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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C.
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Alan Rhodes, P.06 * Fuzz Buzz, P.11 * Doe Bay Cafe, P.34
BELLINGHAM PRIDE: Flying the flag of
equality, P.12
SUNNYLAND STOMP: Art, music and chicken
races, P.18
A BIG UNDERTAKINGEast 542 Music
Fest, P.20
Cultivating new rules for marijuana, P.8
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A glance at what’s happening this week
Get a dose of local lore regarding Bellingham’s
past, present and future when the annual
takes to the waters of Bellingham Bay starting
July 11 and continuing every Thursday through August
Comedy recording artist and Grammy Award winner
will lampoon some of the greatest
hits of all time July 17 when he brings his “Alpocalypse
Tour” to the Mount Baker Theatre
Discover all things Celtic when the 19th annual
takes place July 13-14 at Mount Vernon’s Edgewater Park
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ONSTAGE Bard on the Beach: Through July 17 and beyond, Vanier Park, Vancouver, B.C.
MUSICThe Ames: 12pm, Performing Arts Center Plaza, WWU Downtown Sounds: 6-9:30pm, Bay Street Fusion Faculty w/Martin Kuuskman: 7pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center
WORDSWriters Theater: 7pm, Firehouse Performing Arts CenterJennifer Bullis: 7pm, Village Books
FOODWednesday Market: 12-5pm, Fairhaven Village GreenBrews Cruise: 6:30pm, Cruise Terminal
[07. .13]ONSTAGEHamlet: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock AmphitheaterGood, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre The Project: 10pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSICNick Swanson: 5:30-7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Spontaneous Folk: 6pm, Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Dana Lyons: 6-8pm, Elizabeth Park Jazz Festival Big Band Benefit: 7:30pm, Semiah-moo Golf Club
WORDSDoug Fine: 7pm, Village Books
GET OUTSeahawks Visit: 5-9pm, Lakeway InnHistory Cruise: 5pm, Squalicum Harbor
FOODLynden Farmers Market: 1-6pm, downtown Lynden
[07. .13]ONSTAGE Red Carpet: 12pm and 7pm, Old Main Theater, WWU Hamlet: 7pm, Rexville-Blackrock AmphitheaterRyan Stiles & Guests: 8pm, Mount Baker Theatre Joey Gay, Mike Bocchetti Comedy Show: 8:30pm, the Underground Hellingham: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCESalsa Dance: 7-9pm, Fairhaven Village Green
Back Alley Cats: 8pm, 1st Street Cabaret, Mount Vernon
MUSIC542 Music Festival: Deming Logging Show Grounds Prozac Mountain Boys: 6-9pm, BelleWood Acres Haynie Opry with Ted Vigil: 7pm, Haynie Grange, Blaine Jazz Festival Student Showcase: 7pm, Blaine Performing Arts Center
COMMUNITYEverson-Nooksack Summer Festival: Through Sunday, throughout Everson Sidewalk Sale: Through Sunday, downtown Bellingham Bellingham Pride Kickoff Dance: 7-10pm, Ru-mors Cabaret
GET OUTWild Things: 9:30-11am, North Lake Whatcom TrailRelay for Life Kickoff: 6pm, downtown Belling-ham Sin & Gin Tours: 7pm, downtown Bellingham and historic Fairhaven
[07. .13]ONSTAGE Pride Drag Show: 6pm, Rumors Cabaret Upfront Improv Show: 8pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Hellingham: 9pm, Upfront Theatre
DANCEContra Dance: 7:30-10:30pm, Glen Echo Commu-nity Building, Everson
MUSICArt to Jazz Street Fair: 10am-4:30pm, downtown Blaine 542 Music Festival: Deming Logging Show Grounds Holmes Shea Band: 6pm, Vartanyan Estate WineryBiagio Biondolillo: 6:30-8pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Festival of Music Orchestra: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU
FILMBack to the Future: Dusk, Fairhaven Village Green
COMMUNITYSkagit Valley Highland Games: 9am-8pm, Edge-water Park, Mount Vernon Pride Family Picnic: 12pm, Maritime Heritage Park Steampunk Festival: 12-5pm, historic Fairhaven Animals as Natural Therapy Benefit: 4-9pm, Windy Acres Farm
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GET OUTChuckanut Foot Race: 9am, Marine Park Clear Lake Triathlon: 9am, Clear Lake Swim Beach Tour of Private Gardens: 11am-5pm, throughout Whatcom County Tall Ship Tours: Various times and dates through next Friday, Squalicum Harbor Sin & Gin Tours: 7pm, downtown Bellingham and historic Fairhaven
FOODMount Vernon Farmers Market: 9am-1pm, Skagit State BankAnacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center Community Meal: 10am-12pm, United Church of Ferndale Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square Ferndale Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Centen-nial Riverwalk Park Cherry Sampling Day: 11am-3pm, Washington Research and Extension Center, Mount Vernon Skagit Dinner: 5pm, Taylor Shellfish Farms
VISUAL ARTSArt by the Bay: 10am-5pm, Stanwood-Camano Community Fairgrounds Nepalese Craft Sale: 2-5pm, Deming Public Library Sunnyland Stomp: 2-9pm, Sunnyland neigh-borhood Summer Moments Reception: 4:30-9pm, Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, Camano Island
[07. .13]ONSTAGEDynamo: 8pm, Upfront Theatre
MUSICFolichon Cajun Band: 2-5pm, Fairhaven Village Green Ranger & the Re-Arrangers: 2pm, Heart of Anacortes Festival of Music Chamber Players: 4pm, Bell-ingham Cruise Terminal
COMMUNITYSkagit Valley Highland Games: 9am-6pm, Edge-water Park, Mount Vernon Pride Parade: 12pm, downtown Bellingham Pride Festival: 12-4pm, Depot Market Square
GET OUTPadden Mtn. Pedal: 10am, Lake Padden Park Tour of Private Gardens: 11am-5pm, throughout Whatcom County Cows on Bikes Summer Ride: 1pm, City Bible Church, Lynden
VISUAL ARTSArt by the Bay: 10am-5pm, Stanwood-Camano Community Fairgrounds Open House: 12-5pm, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood
[07. .13] ONSTAGEVaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab Guffawingham: 8pm, Green Frog
[07. .13]ONSTAGEAlmost, Maine: 7:30pm, MBT’s Walton Theatre
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VIEWS & NEWS 4: Mailbag
6: Gristle & Rhodes
8: The green scene
10: Last week’s news
11: Police blotter, Index
ARTS & LIFE 12: Pride party
14: Lighthouse getaway
16: Stiles for miles
18: Stomping in Sunnyland
20: Big sounds at East 542
22: Clubs
24: An apocalyptic spectacle
26: Film Shorts
REAR END 27: Bulletin Board
28: Free Will Astrology
29: Crossword
30: Advice Goddess
31: Wellness
32: This Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug
33: Slowpoke, Sudoku
34: Doe Bay deliciousness
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REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA
WHATCOM*SKAGIT*ISLAND*LOWER B.C.
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Alan Rhodes, P.06 * Fuzz Buzz, P.11 * Doe Bay Cafe, P.34
BELLINGHAM PRIDE: Flying the flag of
equality, P.12
SUNNYLAND STOMP: Art, music and chicken
races, P.18
A BIG UNDERTAKINGEast 542 Music
Fest, P.20
Cultivating new rules for marijuana, P.8
GREEN GUIDELINES
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COVER: Illustration by Angel
Boligan
NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre
TOC LETTERS STAFF
OIL TRAINSHow timely of you to have run that article on
oil train terminals being built all over the North-west. There was a catastrophic oil train derail-ment in Quebec the other day that has killed five people. Dozens are still missing. The resulting explosions and fires have mostly destroyed the downtown of this small town (Lac Megantic) of 6,000 people. Each tank car carries about 30,000 gallons of crude oil, and at least five of them exploded and fires were still burning as of this morning. The oil was on its way from the Bakken oil fields of South Dakota to an oil refinery in eastern Canada.
There has been little public notice and de-bate about the influx of crude oil by train to this area from the South Dakota oil fields. Just the other day, BNSF had a freight train derailment south of here, and derailments of oil trains can be expected. Are we ready for a scenario like that in Quebec, only in downtown Bellingham or Ferndale? Most people don’t know about this and most likely won’t until there is a derailment and/or fire.
—Nancy Wiebe, FerndaleP.S.—Alan Rhodes is a treasure!
PROTECT COUNTY ASSETSThe Bellingham Herald ran an article last month
that quoted Whatcom County Council members concerning special interests that seek to control others in the county, especially on land-use is-sues. Here are the special interests that concern me about the county’s planning:
Clean water: I care about water quality, both for nature (flora and fauna) and for people.
Because I live in Bellingham, I am especially concerned about the high levels of phosphorous in Lake Whatcom, the source of drinking water for almost half the county’s population. I also worry about water quality throughout the Nook-sack River system.
Water supply: I am concerned that we do not have enough water to meet demand through-out the year, especially during the dry summer months. These water uses include instream flows to support fish and other wildlife as well as agri-culture, commerce, industry and residences.
Clear distinction between rural and urban areas: I worry that rural sprawl will destroy the unique characteristics of our diverse land-scapes. So many other once-beautiful and inter-esting areas of the west have been overwhelmed by homogeneous sprawling residential and com-mercial developments.
Efficient use of taxpayer dollars: Inappropri-ate developments in rural areas increase tax-payer burdens to construct and maintain public infrastructure, such as roads, parks, schools and stormwater systems. Concentrating development in urban areas, as required by the Growth Man-agement Act, would allow better and less expen-sive use of existing infrastructure. The situation in Whatcom County is made worse by the lack of impact fees for rural development, furthering increasing costs to taxpayers.
Respect for and adherence to the law: When county officials say they plan to defy and fight orders from state agencies, they are encourag-ing a lawlessness that is profoundly radical. The GMA has been state law for more than two de-
THISWEEK
Although Saturday’s Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Seoul to California was uneventful, things went seriously wrong when pilot Lee Kang-guk tried—and failed—to successfully land the Boeing 777 at the San Francisco International Air-port. The crash landing killed two 16-year-old students from China, and injured more than 180 others. The investigation is ongoing, but signs are pointing to pilot error as the cause of the crash.
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cades now. The county has been wasting taxpayer money on lawyers to fight the act for eight years. They should, instead, recognize and respect GMA goals beyond protection of private property rights.
—Eric Hirst, Bellingham
PARKING DISINCENTIVESAs the City of Bellingham continues its
coordinated efforts with local nonprofits to encourage more bicycling, walking and use of public transportation to go to work, the store or run errands, it seems ironic they also enforce a 24-hour park-ing rule in all parts of the city, including residential neighborhoods.
When I lived in the York neighborhood, there were many times I left my car parked for days and rode my bike where I needed to go. Now that I live downtown, I don’t even need a bike because I can walk to all those places. However, according to city code, I am legally required to drive my car every day. This law was crafted, I’m sure, with the best intentions and to remove derelict vehicles. But as the old saying goes, the road to (impoundment) is paved with good intentions.
I also know more than one person on whom an irritated neighbor has reported their car as abandoned just because they thought it looked bad. Imagine that, some-one driving a crappy car in Bellingham.
And while the city is required to give a few days’ notice before towing, the “no-tice” is actually the ticket and the burden of proof falls on the person who may have just been doing a good thing by leaving their car at home one day, not to men-tion having gone on vacation or gotten sick. This is an excessive regulation that unfairly burdens the city’s residents. It deserves a second look and some serious revisions.
—Tara Nelson, Bellingham
THE SOUND OF DRONESRoad trips make for memorable fod-
der, but my last cruise, from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada, was downright eerie due to a conspicuous quantity of aerial surveillance. Back in olden days of analog, when road music was fueled by eight-track cassettes and high-tech gear for a stalker was binocu-lars, Americans had a reasonable expec-tation of privacy before the dictates of the Fourth Amendment of our Constitu-tion became an illusion.
Digital security/spy cameras have been monitoring our every move on the road, without our consent, using justification by that noble-sounding cause: War on Terror. Tracking any individual is now as easy as walking into the neighborhood convenience store and buying a cheap but sophisticated “trac fone” that will store a sound-print of each conversation in one very small package. The fact that
Big Brother has been eavesdropping on its citizens and keeping tabs on email should come as no surprise. But such tyranny is every bit as ugly as the im-age of Boston marathon runners getting blown into bits and pieces.
Barack Obama, along with his posse led by Eric Holder, has been operating at unprecedented levels of secrecy while prosecuting those who seek to shed light on their activities. I applaud Cascadia Weekly for printing copy that escapes the mainstream media and depicts this administration’s covert agenda. I’d like to give a special shout out to Amy Good-man, who acknowledged in “Sledgeham-mer” that journalists have a fiduciary obligation as keepers of “the fourth es-tate” and to Tom Tomorrow, for remind-ing readers that even when forces of in-iquity appear to be winning, we can still enjoy a bit of levity at their expense.
—Carol Hunter, Bellingham
TAPEWORM MUST DIEIt has been 100 years since the 16th
Amendment was ratified, creating the “progressive” income tax that is the root of all evil. Without it the government would be impotent.
The Founders knew government is in-herently evil, and thus, by its very na-ture, attracted to evil schemes. The tax is based on envy. Americans were sold on the idea of soaking the rich even though a 100 percent tax on the rich would only fund the government for a matter of days. In reality, it makes it more diffi-cult for the envious to find jobs because it removes incentives for the rich to start new businesses and expand exist-ing ones by punishing the successful.
