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BEN E. KING: A LEGEND IN OUR MIDST, P.20
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OUTDOOR CINEMA: THE STARS OF SUMMER, P.20
RED HERRING: OF SHORELINES AND TIMELINES, P.8
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A glance at what’s happening this week
Police and perps will
both make appearances
at the final weekend of
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shows June 24-25 at the
Upfront Theatre
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MUSIC
ON STAGE
Harry and the Potters: 6:30pm, Mount Baker
Theatre
Shakespeare’s Fools: 1pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
Murder on the Oriental Rug: 7:30pm, RiverBelle
Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon
Director’s Cut: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
Death is the Beginning: 8pm, Cirque Lab
The Servant of Two Masters: 8pm, Anacortes
Community Theatre
COPS 911: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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Wendy Call: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITY
Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
DANCE
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Travel From Oz: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
ON STAGE
MUSIC
The Servant of Two Masters: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre
Bard on the Beach: Through September, Vanier
Park, Vancouver, B.C.
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
Chamber Music Concert: 7:30pm, Amadeus
Project
Ben E. King: 8pm, Silver Reef Pavilion
Roy Zimmerman: 8pm, Bellingham Unitarian
Fellowship
WORDS
MUSIC
WORDS
Chuckanut Radio Hour: 6:30pm, Leopold
Crystal Ballroom
Scott Sparling: 7pm, Village Books
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COMMUNITY
Blaine Gardeners Market: 10am-2pm, H Street
Plaza
Lummi Island Market: 10am-2pm, 2106 S. Nugent
Rd.
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Chestnut Street and Railroad Avenue
Ferndale Public Market: 10am-4pm, Riverwalk
Park
Skagit Valley Market: 10am-3pm, Farmhouse
Restaurant, Mount Vernon
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History Sunset Cruise: 5:30-8:30pm, Bellingham Bay
Fitness Forum: 7:15pm, Fairhaven Runners
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ON STAGE
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A Night of Improv: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center
Murder on the Oriental Rug: 7:30pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon
Director’s Cut: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Servant of Two Masters: 8pm, Anacortes
Community Theatre
COPS 911: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
Padden Triathlon: 8:30am, Lake Padden
Home & Landscape Tour: 10am-5pm, Whatcom
County
Garden Tour: 11am-5pm, Orcas Island
FILM
Grease: 8:30pm, Fairhaven Village Green
VISUAL ARTS
MUSIC
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Amy Stewart: 11am, Village Books
Book Sale: 11:30am-2pm, Sumas City Park
Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books, Fairhaven Village
Inn, Magdalena’s Creperie
Matt Audette: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park
Wynton Marsalis: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre
WORDS
Paul Lindholdt: 5pm, Village Books
Chuckanut Writers Conference: Today and
tomorrow, Whatcom Community College
VISUAL ARTS
SAT Preview Show: 3-6pm, Christianson’s
Nursery, Mount Vernon
Grammy-winning trumpeter
24)/*)(-.'$. will be
joined by more than a dozen of jazz
music’s leading soloists for a June 24
gig at the Mount Baker Theatre
SAT Preview Show: 10am-6pm, Christianson’s
Printmaking Workshop: 12-4pm, Whatcom
Museum’s Lightcatcher Building
Our Town Closing Reception: 7-9pm, Blue Horse
Gallery
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ON STAGE
DANCE
FOOD
Vines Vs. Twines: 5-8pm, Boundary Bay
Brewery
VISUAL ARTS
SAT Preview Show: 10am-6pm, Christianson’s
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Home & Landscape Tour: 10am-5pm, Whatcom
County
Gardens of Note Tour: 10am-5pm, Anacortes
Garden Tour: 11am-5pm, Orcas Island
FILM 24
GET OUT
MUSIC 20
Swing Connection: 2pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
The Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, Amadeus Project
Skip Gorman: 7:30pm, YWCA Ballroom
ART 18
MUSIC
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Travel From Oz: 2pm, Mount Baker Theatre
The Geography Club: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre
Summer Spectacular Auditions: 7pm, Claire
vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
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ON STAGE
Open Mic: 7pm, Village Books
Poetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project
VISUAL ARTS
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WORDS
Summer Spectacular Auditions: 7pm, Claire
vg Thomas Theatre, Lynden
Intro to Improv: 7pm, Improv Playworks
WORDS
William Dietrich: 6:30pm, Mount Vernon City
Library
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WAG Meeting: 7pm, Bellingham Public Library
Wine and beer will be
paired with edible counterparts at a 1$) .1.
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June 26 at Boundary Bay
Brewery
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to make love, not war. The tangled twosome has been identified as Scott Jones and Alex Thomas, who went from random
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In the June 15 column by Rob Lewis, he contends that I said, “Let’s not forget, there’s nothing wrong with coal.” What I said was that “there
is nothing wrong with ‘Cole.’” It’s just a spelling
issue. In that context, I have also pointed out
the amusing fact that one of my friends who is
skeptical about the project is named “Delay.”
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ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE ‘REVISION’
The latest SSA Marine ad claiming “American
farmers can feed the world” is blatantly misleading. It claims the company has “a commitment to
high environmental standards.”
It is impossible to square that statement with
the facts. On June 10, SSA filed an application for
a permit revision. The revision refers to the application originally filed in 1992, 19 years ago.
According to Washington law, a revision is for
“a minor alteration or afterthought....” The 1992
application called for a facility to handle eight
million tons a year of grains and other products.
The latest revision calls for more than six times
as much material (54 million tons a year), mostly
coal. Coal involves much greater environmental,
health, and safety risks than does grain.
SSA’s application is a dishonest and disrespectful effort to avoid compliance with laws passed
since 1992 (especially stronger shorelines protections) and to avoid any public process. How
can the company claim a “commitment to high
environmental standards” when it wants to circumvent current laws and shut the public out of
any discussion of this major project?
—Eric Hirst, Bellingham
OFFENSIVE, INAPPROPRIATE
An item in the June 8 police column was titled
“Biatch Watch.”
The item was about a high school girl who allegedly took a “not very nice” picture of another
girl on her cell phone. It’s beyond me why the
head for that item would include the word, or a
play on the word, “bitch.” It is offensive to insinuate that one of the girls involved was a “bitch”
or “biatch,” or even to mock high school drama
among girls by using that word. Any attempted
irony or mockery falls flat when it involves such
a loaded word.
As professionals in the business of wordcraft, I know you understand the power that
such terms carry.
—Liv Henry, Bellingham
NO TRAFFIC CAMERAS
Nothing says “Welcome to Bellingham” like
getting an automated traffic ticket in the mail.
Automated ticket machines are bad for our wellbeing and business and don’t belong here.
In my personal opinion, there isn’t enough
proof they work effectively to reduce collisions
and improve safety. Multiple studies show rearend collisions go up when they are installed.
—Kenni B. Merritt, Bellingham
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I am excited to support Kelli Linville
for Mayor of Bellingham. We need a leader
who works well with others, particularly
in times of limited resources and severe
budget constraints. We cannot afford a
confrontational or divisive approach. We
need a mayor who can build and maintain
respectful, professional relationships
with Council members, county and state
officials and the Port of Bellingham.
These are challenging times, but they
are also times of great opportunity. Over
her lifetime of experiences growing up in
Bellingham and throughout her career,
Kelli Linville has built the relationships
we need to move Bellingham forward.
She’s a firm, effective and results-oriented leader. She can be tough as nails when
the situation warrants, but she’s still
able to maintain healthy, positive working relationships. We need a leader who
respects, and is respected by, City staff
and motivates them to do their best.
Difficult workforce issues need to be addressed. Kelli Linville has a proven record
of working well with others in a mutually
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Numerous legitimate articles have been
written about problems with the technology, and underhanded practices by the
companies and some cities that end up
installing them.
They will cost city residents $345,000
per year. If they don’t collect that from
tickets, you will help pay the balance.
When the mayor canceled the public meeting, he lost my trust and circumvented the public and our business
community. I can’t stomach the public
process being tossed out any more than
I can stomach Tim Eyman, but Tim has it
right on this one.
I want boots on the ground. If we can
afford $345k, then let’s hire more police
officers that can write tickets all day long.
Cops protect our families, stop crimes,
deliver babies, provide traffic control and
first aid in emergencies, and they live and
spend their paychecks in Bellingham. Why
are we sending our money to a corporation in Arizona? I have a serious problem
with our dwindling middle-class jobs being replaced with cameras.
I want to get my ticket from an officer when I commit an infraction. Not a
month or more later, when I don’t even
recall driving through that intersection.
Once we open the door we can’t go
back. Let’s keep Bellingham beautiful and
a city we can be proud of. Let’s make sure
our visitors want to come back.
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A MATTER OF STYLE: Sparks flew last week after Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike sent a letter to the governor,
requesting the state take the lead in the scoping and
permitting of the proposed coal and commodities terminal at Cherry Point. Whatcom County holds the lead
agency role for the state’s portion of the environmental review.
“The impacts of this proposal are far-reaching and are
not unique to Whatcom County,” the mayor declared.
“Although I am quite appreciative of Executive Kremen’s apparent willingness to extend the reach of the
scope of review to include impacts to the city, I am
concerned that the SEPA environmental impact statement (EIS) will need to include more analysis of impacts beyond Whatcom County’s borders and include
other impacts that Whatcom County does not have the
resources to not have the resources to review.”
Only the state is equipped to conduct a full analysis of a project with such sweeping regional impacts, Pike asserted.
Well and good; however, the mayor’s letter appeared
unaware that the county had sought a larger role for
the state in the environmental review.
“Months ago, Whtcom County requested Dept. of
Ecology to join as co-lead in the EIS for the Gateway
Pacific Terminal,” the county prosecutor’s office retorted in a heated follow-up to the governor. “Though
Mayor Pike’s letter appears to be in agreement, we feel
we need to respond to his erroneous and malicious
statements” regarding the authority and competence
of the county to act as lead agency.
The county has not officially filed such a request, but
in April announced intentions to do so.
“Setting aside Mayor Pike’s erroneous statements,
political grandstanding and blatant disrespect for
Whatcom County staff, we wish to continue our discussion regarding DOE to be in part or in whole the
lead agency for the EIS,” the letter continued, detailing the relevant state statutes that direct the county
in the siting process.
The mayor also requested the City of Bellingham be
seated on the multi-agency permitting team (MAP) of
state, federal and county agencies the governor assembled to assist with large-scale projects of this
kind. In fury over Pike’s “malicious” salvo, the county
protested the addition of COB to the MAP team.
“Mayor Pike’s opposition to the project prior to any
environmental evaluation and his blatant disregard for
the process makes the inclusion of the City of Bellingham on the MAP teams problematic and even inappropriate,” the prosecutor’s office stormed.
In a second round of retorts, the mayor noted (correctly) that several enthusiastic beneficiaries are already seated at the MAP table, including the railroad;
the city’s role as skeptic is not improper.
The exchange was an unfortunate failure of diplomacy that telegraphed a message to the governor’s office
that the city and county are further apart than they
actually are on concerns about this project. One wonders how much more effective the response might have
been had Pike just phoned the County Executive to
jointly request Bellingham be seated at the MAP table.
That in a nutshell is the strained relationship between
the Pike administration and county government.
In May, the mayor’s office received a letter from
county planners complaining of distortions and a lack
of cooperation between administrations. The letter de-
OPI N IONS
T H E G R IST L E
BY ALAN RHODES
Cheri’s Story
SURVIVING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
THE ABUSE started early.
When Cheri was an infant her mother left her with a boyfriend while she
went out. When she returned, she
found the child beaten and bloody
with broken ribs and a broken nose.
A few years later, another of her
mother’s boyfriends molested Cheri.
Nothing much was done about it.
Eventually the authorities took Cheri
from her mother, who didn’t bother
to show up for the custody hearing.
Cheri was placed with her grandparents. Her grandfather told her regularly that she was no good and would
end up a drug addict and go to prison
like her mom. At night she sometimes
woke to find him in her bed.
Cheri (not her real name) tells me
her story as we sit in an office at
Bellingham’s Womencare Shelter. It’s
a narrative of bad relationships with
bad men. It went on through her
teen years and into adulthood. She
kept getting involved with the wrong
guys and staying with them long past
the point when she should have left.
“I knew something was wrong,”
Cheri says, “but I was lost.”
She stayed with one man for four
years, even after he hit her in the face
so hard that she needed 13 stitches to
sew up her lips, even after he choked
her into unconsciousness. He involved
her in his criminal activities and she
spent four years in prison.
