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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C.
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The Gristle, P.8 * Alley Arts, P.20 * BoB Ballot, P.31
+My Fair Lady: A loverly night at the theater, p.18
Rumor Has It: Musical reunions
and baby goats, p.22
SCOPE DOPE: Add your voice to the coal
port discussion, p.10
docTOBERA festival of truth-telling, p.26
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A glance at what’s happening this week
Get in the mood for winter by viewing Teton Gravity Research’s snowboarding flicks Further and The Dream Factory Oct. 3 at the Mount Baker Theatre
Make your feet count for something this weekend by participating in the “Walk
to Defeat ALS” Sept. 29 or the “CROP Hunger
Walk” happening Sun., Sept. 30
COMMUNITYTech Stomp: 5:30-9:30pm, Academic Instruction Center, WWU
[09. .12]ONSTAGE Body Talk: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater My Fair Lady: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSIC Harvest Fest: 3:30pm-12am, Bow Pretty Little Feet: 6-9pm, Bellewood Farms Pagliacci: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon
WORDS Poetrynight Anthology Release: 7pm, Make.Shift Art Space Ivan Doig: 7pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYBingo in the Barn: 7-9pm, Sudden Valley Dance Barn
GET OUTNature Babies: 9:30-11am, Whatcom Falls Park
[09. .12]ONSTAGE The Importance of Being Ernest: 1pm and 5pm, Mount Vernon Christian High School My Fair Lady: 3pm and 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre After Midnight Cabaret: 7pm, RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, Mount Vernon Body Talk: 7:30pm, Firehouse Performing Arts Center Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre Cody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: 8pm, Anacortes Community Theatre Hodgepodge: 8pm and 10pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEContra Dance: 7-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library
MUSICHarvest Fest: 12pm-1am, Bow
WORDSCheryl Strayed: 1-3pm, Conway Muse Peter Ludwin, Jane Alynn: 7pm, Village Books
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ONSTAGEThe Importance of Being Ernest: 7pm, Mount Vernon Christian High School My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
FOODFinal Wednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Vil-lage Green
Beer Week: Through Sept. 30, throughout Bellingham
[09. .12]ONSTAGEThe Importance of Being Ernest: 7pm, Mount Vernon Christian High School My Fair Lady: 7:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre
Glorious: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront TheatreCody Rivers Show: 8pm, iDiOM Theater The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
WORDSTim Schlattmann: 8pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
Playwrights, interfering psychics, meddling lawyers and frantic wives all make
appearances during the comedic thriller Deathtrap, which plays through Oct. 7
at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre
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COMMUNITY Ballot Issues Forum: 10am-12pm, Bellingham City Council Chambers Wonders of Whatcom: 2:30pm, Fairhaven Library
GET OUTWalk to Defeat ALS: 10am, Squalicum Boat-house Killer Cross: 10am-2pm, Squalicum Creek Park Arbor Day Celebration: 10am-3pm, Elizabeth Park
FOODPancake Breakfast: 8-10:30am, Lynden Com-munity Center Pumpkin Festival: 9am-6pm, Christianson’s Nursery, Mount Vernon Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Community & Arts Center Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market SquareFerndale Public Market: 10am-3pm, Centen-nial Riverwalk Park Harvest Dinner: 5:30pm, St. Joseph Center, Mount Vernon
VISUAL ARTSReally, Really Big Show Opening: 4-9pm, Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island
[09. .12]ONSTAGEGlorious: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Deathtrap: 2pm, Claire vg Thomas Theatre My Fair Lady: 3pm, Mount Baker Theatre
MUSICPagliacci: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Art of Jazz: 4-6:30pm, Amadeus Project
WORDSBanned Books Read-Out: 2-4pm, Village Books
COMMUNITYFall Bridal Show: 11:30am-4:30pm, Ferndale Events CenterChinese Moon Festival: 2:30-4:30pm, Bloedel Donovan
GET OUTBellingham Bay Marathon: 7:30am, Lummi Nation School CROP Hunger Walk: 2pm, Fairhaven Village Green
VISUAL ARTSWild East Meet Wild West Opening: 12-5pm, Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building
[10. .12]WORDSPoetrynight: 8:30pm, Amadeus Project
[10. .12] DANCERainbow Squares: 7-9pm, Ten Mile Grange, Lynden
WORDSBridget Boland: 7pm, Village Books
To get your events listed, send details to
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Massive mailbag
8: Gristle & Views
10: Gateway scoping
12: Last week’s news
13: Police blotter, Index
ARTS & LIFE 14: Screen scenes
16: Tree huggers unite
18: She could’ve danced all night
20: Art goes out
22: Buffalo birthday
24: Clubs
26: A month of docs
28: Time-travel twister
29: Film Shorts
30: A royal rouser
REAR END 31: Bulletin Board, BoB Ballot
32: Advice Goddess
33: Crossword
34: Free Will Astrology
35: Crossword
36: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug
37: Slowpoke, Sudoku
38: How do you like them apples?
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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
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+My Fair Lady: A loverly night at the theater, p.18
Rumor Has It: Musical reunions
and baby goats, p.22
SCOPE DOPE: Add your voice to the coal
port discussion, p.10
docTOBERA festival of truth-telling, p.26
COVER PHOTO: Andrew Bird: Fever Year shows at 6:30pm Fri., Oct. 12 as part of the Pickford Film Center’s month-long documentary film festival, Doctober.
NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
TOC LETTERS STAFF
I DEW DECLAREThis time of year when vehicles are left out
overnight and get a heavy coat of dew on them is a very dangerous time for early-morning bi-cyclist.
I have had some of my closest calls with driv-ers who haven’t cleared their windows, especially the side ones. So I humbly plead with all of you drivers not fortunate enough to have a garage to keep your ride in to please get a squeegee or rag and clear off your windows before heading out.
Me and my old Schwinn thank you.—Gary Malick, Bellingham
CONVEY THE IMPORTANCEThe reconveyance of state forest around Lake
Whatcom to create a county forest preserve was a great idea before the recent hearing, and it still is. These lands are on the very fringe of Bellingham and will provide world-class recre-ation and scenery easily accessible from down-town. The preserve will improve our quality of life, benefit our drinking water and help build our local economy.
We owe big thanks to the five county coun-cil members—including Sam Crawford and Kathy Kershner—who voted for the reconveyance after five years of study and open public process. They showed real leadership.
Some people are organizing to move us back-ward, demanding the council undo this decision. They claim they weren’t informed, that some conspiracy is taking place. Citizenship implies responsibilities to inform yourself, folks. In the dark on reconveyance after a five-year public
process? Then you haven’t been paying attention to council minutes or attending public meetings. Whose fault is that?
Twenty years ago, after many public meetings and extensive opportunities to voice citizen con-cerns, a vocal minority tried to stop the Whatcom County Critical Areas Ordinance at the last minute, crying, “No one told US about this!” Elected of-ficials stood behind the public process and we’re better today for their leadership and integrity. Just like we will be 20, 50, or 100 years from now, drinking clean, safe water and enjoying the eco-nomic benefits of world-class forest lands in our backyard, because today’s leaders put aside poli-tics and passed the Lake Whatcom Reconveyance.
—Rodd Pemble, Bellingham
SUPPORT THE HOME FUNDI am a housing assistance provider for people
who are disabled and homeless or in jeopardy of losing their housing. The shortage of affordable housing in Bellingham is putting our most at-risk populations in unstable situations. As a result, I have watched this affect our community’s overall health and well being. Some are forced to rely heavily on expensive emergency services, chil-dren suffer educational setbacks, veterans have few places to stabilize, and seniors lack afford-able housing care options. We are truly only as healthy as our neighbors and it is unacceptable that anyone spend more than 50 precent of their income on housing costs.
Proposition 1 would allow us to make inexpen-sive housing a reality for far more of our commu-nity members. Additionally, if people are spending
thisweek
Anyone familiar with the Shangri-La on Bellingham’s Holly Street knows that, unlike its namesake, it was no earthly paradise. Bringing an end to its sketchy, seedy era, the motel was demolished Monday to make room for a WECU parking lot. As a Facebook commenter noted, “Please resist the urge to make a ‘they paved paradise and put up a park-ing lot joke.’” Indeed.
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less on housing, they can spend more at local businesses. Prop 1 will also provide construction jobs and more eco-friendly, sustainable housing.
Something similar has worked in Se-attle and I believe it would make our community flourish. A viable and just community does not push poverty to the isolated parts of the county away from transportation, jobs and services—this is not problem solving.
It is not a privilege to have an afford-able home; it is a right. As a downtown resident and service provider I support this proposition. Please vote yes on Proposition 1 in November!
—Celine Mazoyer, Bellingham
I would like to encourage voters to support Proposition 1, the low-income housing levy that will create the Belling-ham Home Fund. This fund would allow individuals and families that have lim-ited income to have access to affordable housing. Bellingham has a low vacancy rate that continues to drive the cost of affordable apartments up. Therefore in-dividuals making the minimum wage and trying to raise a family often cannot af-ford the high cost of renting an apart-ment, forcing them to live in crowded conditions with family or friends. There are many people that, due to disabilities, may never be able to work again. The dis-ability benefits they receive do not cover the expenses of renting an apartment.
Housing should not be something that only the middle and upper class can af-ford. Housing is a key component to sta-bility in work, home and community. The Bellingham Home Fund is a large step toward a healthier community.
—Kristin Hill, Bellingham
RIGHT WING ANARCHISTSI’m a Whatcom County senior citizen
who is tired of our state government being attacked as Part of The Problem rather than being effectively used as Part of The Solution. That is why I’m writing in support of Natalie McClendon for 42nd District State Representative. The GOP incumbent, Jason Overstreet, is part of the new generation of right-wing anarchists whose mission is to take away government protections for vulnerable citizens and our environment to leave us to the tender mercies of market-based so-lutions. As we all know, the outcome of that approach is that the poor get more desperate and the rich get yet richer.
Natalie is one of the small business own-ers who are being hurt by the corporate-based government policies Overstreet ex-emplifies. In the legislature she will work to restore an equitable tax base, rebuild critical infrastructure and improve the educational opportunities that made our
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country great. Natalie will help rebuild a productive job-creating economy for 21st century Washington State.
We need new energy and fresh ideas in Olympia. Vote Natalie McClendon.
—Jim Hansen, Bellingham
SIGNS OF THE TIMESI’ve noticed that when multiple GOP
signs are placed in yards, they are precisely spaced and aligned. They march in place in an orderly line—kind of like robots. On the other hand, Democratic candidate signs are haphazard like a random group of people milling around, talking, exchanging ideas. They are dynamic and full of energy. I think this says something about how the two groups think and what they stand for.
Take, for example, the local State Rep-resentative race in the 42nd District be-tween Jason Overstreet (R) and Natalie McClendon (D). Jason marches in place and stays in line, but doesn’t go any-where. Nothing gets done. The status quo remains. No new ideas, just the same old worn-out rhetoric. All talk, no action.
On the other hand, Natalie McClendon is on the move. She has talked with hun-dreds of our local citizens and she under-stands our values and our concerns. She is ready and willing to move forward. She has ideas, solutions and the guts to get things done.
So, my fellow voters, do you want to stagnate, march in place and continue to be duped into calling that “good enough?”
Or are you ready to move forward, implement workable solutions and get things done? If you are ready to roll, ready to move forward, ready to get prob-lems solved, get ready to vote for Natalie McClendon, State Representative for the 42nd District.
—Gretchen McFarland, Sumas
ELECT MATT KROGHMatt Krogh is running for State Rep-
resentative in the 42nd District. Here is why I will vote for Matt and think you should also: education, equal rights, lo-cal jobs and environment.
Matt recognizes that a good educa-tion—from kindergarten through college or technical school—is the key to good jobs and healthy communities. Matt will work to keep classroom sizes from get-ting too big and to limit increases in col-lege tuition.
Matt will fight for women’s economic, health, and personal rights. He recog-nizes that supporting women strengthens families and communities.
On jobs and the economy, Matt will work for Made in Washington State leg-islation to protect and increase the num-
ber of local jobs. Finally, Matt recognizes that healthy
people and communities require a healthy environment—clean air, clean water and no coal trains running through Whatcom County.
For all these reasons, I urge you to vote for Matt Krogh. Because Natalie McClen-don holds similar views (and is running for the other seat in the 42nd District), I encourage you to vote for Natalie also. Their opponents seem to think the only solution to our problems is to cut taxes; they fail to recognize the benefits of many government programs.
—Eric Hirst, Bellingham
NICE GUY NEEDS TO FINISH LAST
I’m sorry, but the simple fact is Rep. Vin-cent Buys needs to go. While he is person-ally quite nice, his voting record is weak, bordering on terrible. At a time when we desperately needed someone with sway and influence to bring resources to our community, Rep. Buys voted against infra-structure bills, job bills, grants for early education, funding for schools, funding for roads and funding for a whole range of basic functions of government. Our com-munities needed a champion and instead, they got a bench-warmer.
That is why I urge everyone to vote for Matt Krogh for State Representative. He’s not your usual Democrat; he brings a la-ser eye to budgets and lean government sensibilities. He will do the right thing and stand up for what we need, fight for our jobs and not be tied to the party line. When I say he will do the write thing, I mean it. He literally wrote the book on ethics in government. It is time we had a champion for the 42nd, please vote Matt Krogh this November.
—Devlin Henderson, Bellingham
QUESTION OF ALLEGIANCEJason Overstreet signed Grover
Norquist’s pledge “never to raise taxes,” without exception, regardless of the situation or emergency. Overstreet’s al-legiance is to keep that pledge by voting “no” on bills with no regard to the con-sequences or importance of the bill. For those unfamiliar with Grover Norquist, he is a lobbyist, a conservative, an activist and the founder and president of Ameri-cans for Tax Reform. He sponsored the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.”