Democrats and Republicans talk about reducing taxes when the real problem is spending. If they talk about reducing the size and scope of government, they are accused of lacking compassion for those in need. They are afraid they cannot be reelected if they don’t support wealth redistribution. Government solutions to everything make things far worse.
The inherent evilness of government is like a magnet for evil schemes and is why today progressive taxation is like a tape-worm for which there is no cure.
—Wayne Farber, Bellingham
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THE GRISTLETEASED AND SQUEEZED: Cheers to the Port of Bell-ingham—and Port Commissioner Michael McAuley in particular—for opening a portion of the city’s central waterfront to this year’s Independence Day celebra-tion, an inspiring declaration of personal liberty.
More than 500 ’hamsters crept along the hard pier of Whatcom Waterway to watch the city’s annual fireworks display at Zuanich Point Park, many visit-ing for the first time since the site came into public ownership. They entered from Central Avenue along the Granary Building and moved out beyond the chain link fencing that has kept the old Georgia-Pacific mill site enclosed for more than a decade.
“We are finally getting to the development stage, so it’s a great time to start some modest public ac-cess projects,” McAuley said. “We hope folks will enjoy watching the fireworks from this new vantage point.” McAuley thanked Port Executive Director Rob Fix for making the access happen.
Friday, July 19, and the Friday following, Kelli Linville will lead the curious on a remarkable lunch-time tour around the GP Aerated Stabilization Basin (ASB)—a wastewater treatment lagoon designed for industry that’s roughly equal in size to the city’s downtown core. At the far end is a unique view of the Bellingham cityscape seen by very few.
Still later in the month and into August, the port authority will sponsor early evening walking tours of the site, including the 10.8-acre property now being offered to private developers.
McAuley expressed an interest in opening more ar-eas of the site to the public, in particular sections of Cornwall Beach south of downtown.
It’s terrific outreach to re-ignite public interest in the central waterfront; however, the Gristle can’t help but wonder if—now that most officials have surren-dered to the years of gaslighting and bullying bait-&-switch—the Port of Bellingham now feels confident enough with everything it wants and can at last re-lease its iron grip around the throat of the hostage. Word trickles out from the Bellingham Planning Com-mission about deep, private unhappiness with the port’s plan for the central waterfront, yet the plan-ning commission still unanimously approved the plan, frankly provided with little other option. The plan is rife with regulatory certainty for developers, regula-tory uncertainty (“flexibility”) for public access and public amenities. So it has gone, at every step, on the final march to Bellingham City Council this fall. The port and city together and long ago foreclosed on any deviation from a 1970s-era development plan crafted by the folks who built Bellevue.
Certainly, nothing is happening in opening the site to limited public access that could not, and should not have happened long ago (it’s public property!).
Apocryphal is the story that the 150-foot tall di-gester building will be the last to come down as place-holder because, first, it provides scale and precedent to the size of buildings permitted in the master plan, a wall of 150- to 200-foot tall structures serving a boutique economy; second, because it blocks a view the agency doesn’t want residents to get too used to seeing. As with the digester, so too perhaps is public access to the site, given on the eve it will be taken.
In 2004, port commissioners packed the 1,500-seat Mount Baker Theatre to deliver a preliminary vision of what could be possible on the central waterfront. A VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY
viewsOPIN IONS THE GRISTLE
BY ALAN RHODES
Creature ComfortsWHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY GETS AMAZING NEW HOME“We can judge the heart of a man byhis treatment of animals.” —Immanuel Kant
I f you ever had occasion to visit the Whatcom Humane Society’s animal shelter on Williamson
Way you probably remember it as dark, dirty, crowded, crumbling and depressing. It was all those things.Today I’m standing in the glistening new shelter on Division Street, and it is the polar opposite of the old building: a spacious, cheerful, state-of-the-art facility, made possible by the generosity of the community through donations small, large and jaw-dropping.
Director Laura Clark meets me in the customer service area and takes me on a tour, starting with the Cat Colony. We look through a large win-dow into a room filled with climbing structures, cat beds and lots of cat toys. The cramped cages and nearby barking dogs of the old shelter are history. Here, in natural lighting, the cats socialize and play as they wait for someone to come along and adopt them. “These cats,” Laura says, “will never have to see a cage.”
Across the hall is the small ani-mal room, currently occupied by an assortment of domestic mice, rats, birds and rabbits who have all ended up in the shelter.
“Listen,” Laura says, “the only sounds you hear are the animals stir-ring around. No barks, no phones. In the old building these guys were stacked on top of cat cages, just adding to their stress.”
Our next stop is at the Cat Con-dos, which house cats not appropri-ate or ready yet for the Cat Colony. The condos are large, glass-fronted enclosures, with portholes on the interior walls that can open to ex-
pand the cat’s living area or allow cats who get along well to visit their neighbors. Natural light flows in from skylights.
Next we go to the dogs, so to speak. Each dog has its own spacious, glass-fronted kennel, with a door to an outside area. The hallway leading to the dog area is quiet, but when we open the door, we’re almost knocked over by the canine cacophony.
“It’s feeding time,” Laura shouts over the doggy bedlam. “The nois-iest time of the day.”
From here we walk over to the food-preparation room, which has ample storage space and work areas. It looks cleaner than most restaurant kitchens, and is a giant step up from the old building, where food was car-ried in from a shed out in back.
I spend the afternoon wandering around the 19,000-square-foot fa-cility (vs. 4,500 back on Williamson Way) chatting with employees and volunteers.
I drop in on the shelter’s full-time veterinarian, Karen Rounds, as well as Kiera and Flynn, Karen’s two flat-coated retrievers who get to come to work with her. Karen has been with WHS for six years and, up until the recent move, has had to do surgical preparation in a crowded hallway. Now she has a prep room and a sepa-rate surgical room. As soon as the donated X-ray machine is up and run-ning, she will be able to take on-site X-rays for the first time.
Before leaving the surgery area, I pause to visit with Victoria, a three-month-old kitten who seems pretty feisty for someone who was spayed just a few hours earlier. Victoria will be going home with her new adoptive family later in the afternoon. The cat adoption rate has skyrocketed in the short time the new shelter has been open. Laura attributes this, in part, to the upbeat, attractive surround-ings. It feels good to be here, unlike the old shelter, which often left one feeling depressed.
Upstairs in the animal control cen-ter, field manager Paul Evans and officer Vicky Gibbons are ecstatic about the move. For the first time, they have space to work and their dispatcher is in the same area with them for quick action. The job of an animal control officer is not an easy one, and I ask them what the best and worst things about the job are. They both have the same answer. The worst thing is the deplorable condition in which they often find animals. The best thing is getting an animal out of a bad situation and into a good home. And now the ani-mals have a quality place to recover before they move on to a new life.
When I leave, I read some of the bricks on the walkway leading into the building. People purchased these special bricks in order to help make this shelter a reality. Most of the messages on the bricks are about animals. That is, after all, what this place is all about.
You can tour the new shelter at 2172 Division Street on Sat., July 13. A 10am dedication ceremony will be fol-lowed by an open house from 11am until 6pm Info at www.whatcom humane.org.
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THE GRISTLEdecade later, the planning commission last month approved the master plan to an empty room.
In between were a few moments when oxygen was pumped back into the hostage: When alternative, competi-tive plans were presented by commu-nity activists. When the former mayor challenged baseline port assumptions in public forums. When Labor and envi-ronmental movements joined forces and called for a higher, better vision for the site. It’s no accident these brief sparks of enlivened public interest share simi-lar characteristics.
Largely ignored throughout is Lummi Nation’s continued insistence to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, still on record, that “Lummi Nation is not satisfied with the cleanup alternatives currently being considered by the Port of Bellingham to address both habitat impacts and contamination associated with the in-dustrial development along portions of Bellingham Bay.” These concerns were expressed in 2006, emphasized again in 2008 and 2009, and again in a let-ter to the port in 2010, demanding a greater need for environmental cleanup and habitat restoration. Testament to the potency of Lummi Nation, cleanup of the inner waterway has been delayed until tribal concerns are negotiated.
These concerns were expressed in a slightly different form in a letter to the City of Bellingham from the Dept. of Ecology in May, as the state envi-ronmental agency worked through the draft Waterfront District Master Plan.
“As the plan does not provide detail on how the future public access areas will be developed[!], it is important that future park plans consider the necessary balance between public access and habi-tat protection,” Ecology warned, noting that many park areas have also been set aside for habitat restoration, “setting up the potential conflict between pro-tection of shoreline ecological function and public access.” When the two are in conflict, the latter must give way.
Reading between the lines, habitat restoration may nibble only at the “flexible” public access component of the plan, while the “certain” private property component remains assured and guaranteed.
The Bellingham Planning Commission this week will consider changes to the city’s Shoreline Master Plan (SMP) that could exacerbate this squeeze, amend-ing shoreline development standards to allow for increased building heights while decreasing the shoreline buffer, altering both the type and intensity intensity of shoreline uses.
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So, yes, council’s decision was both preemp-tive and proscriptive.
“To me, this is all about being cautious, very cautious, to avoid what could be serious legal headaches, which could drain public dollars and resources,” Lilliquist said. “It may be bet-ter just to put everything on hold until the state finalizes its rules.
“I would be surprised and disappointed if the administration does not have final rules ready to go long before the 12-month interim rules expire,” Lilliquist emphasized. Council will learn more from the public at their Aug. 12 session.
Considerable ambiguity exists between Washington, D.C., and Washington State concerning marijuana use, with the state far afield of the rest of the nation. Possession of the drug is still subject to penalty in most states, and the Feds frown on the movement of the drug across borders. At the direc-tion of voters last fall, new state laws allow people to not only possess small amounts of marijuana, but also obtain it legally through licensed distributors.
The rules, approved by the Washington State Liquor Control Board during a meeting in Olympia last week, establish regulations for marijuana producers, processers and retailers and set the stage for legal recreational mari-juana use to begin early next year. The Liquor
Control Board released preliminary draft rules in late May after board staff members spent long hours visiting marijuana grow houses and studying the science of pot.
Four public hearings on Wednesday's pro-posed rules, which included several key chang-es, will be held across the state Aug. 6-8. They are scheduled to take effect Sept. 16. At that point, the Washington Liquor Control Board will begin accepting applications for marijua-na producers, processers and retailers.
The draft rules shorten the hours of opera-tion for marijuana businesses, which may be open from 8am to 12am, and remove require-ments for a signed affidavit from a landlord to house a marijuana business. They also strengthen requirements for child-proof pack-aging and restrict advertisements that may appeal to youths, among other things.
The biggest change: Marijuana may be grown outdoors with secure fencing and surveillance and is not limited to indoor facilities.
These are all pieces in motion for the City of Bellingham and other cities at work on the changes to municipal code and zoning that would define businesses of this kind. Out-door cultivation, in particular, is a new and challenging mutation to be absorbed into the DNA of municipal code. But voters in-sisted on those changes when they approved Initiative 502 last November, decriminaliz-ing the possession of small amounts of mari-juana by adults.
“The administration has been looking into this for some time and making prepara-tions, certainly in earnest since the voters approved I-502 back in November,” Lilliqu-ist said. “In fact, back in March I made a motion, unanimously supported by the City Council, to request the administration work on creating zoning ordinances and regula-tions necessary to respond to the changes in state law on marijuana. The problem is, this is a moving target. We can’t finalize our local rules until the state does. As things stand, some of those state rules are clearly written into the initiative, and other rules have not even been drafted yet.”
The state and its cities are certainly blaz-ing new ground, and there are few ready mod-els about how to proceed. Marijuana, even for medical use, is still prohibited in most states. Growing and distributing marijuana for sale across state lines remains a federal crime. In fact, growing and distributing marijuana in Washington remains on the books as a crime.
In 1998, Washington voters approved Ini-tiative 692 by a large margin, allowing quali-fied patients to use and possess marijuana by prescription from their physician. The law was designed to shield physicians and primary caregivers of these patients against criminal prosecution or administrative actions by the state, while providing patients an affirmative defense in potential prosecution.
The law, and subsequent review by the Legislature, did not provide a clear path to cultivate marijuana for medical use. Courts exercised a varied sort of leniency, based on the recognition that if a patient has a
F aced with interest growing like a weed alongside continued uncer-tainty about weed, Bellingham City Council last week dropped in place two ordinances designed to limit two distinct but intertwined
branches of softened state policy regarding the production of marijuana.The first adopts interim zoning for the cultivation of medical marijuana for
personal use, permitting and clarifying those uses under city guidelines. The second, potentially more sweeping policy imposes a 12-month moratorium on cultivation and distribution of marijuana for uses apart from medical prescription—in effect, dealing with the business side of recreational mari-juana. The new policies were introduced in council’s afternoon session; they were read and adopted in the evening session.
Critics howled the following day, saying the restriction sends a chill-ing message to emerging new businesses. State law already provides clarity on what is permitted and not permitted, critics said. The grow-ing, processing and retailing of marijuana is already illegal, will become legal under a timetable governed by the state, and requires no addi-tional prohibition by the City of Bellingham. Perhaps worst of all, the public had no warning about the decision... by design.
“We’re in a limbo,” City Council member Michael Lilliquist admitted. “People are in fact setting up businesses and making plans for marijuana operations, even though operations cannot actually begin until Dec. 1 at the earliest.”
Indeed, some growers are already at work raising marijuana in mixed-use areas like Fairhaven, employing a hazy space in the law that looks the other way when pot is grown in community gardens for medical consumption. Police (and landlords) have relaxed their efforts to investigate pot wher-ever they smell it, and in response growers have increased the number of plants they’re cultivating. Pot has a pungent smell and, at least for now, a particular clientele seeking its mysteries. Neighbors have complained; and city officials worry some of these gardens could grandfather and gain legal rights under obsolete rules—particulary if the city remains silent.
