discussion
Come join in
on an open
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Spiritual Blessings.
Your life abounds
with spiritual
blessings. Can you
always recognize
them? There are
ways to be more
aware and open.
11am - Noon
Fairhaven
Public Library
Fireplace Room
Join the Purple Church Ecstatic Dance—Bellingham’s longest lived ecstatic dance—from
7:30-9pm every Friday through
mid-June at 311 E. Holly St. The
event focuses on spontaneous, inner-guided dancing to
a wave of world fusion music.
Requested donation is $5-$10.
Intenders of the Highest
Good Circle typically meets
at 7pm on the second Friday
of the month at the Co-op’s
Connection Building, 1220 N.
Forest St. Len-Erna Cotton,
part of the original group in
Hawaii, is the facilitator. More
info: www.intenders.org
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Community
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Learn more about “Prolotherapy” with Debra Clapp, ND,
at 6:30pm Wednesday, June 19
at the Skagit Valley Food Coop. Register in advance for the
free presentation. More info:
www.skagitfoodcoop.com
A Grief Support Group meets
at 7pm every Tuesday at the
St. Luke’s Community Health
Education Center. The free,
drop-in support group is for
those experiencing the recent
death of a friend or loved one.
More info: 733-5877
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Sunday
June 16th
A “Oneness Meditation”
gathering and potluck begins
at 6pm Saturday, June 15 at
the Center for Spiritual Living, 2224 Yew Street Road. No
prior experience is necessary,
and people from all walks of
life, all backgrounds and all
faiths can take part. Entry is
free. More info: 738-8180 or
blessingskristi@gmail.com
Holistic life and wellness
coach Daniel Marty focuses
on a “Holistic Wellness Plan”
at a free talk at 6:30pm Tuesday, June 18 at the Skagit
Valley Food Co-op. Topics to
be discussed include healthy
eating, mind-body exercises,
stress management, life
goals and meditation. Please
pre-register at www.skagitfoodcoop.com
Before Midnight (R) 108m
“Linklater may not have set out to make a decade
spanning triptych of poetic meditations on youth,
young adulthood, and middle age, but he, Hawke,
and Delpy have accomplished exactly that.” Slate
“If the first two films belong with the greatest (if
talkiest) movie romances of all time, the new film
is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive
about what it takes for love to endure (or not)
over the long haul.” Boston Globe
Fri: (4:00), 6:30, 9:05
Sat & Sun: (1:30), 4:00, 6:30, 9:05
Mon - Thu: (4:00), 6:30, 9:05
Jiva Yogi hosts a “Reiki
Share Circle” at 3pm every
third Saturday of the month at
Inspire Studio, 1411 Cornwall
Ave. Bring your favorite instrument and join to celebrate
sacred sound and spirit. Suggested donation is $5. More
info: www.jiva-yogi.net
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Holistic health coach Demetree Robinson discusses the
effects of your food choices at
a “Food Changes Everything”
workshop at 6:30pm Wednesday, June 12 at the Cordata
Community Food Co-op, 315
More info: 734-1596
Frances Ha (R) 86m “The writing is so musical, so
attuned to human frailty and aspiration, that I defy
anyone to watch the movie without smiling — with
amusement one minute, rueful recognition the
next, but probably always with some measure of
simple, undiluted delight.” Washington Post
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Gathering throughout the
day on Saturday, June 15 at
Deming’s Van Zandt Community Hall. Abernathy will lead
a discussion and brief exercise about the relationship
of summer to the management of our personal growth
cycle, among other things.
Please register in advance.
More info: 592-0924 or info@
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Christ the Servant Lutheran
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Irish poet Richard
Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to wellcrafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say
things that would advance his practical ambitions.