It seems to me an elected representa-tive should determine the merits of each bill before deciding how to vote.
Natalie McClendon’s pledge is to pro-mote public education and women’s health care, encourage job growth and protect our environment while being aware of our needs for a strong, healthy future.
Think about how you will vote this No-vember. Will your allegiance be to some-one who signed the Norquist pledge or to someone who has promised to be sen-sitive to the needs of Whatcom County residents?
Natalie McClendon has my vote.—Naomi Murphy, Bellingham
ELECT DEBORRA GARRETTAs a former mock trial student of
Deborra Garrett, I wish to endorse her for Superior Court Judge.
I met Deborra when I was 15 years old, and Deborra was our volunteer mock trial coach at Meridian High School. With her constructive criticism and passion for the law, she helped our team make it to the state tournament competition. Since she started volunteering at MHS in 2001, Deborra has educated many, many Merid-ian students. She showed me and all the other students over the years, how im-
portant it is to not only understand the law but also to be unbiased, ethical and fair. Deborra was more than just a mock trial coach. She is a life role model for me and many others. I hold her in the utmost respect
Deborra has a long history representing people in private practice and has volun-teered countless hours of community ser-vice. She has worked many years in the Superior Court as well as in the federal court system. Deborra has volunteered her time pro bono for the community, acting as legal advisor for the YWCA as well as Womencare Shelter. You will hear from anyone who has ever interacted with Deborra that her poise, intelligence and professionalism earn her the highest respect in any and all situations.
Deborra Garrett is exactly the person we need as the next Whatcom County Su-perior Court Judge.
—Jessica Greco, Bellingham
COAL PIER BRINGS JOBSReturning to Bellingham in 2007, it
was clear the local economy here is struggling. As a young professional, op-portunities to grow are few and far be-tween here in Whatcom County. I believe the Gateway Pacific Terminal will aid in providing career opportunities to all of Whatcom County.
The GPT is a great first step in the right direction. This is an opportunity to dem-onstrate how communities and corpora-tions can coexist both economically and environmentally. This will bring family- wage jobs to Whatcom County while at the same time safely utilize our natural deep-water port.
Traditionally, when it comes to oppos-ing industry, opposition groups build walls to start ideological wars. This is clearly happening in Bellingham. This is not only highly unproductive, but it can also come at the cost of social and eco-nomic stability for many family, friends and community members. It takes the power out of the community and puts it at the will of the political interests.
I find it troubling when powerful out-side influences interject and force them-selves into local issues. Funding mis-guided local opposition groups to harass our elected officials and pressure them to implement a hostile ideology suppresses the voices of the community. Join me in making a stand for Whatcom County!
—David McKim, Bellingham
COAL IS SAFEFor more than 30 years I worked as
a locomotive engineer for the Sante Fe Railway. During this time I serviced the
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Kaiser Steel Mill in California with coal from York Cannon. I personally trans-ported more than 1 million tons of coal through the dry desert.
All those years hauling coal I never experienced coal dust. These state-ments that coal dust will all of a sudden be a health risk due to the possibility of a few more coal trains is unfounded. These scare tactics by Sierra Club-funded groups of spreading false truths through our community is reminiscent of why I dropped my membership to their organi-zation. This strategy of throwing inflam-matory false truths in order to progress their political agenda is a far cry from the founder’s intentions.
I moved to Whatcom County in 1979 because of all the wonders it has to offer and coal trains have always been a part of that experience. Now with improved technologies and environmentally con-scious practices, coal transportation by rail has never been safer.
This is a great opportunity to bring employment to Whatcom County and improve our struggling economy. If nothing else, consider GPT an upgrade to the existing process.
—Francis Post, Bellingham
COVERING COALOver the past few months a number
of our neighbors have testified on this page that though they’ve lived in Bell-ingham for many years—and/or though they live next to the railroad tracks—they have never experienced any pollu-tion from coal dust. And SSA Marine’s spokespersons echoed this claim.
But now Peabody Coal has contra-dicted all of this testimony. Peabody says they will treat all trainloads of coal coming to Cherry Point with a “special sealant.”
So I guess coal dust is real. Peabody, the coal expert, says so. And now to keep the coal dust down, we’ll have an unknown concoction of chemicals “seal-ing” the coal dust in the coal. So what’s in the sealant? And how much of the sealant escapes into the air as the trains rumble along for all those miles?
So far we have no idea. Maybe the sealant is more toxic than the coal dust.
So here’s the score on integrity so far. SSA Marine begin to work on their Cherry Point site last year without per-mits. And they chose to be less than honest about coal dust.
Given this track record, why should anyone believe that SSA Marine’s claims about job creation or safety or environ-mental protection are trustworthy?
—David Marshak, Bellingham
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VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPIN IONS THE GRISTLE
BY PAUL K. ANDERSON
Xwe’ chi’ eXenGIVE BACK TO A PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN MUCHLEADERS OF the Lummi Na-tion gathered last week to voice opposition to the Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point near Bell-ingham. Tribal leaders believe the project could destroy ancestral buri-al and fishing grounds, and efforts to ship as much as 54 metric tons of Rocky Mountain coal out of the site are incompatible with its enduring natural beauty.
Jewell James, whose ancestral uncle was Chief Seattle, is director of the Sovereignty and Treaty Pro-tection Office for the Lummi Nation and is one of the most revered Lum-mis. He is an organizer on this com-munity event. Jewell James is also a master carver and is responsible for the carving of many well-known totem and healing poles.
In 2002, James and the Lummi Nation delivered a 13-foot healing pole to a site north of New York City where the NYC Fire Department and several foundations held programs for 9/11 families.
In 2003, James and the Lummi Nation delivered an honoring pole to the Shanksville, Pennsylvania site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed.
In 2004, James and the Lummi Na-tion delivered and installed the Lib-erty and Freedom Poles in Washing-ton D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery.
And, most recently, James and the Lummi Nation delivered a healing totem pole to the National Library of Medicine.
Today Goldman Sachs, Berkshire Hathaway, Peabody Coal, SSA Ma-rine, and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad want to build the largest coal-shipping facility in North America on the ancestral lands of the Lummi.
I believe it is time for America to step up and support the Lummi Na-tion. I believe it is time for those that have been comforted by the the healing and honoring poles carved by the hands of the Lummi People to pay back these kind and gener-ous people who have given back to America time after time.
It is time America honors and sup-ports the Lummi people.
Please speak out and express your concerns during the scoping phase of the Environmental Impact State-ment that began Sept. 24.
Paul K. Anderson is a contributing editor of the Chuckanut Conservancy.
XWE’ CHI’ EXEN: Smoldering in the molten furnace of the coal debate are a small number of explosives—potential game changers and deal killers on the transport of coal through the Pacific Northwest.
One is that the major metropolitan population centers of Cascadia might link arms in an organized and meaningful way, making coal export through the region a political (and perhaps regulatory and finan-cial) impossibility.
Another is that the tribal nations would declare a sovereign interest, enforce their treaty rights, and immediately bring the matter into focus at the fed-eral level, drawing in interests of the courts and Con-gress in a powerful way.
Fuses were touched off last week—even as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the state Dept. of Ecology and Whatcom County jointly announced that environmental scoping would begin for the proposed Gateway Pacific coal-export facility at Cherry Point. Portland, Ore., became the latest of those Northwest metro areas to link arms on the issue of coal trains, with Eugene, Ore., expected to follow with a similar resolution later this month. And Lummi Nation held a moving ceremony at Cherry Point last week, all but condemning the construction of the coal pier there.
There exist, of course, other potential game chang-ers; but the effect of this one-two punch on the eve of scoping is to transform the entire tenor of the de-bate from one of an initial celebration of industrial resurgence, to that of passive acceptance that power-ful and nigh-unstoppable extractive oligarchies have at last focused their destructive lens on our region, to one of active resistance. A process understood at the outset that would define the surrender of how this project would be permitted becomes instead a symposium on how this project might be rejected, and in that becomes a defining moment in the col-lective identity of Cascadia.
The Lummi gathering was particularly forceful—with strong, resonant recitals from tribal elders of the importance of Xwe’ chi’ eXen, a natural and cul-tural heritage site of identity to the tribe for 175 generations. A large symbolic check, written out in the sum of hundreds of millions of dollars, was stenciled over as “Non-negotiable.” The check was burned at the end of their solemn ceremony.
While tribal leaders did not entirely rule out ac-cepting an interagency ruling on the scope of the GPT environmental impact statement, their cere-mony suggests they will demand a high standard in that scoping.
Testament to its profound impact, the gathering drew an immediate and alarmed reaction from execu-tives at SSA Marine, parent company behind Pacific International Terminals, the project applicant.
“SSA Marine takes its relationship with Lummi very seriously,” SSA Marine Senior Vice President Bob Watters said in a statement, promising diligence in protecting the marine environment and Lummi heri-tage sites.
“Lummi fishers have also made it very clear to us how central fishing is to the tribe, both economically and culturally,” Watters said. “We are committed to addressing Lummi concerns in detail.”
The added risk for SSA Marine is that other tribal nations along the export route may join Lummi lead-ership in asserting their sovereign treaty rights in
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THE GRISTLEthe environmental scoping of the GPT project, expanding powerful claims of impacts and calls for mitigation far beyond Cherry Point and Custer.
In an analogous vein, Portland joined Seattle, Spokane and other Northwest metropolitan communi-ties last week to unanimously oppose coal trains entering Oregon through that city until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fully evaluates the impacts of exporting coal to Asia through the Northwest.
Anti-coal groups and Portland neighborhood leaders cited potential hazards from long, uncovered trains, including diesel pollution, coal dust, noise, traffic delays and reduced prop-erty values. Others made arguments similar to those from other cities, that a policy to export coal runs counter to efforts that encourage renewable power and reduce the emission of cli-mate-changing pollutants.
While tribal and city efforts seek similar goals, they proceed from dis-similar sets of imperatives. The cit-ies perceive the issue as an inverse-square problem, where they remain far from the intensity of economic benefits while enduring all of the im-pacts. Gaining little, they have much to lose. The tribes see all this coming their way in a profound and deeply personal challenge to a hereditary way of life. Not lost on the tribes is a dark history in which U.S. energy and environmental land-use policy has stripped resources and value from the lands of many indigenous people around the continent.
The constriction of coal exits in Ore-gon pressures the issue back into Wash-ington, with Xwe’ chi’ eXen—the Lummi name for Cherry Point—rapidly becom-ing the last really viable option for a new coal port of any size operating on the West Coast of the United States.
It’s ironic indeed that as Whatcom County becomes Ground Zero in the regional coal debate, its population center—the City of Bellingham—con-tinues to struggle to find a voice on the issue. Bellingham City Council has found itself struggling to adopt respon-sive resolutions even as toothless and non-binding as the Portland model.
Two weeks ago, council withdrew yet another proposal, this one seek-ing funding for an independent health impact assessment of GPT. Their rea-sons were sound, even prudent, as they wait for optimal study partners, but adds to a collective unease that Bellingham is just not ready to take a principled lead on what’s perhaps the defining issue of the city’s future.
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NEWS POLITICS FUZZ BUZZ INDEX
currents D on’t be surprised to find the ghost of John Muir drift-ing around Squalicum High School on Oct. 27. The skinny,
bearded ancestor of the Sierra Club may be heard muttering his most quoted (and misquoted) caution:
“When we try to pick out anything by it-self, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
Three government agencies—federal, state and local—will get an earful from citi-zens at the high school on that Saturday, on how much of the “everything else” it is rea-sonable to study, relating to the proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point.
They call it scoping. It is the process through which Ecology, Whatcom County and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will decide which of the coal port’s environ-mental impacts their hired consultant will study. This isn’t the Environmental Impact Statement, but it shapes the Environmen-tal Impact Statement. The scoping process defines how seriously and broadly the deci-sion makers will look at the various effects of Gateway Pacific Terminal.
The public comment period started this week and ends Jan. 21. If the ordinary citizen can affect the process at all, this is when it should happen. This is when you can persuade the county-state-federal team (or fail to) that your particular concern related to the terminal and the export of Wyoming and Montana coal from Cherry Point to China deserves to be studied. You can offer your wisdom in person at one of seven public hearings, or by postal mail or email.
Concerns widely expressed leading up to the hearings have to do with fish, with shoreline preservation, increased rail traf-fic and its inherent pollution, noise in resi-dential neighborhoods, the risks of colli-sion when the world’s largest cargo ships mix it up with oil tankers in dangerous wa-ters, and with coal-borne mercury in the Asian air that blows back to our coast.
SSA Marine, owner-developer of the pro-posed coal port, wanted the EIS limited to the effects at the company’s 1,100-acre Cherry Point site and the adjacent land and water. “Just those things we can do some-thing about,” as SSA Vice President Bob Watters put it during a Bellingham news conference in 2011.
Those on-site issues produced a well-publicized protest Friday from members of the Lummi Nation. They gathered on the beach, on county land near the proposed coal terminal site, for prayers, stories, songs and speeches aimed at protect-ing the natural condition of Cherry Point. Lummi leaders emphasized the plant site has been a burial ground for their ancestors and a key access point for inland ances-tors who depended on the once-abundant Cherry Point fishery for their survival
Watters attended the ceremony and issued a written statement saying that his company takes the Lummi objections very seriously.
Shaping and Making
SCOPING BEGINS ON GATEWAY PACIFIC COAL PIER
BY BOB SIMMONS
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“We understand how important their cultural values are to the Lummi,” the statement said. “We respect those values and will work with the Lummi to realize them.” That includes, the statement said, “having their ances-tors rest in peace.”