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right to a drug, the patient must also have access to the drug. But granting business licenses to quasi-legal busi-nesses potentially exposed the City of Bellingham. In 2012, on the advice of legal counsel, the city stopped accept-ing applications for new dispensaries and moved to shut them. Growers shifted their efforts away from a licensed busi-ness model to “community gardens.”
In November, voters expressed them-selves more fully on the issue of marijuana use, broadly decriminalizing moderate use among adults and establishing clear guide-lines on how marijuana for personal use may be cultivated and distributed. Initia-tive 502, frankly, doesn’t care whether the use is medical or not. And the framework for distributing marijuana, it turns out, is similar to the state’s new model for priva-tized liquor sales.
Mayor Kelli Linville actively supported the Initiative 502. So did a majority of Bellingham City Council.
In key ways, the clarity of I-502 ac-tually assists with the zoning issues the city must resolve. Under the law, the li-quor control board will not issue a license for any premises within 1,000 of schools, playgrounds, recreation centers, child care centers, public parks or any other public area you might imagine. Antici-pating a high volume of product, the city will likely restrict licensed growers to in-dustrial or light industrial zones.
How the medical side, currently served by community gardens, may dovetail into this is less certain, but city policymakers may consider some harmonization of the rules. The general availability of marijua-na to wider uses may make tolerance of community gardens a moot issue, a relic of a world in which medical marijuana could not in any fashion be obtained.
“I think, from a planning perspective, staff would like to see the rules for both medical and recreational marijuana to be pretty similar,” Assistant City Attor-ney Alan Marriner said. “From the state level you’ve got rules that are coming from the liquor control board, dealing with the production, processing and re-tailing of marijuana, including licensing and taxing. And then you’ve got medical marijuana that allow for collective gar-dens and personal cultivation not sub-ject to similar taxes. Unless the rules are pretty similar—and the taxes are pretty similar—you’ll see people opting for the medical marijuana rules.”
“Harmonization might come between commercial production facilities and similar ‘commercial scale’ collective gar-dens,” Lilliquist speculated. “Harmoni-zation might come between commercial retailing operations and similar ‘store fronts’ for collective gardens.”
This article was assisted with material from Associated Press.
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The
Week that WasBY TIM JOHNSON
LAST WEEK’S
NEWSJULY 02-09
currents ›› last week’s news
07. .13TUESDAY
A woman is robbed at knifepoint at a service station north of Bellingham. The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office reports the Bell-ingham resident called for assistance after she had been robbed of cash and her cellphone at a stop on Hannegan and Pole roads just after midnight. A man reportedly grabbed her from behind and threw her to the ground. A K-9 unit tracks her assailant to a nearby residence. They arrest the 22-year-old and recover the woman’s cell-phone and some of her cash.
07. .13WEDNESDAY
Gov. Jay Inslee signs three key pieces of legislation designed to increase jobs. One bill creates a new Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation program. A second improves education in science, technology, engineering and math. The third creates a one-stop tax payment and licensing portal for Washington businesses to help streamline their operations.
Responding to a request from the governor, the U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration opens a disaster loan office in Mount Vernon to help businesses suffering financial losses due to the I-5 Skagit River Bridge collapse. SBA provides low-interest loans to eligible small businesses that have suffered substantial economic injury, covering operating expenses as a business recovers.
07. .13FRIDAY
Bellingham and Whatcom County fire crews battle an apartment fire just north of Bellingham city limits. Officials say the fire appears
to have started outside of the apartment complex and extended into the units. Arriving crews find heavy fire on an outside wall from the ground to the two-story roof, with the blaze having already burned through the wall into two of the units. Crews quickly knock down the fire. No one was injured. Bottle rock-ets were determined to be the cause.
07. .13SUNDAY
Impaired driving is suspected as the cause of two crashes in Skagit County over the weekend. On Saturday, a 62-year-old cyclist was hospital-ized after he drifted into the path of a truck trav-eling in the same direction. On Sunday, a motor-ist drifted off the freeway near Mount Vernon and rolled his vehicle. The 18-year-old and his passen-ger were injured.
07. .13MONDAY
As hospitals acquire religious affiliations with increasingly frequency, Gov. Inslee directs the Washington State Department of Health to up-date the process for approving changes in hos-
pital ownership and delivery of care. The Seattle Times reports Inslee is concerned that changes in control of a hospital could affect access to qual-ity health services. Inslee says his office hasn’t yet identified any situations in which people have been denied access as a result of hospital mergers and with religious organizations.
A Bellingham man is killed while driving his motorcycle at a high rate of speed on Interstate 5 in Whatcom County. He lost control and crashed into median cable barriers. State troopers say Abraham Guerrero, 18, died at the scene.
07. .13TUESDAY
At a public hearing in Portland, Ore., hundreds raise their voices in opposition to Australian-based Ambre Energy's plan to use the Columbia River as a conduit for coal shipment to Asia. Am-bre Energy has applied for several permits to build a coal export facility at the Port of Morrow near Boardman, Ore., while repeatedly attempting to rush the project in advance of study. The coal ex-port facility is the smallest of three proposed for the Pacific Northwest, down from six last year.
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Crews are preparing for a major cleanup at the former Custom Plywood mill site in Anacortes, key to the restoration of Fidalgo Bay’s shoreline and ecosystem. Work this fall will remove contaminated sediments and restore the eroding shoreline to improve habitat. The Custom Plywood property is one of several Anacortes-area sites being cleaned up under the Puget Sound Initiative.
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NUMBER of individual responses by Bellingham Police to reports of illegal discharge of fireworks from July 3 until shortly after midnight July 5. The
Bellingham fireworks code states it is unlawful to use or discharge consumer fireworks at any time except on July 4 between the hours of 9am and midnight. The
city’s full ban on fireworks does not go into effect until 2014.
NUMBER of fireworks-related emergency incidents statewide in 2012.
One resulted in a fatality.
PROPERTY damage related to fireworks statewide in 2012.
ESTIMATED damage from a July 5 apartment fire in Bellingham. The fire was caused by illegal bottle rockets landing on the back porch of one of the units.
PERCENT of Republicans who think it would be better for the U.S. economy if undocumented immigrants became legal workers. Fully 76 percent say it would
be unrealistic to deport everyone in the country illegally. Democrats registered about 10 points higher in these beliefs.
PERCENT of Republicans who say a path toward immigration would encourage more people to come to the U.S. illegally. Fully 68 percent
think it would reward illegal behavior. Democrats registered about 20 points
lower in these beliefs.
PERCENT of Republicans who said said they would back legislation allowing immigrants living illegally in the U.S. to become citizens after a waiting period if they paid taxes and a penalty, passed a criminal background check, and learned English. The number is statistically identical to Democrats who share this belief.
PERCENT of Republicans who support the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage
equality. The court affirmed such decisions are properly the purview of
individual states.
PERCENT of Democrats who support the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage
equality. The national average was 45 percent in support, 40 percent
opposed, with 15 percent uncertain.
PERCENT of general support for marriage equality in 2001.
SOURCES: Bellingham Police Dept.; Bellingham Fire Dept.; Washington State Patrol Office of Fire Marshal; Pew Research Center; Gallup poll
ALIEN SKIESOn July 4, at approximately 11pm, strange glowing orbs were reported traveling north across the skies of the Puget Sound area from Auburn to Canada. An observer in Renton described them as five orbs, evenly spaced and coasting in a horizon-tal line northeast. They matched similar descriptions reported in Bremerton and Snohomish. In Bellingham, two observers at Boulevard Park reported “three strange red lights pass overhead, from over the city of Bellingham and out to the bay and beyond.... These lights were red, seemed to be about 2- to 3-feet in diameter and about 100 to 200 feet above us as they traveled silently, steadily and smoothly on their course.”
MASTER OF DISGUISEOn July 2, Skagit County Sheriff’s deputies searched for a man suspected in a drive-by shooting near Walmart in Mount Vernon. Deputies tracked the car to Chuckanut Drive and called for assistance from Whatcom County law enforcement. His car was even-tually found abandoned on the side of the road. The Bellingham Herald reported a police dog and Homeland Security helicopter were used to track the man down a steep embank-ment, where he crossed the railroad tracks and headed toward the water. Authorities tracked them to Teddy Bear Cove, where the 26-year-old driver had taken off his clothes and jumped into the water to fit in with oth-ers on the beach, according to the sheriff’s office. His hapless passenger stood on the shore. The two were taken into custody and handed over to Skagit authorities.
SURVEILLANCE STATEOn July 6, a woman told Bellingham Po-lice she believes everyone is watching her. Bellingham Police attributed her belief to a mental condition.
On July 6, a homeowner in northwest Bell-ingham complained someone was shining laser lights into her bedroom.
EVERYONE’S AN AGENTOn July 5, a disruptive customer was asked by staff to leave a nightclub in downtown Bellingham. The man did not comply, claim-ing to be a Drug Enforcement agent and flashing DEA credentials. He told staff he was armed. This information led to the man being knocked to the ground and held until police arrived. The “agent” continued to re-sist police and the 23-year-old was eventu-ally booked for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, criminal impersonation and other outstanding warrants.
MY PET GOATOn July 6, a quarrel continued to rage in Columbia neighborhood as one family in-sists on keeping goats.
RUDE AWAKENINGOn July 5, Bellingham Police checked on a person sleeping in a blanket. “They were fine,” police reported, “and moved along.”
On July 6, a Bellingham mother awoke from a nap to find her three children missing from her apartment. Police searched, and discovered the children safe at their grand-mother’s home in Ferndale.
PRODIGAL SONOn July 1, a woman called Bellingham Po-lice to report that the ”possible” father of her son would not return him after a week-end visit. “There are no custody orders or parenting plans in effect,” police noted.
MUSIC CRITICOn July 7, a Bellingham woman reported her violin had been stolen after she left it out in her front yard on Garden Street.
FRUIT OF HIS LABORSOn July 7, a man in Fairhaven started a quarrel with another person that ended in the man being brained with an orange.
CREATIVE KEYSOn July 7, Bellingham Police checked on a Happy Valley apartment building for a possible burglary in progress. They instead found a resident who was so intoxicated he’d locked himself out and smashed the sliding glass door trying get back into his apartment.
On July 7, a citizen reported several indi-viduals entering an apartment near Western Washington University campus through a window instead of the front door. “The apart-ment renter was determined to currently be in jail,” Bellingham Police explained.
MANY FLAGS FLY AT THE BORDEROn June 13, a citizen border watcher com-plained of a suspicious individual near the United States/Canada border north of Lyn-den. Agents found a citizen of Canada at-tempting to hide in a nearby berry field, illegally present in the United States and having been previously removed from the United States. Border Patrol agents repeat-ed the removal.
On June 19, patrolling border agents en-countered three people near the United States/Canada border in a rural area east of Sumas. The group, citizens of Mexico, were determined to be illegally present in the United States. Two had been previously removed from the United States. They were processed for removal.
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wordsCOMMUNITY LECTURES BOOKS
the first Bellingham Pride. While it’s not on the lineup on the Bellingham
Pride website, a Wed., July 10 event, “LGBT and Religion: Honoring Stories from the Soul,” will
act as the unofficial precur-sor to the events that will follow. At the gathering, which begins at 7pm at the First Congregational Church of Bellingham, members of the local LGBT community will engage in a panel dis-cussion focusing on their journies of faith.
After that, things take a turn for the festive. From 7-10pm Fri., July 12, those 21 and over can attend a “Prime Time Kickoff Dance” at Rumors Cabaret (1119 Railroad Ave.), while the all-ages set can head to a “B-Proud Dance” starting at 8pm at Love to Move Studioz (311 E. Holly St.).
Come Sat., July 13, a Pride Family Picnic begins at noon at Maritime Heritage Park. Families of every configura-tion are welcome to attend, and cash donations for food are all it will cost you. An an-nual Pride Drag Show begins at 6pm that night at Rumors,
followed by a Pride Celebration. It’s probably worth mentioning at this point
that all of the events happening through the weekend aren’t just for those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Straight allies and those who believe gay rights are civil rights are also encouraged to attend.
That ethos applies to the Pride Parade, as well. Join your fellow citizens before noon Sun., July 14 to line up at Bellingham High School, and then fol-low the rainbow-hued flotilla as it wends through-out the streets of downtown before coming to rest at Railroad Avenue’s Depot Market Square.
The Pride Festival, which continues until 4pm that day, will feature various vendors, activities for kids, appearances by local and state dignitar-ies, and, hopefully, a day full of sunshine.
But even if it’s not a perfect day where the weather is concerned, don’t let that stop you from coming to show your support. Be proud of where you live and who you live with—whomever that happens to be.
WHAT: Bellingham PrideWHEN: July 12-14WHERE: Throughout BellinghamCOST: Varies (many events are free) INFO: www.bhampride.org---------------------WHAT: Public Ceremony to raise two rainbow Pride flags to fly July 12-14WHEN: 4pm Thurs., July 11WHERE: Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.INFO: 778-8100 or [email protected]
BY AMY KEPFERLE
Out and About FLYING THE FLAG AT BELLINGHAM PRIDE
T he powers that be at Bellingham Pride are well aware that many similar events happening throughout the country take place in June, which is fitting, as that is National Gay and
Lesbian Month. However, as Bellingham is geographically located in a region where
summer doesn’t typically begin in earnest until July—and presumably because they’re located in a burg that prides itself on doing things a little differently—somewhere along the line organizers decided to move the event to July, when the weather is predictably more pleasant.