In 2008, Cheri, 28 years old and
out of jail, moved from Skagit County to Bellingham. She found a job
and tried to start over again, determined that things would be different this time. But she didn’t know
anyone here and felt insecure. She
was still lost, still in need of someone else to take care of her.
Her new boss showed an interest in
her. If there were danger signals, she
didn’t see them. She never did. She
moved in with him and at first things
seemed all right. But he started
drinking: a little at first, then a lot
more, and then came the drugs. Soon
Cheri was back in another abusive relationship. She started drinking and
using as well. She got pregnant. She
wanted to leave him and keep the
baby. He insisted she have an abortion and he got his way.
Cheri started realizing how much
power this man had over her. She
finally had had enough. When she
tried to drive away, he jumped into
the car and there was a chaotic scene
in the middle of Lakeway Drive before
someone called the police.
Not knowing where to turn, Cheri
drove to the YWCA, where she was
handed a telephone and the number of the crisis line at Bellingham’s
Womencare Shelter. Two women from
the shelter arranged to meet Cheri in
a public place. After they heard her
story, they told Cheri to follow them
in her car. They led her to the shelter, which would be her home for the
next four weeks.
Her ex-boyfriend tried to reach her,
calling agencies around town, pretending to be someone else. But she was in
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a secret location. She was safe.
During the months that followed,
her life began to change. From the
shelter she was moved to transitional housing for a year, where she lived
with other women who were putting
their lives back together and who
gave her the support and confidence
she needed. Womencare Shelter provided funds to help Cheri go back
to school. They helped her find an
apartment and provided a subsidy
to make it affordable. As Cheri became more independent and financially stable, the subsidy decreased,
making her increasingly responsible
for her own life. All this time she
was going to Womencare workshops,
attending sessions on everything
from emotional well-being to management of one’s finances. Her life
changed, she changed.
Today Cheri has a full-time job,
goes to school, does volunteer prison ministry and is a dynamo of positive energy.
Any woman who is being abused
or is in a situation where she feels
unsafe does not have to stay there.
There is a simple first step: dial the
crisis line at Womencare Shelter:
(877) 227-3360. It can be the beginning of a new life. And maybe Cheri
will be the one who answers the
telephone. These days she’s on the
other side of the line.
Valuable assistance in the preparation
of this column was provided by Susan
Marks, director of the Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, and Shannon Webb, program manager of Womencare Shelter.
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tailed unilateral actions by the city in
the form of lawsuits and petitions filed
against the county despite efforts to
reach cooperative consensus.
“As a returning planning manager I am
disappointed in our working relations
with the city,” long-range planner Roxanne Michael confessed. “We have frequently reached out to the city.
“Pitting the Dept. of Ecology against
the county is another sad example of
lack of cooperation on the part of the
city with the county,” she wrote. “The
city and county staff had been working on the Lake Whatcom Management
Committee in a collaborative effort to
protect Lake Whatcom for some time.
The first meeting I attended was disrupted by [Pike’s] announcement that
the city was filing a petition against
the county” to close the reservoir
to additional withdrawals. “City and
county staff appeared to be taken
aback. I was,” she admitted.
The state—nonplussed the mayor
would proceed with so little as a brief
phone call to the county administration—punted the matter back to the correct order of process, to the interjurisdictional team on Lake Whatcom where
disputes are supposed to be introduced
and resolved; the Gristle expects a similar punt from the state on the mayor’s
request to usurp SEPA at Cherry Point.
Unquestionably, these were bold actions by the mayor on behalf of the
citizens of Bellingham. Yet both came as
an unpleasant shock not only to county
government, but also to Bellingham City
Council, who were not briefed in either
instance on the mayor’s plans.
This week, the state’s mayors are meeting in Spokane for the annual meeting
of Washington’s associated cities, and
Pike’s letter to the governor may serve
as a call to those mayors for greater involvement in a project that threatens
enormous impacts as nearly two dozen
long, slow coal trains a day are added to
the Puget Sound’s rail freight corridor.
If November’s election was held tomorrow, Dan Pike would almost certainly
win based on the vigor with which he
has voiced community concerns on matters of public health and safety. Nor is
he wrongheaded in the belief that the
county frequently deserves prodding to
do the right thing in a more complete
manner. But has the mayor built the
kinds and qualities of relationships in
the right order that would ensure success in achieving these goals?
The question is less of substance, than
of style and effectiveness in achieving
desired results.
When you’re the Mayor of Bellingham,
style is the substance.
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FIFTEEN YEARS
ago, state and local agencies agreed to permit
the construction of a shipping terminal at Cherry Point. Time passed, but
did the agreement lapse? Is a new proposal just an evolutionary revision
of the earlier plan, or is it a new project on a new order of magnitude?
A key decision is due this week from Whatcom County that may attempt to answer those questions. Whatcom County issued a shoreline
development permit in 1997 to SSA Marine, the Seattle-based company
that intends to build a shipping terminal at Cherry Point.
A complex document of many parts, the shoreline agreement attempts
to address the potentially harmful environmental impacts of new heavy
industry at Cherry Point, such as harm to a threatened species of herring essential to the Cherry Point food chain. The agreement envisioned
an additional deepwater pier in the area.
Whatcom County leads the state’s portion of environmental review
(SEPA), focused on land and shoreline impacts. The federal portion,
focused on the marine environment, is managed by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers (NEPA).
The company insists those earlier agreements still apply and must
guide the construction. Without those agreements, developed through
years of negotiation, the terminal may no longer be economically or
commercially viable, they warn.
The decision will be made administratively by the project's SEPA lead
in the county's planning office.
Opponents point out that what was agreed to was a terminal a fraction
of the size of the facility currently proposed and, importantly, one not
intended to ship coal. In maturity, the Gateway Pacific Terminal could
ship as much as 56 million tons of coal to Asian markets; that commodity
would represent roughly 80 percent of the facilities’ total capacity.
Offsetting the benefits of high-wage jobs and millions of dollars in state
and local tax revenues, the project would increase heavy rail freight traffic
through the Puget Sound region as well as create potential environmental
and health problems from coal dust and carbon emissions.
The earlier permit approved by the Whatcom County Council in 1997
envisioned a 180-acre development that would handle 8.2 million
tons of cargo a year, including petroleum coke produced by local
refineries, sulfur, potash and other primarily locally produced commodities or byproducts. Coal was not included in the proposal.
Earthjustice, an environmental law firm representing the Sierra Club, Climate Solutions, and
Bellingham-based ReSources, issued a letter to
council last week, declaring that the project is
sufficiently different that it should not be permitted under a revision of the 1997 agreement.
“We are deeply concerned that (SSA) is trying—
at the earliest stage of the process—to circumvent that close scrutiny, public process and regulatory review by applying for a permit revision
rather than a new permit,” the letter states.
Among other things, accepting the validity of the existing permit would mean the
revision would be processed under shoreline
regulations in place in 1992, when the original permit application was filed, Earthjustice
says, not under more protective standards the
state has since introduced.
“This is not a minor or technical issue,” attorneys for Earthjustice asserted. “Rather, it is
one that threatens to undermine the integrity
of the public process for this project and weaken applicable environmental standards.”
A new permit application would have to meet
tougher standards in the 2008 version of that
plan, which allows development in the Cherry
Point industrial area only if it would result in
“no net loss” to the environment.
“Using the previously-permitted infrastructure
for much higher volumes of materials—54 million
tons as compared to 8 million tons—involves a
number of different adverse environmental impacts,” attorneys for Earthjustice argued in their
brief. “Moving this larger volume, most of which
will be coal, involves substantially more ship
calls, and ships of larger sizes, impacting aquatic
habitat, marine species, and increasing the risk
of spills and introduction of exotic species.
“Experience with other coal terminals reveal that all of them have had problems with
spillage and dust at conveyor belts and during
loading,” Earthjustice attorneys continued.
“Coal is a toxic material that is harmful to
the aquatic environment—for example, studies have shown a major aquatic ‘dead zone’
surrounding the coal terminal near Vancouver,
B.C.”
The concerns echo those expressed last year
by state regulatory agencies who responded
to SSA Marine when, under more favorable
market conditions, the company revived their
terminal plan last summer.
“SSA has yet to initiate or fully complete
many of the tasks contemplated by the 1999
settlement agreement, including preconstruction herring monitoring, the vessel traffic
analysis, the tidal current study, the vessel
mooring study, the incident response plan,
the stormwater management plan, and the
sampling and analysis plan,” state Dept. of
Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant wrote on behalf of the agency heads in June 2010. “In
short, regardless of whether the parties agree
to modify the 1999 Settlement Agreement,
construction of this facility is realistically
still several years away. Notwithstanding this
lack of progress, we stand ready to promptly
engage SSA in good faith discussions on mutually acceptable modifications to the settlement agreement.”
The governor convened her agency heads
under her Office of Regulatory Assistance
(ORA) to help streamline the involvement of
regulatory agencies that include Ecology, the
Dept. of Natural Resources, and the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. The multiagency permitting team (MAP) has been meeting
regularly since December.
While economic development is obviously
important to the state, it cannot come at the
expense of our efforts to protect and restore
Puget Sound.”
The agency heads were critical of both SSA’s
delays in proceeding with construction when
they had the settlement agreement in hand in
1999 as well as the company’s failure to initiate critical studies required by the agreement.
“The original settlement agreement, signed
over 11 years ago, contemplated that construction of the Gateway project would begin within
approximately two years,” Sturdevant wrote.
“Unfortunately, as it turned out, SSA was not
prepared to construct the project within that
time frame and the project remained moribund
for several years. SSA failed to make diligent efforts to pursue the remaining federal and state
approvals required to construct the project. If
SSA had pursued the project on the schedule
originally contemplated, it would have been up
and running a long time ago.”
SSA Marine officials counter that market
forces were not in place to complete the
construction last decade. They add that the
required studies themselves have time constraints and sunset clauses. Initiating the
studies before construction was imminent was
not cost effective, they say.
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On June 5, an underaged drunk staggered
into a college rental on Garden Street looking for people who did not live there. He was
leaving as Bellingham Police arrived. They arrested him.
On June 11, a drunk passed out on the porch
of a home in York neighborhood at 1am. Bellingham Police managed to guide the man next
door, where his friend actually lived.
TRAIL MIX
On June 4, Anacortes Police stumbled across
two people passed out drunk on a trail with an
empty bottle of liquor between them. Revived,
the 16-year-old girl was released to her parents. Police had something more stern in mind
for the 30-year-old man with her, including
charges of furnishing intoxicants to a minor.
On June 17, a camper at Baker Lake spent the
day screeching at his girlfriend and threatening to kill her family. At one point, the
girlfriend tried to resolve the argument. The
On June 12, Bellingham Police broke up a
brawl on Railroad Avenue between two sisters
and another woman.
REINCARNATIONCERATION
On June 15, a man called 911 and asked to
be arrested for crimes he had committed in
another life.
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Seattle after that city deployed six
traffic cameras in a 2006 pilot project.
Of these, 11,957 citations made
it through the court system, for a
payment rate of approximately 72.7
percent.
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AMOUNT collected, in millions, in
monetary penalties during Seattle’s sixmonth pilot program in 2006.
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SEATTLE Police Dept. 2008 estimate
of the cost for one motorcycle officer
each year, including equipment costs.
SPD estimated six officers would be
needed for around-the-clock coverage.
On June 9, a Squalicum High School student
complained that her teacher had thrown an
eraser at her for using her cell phone during
class.
SOURCES: Transportation Safety Coalition (TSC); City of Seattle Traffic Safety
Camera Pilot Project Report, 2007; American Traffic Solutions (ATS); Seattle Police
Dept.; City of Bellingham
On May 4, a man called Blaine Police to complain he had received over 50 text messages
on his cell phone. He wanted the harassment
to stop. Police investigated and did not find
anything threatening in the messages. In addition, police learned the man had been replying to the messages, furthering the conversation. Police advised him to curtail his
end of the online discussion.
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NUMBER of signatures reportedly gathered in support of putting Bellingham’s
red light camera program to a public vote in November. Signatures opposing the
program were presented for verification on Monday. Only 3,880 signatures are
necessary to place the matter on the city ballot.
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a man displaying mental health problems and
giving false names to police. Officers determined his true identity and booked him into
jail on outstanding warrants.