That will be challenging. Three-hun-dred-fifty of SSA’s 1,100 acres will be intensely industrialized. The work will impact 145 acres of wetlands. SSA pro-poses to build a wharf more than a half-mile long and 105 feet wide. An update
for Burlington Northern’s seven-mile railroad spur from Custer will impact another 17 acres of wetlands and cross two creeks.
Those who read Environmental Im-pact Statements for a living say it’s common to study secondary effects, well beyond what’s going on at or near the project. One example of a second-ary effect would be the increase in the number of 150-car coal trains that will carry coal through street inter-sections in Spokane, Vancouver, Se-attle, Mount Vernon, Bellingham and Ferndale, and their effect (or non-effect) on traffic congestion and air pollution. Scoping hearings will hap-pen in those cities and also in Friday Harbor, where the suggestions seem more likely to involve the effects of increased shipping and the risk of col-lision with oil tankers in the waters of the San Juans.
(Whether you bring your informa-tion or send it, you might want to read helpful hints from the League of Women Voters. Google: Guide to Writ-ing a Scoping Comment.)
John Muir never heard of an Environ-mental Impact Statement, but here’s how his admonition applies to coal shipping and secondary impacts. Bell-ingham’s Barry Wenger, the recently re-tired Senior Planner of the Department of Ecology, observes that ships carrying coal from Cherry Point could aggravate a disaster-in-waiting at Unimak Pass in Alaska’s Aleutians Islands, 1,600 miles from here.
Narrow as the narrowest part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca but with much meaner weather, Unimak Pass is part of the most direct route from Northwest
ports to Asia. The Coast Guard keeps an eye on the fitness of U.S. vessels and crews in these crowded, stormy waters, but no one checks to see that the thou-sands of foreign ships maneuvering their way through are seaworthy and staffed with competent officers and crews.
The Coast Guard’s Aleutian Risk As-sessment study, a work continually in progress, says nearly 5,000 commercial vessels and fishing boats from all over the world enter the pass every year, and they carry more than four million gallons of fuel.
Coming soon, oil tankers carrying at least 1.4 million gallons per day of Canadian tar sands oil to Asia from Vancouver and Kitimat, when two new pipelines from Alberta begin service in a few years.
Add more than 400 coal ships per year from Cherry Point when the ter-minal’s in full operation. These are the world’s largest vessels, more than three football fields long, with a stop-ping distance of more than a mile. There could be hundreds more from other coal ports, if they’re approved, in Washington and Oregon. All these vessels—the freighters, the tankers, the coal ships, the fishing boats—will mix it up in Unimak Pass, with its no-torious storms.
Wenger worries about what may hap-pen to the Bering Sea fishery, to the north of Unimak. It produces some-thing like a billion and a half dollars worth of fish every year. It is the rich-est commercial fishing ground in the United States.
As John Muir more or less said, ev-erything touches everything.
Scoping HearingsBELLINGHAM11am to 3pm Sat., Oct. 27, Squalicum High School PAC
FRIDAY HARBORNoon to 3pm Sat., Friday Harbor High School
MOUNT VERNON4 to 7pm Mon., Nov. 5, McIntyre Hall, Skagit Community CollegeSeattle4 to 7pm Tues., Nov. 13, North Seattle Com-munity College
FERNDALE3 to 7pm Thurs., Nov. 29, Ferndale Events Center
SPOKANE4 to 7pm Tues., Spokane County Fairgrounds
VANCOUVER, WA4 to 7pm Weds., Gaiser Student Center, Clark CollegeMORE INFO: www.eisgatewaykpacificwa.govCOMMENTS: [email protected]/Custer Spur EIS, 1100 112th Ave. NE, Suite 400, Bellevue, WA 98004.
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The
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09. .12FRIDAY
Multiple agencies announce that the scoping period for the environmental review of the proposed Gateway Pacific pier at Cherry Point will begin Monday. The co-lead agencies of What-com County, the state Dept. of Ecology and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will manage the 120-day period for public review and comment on the proposal. The period ends Jan. 21, 2013.
In a moving ceremony, leaders of Lummi Nation say they op-pose the proposed coal-export facility at Cherry Point, site of their heritage fishing grounds. Tribal leaders express concerns that the development of a shipping terminal may disturb an-cestral burial sites, affect their fishing rights and create other environmental problems. The area has served Lummi for 175 generations. SSA Marine executives express shock and dismay at the opposition, saying the company is committed to respecting archeological or historic sites at Cherry Point.
09. .12MONDAY
Crews scramble to contain an oil spill coming from a sunken fishing boat in the Swinomish Channel near Anacortes. The 71-foot Western Flyer sank just south of the State Route 20 bridge, leaving an oil sheen visible on the water’s surface. Crews will contain and remove the fuel from the boat so it no longer poses a spill risk.
Two Lummi natives face prison after they plead guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Lamar James. According to a plea agreements, the men met with James to trade elec-tronics for drugs at a home on Lummi tribal land last December. A fight ended with James being stabbed
in the back. The men face up to eight years in prison when they're sentenced on Jan. 11.
Attorney General Rob McKenna announces a na-tionwide foreclosure settlement with America's five biggest lenders. About 34,000 households in Wash-ington may receive damage claims resulting from il-legal mortgage conduct and servicing abuses. The $25 billion national foreclosure settlement negoti-ated by 49 states and the federal government.
Six teenage offenders being held at a juvenile detention facility in Snoqualmie are captured after knocking a female staff member unconscious and escaping. Authorities say the high-risk offend-ers, ranging in age from 14 to 15, locked the Echo Glen Children's Center staff member in a room late Saturday night and took her keys and radio. The boys were captured and booked on multiple charg-es. The woman is recovering.
A woman walking on Interstate 5 near Arling-ton is struck and killed overnight. The Wash-ington State Patrol says the 23-year-old Tulalip woman had stopped her car after being involved in another accident.
A bad call touches off a national debate about unions. The NFL concedes Tuesday that the call cost the Green Bay Packers the game—yet still upheld the Seattle Seahawks' victory, 14-12, on Monday Night Football. A review of the play acknowledged that Seahawks receiver Golden Tate should have been called for offensive pass interference before the catch. While coaches, players and fans—even athletes in other sports—ripped the use of replacement refs, the league met with its locked-out officials in an attempt to resolve the impasse.
Hundreds of tribal members from the Lummi Nation gathered Friday to announce the tribe's opposition to development of a facility at Cherry Point to ship coal brought by train from the Powder River Basin. They ceremonially burned a check on the beach to make a statement that no amount of money could buy their support for a project that would destroy their village and burial sites on the property. The Lummi people have used the land and waters at Cherry Point for 175 generations, tribal leaders said, and even though they no longer own it, the tribe considers it sacred ground.
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TOOL TIMEOn Sept. 12, a 44-year-old Everett wom-an was found guilty of attempted murder. Prosecutors say she had attempted to cut off her husband’s head with a electric saw last October. She had also taken a hatchet to the man and struck him with a mallet, prosecutors claimed. The woman denied the charges, saying someone else had entered the couple’s home and taken the tools to her husband.
On Sept. 12, “a Blaine man, angry over marital problems, kept his family awake most of the night with his laments,” police reported. ”Law enforcement eventually got involved when he called 911 and reported that his wife had attacked him, cutting him with a knife. Police responded to the home and were assisted by Border Patrol agents in making sure the couple and their chil-dren were unharmed and unarmed. When it became evident no one was buying his story, the man admitted that he had made up the knife attack story out of spite,” po-lice noted. “The officers then conducted a false reporting investigation for the pros-ecutor, and transported the man to a rela-tive's house so that his wife and kids could get some sleep.”
PARTY PATROLOn Sept. 25, Bellingham Police lectured Western Washington University students after a loud gathering they were hosting prompted calls to 911. “Upon seeing po-lice arrival, 30 to 40 youths ran from the home,” police reported. Officers advised the renters of city ordinances that per-tain to loud parties, disorderly behavior and alcohol violations. “The youths were polite and cooperated and had the remain-der of the partygoers leave their home,” police noted.
On Sept. 25, Bellingham Police checked on a report of women screaming one at a time at a home on Sehome Hill. “Officers responded and spoke with several people whom were out on foot,” police reported. “No one else reported hearing the scream, nor did they admit to being responsible for it. There was a lot of WWU students out and about on foot walking home from the bars whom were loud and carrying on.”
On Sept. 24, Bellingham Police lectured WWU students regarding a loud gathering they were hosting. “Officers advised them of local city ordinances pertaining to loud music and disorderly parties,” Police report-ed. “They agreed to shut off their music and send their guests home.”
On Sept. 25, Bellingham Police crashed an-other loud party on Sehome Hill.
GRAN-SCAMOn Sept. 20, Bellingham Police logged an-other granny scam. This time, the 89-year-old victim received a call alleged to be from her grandson, claiming he needed cash after having been in an accident. This was fol-lowed by a call alleged to be from her grand-son’s attorney, requesting a $3,000 retainer. Grandma told them to call her daughter as she has no money. “No money was lost to this scam,” police noted.
SLOW HIGH-SPEED CHASEOn Sept. 20, Bellingham Police observed a man driving recklessly in the Kohl's parking lot of Bellis Fair Mall. Police attempted to stop the driver, but he instead led police on a four-mile chase at low speeds through north Bellingham. During the chase, the driver rammed three police cars. Officers were eventually able to get the suspect stopped in the K-Mart parking lot where he was taken into custody. No officers or citi-zens were injured, although the 20-year-old driver suffered a shoulder abrasion while re-sisting officers’ attempts to take him into custody.
CHURCH NAZISOn Sept. 24, Bellingham Police investigated a banner reported stolen from a church in Sunnyland neighborhood. They discovered “some anti-Semitic symbols were mowed into the lawn.”
DOCUMENTING THE OUTRAGEOn Sept. 12, Blaine Police were dispatched to an apartment complex to investigate an ongoing disagreement between neigh-bors. ”This time one of the ladies was up-set because she had been sitting outside in a common area enjoying the afternoon shade, when her nemesis came out and started taking photographs of her,” police reported. “The photographer was contact-ed, and she explained that the landlord had instructed her to take pictures of anything that she found bothersome. On the upside,” police commented, “at least they're shoot-ing cameras.”
ASSAULT AND ’BAT ’-TERYOn Sept. 18, “vandals struck again at Fairhaven Park,” Bellingham Police sighed. “They were unsuccessful in kicking out win-dows this time but did break another window and kill a wild bat that lived in the eaves.”
FUN WITH FUNGIOn Sept. 18, Bellingham Police checked on two men wrestling around in Whatcom Falls neighborhood around 12:30am. One of the men was believed to have ingested hallu-cinogenic mushrooms. He was taken to the emergency room by ambulance.
FUZZ BUZZ
WASHINGTON residents consumed 7.3 gallons of gasoline per person during an average week in 2011, the lowest rate of total gas consumption in 50 years. Oregon
logged similar reductions.
THE last year in which gas consumption was as low as that recorded in 2011. Gas prices in that year were 31¢ per gallon.
PEAK year for fuel consumption in the United States.
REDUCTIONS in gas consumption can be traced both to reductions in per capita driving and, to a lesser extent, fuel efficiency. In 2009, drivers between the age of 16
and 34 drove 23 percent less than their same-aged counterparts in 2001.
EVEN among households earning $70,000 per year or more, young people doubled their use of transit between 2001 and
2009.
AVERAGE vehicle efficiency has accounted for less than 13 percent of the reduction in per capita gasoline
consumption since 2002.
AVERAGE price for a gallon of gas in Bellingham. The average was $4.50 per gallon in 2008.
THE Washington Transportation Revenue Forecast Council predicts that the average realworld fuel economy of the passenger vehicle fleet will rise to 26.7 miles per
gallon by 2027, up from 20.5 mpg today
PERCENT decline in overall fuel consumption produced by increasing
fuel efficiency by 26.7 miles per gallon.
SOURCES: Washington Transportation Revenue Forecast Council; Sightline Institute; American Automotive Association; Oil Price Information Service
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WORDSTHURS., SEPT. 27EDUCATORS OPEN HOUSE: Children’s book buyer Sarah Hutton and reps from Scholastic and Penguin will be on hand to talk to local teachers at an Open House for Educators from 4-6pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
FRI., SEPT. 28POETRYNIGHT ANTHOLOGY RELEASE: Show up for a poetry party when poetrynight celebrates the re-lease of its first anthology, As Much As We’ve Put In, at 7pm at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. Entry is free, and copies of the book will be on hand.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
IVAN DOIG: Seattle-based author Ivan Doig reads from his latest book of fiction, The Bar-tender’s Tale, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The tome revolves around “a one-of-a-kind father, his son, and a bar that is the lifeblood of a small town in northern Montana.”
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SAT., SEPT. 29CHERYL STRAYED: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail author Cheryl Strayed will read from her bestselling memoir, answer ques-tions and sign copies of the book from 1-3pm at the Conway Muse, 18444 Spruce St. Tickets are $10.
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TREASURED TOMES: Local book experts will be on hand to evaluate books at a “Treasured Tomes: A Road Show for Your Books” event from 1-3pm at the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. Attendees can bring up to three books for evalua-tion. Entry is $5.
778-7323
POETRY FOR TEENS: Seattle poet Karen Finney-frock will lead a free poetry writing workshop for Whatcom and Skagit high school students from 1-4pm in Anacortes at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave. The finished work will be part of on upcoming exhibit. Please register in advance.
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WRITERS LEAGUE: Mary Buckham will focus on synopsis and query letter gathering at today’s Skagit Valley Writers League meeting from 1:30-5:30pm at the Burlington Library, 820 E. Washing-ton St. Cost is $20 for members, $25 general.