But while Bellingham Pride’s calendar dates may differ from those of its counterparts, one thing remains the same: those who take part are com-mitted to celebrating their individuality and exercising their freedoms.
And, as this is the first year the event will be taking place since same-sex marriage in Washington state became legal—and since the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned sections of the Defense of Marriage Act—part of the celebrations that will take place at a va-riety of venues July 12-14 will no doubt be focused on how far gays, lesbians and bisexuals in this country have come in the 14 years since
WED., JULY 10WRITERS THEATER: Read your original writ-ings at the monthly Chuckanut Sandstone Writ-ers Theater Open Mic starting at 7pm at the café and the Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Ave.
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IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS: Whatcom Community College English professor Jennifer Bullis reads selections from her new book of poetry, Impos-sible Lessons, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Entry is free.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
THURS., JULY 11TOO HIGH TO FAIL: Bestselling author and investigative (and comedic) journalist Doug Fine shares stories and gives a slideshow based on his new book Too High to Fail: Canna-bis and the New Green Economic Revolution at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
JULY 12-13USED BOOK SALE: Harvest some bargains at a Used Book Sale from 10am-5pm Friday and Saturday in the sales room behind Peoples Bank across from the Everson Library, 104 Kirsh Dr.
305-3600
SAT., JULY 13 STEAMPUNK READINGS: In conjunction with the annual Fairhaven Steampunk Festival, attend multi-author readings from a variety of sci-fi and Steampunk-inspired authors from 1-4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. Entry is free.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
SUN., JULY 14BOYFRIEND’S BONES: Jeanne Matthews reads from her new Dinah Perelin mystery, Her Boyfriend’s Bones, at 4pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
WWW.JEANNEMATTHEWS.COM
MON., JULY 15POETRYNIGHT: Those looking to share their verse as part of Poetrynight can sign up at 7:30pm at the Black Drop Coffeehouse, 300 W. Champion St. Readings start at 8pm. Entry is free.
WWW.POETRYNIGHT.ORG
TUES., JULY 16CHUCKANUT RADIO HOUR: Bestselling au-thor Chris Bohjalian reads from his new book, The Light in the Ruins, as the featured scribe at tonight’s Chuckanut Radio Hour taping at 7pm at Whatcom Community College’s Heiner Theater. The Lady Crooners will be the musical guests. Tickets are $5.
WWW.VILLAGEBOOKS.COM
WED., JULY 17LOST ART: Harvard physics professor John Huth reads from his first book, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, at 7pm at Village Books, 1200 11th St. The book questions what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our own way.
671-2626
THURS., JULY 18PAPASAN’S SIMPLE TRUTHS: Bestselling author Jay Papasan will inspire and motivate when he shares ideas from the self-help book he co-wrote with Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, from 6-8:30pm at the
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Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Entry is free.
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FRI., JULY 12DRIVE-IN NIGHT: Park Manor and the Birchwood Neighborhood will host a viewing of Grease at a temporary drive-in projected onto a 40-foot inflatable screen at dusk in the Park Manor parking lot (in front of Big Lots and Albertsons on the corner of Birchwood and Northwest). Entry is free and open to the public.
WWW.BIRCHWOODNEIGHBORHOOD.ORG
JULY 12-14SIDEWALK SALE: Celebrate summer at the annual “Sidewalk Sale” happening Friday through Sunday at various venues through-out downtown Bellingham.
WWW.DOWNTOWNBHAM.WORDPRESS.COM
EVERSON SUMMER FEST: A book sale, food and craft vendors, live music, barbecues, a parade, live entertainment, basketball and horseshoe tournaments, a fun run, a silent auction and more will be part of the annual Everson-Nooksack Sum-mer Festival happening at Everson City Park, 111 W. Main St., and beyond.
WWW.EVERSONNOOKSACKCHAMBER.ORG
SAT., JULY 13STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL: Literature, music and art will all be highlighted at the “Fantastical Mr. Flip’s Carnival”-themed Steampunk Festival happening from 12-5pm at various venues in Fairhaven. Vendors, merchants, contests, food and much more will be part of the fun.
WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM
ANT BENEFIT: Animals for Natural Therapy will host its annual “Bluegrass Bash Benefit” from 4-9pm at Windy Acres Farm, 721 Van Wyck Rd. The family-friendly fundraiser will feature a parade of animals, live music from the Moongrass Band and Quickdraw String Band, food,and more. Suggested donation is $10-$20.
WWW.ANIMALSASNATURALTHERAPY.ORG
JULY 13-14HIGHLAND GAMES: The 19th annual Sk-agit Valley Highland Games can be visited from 9am-8pm Saturday and 9am-6pm Sunday at Mount Vernon’s Edgewater Park. The event features, among other things, a Celtic Legends concert, highland danc-ing, athletic events, sheepdog trials, bagpipers and massed pipe bands, food and Celtic merchandise, events for kids, a beer and whiskey garden and Scottish and Irish Acoustic Music. Entry is $10-$13 per person or $30 for a family of four. Weekend passes are available.
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MON., JULY 15ROCKS AND GEMS: All are welcome at the Mt. Baker Rock & Gem Club’s monthly meeting at 7pm at the Bloedel Donovan Community Center, 2214 Electric Ave.
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M idweek: A frenzy of phone calls, texts and emails meant obligations and deadlines were eating my lunch, which I had no time to eat. I needed a few
hours of silence and solace, and I needed it bad. It was time to get out of town.An hour later, I parked the trusty Subaru at the nearly
empty Bowman Bay parking lot at Deception Pass State Park, turned my phone off, shouldered my day pack and headed south down the beach toward Lighthouse Point.
From the parking lot, it’s an easy three-mile roundtrip hike to the point—meanders and diversions might add to this total. After a brief walk along the cobbled beach (breathe deeply!) I climbed over a small headland and dropped to a pocket beach, empty except for an informal caucus of sea birds. The trail crossed a small isthmus (low enough to drag a kayak across, I noticed) and climbed the headland that is home to Lighthouse Point.
At a fork, I went left (why not?) to where the wind-ing path loops around the rocky promontory through con-stantly changing scenes of rainforest, sunny bee-buzzing meadows, stands of fleshy madrones, jungles of salal and bonsai forests of artfully contorted trees at the water’s edge—art for art’s sake.
The sun danced with the clouds and the light changed constantly: now a shadow play beneath the breeze-ruf-fled trees, now golden and bronze above the sparkling Salish Sea. Clusters of delicate and complicated yel-low flowers brightened the cliffs and luxurious white li-chen blanketed the rocks. If you slept here, your dreams
getout WED., JULY 10FLY FISHING HISTORY: Fly fish-ing historian Darrell Martin will present “The Antique Angler” at 2pm and “The River Itchen” at 7pm at free presentations at Western Washington University’s Wilson Library.
650-6621 OR WWW.LIBRARY.WWU.
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THURS., JULY 11SEAHAWKS VISIT: Wide receiver Doug Baldwin and defensive line-man Red Bryant of the Seattle Seahawks will meet the public during a free event from 5-7pm at Bellingham’s Lakeway Inn and Con-ference Center, 714 Lakeway Dr.
WWW.SEAHAWKS.COM
HISTORY CRUISE: Local historian Brian Griffin will lead the 30th an-nual “History Cruise” season start-ing tonight at 5pm at Squalcium Harbor, 722 Coho Way. Tickets are $30-$35. Cruises continue every Thursday through August.
778-8963 OR WWW.
WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
JULY 11-14SKAGIT TOURS: Seattle City Light, the North Cascades Insti-tute, and the National Park Service offer Diablo Lake boat tours and North Cascades explorer tours ev-ery weekend through early Septem-ber in and around the three dams near Highway 20. Walking tours are free; boat tours and explorer tours are $18-$35.
WWW.SKAGITTOURS.COM
FRI., JULY 12WILD THINGS: Kids, adults and adventurers can join Wild Whatcom Walks for “Wild Things” excursions from 9:30-11am every Friday in July on the North Lake Whatcom Trail. Entry is by donation.
WWW.WILDWHATCOM.ORG
FERRY FAREWELLS: Attend “Free Friday Ferry Farewells” at 5:30pm at the Community Boating Center, 555 Harris Ave. Attendees can snag a ride aboard The Coot and head out on the water to say “bon voyage” to the Alaska ferry. Attendance is by donation.
WWW.BOATINGCENTER.ORG
RELAY FOR LIFE: Relay for Life of Whatcom County will kick off with a special “Survivors Lap” at 6pm on the city blocks surrounding the Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Ave. The grassroots fund-raising event sees individuals and teams participate in nearly 5,100 communities nationwide.
WWW.RELAYFORLIFE
OFWHATCOM.ORG
JULY 12-13SIN AND GIN TOURS: The history excursions led by the Good Time Girls continue at “Sin & Gin” tours starting at 7pm in downtown
Bellingham (in front of Bayou on Bay’s Oyster Bar) and historic Fairhaven (outside Skylark’s hidden café). Tickets are $18 and include a complimentary drink ticket for those 21 and over. Tours continue every Friday and Saturday through August.
WWW.GOODTIMEGIRLSBHAM.COM
SAT., JULY 13CHUCKANUT FOOT RACE: The 46th annual Chuckanut Foot Race begins at 9am at Marine Park and finishes at Larrabee State Park. Entry is $30.
WWW.GBRC.NET
CLEAR LAKE TRIATHLON: Swim-ming, running and biking will share center stage at the Clear Lake Triathlon, which begins at 9am at the Clear Lake Swim Beach. Entry is $20-$70.
WWW.SKAGITCOUNTY.NET
CLIMBING GYM OPENING: Shoe demos, music, food, membership signups and a raffle will be part of a grand opening celebration starting at 11am at Bellingham’s new Vital Climbing Gym, 1421 N. State St.
WWW.VITALCLIMBINGGYM.COM
JULY 13-14TOUR OF PRIVATE GARDENS: Tour six sensational spaces at the What-com Horticultural Society’s 27th annual “Tour of Private Gardens” from 11am-5pm Saturday and Sun-day throughout Whatcom County. Tickets are $10-$22.
WWW.WHATCOMHORTSOCIETY.ORG
JULY 13-19TALL SHIP TOURS: Crews in period costumes will host self-guided tours and sails aboard the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain from Saturday through the following Friday at Bellingham’s Squalicum Harbor. Walk-on tours are $3, battle sails are $40-$60, and evening and adventure sails are $39.
WWW.HISTORICALSEAPORT.ORG
SUN., JULY 14PADDEN MTN PEDAL: The 20th annual mountain bike race known as the Padden Mountain Pedal be-gins at 10am at Bellingham’s Lake Padden Park. Entry is $15-$30.
WWW.PADDENMTNPEDAL.COM
SUMMER RIDES: Join Everybody Bike’s free “Summer Rides” series at a “Cows on Bikes” excursion beginning at 1pm at Lynden’s City Bible Church NS, 1986 Main St.
WWW.EVERYBODYBIKE.COM
GARDEN WORKSHOP: “Critters in Your Garden” will be the focus of a free Master Gardener-led workshop at 2pm at Ferndale’s Hovander Homestead Park. Entry is free and no registration is required.
676-6736 OR
WWW.WHATCOM.WSU.EDU
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would be amazing. The hours passed and I stopped often to
watch the drama of the sky and listen to the music of the waves, which on this day sounded remarkably like Chopin. My senses awakened: the salty perfume of the sea blended with the sweet scent of rainforest, the dusky sunshine on the exposed head-lands carried the aroma of a California af-ternoon and the depths of the salal thickets smelled like birch bark canoes.
Dark witch-castle clouds enveloped both the North Cascades and the Olympics but here, the center of the blue sky held. I gave thanks for the rain shadow and took my time circumventing the point, retracing my steps a few times.
A group of oystercatchers took flight as one, wings slapping on the water. Butter-flies drifted through the trees, like extras in a Disney movie. I reflected on how diffi-cult it was to make myself step off the treadmill for a few hours, to leave phone messages ignored and emails unanswered. I leaned back against a rock, closed my eyes and listened to the stillness.
For more details on how to get to Deception Pass State Park, go to www.parks.wa.gov
STORY AND PHOTO BY JOHN D’ONOFRIO
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BY AMY KEPFERLE
Stiles’ Style GIVING BACK, GIVING BIG
R yan Stiles may have spent many years living and working in the big city of Los Angeles, but since re-turning to the Bellingham area with his family nearly
a decade ago, the famous actor and improviser has proven that he’s dedicated to the small town he now calls home.
In addition to providing the initial funding for the Up-front Theatre, Stiles still performs at the Bay Street space. But he does a whole lot more than that. Over the years, many improvisers have benefited both from his wisdom and from his generosity. Whether he’s inviting perform-ers to join him on bigger stages beyond the Upfront or offering quick notes on a scene, Stiles is a celebrity who’s seemingly never let fame go to his head.
It’s not a surprise, then, to learn Stiles’ largesse isn’t just confined to what happens onstage. For the last few years, Stiles has used his fame to help raise funds for the Burned Children Recovery Foundation. In fact, since 2010, Stiles and his comedic cohorts have helped raise more than $420,000 for the nonprofit that has been “providing hope and new
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staGebeginnings to burned children and their fam-ilies since 1989.”
But rather than just appeal to the public for help with fund-raising efforts, those who want to donate can expect to be en-tertained in a variety of ways.
First off, Stiles will return to the Mount Baker Theatre Fri., July 12 for a “Night of Comedy.” Per usual, he’ll be joined by a few familiar faces. Kathy Kinney, who played Mimi alongside Stiles in The Drew Carey Show, is the first performer of note. Richard Kind of Spin City and Jeff Davis—who was a reg-ular on Whose Line is It Anyway?—will also show up to help make the night a success.