For example, when he first met the woman who would
eventually become his wife, he said to her, “Why don’t
you come into my garden? I would like my roses to
see you.” That’s the kind of persuasive power I hope
you will summon in the coming days, Aries. According
to my analysis of the omens, you should have it in
abundance. So what’s the best use of this mojo? Is
there anything you would really like to sell? What new
resources do you want to bring into your sphere? Who
do you want to convince?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Gonzo columnist
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In The Book of the
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From an astro-
Damned, Charles Fort revealed one of the secrets of
power. He said that if you want power over something, you should be more real than it. What does
that mean? How do you become real in the first
place, and how do you get even more real? Here’s
what I think: Purge your hypocrisies and tell as few
lies as possible. Find out what your deepest self is
like—not just what your ego is like—and be your
deepest self with vigorous rigor. Make sure that the
face you show the world is an accurate representation of what’s going on in your inner world. If you
do all that good stuff, you will eventually be as real
and as powerful as you need to be.
logical perspective, now would be a good time to
go on a meditation retreat for a few days or make
a pilgrimage to your ancestral homeland. You would
generate just the right shifts in your brain chemistry
by doing something like that. Other recommended
adventures: reviewing the story of your entire life
from your first memory to the present moment; writing a brief letter to the five people you have loved
best, telling them why you’ve loved them; spending a day outside of time, when you don’t consult a
clock or use electronic media for the duration.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Long after the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings
sold for millions of dollars. But while alive, he never
got rich from doing what he loved to do. He expressed frustration about the gap between his ambitions and his rewards. “I do at least three paintings a day in my head,” he said. “What’s the use of
spoiling canvas when nobody will buy anything?” I
hope you don’t arrive at a comparable conclusion,
Gemini. It’s crucial that you NOT keep your good
ideas bottled up in your imagination. You need to
translate them into practical actions, even if there’s
no immediate or obvious benefit in doing so. Expressing yourself concretely has rarely been more
important than it is right now.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1967, dissidents
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dreamed up a novel way to protest America’s horrific Vietnam War. They marched to the Pentagon, the
military’s headquarters, and performed an exorcism to
purge the place of its evil. With the power of songs
and chants, they invoked magic spells designed to
levitate the 6.5 million-square-feet building into the
air. Their plan didn’t quite work in a literal way—the
Pentagon remained firmly fixed to the ground—but
the legend they spawned was potent. When I heard
about it years later, it inspired me to become an activist. I see myth-making as a worthy goal for you right
now, Cancerian. Dream up an epic task or project that
will fuel your imagination for a long time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1926, surrealist artist
Max Ernst painted “The Blessed Virgin Chastising the
Infant Jesus in Front of Three Witnesses.” It shows
Mary vigorously spanking her son as he lies on her lap.
Nowadays, the image doesn’t seem nearly as scandalous as it did when it first appeared. Even some Christians I know find it amusing, welcoming the portrayal
of Jesus as a genuine human being with lessons to
learn. What would be your equivalent of creating a
cheeky image like this, Leo? How could you achieve
cathartic release by being irreverent toward something or someone you respect? I recommend it. (See
the image: tinyurl.com/SpankingJesus.)
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ships, Virgo. I encourage you to experiment with hybrids and facilitate the union of diverse interests. You
will be working in alignment with cosmic trends if you
strengthen the connections between influences that
belong together, and even between influences that
don’t know they belong together. So see what you can
do to facilitate conversations between Us and Them.
Negotiate peace treaties between Yes and No. Look for
legitimate ways to compare apples and oranges.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s prime time to promote cross-cultural liaisons and interspecies relation-
Mark Morford wrote a list of liberated behaviors he
wants to cultivate. Since you’re in the emancipatory
phase of your yearly cycle, I invite you to try some
of his strategies. 1. Have a gentler grip. Let go of
tight-assed attitudes. 2. Make deeper penetration.
Don’t be satisfied with surfaces. 3. Raise the vibration. Isn’t it a waste of precious life energy to mope
around in a sour and shriveled frame of mind? 4. Appreciate appreciation. Treat gratitude as an emotion
of the same caliber as joy. 5. Cultivate ecstatic silliness. Develop a blissful ability to take everything
less seriously. 6. Drink the awe. Allow astonishment
to seep in. (More: tinyurl.com/morford joy.)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarius
comedian Steven Wright says he took a class in
speed waiting. “Now I can wait an hour in only 10
minutes,” he brags. I think you will have the same
knack in the coming days, Sagittarius. Your patience
is likely to be much more effective than usual. Results will come faster and they’ll be more intense.