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On June 3, a drunk teen knocked on the wrong
door in Blaine, then responded with an obscene gesture when her error was corrected. “A
short time later she stole a pair of shoes from
a boyfriend, doused them with charcoal lighter
fluid and set them ablaze to demonstrate her
displeasure with their relationship,” police reported. ”Officers tracked down the alcohol fueled arsonist at a friend’s house where she was
partying with other teens, and arrested her
for domestic violence theft and arson as well
as being a minor in possession of alcohol. She
was also wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant. “The stolen $150 pair of Nike tennis shoes
were a complete loss,” police noted. “The other
rum- and marijuana-afflicted teens at the party house were arrested, processed and released
to their parents.”
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On June 20, the Washington State Patrol
and local police stopped a pickup truck stolen from a Snohomish County Fire District as
it raced through Bellingham on Interstate 5.
The fire truck was clocked speeding through
Skagit County at more than 100 miles per hour
but stopped after Bellingham Police laid out
spike strips. The driver was booked into jail.
Police theorized distinctive lights, a siren and
a shiny bright red paint job made the truck
easy to pursue.
On June 1, a woman contacted Blaine Police
after she’d been harassed on the telephone.
“She explained that last year she introduced
her nephew to a nice lady, and the two hit
it off quite well,” police noted. ”This proved
very upsetting for the nephew’s now ex-girlfriend, who blames the matchmaking aunt for
her singleness.” The ex and her friend have
taken to calling the aunt to swear at and harass her. ”A Blaine officer left messages for
both suspects advising them to stop harassing the aunt or face a criminal investigation,”
police concluded.
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On June 17, Colton Harris-Moore, 20, pleaded
guilty in U.S. District Court to charges in connection with his lengthy crime spree in the Pacific Northwest and across the United States,
ending in the Bahamas. The Barefoot Bandit
confessed to charges of burglary (frequently
without shoes), theft of aircraft and firearms,
and of piloting (and crashing) aircraft without
a valid airman’s certificate. Loss estimates by
his victims exceeds $1.4 million. He is expected to serve up to 73 months in federal prison.
Meanwhile, officials in Washington have agreed
to consolidate state charges against HarrisMoore. He is expected to plead guilty to more
than 30 felonies from Snohomish, Skagit, San
Juan and Island counties.
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camper responded by beating her in the mouth
with his .38-caliber revolver and threatened
to shoot her with it. He fired shots in the air,
at which point the family decided they’d had
enough recreation and left. Sheriff’s deputies
arrested the man the following morning.
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Washington economists predict the slow economy will
quickly drain cash reserves state lawmakers set aside. The
discouraging revenue forecast anticipates the state’s $738
million buffer will be whittled down to $163 million in the
next two-year budget cycle. Gregoire grimly signed a budget that includes $4.5 billion in spending reductions, relying
heavily on cuts to education.
THURSDAY
The Tacoma office of U.S. Senator Patty Murray is evacuated
after a staff member finds a suspicious envelope in the mail. The
letter-sized envelope reportedly
contained a sand-like substance
and the staff member was concerned about the return address.
The contents were determined benign by fire officials.
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Two additional sites are added
to ship coal to Asia, Associated
Press reports. Ports along the Columbia River in Oregon scoped for
coal include St. Helens and the Port
of Morrow near Boardman. The latter signed a lease option with Australian coal giant Ambre Energy to
shift Montana and Wyoming coal
from trains to river barges, a move
that could open even more Northwest ports for coal export.
06.y.11
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A sharply divided Bellingham
City Council discusses creating a
licensing and inspection program
for rental dwellings but fails to get
the votes to proceed with any plan.
Council has been discussing such a
program periodically since 2003.
In closed session, Bellingham
City Council unamimously agrees
to challenge Whatcom County’s
rural zoning and growth policies.
Under the county’s revised plan,
more than 1,900 new residential
lots could be created in unincorporated areas of the county—a violation of the intent Growth Management Act, which directs most new
development into urban areas, the
city alleges. A compliance hearing on the county’s revised plan is
scheduled to be heard by the state
growth board July 6.
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In a stinging upset, Bellingham City Council member Barry
Buchanan does not receive the
endorsement of Whatcom County
Democrats. Democrats endorsed
challenger Cathy Lehman at
their special meeting by a 78
percent margin. Buchanan was
formerly the party chair.
Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike
outpolls challenger Kelli Linville
for the official Democratic
endorsement, but fails to achieve
the two-thirds vote necessary to
snag it. Pike gets about 64 percent of the ballots cast, with 49
percent for Linville. It’s a telling
number that may carry through
to the August primary.
Similarly, David Stalheim
outpolled Tom Anderson, but does
not meet the threshold for endorsement. In the race for County
Executive, Stalheim collects 63
percent of democratic support to
Anderson’s 46 percent.
Olympic National
Park gets its two-bits
worth in a new
quarter from the U.S.
Mint. One side of the
coin honors the park
with a depiction of a
Roosevelt elk standing
on a Hoh River gravel
bar with Mt. Olympus
in the background.
The quarter is the
eighth in a series of
56 coins honoring
the nation’s natural
resources.
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A so-called “eco-terrorist” pleads guilty in U.S. District
Court in Seattle for her role in an arson fire that damaged
the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture
in 2001. Briana Waters, 35, served as a lookout for others
who set the fire as part of a string of arson events across
the Western United States. Her case rose to national attention after being branded a “terrorist” act following 9/11. A
previous conviction on the incident was overturned after an
appeals court held that a folder of documents containing
anarchist materials was improperly admitted into evidence
at her trial. In a plea agreement, Waters abandoned her prior
claim of innocence. She could serve up to two years in prison
and share a damages of more than $6 million with others
similarly convicted in the offense.
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A HEDGEBROOK NORTH: As part of A
Hedgebrook North: Women Authoring
Change, Wendy Call reads from No Words
for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the
Global Economy at 7pm at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
THURS., JUNE 23
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the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An
American Family is Hitler’s Berline, will be
the featured author at the Chuckanut Radio Hour taping at 6:30pm at the Leopold
Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $5.
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WIRE TO WIRE: Scott Sparling reads from
his American crime novel, Wire to Wire, at
7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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FRI., JUNE 24
THE THRILLER EDITION
HERE AT Cascadia Weekly headquarters, we never know exactly what the mail will bring. Whether it’s a Transformers 3D mask, a
100 Hot Sex Positions how-to guide or a series of letters from someone overly fond of the phrase “femo-Nazi,” it’s always a surprise to
see what’s inside the envelope. The following two books came in
recently, and they’re both more than a little frightening.
Blood of the Reich, by William Dietrich
HarperCollins Publishers
Whether he’s telling tales
set during the Napoleonic
wars, reporting on gnarly
oil spills or teaching journalism students how to get
their points across, Washington State author William
Dietrich seems to have the
formula for making things
interesting.
While he’s not quite taking a break from history in
his latest novel, Blood of
the Reich, Dietrich is, for a
change, dipping his literary
toes in the chilly waters of
the modern-day thriller.
The story begins in Berlin in 1938, but soon—by the second chapter, at least—switches
its focus to present-day Seattle, where a software publicist named
Rominy Pickett, moments before her brand-spanking-new Mini Cooper blows up, is tackled by a mysterious man in a parking lot who
soon informs her not only that he’s just saved her life, but also tips
her off that she’s a key player in a historical mystery.
“About what?” she asks as he whisks her through the first of many
fast-paced getaways. His answer? “A 70-year-old secret, a fairy story, about strange powers and a lost city.”
Without giving too much away, know that within Blood of the Reich,
you’ll also read about World War II history, Nazi plots, a legendary
power source dubbed Vril, Tibetan palaces, atomic super-colliders,
blood links, millionaire playboys and an American aviatrix.
True to form, many of the facts Dietrich peppers in this gripping
read relate to real-life events, and the author traveled the world to
make what he had to say as authentic as possible—
trips to both Tibet and Europe were par for the course.
This attention to detail shouldn’t be lost on readers,
as it’s part of what makes what the writer has to say
all the more compelling.
William Dietrich reads from Blood of the Reich at
6:30pm Tues., June 28 at the Mount Vernon City Library,
315 Snoqualmie St. He’ll also read at Village Books in
August.
Killer Move, by Michael Marshall
HarperCollins Publishers
I once spent a few days in a tropical locale superglued to a book by Michael Marshall called The Straw
Man. While palm trees fluttered in the sultry Hawaiian breeze, I read about serial killers and cursed videotapes until, reluctantly, I
reached the final page.
Marshall—a New York Times
bestselling British writer who’s
also written sci-fi titles under the name Michael Marshall
Smith—returns to the thriller
genre with Killer Move. The story
focuses on a real estate agent
named Bill Moore who, although
he’s successful and seemingly
pleased with his lot in life, wants more. He gets it
when, one day, a card with the word “modified” shows
up on his desk. With that simple statement, his life
begins to go awry in a variety of ways—including a
plethora of technical glitches and a rising body count.
It soon becomes clear the American dream, at least for
Moore, has backfired. It’s juicy reading, and the gaspinducing ending will leave you wishing for more.
“You put one foot after another, one word after another, and it makes sense at the time—until one day
you look up and find you’re lost in a future you don’t
understand, someplace you never wanted to go and
do not recognize,” Moore’s character realizes near the
end of the book. “That’s what had happened to us: had
happened, most of all, to me.”
WATER & SUFFRAGISTS: Paul Lindholdt
reads from In Earshot of Water: Notes from
the Columbia Plateau at 5pm at Village
Books, 1200 11th St. At 7pm, Carole Estby
Dagg reads from her autobiographical tome
about the suffragist movement, The Year
We Were Famous. Both events are free.
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CHUCKANUT WRITERS CONFERENCE: Jim
Lynch, Tom Robbins, Jeremy Voight, Dawn
Groves, Laurel Leigh, Alex Kuo, and Samuel
Green will be among the lauded writers
who’ll be sharing their craft at the inaugural Chuckanut Writers Conference happening June 24-25 at Whatcom Community
College. Registration fees are $245.
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WICKED BUGS: Find out more about the
sinister side of the natural world when
Amy Stewart shares stories from her latest book, Wicked Bugs: The Louse That
Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects, at 11am at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
671-2626
BOOK SALE: As part of Sumas Community
Days, attend a Book Sale from 11:30am2pm at Sumas City Park.
988-2501
OPEN MIC MADNESS: Authors taking
part in the Chuckanut Writers Conference
will host concurrent Open Mic events at
7pm at the Village Books Readings Gallery, Book Fare Café, the Fairhaven Village
Inn, and Magdalena’s Creperie. All events
are free and open to the public.
MON., JUNE 27
OPEN MIC: Writer and teacher Laurel
Leigh helms the monthly literary minded
Open Mic at 7pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St. Sign up at the main counter.
671-2626
POE TRYNIGHT: Read your original verse
at poetrynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus
Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start
at 8pm.
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HISTORY CRUISE: The Whatcom Museum’s
first History Sunset Cruise of the season
takes place from 5:30-8:30pm aboard the
Island Mariner. Local historian Brian Griffin
leads the outings, which take place every
Thursday through Aug. 19. Cost is $30-$35.
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FITNESS FORUM: Ultra-runner Dan Prost
leads a Fitness Forum focused on “Tour of
Giants: Redefining the World Epic” at 7:15pm
at Fairhaven Runners, 1209 11th St. Entry
is free.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN BACKYARD CAMPOUT
MOST SUMMERS when I was a kid, my family would pack up
our burly Jeep Cherokee to the hilt and leave the blistering heat of Idaho
for the cooler environs of Lummi Island for the month of July.
As friends and family gathered at our cabin throughout the season,
beds filled up fast. Many nights, wanting to escape even further away
from civilization—and also from the excessive chatter of adults—we
youngsters would either set up camp on the back deck or, at dusk, follow
the harrowing trail to the beach with our arms full of sleeping bags, pillows, flashlights and a variety of snacks.
We weren’t far from the cabin or the safety net of our parental units—
they definitely could’ve heard us if we’d screamed in terror—but the distance between “us” and “them” felt monumental.
As night grabbed hold, we took advantage of the big differences between sleeping in bunk beds in crowded quarters and being cozied up in
the great outdoors. Stars shone and fell, the seasonal phosphorescence
caused the waters just beyond us to sparkle as if they were imbued with
electrical currents and the sounds of the darkness—waves lapping, birds
sleepily cooing, creatures rustling in the night—were intoxicating. Being
able to pee outside was an added bonus.