If you take part in all three fundraisers happening throughout the rest of the week-
end, the aforementioned performers—plus a rotating roster of other comedians and actors—will become familiar faces. They’ll be there during a Celebrity Gala & Auction Sat., July 13 at the Silver Reef Casino, and on the greens at the 4th annual Ryan Stiles Celebrity Golf Classic happening Sun., July 14 at Blaine’s Loomis Trail Golf Club.
A hefty portion of the proceeds from the events will go to the foundation’s Camp Phoe-nix program, which, every summer, sees youth from around the country converge for a camp focusing on both learning and fun. In addi-tion to meeting other kids who may be going through the same trials they are, the August gathering, held at Bellingham’s Camp Luther-wood, gives campers the skills they need to “live and rise above” the harassment they get in their everyday lives as burn survivors.
Once they’re there, there’s a pretty good chance that a local celebrity with size 15 shoes will stop by to see how things are go-ing. And he won’t be there because he has to; he’ll be there because he wants to be.
WHAT: “Night of Comedy” with Ryan Stiles, Kathy Kinney, Richard Kind, Jeff Davis, and others WHEN: 8pm Fri., July 12WHERE: Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. COST: $40INFO: 734-6080 or www.mountbakertheatre.com---------------------WHAT: Celebrity Gala and Auction happens Sat., July 13 at the Silver Reef Casino, and the Ryan Stiles Celebrity Golf Classic takes place Sun., July 14 at Blaine’s Loomis Trail Golf ClubINFO:www.ryanstilesgolfclassic.com
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THURS., JULY 11GOOD, BAD, UGLY: Watch “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 8pm every Thursday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. At 10pm, stick around for the “Project.” Entry is $4-$7.
WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
JULY 11-12HAMLET: Skagit River Shakespeare Festival begins its season with showings of Hamlet at 7pm Thurs-day and Friday at Mount Vernon’s Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheater, 19299 Rexville Grange Rd. Ad-ditional showings of Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor play in repertory through August 16. Tickets are $10-$12.
WWW.SHAKESNW.ORG
JULY 11-17BARD ON THE BEACH: Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and Elizabeth Rex show in repertory at Bard on the Beach through Sept. 14 at Vancouver B.C.’s Vanier Park. Tickets are $25-$43 (Canadian).
WWW.BARDONTHEBEACH.ORG
FRI., JULY 12RED CARPET: Students who’ve been taking part in WWU’s Summer Youth Theatre Institute will high-light what they’ve learned at “The Red Carpet: Favorite Moments from the Silver Screen” performances at 12pm and 7pm at the school’s Old Main Theater.
WWW.WWU.EDU/SYTI
COMEDY SHOW: Soul Joel will host a show featuring Last Comic Standing standup comedians Mike Bocchetti and Joey Gay at 8:30pm at the Underground, 211 E. Chest-nut St. Tickets are $10.
WWW.SOULJOELPRODUCTIONS.COM
JULY 12-13HELLINGHAM: As part of a month of “greatest hits” shows, attend performances of the perennially popular improvised murder mystery known as “Hellingham” at 9pm Friday and Saturday at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Tickets are $8-$10.
WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
SAT., JULY 13PRIDE DRAG SHOW: As part of Bellingham Pride, attend the an-nual “Pride Drag Show” at 7pm at Rumors Cabaret, 1119 Railroad Ave. Entry is $5.
WWW.BHAMPRIDE.ORG
IMPROV IN LYNDEN: Performers from the Upfront Theatre will bring their talents to Lynden for a gig at 8pm at the Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St. Tickets are $12.
WWW.JANSENARTCENTER.ORG
SUN., JULY 14DYNAMO: Liven up your Sunday
nights at “Dynamo” shows at 8pm at the Upfront Theatre, 1208 Bay St. Entry is $2.
WWW.THEUPFRONT.COM
MON., JULY 15VAUDEVILLINGHAM: The Belling-ham Circus Guild hosts the monthly uncensored variety show known as “Vaudevillingham” at 7pm and 9pm performers at the guild’s Cirque Lab, 1401 6th St. Suggested dona-tion is $5-$10.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCIRCUS
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GUFFAWINGHAM: A new weekly open mic for comedians, dubbed “Guffawingham!,” takes place at 8pm Mondays at the Green Frog, 1015 N. State St. Entry is free.
WWW.ACOUSTICTAVERN.COM
JULY 16-18SUMMER REP: The comedic Almost, Maine kicks off Mount Baker Theatre’s Summer Rep season with a 7:30pm showing on Tuesday at the MBT’s Walton Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. The heart-tugging Steel Magnolias opens at 8pm Wednesday, and the “wildly funny” Art shows at 7:30pm Thursday. The plays show in repertory through Aug. 11. Tickets are $12.50-$25.
WWW.MOUNTBAKERTHEATRE.COM
WED., JULY 17INTRO TO IMPROV: “Awaken the Spontaneity Within!” will be the focus of a free introductory improv workshop from 7-9pm at 1415 Dupont St.
WWW.IMPROVPLAYWORKS.COM
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FRI., JULY 12SALSA DANCE: The public is in-vited to a Salsa Party from 7-9pm on the Fairhaven Village Green. The free gathering will feature a lesson and performance followed by a mix of Latin music.
746-8280
BACK ALLEY CATS: Song and dance routines, vaudevillian sketches, comedy and more when the new in-house cabaret troupe, the Back Alley Cats, perform at 8pm at Mount Vernon’s 1st Street Cabaret, 612 S. 1st St. Entry is $5 at the door.
WWW.RIVERBELLEDINNER
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SAT., JULY 13CONTRA DANCE: Northern Con-traband will perform at the Bell-ingham Country Dance Society’s Contra Dance from 7:30-10:30pm at Everson’s Glen Echo Community Building, 7964 Goodwin Rd. Entry is $8-$10.
WWW.BELLINGHAMCOUNTRY
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UPCOMING EVENTS
SAT., JULY 13 ART AND JAZZ: As part of the Blaine Jazz Festival, area artists and artisans will show and sell their work at the “Art-2-Jazz” Street Fair from 10am-4:30pm in downtown Blaine. Free concerts featuring students and faculty from the festival will be part of the free fun.
WWW.BLAINEJAZZ.ORG
WILLOW BASKETRY: Shannon Robertson leads a “Willow Basketry” workshop from 1-5pm at the Ferndale Library, 20007 Cherry St. Space to the free class is limited, so please register in advance.
305-3600
NEPALESE CRAFT SALE: Pashmina shawls and scarves, prayer flags and more will be part of a Nepalese Craft Sale and Himalayan slideshow from 2-5pm at the Deming Public Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy. Funds raised will benefit children living in poverty in need of support to attend school in Nepal.
595-2512
SUMMER MOMENTS OPENING: An opening reception and potluck for “Summer Moments” takes place from 4:30-9pm at Camano Island’s Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, 2345 Blanche Way. The multi-artist exhibit features glass, metal, stone, wood, mosaics and paintings. See it through Sept. 8.
WWW.MATZKEFINEART.COM
JULY 13-14PAPER-CUTTING WORKSHOP: “Patterns of Place” will be the focus of a paper-cutting workshop with Ann Reid from 10am-3pm Saturday and Sunday at Bow’s Harmony Fields, 7465 Thomas Rd. Entry is $95, plus a $10 materials fee.
WWW.HFPRODUCE.COM
ART BY THE BAY: The Stanwood-Camano Arts Guild will host its annual 20th annual “Art by the Bay” fine arts and live music festival from 10am-5pm at the Stanwood-Camano Community Fairgrounds, 6431 Pioneer Highway. More than 100 juried artists and craftspeople from around the Pacific North-west will share their wares. Admission is free.
WWW.STANWOODCAMANOARTS.COM
SUN., JULY 14PILCHUCK OPEN HOUSE: Hot glass demos, docent-led tours of the campus, an art sale, live music and food and beverages will be part of the once-a-year Open House from 12-5pm at Stanwood’s lauded Pilchuck Glass School, 1201 316th St. Entry is $10-$20—spe-cial “Off the Beaten Path” tours are $35. Reservations are recommended.
WWW.PILCHUCK.COM
TUES., JULY 16CHILDREN’S CRAFT FAIR: Homemade crafts and treats made by area youth will be for sale at a Children’s Craft Fair from 2-3pm at the Ferndale Library, 2007 Cherry St.
305-3600
ONGOING EXHIBITSALLIED ARTS: “Mixed Media, Mixed Mes-sages” can be viewed through July 27 at Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
WWW.ALLIEDARTS.ORG
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A few years ago, when our hens celebrated their first birthday, we held a party in the backyard for them complete with platters of deviled eggs, fried chicken,
a lawn game called “Flickin’ Chicken,” and, last but not least, a race between the four feathered fowl.
In retrospect, we didn’t do that great of a job when it came time for the ladies to show off their athleticism. First off, we put ribbons of various colors around their necks to differentiate them, and the ribbons either came loose or, in the case of one hen that was trying to get it off her neck, almost choked them to death. We also had no structure to the race, and depended on the fact that their hunger for scratch—which was being freely distributed at the finish line—would lead the poultry to glory. We were wrong, and the race has never been repeated.
I hadn’t thought about reviving the competition until I read about the latest addition to the Sunnyland Stomp, the annual mid-July event in Bellingham’s Sunnyland neighborhood that features art, music and everything in between—including, evidently, a chicken race.
According to the “Great Chicken Race” FAQs on the press release accompanying the Stomp shout-out, the gathering is intended for “chicken owners who feel their particular chicken is exceptionally talented and capable of running the chicken race gauntlet faster than the others.” Simple obstacles—a
wide ramp, a hoop, a large tunnel and a short fence—will be part of the race, and owners can encourage their hens or roosters via verbal calls, the tossing of feed, physical signals or what have you.
I’m all for a Mayor’s Arts Award-winning event such as the Sunnyland Stomp to host an event of this complex-ity, but I do wonder if they know exactly what they’re in for. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll cart my new wicked-
quick Australorps to the early af-ternoon race at Sunnyland Park, but I do know it’ll be worth a visit to check it out.
If you’re not as obsessed with chickens as I am, don’t be led astray by the preceding bullet points of this story. Just like every other Sunnyland Stomp, the July 13 event’s main focus will be on the creativity of those who live in the neighborhood’s nexus.
Twenty makeshift “galleries”—mainly in residents’ backyards and front yards—will be up and run-ning, and those who peruse them can expect to find everything from contemporary folk art (FishBoy) to kinetic sculptures (Kitts Metal Works), screen-printed clothing
(Red Boots Design), paintings and pottery (Color Pot Gallery), birth art (Bellingham Birth Center), functional metal art (Mishmash Manor), woodwork and textiles (Blue House Gallery and Garden), and others.
Those who hunger for more than visual art won’t leave unsatisfied, either. Artisan beer samples from Grant Street Brewing will be paired with food samples from Chef David Wood at Artisan Revival, and the culinary geniuses behind Ciao Thyme—who happen to live in Sunnyland—will of-fer pizzas fresh from their backyard oven on Iron Street. Forever Summer 2, on Humboldt Street, will feature shaved ice, live music by Holly Swanson and friends, and art by Tammy Findlay, Genevieve Gonska, and Amy Jones.
For a full listing of places to visit during the afternoon and into the evening, go to the group’s website and get a clearer picture of where you’d like to stop during the course of the Sunnyland Stomp (maps will also be avail-able at each gallery during the event).
It might also be time to start training your chickens to run a little faster and jump through a hoop. Oh, and if I were you, I’d leave the ribbons off their necks. It’ll only slow them down.
WHAT: Sunnyland StompWHEN: The Great Chicken Race takes place from 2-4pm; the Stomp can be attended from 4-9pm WHERE: Bellingham’s Sunnyland neighborhoodCOST: FreeINFO: www.sunnylandstomp.com
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ANCHOR ART SPACE: “Other/Self” shows through July 28 in Anacortes at Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Ave.
WWW.ANCHORARTSPACE.ORG
ARTWOOD: “Music in the Air,” featuring musical instruments made of wood, shows through July at Artwood Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.ARTWOODGALLERY.COM
BELLEWOOD: Watercolors and mixed media collages by Candace Buethorn and scroll saw art by Don Hurd can be viewed through July 31 at BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian.
WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM
DEMING LIBRARY: Debbie Velacich’s pho-tographs will be on display through July 27 at the Deming Library, 5044 Mt. Baker Hwy.
592-2286
FISHBOY GALLERY: Check out the contem-porary folk art of RR Clark from 1:30-5pm every Mon.-Fri. at the FishBoy Gallery, 617 Virginia St.
714-0815 OR WWW.FISHBOYGALLERY.COM
GALLERY CYGNUS: View the works of Pacific Northwest icons Mary Randlett (pho-tography), Clayton James (sculpture), and the late Barbara James (drawings) through July 14 at La Conner’s Gallery Cygnus, 109 Commercial Ave.
WWW.GALLERYCYGNUS.COM
GOOD EARTH: Works by Larry Richmond and Peggy Kondo will be highlighted through July at Good Earth Pottery, 1000 Harris Ave.
WWW.GOODEARTHPOTS.COM
HONEY SALON: View “Steebfest” through July 31 at Honey Salon, 310 W. Holly St. The exhibit features the works of local self-taught “paintoonist” Steeb Russell.
WWW.HONEYBELLINGHAM.COM
MAKE.SHIFT: View “Postmarked: A Post-card Exchange” through July 27 at Make.Shift Art Space, 306 Flora St. The group show is comprised entirely of original art-work in the classic form of the postcard.