WWW.SKAGITWRITERS.ORG
POETRY DUO: Peter Ludwin and Jane Alynn will read from their respective books of poetry, Rumors of Fallible Gods and Necessity of Flight, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SUN., SEPT. 30READ-OUT: As part of the 30th annual Banned Books Week, attend a “Read-Out” from 2-4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The event will highlight the benefits of free and open access to information.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
MON., OCT. 1POETRYNIGHT: Read your original verse at poet-rynight at 8:30pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Sign-ups start at 8pm.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., OCT. 2THE DOULA: Dallas-based writer Bridget Boland reads from her work of fiction, The Doula, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
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BY GRACE JACKSON
From Nebraska to HollywoodTHE POWER OF PERSEVERANCE
PERSEVERANCE IS a trait that pays off in all areas of life, but seems more important in Hollywood, where competition is legendary and having the hide of an elephant is part of the trade.
The story behind Tim Schlattmann, writer and executive producer of Showtime’s hugely successful Dexter series, is one of perseverance; it’s a story of believing in your dreams and knowing that a wise man will make more opportunities than he finds (Francis Bacon).
Schlattmann has traveled a long way from his blue-collar upbringing in Nebraska to the bright lights of Hollywood.
Schlattmann’s father worked as a butcher while his mother stayed at home to raise Tim and his three siblings. They lived in a small house in the country. After working as a disc jockey and college professor, Schlattmann pursued his dream of writing for television and movies, and, without knowing a soul, moved to Los Angeles. He started as the lowest man on a very tall totem pole as a production assistant—a fancy way of saying he fetched coffee and scripts. He then became a writer’s assistant, making sure scripts came in and taking notes while in the room with writers.
Against all odds and through sheer deter-mination, Schlattmann moved up through the ranks and found success as a storywriter and executive producer for Dexter. The show—which focuses on a blood-splatter analyst who moon-lights as a serial killer—has received numerous nominations for Writers Guild of America and Golden Globe awards, has been nominated for 19 Primetime Emmy Awards, and was nominated in the category of Outstanding Drama Series from 2008 to 2010. In 2008 it received the pres-tigious Peabody award. (Schlattmann’s other television writing credits include Roseanne, Get Real, and Smallville.)
Schlattmann cites his Nebraskan work ethic of dogged determination as a big part of his success. I have often wondered what makes one person more successful than the other: Is it just perseverance, or do genes have anything to do with it?
This idea of persever-ance versus genetics was explored in a 2009 New York Times article titled “Genius: The Mod-ern View.” Author David Brooks stated that “even Mozart’s early abilities were not the product of some innate gift. What Mozart had, we now be-lieve, was the same thing Tiger Woods had—the ability to focus for long periods of time and a fa-ther intent on improving his skills.”
Brooks also states that the “primary trait a suc-
cessful person possesses is not some mysterious genius. It’s the ability to develop a deliberate, strenuous and boring practice routine. We con-struct ourselves through our behavior.”
During a talk at Western Washington Univer-sity’s campus Thursday night, Schlattmann will describe his career path in Hollywood, as well as discuss industry standards and the writing process.
“The most important attribute in this busi-ness and life in general is perseverance,” Schlattmann says of his outlook toward success. “Instead of retreating when I hear the word ‘no,’ it makes me work harder. Writing in this busi-ness is a craft, and sometimes it takes years to master. I still have much to learn and more stories to tell.”
ATTEND WHAT: Tim Schlattmann presents “Writing for the Screen: Big and Small”WHEN: 8pm Thurs., Sept. 27WHERE: WWU’s Performing Arts Center Concert HallCOST: FreeINFO: 650-2829
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WED., OCT. 3BERTOLINO’S POETRY: Bellingham-based writer James Bertolino reads from his 11th volume of poetry, Every Wound Has a Rhythm, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
671-2626
COMMUNITYWED., SEPT. 26WHATCOM FUTURES: As part of a “Whatcom Futures Community Forums” series focused on strategic visions for land use, show up from 4:30-6:30pm at Bellingham’s Squalicum Boathouse, 2600 S. Harbor Loop Dr., to be part of the conversation.
676-4255 OR WWW.NWECON.ORG
THURS., SEPT. 27TECH STOMP: Support scholarships to students in technology programs at WWU, BCT, WCC, and NIC at a “Tech Stomp” from 5:30-9:30pm at Western’s Academic Instruc-tion Center, 516 High St. Entry is $30-$50 and includes local food and libations, bocce ball, live music, improv by the Upfront Theatre, and more.
318-7710 OR WWW.TAGNW.ORG
HEALTHCARE MEETING: United for National Healthcare will host Eileen Cody, Chair of the House Health and Wellness Care Committee, at a meeting at 6:30pm at St. Luke’s Commu-nity Health Education Center, 3333 Squalicum Pkwy. Entry is free.
WWW.UNITEDFORHEALTHCARE.ORG
FRI., SEPT. 28 BINGO IN THE BARN: The rescheduled “Bingo in the Barn” will raise funds for the South Whatcom Public Library from 7-9pm at the Sudden Valley Dance Barn, Gate 2.
WWW.WCLS.ORG
SAT., SEPT. 29 RUMMAGE SALE: Attend the 37th annual “spectacular” Rummage Sale from 8:30am-3pm at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1720 Harris Ave.
733-6749
BALLOT ISSUES FORUM: The League of Women Voters of Bellingham/Whatcom County and the City of Bellingham will host a State Ballot Issues Forum from 10am-12pm at Bellingham City Council Chambers, 210 Lottie St.
734-2366 OR WWW.LWVBELLINGHAMWHATCOM.
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WONDERS OF WHATCOM: “Roeder Home: A Virtual Tour” will be the focus a Wonders of Whatcom presentation at 2:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Entry is free.
778-7188
SUN., SEPT. 30FALL BRIDAL SHOW: A fashion show, ballroom dance lessons, food samples, a lun-cheon buffet and advice and wares from local wedding experts will be part of the Organized Bride Fall Bridal Show from 11:30am-4:30pm at the Ferndale Events Center, 5715 Barrett Rd. Entry is $10.
WWW.THESIMPLYORGANIZEDBRIDE.COM
CHINESE MOON FESTIVAL: Traditional Chinese singing and dancing performances, a silent auction, a bake sale and more will be part of today’s Chinese Moon Festival from 2:30-4:30pm at Bloedel Donovan, 2214 Electric Ave. Entry is free.
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ONE OF my favorite pastimes in the spring, summer and early fall is to sit on my small second-story porch of my house in the York neighborhood and watch people walk by the massive maple tree in my front yard.
Although not everybody pauses under its enormous branches, enough do that I’ve come to realize the very old, very tall tree is something special.
With branches that seem to tickle the sky, a trunk that would take at least seven or eight humans with arms outstretched to cir-cle and a welcoming crotch that has been home to many (uninvited) after-hours college parties, the leafy behemoth is indeed worth stopping for.
One of the joys of living in a house that’s been around since 1900 is I can dream about who planted the marvelous maple. Was it a family just starting out, a widow who dug a hole and placed the tree in it in honor of her late husband, or a young bachelor who wanted to put down roots
WED., SEPT. 26DEADLIEST DAY: Award-winning journalist Peter Zuckerman shares stories from the book he co-wrote with Amanda Padoan, Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The book focuses on the tragic 2008 K2 climb, in which 11 climbers died.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
THURS., SEPT. 27GARDENING GREEN: Learn simple, yet powerful ways to protect our water resources and make your landscape easier to care for at a “Garden-ing Green: Sustainable Landscaping” class from 9am-1:30pm at Bellingham’s WSU Whatcom Extension Office. The class is free, but pre-registration is required.
671-3891 OR
WWW.WHATCOM.WSU.EDU
FRI., SEPT. 28NATURE BABIES: Kids, adults and adventurers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Nature Ba-bies” excursions from 9:30-11am every Friday in September at Whatcom Falls Park. Entry is by donation.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
SAT., SEPT. 29FOOTSTEPS FOR WATER: Attend a “Friendly Footsteps for Water” 5K starting at 9:30am at Lynden’s Bethel CRC. Cost is $10 per person or $25 per family; funds raised will help build a well in Haiti. The event is being organized by two seventh-grade girls.
WWW.GBRC.NET
ALS WALK: The 9th annual Bellingham “Walk to Defeat ALS” will begin at 10am at the Squalicum Boathouse, 2600 N. Harbor Loop Dr. The 2.5-mile excursion is meant to draw attention to helping people living with Lou Gehrig’s disease and their loved ones. Entry is free, but those taking part are encouraged to participate in fundraising efforts.
(425) 656-1650 OR WWW.WEB.ALSA.ORG
KILLER CROSS: As part of the Cascade Cross Series, cyclocross enthusiasts can sign up for today’s Killer Cross happening from 10am-2pm at Squalicum Creek Park. Entry is $15-$30 (an 11am youth race is free).
WWW.CASCADECROSS.COM
PUBLIC LANDS PROJECT: As part of National Public Lands day, join Bellingham Parks and Rec and other area agencies for a work party from 10am-12pm at Big Rock Garden Park, 2900 Sylvan St. Volunteers will help plant, weed, relocate plants, clean sculptures and more.
WWW.COB.ORG
REFLECT YOUR RIDE: Reps from EverybodyBike will be on hand to dispense free reflective stickers and tape to help bike riders stay visible on the road at a “Reflectorize Your Ride” event from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square.
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LADIES MOON WALK: Area women are invited to join Wild Whatcom Walks for a “Walk When the Moon is Full” excursion from 5:30-7:30pm in Whatcom County (the waterfront location will be revealed upon registration). Cost is $10, and registration is required.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
SUN., SEPT. 30BELLINGHAM BAY MARATHON: Choose from a full marathon, half marathon or 5K at the annual “Bellingham Bay Marathon” starting at 7:30am at the Lummi Nation School on Black-hawk Way (the 5K and the half marathon begin at the Depot Market Square). Entry is $30-$120.
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in the place he now called home? I’ll never know, but I am thankful for who-
ever decided to beau-tify the landscape and provide a tree that not only shades and cools my house in the sum-mer, but also provides habitat for birds, bugs, squirrels and the occa-sional housecat.
While I’ll never build a tree house in it—rumor has it there used to be one, but some kid broke his arm after falling from it and the structure had to be taken down—I have entertained the idea of taking a sleeping bag up there and spend-
ing the night in its sturdy embrace. I’m not the only one in this city who’s in
love with trees. At a free Bellingham Arbor Day celebration happening Sept. 29 at Eliza-beth Park, the branches, bark and leaves will be the stars of the show.
In addition to guided walks focusing on the park’s many storied trees with City of Bellingham arborist James Luce and local expert John Wesselink, the event will also feature an Arbor Day proclamation by Mayor Kelli Linville, tree climbing for kids led by professionals, hands-on educational activi-ties and information about tree planting, lo-cal parks and much more. Arborists will also be on hand to answer questions community members might have.
If I want more information about the specimen in my front yard, I may bring photos of it and ask them if they can tell me anything about it. For example: Is it as old as the house? Is it a Norway maple or a sugar maple? How long can it live? Why do so many people stop under its branches and gaze longingly upward? I don’t need all the answers, but I remain curious.
ATTEND WHAT: Bellingham Arbor Day Celebration WHEN: 10am-3pm Sat., Sept. 29WHERE: Elizabeth ParkCOST: FreeINFO: 778-7100 or www.cob.org
STORY AND PHOTO BY AMY KEPFERLE
Arbor Day ActionIN CELEBRATION OF TREES
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CROP WALK: Join community members to help end hunger one step at a time at the annual CROP Hunger Walk starting at 2pm at the Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th St. Admission is by donation, and participants are encouraged to fundraise.
WWW.CROPWALK.ORG
MON., OCT. 1HIGHWAY 20 HIKES: Washington Trails Association’s Lindsay Leffelman leads a “Highway 20 Fall Hikes” presentation at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. Register in advance for the free event.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
TUES., OCT. 2542 FALL HIKES: Patrick Kennedy helms a “Five 542 Fall Hikes” primer at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St. The overview will include five hikes that are “ripe and ready for explora-tion” before the heavy snows start falling. Entry is free, and registration is required.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
WED., OCT. 3BOAT WORKSHOP: RE Sources will host the first of two “Pollution Prevention for Boat Repair Businesses” workshops from 10am-2pm at La Conner’s Lighthouse Building, 539 N. 3rd St. The second happens Oct. 10 in Anacortes. Entry is free, but participants need to register in advance.
WWW.RE-SOURCES.ORG
TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH: View some of the world’s most remote terrain when Teton Gravity Research presents the snowboard-ing movies The Dream Factory at 6:30pm and Further at 9pm at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets are $13 per film, or $20 for both.
734-6080 OR WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
GARDEN CLUB: Wells Nursery’s Roger Ragusa talks about “Conifers for Color in the Land-scape” at the Birchwood Garden Club’s monthly meeting at 7pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Ro-tunda Room, 121 Prospect St. All are welcome.
WWW.BIRCHWOODGARDENCLUB.ORG
THURS., OCT. 4UNDERWATER WORLD: As part of a fall Travelogue Series, join local traveler and photojournalist Barb Roy for an “Innerspace Wonders: A Look at the World Underwater” presentation from 7-9pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Sug-gested donation is $3.
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My Fair Lady FROM POOR TO POSH, WITH STYLE
HENRY HIGGINS is kind of a jerk. He’s egotistical and misogy-nistic, and looks down on those whom he considers being below him in both social class and standing.
When the phonetic expert meets cute with a lowly flower girl with a strong Cockney accent named Eliza Doolittle, it’s not long before she’s liv-ing in his posh London home in an attempt to better herself by learning how to speak like a proper English lady.
While she’d be happy to be able to talk “more genteel” so she can get a job as an assistant in a flower shop, Higgins has bigger plans. Within six months, he claims he can pass her off as a lady of high standing at a soiree dubbed the Embassy Ball.