The only catch is that you will really have to be calm
and composed and willing to wait a long time. It
won’t work if you’re secretly antsy and only pretending to be imperturbable.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let the boundaries blur a bit, Capricorn. Don’t stick too rigidly to
the strict definitions. Play around with some good
old-fashioned fuzzy logic. The straight facts and the
precise details are important to keep in mind, but
you shouldn’t cling to them so ferociously that they
stifle your imagination. You need to give yourself
enough slack to try open-ended experiments. You’ll
be smart to allow some wobble in your theories and
a tremble in your voice. Magic will happen if there’s
plenty of wiggle room.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “One should be
light like a bird, and not like a feather,” said French
poet Paul Valery. How do you interpret that thought,
Aquarius? In the book The Science of Self-Control,
here’s how Howard Rachlin expands on Valery’s idea:
“We need to be spontaneous, but only in the context
of some framework that allows us to attain higher
levels of spontaneity; a feather is a slave to the wind,
while a bird *uses* the wind.” Take heed, Aquarius!
Your creative flights will go further and last longer if
you have a solid foundation to take off from.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Let’s call today SighDay. Tomorrow, too, and the next day, and the two days
after that. During these five Sigh-Days, you should feel
free to let out big, deep sighs at a higher rate than
usual. Allow yourself to be filled up with poignant
thoughts about life’s paradoxical mysteries. Give yourself permission to be overwhelmed with emotions that
are midway between lamentation and reverent amazement. For even better results, indulge in some freeform moaning during your five Sigh-Days. That’ll help
you release your full backlog of tension and give you
more appreciation for the crazy beauty of your fate.
(P.S. Try not to whine, though.)
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eyes upon
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I’ve always made people laugh with my
self-deprecating humor, but I was complaining about not having much luck with
the ladies recently, and my buddy told me
that my humor is a problem. He said I
come off as kind of a downer to women.
Other guy friends told me not to listen to
him; women love a man with a sense of
humor. So, who’s right?
—Overweight, Poor and Ugly
Self-deprecating humor works best
when a man seems to be kidding, not
confessing: “Hey, ladies! Look who’s
barely holding it together over here!”
So, the question is, exactly how
much of a self do you have to deprecate? Evolutionary psychologist Dr.
Gil Greengross sees self-deprecating
humor as a social version of conspicuous consumption (outlandish spending implying that a person has so
much money, he could use packets of
dollar bills for firewood. Poking fun at
yourself can suggest that you have so
much personal and emotional capital
that you not only don’t need to sweat
to impress a woman, but you can also
laugh at what a loser you are. (This
works especially well if you’re a loser
like George Clooney.)
Greengross cautions that it’s risky
to shine a spotlight on actual flaws,
so if there’s a ring of truth to “Overweight, Poor and Ugly,” avoid opening
with “Hey, babe, how bout I sell my
plasma and take you to dinner?” But
say what you lack in looks and money
you make up in confidence. You could
show off how cool you are with that
uncomfortable moment of hitting on
a woman with, “Hi, I really wanted
to talk to you. Can we talk about the
weather while I’m thinking of something to say?” And instead of mocking who you are, you’re probably safer
poking fun at something you’ve done,
like, oops, splashing beer down the
cleavage of the woman you’re hitting
on: “They usually just slip my water
dish into my cage so these sorts of
things don’t happen.”
Still, although some humorous selfcondemnation can be fun, a constant
barrage of it may make a woman’s ears
try to coerce her arms and legs into
a suicide pact. Also, it’s easy to fall
into the habit of using humor as a
force field so you never have to open
up and get real. This tends not to go
unnoticed or go over with the ladies.
So, sure, disarm a woman with humor,
but after she’s disarmed, see that you
actually talk to her, person-to-person,
not comedian-to-person. Your goal
should be finding out things about her
that resonate with you and responding to them and seeing whether there’s
a connection there. It’s connecting
with a woman that will make her stick
around—and for far longer than if you
just try to hammer her with jokes until
she loses consciousness.
