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High Art: Views from above, p.18
Farm to Market: From the ground up, p.34
Beethoven’s Back: Bellingham Festival of Music, p.20
9/11 TRUTH BELLINGHAM
and
Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth
are proud to present the
July 5th from noon until dusk at the Peace Arch Park
United for Truth, Peace, Justice, Liberty
by the will of the people, NOT corporations
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FOOD 34
NORTHWEST TRUTH CONVERGENCE 2008
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FREE to the public
Family friendly atmosphere
Live music with Everett Bone
9/11 Truth information and free DVD’s
Bring your own meat or veggies for the provided BBQ
Stroll the International Sculpture Garden
Peace Arch State Park is located off I-5 exit 276.
Park and wander through the beautiful US and Canadian
setting without hassling border waits.
For more information contact scott@911TruthBham.org
This event will be informative and enjoyable.
Come and be part of the fun on July 5th.
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“THE HUNT,” IS ONE OF MANY
WORKS OF ART YOU CAN SEE WHEN
“NORTHWEST ESSENCE” OPENS JULY
5 AT THE LUCIA DOUGLAS GALLERY
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A glance at what’s happening this week
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JOHN SIMON’S ETCHING,
07.02.08
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WEDNESDAY
ON STAGE
MUSIC 20
The Tempest: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
DANCE
Ballroom Dance: 6-8pm, the Leopold
MUSIC
ART 18
The Growers: 12pm, PAC Plaza, WWU
Joshua Roman: 5pm, Lairmont Manor
Bull riding, mutton busting and calf scrambles
will be part of the bovine fun July 5 at the Sumas
Bull-A-Rama
MUSIC
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COMMUNITY
Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village
Green
Green Drinks: 5-7pm, Boundary Bay
Loggerodeo: Through July 6, Sedro-Woolley
STAGE 16
WORDS
Spoken Word Wednesday: 8-10pm, Bellingham
Public Market
07.03.08
THURSDAY
COMMUNITY
Pancake Breakfast: 8-11am, Rome Grange
Railway Talk: 2pm, Whatcom Museum
WORDS 14
Balkanarama: 3-6pm, Fairhaven Village Green
MONDAY
MUSIC
History Cruise: 6:30pm, Bellingham Bay
SATURDAY
ON STAGE
07.04.08
FRIDAY
ON STAGE
King Lear, The Tempest: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
COMMUNITY
Waffle Feed: 8am-12pm, McPhail Berry Farm,
Lynden
Haggen Family Fourth: 10:30pm, Bellingham Bay
Old-Fashioned Fourth: 10am-10pm, Blaine
King Lear: 3pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
The Life and Times of George Pickett: 7:30pm,
San Juan Community Theatre, Friday Harbor
The Tempest: 8pm, Vanier Park, Vancouver B.C.
Upfront Unscripted: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC
Festival of Music Kickoff: 7:30pm, Performing
Arts Center, WWU
COMMUNITY
Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts
Center
Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot
Market Square
07.08.08
5th of July Celebration: 11am-4pm, Blaine
Canoe Journey Celebration: 12-4pm, Boulevard
Park
GET OUT
Bull-A-Rama: 7:30pm, Sumas Rodeo Grounds
VISUAL ARTS
Northwest Essence Opening: 5-7pm, Lucia Douglas
TUESDAY
ON STAGE
Barefoot in the Park: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Studio
Theatre
MUSIC
Rhythm Sensations: 7:30pm, Bellingham Cruise
Terminal
07.06.08
SUNDAY
WORDS
Jonathan Harrington: 7pm, Village Books
ON STAGE
The Answer: 8pm, Boundary Bay Brewery
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MAIL 4
Mad Fusion: 7:30pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center
WORDS
Norman Fisher: 7:30pm, Bellingham Unitarian
Fellowship
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MUSIC
The Dagwoods: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park
A FUNKY FUSION OF JAZZ,
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DANCE
Independence Day Celebration: 8-10pm, U & Me
Dance
Laughter Club Picnic: 4pm, Elizabeth Park
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ON STAGE
Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
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As the world waits with
bated breath for the
birth of their bouncing
bundles of babyhood,
Brangelina—Angelina
Jolie and Brad Pitt,
natch—checked into a
hospital in Nice, France
late Monday night to
prepare for the delivery.
The twins will join a
growing brood, making
them number five
and six in the lineup.
Welcome to the gene
pool, kids.
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VIEWS & NEWS
4: We’ve got mail
6: Warring factions
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8: A crude awakening
10: Guns, water, budgets
13: Cop shop
ART & LIFE
WORDS 14
CURRENTS 8
VIEWS 6
MAIL 4
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BEETHOVEN’S BACK: BELLINGHAM FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, P.20
COVER: Illustration by Angel
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I just couldn’t help myself
after reading your article on
sustainable development. Jay
Walljasper, from Ode magazine, should take a look beneath the surface. Ode prides
itself on publishing positive
news about the people and
ideas that are changing our
world for the better; however,
Walljasper fails to address the
construction of these magnificent high-rises in Vancouver,
B.C., which may be handsome
to the eye, but come with a
terrible legacy. There is a horrible cost to the homeless people who have been moved out
by these modern urban settings. The homeless have been
denied affordable neighborhood dwellings due in part to
the potential income that will
be generated by the upcoming 2010 Olympics. Vancouver
has stated it plans to clean up
the street-homeless problem
through social housing. How-
ever, Vancouver has succeeded
only in displacing the problem
or incarcerating it. The people
on the downtown eastside of
Vancouver want affordable
housing, now.
So you see, Vancouver’s attractive architecture comes
with a high price. Even the
ground it touches, it does not
own, nor does it respect. Their
“green” buildings may taper
and ascend upward, but their
roots are born from greed.
For this land in which they
emerge is unceded. Yes, even
this land in which they exist
is not their own, it is Coastal
Salish Territory.
—Charles Law, Co-Chair,
Whatcom County Rainbow Coalition
SUPPORT KEN
HENDERSON
Although the fall elections
seem distant, I think it is important that we consider now
who we will elect to replace
Senator Harriett Spanel. Several candidates filed for the seat
in early June, but only one has
the experience, background
and compassion to continue
the excellent job performed
by Sen. Spanel. That person is
Ken Henderson.
Ken’s previous elected experience, his business background, and his compassion
for others as an optometrist
providing eye care for the less
fortunate will be a great asset
in the legislature. His lifetime
of service to the community
will help him as he continues to deal with uncheckedgrowth, healthcare issues and
environmental concerns.
I share Ken Henderson’s vision of the future, responsible
growth, affordable healthcare
for all and a state government that works for all of us.
Please join me in supporting
and voting for Ken Henderson
on Primary Election day, Aug.
19, 2008.
—Don Gischer, Bellingham
Send your letters to POB 2833,
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Whatcom County has
had a long history of
proudly promoting its
independent businesses.
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KITCHEN SINK SYNDROME: Road construction marches
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apace, block-by-block up Cornwall Avenue.
Early in May, Bellingham City Council found themselves caught in a minor fender-bender in the intersection where real-time needs collide with policy and legal requirements. In their afternoon committee, Public
Works sought a variance to the city’s noise ordinance
in order to lay pipe and resurface the roadway in the
wee hours before traffic and workflow became concerns.
Such a variance requires the vote of the full council, approval that ought to come in their evening session and,
ideally, with notice sufficient to allow those affected
by the variance (residents along Cornwall who would be
shocked awake by backing alarms and jackhammers) to
comment on the proposal; only trouble was, construction was set to begin early the following day and Public Works needed time during business hours to alert
their contractors and road crews when to begin work.
The department needed an immediate wink-and-a-nod
guarantee from council that such a variance would, in
fact, be approved later that evening.
Public Works got that nod in a precious moment where
knowing looks and shrugs substituted for actual discussion and approval; the official assent arrived later that
evening. The gaffe—which generated chuckles from
the audience—saved city taxpayers thousands of dollars in work delays and, in the long view of Bellingham
legislative history, hardly merits mention... except as
it may illustrate more troubling collisions of practicality and policy.
F’rinstance, last week’s three-hour public meeting on
the creation of bike lanes along Cornwall Avenue—a
decision that, for reasons of cyclist safety, best required the elimination of parking along the west side
of north Cornwall.
Of course, any discussion of reducing parking adjacent
to downtown Bellingham raises the hackles of motorists
and businesses, as well as the specter of a parking solution at least two decades overdue.
The city has debated additional parking downtown
since at least 1982, and has seen for its squabbles the
concomitant evaporation of commerce from Bellingham’s
core to outlying ‘burbs like Bellis Fair and Barkley Village
where parking is free and abundant. However much we
may wish to rebrand the car culture in this challenging
era of costlier resources, the reality is automobiles (and
their storage) will be with us for some time and will continue to pressure urban planning; however much we may
wish for Bellingham to embrace an enlightened 21st century, its economics and infrastructure are still strongly
rooted in the 20th century.
It is insufficient to declare there is no parking shortage downtown when every informed parking study over the
past 25 years reports there is a parking shortage—in a city
with a population that’s enlarged by roughly 25 percent in
the same period. Yet parking policy downtown has been
plagued by disincentive and “scope creep”—a term that
describes the continual addition of new features and complications to projects, also known as “Kitchen Sink Syndrome” (KiSS [as distinct from “Keep It Simple, Stupid”]):
Disincentive, in that motivated greenfield developers are—at best—indifferent to a parking solution for
Bellingham’s urban center; scope creep, in that whenever
downtown parking arises as a topic, the discussion is diluted and diverted by debate about parking goals elsewhere (Fairhaven, anyone?), multi-modal transportation
goals (transit, bikes), enforcement issues, etc.; disincen-
OP INIONS
T HE GR I S T L E
BY MARIE MARCHAND
Preemptive Strike
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER URGES OPPOSING WAR EXPANSION TO IRAN
ON JUNE 23, Bellingham City
Council Member Terry Bornemann
brought forward for the council’s
consideration a resolution urging
the Bush Administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with
Iran. It also urges Congress to
prohibit the use of funds to carry
out any military action against
Iran without explicit congressional authorization.