While these plot machinations of My Fair Lady may be familiar to many, it’s a testament to the universally told tale that the play continues to cap-tivate in the many decades since Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison took on the starring roles on Broadway—followed by an even bigger film version with Audrey Hepburn taking over the role of Eliza.
What a few people may not know is that, except for one song, “Just You Wait,” Hepburn—who was chosen because she had much bigger star power than Andrews at the time—didn’t even sing the songs that brought the movie
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(360) 424-9157
THURS., SEPT. 27GOOD, 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
SEPT. 27-29CODY RIVERS SHOW: After a lengthy hiatus, the amazing Cody Rivers Show returns to town to present their newest sketch comedy masterpiece, “Once and for All for One,” at 8pm Thurs.-Sat. at the iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave. Tickets are $10, but the show is sold out. All is not lost, however, as they’ll also be performing Sun., Oct. 7 at the Mount Baker Theatre.
WWW.IDIOMTHEATER.COM OR WWW.
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SEPT. 27-30GLORIOUS: Learn more about Florence Foster Jenkins—known as “the worst singer in the world”—when Peter Quilter’s comedy Glorious! shows this weekend at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm Sunday at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St. Tickets are $8-$12 and additional show-ings happen through Oct. 7.
WWW.BELLINGHAMTHEATREGUILD.COM
DEATHTRAP: The Lynden Performing Arts Guild continues its run of perfor-mances of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap at 7:30pm Thurs.-Sat. and 2pm Sun. at Lynden’s Claire vg Thomas Theatre, 655 Front St. Tickets are $8-$12 and additional showings of the comedic thriller happen through Oct. 7.
WWW.CLAIREVGTHEATRE.COM
SEPT. 28-29BODY TALK: Hear true stories about sex, birth, mothering, menopause and more when “Body Talk: Sexual Triumphs, Trials, and Revelations” shows at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave. Tickets to see the staged readings—which feature Bellingham-based actresses Sheila Goodwin, Marie Eaton, Kari Severns, Pam Kuntz, and Sarah Eden Wallace—are $15.
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BACK TO SCHOOL SHOWS: To welcome the university crowd back to town and demonstrate to them what comedic improvisation is all about, students with ID can get into “Hodgepodge” shows for free at the 10pm performances Friday and Saturday night at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets for the 8pm show will be $8 for students, $10 general.
733-8855 OR WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
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worldwide acclaim and helped garner the film eight Academy Awards.
The same can’t be said for the lead in Mount Baker Theatre’s version of the classic musical. Last Sunday night, at the MBT Rep’s first dress rehearsal with the full orchestra, Eliza (Ashley Coates) showed, in spades, why she was chosen to carry on the mantle of a woman whose life is transformed due to stupendously gargantuan changes in her speech, dress and persona. Hig-gins, played with masterful sincerity by Jeff Park-er, is also worth his weight in shillings.
Although it was the first time the large cast had run through the play with the assistance of live musicians, that fact wouldn’t have been clear if we hadn’t been told before viewing that that was the case.
Other than a gaffe in the orchestra pit during one song that delayed the action for a few brief seconds, the mostly unseen musicians stuck to
the program and made the famous songs—“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?,” “The Rain In Spain,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” “I’m An Ordinary Man,” “I Could’ve Danced All Night,” and oth-ers—shine.
While the energy could’ve been revved up a bit in certain places (mostly the group scenes that have a lot of various actors on stage), I’m sure when there’s an au-dience there to laugh, gasp and sing along under their breath, everything will go swimmingly.
What was especially amaz-ing while watching the play unfold was knowing that di-rector Mark Kuntz and crew
pulled off the gargantuan undertaking with less than a dozen days of rehearsal.
Even if all cast members showed up with their lines memorized and their singing voices tuned up, that’s not a huge amount of time to pull off a production of this scale—in fact, it’s far less time than Eliza had to go from a girl with “wretched clothes and a dirty face” into a proper lady who’s eventually mistaken for royalty.
But, as almost everyone knows by now, the sto-ry of Eliza and Henry is one that ends well. And so, too, does the tale of the MBT Rep’s version of My Fair Lady. Starting Wednesday night, you can find out for yourself.
SEE IT WHAT: My Fair LadyWHEN: 7:30pm Sept. 26-27, 8pm Sept. 28, 3pm and 8pm Sept. 29, and 3pm Sun., Sept. 30WHERE: Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. COST: $10-$45INFO: 734-6080 or www.mountbakertheatre. com
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tion on the verge of revolt when Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest opens this weekend with 8pm showings Friday and Saturday at the Anacortes Community Theatre, 918 M Ave. Tickets are $18, and additional performances happen through Oct. 14.
WWW.ACTTHEATRE.COM
SAT., SEPT. 29BURLESQUE FUN: The ladies of the After Midnight Cabaret will bring their burlesque moves to Mount Vernon for a 7pm 21-and-over show at the RiverBelle Dinner Theatre, 100 E. Montgomery. Tickets are $20 for the show only, $30 with dessert, and $40 with dinner.
WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNERTHEATRE.COM
SEPT. 30-OCT. 1PAJAMA GAME AUDITIONS: Men and women ages 17 to 70 can audition for upcoming performances of the classic musical known as the The Pajama Game at 7pm Sunday and Monday at the Belling-ham Theatre Guild, 1600 H St.
647-2561 OR WWW.
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DANCE THURS., SEPT. 27FOLK DANCE: The Fourth Corner Folk-dancers meet from 7-10pm every Thurs-day at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Participants can take part in Balkan, Israeli, Romani, and Greek dancing, and there is often live music provided. Sug-gested donation is $5; first time visitors and students can get in for free.
380-0456
SAT., SEPT. 29CONTRA DANCE: Live music and a caller will be part of tonight’s Contra Dance from 7-10:30pm at the Fairhaven Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested donation is $8-$10. Beginners are welcome, and all dances are taught.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRYDANCE.ORG
TUES., OCT. 2SQUARE DANCE: Rainbow Squares hosts square dance lessons from 7-9pm Tues-days at Lynden’s Ten Mile Grange, 6958 Hannegan Rd. The first two lessons are free. Additional lessons are $5.
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UPCOMING EVENTSSAT., SEPT. 29MATZKE OPENING: A costume-optional party and potluck will open the new exhibit, “The Re-ally, Really Big Show” from 4-9pm at Camano Is-land’s Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park. The circus-themed invitational—which features works in painting, glass and sculptures—will be on display through Nov. 4.
WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM
SUN., SEPT. 30RUSSIAN PHOTO EXHIBIT: “Wild East Meets Wild West: Photographs from Nakhodka, Rus-sia” opens today from 12-5pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora St. At 2pm, the exhibit’s photojournalist, Georgy Pakin, will talk about Nakhodka’s historic connection to Bellingham and lead a walk-through tour of his photographs.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
THURS., OCT. 4STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW: Wet your appe-tite for the upcoming Whatcom Artist Studio Tour—which takes place Oct. 6-7 and 13-14—at an opening reception for artists who’ll be par-ticipating in the countywide tour from 5-9pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
LUCIA OPENING: Attend an opening reception for photographer James Papp, sculptor Denise M. Synder, and mixed media artist Jasmine Valan-dani’s exhibit, “Innate,” from 6-8:30pm at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 13th St. The three-person show will be on display through Oct. 27.
WWW.LUCIADOUGLAS.COM
ONGOING EXHIBITSALLIED ARTS: “Careful/Balance,” which fea-tures pieces by Adele Eustis, Emma Jane Levitt, Eileen Reardanz, and Faye Hayes, shows through Sept. 29 Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
AMADEUS PROJECT: Gary Bennett’s original oil paintings will be on display through the month at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave.
WWW.THEAMADEUSPROJECT.ORG
ARTISANS NORTHWEST: View works from as many as 100 Whatcom County artists on a regular basis at Artisans Northwest Art, Crafts & Eats, 1215 Cornwall Ave.
733-1805 OR WWW.ARTISANSBELLINGHAM.COM
ARTWOOD: “Things for the Kitchen” will be featured through September at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The mu-seum is open to the public from noon-5pm Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St.
393-7540
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
CHUCKANUT BREWERY: Tin art by Brett Carlson is currently on display at the Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W. Holly St.
WWW.CHUCKANUTBREWERYANDKITCHEN.COM
DEMING LIBRARY: Artist Paul Tempario’s works will be on display through Nov. 3 at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
592-2422
FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contempo-rary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
Mural MagicADDING ART TO PUBLIC SPACES
BURGANDY VISCOSI has advice for artists who want to ex-pand the scale of their work by painting large murals on public spaces.
“More than anything, always remember the size and scale of the piece you’re working on,” says the artist, who recently completed a fabulously colorful painting of mountains, water and various bike parts on the wall abutting the HUB Community Bike Shop. Additional tips include making a rough draft (or three), using exterior house paint for larger areas (it’s more cost-effective that way) and, of course, painting when the weath-er’s decent. Other than that, she likes to keep her options open.
“For me, it’s more of a free-flow once I have the rough draft,” she says. “I leave room for creativity. Once you’re actually working on the piece, your own creativity will bring in the greatest elements of it.”
Those walking on the South Bay Trail or stopping by the HUB to tune up their rides or look for new ones will want to take a closer look at Viscosi’s creation. A first glance highlights the sun coming up behind a snowy mountain, but a second look confirms the bright orb is actually a series of intertwining spokes, as are the bright yellow sunflowers with bike handle
WHAT: Alley Arts “Elements” Mural ProjectWHEN: Fri., Oct. 5WHERE: Behind Allied Arts (1400 block between Railroad and Cornwall avenues)COST: FreeINFO: www.alliedarts.org or artscrush.org
stalks that dip toward the water. Viscosi says it wasn’t until she started
interacting in the space that she knew she wanted to create a Pacific Northwest scene based largely on bicycle parts. HUB director Kyle Morris had given her complete freedom to paint what she wanted—and traded a couple bikes for her labor—so the project was hers to do with what she wanted.
In the case of those who will be taking part in Allied Arts’ upcoming “Alley Arts: El-ements” mural project taking place Oct. 5 in the newly repaved alley behind the Cornwall Avenue gallery, the parameters of design will also come with room for expression.
Four artists—Ellen Clark, Cecily Fosso, Jason Darling, and Rhi-annon Pereira—will be given themes of water, air, earth and fire. From there, they’ll outline the themes and tech-niques for the murals they’ve been assigned.
That’s where the public comes in. Each artist will work with community members (who don’t have to be artists) to guide the project toward comple-tion. Various artistic mediums and dimen-sional components will be utilized, and the end result will hopefully re-
main on the alley walls for years to come—and deter those who think spray-painting their monikers on the wall is cool.
The event is part of Arts Crush, a month-long festival happening throughout the Puget Sound that offers opportunities to participate in visual art, theater, music, literature, dance, film and more.
“Arts Crush reawakens the senses by en-gaging people in the arts in unique ways; through hands-on participation, peeking behind the scenes, or experiencing art in unexpected places,” organizers say.
Viscosi, a traveling artist who’s a new transplant to Bellingham, wasn’t aware of the event when told about it, but she thinks it’s a good idea.
“I love mixing nature elements with art and urban living,” she says of mural paint-ing. “It reminds you of your community around you.”
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GALLERY CYGNUS: “Living on Beauty,” an ex-hibit featuring paintings by Maggie Wilder and assemblage temples by Jules Remedios Faye, shows through Oct. 21 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave.
WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM
GOOD EARTH: Chris Moench’s award-winning prayer wheels will be featured through Septem-ber at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM
HONEY: See Lael Meidal’s multiple-exposure film shots shown alongside paintings that revisit the past and explore the present through Oct. 3 at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St.
WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM
J’S GALLERY: Works by Jay Bowen, Ed Ka-muda, Tom Pickett, Roger Small, and others are currently on display in La Conner at J’s Gallery, 105 S. Whatcom St.
WWW.JAYBOWENGALLERY.COM
JANSEN ART CENTER: Sign up for classes and workshops at Lynden’s new Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
MAKE.SHIFT: View Joey Bates’ “Recent Portraits and Nudes: Works from the Past Five Years” from 12-4pm every Tues.-Sat. through Sept. 29 at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St.
WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM
MINDPORT: “PAPO 2012,” an exhibit featuring works painted outdoors on the Holly Street corri-dor during the Plein Air Paint Out in late August, can be seen through Oct. 2 at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly St. Entry is $2.
WWW.MINDPORT.ORG
MONA: “Pilchuck: Ideas” and “Circular from the Permanent Collection” will be on display Sept. 29-Jan. 1 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. Admission is $3-$8.
WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
QUILT MUSEUM: “At Play: Asobi” and “Ainu Embroidery” will be on display through Oct. 7 at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 Second St. Entry is $5-$7. A “Quilt Walk”
happens here, and throughout La Conner, through Oct. 15.
WWW.LACONNERQUILTS.COM
SCOTT MILO GALLERY: View Whidbey Island artist Anne Belov’s new oil paintings, “Close to Home,” through Oct. 2 at Anacortes’ Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave. Works by Barbara Dollahite, Matt Dollahite, Dick Garvey, and Larry Heald will also be on display.
WWW.SCOTTMILO.COM
SKAGIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: “The Murrow Brothers: Peak of Their Professions” shows through Dec. 21 at La Conner’s Skagit County Historical Museum, 501 4th St. The exhibit celebrates the lives of the sons of Skagit County who made an impact on their world.
WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET
SMITH & VALLEE: “Across the Mountains and Back,” an exhibit featuring landscape paint-ings by Lisa Gilley, can be seen through Sept. 30 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
VALERIE’S GALLERIE: View figurative art and much more at Valerie’s Gallerie, 220 E. Maple St. (in the alley by Honey Moon).