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I’m a screenwriter with a job-job, so the
early morning is the only time I have to
write. When my girlfriend stays over, she’ll
come in and start talking to me as I’m trying to work. I love her and don’t want her
to feel ignored, but these interruptions really pull me out of my thoughts. —Scribe
Writing and solitude tend to go
together. Just think about it: Where
was Thoreau’s girlfriend? Bottom of
the pond?
Writing often looks dignified in movies, but in real life, it’s a grubby business that tends to involve some sobbing into the keyboard and humiliating
attempts to bribe God in exchange
for a working plot twist. In between,
however, there are moments of what’s
called “flow,” a term by psychologist
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describing
the blissfully productive state where
you get so single-mindedly immersed in
some activity that time and everything
else fall away. Interruptions, no matter how well-meaning, are the death of
flow, and not exactly fantastic for lesser
states of concentration, either.
Explain this to your girlfriend so she
can understand that your need for solitude isn’t a form of rejection and that,
when you’re writing, the sweetest and
most supportive thing she can do is act
like she’s not speaking to you (but
without the door slammings and mumblings of “remorseless turd!” that usually come with). Block out a few hours
in the morning as “do not disturb” time
(which she should feel free to ignore
whenever she catches fire). And when
you aren’t blackening pages, maybe
make an effort to be extra-affectionate in addition to expressing appreciation for her support. This should help
keep her from feeling bad and acting
out, and you, in turn, from rebelling
against any such rebellion and, say, revising your pet name for her from
“Sugarbooger” to “Writer’s Block.”
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY JESSAMYN TUTTLE
Pami’s Restaurant
A PLEASANT OASIS, WITH SPICE
hen Pami’s Restaurant first opened its doors out in the
no man’s land of west Mount Vernon, I didn’t take much
notice.
Then one day at the Mount Vernon Farmers Market, a friend of
ours walked by with a takeout container of something that smelled
wonderful. It was saag channa from a stall run by the Pami’s crew,
and our friend was raving about it. My husband and I immediately
went and bought one and ate it on the boardwalk by the river.
Shortly thereafter, we got takeout from Pami’s to eat on the patio
at North Sound Brewery, and realized Mount Vernon finally had the
Indian restaurant we’ve been waiting for.
On a recent visit, we took a friend to lunch at Pami’s who had
never been to an Indian restaurant before. To make sure she had
the full experience, we got plenty of different dishes. We had to
start with a plateful of crispy pappadum ($2.99), a puffed lentil
cracker served with the usual pairing of tamarind chutney and
mint sauce. This is really the perfect appetizer—crunchy, savory
and sweet all at once—but I can also recommend the vegetable
pakora ($4.99). Deep-fried food is a highlight of Indian cuisine,
and these bite-size fritters coated in chickpea batter and served
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with chutney are a fine introduction.
After demolishing our pappadums we shared
butter chicken ($10.99), saag paneer ($9.99),
mango curry with lamb ($11.99), and channa
masala ($8.99), all served family style so each
of us could taste every dish. Our waiter took
it upon himself to recommend the garlic naan
($2.99), leavened flatbread sprinkled with
garlic and spices. We normally prefer plain
naan, but really enjoyed this.
I particularly love Pami’s version of saag, a
dish of spinach cooked with spices and pureed.
It’s creamy and rich and wonderful scooped up
with naan. I like it best with paneer (a firm
Indian cheese used much like tofu) or channa
(chickpeas), but you can order it with chicken,
lamb or prawns instead. Since most of the other curries are tomato based, saag makes a great
contrast.
The mango curry was a
surprise hit for us. We like
to order it very spicy and
love the sweet and fiery
mix of mango and chili
heat. Butter chicken, on
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whose heat is enhanced with vinegar to produce a truly searing experience. Unfortunately, most of the extra spice in Pami’s version
seemed to come from cayenne added late in
the preparation (this seems to be how they
accommodate “extra hot” orders), so the flavor wasn’t as rounded as I would have liked.
The flavor of their curries seems to be best at
medium to hot.
Service at Pami’s is very welcoming and
attentive, the only problem I’ve had being a
recent visit where we were brought our bill
without anyone asking us if we were actually
done. But on every other visit the service has
been perfectly polite and patient.