“I consulted with Mayor Dan
Pike before bringing this resolution forward,” Bornemann explained. “We feel it is necessary
for our nation’s mayors and cities
to step forward and take the lead
in saying ‘no more war.’ Our cities and our nation cannot afford
the cost—in the lives of our sons
and daughters, nor financially—
of another unjust war.”
Bellingham would be the 12th
city in the United States, and the
first in Washington, to pass a resolution opposing U.S. aggression
against Iran. The resolution was
presented at the U.S. Conference
of Mayors June 21, where it was
cosigned by 20 mayors, and has
quickly gained momentum across
the nation. Mayor Pike and Bornemann were asked to consider the
resolution by concerned Bellingham citizens.
“In my gut I’ve got to believe
that the Bush Administration
would not unleash these dogs of
war on our overstretched military,” said Gene Marx, a Vietnam
veteran and father of a two-tour
Iraq veteran. “But on another
level, I saw firsthand how easily
that group of chickenhawks dismissed the repercussions of the
Iraq War and occupation on my
son and soldiers like him… that
debacle would be trumped by almost unimaginable devastation
and international blowback.”
Gene and I worked with Terry
on a Troops Home! Resolution
in 2006. That resolution, which
passed council by a 6-1 vote, called
for the immediate commencement
of a withdrawal of troops from
Iraq, humanitarian assistance to
the Iraqi people, and a prohibition on permanent U.S. military
our energies and initiate peaceful diplomatic negotiations.”
Dominique Coulet du Gard, faculty member at WCC and Fairhaven
College and mother of an Iraq
veteran, said she is glad the City
Council is taking up this issue.
“Bellingham is a Troops Home!
City. We want our sons and
daughters to come home, not be
redeployed to another mistake
of bloodshed and tragedy,” she
said. “I commend council member Bornemann for bringing this
issue forward.”
The resolution will be on the
agenda for the July 14 City Council meeting, where it will be dis-
“IT IS NECESSARY FOR OUR NATION’S MAYORS
AND CITIES TO STEP FORWARD AND TAKE THE
LEAD IN SAYING ‘NO MORE WAR.’”
—TERRY BORNEMANN, CITY COUNCIL
bases. Doris Kent, mother of local
fallen soldier Corporal Jonathan
Santos, was among the leaders of
this successful campaign.
“Students all across the nation are standing up against our
current Occupation in Iraq and
are in disbelief that there are
talks about military intervention with Iran,” WWU student
Nicolas Spring said. “Too long
the slogan ‘Books Not Bombs’
has reverberated throughout our
classrooms. It is time to redirect
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cussed and possibly approved. Citizens are encouraged to attend.
“It is time to move to a peace
in the Middle East, bring our
troops home and begin rebuilding our American cities,” Bornemann asserted.
I agree. As citizens of Bellingham, we say “No!” to U.S. military aggression.
Marie Marchand is executive director of Whatcom Peace & Justice Center.
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tive again, in that Public Works is evidently satisfied with hijacking revenues
collected for a downtown parking fund
(the very reason for meters) and applying them to other municipal projects.
We digress.
At the end of last week’s public meeting, Mayor Dan Pike informed council
that the urgency for a decision was
driven by the march of road construction up Cornwall Avenue and the costsavings opportunity that presented to
restripe a resurfaced roadbed to accomodate bike lanes. Thus again—as in
May, but in more meaningful context—
does operational expedience lead and
trump public policy.
Ours is not a complaint against transportation alternatives; nor is ours a lament about a loss of on-street residential parking (although, clearly, if there
was a plan in place to offset such losses,
the collision of bikes-versus-cars would
be less painful, and perhaps unnecessary). Ours is merely an observation
that in its harried decision, council
strongly supported neither—in a 5-2
decision, council agreed to remove 80
percent of the parking proposed by COB
staff (none of which, by the way, has
much impact on commerce downtown)
and in the 20 percent remaining failed
to connect a safe, dedicated bike lane
all the way into the city center from
Cornwall north. Theirs was a compromised policy, neither fish nor fowl.
At the risk of over-simplification,
we’ll characterize the evening’s debate
as one of emergent transportation policy versus the inconvenience of those
overrun by evolution in policy. And we
credit City Council for trying to achieve
the one without unduly harming the
other. One day they may completely
succeed, but to do so will require a
long-delayed genuine parking solution
(consider, for example, the advantage
to both bicycles and pedestrians when
parked cars are lessened on-street and
instead stored off-street in a parking
facility), together with a thoughtful
plan to reach that solution in an operational environment that’s not hostage
to the drying of tarmac or some other
pressing administrative deadline.
Alas, in the same evening, Mayor Dan
championed his concept of a parking
facility combined with the siting of a
central library facility on a revitalized
central waterfront.
His is an elegant, ingenious, praiseworthy concept, encumbered by only
three things: intractable debate about
libraries; intractable debate about the
central waterfront; intractable debate
about parking.
Talk about scope creep!
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BY TIM JOHNSON
SUPREME
COURT
SLASHES
DAMAGES
IN OIL
SPILL
CASE…
AGAIN
WHO WILL speak for the fishermen?
I suppose I must: Those who could speak more authoritatively than I on the luck
of their hauls are now at sea, at the height of their season. Some return my calls
ship-to-shore to express their disappointment with the Supreme Court of the United
States, who last week eviscerated a jury verdict on history’s worst DUI, if you will,
that spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil on Alaska’s Bligh Reef.
Thousands of fishermen—many who
anchor in Puget Sound—were devastated when the Exxon Valdez supertanker
ran aground in 1989.
So long ago now it feels like a moon
landing, Captain Joe Hazelwood staggered away from the helm of a 987-foot
oil tanker, leaving his command to an
unlicensed subordinate. Eleven hours after his ship was torn open on the reef,
the captain’s blood-alcohol content registered .241, slightly more perhaps than
the seawater-to-crude ratio then flooding into Prince William Sound. The spill
fouled almost 1,300 miles of Alaska
coastline, wiped out hundreds of thousands of birds and marine animals and
damaged or destroyed the livelihoods of
more than 32,000 residents.
A jury decided in 1994 that ExxonMobil, a company that attorneys demonstrated in trial knew Hazelwood was
a drunk, should pay $5 billion in punitive damages. In 2006, a federal appeals
court cut that verdict in half. Exxon executives swore they’d never pay a dime in
punitive damages from the worst oil spill
in U.S. history, a promise that over the
decades rang true.
In a 5-3 ruling last week, SCOTUS cut
those punitive damages again to $507.5
million, roughly 20 percent of the original
award. That translates to about $15,000 per
victim, or about four days’ worth of profits
pocketed by ExxonMobil last quarter.
The decision, which impacts Whatcom
fishers in the amount of many hundreds
of thousands of dollars, was hailed by
corporate advocates and decried by environmentalists, Alaskans and those who
draw their profits from the sea.
“Fishermen,” Buck Meloy reflects, “always live with the uncertainty of unpredictable fish runs and prices that are determined by forces beyond their control.
We move on. But I still feel my bile rise
when I reflect on the disingenuous actions
of Exxon, who spent more on a persistent
disinformation campaign than I will spend
on everything in my entire life.”
Meloy is one of several Bellinghambased captains with long ties to Cordova,
Alaska, home of some of the most severe
damage caused by the spill.
“I think the court was of a mind to reduce damages before arguments even began,” echoed fellow Bellingham captain
Robin Dexter, who was actually present
for brief oral arguments in the nation’s
capital last spring.
Others shook their heads at the decision,
chagrined but not especially surprised.
The decision “gives big business the
formula they need to calculate the cost
of their actions when they destroy the
environment,” observed Robert Kopchak,
who lost a quarter of his earnings when
Cordova’s herring fishery crashed in the
early 1990s. “This gives them the formula
to calculate their risk, period.”
Business analysts actually agree with
Kopchak, predicting the court’s decision
will be cited in efforts to limit awards in
future cases. In even the most generous
analysis, the ruling was described as what
conservatives like to call “judicial activism” when so-called liberal judges resort
to it, a ruling that does not draw upon
previous court rulings (because here none
exist) or on the intent of lawmakers.
Justices found, as did the lower courts,
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MARCH 23, 1989: Exxon
Valdez leaves port with 53
million gallons of crude, bound
for California. At 12:04am, the
tanker strikes Bligh Reef, spilling 10.8 million gallons. Twelve
hours later, Exxon Baton Rouge
arrives to transfer oil off the
wounded tanker. By then, the
leading edge of an oil slick has
spread 16.5 miles southwest of
the reef.
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MARCH 29, 1989: In Anchorage Superior Court, two Prince
William Sound fishermen file
the first lawsuits against Exxon,
claiming the accident and
botched cleanup efforts will cost
them money from lost fishing.
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eral courts, Exxon responds to
140 lawsuits brought against the
company. The State of Alaska
claims Exxon grossly deceived
the public about their ability
to move crude oil safely, or to
clean it up when they failed.
Exxon countersues, saying the
state impeded their cleanup
efforts.
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MARCH, 1991: In Juneau,
Exxon settles state and federal
claims for $1 billion. U.S. District Court in Anchorage rejects
Exxon’s settlement, saying $100
million set aside for criminal
penalties is not a large enough
fine. A tentative settlement is
eventually reached.
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SEPT. 16, 1994: In a civil suit
cuit denies ExxonMobil’s request
for a third hearing, the company
appeals to the Supreme Court,
which agrees to hear the case.
FEB. 1, 2008: Exxon posts
record profits, $11.7 billion in
quarterly profit, earning them
$1,300 per second in 2007.
FEB. 27, 2008: The Supreme
Court hears oral arguments for
90 minutes.
JUNE 25, 2008: In a 5-3 vote,
Supreme Court orders lower
courts to reduce $2.5 billion
punitive damages award to no
more than $507.5 million. Exxon
lawyers suggest they may challenge even that.
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Exxon’s conduct was “worse than negligent
but less than malicious.” Still, they chose to
protect that company from losses.
Justice John Paul Stevens cautioned in his
dissent, “Congress is far better situated than
is this court to assess the empirical data,
and to balance competing policy interests,
before making such a choice.”