In the decades since these nocturnal excursions, I’ve camped everywhere from the back of a Subaru to the beach on a coastal village in
Mexico and everywhere in between. But as the decades have passed, I’ve
never forgotten the magic that was made possible simply by stepping out
the back door.
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) must be on the same page,
as part of its Great Outdoors Month lineup includes the Great American Backyard Campout,
which happens Sat., June 25, and is meant to
draw attention to the importance of connecting
children to nature.
While all are welcome to celebrate the national outing by signing up on NWF’s website—
which garners participants free access to nature
activities, games, crafts, recipes and loads of
hints for successful camping, as well as a chance
to raise funds for the organization’s many kid-related programs—it’s clear
the event is also designed
to show how easy it is to
experience the wonder
of the outdoors, whether
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COST: Free
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INFO: www.back
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Sunday at Larrabee State
adventures
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terested can still show up
ncascades.org
to glean more information
about the joys of camping
(check the Washington State Parks website listed in the information box to see if there’s still
space available to reserve camping spots).
And even if you’ve already made plans for the
weekend that don’t involve a tent and s’mores,
keep in mind that camping in your backyard is
an activity that doesn’t require reservations,
and can be experienced all summer long. Simply
keep those sleeping bags within easy reach, and
brush up on the constellations so you can tell
your kids what’s what when they look up into
the night sky.
WWW.FAIRHAVENRUNNERS.COM
FRI., JUNE 24
BIKE FOR CHOCOLATE: As part of EverybodyBike’s Summer Rides series, take part
in an “I Bike for Chocolate” outing beginning at 4pm at Chocolate Necessities, 1426
Cornwall Ave. Entry is free, and there’s no
need to register.
WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM
JUNE 24-25
SIN AND GIN TOUR: Get stories and
glimpses of downtown Bellingham’s tawdry
past during 21-and-over walking tours with
the Good Time Girls beginning at 7pm Friday
and Saturday in front of Old School Tattoo
and continuing throughout the urban core.
Cost is $15 and includes a cocktail at the
Bayou Oyster Bar at night’s end.
WWW.GOODTIMEGIRLSBHAM.COM
SAT., JUNE 25
PADDEN TRIATHLON: The annual Padden
Triathlon begins at 8:30am at, you guessed
it, Lake Padden. The race is currently full, so
come cheer on friends and family.
778-7000 OR WWW.COB.ORG/RACES
WORK PART Y: Join the Nooksack Salmon
Enhancement Association and the Whatcom
Land Trust for a work party from 9am-12pm
at the organization’s Maple Creek Reach
property. Parking is available behind the
Maple Fuels convenience store.
WWW.N-SEA.ORG
ROSE WORK SHOP: Expert Judy Walker
helms “A Rose for Every Garden” workshop
at 10am at Bakerview Nursery, 945 E. Bakerview Rd. Entry is free.
WWW.BAKERVIEWNURSERY.COM
JUNE 25-26
HOME & LANDSCAPE TOUR: Sustainable
Connections’ 9th annual “Imagine This!
Home and Landscape Tour” takes place from
10am-5pm Saturday and Sunday at nine locations in or around Bellingham. Tickets to
take part in the eco-friendly tour are $12
general and free for kids.
WWW.SUSTAINABLECONNECTIONS.ORG
ORCAS GARDEN TOUR: “Orcas in Bloom”
will be the theme of the Orcas Island Garden
Club’s Garden Tour 2011 from 11am-5pm Saturday and Sunday at six gardens throughout
the San Juan isle. Tickets are $20.
WWW.ORCASISLANDGARDENCLUB.ORG
SUN., JUNE 26
COW HEAVEN HIKE: Join members of
Mount Baker Wild—a volunteer group working to protect local wildlands—for a hike
to Cow Heaven today. Please sign up in advance.
384-1618 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERWILD.ORG
GARDENS OF NOTE: Tour seven private
“town and country” gardens as part of
the Skagit Symphony’s annual fundraising
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BIOLOGY TALK: Staff from the North
Cascades Institute will focus on “Wildlife
Biology Studies in the North Cascades” at
a presentation at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
Entry is free.
647-8955 OR WWW.NCASCADES.ORG
SUMMER HIK ING INSPIRAT ION: Outdoor writer Craig Romano leads a “Summer Hiking Inspiration” presentation at
6:30pm at Burlington Public Library, 820
E. Washington Ave. The free event will feature Romano answering questions as well
as sharing tips about Pacific Northwest
recreational opportunities.
(360) 755-0760
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Walks for “Nature Babies” excursions from
9:30-11am every Tuesday through June at
Marine Park. Entry is by donation.
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climbing Baker, Shuksan, or Rainier, sign
up in advance for a free “Alpine Climbing
Basics” clinic at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
7$
TRACK & FIELD: Children and adults of
all ages can take part in the “All Comer’s
Track & Field” events from 6-9pm every
Monday through Aug. 30 at Bellingham’s
Civic Field. Entry is $4 per day or $30 for
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Herbs” will be the focus of the bimonthly
workshops led by Whatcom County Master
Gardeners at 2pm at Ferndale’s Hovander
Homestead Park. Entry is free, and there’s
no need to register.
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WWW.ANACORTES.ORG
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Summer Rides series continues with a
“Bike the Bayside” ride beginning at 1pm
at Maritime Heritage Park. The event is
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GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at
the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm,
stick around for “The Project.” Entry is $7
for the early show, $4 for the late one.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
JUNE 23-25
BY AMY KEPFERLE
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Beginning
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
APPARENTLY, WHEN your name is Ariel and you’re
in the circus, a whole lot of people tend to wonder if you took
up the high-flying moniker to honor the craft you’ve worked so
hard to perfect.
“Ariel is my real name,” says Ariel Schmidtke, one half of the
duo who’ll utilize aerial arts, puppetry, dance and theater during June 24-26 performances of “Death is the Beginning” at the
Bellingham Circus Guild’s Cirque Lab. “Most of the time when
people ask me that, I think it’s pretty funny.”
Coincidental identifier aside, Schmidtke, 23, says taking up
with the circus has been one of the greatest life-changing
events of her life thus far. Without it, she and performance
partner Isabelle DeLise would never have gained the confidence—or numerous talents—to tackle one of the universe’s greatest mysteries.
“The show is very conceptual,” Schmidtke says when
asked to explain what this weekend’s performances are all
about. “And the space between life and death is very personal. Basically, we’re two characters that meet and form a
companionship—and then we die.”
Schmidtke and DeLise first became interested in exploring the intense topic about six months ago, after a short
piece they put together for one of the Guild’s monthly
“Vaudevillingham”
performances—
“Dead and Lovely”—got them thinking
they could base an entire show around
the nebulous state found between life
and death.
Although Schmidtke’s a former gymnast who took to the aerial arts like a
monkey takes to a tree, she says neither
she nor DeLise had much background
ATTEND in the acting arena. That’s why, after
WHAT: Death is the they’d spent some time fleshing out
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the show, they invited actors from the
WHEN: 8pm June
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24-25 and 3pm
some feedback focusing specifically on
Sun., June 26
WHERE: Cirque Lab, character development.
2107 Iron St.
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COST: $5-$10 sugthey gave us all sorts of comments about
gested donation;
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but nobody will be
turned away for lack story,” Schmidtke says. “It’s not a fiveof funds
minute act, and we had to have these
INFO:
characters change and evolve throughwww.bellingham
out the show.”
circusguild.com
Schmidtke says if she and DeLise—
who met as neighbors and have been working together on
and off for nearly two years—can make people ruminate on
some of the theories they’re putting onstage, they’ll have
done what they set out to do.
“We want to create a world people can become involved,”
Schmidtke says. “We want them to feel invested in these
characters. We want audiences to be suspended from their
own reality, but come back with ideas to think on and ruminate on.”
That’s a pretty heady goal, but one Schmidtke feels she
and DeLise have worked hard to accomplish. Being part of
the circus, she says, has made her not only get in the best
shape of her life, but also work harder than ever to create
new goals for herself.
And now that she’s picked up a few new skills to share,
would she be able to give up one for the other?
“I couldn’t choose,” Schmidtke says. “And the thing I
love about being in the circus is that I don’t have to.”
THE SERVANT OF T WO MASTERS: A
250-year-old Italian commedia dell’arte
classic dubbed The Servant of Two Masters
shows for the final weekend at 7:30pm
Thursday and 8pm Friday and Saturday at
the Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M
Ave. Tickets for the comedic farce are $18.
WWW.ACTTTHEATRE.COM
JUNE 23-30
BARD ON THE BEACH: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Henry VI,
Richard III, and As You Like It will play in
repertory throughout the summer as part of
the annual Bard on the Beach Shakespeare
Festival at Vancouver, B.C.’s Vanier Park.
Tickets are $21-$40.
WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG
FRI., JUNE 24
A NIGHT OF IMPROV: Students of Sheila
Goldsmith’s Improv Playworks will perform
at “A Night of Improv” at 7:30pm at the
Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314
Harris Ave. Tickets are $8-$15; proceeds
benefit the eighth-grade class at Whatcom
Hills Waldorf School.
220-6580
JUNE 24-25
MIXED BAG: Attend “Director’s Cut” shows
at 8pm Fri.-Sat. at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for
“COPS 911.” Tickets are $8-$10.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MURDER ON THE ORIENTAL RUG: Mirth
and murder combine when Murder on the Oriental Rug shows at 7:30pm every Fri.-Sat.
through July 23 at Mount Vernon’s RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery
St. You’ll be helping solve the crime, so pay
close attention. Tickets are $20 (dessert
and the show) to $40 (included dinner).
WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM
SAT., JUNE 25
SHAKESPEARE’S FOOLS: Fools in love,
prideful fools, fools of fate and “just plain
fools” will be part of Shakespeare Northwest’s family-friendly showing of “Shakespeare’s Fools” at 1pm at the Fairhaven Village Green. The outdoor performance is free
and open to all.
WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG
MON., JUNE 27
THE GEOGRAPHY CLUB: Mount Vernon
High School’s Gay/Straight Alliance presents a Readers Theater production of The
Geography Club at 7pm at Mount Vernon’s
Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St. The onenight-only staged reading—which focuses
on closeted gay teens who start a club
that’s “so boring, nobody would ever in a
million years join it”—is free, although donations will be accepted.
WWW.LINCOLNTHEATRE.ORG
JUNE 27-28
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and “acts of all ages” can audition for an
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at a free showing of “Shakespeare’s Fools” June
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7pm Mon.-Tues. at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas
Theatre, 655 Front St. Bring all props, costumes and accompaniment.
THURS., JUNE 23
FOLK DANCERS: Learn Balkan folk dances
with the Fourth Corner Folk Dancers from
7:15-10:15pm every Thursday at the Fairhaven
Library, 1117 12th St. All ages are welcome,
and no partner is necessary. Suggested donation is $5; first-time visitors and students
are free.
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DANCE PARTY: The Bellingham Dance Company
offers up dance parties starting with lessons
at 7pm every Friday night at Core Kinetics
Pilates and Movement Studio, 1103 Railroad
Ave. Swing, Latin and ballroom dancing are
typically on the menu. Entry is $7-$10.
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TRAVEL FROM OZ: Students from Wendy Setter’s Dance Studio perform “Travel From Oz”
at 7:30pm Saturday and 2pm Sunday at the
Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St.
Dancers from ages 3 to 76 will take part in the
annual spring performance. Tickets are $14.
734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.
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MON., JUNE 27
PARK INSON’S CLASS: Pam Kuntz leads a
nine-week “Summer Dance 2011” class for
people with Parkinson’s Disease and other
movement and neurological disorders at
10am Mondays at the YWCA Ballroom, 1026
N. Forest St. Drop-in rate is $7 per session,
or $45 for all.
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role of Madame Ranevskaya on the big screen
at 7:30pm at Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre,
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class happens from 7-9pm at Improv Playworks, 302 W. Illinois St. Please pre-register
for the free class.
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WHEN THE Stranger awarded Seattle cartoonist Jim Woodring its Genius
Award for literature last year, it was for a book that, strangely enough, contained no words. Turns out they weren’t needed, as Woodring has proven himself
capable of drawing people into his strange, wonderful universe—also known as
the Unifactor—solely through images on a page. When he rolls into Bellingham
June 29 to discuss his latest graphic novel, Congress of the Animals, feel free to
ask questions about his longtime purple muse, Frank, as well as anything else
that tickles your fancy. We did.