Traffic on Memorial Highway (one of the
main detour routes around the collapsed Skagit River Bridge) may not be at its best at
the moment, but Pami’s provides a pleasant
oasis for locals as well as those traveling
through Mount Vernon.
FARM FUN FRIDAY: Food,
drinks, live music and lawn
games will be part of “Farm
Fun Fridays” until 9pm every
Friday through July 5 at
BelleWood Acres.
WWW.BELLEWOOD
FARMS.COM
BEER AND WINE TASTING: Relay for Life’s Team
Yorky’s Market will host its
third annual “Beer & Wine
Tasting” fundraiser from
5-9pm at the Bellingham
Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris
Ave. Tickets are $30.
WWW.TEAMYORKYS
lights include Chefs in the
Market demos and samples at
11am (Chuckanut Manor) and
1pm (Scratch Desserts).
WWW.BELLINGHAM
FARMERS.ORG
FERNDALE MARKET: Attend
the Ferndale Public Market
from 10am-3pm every
Saturday through Oct. 21
at the town’s Centennial
Riverwalk Park.
WWW.FERNDALEPUBLIC
MARKET.COM
CHOCOLAT: Gretchen’s
Kitchen and the Lincoln
Theatre team up to offer an
afternoon of food-focused
fun starting at 1pm at the
Lincoln to watch the flick
Chocolat. After the movie,
Chef Erik Morris reveal the
recipes behind the magical
meals in the film. Entry
is $40.
WWWW.GRETCHENS
KITCHEN.COM
MARKET.COM
SAT., JUNE 15
SWEDISH PANCAKE
BREAKFAST: Attend the
monthly Swedish Pancake
Breakfast from 8-11am at
Norway Hall, 1419 N. Forest
St. Entry is $3-$7.
WWW.WERGELAND
SUN., JUNE 16
RAISING THE BAR: Pam
Williams shares chocolatefocused fun and flavors
related to her book Raising
the Bar: The Future of Fine
Chocolate at 4pm at Village
LODGE.COM
MON., JUNE 17
FERNDALE BREAKFAST: A
Pancake Breakfast happens
from 8-11am at the Ferndale
Senior Activity Center, 1999
Cherry St. Entry is $3-$6.
384-6244
BLAINE BREAKFAST:
Attend a Pancake Breakfast
from 8-11am at the Blaine
Senior Center, 763 G St.
Entry is $4-$6.
332-8040
MOUNT VERNON MARKE T:
The Mount Vernon Farmers
Market can be visited from
9am-1pm every Saturday
through Oct. 19 in the parking lot at Skagit State Bank.
NATURAL FERMENTATION:
Attend a“Natural Fermentation” class with dietician
Sonja Max from 6:308:30pm at the Community
Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest
St. Entry is $29.
383-3200
GRILLING 101: “BBQ and
Summer Grilling” will be
the focus of class with Chef
Tom Hoffman at 6:30pm in
Mount Vernon at Gretchen’s
Kitchen, 509 S. First St.
Entry is $40.
WWW.GRETCHENS
KITCHEN.COM
ANACORTES MARKET: Visit
the Anacortes Farmers Market
from 9am-2pm every Saturday
through Oct. 26 at the Depot
Arts Center, 611 R Ave.
BARBECUE BIBLE: Author
and barbecue expert Steven
Raichlen will share tips,
techniques and stories from
The Barbecue Bible at 7pm
at Village Books, 1200 11th
St. He’ll also read from his
new book of fiction, Island
Apart. Entry is free.
WWW.ANACORTESFARMERS
WWW.MOUNTVERNON
FARMERSMARKET.COM
MARKET.ORG
TUES., JUNE 18
BELLINGHAM FARMERS
MARKET: The Bellingham
Farmers Market can be visited
from 10am-3pm every Saturday through Dec. 21 at the
Depot Market Square, 1100
Railroad Ave. Today’s high-
STRICTLY SOCKEYE: Robert
Fong will lead a “Strictly
Sockeye” course from 6:309pm at the Community Food
Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St.
Entry is $45.
383-3200
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