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen
G. Breyer also dissented. Ginsburg wrote,
“The new law made by the court should have
been left to Congress.”
Astonishingly, justices were deadlocked
(with Exxon shareholder Justice Samuel Alito recused) on the question of whether the
company should even be held responsible for
their captain’s recklessness—a remarkable
quibbling that, had it prevailed, would have
shipwrecked nearly two centuries of maritime law: Every admiralty is responsible for
its commanders.
“It is remarkable that the most conservative justices on the court—Chief Justice
Roberts and Justices Scalia and Thomas—
have endorsed this instance of judge-made
law that saves a huge corporation two billion
dollars when they generally claim to want to
avoid having judges make the law,” noted
Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, an advocacy group.
Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) echoed the
concern. “Unfortunately, the decision allows
Exxon to shortchange the people who have
been hurt the most and sends the wrong
message to those who pollute our nation’s
waters,” she said.
Within the fishing industry, most are too
busy at work in a profession that frequently
rewards optimism with defeat, and one that
teaches early on not to count the contents of
a net until it is hauled in and scaled.
Here’s a stark statistic—one-fifth of those
eligible for damages are already dead, lives
surrendered in an ecological and economic
disaster with a cost most experts say is incalculable—except by this court.
Editorials uniformly agreed the decision
favors big business and corporatism. Whether
media further acknowledged the corollary—
defeat for the small and the human—seemed
to depend on proximity to the sea and those
caught in the net of the decision. Had justices
upheld the biological over the corporate, now
that might have been deemed remarkable.
Most in the fishing industry—businesses
themselves, let’s not forget—had already piloted on to more fertile grounds, the way a
people wearied and defeated in combat are
less dispirited than relieved their struggle is
over and are free at last to return to their
families, their lives and a future that is more
meaningful. Truly, did any of them hope for a
catch that could not be hauled from the sea
with their hands?
Who will speak for them? I suppose I
must.
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SUNDAY
THE
Bellingham Police search for a man who tried
to rob a Mobil gas station on Samish Way. The
clerk did not have access to the cash drawer
and commanded the man, who was armed with
a knife, to leave, which he did.
ee
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THAT WAS
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TUESDAY
In Bellingham’s first “stranger rape” case solved by identifying the suspect through DNA evidence, a California man who
sexually assaulted a woman on Railroad Avenue in 2006 is sentenced to
four years in prison. Detectives conPASSAGES
nected Alvin Bernard Godette, 42, to
Mt. Baker High
the rape 15 months after it happened.
School teacher
He was extradited from San Francisco in
LaLani Pitts is
November and plead guilty.
named Northwest
Bystanders kick and beat a Ferndale man at the corner of Holly Street
and Railroad Avenue. Witnesses say
the 44-year-old man and a 43-year-old
Bellingham woman were fighting when
onlookers attacked him, nearly knocking
him unconscious. Police say the woman
had reportedly stolen the man’s wallet
and phone.
Educational Service
District Teacher of
the Year. The service
district includes 35
public school districts
and several private
schools in Island, San
Juan, Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom
Counties.
06.25.08
WEDNESDAY
A broken water main sends more than
a million gallons of drinking water spilling into Padden Creek, raising the water
level in the creek by as much as a foot.
Ecology officials say the environmental
impact appears to be minimal.
06.26.08
THURSDAY
In a historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme
Court rules 5-4 that individuals have
a constitutional right to own guns for
personal use. The National Rifle Association hails the decision and vows they’ll
kick over gun-control laws in every city
in the United States.
Western Washington University Vice
President George
Pierce says he’ll retire
in December. Pierce
has served as the university’s second-incommand and chair
of Western’s Business
and Financial Affairs
Department since
1989. He says his
retirement will allow
a chance for fresh
leadership under
incoming President
Bruce Shepard.
It’s a bear market. Ron Morton, a state transportation maintenance superintendent, came across this mother bear and cub
on a trip up to Mt. Baker’s Artist Point. Fortunately, Morton was
safe in his truck.
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The State Department of Labor and Industry
moves to fine Shell refinery in Anacortes for
23 safety and health violations. As part of
a national emphasis program, inspections are
also planned in Whatcom County, at the Cherry
Point and Conoco Phillips refineries. The state
proposes $110,000 in penalties at the Anacortes
facility.
06.27.08
FRIDAY
Bellingham School District joins a coalition of
other districts, education associations, teachers and parents in a lawsuit against the state.
The suit will ask a court to define basic education and rule whether legislators have abided by the state constitution, which declares
education its “paramount duty.” The suit is
scheduled to go to trial in March.
Meanwhile, a pragmatic Bellingham School
District approves a lean, mean budget for the
2008-2009 school year, but manages to avoid
significant cuts. In its approved budget, the
district will surrender nine full-time teaching
positions to lower enrollment and expiring federal grants.
06.28.08
SATURDAY
At long last, the National Weather Service issues heat advisories for the Puget Sound area
and parts of Eastern Washington as summer arrives and temperatures rise. Temperatures climb
to 105 degrees in eastern portions of the state.
A woman tells Bellingham Police she was
sexually assaulted in Maritime Heritage Park
about 2am. The battered 47-year-old victim
says a man attacked her while she slept on a
park bench. K-9 officers track down a suspect
and arrest him on an unrelated felony warrant.
They file rape charges the following day.
Stephen McDonald will serve life in prison
without possibility of parole for allegedly
burning a doormat at a Mount Vernon motel
in 1996. A disgusted appeals judge observes,
“Prisoners now have two rights—the right to
go to jail and the right to stay there until their
term is up.”
Whatcom County Superior Court Judge
Charles Snyder rules that state Dept. of Social
and Health Services must improve its policies
with foster children. Ruling on a 1998 lawsuit
filed on behalf of 13 foster children who had
suffered under the state’s system, Snyder orders
DSHS to reduce caseloads and provide monthly
caseworker visits, sibling contacts and mental
health screenings.
Supply concerns and a fragile global economy, coupled with continued tensions in the
Middle East, continue to drive the price of oil
to new highs. Oil prices surge past $143 a
barrel for the first time ever, and the price for
a gallon of gas hits all-time highs throughout
the United States. Wall Street reacts by collapsing, with Dow Jones closing its worst first
half-year since 1970.
07.01.08
TUESDAY
A new state regulation in effect today limits
the kind of dishwasher detergents local retailers are allowed to sell in order to reduce phosphorus in deteriorating watersheds. The law,
enforced statewide by 2010, initially affects
only Whatcom and Spokane counties.
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Bellingham Family Health Clinic
Men & Women’s Health plus Families
Flu, Coughs, Sore Throats, Skin Issues and Rashes, Birth
Control, Menopause, Allergies, High Blood Pressure,
Depression and Well Primary Care.
Immunizations: We have Gardisil: HPV.
Cholesterol Screening, Strep Throat Tests.
Sports Physicals, Travel, Pap Exams.
“People are
happy seeing
Nurse
Practitioners”
Monday – Friday 8am to 6pm
Located next to the College
Bookstore in Sehome Village.
Bonnie Sprague, ARNP
Kirstin Curtis, ARNP
Renee Wilgress, ARNP
for appointment call:
Insurance Accepted
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“Here’s
a diet
that will
leave us
not grouchy
and wanting, but
happier, a little richer,
and on a sweeter planet!”
—Bill McKibben
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HARRINGTON
960 Harris Ave., Suite 103
a FREE author event at
Fairhaven
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BOOKS
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Households
8,000
6,000
On June 18, a hospital employee asked
Bellingham Police to check on a patient
who made comments she felt might indicate the patient was suicidal. Police
checked and found the patient was not
really suicidal, just upset over the cost
of a recent hospital visit.
Households
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On June 30, Bellingham Police investigated a report of yet another bomb-like
object, this time a reported pipe bomb
near Sehome Arboretum. The event was
cleared without incident.
DISTRIBUTION OF WHATCOM
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Households
Less than $10K
$10K-$15K
$15K-$19K
$20K-$24K
$25K-$29K
$30K-$34K
$35K-$40K
$40K-$44K
$45K-$49K
On June 19, a loose pit bull was reported prowling a Blaine neighborhood. “Two dogs matching the suspect’s description were found,” an
offcer reported, “tied up in two different, open yards.... Both dogs had a
leash-tight alibi.”
$50K-$59K
APB: ALL PIT BULL
BULLETIN
$60K-$74K
On June 16, vandals stole the skull and
loosened the crossbones on a wooden
sign on new playground equipment at
Storvik Park in Anacortes.
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On June 20, James Ray Jones, 22,
of Mount Vernon was sentenced to five
months of incarceration, five months of
electronic home monitoring and three
years of supervised release for unlawful possession of explosives stolen from
a U.S. Navy base. Investigators found a
brick of military explosives in a safe in
Jones’ bedroom. Prosecutors say Jones
was under the belief the explosives could
blow up two city blocks, “yet he carelessly stored them in his home.”
$75K-$99K
On June 13, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended
a 64-year-old Kamloops, British Columbia man wanted in Utah for failure
to register as a sex offender when he
attempted to enter the United States
through the Lynden port of entry. The
man, a citizen of Australia, was at one
time a resident alien living in Utah and
was sought because he failed to register as a sex offender as required by
state law. The apprehension is the 60th
arrest on the U.S./Canadian border in
Washington by CBP officers since CBP
gained access in January to a shared
centralized automated database that
keeps tabs on homicide, escape, money
laundering, robbery, narcotics distribution, sexual child abuse, fraud, larceny
and military desertion.
On June 23, Bellingham
Police received yet another
bomb threat, this time from
what sounded like a juvenile
male.
$100K-$124K
On June 19, Michael Dudas, 35, of British Columbia, Canada, plead guilty in
U.S. District Court in Seattle to charges
of conspiracy to import marijuana in
violation of federal law. Dudas admitted that during 2004 through 2005,
he helped smuggle marijuana into the
United States from Canada via helicopter. On each occasion, the helicopter
landed in a remote landing zone in the
National Forest, near Darrington. The
marijuana was contained in large duffle
bags strapped to the outside of the helicopter. Dudas faces up to 40 years in
prison and $2 million in fines.