WWW.MAKESHIFTPROJECT.COM
MONA: “Selections from the Permanent Collection: Reflections” will be on display through Sept. 29 at La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St.
WWW.MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG
SMITH & VALLEE: View pieces by Seattle-based photographer Terry Leness and Tacoma-based multi-media mapmaker David Wall through July 28 at Edison’s Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave.
WWW.SMITHANDVALLEE.COM
WHATCOM ART MARKET: 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: “Nature in the Bal-ance: Artists Interpreting Climate Change” “Romantically Modern: Pacific Northwest Landscapes” can currently be viewed at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building.
WWW.WHATCOMMUSEUM.ORG
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musicSHOW PREVIEWS › › RUMOR HAS IT
FIRST THINGS FIRST: Whoever stole Biagio Bion-dolillo’s guitar from his car the night of July 3, all I have to say is, you’re a special kind of savage. For everyone else, keep your eye out for a slightly battered Silvertone with a sunburst finish and a Cat equipment sticker on it. If you see a likely gui-tar and are not sure Biagio is its rightful owner, it will appear to be something that has great sen-timental (not to mention some practical) value, an instrument that looks like it’s been strummed into many a late night, a musical partner that’s helped Biagio write a whole bunch of really good songs. It’s also probably not worth much money, so returning it won’t cost any enterprising thief much, but will help to erase the sizey karmic debt incurred by stealing it. Yes, musicians have their gear ripped off all the time, and one more stolen guitar in this town is hardly news, but since Bia-gio is the kind of dude who has made musical in-struments with his own two hands for people and then given them away, when his shit gets jacked, it makes me especially ragey.
If you’re picking up this publication after July 10, and you spent your Wednes-day evening anywhere other than Bay Street, you missed the opening week of Downtown Sounds, Belling-ham’s urban concert series. You also missed the ever-excellent Polecat, who kicked off this year’s Downtown Sounds, which is sad for you. Luckily, you’ll have a chance to redeem yourself, should you so choose, during the following four weeks before the sounds of this popular local institu-tion fade away until next year.
James Hardesty—who, along with owning the Green Frog, is also the model for the single most disturbing (titillating?) pinup photo in What’s Up! Magazine’s history—is having a birthday this week, and since he operates a music venue, he gets to throw himself a show to celebrate it. The “Hardesty Partesty” (so dubbed by peo-ple who clearly share my penchant for stupid rhymes) will take place Thurs., June 11 and will feature the talents of Lucky Brown (for-mer Bellinghamster Joel Ricci), the Shilohs, and Ark Life. The Facebook invitation also speaks of a James Hardesty lookalike contest, a thing that I wholeheartedly hope happens. As long as those participating are wearing more than a banjo and a cowboy hat, that is.
Once you’ve recovered from that, it might be time for you to do a little good with your dollars. If only one of Bellingham’s many musical benefits were taking place on Fri., July 12, at someplace like the Shakedown, featuring a worthy lineup like Fly Moon Royalty, Side Pony, and Katie Kate, to raise funds for a great program like Bellingham Girls Rock Camp. Such a thing does exist, on the afore-mentioned date at the aforementioned place and for the aforementioned cause. So, spend a little less money on drinks and a little more to help out some girls who want to rock. Both your liver and the ladies in question will thank you.
Rumor Has It
BY CAREY ROSS
I have to say, when the East 542 Music Fest hit my radar last year, I was a little skeptical. To be clear: I wished no ill will toward East 542. My feelings were
quite the opposite—I hoped festival would be wildly successful. Because if the organizers behind this event could pull this off, it would speak well, not only for the prospects of this festival, but also the future of similar, not-yet-conceived events of the future.
It’s true that a metric ton of concerts happen on the regular in this area. So, then, what makes East 542 so special?
Simply put, it was the size of the endeavor that set this festival apart. Also, the choice of location in conjunction with its size was a consideration as well.
First of all, East 542 wasn’t just another concert. Or even another festival. It was a big undertaking—really big. With headliners like Lonestar, Sawyer Brown, Bad Company, this wasn’t your average show. And it was located at the Deming Logging Show Grounds, which isn’t exactly your average concert venue.
Don’t get me wrong, despite the semi-sleepy small-town nature of the cities and burgs around these parts, it’s hardly unusual for peo-ple to come out for worthy shows of all shapes and sizes. As well, the Deming Logging Show Grounds is home to both its namesake logging show and the Subdued Stringband Jamboree (as well as a whole slew of other happenings), so it is no stranger to drawing a crowd. But to take a lineup that you’d typi-cally only find inside the expansive walls of one of the area’s larger casinos or on the main-stage at the Northwest Washington Fair and drop it deep in the wilds of Deming requires some real vision—and, most likely, an amount of perseverance that probably borders on out-and-out stubbornness.
However, last year’s inaugural 542 East Music Fest was a success—enough so that its organizers are back to give it another go.
This year’s 542 East takes place a little earlier in the year—July 12-13 instead of in September—but the party figures to be just as big.
While last year’s headliners were mostly country sing-ers, this year, festival organizers opted to take a hefty
detour into classic rock. As such, they’ve recruited a couple of former frontmen from some of the genre’s most hit-making bands. Steve Augeri will bring his sweet Jour-ney stylings (he took over lead vocalist duties for the multiplatinum band from 1998-2006)—and if you have any doubt as to whether he could belt out such epic hits as “Open Arms” and “Faithfully” and do Steve Perry’s iconic vocals justice, all I have to say is, don’t stop be-lievin’. If Boston is the band that wets your classic rock whistle, I have more than a feeling you’ll be pleased to know that Fran Cosmo, singer for the legendary arena rockers for several years, will be on hand to perform all the hits, including the one that was a Top Ten hit for the band during his tenure as frontman, “I Need Your Love.”
But country is close to East 542’s heart, and the fes-tival’s other heavy hitter is Jamie O’Neal, who is from Nashville—by way of Australia. She’s got some hits of her own to unleash, namely her pair of chart-toppers, “There is No Arizona” and “When I Think About Angels.” Although just slightly less well-known, the Chris Eger Band has the
WHAT: East 542 Music FestWHEN: Fri.-Sat., July 12-13WHERE: Deming Logging Show Grounds, 3295 Cedarville Road, DemingCOST: $85-$95MORE INFO: www.542music fest.com
See page 27 for details
BY CAREY ROSS
East 542 Music Fest CLASSIC ROCK COMES TO DEMING
STEVE AUGERI
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WED., JULY 10DOWNTOWN SOUNDS: Polecat will headline Bellingham’s first Downtown Sounds street concert of the season, which takes place from 6-9:30pm in the Arts District on Bay Street be-tween Prospect and West Champion streets. Mts and Tunnels will open the free, all-ages show, and local food vendors will be on hand.
WWW.DOWNTOWNBELLINGHAM.COM
JULY 10-13BLAINE JAZZ FESTIVAL: As part of the Blaine Jazz Festival, “Fusion Faculty” will per-form with Martin Kuuskman at 7pm Wednesday at the Blaine Performing Arts Center, 975 H St. A “Big Band Benefit” takes place at 7:30pm Thursday at Semiahmoo Golf Club, and at 7pm Friday, there’ll be a Student Showcase at the PAC. The event wraps up Saturday with an “Art to Jazz” Street Fair and free concerts from 10am-4:30pm in downtown Blaine.
WWW.BLAINEJAZZ.ORG
THURS., JULY 11ELIZABETH PARK CONCERT SERIES: The annual summer music series in the Columbia neighborhood continues with a concert featur-ing folk musician and activist Dana Lyons from 6-8pm at Bellingham’s Elizabeth Park.
WWW.COB.ORG
FRI., JULY 12FARM TUNES: The “Farm Tunes” concert series kicks into gear with a concert by the Prozac Mtn Boys from 6-9pm at BelleWood Acres, 6140 Guide Meridian. Entry is free.
WWW.BELLEWOODFARMS.COM
JULY 12-13HAYNIE OPRY: World-acclaimed performer Ted Vigil channels John Denver at Haynie Opry tribute performances at 7pm Friday and Satur-day at Blaine’s Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Rd. Tickets are $20. There will also be a matinee show at 2pm Saturday featuring Matt Audette and the Circle of Friends Band. Tickets to that concert will be $10 at the door.
WWW.THEHAYNIEOPRY.COM
SAT., JULY 13WINERY CONCERT: Listen to the sounds of the rock-based Holmes Shea Band starting at 6pm at Vartanyan Estate Winery, 1628 Huntley Rd. Suggested donation is $7.
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SUN., JULY 14FIDDLIN’ FOX SERIES: The annual “Fiddlin’ Fox” outdoor music series continues with a performance featuring the Folichon Cajun Band from 2-5pm at the Fairhaven Village Green.
WWW.FAIRHAVEN.COM
RANGER, RE-ARRANGERS: The Seattle gypsy jazz band known as Ranger & the Re-Arrangers perform at 2pm at the Heart of Anacortes, 1014 4th St. The show is part of a series of outdoor summer concerts. Admission is free.
WWW.THEHEARTOFANACORTES.COM
WED., JULY 17WEIRD AL YANKOVIC: Expect to hear classic hits such as “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon,” “Fat,” and more when the world’s most popular com-edy recording artist, Weird Al Yankovic, brings “The Alpocalypse Tour” to Bellingham for a 7:30pm show at the Mount Baker Theatre, 104 N. Commercial St. Tickets to see the Grammy Award-winning musician are $$30-$45.
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benefit of having played last year’s East 542, and brought down the house to such an extent they were asked to come back this year.
But that’s just the tip of the East 542 iceberg, as it aims to be a music-filled party that starts early and stays up late (camping is encouraged—and really, if you’re going to go, you should plan to camp. The Deming Log-ging Show Grounds is the ideal locale to spend a night under the stars). Along with plenty of other bands and musical acts, the festival also has mechanical bull rides (it’s not a party until the mechanical bull shows up), a pancake breakfast, food vendors and more to keep all and sundry enter-tained and satisfied.
Given the good time had by those who attended last year’s East 542 Music Fest, it should come as no sur-prise that tickets have been selling at a steady clip for the 2013 version. It looks like this year’s festival is going to be a resounding success as well. I never doubted it for a minute.
BELLINGHAM FESTIVAL OF MUSICAs you may have already taken note, the
Bellingham Festival of Music is currently in full swing. This is the 20th year of the ambi-tious and prestigious festival, which, before the end of its run July 21, will see players from world-renowned orchestras and sym-phonies converge at various venues to treat audiences to performances of classical music on par with those typically found in much bigger cities and much larger locales. Still to come on the FoM roster are pianist Garrick Ohlsson, who will bring the Brahms at a Sat., July 13 concert at the WWU Performing Arts Center, Pepe Romero (pictured) who will dis-play his ample dexterity with the guitar Wed., July 17, also at WWU’s PAC, and a “Summer Night of Love in Old Vienna,” which will take place Fri., July 19 at the same location. Other events abound as well, and some of them are free, part of FoM’s mandate to bring their music to the masses. For more info, including how to nab tickets to the remaining events, check out www.bellinghamfestival.org.
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filmMOVIE REVIEWS › › SHOWTIMES
load aesthetics are at times no more than a junkyard or two away.
Del Toro’s and Travis Beacham’s script lays out the futuristic premise with a burst of breathless exposition: It’s 2020, and for years humanity has been at war with the Kaiju—enormous, lizard-like beasts that arise from the ocean floor to wreak havoc on coastal cities (San Francisco, Manila, and Cabo San Lucas are decimated in a matter of minutes). But the tide turns when the men and women of Earth form the Pan Pacific Defense Corps and begin building Jaegers, 25-story-high fighting robots that ward off enough Kaiju attacks to achieve an uneasy stalemate.
In a plot point that will remind some of Japan’s popular Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, each Jaeger is controlled from within by two humans, one to operate each hemisphere of the robot’s body. Hotshot American brothers Raleigh (Charlie Hun-nam) and Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff) make a trusty co-piloting team, at least until their Jaeger engages a Kaiju off the coast of Alaska, spelling a hasty exit for Yancy while granting audiences their first taste of monster-vs.-robot action. The viewer’s level of appreciation for this initial bout
will likely indicate how much they enjoy the rest of the picture, with its wall-to-demolished-wall action.
Five years later, a still-scarred Raleigh gets a shot at redemption from well-named PPDC commander Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), who wants him to take charge of his old Jaeger, Gipsy Danger, as the humans prepare to make one last stand against the ever more powerful and dangerous Kaiju. Heading to a massively fortified version of Hong Kong, Raleigh finds an ideal Gipsy co-pilot in Pentecost’s demure but formi-dable young protege, Mako Mori (Kikuchi), whose appointment sets off literal and figurative sparks.
The story’s most intriguing angle is the trippy process by which two fighters power a Jaeger, requiring them to enter into a unique state of mental and bodily fusion called “the Drift.” That Raleigh and Mako must share each other’s thoughts, feelings and memories is a conceit that would seem to raise any number of tantalizing dramatic possibilities, and there is one memorable flashback to Mako’s childhood—an episode that, in evoking the atomic horrors that spawned the Godzilla legend, briefly recalls the nightmarish fairy-tale intensity of del Toro’s 2006 masterwork, Pan’s Labyrinth.
In all other respects, the script is con-tent to skim the surface. The psychologi-cal effects of the Drift are not dramatized but assumed, the progression of the story not developed so much as programmed.