Cascadia Weekly: Say you were going to be
forced to spend a year on a deserted island. You could only bring four things. What
would they be?
Jim Woodring: Aside from food and water?
A companion, a book, art supplies and
drugs—I mean penicillin and aspirin.
CW: A lot of your own waking and sleeping
experiences have been integrated into your
work. Can you expound on this a bit?
JW: Well, like any artist I put my life in my
work. Dreams, bizarre
phenomena, drastic errors of judgment and
entertaining misperceptions are all important
to me. Life never quite
resolves; I like that.
ATTEND CW: Why doesn’t Congress of the Animals
WHAT: Jim
have any words?
Woodring Q & A
WHEN: 7pm Wed.,
JW: None of the Frank
June 29
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WHERE: Village
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were timeless and placeless. Using language,
modern English, would tie them to here and
now. Besides, it’s good exercise.
CW: How would you describe the Unifactor to
someone who’s never visited?
JW: Well, it looks more or less like our
world. In fact it is more or less like our
world; inhabited by spooky-looking creatures, governed by unseen forces… full of
life, danger, surprises.
CW: Is it true that you don’t ever want to
draw yourself again?
JW: Yes, but since saying that on the record
recently I already have. I used to draw myself in comics that were entirely different
than the Frank stories. They were more re-
alistically drawn and more loosely inked
and they had dialogue, and since they
were about my experiences I was in ‘em.
I drew the last one of those in the mid
’90s, until last week when I did a onepager about myself for a festival booklet. In that 15-year interval I’ve become
gray and wrinkled, and it’s a challenge
to know what level of detail to put into
a drawing of myself now.
CW: Do you still have hallucinations?
JW: Rarely. The last one was about two
years ago. I saw a man standing on our
second-floor landing with his face in
a leather harness with the numeral 9
stamped on it.
CW: What’s your process for drawing a new
cartoon?
JW: I spend a long time putting the story together. That’s the most difficult
by far—collecting material and seeing
where it fits, where it doesn’t and what it
adds up to. I don’t set out to write a story
about anything; I mean I don’t start with
a theme or a point or a moral.
I can’t really tell you how the thing
“FINDING ASPECTS OF
THE STORY IS A LITTLE
LIKE SEARCHING THE
DESERT AT NIGHT FOR
FLUORESCENT ROCKS
WITH AN ULTRAVIOLET
LAMP.”
–JIM WOODRING
comes together. Finding aspects of the
story is a little like searching the desert
at night for fluorescent rocks with an
ultraviolet lamp. When I have enough
of them I see how they fit together.
If they don’t, I go and get more. The
structure is obvious when it’s done.
Then it’s sort of fleshed out and molded, and business is added where needed, and the panels and page breaks are
worked out. By the time it’s ready to
draw it’s been carefully planned.
CW: What can’t you do that you wish you
could?
JW: Meditate.
CW: What makes you proudest where your
art is concerned?
JW: That people like it even though it’s
not popular.
CW: What’s next on the horizon for you?
What about Frank?
JW: I’ve just written the story for the
next 100-page Frank book and I’m
roughing it out. Also I’m learning to
draw with the seven-foot dip pen I
made last year. It’s tricky, but I’m getting the hang of it.
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WAG MEE T ING: The Whatcom Art Guild hosts
its monthly meeting at 7pm at the Bellingham
Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Artists of all
levels are welcome.
OVERGROW TH GALLERY: “Errant Immediacy”
shows through June at the Overgrowth Gallery,
1206 Cornwall Ave.
OUTDOOR PHOTO BASICS: Patrick Kennedy
leads an “Outdoor Photography Basics” workshop at 7pm at REI, 400 36th St. Entry is free,
but you need to register in advance.
647-8955
ONGOI NG E X H I BI TS
ALLIED ARTS: “Delicate Strength,” featuring
the paintings of Enid Wilson and Yvette Neumann, shows until June 25 at Allied Arts, 1418
Cornwall Ave.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
BUF: Selections from the Zimbabwe Arts Project will be on display until July 10 at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St.
WWW.ZIMBABWEARTISTSPROJECT.ORG
CEDARWORKS: Peruse and purchase a variety of
Native American art from 10am-6pm Wed.-Sat.
at the CedarWorks Art Gallery, 217 Holly St.
647-6933
CHUCK ANUT BREWERY: Joy Hagen’s paintings will hang through June at the Chuckanut
Brewery, 601 W. Holly St.
752-3377
DEMING LIBRARY: View art by Mt. Baker High
School students through June 26 at the Deming Public Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
592-2422
DIGS: View works by Bellingham artist Andrea
Heimer and Seattle painter Renae Koepke at
their “Zoology” exhibit through June at DIGS,
200 W. Holly St.
WWW.DIGSSHOWROOM.COM
FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contemporary
folk art of RR Clark from 12-5pm every Mon.-Fri.
at the Fishboy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
FOG: View a variety of works by noted artists at
the Fairhaven Originals Gallery, 960 Harris Ave.
WWW.BELLINGHAMFOG.COM
FOURTH CORNER FRAMES: The works of Laurie Potter, Rob Vetter, and others can currently
(415) 513-1580
PIONEER MUSEUM: “Flying Spokes: 100 Years
of the Bicycle” is on display until Nov. 30 at
the Lynden Pioneer Museum, 217 Front St. Entry is $4-$7.
WWW.LYNDENPIONEERMUSUEM.COM
QUILT MUSEUM: “What Remains: Japanese
Americans in Interment Camps” shows through
June 26 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. 2nd St.
WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM
SCOT T MILO GALLERY: View a selection of
watercolors by Eric Wiegardt through June 28
at the Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave.,
Anacortes.
WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM
SK AGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Way We
Played: Early Skagit Recreation” can be seen
through July at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 4th St.
(360) 466-3365
SMITH & VALLEE: More than 15 Northwest
artists will take part in “The Salish Sea” exhibit through June at Edison’s Smith & Vallee
Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
ST. JOSEPH: A “Healing Through Art” exhibit
can be perused until Aug. 19 at the St. Joseph
Medical Center, 2901 Squalicum Pkwy.
733-5681 OR 296-2951
WATERWORK S: “Tales from Africa: Work Inspired by African Animals” show from June 25July 23 at Friday Harbor’s Waterworks Gallery,
315 Argyle St.
WWW.WATERWORKSGALLERY.COM
WHATCOM ART GUILD: From 10am-6pm every
Friday through Sunday, stop by the Whatcom
Art Guild’s Art Market at Fairhaven’s Waldron
Building, 1314 12th St.
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LUCK Y MONKE Y: Kat Houseman’s “The Importance of Respect” shows through June at the
Lucky Monkey Gallery, 114 W. Magnolia St.
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MINDPORT: Works by WWU fiber arts students
of Seiko Purdue will be on display through June
30 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Admission is $2.
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OUR TOWN RECEP T ION: A closing reception
for “Our Town,” an exhibit featuring paintings
by Lanny Little and former Bellingham artist
Lisa Lamoreaux, takes place from 7-9pm at the
Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St.
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LUCIA DOUGLAS: Figurative paintings by
Amy Huddleston, mixed media works by Ries
Niemi, and paintings by Jano Argue can be
viewed until July 2 at Lucia Douglas Gallery,
1415 13th St.
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PRINTMAK ING WORK SHOP: Drawing inspiration from the prints in “Evergreen Muse: The
Art of Elizabeth Colborne,” artist Jan Lor will
lead a Monotype Printmaking workshop from
12-4pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher
Building, 250 Flora St. Entry to the drop-in
workshop is $3.
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Condo’s “Clay and Fiber Fusion” shows through
June at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
June 24 Jen Scott Trio
July 1 Marion Weston
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Clough, and Sue Roberts, will be up through
June 26 La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial St.
July 8 Falcon Grady
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10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday at Mount Vernon’s Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Rd.
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art of Elizabeth Colborne,” “Fate of the Forest”
and “Big Purse: A Monument to the Everyday”
can be viewed through September at Whatcom
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BY CAREY ROSS
Ben E. King
STAND BY ME
BECAUSE WE, as humans, are fond of hyperbole, we like to
throw around certain terms freely. This, it seems, is especially true
when it comes to describing musicians. To describe something as
being “unique” when it’s merely slightly different is not unheard of.
The word “genius” used is all-too-casually to delineate that which is
merely kind of smart. And everyone, it seems, who survives a couple
of decades in the music industry gets to be a “legend.”
If being special is commonplace, how do we then distinguish when
a performer who might actually be a legend is in our midst?
Such things are probably not for me to decide, but when the
person we’re talking about is Ben E. King, I think we can all agree
that if he’s not a legend, he’s certainly a pretty big deal.
As a member of the Drifters, King has been inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As a solo artist,
he’s been nominated, and may one day be
inducted into that august arbiter of what is
and is not worthy of legendary status. He’s
charted a seemingly endless string of hits,
with four of his songs hitting the numberone spot. Three of his songs were listed as
part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500
Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. And, in
terms of accolades, that’s just the tip of this
musical iceberg.
Of course, no discussion about King can exist without addressing the song with which
he is most identified: “Stand by Me.” A perfect nugget of almost impossible soul, the
song was initially released in 1961 to instant
acclaim, and was a Top-10 hit for the crooner.
After that, the song was covered by John Lennon, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John,
and more than 400 other people. But, in 1987,
more than a quarter of a century after it first
Rumor Has It
DEAR SHIP TO Ship, I feel as though I owe you
an apology. While I’ve never maligned you in
print (or in person, for that matter) in any way,
I confess to knowing of your existence for a
long time before I finally saw you play at the
Shakedown last weekend. I further confess
that I knew about you, not just because people who had seen you told me how great you
were, but also because those people told me
specifically how much I would like you. And,
in that hyper-skeptical way I sometimes have,
instead of taking those people at their word,
I outwardly expressed interest while inwardly
rolling my jaded eyes and thinking, “Yeah, I’ve
heard that before.”
As it turns out, all those people were right:
You are great and I stand
corrected. Now, I realize you guys have jobs
and families and Real
Lives chock full of Real
Responsibilities,
but
can you at least try and
play more shows? Would
it help if I said Shea
Hagan might be fixing
to join my pantheon of
BY CAREY ROSS
favorite local drummers,
an illustrious group that also includes Aaron
Roeder, Beau Boyd, and Noah Burns? Let’s make
a deal, Ship to Ship: You book the shows and I
will use my big mouth to do my level best to
make sure people show up. Everyone wins.
While I’m trying to will things into existence, there’s something else I would like to
make happen by putting it in print and wishing it were so. Since the Shakedown seems to
be inducing every erstwhile band in town to
book a show, I’d like to challenge the folks
there to convince Lands Farther East to reunite
for my listening pleasure. I have tried, in a
sort of desultory, easily distracted fashion to
make this happen on my own, but have been
met with failure at every turn. See what you
can do, Shakedown. I’m not the only one who
wants this to take place.
All right, now for news of things that are actually happening. As everyone by now knows,
James Hardesty is in the midst of moving the
Green Frog from one side of State Street to
the other, to a space next to the Ridge. However, the move almost didn’t happen, as the
city initially wanted Hardesty to pay a whopping $25,000 in traffic impact fees simply to
operate his bar on the other side of the street.
Thanks to some fancy finagling—aided in part
by City Council candidate Cathy Lehman—that
amount has been reduced to about $7,000, and
now the move is on once again. If you’d like to
say goodbye to the old space, you have until
June 30 to do so. No reopening date has been
set, but when the Green Frog does reemerge,
I’m hoping it comes complete with that whiskey bar in the basement I’ve been badgering
Hardesty about (yet another thing I’m trying
to will into existence).
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ROY ZIMMMERMAN: Songs about ignorance,
war and greed can be heard when political
satirist Roy Zimmerman performs at 8pm at the
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St.
Suggested donation is $15, but nobody will be
turned away for lack of funds.
BY CAREY ROSS
WWW.ROYZIMMERMAN.COM
AMP Fest
SUN., JUNE 26
SWING FLING: The 19-piece Swing Connection Big Band performs at 2pm at the Fairhaven
Village Green. Guest appearances by noted local musicians can also be expected at the free
event.
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as Sarah Jerns, Sam Top, Ryan Wapnowski, Mark Detrick,
Zinn himself, and many, many more. Zinn has also used the
festival as an excuse to draw bands that wouldn’t otherwise
make Bellingham a tour stop.
As AMP Fest proves, Zinn is a man of many delightful surprises. I can’t wait to see what he’ll do next.