YABT, YABLOS
$125K-$149K
On June 25, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection officers arrested a Bellingham woman, a frequent border crosser
in the NEXUS trusted traveler program,
for smuggling 2.3 pounds of
MDMA into the United States
at the Peace Arch Port of Entry. During an extensive inspection of her purse by the
Blaine Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team (ATCET), officers discovered a
clear vacuum sealed plastic bag
containing a white powdery substance identified as methylenedioxy
methamphetamine, the principal psychoactive ingredient of the street drug
“ecstasy.” The bag had an estimated
street sale value of $10,000.
INDEX
$150K-$199K
BORDER DISORDERS
On June 22, a cab driver from Tacoma
celebrated his fare after he dropped the
customer off at Peace Portal near the international boundary by urinating over a
fence in plain view. Blaine officers raced
to the scene, but “the excreting cretin
exited the community before police arrived... it’s hoped the cabbie was returning [to Tacoma] post haste.”
$200K or more
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COMMUNITY
SAVING PARADISE: Rebecca
Ann Parker and Rita Nakashima
will read from their book, Saving Paradise, at 7pm at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship,
1708 I St.
714-0800
BY DANIELLE KOAGEL
THURS., JULY 3
Canoe Journeys
ART 18
SAILING HOME: Poet and Zen
teacher Norman Fisher reads
from his new book, Sailing Home:
Using Homer’s Odyssey to Navigate Life’s Perils and Pitfalls at
7:30pm at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, 1708 I St. The
event is free.
733-3837
L U M M I N AT IO N MEMB ERS WELCO ME
I N C O M I N G B OATS AT LA ST Y EA R’ S CA NO E
J O U R N E Y DAY A ND POTLATCH
SUN., JULY 6
BOOK SALE: A “buck-a-bag”
Book Sale happens from 10am2pm at the Lummi Island Library,
2144 S. Nugent Rd.
758-7145
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(617) 948-6584
TUES., JULY 8
CLIMATE DIE T: Jonathan Harrington tackles issues of energy
use and waste when he talks
about his book, The Climate Diet,
at 7pm at Village Books, 1200
11th St.
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SPOKEN WORD: Spoken Word
Wednesdays happen every week
at 8pm at the Bellingham Public
Market, 1530 Cornwall Ave. The
event is free.
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THIS SUMMER, native tribes from Oregon to
Alaska will embark on a traditional and spiritual canoe journey to celebrate community with neighboring
tribes on the shores of a host nation. The Whatcom
community is invited to celebrate the cultural richness of the Lummi, Nooksack,
and other Salish nations July
5 in Boulevard Park in honor
of Canoe Journey Day.
The Canoe Journey Day festivities are open to the public.
The family-friendly entertainment will include Aleut and
ATTEND
tribal dancers and musicians,
WHAT: Canoe
including Bellingham violinJourney Day
ist Swil Kanim and storyteller
WHEN: 12-9pm
and performer Gene Tagaban.
WHERE: Boulevard
Native arts and crafts booths
Park, Bellingham
COST: Free
will be available. At 4pm, sevINFO: 738-8899
en tribal canoes of the Lummi
and Nooksack tribes are scheduled to land at the park.
Native performer and Alaskan tribal member Gene
Tagaban performed at last year’s historic Canoe Journey Day, when 80 canoe families from the region
merged together on the shores of Lummi Nation in celebration of the first Lummi potlatch in more than 70
years. Tagaban says he was inspired to perform again
at this year’s event because of the rewarding sense of
community he felt at last year’s celebration.
“When I watched the canoes coming in, I felt
the community coming together,” Tagaban says. “I
saw bridges being built and resentments among the
tribes being healed.”
Event organizer Freddie Lane of the Lummi Nation
says last year’s gathering also touched him. He says
many government officials were in attendance, including Governor Christine Gregoire and the mayors
of surrounding towns. He noted it was a very historic
day for many of the tribal members because it was
the first time the local governments had recognized
the native nations as the first inhabitants of the land
and waters in a Canoe Journey Proclamation.
“I felt so honored to be able to see the return of the
potlatch and hear the Canoe Day Proclamation in my
lifetime,” Lane says. “It was a beautiful experience.”
Lane says this year he hopes more people from the
non-native community come to share in the experience
of Canoe Journey Day, which will be filled with activities for children, parents and curious bystanders alike.
Tagaban will be the Master of Ceremonies again
this year and says he hopes everyone who attends
will come away with a new experience of native
traditions.
“I hope this day will touch their spirit,” Tagaban
says. “I hope they come away with a new understanding of diversity and honor for native peoples and
themselves.”
COMMUNITY
WED., JULY 2
WEDNESDAY MARKE T: The
Wednesday Market takes place
from 12-5pm at the Fairhaven
Village Green.
647-2060 OR
BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
GREEN DRINK S: Environmentally minded folks can meet and
greet at tonight’s Green Drinks
gathering from 5-7pm at Boundary Bay, 1107 Railroad Ave. All
are welcome.
733-8307 OR GREENDRINKS.ORG
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LOGGERODEO: Head to SedroWooley July 2-6 for the 72nd
annual Loggerodeo. A carnival,
parades, arts and crafts fair,
footrace, logging exhibition,
beard contest and much more
will be part of the festivities.
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FRI., JULY 4
WAFFLE FEED: Attend a fundraising Strawberry Waffle Feed
from 8am-12pm at Lynden’s
McPhail Berry Farm, 8318 Bob
Hall Rd. Entry is by donation.
354-5936
SAT., JULY 5
ANACORTES MARKE T: The Anacortes Farmers Market is open
from 9am-2pm at the Depot Arts
Center, 611 R Ave.
(360) 293-1294 OR
ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG
MOUNT VERNON MARKE T: The
Mount Vernon Farmers Market
happens from 9am-1pm in downtown Mount Vernon at Gates and
Main streets.
(360) 292-2648 OR
MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.
ORG
BELLINGHAM MARKE T: The
Bellingham Farmers Market is
open from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, located at
the corner of Railroad Avenue
and Chestnut Street.
647-2060 OR
BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
FAMILY FUN: Music by the Levi
Ware Band, food, games for kids,
and arts and crafts will be available for a “5th of July Celebration” from 11am-4pm in downtown Blaine. Entry is free.
332-6484 OR BLAINECHAMBER.
COM
TRUTH BELLINGHAM: Live music, food, informational tables
and presentations will be part
of a 9/11 Truth Bellingham and
Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth meeting
from noon to dusk at Blaine’s
Peace Arch Park. All are welcome.
SCOTT@911TRUTHBHAM.ORG
BULL-A-RAMA: Mutton busting, a calf scramble, bull riding, a beer garden and lots
more will be part of the Sumas
Bull-A-Rama starting at 7:30pm
at the Sumas Rodeo Grounds at
Howard Bowen Memorial Park,
1550 Cherry St., Sumas. Entry
is $5-$10.
739-1715.
SUN., JULY 6
PANCAKE BREAKFAST: A Community Pancake Breakfast and
Farm Stand can be visited from
8-11am at the Rome Grange,
2821 Mt. Baker Hwy. Cost for the
breakfast is $2-$5.
671-7862
RAILWAY TALK: Dale Jones will
use vintage images to chronicle
the history of local railroading
when he talks about “Railways
Through Whatcom” at 2pm at the
Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect
St. The event is free.
778-8930
LAUGHTER CLUB: Join certified laughter leaders at today’s
Bellingham Laughter Club picnic
at 4pm at Bellingham’s Elizabeth
Park. The event is free, and all
are welcome.
920-3617 OR
WORLDLAUGHTERTOUR.COM
RUNNING
C YCL ING
734-9849 OR BELLINGHAMSAILING.COM
778-8000 OR COB.ORG
TUNICATE TRAINING: Join beach naturalists and
the North Sound Baykeeper for a citizen training and
survey on invasive tunicate species from 9am-1pm at
Larrabee State Park, 245 Chuckanut Dr.
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HISTORY CRUISING: The Whatcom Museum continues its 22nd season of Bellingham Bay History
Cruises every Thursday at 6:30pm at Squalicum Harbor’s Island Mariner dock. Tickets are $20-$25.
SAT., JULY 5
SEDRO FOOTRACE: As part of the 74th annual Loggerodeo, take part in the Great Sedro-Woolley Footrace starting at 9am at Sedro-Woolley High School,
1235 3rd St.
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778-8963 OR WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
MON., JULY 7
SAILING CAMP: Youth ages 11 to 18 can sign up
for weekly Sailing and Windsurfing Camps happening
through Aug. 22 at Western Washington University’s
Lakewood Sport Facility.
650-3308 OR YOUTH@WWU.EDU
NATURE CAMP: An overnight Earthways Nature
Camp happens from July 7-10. Kids can observe wildlife, tell stories around a campfire and learn wilderness skills and crafts.
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of July—you know, that whole thing about celebrating our independence from the kingdom of Great Britain—you can’t deny the holiday
can be a hell of a lot of fun.
The big bang theory will be in full effect this year. With Independence
Day falling on a Friday, revelers can spend the afternoon celebrating
their freedom by heading to bodies of water, quaffing a few cold beverages, grilling the meat or veggie burger of their choice and ending it all
with some explosive action over the bay.
Because of the recent spikes in heat, cops are keeping a closer eye on
those who choose to buy fireworks as well as watching them on the big
night. That means if you’re wanting to bring your Roman candles and
bottle rockets to any state, county or city parks—or schools—you’ll be
out of luck. In Whatcom County, you only have from 9am-12pm Fri. and
9am-11pm Sat. to fire up your load. In Bellingham, 9am-12pm on the
actual holiday is all the time you get to light up.
A recent drive down Slater Road on the Lummi Reservation showed
there’s a big market for things that go boom in the night. Cars were
lined up at places like Bargain Betty’s, Teresa’s Pyro Box, and Vinnie’s
Boom City—and many more. (Remember, folks, you’re on a timeline and
you don’t want to set anything on fire.)
For those more focused on family fun than firepower, in Blaine they’ll
celebrate the 4th with a full day of entertainment. Starting at 10am
WORK PART Y: From 6:30-8:30pm, help weed the
Clarita Moore Loop section of the Interurban Trail
while a park staffer gives an informal talk about the
area.