389-0308
VILLAGE BOOKS: Collaborative works by painter and author Nancy Lou Canyone, poet Lana Hechtman Ayers, and glass artists Lin McJunkin can be viewed through September at the Readings Gallery at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.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.
WWW.WHATCOMARTGUILD.ORG
WHATCOM MUSEUM: “American Quilts: The Democratic Art 1780-2007,” “Window Shop-ping,” and “Expanded Horizons” currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall and the Lightcatcher Building.
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musicSHOW PREVIEWS › › RUMOR HAS IT
SO, LAST WEEK I may have made the claim that the booking of a near-horizon Rooftops show (Sept. 29 at the Shakedown) would shut me up about the Lands Farther East reunion I’ve been yearning for and yammering about for years.
Spoke too soon.Much as What’s Up! Magazine editor Brent Cole
and his interminable aging process brought Fed-eration X out of their too-long slumber for the purpose of celebrating his birthday, he’s once again resurrected the zombie known as Lands Former East for a March show in order to cel-ebrate the 15th anniversary of the magazine.
You can guess what happened to me upon hearing that news: I ate every pancake I could find and fell asleep in a pile of baby goats. When I awoke, I cried. So did the goats. That’s how ex-cited we all were.
As for the more pertinent details, the show is set to take place in early March, and as of now Lands Farther East is “confirmed” in the sense that Cole figured out the magic spell that lets that particular musical genie out of the bottle, but the band still has to do things like “relearn all the songs” and “be in the same room together, in the same city at least once.”
Cole says it’s safe to “pencil them in,” but I’d rather ink “Lands Farther East 4EVA” into my diary and then violently scratch it out while crying about how they don’t love me enough if they should happen to not play the show.
But LFE isn’t the only band on this throw-back roster. Cole is in the process of cobbling together an entire evening’s worth of enter-tainment of the reunion kind. I’m told that other bands on the short list of those we may see onstage include Jill Brazil, Enders of Ozone, and—potentially—a certain Hallow-een-themed horror-punk band—and I’m not talking about Horror Business here.
Yes, it’s all very exciting. And no, Racetrack is not going to be the super-secret special guest. Even the powers of Cole and I combined cannot make that particular scene dream come true.
For those of you who’d like to make the “why all these reunion shows? Why doesn’t What’s Up!—and, for that matter, a sizeable section of the music community—care about music that’s happening now?” argument Cole has a show in store for you too, also centered on the magazine’s anniversary, which will feature current and up-and-coming local bands, all for the bargain price of free.
Of course, a whole world of shows is going to take place between now and March, so this is hardly the last time I’ll get myself all worked up over a matter most musical in this town. The baby goats, however, are a bit tougher of an audience.
Rumor Has It
BY CAREY ROSS
Clearly, this is a kid who knows how to get things done.
When Jewell first bought the music venue, what he purchased was a space that former owner John Goodman had lovingly crafted and built into a ha-ven for blues musicians from this region and be-
yond. But Jewell had a broader vision and, along with trusty partner Roger Mills (who has been with the Buff in some ca-pacity since long before Jewell could legally enter the bar), set about the task of fully realizing the venue’s potential.
To say that he’s succeeded be-yond expectations would be an understatement.
These days, the Wild Buf-falo is a stop for all manner of musicians and bands—of all types and genres—on their way from Seattle to Vancouver (and back), and many of these bands and musicians are of a size and level of fame that would sug-gest they’ve got no business
playing a small-town music venue—even one as welcoming and that can draw the kind of audi-ences regularly found at the Buff. This incredible run of musical luck owes much to Jewell’s dogged persistence (another trait disguised by his laid-back personality)—and the Buffalo’s willingness to making inspired—albeit occasionally risky—booking decisions.
But one recent Buffalo booking choice carried with it no risk: the decision to throw themselves a birthday party and invite all those folks (meaning pretty much everyone) who have contributed to the Buffalo’s past and current success. The birth-day bash will take place Mon., Oct. 1 and will fea-ture Tycho and Heathered Pearls, who will provide the music for the raucous dance party the Buffalo has planned for its anniversary. I have to assume Jewell, Mills, and the entire Buffalo crew will be on hand to celebrate, and if you’ve never met Jewell, just keep your eye out for a blond kid in flip-flops who looks like he’s having a better time than any-one else there.
WHEN I first met Craig Jewell four years ago, I remember thinking to myself, “Wow. He looks like a kid.” And when he started talking to me, I followed that groundbreaking bit of insight with, “Wow. He sounds like a kid.”
At 22 years old and sporting a pair of flip-flops and a seemingly unflappable happy-go-lucky demeanor, Jewell was, for all intents and purposes, a kid. He was also the newly minted owner of the Wild Buffalo, one of Bellingham’s biggest music venues.
Although Jewell’s flip-flops and easygoing vibe remain firmly intact, in the four years that he’s been at the helm of the Buf-falo, he’s proven time and again that a lot of youthful ener-gy—when combined with no small amount of smarts and some brand of otherworldly persuasiveness when it comes to luring bands to his bar—and the ability to take his job just seriously enough while still managing to have a good time can make for a pretty successful business model. Along the way, he’s also silenced naysayers and anyone prone to underestimating him (including me—although my days of not giving Jewell the credit he deserves are long over).
BY CAREY ROSS
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ATTENDWHAT: Wild Buffalo 4th Anniversary Party w/Tycho and Heathered PearlsWHEN: Mon., Oct. 1WHERE: Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St.COST: $10MORE INFO: www. wildbuffalo.net
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THURS., SEPT. 27 PIANO LOUNGE: Toni Hess and Sheron Ramey will perform as part of the Thurs-day Night Piano Lounge series from 5:30-7:30pm at Lynden’s Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Entry is free.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR: All are welcome at tonight’s Bellingham Com-munity Gospel Choir rehearsal at 6:30pm at the Hamilton Place Apartments, 4625 Cordata St. There are no auditions.
BELLINGHAMGOSPELCHOIR@HOTMAIL.
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FRI., SEPT. 28BELLEWOOD FARM TUNES: Acoustic duo Pretty Little Feet will perform at a Farm Tunes Encore show from 6-9pm at Bellewood Farms, 6140 Guide Meridian. Entry is free.
WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM
SEPT. 28-29HARVEST FEST: Polecat, Lumpkins, Down North, Dead Reckon, Ohm Wreck-ers, Kyatami, and many others will perform as part of Good People Produc-tions’ “Harvest Fest” from 3:30pm-12am Friday and 12pm-1am Saturday at 7003 Hobson Rd. in Bow (right off the Skagit Casino exit on I-5). Tickets are $50 for a VIP pass or $30 for Saturday only.
WWW.WORTHYFEST.COM
SEPT. 28-30PAGLIACCI: Watch the “ultimate backstage drama” when Skagit Opera presents showings of Pagliacci at 7:30pm Friday and 2pm Sunday at Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way. The show focuses on the loves and jealousies of a traveling troupe of clowns. Tickets are $15-$59.
WWW.MCINTYREHALL.ORG OR WWW.
SKAGITOPERA.ORG
SUN., SEPT. 30ART OF JAZZ: The Christopher Woitach Trio kicks off the Jazz Project’s monthly “Art of Jazz” concert season from 4-6:30pm at the Amadeus Project, 1209 Cornwall Ave. Entry is $15.
WWW.JAZZPROJECT.ORG
WED., OCT. 3MUSIC CLUB: Lyric tenor Ross Hauck will perform at the Bellingham Music Club’s monthly concert at 10:30am at Trinity Lutheran Church, 119 Texas St. Entry is free and open to all.
671-0252
THURS., OCT. 4 PROTEA ENSEMBLE: Experience some lunchtime music when the Protea En-semble perform baroque, romantic and jazz renditions of the “Bach Suite #3” at 12:30pm at the Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St. Suggested donation is $3.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSUEM.ORG
DADDY SQUEEZE: Dan Newton—otherwise known as “Daddy Squeeze”—will perform with Bellingham’s Lindsay Street at 7:30pm at the Roeder Home, 2600 Sunset Dr. Suggested donation is $10-$15.
WWW.DADDYSQUEEZE.COM
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Aaron Guest (Tap Room), Dueling DJs (Beer Garden)
Happy Hour BBQ w/Robert Blake (early), Twilight Con-cert w/Hot Damn Scandal,
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Spaceband Paul KleinOut of the Ashes (Beer
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action-sports films dubbed Right On Baker, and a visit from one of the Giffin brothers.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and when it comes to documentaries about the human condition, things can get downright bizarre, as the documentaries of “Oh Humanity!” teach us. Meet the Fokkens takes a look at the lives of 69-year-old identical twins work-ing in Amsterdam’s red-light district, while Family Portrait in Black and White tells the story of Olga Nenya, a Ukrainian woman who is single mother to 16 mixed-race children. People can also be a source of inspiration, and that is on full display in How to Survive a Plague (one of few Doctober films to merit a weeklong run), which details the behind-the-scenes struggle of the committed activists who helped turn AIDS from an epidemic to a manageable disease. As well, this category contains a contemplation about the nature of Hell and why we’re all so attached to the idea of it (Hellbound?), an insightful glimpse into the life of virtuoso jazz bassist Jennifer (formerly John) Leitham with I Stand Cor-rected, and so much more.
In the self-describing “Arts & Culture” category comes a slew of disparate offer-ings. Chief among them is Side by Side, in which Keanu Reeves (stay with me here) interviews the likes of Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and David Lynch about the industry-wide switch from film to an all-digital format—a change the Pickford Film Center itself will soon have to undergo. Also on this arty docket are movies about iconic pop artist Wayne White (Beauty is Embar-rassing), iconic indie folkster Andrew Bird (Andrew Bird: Fever Year), an iconic archi-tectural style (Coast Modern), and an iconic painting (Portrait of Wally).
As this festival of truth-telling does take place in our particular corner of the world, some cinematic time must be devoted to the planet we live on, hence the “Environmental Spotlight” section of Doctober. The earth-friendly action kicks off with True Wolf—which takes an eye-opening look at wolves, their wild nature and the issues surrounding them—before moving onto documentaries that deal with the rebuilding of wastelands via permaculture (The Global Gardener), the haunting beauty and distress of Earth’s shrinking glaciers via riveting time-lapse photography (Chasing Ice), what that “organ-ic” stamp on our food really means (In Organic We Trust), and the story of the world’s most adorable otter orphan (Otter 501).
As in past years, a commitment to seeing as many Doctober films as possible at the Pickford Film Center and Limelight does not only have the potential to make you a bet-ter, more well-rounded person, but it could also win you prizes, thanks to the PFC’s an-nual “Doctober Challenge.” The premise is simple: see a film, earn a punch on your punch card and, once you’ve reached eight punches, a prize package shall be yours. Ed-ification, entertainment and bribery make Doctober a potent movie-going mix.
BY CAREY ROSS
DoctoberROCK OUT WITH YOUR DOC OUT
IT SHOULD come as no surprise to anyone hip to the behind-the-scenes controlled chaos that governs the Pickford Film Center that a goal to book and show 20 films during this year’s incarnation of Doctober rapidly grew to nearly double that amount.
Pickford Film Center Program Director Michael Falter is quick to point out the total isn’t actually twice the initial plan—“It’s only 37, not 40,” he says—but acknowledges the final figure does significantly exceed the expected target.
As a longtime Pickford projectionist, I can avow that the depth of this year’s documentary roster has as much to do with this region’s ongoing love affair with fact-based films as it does with the kind of peculiar mad-ness that has had the forward-thinking and overachieving movie theater firmly in its grip since it first opened its doors some 15 years ago.
The annual film frenzy known as Doctober—in which the aforemen-tioned 37 films will be crammed into showings at both the Pickford Film Center and its sister cinema, the Limelight—kicks off promptly on Oct.
1, and doesn’t end until after the sun sets Oct. 31, making for a month that handily combines entertainment with education.
While the documentaries themselves encom-pass subject matter as wide-ranging as it is di-verse, for organizational purposes the festival has been divided into four distinct groups: “Our World,” “Oh Humanity!,” “Arts and Culture,” and “Environmental Spotlight.”
While “Our World” is a heading general enough to offer little clue as to the wonders that lie within, with a modicum of examination, one can conclude that these documentaries do the thing documentaries are arguably best at: giving us a real-life, often nearly real-time glimpse into cul-tures and societies large and small the world over. This year’s films will take you from a West Bank village through the lenses of 5 Broken Cameras, to one of the most isolated places on Earth—Haida Gwaii—for an up-close look at its people and their annual harvest in Survival Prayer, to the stunning story of the nightmare of urban decay that modern-day Detroit has become in Detropia, right to our own back door with a collection of
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LooperBACK TO THE FUTUREA TIME-TRAVEL twister that pits a ruthless hit man (Joseph Gordon-Lev-itt) against his future self (Bruce Willis), Looper marks a huge leap forward for Rian Johnson (Brick). His grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the backseat and lets the multidimensional characters drive. In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man’s thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff.
In the future, mobsters dispose of un-wanted rivals by sending them 30 years back to the past, before time travel has been developed, and into the hands of a team of young screw-ups called “loopers” to do the killing. Why loopers? Because sooner or later, these live-in-the-moment assassins will wind up killing their time-displaced selves—or “closing the loop.” They’re rewarded, handsomely, and life is sweet until, well, until time travel is in-vented and they get booted back to face the barrel of their own blunderbusses.
You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to know sending assassins back to the past is a bad idea. Kick your unwanted trash into the future, and you’re rid of it, but blast a career killer back in time, and there’s a pretty strong chance the assassin will ir-revocably alter the “future” from which he came if he can manage to escape.