Here and there, Pacific Rim reveals hints of a potentially rich but underdeveloped science-fiction mythology, full of satirical and speculative touches that are ultimately overwhelmed by the fight sequences that represent the film’s raison d’etre. Overkill is not just the goal but also a governing artistic principle, and del Toro takes it on such faith that nothing could be more compelling than his monsters-and-robots mash-ups that he spends almost no time easing us into the fray. The pacing is me-chanical, even bludgeoning, in its single-mindedness. Buildings topple and bridges collapse; the mid-ocean battles are so ferocious that mankind would surely be wiped out by the resulting tidal waves, if not the monsters themselves. Yet such is the blithe, upbeat spirit of the whole enterprise (“Today we are canceling the apocalypse!” is the film’s signature rouse-the-troops line) that nothing in these gladiator-style face-offs feels at stake, except perhaps the viewer’s desire to see a Jaeger swing an aircraft carrier like a 2?4.
One of the picture’s persistent problems is that its man-meets-machine conceit never really comes to life, resulting in a strange disconnect between these metal marionettes and the humans at the con-trols; aside from a few impressive payoffs, as when Mako’s ingenious maneuvering saves the day, the overall experience is not unlike that of watching someone play a highly elaborate videogame.
REVIEWED BY JUSTIN CHANG
Pacific RimROCK ’EM SOCK ’EM ROBOTS
O f all the doom-laden fantasies the studios have rolled out this summer, Pacific Rim is the one pushing itself most aggressively as guilt-free en-tertainment, offering up an apocalyptic spectacle in a spirit of unpre-
tentious, unapologetic fun. Which it will be, at least for those who measure fun primarily in terms of noise, chaos and bombast, or who can find continual novelty in the sight of giant monsters and robots doing battle for the better part of two hours. Viewers with less of an appetite for nonstop destruction should brace themselves for the squarest, clunkiest and certainly loudest movie of director Guillermo del Toro’s career, a crushed-metal orgy that plays like an extended 3D episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on very expensive acid.
With this gargantuan passion project, del Toro means to fashion a giddy throw-back to the monster movies of yore and restore a sense of pure escapism to the summer movie landscape, an eminently worthy goal for a genre master of such inexhaustible imagination and knowledge of the B-movie canon. Yet while the director’s love for his material is at once sincere and self-evident, it’s the sort of devotion that winds up holding all but the most likeminded viewers at an unin-volving remove; although assembled with consummate care and obsessive atten-tion to visual detail, Pacific Rim manages only fitful engagement and little in the way of real wonderment, suspense or terror. It may not reside in the same crass, soulless neighborhood as Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, but its sensory-over-
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After Earth: I’m pretty sure Will Smith already made this movie once, and it was called I Am Legend and costarred a dog instead of his son Jaden. Except this one was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, so it won’t make any sense and will likely feature a twist that also won’t make any sense. ★★
Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
Back to the Future: I will go to my grave believ-ing that longtime Fairhaven Outdoor Cinema emcee Joe Olmstead somehow finagled this Michael J. Fox time-traveling classic onto the schedule. And a good choice it is, too. Live music by the Devilly Brothers opens the show. ★★★★★
The Bling Ring: I’ve been riveted by this true story of celebrity-worshipping teens burglarizing homes of celebs they idolized since it first hit the news a couple of years ago. Then Sofia Coppola went and made a movie about it just for me. ★★★★
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Closure: Angela Tucker is an African-American girl adopted by a white couple and raised in Belling-ham. A few years ago, she decided to find her birth family—who reside in Tennessee—and this is the story of her amazing two-year journey. ★★★★
Pickford Film Center and PFC’s Limelight See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
The Croods: An animated adventure about the first road trip in history undertaken by a family of cavepeople should be a big hit with the kiddos. In other words, take your brood to see The Croods. ★★★
Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
Despicable Me 2: The inaugural installment of this animated franchise benefited from telling its tale from the point of view of the villain (voiced by Steve
and a father—will this sequel be able to conjure the same sort of magic? Signs point to yes. ★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
Despicable Me 2 in 3D: See above. Add 3D. Marvel at the wonder of it all. ★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
Epic: Only an animated movie could see a cast as eclectic as Beyonce, Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, and Christolph Waltz, all in the same movie. ★★★★
Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
Grown Ups 2: It seems to me that real grownups would know a sequel to the first installment is a bad idea. If you persist in acting like a child, Hollywood, then that’s how we’ll treat you. You’re grounded. Go to your room. ★Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
The Heat: A buddy cop caper starring Melissa Mc-Carthy and Sandra Bullock. Here’s hoping the film is a whole lot better than the photoshopped movie
posters advertising it. ★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
The Hangover Part III: Much like a person on a bender, this is a series that should know when to quit before it’s had two too many. What I’m trying to say is having a hangover is probably preferable to watching this movie. ★Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
The Internship: From start to finish, Wedding Crashers was, is and always will be a funny, funny movie, thanks in large part to the performances of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. Sadly, this is not that movie. ★★
Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
The Kings of Summer: This has been described as Stand By Me meets The Goonies, which is actually pretty apt. As coming-of-age stories go, this is a good one, touching and funny in equal measure. And Nick Offerman is as amazing as ever. ★★★★
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
The Lone Ranger: Who could ever have imagined that a movie in which Johnny Depp plays a Native American character could go so wrong? Everyone who stopped to think about it for more than half a second, most likely. Go home, Johnny Depp. You’re drunk. ★Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
Man of Steel: Supposedly, this is the Superman
movie that doesn’t suck. Supposedly. ★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
Monsters University: The prequel to Monsters, Inc.—if these monsters don’t graduate with a ton of student-loan debt and no job prospects I’m going to think this Pixar story isn’t very true to life. ★★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
Much Ado About Nothing: Taking a break during the production cycle for the second installment of the Avengers saga, Joss Whedon invited a bunch of actors to his home and filmed this black-and-white
it is magical. ★★★★
PFC’s Limelight See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
Pain & Gain: Michael Bay mines a pretty horrific true story for laughs. Because he is a sensitive, sensitive man. ★Bellis Fair See www.fandango.com for showtimes.
Pacific Rim: See review previous page. ★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
Stories We Tell: After the death of her mother, insightful filmmaker Sarah Polley, camera in hand, decided to find out more about her and her life—and in doing so made a fascinating and informal study of the nature of memory and storytelling itself.
★★★★★
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
This Is the End: A bunch of stars—including James Franco, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Seth Rogen—lampoon themselves in this apocalyptic comedy. ★★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks: Never has a documentary about the nexus between the public’s right to know and maintaining national security—all channeled through the lightning rod that is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange—been so very topical. A must see. ★★★★★
Pickford Film Center See www.pickfordfilmcenter.com for showtimes.
White House Down: Dear Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum, Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart from Olympus Has Fallen called, and they’d like their movie script
movie begs the question: Just who in the hell do you think you are, White House Down? ★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
World War Z: I swore off zombies about the same time I swore off vampires, but for Brad Pitt, I might be willing to make an exception. ★★★★
Barkley Village See www.fandango.com for show-times.
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BY ROB BREZSNY
FREE WILL ASTROLOGYARIES (March 21-April 19): The Space Needle is a tourist attraction in Seattle. It’s taller than the Washington Monument but shorter than the Eiffel Tower. Near the top of the structure is a circular res-taurant that rotates slowly, making one complete turn every 47 minutes. The motor that moves this 125-ton mass is small: only 1.5 horsepower. In the coming days, Aries, I foresee you having a metaphorically similar ability. You will be able to wield a great deal of force with a seemingly small and compact “engine.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “How many years can some people exist before they’re allowed to be free?” asked Bob Dylan in one of his most famous songs, writ-ten in 1962. “The answer is blowin’ in the wind,” he concluded. Many people hailed the tune as a civil rights anthem. Thirteen years later, a hippie cowboy named Jerry Jeff Walker released “Pissing in the Wind,” a row-dy song that included the line, “The answer is pissing in the wind.” It was decidedly less serious than the tune it paid homage to, with Walker suggesting that certain events in his life resembled the act described in the title. “Makin’ the same mistakes, we swore we’d never make again,” he crooned. All of this is my way of letting you know, Taurus, that you’re at a fork. In one direction is a profound, even noble, “blowin’ in the wind” experience. In the other, it would be like “pissing in the wind.” Which do you prefer? It’s up to you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Italian artist Duccio di Buoninsegna painted his “Madonna and Child” sometime around the year 1300. It’s a com-pact piece of art—just 11 inches high and eight inches wide. Nevertheless, New York’s Metropolitan Museum paid $45 million for the pleasure of owning it. I propose that we choose this diminutive trea-sure as your lucky symbol for the next eight to ten months, Gemini. May it inspire you as you work hard to create a small thing of great value.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): When the comic book hero Superman first appeared on the scene in 1938, he had the power to jump over tall buildings, but he couldn’t fly. By 1941, he was hovering in mid-air, and sometimes moving around while floating. Eventually, he attained the ability to soar long distances, even between stars. Your own destiny may have parallels to Superman’s in the coming months, Cancerian. It’s pos-sible you will graduate, metaphorically speaking, from taking big leaps to hovering in mid-air. And if you work your butt off to increase your skill, you might progress to the next level—the equivalent of full-out flight—by March 2014.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “It’s never too late to become what you might have been,” said novelist George Eliot. I’d like you to keep that thought in mind throughout the rest of 2013 and beyond, Leo. I trust you will allow its sly encouragement to work its way down into your darkest depths, where it will revive your discouraged hopes and wake up your sleeping powers. Here are the potential facts as I see them: In the next ten months, you will be in prime time to reclaim the momentum you lost once upon a time...to dive back into a beloved project you gave up on...and maybe even resuscitate a dream that made your eyes shine when you were younger and more innocent.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When I first arrived in Santa Cruz some years back, I helped start a New Wave-punk band called Mystery Spot. Our first drummer was a guy named Lucky Lehrer. After a few months, our manager decided Lucky wasn’t good enough and kicked him out of the band. Lucky took it hard, but didn’t give up. He joined the seminal punk band the Circle Jerks, and went on to have a long and successful career. Flip-side magazine even named him the best punk drummer
of all time. I suspect, Virgo, that in the next 10 to 12 months you will have a chance to achieve the begin-ning of some Lucky Lehrer-type redemption. In what area of your life would you like to experience it?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my read-ing of the astrological omens, the next 12 months will be a time when you will have more power than usual to turn your dreams into realities. You’ll have extra skill at translating your ideals into practical action. To help make sure you capitalize on this potential, I suggest you adopt this Latin phrase as your motto: a posse ad esse. It means “from being possible to being actual.” So why not simply make your motto “from being pos-sible to being actual”? Why bother with the Latin ver-sion? Because I think your motto should be exotic and mysterious—a kind of magical incantation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2010, two eco-nomics professors from Harvard wrote a paper that became a crucial piece of evidence for the global austerity movement. Politicians used it to justify their assertion that the best way to cure our long-running financial ills is for governments to spend less money. Oddly, no one actually studied the paper to see if it was based on accurate data until April 2013. Then Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, dived in and discovered fundamental mistakes that largely discredited the professors’ conclusions. I believe you have a similar mojo going for you, Scorpio. Through clear thinking and honest inquiry, you have the power to get at truths everyone else has missed.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Breakthrough will probably not arrive wrapped in sweetness and a warm glow, nor is it likely to be catalyzed by a handsome prince or pretty princess. No, Sagittarius. When the breakthrough barges into your life, it may be a bit dingy and dank, and it may be triggered by questionable decisions or weird karma. So in other words, the breakthrough may have resemblances to a breakdown, at least in the beginning. This would actually be a good omen—a sign that your deliver-ance is nothing like you imagined it would be, and probably much more interesting.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In a wheat field, a rose is a weed—even if that rose is voluptuous and vibrant. I want you to promise me that you will work hard to avoid a fate like that in the coming months, Capricorn. Everything depends on you being in the right place at the right time. It’s your sacred duty to identify the contexts in which you can thrive and then put your-self in those contexts. Please note: The ambiance that’s most likely to bring out the best in you is not necessar-ily located in a high-status situation where everyone’s ambition is amped to the max.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is your soul feeling parched? In your inner world, are you expe-riencing the equivalent of a drought? If so, maybe you will consider performing a magic ritual that could help get you on track for a cure. Try this: Go outside when it’s raining or misting. If your area is going through a dry spell, find a waterfall or high-spouting fountain and put yourself in close proxim-ity. Then stand with your legs apart and spread your arms upwards in a gesture of welcome. Turn your face toward the heavens, open up your mouth, and drink in the wetness for as long as it takes for your soul to be hydrated again. (In an emergency, frol-icking under a sprinkler might also work.)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Igor Stravinsky was a 20th-century composer who experimented with many styles of music, including the avant-garde work “The Rite of Spring.” “My music is best understood by children and animals,” he said. In my vision of your ideal life, Pisces, that will also be true about you in the coming week: You will be best understood by children and animals. Why? Because I think you will achieve your highest potential if you’re as wild and free as you dare. You will be fu-eled by spontaneity and innocence, and care little about what people think of you. Play a lot, Pisces! Be amazingly, blazingly uninhibited.