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will be a pancake breakfast, an arts and crafts
fair, a “Show ‘n’ Shine,” a book sale, activities
for kids, a salmon barbecue and live entertainment by Canada’s dance-worthy Clumsy Lovers.
After dusk falls, stay tuned for fireworks over
Semiahmoo Bay.
In Bellingham, the 13th annual Haggen’s Family Fourth of July Celebration will commence
after dark above the waters of Bellingham Bay.
The 20-minute display typically begins about
10:30pm, and it’s a wonder to behold (especially if you’re able to finagle an invitation to
a private downtown rooftop party).
One of the reasons it’s so expansive is Bellingham Bay is one of the few places in Washington State where technicians are allowed to
shoot off 16-inch shells
which, according to the
Haggen website, “is the
Rolls Royce of the skies”
and combines “brilliance,
color and explosion.” All
I know is every 4th of
July, there are giant flowSEE IT
WHAT: Haggen’s
ers, spirals and cascades
Family Fourth of
of light in the night sky
July Celebration
that, against my will,
WHEN: 10:30pm
make me “ooooh” and
Fri., July 4
“aaahh” with the rest of
WHERE: Set off
over Bellingham
the people craning their
Bay
heads toward the stars.
INFO: 734-1330
For those who choose
WHAT: Old Fashto expend their outioned 4th of July
door energies on acWHEN: 10am-10pm
tion that involves more
Fri., July 4
than simply looking up,
WHERE: Blaine
INFO: 332-6484 or
meet with folks from RE
blainechamber.com
Sources, REI, and the
Surfrider Foundation at
10am July 5 at Marine Park to help clean up
the mess that remains on the beaches after
a night of fireworks. Either way, have a safe
holiday and remember sparklers shouldn’t be
used as weapons.
599-1393 OR EARTHWAYSNATURE.ORG
LAKE TALK: Learn what to expect, how to prepare
and more at a free talk on “Paddling Ross Lake” at
7pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955
TUES., JULY 8
ADULT SOCCER: Attend games as part of the Adult
Soccer Association’s Veterans’ Cup today through
July 13 at the Northwest Soccer Park, 5238 Northwest Dr. The event is free to the public.
676-1919 OR VETERANSCUP.US
WED., JULY 9
TRAIL WORK: Help weed and enhance rock headlands at a Trail Work Party from 6:30-8:30pm at Bellingham’s Boulevard Park.
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BARD ON THE BEACH: King Lear plays in repertory with Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Titus
Andronicus as part of Bard on the Beach through
Sept. 26 at Vanier Park in Vancouver, B.C. Tickets
are $18-$33.
BY DANIELLE KOAGEL
(877) 739-0559 OR BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG.
THURS., JULY 3
Step by Step
GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Catch “The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly” at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre,
1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for “The Project: Mad Comedy in the Making.” Cost is $5 for the
early show, $3 for the late one.
WELCOME TO THE BALLROOM
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I WIPED
my sweaty palms on my dress and turned to face
my dance partner. I fumbled with my hemline and mumbled,
“I’m new to this.”
She took my hand in hers and said, “Everyone has to start
somewhere.”
My starting point was the rumba.
Over one hot summer weekend I began my introduction to
the art of ballroom dancing at U & Me Dance and the Blue Moon
Ballroom, both located in the heart of downtown Bellingham.
It was 8pm; my partner at U & Me Dance and I nervously
mingled with approximately 40
other students who had showed up
for the hour-long rumba lesson. The
room reminded me of an awkward
graduation party—a group of high
schoolers huddled amongs each other in one corner while a few retirees
recounted last week’s lesson.
The room came to a hush and our
attention was drawn to the center of
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McNees began the lesson by
Ballroom Dance Pracbreaking the rumba down into four
tice Party
individual steps. Everyone began by
WHEN: 8-10pm Thurs.,
July 3
practicing these steps a few times
WHERE: U & Me Dance,
and getting down the rhythm and
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feel of a rumba tempo.
COST: $3-$5
That was the easy part.
INFO: 676-0292 or
These steps were then shown to
uandmedance.com
WHAT: Public Dance
everyone in combinations. We were
Party
asked to practice these combinations
with a partner. Because there was a
WHEN: 8:30-10:30pm
Fri., July 11
highly diverse range of skill levels
WHERE: Blue Moon
represented, and to give everyone
Ballroom, 1213 Corna chance to practice with someone
wall Ave
new, the whole group rotated partCOST: Free
ners throughout the lesson.
INFO: 647-9778 or thebluemoonballroom.com
The steps themselves weren’t particularly tricky; the hard part was
putting them together and learning to compliment the movements of your dance partner.
Before I knew it, the hour was up.
I can’t say I could dance the rumba with much confidence
after the lesson, but it definitely gave participants a chance to
gain a fun experience and a taste of ballroom dancing.
On a Saturday that felt too hot to breathe, let alone dance, a
THE LIFE OF PICKE T T: Historian and actor Mike
Vouri will be joined by folksinger and banjo player Michael Cohen to present The Life and Times of
George Pickett at 7:30pm at Friday Harbor’s San
Juan Community Theatre, 100 Second St. Tickets
for the production about the Gettysburg soldier
are $6-$12.
(360) 378-3210
UNSCRIPTED: Be prepared for just about anything when “Upfront Unscripted” shows at 9pm
at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. (Please note
there will only be one show on weekend nights
throughout the summer.) Tickets are $8-$10.
SUN., JULY 6
BIG TENT REVIVAL: Dottie Partridge—a.k.a.
Krissa Woiwod—presents “The Answer” at 8pm at
the beer garden stage at Boundary Bay Brewery,
1107 Railroad Ave. The weekly event mixes theater, music and a “big tent revival atmosphere.”
Entry is $3.
647-5593 OR BBAYBREWERY.COM
MON., JULY 7
IMPROV CAMP: High school students can sign
up for Improv Camp today through Friday at the
Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Cost is $189 and
the week ends with an informal performance.
friend and I found our way to the Blue Moon Ballroom for
an 8pm waltz lesson.
We found ourselves in an unassuming studio space with
a vast wood floor and one other student. Owner Molly Adams said turnout at dance parties is particularly low on hot
summer days, so it was just the three of us and instructor
Marcus Tasanasanta.
Tasanasanta began the lesson by asking our names and
demonstrating the waltz. I found him to be very personable
and helpful, another benefit of the small class size.
Tasanasanta broke the waltz down into four steps, a basic
step, box step, twinkle and an underarm turn. He danced with
all of us to make sure we had each step down before moving on. By the end of the lesson, we practiced putting all
the steps together into a combination and dancing with a
partner.
By the end of the lesson I had ultimately learned fewer
steps than I had at U & Me Dance, but felt that I could pull
them off with more confidence.
My introduction to ballroom dance, although brief, was
exciting. I learned a few new moves and found the hardest
part of the experience was simply walking through the door
with an open mind.
JULY 7-8
SUMMER REPERTORY: The Summer Repertory
Theatre kicks off this week with 7:30pm showings
of Barefoot in the Park on Tues. and The Belle of
Amherst on Wed. at the Mount Baker Studio Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. The plays will show in
repertory with Driving Miss Daisy at various times
through Aug. 1. Tickets are $10-$15.
734-6080 OR MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
WED., JULY 9
INTRO TO IMPROV: Sheila Goldsmith of Improv
Playworks will lead a free introductory improv class
at 7pm at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St.
756-0756
DANCE
WED., JULY 2
BALLROOM MOVES: Sentimental Journey provides the tunes for tonight’s free Ballroom Dance
from 6-8pm at the Leopold, 1224 Cornwall Ave.
733-3500
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July 19: Casey Connor & The Neverending Story. . . July 26: Matt Novak & Juno
Aug 2: Tyler Graves & Edward Scissorhands. . . Aug 9: Doug Allen & Shrek the Third
Aug 16: Chuckanut Radio Hour w/ Sherman Alexie & The Business of Fancy Dancing
Aug 23: Ron Hardesty & Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. . . Aug 30: Amber Darland & Horton Hears a Who!
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HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View
“Lost Cities of Skagit: Rediscovering Places of Our Past”
through Nov. 2 at La Conner’s
Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 S. 4th St.
IMAGINAT ION C YCLE: See
glass artist Ginny Ruffner’s
“Aesthetic Engineering: The
Imagination Cycle” exhibit
starting today at La Conner’s
Museum of Northwest Art, 121
S. First St. The installation—
which features more than 1,000
handmade glass flowers and 18
freestanding sculptures—will
be on display through Oct. 5.
High Art
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(360) 466-3365 OR
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INSIGHTS: Gallery artists are
on display through July at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial
Ave., Anacortes.
(360) 588-8044 OR
(360) 466-4446 OR
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NORTHWEST ESSENCE: An
opening reception for “Northwest Essence” happens from
5-7pm at the Lucia Douglas
Gallery, 1415 13th St. The
group exhibit, which will be
on display through Aug. 9,
features works by Kathleen
Faulkner, Lisa Gilley, Ryan Dobrowski, and John Simon.
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MINDPORT: “Feets,” an exhibit
featuring a collection of whimsical wooden sculptures by Mark
Scherer, will be on display until
July 31 at Mindport Exhibits,
210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2.
647-5614 OR MINDPORT.ORG
PEACE ARCH PARK: The annual Peach Arch Park International Sculpture Exhibit is
open through Oct. 1 at Blaine’s
Peace Arch Park.
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PEACEARCHPARK.ORG
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QUILT MUSEUM: “Spice of
Life” and “Creative Clothing:
One Woman’s Journey” will be
on display through July 13 at
the La Conner Quilt & Textile
Museum, 703 S. 2nd St.
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BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The museum is open
to the public from noon-5pm
Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320
Commercial St.
WHEN ASKED
what he likes about capturing photographic images from
the air, Tore Ofteness relates his passion to a story about his late Uncle Ola, who
spent his life working as a fisherman in Norway.
“He once told me that if someone stuck his head under the water anywhere
on his fjord, he would know exactly where he was,” Ofteness says. “That is how
I feel about Whatcom County from the air.”