AMP Fest starts at noon Sun., June 26 at Maritime Heritage
Park. More info, including a full lineup with links to performers, can be found by searching “AMP Fest” on Facebook.
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SK IP GORMAN: Hear cowboy ballads, oldtimey tunes and plenty of instrumental acumen when Skip Gorman performs at 7:30pm at
the YWCA Ballroom, 1026 N. Forest St. Entry
is $10-$15.
WWW.SKIPGORMAN.COM
THURS., JUNE 30
PATRIOT IC CONCERT: The 56th Army Band of
Joint Base Lewis-McChord gives a free Patriotic Concert at 7pm at Lynden’s NW Washington
Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St.
WWW.LYNDEN.ORG
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ART OF JAZZ: The Jud Sherwood Trio makes
music at the monthly Art of Jazz concert
4-6:30pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $15 and includes “jazz, food
and friends.”
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Zach Zinn transplanted himself to Bellingham, he’s been endeavoring to make this area’s music
scene a little more experimental, a little noisier—and a
whole lot weirder. This has been accomplished through his
own musical efforts, as well as his penchant and proclivity
for luring other bands he’s fond of to grace Bellingham’s
various stages.
But now he aims to do something slightly bigger. He’s
reserved Maritime Heritage Park on Sun., June 26 for an
all-day outing of the weird and wonderful music he holds
near and dear. Dubbed AMP Fest—short for Abstract Music
in the Park—the event features artists from as far away as
Rhode Island and as close as our proverbial backyard. The
one thing they all have in common is the desire to break
with the mold of conventional music in favor of letting
their freak flags fly—musically speaking, that is. The event
will feature all kinds of bands you’ve never heard of, but
that are comprised of such local music scene luminaries
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WYNTON MARSALIS: Grammy award-winning
trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will lead an orchestra comprised of 15 of jazz music’s leading soloists in a performance at the Mount
Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets
are $39-$59.
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PARK CONCERT: Classic country and bluegrass
courtesy of Matt Audette and the Circle of
Friends Band kick off the Elizabeth Park Concert
Series from 6-8pm at the eponymous Columbia
neighborhood locale. Entry is free, and concerts
continue weekly through Aug. 25.
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HARRY AND THE POTTERS: Children, teens and
adults are all welcome at a performnace by Harry and the Potters at 6:30pm at the Mount Baker
Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. The free, nonticketed event celebrates Bellingham Public Library’s 2011 Summer Reading Kickoff Party
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hit the charts, King proved his original version was the
one with staying power, after his song hit number one on
the charts once again. Of course, he had a little help from
author Stephen King and actors River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, and the other cast members of the
1986 movie that bore the song’s name.
But one song does not a legend make. Lucky for King,
he’s got more than just “Stand by Me” on his musical resume. He’s also put his distinctive vocal stamp on “Save
the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” “There Goes
My Baby,” “Spanish Harlem,” and more. Those songs have
been retooled over the years by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Luther Vandross, Tom Jones, and more. Even U2 has
taken a stab at King’s back catalogue. As well, King was one
of the few soul singers to survive the British pop invasion
of the 1960s, and continued to chart hits after his contemporaries had faded into a more obscure way of life.
To be sure, King could simply take all
that memorable music he’s made and
rest on his legendary laurels, but that
isn’t the way of this soul singer. During
recent years he’s collaborated with Bo
Diddly and recorded an album of children’s music. And he continues to tour,
ATTEND drawing audiences in droves who want
WHO: Ben E. King
to hear his smooth baritone and see
WHEN: Sat.,
the man whose music is so instantly
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recognizable to generation after genWHERE: Silver
Reef Casino, 4876
eration of fans.
Haxton Way
One of those tour stops will take place
COST: $39.50
Sat.,
June 25 at the Silver Reef Casino.
MORE INFO:
Of
course,
as befits someone who may
www.silverreef
actually
be
a living legend, the show
casino.com
is currently sold out. If you were lucky
enough to nab a ticket, you’ll be able to decide for yourself
if “legend” is an accurate way to describe King and his
contribution to music.
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Aaron Guest (early), Reggae Night w/DJ Yogoman
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Havilah Rand
Robert Sarazin Blake and
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The Offshoots (early), Baltic Cousins, The Hollywood
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Cabin Tavern
Commodore Ballroom
Common Ground
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Jenni Potts, Timothy
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Paul Klein (early), Bob's
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Vinyl Night
Cabinet of Natural
Curiosities, World History,
Sarah Goodin
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Upstairs, Augural Master
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Black Beast Revival
Bentgrass
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Main St. Bar and Grill
McKay's Taphouse
Shoeshine Blue, Hillfolk
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Shanna Zell, Debbie Miller
Spoonshine Duo, Nettle
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Red Rocket
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Bar Tabac
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Jen Scott Trio (Seaview
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Jon Mutchler (Pierside), JB
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Zorbatron, Slacks, Advisory
The Accused, Torero, Dead
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Motown Cowboys (Lounge)
Ben E. King (Pavilion),
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Sonic Funk Orchestra
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The Sonja Lee Band
Rhythm Trio
Temple Bar
Karaoke w/Poops
DJ Postal, DJ Shortwave
Tom Waits Mondays
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Bar Tabac
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STARS UNDER THE STARS
WHEN SUMMER wends its capricious way to our corner of the
world, we do all those outdoor things for which our area is renowned. We
clamber up the sides of mountains, swim in an array of local watering holes,
undertake epic journeys via bike and otherwise engage in the open-air pursuits that fuel our hardy sun-worshipping souls.
But sometimes, we don’t want to break a sweat in our efforts to enjoy the
great outdoors. And so we do a curious thing: we take activities normally
reserved for the indoors and simply move them outside. Eateries with outdoor seating become our default dining destinations. Parks start to come
alive with the sound of music. And every year, with a little help from some
magical entertainment elves, Fairhaven’s Village Green is transformed into
an al fresco movie theater.
Now, summer and an entertainment activity that requires darkness for
its very existence may not seem to go hand in hand, but that doesn’t stop
the Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema. First, they aim to lure you in with live
music as the sun departs over the horizon.
Then, when dusk is starting to look more
like night than day, the digital projector
fires up, and the Village Green mural that
is painted to look like a giant movie screen
actually becomes one.
For the past several years, ever since the
fine folks of the Whatcom Film Association
(now the Pickford Film Center), dreamed up
and executed the first incarnation of this
open-air cinematic staple, that formula of
live music followed by family-friendly films
has remained pretty much the same. After
all, the Outdoor Cinema is the definition of a
good thing that should not be messed with.
However, for the past several years, Doug
Borneman of Epic Events—the entity that
now oversees this seasonal tradition—has
been tinkering with the tried-and-true formula a bit, and this summer’s series boasts
some wholesale changes that will make the
Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema more accessible—
and more fun—for all.
The first thing Borneman has done is to
break with the Outdoor Cinema’s traditional
Saturday-only schedule. For the first time
this year, those who are so inclined will be
able to pull up a spot of grass on the Village Green for Friday-night movies as well.
Another change he’s implementing comes in
the form of pre-show entertainment. While
Saturday nights will still feature the live, local music that is such a staple of the Outdoor
Cinema—this year’s lineup includes the likes
of the Pennystinkers, Laura Overstreet, the
Evolution Trio, Big Sur, and more—Friday’s
pre-show entertainment will come in the
form of trivia contests, for which prizes will
be awarded to the intellectually intrepid.
And, given the amount of trivia nights that
can now be found sprouting up all over our
fair burg, it’s safe to say
Borneman’s idea is nothing short of inspired.
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for every cinematic
taste. From classics
such as Grease (which kicks off the series)
and Some Like It Hot to modern award winners like The Social Network and the recently
retooled True Grit, all kinds of genres and interests will be represented. Like sci-fi? Show
up Fri., July 22 for Close Encounters of the
Third Kind. Interested in animation? How to
Train Your Dragon and Toy Story 3 have you
covered. Even cult classics like The Goonies
and The Princess Bride have found their way
onto this eclectic roster.
As always, the rules of the Fairhaven
Outdoor Cinema are simple: bring your own
seating (unless you prefer to plant yourself
directly on the Village Green), leave your
pets at home, a fiver gets you in (but you
may want to bring some extra scratch for
snacks) and gains you entry into trivia contests and access to live music, and, owing
to the dicey state of the weather around
these parts even in summer, rain cancels—
although rescheduling has been known to
happen. Mostly, however, all you need to
bring is a yen to enjoy a little piece of the
inside in the great outdoors.
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MALICK’S BIG BANG THEORY
Sat: (12:00 PM)
Trailer Wars (NR) Wed: (9:00 PM)
In Our Name (NR)
From Britain With Love Series Continues
Thu: (12:00), 8:30
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and to a further montage—the birth of
Mrs. O’Brien’s first son Jack, the baptism,
baby’s first steps, two other boys born,
their seemingly idyllic childhood. However, the theme of a disappearing Eden
permeates all of Malick’s work, and this
is no exception. Enter the serpent in the
shape of the father, another creative lord
and destructive master.
Red-haired, patient, long-suffering and
virtually silent, Chastain is the embodiment of absolute love, but it’s Pitt who
injects the picture with a much-needed
infusion of danger, ambiguity and, yes,
old-fashioned drama. Daddy is a man disappointed, a frustrated musician obliged
to toil as a middle manager in the local refinery. To his children, this father too is simultaneously loving and cruel, his bouts
of tenderness alternating with explosions
of temper—human nature’s big bang.
Young Jack navigates between his parents and the “two ways” they obviously
represent. Eventually, as an adult, he can
be found in a place Malick has never visited in any of his earlier works: the present
day. The director seems uncomfortable
there and (portrayed by Sean Penn) so
does Jack. Escape beckons in the surreal
guise of the film’s climax, when what began as a cosmic bang ends with the human whimper of wishful thinking—a kind
of Rapture scene where even the portal
to heaven looks gray and somber.
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Malick makes
films only slightly more often than God
makes pronouncements, The Tree of Life—
his fifth offering in 38 years—has excited
much anticipation. Now the wait is over
and, by all that’s holy, the result actually
plays like a divine pronouncement.
As deities go, Malick is par for the
course: he too commands our respect yet
not always our love.
Indeed, love and cruelty are the double
helix that weaves through every frame of
the picture, starting with a quote from
Job, whose patience is being tried by his
Maker. Malick takes us on a journey from
the very birth of the universe to its current
flawed state, with a stopover to a family
in small-town Texas circa the 1950s.
The trip is prefaced by a claim that
there are only two routes through life:
“the way of nature and the way of grace.”
Grace is abundant in the story’s mother
figure, the pious and loving Mrs. O’Brien
(Jessica Chastain), wife of Mr. O’Brien
(Brad Pitt), and a sufferer of that most awful of tragedies—the death of a child, her
middle son in his late teens.
That’s when Malick retreats from death
to birth, all the way back to the origins of
the cosmos, conveyed in a very long and
visually stunning sequence that traces
the “way of nature.”
Then comes the Texas stopover,
where the macro gives way to the micro,
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Azur & Asmar (Azur et Asmar) (PG)
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Incendies (R) 130 min.
“A staggering political drama that
could put you in mind of the intimate
sweep of Bernardo Bertolucci,
Incendies feels like a mighty movie in
our midst.” Time Out
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The Tree of Life (PG-13) 138 min.
“A film of vast ambition and deep
humility, attempting no less than
to encompass all of existence and
view it through the prism of a few
infinitesimal lives. The only other
film I’ve seen with this boldness of
vision is Kubrick’s “2001: A Space
Odyssey”.” Roger Ebert
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Pirates of the Car ibbean: On Stranger Tides:
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Azur and Asmar: An animated tale of two boys raised
as brothers—one blue-eyed and white-skinned, the
other brown-eyed and dark-skinned—who are cruelly
separated, then reunited before embarking on a dangerous quest. ★★★★1(tISNJO
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Super 8: J.J. Abrams is the nerdboy who can do no
wrong. From helping to create Lost to expertly helming the first installment in a rebooted Star Trek franchise to this effort, which finds him teamed up with
Steven Spielberg, Abrams knows just how to bring the
magic back to making movies. ★★★★1(tIS
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Bag It: Plastic grocery bags are piling up—and not
just in your house, but in landfills the world over. Find
out what havoc they wreak and the measures countries and communities are taking to ban the bags.