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rearEnd ›› ”Hunt and Peck”— keys are the key
1 Guards check them8 Air gun pellets11 Sent to the
canvas14 He played
strong, silent roles
15 Comedy club laugh
16 Engage in mim-icry
17 Precious coin?19 Soak up the sun20 2012 British
Open winner Ernie21 First name in
1990s daytime TV22 One way to an-
swer a question24 California volca-
nic peak26 It comes before E28 “I Lost It at the
Movies” author Pauline
30 “The Far Side” organism
33 Thinking clearly36 Judge’s affirma-
tions39 Bump into40 Each, pricewise41 Maker of Musk
cologne and perfume
42 Oozy cheese43 3-time WSOP
champ Ungar44 More like kitten
videos45 Early synthetic
fiber46 Pays tribute to48 Polaris, e.g.50 Get flinchy53 Printer’s mea-
surements57 Sean of “Will &
Grace”59 “Jurassic Park”
inhabitants, for short
61 Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut’s state quarter)
62 Gig gear63 Celebrants “in
the house”66 Michelle Obama,
___ Robinson67 Pre-kiss state-
ment68 Hard to catch69 Channel with the
U.S. remake of “The Chase”
70 Eating LOLcat syllable
71 Like the four
theme entries in this puzzle, as it were
1 Apply force2 “Little Rascals” girl3 Green vegetable4 Play the part5 “What’s wrong with the first one?” work6 Time of origin7 Dines late8 Former child ac-tress Amanda9 Hot dog holder10 Stadium filmers11 “Firework” singer12 Australian gem13 Say it didn’t happen18 Muslim holiday23 Gold, to Mexi-cans25 Pass over27 Jessica of the PTL Club scandal29 Bandit’s take31 Scott who plays Bob Loblaw32 Last word in sermons
33 Tongue-___ (scold)34 “If it were ___ me...”35 Local lockup37 Abbr. for Monop-oly properties38 Does some pav-ing41 No more than42 Shakespeare, with “the”44 Glover who was banned from Letter-man’s show45 Lift, like a glass47 Come up short49 Like some paper
towels51 AOL giveaway of the past52 Battleship suc-cess54 Sun helmets55 Make equal parts, maybe56 Sport with clay pigeons57 Display in a gal-lery58 Home of Iowa State60 Russian refusal64 “Without further ___...”65 Sugar suffix
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THE ADVICEGODDESSCLEANUP IN AISLE HOMEI’ve been seeing my boyfriend for 10 months and living with him and his 12-year-old daughter for half that time. He broke up with his daughter’s mother after she became addicted to coke and then meth. She has been in and out of jail and has a massive number of possessions, loads of which are still here: furniture, little picture frames, small decorative pieces, jewelry boxes full of random junk (earrings, magazine clippings, makeup, little figurines, candy wrappers). When I moved in, I spent days boxing up many of her possessions, but she claims to live in a tiny apartment, won’t divulge where, and refuses to take a single box. She even freaks out at the mention of getting rid of her dumb garden gnomes (which she stole from someone’s yard while high). If my boyfriend tried to make her take her things, she’d have a huge meltdown, putting their daughter in the middle, and he’s submissive to her because of that. I’d put everything in storage, but we don’t have the extra money. My boyfriend’s getting exasperated about this, and I’m thinking I should just drop it. I hate living among all of her things, but I love him so much that I don’t seem to have a choice. —Smothered
You’re a hard lady to buy a house-warming gift for, as they don’t make plaques that say, “Home is where the heart-shaped jewelry box full of your boyfriend’s daughter’s mother’s candy wrappers is.”
It’s no small thing, having to wake up every day in some other woman’s two-bedroom junk drawer. But like many women, you seem to prioritize your rela-tionship over your feelings and well-be-ing. There are compromises to be made in any romantic partnership, but being gnawingly miserable in order to be happy doesn’t end well, assuming you weren’t looking to live resentfully ever after. Healthy compromise involves expressing your feelings and together figuring out solutions that work for both of you, not keeping your feelings to yourself until clutter-control suggestions like “put random stuff in pretty baskets” give way to thoughts like “commit arson.”
There is a way to turn this situation positive—without lighting a match or opening your front door and yelling, “Yard sale!” Use this as your train-ing ground for developing healthier conflict resolution. To bring up how you’re feeling, open with the good stuff—how much you appreciate him
and your life together—and then tell him that you’re unhappy living in a house that constantly reminds you of his ex. Let him know that you under-stand his concern for protecting his daughter but that the solution isn’t submitting to emotional blackmail; it’s talking to his daughter in advance about what you’re doing and why and maybe scheduling a sleepaway for her on the day the trash hits the fan (or, more prudently, the storage unit).
Tempting as it must be to “store” his ex’s things in a landfill, it’s safest to proceed with the expectation that she’ll sue him for that and claim that the bud vase that was under the bed came from the Qing dynasty and not free, with a Wednesday wax job, from the carwash. As for your not having the “extra” mon-ey for storage, tending to your feel-ings, as well as your boyfriend’s, may mean that you both go without lattes or do odd jobs so you stop living as a second-class citizen to two stolen gar-den gnomes, 17 partially filled shampoo bottles and all the rest.
University of Chicago law profes-sor Lior Strahilevitz said that the law typically regards a situation like you’ve described as “gratuitous bailment,” le-galese for a person’s temporarily hold-ing someone else’s property without benefit or compensation. He suggests that your boyfriend send several emails and texts and leave phone messages telling the ex that she needs to pick up her possessions from the storage facility “within a reasonable amount of time.” (What that would be varies by jurisdiction.) I suggest that you also photograph her stuff and document all the steps you take. According to Strahi-levitz, your boyfriend would be wise to hang on to small valuables, like photos and fine jewelry, which aren’t a menace to store. But, he says, “donating or dis-posing of the furniture and junk after a few months in which emails and calls...asking her to remove the property were ignored probably would not constitute gross negligence,” a scary legal term that merely describes being really care-less with someone’s property.
Although, at the moment, one wom-an’s trash is another woman’s trash, the prognosis looks good for that “an-other woman” no longer being you. Personally, I’m picturing the winning bidder on Storage Wars dreaming of abandoned art treasure in her unit and finding it—from Rodin’s little-known “garden gnome sitting on a toilet” period.
©2013, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail [email protected]
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PROUDLY PRESENT
QUEST OF THE CHICKENS!July 10th through August 14th,
you’ll have the opportunity to win prizes from the Cascadia Weekly and our Local Sponsors!
It’s simple, really. Keep your eyes open for our Cascadian “Chickens”* and simply tell us where you found our “Chickens” within the paper (be sure to include page number and section).
Email your answers to [email protected]. Winners will be chosen at random.
This week’s prize: 1 complimentary weekend pass to the2013 Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 19th-21st
*Our Cascadian "Chickens" look similar to the one pictured, but beware, some may be in disguise!
We couldn’t disagree with you more. We couldn’t disagree with you more.
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Whoever said “Don’t count your chickens”…Whoever said “Don’t count your chickens”…
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY JESSAMYN TUTTLE
Doe Bay CaféKEEPING IT LOCAL ON ORCAS ISLAND
O rcas Island is a great place to eat, whether it’s wood-fired pizza from a stand at the bustling farmers market in Eastsound or a multiple-course dinner looking across the water from the deck at Allium. I love the goopy
burgers and sweet potato waffle fries at the Lower Tavern, the amazing beer at Island Hoppin’ Brewery, and blazingly hot Tex-Mex enchiladas at Chimayo.
A recent dinner at the Doe Bay Café with my family, however, really showed us what the island is capable of.
Doe Bay Resort, which sits at the far end of the island from the Orcas ferry dock, is a great place to get away from it all, offering a mix of cabins, yurts and tent sites, with a communal kitchen and clothing-optional spa. The café, which is open Thursday through Monday (with brunch on weekends) during the off-season but every day during the summer, is surprisingly fancy and seriously locavore. They serve elegant vegetarian food, sourced from their own garden, and as many local providers as possible, plus local seafood, and their menu constantly changes with the seasons. We couldn’t turn down the opportunity to eat there, especially as our cabin was only a few hundred feet away.
It was a little chilly out for the patio, so the six of us crowded into a booth in the warm, wood-paneled dining room. I was impressed right from the beginning that the staff were taking care with my weird allergies, mak-
and mine (the Whiskey Fennel, $12) was by far the strangest: a concoction of fennel, lemon and bourbon that looked exactly like swamp water. My dining com-panions were deeply suspicious, but I rather liked it, although the texture was a little murky.
Two of our party ordered the arugula salad ($11), which came with rye-hazel-nut “soil”—a clever conceit but not all that successful. They commented that it was difficult to chew, as if some of the hazelnut shells were left on.
I ordered the agnolotti ($24), little pasta shapes stuffed with cheese and topped with fava beans, sea beans (sam-phire), pine nuts and exquisite baby ar-
tichokes, with a pile of pea shoots. It was a gorgeous North-west dish. My father chose the polenta with chevre-stuffed morels ($21), and was similarly impressed. Both dishes, though vegetarian, were so complex and satisfy-ing that even con-firmed carnivores like us were happy.
My husband ordered seared scallops with farro (emmer wheat), chevre and a rhubarb sauce ($29). He re-marked that the scal-lops were smaller than usual for a restaurant but were perfectly
cooked, and he loved the whole dish. One member of our table didn’t like chevre, which was a fairly serious issue given the preponderance of goat cheese on the menu, but she was extremely happy with the enormous bowl of pho with tofu and prawns ($22) that she ended up with. The broth was delicious, with a strong anise flavor, and came with lots of herbs and a selection of sauces.
For dessert, figuring I didn’t have to drive anywhere afterward, I had to try the bourbon-root beer float ($9). It was…a little regrettable, tasting like sarsaparilla-flavored bourbon, which didn’t appeal to me very much. Still, it was made of ice cream, so I ate it. On the other hand, my husband was extremely pleased with his cheesecake doused in honey-rhubarb sauce ($9), as was my mother with her mocha affogato with cinnamon ice cream ($9) and my aunt with her pink rose sorbet ($6.50).
We walked out of the café and back to our cabin at dusk, as the moon rose over Doe Bay to the sound of klezmer musi-cians practicing on the cliff edge, feeling like we’d had a real vacation experience—a little pricy for every day, but if you’re on the island, it’s well worth a trip.
ing sure the amuse-bouche was safe for me to eat. Arranged artistically on a rock slab, our starting bite was endive leaves topped with berries, chevre, herbs and walnut dust. A good beginning.
Next, we shared a plate of scallop ceviche with oranges and fennel ($11) and a basket of bread ($5) that was served with two butters, one with a substantial amount of anchovy and the other flavored with green garlic and lemon balm. A few of us ordered cocktails,
WHAT: Doe Bay Café WHEN: Through July and August, breakfast is served from 8am-2pm (ex-cept Thursday mornings) and dinner is served from 5-9pm WHERE: Doe Bay Resort, Orcas Island INFO: www.doebay.com
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WED., JULY 10BREWS CRUISE: Join San Juan Cruises for Bellingham Bay “Brews Cruises” from 6:30-8pm every Wednesday through Sept. 11 leaving from the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Tickets are $35.
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WEDNESDAY MARKET: Visit the Wednesday Market from 12-5pm every Wednesday through September at the Fairhaven Village Green, 1207 10th St.
WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
THURS., JULY 11LYNDEN FARMERS MARKET: The Lynden Farmers Market takes place from 1-6pm every Thursday at Fourth and Front streets.
961-4061
JULY 12-13CRACKED CRAB CRUISE: Join San Juan Cruises for the Chuckanut Cracked Crab Dinner Cruise from 6:30-9pm every Friday and Saturday leaving from the
Bellingham Cruise Terminal, 355 Harris Ave. Entry is $29-$59.
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SAT., JULY 13MOUNT VERNON MARKET: The Mount Vernon Farm-ers Market can be visited from 9am-1pm at Skagit State Bank, 901 Cleveland Ave.
WWW.MOUNTVERNONFARMERSMARKET.COM
ANACORTES MARKET: Drop by the Anacortes Farmers Market from 9am-2pm at the Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave.
WWW.ANACORTESFARMERSMARKET.ORG
BELLINGHAM FARMERS MARKET: The Bellingham Farmers Market can be visited from 10am-3pm at the Depot Market Square, 1100 Railroad Ave.
WWW.BELLINGHAMFARMERS.ORG
FERNDALE MARKET: Attend the Ferndale Public Market from 10am-3pm at the town’s Centennial
Riverwalk Park. WWW.FERNDALEPUBLICMARKET.COM
CHERRY SAMPLING DAY: Classes, demos, discus-sions and tastings will be part of “Cherry Sampling Day” from 11am-2pm at Mount Vernon’s Washington Research and Extension Center, 16650 State Route 536. Entry is $15 per person or $30 per family.
WWW.NWFRUIT.ORG
GOUDA CLASS: Learn how to make Gouda cheese from German cheese-maker at a class with Corina Sahlin from 12-3:30pm at Sahin’s Marblemount Home-stead. Entry is $45.
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SKAGIT DINNER: “Celebrate Skagit Dinner on the Farm” will be the focus of Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland’s fundraising feast starting at 5pm at Taylor Shellfish Farms, 2182 Chuckanut Dr. Tickets are $125.
WWW.SKAGITONIANS.ORG
MON., JULY 15BACKCOUNTRY COOKING: Expand your talents as a backcountry cook at a “Backcountry Cooking Basics” clinic at 6pm at REI, 400 36th St.
647-8955 OR WWW.REI.COM
BASTILLE DAY PICNIC: Join Karina Davidson for a “Bastille Day Picnic” course from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata Community Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Entry is $39.
383-3200
PIE PERFECTION: Chef Tracy Olson will helm a “Pie Perfection” class at 6:30pm in Mount Vernon at Gretchen’s Kitchen, 509 S. First St. Entry is $30.
WWW.GRETCHENSKITCHEN.COM
TUES., JULY 16SUMMER SALADS: A “Summer Main Course Salads” course happens from 6-8:30pm at the Cordata Commu-nity Food Co-op, 315 Westerly Rd. Entry is $39.
383-3200
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