When Ofteness shares his high-flying aspirations at a free talk and slideshow
focusing on “Aerial Photography: Koma Kulshan, the Great White One” July 8
at the Whatcom Museum, he’ll likely explain how his interest in photography
began in the mid-1960s, when he was serving in the U.S. Army as an airplane
and helicopter mechanic.
“My very first attempt at capturing a scene that I envisioned in my head was
done from a helicopter, over Kansas in 1964,” Ofteness says. “The picture I got
back from the lab was nothing like what I had visualized, and that started me
on this path.”
When his military service was up, Ofteness took advantage of the G.I. Bill and
attended Seattle Central Community College to study commercial photography,
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BLUE
HORSE:
Figurative,
mixed-media works can be seen
at Janet Fagan-Smith’s “New
Paintings” exhibit through July
12 at the Blue Horse Gallery,
301 W. Holly St.
ATTEND
WHAT: Tore Ofteness
talks about “Aerial Photography”
WHEN: 12:30pm Tues.,
July 8
WHERE: Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
COST: Free
INFO: 778-8930
332-7165 OR
LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
ALLIED ARTS: View Mike
Bathum’s “Woodscape” acrylic
paintings and Robert Gigliotti’s
figurative bronze sculptures
through July 26 at Allied Arts,
1418 Cornwall Ave.
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671-3998 OR
GOODEARTHPOTS.COM.
676-8548 OR
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647-0092
GOOD EARTH: The work of
Linda Hughes will be featured
through July at Good Earth
Pottery, 100 Harris St.
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through July at the Colophon
Café, 1208 11th St.
733-6897 OR
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SUMMER ART: Summer Art
Classes happen through July
31 at the Roeder Home, 2600
Sunset Dr.
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671-2305
BOUNDARY BAY: The “Salmon at the Bay” art show can be
seen and bid on through Aug.
24 at Boundary Bay Brewery,
1107 Railroad Ave.
647-5593 OR N-SEA.ORG
COLOPHON: “Nature’s Canvas,” a photography exhibit
by Kim Friberg, can be seen
(360) 466-4288 OR
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SEASIDE: View “Le Belle Mer”
at La Conner’s Seaside Gallery, 112 Morris St., through
Aug. 11.
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SMITH/VALLEE: Peruse Todd
Horton’s “Present Tense” exhibit from 11am-5pm every
Fri.-Sun. through July 27 at
Edison’s Smith/Vallee Gallery,
5742 Gilkey Ave.
(360) 305-4892
VILLAGE BOOK S: View photographs from Whatcom Places II
through July at Village Books,
1200 11th St.
671-2626
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “John
Franklin Koenig,” “Logging
Days,” “The Melville Jacobs
Legacy,” and “World of the
Shipwright” are currently on
display at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St.
676-6981 OR
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later majoring in history at Western Washington University. After
graduation, he pursued a career focusing on aerial photography as a
specialty; not everyone was doing
it, and he says he liked the “higher
perspective” of the landscape.
More than 20 years later, Ofteness makes his living shooting industrial, marine, commercial and
aerial photographs. As a longtime
Northwesterner, he says the greatest challenge for getting highquality shots from the seat of an
airplane is the weather.
“Other than that, the challenges are mostly technical,” he
says. “One needs good equipment,
fast telephoto lenses and a camera that doesn’t have a long delay
in tripping the shutter after you
have pushed the button. Since
the airplane is moving at about
80 miles per hour, a high shutter
speed is also necessary.”
Ofteness says he typically has
a specific image in mind before
heading up as high as 10,000
feet in the air, but that a lot depends on chance. His favorite
shot ever happened during a full
moon. When the plane left the
ground, Mt. Baker wasn’t even
visible. Once they got past the
clouds—at about 8,000 feet—the
mountain emerged with the sinking sun making the slopes appear
to be “like a big lump of orange
ice cream.” Twenty minutes later,
the sun was mostly gone and the
moon was rising.
“Only some residual sun reflected from the sky and the light
of the full moon illuminated the
mountain,” Ofteness says. “It was
one of my life’s finest experiences
and was never to be repeated.”
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CLASSICAL CULTURE MAKES A COMEBACK
THROUGHOUT MY
life in Bellingham, I’ve
always been happy to opine to people who don’t live
here, or people who do live here, or anyone who will
listen to my ramblings, really, on the beauty of being
able to find any sort of music you’re craving at any
given moment. Looking for garage rock? We’ve got you
covered. Got a jones on for twee indie pop or soulful,
earnest men and women clinging to acoustic guitars
like life rafts? Done and done, and I mean done. Hoping
to hear a funk or reggae flavored jam band? Take your
pick, folks. But lately it’s been hard to find a source for
good classical music in this town.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure, it should be
known I couldn’t tell a
cantata from a hole in the
ground. But that doesn’t
mean I wouldn’t like to
learn. A lack of breeding,
I hope, is not synonymous
with a terminal lack of culture. This is, in point of
fact, my only hope for at
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some point attaining an
Festival of Music
artistic vocabulary that
WHEN: July 5-20
doesn’t heavily rely on refWHERE: WWU Concert
erences to cartoons from
Hall, Bellingham Yacht
the late ‘80s. And I still
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need to think that growth
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hamfestival.org
would one even start?
It’s been a hard row to
hoe recently, as a big part of Bellingham’s classical
music scene was conspicuously silent last year. A lack
of funding drove the Bellingham Festival of Music, the
city’s premier stage for world-class classical music, symphony and opera for 14 years, to shutter its doors for the
summer and regroup from their financial setbacks.
But after a year off, The City of Subdued Excitement’s
best bet for catching a quality symphony, concerto or
octet is returning in fine form. The long-anticipated
15th season of the Bellingham Festival of music kicks
off this Saturday at the Western Washington University
Concert Hall with three pieces from Beethoven, set-
ting the table for an ambitious four-year concert cycle
anchored by the works of the storied composer. Using
Beethoven as a starting point, the ambitious festival
program will explore life through classical music, representing the works of many composers, while always
striving to give audiences a fuller appreciation of the
place of music in their lives.
The re-energized festival is presenting six shows
this summer, opening Sat., July 5 and ending with a
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Rumor Has It
NOW THAT WE’VE all had time to digest the fact
that the Nightlight Lounge may reopen come September, and have worked through some of our excitement, it seems many of us have now become
more than a little bit skeptical about the whole
thing. Sure, we all want to see our on-again/offagain relationship with that particular music venue continue, but questions—many of them—still
remain. The biggest one is, of course: Bellingham
hasn’t changed much—at least where live music
is concerned—since the closure of the Nightlight
some seven months ago. What makes owner Matt
Feigenbaum think he can succeed now where he’s
failed before?
Frankly, I have no answer to that question.
What I do know is Feigenbaum says that, aside
from the debt load already accrued, when
the Nightlight closed, it
was this close to breaking even, at least where
day-to-day operations
were concerned. So, with
some tweaking, he believes his business model
is still a viable one. Some
of the tweaks he hopes
BY CAREY ROSS
to make include changing his liquor license to one that would allow the
Nightlight to be used for event-related activities
(banquets, wedding receptions and the like) as
well as all-ages shows. He also hopes to restrict
the amount of days the bar is open, realizing that
operating a 500-person-capacity nightclub seven
days a week may not work in this small town.
In addition, Feigenbaum plans to change up the
booking of the acts at the bar to include more
of the hip-hop and dance acts that proved to be
so insanely popular during the venue’s last goround (no, this does not mean you’ll be seeing
top-notch national acts for less than $5—let go
of the dream, folks). All this sounds great. I know
most of us would really like to see it happen.
Something I was really hoping I would not see
happen was the closure of Fantasia Espresso on
Cornwall Avenue. After a troubled history somewhat akin to the Nightlight’s in its intermittent
nature as a music venue, it seems the coffeehouse/
poet’s hangout/all-ages venue has closed its doors
for good—or has it? If I’ve learned anything, it’s
that one never knows with such things in this
town. At any rate, although shows are booked there
through the end of August, an announcement was
made that the June 30 poetry night would be the
last one, as the coffeehouse would not be opening
for business as usual the next day. It is a sad turn
of events. Fantasia, despite it being less-than-ideal
as far as music venues go, as well as suffering financial issues that were becoming more and more
apparent, will be fondly remembered by many music fans in town. For a time, when all-ages venues
in Bellingham had dwindled to near-nonexistence,
Fantasia was pretty much the lone ray of hope in an
otherwise bleak landscape. Owners, past and present, who welcomed live music, as well as bookers
and musicians who played there are all certainly
owed our thanks.
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bang July 20. Longtime Festival Artistic Director Michael Palmer will
conduct all of this year’s shows, most
of which will take place at Western’s
Concert Hall, apart from a special performance Sun., July 13 at The Bellingham Yacht Club. This show will be one
more example of an evening that’s All
Beethoven, All The Time, featuring
the Festival’s Chamber Players in two
shows that afternoon, during which
audiences will be able to revel in both
the beauty of Beethoven and the natural splendor of a summer afternoon
on Bellingham Bay.
In addition to showcasing some of
the finest classically trained musi-
cians the Northwest has to offer, the
Bellingham Festival of Music is a destination for great musicians and singers from around the nation who will
appear in the coming weeks’ performances. Musicians and vocalists with
backgrounds ranging from the Seattle
Symphony to the Metropolitan Opera
to the New York Philharmonic will ply
their craft in Bellingham once more.
And that means this summer anyone
in Bellingham can once again catch
world-class chamber and classical music right in their own backyard.
For ticket information, performance schedules and information
about some of the wonderful musicians performing at this year’s
Bellingham Festival of Music, visit
bellinghamfestival.org.
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ANY MUSIC festival requires a
great deal of behind-the-scenes preparations that, if all goes according to
plan, festival-goers will never even
give a thought to, much less see evidence of. However, for the musicians
involved, aside from their standard
slate of rehearsals, festivals usually
only require that they show up, instruments in hand, and play.
The Blaine Jazz Festival, however, requires a little more of its performers—
but that’s because this is not your standard-issue music festival. For the people
who attend the performances, this jazz
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festival will seem similar to others of its
size and scope—except the young ages
of many of the performers is likely to
raise an eyebrow or two. It’s behind the
scenes that things start to look more
than a little different.