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Br idesmaids: Thank god Hollywood has finally taken
the lowest-common-denominator, R-rated comedy
formula and applied it to women. No, seriously, if I
have to look at another tepid rom-com with fall-flat
humor about the horrors of being single or shopping
for shoes or whatever it is we ladies are supposed to
like, I’m going to punch Hollywood right in its clueless face and then blame it on PMS. ★★★★ 3 t ISTNJO
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Cars 2: Can Pixar continue their nigh-impossible
string of hits with this eagerly anticipated sequel?
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sensibilities (not to mention his always-priceless
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which exists—and is almost totally off limits—on
the walls of a cave in France, and what you’ll have
is this stunning, Werner-y documentary. ★★★★ (G
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showtimes.
Green Lantern: Ever since the first photos emerged
Toast: Based on the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet
story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set
to the songs of Dusty Springfield, this is a delicious
love letter to the tastes and smells a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. ★★★ (UnSBUFEtISNJO
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN
of Ryan Reynolds tricked out in his spandex superhero
suit, women and comic book geeks alike have been
salivating for this summer blockbuster. Will this lantern light up the screen? I wouldn’t bet your green on
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Hobo with a Shotgun: It’s a grindhouse movie
starring Rutger Hauer called Hobo with a Shotgun,
for Pete’s sake. This is the kind of movie the PFC’s
Limelight was made to showcase. ★★★★ (Unrated
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showtimes.
Incendies: This nominee for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a horror movie, a love story and
a mystery, each thread of which is so expertly inter-
woven into the larger narrative that it is impossible
to separate any one strand from the other. ★★★★★
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for showtimes.
Kung Fu Panda 2: I believe this movie can best be
summed up using the wise words once sung by a man
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Mr. Popper ’s Penguins: We all read the book
growing up. And we all wanted those penguins for
ourselves. It’s all right to resent Jim Carrey a little
because he actually got to make a movie with these
Trailer Wars: You’ve all been wondering when the
next installment of Trailer Wars will take place, and
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surviving the apocalypse is merely the first step.
Now these chosen few must figure out how to carry
on amid much turmoil and many special effects. ★★
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X-Men: First Class: In general, I prefer prequels to
sequels, and this film is no exception. As the X-Men
franchise is badly in need of reinvigoration, this origin story comes not a minute too soon. And the fact
that it stars Michael Fassbender makes it that much
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on the second Friday of the
month at the Co-op’s Connection Building, 1220 N. Forest
St. Len-Erna Cotton, part of
A Breastfeeding Café
meets at 10:30am every Monday at the Bellingham Birth
Center’s Life Song Perinatal
Wellness Center, 2430 Cornwall Ave. Here, you’ll find
breastfeeding support and encouragement, solution-focused
dialogue and other networking
perks. Entry is $10. More info:
www.lifesongperinatal.com
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Attend a Meditation Hour
from 5:30-6:30pm every first
and third Wednesday of the
month at psychic Jill Miller’s
offices at 1304 Meador Ave.
Entry is $5. No registration
is required, but please be on
time, as the doors will close
right at 5:30. More info: www.
jillmillerpsychic.com
Attend a Healing hour at
5:30pm every second and
fourth Monday of the month
at psychic Jill Miller’s offices
at 1304 Meador Ave. Entry
is $5. No registration is required. More info: www.jillmillerpsychic.com
“No Eyes, No Ears, No
Nose…Zen and Creative Expression” happens at 7pm
Mondays and 9:30am Saturdays at the Red Cedar Dharma
Hall, 1021 N. Forest. Shuso
Edie Norton leads the class.
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open house and introductory
talk at 7pm most Mondays
at its digs on the third floor
of the Masonic Hall, 1101 N.
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thought it was just option 1, 2 or 3.
Option four was perfect.”
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A Reiki Energy Share and
Sound Healing Circle happens
from 6-7pm on the fourth Monday of every month at Jiva Yogi
Wellness, 1109 Cowgill Ave.
Suggested donation is $5.
More info: www.jiva-yogi.net
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Lieu of Jiva Yogi Wellness offers free Qigong at 9am every
Saturday in June at Fairhaven
Park. All ages are welcome.
More info: 306-8560 or www.
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Joy of Pilates will host a Pilates “Class on the Grass” in
support of the upcoming 2011
Whatcom Relay for Life. The
goal is to get 100 people to do
the traditional Joseph Pilates
exercise called “The Hundred”
starting at 11am Sun., June 26
at Martime Heritage Park, 500
W. Holly St. Participants must
bring their own mat, pillows
and water. Entry is by dona-
Join the Spirit Flow Dance
Collective on the first and
third Wednesdays of the month
throughout the summer at the
Majestic, 1027 N. Forest St.
Entry to explore the free-form
ecstatic dance is $5-$10 on a
sliding scale. More info: www.
spiritdanceflow.com
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Stroller Strides, a total
body fitness class for moms
and their babies, meets on
a weekly basis. Summer
outings happen every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
through the summer. The
class focuses on cardio,
strength and core training.
Your first class will be free
to try. More info: 391-4855 or
www.strollerstrides.com
“Five Keys to a Life Enhancing Diet” will be the focus at
a workshop with chiropractor Adam Klassen at 6:30pm
Thurs., June 30 at Mount
Vernon’s Skagit Valley Food
Co-op. Entry is free; register
in advance. More info: www.
skagitfoodcoop.com
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Sign up for “Botanical Medicine Study” beginning June
22 and continuing from 6-9pm
every Wednesday through
July 27. Botanist and herbalist
Molly Langdon will lead the
way. More info: (360) 6476987 or islaflorabotanica@
yahoo.com
Skagit Community Acupuncture is now offering a
“get what you need, pay what
you can” acupuncture clinic
every Thursday at its home
base at 160 Cascade Place,
suite 218, in Burlington. More
info: www.skagitcommunityacupuncture.com
Deborah Craig and Mary
Burgess lead a “Birthing in
Bellingham” series beginning
from 1-4pm Sat., June 25 at
the Community Food Co-op,
1210 N. Forest St. Learn about
choices and services related
to pregnancy, birth, baby care,
and breastfeeding with specific information about what
the Bellingham community
has to offer. Additional classes
happen July 16 and Aug. 6. Cost
is $10 per class or $25 for all.
More info: 734-8158
throughout the week. More
info: 483-4526 or www.bellingham.shambhala.org
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“Sports and Chiropractic:
A Hands-on Approach” will be
discussed with Rober Curtis,
DC, at 6:30pm Wed., June 22
at the Community Food Coop, 1220 N. Forest St. Please
register for the free event in
advance. More info: 734-8158
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
in advance. More info: Danielle@amaraparenting.org
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Learn about Emotional
Freedom Techniques (EFT)
at a variety of workshops in
Bellingham. More info: www.
eftsettings.com
Seattle-based
Amara
Parenting Adoption and
Pregnancy Services will hold
an informal information session for parents who are interested in adopting or have
questions about the adoption
process at 5pm Thurs., June
30 at the Bellingham Public
Library, 210 Central Ave.
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offered from June 22-26 at
Yoga Northwest, 1440 10th St.
Classes are limited to the first
25 students, so come early to
secure your spot. More info:
www.yoganorthwest.com
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coloring
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carrier
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9 Less phony
10 Like movies for
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Golden orb spiders of Madagascar spin robust webs. Their silk is
stronger than steel yet able to bend and expand
when struck by insects. Here’s an equally amazing
facet of their work: Each morning they eat what
remains of yesterday’s web and spend an hour or so
weaving a fresh one. I’m thinking that your task in
the coming weeks has some similarities to the orb
spider’s, Aries: creating rugged but flexible structures to gather what you need, and being ready to
continually shed what has outlived its usefulness
so as to build what your changing circumstances
require. (Thanks to the California Academy of Sciences for the info on orb spiders.)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The year is almost
half over, Taurus. Shall we sum up the first part of
2011 and speculate about the adventures that may
lie ahead of you in the next six months? The way I
see it, you’ve been going through a boisterous process of purification since last January. Some of it
has rattled your soul’s bones, while some of it has
freed you from your mind-forged manacles. In a few
short months, you have overseen more climaxes and
shed more emotional baggage than you had in the
past three years combined. Now you’re all clean and
clear and fresh, and ready for a less exhausting, more
cheerful kind of fun.
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the life you’re actually living so you will be motivated to “improve” your lot by buying what they’re
selling. In this short horoscope, I don’t have room
to express how much soul sickness this wreaks upon
us all. Recently HBO unleashed an especially nefarious attack. Promoting its new streaming service, it
informed us that “The story you could be watching is
better than the one you’re in.” Fortunately, Gemini,
you won’t be tempted to swallow that vicious propaganda anytime in the coming weeks. Your personal
story will be profoundly more interesting and meaningful than the narratives that HBO or any other entertainment source might offer.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): A company that
manufactures processed food made a promotional
offer: If you purchased 10 of its products, it would
give you 500 frequent flyer miles. An American man
named David Philips took maximum advantage. He
bought 12,150 pudding cups for $3,000, earning
himself more than a million frequent flyer miles—
enough to fly to Europe and back 31 times. This is
the kind of legal trick you’re now in a good position
to pull off, Cancerian. So brainstorm freely, please:
How could you play the system, outwit the matrix,
rage against the machine, or subvert the Man? No
need to break any laws; the best gambit will be an
ethical one.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While watching fasttalking politicians talk on TV, my Polish grand-uncle
would sometimes mutter, Zlotem pisal, a gownem zapieczetowal. I only learned what those words meant
when I turned 18 and he decided I was old enough
to know the translation: “written in gold and sealed
with crap.” One of your interesting assignments in
the coming weeks, Leo, will be to identify anything
that fits that description in your own life. Once
you’ve done that, you can get started on the next
task, which should be rather fun: Expose the discrepancy, and clean up the mess.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago I did a
book tour that brought me to Eugene, Oregon, where
my sister and her husband and their daughter live.
They came to my reading at a bookstore. My Virgo
niece Jasper was seven years old at the time. I was
surprised and delighted when she heckled me several
times during my talk, always with funny and goodnatured comments that added to the conviviality of
the moment and entertained everyone in attendance.
Who said Virgos are well-behaved to a fault? Your assignment this week is to be inspired by my niece:
With wit and compassion, disrupt the orderly flow of
any events that could use some smart agitation.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as
one goes on,” wrote author Samuel Butler. Ain’t that
the truth! You may be practicing as diligently as you
can, gradually trying to master your complex instrument, but in the meantime your lack of expertise is
plainly visible to anyone who’s paying close attention. Luckily, not too many people pay really close
attention, which gives you a significant amount of
slack. Now and then, too, you have growth spurts—
phases when your skills suddenly leap to a higher
octave. The coming weeks should be one of these
times for you, Libra.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In August and September, millions of seabirds known as Sooty Shearwaters leave their homes in New Zealand and travel
thousands of miles to the Gulf of the Farallones, just
off the coast of San Francisco. Why do they do it?
The feeding is first-class; the tasty fish and squid
they like are available in abundance. I suggest you
consider a Sooty Shearwater-type quest in the coming weeks, Scorpio. The very best samples of the
goodies you crave are located at a distance, either in
a literal or metaphorical sense.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I really
thought I’d understand sex better by now. After all
these years of doing it and studying it and thinking about it and talking about it, I still can’t regard
myself as a master of the subject. The kundalini’s
uncanny behavior continues to surprise me, perplex
me, and thrill me with ever-new revelations. Just
when I imagine I’ve figured out how it all works,
I’m delivered to some fresh mystery. How about
you, Sagittarius? Judging by the current astrological
omens, I’m guessing you’re due for a round of novel
revelations about the nature of eros. As long as you
keep an open mind, open heart, and open libido, it
should all be pretty interesting.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A few years
ago, Eve Ensler took her famous play The Vagina
Monologues to Pakistan. She and a group of local
Muslim actresses wowed a crowd in Islamabad with
discourses on vibrators, menstruation and “triple orgasms.” I invite and encourage you to try something
equally brave in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Give
your spiel to a new audience; take your shtick to a
wild frontier; show who you really are to important
people who don’t know the truth yet.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When my “macho feminist” memoir The Televisionary Oracle was
published in 2000, I suffered from comical delusions
about its chances for mainstream acceptance. For example, I tried to get a review in The New York Times.
As I know now, that had as much likelihood of happening as me traveling to the moon in a rainbow
canoe carried by magical flying mermaids. But in lieu
of that kind of recognition, others arrived. One of
my favorites: My book went along for the ride with
a group of goddess-worshipers on a spiritual tour to
the ancient matriarchal city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey.