That loophole, big enough to drive a plot through, is precisely what makes Johnson’s crazy idea work. Joe, played by Gordon-Levitt with pale blue contacts, puffy lips and a fake schnozz that takes some get-ting used to, is pretty unconflicted about killing strangers from the future, himself
included. But when Older Joe arrives in the form of grizzled action star Willis, his 30-years-younger self flinches just long enough for the guy to get the upper hand, knocking Joe unconscious before disap-pearing into his own past.
Now, here’s where things get fun. You’d think that Older Joe has the upper hand, able to anticipate the way his younger self reacted, but as cat-and-mouse games go, the young punk has a distinct advan-tage, since the slightest injury to Gordon-Levitt’s body travels forward to appear as scar tissue on Willis.
The film demonstrates just how this works with Joe’s sidekick Seth (Paul Dano). After purposefully allowing his older self to escape (or “letting his loop run” in the parlance), Seth hides out at Joe’s place—not a smart idea, considering Joe prizes money over friendship, and doesn’t put up much resistance before surrendering Seth to the syndicate chief (Jeff Dan-iels). What follows is a truly disturbing death scene, as Seth’s loop tries to hop the nearest train, only to see 30-year-old injuries start to appear all over his body, the result of the younger Seth being sa-distically tortured offscreen.
Kill the kid and his loop goes, too—a rule that puts Older Joe in the awkward posi-tion of simultaneously having to run from, and protect, his younger self. Trickier from a storytelling standpoint is the fact that au-diences don’t meet Willis until the first-act break, at which point the film must supply a romantic backstory for a character who technically does not yet exist. So, while Gordon-Levitt’s Joe is a heartless hustler, Willis’ older-and-wiser counterpart brings soul to the character, having discovered—and had to watch die—the love of his life.
Thirty years after the story takes place, a mysterious figure called “the Rainmaker” has risen to power, and in classic Termina-tor fashion, Older Joe has the rare chance to strangle the monster in his crib.
While Willis single-mindedly begins to hunt down and execute 10-year-olds, Gor-don-Levitt tracks down a lead that points him toward an isolated Kansas farmhouse where Sara (Emily Blunt) and son Cid (Pierce Gagnon) have cut themselves off from modern society, leading to the in-evitable confrontation between the two Joes—and a twist that beautifully ties everything together.
Complicated as it all sounds, Johnson paves the way with wall-to-wall voi-ceover. Face-to-face with himself, young Joe hisses, “Why don’t you do what old men do, and die?”
If the imperfect yet promising Brick teased an exciting new voice, then Looper suggests big things ahead.
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Arbitrage: So far, the only movie to truly mine the financial crisis in the interest of big-screen enter-tainment has been Margin Call—until now. This one stars Richard Gere as a hedge fund manager, and as the stakes get higher and higher, so does the action involved. ★★★★
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
The Bourne Legacy: After Matt Damon called it quits, many thought this movie megafranchise would come to an end as well. But a new Bourne is born—this time in the form of Jeremy Renner—in a plotline that parallels events of the earlier installments. ★★★
Celeste and Jesse Forever: Rashida Jones and Adam Samburg play a couple who met and married too young, and are now trying to navigate what they hope will be an amicable separation. Breaking up can be hard to do, but it’s not without its more humorous moments. ★★★
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
The Dark Knight Rises: Christopher Nolan—easily the most visionary mind working in Hollywood today—bids farewell to the superhero franchise he single-handedly saved eight years ago with this swan song that is as thought-provoking and smart as it is exciting and perfectly pulled together. Best superhero series of all time? No question. ★★★★★
Doctober: See story, page 26. ★★★★★
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Dredd: I know we’re all having traumatic flashbacks to the Sylvester Stallone movie Judge Dredd, but trust me when I tell you this version is much, much better. Starting with the fact that it does not star Sylvester Stallone. ★★★
Dredd 3D:frustratingly thoughtless ways, but movies adapted
for. ★★★
End of Watch: From the man behind Training Day and Dark Blue comes another gritty police proce-dural, this time starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena on the sun- and drug-drenched streets of Los Angeles. ★★★
Farewell, My Queen: See review next page. ★★★★
PFC’s Limelight See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
Finding Nemo 3D: With this, I feel like Pixar is making a statement. A statement that goes something like, “Yeah, so maybe Cars 2 was kind of a dud, and Brave wasn’t the groundbreaker you were all hoping for. But we’re still the most ingenious and in-spired filmmaking force on Earth, and in case there’s any doubt, we went ahead and gave Finding Nemo
★★★★★
Hotel Transylvania: This is some kind of animated creature-feature for kids. That much I know. What I’m having a harder time figuring out is whether the voice work of Fran Drescher and Cee Lo Green can make up for the fact that both Adam Sandler and Kevin James are affiliated with this film. ★★
House at the End of the Street: In keeping with the Hollywood trend of actors starring in the Biggest Blockbuster Ever only to follow it up with a project
who chose to chase The Hunger Games with this real bad horror thriller. ★★
It ’s Such a Beautiful Day: The staff at the Pickford Film Center have long been fans of Don
the Oscar-nominated stick-figure animator coalescing ★★★★
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
Killer Joe: Directed by The Exorcist’s William Friedkin and starring Matthew McConaughey as you’ve never
moviemaking madman. ★★★★
La Traviata: Verdi’s La Traviata shines in this spec-tacular production from Opera Australia, performed on a floating stage in the Sydney Harbor under the stars. ★★★★★
Lawless: A movie about bootleggers written by Nick Cave and scored by Cave and musical coconspirator Warren Ellis that stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Gary Oldman? I’ll see you in the ticket line. ★★★★
Looper: See review previous page. ★★★★
Manhattan Short Film Festival: The only film festival in the world in which the audience watches
the carefully curated selection of shorts and then votes to help determine which ones are award wor-thy. ★★★★
The Master: I can sum up this Paul Thomas Ander-son-directed, Philip Seymour Hoffman-starring, box-office-record-breaking, critically lauded treatise on a religion that may or may not be Scientology with two
★★★★★
ParaNorman: A misunderstood boy who can talk to the dead attempts to save his town from a centuries-old curse—all in super-cool stop-motion animation. ★★★★
Queen: Live in Budapest 1968: To borrow and then malign a quote from Steve Earle about Townes
in the whole world and I’ll stand on Mick Jagger’s
★★★★★
Resident Evil: Retr ibution: Five movies into this franchise and we’re just now getting around to deal-ing with retribution? This is the longest videogame I never played. ★★
Resident Evil: Retr ibution 3D: Alice gets hers. ★★
Sleepwalk with Me: This movie has a plot (commitment-phobic New York comedian with serious sleep issue hits his comedic stride when he focuses
and presumably a purpose, but here is all you really ★★★★
PFC’s Limelight See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
Trouble With the Curve: I’m not sure if Clint Eastwood’s chair convo at the Republican National Convention is going to hurt or help the box office performance of this baseball dramedy, but I feel certain costar Amy Adams was watching him from somewhere and thinking, “You had to do this right before our movie came out? You are not making my
★★★
Won’t Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal teams up with Viola Davis and a whole lot of homespun activ-ism to tell this based-on-actual-events story of the battle to save a failing inner-city school. ★★★ (PG
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Farewell, My Queen OF MAIDS AND MONARCHY
FOUR DAYS before the French Revolution arrived at the gates of Ver-sailles, it was business as usual. The queen was preoccupied with fashion and the romantic intrigues of her aris-tocratic attendants, the maids gossiped about their masters’ dalliances and their own, and the main annoyances were the swamp-bred mosquitoes and water rats overrunning the palace.
This is the perspective on court life of Marie Antoinette’s devoted servant, Si-donie Laborde. As we follow her through the monarchy’s abrupt collapse, Farewell, My Queen gives us intimate, unflaggingly energetic history as seen from the ser-vants’ quarters.
The relationship between Sidonie (Léa Seydoux, Midnight in Paris) and her queen
(Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds) is a composite of duty, warm affection, pet-tiness and ambiguous sensuality. Her Majesty, still girlish though no longer youthful, sensuously rubs ointment on the mosquito-bitten forearm of her lovely lady in waiting, proclaiming it “perfectly pudgy.”
It is Sidonie’s duty to read poems, plays and essays aloud while Marie leafs through fabric swatches and fashion il-lustrations. With Sidonie at her side, the queen enjoys a semblance of human con-tact without the obligation to contrib-ute. Marie favors her with smiles, hugs and compliments. Sidonie humbly de-
votes herself to the queen’s amusement even as word of revolt on the streets of nearby Paris begins to flit around the servants’ quarters.
Director Benoit Jacquot stages several spectacular scenes involving crowds fill-ing the palace’s access corridors, grop-ing along by candlelight as they share baffling half-truths and wild rumors about the upheaval that is soon to en-gulf them.
The plot is discursive, with detours into the love lives of castle guards and gondoliers, a dance scene and heaps of political skullduggery. As danger draws nearer to Versailles, Marie makes Sidonie a dress-up decoy intended to save Ma-rie’s beloved Duchess Gabrielle de Polig-nac (ravishing Virginie Ledoyen).
The wellborn beauties share an intense emotional bond that stops just short of the lesbianism that anti-royalist pam-phleteers of the time attributed to them. We feel the pang of the queen’s trans-formation into an unfeeling pragmatist as sharply as poor Sidonie. Paraphrasing Mel Brooks, it’s not always good to be the queen, and downright heartbreaking to be her devoted handmaiden.
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BY AMY ALKON
THE ADVICE GODDESSTHE TWEAKEST LINKI met this man, and it was instant at-traction. I’m a 40-year-old woman with my own place, a car and a good job, and he’s an ex-convict who served four years in prison for selling meth. He’s very loving, but he has no car or driver’s license (it ex-pired during prison), has a minimum-wage job and is too needy—always checking up on me and doubting where I am. I pay for our meals, etc., and drive him everywhere. It’s like I’m taking care of a child. I’m trying my best to forget about the material things and just base this on love. —Weary
It’s a good thing you think the guy’s hot, or you might try to trade up to a serial murderer with a driver’s license.
It must’ve been a kick to get it on with a real bad boy instead of the kind who pulls up on a Harley wearing a leather jacket he bought at the mall. But, assuming you don’t have the con-science of a dirt clod, how could you make this more than a one-nighter? Sure, officially, he’s “paid his debt to society,” but he wasn’t in prison for growing pot, the gateway drug to ly-ing in a beanbag chair and reinventing the wheel. He was selling snortable slow suicide, complete with rotting teeth and a “meth mite” bonus—nonexistent but seemingly real crawly bugs that users try to dig out from under their skin with their fingernails or sharp objects, leaving some really sexy open sores.
Beyond what he’s done to make a buck, he’s now about as indepen-dent as one of Paris Hilton’s purse dogs (although he probably asks his “mommy” to buy him a cheaper class of sweater). You can’t possibly re-spect him, and if you can’t respect him, you can’t love him. You’ve just been calling this “love” to cover for a bad decision that you let give birth to a whole litter of bad decisions. You did have help—the flawed machine known as the human brain. When we do something dumb, our brain en-courages us to ignore evidence we’ve made a mistake so we can hang onto our shiny image of ourselves as smart people making wise choices. This feels good in the moment but can, say, leave a person working hard to convince herself that she’s shallow and materialistic to want her equal.
If you can accept making mistakes
as a normal, expected part of being human, you can put your braying ego on mute, critically assess all your deci-sions, and admit your mistakes instead of getting into a committed relation-ship with them. (There’s no time like the present to start.) As wonderful as it is to feel needed by a man, it’s best if it’s simply because he loves being around you, not because without you he’d have to eat raw hotdogs out of the package and take two buses to make the meeting with his parole officer.
ALL TIED UP IN HOTSI persuaded my friend and his ex-girlfriend to get back together, as I’d never seen a more loving couple. The problem is, I started finding her sexy. She and my friend are now inseparable whenever they’re not at work, and I’m racked with guilt for look-ing at her like a sexual object. (I’m not in love with her; I just want to sleep with her.) Hanging out with them has become awkward, to say the least. —The Creep
You aren’t attracted to her because you’re a horrible person, but because you’re a man, not in a coma, and you probably find it dangerous and in-convenient to go around blindfolded. Like breathing or digesting a burrito, attraction is involuntary. (Whether you drool on her shoe or refer to her as “Hey, sex puppet!” is up to you.)
As for why you feel so guilty, men are told it’s a thought crime to ever view women as sex objects. Of course, that’s exactly how women think of themselves when they’re dressing to attract a man. Oh, did you think wom-en wear plunging necklines and a little gold charm dangling in their cleavage to frighten away mosquitoes?
As annoying as it is to want what you can’t have, assuming you have no plans to leave your friend pinned un-der a tree in bear country, what’s the problem? Keep reminding yourself that his girlfriend’s a no-go, and seek a woman you can have. If you can’t be around these two without your eye-balls crawling all over her, you might pare back your time with them. Other-wise, consider their utter inseparabil-ity your best defense against bad acts. It’s not like your friend’s going to turn to you and say, “Hey, man, I’m right in the middle of something. Mind towel-ing off my girlfriend?”