All the musicians involved in the Blaine
Jazz Festival fall into one of two camps:
teacher or student. The festival is geared
toward giving teens a week-long, fully
immersive experience into the world
of jazz, focusing on music theory and
culminating in a series of performances
in which the stage becomes part of the
classroom—and easily the best part, at
that. Festival faculty includes musicians
both local and regional, from Jud Sherwood and Mike Allen to Juilliard-trained
Mat Fieldes and composer/rapper Gene
Pritsker.
Since the festival aims to instill a
lifetime love of jazz into its teen musicians, classes showcase the flexible
nature of jazz music, and the ways in
which it crosses boundaries of genre,
era and style. And, while music theory
classes are required for the student performers, they are
experiential in
nature, meaning
notebooks may
not be required,
but musical instruments most
certainly are.
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performances—including a preview by
festival headliners Mad Fusion on Mon.,
July 7—are free? In short, all you’ve got
to do to participate in the education of
a bunch of budding music enthusiasts is
show up, soak in some scenery and appreciate the sounds. Making teenagers
happy has never been so simple.
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REVIEWED BY STEPHEN FARBER
Hancock
TAKING THE ‘HERO’ OUT OF SUPERHERO
WILL SMITH’S powers are even more extraordinary than
those of a caped crusader who can leap way beyond the tallest
buildings in a single bound. Smith has salvaged many vehicles
more threadbare than Hancock, and though his latest venture
is decidedly uneven, he seems poised to score yet another supervictory at the box office. The movie is a good showcase
for him—and for co-stars Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman.
Imagine the heights they all could have scaled if the picture
had been really good.
One suspects the movie’s problems stem from the multitude
of cooks who toiled on the project during the several years it
took to reach the screen. Although the script is credited to Vy
Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan, several others worked on it,
including producers Akiva Goldsman and Michael Mann. Jonathan Mostow and Gabriele Muccino were among the directors
attached to the project before Peter Berg signed on. Somewhere
along the way, a sharp black comedy lost its bite.
The movie’s sly premise is established in its opening scenes,
which reflect the tart sensibility of Gilligan, the creator of AMC’s
bracingly cynical series Breaking Bad. Hancock is a crime-fighter
going through what appears to be a midlife crisis. He’s a foulmouthed drunk who springs into action when Los Angeles is in
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trouble, but he behaves with such wanton disregard for people
and property that he often alienates the citizens whose lives
he saves.
When Hancock rescues an idealistic PR man (now there’s an
oxymoron), the grateful Ray (Bateman) embarks on a campaign to burnish Hancock’s bad-boy image. The benevolent
publicist—the antithesis of Tony Curtis’ sleazy Sidney Falco
in Sweet Smell of Success—is another choice comic character.
The movie introduces a third when Hancock meets Ray’s wife,
Mary (Theron). There are immediate sparks between the loutish superhero and the pert suburban housewife, and it’s clear Mary has some connection to Hancock’s mysterious past. But this
is where the movie starts to unravel. It veers
from comedy to romantic tragedy and introduces
an elaborate backstory that never makes much
sense.
The best comic book movies develop a rigorous
and logical mythology. As Hancock races toward
its spectacular but muddled finale, it keeps rewriting its own rules in an effort to pander to the
audience. The storytelling lapses are not helped
by Berg’s frenetic direction. As he showed in his
most recent film, The Kingdom, Berg is addicted
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of Michael Bay.
Berg’s strength lies in his appreciation for actors and keen eye for casting. Bateman has brightened many recent movies, including Juno and The
Promotion, but no one has given him such a juicy
part in years. The actor rips into it lustily. British actor Eddie Marsan (a member of Mike Leigh’s
stock company) also makes a strong impression as
a genuinely creepy villain.
Special effects are at once witty and eye-popping. In keeping with the concept of the surly superhero, Hancock makes his entrances and exits
spewing mounds of concrete in his hazardous wake.
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difference between the lifebloods of plants and animals.
A molecule of chlorophyll contains 36 atoms of hydrogen,
oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon arrayed around an atom of
magnesium, while a molecule of hemoglobin is exactly
the same except for an atom of iron instead of magnesium. I offer this as an apt metaphor to illustrate the
choice you have ahead of you: As similar as the various
possibilities may seem, the simple thing you put at the
center of each option will make a tremendous difference.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s Beautify Yourself
Week, dear Cancerian. A conspiracy of cosmic proportions is preparing the conditions necessary for you to
capitalize handsomely on this opportunity. At this very
moment, there is beauty behind you and beauty in front
of you. There is beauty to your left and beauty to your
right, beauty above you and beauty below you. All you
have to do is inhale, drink in, and otherwise suck up this
lushness. It will interact synergistically with the splendor
that is also welling up in you, and you will transform into
an almost unbearably gorgeous work of art.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you up for some cuttingedge slashing and smashing and crashing? I’m talking
about slashing the price you’ve been paying for following
your dreams; smashing beliefs that made sense years ago
but are irrelevant now; and crashing parties where your
future teachers and allies are gathered. Once you get the
hang of all that, Leo, you can move on to other brilliant
demolitions, like cracking codes, breaking trances, and
shattering spells cast on you by the past.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When Tom first arrived
in Santa Cruz from South Carolina at age 22, he was
homeless and had $110. He quickly scored a temp job
as a laborer, doing menial tasks at construction sites.
His first assignment was at a place where a delivery
truck had accidentally dropped a load of lumber at
the bottom of a hill instead of at the top where a new
house was to be built. Tom’s job was to carry the heavy
boards and beams up the hill one by one. He felt a bit
like Sisyphus in the Greek myth—that forlorn character
whose punishment by the gods required him to push
a boulder up a hill again and again, only to have it
plummet down each time as he reached the peak.
Unlike Sisyphus, things got better for Tom. During the
next 15 years, he became a successful real estate agent.
One day he sold the million-dollar house that had been
built from the wood he’d once toted up the hill. This is
a perfect time, Virgo, for you to predict and plot out a
1951, the U.S. government regularly set off nuclear
bombs in the desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Most of the 1,021 explosions occurred underground,
though for 11 years some were also done in the open
air. Tourists used to flock to Las Vegas to watch
the mushroom clouds, which were visible from that
distance. As far as we know, the detonations ceased in
1992. Also as far as we know, the unusual lifestyles of
Las Vegas’s inhabitants are not the result of mutations
in their DNA caused by radioactive contamination. Let’s
use this scenario as a departure point for your own
personal inventory, Sagittarius. What dangerous or tempestuous events from your life are now safely confined
to the past? Are there any lingering consequences from
them? If so, what might you do to heal?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): By the year 2100,
some human beings will be married to sophisticated
robots. So concludes David Levy, who got a doctorate from a Dutch university for his thesis, “Intimate
Relationships with Artificial Partners.” Let’s use his
prophecy as a jumping-off point for your meditation,
Capricorn. In your fantasies about togetherness, are
you unconsciously harboring any unrealistic desires for
robotic perfection? If so, are they interfering with your
ability to have deep and satisfying relationships with
interesting but flawed people? Take inventory of any
tendencies you might have to want artificial partners.
Then dissolve those delusions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Dear Rob: After a
long stretch of patiently putting up with God’s meanspirited tricks, I decided I’d had enough. So I fired Him.
Now I’m going to create a brand new deity from scratch.
Do you have any recommendations on what qualities
a truly cool divine being might possess? - Awakening
Aquarius.” Dear Awakening: One quality your fresh god
should have is an appreciation for your originality. You
also deserve a deity who likes it when you take your
fate into your own hands. That’s all I’ll say. It’s a good
time for you Aquarians to shun other people’s ideas
about the divine influences and brainstorm extravagantly about what’s true for you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What are the differences between tacky, meaningless fun and beautiful,
constructive fun? What are the distinctions between
dumb, trivial pleasure and smart, life-exalting pleasure?
I’m hoping that meditations on these subjects will
inspire you to overcome any laziness you might have
about cultivating happiness. It’s a perfect time for you
to attempt this monumental accomplishment. You’re at
a potential turning point in your astrological cycle, a
time when you could get in the habit of treating your
hero’s journey as an ever-evolving celebration.
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Behind the Mule,” Tom Waits tells us to “Never let the
weeds get taller than the garden.” That’s advice you
should heed in the coming weeks. But don’t go overboard and become a fanatic who acts as if weeds are
evil demons from the ninth level of hell. Keeping a few
well-trimmed wild plants and a mushroom or two would
be quite healthy. You need a bit of messy serendipity
mixed in with your law and order.
Disneyland, but that doesn’t mean I can’t borrow its ideas
for your use. The fact is, Scorpio, the coming weeks will
be an excellent time for you to identify your own personal
versions of frontierland, adventureland, or tomorrowland. I’m not talking about experiences and places that
resemble glitzy theme-parks, but rather the wild and
thrilling things that gently shock your mind into expanding. You’re in a phase of your cycle when you’ll tend to
generate good luck and helpful synchronicity by pushing
your imagination beyond its usual fantasies.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his song “Get
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m not a big fan of
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Season for you, Libra. A good way to energize your
efforts would be to define clearly and imaginatively
what power means to you. I’ve got two riffs to get you
started. First, here’s one from a famous French ruler
whose name I’ll withhold so as not to distract you from
the riff itself: “I love power. But it is as an artist that I
love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw
out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” Here’s the
second definition, from poet Dennis Holt in his newsletter “Quincunx”: “Power is what sends the woodpecker
down from his tree to poke for worms in the muddy road
one morning after all-night rain on a ridge above the
Pacific within earshot of the surf.”
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BY AMY ALKON
The Advice
Goddess
HUSBAND AND KNIFE
It took me two years to get a divorce from
my husband, a jerk I was married to for only
13 months, after knowing him for just nine
weeks. (I was 38 and increasingly desperate
to get married and have a baby.) I basically
gave up on “equitable distribution” because
I ran out of steam, but he agreed in our
divorce decree and in court, under oath, to
give me $7,000 of his retirement monies.