They read my writing aloud to each other, amused
and entertained. I suspect you will soon have a
similar experience, Aquarius: having to “settle for”
a soulful acknowledgment that’s different from what
your ego thought it wanted. Take it from me: That’s
actually better.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My favorite plant
food for my African violets is a natural fertilizer
called Big Bloom. One of its key ingredients—the
stuff that makes it so effective—is bat guano. I’d
like to suggest that you’re about due to embark on
the Big Blooming phase of your own cycle, Pisces.
And it’s more likely to reach its deserved pinnacle
of fertility if you’re willing to summon just a hint
of bat-sh** craziness from the depths of your subconscious mind. But remember: just a dollop, not a
giant heap.
©2011, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.
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It could be something intestinal.
Protozoan sock hop? Parasite pride
rally? He could’ve been calling his
wife or his bookie or enjoying a middate masturbation break. Or, maybe
he just needed a good cry. Saying
nothing to him sets you up as an
easy mark if he’s a scammer, and as a
pushover if he’s just a garden-variety
jerk. Saying something is less uncomfortable if you use humor. Next
time he returns from a sabbatical in
a stall, maybe ask “That time of the
month again?” and see if he offers
some sort of explanation or just asks
to borrow a tampon.
If you keep dating him, put him on
double secret probation and be prepared for the other shoe to drop (perhaps in a Larry Craig “wide stance”). A
guy who takes a 10-minute bathroom
break needn’t lay out all the icky details, but one who isn’t socially incompetent, devoid of empathy or too
troubled to care will volunteer some
hint that he wasn’t snorting lines of
powder off the toilet seat (“I picked
up something in Guatemala, and it
wasn’t one of those brightly colored
bags”).
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The water conservation-minded
have that saying, “If it’s yellow, let
it mellow,” but they mean in the
toilet bowl, not in the living room.
(When’s the last time you walked
into Crate&Barrel and saw two-liter
bottles of urine on the Ainsworth
Cognac Bookcase next to an antique
typewriter and a bowl of seashells?)
Your fiance is acting like you don’t
exist in his life—except on nights
when he manages to stay conscious
long enough to put down one joystick and order you to hop on the
other. Oh, and by the way, that condom isn’t missing. It’s on vacation.
You’d know that if you weren’t so pathetically insecure.
If this is how he acts before marriage, imagine what you’ll be saying
after the honeymoon phase ends:
“You never blatantly ignore me, treat
me like an idiot and just use me for
sex like you used to.” Still, you aren’t
without standards. You say you need
a partner whose feet you can find
with yours under the blankets, which
rules out any degrading and dismissive jerks who also happen to be
double amputees.
As for being a “seize-the-day kind
of person,” you don’t mention what
day you plan on seizing, but apparently, it’s one far into the future. You
claim to love this guy, but maybe what
you really love is not admitting you’re
On both of my dinner dates with this guy,
he’s excused himself to the bathroom and
taken forever. Longer than any girl I know.
Like, 10 minutes. Although I barely know
him, he doesn’t seem vain or like someone
who’d be doing drugs. We’re going out
again, and I hate to be rude and pry, but
I’m really starting to wonder. —Mystified
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My fiance’s been treating me badly for a
while. When I’m at his place, I spend most
of my time watching him play video games
and drink beer until he’s ready for sex or
he passes out. He calls me “insecure” and
says “get over it” if I bring up anything
controversial, like when I noticed the box
of condoms we’d just bought was suddenly
short one. (There’s other evidence suggesting he’s cheating.) He’s also developed the
nasty habit of peeing into two-liter bottles
and leaving them around until they’re full.
He isn’t good for me in many ways, but I
love him and don’t want to devastate him
by ending our engagement. While I need
that feeling of having someone whose feet
I can find with mine under the blankets,
I’m a seize-the-day kind of person, and
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engaged to a lost cause. You worry
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your engagement (assuming you could
get his attention before he passed out
playing “Grand Theft Your Dignity”).
Just wondering: While you’re busy
caring about his feelings, who’s caring about yours?
Going limp in the face of confrontation sets you up to have a cheating fiance who’s decorating the house
with a week of his urine. If you refused to put up with a lack of respect, you’d either get treated with
respect or get out of any relationship
where disrespect is the main theme.
You might end up alone—maybe for a
while—but that’s got to be less lonely than being engaged to a man who
not only refuses to go the extra mile
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SNOQUALMIE PRE-PROHIBITION PILSNER
DON HENLEY’S love song, “The Boys of Summer,” may have been a
hit, but “The Beers of Summer” would have been a better title. And it should
have started with “Bicycles are on the road, people are on the beach/I feel
it in the air, summer’s in reach.”
As of Tues., June 21, summer is officially here and, fortunately for us, so
is the beer.
A “summer beer” is just a general term for a light, low-alcohol, easy-
drinking beer that’s
perfectly fit for the season. It might be a limited-release seasonal or
it might be a year-round
offering. Sometimes a
summer beer is referred
to as a “lawnmower”
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beer because it’s the
WHAT: Summer
style of beer most peoBrewing: Beer
ple crave while toiling
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WHEN: 10am-1pm
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your deck. You want
a beer that’s crisp, quenching and refreshing—something that’s easy to drink and
sessionable. Something that won’t slow you
down with high alcohol, intense bitterness
or sticky sweetness.
There are many different brands and styles
of beer that could be considered summer
beers, but here are some locally available recommendations to keep you cool this summer.
HELL OR HIGH WATERMELON WHEAT (21st
Amendment Brewery, San Francisco, Calif.)
Watermelon might sound like an odd ingredient in beer, but it’s a surprisingly delicious
one. This summer seasonal—available April
through September—is an American wheat
ale that undergoes a traditional secondary
fermentation using real watermelons. It’s a
light-tasting, light-bodied and low-alcohol
beer, but it still has a lot of character and it’s
crisp, refreshing and dry, making it an ideal
thirst-quencher on a hot summer day. Additionally, its watermelon notes are very pleasant and not overdone like many fruit beers.
LIGHTNER BEER (Boundary Bay Brewery,
Bellingham, Wash.) Named after Craig Lightner (the father of Boundary Bay’s general man-
ager), who embodies the everyday hero in us
all, Lightner Beer is a crisp, clean, refreshing and light American-style ale meant for
everyday drinking. Boundary Bay introduced
Lightner Beer in 2009, and it’s the lightest
beer the brewery makes, among a wide variety of styles offered. This easy-to-drink session beer will be available this summer on
tap in the brewery’s beer garden. “Both the
Lightner and our Pilsner are perfect beers to
enjoy out in the beer garden with sunshine,
barbecue, live music and good friends,” Casey
Diggs, Boundary Bay’s operations manager,
says. “Pair either beer with a classic burger,
one of our salmon burgers or beer-battered
fish and chips—during our Friday Fish Fry—
for a great summer meal.”
SUMMER SOLSTICE (Fremont Brewing Co.,
Seattle, Wash.) Made with just two-row pale
malt, Amarillo hops, water and yeast, this
“tangerine flower in a glass” is so simple,
yet it’s so much more. It’s citrusy and bright
with a balanced bitterness, and it has everything you want in a summer beer.
SUMMER BEER PRE-PROHIBITION PILSNER (Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Co., Snoqualmie, Wash.) Before Prohibition, American pilsners were stronger, hoppier and more
flavorful than the bland, macro-brewed,
post-Prohibition pilsners, which were made
as light and vapid as possible to appease the
masses. Thankfully, many craft breweries are
now making delicious pilsners, and some are
even making the historical versions. Snoqualmie Falls Brewing’s Summer Beer is like
a classic pre-Prohibition pilsner (it’s even
made with some maize), but it’s brewed in
the alt (i.e., old) lager style, so it’s made
with ale yeast instead of lager yeast. The result is an earthy, unfiltered light beer that
has a crisp texture, spicy aromas and a dry,
snappy finish.
CHUCKANUT KÒLSCH (Chuckanut Brewery, Bellingham, Wash.) The Kòlsch style of
beer is a hybrid style because it’s fermented
with top-fermenting ale yeast but aged like
a lager. Being a light, clean and dry beer,
it’s also a quintessential summertime session beer, and Chuckanut’s award-winning
version is as fine as they come. Chuckanut
Kòlsch has a light body, soft malt flavors,
a subtle hop bitterness, and a dry, slightly
fruity finish. “Our Kòlsch is a great summer
beer because it’s light, bubbly and it satisfies thirst better than water,” Chuckanut’s
Mari Kemper says.
SUMMER SQUEEZE BRIGHT ALE (Bridgeport Brewing Co., Portland, Ore.) This
sprightly blond ale is described by Bridgeport as one summer crush you won’t soon
forget. It’s light and snappy, and it’s made
with lemongrass and yuzu fruit from East
Asia. The citrusy yuzu fruit imbues the beer
with wonderful flavors and aromas that are
reminiscent of freshly squeezed oranges,
grapefruits and lemons, making the beer remarkably refreshing.
Though you might miss them, I can tell you,
your love for these beers will still be strong,
even after the beers of summer have gone.
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THURS., JUNE 23
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STRAWBERRY SOCIAL #1: Head to Everson
for a Strawberry Social and Spaghetti Dinner
happening from 5-7pm at Immanuel Lutheran
Church, 5782 Lawrence Rd. Admission is by donation; funds raised will go to Whatcom Hospice
and the Foothills Food Bank.
592-5876
FRI., JUNE 24
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CRACKED CRAB CRUISE: San Juan Cruises offers Chuckanut Bay Cracked Crab Evening Cruises
from 6:30-9pm every Friday and Saturday aboard
the Victoria Star 2 leaving from the Bellingham
Cruise Terminal. Entry is $49 and additional dinner cruises take place through Sept. 17.
WWW.WHALES.COM
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SAT., JUNE 25
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COMMUNIT Y MEAL: A bimonthly Community
Meal happens from 10am-12pm at the United
Church of Ferndale, 2034 Washington St. Entry is
free and open to all.
384-1422
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BAKERY OPEN HOUSE: From 10am-4pm, as part
of the Bread Bakers Guild of America’s international Bakery Open House happening today, head
to Edison’s Breadfarm, 5766 Cains Court. Tours,
samples and more will be part of the free fun.
Please register in advance for tours.
(360) 766-4065 OR OFFICE@BREADFARM.COM
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CHEESE CLASS: Learn how to make Gouda goat
cheese at home when native German cheesemaker Corina Sahlin leads a hands-on class from
12-3pm at her farm in Marblemount. Cost is $45
and includes samplings, farm tours and education. An additional class happens July 16.
(360) 873-2542 OR CORINASCHAEDLER@YAHOO.
COM
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CAMP COOK ING: As part of the Great American
Backyard Campout, attend a Camp Cooking Class
from 3:30-5pm at Larrabee State Park. REI staff
members will be on hand to share favorite recipes and share cooking tips. Register in advance
for the free event.
647-8955
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SUN., JUNE 26
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STRAWBERRY SOCIAL #2: Strawberry shortcake, hot dogs and potato salad will be on
the menu at a Strawberry Social beginning at
11:45am at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1720
Harris Ave. Entry is by donation.
733-6749
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VINES VS. T WINES: The Bellingham Sister Cities Association hosts a “Vines vs. Twines” fundraiser from 5-8pm at the beer garden at Boundary Bay Brewery, 1107 Railroad Ave. Tickets are
$15-$25.
06.22.11
778-1310 OR SANDYPRATT738@GMAIL.COM
MON., JUNE 27
383-3200
SOUTHEAST ASIA CLASS: Instructors from
the Skagit Valley Food Co-op will lead a cooking
class focusing on “Southeast Asia” at 6:30pm at
the Mount Vernon store. Cost is $10 for members,
$20 general.
WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM
WED., JUNE 29
CHOWDER CHARTER: The first Chowder Charter of the season happens from 6-9pm aboard
the Shawmanee leaving from Squalicum Harbor.
Cost is $45 and includes all-you-can-eat smoked
salmon chowder from Boundary Bay.
WWW.BELLINGHAMSAILING.COM
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child’s car seat is installed correctly every time. Just
clip it to the lower anchors, attach the top tether, and
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E THIOPIAN CUISINE: Mulu Belay leads an
“Ethiopian Cuisine” course from 6-9pm at the
Cordata Community Food Co-op. Entry is $35.
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