©2012, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail [email protected] (advicegod-dess.com). Weekly radio show: blog-talkradio.com/amyalkon
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BY ROB BREZSNY
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s the curi-ous message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t reveal that specific informa-tion. They only tell me that what seems like a barrier might end up serving as a connector. An influence that in other situations would tend to cause sepa-ration will in this case be likely to promote unity. Capitalize on this anomaly, Aries!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my first dream last night, I gave you a holy book that you left out in the rain. In my second dream, I cooked you some chicken soup that you didn’t eat. My third dream was equally disturbing. I assigned you some home-work that would have helped you discover important clues about tending to your emotional health. Alas, you didn’t do the homework. In the morning, I woke up from my dreams feeling exasperated and wor-ried. But later I began to theorize that maybe they weren’t prophecies, but rather helpful warnings. Now that you’ve heard them, I’m hoping you will become alert to the gifts you’ve been ignoring and take advantage of the healing opportunities you’ve been neglecting.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s a good chance that your rhythm in the coming days will resemble a gentle, continuous orgasm. It won’t be stupendously ecstatic, mind you. I’m not predicting massive eruptions of honeyed bliss that keep blow-ing your mind. Rather, the experience will be more like a persistent flow of warm contentment. You’ll be constantly tuning in to a secret sweetness that thrills you subliminally. Again and again you will slip into a delicious feeling that everything is unfolding exactly as it should be. Warning! There are two fac-tors that could possibly undermine this blessing: 1. if you scare it away with blasts of cynicism; 2. if you get greedy and try to force it to become bigger and stronger. So please don’t do those things!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Philosopher Jon-athan Zap (zaporacle.com) provides the seed for this week’s meditation: “Conscious reflection on the past can deepen the soul and provide revela-tions of great value for the present and future. On the other hand, returning to the past obsessively out of emotional addiction can be a massive drain-ing of vitality needed for full engagement with the present.” So which will it be, Cancerian? One way or another, you are likely to be pulled back toward the old days and the old ways. I’ll prefer it if you re-examine your history and extract useful lessons from the past instead of wallowing in dark nostal-gia and getting lost in fruitless longing.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture a TV satellite dish on the roof of a peasant’s shack in rural Hon-duras. Imagine a gripping rendition of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” played on the mandolin. Visual-ize the Dalai Lama quoting Chris Rock a bit out of context but with humorous and dramatic effect. Got all that? Next, imagine that these three scenes are metaphors for your metaphysical assignment in the coming week. Need another hint? OK. Think about how you can make sure that nothing gets lost in the dicey translations you’ll be responsible for making.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are some ways to get more respect: 1. Do your best in every single thing you do—whether it’s communicating precisely or upholding the highest possible standards at your job or taking excellent care of yourself. 2. Maintain impeccable levels of integrity in everything you do—whether it’s being scrupulously honest or thor-oughly fair-minded or fiercely kind. 3. On the other hand, don’t try so compulsively hard to do your best
and cultivate integrity that you get self-conscious and obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence. 4. Make it your goal that no later than four years from now you will be doing what you love to do at least 51 percent of the time. 5. Give other people as much respect as you sincerely believe they deserve. 6. Give yourself more respect.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him. Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes. As for Beethoven, he sometimes stimulated his creativity by pouring cold water over his head. What about you, Libra? Are there odd incli-nations and idiosyncratic behaviors that in the past have roused your original thinking? I encourage you to try them all this week, and then see if you can dream up at least two new ones. You have officially entered the brainstorming season.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s expensive for the U.S. to hold prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba: $800,000 per year for each detainee. That’s 30 times more than it costs to incarcerate a convict on the American mainland. According to the Miami Herald, Guantanamo is the most expensive prison on the planet. How much do you spend on locking stuff up, Scorpio? What does it cost, not just financially but emotionally and spiri-tually, for you to keep your secrets hidden and your fears tamped down and your unruly passions bottled up and your naughty urges suppressed? The coming weeks would be a good time to make sure the price you pay for all that is reasonable—not even close to being like Guantanamo.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What time is it, boys and girls? It’s Floods of Fantastic Gratitude Week: a perfect opportunity to express your passion-ate appreciation for everything you’ve been given. So get out there and tell people how much you’ve benefited from what they’ve done for you. For best results, be playful and have fun as you express your thanks. By the way, there’ll be a fringe benefit to this outpouring: By celebrating the blessings you already enjoy, you will generate future blessings.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Telling the whole deep truth and nothing but the whole deep truth isn’t necessarily a recipe for being popular. It may on occasion provoke chaos and be disruptive. In an institutional setting, displays of candor may even diminish your clout and undermine your ambi-tions. But now take everything I just said and dis-regard it for a while. This is one of those rare times when being profoundly authentic will work to your supreme advantage.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Show me the money” is a meme that first appeared in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. It has been uttered approxi-mately a hundred trillion times since then. Have you ever said it in earnest? If so, you were prob-ably demanding to get what you had been promised. You were telling people you wanted to see tangible proof that they valued your efforts. In light of your current astrological omens, I propose that you use a variation on this theme. What you need right now is less materialistic and more marvelous. Try making this your mantra: “Show me the magic.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My acquaintance Jacob fell for a woman who also professed her ardor for him. But in the midst of their courtship, as the mystery was still ripening, she suddenly left the country. “I’ve got to go to Indonesia,” she texted him one night, and she was gone the next day. Jacob was confused, forlorn, dazed. He barely ate for days. On the sixth day, a FedEx package arrived from her. It contained a green silk scarf and a note: “I wore this as I walked to the top of the volcano and said a five-hour prayer to elevate our love.” Jacob wasn’t sure how to interpret it, although it seemed to be a good omen. What happened next? I haven’t heard yet. I predict that you will soon receive a sign that has resemblances to this one. Don’t jump to conclusions about what it means, but assume the best.
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Bellewood Acres SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
IT’S HARD to decide which is better: Getting a daily dose of vitamin D for the few months of Bellingham summer, or the smell of crisp fall air appearing briefly in the evening to signal it’s time once again to layer your sweaters and eat more soup.
It can be hard for us sunshine-deprived folks to say goodbye to shorts and tequila season, but it’s not all bad. I recently welcomed the coming autumn in the warm embrace of Bellewood Acres with the Gallus Brothers cheerily plucking strings for one of the final outdoor concerts of the summer, beneath glowing stringed lights and in front of Mt. Baker, spectacularly aglow in the sunset.
My friend and I had gone to see what all the fuss was about and to test out some of the new bistro’s menu items, but what we got a whole lot more than that.
Here is what I learned at Bellewood Acres: There’s something for everyone. Literally everyone. Is your eccentric uncle in town? There are samples of every kind of fudge for him to try. Entertaining your sister’s kids this weekend? They have self-guided golf-cart farm tours for $5 (I think that’d be worth your while without kids as well). Apple U-pick is open for the season, pumpkin U-pick will open Sept. 30, and there are distillery tours and tastings and plenty of home-grown food to munch on. Honestly, this place is as overstimulating
as it is inspiring. It wasn’t exactly the subdued patio dining I
had envisioned, but after we took in the hustle and bustle and visual distractions, we ordered at the counter and settled into our seats to peo-ple watch while we waited for our food.
We ordered the French Farmer sandwich ($9.25) and, prompted by the bistro’s menu creator, Ari Ambrutis, the Gobbler ($8.65). On principle, I don’t normally trust foods with silly names,
and having eaten more than my fair share of sandwiches in my lifetime, I’m usually bored by anything that comes on room-temperature wheat bread. That being said, this was defi-nitely one of the better cold sandwiches I’ve had in Bellingham. Applewood smoked turkey with a healthy dose of goat cheese, greens, red onion and their homemade chipotle apple rasp-berry sauce made this sandwich hearty but not heavy, with just the right amount of sweet to savory.
The French Farmer was more what I was expecting, and just as good: apple-smoked turkey breast, compte cheese (my favorite, and hard to come by in this town), apples and homemade honey mustard, all grilled on Belle-wood’s roasted garlic foccacia.
Bellewood Acres makes an enormous array of items in-house, including bread and plenty of different condiments, as well as in their retail section. Ari kindly brought us a sample of the pulled pork, which was sweet and wonderfully tender, not too saucy, and sure to hit the spot of any barbecue lover ($10 for the sandwich
with coleslaw and chips). We washed down all the
homemade goodness with some of their house hard apple cider. Apple cider, al-coholic or not, is downright brilliant, and Bellewood makes it right. Their regu-lar cider is sweet, tangy and rich. Their hard cider is crisp, dry and refreshing. Their “bubbly” (sparkling cider, not champagne) is bright and flavorful. Hav-ing tasted all the varieties, it’s obvious these guys re-ally know what to do with an apple.
If I had any more room, I would have loved to try ev-ery kind of pie ($3.50/slice), but I did manage to make a little space for an apple ci-der donut sample. If you’ve ever experienced the magic of Daily Dozen Donuts in Pike Place Market, you know that a brown paper bag full of piping-hot donuts tossed
with cinnamon sugar is basically heaven on earth. Bellewood has, thank goodness, appro-priated this idea and brought it to Bellingham, where you can get a bag of 20 fresh miniature donuts for $4, and everything will seem right with the world.
Bellewood Acres has an excellent website with loads of information regarding classes, tours and U-pick information, so next time you have a day to kill, I’d recommend making the drive to the farm—or at least perusing their website for upcoming events. They have plenty of options, and if absolutely none of them manage to suit you, at least they have pie. And everyone likes pie, right?
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WED., SEPT. 26WEDNESDAY MARKET: The final Wednesday Market of the season takes place from 12-5pm at the Fairhaven Village Green.
WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
CRAFT BEERS: As part of Bellingham Beer Week, attend a reading and talk with the “beer goddess,” Lisa Morrison, focusing on her book, Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest: A Beer Lover’s Guide, at 7pm at the Chuckanut Brewery, 601 W. Holly St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SEPT. 26-30BEER WEEK: Bellingham Beer Week continues through Sunday with events happening at Boundary Bay Brewery, Kulshan Brewery, Chuckanut Brewery, Copper Hog, Elizabeth Station, and Cheese Meat(s) Beer. See the full lineup at the website listed below.
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BELLINGHAMBEERWEEK
THURS., SEPT. 27BOW MARKET: The Bow Little Market takes place from 1-6pm every Thursday at the Belfast Feed Store, 6200 N. Green Rd., Burlington.
WWW.BOWLITTLEMARKET.WORDPRESS.COM
ASIAN SAUCES: Cookbook author Mary Ellen Carter helms a “Classic Sauces of Southeast Asia” course from 6-8pm at the Cordata Commu-nity Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Cost is $35.
383-3200
SAT., SEPT. 29PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Attend a Community Pancake Breakfast from 8-10:30am at the Lynden Community/Senior Center. The event is open to the public, and all ages are welcome.
354-4501 OR WWW.LYNDENCOMMUNITYCENTER.
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PUMPKIN FESTIVAL: Harvest food from Edi-son’s Tweets, a Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off with a $2,000 prize, free pony rides, family carnival games, “Cooking With Pumpkin” and “Making Hard Cider at Home” classes will be part of the Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival from 9am-6pm at Mount Vernon’s Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Rd. Entry is free to everything but the cooking classes, which are $10 and require reservations.
WWW.CHRISTIANSONSNURSERY.COM
ANACORTES MARKET: The Anacortes Farm-ers Market takes place from 9am-2pm every Saturday through Oct. 27 at the town’s Depot Community & Arts Center, 611 R Ave.
WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG
BELLINGHAM MARKET: Get the freshest produce—and much more—at the Bellingham
Farmers Market from 10am-3pm every Satur-day through December at the Depot Market Square on the corner of Chestnut Street and Railroad Avenue. 647-2060 OR WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
FERNDALE MARKET: The Ferndale Public Market takes place from 10am-3pm every Sat-urday through Oct. 13 at the town’s Centennial Riverwalk Park, 5667 First Ave.
WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.ORG
CHEESE CLASS: Seattle’s Mark Solomon leads a “Make Your Own Hard Cheese” class from 1-4pm at the Cordata Community Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Participants will learn to make ched-dar and gouda cheese, and taste and evaluate them. Cost is $55.
383-3200
MUSHROOM WORKSHOP: Alex Winstead of Cascadia Mushrooms will lead a “Shiitake Mushroom Workshop” at 10am at Bakerview Nursery, 945 E. Bakerview Rd. Cost is $20 and includes your own mushroom log that you’ll be able to take home. Please register in advance.
WWW.BAKERVIEWNURSERY.COM
HARVEST DINNER: Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland will host a “Celebrate Skagit Harvest Dinner & Auction” fundraiser starting at 5:30pm at Mount Vernon’s St. Joseph Center. Tickets are $70 and include dinner, silent auctions, live music and more.
WWW.SKAGITONIANS.ORG
SEPT. 29-30NORTHWEST CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL: Celebrate the art and soul of fine artisan and specialty chocolate at the Northwest Chocolate Festival happening Saturday and Sunday at Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center. Tastings, workshops, demos and much more will be part of the sweet fun. Tickets are $10-$50.
WWW.NWCHOCOLATE.COM
MON., OCT. 1 HEALTHY FAST FOOD: Registered dietician Lisa Dixon helms a “Simple Cooking: Healthy Fast Food” primer from 6:30-9pm at the Com-munity Food Co-op, 1220 N. Forest St. Cost is $29.
734-8158
TUES., OCT. 2RAW CHOCOLATES: Raw chef Bruce Horowitz leads a “Make Your Own Raw Chocolates” course from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata Commu-nity Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Cost is $39.
383-3200
PALEO DIET: Learn more about the Paleolithic “Cave Man” Diet at 6:30pm at Mount Vernon’s Skagit Valley Food Co-op. Naturopath Suneil Polly will lead the way. Register in advance for the free course.
WWW.SKAGITFOODCOOP.COM
WED., OCT. 3FLAVORS OF HOME: Help raise funds for the Kulshan Community Land Trust at a “Flavors of Home” dinner at 6pm at Ciao Thyme, 207 Unity St. The dinner will celebrate locally grown food and wine—not to mention a sustainable com-munity. Entry is $100.
WWW.CIAOTHYME.COM OR WWW.KULSHANCLT.ORG
THURS., OCT. 4 FESTIVE MEXICAN: Ana Jackson schools participants at a “Festive Mexican Dishes: Mole and Tamales” course from 6-9pm at the Cordata Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Cost is $39.
383-3200
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As part of a Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off, lug those hefty orange orbs from your gardens or farms to the Pumpkin Festival happening Sept. 29 at Christianson’s Nursery
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