Two years and numerous legal letters later,
he has yet to comply. Meanwhile, he just
published his first novel and is doing readings at local bookstores. I’d like to show up
at the last one, and when he’s done, stand
up and ask when he plans to pay me. So out
of curiosity, what would you do? Looking
forward to a pithy response!
—Plotting
Oh, are you?
Let’s start by talking about my writing process. Much as I’d like it to involve
afternoons spent in a silk dressing gown
in a canopy bed dotting witticisms on
vellum with a big quill pen, the reality
is rather different: long sweaty hours
crawling under furniture looking for better verbs—when I’m not too busy trying
to unzip my skin and run away screaming.
This guy just wrote his first novel, a
feat on par with climbing Mt. Everest
in a motorized wheelchair. I don’t care
if he snacks on kittens, if you’re looking
for justice, you have 8,758 other hours in
the year to make your case. Of course, if
this really was about getting what you’re
owed, you’d go about it in the most pragmatic way: dragging him back to court
and garnishing his wages or bringing in a
collection agency. Instead, you’re about
to make him hate you so completely that
he’ll probably do anything to avoid paying you, including ditching fiction writing (an endeavor typically less lucrative
than picking lettuce) for a career in the
fast-paced world of haiku.
As for your plan to hijack his reading, will you just be reciting your grievances, or should the bookstore put out
a table for you so his friends, relatives
and groupies can line up to have you autograph copies of your divorce decree?
If you weren’t so deluded with rage, you
ADVICE GODDESS
might see that the person who’s likely
to come out of this the worst is you.
At the moment, he’s yet another firsttime novelist clamoring for shelf space.
Cue the cut-rate Heather Mills McCartney (that would be you), and he and his
book might even make front-page news.
Meanwhile, you’ll have established a
permanent resume for yourself as a vindictive, mouth-foaming shrew —possibly endangering your current source of
employment, almost certainly impairing
yourself in gaining future employment,
and surely making you the last woman
any guy with Google will ever date.
“Equitable distribution” after 13
months and no kids? To me, it’s a wave
goodbye. But, he signed off on giving
you that $7K, so he should pony up. And
sure, try to get it, but factor in how
much that’s costing you, and maybe
shift your focus to having a future of
your own instead of destroying his. If
you ever loved him, how do you behave
this way? For real resolution, look to
yourself: If he’s such a bad guy, why did
you marry him? What did you refuse to
see? Hmmm, perhaps that the correct
answer to “How do I love thee?” isn’t
“I’m 38 and increasingly desperate to
get married and have a baby.”
ONCE MORE WITH FELON
My ex is getting out of prison soon, and I
promised him (before meeting my boyfriend
of a year) that he could stay with me until
he’s back on his feet. My ex says he just
wants to be friends, but my boyfriend’s
worried a flame will rekindle. I used to be
somebody who always tried too hard, but
I’ve worked on myself, and I just want to be
there for him as a friend.
—Torn
Did you also say you’d wait with the
car running while he went into the bank?
You don’t endanger your relationship for
a promise you probably only made because you used to be a really big bootlick. This isn’t like taking in a roommate.
This guy is not only your ex, but a guy
who hasn’t seen a woman in what, threeto-five? Also, prison isn’t a big Holiday
Inn with bars on the windows. Cons often need time to rejigger their reflexes
so they don’t respond to, say, an inadvertent elbowing in the supermarket with a
well-placed shiv in the gut. If you really
are a recovering people-pleaser, prove
it by making good in a way that’s good
for you, like tossing him a few bucks for
a by-the-week motel—leaving yourself
home free to play drop the soap with the
one you’re with.
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2 Professor’s guarantee
3 Planning on becoming an attorney
4 The Lion in “The
Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe”
5 Frigid temperature
range
6 Clock setting: abbr.
7 Olympic fencing
blade
8 Rubbing one out
9 Sooner or later
10 AFL’s labor partner
11 Spoken names
12 Pairs
13 “You Don’t Mess
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star
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24 “The ___ on the
Floss” (George Eliot
novel)
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trick
30 62% on a test, say
31 Posthaste
32 Spike TV, formerly
33 FDR program
34 RAZR manufacturer
35 Got ready for work,
perhaps
36 “___ Little Tenderness”
37 Final ride
38 Creator of 4-down
41 Biblical strongman
42 Go by
43 Excuse
44 Tighten, like a jaw
45 Benson’s partner in
tobacco shops
47 Get into the ___
(learn the ropes)
49 It helps with
uploading
50 Surname of two
detective brothers
53 Landline alternative
56 Dr. whose final
album (supposedly)
will be the 2008
release “Detox”
57 Not quite ROTFLMAO
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51 Before
52 Apple that may be
red or green
54 ___ up (got all
sudsy)
55 Problem with this
clue’s answer
58 Robert who
played A.J.
Soprano
59 Home of the Norwegian Museum
of Science and
Technology
60 Bring something
latent out
61 Marquis de ___
62 Jodie Foster title
character
63 Greek ___
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27 Evergreen tree
28 Pore Strips brand
30 Suckworthy
31 In any way
33 “Divorce Court”
judge Lynn
clue’s answer
38 “Give My Regards
to Broadway”
writer George M.
39 “___ you loud
and clear!”
40 Punctuation in a
telegram
41 “Take care!”
43 Actress Pounder
of “ER” and “The
Shield”
46 Like some expectations
47 ___ Harbour,
Florida
48 Tank top feature
WORDS 14
OK, WE’LL TELL YOU
1 March man, for
short
6 Ashton’s wife
10 Elements missing
from plasma TVs
14 By itself
15 Like cotton candy
16 “The Tall Corn
State”
clue’s answer
20 New Orleans
school
21 Shrink down,
maybe
22 Tab for a great
trip
23 KITT’s model, on
“Knight Rider”
25 First responder,
for short
26 Potter’s rank, on
“M*A*S*H”: abbr.
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GET OUT 15
What’s the Problem?
Across
ART 18
STAGE 16
Practically burning?
Practical solution.
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Farm to Market
FROM THE GROUND UP
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Danielle Kuzemzadeh of Sharazad Persian House of Kebobs demonstrates how to make Maast-oKhiar (yogurt sauce) at a recent “Chef in the Market”
34
I KNEW
summer had finally arrived when I crouched barefoot in
my garden last weekend and popped strawberry after strawberry in
my mouth. I didn’t bother to head inside to wash the bright red fruit
because I wanted to taste the juicy heat of the sun in the tiny offerings. I wasn’t disappointed.
As I grazed my way through the yard—nibbling on leaves of purplehued lettuce, sampling the fragrant cilantro and mint, taking note of
what a few days of real heat can do to hasten the growth of a tomato
plant—I thought about a recent sojourn I’d made to the Bellingham
Farmers Market and how fulfilling it is to eat things that began their
day still gathering nourishment from the earth.
I’m an urban cultivator who grows enough greens to feed my battalion of friends, and I have a lot of respect for the numerous farmers
that bring enough fresh food to the market to help feed an entire
town. It takes a lot of work to keep
my plot going, and I can’t imagine the dedication it takes to bring
farming to the next level.
But anybody who’s been to the
Bellingham Farmers Market—as
well markets in Ferndale, Anacortes, Mount Vernon, and beyond—knows the gatherings are
about much more than buying
fruit and vegetables. The path
food takes from seed to start to
full-grown plant continues as it’s
chosen for use in a future meal.
Couples talk about what they’ll do
with the fresh radishes they just
purchased, farmers give tips on
growing the basil plants they have
for sale, kids grab for the nearest
piece of fruit before mom and dad
have paid for it. The vibe is social
and the mood—even when it’s not
sunny and hot—is jovial.
In another circular path of
growth and food use, every Saturday the Bellingham Farmers Market
also offers up “Chef in the Market.”
The plan is simple: a local chef utilizes the bounty of Whatcom and
Skagit county produce to prepare
their favorite summer recipes in
front of an audience. In the morning, the chef shops the market for
as many ingredients as possible,
and then prepares their featured
recipe on site. When they’re done,
samples are shared with passerby.
The day I was there, Shahrazad
chef Danielle Kazemzadeh was
cooking up Khoresht Revas with
Persian rice and Maast-o-Khiar (yo-
gurt sauce). As the rhubarb-rich
meat dish simmered away and she
worked on the yogurt sauce, Kazemzadeh told stories, shared tips
about making the meal—“Meat
doesn’t matter as much, it’s the
vegetables that count”—and managed to infuse a healthy dose of
humor into her cooking.
Preprinted recipes are part of
“Chef in the Market,” so it’s possible
to recreate the featured meals. Kazemzadeh’s hearty Persian dish used
produce from Donna Flora, Rabbit
Field Farms, Birchwood Gardens,
and Earth Mama, so it was also easy
to connect the farmers with what
was cooking away on the stove.
Future Saturdays will see chefs
such as Prospect Street Café’s
Spencer Santenello, Lynn and Fred
Berman from Pastazza, foodie and
cookbook author Mary Ellen Carter, the Willows Inn’s Craig Miller,
Slough Food’s John DeGloria, and
others. If you’re at the market between 11am and noon, be sure to
drop by to see food in action.
Whether you’re attending a farmers market to get needed ingredients for a dish you’ve already
planned or simply want to browse
until you find that special something, know this: you’re supporting
people who work from the ground
up. Every Saturday, they wake up
early to cull fruit, vegetables and
flowers from plants they’ve grown
themselves. It’s a way for them to
make a living, but I’m guessing it’s
also a labor of love.
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WHEN: 10am-3pm every
Sat.
WHERE: Depot Market
Square
INFO: 647-2060 or
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WHAT: Wednesday Market
WHEN: 12-5pm every Wed.
WHERE: Fairhaven Village
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WHAT: Ferndale Farmers
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WHEN: 10am-3pm every
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WHERE: Riverwalk Park
INFO: 981-1373 or fern
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WHAT: Anacortes Farmers
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WHEN: 9am-2pm every Sat.
WHERE: Depot Arts Center
INFO: (360) 293-1294 or
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org
WHAT: Mount Vernon
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WHEN: 9am-1pm every Sat.
WHERE: Gates and Main
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